skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm about as pro-capitalist, laissez-faire, pro-free-market as it gets. I was a literal card-carrying member of the LibertariaNZ party back in New Zealand. The spirit of this license disgusts me at a fairly deep emotional level.

That said, I think that this specific concern raised by the license is very real:

> ... If you want your code to empower students, artists, hobbyists, collectives, cooperatives and nonprofits to survive under capitalism while not contributing free labor to corporations.

I've seen a few cases where I think that open source authors and maintainers are getting it in the shorts. Yes there's value - "Egoboo", learning, personal promotion, etc. - but I don't think it's enough in many cases. For example:

* Free software that contributes to the growth and dominance of proprietary, for-profit ecosystems. E.g. I was recently back on Windows for the first time in a decade or so professionally, building an app I'd written in Common Lisp. Scoop (for package management on Windows) and Rosewell (which now supports Windows) made this super easy and pleasant. But ... why would you spend your time writing Free software to benefit such an ecosystem? Unless you're being paid for it, why not spend your time contributing to a Free ecosystem instead?

* Free software that is productised by cloud providers (e.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-hits-back-at-open-source-s...).

* Companies like Google, who are happy to build upon a plethora of open source products to generate billion-dollar profits, but who then turn around and actively give the middle finger to the communities without which they wouldn't exist (e.g. https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/03/googles_widevine_drm/).
I see, you're using "new houses" to mean new buildings, and "new homes" to mean new units.
In the broadcasting case, obviously broadcasting/distribution was involved, which is not the case here. Do you have any examples where someone making a private modification to a copyrighted work without distribution was legally liable for it after it was discovered?

The AGPL attempts to control any changes made to the code, not just, say, a substantial refactoring or reworking. So in principle a one-line patch is sufficient to trigger AGPL clause 13.
Yeah right on I don’t doubt that is the case. I was mostly refuting the “most” aspect of the post. Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut though ;)
Lightmatter: Silicon Photonics for AI Acceleration
> This submission is the latest in a trend of what I would classify as "math-lite" category theory and Haskell articles that reach the HN front page,

That's pretty arrogant and rude. This is some mathematicians' PhDs and research, not a blog put in front of overpaid programmers to provide them with category-theory porn. Admittedly, the dumbed down language of the blog is misleading and makes it very hard to read.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3290338

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089054011...

Fabio Zanasi. 2015. Interacting Hopf Algebras: the theory of linear systems. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ecole Normale Supérieure de
Lyon
They're all being played outside of the state of Victoria, as was organised.

I'm in Melbourne and while I 'may be subject to arrest' if I violate the rules, I am not in fear when I move about outside. Like I could go walk about the streets for the next 8 hours before curfew and I highly doubt I would attract any police attention unless I did something stupid.

On top of that the police here aren't really like the US police.
They manage to harvest my data just fine in Instagram and WhatsApp without having to login using Facebook
The few who can't are those who sell for 5%, supply and demand, price drops make the supply drop. Those who can afford carrying costs seems to be selling but in practice are not because they won't accept any offers.
Yeah, realized that a minute too late.

I also realized the pictogram's filename is aem-0023-explosive_material.png, so I wasn't _too_ far off with "exploding planet". With slightly larger versions of the pictograms in the chooser and a hover label I could do a decent job of choosing the right one for the situation.
just checked again and sure enough it's working now, thanks.
This is super cool!

A random FYI: the demo seems to consistently fail on the letter x when using style #9 and typing out:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

I tried a few different spots on the legibility slider with similar results..

It draws the first "top left to bottom right" line, but then instead of a "top right to bottom left" it draws another "top left to bottom right" next to it..
This is about startups, which are very rarely about manufacturing. Most of the “information economy” startups are still in the US.
> Like when Wrigley sent a US Congressman to visit - he snapped his fingers and chewing gum was no longer banned.

He must not have snapped very loudly, because the only way to buy chewing gum to this day is as medicine (e.g. nicotine gum) from a doctor or pharmacy.
> In abstract maths, however, category theory has more significance than pure language. It can serve more or less like an algebraic tool. There are abstract mathematicians who see deeper meaning in it too.

One of the things that has made me very successful as a problem solver and software developer has been the ability to apply category theory abstractly to projects and work that comes in. IOW, Using category theory well in day-to-day software engineering isn't about which monad to pick, but which abstraction (or series of abstractions) are the best fit to a problem.
electricityMap Live suggests both Ontario and Quebec sell to New York. https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/US-NY-NYIS

But the nature of such links is that they're often saturated if it makes sense to move power - so even if you have 10GW of electricity and New York are willing buyers at the price you offer if there's only 2GW of interconect you can only sell them 2GW of electricity.

As a result it can make sense for Ontario to buy electricity from Quebec and sell electricity to New York, even though Quebec is also selling electricity to New York.
I can't help imagining INTEL / AMD / NVIDIA doing the same with their own chips.

Top500 Supercomputer in a single Rack. Just imagine.

And if we take liberty to dream extreme, "Available on Amazon, On Demand". :D
Which is teamwork, thus requiring good social...
That's what drew me to the idea of 'lesswrong'; an acknowledgement that we all kinda suck at this and your argument is almost certainly wrong in some way, but if we approach with good intentions and open minds, at least the arguments will be _interesting_.
I worked at SAIC back when it was a small company (and before changing the name to Leidos). I will forever be grateful for being able to work about 25% of my time on IR&D, all of my own choosing. I think the US government allowed us about 1% or 2% of our gross to be reimbursed R&D - I forget the details.

At my last job before retiring (Capital One, a great company to work for BTW) my team had a huge amount of autonomy on what we worked on, but my team was awesome.

I don’t really understand the relative merits of many small R&D projects vs. huge infrastructure. Perhaps the industry is just moving to a many small projects approach?
The Race to Make a Better Brand of Home Office
> If you went back a few decades and suggested people would be strapping supercomputers on their wrists, you'd likely be committed to an institution.

Either the funny farm or the funny pages.

https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/2-Way_Wrist_Computer
> Choice does not define an economic market. Competition does.

Competition is directly correlated with choice. The more competition there is, the more choices consumers have. And the fewer choices there, there is effectively less competition.

Apple and Google abuse their market share to limit competition by building walled gardens and taking large cuts of revenue from publishers, because they know that very few publishers have consumers willing to switch platforms or tolerate heroic acts of jailbreak. Netflix is one of the few publishers that come to mind that have such a large and dedicated subscriber base that they can force users off their device to do their signup and purchase flows on the web.

While Epic is pouting and making a spectacle, I also think they're rightly pointing out that Apple's policy of killing their publisher account and disallowing them from signing their packages effectively removes choices from the consumer.

A competitive market would have a way for publishers to self-publish, and Apple is prohibiting that, which is anti-competitive and anti-consumer.
How's that? There are frequently headlines about inferring speech inside a building from vibrations of windows or objects inside the room.
This is not correct. Those agreements are based on the idea that your license to use the copyrighted software is predicated on accepting a large number of conditions outside of copyright.

Merely receiving a license-free piece of software (i.e. "all rights reserved") with no strings attached gives you a certain set of default rights (i.e. anything not in violation of copyright), such as to run it for any purpose. EULAs like a shrink-wrap agreement from Adobe, or the AGPL, then attempt to remove some of those rights.

Though, sure, you can look at it from the point of view that in the absence of a license at all, nobody would've been able to distribute the software to you in the first place, and therefore you'd have had no rights as a result.
> People don’t like to live in cities primarily because of jobs, but because living in cities is fun.

This is mostly only true of younger childless people. Once you have kids you can forget about having any fun for the next 15 years or so. And after that, well, how many 45 year olds do you see in nightclubs?
Learn to appreciate papers? This piece of research is far more interesting than openai's work which essentially involves spending more money on bigger compute and more data. The API is actually a massive turn off for me as I like to know how things work. While I understand your wanting to try things out via an API, I don't think that its the way things should be moving forward. Furthermore I think its very important that engineers using ML actually read the papers to understand what is going on otherwise you'll be finding idiots who apply facial recognition models to predict criminals running around in the wild saying that ML is some black magic when all its doing is reflecting social bias.
But when I buy Android I can side load app

If I buy Apple phone I can't sideload app. At all.

How ia this not a monopoly.

Also why you bring xbox into picture. It's a gaming console not a general purpose device ppl use 4+hrs in a day.

They can have their cut buthe issue that you're ignoring is that they don't allow side loading and that they can randomly kill any app they want. Like they have done in the past and small developers don't have the money Epic does
Clutching your pearls over language while these people kill hundreds of thousands and get away with it. Execution implies a legal sentence. This is a legal process. We should use it when it is appropriate.
I've never been to Australia, but my experience traveling in Germany, France and the Netherlands is that service ranges from "adequate" at best to "abysmal," with the average case being much closer to the latter.

In the US, I'd say service is "excellent" more than 95% of the time, and I don't think I can recall a single instance of worse than "adequate" in my life.

I have no idea if tipping sufficiently explains this, but it sure seems at least plausible...
Admissions Officials Urge Colleges to Put Std-Testing Policies to the Test
Suspended from University for writing email about mathematics software
Late-30s career changers with a fresh CS degree are rare enough that it's hard to talk in knee-jerk generalities.

Did you have stats for a population of people like this? Do you have friends or relatives in this situation? Have you hired a person like that for horrifically low pay? I'd very curious to hear about your experience!
It is strange. Miracle fruit only works on acidic foods but for some foods it still changes the taste. I wouldn't say the broccoli taste sweet or tasteless, just less bitter. I shouldn't be promoting alcohol, but it makes cheap liquor taste smoother than the top shelf stuff too. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgLc-UlIDm/

The tastebuds of children, turns out, are different than those of an adult. They have not only more sweet buds, they are larger too.

You are absolutely right on the last point. I talked to a taste therapist that works with picky eaters and those are very big factors.
Well, employees are not investors, even if the author is implying that they should be the same, or should be treated the same. Employment contracts are at-will, nobody is forced to agree to compensation.

Of course, if the compensation is horrendously unfair, the top talent will not accept it.
A new out-of-box “Empty Activity” app project in Android Studio compiles to a 1.59 KB APK (if implemented in Java; it goes up to 2.26 MB APK with Kotlin). Rip out the dependencies on AndroidX, and the APK size plummets to 103 KB. (The APK for the de-Appcompat'd Kotlin version is, correspondingly, 709 KB.) 1.5 MB overhead – fifteenfold – for a more convenient layout[0] and the Material theme. Mind-numbingly wasteful. In a big enough app, that overhead will be overshadowed by the size of the meaningful bits, but how many apps really get that big? How many games include Appcompat and then draw their own UI anyway?

[0]: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout
This is effectively ransomware. If you do not agree with the new eula Facebook will deactivate your otherwise working hardware.
Typical ML-based paper where everything is about machine learning and nothing is about languages... The biggest issue is nothing is said about how the languages were selected. That’s the basis when dealing with multilingual languages as the features they share or not is important and will impact the results. In this respect the last figure is the more interesting one: it mentions ido and interlingua, two constructed languages. Why does they get included since NLP is supposed to deal with natural languages? It not a bad choice per se, but the selection criteria needs to be explain more than just picking languages to get a large number on a research paper.

There is also no reflection on why some languages got better results than others. Again looking at the last figure in the top three best performing languages with no data two are Sinitic languages (Cantonese and Wu) which likely happens since their closeness to standard Chinese for which there is huge ressources available for training. On the reverse Breton for which there is probably very few apparented language data in the initial models and training set besides Irish get very poor results, which tends to show the model actually don’t transfer very well if at all...
It's wouldn't be far fetched to say that mozilla could abandon rust in near future.
I think it's an unrelated issue.
On Facebook you're required to use your real name. I don't know if the same is true of an Oculus account, but that's a major difference if not. Of course you can create a Facebook account with a fake name, but then you risk getting banned.
Manool is meant to make exploratory programming safer and faster
Stuff like this only works if done universally, otherwise people will just go where the taxes aren’t.

At one point the US was looking to curtail oil speculation, I think the idea was you would have to accept delivery of what you traded, but they backed off because the Dubai exchange took the opposite position and all the major US financial firms were gearing up to move their oil commodities trading to UAE.
I'll throw a shoutout for a top tier project - https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter

Using it for some personal stuff, and does absolutely everything I need it to, and then some.

I love the ethos of the project, and whilst it's open source, there's a hosted option that looks super reasonable too.
I don't think so actually. Even cheap padlocks have security pins nowadays.
oops you are of course correct :-) DCMA is an acronym I used to need to use a lot. Must be muscle memory kicking in.
Sounds like a business model to me. Leave a 3 star review, and if they try to bribe you $X threaten them to lower it to 1 star unless they pay $2X.
Easy repairability is as important for freelancers as it is for larger businesses.

The anecdote that I was replying to seems to be about a freelancer (or at least a very small business - see "bought 3 or 4 machines over a period of a few years"), not someone maintaining a fleet of devices.

My definition of "pro" is just "uses device to make an income".
The market is flooded with capital.

In my area you can get a 95% LTV 10/1 ARM for 2.75%. I don’t know when the bubble pops, it’s obvious that the markets are being propped up.
Does this requirement mean computer components that the software is written and deployed on needs to be "conflict free", and manufactured by other anti-capitalist firms? I don't know of anything that would meet that definition.
> basic locks can be reliably picked with $20 of tools and a few hours of YouTube tutorials and practicing.

Not without spending time at the lock, performing an activity that is obviously criminal to any witness, and having to repeat that every time you want access to those premises.

And, also: a neophyte lock picker will likely leave evidence, like scratches. If you have a key that works, you can open the lock without any traces of picking activity.
I find PG interesting to follow on Twitter in that I don't always agree at first with what he says, but it can lead me to investigate and confirm or adjust my position. But on these topics I often get the vibe that he's leaking personal concerns.

Maybe it's not purely selfish but the idea that he's looking out for his cohorts of young motivated founders, yet even that feels off. I doubt many start a business desperate for tens of millions; I'd guess the primary motivations are control of work schedule and basic FU money.
Works for me on iOS. Did you click the “write” button in the bottom right corner? It seems you have to tap it after any change in text or settings for it to update.
Oh, a _feed in tariff_. OK, so that's never going to make sense as a wholesale price because it isn't one.
It's not about how fast you can task a satellite and get data back that the article is talking about.

It's taking about between when the satellite was launched, and when it was able to send images back down was 58 hours. That is impressive. In the past it would normally take a week or more to get a satellite into a stable orbit and do all the checkout tests. After that, sure, task away and get all the images you want.
Has China’s digital currency gone into public beta?
It's not just that, it's also the store. If you choose not to log with the Facebook ID, do I also lose access to all of my purchases? It seems extra scummy.
Now do it with a laser microphone on a window!
Exactly. Literally nothing stops them from pushing an update that uses your device to decrypt your history and send it back to facebook.
Changing the keycap doesn't change what is typed when you press the key...
Damn. Best alternative to the Rift S?
First, you have to have software worth licensing, that is complicated enough to be too much trouble to be re-written.
I knew when they said they could infer my password based on the sounds of the keystrokes that the concept of "secret" in the physical world was in for some changes. It got really, really bad when I heard of research that could evesdrop on sounds based off a laser on a window pane or lightbulb
Facebook gonna Facebook!
Hisense’s New 4K Laser Projector Comes with a 100-Inch Screen
Literably (IK12 W13) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
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We're looking for a senior engineer with both back-end and front-end skills to work on our core early literacy assessment product and have a massive impact on the students we serve. If interested, shoot us an email at jobs@literably.com.
> I'm not for Paul Allen deciding what's nice or what we get.

The thing is, Allen didn't take anything from you to give those things. He didn't raise your taxes. He didn't impose any levies. They were gifts you could ignore if you chose.

Me, I liked his flying WW2 aircraft museum very much. It's a little thing in the grand scheme of things, but I've enjoyed it a lot. If you read his autobiography "Idea Man" you're sure to find a number of things that have benefited you - without costing you anything.

Musk has given us a space program. Carnegie gave us public libraries. Gates has saved millions of lives through his foundation.

BTW, you don't get to decide what nice things government does for you, either. A vote is not the same thing as a choice. I've lobbied my Congressmen. Did they do what I wished? Absolutely not!
They also have to deal with direct sunlight and a wider range of thermal conditions. Commercial displays are often placed in shop windows, the panel needs to stand up to that, and the electronics need active cooling for when the chassis warms up.
Valley Fever is scarier to me than plague for sure.
I would still argue the bigger problem is the way pharmaceutical companies push products on Doctors.

Ever been to a doctor's office, get prescribed a certain medicine, and then look around the office and see 5 different knick-knacks from the Pharmaco (i.e. Calendars, Notepads, general adverts) in the room as they're writing the script?

The issue is far far larger than Opioids. I think a bigger message should be sent on this issue. We are one of the only first world countries that even allows advertisement of Medications, and have repeatedly seen the impacts of these companies' marketing tactics.
Ah, you mean it has autumn!
> when the developer decides you are no longer pure enough

Which will happen. Purity wars in ideological movements are nothing new (and far from limited to the political Left!).

E.g. Orwell was shot during the Spanish Civil War, not by Fascists, but by a different bunch of Communists on whose side he was theoretically fighting.

> You’d have to be insane

Well, this is a Marxist thing, so that box comes pre-ticked.
Isn't that roughly what Google has done with Android? They can choose what they want to curate in their own app store, but they don't lock users in based on hardware or use of Android OS. (Someone should take them to court over their prioritization of AMP pages, but that's a different story).
Houston Is Using the Pandemic as an Opportunity to Build a Resilient Smart City
Wow.

The feminazi apparati found you.
A grisly death is more appealing than running a full Elasticsearch cluster :)
Electricity consumption is important and there’s a wear and tear factor: if it’s not a computer you leave running 24x7, it’ll break sooner and given that SSDs have a duty cycle you’re cutting into the service lifetime of the device. I’m not sure anyone doing this to make a few bucks is going to think that’s worthwhile.
Honestly, considering that JetBrains wrote both Kotlin and IDEA, I'm often surprised at the little papercuts when editing Kotlin code.

I can't tell you how many times it has autocompleted FooClass.Companion.functionName() for me and then immediately suggested that I should remove the Companion part. "Ya think?"

The performance also doesn't seem that awesome for me. It doesn't require a very large file before it starts taking several seconds to highlight and analyze it. Granted, I haven't upgraded to 1.4 yet, which supposedly improves performance.