skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment makes me feel like you don't understand India at all. At the time of independence, we were robbed of our resources by the west. Our country was divided with individual identity. Poverty, economy and quality of life were pretty bad thanks to England.

"school meals" allowed families to be able to send kids to school for education instead of getting their help at work to feed families. That means, more people were inclined towards getting education and literacy. Which was a huge deal for our country at that time.

>The Non-Aligned movement? India would have been much richer, much more quickly, if they were to have aligned themselves with the West.

India "might" have been richer without NAM but did you not notice what our close relationship with west did to us? Also, that richness would have made us into a failed state like USA (yes, I know about US' homelessness, lack of social security, and the greedy capitalism). We needed to stand on our own feet before we could make alliances. Heck, the west is still opposed to India till now. As much as I dislike Russian politics, our partnership with Russia has actually helped us develop much quicker (and yes, it was a partnership in every sense)

Indian constitution was needed, specifically because our country is so much more diverse. Are you seriously comparing a tiny piece of land (HK) to a huge landmass like India, which has hundreds of different cultures, identities, religions, languages. We absolutely needed a code to unify our country. We are still very diverse, but our unified under a single identity of Indian.

And since you folks actually acknowledge the atrocities of Nazi Germany, you should definitely look into India's colonial history. You'll understand the storm we had to endure, and what we were left with once we kicked those colonizers out of our land.
I believe the macro landscape (I refer to the end of cheap money) is creating a change of Paradigm that is being reflected on multiple angles in our circles and professional sectors. What I'm curious about is where is the line between the software that really should not be open because of its competitive advantage and the software that you can make open?
As a follow-on, what if you're mirroring code which is under an AGPL license? Are you allowed to post it on GitHub if you can't grant those rights under the ToS due to the license of the code?
Engineering and Sales Leaders
How does your product/engineering teams align with sales/marketing to move the needle and build what customers need?
So, the Twitter curation team was curating at least Japanese Twitter to be more political?

Kind of makes me wonder what American Twitter is going to look like once our regularly scheduled post-election meltdown is over; but if true, $44B to turn Twitter into a smoking hole in the ground might just be the best $44B ever spent.
We just haven’t found the right business model.

I’m working on two things that will change that:

nimbusws.com (this is the moonshot —- a managed service/hosting provider that gives back to F/OSS. Imagine what would happen if a company 1% as big as AWS gave 30% back to F/OSS projects)

awsmfoss.com - A newsletter that features a new F/OSS project every day. 60%+ of recurring subscriptions are donated to F/OSS projects — only 2 paid subscribers right now but it’s a start. Things will get REALLY exciting once I build traffic and start donating ad revenue (probably via EthicalAds)

If either of these sound interesting to you (criticism, encouragement, requests to invest, want to be the first hire) email me victor@(either domain above) and we’ll chat.
While I'm always excited about new ways of monetizing open source, if I'm looking at the OpenCollective contribution page for Fody correctly, this model has made them under $10,000 in the past 2 years or so.

From a business perspective that's basically a rounding error and nothing compared to what you can do with the conventional approach of selling consulting/support or, heaven forbid, your own proprietary solution.

So in what sense is this the best model? Has anyone used it to generate $100,000 in annual revenue, let alone say $10M+? More profitable model = more hiring developers to improve the software...!
It's not a dumb question. You're right that it's absolutely an argument for DeFi, but it comes with tradeoffs:

- Bugs in the code means all capital may be lost. That's potentially worse.

- The profit margins aren't nearly as high. If you're a centralized entity or a bank you can do all kinds of shady stuff behind the scenes with customer funds to fill your own pockets. It has happened over and over again both in TradFi and CeFi. In DeFi, you can't do that since it's fully transparent and backed. Good for the consumer, but not not as good for business growth. Many traditional finance entities have become as big as they are because they did shady stuff but didn't get caught. I'm just not talking about crypto exchanges here, but also traditional banks.
> [1] pre-empting the "but it's used for practical things in countries with crumbling economies instead of the local currency" argument: yes, but that's such a tiny portion of total market cap that it probably doesn't affect the value of your holdings by any meaningful amount.

Also good ol' fiat dollars are better than crypto for that use case in pretty much every way.
That was my assumption too before seeing the clarification
> Unless there's some bread cartel/oligopoly, a bread seller can't just increase prices and use a story to convince people it's unavoidable.

This is trivially provable false. Companies can charge inflated prices based on story and/or advertising. The entire existence of high end fashion, for example, owes its existence to this being true.

But even setting that aside, the primary driver of inflation, oil and gas prices, are set by a literal cartel. And what do you know, the companies in this industry are making record profits.
Their service is hosting code, not writing code.

That's why it's GitHub, not CodeScribe ( or something)
I've never really heard of it being used that way before now
Same. I think it's weird, almost dishonest or shifty to have the camera off. In a big meeting ok, but with two or three people?

Body language is part of communication and you can't just hide that. No wonder companies want to force people back to the office if they're going to hide themselves online. You can't hide yourself in a meeting room.
Tumblr has all the infrastructure to be the new Twitter. Surprised there hasn't been more discussion of that in the media.
The wiki way is not bad: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=pub
To me it felt like volunteering to keep the community running smoothly.

However it makes you an especially visible member of that community, especially to its worst elements. The constant hostility and eventually the harrassment made me step down.

Now I watch other moderators go through the same motions. People are absolutely vile to them, all over a tiny internet forum.
There are many AWS services for which you cannot make reservations. You can get better per unit rates by pre-purchasing, but even with instances, network transfer is a per unit factor.

Your only way out is the built in tools to limit service in these cases or to build your own circuit breakers and implement them, or make your usage so small as to not truly require the cloud in the first place.
So the US government dumped a shit load of cash on everyone and that’s why prices in the U.S. went up.

Which doesn’t explain why other countries, where the government didn’t dump a shitload of cash, are seeing even higher price increases than the U.S.

Also, what’s the mechanism for govt dumping shit load of cash allowing prices to go up? The usual suspects point to the fall in the value of the dollar, but the dollar is historically strong at the moment. Another mechanism could be a massive increase in demand, but that would be accompanied by a corresponding massive rise in GDP.
_free_ dataplans in 2006? Is in "all you can use" data at a fixed price? I haven't seen that anywhere ever. Europe, Asia, middle east.

Back in 06, I could buy a $5 add-on to stream Youtube on my 3 subscription, but the handsets were so terrible, the thought of doing that never occurred to me.

I had a 1 month subscription to music streaming on my 3 handset and it drained the phone battery within an hour.

I could access wikipedia to fact check people as a party trick in 06, but 3g still didn't feel on par with the 2g data services that Docomo and AU had been offering in Japan years before.
It was far less political in the past, now I visit the front page and it's all politics all the time. Note that I don't log in and I'm just browsing the front page, so it has nothing to do with me selecting subs.
Create website where people can claim their money for themselves and their kids upon verification, it's much easier than trying to distribute it by yourself.

Though people without internet won't be able to claim their money without help of someone with internet and it will be still PITA to deliver them the money.
>Xian Jingjing, a 21-year-old tech worker in the southwestern province of Sichuan, told Rest of World she was banned from WeChat in October 2021, after someone hacked into her account and posted spam messages from it. With the payment services disabled, Xian, then a university student, could not even go grocery shopping by herself.

>After Xian appealed, Tencent’s customer service asked for a handwritten letter, which Xian drafted in her dorm room before carefully copying onto a separate piece of paper. “I really understand what I did wrong now. I regret it very much,” her letter read. “Really, please give me a chance. You all work so hard. Thank you!”

The real lesson is wechat has relatively responsive in person customer support. If only I can write an insincere apology to Google to reinstate my Youtube Premium account banned falsely for "spam", instead of trying automated repeals attempts throttled to every couple weeks. While I'M STILL BEING CHARGED MONTHLY because the membership page becomes inaccessibly when the account is removed.
I've been using Zoho's email for a few years now (only because they used to provide free custom domain email - brilliant growth tactic!). The service itself works perfectly and integrates well with Apple Mail (albeit they changed the server configurations over the years two times if I recall correctly). Though their web client leaves some to be desired, it made very good progress and I believe it would be comparable to Gmail in the foreseeable future. As for their other services, I have not tried them but I would guess that copying Google Workspace is the general theme of development. Bigger picture I think it's great Google Workspace and Office 365 will have real competition, especially on the pricing front, that is outside the US (which means it is influenced by different interests and less likely to join the monopoly) and it will benefit everyone involved.
Being able to sign a fake certificate doesn’t immediately let you intercept traffic. You also have to control the worlds ISPs to get your server in the middle.

Such an incredible feat that it has never happened before.
He is right, media over MMS never took off. Mobile internet with messaging apps were the next big thing. Phones of that era were not capable of user friendly apps.
> I user Rancher Desktop on an i9 with 32gb of RAM. Starts in less than a minute.

This is considered good?
Should've specified I meant movies and other large conglomerates that tend towards oligopoly. I mean things like Disney+ shouldn't exist, its extending the concentration of market power vertically too.
If organic neural networks are allowed to read and learn from open source code, why should an artificial one be any different?
> As for the being a nation state part, sometimes I think we would have been better off in an EU type situation rather than being one large entity.

I have the same idea. But I'm not very sure about it, specially because our divide has been the main cause of Britishers colonizing us. An united single state gives us much more resources to function properly and defend our interest against neighbors like Pakistan & China.

I could be wrong though, as EU seems to be a good example of governance
Netflix is still ad-free for me (product placements in content aside). Multiple tiers is reasonable.
> What do you mean by idempotent?

For every git command, provide a way to undo the previous command, if possible.

For example, `git checkout -b abc`, a `git undo` would execute `git branch -D abc`.

This is just an example, I know you can find many problems
and with this approach and edge cases when it doesn't work, but we can make life easier for beginners in most cases.

> Clicking undo two times and going back only one step

Huh? I never meant that. Click undo two times would go back two steps, naturally.

But of course, there are some actions that can't undo, so give user a warning or something.
If you can tolerate a GUI, Git Cola might be a solution. I'm using it exclusively for some 5 years now – it's lightweight enough, but still makes you think about what you're about to commit. You can add things to .gitignore directly from there, too.

https://git-cola.github.io/

Default layout is a bit weird IMO, here's what I'm doing instead: https://u.ale.sh/my-git-cola-screenshot.png
AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain.

I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).
I’ve experienced the same. Similar to yourself, I like to browser when not logged in and logged in.
> antifragile corporations

How is Apple anti-fragile?
What’s the point of licenses if TOS overrides it?
But Zuck is surely talking about AR glasses here, right? Full VR isn’t going to be a ubiquitous platform like phones/laptops etc.
I don't think either of those is necessarily true. I don't ever need to merge long lived branches if I don't want to. And I definitely don't ever merge my production branches with... anything. They are always just a fast-forward from another branch.
What we are seeing is Saudi people who tweeted or liked tweets critical of the Saudi regime being arrested and held prisoner if they visit the kingdom.
if you self funded such a movie, would you be allowed to publish it?
Copyright was originally intended to protect the creators of a work.

Over many years it has now mostly become a tool for large companies to accumulate rights (on works they didn't create themselves) and monetize them.

Maybe a reform is needed, to find a way back to the original purpose.
The project could, yes. It wouldn't necessarily change the legality of using it in non-GPL projects, though. If people were only using it in license-compatible projects and it was license-compatible with GPL, I doubt anyone would have any complaints (even though in theory it could also be picking up stuff from other incompatible licenses).
Probably the ToS. You've granted GitHub specifically license to use your code under the terms of the ToS, they effectively have 2 licenses. They can therefore choose under which licence they want to use your code, and will choose the most permissive one, or the one they have the best understanding of: in this case the ToS.

Other parties are not granted license under the ToS, and so will have to abide by the AGPL.
As someone, who has experience in building and selling open-source businesses, I cannot agree more

Open-source can be a great selling point and a growth driver, but it won't replace all the other parts of running a business, such as marketing, sales and most importantly, a functioning, profitable business model

If you need some advice, feel free to e-mail me

I will take a look at your open-source project and tell you how it can be turned into a business
TikTok has paid human curators iirc, I don't think the others do. This lets them be more aggressive with recommendations since the videos it recommend are more accurately labelled.

Humans doing curation is not that expensive, that is the main innovation TikTok came with.
Many young people had the hopes of maybe getting rich through crypto when all other avenues to a comfortable life that were available to boomers had disappeared. Now this will be a bucket of cold water to those hopes.
SEC Investigating FTX
On the other hand, I’m reminded of this talk: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

The web and smartphone landscape in 50 years might very well look quite similar to what we have today. VR will remain a niche and most people will carry around a smartphone with even more capabilities.
Stock Buybacks and the Monetization of Stock-Based Compensation
What features is Chrome shipping that it shouldn't?
The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off
This showed up at an internal Twitter meeting this week. Mr. Musk proposed making Twitter ad free for 8$ accounts before being politely informed that 8$ accounts actually produce 50$ per month in ad revenue.

An angry bird informed me about this :)
The ToS only applies to GitHub(which includes Microsoft, apparently)

Other parties will still have to abide by your license.
Mastodon’s eternal September begins?
It's not based on personal credibility, it's based on regulation. Wells Fargo wouldn't collapse because it's regulated and has some actual provable guardrails in place.
Who wants to wear any type of eye glasses ... nobody. But they do! Because they have utility.

I can't understand why you wouldn't want to be able to wear a perfectly normal pair of glasses that have the additional feature that you can pull up your phone screen at any moment without actually getting it out of your pocket.
i would think so... particularly if only half the face is disfigured we ought to be able to scan the other half and then 3d print a mold... even the coloring seems plausible to machine.
not sure if current tooling can do it, but maybe one day
Atom was bad since day One
Consider that you can post somebody else's code to GitHub, and that may be licensed AGPL (or anything else). In that case, somebody else is the copyright holder so clearly the ToS doesn't magically give GitHub any additional rights and the licence applies.

The most they could do is transfer any liability back to you for posting it in breach of some term in their ToS. But that would be absurd since posting someone else's code, licensed under a common (eg. OSI-approved) license, is an established and normal use case for GitHub. If their ToS really did ban the posting of some AGPL code, they really ought to have pointed it out, and of course it'd render GitHub useless for hosting AGPL code.

This would only apply when posting someone else's code. But of course you could always arrange that.
In my worst case scenario doing something similar, I had to go through the login process via Selenium, then download the file (it actually was a CSV for me too) in Python, by grepping the source code (Xpath and CSS selectors were useless) with a regex. There are ways to share cookies between Firefox and Python, and you could probably save a step by running Selenium from Python. Then make an HTTP request with the proper cookies, UA, and accept-* headers.
It's reasonable to want a series of commits (or patches) to be pulled together, assuming they are well-organized commits.
I just wanted to remark that if you are physically active, you may want to look into a more Targeted Ketogenic Diet (TKD) regimen.

Simplifying, you have more carbohydrates specifically to fuel a workout and recovery, and you have them around your actual activity.

You can also have natural fructose here if you like, and indeed you may find a mix of glucose and fructose this gives you additional energy or additional aid in recovery due to the differences in transport/uptake.
Well, when the truth is “blame consumers for consuming a record amount of stuff with no price sensitivity after being forced indoors for two years, where they learned life is meant to be lived,” I can see why they don’t want to take the fall for that.
I definitely don't think crypto is in any way "better" as an investment (you can look at my other comments here), but I definitely think the destruction as misery caused by traditional finance was so much higher.

Crypto is extremely speculative and risky and everyone knows it.

Housing on the other hand, get extremely favorable regulation that's unjustified in my opinion. You got the Fed buying mortgage backed securities.

In my view, what is going on in traditional finance is morally wrong much more than in crypto. Unlike crypto were the bubble doesn't effect me, I need to work and pay higher rent and my freedom is restricted as a direct consequences of the evils of traditional finance wether I'm participating in their bubble directly or not.

Many of the things you call "safeguards" of traditional finance are greater evils than nothing at all. Especially safeguards of collateralization, like mortgage.

(And don't get me wrong - I'm very capitalistic in my world view. You can just hardly call capitalism the way the Fed and mortgage dealers acted, and central banking is the bane of modern capitalism).
I'm going to disagree here on Amazon. They did succeed in building/acquiring two hardware and OS level platforms. They were so successful you didn't even notice

One is called Alexa and the other is called Ring. At the same time Amazon is a website that doesn't rely as heavily on your phones privacy setting (which Apple is currently using to mine your data btw!)

Within the next 5 years I expect folks to be able to order things from their doorbells and Ring home security drones
1. Humans are not neural networks.
2. Humans are not allowed to directly copy even rather short snippets of licenced code.
3. Humans do not have the capacity to memorize the entirity GitHub.
> Sridhar Vembu of Zoho said that no other company has built a billion dollar product company in India.

India has no other billion dollar product companies? Doesn’t Tata sell cars?
Ecclesiastes 1:16-18
No need to. Just move on and live with it
maybe I'm slow today, but I didn't get from their long rant what did they replace page rank with? I get it, ads suck, SEO spam sucks, PR is gameable, serving the user is noble. But, how did they solve the actual problem of ranking the search results?
I mean really it seems like FTX’s issue is that it got raided to serve as a hedge funds piggy bank. They’re not stupid, they wouldn’t accept such a massive amount of collateral in their own token if it wasn’t mostly owned by their hedge fund that they want to funnel assets too.
It's not the license of the model, it's the license of the output.

As it stands, Copilot is a black-box which strips copyright from a piece of code.

I'd be fine if it were a level playing field and GitHub also trained it on private repositories - that's a signal that they don't care about copyright at all.

I'd be fine as a developer who releases GPL'ed code if the output was licensed as GPL - obviously no license violation.

I'd be fine (within a reasonable scale) if a developer contacted me and asked to use my code under MIT.

I'm not fine that Copilot allows people to take my code, 'change the variable names' and remove the license. Especially because I have no visibility of the fact that this has occurred.
> One is called Alexa and the other is called Ring.

What share of Amazon GMV do you think is purchased on either? We’ve had Alexa for a decade now, and forcing a user to walk to their porch isn’t going to be the thing that makes voice ordering work.
The Curator – Book Written and Illustrated by Artificial Intelligence
Can you create compelling and coherent book using AI? I believe you do but you need a human element in the loop, a curator. Someone to maintain direction, curate the results and provide feedback to the models. This book is an experiment that discusses and, what I hope, proofs this concept.