skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that the point here is that perf could relicence to GPLv2+ to resolve this issue (although this works both ways, libbfd could dual licence as GPLv2+/GPLv3+) and it could be left at just that, but I have to nitpick this:

>The blame is pretty clearly on the people who editted the license text to be GPL2 only.

They edited the licence, yes, but the FSF explicitly wants you to do this to make your intention clear(1). When you licence software under the GPLv2 (or 3, etc) you have a choice of 'GPLv2 only' or 'GPLv2, or any later version', however since the licence text only states 'Version 2' with the old short labels being just 'GPL-2.0' there's some ambiguity on whether you mean GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later.

The default assumption should always be v2-only, however as (at the time) the FSF were still recommending the short label of GPL-2.0 and the issue of using v2-only or v2-or-later wasn't really an issue you had a lot of v2 licenced software and patches using the default unedited licence with the FSF short label of GPL-2.0 and this is purely the fault of the FSF. It wasn't until the GPLv3 came around which some people didn't like (notably the Linux kernel, which is probably why perf is v2-only) that you got people editing their licences to make the intention clear, although for many projects they had no choice in the matter as changing to v2-or-later would require permission from every copyright holder that had contributed code to that project, again this is partially the fault of the FSF for not having enough foresight or making the choice of -only or -or-later more explicit and clear.

P.S. if you already know the history and context here this post probably seems a little patronising and I apologise for that.

(1) https://www.gnu.org/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html
I wonder why GitHub shows number of visits / clones, but not release artifact downloads.
One problem I stumbled upon frequently is codebases that did not support localized formats, but just assumed a certain format to use, for example through concatenation.

There are capabilities built into the programming languages, which allow to format numbers, currencies, etc. with a specific locale. There are also great resources [1] out there that provide all kinds of formats and localized names for countries, currencies, etc.

[1] Unicode CLDR: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr
I think we give far too much credence to term coiners.

I'm unsurprised to see him recommended here, as HN seems to veer heavily towards inflation trutherism, anti-central banking, and libertarianism, even if most commentators probably wouldn't share Werner's antivaxx beliefs.
Bitcoin has a landed wealth aristocracy just like land ownership has. It's not based on merit.
So this begs the question: how come private banks can do this (create money + a matching liability, that is, with no interest), but private individuals can't? Why can't I, if I want to buy a car, not simply give myself 20,000€ cash and register a 20,000€ liability, which I will pay back in due course?

The bank creates zero-cost virtual cash and then earns interest by loaning it as if it was real! This is already questionable ethically, but the fact that they can do it but I can't, I have to pay the tithe to them... That's just wrong.

Correct me if I'm missing something :)
The idea that "Sparta" was close to "80% enslaved people" is confused and I hold
the author of the linked article responsible for not clarifying the confusion.

"Sparta" is the name of the principal city of the city-state of Lacedaemon,
which comprised the regions of Laconia and Messinia in the Peloponnese. The
inhabitants of the city of Sparta are in ancient sources referred to as
Lacedaemones ("Λακεδαίμονες") and are the people we, in the modern day, know as as
Spartans or Spartiates ("Σπαρτιάται").

The people inhabiting the greater area of the Lacedeamonian city-state, the
inhabitants of the settlements in Laconia and Messinia, were never referred to
in any ancient text as "Spartans" or "Lacedaemones" and they were only referred
to, to the extent they were ever mentioned, as "helots" ("είλωται") or, simply,
as the Spartans' slaves. Any reference to those people as "Spartans", let alone
"Lacedaemones" is a modern invention and only serves to deepen the confusion I
highlight here. In fact, I am only aware of a single modern "source" that
commits this confusing error: the blog post linked above. If we were to give
those people a modern name devoid of political connotations, that would be
"Lacones" ("Λάκωναι") or "Messinians" ("Μεσσηνοί"), the inhabitants of the
regions of Laconia and Messinia.

So it makes no sense to say that "Sparta" was "80% enslaved people" or the other
errors committed in the linked article. It might make sense to say that "Laconia
and Messinia (resp. Lacedaemon) was 80% enslaved people", although that would
greatly weaken the intended invective against Spartans. It would certainly
make sense to point out that Spartans, i.e. the inhabitants of the city of
Sparta, had a huge number of slaves in proportion both to their own numbers and
in comparison to the number of slaves of other Greek city-states of the same
historical period(s), but again that would not be a proper attack on the myth of
Sparta, which is what is intended. Of course it makes every sense to point out
the cruelty of Spartans, but in that case, if we call the helots "Spartans",
also, the confusion only deepens.

All such nuance is left out of the article linked above which makes it very,
very misleading and confuses people who are used to getting their knowledge of
history from second- third- and further- hand accounts, like the one in the
linked article, or the movie 300, etc. Unfortunately once something is elevated
to mythical status there is nothing more profitable than to tear it down, even
if this tearing down is based on the same poor knowledge of history that allowed
it to be elevated in the first place.
>The idea that you can't deny service to an individual for their political views is a big shift.

I can't remember people being denied service for their political views until just recently.

Another odd thing is that a company would give a rip about their employees political views.

These are strange times.
It was a long long time ago, before Solid Capacitor were affordable enough to be used in mainstream electronics. Now they are expected in any quality motherboard. At the time they used to market brands like RubyCon for exceptional stability or another brand which I cant remember for similar marketing reason. And redundant capacitor etc.
Not according to the LAPD, whom the story covers. Police, firefighters, and paramedics are not considered "civilians" in their lingo. See how the LAPD has "civilian employees" like clerks and scientists to fill out their non-officer roles:

https://www.lapdonline.org/join_the_team/content_basic_view/...
People of that "particular political persuasion" have lost trust in most institutions. Unfortunately they're discarding some good things (like the vaccine) along with the bad.
If stable coins are not volatile that does not mean all crypto is volatile.
Explaining that one: 1. Spartans were proud of their men.
2. Sparta despite being very extreme compared to other Greek cities in a lot of things, was an exception regarding women role in politics, in the sense in Sparta was acceptable to hear women opinion (women still had no formal power, but they were allowed to talk to men about politics, while on Athens for example this was forbidden).
Counterfeit Capitalism: Why a Monopolized Economy Leads to Inflation, Shortages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799223
> People not taking a vaccine does not change the risk faced by their coworkers. I don't think you really believe that, hence the "psychological perception" hedge.

I don't believe that. The science clearly isn't 100% settled, but I believe that when the dust settles, we'll find that vaccinated people are less likely to get ill and therefore less likely to spread Covid. I could be wrong, but until the science is settled, I don't see what's wrong with discriminating on this basis.
I've gathered that lispers have a tendency to say "REPL" when they mean "hot reloading", which causes confusion in discussions like these
Wow, you are very wrong on every point.
First link, de-googled - https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-...
Microsoft: making it harder, better, faster, stronger.
I am far from a bank expert, so I could very well be wrong, but this article doesn't pass my smell test.

Banks as businesses have all kinds of expenses. Coffee machines, employee salaries, etc. I can't imagine the money for those expenses come from reserves (the money that customers deposited) or newly created money. The banks expenditures must come from their revenues, just like any other business, right?

The bank gives someone a loan, which is indeed new money. The person pays that loan back with interest. That interest goes into the bank's bank account, so to speak. Those are revenues. Similarly, a customer overdrafts their account has has to pay a fee. That fee is also revenues.

If the bank wants to buy a coffee machine, it is deducting the cost of that coffee machine from the account where it keeps its revenues. That's not new money, is it? And, like any other business, whatever money is left in that account after expenditures are the bank's profits.

I could very well be wrong on this one, but it just makes a lot more sense than what this blog post is saying.
Too late as in we have already started implementing (C).

> but there's a pretty big delta between the climate that we'll leave our grandchildren if we zero our emissions by 2050 versus the climate we'll leave our grandchildren if we continue polluting.

That is not the distinction being discussed. What is being discussed is net-zero vs net-zero plus active countermeasures.

> As for (A), I'm sure we're all ears.

Several ideas are being researched, but at the moment I have not seen any that inspire confidence to become fully viable. Combined with the hardship associated with (C), this is why (B) seems necessary.
I have different experience. Soros & co are really operating a political engineering project in eastern europe. He is funding many NGOs here, to the point where regular people hearing "NGO" interprete it as shady-leftist-organisation.
We have no rich enough capitalists, only foreign leftists care about installing their world view here.
The job market hasn't been this good in decades, and it’s the perfect opportunity to seek out a new, remote role.
Will they get news sources to cooperate?

Apple News is great, but they don't have top content anymore. NyTimes is a specific example that I used to be able to read, but can't without paying now. It's like how streaming started out, but now it's a bunch of add on fees.

Sounds like this starts with only MSN?

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/09/07/the-c...
I think the OP just means productiveness in time, ie. spending 8-10 hours a day moving product while being paid 2x but working 3x as hard isn't as 'productive' as if you were doing something you loved for those 8-10 working hours, even if you were being paid a median $7.50/hr wage (not that most would achieve this by working the gas station register). If everyone could get a free education in what they want to do for a living, people wouldn't choose to work at Amazon and waste a third of their daily life moving boxes.

The root of the problem is that Amazon's $15/hr minimum attracts talent as a result of the price of things, including rent, continuing to rise, sometimes up to 15% YOY - people are often required to either work 16 hours a day at 2 jobs or work 8-10 hours at Amazon to reach the minimum income needed to have nice-enough living conditions.
"I'm very worried that any government action is going to end up being something that only FB, Google, etc can do anything about."

Worse is the likely objective/outcome: big tech and gov't. joining forces.
Well if you're posting about videos of Jordan Peterson I might as well post an informative, charitable, opinionated and entertaining (to me) video from Contrapoints about who he is and what he's doing. Enjoy : https://youtu.be/4LqZdkkBDas
I'm a different person than you're replying to, but just to give some examples of how capital organizes itself, there are a ton of organizations they use to represent their interests. For example, at every level of government, there is a chamber of commerce formed by major businesses or their owners. That chamber of commerce publishes opinions, lobbies politicians, etc. There are also all kinds of think tanks funded and often founded by businesspeople to promote their interests. The Heritage Foundation is a prominent example. In the US, these groups have enormous influence at every level.
I'd be embarrassed to write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper with an analysis this simplistic. Why did it take three guys with PhDs to tell us that Regulation Can Be Good Actually™?
Coronavirus-Sniffing Dogs at Miami Airport to Detect Virus in Employees
> Having sex is not acceptance of being forced to deliver a child. [...] You don't voluntarily agree to getting pregnant and giving birth unless you are planning it and wanting it.

When people engage in sports they don't voluntarily agree to being injured or injuring others, they don't plan for or want it, yet these things are known risks of playing sports.

I'm saying that having sex, something that no one needs to do to survive, is acceptance of the risk of becoming pregnant[0], the same way that playing a sport is acceptance of the risk of becoming injured. If people choose to engage in activity with a known risk of a certain outcome, is that outcome not their responsibility should it occur?

> When the child is born, you don't have to take it with you from the hospital. If you did, you voluntarily assumed the rights of a parent with all the responsibilities. When you neglect a child you are punished for violation of this voluntary agreement.

Given that sex is a voluntary act with known risks, one that no one forced you to engage in, I do not think that it is unreasonable to apply the same standard: you have assumed the responsibilities of pregnancy and can, conceptually[1], be punished for violation of that responsibility.

[0] For the sake of brevity it should be assumed that by "becoming pregnant" I am referring to the state of both sexes as regards their potential future state of parenthood.

[1] I don't necessarily agree with doing so, I just don't think the issue is nearly as neat and tidy as people make it out to be.
I doubt that is true. Surely anything with significant metal content is separated magnetically for example. Card isn't explicitly mentioned but I'm pretty sure if they can recycle cardboard and paper then they can recycle card.
Thanks for sharing! For context this is a demo of PaddleOCR V2 [0] which was released yesterday. You can find their original repo here [1]. We built this demo using Gradio [2] and deployed it on HuggingFace's Spaces [3].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03144
[1]: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
[2]: https://gradio.app/
[3]: https://huggingface.co/spaces
If I am deprived of oxygen I'd spend all of my available resources on getting it. Same for water, food etc.
OP speaks the truth. At least since the Roman empire, there has been no form of slavery in the Western world anywhere near as brutal as American slavery. (not to exclude the East or the Arab world, I just don't know enough to comment on them)

In the Roman empire, selling oneself as a slave was even seen as a last resort when capital was urgently needed (like when a debt repayment was ordered by a magistrate and a person didn't have enough money and fungible possessions to pay it). Slaves could also buy their freedom, and were sometimes even given their freedom as a gift.

Of course, there were cruel masters as well as kind ones. But prior to the African slave trade, the institution itself wasn't remotely as brutal or morally abhorrent, because it wasn't built on a social commitment to racism.

American racism was fueled in part by the abhorrent belief that Africans were of a separate race (i.e. subspecies) that was inferior in a Darwinian sense, thus dehumanizing them in people's minds. This sentiment appears sometimes in 1800s American literature. (And if I may say so, I think it bears a remarkable resemblance to some Nazi antisemitic propaganda.)
I sincerely wish you well! (And I'll back your KS campaign)

I've been entertaining a thought for a long time... to approach MS and ask (very, very nicely!) if they'd be willing to part with the source code for Expression and LivingCels. They're not using it in any way, and these are killer apps which definitely have a lot of life in them yet.
How does fingerprinting them help? You can fingerprint them but they are just desktops/mobile phones/laptops that have been compromised to be part of the botnet.

The compromised hosts that are part of the botnet look exactly like normal traffic.
Since it’s about Bank of England and money creation, this can’t be missed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A3100,000,...

Some banks in the UK can issue their own banknotes, but these must be backed up in cash with the BoE. And it’s awkward dealing with millions in used fivers. Hence the 100 million notes and friends.

You’d think other solutions exist in the 21st century but :shrug:
there's some social stuff e.g. Like button. The Personalized page also has a section for comments, but it does not seem like there's a way to comment on an article yet.
Judging from the daily riots in Portland without law enforcement involvement I'd say that force has become a more egalitarian hobby.
Ha Peter, you are too kind, but I will take this opportunity to plug my latest fundraising video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2FUOEoy44
Yes the flag button is for wrong or unusual outputs. No worries though
It’s a false view that markets will regulate themselves. They tend not to beyond what their clientbase deems acceptable or not. So we have big tech which undermines democracy, and in the US democracy is skewed because people aren’t properly represented because of lobbyists and gerrymandering (and sponsorship by corporations instead of their constituents)

So this vicious circle is hard to break if we aren’t will to break with old ways.
Afl-fuzz runs a program until main() and then forks it repeatedly. An empty main() can be called at least 10000 times per second this way.
How to Break Out of Nested Loops in Python
To be honest, it's not as elegant as it should be.
Cameras in car, sure, those record your trip, illegal in some countries, illegal to upload as well there, could still save you so people still use them

Bank machines, record in front of them.

Stores, sure, you know they are there.

None if these are aggregated by a central party, stored forever and mined.

Eyeglasses, imagine you go for a beer with your friend and he's wearing them, potentially recording everything without you knowing... is it different?, do you still talk to him?. Imagine same guy going into the office, recording there, going to meetings, is he going to be allowed to?, imagine these being uploaded to facebook to be stored forever and be pulled at any point in the future.

This whole thing made me realize the value of it all for facebook to do the aggregation... they would profit immensely in the future (imagine data brokers used in westworld to build their ais, imagine the level of propaganda targetting... blackmail, etc).

If they do manage to do this without pushback its going to be interesting.
My buddy had “beat a Fields medalist at a foot race” on his CV for a while after completing the Pier to Peak half marathon faster than (a ~60 year old) Prof Freedman.

I’d run to Goleta beach playground with my kids and would see Freedman wander down from Station Q and bust out a few chin ups on the monkey bars.

I hope I’m in that kind of shape!
This tool appears to bounce everything off the company's servers so in that respect it seems to be a great way to harvest information deemed confidential by its originators.
Yes, there are plenty of powers that we limit to a subset of chartered organizations. If you want to have a share in this power, you can buy ownership in a bank - a share of JP Morgan is about $160.

I disagree that it is intrinsically wrong that some people can do something that you cannot do.
> These companies aren't a challenge to government power in the US, on the contrary they are a powerful tool for social control.

In a sense I'd say that they are now a branch of government.
Some past threads:

Money Creation in the Modern Economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25885849 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

Money Creation in the modern economy [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22923785 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Money Creation in the Modern Economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20875899 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16604251 - March 2018 (123 comments)

Money Creation in the Modern Economy (2014) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374907 - March 2016 (97 comments)
NSA FAQ about quantum cryptography [pdf]
Frankly I'm amazed that this was a thing in HK to begin with.
I bought a house. I paid an escrow company a hefty fee to essentially hold a pile of money in a trusted way while the property was under contract.

Now imagine we transfer ownership of the house to a DAO tied to an NFT. American law allows corporations to be governed by software. So the house is nominally owned by a Wyoming DAO LLC, which gives management rights to whoever holds an NFT on the blockchain.

We’ve legally tied control of the property to an NFT. If you want to sell me the house, we no longer need to transfer control of the property, we just exchange the NFT. Instead of using an escrow company, we can use an off the shelf smart contract which holds the escrow and automatically governs most common cases.

The escrow smart contract can defer any out-of-band disputes to a mutually agreed upon private arbitration entity. We’re not confined to local law, and can choose whatever private legal system we want from anywhere in the world. Simply point the smart contract at the arbitrator’s public address. Imagine being able to use Delaware Chancery Courts instead of a corrupt Louisiana rural parish.

When the property is an NFT, we can now borrow against it by directly accessing a global market of DeFi capital. No more paying the bank and mortgage services 1%+ of spread. Simply construct the mortgage as a smart contract, which controls ownership over the NFT. No more worrying about local judges interfering with foreclosures. Default on the mortgage is now a much simpler and faster eviction process since the homeowner is legally just a tenant of the DAO.

Those individual mortgage smart contracts can now be packaged and pooled, with the risk tranches in such a way to maximize capital efficiency. Again none of the massive frictions that existed n 2008, where foreclosures went slow as molasses because formal title and liens got lost in byzantine county clerks across the country. No fraud where banks and mortgage brokers stuff structured credit pools with crap. Every mortgage pool is instantly auditable but anyone using on-chain data. Foreclosures can be executed in real time and capital rebalanced instantly. That drastically reduces the risk of a cascading series of failures from a hidden pool of risk that we saw in 2008. It also allows for much higher leverage in the financial system, as margin calls can be made much faster and 24/7.
When I submit an image it just starts counting up until it reaches 60.0/4.9s (whatever that means) and then says ERROR. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: I finally got it to work. The result looks good! https://i.imgur.com/hoS4oMP.png

Though it looks like yet another OCR program that doesn't understand archaic lexical paradigms like the long S or ligatures.
Will these glasses be sold in Five-eyes states or will it also be distribuited to Nine-eyes and Fourteen-Eyes states?