skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I mentioned enforcement only in closing. As far as licenses go, my criticism was sharper: FSF licenses as intended allow substantial bodies of activist work to benefit venture capital-backed, closed-software companies. Those intentional drafting decisions are incongruous with a post-hoc politics of VC scapegoating.

You mentioned Moglen's public writing on enforcement, and I think you summarize it fairly. But it is precisely that posture that I criticize as gunshy. The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement lay it shorter and plainer.

The idea that the law isn't ready for GPL enforcement is laid bare by other organizations' success enforcing GPLs. This has some folks within the FSF camp worried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1mGG4JYurE They are losing the power to construct and enforce their own social truth about the licenses they published.
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> Yeah and? Is this a problem? Can you choose what’s in a newspaper or what comes back when you type something in a search engine?

Isn't YouTube, with all their analytical data, supposed to be smarter and more tailored for me than a print newspaper? Is that really where the bar is?

> Smashing the dislike button is not really a solution and it’s no wonder that YouTube is ignoring that input. The author watched the entire video to the end perhaps even in full screen and then hit dislike, YouTube’s algorithm actually knows they’re just lying because they have that information about your browser behavior.

If I watch a video, and choose to thumb it down, who are they to assume I actually want to watch more of that content, when I've specifically said I don't. This is just another case of a company thinking they're smarter than the users of the product.
This is a meaningless question without a definition of freedom. Libertarians often assume that everyone implicitly sees freedom as black and white and the threshold is obviously in the same spot. But it seems to me that everyone engaged in commerce spends the most effort possible avoiding direct competition by exploiting every aspect of every situation that is not completely free.

Consider grocery stores in a typical moderate-sized city and suburbs, where there are 3-4 major chains. You might assume this is a pretty competitive situation, and they should have prices that are pretty close to each other. But the equilibrium seems to be that each one has a different (and frequently changing) set of products that are noticeably cheaper than the others, and a complementary set that are significantly more expensive. A logical explanation of that would be that as long as they guard their prices closely so you can't compare them easily online or whatever, once you go to the store, you are not completely free. If you are buying one thing because it's a good deal, it's easier to buy other things there as well.

The above is something I've noticed first hand, but it's also something I read about years ago from some economist' research paper.

Everything in business is about figuring out how to deny customers freedom at some level. Arguing that the lack of freedom is trivial in a particular example is missing the point that it's a continuous spectrum from trivial inconvenience that makes you spend a dollar more, to brutal slavery, depending on where business activity is bounded by ethics, mores, regulation, etc.

What I'm trying to say is that the term "free market" is always burdened with all sorts of unstated assumptions, so you can't communicate very well by assuming people interpret it the same way.
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Years ago I once watched 7 minutes of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Netflix.

The last time I had Netflix it was still telling me that because I watched Sky Captain, it is recommending a bunch of stuff (that is similar to Sky Captain).

All I can think is, how about we pretend that never happened?

So, this isn't a problem unique to YouTube. This is a problem everywhere the computers are left to make recommendations for me.
Central authorities are typically simpler than gossip and consensus systems. They have failure modes too, of course, but those failure modes are better understood and potentially easier to manage.

Sometimes you can't avoid the need for distributed consensus, but you can box it inside a well defined abstraction like leader election, and then do everything else in a traditional client-server way.
Might be more safe as new models haven’t gotten recalled for defects yet.
The Art of Mind Control
Ditto testability. For most messy code I’ve cleaned up, no one could say if it worked correctly. (Spoiler: no.)
I own Wasteland 2 but I haven't been able to make myself play it. It's my own failing, but it's just so old-school. It's very hard to find a game that keeps old-school charm without the old-school mechanics.
> Yeah and? Is this a problem? Can you choose what’s in a newspaper or what comes back when you type something in a search engine?

Isn't YouTube, with all their analytical data, supposed to be smarter and more tailored for me than a fucking print newspaper? Is that really where the bar is?

> Smashing the dislike button is not really a solution and it’s no wonder that YouTube is ignoring that input. The author watched the entire video to the end perhaps even in full screen and then hit dislike, YouTube’s algorithm actually knows they’re just lying because they have that information about your browser behavior.

Second, if I watch a video, and choose to thumb it down, who are they to assume I actually want to watch more of that content, when I've specifically said I don't. This is just another case of a company thinking they're smarter than the users of the product.
I've used this before: https://www.mapsmadeeasy.com/samples
without searching, at least three times that I can think of. It's still interesting
I am in fact the prime mover behind License Zero (https://licensezero.com), but I am by no means alone in it. Parity and Prosperity would not be what they are without enormous amounts of feedback and suggestions from users and interested hackers. Some of those folks agreed to be listed here: https://licensezero.com/thanks

There may be more copyleft licenses than you think. Blue Oak Council, in which I'm also involved, recently published this resource: https://blueoakcouncil.org/copyleft#copyleft-families

That being said, you're absolutely right that we've seen more permissive licenses than copyleft license, by simple count. Compare: https://blueoakcouncil.org/list
Chatwoot Co-Founder here:
We are still working on email support. The feature is halfway done. It should be ready by the end of this month.

progressing here on : https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/tree/epic-email-inbox
Author here, thanks for your in-depth comment. I will have to agree that Step 6 is sometimes the first step for me too, the passion of a new idea can be overwhelming. However I do try to get it onto the board as quickly as possible, this way I can compare it to everything else there. I've found this sometimes helps me finish other tasks, e.g. recently I added Project Y which I'm really excited about but Project X is in progress with maybe a days worth of work. If I finish Project X, it is off my plate and I can go gangbusters on Project Y.

With regards to planning, I wouldn't say I'm a planning person either. I have just found this minimal amount of process has really helped me focus on getting stuff done without taking away any passion/creativity. As you said everyone is different so YMMV, for me if a reader could take one thing from my journey is discipline yourself to a limited amount of concurrent projects, it has done wonders for me and I definitely see friends not moving anywhere because they have too many projects competing on their limited free time.
Good advice from Tiny Skills / The Success Manual: Things A New, First-Time Manager Should Know To Succeed
https://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/things-a-new-first-t...
"for a password, i focus on my computer"

I'm not sure what that means. When I have a password that is completely random, but well memorized and I typically use it on a desktop or laptop keyboard, I tend to find it impossible at first to enter it on a phone, because it seems to be essentially all in muscle memory that isn't applicable to typing on the phone.
> For more information about religious fatwa's against coffee use and early adoption see (https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA633&lpg=...)

Excellent resource! It's an anecdote, but once I heard that governments criminalized coffee more readily than alcohol because people got together and conspired. In the case of alcohol the conspirators forgot what they had talked about by the morning, but with coffee they did not. Your source seems to hint at that as well:

> The fact that current politics were discussed in the coffee-houses, the government's acts criticised and intrigues woven, was the principal cause for the intervention of the authorities.
> However, I always found it a bit strange that there were dozens of variants of the MIT and BSD license out there, but aside from the GPL and MPL no other popular license really took up the mantle of copyleft, aside from perhaps the old Sleepycat license.

Fundamentally, copyleft can only be instantiated once. No two distinct copyleft licenses as we know them can be compatible with each other without jumping through carefully-placed hoops[1] because the combination necessarily imposes stricter distribution conditions (there would be no point otherwise), which is expressly what each copyleft license seeks to prohibit per se.

I think it's only a slight exaggeration to say that the perceived problem of license proliferation, and the ecosystem of license gatekeeping that sprung up around it, owes itself wholly to the design of the GPL in this respect.

It didn't last. The GPLv2/3 split haunts us to this day.

1: e.g. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/#mpl-and-lgpl
I disagree, the Amtrak dining car is a sacred piece of Americana and its loss is a big deal. There was a good HN thread about this a few months ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039093
Expect to see the first ever commercial liquid fueled nuclear power plants under construction by 2025, maybe even operational. China will probably be the very first.
umm, can someone explain how significant this is?
> The Dragon Waiting
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> At the time, used copies of this mass-market paperback from 1985 started at $200 on Amazon. (It’s currently much more affordable.)

I suspect because of this article, Amazon shows no paperback copies, and only a hardcover for $500.
good start op. a good next step is add in temporal context (previous frame information) so model may resolve ambiguous cases. see e.g. breakdown of comma.ai openpilot model here (from their twitter, [0]), or the karpathy talk as well.

also, when presenting results, prefer to include a longer demo or sub-demos that show strengths and failure cases, and move to the top of the post rather than bottom imo. for a given reader, implementation details are either confusing and uninteresting (if not subject-matter expert) or predictable and uninteresting (if an expert, you've seen many similar before); audience for implementation details is very small number of people who want to sit down and replicate or check your work. but demos / analysis is always novel and interesting to anyone, so lead with that :)

[0] https://medium.com/@chengyao.shen/decoding-comma-ai-openpilo...
It's hilarious to me they're claiming copyright over it. The original copyright holder, Nefertiti, died over three millennia ago, and she sure as shit wouldn't have transferred the copyright to the German government.

I wonder if their copyright claim has any relevance to the ongoing demands for repatriation to Egypt. If the German government claims copyright, certainly the Egyptian government has a better copyright claim. There's probably some sort of legal gotcha! in there but I don't know what it is.

Certainly the fact that the German government is claiming copyright protection for a 3,000 year old Egyptian artifact they stole 80 years ago should clue us in that copyright law is fucking broken.
I must be missing something but can someone please explain

how browsergap
> self-host on your own machine (at home, or in a VPS, VPC or the public cloud)

is more secure/private then just setting up a VPN on that machine?
Yes, and it's important to realise that.
How was this transaction valued if it was a "private" sale to a private equity firm? Should it not have been done along the lines of a FCC public spectrum auction? Secondly, as I raised this issue previously, why is .org. being commercialized in the first place?
If people are interested in the aforementioned other projections, this was a fun article. Stay to the end and check out the AuthaGraph projection! I def need to order one of those for the wall

https://geoawesomeness.com/best-map-projection/
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The booster seat for older kids is a much less elaborate affair, and as I understand it, ensures that the seat belt works for them.

An additional benefit: It raises them up so they can see out the window, which means... less puke.
I always assumed that removing a video from your history https://www.youtube.com/feed/history meant you wouldn't get recommendations from it. I don't have proof of that though.
I wish these people who say privacy is dangerous would commit to having all their communications and movements published for all to see. Or something similar like that. At least then they wouldn't be such hypocrites.

For example, there was an interpol bribery scandal a year ago. Maybe it could have been prevented if that person had to communicate fully in the open.
There's no change in caffeine content with different roasts, this is a popular myth. Also, properly roasted dark roasts are much better (where better means richer and more complex) than light roasts, as the maillard reaction has been allowed to do it's magic more fully than under-roasted (or light roast) coffee. Most coffee specialty roasters sell far more City or Italian roast than light roasts.

This whole "dark roast is bad" thing is really Starbucks fault, since they burn their dark roast for consistency reasons.

https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/blog/caffeine-myths-da...

https://www.partnerscoffee.com/blogs/news/roasting-and-caffe...
"free of cost, free of nuisance, and heavily moderated and curated."

Wikipedia does that, basically. There are a few overzealous donation banners, vandalized pages, etc. but for the most part it's fine.
But when it comes to learning, it's the only kind of hard work that matters.
I'm loving these intelligent criticisms of the article.

My own biggest beef with the article is it entirely misses the deep point of Marie Kondo's work, which is about efficiency and joy. If the article is not actually a response to her philosophy and definition of tidiness, and just needed a cute title, well, that's confusing at the very least. The commenters who point out that codebases, for example, need to be reasonable for humans to work in, or that it sure is easier to change source code than a compiled binary, are on the right track.

Kondo's method is all about identifying the clutter _that is actually clutter_, and deleting it. Would you rather maintain a program that's 1000 lines, or 100? If the 1000-line program was written by you, for you, over the course of your life, and by your own admission is extremely messy and moderately unpleasant to deal with, containing lots of unused stuff, yet you run it, and modify it, every day, no one is going to force you to clean it up, but you can find joy in doing so.
I’ve had the same thing happen with Citi. No warning, just woke up and found mine and my wife’s accounts frozen pending closure. I’m sure heads will roll when they realize who they’ve upset, but as for me I never found out.
Well, I have to admit, you make some convincing points. I feel like I have a lot of reading to do. Are there any books or even blogs that really delve into the meat of the subject you can recommend? I think there is a lot of internal criticism in FSF that doesn't get leaked due to fear of it portraying a weakness, but that needs to be talked about regardless, and you are doing that. Thanks for a balanced response.
If you've got a DJI drone, you can do this for tens of dollars using inexpensive software and services.

I've used the SparkPro iOS app (for mission planning and automated flight with a programmed set of waypoints with camera instructions).

And this service who'll stitch images together (for free for small enough areas. I needed a plot about 200 x 200m, and its didn't cost anything):
https://www.mapsmadeeasy.com/

Takes a bit of thinking and experimenting to get a good result. You need to get 4 or more times overlap for everything you want good stitching and elevation data from. (And the DJI specs on their cameras are misleading. I wasn't expecting the FoV spec to be diagonal, so my first attempt didn't overlap as much as Idol intended...)
One of the most annoying things about computers these days is the number of applications that put everything in tabs, and/or modal dialogs. The whole point of a GUI, to me, is that you can view information from multiple places side by side, not just swap between them. In the mid-80s, Apple wrote copious documentation about why modes, and modal dialogs, are bad, and tabs were not a standard part of the interface either.

As far as multiple screens go, it's not just viewing things side by side, but having boundaries to snap to. Maybe it would be handy to kind of divide very large monitors into subscreens...
The documents released here describe high level directives from Xi Jingping, and some quotes on how family members should be told of detained relatives. Presumably there must be many other documents detailing design and construction of the large scale facilities that would be needed for the number people being detained; these might shed more light on the actual scale of what is happening. The documents so far could be describing programs that target 100’s of people, not the millions claimed elsewhere.
This is a good time to remember that police forces work for governments and not the other way around.

Of course it would be easier for the police to catch bad guys if they had full-text search access to all conversations and content, worldwide. That doesn’t mean it is a good idea. They’re asking for something to make their job easier... can’t blame them for trying, and of course who doesn’t want to catch people who harm children?

But it’s not their responsibility to account for negative side effects. That’s our responsibility, as citizens who are in charge of our governments. And we have to remember that governments and police can hurt children too. Look at what the border police in the U.S. are doing right now. And when it comes to fighting that sort of thing, encrypted comms are essential for political organizing.

This is on top of the obvious and many benefits of encryption in protecting us all from crime.
Government at its best - they are claiming benefits from organising everyone to use one easily available standard for encryption.

The claimed value seems very plausible. The alternative was presumably a world more like the one where PGP's Zimmermann was being investigated for providing strong encryption. There is a real opposition in the halls of government to strong encryption and overcoming that is in itself praiseworthy.
smh It really isn't an obvious thing either. lots of folks think greenland is as big as south america only because they don't understand the map stretches at the poles and they also don't know there are other projections.

What you said is true and non-obvious. I can only wonder if the downvotes you received are from people who don't agree with you and if that's the case, either they don't understand what downvotes are for or dunning-kruger has taken over hacker news.
that seems to be titled "Against Entropy" here:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html
The interiors resemblance to Tesla is amazing (big layout oriented center screen). I wonder why the exterior has such a long hood when it is not needed to cover up an internal ICE engine.
I'm mystified with the Mustang branding. There's 55 years of inertia behind that meaning a 2 door sports car.
Streaming video is freakin' expensive. You have to pay upfront to transcode the video into many formats and bitrates, or pay more per stream to do it in real-time. Also pay for storage for all the video formats, and video takes a ton of bandwidth when you're paying by the gigabyte. (You could maybe run a video site with the quality and device-compatibility of a early-90's video site for free.)
This is close to saying child rapists rape children behind closed doors so you shouldn't have locks, ignoring that well locked doors benefit everyone who has a house. It's disingenuous.
You could probably find a polyfill to implement querySelector for IE. I've done that for a number of features I didn't want to re implement from scratch
Australia is overlaid on a map of contiguous 48 states and DC, and that area is about 3.12M square miles. Yes, google is grand
This Top Gear short-take on the car was interesting for the details it covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA-qgSB076c . I watched the livestream - it was no Apple event but had some nice moments. I noticed the resemblance to the Tesla giant screen but I think they got some elements of the Mercedes with the assistant plus the physical dial on the screen seems like a big usability improvement.
I'm not sure how you would get every HTTP/Cookie library to correctly follow a new RFC. There is a lot of software out there that is old and not well maintained that will still be around in another decade.

I haven't read the HTTP/2 RFC's but with any luck they are 8-bit clean, which would be progress.
Let Interpol set a good example then and voluntarily give up all their privacy.
Both messiness and orderliness have their own place in work.

I find that to be particularly true when you are starting to experiment with some product or solution. At that time, you need to be messy (hacking a solution). The need initially is ability to quickly move in trying ideas and discarding ones that don't work.

Then you reach a time when you have figured out a very elegant solution that a user of product would just love. At this time, it is right opportunity to optimize for legibility and orderliness (refactoring) before your solution turns into a mess that works very well but no one can understand or update.
I disagree, like many here I'm a programmer and is not that hard to fix this issue so I don't think computers here are to blame, is just managers making really bad choices about how recommendations should work.
My take was that this allowed people with conventional Mustangs to be able to go to a single family car without giving up too many of their sporting pretensions.
A project for perl/tk? :)
IME, introducing deep learning to a problem like this causes more problems than it solves.