skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trademark is suppose to be about customer confusion, no one is confused here.

This is not a good take on the Supreme Court ruling, at all. I generally agree with your rhetoric about IP maximalism, but this is not the right case to trot it out for.

This case was not about whether anyone was confused. The ruling does not take a position on whether there was confusion between Bad Spaniels and Jack Daniels.

Instead, this ruling says that humor is not an absolute defense in trademark disputes. It reverses a Ninth Circuit ruling that held that, in the case of humor, the court does not need to even evaluate whether or not there was confusion.

This ruling sends the case back to the Ninth to evaluate the totality of the case, including fair use, parody, and whether the for-profit Bad Spaniels is appropriating Jack Daniels' trademarks to sell their products in a way that a reasonable person would think Jack Daniels was involved in.

The Ninth may very well find that no, there is no confusion, and the use of the trademark is indeed fair use. But they will have to consider that as a dimension of the dispute, where previously they ruled it was immaterial.

IANAL, and it's possible I've gotten some details wrong here, but IMO this is the right ruling. Just slapping a joke on an otherwise infringing product should not provide immunity from trademark claims.
HN is experiencing some serious slowness, I wonder if everyone is checking here.
The admins and distribution maintainers in this article are really a proxy for all stakeholders beyond a developer who's doing the minimum to get a feature into production.

But, the requirements the tooling and workflows were built for didn't lend themselves to use in development, preventing evolution into tools that work well for more use cases.

I started rebuilding and deploying .debs with custom patches for production 15 years ago. For some projects .rpms or .debs are the only way we distribute builds that go beyond individual developer workstations. It's an absolute luxury on projects that are amenable to workflow. But I've never been a distro maintainer. So I both feel limitations of the tool, and simultaneously don't feel like I have a good grasp on leveraging those those tools as well as I could.
Well lynchings are back and one of the mainstream parties is openly calling for violence against sexual minorities. So maybe third or forth?
Putting my tinfoil hat on, could they be doing it deliberately? So spez can blame the drop in visitors on a random outage rather than the boycott?
The "federated" alternatives are such crap. It's so user-unfriendly and confusing, there is no way a normal person would be able to enjoy browsing crap like lemmy/kbin.
I don't think Apple's just doing this for the premium feel of it. Plastic gives you much shittier visual quality than glass (definitely not enough for reading text for hours). Metal is a better heat conductor, lets you have quieter fans. The front display for EyeSight adds weight, and so do the more advanced inside displays, etc.
So like a normal website as they always were before all those web 2.0 platforms?

That then did a 180 from being platforms and started with "content creators"?
It’s even worse because not only is there more than one way, each way gets added and then deprecated, or worse there’s some big caveat like not being compatible with references or with values. This leads to all kinds of insane syntax that won’t make sense without a very careful reading. And because everything changes meaning depending on where it is, what functions were last called, and what it is being applied to there is no way to be sure of the effect of a function or a piece of syntax without having a deep amount of context from careful reading of the code before the call site. Context sensitivity sounds great in principle but leads to a lot of unpredictability in practice.
Isn't human population already too high for the planet (or at least headed that way)? I would think that a trend in the other direction is good, on the whole and over the long run.
I have a treat for you:

https://the-eye.eu/public/Random/wuhan%20coronavirus/
It was chosen, I listened to the debate around the pep. Go is talking out their ass.
Hardly unique, Israel and Ireland both had high birth rates at the same time as the USSR while being richer. Plus the USSR had the Muslim republics inflating their numbers, those are still the highest birth rate regions of Russia today.
Can't agree, honestly. Someone in sales might have dropped their laptop a few times, but outside of coffee spillages (thinkpads had a drain hole), they're not in bad shape. I've bought (via donation to charity) used work macbooks and they're were in great shape. Battery life is the main wear item.

As to bloat and performance, the standard amount of RAM in a laptop has barely budged in over 10 years. In 2012, a typical consumer laptop might have had 8G RAM and the higher end models 16G RAM.

In 2023, a quick search shows basic home laptops still for sale with 4G RAM, and typical consumer laptops around the $1000 price mark come with 16G RAM as standard.

CPU performance has increased a bit in that time, but not by a whole lot, especially single-threaded. An old laptop might be a bit slow, but it's usually RAM and operating system support which makes it obsolescent. Apps and web pages either fit in memory or they don't; the OS you're running either supports the latest app / browser (and thus web pages) or it doesn't.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic has afaik some degree of time progression and development. Overall its a game with surprisingly deep mechanics underlying a zany surface layer.
Putting aside obvious questions such as "what is hate?", "who defines hate?", "what if something is falsely labelled as hate?", and "is preventing free speech ever ethical?", this study looks like a textbook example of the McNamara Fallacy in action.

It's easy to ban a bunch of people and come up with an estimate of a large amount of hate reduced. "These hate-mongers posted X times per day to an audience of Y people, therefore we stopped Z hatred-incidents per month. Big progress in stopping hate.". That's the stupid man's interpretation of the available data.

It's a lot harder to measure things like the feeling that people who already feel disenfranchised about life feel when they can't even vent about stuff on the Internet and what that leads to. The people with the ban-hammers are doing nothing but creating further and further resentment and confirming whatever biases and conspiracy theories that many people already feel.
American Leftists declared it wrongthink and Big Tech overlords banned anyone who wanted to discuss it.
Well generally speaking, its a group of people organized around their shared interest in hating some other people.
> He was warning how CCP was arresting scientists who put out information about the virus and even sharing videos of doctors who had recorded themselves warning about the virus itself (one of the first few who treated patients of the virus and fell sick themselves). I can't, for the life of me, find that channel on Youtube anymore. But yeah there was, and still is, a lot of censorship aided and abetted by Big Tech.

The death of the doctor was widely reported on throughout the pandemic[0][1][2].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/06/whistleblower-...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55963896
Would love more detailed information on the actual issues and fixes (if any) from the HN admins if they want to share.
But they refuse to name the groups. I hope you can see the moral hazard in saying we you are going to deplatform dangerous groups, but we can't tell you what the groups are, because they are dangerous. It is a license to do whatever you want and get rid of groups you disagree with.
Isn't this where religion comes into play? The Haredi have a birthrate of nearly 7 last I read.
I've heard about people using Unity for other AR/VR stuff. Not sure if they might expand to include it. I've played around with Unity a little bit. I guess we have to see if Apple is using it's own proprietary stuff (as usual), or if they will be closer to the industry standards, or at least providing support for including their language in existing IDEs.
Doesn't seem that unbelievable when you look into some of the other stuff he's done. For example he secretly used his admin powers to edit user comments from users he didn't like or who criticized him.
So does HN
It was chosen, I listened to the debate around the pep. GP is talking out their ass.
yup, some type of shared cloud infrastructure is definitely having problems. Reddit is just what we noticed first.
The experience of millennials is quite diverse. Some of us are doing great, but the statistics show otherwise: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/02/14/millenn...

Hidden in those statistics are also some burgeoning equity issues which are only beginning to show their face with GenZ.
The text is easy readable with Reader View, or blocking the pay wall overlay with an add blocker. The article is provided in full despite of their pay wall.
Today is the coordinated reddit "protest" day. Some ideas off the top of my head...

DDOS activity from pissed off stakeholders related to the protest

System ops using their access to further blackout action

A botched administrative action to reopen subs
The Lemmy instance I’m on has also slowed to a crawl.
Just another round in the age old struggle between Empiricists and Rationalists. Today's labels for same are the reality-based community vs concern trolls.
Just think they could’ve spent it on pizza cake.
It is, but yet thousands of videogames have been doing this for decades...
I was wondering why Youtube pushed a Zume pizza video to me the other day. It probably got popular due to the bankruptcy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkhWonFm-Lw).

As cool as the concept looked I wasn't sure how viable it would be to try to mass deliver all those pizzas. I imagine the bottle neck is # of delivery drivers during peak hours...and you simply would want more drivers, not 1 person delivering 50 pizzas. I guess I found my answer.

Dominos did partner with General Motors for a fleet of Bolt EVs for their delivery vehicles. It would be cool if Dominos built into the hatchback warmer ovens. Now that would be a more viable business model than a UPS truck size driving around.
Does DNS based blocking work on mobile?
I wouldn't call patching a binary very easy, especially since our point of reference was installing an ad blocker extension in the browser. Also, it takes more than one byte if the binary is obfuscated and full of various ways to check that it hasn't been tampered with.
Just think, they could’ve spent it on pizza cake.
There isn't a biological proclivity to liberalism!
Dang it, null. What have you done? What have you done?
Random aside... I'd love to see a SimTower remake. I played that game so much as a child.
Substack uses dark patterns in a pretty random way (different dark patterns modals on different blogs, often different dark pattern modals on the same blog at different times) to confuse people about the nature of the site. They'd rather you be confused or intimidated to sign up for something and try to make it very clear that you can read articles online and that your refusal to subscribe to a newsletter could be permanent and not just a "not yet" situation.

Unfortunately this is endemic to the industry. Try using Windows sometime. Oughta be a law that any "not yet" button for a thoroughly pizzled [1] product or service ought to have a "never" button next to it and the font size of never has to be 3x larger than the "not yet" and the contrast of "not yet" has to be less than the square root of the contrast on "never". That would be about fair.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac
Who are you talking about, specifically? Name names. Otherwise this appears to be a straw man.
Seems entirely possible that this might be caused by a spike in traffic from everyone checking out the site to see how much of a ghost town it really is?
The camera was one factor and the other was the person wearing the glasses being only temporarily present at any given moment.
So normal operations then.
This seems really useful but I'm curious if you've given any thought to bidirectional workflows. A tool like this where the "killer feature" is exporting will be made by the export flow. Imagine if a user could import existing components into this tool, and if your app was integrated into the tooling already used for version control, etc.
There are plenty of use cases. Like having your code signed, but putting a license key or access tokens or endpoint URLs into the unsigned part. That way you can sign binaries with your heavily guarded key, but still have some web server give people individualized binaries that don't have to ask for information (better UX if you install it once, or a big deal for software meant to be rolled out across many machines).

Of course software can abuse it by loading code from the unsigned portion, but that requires code in the signed portion to be complicit. In that case the signature still does its job of telling you exactly who was responsible for that fuck-up.
They won't be readable either, if they're that bad.
State is mainly concerned with public order as far as I can tell.
What you call "State censorship" I call State asking politely CEOs who are in the same social class as most politicians to stop the spreading of (alledgedly false) rumors. And rumors, howevever false, have often cause a great deal of social unrest.
The reason it happens now and it did not happen it 2001... Well had you heard of Youtube in 2001 ? Facebook ? Probably not, I know I didn't.
All powers have somewhat regulated information, the US is a society where you can say almost anything except calling people to go and kill ${group).
I haven't heard of a lab-leak these proponent having been arrested, nor websites taken down etc... This my friend is state censorship.
Now if your concern is that most media is owned by billionaires and private law is law on their platform, well ok, but that's another concern.

> Also people blaming people eating "bat soup" has nothing to do with lab leak theory. Both are totally different issues altogether. I don't see how they are related?

Because the bat soup people where the first one to jump on the lab-leak theory. That did not help the cause. We use network of trust to digest information. I don't have no trust in people saying crazy stuff even though they might sometimes be right.

> Exactly. But having a debate now is mostly useless anyways. Whatever window of opportunity we had to investigate lab leak theory is now long gone. All the actors who wanted to cover their tracks have now had enough time to do so. So even if you are able to prove that lab leak did occur (to some degree) it won't lead to any indictments. And with an authoritarian CCP, good luck getting any leads directly from the labs itself.

I don't agree. It didn't matter more at the time to know if it was a lab-leak or not, situation had to be handled. Now that there's less urgency maybe we can investigate the dark corners and do something about it so it won't happen again. It m
atters more than ever.

> Most post COVID conspiracy theories have actually come true. Be it mask mandates, lockdowns, GoF, harmful vaccine side effects or lab leak theories

How are mask mandates and lockdowns conspiracists predictions turned true... ?
The real conspiracy was not telling people they should wear masks to protect others because there wasn't enought for everybody.
How was lockdown a conspiracy rather that government trying to pretend they were doing something ? I don't think the economy benefited fromt that\

Harmful vaccine side effects ? What about getting covid side-effects ? Listen you would have caught it no matter what and it would probably be worse. The discrepancy between deaths of vaccinated and unvaccinated people should tell you much.

GOF was known before too, it just wasn't in the public eye
HN tends to slow to a crawl every time Reddit is offline, because Redditors come here instead.
I got a cant reach cdn error
>Weapons systems are another environment you'd prefer to have resiliency. You'd hate to lose control of a missile while in mid-flight.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
> Microsoft is a huge conglomerate and the vast majority of their revenue has nothing to do with AI.

Certainly true, but their stock price is goosed by their hype, which is "AI AI AI!!!"
> "Biological imperative" at the peril of the planet.

I essentially don't care about the state of the planet if there are no humans around to enjoy it.

The larger long-term risk to sentient life is that anti-energy people get their way, humanity never reaches the productive output required to become spacefaring, and we get wiped out by an engineered virus or something.
We foreigners judge Berlusconi on our own moral framework. But Italy is not like most other countries:

"Italy breathed a sigh of relief today upon learning that the country's highest court of appeal had ruled that influence-peddling is not a crime. The only punishable offense, the judges decided, is overstating one's power to exert influence.

''Essentially, the judges are saying what everybody in Italy believes: It is not a crime, as long as you do it well,'' Franco Ferrarotti, an Italian sociologist said of the Wednesday ruling on ''raccomandazione,'' the Italian custom of seeking and receiving special treatment from people in power, or close to it.

''This is our version of the Protestant ethic,'' Mr. Ferrarotti said. ''When a favor works successfully, it ceases to be a crime and becomes a work of art.''

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112040914/http://www.nytime...

In 2001, British author and physician Theodore Dalrymple argued that corruption is actually the "one saving grace" of Italian public administration. Dalrymple explained his view that Italy's government was overburdened with an inefficient bureaucracy that slows down any progress but that corruption and bribery to bypass roadblocks allows for some progress to be made.[31]

Dalrymple further maintained that the open display of corruption on the part of government officials causes Italian citizens to view the government as the 'enemy', an attitude that Dalrymple considered sensible and healthy, as compared with the misguided British belief that the state is purely good. This belief, Dalrymple charged, "has completely eroded the proud and sturdy independence of the British population."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Italy#
If you release something under an open source license, of course I get to choose to use it under the terms of that license. That's the whole point.

If that's not acceptable, don't release it under an open source license. Like Adobe's proprietary software, you can release it as free for educational or non-profit use only under your own license. Can be hard to define and hard to enforce but that's your problem.

Do open source or don't do open source. I don't care. But it's tiresome to have people who want the "open source brand" but don't actually want to release open source software. Most of the actual advantages of open source don't accrue to tightly controlled products anyway.

And, yes, I don't consider it a problem but dual licensing, at least outside of open core (which has its own problems), is fairly useless in the general case. So in that sense it's broken. But that is open source working as intended.
HN too, a few seconds ago: https://i.imgur.com/2vCWU0Y.png
Settings -> Network & Internet -> Private DNS -> dns.adguard.com

Now you've blocked a large percentage of ads on android.
It's been used that way for a long time - it has an entry in the Jargon File: http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/modulo.html
In some places there are volcanos. The "in some places" argument doesn't hold, when it's clearly very effective in many other ones.

Plus most of humanity lives within the same 100 mile range of water, esp. oceans, and the bulk of humanity live in areas with lots of sun.
For anyone who read that last sentence and thought "What?": https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxu...
Well generally, its a group of people organized around a shared interest in hating some other group of people. Not much different from asking "what's a woodworking organization?" or "whats a criminal organization?"
One thing's for sure: this is a much worse business case at 5% interest than at 0% interest.

Borrowing money at 5% for an expensive machine that can be replaced by paying monthly salaries for labor is not a great business proposition. But it may be at 0% interest.
The thesis that liberal societies are not replacing themselves seems incorrect. UK population was 60 million in 2000, and is 67.5 million today. The demographics are somewhat interesting in that 'white native British' has dropped from 99% or so of the population in the 1950s to about 82% today. In comparison the USA population is also steadily rising from ~280 million in 2000 to ~330 million in 2020. Now if the concern is that the relative ratios of different race-ethnic-religious groups is changing, why is that an issue? Children tend to adopt the societal norms they're surrounded by, even if this upsets their traditional-minded parents. That's certainly been the case in the USA, it's an assimilative process.

As far as birth rate data, as women acquire more rights and wealth they tend to choose to have fewer children later in life, and as medical care and knowledge improves, those children tend to survive to adulthood at rates unheard of a few centuries ago. Thus, while birth rates may indeed be falling, the population is stable or even growing due to the other factor the author seems to ignore, i.e. lower childhood death rates.
Yeah, I'm not saying it's immoral or a bad idea, I'm saying it's legally very complicated.

It could be a bad idea, of course. It could also be the only solution that's fast enough. And not doing anything is also a bad idea. But not doing anything is at least legally uncomplicated.

Though I have heard of one geo-engineering experiment: seeding a piece of ocean with iron or iron oxide, which caused an algae bloom, which caused a spike in the number of salmon in the area. The idea is that the algae bloom absorbs a lot of CO2. But the person behind it didn't have any permission for this experiment and was widely criticised for being irresponsible. I hope scientists paid attention to the results, though.
Yeah you must be onto something! It must be that! I'm sure spez set that all up with the same lizardmen that organized 9/11 for the CIA!!!
Novel concept, my belief is there should not be any kind of test for which types of expressions should be "protected" or not...

expression that everyone supports generally does not need protection in the first place, so laws that protect only expression that is as broad appeal or support are pointless.

protection of expression needs to be for things we dislike, despise or even find abhorrent, people that claim they support protection of expression but for only things they find value in are in reality declaring they do not support freedom of expression at all.
Robot pizza chefs, food delivery and office rentals.

Mayasoshi San may be history's first de-industrialist.
As someone not responsible for Outlook, the last time we had Outlook/AS outage ... the sense of calm that I experienced knowing that no one is able to send me any emails even if just for an hour ... cannot be explained in mere words :)