skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

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6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
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So it seems to me that one can be compliant without it available on a network server. HOnestly, I'm not a lawyer. I just know the old GNU software could be requested using mail, before github.
Yea, it's the same here. Probably most of the EU.

Thing is, most of the stuff I buy is online. Local retailers taking things for recycling does nothing to encourage the maker of a product I buy online to keep supporting it or open it up for end users (or their local repair services) to support it from there on.

Of course it's good that local retailers offer recycling, it's definitely a step in the right direction, but it's far from having the impact I wish we could have on longevity / support / (semi-un)planned obsolescence.
can't really do this for very long. the local country will usually want to collect its own business/employment taxes on employed work.
I see it now. This works whether you're using iOS or Android, so iOS remains strictly worse for privacy.
Predicting stock market returns from news photos
That URL structure is trivial for a crawler to walk and index. I'm not sure why you'd assume that there wouldn't be an index page, such a site would have all desired links in the DOM, the crawler just sniffs those out and visits in sequence. There's no need to think that the links would somehow be 'hidden' from the user and have to be randomly enumerated...

Not only that, but a site of that era probably also has a sitemap.xml file which would enumerate all available public endpoints, specifically to make it easier for crawlers to index everything.
There is, practically, no model in which GPS subscriptions make sense without enabling bidirectional communications with the satellite. GPS modules (ground side) do not need transmitters, only receivers and, potentially, a decryption module (soft or hardware).

A subscription GPS system with bidirectional communication (to authenticate users) would have grossly inefficient devices (transmitting to space is not cheap, plus the incurred latency on the communication). But that's the only way to enforce a subscription.

Subscription GPS systems with unidirectional communications (down only) would be cracked in about 5 minutes. Every authorized device would have to share the same key for it to be practical, which means even with key rotation schemes (sucks to be in the wilderness without internet connectivity for an extended period in this case) the keys would be on every device and trivially recovered.

The only way a unidirectional communication scheme works is if the GPS devices are already internet connected on the ground side, which largely defeats the purpose of GPS in many situations (at least historically, before widespread cellular data networks). You certainly couldn't use this effectively at sea or when hiking through the backcountry.
I wrote my name in the Bitcoin blockchain 6 years ago, I barely knew Javascript.

For a blockchain like Bitcoin to fit all of its transactions in only 420GB is an engineering feat that should be admired

The blockchain data will never be "optimized" or "disappear"

Please take the time to learn how Bitcoin works before pontificating
Thank you for detailing this!
Make an oil painting of it.
I recall some scifi where some Diety/SuperAI left 'commandments' for humanity carved into giant monuments made of diamond. I presume that was considered the only thing that would survive deep time.
Mozilla should fire their C team and convert to a democratically controlled worker-owned enterprise. They should not be paying a $3 million plus salary to a CEO.
don't forget about owning the consumers with -- browser (chrome), the platform (android/chromeOS), google analytics tracking data, and nest devices with microphones/cameras, and who knows what else they buy from 3rd parties
Of course. But the fact that I was pointing out was that the Windows percentage is actually quite small in the grand scheme of things.
I do this, in NZ, for a 15ish person company. I 'contract' but my contract says I get a monthly rate not hourly, and I get holidays, a couple other benefits. I pay taxes myself. My work sends me my 'salary' with transferwise every month.

That said I read about Pilot which lets you be an actual employee. They provide the tax presence that so many companies want to avoid. https://pilot.co/
Do churches not have zoom meetings and email lists? Genuinely asking, as I'm not religious but my understanding is that remote worship is a pretty well-solved problem in abrahamic religion- radio, tv, mailing lists, zoom, etc.
Saying, "Don't call this FUD" up top doesn't prevent this from being possibly the most blatent FUD I've seen in a long time.

Check if your hardware supports your OS before you buy it. Guess what? Then it all works great. What a waste of time.
Then what happens when AWS goes down?

Bye bye Ethereum.

There is only 2,500 ETH nodes today, most run on "cloud" services which cost hundreds of dollars a month, soon to be thousands
... and the amazing spectacle that since 1997 or so "you build it" and "they don't come" and then the enthusiasts just won't listen to the reasons why people don't use it.

I remember the hate and invective I heard from one GTK developer about a bug that prevented menubars from working correctly in GTK apps when you ran them in a captive window with an X server under Microsoft Windows.
Trump's and the Right's temper tantrum against social media platforms long predate Covid lockdowns. It started when conservative users went so far over the edge that no one could deny they were violating a site's TOS anymore and a handful of long overdue bans started coming out. Of course, those actions were all carefully crafted to placate the outcry without jeopardizing too much revenue.
Currently I'm making under $100K but I realized I'm getting severely underpaid. I'm currently interviewing at a bunch of places offering salaries ranging between $120K on the low end up to over $170K on the high end. They are all startups hence this question as I was wondering if bigger organizations would be worth looking into as well.
indeed small resolutions (64x64) but i mean 2x speed is still nothing to sneeze at.
Are you talking about a judge, or a jury? An officer of the court is compelled to tell the truth, under oath or not. A jury is not required to give an officer of the court any more weight than they give to anyone else.
Ideologically, this is exactly how the US Bill of Rights works.

The rights listed in the Bill of Rights are unalienable, natural, and apply regardless of your citizenship status.

Of course this is weird from another country’s perspective, but it is the mentality that many Americans take because to us, it is right.
Honest question: If the injury rate climbed even higher, would you believe that Amazon was somehow an even BETTER company, because they were so diligent in reporting injuries?

With no evidence to support your claim, I don't see how to conclude anything other than a higher injury rate === more dangerous work conditions.
The idea about planting data is important. The police did all sorts of weird shit to my digital devices. Would not have known about it except that a forensic guy was taking photos in the room and accidentally caught the police in the background making changes.

Try getting your own forensic guy to see what changes were made. You need money for this. The court is supposed to supply you one, but often they do not, so you cannot show that the data was planted.
> Is every visiting rando from the Internet a user?

Yes.

> Or could you comply by stating, "for a processing fee of $17,750 USD, we will mail a thumb drive to a real person's residential address"?

The author doesn't have to distribute their clause for free, but I assume there's some clause about not being allowed to charge an outrageous price. More importantly, whoever pays for the initial distribution will be allowed to further distribute it for free.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CompanyGPLCostsMon...
I clicked twice.
Maybe they had a friend named Wilson on a long vacation on an island? Maybe they were the star in a day time soap where they were in a coma for 8 years.
States of Confusion: Why Americans Don't Understand Each Other [video]
This makes me glad I switched from being a Linux desktop enthusiast over a decade ago. I’m still a Linux server enthusiast, and I greatly appreciate all the hard work volunteers put into Linux desktop software — but the hassle and lack of polish keeps me on the Mac for desktops. It was fun for a while Linux Desktop, I wish you the best but I’ve moved on.
This might be a bit personal but, honestly, what is the QoL like with that level of income?

I've been to a few Asian nations previously and was extremely impressed how well one could eat on such a small amount of money. I had never seriously considered staying long-term, due to complications you may be familiar with, but I would imagine you can live pretty well with that kind of pay.
I just type “new” enter
That's like saying "Right now it's cheaper to not have locks so lets punish the homeowners who don't lock their doors instead of punishing the thieves and robbers"

Yes, security and backup measures are critical and companies SHOULD be scrutinized for those things especially if you deal with mission critical data/information. But that has nothing to do with Ransomware Gangs.
seems that hn.com is unused..
Where's the gnome file picker missing a thumbnail view since April 2004?
Well as a Catholic, no. Mass is not valid via virtual 'remote' anything.

Mailing lists? Sure. But mailing lists are run by google or other companies. Most people just text or call or tell people stuff using their mouths and ears
Their website doesnt have a list of jobs. Do you know where Disney's DMED posts them? Thank you
From https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=silence...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/trump-targets-social-media-w...

I can't find a link to the order itself though.
Yawn. Good thing real person to person speech has no TOS.

I'll make sure to bring up your comment at my next far right friends gathering.
i smell a lot of MSbots here :)
Ok I described this poorly. That's my fault.

I think the fixation should be less on the 'free to use' portion of GPS, and more on the fact that for many of us there's basically one satellite-based location system to which we have access, in the same way that there may only be one set of phone landlines in my neighborhood, and one municipal water supply. Phone service and water are not free to use, but we also didn't pay to build several competing overlapping systems.

I compare this to cell service, where multiple private networks covering the same area are built and maintained, and if you're on the wrong network, you might have worse coverage in a given neighborhood than your friend -- and you both have worse coverage than you would under a hypothetical network which was the union of both.

The original article was about a plethora of companies who had aspired to create their own constellations and are now seeing that actually that's really expensive. We're still going to end up with several competing ones. Would we be better off (i.e. pay less for connectivity from a constellation with more satellites and better coverage) if there was one larger one?
not sure I share your sentiment about companies hosting the data, considering what happened to Geocities and others.
Edit: I'll make a quick edit because the below sounded too aggressive to me after reading it again like two minutes later. Your point that not everyone takes unsolicited advice well because it feels like it undermines their own skill and knowledge is noted and I have run into people who think similarly to you, but I think it's helpful more than not to a wider group of people and it helped me so I will consider the thought in a given situation but I will likely continue to give the advice.

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Right which is why I qualified it with "If you have a small set of useable features". Honestly, feeling shamed is your hang up, same with feeling demeaned. I've had that said to me and it motivated me and was helpful, because I had been holding back.

I guess we'll agree to disagree because I don't know you and I don't want to like armchair psychology here. But, I'm certainly not going to tiptoe around every word though just because someone somewhere may be offended, especially in this case where I believe most people would find it helpful.
You're being downvoted, but it's true.

Move away from the big-boy ad networks (The likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook), and there's a long tail of networks that will happily run the worst ads. Unsurprisingly, a lot of legitimate companies aren't super-keen on having their ads run next to ones for fake download buttons and penis enlargement pills.
No need to worry.

Eventually the future species / AI will find a way to recreate the entire past history and see everything we did.
not just sci-fi! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Thank you so much! Moby-Dick is my favourite novel --- appreciate the effort.
There's pretty complicated dynamic regarding ad quality because each participant (users, advertisers, publishers etc) have different goals and ad network needs to balance it.

For an advertiser side, one possible, measurable metric is advertiser value per spending money. Value can be defined by advertisers pretty arbitrarily but you can think it as something like how much money you earn from ad conversions. Of course, this is very hard to measure accurately, massive ad network like Google has some advantages though.

But note that this is just one of possible metrics, there are hundreds of metrics ad networks want to improve and some of them are conflicting each other by definition. And some of them don't even have an objective way to measure so still depending on user study.
I black-holed news.ycombinator.com on my work computer by adding it to my /etc/hosts file, but my subconscious compensated by going to news.google.com often enough that now ‘n’ + enter takes me there.
i see... any clue why it's only contacts?

edit thinking about it a little bit i could see it being harmful to not have someone go through the "you don't want to do this or else you could potentially lose your eyesight" talk at least once.
Several air-frames met similar fates at various defense contractors.
Yes however when you have allowed a "free" platform to be used be adolescents and made it normal part of life then you start exploiting that, the education part becomes unimportant and it's more about the creators then about helping. Just put an 18 plus limit on it maybe ban it from kids as they are the ones who are so easily manipulated they don't know fact from fiction and it makes the rumours worse. If kids are learning their truth from social media it's a problem as it becomes engraved in their thinking.
That would be JavaScripts native Map, no?
> Mostly political prisoners, you can't say anything negative about the government.

Have you ever heard about the US UNICORE program [0]? In some US prisons participation in UNICORE is mandatory for parole review and sometimes even part of the course to pre-release for prisoners.

The UNICORE program consists of inmates manufacturing equipment for the US military for a pay that no free human being would ever accept for the work.

Now, imagine you are somebody who opposes the US military, who's aware of the MIC, and thus part of your political convictions is not supporting an expansionist and aggressive military.

What do you think is gonna be the outcome there? Exactly, people who will stick to their political convictions will be denied a way to be released early, and sometimes even released at all. Something that has been going on for literally decades, yet US Americans will gladly regurgitate the claim how "There are no political prisoners in the US!". [1]

> You only get about 1lb of meat a month. Literally I will eat 1 month's of food in a single meal.

That's not something to brag about, particularly when looking at what lengths US producers go to get the "meat" even cheaper, involving such tasty sounding additives like "pink slime", which is just rotten meat freshened up with ammonia or feeding the livestock questionable additives like Ractopamine.

None of that is good or a reason to brag about, particularly as the US beef sector is heavily subsidized by the US government, so it's not even a good example for a "free market" [2].

> Why does communism(or whatever name) always seem to come with full employment and government slaves in gulags?

It doesn't [3], but when you decide to label anything "communism" you don't like, while then projecting problems the US has on those places, it's no surprise that you end up seeing "communism" everywhere.

While ignoring realities that don't fit into your definition. Case in point: The country with the most and biggest gulags, some of them even privately owned and operated, locking up people at higher rates than any other place, is not Japan, Cuba or Greece, it's still the United States of America [4].

[0] https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/unicor_about.js...

[1] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

[2] https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/animal-food-industry-ta...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/marinaleda-spa...

[4] https://eji.org/news/united-states-still-has-highest-incarce...
Yeah, I'm making above that USD, as a Canadian remotely for a company in the US.
You know in 20+ years of founding and working at a bunch of different startups and companies ranging from big companies in fly-over country, to team-of-2 bootstrapped 6-figure businesses, and all the way up to super hot pre-IPO unicorns; one thing I've learned is that great people that you gel with and might want to start a company with are everywhere in equal proportions.

Sure, there are probably slightly more of them in Silicon Valley, but also SV is full of wannabes who are playing house, so the signal to noise ratio is actually less. I feel any kind co-founder dating suffers from the exact same thing. YC's name gives it more legitimacy, but that very fact attracts more dedicated wannabes who are just playing house harder.

Ultimately after all these years I keep coming back to Joel Spolsky's idea of working with people who are "smart and get things done". That's it. I am skeptical I will find someone I want to work with on a co-founder dating site, because the people I want to work with are too busy trying to do a thing with the resources available to them versus looking for a longshot silver bullet. There are exceptions of course, but this is just my gut instinct, you might take it with a grain of salt since I waste a lot of time commenting on HN :)
I've actually read through this rant some years past. It's mostly low-SNR opinionated junk mixed with some valid observations. In general, I could not recommend it.
People are used to Windows where literally all hardware works. So that statement is not that evident.
I'm not frightened at all when the police come knock on my door. Why do you think that's normal in the US?

> There are many countries where police officers are actually scared of using their weapon.

I'm curious 1) the countries, and 2) why the officers are afraid.
There was quite a lot of doomsday talk during the Cold War, and there has been periodic environmental doomsday predictions since the 60s, starting with overpopulation and chemicals like DDT. Interspersed with that was AI and nanotech apocalyptic concerns. Climate change is the latest. The idea that civilization will manage to avoid the worst case scenarios and find its way through is not as exciting. You probably won't sell as many books or public appearances that way. And it doesn't make for the best Black Mirror episodes. Although there are a couple exceptions.
It varies by country and your fiscal status, but as long as you pay taxes on your earnings, you're usually fine.

If HQ salary > local salary, the government just gets more taxes.
> The distros keep your software working with newer versions of Gtk or Qt

This doesn't help obscure software (like BambooTracker or vgmtrans) which isn't shipped by most distributions.

Additionally a distribution isn't going to port a Qt 5 app to Qt 6 for you; if the original developer doesn't, someone else might do it a few years later, or never. Sure, a distribution might ship Qt 5 indefinitely, but it's going to slowly fall behind over the next few years, like what's been happening to Qt 4.

Worse yet is software dependent on the KF5 KDE support libraries. Ironically, old creaky-looking software like Strawberry (based off Clementine, based off KDE 3's Amarok) and Qsynth/QjackCtl (dated look and feel) are the first ones to port to Qt 6 (before KDE applications), because they don't depend on KDE libraries which need to be ported first.
I can write a list of issues with the Windows desktop, and it will be about the same length. Or Mac desktop, for that matter. Software sucks in general.
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