skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany, political TV ads are technically banned, but every party in the running gets allocated a slot after the evening news on the main public channel. This can be pretty funny, as sometimes, even very "amateurish" spots by very small parties end up on national TV.
Most of the early internet pop culture ideas were very wrong.

They had zero grounding in the reality around them.

The subculture of saying the Internet is what they wanted it to be was what everyone worshipped. Clay and Cory and co.

Dreams like the Semantic web and "The Internet Perceives Censorship as Damage and Routes Around It"

Long tail being wrong is an interesting call.

I'd say probably correct. It went mid tail.

I have a "Birds aren't real tshirt" (I couldn't get a Red Dwarf t-shirt pre internet) but zero t-shirts of local businesses.

Don't care about bands down the road anymore but listen to African hackers songs about 411.

This topic needs more thought. It still might go from mid to long tail.
I make about €120,000/year.
There is no single depiction of "Americans and religion". The country is too large, physically, for that to be the case. I wouldn't even break it down to state level. I'd personally break it down closer to county level.
> If you want someone to (not) do something, you need to provide a compelling rationale.

OK. Advocating violence is a crime. And text-based communication is notoriously difficult medium to express sarcasm and irony. Crimes are bad, mmmmkay?
I'm really disappointed with the conversation this has provoked. I was a fortunate recipient of this and I am delighted. I'm pleased about the money, that's great. But more than that I was really thrilled to discover that I had indirectly worked on GitHub; because I love GitHub.

I feel like I should qualify this further. I actually missed the original email and spent a day or so realising friends and open source colleagues were being recognised, whilst believing my own OSS wasn't in the mix. And I was pleased for them.

I've been doing OSS for more than a decade. I enjoy it. I wish companies directly supported it, as paying for what you value is responsible and wise. GitHub just did that. Thank you GitHub. I appreciate it. This was a good thing. Well done!
Can you show any evidence that people knowing they can get an abortion and where, leads to reduced contraception usage?

Actually… next time you’re close to sleeping with someone, say “hey, you can just get an abortion, we don’t need to use a condom”. Tell me what she says.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220516030224/https://richardda...
That must be why Fortran never caught on.
Even if Amazon was profitable selling goods (it is not), its approach is to let marketplace sellers figure out which products sell well, then it starts sells those items itself. Amazon is chasing the short tail.

Streaming services are fractured, but individually almost all of their revenue comes from blockbusters. Attempts at original content are killed quickly when they fail to deliver bigly. Netflix is particularly guilty of this.

The prediction in the book does not pan out. Today more than ever, the money goes to the top.
I wrote a short story about this: https://www.spacelove.xyz/writing/wake-up-in-the-sky/
Crypto Is Crashing, But Companies Aren't Acting Like It
Regardless, the actual policies should not be driven by emotion. The problem is, those in power weaponize the emotions of their constituents, and it makes very bad politics.
> setting up the memory map is much more complex

This is where the Z80 would come in handy with its separate 16-bit IO address space (accessed through special IO instructions and on the hardware level an IORQ output pin). The Z80 can also easily handle slow memory and IO devices through its WAIT input pin (but of course this just causes the CPU to slow down to the speed of the memory or IO device).
Sure if you have 7 figures to spend on it in court, and the patent troll might still be able to get injections especially if the printers or parts that “violated” the patent in question are imported.
> new things tend to have unknown bugs

Guess what also has unknown bugs? Old C code.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220626114324/https://www.nytim...
22.4% in 2017, and dropping. Similar to the Netherlands. All measures taken together — public knowledge of the harm smoking causes, banning of advertising and gradual reduction of places you can buy it, age limits, banning of smoking in offices and various public areas — undeniably help.
Yes and if I were to guess a lot of folks who are upset about copilot stealing and selling code don't have GitHub sponsors enabled so it feels not genuine. It reads more like "here's a friendly reminder that you can make money with open source as long as you enable GitHub sponsors which btw will make us money too[0]!".

[0]: Organizations will have at least a 10% fee taken from GitHub once the beta is finished. There's also no guarantee that personal accounts will remain fee-less too, this could easily be "just another" spot where a company offers something for free for mass adoption and then charges for it later. In any case it's marketing for a feature that provides revenue to GitHub.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2169/ .

I'm afraid that we are going to see these kinds of issues proliferate rapidly. It's a consequence of the usage of machine learning with extensive amounts of data coming from "data lakes" and similar non-curated sources.
Neither Linux nor Windows require their file paths to be in any particular encoding. (With some restrictions, like no interior NUL bytes, among others.)
Proving that it was copied is only necessary to show copyright infringement. For example, if you independently write a Book A1 that happens to be very similar to an existing Book B, it is not copyright infringement. If you write Book A2 by taking an existing Book B and changing the name of each character, then it would be copyright infringement. Even if A1 and A2 end up having the exact same words as each other, the origin of those words matters.

For a patent to be granted, the implied argument is entirely different. For a patent to be granted, it must be both novel and non-obvious to somebody in the field. If a patent is granted that exactly describes something that already exists, then one of two things must be the case. If the patent description was derived from the existing work, it wasn't novel. If the patent description was derived independently, then it was the obvious solution to a problem. In either case, it fails at least one of the requirements for a patent.

Unfortunately, the patent office has frequently interpreted "novel" as "not covered by a previous patent", with the implication that every invention must have been patented at some point. The courts can go back and invalidate a patent, but that would be a defense against an actual lawsuit, and would carry significant risk to initiate.
> …and thus code is no longer sending _a_ message to _an_ object but using argument types to pick which function/procedure to call

I dunno. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch

"Multiple dispatch or multimethods is a feature of some programming languages in which a function or method can be dynamically dispatched based on the run-time (dynamic) type or, in the more general case, some other attribute of more than one of its arguments.[1] This is a generalization of single-dispatch polymorphism [...]"

It's just a nicer OOP to me. *shrug* But thanks.
> And that was seen as non-helpful, especially as abortions are legal in Germany.

Nope, the criminal code forbids abortion, but doesn't punish it in some circumstance (within some months of pregnancy, after a counselling session and some time for thinking it over etc.)

There are huge debates to make it more legal by turning this around or clearer restricting in criminal code.
Fair point. I shouldn't have made a silly joke about the name of that group when my real point was about the much bigger left-wing protest movement that peaked in 2016.

The best example is perhaps the occupation of the Wisconsin state capital:

> Thousands of protesters rushed to the … Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors...thousands of pro-union activists — many bused in from out of state — rampaged through the historic building in an effort to stop a vote on collective bargaining reform legislation.

...

> during the course of the occupation, Walker received a steady stream of death threats against him and his wife, including one that promised to “gut her like a deer” and one threatening to kill his sons. Police found dozens of .22-caliber bullets scattered across the Capitol grounds. The occupiers drew chalk outlines of fake dead bodies etched with Walker’s name on the floor, and carried signs that read “Death to tyrants,” “The only good Republican is a dead Republican” and one with picture of him in crosshairs with the words, “Don’t retreat, Reload.”

...

> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the occupiers for an “impressive show of democracy in action” and tweeted as they assaulted the Capitol that she continued “to stand in solidarity” with the union activists. In other words, Democrats were for occupying capitols before they were against it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/14/democrats...
All I see there is a button that says “Enable GitHub Copilot”.
The problem is that there are still mechanical bits inside electronic locks, and now you have two areas of attack: the mechanics and the electronics. And as already mentioned, they often have a mechanical lock mechanism as a backup for if the battery is dead, further increasing the attack surface. If the LPL is to be believed, a lot of electronic locks that are on the market are easier to open than Master Locks.
And yet the violent BLM mobs that literally set on fire and looted businesses and shops that had nothing to do with the actual cause were not only not condemned but also glorified and celebrated.

You will not convince me that stealing TVs from target during riots that let to many unjustified injuries and deaths is about seeking justice.

I’m not even American and this was completely obvious.

Please let’s not pretend we don’t have extremism on both sides of the political compass.

I have witness this behaviour on HN many times as well since this website leans overwhelmingly left; try saying anything remotely controversial and watch the downvotes ensue. I intentionally avoid speaking about my own views openly here out of fear of repercussion; especially because many users on this website run businesses and have the power to ruin my career and my livelihood.

If it weren’t for dang, this place would descend to chaos just as well.
Note that Engelbart's chording keyset was 8 bits: five bits on the keyset itself and three more on the mouse. Unfortunately it wasn't even as fast as a regular keyboard, let alone Plover or its proprietary antecedents.
Forget China's new aircraft carrier, these are the ships US should worry about
> I stopped logging on when TFA became arbitrary on there

Did they do this for everybody or only certain people? In my experience Discord is one of the few apps that doesn't constantly make me dig up my phone or help train some dumb AI image recognition every time I use it.
If abortions are illegal it may lead to reckless attempts more dangerous than giving birth. The exact rate may be difficult to quantify as reporting may be unreliable.

I agree it'll be nearly impossible to convince people who already see abortion as murder.
For my bank account in Germany, every text message with a security code will list precisely what entering that code will do, so it might read: "Enter code 12345 to send $12.34 to Dr Strange, account 1234 at Mystery Bank."

Mandating that by law in the US would easily make these scams a lot more difficult to pull off.
Yes, I work in the Salesforce space and have a bunch of Salesforce certifications including certified technical architect (actually hard to get and rare) and Salesforce certs definitely have value in the job market if you are applying to Salesforce-related positions.

Generally, there are two ways I look at certs.

Skills Development: Having a test to pass is a great extrinsic motivator to go out and learn and have some assessment and external validation that you did learn XYZ. It also removes decision paralysis around what to learn and forces you to focus on a specific topic.

Career benefit: This is 100% dependent on the companies and roles you are applying for. Within the "enterprise" space and large companies certs are generally more valued but it's best to work backwards from the type of companies and roles you want to apply for and see what they are looking for.
After Roe vs. Wade: US researchers warn of what’s to come
If you are in a jurisdiction protected by gdpr, consider filing a complaint. The fines for gdpr are scary enough to force google or Microsoft to act.
Super Mario Bros warp zones were intended to work slightly differently [video]
I lost respect for a lot of you today who had the nerve to suggest that these amounts aren't enough money. For the OSS contributions I've made, I've never been given a penny or even so much as a single coffee for the things I've created, but if someone did, it could be a nickel and I'm not going to say anything but thank you. Nobody owes you anything in this world, and a little grace goes a long way in this industry.

For those of you who complained about the money, you people need to reflect on your attitudes and what brought you to this point.

Ugly.
Your dilemma is the topic of an article, discussed a few days ago on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720356

Archive link to the article, seems down at the moment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220618225755/https://blog.jaib...
It's an interesting question what the long tail looks like financially for individual creators both in absolute numbers and on a percentage basis relative to 25 years ago.

I suspect in absolute numbers there is more money going to long tail creators just because there is so much more opportunity to reach a non-geographically-bound audience.

On the other hand, the barriers to entry have essentially collapsed in many cases which has, among other things, led to a veritable flood of content--and many of the often fairly casual creators don't even have a particular interest in, at least directly, monetizing. If you're a long tail would be professional, you have more channels to a potentially paying audience today that doesn't necessarily involve getting picked by a gatekeeper. But you're also now competing with a huge number of enthusiastic amateurs, who don't care about the money, who would never have bothered if they had to get through a gatekeeper.
US senators seek ban on sale of health location data
Not only "They" think it's murder, we as a society tend to think it's murder too.

Here's my argument: in most jurisdictions, a killing of a pregnant woman brings harsher sentence than a killing of non-pregnant woman. In some, it just doubles the crime (double homicide, double manslaughter, etc.) Judging from this, we as a society see at least some value in the life of a foetus.

The issue is a complicated one. We seem to believe fetuses have the right to be born. We also seem to believe that women have the right to their bodies. In the case of abortions, these two rights cannot be achieved at the same time. These are "competing" rights. And while the question of "which right shall prevail" is a classic one for the courts to decide on, people will always go with what they "believe" is right, and disregard the opposing opinion.
> The Internet has always been full of private fora where people limit the range of discussion.

That's fine, but Reddit shows users their removed comments as if they're not removed [1]. Users don't have a chance to migrate to another group or platform if they don't know they're being censored.

> The freedom to have discussions on topics you want in restricted spaces is not censorship, folks.

I would agree with you if the platform were upfront with users about what gets removed. Unfortunately at this point it isn't.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky
It is not a side job anymore. He has stopped lawyering to concentrate on security. He launched covertinstruments.com, which sells tools and training.
i would bet good money that GitHub controls a non-profit whose purpose is to give money to open source devs. Otherwise every donation to a sponsor would be a loss because they're passing on 100% of the money†. If, however, they're giving the money to a non-profit then it's all a tax write-off for them.

† yeah, yeah, soon they'll be charging 10% to companies who sponsor, but I'm betting us little folks donating are cumulatively at least a million dollars and they probably don't want to loose hundred thousand when they could have a tax credit for it.
The West wants to go further on Russian oil. Inflation is making that difficult
both R and Matlab also use 1-based indexing, if anything among languages used for data science and scientific computing, it's Python that is special.
I have not noticed this. What is "the message"?
It could also be something as innocuous as software piracy. Not sure about reddit specifically but a lot of websites will immediately nuke anybody who tries to link to pirated content because they're terrified of getting sued.
Vaccinations are a public health concern. One of the few areas (in my personal philosophy) where the state can argue a legitimate interest in what would otherwise be a violation of personal privacy and autonomy.

The main problem is that most governments have historically shown themselves to use every possible angle they can come up with when they want to go after someone, no matter the legal stretch. Thus, collecting data that could be vital to a legitimate concern could also be later misused for other nefarious purposes. If governments would be the "bigger person" so to speak, and not stoop to dastardly levels, more people would have faith that the government would not infringe on their inherent rights without a damn good reason.
This is one of the 6 key processes in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), which is based on RFT (Relational Frame Theory).

Defusion involves the creation of nonliteral, nonevaluative contexts that diminish the unnecessary regulatory functions of cognitive events, and increase contact with the ongoing process of relating as opposed merely to its products. Said in another way, the focus is on mindfully noticing thinking as it occurs. Some examples of defusion techniques include thanking one’s mind for a thought, watching thoughts go by as if they were written on leaves floating down a stream, repeating words out loud until only the sound remains, or giving thoughts a shape, size, and texture. Clients can practice labeling the process of thinking (e.g., “I am having the thought that I will never be successful”), and practice behaving in ways that directly contradict a thought (e.g., saying “I cannot walk” as one walks across the room). The goal is greater behavioral flexibility, not an immediate change in their frequency or form.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635495/
Science thinks life begins at fertilization too.

https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes2.ht...
It is murder, simple as that. The moment a sperm fertilizes an egg, a new unique genetic material is formed, which is damn near the closest thing we have to an objective standard of when a new human life is started.

Embryo is a stage of development in a human being (and many other life forms on this planet). Maybe it's not synonymous with baby, I could grant that, and allow for baby to represent a different and later stage of development (possibly after birth), but even if I grant this, I'll still say killing that embryo is akin to murder. (Calling it a baby or child regardless of being inside the womb is still fairly natural and common in everyday speech.)

There's a grave fallacy in the article where it tries to compare an acorn to an oak tree. No, the acorn is not an oak tree. No more than a baby is an adult. But where the acorn is still oak, a baby is still human. Further fallacies are made as it tries to compare (and maybe equate?) human embryos with that of pigs and cows. Yeah... no. A woman is not going to give birth to a cow. That doesn't happen.

The article doesn't really do anything to establish anything new. It's only trying to dehumanize human development before birth.

Four ethical alternatives to abortion:

* Abstinence

* Contraception

* Adoption

* Motherhood

The last of these is the most preferential, and none of them involve murdering other humans.
All other languages and language implementations have bugs, too.
Sorry for being an idiot but, how does it work exactly? Where should I type what to see my name appear?
"advertise" in this context is not about Billboards ("pay one abortion, get a second free!") but about doctors putting information on the procedures and about the fact the offer abortion on flyers and their website. Before this law was changed people seeking and abortion had to ask whether they do such procedures or know some doctor who does.
> I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an
> abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search
> carefully, but in today's hostile internet I see this kind
> of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect
> to have it respected.

Without judging whether the goal is good or not, I will gently point out that your current approach doesn't seem to be effective. A Google search for "BoppreH" turned up several results on the first page with what appears to be your full name, along with other results linking to various emails that have been associated with that name. Results include Github commits, mailing list archives, and third-party code that cited your Github account as "work by $NAME".

As a purely practical matter -- again, not going into whether this is how things should be, merely how they do be -- it is futile to want the internet as a whole to have a concept of privacy, or to respect the concept of a "digital personal space". If your phone number or other PII has ever been associated with your identity, that association will be in place indefinitely and is probably available on multiple data broker sites.

The best way to be anonymous on the internet is to be anonymous, which means posting without any name or identifier at all. If that isn't practical, then using a non-meaningful pseudonym and not posting anything personally identifiable is recommended.
... but that was only the "Postgres" release. The project now known as postgres was started in 1985 or so, with early demos and releases in the 1980s.

And it probably traces actual code back to Ingres in 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL
Languages:

Python, C, C++. Not java, for example.
> Sounds like you're detail oriented, good luck with your project.

Yeah that may be true... :-) Good old owasp will help out here. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
It's not about the number of requirements. What you quoted is actually a general description of the device.

What it says is you have an effector (effector is a generic word that means something that does something) suspended in space. A rigid hoist provides a fixed position above the work area to suspend the effector. The effector hangs from the hoist by at least one cable. That cable is used to control the z postion of the effector. There are also at least two other controllers used to control the x and y position. Each controller is connected by at least one cable which is used to control position in x and y.

In fact this patent was probably granted because that clause is not specific to 3D printing. The "effector" could be something else. Like a lathe or drill or camera or lightbulb or anything that does anything.
> just a PR move

This is an uncharitable interpretation of this initiative. What makes you think so?