skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However note that's comparing smoking not nicotine.

Inhaling smoke is very bad for you. Lots of people die this way in fires. Like, you cut the victims open and there is soot in their lungs. So, no surprise smoking cigarettes is also a bad idea even if it's less bad than being in a literal burning building.

Nicotine is poisonous, but so is booze. There may be other things about vaping which are bad for you, but it seems pretty clear that the main problem is the nicotine, which is why people are doing it anyway, so, fine.

Booze has another important difference though: The ones drinking aren't always the ones dying. That can be because they're impaired while operating machinery (e.g. someone has "a few beers" then drives home, next morning they don't remember anything about how they got home, but there's a blood red stain on the bumper and someone else is found dead in a ditch) or they might just become violent and cause deliberate harm to others.
Are we now also not seeing now why people would want to do that? A multi-billion dollar company using people work to make more profits without paying them.

I definitely understand why people pick a license that disallows use someone doesn't agree with. Imagine baking cookies for your friends, and one of them reselling them. The material effect is the same to you, you gave away your cookies, but sometimes you make/do something for a certain group of people and not for other to make a profit of your work.
If you have over $2m, the argument that U.S. taxation is extortion is even less convincing. Such people have the means to hire lawyers and grease the wheels to emigrate to a wide swath of countries.

The most desirable places often have high tax rates, though. Funny how it works out like that.
> GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

> Version 3, 29 June 2007

> Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>

> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
I call ordered dithering "period-appropriate" because it is what software and hardware implemented at the time for real-time dithering. I don't mean to imply other dithering algorithms hadn't been invented. Did any other reader interpret it like that?

Edit: Rather than wait for replies, I went ahead and changed the phrasing anyway. Thanks!
I think "non-ferrous natural resources" is a garbled translation of "elements heavier than iron", which would be accurate. Iron is the heaviest element that is relatively abundant in the crust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...
It’s sort of a survivorship bias. I say sort of since generally speaking new evidence or contrary evidence without explanation has a history of being convincing in science. We won’t have perfect knowledge but one can make decisions based on the best available knowledge. Lack of perfect knowledge is not a moral justification for inaction in the face of looming major disruption.
No, you don’t.

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/tax-fairness-briefing-bo...
> You do so by teaching your developers everything they need to know.

I feel bad for people who are going to work on your team.
You're the second to suggest that, we are implementing the change on the home page as we speak, thanks :)
To me streams are a collection of meetings of the same kind, and the notes related to those all in one place.

I personally think the name of the feature could be better. Maybe "Series"?
You'll get a /64 so you'll have more than enough addresses (2^64) to play with if privacy is a concern.
Notice that the current infrastructure bill before the U.S. Congress includes a provision to increase enforcement resources for the IRS. Those resources have been cut considerably in recent years, and restoring them is expected to pay for itself several times over, by catching people cheating on their taxes.

Conservative groups are mobilizing to oppose increasing the funding:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/07/irs-taxes...
If people want sovereignty, they can run their own server, but no one would find it. Peertube is a good middle ground, especially since you can run your own instance if you really want more control.
"What if the 'safe' carbon budget is zero. We can't sugar-coat the potential realities of this."

Compared to what? Living without electricity? Paying 10x for energy?

The lack of a real comparison with the real life consequences of a zero carbon budget seems a bit too convenient
I understand and a sympathize with his opinion, at the same time the platform must be financed somehow, no?

Yeah I know Google are rich but still, from a technical standpoint YT is pretty damn good. I've never had any issues watching videos or streaming, and instantly served in EU, Asia and the US.

For that and the massive selection of content I'd say it's worth it for me.
So one question I've had for a while is if we are currently facing such a catastrophe with increased global heat why don't we go ahead and start conducting massive explosions to kick dust up into the air. When Krakatoa went off it caused global cooling throughout the entire world because of the amount of matter it introduced into the air so why don't we do the same right now at least as a stopgap measure if things are looking so dire?

I'm not trying to be argumentative I just don't understand why this is a bad idea?
This kind of stuff is silly and damaging propaganda. It distracts people from what being a billionaire means.

If Elon cashed out his stock he would no longer have control of SpaceX and Tesla. Those are literally what he is doing with his money.
Awesome! Good luck with the launch!
Depreciation for players in sports teams was introduced in 1909? Didn't know, I'm not from the US, so thank you.
Awesome work, OP. I'm a really fan of your work, you make solid stuff!

How many more parts do you plan to do?
This is sounding extraordinarily abstract, and more like an evasion than a defense. If your point is NOT that "women in China should stay home and let men have jobs", then maybe you could explain it better?
As a general rule, species start out with fairly high levels of diversity from natural processes of evolution. What happened with the out-of-Africa population is what's known as the founder effect. A small population leaves and becomes reproductively isolated. Whatever diversity can be found in their descendents is largely limited to the diversity that was present in the founding population.

One thing that should be made very clear is that ancient population structures generally don't map neatly to modern cultures or languages. It's best to treat modern terms as labels of convenience.
May I ask why you wouldn't use Kuma?
What's the innovation here?
> That disproves nothing. If you want to build your own system you need to research hardware if you want to have a pain free deployment.

Again, I said nothing about building my own.

> This forum is generally filled with people who want to build their own.

This forum is generally filled with people with a lot of qualities. For instance, there are a lot of people here who buy Apple products, which are very much not in the spirit of building one's own. Your assumption doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

> As for why nobody mentioned they sell hardware: probably because they sold hardware from the beginning and it’s advertised all over their site?

That's fair, I haven't looked at their site in ages because the last time I used OPNsense was after the very initial split and to my recollection there was no hardware then.
In elementary school we played soccer during recess. The kid who owned the ball wanted to play striker. We wanted him to play defense because he sucked. He played striker because it was his ball. The government treats Ballmer the same way. We don't want Ballmer to take his ball elsewhere.
The figure of merit is cost, and it's only correlated with efficiency. If efficiency was king, we'd all be driving 60% efficient cars...the technology exists but the cost is not acceptable.
WSL: Run Linux GUI Apps [video]
I honestly wouldn't be able to tell whether it's electron or anything else... maybe people who can tell them apart aren't the target group for this?
Wouldn't be so sure about that. Nicotine alone has problematic effects on the heart and vascular system, especially since the addictiveness leads to constant admission. Vaping isn't all that great delivery system either.
Here is Clay Shirky's article on Micropayments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030911092002/http://www.shirky...
What does he expect for a site that serves his videos for free, not to mention recommends them to people as well to get a wider audience?

"Sovereignty" is a bizarre word here. It's a business deal. Nobody's ever "sovereign" in any exchange, it's either a good deal or not.

If he wants to pay for hosting himself, then go ahead, but no need to act like it's a question of "sovereignty". Nobody's a king here.
I think to actually poison the well, we should add code to existing repos with dead code clearly labelled as "the way that things shouldn't be done" that are wrong in subtle ways. So every time we fix a security issue, we keep the version with the bug with some comments indicating what's wrong with it. Of course, this only works until the AI is trained to weigh the code based on how often the code is called.
This is not different from "penny stocks" investing and GME-style investing or gambling

Who in their right mind invests in dog-named coin created 1 day ago?
Good communication has got nothing to do with whether developers believe in a project or not. The two are orthogonal.
Well-put.

Thanks for noticing — I hope to be on a project of yours soon.
No problem, thanks for taking the time to comment :)
Also NAL, but I think there's far more of a case that users of Copilot might violate copyright rather than Copilot itself:

- Only a very small proportion of Copilot generated code is reproduced verbatim, so if you specifically built a product just from copied-verbatim code, your act of selecting and combining those pieces of copyrighted code would be creating a derivative work.

- GitHub is not selling the copyrighted code, they are selling the tool itself. Google is literally the same thing: you could theoretically create a product by googling for prefixes of copyrighted code and then copying the remainder straight out of the search results. It's you who would be violating copyright, not google.
Just remember to ground your antenna per the NEC. Probably an insurance requirement and it can help reduce noise caused by atmospheric electricity.
If that helps, here's a global overview: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Anti-mask_law

A lot of the "rich" world had anti-mask legislation, and failing the presence of legislation a willingness to put pressure on their citizens to be "identifiable" in public at all times (where I am in Quebec some attempts being repelled were still news as of 2017 iirc)
Yes, well "The Patcher" was the original pre-release name of Max (before it was Max/MSP it was Max), and at various points there have been other incarnations of it, including JMax, and (still current), PureData by the original author. This is definitely a hats off to that. There's a great a paper by Miller Puckette, the author, on the history. http://msp.ucsd.edu/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/
I don't think that matters to the point of the article and I don't really see those as different. Abuse would, in this case, seem to be best defined as leveraging unintended consequences for personal gain?
Best ideas from the first 25 posts
We need a minimum tax.
> The wealthy will likely gain by climate change, already there is a wall of money looking to benefit from sustainable and transition finance.

I can't tell what point you're making. Do you mean "the wealthy will likely gain by combatting climate change"? If so, no doubt some will benefit from it, but they won't benefit as much (in the short term) as they would if they continued to externalize costs into the environment.

> Not so well off people might - correctly - see that they will be disproportionately hit.

I don't buy this at all. There's no fundamental reason that carbon policies would disproportionately impact the lower and middle classes and indeed many of the policy proposals are expressly designed to minimize or negate the burden imposed on those classes. The only reason policies tend to increase the burden on those classes is because the upper classes lobby accordingly.
How do you like embedded Rust?

I’m looking forward to someone making a legit IDE/suite with support, no indication of it yet but I assume some day!
Solar works very well and is cheaper than coal. I have it on my roof right now, producing megawatt hours of energy per year. Millions of cars on the road today run on it. Don't be hysterical with statements like, "living without electricity".
My experience has been different than what is described here. I haven’t met that many developers who didn’t know why they were doing what they were doing. Instead I’ve met lots of managers who used the _why_ as if it was some magic wand that made the impossible possible, that turned garbage into clean, working code, that magically reduced the number of bugs to none, that squeezed six hours of hacking into one etc. I’ve met people who repeat the same _why_ over and over again as if that turned developers into machines that spit out good software, fast and cheap. More often than not I found myself telling my manager “I don’t know”, “I’m not sure”, “I’ll think about it” or “that will take a while”, and got a response like “yeah, but we need this because of/in order to/etc.”
The benefit is complying with local laws. Not all countries have “first amendment style free speech”. Note the speech restrictions in the Indian constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_expression_in_India

The farmers protests were allegedly detrimental to the sovereignty and security of India and so it makes sense to ban those kinds of hastags.

FWIW, the American government also requests removals from social media sites.

Edit: perhaps this comment is unnecessarily controversial / inflammatory. I just wanted to suggest that there are other interpretations of free speech law and that it makes sense for a corporation to comply with those laws if they want to operate in those countries. I personally dont agree with those laws, which is why I fortunately moved to the US.
>> Apple and Google Pay for example work pretty well. But if I pay for access to something today, how do you know it's me when I return a year later and want access again?

Yet another reason why identity verification by default would make the net better. No spam, easy payments, elimination of middle-men for many use cases.
Environments can shape behaviors and mindsets. The aesthetic encompasses formal aspects that are not purely stylistic.

I agree it is certainly a strong application of taste, but would you disagree that this environment might predispose groups toward different types of interactions? (different than a cube farm, or event different from a typical open office?)
It’s not copyright violation to train ML on content. So the license doesn’t matter unless there’s some “can’t use this for ML training” license that I don’t know about (and doesn’t seem to be legal).
> the tracking includes all sites and pages

But it doesn't! They are proposing, in the stable version, to include only pages that opt in by calling the FLoC API.

For the origin trial in particular, to avoid a chicken-and-egg issue, they are also including pages that have ads. Since ads today make extensive use of third-party cookies for cross-site tracking, This is still not anything like "all sites and pages".

(Still speaking only for myself)
>> disappearing political dissidents
cough Julian Assange, Reality Winner, Chelsea Manning

They haven’t been disappeared.
How much will it cost to set up an LLC? How many recurring fees will this incur?
The licensing game is really awful imo. It should be that releasing your code on github = fair game. Licenses are seriously hindering development. You either take part in open source or you don’t. I get anxious every time someone asks me to add a license to one of my project because I don’t know which license to use and wonder if it’ll prevent some people from using the software down the line. Once I tried writing my own license that basically said: I don’t care, do whatever. Yet someone complained with “yet another license”.
You're correct there. The problem is that technology can't think in shades of gray. A TPM can only have an incredibly one dimensional view.

Take your own example of "owner" as in "rightfully, legally". There can be a huge difference between rightfully and legally. Think about all the things western nations took away legally from 'their' colonies. Or the completely legal civil forfeiture procedures in the US. Plenty of multidimensional trouble just by putting the word rightful after legal.

I want to actually own my hardware, hack mu hardware, and I would love to see things like TPMs and DRM and locked phones banished from this planet, even if this encourages some people to steal hardware. But plenty of corporations love bitlocker and love to trade away the useless hackability of hardware. And after talking for a few scary minutes with a movie exec, I got the impression they see computers as nothing more but theft machines and the current copyright enforcement mechanisms as way to inadequate.
Both of these examples include you creating something and then using it. I don't know how copilot works, but using the second example, if you wrote a script to download and seed trackers, and someone else used it, I don't think you would be held under any liability, especially if you don't profit off of it.

Not a lawyer or even particularly well informed

edit: I am reminded of the monkey selfie, in which it was ruled that a non-human cannot create copyrightable works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
Yaaaay, less meetings
> seems a bit too convenient

What does this mean?
That methodology doesn't appear to be supported by the latest scientific research. The vast majority of recovered patients retain a high level of immunity for an extended period of time. Reinfections have occurred but statistically are very rare.
> I, as a human being, have trained by reading code, much of which is covered by licenses that are somehow not compatible with code I'm writing. Am I violating licenses?

There are many good answers from the legal side. I would also attack this side: the way human beings learn is entirely different from the way ML models are trained. We don't do gradient descent to find the slope of data points and find the most likely next bit of code.

We humans create rational models of the code and of the world, and use deduction from those models to create code. This is extremely visible in the way we can explain the reason behind our code, and in the way we are aware of the difference between copying code we've seen before vs writing new code. It's also visible in that we can be told rules and produce code that obeys those rules that doesn't resemble any code ever written before.

The difference is also easily quantifiable: humans learn to program after seeing vastly fewer code examples than Co-pilot needed, and we are much better at it.

One day, we will design an AI that does learn more similarly to how humans learn, and that day your question will be far more interesting. But we are far from such problems.
Respectfully, I’m getting fatigued from hearing about climate changes. Not because I don’t care, but because I feel powerless to do anything major about it. For all the recycling I’ve done, a single factory can undo in just a day.

Being defeatist isn’t exactly productive, but hearing that calamities are happening on a daily basis doesn’t help much either. I really do think the only way this’ll get better is after some additional damage is seen and felt by policy makers. Until then, I’ll use my resources wisely and encourage others to do the same.
We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
Sadly I think it's both: everything is free right, and what's the big deal with this privacy stuff anyway?
>However, governments being able to force the removal of content (such as a "controversial hash tag related to farmer protests against new agricultural reforms") can't be good. That plus forcing the company to hire government-approved executives seems like a slippery slope.

Most governments (including India's) already have the power to make Twitter and other sites censor content. The requirement for a local compliance officer comes from the fact that Twitter's India branch has literally no direct control over the content on its platform and is mostly here to sell advertisements and look over marketing.
They might be in a race to win certain markets, but they are most definitely both viable in their own respects in other markets. Fuel cells will likely never be used in watches and phones, and batteries will likely never be used in widebody jets.
Significantly reducing the sunlight that reaches the surface also has the tiny issue of killing all the plants. Most grasses will survive, but crops?
I would think that would make the air dangerous to breath, among a host of other downsides.
Let him try to take his ball elsewhere. We're more powerful than we're being led to believe.

I can't stand the notion, "What can we do? We have to let the rich pay little to no taxes!"
By using github you have acceded to their terms of use[1]:

> Short version: You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content you post. You still have control over your content, and responsibility for it, and the rights you grant us are limited to those we need to provide the service. We have the right to remove content or close Accounts if we need to.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
There is a reason everyone is moving here.
> smoking could be called a weight loss product

And it was! The difference is that smoking isn't really healthier than obesity, so it's not a very good way to lose weight overall.
Health privacy laws in the US do prohibit that except for very specific cases.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/court-orders-subpo...
Well, you can. You just need confounding causes.
I mean, if it's considered "fair use" legally (which is surely their position), then why wouldn't they?

Why would they distinguish between licenses if there's no legal need to?

Licenses are only restrictions on top of fair use. Licenses can't restrict fair use.

It would be interesting if someone takes them to court and a judge definitively rules on fair use in this particular case. Or I don't know if there's enough precedent here that the case would never even make it to trial. But with a team of top-paid Microsoft lawyers that gave this the green light, I'm pretty sure they're quite confident of the legality of it.