skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Props to the author for putting in the hard yards here. I used to work with a major geocoding service, and Japanese addresses were a nightmare, both in the original Japanese and when translated to English. In many places in Japan (Kyushu, Okinawa and Hokkaido are particularly bad), the kanji readings of names are completely impenetrable even to native Japanese speakers:

https://soranews24.com/2016/12/01/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-ins...

And then you get to deal with this kind of extra weirdness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system#Spe...
Copyfarleft
BountySource did this. It failed.
Keep in mind there are two kinds of voter fraud: the ones that get caught (and never show up in vote data), and the ones that don't. There are always stories about the person dead for 10 years that gets a ballot that is maybe even turned in - but that vote isn't counted, precisely because it got caught.
> if companies just steal it

just like how biden stole the election? how is using the software stealing when it's used as licensed?
> UK never had a Big Brother set up

I don't even know where to start.
> I guess taking 2 of my favorite musicians wasn't enough

Rappers are getting murdered all the time lately, assuming that's what you're referring too. It's really gotten to me this year too, especially the situation in Chicago. I'm guessing most people on HN don't know that a very popular musician was killed just two days ago.
I consume most news in a day when I’m sitting on the toilets.
Sitting down not only makes it more practical to handle my phone at the same time, it’s also an excuse to make my pee break a few minutes longer, thus being more informed on what’s going on in the world and the HN realm.

The only issue I see with this routine is that I can’t pee standing up anymore without making a mess 3 times out of 4.
Free Software doesn't have to be free to use either (free as in free beer).
iPhones, I don't know, but offering iPads to parents/grandparents because of this restriction? Yes, I know many...
Yeah but there are some timeless truths in many religious texts. This one seems to be applicable.
One issue is that donations implicitly promote a cost-plus pricing model (I'd like to earn 10k a year doing open source, so that's how many donations I need to fund me working on this).

Whereas something like dual-licensing promotes a value-based pricing model (our fortune 500 doesn't need to pay 5 engineers for a year to build and maintain this distributed system; we would happily pay equivalent of an engineer per year for that.)
Yes I've always found this off-putting. People in HR departments are literally earning six figure salaries in return for making job ads advising people to do a bunch of unpaid labor which, by the way, the company benefits from.
It already exists on both fronts: stream2own and a cooperative.

https://resonate.is/
I agree. If you use OPUS for example, it becomes nearly impossible to tell.

But one thing we should not forget: these codecs are used for distribution or streaming. If you ever record something that has to be edited, filtered, treated with an EQ, denoised etc. then go for at least 24 Bit Wav. Compressed audio is great for when the thing already sounds the way it should, but it starts to fall apart very quickly when you manipulate it heavily.
Yeah, the portrayal in that specific article is... less than ideal.
So wait, to participate on this forum, you have to leave an online public record of all your criminal transactions that these researchers (and presumably, the prosecutor's office) can simply download?

If this site has a significant userbase, I guess that means there must be a lot of stupid criminals out there.
That's because their product sucked, they charged excessive fees, and they were actively hostile to their users.
Urine is sterile. Toilets are not. I'd say it's much more hygienic to urinate standing. We don't sit down because we don't have to. It's really as simple as that.
On Twitter, he claims that he was recently made homeless due to an apartment fire, and asks the community to send funds to help him avoid homelessness, which seems reasonable enough. He later goes on to describe "fake news written by the NY Post." I searched for this, and found an article that might be the article he describes (timing fits) [0]

Pretty crazy story, all in all!

He seems to be in some pretty dire straits, and is reacting to the perceived grievance of others profiting off of his work. All in all, I don't think this is the best way to handle the situation, although building some kind of SaaS API is probably not really possible for something that can be trivially implemented and operated locally. However, many other SaaS APIs have seemed equally trivial in the past and have been extremely successful, so it still might be a useful avenue to explore if he can sort out his legal troubles...

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-susp...
As opposed to basing them on...some system you came up with?
This title is such flamebait. Did anyone actually read the PDF I wonder before leaping in? Flagged.
It’s a good example of false balance – you either have encryption that works, or not. There is no middle ground.
My point was just that you're right, in the 18th century when the founding fathers designed this system the federal government was weak and federal law had very little influence.

But in the 21st century the u.s. federal government has a much larger influence on people's lives.

When a government is closer to a defense pact like Nato it makes sense to have voting apportioned by regional power. But as that government starts to have a larger impact on your day to day life than it makes less sense.

If we started sending nato several trillion dollars a year it makes less sense for Bulgaria to have the same say in how that money is spent as we do.

And there isn't really any political appetite to roll back the federal government to a size where that type of representation made sense. Moving social security and Medicare from the federal to the state or city level would be a political non starter.
I wonder, how much shareholder value FOSS, either in a package manager or otherwise, has added to MFAANG and other technology companies over the years?

A few years ago, someone did break a package that many companies cloned and integrated... the internet nearly broke...

My guess; a disruption in services is one thing that’s not already “priced in” to the stock market.
Required by law: Ethnic studies courses likely to be met with resistance
I'd vouch for MacKay's book. It is a real gem and it gives you many big picture insights, as well as specific computations. Moreover, you can download the .tex sources and read the comments (including variants of some difficult paragraphs), there's a lot of snark in them!
USGS themselves say the US has 700,000 tons of proven lithium reserves, and 7 million tons of potential lithium resources

https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2020/mcs2020-lithium.pd...

The article you linked also doesn't do your point any favours - some quotes:

>"Can lithium batteries scale up? According to this quick and purely speculative math, the short answer is, with current reserves, not just no, but hell no."

>"Even this little sketch of the issue highlights the obvious conclusion: we need to do our best to get away from single passenger cars -- even EVs -- and rely more on smart city design, walking, biking, carpooling, trains, shuttles, etc."

As for the relative prices of electricity sources - I'll just say it again, the energy returned on energy invested for renewable sources mean that an all-renewable grid would have a higher cost per unit of electricity. The only reason it's cheap now is because most of the manufacturing is done by countries that are happy to burn oil, coal, and whatever else they can find, to do so.
No, just a salesperson. He's a very good salesperson, mind you, and like many salespeople, he ends up as the front-facing person in these kinds of endeavours.
Interesting you should mention that, New York Post claims he was arrested for having bomb-making materials in his apartment which may be related to the apartment fire he discusses on his Twitter!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032426
or rather it is not paying for free stuff and internet-enabled global scale.

Not really sure whether capitalism really plays a significant role here more than simply allowing enterprises to exists
The problem is that adding some open source code to a project when it's free is simple, easy, and can be done without oversight (it shouldn't, but it can). If the code couldn't be added without paying the owner a sum of money and receiving a licence in return (i.e. something that would have to be archived and looked after), then it all gets more difficult. Budgets have to be allocated, spending authorised, receipts processed, etc. This would require approval from authority, and they would want assurances frrom the supplier that the code is well-maintained, does what it says it does, etc. Someone would have to review the code, and that costs time and more money. They might even have to review multiple alternatives to ensure that the project selected is the right project. At this point commercial suppliers get invited into the room, who send professional salesfolk to a meeting with management, and the whole ball game changes.

This isn't "management bullshit". It's what should happen in a well-run organisation with a good procurement process.

If you want to sell your software, that's the game you play, and you better hite professional salesfolk to get your cash. If you don't want to play that game, then give it away for free. But don't whine later that it created "millions in value" and you didn't get any of that.
> But now there's Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Peacock Premium, etc.

Outside of the USA there’s far less choice, so less subscription overflow
There’s a ton who have tried variations of adding money to open source! None have managed to stick for some reason.
Personally I'm an atheist, but I still find this piece of religious text interesting. It tells us that this is as old problem as human civilization is. How do people share the work and the fruits of the labour?
This doesn't hold in the age of slavery where you could get sold by the curt to slavery and serve on a galleon until you payed back your obligations.
perhaps even "lawful" interception shouldn't be lawful after all?
Sorry, don't agree with you on the brain power part. Can't see what they achieved or did in their perspective fields that's so great. I feel they are overselling themselves ...
Compared also to other intellectuals I don't agree with (e.g. Pinker).

I would recommend you to listen a bit to
Jeremy Scahill, and especially also Amy Goodman. She's an institution to me ... Just awesome work for all the years:
https://www.democracynow.org/

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/intercepted/
The intercept got quite a bit heat recently, yet Jeremy is still just awesome (always to the point and careful in his analysis).

They are much more in line with my political bias. Yet honestly I find they make much more sense (and use a much more precise and easy to understand sentence structure/argumentation line).
You’re even still free to just go buy the CD and rip it, as odd as it sounds.
Not much else for that one online, Giuliani cited it and it’s funny. The other one he cited was a woman who registered to vote the day after she died:

https://www.swgfuneralhome.com/obituary/Denise-Ondick

https://twitter.com/clewandowski_/status/1325256319176224770...

The tweet has a screenshot, and unless they’ve already corrected it, you can probably find it on the PA website yourself.
What happens with your iTunes music if your apple account would get locked? Sadly the only option nowadays would be purchasing hard discs, and hope theres no protection on the disk as you are not allowed to break it
Trends by MKBHD
you mean the good ole days when Microsoft paid 50k for quickdos before making billions from it?
I think a better approach is make some of the corporate users making requests admins on repo and take a break from the project. Companies would rather not maintain a private fork, but there are ways other than saying "pay up" to get them involved.
Most consumers don't care. Mom buying a Quest for her son won't care. Neither will majority of younger players. This is a case of small but loud group of people standing up against it.
Which corporation sponsoring the fork gets to be declared the active fork?

It seems simplest to keep his original version and whatever updates he feels like doing as his own thing, and if a corporation feels like forking the project to add some feature they can add their name to it. If others prefer that version they can switch to it.

It's reasonable given the people doing it are well versed in this stuff. He keeps doing what he's doing without being as annoyed, the project stays on trajectory, and individual users can switch if they feel like it to an alternative option.
What is wrong with saying “all rights reserved. You are free to use this software for educational and nonprofit purposes but once you start to make money off it you must request permission in writing” - I’ve seen a few licences like this. I guess the down sides are it might send some people elsewhere and you might be on your own trying to enforce it in court.
I spent the morning analyzing 100s of tweets and videos from one of my fav tech youtubers, MKBHD, and compiled a list of trends he spotted in tech.

Besides folding phones and rotating TVs, he was sure USB-C was going to be a thing already in Dec 2016

Here are all the trends ↪
https://treendly.com/spotters/mkbhd
Just my master degree finished laotze and now moved to chungtze. This copy is so bad that I am sorry it does not get Tao of programming at all. At least not tao.

*

I think at least have some story of debugging like dissect of the ox in zhungzi like

in the beginning I hack the code with hardship, strgguking all the time with upgrades and ... finally I do not see the problem and I can fix whatsoever with whatever language. There is no language just me freely hack around and the problem is solved without even the problem aware its own existence and just disappear.

Or

the Tao generate zero, zero follow by one abd with that the world is totally with us etc.
I second this, sounds really interesting!
Unreal isn't open source
Or the apartment fire. See the comment above.
The fact so many people feel they need a gun for safety is the first and biggest issue IMO.

This is fueled by movies and culture - have the gun in your possession and you’ll automatically win the fight - that was easy!

I’ve read countless comments from Americans that they have a gun to shoot intruders. Statistics telling you there’s a bigger chance someone else will get hurt be damned.

These ideas are have to be fueled by big money is my guess.

Also we humans really like our toys, so I can get that aspect of it. Wanna take my toy? Forget about it.
Thanks! A configurable limit would be nice, but p will do just fine.

My mistake was thinking that my mounted file system's root would be my btrfs's root, which of course it is not, it's itself a subvolume (a standard configuration has @system and @home, i think). When I re-ran btdu on the separately mounted root volume it worked flawlessly.

Maybe I'm the only one making this mistake, but maybe it makes sense to remind people of this. Especially since currently btdu doesn't fail with an error, but seems to try to navigate up to the root volume (it shows my @-subvolumes from wherever I start) but then presents a broken result.
At this time it's still just the media projecting a win but last I checked the media doesn't decide the president. #stopthesteal #TRUMP_TRAIN2020 #REDWAVE
How does dual licensing works? Got a prime example simple to understand?

Asking for a friend...
> Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes

And only the richest ancient Athenians had the right to vote. There may be some causation...
this is some anon in 4chan , scraped from a NYT website allegedly . since we have only a single source of truth and nothing to have as a reference why should anon be trusted ..... besides DJT would have this investigated with his DOJ if something is off by this much, this would also mean the FBI / NSA / CIA was sleep at the wheel ... unless you are able to trace all of the ballots this is just pure fiction
Which is why we have three versi…oh, wait.
What is exploitative about the model? You explicitly license your code in a way that's free to use for anyone, with the intent of giving back to the community.

The author of jQuery did fine as a book author. WordPress gave birth to a massive profitable company. PHP is alive and kicking with the backing of Zend. These are all perfectly fine ways to make a living out of OSS work.
> that was the terms set

The terms do not include free support.

Basically, Marak is just saying he won't go back to the vineyard to work for free, but he will if he gets paid a fair salary. Else, the landowner will have to search for new workers.
Looking at the Open Collective transaction log, looks more on the order of ~$20/month. (With some variation caused by one-time donations.)
Has anyone ever heard of a service that allows users to attach bounties to issues? So if the open source developer fixes an issue, the developer gets the money offered by the issue reporter.

Edit: Answering my own question.

https://gitpay.me

Doesn't appear to be too popular though: "We paid $2547 USD in bounties "

Edit 2: No wonder it's not popular

https://github.com/gitpay/website/pull/4
Sure you can indeed. For me the compactness of the rpi was a plus however. Since you don't need a dedicated screen or a keyboard (recalbox interface is tailored for controllers), having only to carry the small rpi makes it more convenient and more suited to this use in my view.

Of course, if it's to play at mainly at home then I agree it's not as interesting.
I just stopped watching things. Kind of a strange outcome but I'm also more happy with it than expected.
Perhaps people should start reconsider using GPL 3... once again, Richard Stallman was right all along.
Can you give an example, because Im not sure what you mean exactly.
It needs to be a legal requirement that users have a reasonable way of running whatever they want. It's utterly ridiculous that apple masturbate themselves into a frenzy over petty minutiae like this.
Have you seen the Anti-capitalist Software License?

https://anticapitalist.software/

By default it disallows use by entities like Apple, but you could dual-license it, to provide the million-a-year alternative
I'm glad you can see that one of the major benefits of EVs is you export the horrible pollution and mess of manufacturing and disposing to "remote industrial areas", in this case, mostly China / Asia.

The US is a net oil exporter. Also, take a look at where cobalt and other necessary rare earths come from.

An EV takes significantly more energy to manufacture than an ICE car. Including this energy cost, over its lifetime, the efficiency gains are marginal.
Productivity vs. Privacy
Hi HN,

I published some thoughts here about a trade-off I see playing out between productivity and privacy.

It's unfortunate, but it seems that a service provider's choice for preserving your privacy, often leads to a situation where they cannot leverage your data to offer you a better experience.

Search, which hinges on the ability to scan and index your files, is a canonical example.

It seems clear there's a trade-off, what's less clear is: how big of a deal is it? Have you experienced any trade offs in productivity by opting for a privacy-preserving workflow?
> Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?

No. Money is a collective construct and strictly subject to collective norms (e.g., taxes). Paying selected people money for not really working is the cornerstone of corruption.
This is the traditional point that Open Source™ people turn up and say that you’re not allowed to discriminate between different groups of users with an Open Source™ licence. Personally, I’d be in favour of a non-military licence, but that’s historically been blocked by the OSI for the same reasons (not that it stopped Crockford).
People would complain they never got their ballots, and mail in ballots are tracked. So a few people complaining they never got their ballots, but their ballots show up as voted, would be a big deal, and we would know it was happening.
Do content creators are worth the creators' first platform? Startup idea
What the parent is asking for is inherently not open source.
That's not correct, those are not considered OSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
I'm not sure causality goes that way. You communicate more if you are better at the technical parts. If you can solve most of the problem in your head and in that way predict most of the things you need before you start working you just go and ask for that information from everyone. However if you are worse on the technical side you will need more time working on the task before you have anything to talk about, and you might even miss some of the issues completely.

Forcing the second kind to communicate more wont make him better, it will make him worse. He will need to build up his technical skills before communicating more actually helps.
Do they really expect him to work on them?

I'm 100% sure they know that open source doesn't guarantee that and that he's well within his rights to ignore their support requests if he feels like doing something else.
Care to elaborate on what _you_ believe it's about?
> If they want to just shut the whole thing down, that is fine too.

Actually if it's under a non-restrictive open source licence, it's not fine at all - the code will still be legally available for everyone.
> I think Tesla has too much headstart, though. Bentley (and most others) simply won't be able to catch up.

Everyone says Tesla has a head start.

They have a head start on batteries and the motors. Other manufacturers have a head start on building cars and other aspects of what makes a car a car.

A Bentley or Rolls Royce is a different class of car to a Tesla. Tesla may be able to make a battery / motor fit for a Bentley or Rolls Royce but can Tesla make a car you can call a Bentley or Rolls Royce?

Likewise if you take something like a Porche 911. Tesla might be able to make an electric power train fit for a 911 but can Tesla make a car you can call a 911 with it's handling?

There's lots of different markets and no single manufacturer can corner them all.

With governments starting to make all new vehicles from 2030+ electric other car manufacturers have no choice but to catch up so will be investing heavily.

I think Tesla will grow and will certainly have a spot in the market. At some point they'll be a crossing point where other manufacturers have Tesla's tech and it'll be interesting how Tesla distinguishes itself.

The next 5-10 years look interesting.