skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on the phone, turning off mobile data might not disable the radio, which will continue to ping nearby towers. You might need a faraday cage, or a battery-removable phone like Pinephone.
Your statement is reasonable for sterilizing vaccines, and maybe even for this vaccine before the Delta variant.

However, this vaccine is non-sterilizing, meaning that it does not stop people from getting infected in the nose but stops progression to the lower respiratory tract thus preventing hospitalization. Before the delta variant the vaccines also worked surprisingly well at reducing infections, but with the Delta variant this is much less clear (if you have any links to studies on this topic I am very interested to see them).

Now we are risking the opposite situation. Most people that I encounter say "I am fully vaccinated" (so I don't need to wear a mask, take precaustions, etc). But the studies on these COVID vaccines have always shown that with great enough exposure the vaccinated will get infected and transmit that infection to others.
No, what you're describing is not itself copyright infringement. There are actually two legal standards for infringement in the US:

- Striking similarity, or what most of us think of as infringement, where there's literal copies of someone else's code in your own. This is what things like content ID systems try to detect.

- Access plus substantial similarity. This is where you've looked at someone else's code (source or disassembled, doesn't really matter); and then produced something that looks a lot like that code if you squint a little.

Substantial similarity does not have a hard-and-fast rule associated with it, it's usually something that juries or judges decide. It's basically the "yeah just change it a little so the teacher doesn't notice" meme, but in legal form. If you were to read another program's code, and then make another program that looked an awful lot like the first, then you'd be infringing. But this is bounded by other exceptions to and rules of copyright - notably, functionality itself can't be copyrighted, and copyright over interfaces is largely prescribed by various fair use decisions (so emulation and re-implementation is largely still OK even under this standard).

If you read GCC, and then write LLVM, that's not substantial similarity. That's a different, legally distinct compiler design. The FSF could sue the pants off Apple if merely reading GCC source meant any compiler you wrote was infringing.

If you read GCC, and then write a compiler with the same internal representation as GCC; a parser that's structured the same way as GCC; and optimization passes that are organized the same way as GCC's; then you're closer to infringing.

Your responsibility isn't to create an entirely novel program by any means necessary. It's just to avoid doing the software equivalent of tracing over someone else's drawing.
You would probably be more fond of Anti-Capitalist Software License, CoopyLeft Software License, Proseperity Software License or other Copyfair or Copyfarleft licenses.

List and more references: https://github.com/LibreCybernetics/awesome-copyfarleft
Politicians are not equipped to properly assess the externality incurred in each case and see that the affected party is compensated in accordance with the degree to which they were affected. Taxes paint with a very broad brush, do nothing to compensate the victims, and essentially make the government an accomplice in the externality—once the tax is in place, anything which actually reduced the externality will negatively impact their revenue.
While most of modern European languages are heavily analytical, English language is pushing it straight into the isolating language territory. Morpological differences between nouns, adjectives, imperatives, infinitives? Who needs those? Just line the words in the correct order!
> Does the REPL adds anything to the live-reload environment?

Yes, altering state in a running application is vastly more productive than save/compile/reload, even if the latter happens automatically.
> Wars like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan could not be financed or prosecuted under a hard money regime.

And yet World War 1 could? C'mon now. There is no reason to think that lending would be impossible under hard money. That's how wars are financed now lol.

> The rich are getting richer by buying assets.

Yes, this is social policy not monetary policy and can be addressed easily with a wealth tax. It's a question of appetite not means.

> "Citations" are not the way to go.

Yeah, they are...
The code was always going to be possible to use under GPL2, even if it said GPL2+. It's not really placing their trust with anyone since they wouldn't lose anything. It's more of a flag waving op to keep corporate interest -- corporate are notoriously disinterested in GPL3 projects, so Linux devs basically said "ok let's not let anyone fork as GPL3 and make significant work we can't benefit from". Then Linux stays relevant to corporate, who keep on supplying developers to the project.
> we had simply grown too much for anyone but the tenured folks to remember

The institutional memory part fascinates me. Currently, some people lament the lack of proverbial BSing around the water cooler. In a few years, nobody will even know that was a thing or at least a thing that was valued.
But why do you need blockchain-y stuff for that? In that scenario, you have a central trustworthy authority, namely Eminem. You can just buy a share direct from Eminem, who will record that fact in his authoritative database.

If you don't trust Eminem, this use case kind of falls apart.
Too little too late. The famous profs are silent as they are already wealthy from the big-tech they helped create.
Most nurses are hourly.
Please just read a macro textbook before pouting nonsense.
Rich, cloistered elites discover the bare minimum of ethical considerations after being entirely walled off from the broader American political conversations for the better part of two decades. Says Reed Hastings OF A BOOK COMING OUT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2021: "In System Error, we finally have a book about the digital revolution that is serious rather than sensationalistic." This isn't serious.
An underrated point. All those security cameras represent an inexhaustible source of monetizable data that is currently going to waste.

Right now there are too many retail security cameras for humans to monitor constantly, and too many shoppers to tag and track even if the data could be retained and processed. But both of these problems are well on their way to being solved.
The CDC has become a political body that parrots government propaganda. It doesn't take anyone long to find countless examples of the CDC making bold claims which turned out to be clearly wrong. Their stance on natural immunity flies in the face of commonsense and is just one more example of their political nature.
> BTC volatility will presumably fall as the market cap grows.

"Presumably" is the key word.

There is nobody to verify that the billions in Tether, BUSD and USDC used to buy BTC (and influence the price) are backed by real dollars.
About as tempting as switching all cuisine to Soylent to save us the mild indecision when having to choose a restaurant for date night.
The original article mentions that there were "tropes" in Roman, recurring characters in different jokes playing the same roles. In the examples it seems to be a character who takes things quite literally either in a serious manner or in a joking manner. I don't see anything particularly negative.
Neat! Is your tool open source?

It'd be nice if perf record had a fundamentally faster way of working. I found a nice description of how it works in the README.md for cargo-trace: "perf relies on perf_event_open_sys to sample the stack. Every time a sample is taken, the entire stack is copied into user space. Stack unwinding is performed in user space as a post processing step. This wastes bandwidth and is a security concern as it may dump secrets like private keys."

cargo-trace is apparently dormant now, but I found it really interesting. It does the unwinding via eBPF instead, which should be quicker while recording, not generate as much (sensitive) data, and not require as much post-processing. (Symbolization would still happen in post-processing.)
Who's actually buying fractions of an NFT? It feels like an effective way to pump and dump. Make a large initial "investment" by generating headlines off the price, get some buddies to buy some shares to legitimize it, and then wait for articles like this one to publicize it.

Further in the article there's also a bit about ESGs:

> If you hire a few extra white men this quarter, that makes it less likely that you will hit your ESG targets, which makes it more likely you’ll pay more interest in the future, which increases the value of your liability (the amount you owe), which reduces your earnings for this quarter.

Is this a real thing?
Could pipe it to pushback.io too, super easy way to setup push notifications to your phone
In practice wrapper types have been done many times before, and failed to make something good.

Rendering everything yourself is actually as performant or potentially more performant than a 'native' set because what everyone is doing in the end, including native frameworks, is rendering on a rectangle using opengl, vulkan or metal.
> oxygen has value, even if not scarce

Q: How much did you pay for the oxygen you personally used in the last 24h?
Depends on the culture/management. Some placed I worked forced the staff to go on break. Retail is the same way.
There is a 3d feature, inside the app. I am guessing it exports as 3d post on fb (already a feature that uses iPhone's portrait photo to get depth data)
Artificial scarcity has always been a key part of the argument.

NFTs are just a new name for a concept that's been around in bitcoin since the very early years: Colored coins https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Colored_Coins
"Like, between a 100-200$ blood test to prove natural immunity* vs. a free vaccine, it should make sense to get the vaccine."

The antibody test is about $45 from places like Labcorp. The vaccine is $40 per dose (so $80 total for most), with the government picking up the tab.

Yes, vaccination plus infection provides more antibodies. I'm not sure that it is correct to quantify that as "10x more resistance" as we would need to know where the threshold for resistance lies and all the factors involved (they don't know the min effective level of antibodies, and they are seeing protection in individuals before the antibodies are being produced).

"You don't lose anything by getting the vaccine..."

There are some people with valid concerns about the possiblity of autoimmune antibodies, which in theory, could be substantially higher if having already been infected. Sadly, I haven't been able to find any real research into this one way or the other.

"... they should be able to prove they have that immunity in the first place, ..."

Yes, other governments such as Isreal are issuing green passes for those confirmed to have recovered. I don't believe they are doing antibody testing, but we aren't testing vaccine recipients for antibodies either.
That would present a severe risk to officers working at night and turn them into a lit-up target.
> NFT's sound royally stupid as is

Why? It's the same thing as buying art, or baseball cards, or anything that relies on scarcity except instead of having a real-world thing you just have an abstract token. We already do that with money, why not do it with the rest?
Lanes of QEW partially reopen after fire involving truck loaded with batteries
Considering the half hearted and sluggish response of certain huge companies I can see why some researchers chose the middle path and publicly disclose immediately.
I see it differently. Are online casinos an indictment of the internet? NFTs are just an application.
This makes no sense. It's like the author has zero knowledge of the relevant history, including things I learned in high school American history.

Don't read it unless you want to get dumber.

At the very least, here's some of the missing real-world context.

The Mann–Elkins Act made the telephone system a common carrier in 1910, fully 11 years before this scenario. You couldn't legally "have their legal permission" for this practice.

100 years ago would have been part of the trust-busting of Taft and Wilson, at the end of the Progressive Era. AT&T had to do business bearing that in mind - something Google doesn't have to do now.

More specifically, AT&T and the US government even had an out-of-court agreement concerning possible monopoly behavior - the Kingsbury Commitment - that ended with the Willis Graham Act of 1921 which said the ICC could regulate AT&T as a natural monopoly. Google doesn't face that now.

> "PRESIDENT: [Clearly alarmed] Monitor every call? Are you joking?"

One operator per phone call = very expensive. Ads won't pay for that.

There wasn't the automation ability to play those recorded advertisement. As it was, a vast army of switchboard operators was needed just to make the system work.

> "we give out the number of another beauty salon instead"

They wouldn't be surprised. That's exactly what happened. That's supposedly the reason for creating an early automatic telephone exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch The quote attributed to him is: "No longer will my competitor steal all my business just because his wife is a BELL operator."

> "You will bankrupt all of these businesses. .. That’s why we cap it at 25%."

AT&T knew how to extract a profit. Quoting https://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/att.htm

] "Having secured its monopoly position, AT&T engaged in the 1880s in a series of rate hikes under the justification of expanding the service. The public faced with no alternative service responded negatively. Responses included establishing legal authority to regulate the rates (See Common Carriage) and also the establishment of municipal networks."

Had AT&T taken this hypothetical Google advice, the public would have responded even more strongly.

> "Well, we already have a word for that. It’s called bribery, Mr. Google"

Are you kidding me? They would have said "It's called lobbying, not pax."

The 1920s C-suite would have had no qualms with the idea of lobbying in the interests of corporate power.

The WP entry for "Lobbying in the United States" even includes a political cartoon from 1889, titled "The Bosses of the Senate" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States#... , linking to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bosses_of_the_Se... .

> We divested our telegraph business ages ago.

WHAT!? They didn't leave the telegraph business until 1991. Here's a copy of their press release. http://www.baudot.net/docs/att--exits-telegraph-biz.pdf .
Given "green goo", there's no guarantee that grey goo will be more troublesome to control than green goo.

Indeed, green goo is already completely out of control, with viruses for pretty much every life form on earth, and yet almost all viruses are not harmful to us, ditto for biological lifeforms.
I wonder how many other packages suffer from this problem... Maybe building everything from sources isn't that bad after all.
This is impressive, but seems like a dark pattern to me a la tracking pixels in emails. An annoying use case I could see this used for is targeted spam. Say a company selling a software tool publishes a PDF of industry insights and then reaches out to everyone who's downloaded it. Or they publish an OCI image, and then try to sell everyone who uses it a support package.
A bit childish, but this seems like it was built with PoV porn as the primary use case. Saves a hand. Likely good for creeps too.

I can't figure out who else would be using it. Good way to lose friends and make enemies. I wouldn't be hanging out with anyone with them on. Would stay away from any strangers with them on.
The CDC is a political body which doesn't practice science. They spew propaganda. Safe to ignore any citations that start with cdc.gov.
There's a lot of "dark" matter and energy in this industry that doesn't get much attention, even when it may be the majority of mass in a particular area.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that they aren't doing it. But I also don't like it, which was my intended statement. Especially so if they're sharing data about me specifically outside of their store, or if they're using it to charge me special prices.
Employees who produce less than others. Say John packs 50% as many orders as Jim. Should he be fired?
it feels like every time I turn around there's a new news widget or whatever announcing itself
Sadly, the ZeroCovid ship has sailed. Vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission (1). All vaccines appear to do is to (hopefully) dull the severity of the infection once you've got it. Plus now we have animal reservoirs, and no way to vaccinate those.

Edit: (1) Obviously we should talk about the degree of infection and transmission reduced by vaccines, and not in black/white terms. I haven't seen conclusive data, just the Israel Delta charts that are not particularly encouraging.
This is correct, but if we're being pedantic (it is HN after all) the locale code for the UK is "gb". The language / locale would be fr-gb.

I work on this sort of thing for airline ticketing pages. fr-gb would mean the customer wants the page text to be in French, but they want to buy a ticket using the UK system (i.e. Using GBP instead of EUR as the currency if possible, and all the formatting differences that would be specific to "gb").

Quick edit: technically I guess your locale doesn't have to determine your store region, that's just how we do it. As far as I know there's nothing except development effort preventing us from allowing someone to book a flight in French, using GB locale, and with preference for the Japanese point-of-sale system.
> Economic value is not the same as market price, nor is economic value the same thing as market value. If a consumer is willing to buy a good, it implies that the customer places a higher value on the good than the market price. The difference between the value to the consumer and the market price is called "consumer surplus". It is easy to see situations where the actual value is considerably larger than the market price: purchase of drinking water is one example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics)
I just use a regular VPS, so there's no AWS mystery billing going on anywhere AFAIK. Haven't hit the front page of Reddit but I have hit the front page of Hacker News for awhile.
Apple fixes them and they find new ones, one of the reasons they are successful is because they seem to be able to “guarantee” long term access.
I do academic work in this area, which was inspired by watching Reddit and HN for a decade.

I do think something must be done, but the notion that it should be the government taking action scares me. I believe, platonically that is the right way for government to act, to take necessary actions to counter predatory behavior.

What scares me is that we chanced into this. Zuck made some brilliant movies but he was the same guy at 22 that thought that younger people were smarter. Notice he wasn't young enough to say that at 32. The people in government do not understand tech. They don't understand how it works, they don't understand where it is going, and they don't understand its ethos. Government right now is dominated by ideologues and demagogues. I'm very worried that any government action is going to end up being something that only FB, Google, etc can do anything about.

Why does the government need to act? Why spend so much time complaining about it on HN? We've been doing that for a decade.
Now I am curious, why is Electron a better option than putting a simple webserver in your code and then open it in the users favourite browser? You get the same options in terms of what the JS can do, except you aren't limited to Javascript on the backend and you don't need to ship the Chrome runtime to a user that already has one.
What does it matter what the reporter's motivation is? The fact is, you have an unpatched vuln in your code, and you either pay up to discover more, or it blows up in your face an indeterminate amount of time later.
> Yes, I know most of you can do this in 3 lines of Python and a cron job, and yes yes, there are other alert services

Ultimate troll :) Maybe dang is the secret writer of n-gate
Seems like it's your bias filter doing that. I read it and my bias filter said "It's going to cost the company that's usually associated with 409/Nigerian scammers because they allow for untracable thefts, and otherwise overcharge migrants to send money back home? Good."
Cloudflare uses CAPTCHA to drive away proxy users. Privacy conflicts with Cloudflare's endgame of profiling every Internet user and then monetizing that data.
What do you expect,with high repairablity, high costing of parts. Lack of transparent service. And junk boxes for cars? You'd need to run.
The price I paid for learning this lesson was thousands of RuneScape gold pieces. I am sad for the current generations that have to learn this lesson much more expensively via crypto scams...
Microsoft indefinitely delays employees' return to its offices
> Lawrence Fishburn

Morpheus died in The Matrix Online which, for some reason, is considered canon.
Poet Never Went to School, So She Invented Her Own Alphabet to Write Poetry
At least you can legally build it locally, just not distribute the result. That's still better than what's possible with proprietary software.

As drran mentioned, I'm sure RMS would say the problem here is that Linux is licensed under v2 only. Linus of course would disagree.
Honestly? My relationships with coworkers and employees is way better remotely because I have to make a conscious effort to get to know them. I can’t rely on the lazy solution of passively seeing someone every day.
> in addition to being integrated with other Microsoft products, including Windows 10 and 11 and its Microsoft Edge web browser

Happily I - and the rest of the immediate family - only use Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (previously LTSB) and don't have Edge!

I'm confident we will all enjoy missing out on this latest _enhancement_ :)
One thing worth noting about AGPL, is that it also changes the definition of "derived work" to also include "accessing code over the network", so that if you operate a SaaS that includes an AGPL service in your network diagram, your entire SaaS has to be opened.

IMO, the gist of the GPL boils down to:

> If you "distribute" a "derived work" of this code, you have to release your code as well (under the same terms.)

AGPL not only interprets "distribute" to mean "offer up as a service over the network", but it also interprets "derived work" the same way. This is why anyone who uses (say) MongoDB in a company basically has to pony up for the commercial license, lest they be required to open source huge parts of their company.