skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're juggling a lot of stuff right now (congrats) but might suggest something like jetbrains' structure - $x gets me lifetime access to version X.

The notion of "well you will get value from it over time" isn't, imo, a great way to frame it. Even if your feature set doesn't grow, you have connections to external services, and they will have changes over time that you'll need to keep up with (auth protocol changes, etc). That takes attention and time and money. BUT... perhaps a "standalone" version that doesn't connect with asana/google/etc. might have a 'one time price'?
The problem is not only the right to repair, but that some product available for sale, are of such bad quality, that they will work only for a very limited time. Buying a good brand is the most important thing. For example, a good brand will provide spare parts to allow you to repair yourself
Please read the parent post before making assumptions about my understanding of Islam. The parent is speaking in the context of Sharia law as implemented in Afghanistan. If you think a woman can simply divorce her husband and walk away unscathed in Afghanistan I'd suggest you take your own advice and read up on the region before you come across as ignorant.

Can a woman who practices Islam in the US divorce her husband without physical harm? Absolutely. Can a woman who practices Islam be a US representative while abiding by the constitution without physical harm? Absolutely.
When I first read about the new copilot tool I immediately thought it would just be a matter of time before some group started poisoning the AI. Garbage in, garbage out right?

So now we know its ALL public repos ... how long until all the opponents of this tool have a giant repo full of syntactically correct code that employs terrible design patterns and is thoroughly obfuscated? I'm not going to waste my time on this personally but there are certainly those who will. Someone will invent a tool that perverts perfectly good code in the process and probably have a good laugh.

Personally, while I recognize some people might find it useful, I don't much care for it. No, I haven't tried it yet either. Ive never sampled escargot either and I know I don't care for it all the same. Maybe it's wonderful, I'll never know - but I do know that I simply don't like the idea of it. Call it an objection on General Principal if you like.

So remember kids, If you're not PAYING then you are the product.

Bottom line - private repos are cheap and you should use them rather than freebie public stuff.
You mean you want someone who is willing to blow smoke up your ass.
You're strongly and incorrectly implying that "Fair Use" is a clear (and relatively immutable) concept within copyright law, which couldn't be further from the truth. Even if this or that particular case sets out what appears to be solid grounds, one shouldn't take that as gospel by any means.

This mostly has to do with the nature of the wishy-washy nature of the 4 part Fair Use test, which, unlike decent legal tests, doesn't actually have discrete answers. The judge looks at the 4 questions, talks about them while waving her hands, and makes a decision.

Comparing to, e.g., Patent, where you actually do have yes-or-no questions. Clean Booleans. Is it Novel? Is it Non-Obvious? Is it Useful? If any of the above is "No", then no patent for you.

As for the execution of Fair Use, while I haven't gone too deep into Software, I can assure that for music, the thing is just a silly holy-hell mess; confirmed most recently by the "Blurred Lines" case, where NO DIRECT COPYING (e.g. sampling or melody taking) was alleged, merely that the song sounded really similar to "Got to give it up" and that was enough.

So then, I'd say everything either is, or should be, up in the air, when it comes to Fair Use and software.
>When comparing the price-point of a refillable vape (or Juul), disposables are around the same price or cheaper, without the hassle of getting fluid on your hands.

That's only true of the device. JUUL pods contain 2ml and a 4 pack is ~$20, about the same price as a 30ml bottle of juice for refillables.
Yeah, I'd be happy to find out there's another option, but at the moment I'm not aware of one. Real estate possibly, but it comes with a ton of maintenance and taxation obligations that aren't in most retirement plans, and it's all so grossly overpriced it feels like its future is even harder to predict than the market.
IMO the focus on plastics is a distraction. We'd be much better served by building buildings that last longer (I live in Switzerland and I'm surrounded by 50 year old concrete buildings being knocked down and replaced with concrete apartments at the cost of god knows how much co2) and need less energy (noticed how old cities with narrow streets stay cool in the sun? Much better than glass-fronted apartments), reducing land use change, taxing transport appropriately, taxing meat, and so on. But those are hard and complaining that too much clingfilm is used is easy, so here we are.

I'm sure someone will say "but we need to start somewhere!". That's true, but we don't really have time for starting small. And often the alternatives are no better anyway — lots of people bought cotton bags to replace single-use plastic ones at the supermarket but that's probably worse for the environment than just continuing to use plastic (a cotton bag needs to be used hundreds of times to have a lower impact). I know that people mean well but we're all just getting stuck on trivial but attainable micro-goals while the world slowly burns around us.

Unfortunately I believe that unless our economic and political systems ("grow the economy by digging stuff from the ground and making things to sell" and "don't do anything to annoy the people you need to vote for you in N years") change neither will the climate crisis, meaningfully. And this makes me sad and terrified.
> because it can be misused for DOS and hosting providers scan for open DNS servers

Can you elaborate? I am thinking of doing exactly that, in case of need.
The main interest of governments to ban crypto currency is to levy taxes and have more information on citizenry.
You can set custom provider in the settings UI: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#...
The parties can be improved without dismantling. In fact, that’s exactly what must happen and indeed the fate of our democracy depends upon it happening.
Let’s write a video codec from scratch in ~100 lines of Rust
Unless the stack is used, the memory of those stack threads is never resident, so it doesn’t create memory pressure.
While I do care about working hard and delivering quality work in general, I will never care about someone else's projects as much as I will my own or my own career advancement.

It's very difficult to get excited when the CEO tries to drum up motivation for something that will make him fabulously more wealthy (if it goes well) and might mean a marginal increase in pay for me. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.

If you want me to put in more effort than I'm already doing, you're going to need to use cold hard cash.
Misleading. "CIRA is providing the threat blocking technology while the CSE's Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is offering its threat intelligence services — basically a who's-who list of every bad actor roaming the web."

CIRA has 3 levels much like opendns, private, protected and family. My router has already been using private for awhile mainly because it was the fastest dns.

The server for where I am located is hosted at a local ISP. If they were truly nefarious vacuuming up every dns request and providing a printout of my activity to the prime minister every morning they'd just host the server on their own network.

If CSE built it themselves as alleged, they did a good job in terms of its performance and I trust the Canadian government more than I trust an ad company.
This could either be:

1. a fascinating Supreme Court opinion.

2. a frustrating ruling because SCOTUS doesn't understand software and code.

3. the type of anti-anticlimactically(?) narrow ruling typical of the Roberts court.

While our Congresspersons can't seem to wrap their minds around technology/social media, I think SCOTUS would understand this one enough to avoid (2).
How many devs out there are just faking it? People have learned to answer the "Why do you want to work here with?" questions "I have a passion about X, because Y."

It is like med school interviews. Everyone knows the answer to "why do you want to be a doctor?" is "I like science and want to help people." along with an anecdote proving that when tons go to medicine as it is a well paid and stable career.
> Otherwise, you are killing people in the meantime.

What? I'm arguing vaping is more dangerous than not vaping. I specifically said I believe vaping is safer than smoking.

For what it's worth, I believe all drugs should be legal. I don't care if you want to vape or not. I don't care if you want to inject fentanyl into your veins or not. It's your body.
There were a lot of adverts on the London underground recently saying "If you're seeing bitcoin on the Underground, it's time to buy", which I thought was was quite strange because it was pretty much the exact opposite of the aphorism "When the Shoeshine Boys Talked Stocks It Was a Great Sell Signal". (The adverts have been banned now though, because the Advertising Standards Authority said they were misleading and left out important risk warnings.)
Yes, exactly, this is exactly what I said. Replace the internals but keep it the same externally. Quite frankly I'm sick of these bad faith arguments where someone puts words in my mouth and then creates a strawman and argues against that.

Thank you for actually understanding and explaining what I meant. It's a nice change.
> The point of crypto currency is to do the exact thing money laundering laws try to prevent

No. That's not the point of cryptocurrency.

> to transfer large sums of cash untraceably across the globe

Wrong again. You can trace all transactions across the globe with cryptocurrency.

> with no way for the government to do anything about it

Why is that a bad thing?
They can compel the bank directly, no one can "force" the blockchain do to anything that's not programmed to do.
> Authors won't incorporate snippets of books into new works

Of course they do, previous works are quoted all the time.
In full, he said "trying to get rid of cigarettes and it worked", implying that it was a completed effort, imo.
>they aren't sterilizing Muslims

instead they just bomb them to smithereens

>taking over city states

you gotta think on the scale of countries with puppet governments

>disappearing political dissidents

south american leaders would disagree

>creating debt traps for the developing world

what is IMF?

>shutting down newspapers

NSA was just caught spying on Tucker Carlson

>United States launches inquiries into civilian casualties

We investigated out selves and found out nothing wrong, and if you try to arrest our soldiers we'll bomb your country

>enforces regulations generally aimed towards the public good

regulations paid for by lobbyists on behalf of billionaire donors

> enforces rule of law

every country enforces rule of law

> has free democratic elections

press x to doubt

> and generally upholds the rights and freedoms outlined in its constitution

what is Patriot ACT?

I'm an American and I love my country, despite its flaws, but you are either a paid shill at Langley or brainwashed beyond disbelief
That's only a problem in long term, for now every bit to lower the consumption will help. Every trick you can find that makes good life less a burden for the planet will help minimizing that long term problem.
Making positive ROI investments in solar, wind, etc manufactures or projects. The transition is economically viable but capital constrained.

PS: I try to write and deploy code in energy efficient languages (Go, Rust, C, ...) [1].. That comes off as extreme to me, it’s going to take a lot before that’s saving more energy than a single lightbulb uses.
> There were accusations of forced sterilization at the Mexican border: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54265571

Read up on that story. It was malpractice by one outside doctor that served one detention center, it was not government policy.
Naively, that seems like something that could be a very useful configuration option to set! Though I can also see why you might default to having it off if you don't trust the host resolver very much in the country-administering-people case.
Now I wonder if some birds will fool other birds by pretending something isn't good.
Well, clearly. He developed JKD decades ago before MMA was ever a thing as we know it now. That's not a slight on JKD, and if he were still around, whatever art he'd be practicing now would be closer to modern MMA than JKD. He was entirely against keeping up techniques/ideas out of tradition. His philosophy was to find what works. If it turns out something stops working, replace it. He was never so married to any idea of a "perfect" martial art or anything. He was always experimenting and trying to evolve away from traditional MA which was entirely stick in tradition and unable to progress/improve.
When all your conscientious dissenters quit, it's time to find a new job.
That's not true. He can sell at least half if not more while retaining voting control.
Totally relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#1._Purpose_and_charac... .
I like to think in a worst case scenario we can always use military power to halt or destroy their industries if necessary to save the planet. The developing nations emitting the most pollution have no chance against the United States.
> ... and form your own opinion around this

I think this is the bottom line, it is up to each of us to do our own due diligence and to come to our own conclusions. Labeling something a conspiracy theory is more about controlling what people think than anything else.

"Don't think this or you will be ridiculed"
No, but their lives have been ruined for... what? Think about this: we spent millions of dollars identifying the leak by Assange, then forcing Assange to sit in an embassy, on PR to discredit his character, and on convincing countries to hand him over.

Yet somehow Epstein and Harvey Weinstein run rampant among our own soil, all with open secrets. Literally decades of abuse before authorities finally arrest them, and only because regular people came out and protested after they heard of the stories publicly. Like the gov had no idea ever... for decades on open secrets like that... until now?

The effort put into these scenarios are very skewed.
> It's not a violation of copyright to train a model.

Many people on HN assert this based on the Authors Guild vs. Google case, but it's quite important to keep in mind that that case was about Google creating a search algorithm, which is not generating "new" output.

We are talking about a very different kind of system here and in many other cases. Claiming the Authors Guild case sets precedent for these very different systems seems unbased to me.
Chelsea Manning was even pardoned.
And why can't the services backing the modern fax machine I suggested do that in the backend?
> your python environment is borked. I've seen this many times

Your solution looks simple and easy to follow. There's a flow chart to simplify this process here: https://xkcd.com/1987/
oh no!

Muh climate change!

NOOOOO!!

Orange man bad! Orange man bad!

My panties are hurting me. NOOOO!
The GPL only gives you additional permissions relative to what you would have by default. The books included in that suit were more strongly restricted, since there was no license at all.
I think it's an extremely inelegant and overkill solution to a real problem. So, the web in a nutshell.
You really think the US, etc should have to pay for the second largest economy (by a huge margin) in the world to go green? Your argument doesn't even really hold water. Coal etc was used because it had no real alternative at the time, now there is an alternative.
Elizabeth Warren Gives SEC July 28 Deadline to Figure Out Crypto Regulation
I thought I understood fair use but turns out I was wrong...

That being said, creating a transformative work from something else is considered fair use. So, for example, if I read a whole bunch of books and then, heavily influenced by them, create my own, similar book, that would be fair use I suppose... that makes sense.

But, where does the derivative works come in? Where do you draw the line?

If I am heavily influenced by billions of lines of other people's GPL code (ala Copilot!), then I create my own tool from it and keep my code hidden, does that not mean I am abusing the GPL license?
> Another ingredient you may be surprised at is urea。 Pig Urine

This is the kind of stuff that kids get taught in school to try and shock them into not smoking. It's marginally correct at best.

If that shocks you, then I hope you don't drink beer, because urea is commonly used in the brewing industry as a yeast nutrient.
Software serves both parties with a win. Faster for LL, cheaper for Tenant.
You can: Settings > General > Network Settings > Settings... > Enable DNS over HTTPS > Use Provider > Custom
I have been using YouTube Premium from day one and I absolutely love it.
Wow there sure are a lot of shills here. Oops, I mean growth hackers. Congrats on the totally genuine “launch.”
Peertube is Federated not Decentralized (via ActivityPub)
> By comparison, Copilot is even more obviously fair use.

You are correct about (US specific) the fair use exception, but it is in no way as clear as you suggest that what copilot is doing entirely falls under fair use. Fair use is always constrained.

I suspect some variant of this sort of thing will have to be tested in court before the arguments are really clear.
Yes, let's be real. The vast majority of people who use cryptocurrencies for payments use them because they have no legal alternative. It's the same problem that all privacy focused technologies "suffer" from. When the law is wrong then you have no choice but to break the law but there is no way to distinguish people escaping from an oppressive government and people laundering money from criminal sources. The oppressed and the criminals both take the same bus.
the notion of "a better product" is... way too amorphous. without a lot of definition and constraints, people can make solid arguments for 'the good of the project' which also align with their personal goals (new tech, more design, etc) and it's often very hard to argue against those, because they sound good aren't necessarily 'wrong'.
It is very concerning to me that you are a little liberal cuck.
I Am Not A Banker, but I'd think the modern equivalent is all the Reddit stuff. The meme stocks, diamond hands, to the moon, "I just like the stock", etc. Then again, people supposedly made some money on Gamestop and AMC. Like I said, I Am Not A Banker.
Cliff Mass, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington and chief scientist of the Northwest Modeling Consortium mentioned in his recent blog posts that the heat wave was a perfect storm of factors like compression from sinking air coming off the West slopes of the Cascades. He also said (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/06/incredible-temperatur...):

> Is global warming contributing to this heatwave? The answer is certainly yes. Would we have had a record heatwave without global warming. The answer is yes as well.

He also said in the same article:

> Let me end with the golden rule of temperature extremes: the bigger the temperature extreme the SMALLER the contribution of global warming. Think about that.

Even the Associated Press has fallen to this tendency to attribute everything solely to climate change. They wrote an article (https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-science-en...) about a new study that came with a sensationalist headline, even though the actual contents of the study (https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/wp-content/uploads/N...) show this was a rare event (1 in 1000 years) with only a few degrees of contribution to temperature from climate change.
I really don't think this is universal. Sure, some people are definitely like this, but I want to be able to believe I'm building something interesting that will be used after I leave. I would take (and have taken) slightly lower-paid jobs that I thought would matter more in the long run.

Also, I feel like this view of software developers' motivation would have a really hard time explaining major FOSS projects.
Its not that its lost value, its when a capital expense is recognized as an operating expense...

Also, capital gains are assessed relative to the depreciated price of the asset, so if there is a wild divergence between that and market value, the owner will pay a huge tax bill on sale.
It's an easy thing to inspect for, and, most UX designers have pixel perfect expectations, which is actually not unreasonable in most cases as every pixel generally does have it's place.

The problem of course is that it's too easy to focus on pixel perfection at the cost of other things.

Recently, I've worked on a project and we had to force ourselves to 'not care' about those things until the very end when we did clean up.
muh drought!

oh no!!!!

What to do!?
The analogy goes even further if you consider compiler optimizations: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/07/poisoning-github-copilot-and... .
I think you're missing the point. You want us to switch on the assumption that plastic is intrinsically bad and glass is intrinsically good, without going through the analysis to confirm whether it's actually the case. Sure, glass has benefits compared to plastic, but it also has costs. Should we switch to glass even if it's 2x more expensive (in dollar terms) than plastic? What about 3x? 5x? What about in terms of environmental terms (eg. energy use/water use)? If using glass produces 2x the greenhouse gasses overall, should we still use it? What about 3x? 5x?

A good point of comparison would be plastic bags vs paper bags vs cotton bags. I think most people "feel" that plastic bags are bad and should be replaced with the alternatives, but paper bags are equal to plastic bags when you only look at climate impact, but is 43x worse than LDPE bags when factoring in "all indicators". Should we still switch to paper bags in this case?

https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...
> You can trace all transactions across the globe with cryptocurrency

* Assuming KYC laws are enforced and account holders are listed
It's good that there's no surprise fees, but they're still being paid. It's like anything, the value is just hidden in the price of the product now, rent in this case.
It’s not “a few men”. It’s tens of millions of men.
Unlike smallpox, SARS-CoV-2 has animal reservoirs. So eradication is not a feasible goal. But widespread vaccination can minimize the long term death toll.
I agree sliders are a problem, and I hope to have a solution there.

Syntactic differs already do better because they understand that parentheses/brackets are paired. Difftastic does OK with this example: https://imgur.com/a/pVlVBo5
There is no available information about bitcoin's creator(s) or their political viewpoints.
That is not how economics work...

All fees are passed on to the consumer in some way, it is either a line item or hidden
GitHub's argument isn't that you hosted your code on GitHub and therefore gave them a license to use it to train their model. GitHub's argument is they don't need a license to train their model because it's fair use. Hosting your code somewhere else doesn't prevent fair use. If you don't want your code used to train ML models, don't host it anywhere.
Juul is the largest player in the game and were the first ones to use nicotine salts. There are many other companies ready to take their place (and they already are).

The only "option" is to ban vaping outright. But then you're also banning the best smoking substitute.
Ah yes, the C users got triggered.
Ah, the best of all tax loopholes, _death_
Unfortunately most of those countries have nukes