skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also not sure fair use trumps licensing, since one is a copyright issue, and the other is the terms of use.

Licenses and copyright are strictly related - the 'terms of use' in the form of a license simply is a grant for someone to reuse something in full granted they uphold their end of the bargain which might mean (for the GPL) relicensing code that touches said licensed code; but, if someone doesn't agree to the license or they don't uphold their end (such as by releasing their own code under the same license), the license states that the use is now invalid and they're not allowed to copy it in the permissive form provided unless the use passes the fair use doctrine.

Now 'fair use' is actually a pretty high bar, and most especially for code - feel free to read 17 USC 107 [0] which lays out how this is determined. What's tough for code is that, in terms of for copying code or using a library, it usually doesn't qualify for the initial requirement "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright". Unless you're taking GPL code and writing up how bad it is, or how efficient is is, chances are the use doesn't fit into fair use.

So while I think I was indeed a bit obtuse in saying that code could be used in a fair use way (since that's not what happens in these contexts) it's technically possible.

0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
In the same way, it should be mentioned that SF is not at all representative for the country or even the local region. I have never been in another city anywhere that has the problems which people relate about SF.
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Plenty of parents push their kids, but due to luck or natural talent most won't make it. In a lot of ways this kid was just insanely lucky
Dianne Feinstein ran for mayor in like 78 on a platform of solving homelessness. It's wayyyy older.
Amazing work. Cheers.
I don't feel the need to deport illegal immigrants who don't commit violent crime. However SF doesn't allow ICE to arrest/serve warrants, even if the person in question has drug charges, violent crime charges, etc. In a city that clearly has taxpaying residents unhappy with the level of crime, they're throwing away free federal resources to deal with those issues. Even if it's not a driving factor, it's a symptom of a law enforcement philosophy that doesn't inspire confidence.
True, I should have more accurately said: all large volume cloud vendors I worked with.
One of the principles of defund is to use more appropriate responders to things like homelessness. Police arresting homeless and moving them somewhere else is pointless. Having social workers who can get them into a shelter and maybe treatment could actually ameliorate the problem.
Just turn back now, this comment section is full of people who took this Dead Kennedy's song as a serious policy proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnaHDdvh5I
I have never liked Jobs (or even Apple) - even more so after the cult following his death - but nevertheless I would not pretend to know him and to be able to pass a final judgment on him as a human being. Maybe he was an asshole? Maybe he treated people badly? Yet people still worked for him and respected him nonetheless. And if we ever were in his position, would we be worse or better? It's not something we can easily know or guess.
Maybe not as dysfunctional as SF, but clearly there is severe social dysfunction in a lot of the cities run by liberals: Oakland, Seattle, Portland, NYC, Detroit, DC, Minneapolis.

Allowing for some variation, at what point does one begin to blame the policies and ideologies behind those policies, that are substantially similar across the board?
> But as a goal, that's really what you want: we want to solve the problem by saying "this is the solution" and then poof the solution appears!

Actually, that is very often not the case. Many SW projects start with an idea of what the software should do, but there is no easy way to describe it in full detail. Writing down the complete specification right from the start would be very hard and prone to wasted work.

For example, say you want to write a messaging system. You could try to imagine the whole thing and describe it in some formal language, but this will most often produce huge pile of ideas that weren't tested and are not part of desired solution in the end. It's too much "building in the head".

Instead, we should prototype. We write the simplest possible thing that roughly does what we want, and then add and remove features as convenient/needed and improve various characteristics.

We handle corner cases as they appear, sometimes learn that something new has to be studied / understood first, and some parts that have been written have to be rewritten and then we do so.

Writing the spec for the result may be done in the end, after the software is done and works and the ideas are proven to work.
I find it weird how everyone wants to point their fingers at politicians or the police as if these are the forces that created this mess, as if those groups simply snapped their fingers then the economic conditions that perpetuate homelessness would magically disappear.

Everyone wants someone else to make the problem go away for them, that they shouldn't have to play any part in that because they pay taxes, and all the while they're also lobbying the city to keep housing density low out of some absurd privileged need to preserve a broken status quo of what they think an idyllic neighborhood ought to be.

It's incredibly ironic how in America we've recreated the very thing that Americans were trying to escape from in Europe -a landed aristocracy.
The fix, known all over industry, it insurance coverage that pays out for externality incidents. Then actuaries figure out what real security is.
I've lived in Seattle so my viewpoint is biased.

> Neither has a world-class orchestra or opera

Seattle Symphony is fantastic and has multiple Grammy awards. The one that stands out to me is the 2014 premiere of John Luther Adams' work, Become Ocean. Not everyone's cup of team, but a phenomenal performance nonetheless.

> to say nothing of the early-music scene in the Bay Area, which is easily the best in the US

Grunge is very distinctly Seattle. I have a feeling you are incorrectly attributing certain bands with California because they moved there after they became famous.

> And no, neither measures up economically either. Comparing the tech industry in Portland or Seattle to the Bay Area (Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and basically all of the startup scene) is a joke.

Google is heavily in Seattle. You are ignoring the powerhouses of Microsoft and Amazon which are headquartered there. Additionally, the startup scene is thriving. Vulcan Ventures (Paul Allen's firm) has a major presence.

> Neither measures up to the Bay Area in the art scene

I can't speak to the art scene but the Seattle Art Museum was pretty cool, not sure how it ranks. I do know that Seattle attracts a lot of artsy types from personal experience.

> Or the wine scene

If you look at Seattle in a hyper-focused fashion, yes there is no wine, it's a city and Bay Area is an area. But wine in Washington state is also thriving (extended family operates a small vineyard for fun). The climate issues have ironically made Washington a better place for wine in the past years

I could go on, but really, there is quite a bit of competition ;)
> I can use your code to power my business, and I'm under no obligation to hire you.

Make sure you read those licenses. Just because something is open source doesn't mean that you're free to use it for whatever you want.

There are some projects that are open source and free for non-commercial use only.
You are compensated with money, benefits, and possibly equity. If instead you want happiness then quit working. You don’t need that job to be happy.

Join the peace corp, Doctors Without Borders, or the military. Go do something. I have been on 5 deployments to the Middle East and have learned so much from it.
I wonder, if the law refuses to admit you exist, can it prosecute you for a crime?
(in re: "pieces of code where there's really only one way to do it" appearing verbatim)

This doesn’t fit my idea of a quote either.

That seems kinda cavalier, given that it took 10 years of intensive litigation and an appeal all the way to the Supreme Court to establish that copying things where there's LITERALLY no other way to do it (API declarations) wasn't copyright infringement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
San Francisco Homeless Point in Time Count Reports
San Francisco has some of the most expensive real estate in the country. [1] When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area like two decades back and looked at housing prices there, SROs[2] were like $1000/month or so. That's a single room, not an apartment.

San Francisco has really lovely weather most of the year. It has highly desirable weather if you are homeless: Not much rain and mild temperatures year round.[3]

I think California is currently the dumping ground for a lot of America's homeless. I have heard that homelessness is down in other states and up in California.

I think part of what happens is people go there because the weather is very homeless-friendly and then get stuck in part because housing costs are so high in California. I think California will not really solve its homeless problem until the entire US decides to resolve our lack of affordable housing.[4]

I spent nearly six years homeless, most of it in California. I left the state to get back into housing. I have six years of college and yadda, so what I was able to pull off may not be what most homeless people can do for themselves in the face of a broken system.

(Edit: years before I was ever homeless, I took a college class from SFSU called Homelessness and Public Policy. The above paragraph was intended to suggest I'm somewhat knowledgeable about the topic.)

I am still dirt poor and trying to establish an adequate income while being told it's somehow my fault that my poverty is intractable and no amount of rebutting the myriad explanations for how it is somehow my fault ever seems to really change the situation.

I've been repeating a lot of this for years on HN, seemingly to no avail. I'm frankly amazingly exhausted at this point.

[1] Contrary to what internet strangers like to tell me, cost of housing and homelessness are related. https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-clear-c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

[3] https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and...

[4] https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...
Be a leftist require some sacrifice people of color lives on the street are more important than your lifestyle or freedom. If you are complain you are not a true leftist you are just a brainwashed democrat by some white Fascist !!!!
You get what you vote for
The claim is that before cars, Americans (and I assume everybody else in every other country) crossed the road wherever they felt like it. But that they were slow to catch on to the dangers of doing that with cars on the road, and car companies were worried about laws in car owners, so they lobbied for laws restricting where people could legally cross ( https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797 ).
"I am dismayed to announce that our team had a plan in place to jump into action and executed that plan only after gaslighting early reports, and skimming end-user incident response findings via twitter DMs after we rolled out of bed today. We’ve heard from the vast majority of our customers that they pulled the plug on our MSP product, and I am grateful that we're still in business, and scrambling for help and bitcoin, but luckily we contract with other B2b IT management outfits who sold this botched stuff on to yet someone else allowing us to skip most of the blame.

Today’s actions are a testament to Kaseya’s unwavering commitment to hope for the best and try to mop up this PR nightmare!"

God speed, Fred Voccola. I see that the "rapid growth phase" has reached its apogee.

https://www.kaseya.com/press-release/kaseya-names-new-ceo-fr...
Battle over Critical Race Theory
I love it!

* It's simple, really simple. No fluff.
* Help in RH margin still leaves enough room for the main event whilst being available
* The main interface is reminiscent of prior BASICs but has been modernised
* Is the cursor too cool ... ?
* Overall, it looks gorgeous and is a pleasure to use

When you pick a Help path, there is a hyperlink "Guide" to return at the top but I think you need a really obvious Help navigation thing with buttons. You click a big coloured button to pick a Help path so a button should return you to the start. To be fair once you get it, the return links are tiny and unobtrusive.

If Help could be popped out into a new tab/window then that would make multi-screen use work well.

BASIC is a bit odd nowadays but it is all starting to come back. The "I've never" guide could do with how to delete a line (type the number and hit enter)

Great job.

(I still have my original C-64. It now has a USB interface!)
Actual pictures of what it looks like.

https://polarisolutions.com/2021/01/16/the-new-camouflage-fo...

Pretty neat, but it’s traditional camouflage which is custom to different environments.
Worse than mere accumulation, it grows toxic mold.
> These comics (and the ones suggesting "defunding police" will lead to school funding) are essentially a trick because 1. reducing police funding won't lead to money going to those other places 2. half those things are done under the police department 3. the other half are much more expensive than police funding.

Evidence does not support your claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/19/alexandria-k...

Social workers, in conjunction with police, have resulted in a drop of repeat calls and cost less than hiring another officer.
I agree. It's not the politicians' fault, it's their voters' fault.
Civil discourse is long dead, and with an enemy knowing no boundary, it is only fair to respond with no boundary. Morality/ethics/rules of war will only get you dead.

Creating a new HN account is cheap, this is my fourth or fifth one.
Yeah, they even use the new Discord logo throughout the entire application, in fact this whole thing looks like a really weird scam or phishing site. I have no question about the tech, or how good it is, but aligning itself so close is suicide and worrisome.
VSA is an RMM tool, remote monitoring and management. They work as local agents to report stats, events, sw/hw inventory back to an aggregation point (on prem or in cloud), facilitate software deployment, approve and deploy updates, script execution, device configuration and compliance, and broker remote screen sharing sessions like teamviewer.

These are what they’re sold as and literally what they’re used for daily to manage and monitor thousands upon thousands of endpoints of all flavors. In a traditional on-prem Windows corporate environment these functions would have been offered by the on-prem Microsoft stack like domain services, group policy, WSUS, SCCM, SCOM, RDP, etc., and the overhead was enormous. In a diverse and dispersed environment, these toolsets have adapted accordingly - multi-platform, over-the-air, asset light. Now even internal enterprise IT shops use flavors of RMMs that MSPs would use for SMBs. MSPs can simply apply these systems to more SMBs via economies of scale, whereas an SMB could rarely afford the overhead of maintaining the tooling let alone the circus that is device management. So if you break an RMM platform used by an MSP the impact can be quite broad, and include larger enterprise IT operations. It’s easy to say “don’t use RMM tools, or switch to Macs”, but this kind of simplistic reaction belies an understanding of the environment and the need.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd think this was just the latest plot by Microsoft to attack open source software.

The only reason open source software is possible is because of the protections offered by copyright. Copilot basically shits all over that.
Works awfully on mobiles
it's the basis of a terminal rendering engine targeted at Windows but using concepts that can map to any operating system or environment
Its funny, the comment adjacent to yours is one where Krakow Poland is shown as a paradise compared to SF. So please, go over to that thread and tell them how safer Krakow could be with unlimited guns, a insane war on drugs and the removal of their welfare system.
A lot of so-called “crimes” are societal creations. It’s a crime to steal food: is it a crime to let someone go hungry? Actually if that someone is your child under 18, it is in fact a crime.

There are other crimes that aren’t even considered criminal nor even enforced. For example wage theft. You cannot get your boss arrested for clocking you out before you leave. Yet your boss can have you arrested for taking from the till.

Point is, most crimes are because of society structure. Lying on a sidewalk? Setting up a tent somewhere? Living in a car or rv?

In a better structured society there would be better support than calling the police. That’s the essence of “defund the police”.

For many people with well resourced families, allowing a child or family member to live in the street because they lost their job just wouldn’t happen. Generally most people get support from their families (and friends) in this way. But what about those that don’t have those resources? Well apparently “call the cops on them” is the American solution. Great.
> My logic is 'crossing the road is completely reasonable, doesn't harm anyone, people should be allowed to get to the other side of the road'. That logic doesn't follow to speeding, which is dangerous and selfish.

Putting oneself in the path of a multi-ton vehicle that doesn't expect you to be there and placing the onus on them to avoid committing vehicular manslaughter when you could use a space explicitly designated for pedestrians is, in fact, dangerous and selfish.
Lab leak theory, once 'political dynamite,' gains credibility in new study
No, my argument is that Copilot is specifically _not_ a storage mechanism, but is producing verbatim GPL'd code, meaning that as a piece of software, it is not exempt from the GPL.
Love Warsaw but suspect your in $1000/mo+ Airbnb, alcohol abuse amongst the homeless in Warsaw is massive, and thus aggressive begging, everything else you say is correct, but your in a 2km bubble and Warsaw is a big city, even a walk to googles free coworking space will be enlightening for you (it will put you marginally outside the comfort zone briefly if you walk the quickest path over the bridge, then loop back in to an arty farty outlet shopping complex zone), even in your comfort zone I've seen some pretty horrific situations with people collapsed outside with head split open (self inflicted alcohol abuse, but I guess less scary than stringes everywhere)
Yeah I was a bit surprised when I read the article and what they're complaining about is being demonetised. Not blocked.

I don't think this constitutes censorship. They can still publish what they want. They just don't get paid for it this way. If what they have to say it's that important, does it really matter? If they're indeed scientists, don't they have a day job doing science?

I'm all for free speech but getting paid for it is another issue altogether IMO. Still an ethical topic worth debating, but not a free speech issue.
The whole point of using a DVCS is to be able to publish and pull from each other's branches. If your feature branches are private, or you have to check with someone before pulling from their branch (which you do if they're in the habit of rebasing), then you're missing out on most of git's value.
What illustrated the "can be commanded like armies" idea?
This argument/counterargument is pretty eye-opening to me. Kudos to both Animast and g5095 for the discussion. I work in a completely different domain than gaming, but there is no question that this strikes the nerve of a universal challenge that we have continued face as humans seeking to better understand the very fabric of nature and civilization itself.

Please don't take offence, but g5095's stance is akin to early US federalists advocating for strong centralized governance, whereas Animats stance is akin to US democtratic-republican values of distributed governance.[1]

If you think about Animast's point, that "regions run 24/7 regardless of whether any user [citizen] is in [consciously using] them. Trains continue to run, crops continue to grow, grazing animals graze...", and the the discrete energy cost of operating those regions - is this not the very challenge that all governments face in the "real world"?

With the maturation of the 'Metaverse', in which all functions of nature are boiled down to the discrete (countable) energy packets needed to transfer information, are we not seeing the struggle between centralized vs. distributed government play out in virtual space? If so, can we leverage the Metaverse as a proxy for nature, generally, to find the mathematical ideal balance between these two competing forces of democratic civilization? The result, I would presume, being some difinitive proportion - the measurable distribution and magnitude of 'control' energy with respect to the distribution and magnitude of total energy of a predominantly nonstochastic system (society).

It seems like there is a nexus here between control theory, information theory, thermodynamics, and indeed, sociology, that can be studied using the Metaverse to arrive at a more balanced societal framework. There is a truth here begging to be understood.

1. https://www.ushistory.org/Us/19c.asp
"Boudin was born in New York City to Jewish parents. His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members, both convicted of murder."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin
>Then they should say "reform the police" not "defund the police". If you "defund the police", they will cease to exist, since nobody will be paying them.

Great idea, let's call the CEO of a grass roots protest and have their marketing department update the website copy. Do you realize what you are saying?

>Personally, I assume people actually mean what they say, so I think it's more likely they just want to be "radical" and haven't thought things through at all (as OP pointed out).

I think a very useful skill in life is being able to read past slogans and actually understand what people are asking for. Kaepernick was trying to create a message about police reform for 5 years now, and no one cared about that - only the kneeling bit. "Defund the police" is the only message that has stuck. If extremist messaging is what gets people talking about the problem then so be it. There is no CEO of protests that develops a finely tuned marketing message for what is essentially a populist movement.
Exactly. This transliteration, in eastern India would be 'Shongskrito'. Which is no more right or wrong compared to saying 'Sanskrit'.
A corkscrew is chiral, if that's what you're asking.
I see lots of comments blaming MS about this turn of events.

But what did we expect from GitHub....MS or not? This was an obvious survival mechanism for GitHub sans MS. All that coding data there? Let's turn machine learning or AI onto that and make something.

And of MS were treating GitHub as an "at arms length" corporate entity with their own lawyers etc such as to NOT
Has Github confirmed anywhere that copilot is only trained with projects on Github?

The OpenAI people seem to grab any bit of data they can get their hands on, regardless of the source. I don't see why they'd limit themselves to Github for something like this.