skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I go round giving people the 'choice' of free samples of heroin, with full knowledge that they're highly likely to become addicted and will no longer be able to choose not to parttake, and even with the intention that they do, and then I make bank, that's pure exploitation.

That's not how heroin or addiction or exploitation work.

Many people have received single doses of heroin or its analogs. The vast majority of them are not addicts.

I have multiple junkie friends who decided to stop buying and using opiates.

Ultimately the choice is the user's, and nobody's attitudes or beliefs can change that simple fact. It's actually a GOOD thing that the buck stops there, and not anywhere else.

It's not anyone else's place to decide for someone that their addiction is or is not detrimental to them. I am addicted to caffeine and while many (eg Mormons) might call that a bad thing, I vastly prefer my life addicted to caffeine over my life when I am not.

The world would be a much better place if free heroin were available in unlimited quantity on every streetcorner.
You might be well informed in compressive sensing:

What's the status of the compressive sensing research, and commercialization if there is any?
Obviously, but that misses the essence of the question.
You make some good points, here and on the other comments, so I'm not arguing against you.

>In the digital world, showing is "distributing" [...]

I guess it has to do with how copyright law adapts to the specific circumstances of this particular case. I guess we won't get an answer until a judge justifies some sort of resolution on either side.

My take is that:

* GH showing you some source code on their website is akin to reproduction; even though, of course, a binary copy of the code was made and was transmitted to your local browser in order to be displayed.

while

* GH taking chunks of code from here and there, and making them available into a new product from which they claim ownership (or the final user, or whatever) is more akin to the physical concept of redistribution.

But we'll have to wait and see.
I would love to do this but I am scared of glass shards or sharp objects. Have you ever encountered that, what's your solution?
And not only vast in space, but also in time. The probability of us "interacting" with an alien civilisation that is say 10,000 more advanced than us is minuscule.

More likely if we get contact with aliens they will be "angels" or other supernatural entities for us... or protozoa equivalent to life on earth 50,000 years ago or more.
This looks very cool, I'll be able to consider using it more if it when a free software license is selected for it - https://github.com/pkalogiros/AudioMass/issues/1
> I don't think I missed that point. I'm trying to argue that copyright is relevant to Copilot's input if not allowed by an OSS license.

The point (that they claim that) you are missing is that if "copyright is relevant to Copilot's input" then almost all existing OSS licenses already don't allow that.
That's been my experience too, as well as encountering a lot of legacy HTML markup without many useful class/id attributes. The random values are likely result of modern build tools like the one you mention, but there's also the growing popularity of utility-first CSS frameworks like Tailwind which also make finding useful selectors difficult.

In these situations it might be best to rely on position of elements and other CSS selectors rather than attribute values. Unfortunately the :nth-child and :nth-of-type selectors still trip many people up. In Feed Creator we borrowed from XPath to make selecting by position a little easier. We've got a comparison here: https://help.fivefilters.org/feed-creator/css-selectors.html...
I went to Turkey in 2005. The 1 lyra note was also the 1,000,000 Lyra note.
I think I was close to burnout at the end of my PhD and it went away the day I defended.

That was probably due to a lot of factors but most importantly I was not feeling well with my advisors and I did not believe in what I was doing (though I could present it in a convincing way).

I won't fix your burnout but here are things to check:

- Do you enjoy working with the people you work with?

- Do you believe in what you do? You can do any technically interesting thing in the world, but if it has no meaning for you, or worse, you think it is harmful or works against your values, that's a way to burn out pretty quickly.

- Do you really like what you do? (that's not the same question)

- is there a relationship in which you don't feel that well? Find out why, fix it or end it. Careful, if you are burnt out you could be seeing it from a pessimistic perspective.

Allow yourself to be unproductive / inefficient in your free time and to enjoy it. Take some time for yourself. You cannot really enjoy things you do usually, but maybe you can focus on making your wife, friends, family happy if you can help it, because it can be very rewarding. Don't be hard on yourself, you are not a god (afaik).

Try to rest. I have sleeping issues, I find it very hard to turn off my brain, but listening to interesting things while trying to sleep works pretty well for me, it is a good distraction. Being tired is shitty.

Maybe try something new, maybe learn to play music? It's hard, takes a lot of work, and a lot of time, but it is something you can take refuge in. And learning it is nothing like learning a new programming language or a new framework so you might find out interesting things about yourself.

I need meaning. Maybe you too? If so, seek meaning somewhere or everywhere in your life. Take time to think. This might lead you to a new job with a lower income or less technically challenging, but in which you believe and which relates to your values.

In your quest of meaning, you might end up finding out that life is quite meaningless and has no goal. If so, you could conclude that you are free and that the best you can do is to fully enjoy life within the limits set by your values :-)
Just wow...

Sounds like you need better employers and more interesting friends. And perhaps some realization that not everyone has the same demands on their time.
Weather balloons? Sun glare? Occam's Razor.
I keep feeling like this is room for a better language than MDX... And DAX isn't it either.
Ubuntu has gained trust over many years and provided a way to update.

Audacity doesn't need to phone home for that.
The contractor bit is a bad smell. The agency problems with that can drain out 110% of the fun.
I know we do not differentiate China and Chinese most of the time, but in this case, it is problematic since Taiwan is >95% Chinese. Maybe Beijing's invasion of Taipei would be better?
Klimawandel, Klimakrise oder sogar Klimakollaps?
https://archive.is/He4aN
While there are many potential reasons someone burns out - one thing I've heard/learned from therapist is that almost universally everyone burned out is in a state where your judgement/evaluation/estimation is off. In "fight or flight" and "tunnel vision" type of off.

And due to that you shouldn't make any drastic and far reaching decisions untill you get that somewhat "recalibrated".

I mean sure - decide to overdo exercise for the rest of your life. Just don't decide to get a divorce, sell the house and spend all the money in short amount of time.

And yes it's rather weird to find yourself (temporarily) not working. And instead of going like "Yay I finally have time to do all (or at least some of) those things I always wanted/postponed/did-tiny-chunks-of/etc". Not feeling like any of those things are engaging, recharging or fun.

The best advice I've got is do something more physical and away from screen. Like make/build something (small or bigger), plant some fruit/vegetables, fix some stuff around the house ...

Oh and make sure you get up at same time each morning (having school age kids helps). Early in the day (ideally even from day before, though coming up on during morning) have some specific plan on things you'll do that day. Not necessarily achieve some output - just say "3 hours planting tomatoes in the garden".

Focus on following through with the plan - but without stressing that things take you longer than you expected (hence not plant X tomatoes in 3 hours).

And for relaxing/fun stuff - keep trying a mix of new/different stuff, as well as old things that used to be fun.
Code decoration?
Great pictures.
Scrap batteries are also sold at market rate, because "sold at market rate" is a tautology, true of any subject.
They are not very tall. But also - this was 1988 and I was 14 years old, so my sense of scale could be off, but the thing was immense - and hovering just above me...
"The CCP's invasion of Taiwan..." would be a much better headline.
Tough Turban: an open-source design for turban-wearing motorcyclists
Talk about rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

We didn’t set a price on lead emissions, we banned leaded gas and lead paint.

Carbon permits are a failed policy; they will make somebody rich, who will feed back 1% of the profits to politicians to maintain their privilege.
> I’m not following your logic, really

I can see that, and I mean no disrespect, but you shouldn’t have attempted to comment on this topic authoritatively and police what others say without understanding it.

> I don’t really get your point in trying to make distinction between a copy or a “master”(?) or whatever.

You have clearly and repeatedly demonstrated that you don’t understand what “distribute” and “redistribution” means to copyright law. You claimed others were confused about it and that using the word “redistribute” was incorrect, when in fact it was fine and correct.

I’m trying to help you understand that redistribution is a term that is talking about what happens to copies of a work. The sentence you quoted, and the “transfer of ownership” that you said you grasp only have to do with transferring copies, and nothing else.

The main point here is that when GitHub shows you code, it is transferring a copy to you. That is what GitHub calls “publish” and what copyright law calls “publication”, and by publishing they mean redistribution (because the copyright legal code says so).
Isn’t that the idea with “bit code”? Basically, Apple keeps the LLVM IR (of sorts) and optimizes it on their end (and removes unneeded image assets (such as @2x on an @3x device)). So the build your device downloads is highly optimized specifically for your device model.

Or do you mean something else?
Setting up your NAS Box, 2021 Edition, Part 3
You can't just call everything you don't like a conspiracy theory. I have seen plenty of people on HN arguing for censorship of unflattering statistics to achieve social justice goals. Why not just work on fixing the causes of the unflattering statistics in real life, rather than inventing a new framework to make ML models provide less accurate predictions? How do you know these manual override techniques aren't introducing inequity somewhere else in the model? Pareto optimality seems like it should be a very real concern here.
It will be nothing like Normandy besides that there would be a landing. Taiwan is nothing comparable Germany in WWII in so many senses.
Here is are two very clear explanations of fractal dimension by the man himself, Grant from 3b1b.

[1] Fractals are typically not self-symmetric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4

[2] Fractal charm: Space filling curves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU0wScIj36o
The Coronavirus has a huge effect, it's just been papered over by massive Central Bank Financing.

Make no mistake, we are in 'Willy Wonka' land with respect to currency.

The reason it hasn't lead to geopolitical fallout is because 'everyone is in the same boat'.

If 'just Canada' did this ... even with a pandemic, Canada would be getting trashed on the markets, major downgrades, the fallout would peter into a lot of things and there's no question at least the government would probably fall.

If if were acutely a China-Taiwan issue then all of a sudden the world's eyes would be on that as the source of the issue an it would cause a pretty big realignment.

This would be 10x more amplified were there a military component.

It's one thing for there to be a flummox over a virus, but China 'invading' countries would basically be such a strong signal ... it would be the demarcation point for literally a New World Order. Future historians would count the end of WW2 up until then as maybe a single era, with that event starting a new one.

All the chess pieces would be moved or adjusted.
I don't know, I doubt it - he was a survivalist recluse. He had three kids that were all homeschooled - and he was an off-grid-living person who lived in the woods on his homestead and his kids were "odd"....

Think of that guy in the movie "shooter" with Markie Mark... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/

He lived like this guy did in the beginning of the movie.
I have not get started with Twitter on my very first it use because I have subscribed to roughly hundred accounts a day, maybe more. They were mostly relable to my business. My account has became shadowbanned and my posts (all 10 with unique photos) has marked as suspicious but only for others. Maybe it is because I have written something about ncov-19. Also I hoped I can tweet from SMS without need to have access to web - but I could not setup this option, maybe I do not know something. I decided to do nothing but if SMS option is possible in some way I will try to unlock my account to start use it for promoting my business.
Sure it does. My employer notices when I work hard. Since they want to retain me as an employee, they compensate me accordingly. Similarly, I were to _not_ work hard my employer would certainly notice and want to reduce my compensation.

Working hard is not the same thing as working long hours or giving extra of myself. Working hard simply means working intelligently, thoughtfully, and to the best of my abilities.
They're doing a vote for the new name. https://mobile.twitter.com/cookiengineer/status/141211479074...

Edit: non-dead link https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/33
> Since there’s not enough reaction mass on earth to bring even a fraction of the human population into orbit

Napkin math to disprove this claim:

7,000,000,000 people * 100kg = 700,000,000 tonnes = 7 million launches of starship * 5000t propellant per launch = 35 billion tonnes of propellant (approx 1/4 natural gas, 3/4 oxygen)

Annual natural gas consumption in the US is 34 trillion cubic feet, which is about 800,000,000t. So about ten years would be 8 billion tonnes of natural gas (32 billion tonnes of propellant once you add oxygen)

So excluding things like keeping your payload alive and breathing, the US generates enough natural gas to launch one tenth of the world population into orbit every year.
Your point is worth thinking about it, audacity needs a critical mass of users. But does it have enough original users to keep from being considered abandonded already?

Edit: to be clear, other software is often used instead of audacity. It isn't as well known as say photoshop, or maybe even inkscape.
It's not really about needing power density; high density can easily happen accidentally. 40 1S servers in a rack could be 20 kW and 40 2S servers could be 30+ kW.
I think I found the transmitter you're talking about, it looks pretty neat: https://github.com/F5OEO/rpidatv
His project is part of a cohort of cap stone design projects [0]. Browsing through them gives some real insight into current societal zeitgeist: A very large portion of them are related to health/medical issues, with a sizeable subset of those dealing with declining functionality due to aging.

[0] https://sdcashow2021.lboro.ac.uk/courses/product-design/
Name proposal: Audiotown
How and why Loudoun County became the face of the nation’s culture wars
I hate twitter and I'm also addicted to it.

The reason I'm on it is because a lot of the best info on Covid this year breaks on Twitter weeks or even months before it's common knowledge.
If aliens are smart enough to conquer interstellar travel, why do they put lights on their otherwise-invisible spaceships?
Like railways, but that need to be built all around the place, disturbing (or well, continuing the disturbance) of the landscape, having us build our lifestyles around them (like hour+ long commutes and suburbs with no communal center), and for vehicles that need expensive battery infrastructure from non-renewable materials, and that usually catter to 1 person.
"Ethical enforcers" is putting it a bit strongly. There is such a thing as soft power, and some ideas take years or decades to percolate through a culture. Like you said

> things that were condemned 20 years ago are being celebrated now, and we seem to be in a state of constant change and instability

I wouldn't have it any other way. You can't change people's minds with force, only time and pressure. Antislavery sentiment was strong and growing in the 1800s - if you lived in that time, could you imagine someone saying "I feel foolish taking stances on what is and isn't abhorrent"? Slavery is abhorrent - period. Despite that, actual civil rights ideas took decades to take hold even after the extremely violent Civil War. The same applies to many ideas today. This doesn't mean ethics aren't worth fighting for, that you should sit back and passively watch as society decides for you that slavery-by-different-name or some other horrible idea is OK. You can't strong-arm people into believing something. You're right it leads to "division and hatred". However, mirrored ethical standards on the other hand are required for civilization to work. In fact, many of these ethical standards are encoded into laws which are in turn enforced with the state's monopoly on violence (e.g. police, military, swat).

For Blizzard and some companies are perhaps ran by sociopaths. In which case, all they learned is that they need better PR. But I'm sure some companies (aka the people leading those companies) did listen.

Do you really think everyone in the top ranks of a corporation is a sociopath? That's a bit cynical for my taste.
Stop. Just Stop. Software does not need to violate a users privacy to provide functionality that is not really needed at all such as auto-updating, nor crash reporting.

Calling any of this as anything other than Telemetry data is factually incorrect

The movement around forking is NOT just over this new privacy policy, but is a culmination several actions by the new owners of the project to go agaist some very basic norms of Open Source stewardship. Further they are more or less giving the Linux Maintainer community a "FU" over their use of custom / modified version wxwidgets which makes packaging the 3x version of Audacity problematic for many linux distribution for security reasons.

As to the statement that "opt-in does not work with crash reporting" Sure it does, Many applications (including Microsoft, and Mozilla) have a dialog that ASKS the user if they would like to submit crash reporting data to the vendor on a per crash basis, There is LITERALLY zero technical reason for automatic, opt-out crash reporting
Yeah, and judging by the prices on ebay, the "market rate" for some batteries is pretty high. It might not stay that way when the higher volume electric cars start to age out.
Good news! https://docs.python.org/3/howto/instrumentation.html

There are no great tools for getting the common data out yet as far as I know, but the possibility is there and the standard dtrace / usdt hooks are in place. You can use it with bpftrace.
Carbon Border Adjustments can theoretically go further than just insuring locally consumed imports are offset.

In the future, we might see a union of countries that have carbon pricing agree to apply adjustments to non-carbon priced countries equal to (or greater than) their estimated internal carbon outputs.

Those funds can be redirected into extra carbon-offset projects.

With this mechanism, it's theoretically possible to force the would to be carbon neutral (or carbon negative), even if there are a few large countries holding out.
Given that tariffs seem more popular than domestic taxes these days, carbon border adjustments might be a politically feasible way to get a price on carbon.
I don't mean it as dismissive, just factual. Loss is hard. I'll leave its cluelessness for others to judge.

But you're wrong to say, "There is nothing there about people being particularly religious." The author describes it as the start of things for him, writing "I, on the other hand, had grown up in the Deep South in an insular culture that had limited vision and rigid beliefs; my loving parents were traditionally religious and tried to live conforming, righteous, and conventional lives."
> GH showing you some source code on their website is akin to reproduction

This is clearly and unambiguously defined as “publication” in the copyright law, where “publication” is defined as distributing copies. (And GitHub’s TOS also calls showing you code “publish”).

There is nothing to wait for, and the law and many court cases have already established clear definitions and precedent on these terms. You just got stuck on the wrong idea, it happens, it’s okay, but if you are curious about copyright and interested in discussing it here, it will certainly help to improve your understanding of the terminology.

> GH taking chunks of code from here and there […] is more akin to the physical concept of redistribution

No, this is still just wrong. You’re talking about derivative works, which is also defined in the copyright legal code. There is no such physical concept of mixing and matching that is called “redistribution” in legal terms. I’m not sure where that idea came from, it might make sense to you or in some narrow contexts, but generally speaking and specifically wrt copyright law, distribution has nothing to do with whether you sample a work nor whether you make a new work out of old works.
> Before you say “well make this opt-in” - that doesn’t work for crash reporting

Well Audacity thought it would work for them: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/836
So how does Realwow work? I see the site and can enter some ID, but that request is not going to land magically and globally at my Realtek chip. What am I missing here?
Also, if I were a captain, I would reasonably trust the judgment of a pilot whose job is to navigate ships through the canal unless in the case of, as you noted, "extreme circumstances"; and even withdrawing approval may be too late, given how slow ships of this size are to respond to sudden control inputs.
I'm not a copyright expert but I wonder about an implication of two of this author's points:

- Reading and remembering-about (like reading a book yourself) things does not infringe on copyright.

- Copyright does not apply to the output of mechanistic code generation (as opposed to the human-written code that generates the code).

So where does that leave the quake snippet (setting aside its own release as open source)? Assuming this technical description is correct, Copilot does not contain the code, just the correct weights to contextually reproduce it perfectly. Copyright does not apply to the chunk that Copilot produces, so does the code simply exist as Copilot created it without license? If that is correct, what are the limits? Could I train a ML algorithm to reproduce binaries from context and, if those produced binaries happen to be identical to other copyrighted products, then it's fine?
This would only support optimizing for different architectures. Your code is already compiled from Swift -> IR and thus these features would not be part of the IR.
Once again, I dunno. My observation is that non-software industries are leery of git. My last four clients have all used svn or hg. So am guessing that it depends on the need for centralized control and who you have available to run these systems.

I do mostly hardware engineering -code is a secondary by-product. So my tools poorly represent what most of you need. For my colleagues and myself, Hg is it where distributed stuff is required. For my personal stuff, svn is it.