skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not defending this mindset, but I think people against immigration are angry with the rich people.

It would take a real idiot to be angry with someone that needs a job and is allowed to have one by the government they voted for. There are some of these idiots, but not too many...
I know this info - but just reading it makes me wonder why people go along with the scam.

I get it - I once had a car loan too; it wasn't even a new car (but I bought it from an actual dealer, so it wasn't some weird sketchy loan). Paid it off, had the car for a while, then it died and I moved on. That was the last car I financed, too.

Since then, my wife and I only pay cash for used cars, and spend the extra money normally used for payments, for maintenance and upgrades on the vehicles (upgrades are on my side, mostly - I own a Jeep Wrangler - don't own one unless you like to throw money into a hole - but it's more fun than a boat, so there's that).

We own our cars for as many years as we can, until it becomes more expensive to repair than to buy something else. But, there again, I think my wife will keep hers for as long as parts can be found for it (2013 Outback - solid vehicle), and I'll keep my Jeep until I can no longer get into it from age (then I'll probably just delete the lift and put regular tires on it).

My VehiCROSS on the other hand...I'll cry the day I sell it, unless it's at a car show auction should it ever become a collectible. Heck - I'll still cry - I love that truck.
I had to agree. Never thought that web development would be more than aerospace software development. Hopefully, our project will change that part.
You're mixing up abortion and contraception, timelines, and omitting the fairly important fact that eugenics was a pretty mainstream idea in the 1920s.

https://rewire.news/article/2015/08/20/false-narratives-marg...

> Sanger opposed abortion. She believed it to be a barbaric practice. In her own words, “[a]lthough abortion may be resorted to in order to save the life of the mother, the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious.” Her views are, ironically, in keeping with the views of many of the anti-choicers who malign and distort her legacy.

> In fact, Planned Parenthood did not even begin performing abortions until after 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade legalized the practice. Margaret Sanger had been dead for four years by then.
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How about https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2017/0...
Which presents the left/right perspective in a much better way, as you can see by the graph - it's not just a binary pigeon-hole.

Then their is wiki - a crowd-sourced perspective:
"the paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion, and its reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often-pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or "politically correct" tendencies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

But this whole right/left labeling has got silly and used as a means to label and dismiss the subject/debate at hand. It's a whole sliding scale and as always it is the extreme edges of both the left and the right that are the real issue. But alas many will label something left or right and project that edge-case upon all on the divide, however close to the center they may be.
> more or less binding UN ruling

Less. As in "not at all binding".
This is exactly it. The reason tech companies are so big on supporting regulations against ISPs is because those rules are narrowly carved out to not apply to them, eliminating a large chunk of their competition.

Imagine if this law also applied to Google and Facebook, and they couldn't charge more when you opt out of their data collection?
> The bill provides other exceptions under which a provider may use, disclose, sell or permit access to customer personal information.

There's probably a "as necessary to provide the service" exception more than large enough to encompass internal logging.
The official history says EA and Sega were negotiating over EA getting sole publishing for sports game. Eventually, EA didn't get sole publishing and opted not to do any publishing. The 2k sports games were pretty decent, but EA ended up negotiating exclusive rights for both teams and players; and the market wasn't there for made up teams with made up players.
No, but they would eventually have $10 faster-than-light horses, which would be a lot better than a car.

I think you're romanticizing a bad thing.
Also Hubble was pretty much a derivative design of existing spy satellites, just fit with some different lenses and pointed in a different direction.
The late 20th century, early 00's version:

http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/CodeCrawler

(And MOOSE)
Yes, I'm aware of the concept. I don't think it is clear at all. I agree that it might be possible to model some of our behaviours using different kinds of maths. But that doesn't mean that those processes are actually carried out by a computation of the maths that we can use to model them.

By analogy- I don't think any phycisist would say that "the universe is capable of maths". Maybe our physics uses maths to model physical processes. But that doesn't mean that there is something that actually computes those processes, like a computer would.

Of course, intelligence is probably not a force of nature, like gravity. Then again, we don't know what intelligence is.

And just to kick this a bit more- why would this great computing power be "subconscious"? Why would it be the case that my brain can do maths better than I can? Does that even make sense? Who am I if not my brain? Is it really very likely that my brain is born with the innate ability to compute Pearson's correlation coefficient but I had to be taught what 1 + 1 is from scratch? And what about all the organisms that are perfectly capable of complex behaviours (spiders weaving webs, bees dancing, ants swarming etc) but have tiny little neural clumps rather than fully formed brains? On what substrate do they run all the statistics?
Don't forget the recent 'supposed' data dump from Truecaller![1]

Truecaller, even without breach is a privacy nightmare. Even if one doesn't use Truecaller for privacy reasons, if any of their contacts use it; then their phone number + other details are already in Truecaller's database.

Before android 6.0, contact permissions weren't existent in consumer android devices and India basically being an android country lead to Truecaller's data trove.

If one wish to use Truecaller without uploading their contacts then they can use their web version, which is a progressive web app; it can be saved to phone & used like a native app. Just don't select 'Enhanced Search', it will upload the contacts from email which is used to sign in(better to use a Truecaller only email id for it).

[1]:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/real-thre...
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> If Google wins, it means anyone will be able to hijack the syntax, semantics, and interfaces of an ecosystem verbatim for commercial ends to promote an incompatible implementation

Hijacking means taking control away from someone, I don't see how that happened here.
Huh. Here in Michigan I live in a city of 30,000 people, with my usual grocery store open 24 hours a day and about five minutes' drive away.
> Been humbled too many times by people much, much smarter than me that wrote in smsesque. Have read too many apparently well-written texts that are nothing but bullshit written by ignorants.

I cannot imagine why you found them humbling. Ignorance or lack of skill are forgivable, but poor writing by someone who could do better but just doesn't care about their output or their audience is just lazy. If someone who could do better cannot be trusted with something as simple as writing a coherent message, why would you trust them with anything else?
It was all a marketing illusion to sell pentium chips and windows licenses. Bittersweet to see it go, as it was a great time to start being a technician and I certainly personally benefited from it. We're on the way back to using the Right Tool For The Job now, and that's probably better for everyone. Workloads are unique, just like people.
Lol.

No way. Depending on the town, you'll either piss someone off, or a busybody will rat you out to the codes compliance people. Once that happens, they'll investigate and you're done.

When they figure out that you have guests, it's closed and the complainer is directed to do a noise complaint. If they figure out it's a business, you get cited.
One thing I hope everyone agrees with is that API design is an art. Often coming up with a good API is as significant a task as actually implementing it. An API that is intuitive yet flexible and extensible is tricky to design.

If APIs are copyrightable, this actually might be good for open source projects such as Redis and MongoDb where cloud providers are just taking their API and creating implementations. This has been a huge issue for sustainability of these kinds of open source initiatives when a multi-billion dollar corporation can just come through, take the API and write their own implementation.
I'd rank the options (from most ideal to least) as

1. Gifted kid with other gifted kids, with individualized coursework (ex: Davidson Academy in Reno, Nevada)

2. Gifted kid with other gifted kids, with standardized but accelerated coursework (ex: a g&t magnet program)

3. Gifted kid in general population, with individualized coursework

4. Gifted kid accelerated several grades ahead

5. Gifted kid remains in general population at normal grade level for age

And 3, 4 and 5 are really toss-ups depending on the personality of the child
Nope. Video games IMO. Cheap awesome entertainment for basically everyone. Everyone can afford consoles and escape reality. Why act out aggression in real life and risk prison when video games let you do all that and more?
Exactly what came to my mind as well. A lack of care when you write can signal that you do not know how to write well, or it can signal that you don't care to write well. Neither of these are signals I want to send, both harm my reputation.
Carbon credits seem too cheap. I just offset a round trip flight between California and New York with about $15 in carbon credits. If solving climate change was that cheap (about 5% the cost of that flight), I think the world have done much more by now. I can only think that solving climatate change is going to cost a lot more money and require a lot more lifestyle changes.
You're good to go! Just enable it in settings!
> plus that game with the fishing rod controller.

Soul Calibur [1]? You could play it with the keyboard too, if you didn't have the fishing controller.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybmCZ669Od4
Well that's quite a lie you've made here. He didn't sexually assault anybody, it was consensual with a minor.
The Brazilian dictatorship government planned to have ~100 reactors going by 2000. Thankfully, Brazilian incompetence and the Goiania accident helped us a lot here.

Many Brazilians still use things like electric showers, at 5000w. So you are there, cleaning your body everyday, or more than once a day -- Brazilians are crazy about showers, for some reason --, even in hot dry climate, and you still have the water heated. Then you create nuclear residue for thousands of years just to keep the Brazilians taste for dry skin and the fervent attachment to the cleanliness of soap.

Any discussion on energy has to take into consideration Limits of Growth and similar studies. The idea is always to have a bigger economy e more energy, and more data centers to foster the next big addictive social network. The reflection should be in alternatives to very polluting energy, sure, but also to drop the focus on growth and economic indicators.

The fellow Brazilian there talks about deaths. Deaths, and horrible deaths, and deaths of pets, are to be considered. But also drops in quality of life, dead zones, geopolitical defense, economics (as well, because, everything added, nuclear is quite a bit more expensive than anything else), and long-term thinking (more than 100 or 200 years).

Mostly, countries like Brazil wish to have nuclear power for the technology, for when it is needed for geopolitical advance. Even if we have non-belic agreements, in the long run, sovereignty depends on such technology. But Angra is enough, plenty and too much already.
But that IS the analogy. And it fits.

If Google would have even changed namespaces in question API I would not be having to take Oracle's side here.
Wouldn't AMD be guilty of copying the x86 instruction set then?
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The SCOTUS already denied cert on the question of copyrightability. The question now is whether it's fair use.
> If PureScript is Haskell, TypeScript is ML

If you want ML, why not OCaml with js_of_ocaml or BuckleScript?
My understanding is that code is treated basically as a literary work [0] with copyrighting. So the API definition is a part of the codebase. I do not think the analogy to copyrighting an idea is applicable. Unless they are trying to separately just have a copyright on the API? If that is the case, I'm not even sure how it would have been filed?

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/eco/help-type.html
IIRC, Google copy/pasted code from Apache Harmony which wasn't legal itself.

edit:

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-959.pdf

"Two of the three questions from the jurors have focused on Apache, but the issue is actually
very simple: Apache never obtained any license from Sun permitting its use of the Java
specifications for Harmony. As made clear by Apache itself, Apache never had a license from Sun or
Oracle for Harmony. Apache had no rights to Java technology that it could give to Google. This not
even a case in which there is a “cloud over Apache,” to use the Court’s phrase (4/20/2012 Trial Tr.
1114:16-20). Apache simply had no title at all, and has publicly conceded as much: When Apache
resigned from the JCP in protest based on its inability to obtain a license, it stated in its resignation
that the “Java specifications are proprietary technology that must be licensed directly from the spec
lead under whatever terms the spec lead chooses.” (TX 1045 at p. 2.)
Thus, Google’s use of Apache Harmony provides no defense for Google. Oracle seeks an
instruction to the jury that will prevent confusion and clarify that Google’s use of Harmony provides
no defense to Oracle’s copyright infringement claims."
Assange has not been charged with any violation which carries the possibility of the death sentence.
“This time, when we go to the Moon, we will stay.”
But what would have been the solution? They could have just made it ToString_Google() and HashMap_Google. This is so far beyond anyone actually having their rights impinged upon at this point that the only winner to this whole thing can be the lawyers making money hand over fist.
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By ending, they are absolutely referring to it slowing down.

It probably means we're worse off, in that spending on software engineering to get gains rather than expecting it out of new hardware processes will almost certainly be more expensive. On the other hand, software gains give us more computing with the same energy which is a good thing for the planet.
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Surprisingly, there are a lot of good tips in the US Gov's Plain Language Guidelines https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
The system is rigged but our society lacks the idealism necessary to make a change. We have no shared values. The only thing we agree about is who has power... So whoever that is can decide what values should be upheld; unfortunately those people are usually greedy psychopaths whose entire value systems revolve around personal aggrandisement and enrichment.

Our system empowers psychopaths because those people are attracted by power more than any other kind of person. I think the best solution is to abolish democracy and to replace it by a random number generator which elects government officials by random (kind of like jury duty). Randomn selection is the best way to prevent a system from being gamed.
Writing well can have several meanings in literature, but in professional environments I'd argue it has one meaning: Writing well is writing something clear, concise, to the point.

I worked with an engineer who wrote as you describe above ("hilariously") and it became incredibly tiring having to pick out the meaning of each correspondence. They took more time to read, and often important details were overlooked because they were hidden in a joke. I had to reply to nearly every message with my own summary: "So you're saying X, Y, and Z, is that correct?"

Humor is wonderful, even in professional messages, as long as it doesn't detract from the messages being clear, concise, and to the point.
You missed a couple. Somewhere in there after it was declared that APIs can be copyrighted, the district court found that Google's use of them was fair use, and then the Federal Circuit overruled that, too.
I appreciate your nuance and defense in this thread.
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yes. i do this every day on my personal blog. i highly recommend it. i've been doing it for 18+ years, every day. publishing something... anything.

http://john.do/first/
I look forward to the day when selling user's data requires the user's opt-in every single time a third party wants to access that data. No more "yes to all" or allowing blanket usage in TOS/EULAs.

People who use apps that sell their data should be bombarded with requests to use that data each and every single time, until they either decide the app isn't worth it or the app decides they should try a different business model.

And ad targeting should be included in that. Add a new notifications button to FB - companies that have requested advertising access to me. If I decline or don't answer, I never see their ads.
thanks grzm
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/23/faked-p...

This just happened a few days ago and it was basic alterations and despite being authenticated as an altered video there are still those who:

-Deny it was altered

-Spread it for the sole purpose of misinformation

People will weaponize this technology like they do all others and gladly welcome it with open arms. We simply need to develop ways to identify and prevent abuse of powers.
It's not preferred. All the leading economic models and experts are in agreement that a flat carbon tax is the way to go (on paper).

The problem is political feasibility and public acceptance. It is a lot easier to pass carbon trading schemes, emissions targets and caps, and renewable energy subsidies-- even though all of these end up costing consumers more than a simple tax would.

I recommend looking into the work of William Nordhaus for more on this topic.
"Super Size" is a McDonald's trademark, so it falls under different rules.

I'm guessing many menu items are trademarked as well.

https://trademarks.justia.com/744/51/super-size-74451719.htm...
Temporal order is absolutely critical in determining the truth of an event, as deepfakes could be used after the fact to distort the facts and mislead a viewer. Blockchain allows for the use of public key cryptography with a guarantee of the time in which the video/document/etc was created.
Imagine Ruby was closed source, but you were allowed to make open source implementations that ran Ruby programs.

Then you implement a language called Crystal that uses Ruby syntax and its stdlib looks a lot like Ruby's, but it can't run Rails because it's designed for car navigators, not webapps.

The Ruby Company comes after you and says that if you wanted to reuse their APIs you should've bought a license.
IANAL, but this is how I understand it:

The GPL only means that you can read, run, change, and distribute code. It does not affect copyright. The individuals/companies working on a GPL program still retain their copyright for each bit of code contributed (authored). Because of that, copying code into a completely different program without consent of each author can be problematic. In addition, only the authors can sue to enforce the license.

This is why the FSF requires contributors to assign copyright to the FSF: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
Don’t know why we get excited about subsidizing the poor choices of the 40th percentile income earner instead of the 5th percentile earner.
Well, let's read each other charitably instead of doing this sort of thing, shall we? GP is not describing a binary choice but rather a set of priorities.

A lot of what is called "good writing" is really just a collection of signifiers that don't have anything to do with expressing ideas clearly or succinctly. There are plenty of people who would die before ever writing "y'all" but would gladly take 7 paragraphs just to get to the fucking point.

GP is describing a preference for clarity and succinctness over those signifiers.
one line of trivial jQuery code gets replaced with 10 lines of vanilla JS code!

Actually those 10 lines are replaced by the entire JQuery library.
Each and every time? As a user who understands and consents to that request, that would be incredibly annoying.
They can't charge more for refusing to opt in, so nobody will opt in. The only alternative seems to be a hike in rates for everybody. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's arguably better that people actually know what cost they're paying. It's just naive to assume that this is ISPs getting some "extra money" on the side. This is factored into the revenue from the service. Now they'll have to adjust their models.
"Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them"

I let Medium email me suggestions. Almost without fail, both the "Today's highlights" and "Based on your reading history" sections of the email are hard left or "woke", while I am neither. I think that if Medium were actually doing as you were saying, it would be taking the same sort of heavy criticism that Facebook and Youtube have for "suggesting" various right-wing figures. Medium has clearly taken deliberate measures to avoid this.

Maybe Medium works well for other people. I don't know. I do think that Medium is promoting the idea that it distributes your posts to the people interested in them, but I'm not really sure if it actually does so.

(Edited to add: Medium was not so obnoxious in the past: maybe it's trading on a reputation for content promotion that it no longer deserves.)
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Oh yeah! Good call.
In your opinion, would that apply to web APIs too?

How many ways are there to write a create user API besides POST /user/?

Does that mean every company should then be taken to coury as well?
Could be. Where might such a restriction be coming from though? I don't think it would run afoul of interstate commerce stuff. Is there something in their state constitution that interferes with it?

Alternatively maybe they didn't have the votes necessary for a more potent law. Maybe some of the politicians were scared of doing anything too dramatic maybe?
There's a minimal discussion over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059674

However, that submission goes to a link redirect rather than to the original article, as this one does. That's rather poor form, and against the guidelines. I hope the discussion ends up here.
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