skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said that his extra dirty comedy was a reaction to having to play so clean. In that sense, he was indeed seeking out the opposite extreme.
Thanks for the link! So funny.
It might, I'm not familiar but after a quick look it seems to operate on a vetted trust model i.e. you can use these because we checked and they are compatible. So you could miss out on a lot of the ecosystem.

I was leaning more towards the web approach where we assume everyone is out to get us, but they can't unless we give them that one permission they need. If it's a statically typed language then it'd even allow dependency walking to see what permissions are used at a granular level and we can decide not to bring in anything that's too loose. This of course won't solve cases like logic bugs, but it'd help mitigate the impact.

I'm just not sure if it's even feasible?
I think it's almost a shame Norm just missed dying on 9/11. That date reminds me of something...
Long covid is definitely a scary prospect, but I think it's interesting that people also complain about long-term flu symptoms.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58726775
It’s been a while since I rented a car, but this is a pretty good deal compared to typical tourist car rentals, right?
Not ineffective, but far less effective than what was promised and expected. They're helpful, it's true.
What "works?" Statistics? You can do everything wrong and still not get covid. About 10% of the population has gotten covid reach year (at least in USA) sure that probably goes up if you don't follow all those protocols. But even if you don't, there is still a good chance you didn't get it.
Here, have my tiger repellant rock.
> He chose to bill through Upwork and then specifically declined to use the time-tracking software under which they would cover fraud.

That software is for detecting a different kind -- exactly the opposite kind to what happened here -- of fraud.

[Edit to add:]

> Looking at the dates, I also suspect he isn't telling us about the fraudulent payments he did get to pocket.

I thought he mentioned that he had worked for "Robin" for two years? And he never says he was paid with a different credit card for the first eighteen months, does he? So as I read it he does indeed tell us about the fraudulent payments he did get to pocket: Those for those first eighteen months. It's just that the legitimate credit card holder couldn't issue a chargeback for those, so there's nothing for Upwork to try and claw back from him there.
All applications should test in two environments. First, the set of packages satisfying stated constraints. Second, against a lockfile consisting of a fixed version for each dep. The first tracks compatibility with the ecosystem, the second verifies the deployable configuration. Valid version sets are manually moved from the first to the second. Upstream failures only break the first.
Even the Principality of Sealand is getting in on the action:

https://sealandgov.org/shop/become-a-duke-or-duchess/
> You don't have to follow news, politics and social media

But what about the hundreds of millions that don't opt out, and spawn the lunacy?
If the originating host has added any of the agent's cached keys to ~/.ssh/authorized keys, then extracting the private key can be accomplished with:

ssh origin cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
David Hasselhoff.
Slate slab coasters from Amazon work really well for this. Engraved a couple of these for myself, like a Taito Bubbble Bobble chip and the MOS 6502 for a friend. They make amazing gifts.
Maybe OSS projects should start with a different default license than MIT
Is It Worth It Owning a Ramen Shop in Japan?
The lettering in the comic is too cramped to be legible. Even after zooming in, I’m having a hard time reading it. Also some of the letters are not fully connected or have flourishes that look like underlines. Comic lettering needs to be clear with a consistent kerning.
The difference is that there aren't a finite number of pennies on this plate. Software can, by definition, be copied an infinite number of times.
Yes, I just checked this is approx 1/10th the cost of renting the same vehicle for a week at my local airport… That is definitely a big difference. I’d be much happier to rent a car at that price.
Cool idea… I made it from MAIZE to BODED in 8 attempts.
You don't think society needs small businesses? Out big businesses for that matter, as many big businesses received bailouts.
Personally I would say a healthy society requires a good number of businesses.
All words are made up. The creator can certainly suggest whatever pronunciation they think should be used, but if most of the world decides otherwise, tough luck. "Correct" language is whatever language is most widely used and understood by people. Linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one.
A root user on the jump box can intercept data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19643977 is a nice explanation. The jump box is used only to establish a tunnel and you don't have to deal with multiple agents communicating.
Logging is one of many ways to debug and capture behavior in large systems. Logging is not inherently bad and isn’t an event bus just another layer or two of indirection of a logger? This post just demonstrated a logger abstraction that is still capturing and logging activities. Sort of anyway. Code smell is when your logs aren’t helpful
that's true in terms of average income, but $110/mo USD for starlink is about the same as a 20GB quota per month consumer geostationary service that is absolutely a terrible and miserable experience (viasat/wildblue/hughesnet etc). Or at most, $10-20 more per month.
This raises some excellent points about code-ownership. Because I believe they should have at least forked rather than just restore his repo.

On the other hand if brother wants to get paid and stop people exploiting his work, maybe don't use the MIT license? There's always AGPL. Of course, as with Elastic, these projects would never get off the ground (in terms of support) without actually using a commercial-compliant license.

I'm starting to get sick of developers who release open-source work but then are surprised when people use their work as released. If you want someone to pay you money, ask for money. If they don't want to pay you, do something else. Stop playing games with licensing and taking things down.

Is all these people are doing are ruining open source.
Thanks for elaborating. And thank you for showing me that I'm not singled out. That was very important for me and it does make the ending of the whole thing better.

While I can't say with clear conscience that I agree 100%, I do agree with your general observations and would put my agreement percentage at, say, 80%.

This situation also gave me a good opportunity to reflect and understand that there's no point in stressing myself in HN so I will definitely stay away from such loaded topics for a long time.

I should have been here only for the technology news anyway so I'll stick to those. I will both protect my mental health and not dilute HN in one stroke.

Thank you for following up, it's much appreciated.
I used the same technique of having the keyboard layout away from the keys and moving to a different key layout. I'm currently using monkey type to train myself.
> why the hell would bitbucket nuke the developer's account access?

a counter-factual that isn't known or proven.

May be bitbucket would also nuke the repo, if NPM asked them and show proof that it contains malicious code. It would prevent spread, and would prevent damage.
I think a new license should be created in order to facilitate this.
So global warming solved by nuclear winter?
Well that still remains to be seen
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has a mode that ‘may perform rolling stops'
Why isn't Robin stepping in and fixing their mistake? They should cover the misappropriated funds. Not Upwork and not the author.
It's not a language problem. It's a cultural problem.

Last I checked create-react-app pulls around 1k transitive dependencies. Can't really blame JS for that, can we?
I thought this would be about Próspera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera)
A version of this as a sidecar with Kubernetes would be very very interesting.
Yeah, poison hemlock is not to be messed with at all.

I have acute intermittent porphyria (a serious metabolic disorder) and was on a wild edible plant walk about 25 years ago on the Mendocino coast, the host pointed to something that looked like dill to my untrained eye but I didn't hear what they said about it.

So I picked some and sniffed the broken stem, then I blacked out and immediately collapsed and it took me about 20 minutes before I could talk, stand and walk again (very shakily).

It's quite a potent Poison to be sure, and now I Never pick and smell plants I don't recognize anymore (DOH!).

And I agree with jelliclesfarm that it shouldn't even be touched, as the "juice" if rubbed into the eyes unconsciously would be bad news for anyone.
I find this very heartening. Poland had a huge reliance on low grade brown coal/lignite which is about as evil as it comes for energy production. Even just in 2020 a lot of polish electricity is from coal, hard or brown.

I believe they've been weaning off for some time, and if extending nuclear works for them, so much the better.

80% would be cross-generational. So unlike Germany next door.
That's awesome! On Starlink in Mendocino county (CA) (in the woods), I'm still dropping out for a few seconds every couple of minutes. Fine for calls, Netflix, and browsing, but most video games will boot me whenever they happen. Some streaming services seem to buffer far less than others. Disney+ seems to stop playing the moment it can't phone home.

Admittedly, most of my trouble is probably caused by the 70 meter coastal redwood on the western horizon. The network isn't quite dense enough yet that I can get a satellite visible at all times amongst the trees. It's just a bit sad, as the Starlink app reports like 95% clear sky. You really do need 100%.
While I'm a big supporter of alternative digital networks, I think you're being much too pessimistic. We've known that humans can produce written junk; that's what tabloids were in the past. The problem is that humans haven't developed the culture yet to safely deal with this amount of digital noise. If you tried to breathlessly talk about why the world is ending due to a tabloid article you read, you used to be laughed out of the room, but if you reblog/retweet/share a random social media post you resonated with where someone talks about how the world is ending, then your friends take it as gospel. I'm optimistic that humanity can eventually develop the cultural norms to deal with the era of everyone having a voice. Until then, it'll probably be very chaotic though, much like the Protestant Reformation was in Europe.
yes, very likely, how many need to die before low lying nation state governments collapse into absolute chaos and civil war remains to be seen.
That would be awful. Such a license would necessarily be neither free nor open source.
You're posting on a website that routinely removes posts and comments. It's definitely authoritarian, but forum sites are not democracies.

There is an argument that a subreddit could be out of line with the site, and not hosted. Granted it would be a bit of a stretch given the kind of content on reddit. I don't think r/antiwork crosses any line, but it's really up to reddit
Are you saying new York is a republican state? Or low vaccinated with 85% having at least one vaccine? Yet only about 15% of the blacks are vaccinated.
I've never heard a black person day they have been denied, but I've heard plenty say they don't trust the government and why get it.
IIRC, in Accelerando the ability by meat people to even vaguely understand Economics 2.0 required something like a literal bolt-on addition to the human cognition system.
We're not upset at the guy for complaining about corporations. We're upset at him for pulling a stunt that may have hurt some large corporations, but mostly just caught a lot of small projects in the crossfire.
It's still used by millions, so I would say it's a success
But completely sane to base your project on a package of code you don't control?

Or to lock up his Github account for exercising his prerogative onto his own code?

His behaviour is unusual, but that, you know, could change easily. It could become the normal just like that. Puff.
Pretty filthy (nsfw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHeZS3mGDKY

In fairness, this wasn't his joke or even meant to be funny... it's kind of a comedian test of sorts re: delivery. But you wanted to know how filthy he could get...
> However, civilizations are much more delicate.

But they're really not. Civilization in Norway survived the Black Death killing 60% of the population. We could regress a great deal in terms of the technology we could apply with large enough fatality rates but if we can still feed large numbers of people and maintain things at all we can keep civilization going. If one third of the US population dropped dead it would have the same population as in the late 1960s. They kept civilization going. Things would get a lot worse for a long time but there'd be no danger of civilizational collapse.
I've never got a phishing message at all. And the last spam message I got was 6+ months ago. I guess at some point Google figured out spam SMS blocking, or some other event has drastically decreased the rate of spam messages.
Hell most skilled jobs suck. There's probably very few jobs that actually are good for the worker.
It's not yours? Really. They own it now because they host it for you?

So some ToS could override the software license for your project? In that case I don't see why anyone would use github, ever.
Intent doesn't matter. The only person who cares about intent is the agent who acts.

The repository contains the console.log code, but you, as a user, would have to knowingly download it and run it. It's not like pushing code into a repository tricks you into running the code.

Trying to "win" by labeling something as "whataboutism" is just idiotism.
The set of commits that aren't directly trying to trick someone into installing malicious software.

It's fine to host code that contains any instructions, as long as the intent of that code is not to trick someone into running malicious software.
The AI software that could turn you in to a music star
We probably are going into an age where giving away software for free will die.

And you know what? I support this kind of thinking.

I mean, if people can monetize videos on Youtube, shouldn't developers monetize their software too?
Yes, it could just as well be a heart attack or stroke, or some sort of organ distress.
Bring a Trailer sold $829M in cars in 2021, walloping auction houses
rough calculation in US dollars, if a starlink terminal is 100W constant load and electricity costs $0.30 per kWh, it would be about a $22.32 extra on the monthly electrical bill.

in your case about $16.74 if you subtract 25% for the estimate of benefit from your solar (grid tied?) kWh going back to the grid
Dependency Risk and Funding
Paying has to be understood to be beyond any statutory obligations. During the initial period there might be few, and "for cause" is always out there, but there are some requirements such as notice period, paid leave.

So this had to mean a "firing bonus" of some kind?
Under this perfect assumption you end up having a problem with the red shift caused by the expansion of the universe (which I didn't account for above) that lengthens the wavelength of the light you want to see, requiring an even larger lens.

On the lens side of things, as far as I'm aware (not a physicist, math PhD student who is just generally into this sort of thing) there isn't anything fundamental preventing you from collecting this light and building the lens, but from our current understanding of materials science I'm fairly confident it's currently impossible to construct a structure that will stay together that large.

That being said there may be ways around this problem, like I said not a physicist or engineer, but you are right that from an information theoretical perspective if you ignore dust and other things in the way then yes all the information is still there.
So? It is a project under his username and he could've done anything he pleased with it. Not defending him, but banning him on GitHub instead of NPM is just bizarre.
People always take the convenient route until it bites them in the ass.

Necessity is the mother of invention after all.
I frequently work with some people in Argentina and they pronounce git as an English speaker might say “jit”

We never discus image formats tho. I’ll have to ask them about GIF next time.
I'm sure there are many on that subreddit who are far from anarchist or communist, and just find that the message resonates: that working life in the US has become a monster.
I agree on the trees. Mine is also at a considerably further northern latitude so the simultaneous density of overhead satellites at any point in time is quite a lot more.

for people with trees they cannot cut down I see a lot more 40' aluminum light duty towers with foundation kits getting sold in the future. Much like people used to put up in very rural areas with yagi antennas on them to receive OTA TV a logn time ago.

http://www.texastowers.com/towers/ss.htm
> a word is added to a language on consensus, and most of us prefer that hard-G.

To the extent this is true, it's only in a sense where consensus is much more than mere majority preference and it's absence, and thus the absence of a single correct pronunciation, is also possible and, in fact, common; for GIF, there is an absence of consensus on pronunciation, and thus a diversity of pronunciations with shifting popularity. Your preference may be the eventual consensus, but English can maintain words with multiple pronunciations with shifting popularity over a very long term without settling to general consensus, so maybe not.
It is complicated with Bob Saget, because his reputation was so tied up with irreverence.
No warranty means he isn't liable for any behavior of the software at all. You don't have to like it but it is true.
>the creator is the only one who can decide what's correct

When I was young I never understood the French idea of 'the death of the author'. I found the idea of ignoring the author's intentions in writing a novel, and of ignoring their clarifications regarding the novel, quite absurd. In time, I have found myself more on the side of this idea.

An author can create something, but this does not give them dictates over how it is interpreted by the rest of us. Creation need not imply authority over understanding, nor later insights inspired from a work.

I'm not sure the pronunciation of an acronym for an image format quite fits into the concept of literary criticism, but I can't say that I'll ever be too bothered that the original author has had the misfortune of pronouncing their own format incorrectly.
Really cool!

I did have trouble with the results aligning correctly on mobile.
I wasn’t aware non citizens have a right to move here and start demanding changes in laws
> Once those IC cars are no longer manufactured, we can expect a very rapid ramp-down of extraction and distribution industries for petrol and diesel fuels, leading to a complete phase-out possibly as early as 2040. As about half of global shipping is engaged in the transport of petrochemicals or coal at this point, this is goin to have impacts far beyond the obvious.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Most electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels. Solar and wind have increased in recent years but still have a very long way to go. We may just be relocating the engines rather than decarbonizing.

(See also, New York City banning gas lines to new construction, requiring the use of electricity for heating and cooking, just after the metro area's sole nuclear plant was decommissioned and new gas plants were built to replace it... so the ban is not going to reduce the amount of gas burned at all, is it?)
It does correlate with lower incidence of STI later in life.
I understand that effect well, though I know no name for it, and I've never heard another person mention it before now. Kind of odd given how prevailing it seems. How it shapes our senses.

Since this is the first time I've heard it described, and since it seems like an important artifact of human cognition, I propose we call this the "Scop Effect" (unless of course it already has some other name or definition elsewhere).

This feels profound to me.
"THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."

Unfit software that causes damage is covered, intent or no.
> Squires is a software developer and early Bitcoin investor

Or maybe his crypto bet went in a poor direction...?
> But lift your gaze an inch off the ground and you'll see we don't need to be ego centric sociopaths. We can build together. For the species. Everyone wins.

I don't know in what fairy tale you live in but the ego-centric billionaire sociopaths that exploit this system wins.
...tabloid article you read, you used to be laughed out of the room

Only in certain circles. Keep in mind, those tabloids sold in large numbers and not everyone was reading them ironically or as SciFi.
Spotify isn't a replacement for tours. It's a replacement for cds and/or radio, both of which make artists similar amounts of miniscule amounts of money.

For programmers, you'd be correct. That only really be a replacement for patreons, tips, and donations, which would typically be a miniscule amount. It just redistribute it instead. (Your $x subscription just automatically gets allotted instead of manually allotted).
These are near-perfect NFT targets.
Be specific about what you mean by "it". The code you wrote is yours, but their copy of the repository is not yours. And GitHub's TOS does require that you give them certain rights to use the code you put in their repositories, regardless of whether your chosen license would have given them those rights anyway.
> Now, this does point a problem which has bothered me before: The commoditization of every little aspect of functionality. That leads to 1000's or 10000's of dependencies that are impossible to track.

It just points out to the glaring need for the JS/Web STL library to grow.
Protesting in that manner isn't without consequence even if the thing being protested for is right or something else is worse to do. "It was in protest" is a reasoning not an absolution.
The trouble with blogs like antipope is that more often than not they read like GPT-3, or a more advanced GPT-4, where every sentence seems coherently linked with every surrounding sentence but there’s something that doesn’t seem quite right upon reflection.

And so quite a lot of readers think there is some super duper smart guy offering this cool hidden insight that they can easily use, only to forget it by the next hour.
The license does say what?

The license doesn't say any payment is necessary.

The license doesn't say new versions will still work.

The license doesn't say anything about complaints.

If it's valid to complain about code breaking, it should also be valid to complain about lack of payment. These complaints are outside of the legal mandates of the license.
"Abused Github to distribute malicious code" is a legal wording, not a EULA violation. A lawsuit, not an account ban.

Let's decide how serious this is. Exactly.

I am, for one, of the opinion that it is not at all serious. Not deserving of a lawsuit or an account ban. Not even newsworthy.

I mean, this could easily become the new normal for OSS. You use it – you're not insured against anything, for there is no formal contract.