skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this get traction in both circles. The left leaning people I know are what I would describe as "sane" but they are still willing to like/retweet this message.

Of course the conservative leaning people are responding more along the lines of "And you called US fascists?!"

I think having mainstream media writers and hosts, as well as an elected representative promote this message is enough to suggest that it's spread too far already. Hopefully this sort of rhetoric dies down and the legal claims about the election are resolved through fair evidence-based examination. If not, I think we might be headed towards yet more unrest.
Wait, doesn't GPL also specifically allows reselling ?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

(And GNU even encourages it.)

See also about selling exceptions to GPL, like Qt does :

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
Correct; the prices are based on the sum of all information, which is a list we do not have. And “the market” is of course a basket of individual prices, which are not measured the same by everyone.
The person is from Sweden.
What if I just buy my own ink from a third-party supplier at a drastically discounted cost?
that people get contagious long before they show symptoms

I don't think that's correct. Pre-symptomatic phase is supposed to be about 2-3 days. I wouldn't describe that as 'long' before they show symptoms.
Separating User Database and Authorization from Apps with Istio and FusionAuth
I wonder how much data they will send back, considering how much the smartphone app for the headphones send back
- Set up a strawman caricature of your opponent's (well, so it is claimed that CT's are opponents) argument, and then demolish it.

- In the name of Science (which is supposed to be based on pure evidence and logic)

I imagine this is part of a campaign to increase the public's psychological buy-in to a COVID vaccine, so perhaps the ends justify the means in fact....but still, it seems like this propaganda disguised as science technique is starting to get used a bit too frequently, to the long term detriment of science's reputation. The CP world is a hivemind, and there are some weaponized autists in there who have compiled information and articles for years, and certainly know the actual science behind vaccines & their historic risks far beyond what your typical self-proclaimed scientific-thinker thinks they know. So when propaganda hit pieces like this come out in that world, and someone drops a bomb of 50+ contradicting factual articles into the thread, opinions are formed and solidified.

It's a shame so many adults seem to have forgotten what their parents told them about lying.
It's something I picked up from Naval Ravikant (@naval on Twitter) [1]

"Marc Andreessen came up with the concept of the “product-market fit.” I would expand that to “product-market-founder fit,” taking into account how well a founder is personally suited to the business. The combination of the three should be your overwhelming goal." [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/naval
[2] https://nav.al/work-hard
Call me crazy, but I don't think narcissistic assholes are typically repetitive top donors to the ACLU without even mentioning it until they're called out on shit.

A narcissistic asshole would atleast make it known or brag about it when doing so :)
S&P 500 is only up 90 points right now, and I don't see any evidence it was up 400 at any point today.

More generally, The DOW is way up, S&P up moderately, and NASDAQ only up a little bit. That looks like it may well be a result of vaccine news to me, which is less good for the big tech companies that make up the NASDAQ than the broader set of companies tracked by the DOW and S&P. I would expect an election related bump to have pretty equal effects on all three indices.
Reading the words of the motion "Should the City of Chicago act to ensure that all the City's community areas have access to broadband Internet?" Says nothing about the local government running the service

"community areas" so that means just libraries council buildings or does it mean FTC or FTP for all homes?

You right that allowing the executive to cherry pick motions is not democratic.

The one "in creating its City-wide plan for continued growth and sustainability, should the City of Chicago place equal focus on the goals of resiliency, equity, and diversity?" is arguably pious and also does not propose any action.
Code of Merit
to be fair to both sides:

He did propose a merit based H1b draw, which is stuck in processing. He also made it a lot harder for exploitative body shops like TCS/Infosys to get get approved for an H1b, making it easier for qualified unicorn/FANG-esque companies with real demand to get picked in the lottery.
But, isn't Science supposed to be doubted always? Science is not supposed to be a cult where the Scientists are the high priests that shall not be doubted. Science is a method to find (or at least get closer to) the truth, and for that we must always doubt what we have. That's how it's supposed to work. In the end only the truth can survive criticism and misguided reasoning. We must not only welcome, but encourage doubt, criticism, and disagreements. In fact, we should be very suspicious when all Scientist agree (you know, when the Science has been "settled"). As for motives and integrity, the word of a Scientist has become too much of a powerful political force these days. No wonder that among the serious and dedicated Scientists there are also a very vocal group of political activists with Science degrees. So, yes. As a person who loves his personal and indvidual freedom, I will reserve the right to doubt Science and Scientists all the time.
One thing we get told very strongly when we travel to US for intra-company meetings is to be sure to describe them as business meetings, not work meetings. "Work" is basically a keyword for the customs official to give you a bad day.
I imagine contact tracers would at least leave a voicemail? I always let numbers I don't recognize and aren't local (my cell phone number is out-of-state and spam calls usually originiate from that area code, not my current local) go to voicemail since I assume if they're important, they'll leave a voicemail.
It seems to me that you got rejected because you applied for a tourist VISA, but your travels were business related. In that case I think you should have applied for a business VISA instead.
Nonetheless, what happened is quite upsetting. I am not sure if I ever go to the US given how they treat tourists. For me it's not worth to be degraded in such a way only to see things that probably exist or look similar in other countries.
Not unless you are a large vendor with high quantities, in which case they’d be happy to support your project.

Have to chuckle at this one. I worked for a large company that actually got support from Broadcom for a newer part family (StrataGX). The support was dismal. You'd ask an FAE questions, they'd shrug, if you pressed hard enough (and got your executive team in the loop) you'd get an "answer" from the factory which was usually a pile of badly commented Verilog excerpts under NDA. Thanks but no thanks.

Oh and that one time we did get sample code it was a dump of someone's development directory, including project files for another company (you're probably have one of their machines in your office right now). That was fun.
That's a better deal than in my condo. Our condo board keeps getting offers from other providers, but is too lazy to look into them.
The Wikipedia definition is probably closest:

> rent-seeking means seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth

I think the distinction is probably phrased as seeking to increase one’s share of wealth without providing a commensurate amount of value in return.
You are not talking enough about Internal Tools
Since you mention it ... it's kind of hard to buy anything. I couldn't log in to my Schwab account this morning [1], and others are reporting problems with TD Ameritrade/Scottrade as well, and it seems to be affecting other brokerages, due to this high trading volume/volatility.

[1] https://downdetector.com/status/charles-schwab/
I'm not sure about this vaccine, but it is a real possibility with other vaccines.

The injectable vaccine for polio stops the symptoms, but it doesn't stop the propagation of the virus from person to person.

The oral vaccine for polio also stops the propagation (that is better) but it is a live virus that can escape and produce polio in other unvaccinated persons (that is bad).

[So the current recommendation is to use oral version when polio is endemic, the injectable version when there has been no cases for a few years, and a mix of them in between.]
See... and I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum here. I love that this has a high enough barrier of entry that I can easily set it up and take advantage of it while never having to worry about any one of my friends or family that aren't tech-savvy "accidentally" or even "unintentionally" setting this up and getting adware, malware, scams, etc. set up on their phones. For me, it's never been enough to just have an option in the settings because I've been around long enough to know that scammers will just start including instructions for how to bypass those things and access developer modes and unwilling and uninformed users will follow those as long as the instructions look trustworthy enough.

I'm all for installing whatever software you want on the hardware you paid for but there is definitely a balance that needs to be struck for the majority of users and I can tell you that the majority of users aren't informed enough to know the drawbacks of an alternate App Store.

Source: I was an early jailbreaker and remember when, as soon as the jailbreak became an app that you just installed and ran with the phone hooked up to a computer, my business exponentially increased. People would jailbreak phones for their friends and families without explaining anything and then I'd have to service their devices to un-brick them and get them back to stock.
Be aware of availability bias here. If a medication did not make it into the news because of problems, we are a lot less likely to have ever heard of it.
It seems with enough money you can get a U.S. visa, work permit, etc.
Your 90s experience jives with my 2000s experience.

Thanks for sharing.

I like your metaphor of annealing the data. Wish I'd thought of that.

I naively assumed that because NHS issues GUIDs to patients (aka MRN, PID), their problem space would have been more tractable. For contrast, our systems in North America have the addition requirement of linking patient identifiers across heterogenous systems. Not easy.

Alas, from the wiki article, it looks like NHS also fell victim to the parasites (aka consultants). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health#Crit...

All the time since my own misadventures, I still have no clue how to mitigate the outsourcing grift.
So fuck anyone not using gmail/whatever that wants to contact you?
Denver voter here: wer'e very excited about this! Our neighbours in Longmonth and Fort Collins both have similar situations, and we're jealous over here. Excited for some competition to ISPs, and excited for our government to be, ya know, building things that help its peoples. =)
So why are they slaughtering millions of animals, on the basis that any mutation might reduce the effectiveness of a vaccine? If you're right then Denmark is engaging in mass cruelty to animals on an epic scale.
At least some of their services have competition - netflix, spotify are both bigger (I believe?) than Apple's competition.

It could drop quickly for Spotify if Apple decides to ban them from the app store like they did Fortnite, which will in part depend on Spotify trying to get around the App Store fees like Epic did.

And things could change drastically if the lawsuits currently springing up against Apple's fees and monopolies end up successful.

But then, it'll likely mean "Apple makes less profit" than "Apple is destroyed". Remember, Apple has nearly $200 billion in cash, as well as a 20% profit margin. They pump a lot of money into R&D (nearly $20 billion a year, still climbing every year). Basically they're very secure, financially speaking.
AllWinner parts are not bad if, and only if, the features you need are already clearly supported. Don’t invest in an AllWinner-based design expecting to implement key SoC features later. If it doesn’t work right now, there’s no guarantee it will ever be supported.

That said, upstream support for AllWinner parts has come a long way and continues to improve. I wouldn’t mind using them in certain projects.

However, anyone who absolutely needs good documentation and SoC support needs to stick with a vendor that emphasizes openness and good documentation. NXP i.MX is the safe choice.
The thing I like about Elon, is that when he is attacked for not being perfect, everyone goes back to this one thing that happened.

If the worst thing you can bring up about him is that he called a rescue diver a pedophile this one time, he's pretty reliable. This is what, in space, we call an anomaly. They happen. It's ok, until they become a pattern.
True. If enough people put money they can even produce, Movies and TV shows and they no longer have to depend on big bad Hollywood studios for entertainment.
This[1] isn't really against deadlifts, but it discusses that trap bar deadlift maybe a better option for individuals not competing in the deadlift.

1: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/trap-bar-deadlifts/
I’m more curious if genetic engineering has led to more nutritious outcomes, or less. It’s almost like McDonald’s, just because you build more McDonald’s does it mean that food is any better
I don't see how "structural" batteries can be viable with the technology we have today.

I think it's understood that your battery for your EV will not last the life of the vehicle. By making the fame/chassis of the vehicle one big battery, you remove the ability to replace the battery down the road and consequentially artificially reduce the lifespan of the EV. When making environmental considerations, EV lifespan should be part of the calculus.
> it's always been high-end.

It's always been worth it, too, when it comes to hardware (this is debatable, but obviously they're successful). The problem with their services is that they are NOT worth it. They aren't high end. Their services aren't the best. They're middle of the pack (music, movies, TV) or trailing (cloud, search, productivity software, AI). So all their finely-tuned marketing/operations machinery geared to sell "the best" don't work for their services.
That's a bit of a leap. Rights can be infringed regardless of whether the government or another entity is involved, if it's done the right way (Edit). In this case, the constitution does not mention any right to broadband internet. It does guarentee rights under the first amendment which could be applicable here. The same way that corporations could restrict that right would likely be used by the government - contract law and a service agreement. This is similar to the government placing restrictions on people when they sign up for the military (Edit). The government also has a conflict of interest when it comes to things like surveillance.
Down-votes ahoy! I've never once cared with Elon Musk has had to say. The image he paints is one of a rich arrogant prick who creates false pedophilic allegations, spews immature humor to caress a younger crowd and snobs on the poor. He's a selfless-egotistic sociopath with money who doesn't care about anything apart from himself. He has no good nature; there is nothing about his personality that you should admire.

However I do make assumption you've got to own these traits if you ever want to make bank.

Prove me wrong.
You're completely mischaracterizing my post. My point is that if faker were anything slightly above free, we really wouldn't have used it, and our code quality wouldn't suffer from not having it. It was more of a "ooh, that's kinda nice" thing when we used it.

> And I'm not even going to _start_ on what I think of your attitude towards test tooling vs "central libraries" other than to note that if you don't consider test tools central to your development process, I think you have bigger problems.

That's not my attitude at all and is a bullshit strawman. I actually do donate to libraries that are fundamental to our test framework. Faker is just definitely not one of them.
Meanwhile Boulder voters have approved community broadband six years ago and there has been essentially zero progress.

For a Boulder resident I’m lucky actually, I have access to to 100mbit VDSL and Comcast. So at least I have two shitty choices.
It's worth reading into the history of OSS. There was a bit of sharing going on in the early 70's, but it was all being locked down before Richard Stallman and his contemporaries created the modern OSS movement via the GNU project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...
How this would solve the problem?
I would love to know what's actually happening in these situations. Is there just a backlog of PDFs sitting on some server and there's only 2 guys going through it? Is there a command from Washington to only process N visas per day? What's literally happening here?
You some good points and I agree that their move to services could be better but I think saying they are "failing" is a bit strong. I'd argue their bundle is just getting started.

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To address your points:

> Apple have taken their absolute dominance in selling music and moved to middle of the pack in music streaming squeezed between Spotify and Youtube.

This is your point I agree with most, Apple music just isn't as good and its shocking they lost so much ground.

> Apple's Siri is distinctly second tier, losing them both for Apple Music, but also potential shopping via smart assistant.

Siri just isn't good but honestly how many people use voice assistants for more than changing songs or checking the weather?

> Cloud comes across as Apple nickle and dime-ing their customers, insisting you need to back up your phone but providing laughable amounts of storage for free - and then becoming nagware

Agreed it is laughable but I would argue people concerned with backing up all their devices are in the minority of Apple customers. It wouldn't be why most people pay $15 a month.

> Finally you've got the Appstore. Apple is getting absolutely hammered on their 30% fee. At this point it looks almost certain that they'll either change their fee structure or face regulatory action.

I don't really see how this is relevant to the mediocre services Apple offers except it is an unfair advantage they have on other SaaS competitors. I suspect it may be one of the reasons they haven't already decided to swallow SaaS competitors like Spotify, so they can say the app store is competitive and not disturb the golden goose that is the 30% fee.

> If Apple is a services company why isn't FaceTime adding $100Bn of market cap to Apple's value as a competitor to Zoom?

I don't think market caps, especially with the past years stock market, tell us much about the effectiveness of services. However, Apple's current market cap is 2 trillion, 20 times the cap of Zoom. To add to this, Zooms P/E ratio is 530 compared to Apples P/E of 36 which indicates Zoom is wildly overvalued. Even if it was a useful comparison Apple is in a different league.

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I think Apple's biggest problem is the lack of one killer service to offer as part of their bundle. If they offered mediocre Apple music, Apple fitness and Apple arcade but Apple TV was on par with Netflix most people would use the mediocre services to save on the gaining number of other SaaS products modern consumers pay for.

Apple has the money and talent to create one killer service, they just haven't been running a lot of their services long enough to be killers - (with the exception of music). I think it's just a matter of time until Apple create a killer service and people getting sick of paying for multiple SaaS products.
"all processing done locally"
>I guess "so you're happy with random police officers[0] browsing your nudes, then?".

I agree with your point, but I think a lot of people aren't actually too worried about the specific case of random police officers seeing their nude selfies.
the world is not in exponential population growth - the rate of growth has been shrinking for two generations. global population decline will happen in my lifetime. the demographic transition happened centuries ago in some countries. fertility rates are falling faster than any of the overpopulation monster-in-the-closet analyses assume, why are you afraid of overpopulation?
>"Fascinating--do you have any links to further reading/watching about this?"

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243

The basic idea is that now rather than needing to culture live viruses in chicken eggs, we can literally just encode the RNA for a specific antigen into a synthetic substrate and produce vaccines through a chemical process like any other drug. The RNA is then absorbed into your cells, and your own body creates the proteins which stimulate an immune response.
I second the narcissism diagnosis, and I'd like to add that naming his son after a formula (and a silly one, for that) is a proof - it's not going to be fun for the son when he grows up.
I’ve stopped eating fish for this reason. (Well, cut it back by 90%.)

That’s not enough, but if more people did it, it’d be a start.
Working from home makes cyberattacks more likely
Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
Yes, I'm switching to Google Chrome. That will show them how much I care about privacy!
That just goes to show you how rough the real world really is. Like, it’s free and a pretty good solution, but still replaceable lol.

Tough crowd.

Always charge, or get value somehow, because I can promise you people will feel entitled to whatever baseline you give them (in this case ‘free’).

Everyone and everything is replaceable, oh cruel world, why you do us dirty like that?
Correct. That VISA merely gives you right to be on the plane and speak to the border control after landing.
dig does have a YAML option at least
Likewise, the trivial or novel that you borrow for free isn’t really free when you need to use it suddenly in ways that the license doesn’t permit or it is just technically inconvenient. It is sort of like leasing vs buying, but not really a good analogy.
It was a figure of speech.
Are you honestly trying to tell us you've never called somebody something mean? Never said anything you've later regretted? Give me a break, people are imperfect.
Kenyan journalist reports on US election
Once a Foe, Now a Friend – A DCS Cinematic [video]
Thinking back to my teenage and college years, what "smart people" like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, said was important to work on guided the interests of myself and my friend group.

I don't think we were alone in that
> Do note that this effectively prevents other people from collaborating with you, since their contributions would be GPL-protected and you may not sell them.

It is common to require a CLA/CAA in these dual-licensing cases such as Qt and other big commercial projects.
What Do Cashews, Mangoes and Poison Ivy Have in Common?
This is intended as the docs for the new Pijul still have to be written and keeping up the old ones would have likely lead to confusion.
That is on the high side for a connection in Denver -- I think you are overestimating costs.

I looked in a poorer neighborhood in Denver (700sq.ft. house), which is clearly close to fiber, and from Centurylink for $65/mo they can get 940Mbps, for $49/mo they can get 100Mbps.

Looks like for $20/month, xfinity will do 25Mbps at the same address.
There are engineers who can do it for you if you are willing to pay.

If you want easier customization buy Android. That is one of the selling points.

Not all cars are engineered to be cheap to customize easily.
Is that as much as it sounds like?