skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one big but in all this, and this is the example of Russia. All autocrats are looking at Russia and how the war played out for them. Not too well, it seems. One can well model and alternative reality where Russia didn't start the war but instead concentrated on using its economic advantage to make Europe more dependent on its gas etc. (it was going quite well!). And it seems a good example to China as to what is more beneficial to do. The Chinese leaders have been quite pragmatic so far, and while one definitely can't say what's actually in their heads, the war is unlikely if they follow logical reasoning.
The only problem with subtitles I've encountered is the Roku Jellyfin client does not support VOBSUB subtitles which is annoying.
If Lybian forces were on the verge of committing war crimes and killing thousands, then "intervention" would be an appropriate word to describe what the Western powers did. They "intervened" to prevent an imminent atrocity, if you believe them.

And I am inclined to believe them, not because of what Western governments have said, but because the whole Arab Spring played out in real time on social media.

I agree that what happened to Gaddafi himself was horrific. It would have been a much better thing if he had been arrested and brought before a tribunal. But he was killed by Libyans, who were angry about the Libyans that Gaddafi himself had killed. The contribution that Western Governments made to those events was to stop the killing of thousands of people who opposed the regime. Arguing against intervention is arguing in favor of what would have happened without intervention—which is, effectively, what we have seen in Syria.

Now, was Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the verge of murdering tens of thousands? Were Ukranian forces gathered, ready to rain artillery shells down on a major Ukrainian city? If not, I don't think it would be appropriate to describe the Russian invasion as an "intervention". What would Putin have been "intervening" in? Ukranian self-determination?
For the record, I am not a game developer but I don't think that changes my opinion on open source technology.

Open Source software is great, but that also comes at the cost of support when you are running into a problem. Particularly if you are on a critical timeline, especially if trying to fix a bug after something is released.

You are at the mercy of the community being able to help (and most likely only being able to give them a limited amount of information) vs the possibility of the company you are licensing from sending you engineers to actually help you fix the problem.

For business critical this is an important thing that needs to be looked at, and from what I can tell there is not anything like this for GoDot (I don't see an enterprise option similar to redhat).

This is not in any way shape or form defending Unity, what they are doing is horrible and will likely (hopefully) cause a migration to Unreal. But just saying open source is not a cut and dry option either. Especially not for something as critical as the engine.
Certainly not an expert but top studios like Bethesda and CDPR maintain their own engines with an order of magnitude less employees. They make games too.
In which case you have no license to the code. So either way, you'd have no rights.

You're still welcome to contact them directly and try to get some kind of contract directly if you can't agree to the EULA for access.
I have a friend who makes a good tech salary and lives in $LARGE_CITY, and she and I have compared notes on mental disorders over the years.

She enjoys her drugs, of all kinds. She worked hard to connect with a psychiatrist who could both prescribe the sorts of drugs she's into, and also not shame her for the recreational drugs she does on the side. She pays out-of-pocket for the privilege.

It became apparent to me that she's not really into treatment of her condition or healing, or repairing her relationships with friends and family. She just seemed to be on a hedonistic journey of seeking pleasure.

So you can decriminalize and reschedule all the drugs you want, but people will self-medicate, and find dangerous uses. People who use illegal or OTC or alternative treatments will not always report those to their physician or pharmacy. Even if they do, all interactions are not known, but many dangerous ones can result from trying to put someone on psychotropics while they're under the influence of something else.
It's okay to use specific examples to explain a general principle or to make your point more clearly. But when those examples are more-or-less made up, as they are here, you'd better:

1. Be clear that they're examples and not some fundamental, mathematical truth.

2. Use multiple examples with different numbers to show how things could look different, even if only slightly.

The author does neither of these. #1 is violated in the title. It's not clear at all that the author is using these numbers as merely examples.
The core lesson here is that "readability" is personal, and any attempt to reason about "more" or "less" that doesn't translate that into more specific, measurable outcomes (like time to find a bug, or time to add a new feature) is a very good way to nerd-snipe a large number of people into creating a lot of hot air.
How about .NET MAUI?
Wait a minute...do you think that your feelings, emotions and thoughts are not reality because they are an experience? What is real to you then? Atoms? Your "intuition" about physics or everything else is an experience too. Experience is all you have.
I think this strikes a great balance. Creators have a comfy window for financial reward and big firms have less of a stranglehold on culture.

> In my template for radical reform of those laws I would like it if any IP is owned by its original creator for up to twenty years from the point of first publication, and then goes into the public domain for any and all to use. However, at any time before that twenty year span bleeds out, you the IP owner can sell it to another person or corporate entity, who can have exclusive use of it for up to a maximum of ten years. That’s it. Then it cannot be resold. It goes into the public domain. So then, at the most, any intellectual property can be kept for exclusive use for up to about thirty years, and no longer, without exception.
thank you! Not yet but I have some ideas for sure
An obvious explanation would be that this helps distinguish it from øØ (as in Danish and Norwegian), which is slashed from bottom left to top right. The Wikipedia article does demonstrate its legibility when blurred.
This is almost the offensive realist viewpoint were it not for the intense American exceptionalism. Great powers are going to do what they do. Accept this and everything becomes more hopeful. Otherwise, the world will always seem to be ruled by terrible amoral people and nihilism and despair are all you will ever have. There is no glorious future without rulers or parties, therefore wars and competition. Our western Judeo-Christian morality will never replace other modes of thinking, even in our own government!
Amateur radio, public (by law - unencrypted, anyone can listen) long-distance communications over certain bands where people are allowed to transmit after a certain barrier of entry of licensing and equipment.
They do act on takedown requests.

They forward them to the customer and ask you to deal with it.

If you dont, you will be fired as customer.
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Early on Nest were really trying to assert themselves within the wider organization, but whatever remains of them now in new products is name only.

I'm not saying Nest were all good (this is an understatement) but Google have always overrated how far you can go if you cheap out on hardware.
Some interesting previous discussions here:

- Best Practices for Using Webhooks (stripe.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521159

- Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks (webhooks.fyi): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32517645

- Give me /events, not webhooks (sequin.io): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27823109
server-fewer just doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely
Is the sparse interior really that strange, or just a result of components getting more compact and the screen remaining the same size?
A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Types of Hyperacusis
You can use "flag". For articles it acts a bit like a super down vote. (Whereas for comments it means please get mod attention).
Yes, unless you build everything from the game engine to the distribution channel yourself, there is a cost to doing business. IIRC Epic Games Store offers a more reasonable 88%/12% revenue split, while Steam uses the same rapacious split as Apple and GOG at 70%/30%.
You don't have an email for spam? And put any phone number.
We Criticize, and Why You Should Too
Wepl: A REPL for WebAssembly Components
Oh man it's easy to spot someone who blindly follows Clean Code. I personally don't like it, but I am I fan of all of Martin's other books. It's just aggressively opinionated in a way that I just can't get behind. I'm sure I'm not alone but reading that book made me feel insane since he described things as objectively good that I found awful.
Eh. Part of apples brand is “doing the right thing” and “being the good guy”. I would wager Apple’s brand would be hurt more by not being a green company. ROI is more complicated than simple fist level cost. Going green and doubling down on recycling has generated a much larger ROI than doing nothing.

Further more, Tim is bound by law to do what is best for the shareholders. Simply put, if Tim favored environmental concerns over profit he would be removed.
Does Berlin have a Chinatown? No – it has something better: this is Kantstrasse
Well yeah that's kind of their point. GKE makes it pretty easy to stay on a recent version.
Unity seem like a very valuable acquisition target. Any of the American or Chinese big tech companies could put Unity to good strategic use plus a few medium sized tech companies like Adobe and Sony.
Gas taxes are about half of what they’re supposed to be to find road maintenance. The rest is subsidized out of general fund revenues.

Re: maintenance costs every reputable analyst says that EVs are significantly cheaper throughout the entire lifetime of the vehicle, even when you factor in the higher tire wear and tear. That doesn’t factor in the disruption cost of having to get service, either, which adds up with every extra visit unless you live next to the repair shop.

Finally, yes, insurance covers some costs but you’re paying money into that pool. Everyone I know has been complaining about premiums going up due to thefts disproportionately affecting ICE vehicles and a lot of people have been paying money out of pocket trying to harden popular targets like Priuses because parts were in short supply.
It's not though. You are both speaking in hyperbole. Plex is actually objectively better than Jellyfin. Skipping intros still doesn't work consistently in Jellyfin.

But it is a company and I am glad that there is serious competition from Jellyfin. It isn't a publicly traded company, so pressure from an open source product can push it to be better and not necessarily turn it in to a money grab that makes the product shit. They've made some missteps the community hasn't liked, but they have also had improvements as well.
Products this strange are an indication that the company has become so large and stagnant that its products are shaped largely by internal political battles.
Until recently, Godot was practically unusable for 3D. They're still actively adding features that other engines already have. It also exports for consoles, where Godot doesn't.

Having said that, I've been looking at it recently and it looks like it has everything I need. I'm definitely going to try it out before deciding between it and UE5.
Or, the fun one I run into is devs who write a mix of 1000 line functions and tiny little 5 line functions with no discernible pattern to which option is chosen when.

The truth is that what makes code readable is not really (directly!) about function size in the first place. It's about human perceptual processing and human working memory. Readable code is easily skimmable, and should strive to break the code up into well-defined contexts that allow the programmer to only have to carry a handful of pieces of information in their head at any given moment. Sometimes the best way to do that is a long, linear function. Sometimes it's a mess of small functions. Sometimes it's classes. Which option you choose ultimately needs to be responsive to the natural structure of the domain logic you're implementing.

And, frankly, I think that both versions do a pretty poor job of that, because, forget the style, the substance is a mess. They're both haphzardly newing up objects and mutating shit all over the place. This code reads to me like the end product of about four sprints' worth of rushing the code so you can get the ticket closed just in time for sprint review.

I mean, let's just think about this as if we were describing how things work in a real kitchen, since I think that's pretty much what the example is asking us to do, anyway: on what planet does a pizzeria create a new, disposable oven for every single pizza? What the heck does

pizza.Ready = box.Close()

even mean? Now we've got a box containing a pizza that's storing information about the state of the object that contains it, for some reason? Demeter is off in a corner crying somewhere. What on earth is going on with that 'if order.kind == "Veg"' business, why aren't we just listing the ingredients on the order and then iterating over that list adding the items to the pizza? The logic for figuring out which ingredients go on the pizza never belonged in this routine in the first place; it's ready aim fire not ready fire aim. etc.
Wrong thread or too much wisdom.
He wasn’t killed by rockets
An Anchor Learning Approach for Citation Field Learning
The US and EU were in the middle of a trade dispute over Airbus subsidizes at the time, which was largely French led.

The WTO ended up finding the EU guilty in 2020.
Am I supposed to care? My laptop is also mostly empty by volume. That's why it weights 1kg. This author's daily crusade to say something, anything negative about a Google product is really obnoxious.
but it’s Rust tho
How “secure” is this zero-trust? Are there cryptographic guarantees?
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I agree with the Functional style part, but hardly disagree with your second point.

Because of the fact that, keeping comments over blocks of code in sync with the code below requires the same exact amount of effort (arguably less) as keeping function names (and ideally, documentation) in sync with the code inside..

Except that, if the second one is not done, that is a lot more dangerous than the first- exactly because, every time you define a function, you are declaring an abstraction, and if the abstraction changes silently, that's where the real mess begins.

That's what ends up happening in my experience. (See also sibling other comments about the proliferation of flags in a function signature)

(Needless to say, I strongly resonated with the OP as I also love linear code with comments, but in the end it's also a matter of taste..)
A large proportion of the UKs independent bookshops run on a delphi developed system.
Turn it into a nightclub?
The same Tim Cook that tries to make iPhones as unrepairable as possible? :)

Don’t fall for feelgood greenwashing.
Isn’t the reason for the empty space just because it’s a tablet — by which I mean that the dimensions are determined by a large screen? Phones are dense inside because they have to be small.
You most likely saw the awful modern UI. If you prefix "old." to the URL you'd see it in 2006-mode which is far more palatable.
I don't really understand what the point of this is. The complaints largely seem to be "DC weren't respecting me, so now anyone can do what they want with this". One of the things he complains about is how they wanted to do something, thinking they owned the rights, he said no and then they couldn't do it. But... now they can, because it's now in the public domain.

Actually, all this is ignoring the fact that AFAIK, you can't just revoke copyright and put something into the public domain, you have to explicitly grant a non-exclusive licence to everyone instead. That's why all the CC style licences exist.
This is pretty interesting time with the social media / data companies. Will this be the new normal? Where, like clock work, another fine gets announced? Or will we transition through this period into one where they know how to, and also do, comply and the regulations don't change a ton?
A product like this is a sign of internal rot. It's not bad enough to be a clear swansong for whatever remains of Nest, but it's a bad omen for Google's (non-pixel phone) product development.

I have been in the trenches at a company that made a startup acquisition, then tried to take the startup's tech and integrate it with their own IP to make a new product. I got the hell out before I could be blamed for the imminent failure. It wasn't pretty.
Operation Fortitude: The Deception That Saved D-Day
If it's publicly available data, then it's most likely legal, right?
As far as I know, they trust that you would tell them as soon as you reach that level.
Even ignoring the fact this only affects one old version and Google makes it very easy to upgrade (and know when you're behind), I can't imagine this is affecting many workloads. The vast majority of the workloads I run (and I think get run, generally) don't rely on PV's. Then from that, most of the time you're not making wholly new volumes all the time you're generally just consuming the already existing volumes.
Perhaps. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel also comes to mind.
i'm starting to feel like the EU found a business model to compensate for the fiscal tricks large companies are doing to avoid paying taxes.

My only hope is that those laws won't prevent a new major high tech company to appear in the EU.
> the IP owner can sell it to another person or corporate entity, who can have exclusive use of it for up to a maximum of ten years.

This could be abused in an infinite loop. There should be a max resell limit of 2

Edit: I should learn to read. Indeed it cannot be resold.
I'm not entirely sure you need to republish a work in order to disclaim copyright on it. The only thing I'm aware of in US law is that you have to make some kind of 'overt act', which just means you have to actually intend to make something public domain. I think posting two Substack posts detailing contractual breaches and bad faith at DC as motivation qualifies.

Germany and Japan don't recognize public domain dedications in the law. However, this isn't a German or Japanese creator we're talking about - Bill Willingham is American. And generally speaking, the Berne Convention is just a promise to treat other countries' copyrights the same as your country would, not an obligation to provide more copyright to foreign works than domestic ones[0]. I doubt Germany is going to ultimately enforce copyright that has already evaporated in America, especially on behalf of DC, a party that doesn't actually own the copyright in question and only has an exclusive license.

What's really going to complicate this is the nature of the agreement between Bill and DC. DC could argue that an exclusive license is equivalent to copyright transfer. Copyright is corporate Calvinball, so we could see American courts trying to roll back the public domain dedication purely for the sake of submission to monied interests. I could see all sorts of stupid arguments being adopted by judges that want to see DC win and artists lose:

- Well actually, he was trying to revert rights from DC by making his work public domain, but he didn't follow the notice period requirements, so the dedication is null and void

- Well actually, the publishing agreement constitutes an effective copyright transfer, so he's just releasing DC of their obligations to him, so DC now owns Fables in perpetuity

- Well actually, Bill Willingham didn't draw the art[1], so you can't put Fables on Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, or Wikimedia Commons, all you can do is have all the male characters in your folklore be one man named 'Jack' and nothing more

As far as I'm aware, "artist burns down the copyright on their work to moot a publishing agreement" is uncharted legal territory. How any of these arguments would fare would depend on the exact text of the DC Comics publishing agreement Bill signed, which isn't public, and Bill probably can't proactively publish it. If he can, he should. Otherwise you'd only learn how much he can actually disclaim iff you get sued by DC and are able to bring the contract into the scope of discovery, which isn't exactly guaranteed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_shorter_term

[1] Copyright is not only viral, but also leprotic: every new instance of creativity accrues a separate copyright on that part of the work that is owned by that creator insamuch as it can be separated from the whole. This is why the GPL needs to have a copyleft clause.
After the Grusch testimony in Congress, I've asked a few people what they thought about it. Across the board, no one even comes close to considering this possible to be real. Even those who I thought would be open minded to the idea. It's kind of fascinating. It's amazing how quickly they explain away seemingly credible testimony from a real intelligence officer. I've been surprised.