skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DC's argument would be that the exclusivity clause bars Bill from declaring his work public domain, and thus the dedication is null and void.

The law does distinguish between a license and a public domain dedication. If Bill had instead put Fables under, say, CC-BY, that license absolutely would be invalid - you can't license rights you don't have, and the person with exclusive rights would be able to sue anyone who used the work under CC-BY[0]. But the public domain is not a licensing agreement, it's dissolving the foundation of that license agreement, and there's no precedent for what happens when there's exclusivity clauses in play.

Because there's no clear precedent[1], that means any lawsuit involving these rights would survive a motion to dismiss, meaning that the "fuck around and find out" liability falls on anyone actually trying to use Fables as a public domain work. This is to DC's favor: if they sued Bill directly, Bill would be able to point out the numerous contractual breaches DC executed, which would dissolve their agreement. But if they sue a rando, they might just settle to make the suit go away. Even if the rando was motivated to prove DC wrong, they don't have standing to legislate contractual breaches DC made to third parties, so DC would be able to legally assert rights they might not even have.

[0] While Creative Commons wasn't involved, the situation would otherwise be identical to the Harmony Gold/Mechwarrior lawsuit. BattleTech, a tabletop giant robot miniature game, licensed some mech designs from various Japanese cartoons. Those same cartoons were also licensed by Harmony Gold and Frankensteined together into a single cartoon called Robotech. BattleTech licensed out their miniature game to Activision to make a PC game called Mechwarrior. Harmony Gold sued because mechs from their cartoon were in their PC game, and the ultimate result was that because of the exclusivity clauses in play, BattleTech's license to Activision for those specific mech designs was null and void, so Activision was infringing Harmony Gold's rights.

Yes, this is one of those legendary lawsuits that you hear about from MechWarrior fans in the same way that rhythm game fans will never forget what Konami did to In The Groove.

[1] I fully expect an actual lawyer to reply with clear precedent in DC's favor. The best search engine is to reply with the wrong answer on Hacker News.
Great, I think it'd be so much better if a qualification for scientist was "already rich".
It's obviously not as conducive to business as in the US. However, one advantage I can think of is that registering a new business in Canada takes only about a day.
If you used that wording, I'd have called you racist too.
Actually, it won’t. These aren’t police boots. It doesn’t damage anyone’s property to remove the boot, just a key.
Sounds human enough to me
I had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for pointing out that misusing a word with a very clear definition was likely to cause confusion.
The Dylan project is another example.

Given Apple’s precarious situation, it probably wouldn’t have had a chance even if Java hadn’t steamrolled through the industry exactly as they were trying to get it off the ground.
One of the foundational text of liberalism, 'On Liberty' from J. S. Mill, is pretty clear that the threat to individual liberty is not just from the government, but from the society itself:

Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still
vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public
authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the
tyrant - society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it -
its means of tyrannising are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the
hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own
mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at
all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny
more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not
usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape,
penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul
itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not
enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing
opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means
than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those
who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent
the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel
all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.
Yes.

That said, I find that possibility highly unlikely. Cryptocurrencies are a direct and powerful threat to all existing power structures. If for example they were a material country, the west would have been at war with that country and would have dismantled them already long before they entered public discourse or understanding. They are a threat of that scale to banking and traditional power. They are more dangerous than terrorists, more dangerous than even nukes I would argue, so if you could control them / discredit them / invalidate them, even if it meant exposing some secret crypto vulnerabilities, you absolutely would.

That is to say, if you could break it you simply would, which would then crush the mechanism and they would no longer be an existential threat to traditional structures.
IANAL. But yeah. And now you have a paper trail.

Let them fire you. They’ll have a hard time firing you for cause. Do you really want to work at a place where the people in charge are either felony stupid, felony corrupt, or both.
Just make a law that says that all returns have to be paid out at the £/KG listed.
My pipe dream would be Valve buying unity, being a private company they would not have to deal with pressure from shareholders and they have a good track record with developers and customers.

But they already have their own Source game engine so no point in them doing that.
If you don't have a developer, you need WordPress or an alternative.

The description isn't enough to know if it's something wordpress could handle out of the box.

There are places that host and manage WordPress. If you don't install any plugins, WP is secure enough.

The difference in a Django hello world and a fresh WordPress install is like a million lines of code.
the lockpicking lawyer on youtube has a video showing how to pick a boot
Any reason to not consider a "web-native" engine(ie Phaser)? Just curious.
Redundancy is normally a good thing, but being that weights and measures about communicating physical facts accurately and broadly, moving to metric seems like the most reasonable choice.

It's not clear how this "redundancy" your aiming for would benefit us.
Isn't fountain code doing something similar? Albeit for slightly different purpose?
Casino, by Nicholas Pileggi is the inside story of the Mafia and the casinos. It is what inspired the Hollywood movies.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387627.Casino is
I'd probably hold it as is. I wouldn't ever consider converting some of my hard-earned cash into bitcoin or physical gold, but for a no-cost investment I'll take the diversification.
What does unity do with nodejs?
Don’t resign for this. Just refuse to do it. In writing.

If they don’t fire you, you will still need to look for another job.
Evolution of zoom lens optical design technology and manufacture (2021)
I get what your saying, but boy do I not want to live in society created by this worldview. In my opinion, this approach is antisocial. It forces everyone to write massive contracts and build bureaucratic mega processes to validate and specify every single definition in that contract because you can't ever trust your counterparty to abide by the spirit of your request.
Yes. In fact, Unity merged with a company that sort of specializes in mobile advertising: ironSource. [1]

Here is an example of one of their mobile ad products: https://www.is.com/mobile-advertising-sdk/

[1]: https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2022/Unity-Ann...
The same thing happened to a colleague of mine in ATL just a month or so ago, so it seems the practice is longstanding and current.

Note that it's private parking companies, not municipal agencies, doing the booting.
What I would have liked to see as an experiment is a bus being driven similar to an Uber share.

Instead of being on a fixed route, what if it picked up and dropped off people exactly where they are, with routes optimized by the algorithms.
this: 1Gbps for 1 user == 1Mbps for ~1000 users
This isn’t police boots, these are private lots. Personally, I think it should be illegal in any civil instances to boot a car, it should only be used by cops for major offenders.

There is nothing immoral about what these girls are doing, IMO. There are a LOT of boot lickers in this thread today.
I agree, cruise ships pollute a lot, are wasteful, and benefit very few people, but rely on public infrastructure. We'd be better off without them.
Tolkien fell in love with his future wife when he was 16 and they were so close they were buried together under one gravestone.
My problem with it is when private entities are allowed to boot your car.

One time in Berkeley I parked in a parking lot and walked across the street to pick up some food. I was gone 5 minutes and when I returned there was a boot on my car. There was an attendant in the parking lot who informed me it was private property and only for the businesses next to the parking lot. They wanted $150 to remove the boot. This wasn't city parking enforcement, it was a private party.

It's basically extortion. I get that they're trying to discourage non customers from using the lot, but it wasn't obvious it was restricted and clearly if they have someone in the lot full time, they could have warned me instead of immediately holding my car for ransom. Especially since I'm not from that area and I'm not familiar with local parking rules. It's purely an expensive trap.

I don't think this case should be legal.
In some situations, maybe. In this case, given the director swore at OP, I strongly suspect foul play.

Were we talking some light fudging, the director would have spent time explaining what the customer is asking for and worked with them to determine whether what they do supports a statement of “we do security testing.”

And if they can’t support the claim? Well, the director’s response will tell you if they’re an honest broker or not.
The fact they didn’t mention a weight reduction or BMI changes suggests they didn’t observe any changes in weight / BMI.

I’ve looked into this a while ago and while consumption falls no studies showed a change in weight from soda bans. Unless you have something more recent?
Someone needs to make something like this for Canada.
>No one uses gold for store of value

Don’t they?
I did briefly wonder how they could remove the boot and why they would want to.
Is there any way to falsify this idea?
Thank you! Working on the "Consumer" module as we speak
Sorry, you're right. I was try to point to different direction: you keep foreigners because you can exploit their visa status. :)
Calendar Alarm for Android fixed that for me.
I think the problem here is the state (or city) offloading its basic enforcement functions to private corporations. And then most worryingly financially incentivizing over enforcement. This also happens with excessive towing [1]

The city should have these folks on payroll instead of constantly contracting this stuff out.

Yes, even on private property because it’s adjudication between two private properties (the car and the parking lot)

[1] https://youtu.be/cs6u0iExry8?si=HQdJts_liwCP1_tV
>There was over a decade of QE which the rainmakers said would totally cause inflation. It didn’t.

False
There is a Reddit post discussing this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/16fxr58/comment/k04u7...

> There are many scenarios that require CPU, such as image downscaling, image encoding, code highlighting, sorting large directories, etc.

If you want to delve further into Yazi's inner workings, you can see https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/issues/143
You can, but gold is a commodity and not a currency in any modern sense.
I think OCaml is more practical and actually has some parallels to Python. You may find these resources interesting:

- Library to manipulate PDF documents: https://github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf

- Web framework: https://aantron.github.io/dream/

- Scientific computing library: https://ocaml.xyz/

Last, I wrote a couple of practical-focused OCaml guides:

- https://dev.to/yawaramin/practical-ocaml-314j

- https://dev.to/yawaramin/practical-ocaml-multicore-edition-3...
0x40: Pretty Images and Colours
Salespeople have fairly ungameable metrics - cash. That is the model we should be shooting for.

Consumer facing web products value depends clearly on number of users.

If a metric cannot be tied to something material, don’t start.
Our Craft = Coding what the resident psychologist came up with that will have the greatest likelihood of addicting players to buy our loot boxes.
Even if say the manager round robinned through the team?
Do you understand that the side of this argument you're representing is making excuses for internationally illegal theft as, "well they sure had it coming?"
In France near every price also small LCD display that show price for kilogram or liter. Which also help to fight with companies that like to create idiotic packages.
HeyZap was good
Additionally, 5-year impact factor of 39.9 so still very, very respectable.
I am somewhat skeptical of the $50 they take for "freeing" the car. That for me personally puts it in a bit of gray area...
Can you tell the shape of the result of `<expr>()` in Java by just reading it? No. Does that mean that Java can't be statically analyzed? Of course not!

A static analysis system is not restricted to weird abstract constructs like `select <expr>`, it sees the complete picture and can come to conclusions based on the concrete code construct it's given. There's absolutely nothing stopping a SQL static analysis from recognizing that `SELECT sum(foo)` will always return one row with one column that is an integer type, while `SELECT foo, bar` returns some number of rows that have foo and bar columns whose types can be inferred from the CREATE TABLE statements.
No. Other readers, please do not take the above post as true. It absolutely isn't and it's a very good way to get yourself into very hot water.
The corporations have done a good job convincing most people that “at will” means they can let you go at any time for any reason. They can’t. But we’re in Get A Lawyer territory.
> an Air Force pilot in 1947

Nope, he was a private pilot.
How would it be any different if the city applied the boots themselves? That sounds like an entirely orthogonal issue.
i am not sure i understand what your argument is, or what you think mine is.

your last sentence suggests that you don't believe that anyone can just undercut the big supermarket chains in austria. which is what i also don't believe.

but your first sentence is saying something different, so that has me confused.
Maybe, but their time to drive to your car and unlock it is worth something. And if you've gotten booted, your ticket fines greatly exceed $50, possibly by an order of magnitude. A Boot Girl's gotta eat, y'know?
If the title here says “Bitwarden login down”, I think it is extremely reasonable to assume the answer is “no”. Because that’s what it means for the login to be down.
> The trouble is that grocers have figured out that if you fool the population in to using a 'loyalty' card, you can make everything a 'promotional price' and avoid the per-unit labelling requirements. They just show the £/KG price of the higher price. So now consumers can't easily compare. [0]

That is illegal in the Netherlands: You must advertise with the normal price. You can display the "promotional price" but it cannot be your main price. What they usually try is adding a "25% off with card" option next to it or with a second price card. You however CAN NOT be denied the discount in any way even if you do not subscribe! This is less easy to do online but offline the shop will have to give you the discount.
There is one exception: b2b.

I complained about this when a liquor chain (gall & gall) started using their "card holder" prices as the regular prices on the cards and displayed the regular ones almost invisible (black text on blue background ...). They refused to provide the discount price to non card holders. Complained to the regulatory institution and got back to me that they were already looking into it. No fine was charged but the practice stopped after a few weeks.

edit: on a more HN note; if you use the apps for the discount of the stores they usually have an agree notice which includes, among other things, you can be tracked in the shop with the app. Never be logged in to those while in the shop (or ever).
If you have loyalty/coupon apps for the store, sometimes they also give you digital receipts you can download. One day I will automate downloading the receipts and OCR-ing the items .
what is a document? How is an ORANUM or a bignum not a document?

One motivation for creating documents is that modeling document contents as relations requires the creation of a bunch of primary keys which no natural definition. A simple document might be an ordered collection of paragraphs, [p23, p57, ...]

Modifying such things is difficult. In fact, the most effective way of structuring modification seems to be OTs based on document offsets. What Google docs does.
Japan's world-leading chip materials makers risk being acquired
My area has something like this, but it's very limited. Basically you can call a number to schedule a time for a bus to pick you up, and they plan a route around everyone. But you have to give I think 2-3 days notice, and they only run certain days of the week and from like 8-4pm. It is fairly cheap though, like $3 per ride.
Using GPT models like that is unreliable anyway.

I was talking to someone who was excited that he was able to use ChatGPT to convert a short tabular text listing of about 70 rows to a comma-separated list of the ids on each row, without having to e.g. import it into a spreadsheet or database. I pointed out that this couldn't be relied on, but he was skeptical. So I checked the output he pasted - there were only 69 ids. It had left out an id from the middle of the list, seemingly at random.
Ask HN: How does the Unity licensing change affect me?
I get that they've hit the self-destruct button.

But I'm interested to know how this affects me as someone who owns games across multiple platforms - steam/epic/gog/etc, console physical/digital etc.

The policy might affect future updates, but what about stuff I've already paid for?
They used webGL for the demo. Nice!
Publish quality or academia perishes
That's honestly beyond the pale. Thanks for the heads-up.
Sort of novel idea on a Tjasker windmill. I will be surprised if this ever makes it out of the idea stage though.
What went down at Korea Blockchain Week
Of all the shows to be persuaded to watch..
He has finally showed the world his true self. I am happy about that - I don't want another capitalist sanctified for being a genius, which he is not. The more this becomes clearer the better for everyone.
Well the person I replied to makes a very specific claim. That prices were raised 6 years ago by all operators at the same time and that the regulator did not fault them. Neither can I find evidence of that price hike, nor can I find a statement by the regulator.
Has anyone tried http://www.gamebryo.com/ ?
No. A temporary outage affecting logging in does not sound “deeply” concerning at all, especially if people who are logged in are still able to use the app normally. I don’t use Bitwarden, but this outage does not affect my opinion of Bitwarden’s hosted service.

I’m not aware of any SaaS that achieves 100% uptime. If you want to control your own destiny, I hear that you can self-host bitwarden, but the uptime will almost certainly be lower than a well-managed hosted service.
Those are the values of a housewife - family, relationship, sunset, hobbies.

Then there are the men who build and maintain the world the housewife and the kids live in.

Unless we're cool with the modern way of life collapsing and us going back to 'the good old days' - men need to care deeply about the modern way of life and understand what makes it tick.

Not every man of course but the overall direction of men adopting the values of housewives and thinking modern society is just this given, that it'll just continue chugging along and I can only care about myself (and my family) - that's a very dangerous fantasy.
> If a free and open device is so important, won't some smart hacker always come along to build one?

This just isn't how the universe works at all. We both grew up in the era roughly analogous to the early era of flight with 100 bad designs competing for most incompetent and are now moving into the an era of commercial jets and here you are arguing that planes wont make a difference in war.

If you build an ecosystem where essential services like logging into your work, watching netflix, and banking require you to use locked down devices in which the OEM could be forced to build ANY restriction into the device but mostly use it to keep you from trivialities in the US and Europe you wont notice you've built a tool suitable for any oppression nor will you notice until the frog is well boiled.

We have the bones of damn near total control in terms of difficult to root devices, remote attestation to ensure you actually are using such a device, AI to analyze data at scale. The difference between the tools we have now and 1984 is that the telescreen didn't sit in your pocket nor was Big Brother literally listening 100% of the time to 100% of the people.

We are describing a literal system you could roll out without inventing anything purely based on existing technology and if you too live in the US then we are doing so in a country that has at least a 1 in 3 chance of descending into a fascist state.
Caution, this tool uses AES in OFB mode[0] to encrypt/decrypt the file, without any guarantee of the ciphertext integrity(no MAC).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation...
Game Design: On Realism vs. Fun, and SIM vs. Play
First Year of JWST Day 1: K2-18B Findings
Yea Atlanta parking enforcement sucks. At least as of a few years ago it was outsourced to a private company(/companies) and they are very trigger happy. Had two tickets assessed incorrectly
This is a common trick for theorists. You need to have essentially completed the work in order to write a compelling grant proposal.
>I took the thing down in fear of retaliation by the grocery chains. My plan: get a big NGO, news outlet or political party to host the thing and be a legal shield for the endevour.

Imagine how much good could be done in the world if developers could create things for the common good without fear of corporate legal retaliation.
Nice, I'll give it a closer look. My only concern so far is memory hooking (still needed for hardware registers), which on Java side was called by FilteredMemoryState [1]. In memstate.cc it looks like just the simpler MemoryState is implemented [2], and there's no equivalent to MemoryAccessFilter. But it might not be that complicated to add...

[1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...

[2]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...