skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Litigation_involving_Apple_Inc

> March 2010 Apple vs HTC:

Apple's suit alleged 20 separate patent infringements relating to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs exclaimed "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it" The ITC rejected all but one of Apple's claims

> July 2008 Apple Inc. vs Psystar Corporation

Apple Inc. filed suit against Psystar Corporation alleging Psystar sold Intel-based systems with Mac OS X pre-installed and that, in so doing, violated Apple's copyright and trademark rights and the software licensing terms of Apple's shrink wrap license.

>2019, Apple v. Corellium

Apple sued security start-up Corellium for creating the first virtual iPhone-simulating software. The product was created with the intent of helping users research security issues in iOS. Apple's lawsuit argued that Corellium's product would be dangerous in the wrong hands as it would let hackers learn exploits easier, as well as claiming that Corellium was selling their product indiscriminately, even to potential competitors of Apple.

> Apple v. Samsung: Android phones and tablets

By August 2011, Apple and Samsung were engaged in 19 ongoing lawsuits in 12 courts in nine countries on four continents; by October, the fight expanded to 10 countries.
Reminds me of how how people give trivial stuff away for "free" in online marketplaces, but ask to be paid with a good review before handing it over. Do that a few hundred times and whoa, you're an amazingly rated seller!
They got rid of the "Dodge" branding because they are too big to dodge now
Has there ever been a case where a fan fic cuts into the bottom line of the original???

A fan fic is ultimately just a subpar copy.
What if she's an old lady in a wheelchair? A gun is a power equalizer.
Robert Reich has been promoting a similar analysis on social media.
It’s kinda different although you can do some similar things.

IMO the ruby one is more powerful because it effectively allows you to customize language syntax by supplying a block. And it fits nicely with the stdlib and libraries (ex map yields to a block to do the mapping). Ruby also has an enumerator that does some similar things to pythons yield: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/Enumerator.html

Pythons yield is more commonly used for iteration and stuff although it does allow some neat tricks for scoping things.
In this case it also correlates with corporate profits.

Edit: it actually does correlate with deficit spending, but only because the last two major deficit spending increases were 2008-2010 and Covid. So it's pretty hard to say deficit spending in particular was causal (as opposed to, say, near-zero interest rates combined with industry consolidation).
Jurisprudence does not only establish that clauses that prohibit reverse engineering are enforceable, it clearly establishes that those clauses supersede the reverse engineering exception in the DMCA, see Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, 320 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2003)[0]

And both Apple’s OS licenses and Apple’s MediaToS, both of which require agreement before being able to reach the parts that were reverse engineered, explicitly prohibit reverse engineering.

But the civil liability isn’t the most interesting part of this story.

The interesting part is that this referral to the DOJ can blow up in Beeper’s face in a violent way.

While there’s nothing the antitrust division of the DOJ can do here no matter how badly the congressional critters misrepresent the situation in the letter, CCIPS can definitely pursue computer trespass charges as defined in the CFAA due to Beeper’s unauthorized access of Apple’s servers.

0: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/320/320.F3d...
Data source is BloombergNEF which I don’t have access to, but you can verify the raw numbers. Here’s a chart someone made, which also includes their adjustments for capacity factor: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9ijkxxhuscrr3x22tewk2/File-De...
I'm with you, adding an auto bed leveler was the single biggest upgrade on my 3D printer, for the type and printing I do and the frequency I use, it's really just made it fire and forget (I'm sure I could improve it /even/ further) where as previously I felt I had to re-level after every print.
“Derivative work” is a term of art and does not just mean “inspired by” or “influenced by”.
BTW, when Daikin or Carrier or anyothers sell their Heat Humps at COPs of 5 based on a SEER Rating, you can laugh....it's a blended rate and represent ZERO integrity to the actual Heat Pump performance in extreme temps....how did this happen? ASHRAE , SEER Rating are all sponsored and created by WHO? The HVAC good ole boys....so they are blatantly overselling HYPED COP efficiency that are actually 25% of their real COP....we've tested Daikin the highest selling Home Heat Pump units in Spain lab and the results were clear at -20C the COP was 1.25 but SEER Rating star it's 5. If the general public only kew the facts :)
The polluter that caused this situation has 2 to 10 employee and specializes in
"Chemical Distribution, Disaster Response, Total Environmental Solutions"

https://www.linkedin.com/company/k-solv-group/

They are an oil spill response company. These chemicals that are leaking are normally sprayed in marine habitat to disperse oil spills.
3D printing has a bifurcation in the hobby; some people enjoy it for the objects they can make, some people enjoy it for the printers themselves. I pass no judgement either way, just an observation. I saw the same thing in the photography world; some were gearheads, some couldn't care less, and were focused on the image.

As for me personally, I spent many entertaining, delightful, maddening and frustrating years playing with a frankendelta of bodged parts, broken firmware and hacked wiring. Learned a ton, don't regret any of it. But the moment I got an X1C, the Rostock has been relegated to Spiral Vase mode only. And I can't help but note my actual printing volume has increased dramatically when the process became less of a babysit.
I suspect it's too early to suggest the berms are protecting anything. They're just delaying.

having said that, the Icelandic Dyke seems to have very "runny" magma. this might help with deflection.
>Experiences are expensive. Things are cheap(er).

Some experiences are expensive, some are free. Things are never free.

Why are things expensive? Because everyone will charge you the most they can get away with. Part because of supply and demand, part because they use your desires against you, part because they have to be profitable.
As someone who did the whole math on modular synthesizers a few years ago because I wondered why many of those cost 3 to 4 times the electronic parts: This is the markup you need if you don't want to sell at a loss. The only reason other consumer electronics are cheaper, is because they are sold at a bigger scale where the costs of the parts go down and the design costs can be shared on more shoulders. There are some exceptions to this, where the designs are simple and the parts are few, but most of the stuff I ever saw was reasonably prized.

The issue is just that people not doing the math have no idea what reasonably priced is.
I'm not sure I buy this logic. The timeline you give could be just as easily explained as people taking time to learn to account for carrying around something valuable in a form factor they're not used to (e.g. accidentally leaving it on a table and using the bathroom only to find it gone when they returned). It's also not like Apple devices make up the majority of the phone or laptop market, and at least for laptops I'm pretty sure there's no standard equivalent for whatever remote lockout thing happened to the macbook in the article. I think you'd need a lot more evidence to argue convincingly that this policy made a huge difference.
Yes it sounds interesting and I wonder what it would take as well, you're welcome to join the chat to discuss in more details: https://servo.zulipchat.com/
There apparently ARE no "anti-theft" capabilities. Look at this:

"They explained to me that the MacBook was wiped in the middle of August (after I had lost it) and then reported lost by a newly created iCloud account"

How can an unauthorized user suddenly claim ownership of a wiped computer and then "report it lost?" Why does Apple accept a loss report from someone who is not the owner of the computer? If this is actually what happened, there's no excuse for that glaring stupidity.
Yeah, capacitive buttons, my old nemesis. Worst of both worlds. Guess I need to read up why those were invented even.
Continuous Bounty: Practicing What We Preach
I spent several years working on production Go code and I never found it particularly clear or intuitive to read or debug compared to Ruby. This seems like a "your mileage may vary" situation.
There is something special about the human being
I suppose this would sway the masses if by giving copyright many more years after death, it caused long deasceaded authors to unearth themselves in order to squeeze out one last work.
well, no, there are a lot of places where you can get used things (or sometimes even new) for free that still in good condition
We invested in a project to

> I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

And got a 4x return on investment (we landed four men on the moon before 1970.)

And we did it because it was a hard thing to do.
LiquidAI out of stealth – new generation of AI models from first principles
DDS Runs Bug Bounties for the Department of Defense
I think money is a poor substitute to judge how expensive something is.

It's better to judge in time. How many ours do I have to work to buy this? Or even in breads or burgers. Is this worth x burgers?

Thinking like that made me buy much less than I would have.
On does not simply take on the Tolkien Estate in a copyright lawsuit. It is folly.
> How exactly does LiDAR tell you whether the thing in question can move

LIDAR is continuously scanning, usually multiple times a second. It is irrelevant if the object is a trash can or a dog if it has a trajectory into the street.

> And once you’ve solved it, LiDAR becomes superfluous.

Only if you have the low Musk level standards of simply being equal to a human. There are plenty of jobs robots can do better than humans and driving is one of them. But it does require LIDAR and/or radar.

https://abc7news.com/tesla-s-autopilot-self-driving-car-offi...
https://xkcd.com/750/
It's possible to encode any image format to any other; I'm not sure what they has to do with my comment though
I never got ABL to work with marlin, despite trying all possible configurations and versions, so I just did it the same way you do.
With Klipper, it just worked when I first installed it. Never looked back.
What you say is that bigger cities have bigger inflation. If you live in a smaller city, earn half, but everything costs half, then, you don't have any incentive to move to a big city.
It's also the case in Japan.

Japan's very lucrative doujinshi (read: fan novels) and fan art scenes exist purely because most of the creators and publishers turn a blind eye to them (it's free marketing and good will from fans of their works). They only start caring if the fan works are being sold for profit or harming the original IPs.

Comiket exists thanks to everyone knowing and respecting where the invisible lines in the sand are drawn.
Probably quite circular too, the labor costs are high because the housing/COL was allowed to become so high.
Ruby one love
Obviously he's an unpopular guy nowadays, but I often think about Louis CK's version of this:

I'm paraphrasing, but he essentially said he didn't try to make his best performances better, he tried to make his worst performances better.

That idea has been hugely impactful for me -- it's resulted in far less anxiety and self-flagellation in the pursuit of excellence, while still probably resulting in about the same overall improvement.
That doesn't make sense. First of all, "this type of locking system" is clearly a failure because it allowed an unauthorized random person to report a computer as "lost" when he didn't own it. So the answer to your first question is: You wouldn't.

Second, what does this even mean: "without giving users access to their own private keys, then having a much worse problem where dozens of users lose their private keys and forever brick their device?" What scenario exactly does that refer to?
Rubocop forbids the use of `and` and `or` in a value expression for this reason, and I believe several style guides used with Rubocop ban them entirely. I like them but have come to accept that they're more trouble than they're worth (in a shared codebase with lots of contributors, at least).
> Yes yes. Renewable proponents really love trotting out costs while ignoring the only reason costs have gone up is because we significantly ramped down our nuclear production efforts. Same would happen if we did that for solar. But that’s a choice we get to make.

The huge difference here is that each individual nuclear power station is a megaproject while solar panels are mass manufactured items produced in the hundreds of millions per year.

> Also nuclear construction costs are particularly outsized in the US where regulations are intentionally constructed to strangle it. Japan, China, and Europe build it much more cheaply.

Europe is not building new nuclear cheaply or quickly either. All three EPR projects in Europe are hugely over budget (at least $10B per reactor) and more than a decade behind schedule.

China has been able to build new nuclear more quickly but the factors that make building new nuclear faster in China also make building new renewables faster:

"Every year, the combination of wind and solar, and usually both individually, outstripped new nuclear generation, both in raw nameplate capacity and in additional TWh of annual generation."

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/renewables-in-china-tre...

> Denmark is an absolute best case because they are geographically advantaged for wind. Wind is much more resilient and cheaper than solar but is also more geography dependent. Fission can be installed anywhere.

Onshore wind and utility scale solar seem to be pretty similar cost-wise now, which is cheaper will depend on the site. Northern Europe is really bad for solar given the northerly latitude, but southern Europe and the US are far more suited to it.

Offshore wind is expensive for renewables though getting cheaper. It's now about the same cost as gas (before prices went up when Russia invaded Ukraine) in Europe and under half the cost of new nuclear.

> Got any existence proof for this claim? We’re building renewables as fast as we can and countries seem to generally tap out at ~20% ammortized across the year and are growing extremely slowly (~1% each year).

Between 2000 and 2020 renewables went from 2.8% to 43.1% of UK generation. It's being built at 2% a year. That's about 25% in the time it takes to build a new nuclear reactor.

China is increasing the percentage of both solar and wind in its energy mix by about 1% each per year (much faster than nuclear.) In 10 years wind and nuclear have gone from neck and neck to wind being almost double, while solar has gone from nothing to neck and neck with nuclear.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?time...

> By comparison France runs 90% carbon free and that’s because of their nuclear grid.

I pretty much lost hope in nuclear when it turned out even the French can't build it cost effectively anymore. 20 years ago nuclear looked like the only realistic option. Since then nuclear build costs have spiralled while renewables have gotten cheaper and cheaper.
What boilerplate? Just use var everywhere and the compiler will type it for you.

I think the main problem with C# is that even though you can write scripty “pythonic” C# since like 2010, people are still coding C# likes it’s early 2000s enterprise Java. The .NET library doesn’t help either, since it sets the “style guide” that many developers follow.
Also shrinkflation, and reduction in baseline quality of various goods offsetting increased baseline quality in other areas.
Milton was "ordered to forfeit a property in Utah and ordered to pay a fine of $1 million," with restitution to be set "in a future proceeding" [1]. This is in addition to the $125 million Nikola paid "to settle charges that it defrauded investors" [2], which it "is seeking reimbursement from Milton for" [3].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/trevor-milton-sentenced...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-267

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/nikola-corp-agrees-pay-125-...
The statement of a storage device is part of a larger claim that decribes a different embodiment of the invention that they also want to protect. If it was an independent claim it would almost certainly be invalid, but as part of a specific claim or as a dependent claim it could be valid when considering the entire embodiment described by the claim(s).
I love this. In my college library there's a row of books on mathematics,

a single shelf unit on computer science (system admin, SQL, the works),

a shelf on cryptography

most books on RSA

two books on ECC

and ONE single book on essoteric protocols, and it's this one (not this edition)

covers things like blind signing, dining cryptographers, homomorphic encryption, zero knowledge proofs,

all before the whole bitcoin thing got annoying.

bring back cool cryptography

(blind ECC is annoyingly hard to explain)
Oh I am pretty certain someone™ will put the whole personal record into an LLM on someone elses computer (aka the cloud) and ask who needs to be fired and come up with a reason. Then they will fire them. Then the reason will turn out to be bullshit.

On the other side, there will be a ton of cowards who will say the computer told them to do X, where X is the thing they wanted to do all along. And the neat part is that you don't even need to ask a computer for that, you just pretend you did. And in the end if Xbturns out to be a shit choice, you can use the famous software error-excuse and be off the hook immediately, because apparently liability ends there automatically or something.
FYI 604 is a really great album by this band Ladytron
RSpec is a domain-specific language for testing written in Ruby. It isn't a great example of vanilla Ruby, in my opinion.
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It seems very strange that chain and exchange hopping with multiple mixers attempts would be discovered by themselves. Either some had a KYC or the attacker bragged about the spoils.
I print working firearms and firearm parts. I follow the bed levelling method detailed in GP, and I have never had a gun failure due to lack of precision, which is critical in firearms. I also do this with Nylon and TPU, zero issues. Sure, ABL is nice, but I'd rather use the budget on a proper hotend and direct drive.
V.F. Corporation (VFC), an apparel company, was the first company to file a cybersecurity incident under this new rule. The period of the report shows Friday, Dec 15 so it appears they submitted it to the SEC after-hours on Friday and the SEC accepted/published it this Monday morning, Dec 18 but the company became aware of the incident on Monday, Dec 13. Their stock price is down almost 8% today.

Sources:

https://last10k.com/sec-filings/vfc/0000950123-23-011228.htm

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/103379/0000950123230...

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/vans-owner-...
Did you use servo in the context of the scaper? In general I'd be happy to hear more about how you use servo, which you could discuss in our zulip: https://servo.zulipchat.com/
Where's that? I live in France.
Writing truly portable C++ it’s not all that hard. In the worst case you need a handful of ifdefs even if you write systems code.
You can reach out to your HR department at work if you are interested in taking leadership specific anti-trust training. Most larger companies have a leadership training track where this type of course is included.
I think they're saying net income because they're assuming there wasn't any cost for it. But they do have to pay taxes on it, and the lawyers and executives time spent on trying to make the deal work did cost something. Probably much higher margin work than their core business though.

If only you could repeatedly negotiate and then recover breakup fees as a business..
I'm curious why? I built a JS-driven website and did extensive testing with the screen readers available to me (phone, etc). Adding a few aria properties seemed to work wonders. I think the problem isn't the SPA concept but rather that people don't bother testing. However, a horrible screen reader experience can be achieved without an SPA too and many do.
This doc was meant to be a POC, just to show what's possible. We're working on migrating it to Mustache templates which do automatic escaping: https://github.com/PostgREST/plmustache?tab=readme-ov-file#e...

You're right though, we'll add a warning there. Thanks for the feedback.
Eating at a restaurant, going on a cruise or going to spa are not experiences I care about.

Spending time with your loved ones, spending time with friends, going outside and walking, reading a book are experiences that I care more about, and they don't cost much, if anything.

Some people living in poor countries report that they are happier than people living in rich countries.

Why is that? Because they have better experiences.
The irony is people are rooting for a company (Apple) which only exists because it did something similar like Beeper early on, but root against Beeper. Apple is its present and history.
With proper bed leveling and the right bed temperature you don't need to bother with hairspray.

Having to resort to glue is often a sign that something else in your setup isn't tuned correctly. ABL is one thing that helps.
I can see why he was dismissed, the location is extremely unlikely. It's to the south of the middle of Australia, which would require going over quite some distance around it in order not to get detected, and would be in the opposite direction of the plotted probable course.
> At least for me, typing frees up my brain to actually move faster. When typing, I can think about the next phrase or sentence. When talking, I find it much more difficult to "think ahead", so to speak.

I wonder if this would change as we got more familiar with interacting with a voice AI. I think a lot of the extra brain power that goes into talking versus typing is the assumed need to keep talking at a constant pace because that is what a human listener expects. If we were more comfortable with pausing while talking and not feeling like we need to always know what to say next as soon as we get to the end of a word, it might not take as much brain power to speak to a computer anymore.
I agree, Apple needs to wait and see what team offers a good alternative to OpenAI and buy them, I hope they do not buy and close an open source friendly team.
Funny, but I’m saying it seriously as a countermeasure to the bloat epidemic. An SMS parking app doesn’t even need Internet and works fine. Use the simplest technology to achieve a goal and enhance.
I hate what Apple has become, but they make the best laptops, so I buy them.
That's probably true for Bezos, too. Except that he got a raise.
There is a Doctor Who episode where they went to Pompeii.
Why stop there? Use arbitrary XML and style it with CSS.
This is how my website came to be. A slow gradual accretion. The longest-in-draft post is currently clocking 4 years and counting. Though no work of art, suffice to say, I relate with the sentiment. This is a favourite quote:

_"A Work of Art Is Never Finished, Merely Abandoned"_

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/01/abandon/