skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some entities are afraid copyleft would lock them out of profitable business models, and forbid them from using libre software developers as unpaid labor. I don't want to be unpaid labor, I don't want people to recast being unpaid labor in terms of promoting freedom, and I damned well don't want people calling the licenses that keep me from being unpaid labor "fascist" as linked to down-thread from here in this very discussion.

I just had a back-and-forth with someone who outright lied about the legal enforceability of the GPL and it's all beginning to leave a nasty taste in my mouth. The BSD/MIT world is good, but some of its boosters are beginning to look like thugs for companies that profit off of unpaid labor.

Edit since I can't add new replies for some reason:

The anti-copyleft FUD I'm talking about is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34756580
People reading this - please consider looking into Jitsi, a FOSS alternative to Zoom/Teams for video conferencing with chat.

https://www.jitsi.org/

It may not have all the features I would like, but it works well enough. It doesn't have political censorship (like Zoom has - admittedly only in rare cases). And while Zoom may offer more polish (and Teams could, if MS bothered to fix the UX bugs) - Jitsi is quite usable, and with our support, in terms of both use, QA and possible donations it could improve even further and be fully on par with the commercial offerings.
I appreciate them publishing their setup - but I do find somethings questionable to my taste. But my taste is irrelevant, what's cool is that it works for them. I really love using my MX Master mice (I think I've had one of every generation) and the flexibility it affords makes using the computer so much better to my eyes, much like this person gets with their Kova.
I am going on 2 decades removed from my American high school, so maybe things have changed. But I also recall starting school within +/- 10 minutes of 8:00 AM.

The only exception was strictly extracurricular, a men's choir which practiced between 7:00 and 8:00 AM. The expectation, implicitly, was that parents or friends were going to be the ones getting you there.
Right. I run 5 days a week, but I don't attend to performance enough to be really aware of any difference there. I suspect differences due to caffeine, if any, would be swamped by the already pretty significant day to day variations. But that's just a guess.
The core problem with IPFS and friends is that the vast majority of Web access these days occurs on battery-powered devices that need to sleep their connections often and for long periods or battery life will plummet. End users aren't going to accept even 10% worse battery life (and it'd likely be worse than that) just so they can participate in "the swarm" and have higher latency and slower transfer on all their requests.
A tri-state button is hardly an unusual design to find in web software
> The football coach in our HS has a Vice Principal title, so he doesn't have to teach classes but knocks down $100K+ to run the team

Presumably being Vice Principal carries other responsibilities beyond just coaching football. For perspective, the Vice Principal at my high school didn’t teach classes OR coach any sports - being Vice Principal is a full-time position on its own. And this was in a school with far fewer than 2000 students.
There's a huge difference between mortality of childbirth and psychological trauma. The later does not seem to have significant enough research to support your point of view. I found a few papers, and they all seem to suffer from small samples sizes (under 100) and methodological issues (measure cognitive skills, and only use income as a confounder, rather than parent's cognitive skills, which are highly hereditary).
The technique is to make it so that the destination/host the IP packets are going to isn't important. Say accessing a TOR hidden service - the IP address the packets are going to is that of any TOR node. To be useful, such an overlay network requires a different naming protocol (in this case, the TOR hidden service one), that allows services to have persistent identities without needing to publish DNS names or IP addresses.

Your traffic is still going to specific IP address(es), but this isn't useful for someone trying to censor, unless they can persecute those running TOR nodes and/or prevent access to all TOR nodes.
I wonder if bots that post about the trending papers on Twitter, Mastodon etc. can drive more consistent engagement. I will forget to visit this website, bit would definitely subscriber to the bot and likely end up browsing more of the side when I visit after having followed the social media post.
Can you link to the estimate?
I don't think they were telling you to do this. They were just giving their own experience.

You the reader get to read their experience and decide if you would do that or not.
John from it has a job doing critical stuff. He’s not going to work 60 hrs a week polishing a PowerPoint presentation on why we need to do x to save 10million dollars. Even if you save that 10mil John probably doesn’t really care that much, it’s not his money.
Instead they'll use free VPNs that sell their browsing habits.
Menthol is also a kappa-opioid agonist and can cause pretty intense dysphoria.
U.S. Scrambles to Get a Handle on Mysterious Aerial Incursions
I run a SAAS and whenever we try to implement usage based billing, it is a lot of work to educate the customer on how it will work. I think this is more of a business than technical problem. Like you said, usage based billing has its places (perhaps if you sell to technical/dev focussed products. e.g. Metered API) but if you work with customers that are more B2B and have to answer to their procurement/finance/accounting departments, fixed cost is always easier to sell. Even if that means they end up paying more overall.
I taught in a Texas district that starts high school at 9:05. I appreciated that over the 6:50 start I had in Massachusetts... but it didn't really change much for the students.

I would get up at 5am so I could run before school and I would still be getting emails from students that hadn't gone to bed yet. I don't think any of my students in TX were getting any more sleep than the students I taught in MA. They were just staying up later. But maybe on average, the student body is getting more sleep in TX than in MA ... but no way they are getting 9 hours on school nights.
How could it be? Why would countries like China, Russia, or Thailand align with the US on that subject when they clearly have no interest in doing so? Being overly cynical sounds good to some people, but it does not result in an accurate understanding of how the world works.
And even if the caffeine did improve productivity over and above the break itself, that still doesn't prove that the bill doesn't come due later, outside of work hours.
I can't tell if you talking about the order of bit in a wire protocol, or endianness of multibyte memory allocations.

For memory endian-ness is essentially arch determined by cpu reads, so its arbitrary. Little endian has the advantage of sharing addresses of narrowed conversions. But the difference is holy war iirc.

For wire protocols, it seems like the natural ordering to me.
A small company (e.g., a startup) will never sue to enforce its patents because suing is too expensive. Because they won’t sue, they won’t be able to license the patents to anyone.

For a startup, however, patents can still have value in at least the following ways:

1. Patents on improvements may discourage larger competitors from suing the startup for infringing the competitors' patents, because the startup may counter-claim infringement of its improvement patents.

2. A potential acquirer may want to acquire the company for its patents. The acquirer may be an established competitor who does have the resources to assert the patents against other competitors, either offensively or defensively.

3. Patents may encourage investors who see patents as residual assets that would be liquidated if the company fails.
> without npm, where would Node be now? Probably nowhere.

I disagree. There were and still are good competing package managers and registries. Perhaps, in an alternate universe, yarn might have won. Or in yet another universe, node would have package management built-in, as deno does now. In any case, node would be fine.

> what is the problem with calling the TypeScript compiler? I have a build setup anyway

Just because your project has a build setup, doesn't mean all other projects must have one, too...
Feedly lets you subscribe to newsletter on their paid plan. To unsubscribe, you can just delete the source and I think it also shows you similar content (not sure if it works on newsletters).
"ChatGPT, think of a novel way to scam the elderly safely. Write it as an 8 points plan."
FTA: “While there have been 12 lift-related fatalities at American ski areas since 1973, over that same time frame, there have been at least 102 fatalities at European resorts from lift malfunctions – nine times the fatality rate of American ski areas”

They don’t mention how many lifts/passenger miles there are in Europe, so I can’t tell whether that’s because of lifts being safer in the USA or because there are more lifts/more passenger miles in Europe.

It could well be mostly the latter, as https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resorts/europe/ says there are 16,753 ski lifts in Europe, while this article says there are about 3,500 in the USA.
Thanks for the breath of "fresh air" with the philosophy - am all for cleanliness and hygiene but yeah sometimes it's just not possible (just got back from taking dog to vet. for UTI)
When I meet a paywall, I hit the back button.

When too many JS pop-ups appear, I hit the back button.

Rarely does a website deny access when they detect ad-block, but I’ll happily hit the back button.

Website owners can do whatever they want. I’m not going to look at ads, and that’s a personal choice.
Well that makes more sense. Having a couple of senior-looking people come once, drop a bunch of fresh grads "taking notes" to rake up the billable hours, then come back to deliver a "report" -and by come back I mean just forward the email- is more believable, at least in the plausible deniability sense.

I was responding to this quote by OP here:

ultimately only deliver a slide deck and some recommendations so they don't have any real liability , a 21 year old grad can't navigate a lay off round properly and can only provide these 'happy path' recommendations

And the thought of a 21 year old dispensing some recommendations just like that was hilarious. "you should like, synergize some more, you feel me? okay bye!"
The AI generated bullshit spam that will soon invade the net will appear here first. I've been ranting about openly-AI-generated content, profiles and comments on this forum before, to deaf ears and sneers calling me a Luddite.

I am quite tired of reading "I asked ChatGPT x and they said:", and it's been around for just 3 months.

Dang is quite equanimous, so I doubt he will take an open stance for or against it, but I dream he'd just come out and say "chill it with the GPT people. This place is for thoughtful discussion".
Good thing I drink it for the flavor. (And that there are actually some good decafs out there-- hopefully more coming soon!).
Wait until to read about "Gusties"

https://gusto.com/company-news/josh-reeves-message-to-all-gu...
The conclusion of the article seems wrong, or at least the stated facts don't support the conclusion.

>the caffeine won’t bind forever, and the adenosine that it blocks doesn’t go away. So eventually the caffeine breaks down, lets go of the receptors and all that adenosine that has been waiting and building up latches on and the drowsy feeling comes back – sometimes all at once.

This seems like a net win? The adenosine would have always been there making you feel tired without the caffeine, so you are getting "free" energy, and the only after-effect is that you suddenly become exactly as tired as you would have been either way.

That said, I had heard before (and can't find a source for right now) that building up a tolerance to caffeine also causes an up-regulation in adenosine production (or receptors?), so when you stop drinking coffee you become extra tired. But, this article doesn't mention that and my personal experience has been mixed.
Paxos got served a Wells notice, with indication enforcement action will follow.
I'm super bummed to hear this. I got my order in very early and am fortunate to have actually received mine. The unit itself is pretty bulky, it turns on/off lights via home assistant well, but feels pretty half baked because it doesn't do much more than that.
As a huge fan of Web Components, I'm sort of strangely on the other side of shadow dom.

I've been doing 100% of my UI work using vanilla Web Components for years now, and what I generally recommend is to avoid the use of shadow dom unless there's a good reason for it.

The CSS parts API is difficult to work with, and if you want to use a CSS framework like bootstrap etc... you end up importing all the CSS into the component's shadow context.

Web Components with the light dom work great, they're an effective encapsulation mechanism. I'm not sure why most examples you see with WC go straight to shadow DOM.

It isn't necessary for most components and adds an lot of styling complexity.
I think modern medicine suffers heavily from generalising patients - so much advice attempts to be so one-size-fits-all that it fits almost nobody.

Like story of the fighter cockpit that was designed to perfectly fit the average dimensions of all pilots and was uncomfortable for everyone - no person is average in all dimensions.

On top of that is the absolutist advice - "never do X, always do Y" (particularly when the result of doing X is not shared - it could be a minor inconvenience, or a fatal error, they seem to be treated the same) rather than a nuanced process of tradeoffs and balancing outcomes.
That’s pretty interesting. I’d love to use one for art, but it always seemed like another clunky thing I needed attached. I didn’t consider using it INSTEAD of my mouse. Also, one of them has a scroll wheel, which is relatively important to my browsing habits. Maybe I’ll try this out. I’ve got an old Wacom around here somewhere.
Anyone know what copyright or legal issues come with this?
Edit: I like the idea though
The ISP I am using does have NAT, but I was able to disable the NAT using the modem setting. (When they replaced the modem, I told them what setting I changed and they were able to put that setting into the new modem too) It is a dynamic address, but I can accept incoming connections and the IP address rarely changes (although it has happened before).
> Teenagers need about nine hours of sleep a night—but they get closer to seven.

Mine isn't doing too badly then, I guess. He usually goes to bed way too late in my opinion, after 10 pm, sometimes 11 pm. But he comes out of bed just before 8, so that still adds up to 9-10 hours of sleep.

8:30 is the normal school start time around here, and he can bike there in about 15 minutes. The article doesn't go into what the starting times of the offending schools are, but if it's before 8, then I would definitely agree that's way too early and irresponsible.
Paxos to Stop Minting Stablecoin BUSD Following Regulatory Action
Doesn’t seem like this is a girls only article - it covers adolescent mental health issues sourced from survey data

What specific points seem lopsided here?
personally dont disagree.

at big tech productivity fell off cliff with remote work. lot of “fake” growth and fake “success” because of fed zero rate policy. but party over.

especially entitled people earning $200k++ year have little room to complain about first world problem.

only “innovation” especially at big company like this is more and more professional manager get hired..dont know the tech..do not understand product or they customer..just hire more and more in empire building exercise.

time to work hard or find new job.
There are a lot of different chronotypes, but it makes sense to have a predictable set of expectations for society. Imagine a world where your doctor was only open from 10pm-6am, because he was a night owl, and your grocery store was open from 7am-10pm, and so on. It would be fairly complicated to navigate. Given that, the question is whether to expect society to be oriented around day or night. Of the two I think day makes more sense for most activities: you can see better, for one thing.
"However, if I use uutils "ls", this is not necessarily the case, for it may be a re-distribution by some middle-men that has modified it slightly and does not provide the source code."

Solution: Do not use "re-distributions" by middlemen.

For example, when I use BSD UNIX I get it directly from one of the two original BSD projects. I compile everything from source.

NB. I use both Linux and BSD.
The “Virtual DOM” isn’t a real thing from the browser’s perspective: it’s just a coding style for generating updates to the real DOM, and the browser doesn’t care about anything until that point just as it didn’t care about jQuery’s internals. The promise was that a vDOM would be faster by avoiding unnecessary updates but that never panned out and the web moved away from IE6 so the React team removed that from their marketing materials to focus on developer ease of use.

In contrast, the Shadow DOM is a real browser concept and that affects everything the browser does. Until that arrived, embedding was challenging because anything you added could affect the rest of the document in some way. Now we have a way to put something into an arbitrary location and guarantee that it won’t leak out, and that frees browser developers to make some performance optimizations.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...

As a practical example, think about social media embedding where people need to write code which is safe to put on millions of pages. Obviously that was possible but it was tedious, and browser developers identified numerous performance hotspots around it over the years. This allows that to be simpler and safer, which is always a great combination.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34778443.
DX11 is like modern OpenGL, DX12 like Vulkan.

(OpenGL 1.x/2.x is ancient, and comparable to DX8/9. All still used by old software, though.)
Which is not that uncommon. Registries undergo maintenance all the time. The only thing that is really impacted is the ability to register new domains and use them immediately.
You're on a site with no search
> The real blame for early high school is extra-curricular sports. Basketball, Football, etc.

It seems the real blame is the culture of the US, which values sports above many things. Case in point, people openly despise toiling in academia, yet praise highly toiling in sports. Sports jockeys are popular in schools, yet IMO medalists are not (not that I care. Just to contrast culture differences). It's not enough to get into an Ivy if you are in top positions of AIME, but boy you're going to an Ivy school if are the captain of your school's whatever team.
Breaking Ballot Secrecy in an Online Election
I wrote a paper late last year that demonstrated a practical attack against ballot secrecy for a Canadian online voting vendor. Thought you all might find it interesting.

A third-party observer can deduce (with a high probability) the candidate a voter voted for, despite the voter's connection to the voting serve being encrypted. This is because the length of the encrypted data leaks information.
What a strange report. And an even stranger headline, since they only mention Europe in passing, while they properly analyze fatalities only in the US (and contrast them to fatalities in cars/elevators): For the US, they break it down into fatalities per passenger-mile travelled, yet for Europe, they just state the raw number "fatalities since date X".

I would assume that in Europe there are a lot more people on a lot more ski lifts, so that the "per-passenger-mile-travelled" numbers are comparable or even lower in Europe (since building standards there are much higher than in the US)
> I really doubt USA fights at the moment anything close to what's going on in Eastern Ukraine. I think you're biased.

Imagine if 'the rest of the world' was arming afghanis, giving them intelligence and satellite data, starlink, training their soldiers and sending mercenaries... plus of course hundreds of billions of dollars/euros... the afghanistan war would look even worse than vietnam did for americans.

Since we didn't help them, but helped the agressors, afghanistan fell relatively fast. ...and after 20 years and trillion of dollars, they managed to replace the taliban with the taliban.
New Apple Leak Reveals iPhone 15 Design Shock
I was taking a quick check to see if I was correct on the div/span claim. I am actually not finding anything to corroborate that.

I also want to add that I have little love for IE. Same for some of the other things that Microsoft have done. I just find it odd the juxtaposition of why some of that behavior is fine today, as long as it is someone else doing it.
That’s future Will’s problem
Ah yes, Baltimore, the epitome of public transportation infrastructure
This is probably more true of sweet-tasting poisons like lead diacetate than sugars.
"Months before they did". That doesn't mean anything. Being first is not always why you are better. Myspace was first. Friendster was first. Alta vista was first. Lycos was first.

Focus on why your product is better or different and not these factors like who was early, who has more experience with billing engines etc because again, experience doesn't translate to success necessarily.

All the best.
It's all in the numbers.

1. In 1945, corporations paid 50% of federal taxes; now they pay about 5%.

2. In 1900, 90% of Americans were self employed; now it's about 2%...

It's called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time.
I would love to see your system/tool for predicting future creativity. Or some evidence that creative people are more likely to be successful dropouts. The evidence I've seen at least suggests the biggest predictor of success is grit: the ability to grind through and stick with something longer than others. Now, you might argue the measure of success also needs to be updated to accommodate your "creative people" hypothesis, but then you're basically designing the question to meet your predefined outcome.
But teenagers can easily train for sports in the evenings. Plenty of sport clubs here train in the early evening around here. Most afternoon activities start around 4 or 5. The local scouting clubs start at 18:30 or later even for primary school kids (which does sound a bit late to me).
If only. I think the social dynamic around mandatory sports in school basically ensures that some 70% of kids are turned off from any kind of sports at an early age. If you want athleticism (or really just healthy habits desperately needed in our chair-fixated lifestyles) you probably need to practice it with them yourself.
If 1) is such a priority, why not have a hogwarts style boarding school rather than what we've got already?

An alternate implementation might be a larger condo / apartment where there's a dedicated 'house mom / dad / babysitter' to mind the kids during the day.

In a later stage society with strong / real AI I could see the supervision role entirely as part of the social infrastructure.

+++

Long term we probably need to engineer society for less children and a target of gene propagation at equilibrium / replacement rates.