skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you should understand the law, techdirt bases is "What matters is solely the content in question. If that content is created by someone else, the website hosting it cannot be sued over it.", which is only true as long as you "do not exercise significant editorial control" from Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy [1].

[1] https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/immunity-online-publishers-...

> the court held that because Prodigy was exercising editorial control over the messages that appeared on its bulletin boards through its content guidelines and software screening program, Prodigy was more like a "publisher" than a "distributor" and therefore fully liable for all of the content on its site.
It’s a diamond in the rough.
I'm jumping into this thread, but I think I see how you're talking past each other. Here's my read of the situation.

Take an idea like Newton's Law of Gravity, and let's separate the words that Newton wrote, and the content of the ideas behind those words. Many people, over decades, have considered how to best to present and teach the content of the idea in the best way possible. The same happens with Einstein's General Relativity.

Current practicing astrophysicists, even those whose career is making measurements of General Relativity, have very likely never read neither the original words of Einstein nor Newton's words on Gravitation. This is not a scandal because the physicist's attitude is: who cares about the words used in the original description, when what matters is the content of the idea?

Further, if smart and pedagogically minded people can work and re-work the actual content into a much more understandable distillation of the actual idea, why not use that? Everyone still realizes that it's Newton's idea.

Contrast this with a philosopher working on some modern topic that built on some ideas of Nietzsche -- saying they have never read the original words would be seen as an admission of professional neglect. But even a 1st year undergraduate, what's taken as an important thing is to read the actual words of Nietzsche (perhaps in translation) and not someone's presentation of the ideas in their best possible form.

So, let's circle back to the original distinction: the idea and the words originally used to express that idea. In physics, you attempt go to the best exposition of the idea (which is rarely the original words). In philosophy, there is a primacy given to the words themselves that is bizarre from the physicist's perspective.

Finally to address what you wrote here:

> The "replacement" for Nietzsche's books, if that's a goal, must also address WHY Neitzsche's arguments are weak or insufficient.

This isn't what is being asked for. Easier perhaps to shift into the physics example.

When learning of Newtonian Gravity you learn about the concept in the best form possible (again, not the original words used by Newton but a modern presentation of the content of the idea). That's the equivalent of what's being asked for w/ Nietzsche.

You may later learn how Newton's ideas are incorrect just as you may later learn ways in which Nietzsche's arguments could be improved, but that's for later.

The missing idea in philosophy is having the best presentation of the content of the idea.
i don't get it.
People who live in glass houses and all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28338633
This leans far too heavily on the word “intelligence” to describe the behavior of fungus. Yes indeed almost every organism reacts to the world around it, a good word for that is “alive”. Intelligence requires a lot more than simple stimulus response and internal changeable state, much less consciousness or sentience.

Calling mushrooms intelligent appeals to a certain sort of person and publishing articles like this are just taking advantage of those people for their attention.

The behavior of fungi is interesting without having to project intelligence on to it.
> Can we explore that a little?

Many people do structure their thinking that way for the simple reason that business molds itself to it's container; the shape of which was previously defined by a combo of politics and technological feasibility.

>Do you consider it is the role of SCOTUS to be the moral arbiter of women's bodies?

No, but they are the legal one. Two different things there.

>Who should push back?

Citizens have duly elected representatives and Senators to sort that out. The continued conscious decision not to sort it out, is alas, a Hallmark of the carefully laid checks and balances of our system to keep the frivolous or overly controversial from getting rolled into the law of the land... Nope, couldn't keep a straight face. Intent is there though.

>If your "better nature" excludes companies from participating in the political process, how does it feel about companies donating to political parties e.g. to facilitate the building of oil pipelines across exempt areas of land, or to rezone land for mega warehouses, or to bust unions, or to facilitate casinos?

The political landscape is arguably better off without business being able to directly effect it via campaign donations/lobbying/writing bills. Business should inform. Not drive, politics.

I also find companies making political donations at the behest of management to be suspect, especially since no one generally asks the laborer where the company should rout their political interest slush pile.

Not that I was asked. Just had an answer in mind and figured I'd share.
> So what? Nobody is argue that computers don’t store data in files. Only that web pages are not files.

You conceded that all data (modulo a little) is stored in files, so you seem to be arguing for hiding that fact from users. To me, hiding the fact that files exist from users smacks of the same sort of elitism that argues against Right to Repair. Even if a user does not know how to handle their data, they should have the ability to get a third party who can do it for them. Locking down user data is, in my mind, one of the unethical things our industry does.

> It doesn’t matter. It’s true of both.

Honestly, almost all websites either use JavaScript or CSS, which is stored in files, so even if a website isn't static, they almost all still use static files.

Also, I would argue that even a page generated from a single PHP file qualifies as a webpage being a file.
That being said, I would be O.K. if the scan is performed on the device upon physical access by the authorities.

Let me call Yet Another Insideous Concession (YAIC). It seems like this has the sell that "this has safe search built in so in the event of seizure, authorities won't have to do a full search". But actual situation is authorities would never be satisfied with things limiting their search on seizure but would be happy for this to be added where they'd wind-up using it primarily through some automatic mechanism.
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I feel Nic's pain. Here is the original article about the talk he gave before leaving: https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-leadership-chief-softw...

> One of Chaillan’s main concerns is incorporating security into software development, a practice known among IT professionals as DevSecOps. With a lack of basic IT infrastructure, implementing DevSecOps has proven difficult, he said. What’s more, there has been some resistance among those used to the more traditional approach of considering security after development and operations.

We're standing up basically everything ourselves from scratch. The mandate was basically "we have a critical need for a new capability. Here is an AWS account and five developers, so make it happen." That's it. So everything from standing up CI/CD pipelines, to building out a cluster, to configuring storage and networking, to writing and testing the application code, to maintaining environments and deployments, is falling on us, with no support.

I'm not going to say what the product is for reasons of OPSEC, but it is inherently a product that has extremely high security needs. Yet in the rush to be able to tell some high-ranking people we have put an "MVP" in production, we've skimped in every which way it is possible to skimp. I am aware of so many holes in the system, but Air Force pen testers didn't find them, so our product manager is being pushed to go forward and we'll worry about security later.

To my mind, this is absolutely unacceptable for a critical defense system, but nobody is asking my opinion. Supposedly, we keep being told we'll lose funding and get the plug pulled if we don't hit some important milestone at some exact date. By being "agile," we can deliver a broken, insecure "MVP" and "iterate" on it until we have a real product that actually meets its requirements.

You can't do this crap with defense systems. This isn't Etsy. Deploying broken shit has far different implications than when all the exemplars from the DevOps Handbook do it in order to find all their bugs in prod and turn their users into beta testers.
There's a big difference though between cloud providers scanning files stored on their hardware that they own and Apple scanning files on your hardware that you own.
Yea true, more like encouraging people to wear masks.
Reading the article doesn't make it disappear from the website. If I went to a bookstore, read one of their books in the store, then put it back on the shelf and left without buying anything, would you consider that to be shoplifting too?
> if you clone the font

Even without. Many use cases in print and other traditional, non-Web media exist where a clone wouldn't be required, because the end result is "flat", and you're not dealing in live text objects, unlike on the Web. You're shooting a fixed target. For example, it doesn't matter whether you reproduce a font's "fi" and "ff" ligatures if the blurb or logotype you're working on doesn't have those sequences. Worst case scenario, a person can get by with brute force—tracing the letterforms that they need. It's not as the operations to do that is any different from the kinds of edits they're already doing, anyway.
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It's hard to read even on my low DPI screen. The font is too small and thin. On the plus side, at least it's not light grey on white.
>If the US can’t match the booming, hardworking population in China, then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning

one of the most efficient way to balance the scales is by taking away that smartest and hardworking top of the population through immigration.
Permaculture designed systems sequester high carbon wood chips naturally via Fungi Mycelium networks which break down tree lignin over 5-15 years & mix with native soils to produce a perfect Food Forest Growing medium. Forest grow on top of dead trees, after all!

Video related, happy labor day!

https://youtu.be/9QMXmupBYpY
Agree...I never encountered anyone thinking I was throwing that insult.
Because the ops org doesnt concentrate on just the one application. They have broad knowledge of the entire stack and therefore don't have as deep of an understanding on any single piece.
I expect a lot of people don't understand how the shadow docket works. This is an explainer for it.
How severely can states curtail rights before the oppressed begin to respond in a violent manner? Tree of liberty and all that jazz. I feel like Texas lawmakers are walking the razor's edge here.
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Imagine if when we promoted developers from juniors to seniors they were taken off their project and sent on a six-month residential retreat to focus exclusively on their own professional and personal development. That's the kind of approach to training the military has - beats some online course and corporate certs!
Because there are files, folders, windows, and the entire suite. This resembles MS Bob (as the linked webpage says) more than it does resemble PalmOS / iOS.

Initial versions of PalmOS / iOS had no files whatsoever, at least visible to the user. If you had say a document editing app on iOS/PalmOS, and you uninstall it, your documents are absolutely gone from the device unless you backed them up somewhere else. The app "owns" the documents. On iOS, this is because apps can only access their private storage space with a few exceptions; on PalmOS this is because there is no filesystem whatsoever so all your apps can do is store stuff on your application's private database, also with a few exceptions (e.g., PalmDOC standard for ebooks). There are no folders, just "categories" or tags at most, there's no way to "browse files" because there aren't, just "apps" and a app launcher which you reach through a home button, and there's no way to share information between apps except through the clipboard.

This "at ease" is clearly showing a shared filesystem where apps can load/save random documents to, and in fact it even shows you can create folders and subfolders... http://toastytech.com/guis/ateasesubfolder.png
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I had a grandfather die of alcoholism. I'd much rather smoke pot than drink alcohol and long term it's almost certainly safer from what we can tell.

It's also hard to be productive drinking but pot can have the opposite effect.
Did they really announce this the Friday before a three-day weekend?
yes, robbery sounds like exactly the kind of interaction we should strive to model markets on
I'm not talking about model studies. I am talking about case studies, like: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/health/airflow-coronaviru...

Also: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/ferret-study-rein...

Even early on with the Diamond Princess you've seen wide spread of the virus despite passengers being largely confined to their cabins. There were multiple other examples.

We also know the Delta variant is more infectious.

I'm not saying distancing doesn't work. Even if you assume the virus is spread in the indoors air it's not a terrible bad assumptions to think that a person emitting virus continuously will have a higher concentration of virus in their immediate vicinity. So sure, it's layers of defense. The mask is also about limiting the emissions in the first place and distancing indoors is not always practical in public busy spaces.

But sure. It is not settled science. Science takes time. If your point is that we don't understand exactly what happens then sure, but we rarely do for anything in this field anyways.
As the maintainer of xterm.js I have no idea what you're suggesting? FWIW we just shipped xterm-headless which is literally a minimal version that uses less resources.
Most plants can't take nitrogen from the air. Only nitrogen fixing legumes do that, and only with the assistance of bacteria in the soil biome.
What an archaic and backwards viewpoint. Any state in the US where pot is legal, you can find plenty of responsible weed users, the same way you can find people who drink alcohol responsibly anywhere.
> A "blink", or the iterative strategy of a skilled manipulator/abuser/groomer?

Exactly. Note this description of the cycle of abuse:

"[The abuse] cycle involves four stages:

1) building tension

2) an incident of abuse

3) reconciliation

4) calm

Rinse and repeat."

Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/relationships/cycle-of-abu...
I don't disagree but being high is not a singular, impaired state.
Careful, is that a singular movement from up to down in affirmation, or a singular movement from down to up as in "what's up"? in some situations, the first would mean send in the assassin to take out that person involved in that thing. that's one you don't want to use at the wrong time.
An option, and this requires a bit of research, is identify a project that seems to have forward momentum. You can donate to the foundation that supports it. I find that approach to be a bit too anonymous for me. What I prefer to do is find a project/app/library that I think could use help and is active. I then look at their source code repo and identify the most active developers. I then can choose to support them using Github/Patreon/crumbled envelopes filled with tattered $100 bills/whatever. That way I have a personal connection.
I love rust and working in rust has been an incredible experience for me, but I'm probably a really rare case in that I personally hope that the next edition (2023?) does a little weeding of what's included in the prelude rather than being mostly additive.

Specifically, the various magical impls of From are a constant thorn in my side when writing practical rust. Specifically:

- Error messages if you screw something up with TryFrom tell you your problem was you implemented From<> wrong because of the magical `impl TryFrom<T, Infallible> for T where T: From` which is confusing as hell. I'm of the opinion this should be removed, and maybe add a macro for helping to implement it if you need/want that.

- The magical behaviour of `collect` when given a collection of results to produce a result with a collection causes me to work harder overall because it confuses the type inference to the point that you need to throw a type declaration into the most awkward places. This also happens because of an `impl From` that you can't get rid of. Sure, it's nice that occasionally it does something useful quickly and cleanly, but then it makes things confusing the other 80% of the time. Should just be a separate function.
If you're watching a target, and it's going to be gone in a few hours, and the plane is already in the air, and you want to run a program to run the sensors in a certain way to get what you need, makes sense to me.
Teams is intended to be part of the Win 11. They have had even ads about that; no need to install it anymore!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22548738/microsoft-teams-...
Stronger: Somehow developers acting differently without the inputs that agile processes require is supposed to convert everything to agile. And somehow it never does...
Why not lockdown forever, and everyone social distance and isolate? We CAN do that right?
I doubt it. If they did apple would just find "stronger" people.
Driving is a skill that needs to be maintained. People are driving less to the point of becoming more dangerous.

Perhaps?
Only 472,497,943 can die from it then. Adding on all the other impact of creating much larger pools of folks losing spouses, parents, caregivers, along with everyone else who's loss will cause lasting and life-changing harm.

And then there's long Covid. . .

So yeah, sheesh. It's hardly any worse than taking out several nations worth of people with VX.
I was considering "upgrading" my existing phone instead of carrying 2 devices. They said I can use a personal phone and I wouldn't have to install anything company specific or have random audits done. In return they would pay half the monthly phone cost. Since I would be on-call a tablet might be too bulky to carry around, the idea with the smartphone from their POV would involve being able to respond by email or Slack in case a downtime event happens. Probably wouldn't technically need a phone number tho.

But yes, the above has flaws in that there's always a 0.01% chance I send something to the wrong person if my contacts co-exist in 1 app. I'm dumb when it comes to smart phone capabilities, maybe there's a way to 100% silo off 2 sets of contacts or profiles? It's something I'll need to research.
dontdatehimgirl.com is a website that indeed lets women dox exes, and its DNS provider is... GoDaddy.

ETA: I agree that that TOS provision is good and should be enforced, but it's no coincidence who gets the hammer for violating it.
So they can toil for Orgs with too many chiefs at the top? Better to toil in China where there is respect for STEM, engineering, etc.
But we do regulate alcohol use... Severely...
I refer to this technique as the Distro Distract. I first ran into it during my first experience with Linux in the mid-nineties.

I install a distro, I experience problems, there's not a lot of info out there. I hit #linux or some forum and I am told that what I really have is an XY problem, and the real problem is that I am running the wrong distro.

So I install Distro #2. And my problems have vanished! But ... but there are new problems that were not there in the first distro. So I hit the forums again and get someone nearly identical telling me that what my actual problem is is that I just have no idea how to pick a decent distro, and what I should really be using is ...

People do not want to cycle through one distro after another. That is not accessible. It takes time to pick out the next one and install (less now), and then you go through your stuff until you hit yet another brick wall.
c.f. the argument put forward in "One Billion Americans" by matthew yglesias
I wonder if the LTSC version will have this nonsense in it.
Couldn't you have simply restored the original files via the Dropbox web UI?
You can say what you want about the tenets of the Big Lebowski, at least it has an ethos!
Speaking for myself here, no. It's not actually that easy to just "own" people randomly through their browser or network connection. First you have to be malicious, then you have to get them to engage with you directly, then you have to be skilled enough to have code ready to go for their specific circumstances.

Most of the sites I visit are normal ones like HN. The ones that are not, there's only so much malware an advertising network can stuff in when ublock is present.
I hate to break it to you, but the numeric keys already double as arrow keys on that "perfect" keyboard.

Besides, this is a laptop running Linux, what do you think is the more likely target audience? People entering numbers in a spreadsheet, or people doing software development?

Most of the comments here are people complaining that the numeric keypad is there at all.
Possible solution: binary search to find the number of hops (buffering intermediate responses so that you don't have to re-send them), and send all missing TTLs in parallel once you've determined the number of hops to use.

You could do a linear scan in parallel with the binary search so that the user-facing behavior looks more or less the same as now.

(It could be that some utilities---including this one!!!---already do that. The linked article doesn't go into that level of detail and I haven't read the code.)
Isn't it curious that (allegedly extraterrestrial) UFOs are essentially only seen in the US which covers only ~6.2% of earth's land area and has ~4.2% of world population?

Since they are supposedly visible with the naked eye, why aren't there historical or more international descriptions of UFOs?

Perhaps the aliens watched too much midnight History Channel?
The dev org also doesn't concentrate on just one application. I've not seen this situation where every Ops personnel is assigned to the entire stack. Each Ops employee or team in a larger organization is generally responsible for a subset of the environments.
> Also, people won't voluntarily pay for something they can get for free

The GPL seems to be crafted around this fact:

> With free software, users don't have to pay the distribution fee in order to use the software. They can copy the program from a friend who has a copy, or with the help of a friend who has network access. Or several users can join together, split the price of one CD-ROM, then each in turn can install the software. A high CD-ROM price is not a major obstacle when the software is free.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
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Could these be turned into an @font-face for use on websites?
Is it though? This totally sounds like "yeay... we love that you've ruined our business model, it's greeaaat!"

Though I get that you can't really say that you're gutted. And at least they aren't giving Codespaces away for free, so you can at least compete.

And I guess companies like Shazam and TomTom still exist, despite Google making way better free versions of their products.
I guess YC doesn't take any responsibility for the companies they fund and endorse.