skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd question on license etiquette.

Suppose I have a software package I maintain. I've released a few versions under license X. I decide to switch to License Y for all versions. Say a problematic set of users I'm revoking a licesnse from.

Why should my versioning scheme create artificial constraints on my license? Why should someone be able to "just go back a version"?

Not that I'm a big fan of that type of thing, but it is an interesting legal question.
Postal Mail absolutely will not deliver to some parts in Philippines/Vietnam/Thailand.

Absolutely true in the Philippines; I'm in the Visayas. Cosigned to LBC or JRS Express.

As for a "fun system" it's also true that if you are having anything delivered to your home, you had better have a clearly printed phone number on the package. Too many Filipino couriers fail to find your address because of the way many barangays are numbered (for instance, 'Block 15, Lot 48, Barangay X'.
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Multiple airlines, for example, have banned passengers from their flights for refusing to wear masks. They are well within their rights to do so.
> If we can't discuss and address it and other sensitive things like it that are evil and are approved-speech by tech then we're doomed as a society, and I'd say we're no better than actual racists, oppressors and slavers from days past.

Just as a reminder, the deplatformed population was pushing (and the platform was enabling) fighting words - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words
I think this is more about something like running a chrome extension to have comments without the site owner's involvement.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+extension+comments+fo...
This has been brought up elsewhere in the thread, but it's not about the individuals dying. It's about the potential for escalating violence and power grabs that come in its wake.

A MAGA mob that managed to kill Senators would likely cause protests and riots to erupt across the country. Likely worse than we saw last summer. Then you have a major danger of counter protesting, and escalating violence between the groups. Then there's the danger of the possible ways in which the government reacts. We already saw Trump last summer threatening to deploy military on domestic soil. The dominos can continue to fall from there, as violence continues, and power consolidates.

Would that have definitely happened, and would that have definitely threatened to end the republic? I don't know. But it's a threat, nonetheless.

This comment explains it better than me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711602
I'm not at my best today. I've been trying to lay low and not crab at people online.

But zinc is another thing that looks promising from what I gather.
There seems to be a lot of issues other than that.

https://siasetup.info/concerns-about-sia-and-skynet

"Sia hosts have always had questionable liability over what they store as hosts. These concerns are likely to amplify with Skynet, where a host may hold a whole unencrypted file and serve it to a portal or public users, exposing the host as being the one that holds a file that may infringe copyright or be illegal in some other way."
This event is highly comparable to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch

- Attempted coup
- Radicalized and misinformed supporters (majority) with an extremist, armed element (minority)
- Extremely dangerous moment for free and fair elections in the west

What would the world have looked like if in 1923, the disaffected germans who took part in that were identified en masse; and serious efforts were made to re-integrate them to society while addressing the systemic issues they faced?

Instead, we ended up doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification several years later after a lot of death.

I think there is a very good argument for identification and holding people to account. There also needs to be very, very robust adherence to due process - AI identification is not proof, and a suitable alibi should be step 1 in invalidating it.
Trivial..

https://codecanyon.net/item/socialkit-the-ultimate-social-ne...
The long run is difficult to forecast. My hope is that somebody, maybe the next Republican administration whenever it happens, will make walled gardens illegal.

I never liked them and it's the main reason for I don't buy anything Apple. Android has sideloading, let's hope Google won't take it away from us.

If walled gardens go away there will be at least one good consequence in what happened on January 6. Everything else looks bad for both sides. A blog post was posted to HN about one month ago, somebody from Sri Lanka writing about what happened there after the losing party contested the result of an election. The point was that Americans were blind to the consequences of destroying the legitimacy of the electoral process. It is easy to see now that he was right and there is a lot of space open for further escalations. I don't live in the USA but what happens in the USA comes to all the Western World, more sooner than later.

Edit. The post is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25171844 and I see now that it was flagged after I read it. Maybe we can see that it was prescient enough not to be flagged again now.
No it feels terrible and turned a Kerry 04, Obama 08 voter into someone who literally loathes the United States.

I'm not the only one who now has the urge to participate in society as little as possible.
https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Software-from-Unsigned-Devel...

Nope. fact check true. Unsigned software will not run on a Mac without having to jump through hoops to enable each app.

I predominantly use open source software, and a lot is not signed.
My understanding is that many loyal Tesla Model S buyers are sad because of lack of updates and new premium features, trims, etc.

I'm not an EV owner, but range and acceleration after some point don't matter much.
Here's some info about the current situation, and the charismatic challenger Bobi Wine:

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/13414323996834078...

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/13396952711737057...
> there has to be some reason why people use it instead of YouTube.

I had non-technical people in my family asking me Youtube alternatives because they were afraid of censorship. I think the reasons are already there[0] but there are no "peertube marketing department" taking care of conversion.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_suspensions
I’ve always said lib as libe, as in library.
You know I didn’t say that. And your response is exactly what I’m talking about.

You’re operating on stress, fear, and propaganda my friend. Find the truth, and bring your IQ back up.
Half the battle isn't even about implementing patented technology, it's just understanding the file layout and the meaning of various flags and headers. There's no legal risk to Canon in releasing that basic documentation but they still refuse to do so.

I've used Canon kit for over 30 years but I'm not going to upgrade to CR3 cameras if they maintain this obtuse attitude.
You're taking Kamala's comments out of context. She has, even at the time, disavowed rioting and looting, but encouraged peaceful protest. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/01/fac...

With regards to Trump, you may consider his words as a way to quell the crowd, but only if you view them in isolation. He provided no condemnation of the act, most of his statement centered around reiterating his unproven conspiracy that caused the mob. He withheld support from the national guard as well.

To compare the two is highly disingenuous.
This. It's no secret that Wikipedia is run by globe-cucks.
> when the crowd-based articles are substantially revised.

You literally just had to keep reading to find the cases where they do show bias
Still without honestly. Relative OSINT laypersons on different social media seem to have little problem identifying terrorists without facial recognition. The fact that they publicised their own multi-angle, high resolution video surveillance in real time seems to help.
> Otherwise we are always dependent on the good will of the companies without democratic control.

Yes, but that’s already true without this action, which doesn’t make them any more or less democratically controlled. A more democratic way of deciding clear limits on free speech would be great, but the absence of one doesn’t mean the platforms should sit on their hands and do nothing while the world burns.
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So after several years of ignoring a better file format apple will start supporting it when it's already being deprecated by an even better format?
No one is suggesting you arrest those who stayed outside. You arrest however many you can find who blew past doors/security or took stuff. Probably 500.

At the next Trump rally of 100k everyone will know not to break the law. It is pretty simple.
What if you believe you're able to live in your home, but your (children/doctors) say otherwise?
> things are starting to enter the public domain again is already a big win for culture.

Is it? It's interesting for a handful or iconic works, and it'd be interesting if copyright terms were significantly shorter, but right now, as a culture, we've mostly lost interest in things entering the public domain. We still got a Great Gatsby movie, but it was already a $2 paperback, and I assume people aren't that eager to publish fan fiction for it.

> I imagine companies like Disney would lobby pretty hard against shortening copyright.

That, and in a world with shortening copyright, they wouldn't have pushed so hard on promoting Mickey Mouse, and with Star Wars coming up on 50 years old, maybe they wouldn't have invested in the Star Wars universe when randos could make their own movies and theme park lands.

Some of this IP is more recognized and loved because of long copyright terms.
Cats don’t consent to sex even within their own species. It is rape every time.

Male cats develop barbs on their penii after about 5-6 months. Female cats don’t ovulate before copulation. It is painful every time and the female cat can’t escape the male cat who detects her estrus. When a female cat is in heat, she can ovulate as many times as a male copulates with her which is why a single litter can be fathered by more than one tomcat.

Why cats evolved this way in nature, we don’t know..but rape is not uncommon at all in the animal kingdom. Nature is brutal.
I’m confused - that article is from 2006 - how can it be used to debunk a 2017 study?
I'm interested as well. How did you choose your PeerTube instance? What happens to the videos and followers if whoever runs peervideo.club stops what I assume is a side project of them?
Enough advertising already. There have to be better ways to monetize things than turning everything into a billboard. I'm willing to pay for stuff, but I'll fight tooth and nail against being advertised to.

Besides the unwanted cognitive load it imposes, advertisers want feedback and that means they're incentivized to invade my privacy as well as intrude upon my attention.
This is not purely an "nmap vs Fedora" thing. Many distros follow similar rules.
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Vulture startupism?
Defensive tools for law abiding citizens unable to carry in a "gun-free" zone. It only show any sort of offensive ill intent to people who want it to show ill intent.

Think it through logically:

It proves adherence to the law, not intent to break it. Neither zipties or tasers are illegal, but in DC, concealed carry, or even having any personal gun is.

If the intent was to forcibly take over the capital, or some sort of insurrection, it seems silly to worry about concealed carry laws while carrying out an open "rebellion". But even so, let's say you don't want to risk killing anyone with a gun.

You still have a problem, because neither tasers nor zipties are an effective tool if you're going up against an armed federal police force and possibly hundreds of politicians and staffers. Tazers have maybe a few discharges without needing to be recharged. That's not gonna deter multiple people, let alone a crowd. Not even an individual for more than a few moments. Definitely not capital police officers with guns, who are trained to avoid and overcome being tazed, by actually being tazed.

However, if you're a law abiding citizen protesting in DC, and you want to defend yourself against a potential attacker, a tazer is basically the only option you have.

With the mayor's restrictions placed on the National Guard and police officers, it seems especially reasonable, given all the violence of the past year that police and politicians have failed to prevent, sometimes willingly.

Since tazers only disable attackers temporarily, zipties make sense as a defensive tool, if you need to disable an attacker looking enough to get away, or between the time the tazer wears off and when the police arrive. Especially if you wind up in a situation where you are somehow confined in some space, trapped with your attacker.

If people would at least try to perceive Wednesday with an open mind, it's easy to explain 99.9% as well intentioned citizens, peacefully marching.

Even with the confrontations, it's easy to see how people could have unintentionally gotten caught up in an escalated situation.

I get that not everyone was an innocent bystander. But, again, these people deserve the same benefit of the doubt that the left got when taking over the Senate building while admittedly trying to intimidate senators into changing their votes. Yet they were kneeled to in deference by the FBI, before being given unfettered access.
If the companies do not do it themselves, the state will eventually start doing it. If they go too far, the state will eventually ban them from doing that.

Just the system working as intended I think?
I do think there’s an important difference from the optionality of curly braces on if statements in many languages: syntax highlighting will normally make it very obvious what is attribute name and what is attribute value, so that any error will be obvious, more obvious than the probable incorrectness of something like `if (a) b; c;` on one line.

Your point on HTML processing is a nice idea, but quite useless in practice for HTML. XHTML failed: people didn’t want to go to the effort of getting it all rigorously correct; they rather wanted the browser to guess what they meant, because it got their intent right most of the time, and now they could forget about various details like tbody elements and trailing slashes. I regularly look at page sources, and I regularly encounter people putting these trailing slashes on various void element; but I can’t remember when I last found a page that actually applied that consistently—invariably they have at least one void element without a trailing slash. My conclusion is that the whole thing is misguided. I would be curious to see the result of attempting to parse all the HTML in something like Common Crawl with an XML parser. I suspect that barely any pages would succeed.

The fact of the matter is that the HTML parsing algorithm is well-defined and very nuanced, so if you’re processing HTML you should use a real HTML parser, and to do anything else is folly—unless you are assiduous about maintaining XML correctness, which you can do, but it’ll be even more of a footgun for others than omitting quotes on attribute values. But if you’re writing something new, then by all means, strongly consider the comparatively simple and principled XML philosophy over the organic and complicated philosophies of the HTML serialisation.
Thanks for this. I suppose the reason people follow him is often because of his politics, not all of which I disagree with. But I think the hatred he inspires is packed into his rhetoric, and that's what I take issue with.
Calls for violence and election-critics were encouraged by current social media in some countries. It looks like many social media platforms have bias based on the political affinities of their owners.

I see no reason for any government or any party to trust the social media, mobile OS platforms and messaging anymore. A new set of tools is about to loom hopefully.
Thanks for the additional context. A lot of Americans in this thread are conflating their own country's issues with what's going on in the rest of the world.
I mean look at this, not even considering that _maybe_ the MSM is trying to trick us into thinking the earth is round. Patriots like you and I know the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
There are so many affordable EV's in Europe and China, but Tesla is just a bit more exciting with range and acceleration - not everyone needs that. It's an iPhone SE equivalent.
Who is the "we" that is giving him more powers? Trump is viscerally hated by the Speaker (2nd in line) and most of the House (they already impeached him once) and a significant portion of the Senate. No way he's getting any emergency powers, if the Constitution would even allow it.
Shouldn’t those offenders face jailtime instead of censorship when inciting violence? To not see the darkness might be worse as you don’t then see the effects of things. Maybe get a psychologist involved, some happy pills and the offenders can make US better instead of being a tax burden?
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The sad thing is precisely that no-one cares about "re-integrating" proponents of right-leaning views "to society". Everyone is talking about forcibly deplatforming them all out of society which, even if successful, will only make them far more marginalized and far more open to dangerous, violent extremism. Is this really what we need? We've had enough divisiveness already, so why not try a more constructive approach?
These were not “terrorists”, you can call them insurrectionists, mob, angry horde or anything of the sorts, but “terror” was no-where to be found among their motives. Or maybe I’m wrong and they did want to terrorize people (like ISIS set out to do), in which case some sources will help.
P90X is designed for at home workouts. P90X3 limits the workouts to 30 minutes.

They’re excellent. I highly recommend them. You can get more done at home than in the time it would take you to drive to the gym and park.
Please stop using HN for political battle and flamewar. We've already had to ask you this once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173294, and we ban accounts that abuse the site like this, regardless of their politics.

Other people being wrong or behaving badly doesn't make it ok to break the rules.
I guess we don't have to fear venerated housewives storming the capitol anymore then.
> The problem here is that private companies are doing something that only democratically legitimized state authorities should be doing, deciding what is allowed or not allowed.

So that I understand: on what grounds are such companies deciding what's allowed or not allowed for all people? As best as I can tell, they're deciding what's allowed or not allowed on their own platforms.

And a point I've made elsewhere but I'll repeat here: Parler might've exposed itself to FOSTA/SESTA by insisting on not moderating, and as such, while AAPL/AMZN/GOOG deplatformed Parler with violence as cause, it's also somewhat likely that gaining awareness of the lack of FOSTA/SESTA compliance may have forced their hand. (I'll invite an attorney to keep me honest here - I'm not one.)

I keep pointing this out because, of course, FOSTA/SESTA were passed in the last few years.
>but not as huge as Hugo (pardon the pun)

The pun went right over my head, like a Pelican.
The world was 'balkanized' before the internet.

The internet naturally didn't end up having many borders.

These borders however are not just political, they reflect a lot of things.

It's very natural that the internet should be a little bit different in each nation, after all, everything else is.

We are not prepared for that, and we have no idea what it's going to mean, so it's going to be a rollercoaster.
My answer above is not very complete so I'll add what some siblings wrote:

IMO people are not that desperate to work at FAANG in EU as in US (from what you can feel reading HN, blogs etc. "FAANG or die", "leetcode for life").

Reasons are: 1) FAANG have limited presence in EU. Often you'd have to move countries or at least cities. In many smaller cities you can also make good money in IT with lower cost of living outside of FAANG; 2) they pay better, but nowhere near the US market craze; you can get,say, 20k better but not 200k better; 3) FAANG in EU tend to hire rather senior engineers; 4) there's this feeling that it's hard to get there and you get whiteboarded with irrelevant process, so many people don't even bother trying; 5) many people are perhaps not very up to date with US companies' salaries possibilities (open salary sharing in EU is not very common, and glassdoor often has few / outdated data points; outsiders don't know about Blind, levels.fyi etc).

Having said that I'm in my 30s so I don't know what current students think.
I really don't get why Scott should be out of favour, his novels are perfectly fine,...

I do wonder of how much cinema has had an influence on fiction, since on reading Scotts novels, his characterization, his plots are distinctly beyond a simplified cinematic approach, and are better for it.
Probably, that's OK, because while there's no central platform authority there's also no barrier to anti-extremists using disruptive tactics against it.
If terrorists use Signal to plan and carry out attacks, why shouldn't the technology be regulated or banned?
Michael Pollan makes such a case for plants in his book, Botony of Desire.

[..] Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?[..]

If AI became sentient and were ‘artificial intelligence’ to ‘evolve’, it will most definitely likely start by trying to seduce us. Not necessarily sexually always.
Commenting on a political post with an opposing view is now forbidden?
Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
To be clear we're talking about the word not the act - asking is not victim blaming, it's asking for clarity as to what you're talking about.
owner of the content is held responsible
Why would anyone want a sentient sex robot when you could have a regular sex robot? There is zero market for this.
- ifconfig: eye eff config (not “iff-config”)

- “#!”: hash bang (not “shub-ang”)

- sh: shuh like le as in le monde (not “ess ayche”)

- tcl: tickle

One of the hardest for me though is on a different topic to pronunciation. What name would you give to a variable that keeps track of the current working directory? What name did bash use for this variable?

Answers (for me):

- pwd: is “print working directory”

- $PWD: is “pcurrent working directory”, the P is silent.
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In my view cmake doesn't really have much of a syntax to be learned. Apart from the most basic variable- list- and function-handling.

Beyond that the difficulty lies in that calling any command lacks consistency and the output is just that some global variable without any convention were reassigned. There is no common semantics so you can not take the knowledge you learned from one operation and apply to the next one, everything is unique and non-composable. The solution to almost everything is just paste this random magic string anywhere in your cmakelist and it will work.