skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that if you can show that you were not involved in and had no reason to be aware of the criminal act, you are under no obligation to return the money.

This is different than recieving other types of stolen goods that haven't been given this special legal status, which ensures that money is fungible and can be accepted with relatively little concern by honest people.
> Why can't I have terms on my website that say how you can use my information?

Neither Creative Commons nor copyleft (nor copyright in general!) can assert anything about private use. IP rights are commercial rights; they affect sellers of your IP. They don’t affect end-consumers of your IP.

Note that even the GPL can’t force someone to publish the source of their GPLed-library-containing program, if they never publish the program itself, but only build it for their own private use.

Why? Because, by broadcasting the code of your GPLed library, you granted people an implicit use-right to it! Not a redistribution right; not a derivative-works right; but a use right. (If this wasn’t true, then people would be breaking the law by reading “common” newspapers in a cafe, or by listening to the radio, since they never entered into any explicit contract with the distributor/broadcaster.)

How does software licensing work, then? Mostly by 1. companies installing software on computers for their employees to use being considered IP redistributors; and 2. attachment of copyright through sampling when asset samples [e.g. brushes/textures in Photoshop] are distributed through the program. Other than that, there’s really no law forcing end-users to pay for software licenses. This is why e.g. WinRAR would never have been able to sue anybody. They published their shareware binary (without gating it behind a contractual relationship, like Adobe’s Creative Cloud installer); so now you have a use-right to it!

> You believe that it's morally OK for me to prevent a company selling my book, but not morally OK for me to prevent a company selling my phone number?

Copyright exists because your ability to make money from your own creative works hinges on your ability to exclusively license those works. If a publisher can get a redistribution license to your manuscript for free from a third party, why would they buy it from you?

You having exclusive access to your phone number does not make you money; others having access to your phone number does not deprive you of money you could have made by keeping that information private. Thus, there’s no advantage to introducing IP law into this domain (the domain of facts.)

There was a recent court case about someone creating a subway map by copying the raw data from existing subway maps, where the comments went deeper into this.
Self_update: In-place updates for Rust executables
I agree that you want to attempt things that may fail to challenge yourself.

But rewarding libraries (by using them) that make you feel like a noob is kind of rewarding an abusive behavior.

Before you use something you probably should already have a good model of how it operates from a high level perspective, what you need to give them, why you are using them...

The software should serve your need instead of forcing you to adapt conventions. If you invest time learning a bad software then the sunk cost fallacy will make you keep using the bad software and sunk-in more time.

Exploring is hard, you should have a strategy for it, you should explore things in the right order so that exploring is easy, and you explore what you want. If your exploring strategy is to follow the steepest learning curve you will get lost in an infinite hellish mess like Sisyphus.
Yeah total cost of ownership would tend to even things out.
Interesting number of comments on this thread, I posted this thread after doing a news search on GMOs because of a disagreement I had with a commenter on another thread.

It amazes me how many people are OK with the currently accepted practice of growing food such as soy, wheat and corn using GMOs but move just one tick up the food chain and it's heresy.

Personally I would love to tinker around with Crispr and a gene gun to grow some glowing plants etc. But I am afraid of what greedy corporations are currently doing with the same tech.

This is truly a personal hypocrisy or paradox that I can't square other than admitting my own arrogance on this subject.
Show HN: I have made a language app (French)
The arrow thing is probably just editor font ligatures.
I feel quite the opposite, most of the phone apps will likely to be thick client variants of the web apps, given that the hosts have so much power and storage available. Privacy concerns are gonna force this model where almost every activity having minimal network overhead. We are going back to the desktop app era, is what I feel.
It seems they fixed it!

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0779/4361/files/React_Nati...
>>> Facebook's incentives with React Native are somewhat unclear

I always figured this conversation happened:

1: "We have all these engineers who write javascript but users are switching to native apps. what do we do?"

2: "We could retrain them all."

1: "That would be expensive and time consuming."

2: "We could fire them all."

1: "Also expensive and time consuming."

2: "Wait, what if we made it so you could write native apps in javascript?"
No mobile website has match the performance of native though
> Stop ranting and do it. Vote with your wallet. Your $10 tells Apple that everything is fine.

There are annoying things I can find with every platform/company and their associated fans, but this is a sickness that seems unique to Apple users: they gripe and complain, but-- sometimes in the first sentence of their post!-- vow that they will never switch to something else. Which makes all their complaining pointless, if Apple knows it has their money regardless. It's like announcing ahead of time that you have a crap hand and expecting to be able to bluff anyway.
So your solution to drug companies jacking up the prices as much as they can is to reward them by removing regulations?
How long until a network like libp2p gains critical mass do you think?
This sounds great but I would've liked to see them:

- Protect people without insurance. Usually they're the most vulnerable.

- Don't just force someone to pay for the Insulin. These companies making them don't need to become richer. Take it from them forcefully.
Apple does some fairly beautiful responsive webpages... Albeit rather heavy! https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/
> Exactly. It's not a technical issue as much as an issue of focus/interest. Unfortunately, this has been a losing battle since 2008.

This is true, but there are a lot of features missing from a responsive site that apps have. Of course, I'd argue that all of the missing functionality can easily be added to Safari and Chrome (to name the big two mobile browsers).
I second the missing vim shortcuts. At some point I'll probably figure out where the editor source is, mess with it until I have 'i', 'esc', 'd', and 'w' working, then submit an issue on github. I think that sort of pattern is why you see so many open issues - there's just an absolute firehose (dare I say a generation of junior devs) of people looking at this project.
But that leaves nothing left for philanthropic efforts, that's what I'm saying. How would that have been better?
That was a lot of effort for such an odd, empty, dialogue.
> Honestly I think the future of mobile will just be... mobile websites.

This.

Having to install software on my phone to use a service is cringy as hell and is a huge red flag for me. Like when trying to order food from a restaurant or shop somewhere.

It's almost always going to be a automatic no. I just don't trust them. They always want permissions to access things on my phone, which is just pure nonsense.

It's going to take a while for businesses to realize that in order to get a wide audience for the software they are paying for the last thing they want to do is force people to jump through hoops in order to use it.

For every one of 'google maps' there is going to be ten thousand other apps that simply have no benefit from being 'native'.
I know, but thanks to convince function like groupby, max, etc... You never need that.
Yes, this feature has been available for a while. You must have a Premium subscription to do it on mobile, though.

https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen...
Thanks for the heads up, will have a look at it if nothing else at least for nostalgia. :)

I think many TCLers weren't that amazed when Rails showed up.
> They need to be changed often

I looked for some reference material and I found a "rule of thumb" which claims that PV panels lose about 1% efficiency per year of operation and can last 25-30 years.

Nuclear power stations (in China) are designed for a 40 to 60-year operating life.
> perhaps the owner of the site has a case.

Except it sounds like the owner doesn't. If the information is on the page made public, the owner of the page can't place terms on what is done with the data downstream. They'd have to implement some real binding system such as authentication where CFAA would apply. (IANAL)
Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle
Is it possible that some un-learning needs to be done here? I know some people who cannot get over Winamp, hate everything that is not like Winamp.

I don't share the same frustrations with the author, so the correct title maybe should be "iOS 13's Music App Sucks (according to me)".

My music listening process is like "I hear a song, ask Siri about the name of the song, tap on the song listen to the song and start a radio with that song and if another song comes to my mind search for it add it as play next. If I like s song I add it to my library".

I almost always listen to music like that, only the beginning would be different(Instead of asking Siri, a song would come to my mind and start from there).

I briefly got frustrated when Apple hide the Love button but quickly forgot about it.

Anyway, I don't believe in playlists, I believe in moods. Apple Music works great for me while Spotify was the worst among many. With Spotify, I am supposed to do labour in order to listen to music. That's not me, I don't chase playlists. Youtube is also great, they also manage to suggest very relevant music videos when I start from something.
Do you agree with me about what would happen in a case like this, and just think I've explained it badly? Or do you disagree with my actual reasoning, and if so, what do you think would happen instead?
Does anyone know how fast MLton (whole-program optimization) programs run in comparison to other languages?
Apple Music (especially when coming from iTunes) has a very tight concept of a "Library". If you add an album to your library, all the songs are also in your library. If you add a playlist, you have the option to add all the songs to your library.

In my (arguably limited) experience with Spotify Premium, I can't browse all my songs in my "Library". If I'm missing something in the UI, please let me know; I would love to hear otherwise.
>Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.

In context of 5/9/14+ eyes, the nomenclature of solid advertising might differ from your interpretation, where perceptions matter ─ ranging from honeypots, compromised Tor exit nodes to dubious VPN providers, absence of warrant canaries to flawed encryption products etc. It is probably best to exercise caution and remain sceptical, rather than start endorsing products, based solely on a single random event.
You're making a hypothetical argument when you don't need to. Since we're specifically talking about insulin, and not placing an arbitrary cap on any drug, there's no need.

We know what it costs to manufacture insulin, and it's literally a few bucks per vial [1]. You're framing this as if it represents the larger debate between fixing medical costs and the free market, but it's not that at all, and no one is going to lose their insulin.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-prices-could-be-much...
Try the dumpster fire that is CarPlay Music - for example, get to a complete album from a song in your library, if the entire album isn't in your library. Virtually impossible without going on a verbal text adventure with 50% Siri misfires.
Translation: we don’t see mobile experiences driving our growth.
Whatever tools implemented need to avoid creating (terrorists/freedom fighters depending on your viewpoint). At least in the US, we're taught a culture that lauds those who fought against tryranny. If the government loses perceived legitimacy(say by suppressing the expression of first amendment rights to free speech) then there would likely be an increase in militias and home-grown terrorism.
I suppose if you happened to previously have code with the string 'use strict'; at the top, and did non-strict things below, it would break. In a very small scale, that does break backwards compatibility.
Whats the slack app written in?
The Russians will never give you a slice.
The second/third paragraphs of your comment could be find/replaced Shopify for Airbnb from 2-3 years ago and fit right in.
Intel Responds to New ZombieLoad and CacheOut Attacks
When television cigarette advertising was banned (in the US) profits and stock prices went up! [1] Since all the cigarette companies were in an even playing field, they saved a lot of money by not having to advertise.

I think it may be a win-win if the U.S. prohibited television medical advertising.

[1] https://economicdynamics.org/meetpapers/2011/paper_868.pdf
If you are more of an interactive learner I would recommend installing rust on your machine and then cloning the rustlings repo https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings.

Rustlings is an interactive collection of rust exercises that are either incorrect or incomplete. The exercises are grouped into key concepts of rust and cross referenced with relevant chapters in the rust book https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

The general flow is to open up the given chapter of the rust book for a set of exercises and hack away at them until they compile. It's a good way to quickly get an introduction to rust and its core features.
Ah, yes. The famous American pharma companies Roche, Novartis, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofil come to mind...
https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-prices-could-be-much...

If you can find any variant that even approaches $100, please link a source.
Why is birthrate decline a bad thing? The global population can't just keep growing... it has to slow down and stop at some point. Honestly we would all be better off if we had stopped growing at 2-5 billion, rather than continuing to grow unchecked to 8+.
I think one of the things with HN compared to FB et al is that HN isn't a for-profit company. It's essentially a public service of YC. They don't make a dime off of this, as far as I can see. Because of that, they don't have to do evil engagement-boosting tricks to try to make more dimes.
Library, Radio, Search
It has been argued that the current environment of low rates is driven by a safe asset shortage [0]. Many investors (e.g. insurance companies, pension funds) need to match liabilities with assets yielding reliable returns. With a constrained supply of safe assets, this demand drives yields down. Austrian economists argue that the resulting level of interest rates may be artificially low, leading to 'malinvestment' [1], a misallocation of investments that ultimately leads to economic contraction.

CDOs attempt to manufacture safe assets from riskier ones. Various debts are pooled, then the pool is divided into 'tranches'. Each tranche has a different rating, indicating riskiness of the tranche, according to the tranche's claim on distributions. A higher rated tranche will get paid before riskier tranches, allowing investors to choose their risk tolerance. Riskier tranches have higher yields commensurate with a greater risk of not being paid.

In theory, this structure is sound, provided that the debt being pooled has known characteristics. During the financial crisis, ratings fraud contributed to the breakdown of CDOs [2]. Lenders made unsound loans and lied about the characteristics of the collateral and the borrowers. Ratings agencies (Fitch, Moody’s and S&P) then rated this debt as being less risky than it actually was, due to having false information and perverse compensation incentives. Additionally, structurers assumed that diversifying geographically would prevent correlated defaults on individual debts (which was not the case). These assumptions led to CDOs having unsound risk pools. More exotic products, like CDO squared (CDOs composed of CDOs), further amplified problems.

Similar products (e.g. CLOs) have been in high demand, as there is a genuine need for safe assets. Ideally CDOs can be produced without succumbing to the issues they faced during the financial crisis. The current interest rate environment exhibits suspicious behaviors, including negative yielding sovereign debt and investment grade/high yield spreads [3][4] roughly as tight as they were prior the financial crisis. Increasing the supply of safe assets may help lead to a rates environment that would previously have been considered normal.

[0] https://voxeu.org/article/safe-asset-shortage-rise-mark-ups-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinvestment

[2] https://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2010/01/academic-vs-...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLC0A0CM

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLH0A0HYM2/
Low-effort here means "short"? There's nothing wrong with short.

I find these essays, even the short ones, useful and insightful. I hope PG is not unduly influenced by the recent backlash to his publishing more.

I came to this community originally largely due to his insights and the particular culture he nurtured here. The recent uptick in his contributions is welcome.
I've never been so proud to be a customer of a service; this is how you know they're doing something right.
I don't know the current state and never used it much, but you can specify local folders with music that it will play, but it doesn't upload tracks to the cloud, and I'm not sure how well it works with search.
The "Standard" in the phrase "Standard ML" is all the context that someone with a reasonably broad knowledge of programming language history (as is common among the HN crowd) would normally need.

For everyone else, hey, click a link, learn a thing. Clicking links and learning about new things is theoretically a primary reason to come to HN in the first place.
Standard ML is very well known, even to people who have never programmed in it.

I think you're simply wrong. You simply know Machine Learning and are probably interested in that.

I bet you wouldn't argue that Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence headlines need to be spelled out.

And what's the damage? There are very few Standard ML submissions here. You're being "misled" into reading a sentence or two that don't interest you like... once every year?
While I agree iOS 13’s Music.app is pretty shoddy in many respects, there’s plenty of alternatives other than Spotify that might better fit their requirements. (Marvis Pro, Soor, etc.)

I consolidate the biggest players yearly in a review, which might be helpful for the author’s search: https://barrowclift.me/post/second-annual-ios-music-player-c...
I seem to recall from an Economist podcast a few years ago (and a brief glance at wikipedia confirm) that humalog was a human biologic, instead of the more common insulin extracted from pig pancreas. The option to take animal or human insulin is likely welcome to folks with adverse reactions or maybe a religious prohibition.

As you can imagine, we don't just extract humalog from human pancreases. They instead modify plants to generate the exact molecule humans would. This is somewhat common these days, but it does take some effort and innovation to cultivate, versus the naturally occurring substances previously used.

I don't know if human insulin is any more effective (wikipedia citations suggest no but...), but the impression I got from the podcast was not really, and that the drug was considered a net loss for its developers.

What I did learn today is that in 2006, we restricted the supply of products competing with Humalog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_(medication)#Principle...):

> Since January 2006, all insulins distributed in the U.S. and some other countries are synthetic "human" insulins or their analogues.

If we truly cared about affordability, why ban additional supply? Even if not everyone can use it, forcing people who need the human insulin to compete with those who could choose seems likely to drive up prices.

tl;dr: Humalog was an alternative to an already existing treatment, and by 2009 it already was enjoying 3 years of import protections from the treatment it intended to replace.
The data does remain free, as long as LinkedIn still provides it for free.

The data without the noise is what you're paying for. The service of winnowing out what you care about from what you don't care about.

Considering how big of an effort it is, and that the source from which it came is still available, why should the cleaned data be free? If I collect fallen trees from public land, chop it into usable firewood, should my bundles of firewood also be free? Or I collect solar power with my own solar cells, should I have to give you the electricity for free?
I put "legal" in quotes because I assume it's not criminal. It would, though, likely result in some pretty quick civil action.
At this point, the problem with content subscriptions is ease of use and "fuck you, customer" experiences rather than willingness to pay. I'd gladly pay, say, $200 per year to never see a paywall or commercial and never have to worry about account registrations or overcharging.

But after paying $100 in for a single article I read in a Norwegian newspaper last year, due to a weekly subscription that had "compulsory auto-renewal" in the small print, and no payment confirmations other than the account statement of my rarely-checked bank account... Let's say I'm not so keen on managing 30+ subscriptions to different providers, keeping up with their terms of service and ensuring they don't screw me.

I'll gladly pay when a company is able to figure out the proper UX for this, and the content producers get their heads out of their asses and consent to a sane distribution agreement with them.
You're using an Apple product - Apple is known for their tailored and single-path UX that they don't simply expect their users to love, they also don't care when they don't.

I'm not saying your complaints aren't valid or warranted - they're just not relevant to Apple unless their designers agree with you.
Yeah. I cleaned up my library recently. I think I had about four copies in various directories and wanted to get back to a single carnival copy. Whether for Match or other reasons a decent chunk of ripped music was missing. Not enough to just chuck the whole thing and restart from scratch. But enough to waste a day or so of my time.