skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it the same way as dijit. I would also add that it’s an interesting view into how licensing is supposed to be declared in modern Linux distributions and what happens when that breaks a little bit. I‘be only lightly used Linux since somewhere around 2002, mostly Raspbian, so it may not be as interesting to others?
I mean this has always been the case - you're gonna get more bang for buck if you buy a second-hand last generation high-end product than a new mid range product. What you trade is warranty, support, and the risk of unknown issues due to the previous owner.

I'm happy with that risk so I often buy used electronics, but I can understand why other don't.
absolutely based lmao

but seriously, you start talking about irs forms and surprised when a small business whon cant afford a fancy ass tax lawyer gets scared? most of them would get in trouble if the irs looked at them so it's not that they need it explained what it is, it's that they still don't like it for good reason.
Note that citizens may feel more acutely about systemic discrimination against homosexuals. A large factor is subsidized public housing, which a large fraction of the citizens live in. Being married and having children gives you priority for public housing, but only heterosexual unions being recognized as marriage excludes families of homosexual partners from receiving the same support.
I'd be interested to know if there are any stats on that. I also feel like SF is going to have a hard time moving the needle on this issue with any one policy change.
You don't really want a headphone jack, just carry a (comparatively huge) battery was a funny take to read for sure. The removal of the headphone jack was obviously not motivated by technological superiority of BT or any sort of necessity. It was for the vanity factor that Apple started on, and others joined, of slightly sleeker looks; and the cynic in me strongly suspects the airpod / other peripheral market was not far behind as a driver of that decision. I don't care so much if technology changes, but when it regresses for what appears to be largely (if not only) vanity and greed, it's fair to call a spade a spade.
Last time I saw such disregard for software licenses, it was packaged up and branded as GitHub Copilot.
I don't actually think the money is main problem. You can keep giving them more money and it wont change anything in long run. Unless they are grossly underpaid compared to cost of living.

It is all about giving them tools to solve issues with those children that cause issues. And maybe cultural change back to state where it is most of the time kids fault. Not teachers... And lessening the work load where possible. Maybe increasing number of assistants available and resources of special education.
I think you are right. But the kids who are involved need to actually be held responsible.

In middle school I was a kind and polite person. There were a significant portion around me who were not. And more than enough who were literally underage criminals. Many abused the teachers, especially ones who were having a tough time such a chemotherapy.

Stealing by middle schoolers should result in imprisonment of middle schoolers. Same thing for locking a teacher out of her classroom.

I'm not joking. I think we need to start building more juvenile prisons. It will cut down a lot on the requirements for adult prisons. If there is any capability for reform, it is much greater when they are young.

It also needs to be clear to juveniles that they can't commit crimes and have them dismissed as "poor classroom control".

It's garbage juveniles is what it is. Take the trash out.
isn't Rivian shipping already with one motor on each wheel?
OpenAI and the False Prophecy of “AGI”
yeah, from experience, wind direction can definitely play a larger part in how far sound travels than is immediately obvious too.
Yes, the best way to respond to a collective problem is wait for everyone else to do their part.
Not parents, descendants. Yes its been 150 years, but the scars still haven't healed.

> I really recommend you moving out of such third world society.

Well this is the challenge in America and why Finland's education system has it easy. The teaching in Finland doesn't have to be good to beat an average US student.
My gig has been doing 4-day x 8hour work weeks since long before I started. We have Wednesdays off which is a bit unusual but means I never work more than two days in a row (unless I want to swap a Wednesday for a Friday). It's pretty great.
The text quoted above is a short essay on the same topic from Harvard. Here's the Forest Service PDF summary:

> Lumber size standards came into being almost a century ago to meet the need for a common understanding between the mill and markets that were separated by increasing distances of rail or water transportation. Early concepts called for rough lumber to be of full nominal size, often in the dry condition. After World War I, the increasing demand for construction lumber led to the first national size standard in 1924. This was revised in 1926, 1928, 1939, and 1953, while still another revision is proposed for adoption in 1964.

> Demand for lumber in World War II led to the shipment and use of large quantities of lumber dressed green to standard sizes. That use has continued to the present time, while experience has accumulated on how to deal with the seasoning and shrinkage of lumber in place in a structure. The proposed new lumber standard recognizes both green and dry lumber, requiring the former to be of larger size so that both will be of the same size when they reach the same moisture content in use.

> Economic pressures among the regional areas of lumber production have resulted in a decrease of standard lumber sizes over the period covered by this history.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to treat senior leaders differently from peers.

More on topic, if we're talking about a business context here, and I think we are, it's important to consider the actual implications. If the team that is willing to shove and be shoved is more effective than the other team, it seems reasonable to expect those who join the team to get their shoving gloves on, fast, if they want to contribute at a high level.

Lots of assumptions baked in there, and I'm not saying it's the only valid way to run a good business, by any stretch.
I see it as being connected to the dynamics of empire, more generally. Property ownership - and its enforcement by the state - extends vassalage to the masses, tying them up in the system in a way that rent alone can't: too invested to skip town, too small to have a voice in the legal framework.

If you "drop out" and live modestly, there's much less coercion to be had. That means that as the empire tightens up control over its assets, it foments moments of generational revolution through exclusion. And we have a picture now of that throughout the US, but also globally: no way onto the property ladder, crumbling faith in the enforcers, an older generation exiting and leaving behind institutions in need of a retrofit. It's a good time to quit given that it's not clear what the rat race gets you now.

The cheerleaders of empire, on the other hand, are necessarily going to be the biggest and best-funded media establishments, and because they operate within imperial reality they can only use logic from within the Overton Window, ideas that do not question the system and instead provides a scapegoat for its failings. Hence we are all a bunch of avocado toast quitters now, influenced by "extremists", "radicals" and "fake news".
The Long, Sweet Love Affair Between Cops and Doughnuts
Most ordinary human beings would agree that a parcel inspection rate closer to zero percent than 1% means that there is no inspection of parcels.

I can pretty much guarantee that nobody in this HN discussion has ever had a parcel opened, nor knows anyone who has ever had that happen to them.

I mean, there's an entire industry of buying prescription medicine online from India and other places, which simply wouldn't fly in any other country.
Ferrari has no choice. They’ll eventually be banned on noise pollution grounds/ be too low performance to be considered super cars if they stick with internal combustion.
Not for Flight Simulator and some other games.
I have no real idea what the ins-and-outs of 1099-K and so I could be completely wrong.

However, it seems like there may be some sort of threshold listed in the reporting requirements.

Would it be legally possible to allow your users to use the enhanced functionality of your platform up to the edge of that threshold?

Cutting off access to the premium services that the sellers of erotic coo-coo clocks (or whatever) have come to value might incentivize them enough to overcome the 1099-K hurdle. You could make the process gentler by constantly displaying the amount of revenue left that they can transact before being cut off.

Be careful though. Cutting off access will equally incentivize users to bypass the restrictions you've put in place by creating multiple accounts, etc.

Lacking the above you could also try to focus on the part of your platform the sellers do want to use and sell a premium tier to sellers that has features that would make them stand out to buyers. For example premium users could have flair (think something akin to a verified checkmark) next to their listings in searches and the ability to post an extra video of their clocks.
Sometimes it’s unavoidable though. During various social obligations which require your presence it can be nice to have takers around to keep things going.
I'm not sure if you mean in this specific case or in general, but in general, copyright infringement certainly can be criminal. Willful infringement for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, for example, is a criminal offense in the United States (17 USC 506).
Author of ripgrep here.

Maybe, umm, don't depend on auto-detection tools as the ultimate source of whether something is appropriately licensed or not? encoding_rs is clearly licensed, otherwise I wouldn't have used it in ripgrep: https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs

Take it up with the auto-detection tools. Or at least do your due diligence before claiming ripgrep is using "unlicensed" code.

The Debian copyright notice is correct for ripgrep.
Essentially, we want to monetize transactions with a % fee through a payment handling offering for the merchant on top of our (free) platform. We give them tools to run their business but charging them appropriately for it is difficult since their margins can be thin. We figured that offloading the cost of the platform to their customers would be easier than convincing them to purchase a SaaS subscription.

However, these merchants are reluctant to use this sort of service because if they used it, our platform legally has to report this in a 1099-K to the IRS. Same as any marketplace these days.

As for the referral suggestion, we actually worked with tax professionals in order to do just that. We figured if we personally vetted some tax pros for referrals vs a link to something like H&R Block, it'd help make the difference. It didn't.

(Also, we use Stripe Tax to handle sales tax for the customers who do use the monetized features. They love it!)
US Military. I have a pile of leave that accumulates at a reasonable rate. When I'm not deployed or TDY (Where leave continues to accumulate), I take almost every Friday or Monday off. When you mix in the federal holidays, it's sustainable.
> But why ? You start with the place with the most impact and deal with the long tail later. So NYC should be the first.

Because your "long tail" of poorly functional taxi systems consisted of cities like Los Angeles, Houston, and San Diego. These aren't tiny even when compared to New York. "Most impact" should be the largest city without a functional taxi system. THOSE should have been the focus and then you would have had demand pull into New York and Chicago.

But, no, Uber wanted the "growth hack" of burning VC cash to transfer a bunch of people from the already functional taxi system into the ridesharing system.

> If Tesla et al. had the same impunity and legal cover as Uber, they would be selling everywhere, and we would all be better off.

Laws exist for a reason. Sometimes, such as the case of Tesla, those laws go out of date and should be changed. The medallion system, however, came into existence to avoid malfeasance by drivers. And, as we have seen, as Uber has reduced pay to the drivers, we are getting the exact problems medallions were put in place to solve.
what's a m5pvl gear?
I use an old iPad via Universal Control for exactly this purpose: calendar/to-do list. It sits under my monitor and frees up a lot of screen real estate.
"Sign in with Github" is an interesting choice for a paid version control system...
Wireless is worse in every way imaginable. Worse power use, worse quality, worse latency, much worse convenience (now you have to charge the headphones, too).
It depends a lot on tone and body language, but "right" usually means "I agree with you" while "correct" can come off as them deigning to give their approval from a high place, like "I'm the one who actually has the knowledge, but you happen to be correct in this specific instance". But it's more about the person and their tone, the people who feel strongly about this are probably who have experienced it from someone insufferable who uses it as a power play. I.e. if you're not intentionally using it this way, you don't have much to worry about.
Tax obligations vary widely from place to place.

Some tax on residency after a set time of stay, but entitle you to community services (Canada).

Others tax on citizenship, and are still binding in the country of birth even if you have dual citizenship (USA).

The US now has a per state and federal tax withholding obligation for international eCommerce businesses selling to US customers as of 2019. The amount and customer sale count grace thresholds vary state to state, but failure to file a US federal return (even for $0 taxable revenue) as a non-US company is still a $10k fine.

Don't YOLO this one, talk with the US chamber of commerce rep for the areas you want to export/import into.

People may not like taxes... but they will hate the fines, seized shipments, or jail even more. In many cases, the withheld taxes can be recovered if the buyer can prove the destinations tax rules were incorrectly applied. ;)
I would have never expected that a language (Especially a compiled one) does that kind of fuckery behind the scenes.
You make it sound like copyright infringement is never a crime, when that isn't true at all. 18 U.S.C. § 2319.

Now, the commercial use or intent of the software in question isn't analyzed in the OP (or in your comment) and I haven't dug into it. In this particular case it may or may not meet the elements of the five-year federal felony. But your comment is far too quick to dismiss the possibility.

(Additionally, as a sibling comment pointed out, the word "illegal" doesn't always necessarily mean "criminal.")
> It seems to me that math is math, your country's history is your country's history, biology is biology, etc.

You would think, but somehow we Americans have found a way to make this question much more difficult than it initially seems (or needs to be, imho).
Yes. That's not half a million now, is it?
Maybe this will be the year Sony finally gets its mobile act together - and maybe pigs will fly for good measure
Fridge compressor teardown reveals engineering compromises
I'd love to see a study correlating drug tolerance with a worse environment. Until then, this sounds like conjecture. (good point about the crime decreasing vs staying the same, though, I missed that nuance)
NYC Fire Department forcible entry reference guide [pdf] (2006)
Lawyers make a distinction between "illegal" (crimes) and "unlawful" (torts) that is mostly lost on the general public.
Not everybody else, just a tiny privileged minority. The self-proclaimed experts -- those who allegedly listen to the science, and have their finger on the pulse of the issue, and who are the most flagrantly wasteful polluters on the planet. I mean from their actions it's not even clear that there is a problem at all, is it? Do you deny their knowledge and expertise?
Hacker News is shown as example of naysayers: https://youtu.be/yrc632oilWo?t=2401 :=)
I bought a Pixel 4a a few weeks ago and it ended up collecting dust, even that I find too big to be usable. I'm sticking with a G7 Play for now. It's got pathetic specs, firmware support is long over and parts of the screen are missing. But hey, at least I can kinda sorta still use it with one hand.
And? How many people do you think buy high performance cars? The answer is: not many.
As do the Jaguar E and XJ types, and perhaps other Jags. The Audi 100, some Alfas and Lotus cars, too.
Indeed and almost always for that reason. It's more the performance that hurts me, perhaps my 'many tabs' style is better handled with the chromium process model.
Yet, even you quote man himself rather than the perfect Word of God. Should not something as perfect as the Word of God be the most simple, encouraging, and enlightening on such a crucial matter of Christianity itself? The evidence before us doesn't indicate so.

That is when a Protestant might say, "Well it is clear and perfect in it's [Protestant / sola fide] meaning. And that the billions of other Christians, try as extremely hard as they may, with millions spending immense portions of their live trying to ascertain what God meant for them, have been led astray for all of time."
Regarding pricing, we are actively working on a general available pricing for our entire system. This is going to take us a couple of quarters to operationalize everything; we have a pretty good idea of what the pricing will be for the everyone-version.

Right now we have our enterprise pricing nicely figured out. This might sound a bit strange but unlike many startups, we actually went to market backwards by focusing on the enterprise first. When we started the company, we had this crazy idea that we could build a distributed, query replicated, database that could sync over a mesh network. No one had ever built anything like this and we had some skepticism that such a product could actually generate revenue to create a sustainable business. Eventually, most infrastructure or database startups survive in large part to enterprise deployments. So we sought enterprise use cases and dollars first. And I have to say that was totally worth it and we've been rapidly gaining customers here.

However, in our hearts, we are all frontend web, mobile, IoT app developers that all wanted to build collaborative apps like iMessage, Figma, Miro, Trello that had offline, sync, and conflict resolution capabilities out of the box. Once we make a couple of product and ops advancements over the next could of quarters, we will have very clear pricing like any other service out there. So just hang tight!

Want us to get to pricing faster? Definitely recommend some of your infrastructure, kubernetes, and rust distributed systems developers to join us. We are hiring hardcore!
Society decided we wanted good things and we took action to get those things.

I am against poverty and not having things such as electricity and clean tap water, abundant food, education, hospital care, sewage treatment and proper waste disposal. I like these things, they are good.

You would be surprised at how sustainable things are by sheer hard work and will. In other words, we get what we cause.

The alternative to these things is worse. To be sustainable (no or renewable electricity, sparse population, no cars, no factories, no meat, land used for growing food) you need to remove the things society wants by sheer will. And I don't think you'll sell anybody on that.

In other words, telling people that they need to give up good things is not enough.
Speeding in the US ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶i̶s̶ (edit: can be) a criminal summary offense.
Yup, and these merchants are keenly aware of that unfortunately. When the news broke of the change, suddenly they all became very concerned about taxes and reporting. We've actually done a good bit of work on our end to clear up what 1099-K's are and what taxes actually mean for their businesses, so the material is clear and accessible to all of them.

The problem is that doesn't overcome the fear they have for the IRS, unfortunately.
You should at least register a trademark for the name of the app, using an 'intent to use' federal trademark registration.

Depending on how innovative the tech is, it wouldn't hurt talking to a patent attorney, so you have at least some moat to keep copyists at bay. I've found many inventors underestimate the protectability of their inventions.

That patent attorney might be able to offer you some kind of 'terms of service' that blocks your users from reverse engineering and using the software beyond its intended use.
Frankly, and I know this might be an unpopular opinion, it should be illegal. Communications are extremely important building blocks of our society, and people should not be forced into acquiring their devices from their service provider. Any device that is technologically compatible should be allowed, and the carrier should be forced to support open standards to guarantee interoperability. It's the equivalent of a toll road only allowing cars they sold onto it.
I wish I hadn't followed the link to turducken. I can't unsee it now
This makes me wonder: has any judge ruled in favor of a plaintiff seeking compensation from people that used or redistributed software that he published on the internet for free without any copyright notice or disclaimer?
One is software licensing of any software components you are using.
> Well, isnt the West also backing the Ukranian Far Rights, too?

Well whoop-dee-doo. Welcome to realpolitik. Meanwhile, Russia is backing the far-right in Europe (and for that matter, in your country, too). Your concern should be focused on that, not whattabout the US!

Put your oxygen mask on before trying to save others.
I'm not convinced there is a large demand for these. While LCDs work poorly in bright sunlight, e-ink works poorly in darkness. Humans are more likely using a display in a poorly lit area than a brightly lit one.

In addition, e-ink uses less energy only if the image isn't really changing. If the image is refreshing, there is a bunch of energy being blown to overwrite the old image. That's not power friendly.

Finally, I seem to remember that there were a bunch of patents in the way.
I've found that whenever I've shared my ideas with friends or family, they default to poking holes in them. Instead of looking for reasons why it could work they start listing obvious problems that I've already considered. Things like "You would have to get insurance" or my personal favorite "if it were that easy then everyone would be doing it." Because of this, I learned long ago not to share any of my projects or ideas with anyone.

The flip-side is that when I started to have some success, those same people who would always be so negative became angry with me. After his first time visiting my new home one guy even picked a fistfight with me and I've picked up that several family members have been running me down behind my back.

Many working-class people are prone to envy but at the same time they underestimate their own potential. It's best not to worry about them.
Wait what? I'm using an unlocked Moto G7 Play on AT&T, and voice calls seem to work fine?
> Consider something as superficially innocuous as Facebook (at least before it became what it is today)

Facebook was never innocuous; at best, it was created to scam us "dumb fucks" out of our data from the start, and at worst it's an evolution of a site for rating women's physical features. See e.g. https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-lying-about-fac...