skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except "scientists" didn't come around until 1833 (etymologically speaking). Before that the people doing the work were natural philosophers—which goes back to the original post of mine that kicked off this sub-thread: that there are certain metaphysical assumptions that you have to make before you start thinking you can explain the cosmos (kosmos, κόσμος).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos
Installed Ubuntu on my Thinkpad in 2008 and never looked back.
I don't view young college educated founders of massive social media sites to be a thing to boast about any longer.

Also technically the slide is correct, they bought/absorbed Aaron's company iirc - although there wouldn't be Reddit without that act.

It's blatant propaganda from a propaganda company though so what's new.
Unless you’re willing to pay for it you can’t have social media that isn’t a real estate for ads or at least some sort of commercial interest.

Arguably even HN despite being technically a pro-bono side project serves the commercial interest of YC (and possibly others) if it didn’t and especially if it would have a negative impact on them it wouldn’t be around.

And HN is a very niche social media (if you can even call it that) with strict rules.

Anything with wider appeal has to be monetized.

The only monetization we have for the Internet is attention/value extraction from the user base.
Some users migrated to alternatives when reddit began mass-banning subs for the first time.

All turned into cesspools full of nazis and fascists focused almost exclusively on hate speech, or died due to inactivity.
You are not too off from what has already been stated in the link, just that you cherry-picked it. Regarding criticism, Modi himself tweeted that "criticism makes democracy stronger"[1] so why should anyone get blacked out!

[1] https://twitter.com/pmoindia/status/986672508542824456
Doblin's Ten Types of Innovation
Ask HN: Useful/Interesting Tor Resources
I know people use Tor for privacy reasons, but I'm also curious if there are any interesting resources to be found on Tor that don't exist on the Internet. I'm aware that there's supposedly a vast amount of illegal content on Tor but I'm not interested in any of that. But maybe there are some resources that profit from being on fringes. Any suggestions?
“Herbal medicine sometimes does more harm than good, sometimes only works by the placebo effect, sometimes only relieves symptoms and masks the underlying disease, sometimes has been turned into effective medicine, sometimes has better modern alternatives, sometimes is just entirely useless and rarely just works.” ... is too long to write out.
In many EU countries author has inalienable rights: right to be recognized as author and name to be appropriately stated if author desires it, right to permit or prohibit modifications of the work, right to revoke the work, but doing so requires author to compensate for the losses revocation causes.

I am not sure how non transferability of these rights work in combination with authors right to permit those things. What exactly happens if author permits modifications of work? Does it only apply to specific modification and each modification needs to be permitted separately? If not it would seem contradicting with this right not being transferable.
I know that was his point. I acknowledged that although I think his overall point was very wrong I wasn't going to debate it because it would be a sprawling discussion.
> This is a bigger problem, but in practice I assume it wouldn't happen because if someone were to actually put in weeks or months of work into significantly improving the project, why wouldn't you just hire them or pay them ? After all, the whole assumption here is that this is a model for a for-profit endevor.

This is getting a bit hypothetical, but here's a question. Lets say you're an experienced software developer and you are using an application called "A Large Well-Known Word Processor" that is dual-licensed (A)GPL and proprietary, as explained in the post.

You might really want to add a feature that would save you time for a personal project, or just for your own sense of enjoyment.

Perhaps that feature had been discussed in support forums / issue trackers, and you want to add it as a kind of pro-bono / personal achievement in spare time.

And perhaps the company wouldn't want to pay for it to be developed themselves, perhaps because it competes with a revenue-generating plugin in their ecosystem developed by a partner company.

As I say, it's a little bit "out there" in terms of use cases, but in terms of the freedom to modify, improve and have input into the software that people collectively use, it's a valid one.

Another commentor elsewhere on this thread mentions a potentially-related problem regarding jurisdictions where it's not legally possible to remove your own copyright over materials you've produced.

That actually initially strikes me as a sensible policy, since it reduces the possibility of people being pressured (knowingly or unknowingly, with or without compensation) into losing control of their work.
> the biggest mistake the EU has made is not being more vocal about its achievements

Yes, the EU has a lot of work to do to improve their communication. EU communication within country members is almost non-existent. People in France have often zero idea what is being done in Brussels, don't know that their neighborhood new bike lanes and kindergarten have been financed by European funds.

You regularly see people complaining in national media about EU lack of support for their own country, even when they just received a major financial support. Look for example at Italy, Poland, Hungary, where the anti-EU sentiment has become quite important while they received some of the highest crisis funds that have even been created.
From Alexis Ohanian interview in 2006:

> Paul wanted to give Aaron Swartz, another YC founder, a birthday gift in November. More than anything else, Aaron wanted co-founder so Paul suggested the “merger”. Merger is probably a bit hyperbolic for what actually happened, Aaron basically moved in with us and we made him a co-founder.

> http://web.archive.org/web/20070823200504/http://startupstor...
Can I ask if it has gone down well because it actually did or because as in most of these things, people are 'afraid to speak up' and just go along with it?

I can't even imagine being in one of those calls. I prefer my personal life to have a good buffer from my work life (thus I speak about it as little as possible) and same for my co-workers personal lives.

I've seen these kinds of 'calls/meetings' to improve relationships in the work place, but whenever I talk off the record with folks (usually over drinks) most of them hate it and just go with it not to raise waves.
A pie diagram where the quoted percentages don't match their respective slices of the pie. Talk about misleading!
Challenge trials in animal models suggest somewhere in the 100-1000 range. Lower initial does also seem to lead to less severe courses of disease.
Fake video threatens to rewrite history. Here's how to protect it
IKEA's Environmental and Technological Innovations
No.

We tried having daily "tea break" calls and weekly "Friday drinks" calls, but attendance was so low that we just cancelled them.

Amongst people who were already friendly we still have private group chats in our work Slack, but the number of conversations is obviously far lower than when you're all in the kitchen making breakfast or tea in the morning.

We had a conversation about why the daily and weekly open conversation calls weren't working, and the resounding answer was they they felt like enforced fun. It's just not the same as meeting someone in a corridor or on a smoke break or in the kitchen.
Scientists have already published work confirming the virus is airborne stable and viable for many hours.

I don’t know why there hasn’t been more discussions about the consequences of this though.

For example, with airborne transmission, 6 ft distance is not enough, you need > 30 ft, e.g. if you are inside with poor airflow for a long time with someone who is infected, good luck (unless you have a good N95).
Theres a blue-green version in the caption of the graph. Does that help at all?
This is changing rapidly in many countries. House and large farm PV is getting super popular, more wind generators are being built, etc. Wind grows 10+% every year in Germany and solar ~5%.
TBH the platform itself doesn’t lend particularly well to free speech by penalizing unpopular opinions through karma. Ironically I think HN is worse in this regard by greying out posts once they get to -1, I often find out that sorting by controversial on many topics gives you the most interesting read on reddit.

I would actually love if both HN and Reddit allowed you to see a Karma graph for each post.
If that's the case, then the author's conclusion (that we need much less infrastructure because we have so much that it's absolutely impossible to maintain it) is even more interesting.
It seems leaders think “you can’t handle the truth” is a proper response to citizens.

We would have had to prepare with 10 years of 24/6 manufacturing of N95s to stop an airborne virus, which is why the most effective response is social distancing (not going to work, the 6 ft thing is bunk).
Maybe add a confirmation dialog and clear the page while showing a message as to who cleared it?

If you already have an undo system then you could push the pre-cleared state to it as well.

it's easy to make armchair feature request suggestions when I haven't even so much just looked at the code, so I will end by saying good work on having a tool that people actually use!
I've been microdosing psilocybin daily for the past six months during quarantine as a bit of a cognitive experiment. I feel a lot more switched on and focused in my work. Reading these posts I wonder what other diseases such as Parkinson's, seizures, PTSD, depression, anxiety have yet to be studied and require more research. Can anyone speak to this? Anything else I should add to my stack?
Sure. As I said:

> and parts of this learning could be delegated to colleges specialized in specific fields

I envision these colleges being part of a university.
Yes, buy toilet paper from your neighbor
I found an Observer article[1] from 2011 that gives some more insight. It looks to me that Aaron could indeed be considered a Reddit co-founder. However, Huffman and Ohanian may have felt threatened by being associated to the criminal later on, so they went with a new narrative.

[1]: https://observer.com/2011/07/rumors-acquisitions-did-reddit-...
GitHub – phpro/grumphp: A PHP code-quality tool
Belgian milestone: A first trans minister and nobody cares
Slightly tongue-in-cheek, perhaps: the people who benefit from a paid world might want a paid world, while they might also want to continue to reduce their costs.
Thank you. This was my first thought too, and then for some reason I felt like a jerk for going there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin: 'a naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound produced by more than 200 species of fungus'
Nice domain name.
The article said about 10% of taxes goes to maintenance of infrastructure. I'm fairly sure that percentage is fixed.
That would be $150 + $330=$480 not $3,450.

That would make the current percentage 150/(330+150) = ~31% not ~4%.
I think the problem is that you normally use 5% of the functions from your deps but still have to pull it all in.

Minimizing dependencies and writing as much as possible on your own would probably cut a 500 MB nodejs project to 5 MB in plain JS.

Note: Not a node dev but share the grief...
The strange case of the greedy junction
This seems at least tangentially related to the psilocybin thread currently on the front page. I have read in journals that bipolar is a disease of neuroinflammation upregulated by cytokines etc. in the brain. My hypothesis is that this could be related to the gut microbiome which has been proven in studies to affect the brain directly. Maybe you really are what you eat?
There’s no such thing as a decentralized exchange
> Why do people equate capitalism with "Fuck everyone, get money"?

Because, in their own words, that is what they're saying when discussing capitalism.

From a thread yesterday: "I owe nothing to a stranger".
Having advertisers control online narrative is very worrying and an unintended consequence of Brand Safety. There is no financial reason for reddit or youtube to distribute content they can't monetise, especially if that content is popular.
From the article:

As a worrying number of governments are actively trying to deny LGBTQ and trans people their place in society, it is heartening to see Belgium’s political system embracing a member of the LGBTQ community as an equal.

I know this is off-topic according to the hacker news guidelines, but the guidelines make an exception "... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
Yes, far UVC, 222 nm, won't penetrate your skin far enough to get to living cells and can be used around humans safely. It's a new technology, though, and not widely deployed.
Google has not much known product in google docs suite, called jamboard which works really well for this usecase and has tablet apps which makes it very good to use with apple pencil.

Benefits over this include better tools, better sharing and security, and I am guess stability and scalability.
Stallman was hesitant but in favour of this. He called it selling exceptions. His reasoning is that selling exceptions merely permits someone else to create non-free software, but that weak free licenses like the MIT license already allows this, therefore, selling GPL exceptions wasn't worse than weak licenses, in his view.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions

bkuhn has had more first-hand experience with it. It's been disastrous. The way exceptions are sold are by scaring copyleft users with frivolous copyleft violations and offering them no recourse to correct the violation except by buying a non-free license. Oracle and Mongo are the most famous examples of vendors who bully their users with threats of copyleft violation, telling them the only way to correct the violation is by paying.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...
IANAL, but my understanding is that, while you can never ask anyone to give up authorship, you can ask them to transfer copyright. I.e., you are still the author of your patch, your name should be visible as a contributor (should you want to), but you transferred the rights of that patch.
> I've been microdosing psilocybin daily for the past six months [...] I didn't get COVID and I feel a lot more switched on and focused

You lost your causation vs correlation sense though :)
Talk to a lawyer. You wouldn't want to invest a lot of time and effort in this business if there was a significant risk of losing it all. And if you think the business could generate a significant amount of income, the cost of consulting a lawyer would be minimal compared to what you'd stand to lose if you were sued.
Huion H620 is a 4:3 tablet that is old enough to be pretty cheap. Their 16:9 tablets are just fine at least when I get the $40-60 ones.

Osu! Style drawing tablets are also a thing but they are small, maybe you want to spring for a slightly bigger tablet.
I wonder if it's the appetite for tech investment that causes this.

In Australia (outside of a small enclave in Sydney) the only thing that investors know about and want to invest in is Mining (or occasionally Agriculture).

I can see the same situation in Germany: investors want to invest in what they know, and very few of them know about tech products. There's little pockets of tech-savvy investors around Europe, but on the whole there's not that many.

But California has an abundance of investors who know tech and are willing to invest in it. So it's easy to see why a Euro tech company that wants funding would migrate there.
No, new users are often automatically blocked there
> 1. Do you miss these conversations?

I worked as a contractor in the office and never really thought about it. Like I had conversations with people in the break roomwhere they know me maybe because they see me talking to my boss but I don't know who they are or what they do. Or I overhear people talking about their work and I got to catch a glimpse of what they do (I wrote internal web applications they used so this was useful information to me).

I'll never admit this, of course. I don't like being in the office. I'd rather work from home forever. I think all I'm missing is a decent fiber gigabit (symmetric up and down) connection (for me and everyone else) and I should be good.
HN is a very strictly policed safe space.
A walnut creek CDROM? Well look at the mr. millionaire here, I could not afford a CD drive at the time :) My first slackware install took like 5 hours of flipping floppies (40 or so) and haphazardly answering questions like "Do you want to install Python? Ruby? Guile? I don't know, do I?!?". I messed something up and the root password was not set properly. All I could do was spend another 5 hours reinstalling it and hope this time it would go right, so I did. I think on the same day I first ran vi, couldn't figure out how to type anything, or exit for that matter, so I ctrl-alt-deleted the computer :) I had just 4 megs of ram too, basically all the computer could do is boot to a shell so I could enable swap. Starting X swapped the hell out of it. Good times.

I honestly don't know if in this day and age I would take up Linux. Back then I did because I was bored, hungry for knowledge and was soaking in anything computer-related I could get my hands on. Linux provided so many new technologies to tinker with. With the cornucopia of freely and easily accessible knowledge that we have today... I don't know, maybe I would choose a different path altogether.
Remember when email was the internet's killer app?

& all those open source mailing list threads have done plenty of work. Not to forget their IRC channels
How will that help? The fundamental problem is sprawl - the density is too low to support the infrastructure to maintain it. Effectively, the city is making a loss on every square meter of land it builds infrastructure on. Using a loan to build more infrastructure will make the problem worse - unless you can raise the tax base around (ballpark estimate from the numbers given in the article) factor 10 or higher just to maintain that infrastructure. So the answer is to build less - make quarters denser, smaller footprint per person, less garden space per house, higher houses. This all goes counter the dream many people have - a suburb house with a garden, driveway, lawn and porch.
> Capitalism is the alternative to state-controlled commerce.

No, it's not.

Capitalism is one of many models of how the state can regulate commerce through the definition of the parameters and boundaries of property rights.
I think your opinion is extremely myopic and biased, I don't care much of shutting down subreddits to be honest, especially if you get extremists ready to act all up and angry together.

They're still very free to speak have no worry. Also if reddit didn't stop that, they'd be flagged as pro-racist. There was a need for a decision to be made, nothing else.
I've used XML. I don't want namespaces, I don't want the verbosity, I don't want entities, I don't want the security vulnerabilities.

I should have mentioned that I want something simple and readable.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-ma...

“We’re not direct booting an alternate operating system,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.
I'm sitting here crying at my computer screen. Everything the early pioneers of the internet fought for, freedom of speech, lack of censorship, open discussion of radical ideas, is being destroyed. The destruction of Aaron's legacy is just the latest in a long list of final straws that is eroding my trust and hope for the future. Dark day today indeed.
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic. (The Atlantic)
A lot of people in the corporate sphere have no idea what's going on outside of their bubble. Society is falling apart. Morals are essential to the functioning of society.
Who is more qualified than an orthodontist to suggest whether a kid needs braces?
Why is the high cost of western labor not in your list. Labor is the main cost.

We need construction robots.
I don't understand why should we work hard to get all (or half, but that's still billions) people in the world to do this if we can simply write it into the license terms and use the already existing legal framework made exactly for this purpose. I also don't understand the claimed inflexibility, IP rights are one of the most flexible pieces of legislation I know, and your license can be as flexible as you wish too. On the other hand, what in the hell is flexible about laws made only for this purpose?
HN isn’t exactly a bastion of free speech either
Very excited about webview2, long overdue. No more need for CEFsharp or electron for simple projects.
Because other nations secure your defense.
I started going to 2600 meetings in the mid 1990s, which eventually lead to creating bots and similar tools for online chat platforms using VisualBasic 6. Then I switched focus from that to creating websites and launched a personal site on Geocities.

In the late 90s and early 2000s I started playing a lot of Quake 3 and built a gaming ladder with a friend (a free SAAS app basically) so groups of players can compete against each other. That kick started web development for me and even freelancing since it resulted in creating a lot of free (and some paid) sites for other gaming related things afterwards. Haven't looked back since.

My whole origins story is at https://gestaltit.com/exclusive/rich/nick-janetakis-it-origi....
Reading the comments here makes me feel old. I started with Linux over twenty years ago. Started as a teen. Continued to use it during my studies. Professional user during my PhD. Nowadays mostly at home.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/my_linux_history.html
Glad I wasn't the only one whose first thought went to protecting someone's airway when some else fails!
I don’t want to disagree with you but note that those articles are 15 years apart. I think public opinion inside and outside of tech on “free speech” has changed quite a bit over that time. For example I feel like there used to be more of a libertarian bent in tech then as opposed to now.

Is this perhaps an unfair comparison to make considering the general change in opinion over that time?
For those not familiar with Aaron's writing, first read this:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/handwritingwall

Then continue here:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve
Nice to have such a steady access to psilocybin. Why not LSD, by the way?

> I've been microdosing psilocybin daily for the past six months, [...] I didn't get COVID.

Made me laugh.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180731111417/https://www.reddi...

I don't think he was ever on that page
*piracy will always matter for this reason
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When I find a bug in this compiler, I go back to the original commit that introduced the bug and rewrite the commit history as if there were no such bug from the beginning. This is an unusual way of fixing bugs, but as a a part of a book, it is important to keep every commit bug-free.

Somehow I can't imagine Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie making those sorts of commits.