skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my 20s, I did consulting, first for a Big 4 firm and then a smaller agency. I got to fly to a bunch of places, work on some cool projects, and learn a lot. There was another side to it all, though - a real lack of control or say in what projects I was put on and what my schedule looked like next week.

Then, one year, I turned 30 and got married and decided that this kind of inconsistency was driving me crazy. I took a job with far less travel, just a day trip to an office or customer within driving range a few times a quarter, and it’s been a lot better. Covid worked out even better as I wasn’t going anywhere at all.
Yet even those empires could not enforce their subjects to use only their coins. Hence why the gold/silver value was what mattered and why some coins like the fiorin were international designs. Fiat money is what allows governments extreme control on money
I think the reaction is completely overblown, the telemetry and crash reporting are already opt-in. The auto-update-checker (opt-out) only reveals OS, as part of HTTP user-agent, and IP, as part of the TCP connection.
I think educating the average consumer is a good and lofty ideal that we should aspire to. I think that in practice it is not realistic. The truth is that around 99 percent of people would prefer regulations that protect their interests to the time, effort, and cognitive overhead of educating themselves about the arcane workings of banking and finance. Ultimately it is probably more just to cater to their interests.
> MAINTENANCE WORK??? ON THEIR CODE??? This is an outrage!

I usually keep a CI branch with dependencies unpinned (I made pip-chill for this use case) precisely to make sure I'll be the first to know when something coming from the future breaks my code.

Being lazy is a virtue, but not if it cause an engineer to avoid work that needs to be done.
I don't agree with this take. I run multiple small Reddits, though several are restricted which means no one but me can post new content (though other people can comment).

There are a lot of small Reddits that are off the beaten path. It's a diverse ecosystem and you aren't required to participate in the larger subs which may well be "an echo chamber" because they were started for a specific interest and you either are into that or not and if not, it's not really the place for you.

I don't think you need to be fighty and actively oppose every single "popular" opinion to provide a different take. I say a lot of unpopular things on HN and, so far, they haven't banned me.

I'm older than I used to be. I'm more inclined to pick my battles and I have a different understanding of how to introduce other ideas. If you do it right, you can get taken seriously sometimes though it's a slow process and not for the innately impatient or the folks looking to grab karma or the folks wanting to make a splash.
There is a guy on YouTube that reviews the durability of tools, he usually opens the boxes in some convoluted way, like with an electric chainsaw.

https://youtu.be/ztpWsuUItrA
Very anecdotal but just today I was talking to a Lebanese person who is going home this weekend.

They said the situation is very bad but life is still some what humming along. They're going to a wedding next week and plan to go out and party with friends.

Maybe they're in the top part of society?
A new super-fast sorting algorithm (not just a few cycles, but something that actually changes the O-number) would obviously be a fantastic boon - I would want the inventor to benefit from his cleverness.

But nowadays I think patent law isn't the right way to do that; trade secrets should be enough. I don't think that what is disclosed to the public in patent applications is of enough value to justify a long monopoly. It's not necessarily a problem with the written law; patents are horrible because of the way courts apply them.
What does DAW mean?

EDIT: Digital Audio Workstation?
Historical Market Data Feeds into Excel Spreadsheet
No React Native experience, but plenty of React experience. Definitely interested in going into the React Native space though. Should I apply or are you just looking for experienced React Native developers?
Which OSS licenses are potentially incompatible with GitHub? Are they also incompatible with GitLab? How can one or the other be judged to have exceeded the bounds of what is permissible as a user-generated content provider, and/or fair use rights, in the legal jurisdiction of each?
> > as necessary to provide the Service

I would consider Copilot to not be part of ”the Service”[1], but at least currently[2] the definition of ”the Service” is so vague as to include anything that Github does.

Maybe they consider Copilot to be a ”search index” and the suggestions ”[sharing] [Your Content] with other users”.

[1] Since, as I understand it, it will require separate payment.

[2] The ToS is currently last edited 2020-11-16, and does not contain the word ”Copilot”
Premine means coins were distributed prior to a public mining phase. If public mining was available, and no coins were distributed prior to that, the coin wasn’t premined.

Despite the definition of “premine” being extremely clear cut and objective, apologists for premined coins often liberally redefine and butcher the definition for financially-motivated, self-serving reasons: “See, Bitcoin is premined too. XYZ did nothing wrong.”

Just to understand how ridiculous this is, if we’re going to redefine premine to mean “any coin perceived to be unfairly distributed”, then we might as well not even use the word at all, because biased investors will use the term to describe every cryptocurrency they’re not invested in.
Actually it doesnt need any of the above, or if it does it cannot be called full SELF DRIVING.
It’s much smaller than the original table. If you compute lots of these, then voila, you have an OLAP cube.
Pseudo-random generators also have this self-similarity and beauty if you dig into them deep enough.

And if you take an arbitrary thin slice through a fractal it looks pseudo-random.

Consider equation like x <- kx(1-x)
that turns chaotic for some values of k.

When you plot its behavior for various values of k around that point you'll see weird self-similarities like in fractals on the border of apparent chaos.
Shotgun, meet foot.
Mutually assured unproductivity seems like the setup for the next bond plot.
Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code

This is incorrect. First of all, GitHub isn't even the people building the model. It's built by OpenAI, which has none of these licenses. Secondly, the model is not built purely from GitHub data. OpenAI is relying on fair use, not on a specific license.
I used to self-host transfer.sh, but nowadays I just use WebDAV.

1. it's easy to get WebDAV running, most of HTTP server support it through modules. or you could run it with rclone, on non-standard port or behind a reverse proxy

2. I don't share upload access with others, it's only for my own use. and this way I don't need to deal with huge uploads or illegal contents.

3. I could also just curl it, the uploaded content will have proper mime types. It's convenient for me to share pictures and videos this way on Telegram because it generate previews for me, and it's easy to just copy-paste a link to send to more than one person.

curl https://user:password@domain.tld:port/path/to/file.png -T file.png

4. I could use WebDAV for various other cases, such like keeweb instance, Orgzly (android) notes syncing, saving keepass database etc.

Could write a simple shell script to include random characters in the URL, copy url to clipboard etc, such like this one I wrote [1]

btw for plain text, I prefer to use fiche [2] a simple netcat based pastebin. I have a public fiche instance [3] which allow people to upload with bash/zsh/netcat and show webpage with syntax highlighting. Text usually consume very a few of storage and not that "sensitive" like some photos and videos could be, so it's less troublesome to provide a public service for that. I've also write a Telegram bot for easily upload to my pastebin.

Lifespan of my WebDAV uploads and pastes are 1 month, it's very easy to clean them with crontab

@daily find ~/webdav/tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ctime +30 -delete

[1] https://ezup.dev/git/dotfiles/file/.local/bin/eztmp.html

[2] https://github.com/solusipse/fiche

[3] https://ezup.dev/p/
Playing some fun games with version numbers. 6.4.0 with initial commit 2 months ago.
Magic Wormhole is also dank
What they fail to mention is that the bulk of a modern quantum computer is the cooling system required to keep the quantum chip at below 1 degree Kelvin.

Quantum computers can only come out of lab environments once they can run at sensible temperatures achievable by a small cooling system.
Anyway, what do you think she'd be addicted to if not Twitter? Crack cocaine?

Maybe crossword puzzles, which were the go to back in the day for people who liked words.
Wouldn't the parallel be closer to having an ai remix a bunch of songs together?
What sort of consulting was this? Were you doing software or some form of business consulting. The ideas of getting on a plane and fly out somewhere sort of jobs have somewhat appealed me, because I don’t have any real ties anywhere and get bored easily.
The rape charges against Assange may have been partly exaggerated, but calling them "falsified" is so much of an exaggeration that it itself comes closer to being a falsification than the charges ever were.
> "But it currently works!"

Miracles happen, but people shouldn't count on them.
I just read the entire privacy policy and not only is the entirety completely reasonable and barely worth mentioning, the “phone home” section is just this: “ If you download and use a ready-to-run version of Ardour from ardour.org, the program will attempt to contact ardour.org at startup to determine if you should be notified about a new release of the software. If the computer where you use Ardour is connected to the internet, this process will store the computer's internet address and an identifier for its operating system.” So it’s barely an http access log for whatever endpoint that is. The privacy policy hysteria has gone wayyyyyy too far.
Yeah but it's nitpicky :)

Maybe "past 5 years" mean "over everything" and then it might technically be one column.

Or if you're using something like S3 with Parquet for "columnar database" and it is partitioned by date, then the date values are stored in metadata - so you would logically read two columns but physically only read one from storage. Same story for something like Redshift and using date as sortkey.
"Or maybe it is, but if so it essentially means the end of licensing because it would be trivial to make an AI that can take an input and produce the same output."

Yes, this is what is pretty interesting to me. I said in a previous comment that I have a really good OS generating AI. It asks you your favorite color and outputs a disk image you can use as an installer.

Right now it just happens to output a cracked version of Windows if you answer "blue". Who can know how that happened? It's a black box after all. Seems useful though, since Microsoft is loudly saying that if I distributed this it would have no license problems at all.
Yeah, an offline audio editing program should not phone home in any way without advance consent. The autoupdate check serves as telemetry.
wouldn't it be better to keep crash reports in there?

Different people have different needs and different levels of sensitivity to this sort of thing.

Personally, I don't want my offline audio editor talking to anything without asking. But since Audacity doesn't do that, this will be what I use instead.

If Audacity were to ask before sending data, a good chunk of people wouldn't be upset. But it doesn't, so here we are.

Also — and I've said it before — automatic "telemetry" and crash reporting is just lazy. It also lacks context. If you want to know what your users' experience is like, just ask them.
Is there any decision on tracking upstream vs. diverging?
> Where do we draw the line?

I won't even claim that people must necessarily follow the law. Copyright law is inconsistent at best, and notoriously hard to follow to the letter (and often ridiculous). In practice lawyers assess the legal risk and weigh the outcomes.

I never intended to discuss what we should do, and I definitely did not propose shutting down the internet...

The original discussion was such:

> > They did not copy the implementation, they copied the general idea of what the algorithm should do

> [Citation needed]

You said the original authors did not complain, which is neither here nor there, as I pointed out. There is still some theoretical legal risk if you copy with the owner's knowledge but not express consent. The fact that the burden of proof is on the authors is true but that they have not brought a claim does not mean they cannot prove infringement.

And in case I haven't made it clear, I don't think it's a bad idea to assume the function is under GPL, I just don't think there's a basis for claiming what you originally claimed, and there is still some level of (probably acceptable) risk if you take the purported license of source code as-is.
Breathing exercises perhaps? https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/health/article/2020/05/...
Super foods? https://www.newkerala.com/news/2021/72346.htm
Mental fitness app? https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/digit...
Newton's method and Newton basin fractals (1999)
Yes, Digital Audio Workstation
One of the points being made is that in the worst-case scenario of getting Copilot to repeat back verbatim chunks of code from projects, something that's not its primary use case, it would be a situation similar to a copy machine.

You can copy a page out of a book, or the whole book, and be covered under fair use. But you can't sell your copy on Amazon. And if you did, the copy machine nor Xerox ran afoul of copyright law.

You could also use a copy machine to copy fragments of the Linux kernel source out of a book about the Linux source and use them to construct an entirely original work that's not considered derivative.

The devil's in the details, but GitHub talks at some length about the plagiarization issue and their plans to detect and link back to where verbatim chunks exist in the training data to let the operator decide what to do soo.. IDK.
That's why the traditional Windows way of downloading a setup.exe and running it with admin privileges is a bit scary for people coming from other platforms. Installing an .msi is less bad, or so we are taught.
In the 20th century UBI was mostly supported by libertarians, for example Charles Murray and Milton Friedman. They called in Negative Income Tax, but mathematically it's the same thing.

It's smarter and more efficient than the system we have now, especially if it's funded by land value taxes.
Yes, China does have an economic incentive to pollute, that is correct.
Shouldn't this have a separate name, to avoid confusion and filesystem/repository clashes? I don't know if there is a trademark involved, but that's a potential legal issue the project will want to keep clear of.

If there isn't a leading suggestion for the new name yet, I offer "Temerity". It's a close synonym for "Audacity", and highlights both the boldness of this new project, and the recklessness of Muse Group's changes. It also cleverly alludes to (avoiding) "Telemetry", which is a distinguishing feature of the fork.
> For example, when ubuntu dropped python 2.x as the default, some of my workflows got broken because of scripts which I didn't write and didn't even know about.

The only solution to that is neve breaking backward compatibility because either someone might prematurely upgrade (not what happened woth Ubuntu) or someone might not maintain software (what seems to have happened with the third party tools in question, whether it was the original maintainer or some packager or...) and might also not vendor dependencies, on the assumption that external environments will never change.

> A solution would have allowed python 2 & 3 to coexist with no additional effort.

PEP394 allows that, if you depend on a particular python major version use “python2” and “python3” to refer to it: both side by aide installation and continuity of operation over the time “python” switches from 2 to 3 is provided.

While some linux distros broke the recommendation on when to switch “python” targets, that would be transparent to anyone following the recommendation.
I've said this before, but I hope the issue isn't infringement per se, but that the produced code isn't automatically GPL'ed. The author argues that machine generated code isn't copyrighted and this is good because it essentially fits the "data wants to be free" mentality, but I'd say tell that to the people who use it. Will they, after using something derived from open source, have to open source their code? No, they won't. If anything, this finally provides closed source developers with what they've always wanted, a means to rip open source code without having to return contributions.

Julia Reda hints at that last bit as being an issue but only in a parenthetical. To the author, that literally is the whole point. Do people not remember the Free Software vs. Open Source debate? Or GPL vs BSD? The requirement that derived works also be free is literally the important bit in Free Software. This only fits the mentality of "data wanting to be free" if your model of that idea includes the permissive sensibility and doesn't care about actually changing the state of things, which is making free software more widely used in the world over proprietary software.
Krill’s 50x loader (requires nonstandard format that’s still copiable by normal copiers): https://csdb.dk/release/?id=197710
AudioMass is very similar to Audacity, is open source[1] and browser based. Check out the online version[2].

[1] https://github.com/pkalogiros/audiomass
[2] https://audiomass.co/
Show HN: Has Remote Work Become the New Status Quo?
Hah, okay, that sounds human enough. Sorry for the misunderstanding; I truly meant no offense.

Thanks for clarifying! =)
Great explanation, thanks. I'd like to add that the cost for two would be much less than twice the cost for one, due to the design reuse of all the custom equipment.
There’s a lot of truth to that. When done in house, though, it can be a useful additional check on spend allocation. Of course it still becomes political if channel owners feel like their career progression depends on growing share of budget.
And there's not much reason to make one "desktop size" until one of the laboratory size quantum computers actually does a useful calculation faster than a traditional computer could have.
I simply put my apps in different namespaces on dev/stage/prod/etc. That way a kubectl command run against the wrong cluster will fail naturally.
Ninja mining, cripple mining, and instamining are variants of post-launch infidelity. N.B. explicit, out-in-the-open premining can be considerably less of a faux pas, assuming it isn’t obscene.
It might be more reflective of the intensity of your coding if you could have it go by depth in a syntactic construct; e.g. for Lisp, number of currently open parentheses. In fact, I now want to implement this — for Emacs, naturally.
Is that related to lightdash.com somehow?

It seems like a very similar technology and also the webpages for both are almost identical.
I think it'll compile various Pythons on your machine under your user. I'd prefer to install (learned this today) with Homebrew multiple versions (not sure how possible it is) as `brew install python@3.6 python@3.7 python@3.9` (because Big Sur has 3.8 built-in).

In reality, I'm a more traditional Unix person and prefer MacPorts, where you can do `sudo port install python36 python37 python39` in a very BSD way of doing things.

Homebrew has broken my computer one time too many.
Not quite. It just says that if you assume set of axioms and math grammar you may generate statements that are not false but you can't constructa a proof with what you allowed yourself. I don't think it's a bug.
- Funny you should bring it up, meth is actually a rarely prescribed but very effective adhd medication. There are genuinely doctors and patients deciding that meth is preferable to untreated adhd. I didn’t recommend it because my experience with countries lacking adhd meds is they’re strict on drugs with harsh drug laws, which now that I’m thinking more about it isn’t necessarily OPs situation. OP if nicotine doesn’t do it for you and you’re not risking life in prison, maybe look in to meth. If it works out you’ve got risedotmoe to thank.

- Your analogy does nothing but trivialise adhd. Replace trouble staying awake with horrid sleeping disorder, put someone in OPs shoes where other medications aren’t available, and somehow meth can help? That person should absolutely do meth.

- Would be interested to see this info that’s convinced you that nicotine is so terrible that I’m “plain malicious” to recommend someone look in to it.

- the non nicotine and non meth ADHD medication that would be prescribed by OPs psychiatrist if it was an option in their country is addictive. Amphetamines are addictive. ADHD can make it near impossible to function in modern society. You can have some pretty severe down downsides to treatment before it isn’t worth it. If there was an effective downsideless treatment then that’s what we’d be using in countries with options. There isn’t so we make do.

- Expensive?

- Just to be clear, ADHD in the modern deep work rewarding economy is like missing a foot back when everyone was a subsistence farmer. Hell just basic existence things like keeping your car rego in date is rough. If god appeared and was all "I feel like being a dick today. I'm going to wave my wand and you either lose a foot or adhd meds never work for you again" I'd choose to lose the foot. I think most people who have experienced treated and untreated ADHD would. If OP posted saying "hey guys im going to lose my foot unless I do nicotine (or meth) what should I do?" would you call people saying to take the nicotine malicious?
Then it's not secure.
https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
Exclusive? May be useful for a starting point for someone. But not exclusive. On a first look, layouts and overall design feel is generic.
Hi Lewis, keep me posted ;)
I don't know anything about croc, I haven't looked carefully at it, and don't recommend it (or have any opinion on it). Lots of smart people have looked at Magic Wormhole, which is one of the things that makes it neat.
People are not getting the point. If you have to download the software they will get this info, full stop. There is no way that they won't get your user agent. That's what this privacy policy refers to. Same if you download auto-updates, you have to download the updates from the internet which requires connecting to their webserver, and they'll get this information.

As for the telemetry, that's opt-in. May be the bloat and other things that are being mentioned are about that? But for the first two bullets on information that is mentioned as collected (IP addr and os info) that is mentioned in the linked github discussion, they are literally what they will get because you had to visit their site to download it or because you automatically download updates.
It's a frustrating naming decision, to be sure.
For medium I recommend just blocking Javascript.

No signup popups, fast loads.