skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial comment only said that, in our experience, it's a bad idea to use physical key-exchange system for short-term visits of a physical space. Key copies & key returns being two examples of problematic cases. I only brought up key returns in my initial comment because that's the one that caused the most headaches at Sonder. Most people, it turns out, are honest but also forgetful :) The key-copy potentially exposes you to a lot more liability though...
> Patents are incentives.

They are also regulations. You can't opt-out of the patent system.

> You can weigh the benefits or lack thereof and chooses to opt-in or opt-out.

What is your proposed mechanism to opt-out? Do you mean that an inventor can choose not to apply for a patent? If so, that's not an opt-out of the patent system. You are still subject to all other valid patents.

> Regulations are a government-created burden.

Including patent regulations. It seems you support the regulations that you consider "good" and call them incentives.

Environmental and consumer rights regulations are both regulations and incentives in exactly the way patents are. They are enforced by the state and incentivise certain behaviours.

> You can't opt out of a regulation.

True. As stated, you can't opt-out of patent regulations either.
DNS is heavily abused by network operators for censorship and surveillance purposes. IMO, a slightly more centralized Internet is a good tradeoff to make that impossible. And if the current DoH provider ever does abuse their position, it'd be easy for Mozilla to switch to a new provider.
It’s certainly not in for mRNA vaccines, but I also wouldn’t say to take an mRNA vaccine just for kicks.
If you can link me to some more information on how to get started, I would be very grateful.
The idea is the most unlikely people are talking stocks. With Uber passengers it depends on the passenger, if your passenger is a finance bro is doesn't fit the shoe shine boy analogy.
My favorite version of this trend remains http://alwayshttp.com because https://alwayshttp.com doesn't work since alwayshttp.com:443 doesn't connect.

On the other hand, it's possible to reach https://coffeeshopwifi.com and (with a cloudfront certificate error) https://neverssl.com which makes me wonder if something in whatever I'm using is trying to upgrade to HTTPS when I fail to reach them.
So what? So do lobotomies
Yea I use this manually some times as well.

Great for low bandwidth tests
Just displays clean “success”
Realtors are truly the scum of the earth, hustle culture, gate keeping, maligned incentives for clients, lazy industry in general. Only second to tech recruiters.

Please keep up the good work!
yea, they have also disabled/removed ESNI since version 85 https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/24/the-case-of-the-missing-es...

Hopefully ECH will make it this time
It is reasonable due to the Occam Razor.

The fact that you mentioned is an extremely weak evidence in the light of very thin margins Walmart has (under 3%), which is more than 10 times less than the old store tax, with probably even smaller incentive to combat.
He was the aggressor falsely suing them for copyright, no? I'm curious what they did in this case you find extreme, that's all I know about it.
See also Stellantis EV story here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27773828
So...

Putting the (imho) big licensing problems aside, what about the software patents?

Apache and GPL have patent protection clauses.

Does this mean that anyone using copilot might somehow get code that implements something patented, but protected by license, except they did not get proper permission through the Apache/GPL license?

...I kind of hate myself for saying this, but... Patent trolls to the rescue?
VW offloads Bugatti to Rimac to form new EV company Bugatti-Rimac
First job was in a mainframe environment, compiles were pretty quick but the job queue was so big and developer compiles were low enough priority that it could take hours of wall clock time to turn around.

I don't remember the specifics but while watching the job queue on the terminal screen I discovered that the job priority was editable. So I bumped it up, my compile job ran, and I was happy. I only did this a few times before I got a lecture from the system operations guys that was quite explicit that I should never do this again.

Yes, you figure out how to run code mentally, how to check carefully for typos and syntax errors, etc. No Intellisense then either, that's another modern crutch.
Basically, because the captive portal tries to redirect the browser to a page for authentication, but the browser won't let this through on a https connection for security reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal#Require_Web_Bro...
Or it has been used in something disposable, like a bullet or a herbicide.
The regulation that is most likely to happen is regulating US firms (banks, hedge funds, etc.) to disclose positions (treating crypto more like a stock than a currency) over a certain percentage much like they do with stocks and other securities. This is considered regulation but it really doesn't prevent or control activity just makes them report holdings.

The other regulation might be proof of origin of funds - like if you get a gift from a relative that you use to purchase a home and a mortgage for the balance. The bank issuing the mortgage has to ensure that you aren't bringing illicit funds into the transaction and laundering it via their mortgage service. Whatever that regulation is called could apply where they have to prove US firms aren't moving illicit funds around, etc.
> [Rust is] not quite undecidable but it is still very much NP-hard.

> Languages like C, C++, or Ada ... make little to no attempt to enforce correctness

Both statements are laughably false, but for different reasons.

Both are based on the Doctrine of Rust Exceptionalism, which requires that Rust is not just a variation on a theme, but fundamentally different from other languages. Like most doctrines, this one is indefensible.

Rust compilation, like C++ and Haskell, is undecideable, not just NP-hard. Non-terminating compilation is artificially curtailed, thus failing to produce an open set of what would have been correct programs.

The Rust compiler performs certain correctness checks that other languages do not. It rejects an infinite set of correct programs that its correctness checks cannot resolve. In this as in all other particulars, Rust is very much on the continuum with other languages. All strongly-typed languages perform a huge variety of correctness checks, some built-in, others programmed, with great success, rejecting the large majority of incorrect programs people write. As a consequence, it is very common for Rust, C++, and Haskell programs to run correctly the first time, once the compiler is satisified.
> I'm sure you don't seriously consider China's economic system one that is concerned with equal distribution of wealth among the working class right?

Absolutely. Quite the contrary, BTW. China proves capitalism works a lot better when there is no democracy to hold it back.

And that is terrifying, because others, in a lot of places, are getting that very same idea.
That's true. It did take the US 200 years to come to the correct interpretation of First Amendment being damn near absolute. Shameful as that delay was, we progressed in the right direction.
Internet disruptions we saw in Q2 2021
I've been involved in "Crypto" since before Bitcoin (yup), and I never cease to be surprised at the innovation-blindness here on HN!

Even clearly obvious disruptions that are already affecting the financial industry (such as DeFi exchanges, etc.), and which signal even greater disruptions to come, are blithely discarded as irrelevant.

The abusive treatment of free citizens by the banking system is going to end. "The banks" haven't yet really declared war on Crypto, perhaps because they still feel unassailable in their super-national castles, well beyond the reach of any national law or moral principle.

This naiveté will be their downfall, I hope.
In 3-5 years the pr campaign will start up for some of the younger family members who just donated $$$millions to a local hospital or cancer research center.

Then another pr piece on how one of them is an art collector or saving the whales.
SEC regulation would make the space nerdy and cool again?

I agree that there are many ill-informed people are buying into scams in "crypto" because they think they're "getting in early on the next bitcoin".

e.g. I have a close friend who is quite non-technical who is taking a naive approach by putting a significant portion of his funds into a "cryptocurrency" (not even a utility token) with a very cultish following and pyramid/ponzi scheme mechanics. I've looked into it, and the only buzz seems to be coming from the project core team patting themselves on the back with paid PR releases that overstate their "significant partnerships", bots, and people who want to retire off its "holder incentives". There is notably no buzz from actual developers or similarly credible people.

While I think it makes sense to try to protect people like that from making big mistakes and likely losing significant portions of their net worth, I worry that heavy-handed regulation of the space could block the natural emergence of new use cases and projects that could have very worthwhile public benefits. Or worse, could make people who still believe in the potential of things like web3 and defi– and choose to continue working on projects that violate new and likely unfit regulations –"criminals".

We should be wary of discouraging talented people with good intentions from contributing to the exploration and development of projects around web3 and defi (which depends on exploring different types of application and governance tokens, since these are what allow a decentralized project to economically incentivize its participants to act in a way that serves the project, and in a coordinated manner).

I think at the pace that talented developers are flocking to web3, we should start to see applications with mainstream appeal that provide viable, decentralized but well-coordinated, disintermediated alternatives to applications that have overpowered gatekeeper problems, e.g. those in social media, ecommerce, and many other spaces.
Not really. My parents used a broker for their rental. They manage the maintenance and rent collection themselves, but did not have the time or energy to do marketing/showing/vetting of new tenants.

And the broker they used basically does all the listings in the condo complex, so he has a steady flow of interested and vetted renters as well as standard leases that cover the specifics of the condo complex, as well as a relationship with the management office to get the renters approved quickly and get them keys for amenities and such.

In our case we pay the broker, but I can see a lot of value in their services for the landlord.
How recently? Up until Wednesday last week, I believe every single ad was placed by the creator. Some just go more wild with it than others.

(disclaimer- I work for the Goog)
It's a huge hassle in Boston as well. Pretty boy hustle brokers deserve easy work that doesn't require real education so I can pay more to find a domicile - said no one ever...
Wonderful writeup with a great balance of readability and detail. Thank you for sharing!

TBH, this would work very well as an introduction to modern tech product development for a general audience - you could pitch this to the digital edition of the Atlantic, say, and probably get it in without much editing. It helps that the domain is so broadly relatable!
Check out the comments section of a related article on any Conde Nast owned site.
“The nerdy ecologist part of me is excited to see what will happen in the coming years,” said Harley. “But most of the rest of me is kind of depressed by it. A lot of species are not going to be able to keep up with the pace of change. Ecosystems are going to change in ways that are really difficult to predict. We don’t know where the tipping points are."

It might actually be quite fascinating to document the butterfly effect from this die-off. If you keep an aquarium jar, the unpredictability of booms & busts triggered by die offs are really interesting.

Damage is how we think of it, because it's detrimental to us or things we care about. To the ecosystem, it's change.
By what definition is Twitter a monopoly?
I wouldn’t want to force anyone to do anything they don’t want to do, but I think there were positive aspects to masks and lockdown I’d like to perpetuate. I have not been sick a single time in the past year and a half. Not even a little cold. I’d like it if everyone wore a mask and chose to social distance anytime there is the slightest chance they have a communicable disease like the cold. Unfortunately people are so selfish that that is highly unlikely.

And, as an introvert, lockdown did wonderful things for my mental health. I’ve been happier being locked down than I can remember being in decades. I hope things like remote work become a permanent thing.
Whoa, you can't break the site guidelines like that. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I don't see evidence of shillage in this thread. Most of the users commenting about how they like/need the product haven't even voted for the submission. Also, they're well-established HN users with unrelated histories and (as far as I can tell) are coming from unrelated locations. Also, shills don't start Electron flamewars.

If you're worried about abuse, you should email hn@ycombinator.com with your concerns so we can investigate—we always look into it when people ask us to, and we tell YC founders doing Launch HNs to strictly avoid having friends/fans/users post booster comments.
What if I made a few tweaks to Copilot so that it is very likely to reproduce large chunks of verbatim code that I would like to use without attribution, such as the Linux kernel. Do you really think you can write a computer program that magically "launders" IP?

A compiler is run on original sources. I don't see any analogy here at all.
If I'm reading that report correctly, there's a gem in the report that basically says that the small studies confirm that RF causes cancer, but as you roll that out to larger cohort studies and entire-population studies, the effect disappears entirely. So we should dismiss the negative evidence of the large-group-size studies in favor of the small-group-size studies and conclude that RF causes cancer, it concludes.

That... kind of feels backwards. If the effect is real, it should show up more powerfully in larger studies, not smaller studies. Especially if you're crusading against purported broad environmental harm, the whole-environment studies seem the most relevant: even if some specific uses of cell phones may be harmful, that the way the average public uses it isn't one of those uses is important (that's one way to square the evidence, but I don't entirely believe it's the best way).
"Context" or "Topic" might be a better name that conveys the use. "Tag" is technical and I always fail to use tags because I don't think of how I'll be helped by them in the future.
> So the landlords just make the rent more expensive to account for having to pay the broker, what changed?

Nothing.

Clearly brokers are doing something or else people wouldn't pay for them.

My theory is the broker fee has positive selection for wealthier tenants, which for every property - low or high rent - makes for an economically better tenant. Raising the rent has the same effect. We care that there's cheap rent because shelter is a basic human right, and we appreciate that spending tons of money on rent couldn't possibly be good in a positivist economic sense, but of course raising the rent also selects for a wealthier tenant.

Replacing the brokers with software has a similar effect. If your users feel comfortable using a complicated website with no human beings involved, they are going to be wealthier.

This comes up everywhere. For example Oscar selects for a healthier insurance pool by being a complicated app - old people want real human beings to talk to and are turned off by apps, and they are also more expensive for insurance to carry, so it's a "win" for Oscar. Credit card only restaurants with lines make higher revenue because lower-ticket cash paying customers are substituted by higher-ticket credit card paying ones. And the iPhone is a $800 phone versus a $300 Android one, no wonder iPhone users spend 2-5x as much on IAP.
> Ah, so users can choose to override the local network administration? ... Presumably enabling DoH makes malware, advertising, etc., impossible to block?

It was always trivially possible to bypass DNS-based access control. Even before the establishment of DoH as a standard, you could have just served a text file containing the IP over HTTPS.
If you want to stand behind the science, then you must also stand behind the fact that our climate models are faulty and inaccurate. I say that as a climate activist myself.
that's only for rich people going using KPMG.
Who do you trust to run it?
> The only "option" is to ban vaping outright. But then you're also banning the best smoking substitute.

That's not the only option. So much of the deserved vitriol against Juul is because their marketing and everything else about their product (e.g. fruit flavors) were specifically designed to get kids hooked.

Juul's marketing should be the poster child for the banality of evil.
Wow, thank you for the pointer! I've added it to https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/Structural-Diffs as I'm trying to understand the other solutions in this space.

Difftastic does not create a patch or worry about merging. That's a hard problem that I'm not trying to solve. Instead, it builds two ASTs, then marks each node as unchanged or novel.

To compute the diff, I use a graph search. Each vertex represents a position in both the left and right ASTs.

Suppose you're comparing A with X A.

Start node:

Left: A Right: X A
^ ^

The possible next nodes are:

(1) Treat A on the left as novel.

Left: A Right: X A
^ ^

(2) Treat X on the right as novel.

Left: A Right: X A
^ ^

Both (1) and (2) are the same 'distance', but (2) is closer to the end node, because there's a edge from (2) to the end that marks A as unchanged.

I've implemented this using Dijkstra's algorithm. My graph is directed and acyclic, so there are faster algorithms like topological sort. However, I don't construct the whole graph in advance (that would take O(N^2) memory) so instead I construct the graph nodes as necessary.

(This is very similar to Autochrome, which I've linked in the README. Autochrome has a worked example which is really helpful.)

At some point I think I'll have to use A* search instead. If there are more than 500 lines of code with lots of changes, difftastic can take a few seconds to terminate due to the naive graph search.
I get it, but that's already a legal argument. I was trying to zoom out from the unavoidable legal argumentative deadlock: if GH does not have your code hosted on their servers, it becomes way harder for 'them' to grab it and rape it. Your own domain is - of course - also out in the open, but at least you can have more control.
Google ads (like most ads) are hosted by websites that intentionally put them there; install an adblocker. Google doesn't MITM sites; ISPs and malicious networks do. ISPs are also known to surveil traffic on their networks.

I'm not disputing that Google ads and tracking, like all other ads and tracking, should be blocked. Run a browser you trust, and run an adblocker. But the widespread use of unencrypted DNS is a problem that needs fixing. And DoH provides the most viable solution for that problem, by running DNS over an ordinary HTTPS connection.
Depends on the legal system in question and the intent and usage.

The US system isn’t the only one on the planet you know, the UK still has political cartoonists despite a very different definition for what defamation is which the example above can fall under.
it is a fallacy to appeal to authority (97%) for anything other than "humans do cause global warming".

Look at your link on NASA's page, the statements from societies are something like this:

> The Earth’s climate is changing in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particulate matter in the atmosphere, largely as the result of human activities.

Which is what the 97% covers, maybe a bit more.

I haven't seen any further statements based on the 97%: for weather events, for policies, for gravity - this is where the fallacy happens. And you did it too in your post, the OP was calling for nuance in regards to gravity, weather and policies, and as a reply you just pulled out the 97%
How does a meter compute delivered heat? Computing delivered electricity is easy, but to compute heat delivered you'd need to have adiabatic walls surrounding your house or something like that.
Please see: ticket sales: Ticketmaster, Stubhub, etc.

In theory, these make sense and reduce anti-consumer inefficiency like scalping that individual venues are not equipped to deal with. In practice, they extract fees. It's not that they are bad, per se, just that if the opportunity exists, someone with a spreadsheet will spot it, likely with the best intentions but no eye to the overall impact.

EDIT: To be clear, I think these services are a net good. Stubhub allows me to get sports tickets at a reduced price if someone can't go to the game. Ticketmaster stops people from spamming the system to gobble up tickets, it's just that these industries are now going to want a fee for that and we end up back where we started. I'm sure at one time brokers were helpful as well (a landlord free way to compare properties).
How OS is going to circumvent local DNS? Hardcode 1.1.1.1? It's very easy for ISP to block this address.
The idea that science is about finding the "less wrong", rather than the absolute truth, is actually fairly recent, only really becoming mainstream during the 20th century.
A simple Ames test study I found after doing quick googling: https://journals.lww.com/eurjcancerprev/Abstract/2005/04000/.... No real mutagenic effect. Granted this does not exclude the ability for it to be carcinogenic in another manner, but I would doubt such a result.

Edit: some additional thoughts. There is a controversial treatment using EMF to treat glial blastomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_electric_field_the...), the proposed mechanism is that it interrupts mitosis. This method is unlike the one put forward by Dr. Moskowitz which relies on an increase in necrosis/apoptosis.
Sorry, what's a "pro shop"?
Don't NextDNS and OpenDNS both let you do that?
I believe that most trained UI/UX designers (ie those who have internalized that UX is supposed to help people and not just how fancy or standard conformant you can get) do build pretty great designs, but I’ve noticed a lot of ego in this area from design leaders in my personal experience.

Nearly every time design becomes political and every change needs to be conformant to even the most minute standards even if they may not have any material effects on the product. I think the field just has a lot of shitty “leaders”, most of the “grunts” I’ve worked with have been incredibly helpful and willing to think out of the box to make UX easier.
How, exactly, would you take that into account?