skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you seem to have missed the broader idea behind it.

Funny, I feel that you might have missed the point as well.

> It's about communication and well established meanings.

Yes, but it's fundamentally impossible to bucket various licenses into what they do and do not do, and what obligations or burdens they place upon the end user. What is Open Source? The OSI includes GPLv3, which is certainly not "free" for a ton of commercial uses.

Let's peek at the OSI's FAQ:

> This history has led to occasional confusion about the relationship between the two terms. Sometimes people mistakenly assume that users of the term "open source" do not intend to communicate a philosophical point of view via that term, even though many actually do use it that way. Another mistake, which has occasionally been seen since about 2008, is to assume that "free software" refers only to software licensed under copyleft licenses, since that is how the FSF typically releases software, while "open source" refers to software released under so-called permissive (i.e., non-copyleft) licenses. In fact, both terms refer to software released under both kinds of license.

> Neither term binds exclusively to one set of associations or another, however; it is always question of context and intended audience. When you sense a potential misunderstanding, you may wish to reassure your audience that the terms are essentially interchangeable, except when being used specifically to discuss the history or connotations of the terminological difference itself. Some people also prefer to use the term "free and open source software" (or FOSS, FLOSS [free, libre and open source software]) for this reason.

Okay so, let's recap:
A) it's confusing.
B) the terms are often interchangeable but context matters.
C) not everyone agrees.

At this point, the value of any "Open Source Definition" is severely diluted for any considerable purpose. Just because a license meets OSI's definition doesn't mean I should make any assumptions about what I can or cannot do with it, so what value does this provide beyond adding confusion?

> Can I call my program "Open Source" even if I don't use an approved license?
> Please don't do that. If you call it "Open Source" without using an approved license, you will confuse people. This is not merely a theoretical concern — we have seen this confusion happen in the past, and it's part of the reason we have a formal license approval process. See also our page on license proliferation for why this is a problem.

I'd argue the confusion is already present. A license is a license is a license. OSI is an organization that says "please don't call your thing Open Source if it doesn't meet our standards" -- I don't care. Whether or not I comply with this polite request changes nothing, offers me no direct benefits.

To be clear: I see value in OSI, and everything they provide. They have definitely provided a net benefit to the world. I do not see value in pedantry around the term "open source", those words are so plain and ordinary that gluing any tertiary meaning to them is foolish. It's as subjective as "good code".
If the site is not internal to your company, and it's broken, most reputable ad blocker lists will accept bug reports to fix it. EasyList has a forum specifically dedicated to doing this.

If it's internal to your company, just whitelist it. They already pay for your time, so it's really their business if they put stuff on their internal sites that ruins your productivity.
How do you know it does absolutely nothing for you?

At the very least, those 10 minutes you're spending meditating are 10 minutes not spent doing something else. Whatever that something else is, would very likely have a different effect. So if anything, meditating is affecting you by displacing something else that would leave its own mark.

In some ways, I think "doing absolutely nothing" is the point of meditation, perhaps you're just not appreciating it yet.
It even quotes Bezos financed Washington Post as a source of their information. WaPo is full of biased, misleading and downright untrue articles about Google and some other Amazon competitors.
What do folks here think of Panda3D (https://www.panda3d.org)?

Its just a game engine without any IDE. So the typical workflow would be to build your assets and scene in Blender (or Maya, etc.) and then code up the game mechanics in Python or C++. I am tinkering with it for non-gaming (Reinforcement Learning) use cases and I was curious what game devs think of it.
If Reunion and Mauritius can make a go of things in the middle of nowhere I'm pretty sure the people of Hong Kong can do equally as well, with or without China. However, having a reliable rule of law would be the big advantage that Hong Hong can bring to the table as no one, not even mainland Chinese, trust the legal system of China.

Particularly this matters in the finance sector where Hong Kong has plenty of expertise but it requires a solid legal foundation which Hong Kong now lacks. This can't be done overnight but Hong Kong should certainly start making a plan B. It's the only way they can expect to keep Beijing at bay.
Their signal contact info is listed as a UK # (+447523875547)
I'm much happier with their stance on it, too: https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2019-March...
I'm into this. I've wanted to build something like this before, too, but never finished it.

This feels closer to how app building should work. If I have a web app, it should be simple to give it an icon, with notifications.

And if I want to build that, I shouldn't have to figure out all of XCode. I should be able to just quickly make a webview with native controls.

And I shouldn't need to download all of electron. An OSX webview should only need a few kb as a standalone app.
Given your reasoning I should setup “Burrows Household Ltd.” to hold my assets. Then when the economy goes tits up I’ll say, “I don’t have 6 months savings, but that’s okay because I’m a business not a household.”
None of the podcasts I listen to have ads, many use things like Patreon or have a "first hour free, second hour only for members" model.
If I'm giving them money, and they still insist on screwing with me like that, then I won't stay a customer for very long unless I actually HAVE TO.
> I'm not sure why Firefox just doesn't build adblocking into the browser as a first class feature - maybe because they rely on the Google funding?

They kinda do. They keep building APIs requested by the adblockers so that adblocking can continue to work efficiently/effecitvely. They're also blocking the underlying abuses of advertising by increasing privacy by making it more difficult to track/fingerprint, increased security with the safe browsing checks (phishing/malware), and anti-cryptomining.
Umm don't you mean denosaur??
I guess they should train an AI to play it too
> Education is the preventative solution.

It's a possible preventative solution, but when designing anything, you should never forget that you are not the user. You have to design for the user.

How does the ignorant person who is seeking education know which source to believe? Educated or uneducated, when people don't have the time or prior knowledge to evaluate claims on their own, they look to the sources they already trust, especially when they're scared. In the US, tens of millions of people deeply trust Trump, and many people are afraid of dying from COVID-19. Trump has been regularly praising hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure ever since an attorney/blockchain enthusiast named Gregory Rigano misrepresenting himself as a Stanford Med School Advisor on Tucker Carlson's show [0] (see too_much_detail below) and misrepresented a bad study to assert hydroxychloroquine had a 100% cure rate. Trump has been telling people to take this drug constantly, claiming he's taking it personally. However, in a study by the VA of hydroxychloroquine's effect on 368 COVID-19 patients, the hydroxychloroquine-only group was associated with increased overall mortality (Rates of death in the HC, HC+AZ, and no HC groups were 27.8%, 22.1%, 11.4%, respectively) [3]. Considering

Many people will die because Trump and the GOP are miseducating people. Why shouldn't YouTube improve the quality of the content on their platform by removing lethal misinformation? YouTube and FaceBook were able to greatly limit the spread of the ChristChurch mass murder (by rejecting video's with matching hashes, looping in human reviewers, and other means) such that I never saw the video, so it's not a technological issue.

too_much_detail: {where he falsely presented himself as a "Stanford Univ Med School Adviser" [1] and claimed a "well-controlled [false], peer-reviewed [false] study carried out by the most eminent infectious disease specialist in the world Didier Raoult MD Ph.D. ... enrolled 40 patients, again a well controlled study [still false, no randomization, no blind, treatment group was from one hospital in Marseille (mean age 51.2), while the control group was from hospitals in southern France (mean age 37.3) [2]] peer-reviewed [still false] study, showed a 100% cure rate [false, 100% of the people who were swabbed every day, which excluded 1 patient that died and 3 that went into the ICU [2]]. The study was released this morning on my Twitter account."}

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4zTt8oLD44

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/magazine/didier-raoult-hy...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/hydroxychloroq...

[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v...
Spinning Levers – How a Transmission Works (1936)
We have a weekly tech all hands at the place I work with 1000+ devs. CTO addresses any anonymous questions we submit as well as informing us of other company decisions/details
is this a serious question ?
Not it will be the tail functions like building services, hr and accountants trying to externalise the costs of office space and the pay quanta down.
If you think it’s easy to focus on one thing, you haven’t tried meditation.
True. Amusingly, I was always trying to make Windows behave more like Unix, but now I'm trying to make Linux behave more like Mac (just a few things, like the global keyboard bindings).

The major pain points are nearly all related to lack of integration with my iPhone (with Messages being the big one, followed by Notes).
Honestly as someone who grew up with "office space" on the TV and then went to work in an open office, I am dying for cubicles.
As a former Uber/Lyft driver, I probably ran into some kind of map error at least once every 8 hours of driving. These databases have a lot more garbage in them than I realized when I wasn't driving as much.
Hydroxychloroquine linked to increase in Covid-19 deaths, heart risks
The only problem with that setup is if a post goes viral CloudFront will cost you a pretty penny. I had one post with ~1MB of assets that was read (IIRC) 70k times in a month and got an ~$80 bill. I’ve since switched to Cloudflare.
Yes I can add new features to some files or I can compile with c++17 and link to an old C library. What I can't do is remove features or change the default calling conventions/ABI and still link with old code. If you declare in the interface and in the code that this is new code with new rules then this is possible. When you cross library boundaries the compiler adjusts. That is what rust allows and what C++ could do.
That's really cool! I hadn't even thought of a map integration but it makes a lot of sense for livestreams! In my case, for things like Netflix or Hulu content, it would be awesome to encode the exact location a scene was filmed.
What if we could design a space such that it areas to accommodate those who prefer individual spaces and those who prefer group spaces?

We always got to this "open" vs "closed" space opinion-match.
It's all about competition and the ability of companies to attract workers to work they way they want. There's a cost of living in hiring workers and competition pressures. There's a lot of competition for workers in the bay area, that drives up what you can get as a worker (if company x paid much less you'd go somewhere else that paid more). It costs more to live there but is that cause or effect of so many workers. If facebook didn't pay enough to afford to live there then you wouldn't work there. I imagine this happens in NYC yet plenty of people manage to survive on way less than I could.

In the article he says it's not fair to pay more in SF or similar cities but that's somewhat subjective. Since I currently live in a tech city I want them to pay me more, it partly covers the cost of living here.

The author wants more equal pay, to not depend on where you live, I want to be able to move to a random location and work remotely and still get paid the same. But how far out do I live before fb pays me less? You could already be paid a SF salary (in many companies) and commute to work a few days a week and work from home. Big companies probably already have people in every state and many locales. The economy is a barrier to this for smaller companies, having to have a local taxation and perhaps some business licenses plan.

I think at first big cos will reduce pay if you move outside the big city, but they will struggle to define it in a way that satisfies people. Then there will start to be competition for remote workers picking up salaries. But I still expect they'll pay more for people working in big cities because workers there will resist salary deflation.
IBM found a 15% performance increase in private offices.
"Through Jan. 31, 2021"
It would be even more impressive if this was a real rotary phone. It seems like this is some sort of hybrid that looks like a rotary but has number buttons.
In this respect, it turns out that birthdays are extremely healthy— those who have the most of them tend to live the longest.
Completely off-topic, but do you somehow get notifications about replies to your comments? You often manage to respond within a couple minutes. :)
I dislike this kind of thinking in security -- it is a very 19th century.

The reason we only think about state security in the context of "geopolitics and military operations" is because that's all we hear about and that's probably all that nation-states used to be able to resource.

But with cloud + machine learning + sufficient sensors, the old assumptions about resource scarcity for security intelligence collection is flipped. It used to take a few "James Bond" agents, a few "Q" engineers, and a large support staff to work one case at a time. That scarcity calculus is completely different now. Instead of "1 civilian to every 300 police officers", new data collection feels more like "300 police officers to every 1 civilian".

The only thing that stops any sufficiently large organization from collecting dossiers on every person on Earth is "complexity versus competence".
What a strange comment.

Taiwan informed the WHO in December that person to person transmission was likely taking place[0]. The only sense in which it hadn’t been confirmed is in a tautological sense the WHO hadn’t confirmed it. Doctors in Wuhan were getting infected and Taiwan had proof of that.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644...
> Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving.

Nonsense, 'Linux' can be what you make it. You can have it as sleek as something straight out of the fruit factory or as spartan as a VT100 and anything in between. If you're new to the game the pre-packaged 'consumer' distributions might be a good starting point but for those with a bit of nix savvy - of which I assume there to be many on this board - those bells and whistles probably just get in the way.

If my 8yo daughter and my 82yo mother can use Linux - the latter through a remote X2go session from her kitchen table in the Netherlands to my server under the stairs in Sweden - I'd say people around here can be assumed to be able to handle it. The nice thing about 'Linux' is that you can change out those parts which you find disagreeable for whatever reason for those you like better, this in contrast to that last bastion of somewhat good, thoughtful design, user experience and attention to detail* which by your own statement has been changed into excrement. Just take out the shitty bits and replace them with something better... oh, no, not possible...

That is why the parent poster is right in this sense, things in 'Linux' land might not be perfect - and can never be 'perfect' since one person's perfection is another's nightmare - but at least you get to do something about it.
For those of you that haven't heard of the Wim Hof method, that's a breathwork that can tremendously improve your health. It is also, kind of scientifically proven.

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/
> Most people dont have the capacity for critical thought on every area of ambiguity/complexity.

a) Is critical thinking on "every area of ambiguity/complexity" a true requirement, with respect to the article?

b) How do you think you know what people are or not capable of, especially since we've made practically no effort whatsoever to teach these skills?
You very conveniently left out Wikipedia and all of the other sites that are censored.
Hmm, all the bank and government websites I've used work fine (so far) . I've also worked at many companies now, and I haven't had trouble with ad blockers there either.

I'm actually surprised how they could cause problems? Do you have specific examples?
Nothing special that can really be talked without internal context. You can get a hint at how they use their own tools though (which are available externally) if you pay careful attention to their public appearances and presentations.
It's a pretty simple equation for me. If you're too lazy to curate ads and rely on a third party service to show any random ad to your users and run any random javascript in their browsers, your ad is probably on an adblock list and will therefore be blocked on my devices. If, however, you give half a shit about your users and therefore choose what ads they see, it probably won't be on a blocklist and won't be blocked on my devices. It's simple, either both of us care or neither of us do and it's up to the content provider which path they take with me.
huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back
> I watched a lot of students that to be honest were just average get into very good schools

"Average" on what criteria?

I think I was unclear about research experience and similar -- it's not that having these experiences is a marker of wealth, it's that if the experience was only enabled by wealth, then it's more visible. If you're in mommy's lab -- what wealth without talent can get you -- it's clearer than if you got a tutor for the SAT. But perhaps I'm wrong on this.

You also raise a good point -- I don't think schools want to discount for wealth. I think they want to have interesting and capable people. Wealth makes many, if not most, people more interesting and capable. Why discount for that?

They want to avoid uninteresting, incapable students who appear interesting and capable because of wealth -- but there's no issue with admitting interesting, capable students who could take advantage of their own (parents') wealth to become more interesting and more capable!

Elite schools have long used the SAT/ACT as a "shouldn't score below XYZ" indicator for middle class students, and as a way to propel underrepresented students.
OK first try. But needs more work.

Not much proven so far.

Many site seem to translate to language X and back to English to clean the data.

Research this.

Anyone using GANs yet?

How do you stop sites blocking your scraper?

There's money for the ad companies to allow you to plod along then steal your hard earned money because you are breaking the rules. Are they?
The criticism in the article is based on comparing Joe Rogan's' podcast to a SaaS business and is fundamentally flawed.

>And make no mistake: Joe Rogan is a business...I think he is capable of, his corporation would easily be valued at over $1,000,000,000...

>As I pointed out in my last post, if Rogan had added subscription, he would have owned a company that looked like the world’s best SaaS business.

The problem is that there is no exit for this business. Nobody is going to pay 20x past earnings for JRE without Joe.
This is the difference between being a performer (literally a gig worker), and a business owner.
Depends on your bank and the definition of a strong ad blocker. Danish banks use a common authentication solution that is generally (always?) inserted as a third party iframe. If you use the uBO enhanced Easy mode [0] or stronger, it'll be blocked.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
Someone should build an ad blocker that still registers that you've watched the ad, so that content creators get paid (someone correct me if this is what's already happening).
I'm aware of at least one community that shares copyrighted videos on Google Drive, and I'm sure there's more. There's at least two ways videos get taken down.

1. If there's too much burst traffic (like when a new popular episode is released), you can see that the video exists but GDrive won't let you stream it in the browser. I can't recall if you can still download the file. There may still exist a workaround where if you copy the file to your own GDrive (and your own quota), that copy will be available to you. In any case, usually the file becomes available again when traffic dies down.

2. Accounts sometimes get removed, or at least their shared files are no longer available publicly. I assume this is from getting too many copyright strikes against them.

I would assume if the video was popular, at least #1 would have happened here. It's unclear to me from the article if anything beyond that happened. That said, it wouldn't terribly surprise me if there was some process somewhere that matches up videos banned from Youtube and restricts their availability on GDrive.
MIT explicitly transitioned in this way with former admissions director Marilee Jones, who moved away from "just admit the geniuses" to "let's get some of the well-rounded kids too".
WSJ is the one source continually linked here that I CAN'T read. I guess it helps that I have NYT and WaPo subscriptions, but somehow, the other paywalls don't seem to be an issue in the way that WSJ is.
If you have Google Drive, you are either on a free or paid personal account, or a Google Business account which also includes Drive. I believe there is an Acceptable Use Policy for both the free and paid versions of personal and business Drive, but I am only a user of both and not an expert. I routinely use a lot of data and bandwidth on my paid Google business Drive to no ill effect, and I only pay my monthly fee, no additional/excess/egress charges. I probably upload 5-10 TB a month or so and download probably a few TB.

From a later comment on this post:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=63725...

'Abuse program policies and enforcement

'The content policies listed below play an important role in maintaining a positive experience for everyone using Google products. We need to curb abuses that threaten our ability to provide these services, and we ask that everyone abide by the policies below to help us achieve this goal.

'These policies apply to content within Google Drive. When applying these policies, we may make exceptions based on artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific considerations, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content. Be sure to check back from time to time, as these policies may change. Please also refer to Google's Terms of Service for more information.'
It's not clear that the file itself was removed, only that sharing it was disabled. So no file was deleted.

You own the storage space you use when using windows on your personal device.
Right. Sometimes language features support an architectural pattern, sometimes they are just mechanism.

And sometimes the same feature is one, sometimes the other. There is no shame in it. Language features are there to be used.
Residential Zoning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277421