skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, I think you're being disingenuous here and I think you know it. No one is telling customers "your phone is now a brick" when their charge port breaks and "right to repair", as a whole" does not have a fine handle on what's being advocated for. If it did, there wouldn't be so many different variations of understanding for "right to repair" actually is. The number of variations for it in the various bills being floating around is innumerable and there are very few people, and I'm excluding you in this, who aren't trying to push their desires for it for anything but selfish reasons.

I get that you're kinda the de-facto figurehead of the movement but let's not pretend that your reasons for supporting this are altruistic and that you're not pushing for this because you run a business that needs this to go through. Regardless of what companies we're talking about, your business would eventually go under if the current situation doesn't change so forgive me if I take everything you say with a grain of salt, especially considering that you've made misleading claims in your videos and ignore when people call you out on it. That, to me, is not the way to grow support for people's rights over the products they own. The only way to do that is to be blunt and honest about what the situation is on both sides and what the motivations for the two sides are. They are not irreconcilable.
Apple doesn’t allow or release parts.
Perhaps people on HN start sensing that successors of Github Copilot will take their programming job. Rightly so.

Personally, I think that in the age of AI programming any notions of code licensing should be abolished. There is no copyright for genes in nature or memes in culture; similarly, these shouldn't be copyright for code.
> operator in regex.

regex is not regular expressions - if using NFA to match then you're matching all alternates simultaneously.

Russ Cox has good pictures explaining idea in 'Regular Expression Search Algorithms' section of <https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html>
He wore down his car and had to pay higher insurance. He ended up making slightly over 9 dollars an hour. Better than a busboy.. perhaps but at least after bus boying he will have a car that still works.
College board only fairly recently stopped requiring faxes for requesting CLEP transcripts.
Alternatively you host your videos on both your own Peertube site as well as Youtube and direct Youtube-visitors to either Peertube, Invidious [2] or - if they're using Android - NewPipe. If they are command-line savvy they can use youtube-dl or one of the mediaplayers which make use of its functionality (mpv, VLC, smplayer etc). In other words there are many ways to both have your cake and eat it here. Self-hosted Peertube with Youtube as CDN and discovery network gives you the best of both worlds. If Google ever decides your videos don't fit the desired narrative you won't be left out in the cold. By self-hosting you also avoid being branded -ist or -phobe just because you happen to use some alternative video platform (Odysee etc) which also hosts content made by others.

[1] https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube

[2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[3] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
We already know how this happens when Google cancels your account, without any warning.
I find that the question of "whether simpler" is summed up in the aphorism "it's easy to get wrong answers infinitely fast".

Where software gets out of control really quickly is wherever you start to express a thing that is not essentially true on its own premises, and requires the introduction of a great number of assumptions. Commercial software falls into this pit unthinkingly since the business requirements create all kinds of assumptions: "it needs to support as many languages as possible" or "it needs to have calendar features" or "it needs to be compatible with this other system" are three super common ones that can create huge dependencies. So our software deviates from "truth" in some respect to get the job done of being presentable to other humans and doing the thing they expect.

At every layer of our current systems, we have little Swiss Army Knife components that can be set up to do anything to resolve these kinds of issues, which means that they do all of it somewhat poorly. Old software is often more like a chainsaw - it doesn't have much to configure, so it's inadmissable for a larger spectrum of tasks, but the thing it does, it does quickly.

Long run, though, I believe that true software crowds out false, even if there's a short-term advantage in getting the market to adopt something that does everything poorly and mostly serves the business, the next phase of that is a flight to quality, which currently manifests as everyone depending on some unmaintained open source code that works and does the job.
Ask HN: How can I unsubscribe myself from some startup recruitment tool?
I have recently started to get about 5-10 emails per week from startups who want me to have a quick chat with them about their ground breaking thing.

This is on my personal email that I don't give out and have been able to keep fairly spam free since 2006.

Do I have any recourse under can-spam? None of the email are "mass mail", but they are unsolicited, and they are from real people.

How can I find out who has my email and delete it from there?
People can hate on BB, but this is a very well written and transparent update on what’s happening, why, and when to see resolution to the issues.
This was an entertaining read.
> You'd have to send out the probe, hoping that your grandchildren wait around for the response.

Why would our grandchildren be less interested in interstellar exploration than we are? We need ways to organize (parts of) society for the long term, that seems way easier than inventing magical "accelerate at 1g for a decade" tech.
Humanity is fine but we’ve tolerated cancers that have gained control of the brain and are running the show.
Every time middlemen eliminated, new kitten is born!

And vice versa.

I applaud any service that makes former happens.
I wish the far right hadn’t poisoned the free speech well. I genuinely blame them for people being mostly okay with censorship on this scale.
It is, but it has a GPL style permission.

ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

The idea that programmers taking snippets from stackexchange or co-pilot etc meaning they have a derivative work seems like total insanity.
I think the idea they are suggesting is that if we can figure out how to terraform Mars and create a livable atmosphere from scratch, the tech and domain knowledge created along the way means cleaning up our atmosphere should be easy in comparison.

Kind of like Olympic gymnasts lift weights and work on flexibility and they want to exceed what their performances require such that the performance is easy and not pushing them to the limits of their ability.

Ie "You have to crawl before you can walk. If you learn to run, walking becomes trivial in comparison."

If that makes sense.
Imagine how that would play out post Grenfell. No we can't put out your fire because your builder used the wrong cladding, you should have read the T's and C's. Tough luck.

It's always in the interest of insurance companies to pay out as little as they can get away with.
Is it embarrassing? Maybe it’s a shortage of market incentives or maybe it’s just a really difficult problem? We shouldn’t assume we’ll have innovative solutions for everything.

I think a healthier futuristic perspective would be one that considers only some percentage of problems will be solved through innovation, at least in the near term. That way we accept we still could be screwed and need to work harder!
>Many famous people started out with one good idea

Which had nothing or almost nothing to do with their success.

Bezos didn't succeed because he had the idea to "make an online bookstore".
Self-help books are a scam because essentially we scam ourselves out of self-improvement. Instead of doing the obvious, like eat less & exercise more, we hope that some idea instead of hard work will actually make us improve. Ideas can be powerful and motivating, but anyone who thinks that they can improve their lives by doing nothing is deluding themselves.
> As we planned for this migration

> Our focus was primarily on read operations

> In contrast, we accepted that there would be increased latency for writes

It didn't sound like they were throwing the engineers under the bus at all to me. They seemed to be highlighting that engineering executed well on the items management wanted them to focus on.
username checks out lol
That already exists though? SongSmith and other similar tools are used by musicians a lot.
The main lesson to learn is that people will cling to hope peddlers no matter how BS it is.
So, when a human reads public code on the Internet (no matter the licence), and gains knowledge, learns (updates the synaptic weights of the brain), and then makes (indirectly) use of that gained knowledge for further work, how is this different to this case?
See also https://eth.link/.
I'm not sure that's super applicable to humans. Doesn't it also assume panmixia and non-overlapping generations?

Either way, my understanding is that all indications point to middle and late Pleistocene populations being highly structured and "unusual" as far as standard assumptions go.
It's like you skipped over my entire post and only read the last sentence.

> Your argument is that you would care if your employer developed ridiculous and contrived metrics and then assessed your value based on them?

No. As I alluded to, I think that a developer who does not care about his or her end user is a worse developer in concrete ways.
If you're thinking about the liability waiver found in many licenses and contracts and EULA and other, they are often void, depends on the jurisdiction.

The official answer from Github that they take all input on purpose doesn't play in their favor.
X.org?
Choice. I'm not forced into a service provided by anyone.

Government is monopoly of violence.

For example, mono crop wheat is terrible, but the government uses its monopoly of force to coerce me into subsidies for foods I refuse to eat.

These subsidies are the reason it's healthiest to stick to the perimeter of the store. Without them, cheap cereal junk foods would at least not be so cheap.

This encouragement of low quality mono cropping directly supports big ag and companies like Monsanto. I'd much rather spend my money at a local farm.
I disagree, in that I think any privately-owned platform that people voluntarily use, have easy alternatives to, and can leave without consequence has the right to moderate the content on their platform as they see fit.

That being said, after having a political/ideological group I really liked removed off a major platform (that it followed the ToS of) without analogous opposite-side groups being removed, I'm at least very sympathetic to your position. I thing we both agree that harmless differences of opinion shouldn't be removed, but I'll agree to disagree on whether the law should be involved.
> they lack deep knowledge and basically copy paste stackoverflow answers

If thats all the job calls for why should I do anymore?
Ask HN: What would a (much) better AngelList look like?
As a candidate, the problems I've faced on AL are:

- often not enough info in the job postings I come across

- it's too easy to apply (this makes my application one in a hundred)

- my applications stay pending for days (or weeks sometimes)

As a hiring manager:

- far too much noise. Candidates who are completely unqualified, not in the locations I'm hiring in, or too junior apply

- not great if I'm hiring for fractional, freelance/part-time, or contract roles (doing more of this now)

- copy/paste (cover letter) applications

- no way to get senior talent to consider applying (for all the problems outlined above)

What is good:

- salary/equity info

- free (unless you're sourcing)

- quick to get started
I've avoided "Think and Grow Rich" for a long time due to the title and premise of the book. I picked it up a few weeks ago and really like it.

Heck, I think if I read it 10 years ago I wouldn't even have the emotional maturity to appreciate it. There's a beauty to some of these books --- some of the ideas seem obvious and can easily be written off until you have the emotional wherewithal and maturity to appreciate the difficulty of what they are suggesting.

"Think and Grow Rich" is a good example. What do you mean... I just have to write a vision for myself that I believe I can achieve, and read it twice a day? Sounds stupid.

... and then you realize how difficult it is for people to truly come up with a vision statement for their success that they legitimately believe they can achieve within a specific time frame... And that doing this correctly is the hard part.

Brilliant.
This so much!!!
That's for private condos. 80% of people in Singapore live in government built public housing. The cost of the average public apartment is more like $300k which is not that bad for a city like Singapore.

As far as I can tell most comparisons for "the price of housing between Singapore and X" only look at private condos, probably because X doesn't have anything like Singapore's public flats to compare with for almost all values of X.

(When you "buy" a public apartment from the government, you get a 99 year lease, which you can resell. There are restrictions on buying public apartments, if I remember right you have to be a citizen or PR, and you have to be married or 35+. They cannot be bought by corporations.)
Indeed, in 2011, 71% [1] of the electricity production of Iceland was used by the aluminum industry!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Iceland#...
I am far more concerned about software automating what used to be left to human judgement. AI will judge us just the same, just faster and with no way to appeal to common sense.
Self-help industry is a joke. My fave https://i.redd.it/uim9p5b9wpaz.png
I followed you on Twitter for several years and also heard your interview on the New Liberals podcast. Would love to see you around here more often as well.
Apple has made it illegal to obtain parts, people doing this have obtained the parts from other people who are breaking the law/contracts they signed.

Apple also uses software to disable replacing parts.
I recall hearing of a mode one time where elevators would only go to the 2nd floor and not the 1st. Something for crime, etc.

Maybe it was from a movie or something ...

Edit : Thanks! Found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator#Riot_mode
downvote? why?
A Cryptocurrency Binance trading bot that analyses Reddit sentiment
True, although I think that's hydropower? At least that's what I remember from when I studied there ~15 years ago.
Most business only absorb the minimum amount of margin loss they can, and for very short terms. No business aims to operate at a loss unless propped up by outside investments.

All businesses will increase prices to maintain the profits they need, up until what the market will bear - which is why taxes will also not end up pushing it too far, the gov isn’t stupid.
There is a middle ground that exists only when you combine science with common sense.

Let's say a chemical X is used in baby food production. There are no studies that show that it is harmful, because no studies have been done yet. Many chemicals with similar structure have been shown to be harmful.

Scientifically speaking you would be correct to say that there is no evidence that chemical X is harmful. There is no way yet to accurately model the interaction of any chemical with your body without any actual experimentation. You can make an argument that chemical X might be harmful because similar chemicals are harmful, but that would not be science.

I would not buy that baby food with chemical X if given a choice. Best case I don't lose.

Finding conclusive evidence in science often takes lots of time to gather enough data because there are so many different variables to consider. So absence of evidence means a lot more when you have been looking for a long time and invested lots of resources.
Based on the limited background information I've read about Bezos, this seems true, but can you explain what you mean in more detail? Just because it's interesting.
I can't claim to know all his finances - but his car was a 10 year old ford sedan that must have cost less than 9k when he started. Considering he did Uber for multiple years and the car is still his vehicle I'm pretty sure it is mathematically impossible that depreciation could make it a bad deal - or even close to a bad deal.
If you could somehow accelerate at 1G indefinitely you can get anywhere in the universe in a human lifespan.

Of course to accelerate a 1000 ton spaceship you'd need about 4 quadrillion tons of fuel.
A schematic, in and of itself, may not violate a patent but providing a means for someone to create a part that requires software that's patented may open up people and companies to litigation that would kill them. Qualcomm, for example, holds patents for any number of chips that are in mobile devices from any tech company. A phone manufacturer, more than likely, wouldn't be able to provide schematics for their device that would include any details of how to repair that chip without having to defer to Qualcomm as it itself is only licensing that technology for production of their devices. Patents provide that exclusive legal right but, in most cases, don't extend that right to licensees. The whole situation is a mess.
Indeed, I agree. By no means am I advocating the removal of their ability to post, simply using my own to point out that perhaps they ought to think a bit more about their content.
I believe they could - and they took out quite horrifically large loans to do so.

It maybe made sense though, as your payment was your license to work, and selling the medalion on was your retirement plan. Uber screwed this up - but my feelings are mixed.
It's also useful to remind ourselves to actually apply those lessons; many of us 'know', but fail to 'do' on a regular basis.
I believe this is the original version:

"When doing your training under a tree in the forest or out in the open, you
will not find a privy already built. So, using water from some convenient valley
stream or river, clean yourself off with sand. Since you do not have any ashes at
this time to cleanse yourself with, simply use two sets of seven balls of sandy soil.
The way to use these fourteen balls is as follows: after having removed your robe,
folded it, and put it aside, you take soil that is sandy [rather than dark earth], shape
it into balls about the size of a large soybean, and place these atop a stone or some
other convenient place, with two rows of seven balls each. Then, provide yourself
with some pebbles that can be used for scouring your hands. After that, you relieve
yourself. After you have finished relieving yourself, use a wooden or bamboo toilet
spatula, or some paper, to clean yourself off. You then go to the edge of the water
to wash. Make sure to take three of the balls with you to clean yourself. Put one of
the balls in the palm of your hand, add just a little water, mix the ingredients
together until their consistency is thinner than mud and quite soupy, and begin by
cleaning off your genitals. Then take another sand ball and, preparing it as before,
clean off your buttocks. Again, prepare a sand ball as before and, in the same
manner, clean off your hands."

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobo...
This was a good point. Really enjoying this discussion. Interesting stuff.

I'm really out of my depth in giving my own opinion here, but I'm not sure that either the "distribution != derivative" characterization, or that "parsing GPL => derivative of GPL" really locks this thing down. The bit that I can't follow with the "distribution != derivative" argument is that the copilot is actually performing distribution rather than "design". I would have said that copilot's core function is generating implementations, which to me does not seem like distribution. This isn't a "search" product, and it's not trying to be one. It is attempting to do design work, and I could see a case where that distinction matters.
It's no different, but if human reads copyrighted proprietary code and then reproduces part of it exactly he have good chance to get into huge legal trouble.

On other hand said AI have no idea of who the code belongs to and it's able to reproduce it perfectly.
ProPublica hasn't asserted illegality — or, at least, that's not the main focus of their stories so far?

Genuine, partly-rhetorical: Which of the PRISM stories that came out after the Snowden revelations asserted and proved illegality? IIRC, no one from the government nor any of the C-suite tech executives who secretly approved the surveillance were charged or convicted with anything.

Looking at the lengthy Wikipedia article [0], I see that foreign governments said "nightmarish if true". James Clapper and President Obama himself acknowledged the existence of the program and defended it as passionately and robustly as any of the rich people defending their tax situations.

Should Snowden/Greenwald/Guardian/WaPo held off on publishing the PRISM revelations until they had proof of criminality in hand?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#M...
What about the tools and processes to manufacture this? Are those open source or broadly available? For instance, is it possible to have a small scale "community" fab for 1999-era chip technology?
If you're interested in elevators and the hacking thereof I would also highly recommend this talk: https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus
> No. As I alluded to, I think that a developer who does not care about his or her end user is a worse developer in concrete ways.

Remove developer and answer again.
Pet mode is interesting; it allows you to take your pet on an express ride to your desired floor at the cost of a slightly slower speed.
There's movies you watched and there's movies you never watched and/or never heard of. Its that latter group that the netflix prize was designed for.

The former group is just simple filters as you point out - which informs the ranking of the second group.
What? This is extremely wrong. The end of the 19th century is ~1900. Germany and japan were absolutely not backwards agrarian societies at the time. This was post industrial revolution.
You don't have to tap the touchbar, you can just hold and slide it. It's easier to make both large and precise movements with your fingers.

I just like it. Maybe it's because I can find the button in the touchbar without looking, but I don't really understand why increasing the volume in their laptop so very stressful for some people.
Sounds like a fun place to hang out!
Riot mode.
I think you're mixing "weak" and "broken". Out of interest I looked at the Known attacks section of wikipedias AES article and it says as the first sentence "For cryptographers, a cryptographic "break" is anything faster than a brute-force attack".

DES is both weak and broken, but it could be either without the other.
I hope you apply as critical a reflection to your own country, wherever it is, as you do Britain. I'd be curious to know why you think the general British populace is so self-revelatory - did you or do you now live here? Was that your experience? I'm sorry if so. It is not mine.

Honestly, the only historical self-congratulation I've ever much seen outside of morons in Brits is to do with scientific, cultural or social progress. I don't think most of us have much of hard-on for militaristic events that happened over a hundred years ago.

And, let it be said, as much as her excesses were, Britain's were not unique in the world. Every cunt plays their game. At least we have some small positives added.

- ed: deleted an entirely irrelevant word.
This is awesome!! Well done "Tarzan"