skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you argue that WINE should need a license from Microsoft, because it has copied APIs from Windows?
The "main" mastodon.social instance isn't choosing to ban them at this time: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/102180995301556021

Also, from the article: "If you are being harassed, or witness online harassment, block and flag the offending user and a moderator will take action. We do not tolerate harassment. This is an area of well-established rights, Librem Social is built on and with the expert policies of ACLU, FSF, and EFF, while avoiding the pitfalls of ham-fisted censorship we all dislike from Big Tech."

And the link to their Code of Conduct is here: https://librem.one/conduct/

Some elements of the Mastodon community are a bit... extreme in their views on moderation, but it doesn't seem like Purism is going outside the standard faire here.
Their papers have a few samples. It looks a little like Bamboo.

http://obsidian-lang.com/publications.html
Are hormones a “female problem” for animal research?
Huawei's Membership to SD Association and Wi-Fi Alliance Restored
What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote next week
I really only have two questions about this case:

1) The US legal code explicitly excludes "methods of operation" from being copyrightable. Does an API count as "methods of operation"? And if so, what ground does Oracle have left to stand on?

2) If this case goes Oracle's way, does this set the precedent that ANY re-implementations of an existing API are in violation of copyright? I don't know who now owns the original rights to Unix, but if they decide to come after Linux where does that leave us?
Not making that up, or paraphrasing from 3rd parties, from the Cloudflare CTO:

"If we do, what features would you like?" - Cloudflare CTO

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1134092076382064640
> The author gets to choose where their writing get syndicated to.

Is it? I don't know how writing syndication works, but I had the understanding that you worked with a syndication company, and they just make the content available for anyone willing to pay the syndication fees for access to the content.
Agreed! The intersection of coding and communicating is really interesting. That is my personal bar for a really phenomenal programmer — someone who can produce code that communicates ideally to both humans and computers.

And this gets harder and harder depending on the task! It’s really tricky stuff.
> Again that’s right in theory and what the banks report, however, individual law suits uncovered intentional efforts by the banks internally to force deferments and resetting the clock on IBR loan payers. Literally bank communication turned over in discovery on a number of lawsuits show instruction not to process annual reporting requirements, place the students in forebearance for a month, then process the documents.

There are no "banks" here. These are loan servicers acting at the federal government's direction.

If there is a problem with the loan servicers, then the federal government should retain different ones. That has nothing to do with whether the program works or should be different. (And if the federal government has failed to properly supervise the companies it hires to service its loans, why is the solution even more federal involvement?)
Is This the Universal Basic Income That Americans Will Buy?
The History of English Podcast has a good episode covering the Ancrene Wisse:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2017/12/02/episode-103-s...
It is also patently untrue because "5nm" label has nothing to do with reality.
I am not surprised that everybody except busybodies hated it.

Yes, the council should work for those who elected it. (A problem with democracy is that those who didn't elect the council are powerless when the council violates their preferences and they still have to fund its projects. But that was the case with the council that voted in the LEZ, so it doesn't matter much to this story).
Shorting exposes you to effectively infinite upside risk. If you shorted one BTC at $4,000 a few months ago, today you'd have lost almost $5,000. If it goes to $20k again, you could be out $16,000.

It's not like a regular asset, where the most you can lose is what you put in. You could lose literally everything.

In the case of stocks, there is some limit in the sense that there's an underlying asset. There's some dispute as to the real long-term value of a share of Facebook or Netflix or Google, but ultimately there is one: your share entitles you to a piece of the profits of that company. It's still possible to lose a huge amount of money shorting stocks (say, you short a nearly-worthless stock in a drug company whose product is surprisingly approved), but it's very rare.

With bitcoin, there's no underlying value to the asset. That makes it extremely volatile; there's no sound way to guess what it could ultimately be worth. Further, unlike stocks, there's no regulator trying to put a damper on price manipulation. (Basically, every dirty trick that was ever tried in the stock market now has rules against it, but they all get dusted off and tried again.) So shorting BTC puts you at significant risk.

Some people are long on BTC because they think that ultimately there is a real value there, and happens to be higher than the current trading price. Their willingness to do so is what will ultimately determine that long-term price. Shorting it is betting that they're wrong... assuming you have the financial wherewithal to wait for the "long term". Or are willing to assume the risk that you're right in the short term, too.
"What do we do when the robotic satellite fails?"

"Send another robot!"
For the use case of blocking general web form spam, we've had good results with relying solely on IP reputation crowdsourced via AbuseIPDB:

https://www.abuseipdb.com/about

Occasionally we're an early target of a fresh IP, but we report it back to the database to help later victims. The more people contribute to such a system, the better it gets.
BlackBerry Messenger shuts down for good today
The oceans absorbed extra CO₂ in the 2000s
Sometimes there is no clear or a weak "chair". Furthermore, if the bullshitter is influential enough that you don't have time/capital in-meeting to call their BS? That's why BS is successful.

I see the Amazon approach as an augment to the chair to keep the discussion on-topic. If it's not discussed on the paper, the burden is on the dissenter to provide info / present credentials to rebut.
If the alternative is something so slow that nobody would actually use it, does the why really matter that much in practice?
This is such a peak HN comment. Evidence of what, exactly?
I imagine that Firefox becoming Brave by blocking all ads would lose Mozilla their biggest source of revenue: Google paying them to have Google search as the default on FF.
IMO, every browser should handle JavaScript the way it handles cookies. The user should be allowed to:

1. run all JS regardless of source

2. reject all JS from sites other than the ones they're visiting

3. run all first-party JS and allow third-party JS from trusted sites

Would this make things harder for adtech? Yes, but nobody is paying me to care about advertisers or publishers.
I don't see how this would prevent depth of analysis?
I think there are other options.

We could do a better job of getting test cases through the courts that clarify the law.

Or we could invent new mechanisms for turning rulings from specific cases into general principles that people can rely on.

Or we could allow somewhat more hypothetical cases in certain circumstances.

As I understand it, in the US, after a few cases like the Phoenix BIOS one people came to believe that a clean-room reimplementation of an exisiting interface was generally permitted, and so people stopped suing and we didn't get a flow of cases exploring the limits of that principle.

So now when Oracle comes along and points out that the Java API is a lot bigger, and arguably more creative, than the PC BIOS call interface, there isn't an existing case that settles the question.

I can see why there's reluctance to allow people to get courts to decide hypothetical questions, but this case seems to be a decent example of when it would be helpful: if Google had had the option of getting a ruling ahead of time on whether its Java library clone was permitted, it might have saved an awful lot of time and money.
And for those who disbelieve the 'it isn't reliable' story, I've got some worthless evaluation boards you can have where the mini-USB plug will no longer reliably hold on to a USB cable. Not a data set I realize, but I was glad when people switched to micro which has proven more reliable for me.

Of course lightning was better still but alas Apple wasn't going to share that with the world so we have USB C.
Man that nicely spoke to a lot of my own struggles with ethical software... My wife gets it and appreciates the control we have over our tech lives, my son doesn't mind (yet, though he has been whining that he wants "a google wifi"), and my parents are proud that I've resisted a lot of the negative tech trends I grew up in.

But oh boy, explaining to anyone else that I refuse to own a system I cannot change is like telling them I worship a space donkey and only eat tunafish every odd numbered saturday. They just do not get it, and I'm in too deep to be able explain it kindly and plainly. :/
Yes, and most comments were questioning the _why_ completely oblivious to what Medium has become lately.
A significant amount of the data is stuff that will normally be logged for diagnostics, billing, complying with legal requests etc, ie normal ISP business.
Yea, I do that a lot. But I also suspect that sometimes I though I hit the upvote button, but HN registered it as a downvote anyways. Both of the buttons combined are smaller than the tip of my finger, and they both disappear as soon as one is tapped :(
> There are many examples of NASA missions that had far exceeded the original expectations.

many of those concocted by NASA announcing artificially low public expectations, while ensuring the contractors know what the real (much higher) expectations are.
This is great news! Not we just need to get someone in Maine to start using the internet :)
OPS might speed up, while FLOPS will slow down :)

By FLOPS I mean the classical FP64, while OPS can be any bit width, even 1 bit.
Zig doesn't allow tabs in source code—which is a bit odd, since they don't have significant whitespace.
Email Trackers Win Navy Seal Release
Yeah, good. I value my privacy far more than somebody's profit.
Install sway bars but not body kits.
I really like building software that's rock solid. I never did aerospace systems, but I'm sure I'd be happy in that space.

Sadly, no need to fly me to the hardware to apply patches... :-(
Thank you. I try to re-read How to win friends every year, there's always a nugget of information that I remember.

I bought To Sell is Human, thank you for that one.
I imagine smart people have done more good for the world than good people. The big lasting improvements to our lives have almost exclusively come from technology and when you look back at technology the vast majority of it was created by smart people(a lot of whom were good too). Vaccines, antibiotics, and farming technology have probably saved more people than every charity that has ever existed combined.
I'm skeptical. Hands up anyone who hasn't had dozens of micro USB cables fail on them because of the connector?
Wouldn't it have been dishonest to let people vote before they knew the DNC unfairly treated candidates that polled better against Trump like Sanders despite claiming to be neutral when taking people's money?

Releasing after the fact would have been dishonest and less helpful to either party. It also would have been dishonest to people who donated.

Yes, the DNC chairman resigned and was immediately given the golden parachute of being hired by the Clinton campaign, but the DNC could have made things right instead of that joke resignation. It's not Wikileak's fault the DNC is corrupt and stayed corrupt instead of doing the right thing, and they did the right thing by giving them a chance.
Basically, here is what I tell myself when I'm going to write something for an audience:

• Nobody gives a fuck ABOUT ME or how cool or awesome I am.

• People only care about how awesome THEY ARE.

• I am competing for their very short attention-span. Facebook, Netflix, and porn are my competition. This better be pretty compelling if they are not going to immediately hit their back button.

• I either need to address some real PAIN they have, or be pretty amazing at entertaining them. In most cases, addressing a real pain is easier. It's much harder to entertain better than porn, breaking news stories, etc.

• Structure for pain is clear:

1. Identify the pain and show how much it hurts and costs them

2. Show them the solution, and how good it will feel to stop losing and start winning

3. Anticipate and address their concerns. Are they worried about cost? Are they worried about how much work it will require? Are they worried what their boss or customers will think? Etc. Think of the most likely concerns or objections they will have and explain how to resolve them. All or most of their questions should be answered so that there is nothing in the way for the next step...

4. Call them to action to do something. Use your tool. Change a behavior. Etc.

The structure can vary a bit, but this is generally the structure. In a purely technical article, you may have very short sections on the pain, then spend most of the time on the solution. If the purpose is more for sales, then you'll want to have it more balanced and focus a lot on resolving concerns.

The article should be clear enough and structured enough so that every paragraph can have a headline. And a reader should be able to scan the headlines and know very quickly and clearly without having to think "what is this article about?"

If the article feels or looks like work to read, they will give up right away and you've lost them. There has to be something really compelling for them. How will this make them more awesome? They don't give a fuck about anything else.

They are milliseconds away from hitting their back button or searching for "nude guitar solos", so put the effort in to deliver something compelling and valuable. One well-thought-out clear useful article is far greater than a hundred jumble-thought aimless ones.

Edit: formatting
I really don't understand the extreme hostility to data collection and data markets. No one likes ads, but no one wants to have to pay a subscription fee to every single site on the internet. If I'm going to see ads, I'd rather them be something I might potentially find useful than something irrelevant. If I end up buying their product, the exchange is mutually beneficial and both parties walk away with value from the exchange.

What's really great is that it can really help small businesses and startups over large corporations. Brands like Coca Cola can afford to canvas the world with their logo, but a business with a handful of employees must use their marketing budget very carefully. User data and profiling makes it realistic to find those people naturally through their internet habits.

Even if this is being used by politicians, I don't see the harm. If you think people can't think for themselves in the face of political advertising campaigns, then I don't see why you'd also believe that those same people can be trusted with the responsibility of the vote.

I can understand the need for treating data carefully and making sure the data is sufficiently scrubbed for personal identification, but this issue is something different.
If you've read Steven Pinker's book Sense of Style, I'd be interested to hear where it falls short in comparison to Elements of Style.
> >gas isn't acceptable

> Neither is waiting 15 years until a next generation of nuclear plants are built....

Well, certainly it's shameful how bad we're at doing large projects in the Western world today. That being said, even if we in the short term won't relearn how to do them on budget and schedule (as Russian, Korean, and Chinese designs appear to be doing) there's plenty we can do while waiting for such long-term projects to finish. Like, massively expanding wind, solar, high voltage grids, pumped hydro, EV's, public transport, heat pumps, energy efficiency measures, demand response and whatnot.

> Natural gas is the resource that we have right now, and as it stands, in Bakken Oil Fields, natural gas is being burnt as excess waste. That gas needs to be used, there has to be a demand for it. Because otherwise companies will continue to burn it, as they dont have a place to store it

Sure, it's better to burn the gas for power rather than just flaring it off. But, we really should think about how to ASAP scale down and eventually shutdown the fossil industry (barring a magical fairy^H CCS improvements).

> Also, I'm not advocating for long term usage of Natural gas,

As the article I linked to mentions, at this point we can't really think of gas as some kind of "bridge fuel" either. Gas infrastructure we build now will have an economic lifetime of several decades. So if we ever decide to tackle climate breakdown, those will be stranded at an enormous cost to society.

> in due time natural gas plants need to be phased out in favor of batteries

I'm skeptical batteries will ever become cheap enough for bulk storage to cover when wind/solar don't produce in an industrialized nation. I do think they will be very successful for ancillary services like frequency control or peak shaving.

In general, I think we need to do serious energy systems modeling, and commit to a rapid path of least cost deep decarbonization. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.11.013 or the presentation at https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/events/getting-zero-pathway...
I am enjoying using apollo, it's hard to explain but at the beginning the language of the docs seems foreign (think apollo link) and the site feels huge, it's not a particular problem just more a matter of the feeling /impression it gives. Uninviting and intimidating is the words that come up.

Vue's documentation is a good example of the opposite, it feels friendly an accesible, it has a nice flow to it. Apollo has the opposite feeling even though everything seems to be documented and everything is explained.

Probable more an organization and presentation issue than a content issue.

Just my 2c.
If SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy (née BFR) actually pans out, it should be able to easily perform this mission.
>Disinformation does affect people greatly but those it affects were already receptive to its message and looking for more.

My point is that its effects are more pronounced, more reliable, and significantly harder to correct in the presence deepfake style media. People who are trying harder to make honest evaluations of the world will be making more committed arguments for dishonest points if they fail to identify the inauthenticity of a deepfake message, a problem which is purposefully more likely due to the inherent design of a deepfake message.

We don't need to talk about people who are intending to be manipulated, we need to talk about the people who are not intending to be manipulated who will nevertheless be disarmed by new technology.
Personally I'm not gaming my sites for personal attention so much as I'd like people that do stumble on my content to have a positive experience. A lot of SEO metrics do reflect a user's experience.

Is it fast? Am I writing well enough that people can follow my instructions, debates, etc? Did I have a hard time finding information or additional sources on a problem?

Things like canonical links are personally important to me for other reasons. I do use the analytics of my blog for personal improvement. If people are bouncing off a page after getting there with relevant search terms maybe that post needs to be re-written or my assumptions were wrong.

Ultimately though, if you're writing a blog and posting it on the internet rather than just keeping a personal journal at some point you've got to be expecting to get something out of that. I don't think you have to jump to "attention whoring" as a motive though.
I can predict the "Dark Patterns" right now. Giant Accept button and 6pt font opt-out link.
> If you aren't networking a top school, I don't see the purpose, we all learn math.

Indeed. Additionally --- not sure if this is true for all fields --- the stuff taught on the college level is basic enough so that passable level of teaching is fine, as better teaching is marginally useful for good students. Things change a bit on the doctoral level, where the topics diverge more and it's important to go to a good direction early on --- however, not sure how much this differentiates universities inside the US.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the new trade-off. The cable plug fails instead of the socket on the device. Cables are cheap.
I disagree. I had to take a couple non-gifted/advanced classes in high school and I was so unbelievably bored and unstimulated.
You get through so little material because you have to waste time with people asking questions, etc.
And especially not if done for the entirely reasonable reason of "The wood burned the last time, so this time we're not going to rebuild the internal parts out of wood."

It's also less clear that this treaty applies to rebuilding work; the original intent appears to be preventing unnecessary changes.
Fun, I don't know Typescript (and barely remember JavaScript!) but maybe I'll try to add automatic persisted queries compatible with the apollo-link syntax https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link-persisted-queri...
That is bullshit, and not at all what I'm trying to say.
This is exactly my perspective. Existing ISAs have a de facto stranglehold on the mindset around computer architecture because they could provide a consistent foundation while the underlying implementation got better and better faster than anyone could build something on top of it.

There have been plenty of small experiments in other architectures but never enough of a mindshare investment to really evaluate viability and performance of alternatives. There are costs to a more diversified architecture eco-system, sure, but I fully believe we will find more value in that space than we have so far taken advantage of.

ASIC implementation of a PLC, anyone?
Yes. That's the point being made.
I found "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" [1] by Joseph M. Williams to be more informative than both of these recommendations, but YMMV. There is a newer version, but I haven't read it.

[1]: https://smile.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publi...
The economic cost of extracting Earth resources + environmental restoration/remediation is many orders of magnitude lower then the cost of extracting space resources, and will remain many orders of magnitude lower for any realistic projections of the future.

If we cared about this sort of thing, we would be doing it now, as opposed to sitting on our hands, waiting for magical space unicorns to be invented.
I have read many books about the Soviet Union. The government was full of perverse incentives which encouraged fraud, deception, denial and corruption.

The dogma was so perverse it lead to a total corruption of logic and reason. To the point it essentially warped reality.

In the Soviet Union, to ask for a better tool was to imply that your managers were incompetent. Or the tool designers were. Or the manufacturers were. All of whom were appointed by the government. A government which saw itself as the manifest will of the people. To imply something wasn't good enough was to imply the Russian people themselves weren't good enough.

That horrendous logic may have been self inflicted but it none the less set the ground rules for any action taken by the government. The inadequacies you point out say nothing about how seriously the Soviet government took Chernobyl. You will find the exact same problems pervade almost every single Soviet government initiative.