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It's stealing in the cultural appropriation sense, not the copyright sense.

When you create a new work based off a public domain work, you own what you added to that work. If your adaptation happens to be extremely successful, that effectively recopyrights the character, because the version people care about is the one you own. If someone else wants to use the public domain character, they have to aggressively distance their use of that character from yours.

Disney spent decades re-imagining Europe's folk tales[0] through his lens. Their movies are the ones people think about when you mention Snow White, Cinderella, Pinocchio, etc. Notably, the visual designs are unique enough to get independent copyright protection. So independent uses of those characters don't look like themselves.

This, BTW, is why anyone who wants to renounce copyright over their creative work should opt for CC-BY-SA and not a public domain dedication. Share-alike clauses prevent this sort of gradual appropriation.

[0] as filtered/censored thru the Brothers Grimm
> The "fully visible" part made me thinks humans can identify a bicycle and rider with just partial visibility, which means they would stop faster than the car.

From my experience as a driver and a bicyclist, I guarantee you that is not true, most driver won’t see you unless you are >60% visible.
>Previous commenter mentioned career choices, not biological programming and certainly not anything about anyone being ill suited for a job. Men and women in aggregate often have different career preferences - is that controversial?

The OP commenter seemed to be implying that Men and Women have natural career choices because even countries with long histories of "gender equality" see women and men aggregate in different careers.

The real reasons for much of these discrepancies, legal and social pressures/conditioning (If a father won't buy his daughter(s) computers to tinker with at a young age like he might his sons, how much less interest do you imagine daughters would have in CS?) are not natural.
Here we are on a website centered on an industry that has "solved" customer support by having zero live support. It's RTFM (or FAQ). Sometimes even paying customers get this treatment.
Me too, though it was more like 25 years. If someone asked me "who is your hero", I would answer John Walker. To be honest, I didn't know all that much about him beyond The Hacker's Diet, his own autobiography/Autodesk File, and the stuff on his web site circa 15-20 years ago. But the things I did know seemed admirable:

* He was an engineer's engineer, and when his company became successful, the impression I got was that he stayed one.

* The Hacker's Diet is a good example - approaching weight loss as a problem to be solved the same as any other: by learning what's known about it and using empiricism and data.

* As far as I can tell, at some point he decided he had achieved all the money he needed so he went off to Switzerland and became a sort of mad scientist, pursuing whatever interested him for the rest of his life. Including things like the hotbits random number generator, where he installed a radiation source in his basement and used it to serve random bits up via a public web API.

None of us are perfect, and it's best not to know too much about one's heroes, so I didn't. I looked up to the John Walker in my mind as the person I want to be when I grow up, and this sad news hits hard.
Pretty sure there's a bike rack in every town with a school. Your 'Almost*' has towns like Lismore (2 public high schools), Casino (1) and Murwillumbah (2 schools and bike rack on main street) all without racks
Very sad news. In the mid 90s I used his ATLAST in a commercial product and reached out to him for some help. He was very gracious. R.I.P John Walker
I like the article, but I feel that it could have been written 50 years ago as well. Russia being led by a despotic leader, proxy conflicts, lack of social cohesion, those are all things we have seen before in the 70's and in other points in modern history. The US even had trouble mobilizing for WW2, despite the central government trying to push for it.
Tying in the lyrics was an excellent touch
Or from another perspective, it's weird when the Queen does it too.
I'm not sure, are you being sarcastic?

It seems to me that we could almost certainly gain insight into Apple and Google's relationship by looking at the relationship between historical megacorporations.
From the article:

>Doug Bereuter, then a Republican congressman, framed the [EB-5] law as a violation of American values, noting that he was saddened to learn that American citizenship was “for sale to the highest bidder.”

And this is with a veneer of legitimacy by framing it as an "investment". Outright selling is sure to attract more ire.
I drive and bike. It's more annoying on a bike to come to a complete stop.
Celine's Second Law, from the Illuminatus! series:

Wilson rephrases the [law] himself many times as "communication occurs only between equals". Celine calls this law "a simple statement of the obvious" and refers to the fact that everyone who labors under an authority figure tends to lie to and flatter that authority figure in order to protect themselves either from violence or from deprivation of security (such as losing one's job)....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws
The Rising Threat of Ad Fraud: A Deep Dive into the Numbers
And give your supporting army a nice tan at the same time!
Compared to a lot of startups, it's not sarcasm
Well, it sounds like the cyclist was doing the same while failing to stop or yield at a stop sign.
I don't quite understand... I've gone on the link and it looks like it's targeted at the LATAM area

Is this open to people living in the States?
What level of employment do you usually get to until you don't care about workers?
In my experience with motorcycling and bicycling as a primary mode of transport I'm happy if the human drivers attempt to stop at all
South Korean firm is offering to pay its workers $75K each time they have a baby
Just a guess out of my butt but, I would bet that very few people on this website have ever driven a 1000cc bike.

What's the fastest you've gone on your Ninja SX 1000 and how do you balance the fear of dying/getting into an accident/danger?
Making it an even percentage across the company is pretty common, it prevents middle management infighting and horse trading over who has to cut more and who gets to cut less.

The actual decisions about which specific individuals, after the percentage is arrived at, however seems questionable if what you say is true.
> This might be fair, but at some point, if you are applying this consistent level of caution, there isn't going to be anywhere in the real world left to actually drive

Not true. The Netherlands actually will redesign roads and intersections when this kind of thing happens; it will also actively seek rules for cars and cyclists that prevent visibility obfuscation. America just doesn’t believe in that, the only fix it can come up with is “drive better, cars.”
You may want to look into the concept of the "Failure to Avoid" or "Failure to Reduce Speed" citation. These encapsulate scenarios where it there was reasonable opportunity to avoid or stop before causing a collision.

You don't just get to careen into a collision because someone else is not following the rules of the road, hoping for a payday.
How many cyclists are hit per million Uber rides?
It's possible that they are referring to humanities based on classical Greek and Roman thought and the idea of a "Western Canon". Perhaps in contrast to modern humanities that emphasize also understanding non-Western cultures.
You redefined Markdown support into "only Markdown support." No refunds, sorry. :)*

Absolutely no trillion-dollar company is going to ship a product at scale that's simultaneously obsessed with: Markdown only, non-formatted Markdown, and Markdown.

That's a niche feature available in many code editors, I suggest Visual Studio Code.

* also, note both my and my parent post are proceeding with the premise that perhaps both are desirable, I'm not sure why you felt deceived that Docs didn't become a Markdown-only editor
Yes, tonsils are another organ that was at one point declared useless but proved to be important.
The interesting part of the article isn't the processor but rather the LPDDR5 memory, which apparently has ECC support. I'm not aware of any vendors offering such memory - does anyone know which exact memory they're using?
> A computer doesn't need a multi million dollar marketing campaign convincing it not to text while driving or drive drunk.

A human doesn't get random bugs every week from OTA updates. The human mind is not a viable target for hackers. The risks of human drivers are individual. The risks of computer drivers are systemic and massive. One bad bug or hack could kill millions if self driving cars become ubiquitous.
We decide to engage in armed conflict. The AI wants to escalate to win. We don't like that... Dude, Joshua taught us this lesson 40 years ago and he wasn't the first.
The funds usually go into a slush fund that benefits the PD while not being under its direct control.

Removing the financial incentive for law enforcement to abuse CAF would be an improvement. You'd need to ban any bonus to individual officers for CAF, and make sure 0 funds make their way bank to the PD (i.e. no budget increases for CAF activities).

But I think it would a better idea and more effective to eliminate Civil Asset forfeiture and only allow Criminal asset forfeiture. If you think the funds are illegal, charge someone and prove it.
The US government-owned facilities are not the only US source of 155mm rounds.
NAMMO [1] is a major manufacturer, and they have a facility in Mesa, AZ.
Here's their marketing video for 155mm rounds.[2] Nammo's management complains that they
are being offered 3-4 year contracts, and they need 10-15 year contracts to build new factories.
Peacetime demand for large-caliber ammo is very low, so when there's not a war on, factories
are mothballed.

BAE and Rheinmetall also make 155mm rounds, and many of those are going to Ukraine.
Israel is unhappy that the US stores of ammo in Israel are being sent to Ukraine, and
is ordering domestic manufacture from Elbit.

The article doesn't make a clear distinction between the foundry and machining steps in the process. The first part involves casting and forging molten metal, and the second is ordinary machining.
They don't have to be carried out in the same plant. Either or both can be outsourced separately.

Filling, where explosives go into shells, is done in dedicated plants with lots of separation between buildings, buried storage bunkers, and many other safety precautions. That's the dangerous part but not the bottleneck.

Here's a modern 155mm shell forging plant in Germany.[3]

[1] https://www.nammo.com/product/our-products/ammunition/large-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUV1uktRZg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNtmrYeBwWQ
Let’s apply this same thing to humans. If a human engaged in this situation, no one would blink an eye.

SF had a “zero motor deaths” goal for 2024 and there were human drivers in protest that any changes made to save lives would be inconvenient (eg removing parking spots to increase visibility). The ease at which people will negotiate a human life for parking is horrifying. And likely speaks to how they drive.

We really should make driving much more cautious and undesirable. Any incident should result in serious penalties. In MA, if you’re <18, and you get a ticket, you automatically have your license suspended, and depending on severity, you may need to re-apply for a license, and start the testing and permitting process over. This really should be the adult process too.

If people are worried that loss of driving will disrupt their life, then all of society might slowly become less car dependent. This would have great effects on the environment, people would have shorter commutes, they’d probably be healthier. Cities would be more walkable, people would save money on the incredibly expense that is cars, and so much more.
You can do that, but then you have to accept the consequences when things don't play out the way you had hoped.
Please collect your $25 participation gift card from the slot in the rear tailgate.
If you had to pin it on a single actor, Google. Ads have corrupted the original vision of the web. When you offer a path for other actors to monetize the web, they will, and Google did that more than anybody.
I find plenty of rules of the road annoying, whether I'm in a car, on a bicycle or pedestrian. This "Oh, well, it's annoying so we don't do that" is BS.
Not uncommon. Take out the old guard and hire new people for empire building.
No that's absolutely bonkers and an edge case. 5 women don't have a baby in 1.8 months, and headcount has been frozen-ish since late 2021 unless you're Bard, so we're looking at someone dangerously stupid sticking their neck out to over-compensate, for no good reason, and inexperienced with basic tech shibboleths.

Also, the large firing decisions in January 2023 and January 2024 were made up several steps up the ladder. There's been probably just as much firings done informally inbetween, and to your point, some were very purposeful: multiple people in Assistant org. reported independently that new directors and their couterie were grafted onto the org, they were shuffled onto "Still Very Important" Assistant teams, then the not-so-important Assistant teams were let go en masse.
What sources would you accept?
"In fact, you shouldn’t write any serious application in Forth; as a lan-
guage it’s simply not powerful enough. What you should do is write your own
language in Forth (lexicons) to model your understanding of the problem, in
which you can elegantly describe its solution."

I've enjoyed reading about FORTH and LISP over the years and I think LISP advocates have a similar philosophy. What Leo Brodie states so nicely is very hard for me to actually do. I think that's what separates the people who "get" computing from those (like me) who glue bits of various libraries together to get past the problem of the moment.

As an HP calculator lover (I wore the ENTER > = t-shirt 40 years ago) I understand the stack and RPN but have no idea how I'd write a trig or stat function if it weren't already built in!
>Big data companies will if you're near your toothbrush then you're at home. And they can figure out where "home" is by other tracking methods.

You don't need bluetooth to do that. By keeping track of your public/private ip (which requires no special permissions), and correlating it to time of day, it's fairly easy to infer whether you're home or not. If there's a network you're regularly connected to during the evening and weekends, it's highly probable that you're "home".
> I'm sorry for anyone at that company right now

The average total compensation for an engineer is $250k-$350k/yr+

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Software-Engineer-Sa...

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Citrix,UKG,American%2...
No police support besides all the off duty coppers that showed up
Any vehicle blocks the visibility of a 5 year old, as I often remind my kids.
Reading articles about big auto just makes it clearer how Tesla caught them with their pants down.

Low tier charging networks affects people's trust in your product (now they're shipping Tesla adapters)

Dealers create complex supply chains.

If consumers aren't coming from a previous electric, you probably need to help the onboarding (like Tesla did with free superchargingl
I’m going to guess the poster meant studying Aristotle, Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, etc.

Rather than more modern theorists.

If that’s what the poster meant, I strongly agree.

If I could push a button requiring all students to take four years of Plato, I’d smash that button again and again.
Procedural Due Process does, substantive due process does not.
Nothing is preventing anyone from studying those ideas.
Never got to play it, but I always loved “Simple and Clean.” Sounds like I got the best experience of the game.
If Waymo's description was accurate it wasn't blind when they entered the intersection. Waymo and the truck stopped at a 4-way intersection traveling opposite directions. Both entered the intersection going straight. In the meanwhile the bicycle entered from the cross street behind the truck, himself blind to what was occurring in the intersection.

We'll have to wait for more information to see if that description is accurate, but the car's action was a legal and safe thing to do based on the description given.

> but at least I wouldn't be turning while blind.

There is nothing in the article suggesting that the waymo was turning.

Edit: Nevermind I was visualizing the direction of cross traffic incorrectly. The cyclist's lane would have been to the left and closest to the Waymo, which means that the truck must have already been in the intersection when the Waymo started moving if it was obscuring the bike.

So either the Waymo got to the intersection later than the black truck and tried to sneak in a crossing, or they both got there at the same time but the Waymo came to a complete stop and then proceeded while the truck performed a rolling stop, or something similar.

That's a much fuzzier situation and will depend a lot more on details not being shared.
What I find most upsetting is the return of "great leader" - some overconfident old man who loves power. Putin, Jinping, Trump, Orban, Modi, Netanyahu etc. are detestable phenomena that won't lead to no good. How did we get here? Crisis of ideology? Counter-reaction to relative social liberalization?

In a more controversial phrasing I'd call it "the return of the big penis".
If it goes the way of smart TVs, there will be no ad-free version, and shills will gaslight us by claiming an ad-free version would cost 10x as much.
Iran accelerates cyber ops against Israel from chaotic start
This snippet is amazing and hilarious at the same time:

>The game has changed. In 1977 this business was fun—the sellers and buyers were hotshot techies like
ourselves, everybody spoke the same language and knew what was going on, and technical excellence was
recognised and rewarded. Today, the microcomputer industry is run by middle manager types who know far
more about P/L statements than they do RAM organization. They are the people who determine whether you succeed or fail, and their evaluations are seldom based on technical qualities. Hence, the first thing any venture in this field has to be is businesslike.

I felt that way in the early 90s with PCs programming and late 90's with the Internet. Once the "suits" take over, things get boring for us techies.
Indeed seeing this reminded me of the Breathe app, which was renamed to Mindfulness and has Reflect and Breathe exercises. It’s nice because you can configure the breathing rate, the visuals are pretty nice looking, and I even like the haptics.
Will IT Block?
If Apple can work out how to make a phone that actually folds - the current tech here doesn’t fold, it bends instead producing this ugly crease down the center. Every “foldable” has this flaw.
If you change enough at once GitHub gives up and displays "infinity files changed". Likewise for lines. I've gotten such a PR merged in a finite amount of time. Thus, by GitHub math, infinitely large PRs merge faster per line changed than any other size.
If someone can't follow traffic laws, they shouldn't be on the road (regardless of mode of transportation)
This incident literally disproves your claim.
Stripping them down is work, especially with the type of code that can often be found in random jQuery plugins.

It could be argued that avoiding unnecessary work is my main job function. It's a lot more efficient to just get something that already does what I need, without requiring patches. In my experience leaving the jQuery ecosystem made this a lot easier.
But that only means that the US would give up on Taiwan before the fight would get any serious (from USA's point of view).

I also kind of doubt that China is going to try, at least in the next decade or so, because those so far irreplaceable chip factories are almost certainly booby trapped and are a critical piece of the global economy, so China would be sabotaging itself first. (And Xi has probably a long way to go for Putin-like mistakes.)
It's uhclear from the description whether the cyclist was going straight in the same direction as the truck and the Waymo turned into the cyclist, or the cyclist was traveling across the direction of the truck and the Waymo.
One of my earlier professional programming projects was to build a set of custom tools for engineering in Autolisp. Rip Mr. Walker
> There are always languages I use only occasionally (e.g. Emacs Lisp) So I'll never develop muscle memory.

This is a fantastic use case that I hadn’t thought of.

One big problem with DSLs is that unless you use them on a near daily basis, you’ll keep forgetting how to use them. They really need to be worth the memorization cost that they introduce to a system. But SRSs can help.
It wasn't explicitly shut down, the regional center program failed to be reauthorized by Congress. Investors always could make a direct EB-5 investment, but there are fewer of those around.
Well, if they could've they would've. Also in unlikely case they could've different thinking about competence than yours.
> More like the small…
> I'm far less interested in the footage than I am the telemetry [...] how long was it from detection to action

It sounds like you're making a deeply unreasonable assumption that no human could have detected or anticipated the cyclist faster than the computer did.

Given the current state of the art, those times are frequently not the same, and the difference cannot be answered without seeing the human-consumable video footage of a prospective human driver.
> The thing about IE, one thing anyway, is that it's CSS support, box model, etc, was broken and non standard.

Box model in particular was because they used the much saner border-box instead of the official spec's content-box, which was what everyone else used. You could make the other browsers act like IE by specifying it with box-sizing in the CSS, or from IE8 onwards you could make IE act like the others.
Very cool and creative!
The 3GS was light years better than the original iPhone, and by that time it had things like actual GPS, the App Store, and usable mobile data. The original iPhone was seriously limited.

Ironically many of the things you are identifying about the iPhone are also true of the Vision Pro - for example the eye and hand tracking that enable gestures that actually work in an incredibly intuitive way is a game changer - including literally pinch to zoom.

I think there are other things you are seriously underestimating about Vision Pro - for example the quality of movies, including 3D, is better than anything I've ever seen in any home, movie theater, or other headset. It's simply stunning.

I also don't think a lot of people have tried thing like using FaceTime with the first person camera. I have, and it's an incredible way to give a presentation or explain things to people even if they are using a phone at the other end. Incredibly natural.

There really are as many steps forward, if not more so with the Vision Pro than with the iPhone.
I am usually one to bash cyclists for not following the rules, but I believe it's actually legal for them to do this at stop signs. They only have to slow down and check for crossing traffic before going through.
I'm pretty distrusting of where people will use turn signals in general.
MPC from Scratch: Everyone Can Do It
"MPC, or multiparty computation, is about how multiple parties can do shared computations on private inputs without revealing those private inputs."
I think he’s just a curious guy who loves to experiment on himself, and talk (a lot) about it. The problem comes when people listen to his podcast looking for magic bullets and take everything as strictly true or false.