skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in a worst case scenario with no vaccination, COVID-19 would kill less than 1% of the world population. So it's a serious public health problem but not an existential risk to human civilization. I certainly encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can so as to get us to herd immunity faster, but as a practical matter the disease isn't much of an eminent danger to most people who are otherwise in good health.

The potential long term effects of anthropogenic global climate change are more severe. We may see large regions of the world become essentially uninhabitable. That's a far more serious concern than any infectious disease.
Orienting with terms like "top" and "bottom" inherently denotes hierarchy. Whether you ascribe meaning to that hierarchy (and I think people do) is another matter.

Explicitly stating direction rather than something that only refers to it with the aid of outside knowledge (the common orientation of maps) would be better. Otherwise, why don't we spin the map 180 degrees? Now the "correct" term would be "Super-Saharan Africa." Which is just as silly.
The CFD Online site is a great resource that I had missed before. Thank you for the links.
https://ncse.ngo/gravity-its-only-theory
I think Lebron is either being very altruistic in paying his share of taxes, or he needs to to hire Balmer's accountants!
> You can start an s-Corp, as an employee of the Corp, pay yourself a “reasonable” salary on say 40% of the gross (pay social security, unemployment, etc).

> As the owner of the Corp, pay the rest of the comp as a dividend. Thus avoiding fica taxes.

Sounds good in theory, but if you're operating as a consultant, charging clients one rate, and then only claiming 40% of that is your "reasonable salary" then the IRS is likely to see right through your scheme. They can, and will, send the S-Corp a bill for unpaid taxes when they recharacterize those "dividend payments" as salary for you.

> You could do this with a simple s-Corp created with LegalZoom. $400.

Starting an S-Corp is only the beginning. S-Corps are legally required to do a lot of record keeping, paperwork, filing, and even hold shareholder meetings with recorded minutes. Yes, even if you're the only shareholder and you're meeting with yourself.

Some number of people do abuse the S-Corp status to dodge taxes by paying themselves in dividends with a token salary, but it's not an easy or risk-free tax dodge. The IRS may be understaffed for audits (for now) but they're not dumb when they actually start looking into these things.
Legal behavior is often worth writing about. I read these stories as reporting on class warfare, not stoking it.
But... for most of the reviewers/team, what was intended is that the result look like the drawing. That's it.

"Here's a mockup - we spent a lot of time on this".

"OK... what does it look like on tablet, mobile, what are the failure states, what should error handling look like?"

"We spent a lot of time on this - make it look like the mockup".

Had a project years ago that was... almost as bad as that sounds.
> It’s not copyright violation to train ML on content.

The training is not a copyright violation. That seems to be settled case law. Whether the verbatim copying as a result of that training is a copyright violation I think is less tested.

Let’s flip the domains. Say we had an ML algorithm that could auto generate news stories and it at some point (not all the time) copied verbatim a Wall Street Journal article and posted it to a blog. Copyright violation?

With copilot, we’re sometimes seeing “paragraphs” of source lines copying verbatim, so this analogy is not such a stretch.

I think we need to think about how much our sharing culture in programming has tinted our view of the legality of this enterprise.
The reasoning is that organizing for stuff like the farmers' strike or generally opposing Modi's politics threatens the security of India by... well, being critical of the government's actions.
> Is it unethical to use software for profit?
When the licenses explicitly say that if you use the software for profit it requires attribution, the answer is clearly yes. My code on github is licensed such that if you use it, you must say where it came from. The only way this isn't at the very least unethical (because it goes against my wishes as owner of the code) is if you argue that github isn't "using" the code, which clearly isn't true, because if everyone was able to opt out there wouldn't be a product for github to be working on at all.
So copyright doesn't apply unless copyright applies.
Cheers. These blogs are a treat.
mRNA vaccine technology moves to flu: Moderna says trial has begun
That's a fair point. I think I would still be happier if no one entity had everything. But I do recognize the downside.
Thank god for monero
> Even in a worst case scenario with no vaccination, COVID-19 would kill less than 1% of the world population.

Wrong. 5% of people need a ventilator, and 20% of people get hospitalized.

When you run out of ventilators, the death rate spikes (see Italy). When you run out of hospital beds, things will get even worse.

Worst case scenario is probably closer to 10%. When you literally can't breath on your own, you die rather quickly. We have lots of ventilators in this country, but not enough to cover even just 1% of our population. If the virus ran completely rampant without restrictions, we'd reach the 5% mark rather quickly as those people suddenly can't breath for a week.
Chris Siebenmann has written extensively and early on what this means for organizations:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FirefoxDNSOverH...
>They also require the appointment of certain new executives

Ah so just like china?

>Now a wide range of foreign companies in China, from the cosmetics giant L’Oréal to Walt Disney and Dow Chemicals, all have party committees and display the hammer and sickle on their premises. In 2017, Reuters published an article that quoted executives from one European company saying that party representatives had demanded to be brought into the executive committee and have the business pay their expenses.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...
Intel's Foveros hits a speedbump as Lakefield gets canned 1 year after launch
No, see Authors Guild v. Google. Even without a license or permission, fair use permits the mass scanning of books, the storage of the content of those books, and rendering verbatim snippets of those books. The Google Books site is not a derivative work of the millions of authors they copied from, and if they did copy any coincidentally GPL, AGPL, or creative commons copyleft work, the fair use exception applies before we reach the question of whether Google is obligated to provide anything beyond what it is doing.

By comparison, Copilot is even more obviously fair use.

I've had this conversation quite a few times lately, and the non-obvious thing for many developers is that fair use is an exception to copyright itself.

A license is a grant of permission (with some terms) to use a copyrighted work.

This snippet from the Linux kernel doesn't make my comment here or the website Hacker News a GPL derivative work:

ret = vmbus_sendpacket(dev->channel, init_pkt,
sizeof(struct nvsp_message),
(unsigned long)init_pkt, VM_PKT_DATA_INBAND,
VMBUS_DATA_PACKET_FLAG_COMPLETION_REQUESTED);

This snippet from an AGPL licensed project, Bitwarden, does not compel dang or pg to release the Hacker News source code:

await _sendRepository.ReplaceAsync(send);
await _pushService.PushSyncSendUpdateAsync(send);
return (await _sendFileStorageService.GetSendFileDownloadUrlAsync(send, fileId), false, false);

Fair use is an exception to copyright itself. A license cannot remove your right to fair use.

The Free Software Foundation agrees (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLFairUse)

> Yes, you do. “Fair use” is use that is allowed without any special permission. Since you don't need the developers' permission for such use, you can do it regardless of what the developers said about it—in the license or elsewhere, whether that license be the GNU GPL or any other free software license.

> Note, however, that there is no world-wide principle of fair use; what kinds of use are considered “fair” varies from country to country.

(And even this verbatim copying from FSF.org for the purpose of education is... Fair use!)
A few years ago we would make fun of people who questioned global warming when it snowed… now we claim it is in fact global warming when it’s hot out?

Edit: Politicization of individual weather events makes way for bad science no matter how extreme. In general, individual extreme weather events are not evidence of climate change and it is my opinion that everyone sounds stupid when they politicize them. Instead we should be looking at the aggregate historical trends and their weather modeling but that certainly isn’t as sexy.
No.

This is the problem with the post-Wikileaks concept of "leaked documents". By default, the reader is lead to believe that by a document being leaked it demonstrates something nefarious or shadowy.

We saw this most notably with the Panama Papers and the Podesta emails. No one was directly prosecuted as a result of evidence derived from the wholesale publishing of the material. In the case of Podesta, it revealed absolutely nothing. So much so that a certain group of people became obsessed with innocuous messages about pizza.

The ProPublica IRS hack, in my opinion, is doing nothing for journalism ethics.
> FWIW, the American government also requests removals from social media sites.

No, they don't. Any American Government official requesting a removal of anything from social media sites would probably lose their job. That's saying a lot because American Government officials rarely ever lose their jobs.
I don't buy this argument, for a couple of reasons.

First, for large classes of media, the energy required to consume the media is much larger than the mental cost of even an explicit microtransaction - e.g. the energy required to decide whether or not I want to pay 10c to watch a 10 minute educational video is dwarfed by the energy spent watching the video itself, and probably comparable to the cost of watching 10 seconds of ads beforehand.

Second, for many of the media for which the opposite is true (e.g. short TikTok videos), you can make an argument that the value of those media is very low anyway.

Third, for short media that is still valuable, the cost can be amortized through either buying chunks all at once (e.g. the algorithm pre-computes a feed of 30 minutes of video and tells you the cost, and you can decide whether to watch or not), or through other technical solutions like setting a "payment limit" for the day - there are lots of ways that you can get creative with this.

Fourth, as for "I have to believe it would have been solved" - there are many, many problems that could be solved through technically superior solutions that aren't, because of external forces (monopolies on a market, manufacturing difficulties, lack of a market, economic dis-incentives for either sellers or buyers, band-wagoning/legacy baggage that people are emotionally attached to, etc).

I think that the answer is much simpler - people don't want to pay for content. People want it to be free. And, currently, most people (at least based on my interpersonal experiences) either don't know how much of their data is being harvested in order to pay for their zero-dollar-cost services, don't care, or do care but not enough to push for a micropayment solution.

EDIT: As an entirely separate point from what I wrote above, I think that the mental transaction costs would actually be useful (even if people hate them), because they'd disincentivize tiny chunks of content (due to the overhead of the decision being much higher relative to the length of the content), and incentivize long-form, thoughtful content, which would have a number of beneficial effects.
Hmm. It seems you posted this after apologizing for being hostile in another thread, where Hera’s capabilities (which are… very different from “Quick Notes”) were explained to you. You’ve made several comments at this point incorrectly summarizing and then dismissing the project. What’s your aim here?
The Dag/graph is one of the best parts of those tool chains. That is one library I wish had a good open source equivalent. Partly because it would be nice to use in any project / environment, but also because there would be a lot more documentation and examples. Take Pandas for example, if it stayed internal then it wouldn’t be the powerhouse that it is today.

Most dependency graph examples are based around calculations but it’s a versatile pattern and not limited to just math. I find the JS community has really taken hold of the dependency tracking and “reactive framework” idea to build UIs.
You can write off rental property depreciation even if you don't have an LLC. Per my extremely limited understanding, the LLC provides a liability shield for your personal assets against litigious tenants (though it won't save you if there was genuine negligence). It can also hide your identity from people trolling property rolls to find wealthy people to sue.
Has Microsoft just killed source code copyright? That would definitely be a win.
Wait, isn't YouTube premium this and basically no one uses it
This reminds me of "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, which describes a dystopia like this - see https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/ for Doctorow's site and https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-... for an excerpt.
The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism
>Putting aside the absurd nitpick on the "Sub-" prefix (everyone understands that this refers to "South" and not some position on a hierarchy).

Is it absurd? Do they understand? Can you show me how you know this?

>Isn't Asia Minor a bit more than half of Turkey? It's certainly not a majority of all of Asia...

Sorry, I can see where I was unclear. I was referring to Africa.
The irony of as we have more hot days, more AC is used, using more kWh, generating more CO2, leading to more hot days.

There's also the OPs complaint that he has no agency in this - but he chooses to have AC. I wonder how many tons of CO2 are emitted so people in offices can wear suits and jackets and work through the day, rather than shorts and t-shirts and siesta in the cool.
I'm really hoping some big corp whose codebase is source-available and on GitHub but still under copyright, takes the piss out of them for this
For charging just a few cents to work, it would have to be normed across a wide range of media to the degree that a meter just transparently clicked against a payment balance in essentially the same manner as turning on a faucet or a light switch. And that's a really high bar in an online world where people are used to either free or a relative handful of all-you-can-eat subscription services that cost enough that people sign up for them fairly deliberately.
I don't believe ToS are ever legally binding.
No you don't. A competent software engineer can produce good work whether or not he/she believes in the project. Projects vary in their scope for making the world a better place. In a capitalist econonmy many businesses are not required to produce a net benefit for anyone other than the shareholders.

This kind of thinking comes from the same kindergarten view of life which espouses only working on what you feel passionate about. If we all did that there would be an immediate shortage of shelf-fillers and cleaners. The same applies to the tech industry where a siginifcant number of fintech projects, such as HFT, contribute nothing of any real value to society. Each time I hear some startup wonk claiming he gets excited about making a better todo app I just want to throw up. The startup world is full of trivia chasing investment dollars.

I've made a point of telling interviewers that I don't believe in their product and that it shouldn't matter. I'm hired for my technical ability alone for which I have a track record of producing good work on projects in which I had no personal investment.

Clarity of goals does matter. That can make or break a project but it has nothing to do with believing in the product.
When exactly do you think we got rid of cigarettes?
Copilot isn't strange from a technical prespective.

The strange bit is how they are allowed to use other peoples code to create derivative works (this is how I see it from my non-legal perspective anyway).

Even if it's legal (to the letter of the law, not the spirit) it leaves a sour taste.
>everyone should be working together to make a better product

That's rarely the top priority for everyone on the team at the same time. Design folks want to 'design', and agreeing that 'feature X' doesn't need to be in the screens - even if it's "the better product", doesn't align with their career need to have showcase material for the next job interview.

Similar with tech/dev folks - an update feature might just need simple poll mechanism, but that doesn't give them experience with building a full pub/sub scalable architecture platform, or testing out the newest messaging libraries.

The more people on that team, the more conflicting priorities there will be.
While it does appear that family has gotten away with horrific spoils, their story is not over yet.
Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics
> I'd argue that if you're using it, you trust it.

Nope.
In the US you're forced to pay it back with significant additional penalties on top of the back taxes owed.
It's possible. I have my doubts, for a few reasons; as with most technical challenges, it's a deeper problem than most people realize.

1) Orchestration of this is not trivial, and creates new points of centralization. Who runs your moral equivalent of a tracker/DHT? How do they keep the lights on for your relatively niche video? There are social differences between the infrastructural audiences of BitTorrent and a hypothetical general-purpose video tracker. If the idea is that everyone runs their own, you're getting into latency-sensitive problems of coordination (and given the push towards static sites, make me ask "do we expect people to have the capacity to do this?") that strike me as tricky given the requirements of video streaming.

2) This assumes that clients are both willing and able to do peer-to-peer transfers. I wouldn't bet on it.

3) This assumes that clients keep old chunks around for the purpose of peer-to-peer transfers (and don't evict things when under memory/storage pressure) and adequately update the tracker with what it has available at all times. I wouldn't bet on that being a reasonable assumption.

4) This assumes clients are reliable and have reliable upload. If you don't get a chunk from that peer client fast enough or that client disappears before you can handshake with another one and get that chunk, you have a video drop. Video drops are a game-over condition in 2021. Which probably seems unfair to say, but something like this has to present a better solution for clients, not for content providers, and this strikes me as really not viable for clients. Otherwise, people leave.

Video is really, really hard. It wasn't until I built a pipeline myself (not a fancy one, either) that I realized how nasty it was. Slinging huge amounts of data around with stiff latency requirements seems to lend itself to more vertical scaling than this approach suggests.
Water Splitting (Water to Hydrogen and Oxygen)
Better to start with:

Multihoming with and without BGP
http://freedman.net/bw/may97.html

and then
http://freedman.net/bw/jun97.html

and then

Ethel The Aardvark Goes BGP Routing
http://freedman.net/bw/jul97.html

It may be 24 years old, but that doesn't mean the concepts have changed much. After you read those, you could read about AS Path Prepending (you need to know why people do it so that you can decide not to do it):

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/10/25/as-prepending-in-bgp/

and why you should register your routes at

https://www.radb.net/

and why you should both sign your announcements and validate inbound:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki-details/
From TFA:

A leader in this campaign has been Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organisation given millions of dollars in grants by the US federal government to research viruses for pandemic preparedness.1 Over the years EcoHealth Alliance has subcontracted out its federally supported research to various scientists and groups, including around $600 000 (£434 000; €504 000) to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Daszak’s behind-the-scenes role in orchestrating the statement in the Lancet came to light in November 2020 in emails obtained through freedom of information requests by the watchdog group US Right To Know.

"Please note that this statement will not have EcoHealth Alliance logo on it and will not be identifiable as coming from any one organization or person,” wrote Daszak in a February email, while sending around a draft of the statement for signatories. In another email, Daszak considered removing his name from the statement “so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way.”

It appears that there was some behind the scenes manipulation going on by Daszak
Without a fan it will also hit thermal limits more quickly and throttle the CPU before the MacBook Pro would.
No, the point of DOH is that you don't have to trust your ISP. In many countries the ISPs are actively hostile[1]. You do have to trust the DOH provider, yes, but in this case Mozilla (or yourself if you have the tech knowledge) will be verifying trust on your behalf. You cannot do that at all with plain ol' DNS.

DOH is a "best of a bad situation" kind of solution, it's a reaction to hostile ISPs. It's not something anyone really likes.

[1] https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2014/04/turkish-isps-hi...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/07/24/climate-epochs-...
Besides, as a programmer you should not excuse yourself with "IANAL" or otherwise pass any judgment to lawyers. Lawyers are just that: lawyers. They don't hold the truth either. One lawyer says this, another lawyer says that. F*k 'm. If anything, say "IANAJ" (I Am Not A Judge). Trias politica, you gotta love it.
> To play devil's advocate, screen play time (i.e. video games) has inspired a whole generation of computer engineers to follow this career

I hear you. Our games were mostly indie though and computers weren’t connected to the internet, and when it did, it wasn’t to this internet.
Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in Its Own Software
Are you suggesting basically every retail chain in America is using a fundamentally broken compensation system?
how many schemes (aka "legal structures") you can employ to preserve your wealth and reduce taxation which are available to everyone regardless of their social status.

Examples?
He can't even afford to buy the NBA and NFL. What a loser.
Alot of the "entrepreneurship" stuff is grey-area stuff that doesn't get enforced well due to complexity and de-funding of IRS enforcement. It's all good until it isn't.

The real "cheat" for US taxes is real property. At the small scale, you buy one of more multi-family properties and use cash rents and improvements to get rid of taxable income. At the larger scale, there are many different schemes to defer or eliminate tax liability. Looking at the business model for franchised hotels (Hampton Inns, Holiday Inn, Courtyards, etc) provides alot of perspective.
Would that mean I can start sampling songs if they get fed through a neutral network? It'll be fine if I train it on whatever is playing on the radio right? Doing the same for poems?
I've been paying for YouTube Premium for a few months now and absolutely love it. If I ever get logged out it's a horrible reminder of how annoying the ads are.
Robotic funding doesn’t grow on trees