skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Women's representation peaked at around 1/3rd in the mid 1980s. While higher than present days, it was never close to parity. The narrative that personal computers were marked to boys is criticized: a significant market segment was secretarial work, which was predominantly made up of women.

The drop in women's representation in computing corresponds to the elimination of overtly sexist policies in other fields. E.g. medical schools removed gender quotas (maximum not minimum quotas, sometimes as low as 10%). Mary Ann Wilkes initially wanted to be a lawyer, but changed to computing when she encountered explicit sexism in law firms. After the expansion of women's right, women in her position were able to pursue their original passions.

I doubt it boils down to any one cause, but I think it's crucial not to ignore women's agency in making career decisions.
> After explaining the historical context, 99% of people reply: "Oh, I understand. Thank you to explain."

A similar percentage then think to themselves, privately, "well that's pretty stupid."
It's mostly just Pennsylvania. There are something like 29 different states with some kind of filial support laws on the books, but Pennsylvania is the crazy one.
> if you were so busy with other things you love

This, of course, assumes that the time spent in service of others can be changed or that the consequences of that change would not further contribute to unhappiness.

I have a close friend responsible for taking care of his infirm mother. They receive just enough financial assistance from the government to get by, but not enough to get her even part-time assistance.

His father is dead and she requires full-time care, so he is stuck in the unfortunate situation of having to do everything for her. This has been the case for the past fifteen years.

He loves her, but obviously hates this situation. Unfortunately, he'd also hate himself if he were to leave her to die.

> It isn't the page count, it's the mental story.

For some, yes, but for others like my friend this would reduce to very unconvincing mental gymnastics. People sometimes have shitty lives for reasons that are largely outside of their control.

To consider a more extreme case… would you give this kind of advice to a depressed enslaved person?
ok ping me on the epic link below. @DarrenEastman is the GitLab handle and let me know what compute class you are needing. We are planning to pivot soon on getting various compute types available on GitLab.com Shared runners.

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2426
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Pretty sure FB has several instances of itself with all the users played by GPT-3 trained on the users’ previous activities so they can monte carlo various changes, like pre-A|B testing or estimating impact of various new ad types or congressional testimonies.
> They're not elected

Who said they were?

> nor are they public

They work in the public sector. That's what 'public' means.
You're correct, it just tells us that it is still here not why.
Because a tax on IP is a tax on someone thoughts. What right do you or anyone else have to take a cut of someone's mind?
The first comment on this thread was lamenting that the issue became partisan. The rest explained why. The partisanship is precisely what makes discussing the fairness of the charges and laws difficult.

In other words, he isn’t on trial for the timing. But he’s friendless because of it.
> They don’t know how to navigate the Internet safely

And the bias of the censors doesn't make them seem any more trustworthy - if anything, it just reaffirms the conspiracy theories.
You certainly did! But there are a lot of people who think "OSS license means there are no requirements" and think it's okay to do things like copy without attribution when the license requires attributions. I know you didn't say anything like that either, but some others might think it.

It seems to me an important question is, "is this like a human who learns from examples, or is this really a derivative work in the copyright sense?".I'm not sure how to answer that. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if many lawyers can answer that question either!
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Except the NYT and Wapo have a much better history of correcting mistakes. Comparing Daily Mail and NY Post to other serious news organizations is really an apple to oranges comparison.
>> Obviously we talk to different people but I've actually never heard anyone use this as a justification for our behavior. It's either non-acceptance of environment-scientific facts or acceptance.

There was a poll done recently that asked people about whether they though climate change was a problem, and also how much they would be willing to spend to help solve it:

"A strong majority of respondents said they were somewhat or very concerned about the issue of climate change. However, one of the most interesting follow-up questions was this: “How much of your own money would you be willing to personally spend each month to reduce the impact of climate change?”

The vast majority of voters were only willing to make very minimal financial sacrifices.

About 35 percent said they wouldn’t be willing to spend anything, with another 15 percent saying they’d only sacrifice $1-$10. Another 6 percent were willing to give up $11-$20, while 5 percent said they’d sacrifice $21-$30. In all, a whopping 75 percent of respondents were not willing to pay more than $50 a month."

-- https://fee.org/articles/new-poll-americans-aren-t-willing-t...

That doesn't sound at all like "non-acceptance of environment-scientific facts or acceptance". That sounds like people think it is real but have other priorities for their money, which is what the parent poster was saying (a bit histrionically).
Maybe they are literate or illiterate but the post is so abstract it has become nonsense.

The moment I saw this on HN, I visited the URL, to find _whats new_. Took me so many clicks to find the actual changes.

They have a release notes and a blog post and a feature list. The first two ones could be written by AI as far as I'm concerned because you can read it and understand nothing.

Third one [0], the actual list of changes, has always been crafted so well.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-0-rel...
Copyright addresses the scarcity of _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ that exists before it is written, roughly in proportion to the value of the work itself. Saying that it "causes" scarcity is narrowly/technically correct but misses the point.
Note that, historically, that was kind of the state prior to the invention of "intellectual property".

That state has ... issues.
To be correct, both existed.

A camp like Ravensbrück was a concentration camp (for women) while Auschwitz-Birkenau was both a concentration and extermination camp.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/WW2_Holo...
Is there a better alternative? Or are the competitors just a day away from their own disaster event?
Good advice for any law enforcement encounter.
I'm very aware of this practice, but once again it doesn't justify this website. It needs to be handled by the city in question. They can write their own policies and have autonomy, instead of everything coming down to online hearsay.
There were only a handful of mass extermination camps. There were tens of thousands of concentration camps. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-camps....
I'm sorry, but this is not the way to enforce "good cops". You need to focus more on local surroundings that represent smaller communities, where reputation and social interactions matter. The internet is an amplification in both good and bad ways, but a large centralized way to enforce "good cops" is ripe for disaster. We need to develop tools to help stabilize small-scale communities, not cause schisms. In turn, these tools can be considered a form of public infrastructure. Maybe open-source the code so that local communities could run such a website?
But how big is n?
> That's why simple markups considered an in-between

completely agree

> Use whatever text you want, make syntax up on the spot as you need it. That would be 100% plain text, as there is no cage that limits your expressioness.

However, see my point above: with md (but especially with org) one is completely free to do this!
I don’t have a lot to go on and so am I basically playing Devils Advocate.

If I’m coming off as difficult, that’s why.
Is this on GitLab.com Shared Runners or your own? Also - go ahead and raise an issue with the details in the runner project so we can take a closer look.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues
Exactly! Palmisano was squeezing every last cent and starving the company of resources for developing the future. Even by 2008, it was clear hat cloud computing was the next big wave and yet IBM built out its own half-baked internal cloud offering before acquiring Softlayer
Far be it from me to defend the nature of the charges against Assange. The US government has some pretty wildly unconstitutional tools, and in this instance it chose to wield them. That should not stop us from having a reasoned discussion about the merits of the actions that drew such negative attention.

Also, I didn't say anything about timing. Selective and partisan release alone is highly dubious, timing notwithstanding.
I agree with this. I could argue that the current ridiculously long windows (like physical inventions being exclusive long after they're obsolete, or a short story outliving its authors' grandchildren) are unconstitutional in that they impede progress of science and useful arts.
> Where is the line between 1 & 2? And how can it be re-drawn in a way that prevents it from simply being eroded again?

It's not a bright line, but more of a gradient with some difficult corner cases and tradeoffs. However, the extremes are pretty clear.

> And how can it be re-drawn in a way that prevents it from simply being eroded again?

It can't. The best anyone can do is be vigilant.
> The receiving end are not mind readers.

They actually are. Perhaps children are even better at reading emotions than adults (I thought it is a fact, but didn’t find a confirmation quickly), because they don’t understand speech. (Similarly how deaf people have better hearing).
Awesome project. Will you be adding Seattle anytime soon? Would love this for our area - we've got plenty of problematic cops up here.
> Assuming a 40hr/wk schedule…

A lot of police officers work a lot of overtime hours, for example in Oakland one officer averaged a half a million dollars per year. (1)

I’m not sure exactly what his hourly wage worked out to, but I’ll agree with the overall sentiment that somebody making that much money would not likely be swayed by $100.

1 https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-police-average-30-million-...
Because trademarks literally are intellectual property. They're words and designs and patterns that were designed by someone else but only laws can exclude people from using. Nothing necessarily dishonest about putting a swoosh designed by an employee of some other corporation on your bag to make it sell more, and nothing necessarily honest about putting words written by someone whose writing is more marketable than yours in a book they won't see any return on.
Bug or feature is that?
When your say you don't like IP Laws, do you mean you don't like IP at all, or just the way it's currently implemented?
People screwed by this are surely going to buy more WD. /s
IIRC they gave up on RN because they were trying to use it inside existing native apps, and having that boundary introduces an ungodly amount of complexity. Going all-in on RN would have avoided that and result in performance just as good as native, or better, as shown by Shopify most recently.
> which means nothing

??

In 1997, IBM Deep Blue beat chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov and made international news. IBM sponsored the Olympic Games for 40 years, they sponsored the 1995 Wimbledon tennis tournament, the ATP Tour, the US Open, French Open, Australian Open tennis tournaments, the Masters golf tournament, baseball games, auto racing, college football. Dave Bowman wore an IBM logo on his spacesuit in 2001 A Space Odyssey while people argued that "HAL 9000" was based on "IBM" with the letters shifted.

"At the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, IBM demonstrates the largest integrated information technology system ever seen by a mass audience."

"The National Hockey League, in partnership with IBM, form an alliance - NHL Interactive Cyber Enterprises - that will use new and emerging technology to promote the growth of hockey worldwide. The Professional Golf Association of America teams with IBM to present a state-of-the-art cybercast of the 78th PGA Championship which takes place in August in Louisville, Kentucky"

"IBM is the largest corporate contributor in 1996. Over the last decade, IBM has contributed more than $1.3 billion to nonprofit organizations, schools and universities - close to four million hours of volunteer time in the United States alone,"

"[1997] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognizes IBM for outstanding contributions in protecting the Earth's ozone layer."

"[1998] U.S. Vice President Al Gore announces Blue Pacific - the world's fastest computer - which is jointly developed by the U.S. Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM"

"[1998] The Guiness Book of Records officially recognizes IBM for setting two world records in Internet traffic on the 1998 Nagano Olympic Winter Games Web site: "The Most Popular Internet Event Ever Recorded""

I can imagine that there were people who had never heard of them, but they were an enormous company with fingers in hundreds of pies, in the news often, in all sorts of ways - business, finances, sports, environmental, education, charity, employment, investment in factories - in newspapers, magazines, talking head pieces, they were as household name as any massive company, nothing like the "do you know the manufacturer of the Playstation graphics chip???" that you're presenting them as.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1999.html
That applies to what the person I responded to as well. So my statement still is fine within that context.

Taxes aren't some special category of owed money that carries with it a unique consequence.
That's what Lego does.

It seems almost intentional that each set has several rare pieces that can not be found in other sets.
Not signing up for Instagram to 'see how it works'. I'm kind of turned off by the whole thing now.

Edit: Downvote all you want, throwing details behind a paywall isn't helpful. I can only assume that the app requires me to login with Facebook or some other nonsense. If you can't share the basics without a login to another service then maybe you are not legit, or maybe you just don't look like you know what you are doing.
I don't think it's NP-hard to identify the individual pieces you need, then show you how to buy them on bricklink.
> software patents are ludicrous and IMO hard to intellectually honestly defend.

I'm not that opposed to software patents per-se, but I believe all patents (and copyright) should be much more time-limited. With software, a year or two would be a more reasonable (for me) time limit, and maybe 10 years for copyright.
Targeted attacks to elicit output only at a give context are generally possible with AIs. And here, writing an implementation of a difficult and vulnerable process seems easy. Bad implementations of various hard things become common 'cause people cut and paste the code without looking closely since they don't understand it anyway.

//Implement eliptic cryptography below

//Sanitize input for SQL call below

Etc.
My understanding is it only applies if the officer believes they aren’t violating the law? Given the explicit goal is triggering copyright enforcement that seems to negate such a claim?
This isn't my understand of what the parent commenter is trying to communicate. I think the point that they're trying to make is this:

A chef could originally decide that a dish is only complete if it is garnished with a terribly rare ingredient that costs an enormous amount of money; this would be analogous to a dev team lead deciding that a new feature will only be considered complete if it covers non-primary use cases or specific pieces of functionality that will add a substantial amount of time to the overall development estimate.

The parent comment is saying that defining that 100% is part of what will impact your possibility/rate of success or failure; the 100% is not predefined or intrinsic, it's a place in time / level of progress that you need to carefully define. If rarity and cost keep you from obtaining the "finishing" ingredient 80% of the time that you make the dish then you're setting yourself up for failure. If you define the feature as only being finished when it covers nearly every sub-feature you can think of then you're setting yourself up for failure.

There also seem to be analogies between quantity and quality. You can get 80% of the way through a feature and decide it's "good enough". The leftover 20% could either be bugs that needed to be fixed or additional features. I don't think leaving out some additional features would be considered skipping the "finishing" phase, but leaving serious unresolved bugs almost definitely would be. An undercooked dish is nearly useless, but one missing a garnish is not.
Tried it just now and it’s amazing. A very palpable experience of I assume ML classifiers that I hadn’t experienced before.
Showing me where pieces are located is the best part IMO as I’d usually spend most time looking for specific parts when building something. That said I’d love to just have an index function where I scan the bricks and can then search for eg a 2x4 red brick or similar.

Lastly I won’t show this to my 5yo just yet because I love the things build by them from imagination only and I also think having to search for parts, maybe finding something else that’s a better fit or gives a new idea is an essential part of play
> The analysis you're citing is just that -- a statistical analysis. They had some people use the thing for a while, and concluded "Hey look, it doesn't seem to quote verbatim very often. Yay!" There is nothing in there that describes any sort of mitigation.

> The three sentences about an attribution search at the very end are aspirational at best, and are presented as "obvious" even though it's not at all clear that such a fuzzy search can be implemented reliably.

I agree with all of this, though I do think that the attribution strategy they describe sounds a lot easier than solving the halting problem or entirely eliminating recitation in their model. Obviously, the proof will be in the pudding.

Maybe you and others are reacting to them framing this as "research", as if they're trying to prove some fundamental property of their model rather than simply harden it against legally questionable behavior in a more practical sense. I think a statistical analysis is fine for the latter, assuming the sample is large enough.
Google Meet's noise cancellation is very good. It was noticeable by all employees when we switched it on.

> In the past have used Jitsi, had some good and some bad experiences with it, but mostly it works well.

Just to be clear: Did you use Jitsi or Jitsi Meet?
Also, Jitsi Meet supports end-to-end encryption while almost no other solution does.

I remember Tox being very unfinished when I tried it a few years ago. Glad this has changed a bit.
True, but I also think this is showing a lack of imagination about where things are going.

You're trying to say architecting is some big woo idea that's somehow different from writing code. Kind of, maybe. But I bet you could build a functional kernel with central design. Given that's how biological systems work, I'm sure it could be done. Then what say you?
I don’t use any plugins with vs code. Am I the baddie?
At least for JavaScript node crap it works perfect out of the box.
Yeah, I can't see the instagram thing despite being logged in.
It sounds very much like winning a battle, but still losing the war.

In the EU we have at least some legal framework for protecting privacy (probably due to our experiences in WWII). Unfortunately, it seems there is not really something similar in the US.
Sure, maybe you'd be into it, but the thousands (?) of companies making money off the current system would not be. Being that we're talking about a capitalist system, that seems like something that needs to reckoned with.

It goes beyond computer stuff too, of course. Let's say you write a hit song and I hear it and manage to release my version first, so I reap all the profits. Under this libertarian utopia, I guess you're supposed to just rob me at gunpoint to get "your" money back?
And you think the progressive sources don't make things up equally often (at a minimum)?
What right does that person have to ask the government to defend their thoughts, which are provably thinkable by others, too?
I suspect that Section 230 protections aren't much help if the site is specifically designed for, and actively encourages, the posting of content which is (claimed to be) illegal.

Perhaps a good example of how far such a legal theory can be pushed is the case of isoHunt, a search engine which was shut down in 2013 after being sued by the MPAA.

> The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in March ruled against isoHunt, concluding that “there is more than enough unrebutted evidence in the summary judgment record to prove Fung offered his services with the object of promoting their use to infringe copyrighted material.”

https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/isohunt-to-shut-down-as-pa...
This has been tried, business people just stop investing in R&D and we ride out our current knowledge base.
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It is absolutely not a tax on thoughts. It is a tax on a specifix ability to assert legal control over other people's thoughts.
I'm so apathetic to the LP.

They infight, they have no power, and they aren't Republicans or Democrats.

The are probably more correct than they are incorrect about things, they are like what modern Republicans should have turned into.

But it's hopeless without charismatic and strong leadership, even the best candidate will get eaten by their own. See Justin Amash.
The much more common reality is the publisher doesn't release the rights back to the author when it goes out of print or after liquidations, mergers, and acquisitions the current owner of a work is often confusing, especially if they were auctioned in blocks say during a chapter 7 bankruptcy of a publisher.

Many media conglomerates had short-lived book publishing arms 50 years ago. The current owners of the successor companies may not even be aware they have those rights in any meaningful sense.

These subsequent transfers don't get registered. So the paper trail is hard.

Additionally researchers are hampered when trying to track down old newspapers or out of print material.

For instance, many daily newspapers shuttered their doors in the past 30 years. Currently you mostly have to go to the Library of Congress, find a local library or historical society with archival microfilm, drive over there and then scrub through the rolls on an analog machine like it's the 1970s.

Murky copyright prevents these defunct publications from being digitized.

I really wish the existence of Mickey Mouse wasn't the reason I have to wait until COVID is over because the archives room is closed at a specific library I'd like to go to and they don't have the rights to digitize what they have on file.

I'd gladly pay for it but nobody knows who to pay. I've tried tracking down the current right holders and the only person I heard back from claims (I believe incorrectly) they do not have those rights. I'm guessing the lawyers saw the long chain of transfers I documented and were just trying to play it safe. So here I am. Splendid.

I'm pretty sure in your example there's many other laws that protect you from that kind of brazen theft