skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> leeching

How is it "leeching" if I deliberately release my source code under a BSD license because I don't care if other people use it or not? It can't be "leeching" if I don't care about their contributions either. The only other scenario that would apply is if I wanted to be paid for my work... in which case neither a BSD-like license, nor the GPL, would be adequate.

This is the problem I have with GPL partisans: They refuse to accept that projects can be completed, or that anyone can have any interests other than GPL-compatible ones.
Is there evidence that the CDC (as opposed to the WIV) was doing coronavirus research, let alone research that was closely related to SARS-CoV? The WHO report linked in this thread says that there was no storage or research of related viruses.
Yes, it's weird. The article even claims the premise begins with French philosopher Bruno Latour, but this just seems like a modern interpretation of the oldest metaphysical framework in human history.
Have you any idea how much work goes into typesetting a book?
I expect it's close, honestly. I dunno who's paying $100/month for what GitHub offers (but on a platform that all your devs already know) for $20/month...
When talk about Medicare they are usually talking about Part A (hospital care) and Part B (provider coverage), and sometimes Part D (prescription drug coverage). You are on your own for everything else, including dental and vision care. Adding dental coverage to Medicare continues to die in committee every year in congress.

So if you know you'll need continued care from your dentist and eye doctor then Medicare Advantage can be a good thing, since most of the highly rated plans provide that coverage as part of their benefits.

You can also get benefits for things hearing aids, and transportation to and from your provider visits, etc.

Yes, if you sign up for Medicare Advantage you'll find yourself back in the world of the In-Network and Out-of-Network care model.

At the end of the day though it's disingenuous to just label Medicare Advantage as solely the privatization of Medicare. The only way insurance companies that provide Medicare Advantage stay in business is if they provide a high standard of care for their members. The payment model set by CMS incentivizes them to do so.
I like absolutely hate bitcoin, but the probability of that happening to a savy investor is pretty low. Definitely not 90%. The probability of an unsavy investor being parted from their money is pretty high in all forms of investment.
Before you started to work remotely, didn’t you have people to share your time with outside work? If not, well, that’s the issue (and not remote working).
You have a very good point. It's not clear to me how Facebook/Meta planned to verify images. Maybe they have a team of people swiping left/right.
You're in luck! EleutherAI has trained and released open source weights of several LLMs, including GPT-Neo (2.7B parameters), GPT-J (6B parameters), and GPT-NeoX (20B parameters). This last model is currently tied for second on the list of the largest open source LLMs in the world.

We also developed VQGAN-CLIP and CLIP-Guided Diffusion, techniques for doing text-to-image synthesis that don't require training and can easily be run locally for inference.
You know, summarizing what code does in regular English via ChatGPT would be an interesting thing. Does it already do that?
The small government party
I have only just started building it out, I built the first prototype for my personal blog site.

(Not a plug, it's a WIP and I have only put a few toy articles up) You can see it in action here: https://davidalsh.com/posts/the-case-for-a-sandboxed-script-...

I'm making a few too many requests in the first iteration, no cache control headers, asset minification, etc

Since then, I have been refining it for a contract that I am working on (introducing the SW) and I am keen to release it as an open source project - including a terraform script to deploy it to S3, setup Cloudfront and all that good stuff.
How about mentality retarded -> special so that now "special" is the cruelest taunt on the schoolyard?

As for "defund the police" I think I'm the only one who remembers the Reaganite "defund the left" slogan

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/11/opinion/defund-the-left.h...

which "defund the police" seems to be modeled after. Thatcherism (the British strain of Reaganism that was just a bit meaner) became so ingrained that the fish who swim in it can't even recognize it. Today there is such a poverty of the imagination that the left can't imagine anything else.
Wikipedia suggests that "ευ" was pronounced /eu̯/ in ancient greek[0]. My suspicion is that "ευ ζην" is an Ancient Greek "fixed phrase" which is pronounced with Modern Greek phonology.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_phonology#Diphth...
Or a member of the legislature? Meaning himself as well? OK, challenge accepted.

Brodeur, you're a constitutionally-illiterate blowhard with way too much of an authoritarian streak. In any reasonable world, your voters would decide on your total unfitness for office based on this one issue alone, and you would be gone in 2024 (if not impeached before then).

There, I said it. Knock yourself out. See if you can make it fly in court.

> So, only if done for money.

Oh. Rats.
Visa and Mastercard typically only keep the fixed fees on refunded charges, the $0.30 part of the typical "$0.30 + 3%" fee structure.

Square is saying they'll keep the whole 3%. That's obviously different and not Visa/Mastercard's fault - Visa is refunding it to Square, Square is keeping it. Stripe is now doing the same thing too.

The fixed cost is the processing fee and that cost includes processing refunds. The percentage is the "interchange fee" and is supposed to represent the agreed take of the processing network for that settled transaction.

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/16583-credit-card-processi...
> Sounds like your rules engine is borked.

Well, that is what they suggested - it needs more work to prevent that situation.
Two points in support of the KISS principle for UI (user interface) programming -- keep it simple ...:

(1) With defaults, 3+ billion people already understand very well.

(2) For anything not a default, on the first day, the programmer understands and maybe no one else.

As I understand the history of UI programming, the HTML controls were built on, borrowed from, the controls in the IBM 3270 terminals heavily used in IBM's CICS (customer information control system) and originally designed for the user interface of airline reservation computing.

I don't know much about UI programming because my most important background in computing was for applied math computing for US national security where didn't use check boxes, radio buttons, single line text boxes, multi-line text boxes, links, etc. But as a user of the Internet and for the UI programming for my startup, I followed KISS, i.e., used HTML defaults.
I'll take one idiotic state senator's public bill that'll never pass over hundreds of government employees colluding with big tech in the shadows to ban speech.
The pricing is insanely cheap. Why anyone would pay $20/month for ChatGPT Plus when we are going to have dozens of chat applications based on the APIs?

It took me just a little more then one hour to create a basic cli chat application (https://github.com/marcolardera/chatgpt-cli). In the next days/weeks/months I think we will see an explosion of ChatGPT based applications...
I get the same on Firefox on Linux (Fedora 37). It looks like the server is responding with an ECDHE key exchange using a SHA1 signature algorithm which is disabled on modern versions of OpenSSL. I'm not sure why it works on Chrome, maybe their TLS client is a bit more lax. You can see openssl fail to verify the signature locally with `openssl s_client -connect blog.dijit.sh:443` due to the wrong signature type.

At least for me on Fedora, I believe Firefox uses the system policies and Fedora has set policies to block SHA1 signature algorithms https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StrongCryptoSettings2....
I don't know if you work in FAANG or no, but most FAANG interviews just don't work this way. So, as much as I like this style, it's just 1 company and definitely not the norm. The rest of us are stuck with design Uber, Whatsapp, crap...
The first two are interesting, but last one you mention is not a lifetime limit, and so doesn't really belong in the discussion.

And the first one is interesting, because that 60 day "limit" is actually 60 days of extra benefits. If those 60 days didn't exist, if Medicare Part A always ended their coverage for an incident at 90 days (which would be perfectly reasonable), then there wouldn't be a lifetime limit, but I think we can safely say that the coverage is better with those 60 days than without them.

Which is to say, you kinda had to reach to come up with examples of lifetime limits.
Miss a Car Payment and Ford’s Patent Could Shut Off Your a/C
Hong Kong's CBD Ban Signals Strict Post-Covid Era as City Reopens
It doesn't even matter if you self-host or not. It's the same price either way. I have the same question as you.
As a practical matter, I strongly doubt whether a guy who has four small kids and makes $12,000 a year feels more empowered or less ill-used by a society that carefully refers to him as "economically disadvantaged" rather than "poor."

Were I he, in fact, I'd probably find the PCE [Politically Correct English] term insulting---not just because it's patronizing (which it is) but because it's hypocritical and self-serving in a way that oft-patronized people tend to have really good subliminal antennae for.

The basic hypocrisy about usages like "economically disadvantaged" and "differently abled" is that PCE advocates believe the beneficiaries of these terms' compassion and generosity to be poor people and people in wheelchairs, which again omits something that everyone knows but nobody except the scary vocabulary tape ads' announcer ever mentions---that part of any speaker's motive for using a certain vocabulary is always the desire to communicate stuff about himself. Like many forms of Vogue Usage, PCE functions primarily to signal and congratulate certain virtues in the speaker---scrupulous egalitarianism, concern for the dignity of all people, sophistication about the political implications of language---and so serves the self-regarding interests of the PC far more than it serves any of the persons or groups renamed.

"Authority and American Usage"
Really cool promo video. I'm not sure what is particularly unique compared to what we now have in tools like Coda and such. Maybe more spreadsheet-focused than the others?
I recently saw Tom Selleck as a spokesman for reverse mortgages and googled his net worth which came back as $45M. Pretty slimy if you ask me.
Is this a US thing? Unions/store. In Australia the union negotiation is organisation wide and covers all of Australia. The agreements are lodged, certified by Fair Work Australia and publicly searchable. In that case closing one store has no effect.
If you want to bet on the inverse of the strategy working, you would want buy puts or short the non-inverse fund, NOT buy the inverse fund .

The reason has to do with the mathematics of inverse fund decay. inverse funds of indexes will decay exponentially long term. It has a quadratic decay factor relative to volatility.

e^(-at) which a is the volatility and t is the time.

to get an idea of what this looks like long-term:

https://api.wsj.net/api/kaavio/charts/big.chart?nosettings=1...
The implied notion that the manager really had no idea what they actually wanted, or at the very least were unable to sensibly describe the requirements, is entirely believable, but from a systems development perspective nothing in this article makes any sense.
You can't think of any ways in which previous generations affect later ones?
I'm not sure about the article, but the blazingly-fast IP scanner sounds a lot like Masscan: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

It can scan the entire Internet in 5 minutes and has received a lot of press. https://rushter.com/blog/how-masscan-works/ is one of many articles about how it works.
Being a good manager is in my experience just as hard if not harder. But, it's much easier to be a bad manager and keep your job.
>The people she's talking to thinks the whole thing is just stupid, and is a thing that only white people care about.

https://www.newsweek.com/call-latinx-what-it-lexical-imperia...

sorry, newsweek's a bit of rag these days, but it's where i happened to find the essay republished.
It "saves" them in that they are persisted on the server (as best I can tell) but the sequence is

1. POST /review/temp
1. POST /review/temp
# all done, submit the batch
1. POST /review/submit <- 500 Oops we sorrwweee
# now every comment is gone

I don't recall this second whether the actual sequence is "POST" followed by "DELETE /review/temp" meaning this is 100% a JS bug or whether it's "POST" and the controller for submit nukes the temp version, making it a ruby bug

And yes, "extremely pissed" isn't strong enough but ... put it on the list of the other 48,000 issues, I guess
Ah yes, so you just wait interminably for a hearing and spend thousands on lawyers before you can close your store.
Actual patent

https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...
> the alternative to "half-assed" and "off the shelf" would have been "an IBM-wide committee taking 5 years to do an all-IBM device that cost $30,000."

Which IBM did. They built the IBM Instruments Computer System Model 9000. Came out in 1982.
Thats what suprized me as well. I have one friend who was level 7 at google on the youtube team. His whole team was cut in the 1st round of layoffs.
He had been at google for 12 years.
> it was meant to illustrate that your investment making money isn't nearly as valuable if that value is lost because of problems that don't exist with other investments.

Risk vs return is a fundamental proposition of all investments. Bitcoin certainly has higher risk, but the fundamental idea that risky investments need more return to justify them applies everywhere not just bitcoin.
Nope, I've made plenty of money in crypto.
>Aren’t poverty, famine, and food scarcity at record lows?

They were temporarily alleviated thanks to technological advances.
This seems like 5 years down the road this is going to turn into a horror story on HN, about "I went to this customer, and they had been running their entire company database on a single Google Sheet, and now are panicking because the secretary accidentally just deleted everyone from pay roll."
So you think a person needs to be officially labeled as disabled before they're allowed to use screen readers?

Personally, that doesn't bode well for my deteriorating eyesight, which is still very far from disability, but already at a level where audiobooks are easier than real books.
The bill which prohibits discussing sexuality with children under nine?

Shock. Gasp. Horror.

I think we do real damage to LGBT causes when we allow their sexuality to be a pretense for inappropriate conduct with children — such as misrepresenting a bill saying you can’t discuss sexuality with young children as “Don’t Say Gay”.

You’re portraying LGBT people as pedophiles to score cheap political points — and Disney fell for the same trap, as their punishment is for sexualizing children… and nothing to do with LGBT rights.
Amplitude have recently updated their Free Starter Plan which I currently use. They don't have public pricing, but their sales rep told me some time ago the best offer they can make is 30k/year, which is too expensive for me.

I'm now considering to switch from Amplitude to Mixpanel. Mixpanel's free tier seems generous, and the paid plan seems much more affordable, too (my current usage at Amplitude would cost me around 6k/year at Mixpanel).

Public pricing is awesome. I hope more companies will follow ... I always worry I would get a bad deal if I have to "contact sales" and negotiate.

Has anyone experience with both Amplitude and Mixpanel, possibly done a migration from one service to the other?
I have met a few people like you, and I wish you all well in your programming careers.
>> A cash patient at a provider who engages in covered transactions is still protected by HIPAA.

> Also not true.

Wait, what? So if I'm paying my doctor in cash, then my doctor is not bound by HIPAA rules?

The rest of your comment doesn't seem to explain this (or I didn't understand it.)

If true, This is deeply disturbing, as it's not unusual that I pay in cash. I always assumed that I had even better privacy because no insurance company was being informed of my visit. it would mean that HIPAA isn't just weaker than people think, it's extremely weak.
Ask HN: Best way to support entrepreneurs without becoming one?
I don't have the stomach to go into entrepreneurship, but I believe that is one of the best systems to stimulate innovation and drive progress.

What are some ways to support entrepreneurs?

One obvious step is joining their startups as employees. But any other ways?
But Latour is precisely doing what you demand in the first paragraph.
The fact that he is claimed to be anti-scientific is extremely ironic. His counter-intuitive conclusions come from the attempt of defending science because the traditional accounts failed. You use "fact", "reality", "science", "beliefs", "knowledge" without any degree of irony but do you know how hard it is to defend them on the philosophical grounds? Most people are naive positivists and even positivists from Vienna circle quickly gave up on such positions because they were so hard to maintain. Latour was not a stupid opportunist and you can find this in his biography. If you think he was wrong then first make sure you understand what he was even trying to argue for. Without this understanding how can you square your claims about knowledge and your actions? Do you believe that your opinions have no metaphysical assumptions whatsoever? Or do you think that your opinions are true so you can a priori deny any contrary opinions as false?
Computation and information.
Pixel Watch bill of materials estimate can’t explain the sky-high price
I actually almost have a working version of a replacement for what3words/Xaddress/etc that solves every gripe I know of.

Format is: (1-1024) WORD WORD WORD with a relatively short wordlist (8k words). Maps to ~1 square meter and plurals/singular words represent the same value. Completely open source to everyone.

My gripe with pluscodes is memorizability. Number and 3 words from a short list should be pretty easy to remember and write down. Either way, my replacement can easily map to plus codes/lat lon/google maps/openstreetmap. I'm super excited about it.

I'll probably post here when it's closer to done.
Buy their products and services
> Can news articles/reporters ever quote the actual original court ruling that they use to source their stories?

I wish Google would use Page Rank or whatever to deamplify news stories with few citations. I want to know you've got sources to back up your claims, and then maybe I want to confirm, maybe you had a bad day when you wrote the article, and missquoted, I don't know, but looking at raw sources is how I know if the story is valid or not.
Even if they lose 30% of their premium customers as a result of this change, they still come out ahead on revenue (and even further ahead on earnings, given the smaller userbase needed to maintain that revenue).

Not great for new premium user acquisition though.
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Wouldn't there be 2 or 4? The day side, the night side, and arguably the twilight sides?
We do have a unified time everywhere, UTC.

Putting time zones on top means people have to look up less.
When I interviewed at Facebook my system design question was for a Yelp-ish clone that would be rolled out to Facebook as a whole. The interviewer told me the design had to be scalable to 1 billion daily users on day 1.
You say "only" as if this isn't the majority of the american bourgeoisie.

Pretty much all of finance, Landlords, IP trolling - the rich will unashamedly collect undeserved rent on anything they can up to and slightly over the line of the law.
Parents push back on allegations against St. Louis transgender center
> Sometimes I wonder when I have to download 3 extensions to minimize windows or when it takes multiple seconds to snap windows

FVWM2 here. It comes, out of the box, with the ability to minimize windows (and maximize for that matter), no extensions needed. I also have a few custom "snaps" setup (if I'm interpreting what you mean by "snap" correctly). The snap is instant once activated.

FVWM2 is also nearly infinitely configurable, you can set it up to do just about anything you want. I can raise, and lower, windows using any window border and a mouse click. I can configure how many buttons I want in the title bars, and exactly what each does when activated. They can either do direct actions, or open menus containing further actions. Those actions can also call external programs for even more advanced functions.
You got any extraordinary evidence to go with those extraordinary claims?
chatGPT (as in the current release of the OpenAI tool that was released 30/Nov/22, so ~3 months ago) has this problem.

This does not mean it is a problem that is impossible to fix.
The thing about GC is that it doesn't free you from having to think about lifecycle management, it just frees you from having to write it down. I've seen a few memory leaks in Java programs due to people not putting enough thought into when a piece of data is no longer needed.

Granted, most programs don't run long enough/process enough data for poor lifecycle hygiene to become noticeable in GC'd languages.
> I’m repeatedly amazed how ass backwards Desantis and the entire state legislation is in Florida (my current state) compared to Brian Kemp and the Georgia legislation is (my former state until last year).

Probably not as many right wing carpetbaggers in Georgia yet.
Not "difficult" : impossible.

Well, I'll wait for those anonymous/public rate limited keys or a noscript/basic (x)html registering process, or www sites which will propose basic (x)html form based prompts.
more likely: they are victims.

which makes sense. but there’s a reason why victims of crime aren’t allowed to be jurors of their own case.
Enums being that slow sounds like something they will probably address at some point.

But in general the whole point of Python is that you rarely need stuff like protocol parsing drivers, you just use premade bytestream parsing engines that have Python bindings if you can, although that's not always practical.

With Python rather than asking "How do I implement this feature from first principles" you can ask "How do I implement this in terms of these large high level blocks that might or might not actually be what the problem logically calls for, but nonetheless they are blazing fast and can do the job, even with the stuff you have to do to adapt them for your task, or do I have to write my own Rust extension".

Of course that doesn't help much with uniformly slow web code, which I would imagine is why Python isn't #1 for web backends, along with typescript being really awesome these days.
I meant for the sheer scale of how many are publishing to the mirrors more than the numbers that are pulling from them. But, fair that they are probably capable of more than I would expect, all told.
The Apple Color Emoji Font, the one you can't opt out of on Apple operating systems, is awful for readability. Pretty much inscrutable at small sizes.
HN: Ascribing agency to things is silly. It’s all just cause and effect.

Also HN: This program is my new search engine and chat buddy. Shouldn’t we face the possibility that it might have a sort of sentience?
> Don't you miss having friendly back-and-forths on whether it was Mark Wahlberg vs. Matt Damon who starred in some movie from years ago?

I most definitely don't and never have. And I even know who Matt Damon is!