skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sure but I try and avoid inflammatory language when it comes to taxes etc. People get really uptight that of course X, when you bring up say ‘business shield their owners from liability’ like whatever is being discussed is some inherent property or the universe rather than simply a social contract subject to change.

People pretend anything that is currently benefiting them is simply a forgone conclusion in part to avoid having to defend it. Nobody wants to admit that say “companies should pay taxes” because incorporation brings benefits and those benefits should have an associated cost.

I use the liability thing because it’s such an old social contract. Plenty of more recent exceptions evoke similar responses from those who benefit.
>very specific cases

Sadly not true:

https://cdt.org/insights/law-enforcement-national-security-a...

>The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides a broad exception for national security purposes. Under the Rule, a covered entity may disclose any and all protected (identifiable) health information (PHI) for “lawful intelligence, counter-intelligence and national security purposes” (emphasis added). On its face, the Rule does not require a court order or any other enforceable or formal demand; disclosure may be completely voluntary and may be initiated by the covered entity even in the absence of a request from a government official
I wonder if Bitcoin Cash or something similar can fit that void. It's already possible to send cents for reasonable fees.
Did copilot spring from the aether? Or was it built and trained on licensed code by github? Someone did something.
That's an interesting idea. I wonder how you'd feel about this in relation to the trade-off against multiple resolver providers having information about your Internet traffic? By using a single provider, you limit your risk exposure, but also increase your reliance on that provider. So it's not clear-cut that this would necessarily be beneficial.
You need to escape special characters, but you do not need to base64-encode SVG, which gives it a slight advantage over binary formats in data URLs.
1 - That was the result of sulfur dioxide more than particulates. 2 - Sulfur dioxide harms the ozone layer. 3 - Krakatoa was 4 times larger than the yield of the largest fusion/thermonuclear bomb ever. 4 - We'd have to do that ever 2 years for centuries.

It is not practical and wouldn't work even if it was practical.
I remember a time when liberal garbage like this was outlawed on HN.

In case you forgot - ALL POLITICS, even covid - is explicitly OFF FUCKING TOPIC!
A Bank That Accepts Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
There’s the idea that any significant change starts with yourself. Ghandi and stuff. Yet, I can’t stop thinking that as humans our role is to multiply and exploit our habitat, and that trying to fight this is meaningless. In the end we’re doomed anyway, so is accelerating the inevitable that bad? Especially if it’s making the lives of people better right now?
Nope, about 800.00 GPB, which is a lot, but you are also buying insurance in case they f*ck up. The price was the same if they used paper.

I don't normally like to say good things about solicitors (not estate agents, I was buying, so I didn't have to pay them, but I hate them too), but mostly they did OK.
> I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control?

The non-free service will always be a smaller player IMO. But if there were a big enough bundle, people might see the value. A not-too-many-USD-per-year Youtube+LinkedIn+Facebook+Twitter web suite would be feasible IMO. Just imagine if it were seen as a public good and countries could fund it with a comparatively small per capita investment.
Technically available to everyone. The issue is that > 90% of people have an income that is majority W-2 wages, and there isn't really a good way to avoid that.
For disaster communications, you'll really need a multi-faceted plan that includes Cellular, Wifi, CB, MURS, FRS/GMRS, and Ham radio as well as ways to receive broadcast AM/FM and Weather band.

If you want to get into CB radio, just go to your favorite online retailer or truck stop, buy a Cobra 19 or 29LTD (or literally anything that fits your budget), some coax, and an antenna - either a vehicle mounted long whip or mag mount with some kind of adapter for mounting it to your roof, or a base antenna like a Solarcon A99 or Patriot PAT-12, or build your own dipole and string it in the trees or attic or from a gable, etc. You probably also want a VSWR meter to tune the antenna if it's not built into the radio.

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There's a decent bit of caselaw indicating that computers reading and using a copyrighted work simply "don't count" in terms of copyright infringement -- only humans can infringe copyright. This article[0] does a pretty good job of summarizing the rationale that the courts have provided. My (non-lawyer) take is that GitHub is pushing this just half a step farther -- if computers can consume copyrighted material, and use it to answer questions like "was this essay plagiarized", then in GitHub's view they can also use it to train an AI model (even if it occasionally spits back out snippets of the copyrighted training data). Microsoft has enough lawyers on staff that I'm sure they have analyzed this in depth and believe they at least have a defensible position.

[0]: https://slate.com/technology/2016/08/in-copyright-law-comput...
Probably not, I'd argue that the internet just allows people to more easily be sucked into these sorts of information silos.

The total crypto market cap is just over 1 trillion usd(depending on who you believe) and global equities market cap is nearly 100 trillion usd. I'm not that concerned so long as these low info investors stick to cryptos and meme stocks.
>threatening Australian citizens with jail time if they try to return to their country. //

This seems like an obvious expedient during a pandemic? I guess, if you can set up facilities (crucially staffing) to allow repatriation with full quarantining that may be preferable.

How would you rather they behaved? Allowing non-essential international travel is idiotic in such circumstances.
yeah, no. Licensing is really awful, yes.

"You either take part in open source or you don’t." I disagree. You can allow your software to be used and post the source code, but it is yours so you get some say in your intentions. Forking is what you're looking for. However, once you fork it, you still owe credit to those that did the heavy lifting before making whatever tweak it is you made and want to call it your own. There's nothing wrong with the original developers getting credit for the work they did. There's nothing wrong with the original devs willing to let other people use their work as long as it is used in the same spirit it was provided (FOSS). That also does not mean the original devs are wrong for wanting evilCorps that want to use their freesoftware to be included/distributed in their packages they sell and profit from to be restrictive.
I would pay a sub for YouTube due to the value provided if they, in turn, paid me for the data they have stolen from me. Of course, if I get to name my price in this "free market," they would be paying me far more than they could reasonably charge for YT. And really, why would I want to give money to an abusive company?

I keep hearing this lament that everyone just wants stuff for free. I think it is a distraction from the current wild west where these surveillance companies are the ones getting high value data for petty baubles.
If anyone is unsure of the truth of the parent post (like I was), I built a simple simulator in Python to test it for myself [0]

boys = 100000 girls 99350
boys = 100000 girls 100333
boys = 100000 girls 101195

[0] https://pastebin.com/Et5CU3n0
The concept of nation as you mean it is absolutely disconnected from evolution. Nations are a construct with no more than 200 years. Just because you were brainwashed doesn’t mean your genes care.
The statement could be true for his point of view, same with yours.

Everyone lives in their own bubbles
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

The parables/stories we tell (ourselves)
https://m-g-h.medium.com/anatomy-of-great-movies-bd9ee387468...
You feel powerless to do anything about climate change ? You feel your individual actions such as recycling are meaningless in the face of the incoming tsunami ? That is because they are. If you want meaningful, get into political action !

"For consumers in the industrialized world to signal virtue with their individual actions is irrelevant at best. Countries like Sweden that have had success in decarbonizing, didn’t reach their accomplishment with individual sacrifices, but by generating energy cleanly (with nuclear power instead of fossil fuel). In my opinion, the individual action that matters most is voting. Climate change is a problem governments will solve, not individuals. It is strange that people think the world’s most challenging problem can be solved by voluntary actions from billions of people — this is why we have representative governments" - https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/individual-actions...
> No introgression with other Sapien populations?

Perhaps indirectly. As he addresses later in the text, it's possible that Denisovans in South East Asia encountered Homo erectus and interbred with them. The Denisovans appear to have more population structure as compared to Neanderthals, and introgression from H. erectus might explain some of it. Considering that South East Asia and Papua New Guinea has the highest Denisovan introgression in modern humans, it's possible that some of that H. erectus ancestry ended up in those of us from East of the Indus.

For what it's worth, I have seen other studies pop up from time to time that claim to have found introgression from some unknown ghost sapien population, but these outliers usually go away by tweaking the parameters.
I think there is an argument to be made that Copilot is producing derivative code, though. It may produce copies verbatim, and that's a violation, but far more often, it produces a mixture of things it was trained on, most of which probably have some sort of license requiring attribution at the very least.
i talk about introgression in this post https://razib.substack.com/p/here-be-humans

the piece was not exhaustive and meant to be an intro
If that’s the case, why not use a commonly available rechargeable external power source? E.g., Anker PowerCore III Elite.
I do not know which country you come from and maybe what you describe is correct in your country. I can say that it is not in my countries, Norway and Iceland and this has not been my experience running an international company either.

In any case, I think mixing the two is not helpful in any shape or form. What we need is to regulate what private companies can do. I think that is enough scope for this particular discussion and I think this is such an important matter that it needs to be addressed.
I’ve briefly tried hosting with IPFS in the past and always found it to be super slow/not working at all.

If one has a super low traffic site and is already hosting themselves (whether on a home computer or VPS), what’s the benefit of IPFS? My understanding is that if a file isn’t popular, it’ll be served by your own IPFS node/pulled from your local web server, which seems redundant to me.

(I totally get the use case for popular files; it’s awesome for that!)
> For all the recycling I’ve done, a single factory can undo in just a day.

Tangential, but recycling is much less effective the reduced consumption.

I think the problem with policy makers not moving on this front is a reflection of people not doing so. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to make people even believe in something that would require them to sacrifice their lifestyle, let alone actually commit to doing something about it. To that end, the continued talk about climate change is necessary to hammer into our thick skulls that yes indeed this is a real problem and we really should do something about it and pressure our policy makers to make it a priority even if it means we can't have the same luxurious lifestyle we're accustomed to.
IANAL but the serious answer -- i think -- is that you always use things at your own risk, even purchased tools, and are protected via indemnity agreements. If there is no indemnity agreement (is is the case here), you assume the risk.

That said, if enough people are bitten by this, i'm not sure what happens -- does anyone know of a relevant case. One somewhat relevant case that caused mass pain was the SCO Linux Dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
PiHole uses the DoH canary domain by default, so if you use PiHole it should just work without any effort on your part, and effectively disables DoH network wide. You can search how to encrypt the lookups that PiHole makes itself, a common scenario is to install cloudflared on the PiHole and point it at localhost, which you can see here: https://nathancatania.com/posts/pihole-dns-doh/
Are you in a growing state or region of the country? Growth could mean either economic or population, but primarily thinking population here.
You are claiming that the last two warm periods where not global? So you deny the existence of the Minoan, Roman, and the Medieval interglacials? I think geologists would disagree.
You will want to employ DPI anyway, to make sure no other apps/devices on your network subvert your internal security. DoH is just another signature to detect and block.
ProPublica is just working within the bounds of the tax returns that were stolen from the IRS.
I was a young person during the tube era. My dad was one of those guys with a bag full of tubes. The reason he was carrying them around was that NOTHING WORKED. The 'right to repair' was actually, a horrible 'burden of repair'. It's great that it helped Woz made Apple but it was also an era of buggy whips whose passing I do not lament.

I would not support anything that added a microgram to my iPhone or MacBook or give up even one tiny feature to support the tiny fraction of people who can do repairs.

I would be comfortable with establishing a legal framework that allows standing for litigation on the basis of "subverting the right-to-repair for anti-competitive reasons" with those reasons being constrained to behavior truly unwarranted and without meaningful contribution to the quality of the product I get.
Oh man, I had so many ideas. It's true though that ideas per se are pretty worthless. Find a problem or a need people have and then think about how one might solve it / serve it.

That's why I think you can just freely share all your ideas on a blog or so. You might attract people who are looking to find a solution to their problem.
I think it boils down to: be Norwegian, i.e. have an already well functioning government and relatively egalitarian society.
> The licenses you grant to us will end when you remove Your Content from our servers, unless other Users have forked it. [0]

I don't see how they can keep this clause, and then have a service that recites/redistributes code, based on a model that has already ingested said code.

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program. [1]

Copilot is distributed verbatim code when it regurgitates, which seems a pretty clear violation of this clause. (If it wasn't regurgitating, they'd have caselaw for fair use. But... It is.)

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
Road to hell paved with good intentions.
Chatcontrol: EU Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications
People can do whatever they want with their work, including not sharing it at all.

But a great deal of the value that's come from open source generally has been that open source licenses haven't imposed the sort of usage-based restrictions (e.g. free for educational use only) that were fairly common in the PC world.

And, to your example, in the case of software the incremental copy that your friend sold cost you absolutely nothing. So it comes down to a purely emotional response to someone else making money off something you made.
I'm not sure this is actually true. We can explain code, but the fact that we can explain code is not necessarily related to the way we actually end up writing it. Have you ever written a function "on autopilot"? Your brain has selected what you wanted it to do, and now you're just typing without thought? I don't think we're as dissimilar to this model as we'd like.
Show HN: How fast can you type code?
> Self-host at places like OVH that bill by pipe bandwidth rather than gigabytes transferred. Your site may get slow if it gets a hug of death but you won't get a stupid high bill.

If your primary concern is cost consciousness, and when your failure case is "get slow and fall over" and you're OK with that, this makes sense. For the OP, who doesn't seem to have a profit motive, I think this is good advice.

The caveat I would add is that a lot of folks try to extrapolate from personal stuff into the small-business (opposing "startup" -- that is, not swimming in VC money) realm, and it's easy to staple your hand to your face when looking at video in that way. Balancing cost controls against quality of service is kinda pretty hard for video because engagement is tied in pretty tightly to time-to-first-frame and to consistency of the video stream coming down, and even a well-provisioned set of boxes in an OVH datacenter somewhere are going to have more trouble with latency as well as bandwidth to geographically distributed clients. Yeah, you can fix this...by building your own CDN out of multiple points of presence at multiple data centers, but there are economies of scale to just paying your local friendly CDN overlords to ship your stuff from their POPs. Not all video usage is directly tied to revenue, though, which is why I characterize it as risk: the particulars of your venture may be such that the risk of higher costs due to sudden popularity is worth the quality of service during the 99.9% period for your users who aren't local to your point of presence. But there are no hard-and-fast rules here.
The missing «20 Minuten» Search Function
> these surveillance companies are the ones getting high value data for petty baubles

Because we give it to them.

The end user's choices matter here.
15 months after the relaunch, there is still no way to search for articles on the 20Minuten.ch website. Let's fix it!
Do we have any idea about the size of the original population, the size of the group which left for Europe, the size of the group's who migrated to central/west Africa?

I had heard that there were several waves of migration towards Europe, do we have a better estimate about this? Wouldn't multiple waves over time provide more diversity?
In my experience Vimeo is great, while Dailymotion is absolute garbage: the streaming itself stutters at low quality and the amount of unskippable super long ads is insane.
> For all the recycling I’ve done, a single factory can undo in just a day.

Just remember: those same factories are operated by companies that have spent millions over decades to convince people that individual solutions exist to a systemic problem.

If you feel powerless, try looking for systemic opportunities to drive change.
GitHub's Copilot looks like a "code laundering" machine to me.
75% of households earn under $120k per year. With max 401k, HSA, IRA, standard deduction, and a couple other easy to use deductions, is it worth it for them to go through all that trouble?
Nobody has managed micropayments that are actually micro. Even F2P games rarely allow you to spend less than about $1 at a time - it's all about chasing whales who'll spend $99.99 repeatedly...

In the case of something like YouTube, they'd want vastly more (and as a monthly subscription) to remove the ads than they'd earn from an average user watching the ads.

The alternative might have been a 'watch without ads' button, allowing a truly small transaction (a few cents) to watch a specific video without ads.
It might, depending on who's doing the counting?

I would estimate that they themselves would probably identify with some of these tangping people.

Spending long hours hacking computer systems, dressed in ripped jeans listening to Pink Floyd only looks like work in retrospect. ATT, much of it probably looked like an overindulgent hobby. Same for hanging out and playing guitar.

Diogenes himself left quite a legacy. Pretty direct line from him to stoicism, for example.

Most bummy subcultures don't become the Homebrew Computer Club, Beatles or whatnot. Some do.
If we're going to try and ramp up battery production and technology, then in for a penny in for a pound. We should really decentralize the power grid enough to take the weight of these types of spikes, putting in batteries to the home (like the Tesla wall, but with more competition) and solar/wind/gravity generation to supplement grid power generation. It's a jobs program that's been needed and called for for the last few years anyway, and now seems the time... not that the governmental gridlock would ever let anything like that happen, or even a spending project for small equity home/apartments retrofitting would happen. Not to mention the raw materials needed for the batteries.
The reason it was fixable is because almost nothing worked correctly for very long once it left the factory. It was not a golden age.

Our TV was out for a month once because my dad could not figure it out.
I mainly work with STM32 Cortex-M3 MCUs (again, these are my personal projects).

Rust, well, "works". But there is still a bunch of issues so I keep developing using C until I get the kinks ironed out.
The line is exactly the same line that's always been drawn in fair use cases.

There's absolutely nothing different whether the creator is ML or a human.

Generally, if you train an ML network to generate an almost exact copy of a thousand lines, it's obviously not fair use. If it's five simple lines, it obviously is fair use. If it's somewhere in between, there are a lot of different factors that need to be weighed in a fair use decision, which you can easily look up.
All the liberal VCs and all the little liberal shithead wantre-preneurs told everyone to wear masks. That infiltrated all the "hot" companies and the next thing you know we have an 80 year old who can't remember what the fuck he's saying while his son impregnates underage girls and allows Xi to wave his dick all over the world.

What a bunch of fucking cucks.

Hacker News has the most un-educated communist pieces of shit in the world.
He admits that he and the people he knows bet on 'shitcoins', so no surprise. Clue is the name.
> I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control?

You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/premium
pays for expensive apps: 100s of millions of people
uses mac os: 100s of millions
knows what electron is: 431,882 weekly downloads.

I'm making a bit of a joke here, but the market is plenty huge for this app. Also, not all of Hackernews is developers who have opinions on electron. e.g. Me.
People have been suggesting this ever since Copilot was announced and it doesn't work on any level. They're using all code on GitHub, even the ones with no license and which you can't use for any purpose and the reasoning is that they see it as fair use - which supersedes any licenses and copyrights in the US.
If you're W-2 it really doesn't matter at all though yeah?

And if the money you're making isn't all that much saving 15% could easily be not worth the trouble of doing it. Or add up to even $400.