skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This portion of the site (its articles) is for informational purposes only. The content is not legal advice. The statements and opinions are the expression of the author, not LegalZoom, and have not been evaluated by LegalZoom for accuracy, completeness, or changes in law.

Since there's no citations to statutes or case law which state that copyright licences are contracts, this source, which you didn't link either, is not reliable.
> It's not a big assumption. It's the most reasonable assumption. When you drive 50% of 10 miles the next 50% takes the same amount of time. It's the default assumption.

And it's wrong, as anyone with experience in ML will tell you. 60% is easy. 70-85% is not too bad. 95% is hard. 100% is effectively impossible. This is the core problem of ML systems. They're good enough for 90% of cases but that last 10% can be incredibly important, to the point that the systems become unusable.
From what I see in their site:

- It's all enclosed spaces,no communication to the driving cabin, so no "flying objects" should reach there.

- No certification necessary. That means it's considered "load" strapped to the chassis, and then, nobody can be sitting in the back while moving. Passengers can only seat in the cabin.

Edit: Also, it's a product for L2H2 size and bigger vans. I think some of them, specially if the cabin and the load space are separated by a wall, have three seats in the front.
*smallprint: Assuming that no eating or other recreational activity is required. Also faint echoes of "sleep a little faster" motivational speech
I spent the summer of 1989 working on an Meiko Computing Surface which was a parallel computer built from T800 Transputers. I learnt Occam and implemented a few parallel algorithms on it. As I recall, the code running on the Transputers did not have access to the file system so getting data into and out of the mesh networks was difficult. It appeared at first glance that back propagation might be a good fit on the Transputer but I never did get it running. Instead, I used a Connection Machine CM2 to train my neural networks. However, getting time on the CM2 was hard so I wound up just using a collection of IBM RS6000 workstations that IBM donated to my university.
I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. I am a native English speaker and was confused too. It’s just a poorly-written sentence.
I misremembered: you replied to the initial email and then stopped responding because (you explained much later in another conversation) my continued angry questions appeared to match the profile of a type of angry time-sink user.
Let’s say I use some code from stack overflow and it turns out to be GPL. Can the owner of the code sue to compel specific performance of the GPL? Probably not, since I can’t be bound be a contract I never even saw, I can be sued for copyright infringement however.
It's an interpreter rather than a compiler, and looking at the code it seems to use ref counting
> no mp3 (my car accepts mp3 only)

Both AAC and Opus fix some of MP3's inherent design problems (like imperfect handling of short sharp transients no matter how much bitrate you throw at it), so the only reason to continue using MP3 is for compatibility with old devices.

Since downloads aren't an official part of Youtube's offering, they don't have to care about old offline-only hardware players only supporting MP3, either and anything that's modern enough to still support either a Youtube app or the website will also support either AAC or Opus.

> the bit rate is not very high

There's also a high bitrate available, but only for subscribers.
> “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

-Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Someone in the Zelensky government said that they might make a deal with Putin’s successor.

Obviously implying that they see no point to negotiate with Putin himself.
Emergency stop signal should be easy to send when it is needed.

Most trains have a emergency brake lever inside which is also very easy to abuse, but is there for safety. It is better to enforce harsh penalties for abuse.
> “On commercial aircraft, anything from a 737 and above you know, 120 people, we have it built in.”

No, you don't. Airplanes are designed using a 75kg baseline per passenger, including luggage.

Now. Let's assume that the engineers felt very generous during their payload estimates, and added a 10% buffer (Spoiler alert: they don't). For a 737, with 170 passengers, that will be 1275kg. Taking the 2022 EASA passenger weight averages from the article, assuming a 50-50 male/female passenger distribution, we get an average passenger weight of 75kg, without luggage. Further assuming an average of 10kg of luggage per passenger, we are now 1700kg overweight, which is almost half a ton over the (generous!) maximum payload estimates. And whilst the Europeans are getting notably heavier in recent times, they are not, by any means the heaviest demographic group on earth.

> Overall, a significant weight increase per passenger would be eclipsed by the weight of fuel, cargo and the aircraft itself, said Hilderman. “Fuel is 20 times more than the passenger weight,” he said.

No, that's not how it works at all. The fuel weight, and the aircraft weight are what they are for one reason, and one reason only. It is the smallest amount of weight the engineers could get away with to safely and economically transport a certain amount of payload (170 pax) over a chosen distance. Increase that payload by 10%, and you will quickly find out that you need a significantly bigger plane (fuselage, wing, engines, landing gear), and a significantly larger amount of fuel to carry the new payload over the same distance.

There are very real safety risks linked to carrying more payload than anticipated (or seriously unbalanced payload distributions) and being outraged about pseudo fat-shaming is not the right answer to this issue.
One learning for all of us that I see every other day at work causing issues, the testing is not planned or not done based on what is present in production but something which makes the tester feel...Works for me....
Probably need a similar solution like Docker for this works for me disease in testing.
That will mean companies won't have any privacy at all (all info will need to be public) and essentially centralize them into a single "massive" world company. It didn't work back then (it's similar to communism in that sense) and I don't think it'll work now (it's every bureaucrat wet dream).
Not a CEO but co-founded a company that had a successful exit. Happy to talk sometime.

One thing I'd say is to take anything you hear from any given indiviual with a pinch of salt. People love to give advice and will often sound authoritative about subjects they have no expertise in. Everyone's experience will also be different, and people tend to give advice based on their own anecdotes which may be completely irrelevant to you. You see it all the time where people try to mimic the actions of others who have had success, only for them to fail miserably trying to follow the same path. These conversations can shed interesting ideas and thoughts, but make sure you don't treat them as gospel and instead use them to help figure out your own view.
Honestly, it shouldn’t feel that bad, what was the loss again here? A bunch of users and their posts/memes?! They can create other users it should not be an issue. The real fuckups IMO are stuff that involves people’s lives, things like industrial automation, robotics, autonomous vehicles, aircraft systems and what not, unfortunately, usually you don’t see such an accountability like in OP when things go south in those domains.
I'm interested, my contact info is in my profile
Design Decisions – To use separate DTOs for each endpoint
No, I definitely didn't mean to say a kid with ADHD can't also have C-PTSD.

What I meant was that a kid who doesn't have any background of trauma can still have ADHD, but does not have PTSD, and no amount of therapy for childhood trauma will help their ADHD symptoms. That's my point - that there is overlap in symptoms but they are still different problems, that require different treatment.
Hello, thank you for this work as it shows great creative potential.

A suggestion for runno's website, though : when I clicked on the link posted on HN, I did not expect to download that much data. Maybe you could find a way to offer pre-rendered examples and give the user who visits your site a (very visible) option to really download and run things ?
> In normal sysadmin workflows, attempting to delete all your data will yield an "Are you sure?!" type message and you'll probably have to take explicit steps to confirm that this is really what you intended

Depends on how you go about it, a wrong pathed mv could erase your data without a warning.

> Because git is intended for source code and not as a way to make stateful changes to servers, there are no features for that. If you push a commit that didn't do what you mean, it will just blindly do it.

There are no features in git itself for that, but in the way I usually implement GitOps, with a CI/CD system, you can easily have a manual "check this terraform plan's output to make sure you aren't doing anything crazy, and manually click this button to approve" step.
Explaining multiple techniques for rendering outlines and highlights for real-time applications. This includes vertex object-space as well as screen-space methods. This can be used to render outlines in Unity or Unreal. Outlines can be used for gameplay reasons or aesthetics.
Under US law, a license is different than a contract. The GPL and friends are very explicitly NOT contracts (in contrast to EULAs, which try to be).

Which is super-helpful only if you never intend to leave the US.

Most software has users in 200+ jurisdictions, and you can get sued in almost any of them. A court in the Maldives or New Zealand might have a very hard time enforcing a judgment if your legal presence is only in the US, but outstanding judgments can mean:

1) A cap on growth (you can never establish a presence in those jurisdiction until / unless you've resolved you ballooning liabilities)

2) A cap on acquisitions (you can never be sold to or buy an organization with a legal presence there, again, without work)

3) In a worst-case, if the liability is bad, being personally thrown in prison the instant you step off of a plane in a jurisdiction where you have outstanding liabilities.

... and other badness.

It, therefore, often make sense to avoid walking along the edge cases of the law.
> This license hasn't been battle tested in a court room that much.

This is kind of considered a feature, isn't it? Every time a disagreement is taken to court, it's a failure of all sides. Courts are expensive and a time waste, so we create contracts that avoid all of that to try to get parties to work together without the courts. AGPL has been enforceable, in general, because of all the case law around general copyright law.
Really? Interesting! I tried with at least two different EU (Swedish) visa cards back in July and none of the cards I had worked.

Not in Japan anymore otherwise I would have tried again.

This article, linked to from a sibling comment here, seems to indicate it shouldn't work for you :)
https://atadistance.net/2023/07/15/foreign-visa-cards-blocke...

edit: ha. you read the same articles better than I did.
Ah well, i've never had a twitter account and I'm not going to start now.
You can build a bridge from the transputer to Linn,the golden ear dream HiFi company. The crazy letter K obsessed linn CPU was even more wierd and aligned to Inmos. Apparently the prototype wound up chucked into a canal in a fit of rage.
The "treating data as singular" one is interesting - "data" as a plural is actually one of my biggest pet peeves because I strongly suspect that realising that it is technically the plural of "datum" is the only reason people started using it like that. The actual concept it conveys is almost always not a plural: it's more like "sand" than "pebbles".
In Germany, in addition there is yet another emergency signal - if you need a train to stop (say, because someone fell into the tracks) and you can see the train (so no time to call 112), wave your hand in a circular motion [1].

[1] http://www.tf-ausbildung.de/SignalbuchOnline/sh3.htm
Man I sure love running buggy bash scripts on my system just to see what happens.
we can certainly clone humans. not like in some movies where the clone is all magically grown up. it'd still start as an infant and you can speed that up.

The only reason nobody has (that we know about) is because of the ethical concerns. That and what real utility does human cloning give if you can't have a replica with your same age, skills, and experience?
Isn't all this stuff in the cloud now, most startups I goto don't even have a single server in the office
If previous poster's description is correct, they would have to, right? Or have a revolving fund of debt which is the same thing with extra steps. Builder doesn't get paid until after building things, the construction has to be paid for somehow.

I guess the money being in escrow puts the risk on the builder instead of the buyer.
I think we have radically different interpretations of "launching a pilot". I consider that to be the beginning of an experiment - not the announcement of completed results.
The Founder of Superagent Discusses Agents Tracing, Observability, and Debugging
Or Ireland, Cyprus, Malta?
"...It was predicted that there would be greater levels of primary psychopathy in senior-level managers, and that this would result in their subordinate's decreased job satisfaction. Results indicated that greater levels of primary psychopathy were predominately observed within senior-level managers compared to the other corporate designations..." - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? Why force pricing tiers such that it matches an abstract principle? If you have an e.g. [x, 10x] pair of plans, and a few percent of subscribers are on the 10x, the Pareto power law still holds. In fact, I've heard cases where it was beneficial to have a lower multiplier between tiers, so people feel at ease to upgrade. A 4x jump is a tough negotiating position to go after expansion revenue.
Legalzoom is wrong (or to be more precise, probably intentionally oversimplifying to the point of being irrelevant here). A more nuanced take:

https://lwn.net/Articles/747563/

This is a discussion between three lawyers specializing in the field, from three jurisdictions (US and UK, both of which are common law, as well as parts of the EU which are under statutory law).
Like the SaaS apps which are touted as "open source" with small open source clients which are not functional without the closed source backends (or with open source backends which you can't install because of a couple of non-intentionally missing important bits)?

Or like Nvidia's new drivers which are "open source", but all the meaningful parts are either buried in the card or in closed source libraries?

Or like VSCode where the plugins which matter are closed source and it's "open source sibling" VSCodium is banned from using the majority of the plugins?

If the 99.9999% of the tool is open source, but non-functional without that closed bits, can we say the software is open source?

The four freedoms matter, and this is what OSI says, too.
Our cells live forever, despite the support "clumps" they create in the process eventually die off.
Yes, I think it heavily depends on what you're doing and your mindset.

E.g. if you work with a single compiler on a single platform all the time and expect the compiler to "just compile the code", then you're likely to learn all its quirks, avoid them automatically, use proper abstractions/contracts/invariants to guard against incorrect code, etc. Moreover, you likely know how exactly the most popular UB shows itself with your compiler.

If you juggle compilers all the time and work with not-so-high-quality code (legacy or not), especially the one with little tests, I expect UB to pop up a lot. Or even if you just test on one platform and do final runs on another, that happens all the time in competitive programming or home assignment grading, especially with beginners.
TIL "Fortran is a natively parallel programming language". I guess we aren't talking about FORTRAN 77 then.
We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
fortran itself is pretty easy to learn - the stuff people usually have problems with are things like linking with external libraries, job control and the execution environment generally. meh, same with most languages, i suppose.
He was a punk,
she did ballet.
What more can I say?
We're in full agreement here. It's dishonest to describe software as open source when it is not operational without key components that the developer intentionally made closed source. I would be fine with them saying that the software is "partially open source" and explaining up front exactly which parts of the software are open and which are closed. As a whole, if a piece of software is non-functional without a proprietary component, then it is not open source.
You can activate the emergency stop in any train. Just like that, go figure! No security around those things at all, sometimes a thin pane of glass but that's easily taken care of. Or light an emergency flare next to the tracks. If it's that simple you almost have an obligation to show how insecure this is. And you could easily orchestrate this or do it again a short while later on another train.

/s

Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Hackers without ethics (no matter whether acting on their own or for some larger entity) are less than useless.
> preferably one that doesn't feel they got into their position out of mostly luck.

This part stood out to me. I think it's important to see that almost all successful CEOs (or founders, as it seems closer to what you wanted) have gotten into their position out of mostly luck. I don't mean this in a disparaging way and I am definitely not implying that they haven't worked their assess off to get there. But the reality is that there are a lot of hard working people, with sellable ideas, with experience, knowledge, resources... and most end up failing. And that's because there's a lot of luck in having the right idea at the right time (e.g., Jeff Bezos wouldn't be in the position he's in had he been born 20 years later or 20 years sooner) and finding the right people (customers, employees, relationships) at the right times too.

I think assuming that there's a massive amount of luck at play will help you a lot if you want to get those projects off the ground. First, from a personal, mental perspective: it's not necessarily that you're failing or doing things wrong or are not capable, but that it's a hard process and a lottery in many ways. I think that helps relieve some pressure and mental stress.

The second is that, knowing how much of it is luck, you can be more critical about the "advice" you receive. Most founders and CEOs will tell you the things that they think worked for them, but they might not be reproducible or, as i_dont_know says, might not even apply to a different problem-space. And the character traits that they have might be just a byproduct of being a founder/CEO and not what helped them get there.
Exactly. It took me 2 seconds to swear and close the site so I could read HN comments instead. This happens so much that I often just skip the original articles and go to the comments. HN is the only site where I do that.
I mean that in every context where a person would ever have to convert units or do long division, we invent a new set of units instead.

Others have given other examples, such as printers who divide the inch into points and picas. They do this because it makes figuring out how many characters fit in a line of type easier than if they measured the type in fractions of an inch. It lets them work with integers instead of fractions all day. Of course these days it’s all computer–driven and it hardly matters what units printers use; the computer does the counting and could just as easily do it in fractions of an inch.
Well, I feel exactly the opposite. I used to think I would do that, that I would put skin in the game and send my children to public schools.

But after my first born arrived, I can't do that.

She's not an ideological trumping card, she's someone I want to provide with the better opportunities at life. And taking into account everything that's going on with society and the open hate against upper middle class (where I ended up due to my lower working class parents making a lot of effort to give me a good education) it's clear for me that public schools are not about making my child excel, but about forcing on her the idea that she needs to be numbed down to fit on some standard that's made to make everything fit the pace of the lowest common denominator.

They call that equity.
Hm. I sense there is an expectation that "good ideas will win" if only we communicate them properly. But, when people are invested in <ideas that are orthogonal to your good ideas>, communication is not the right tool. Like trying to convince someone who believes they are the winner to take on the identity of the loser. The assumption is that "goodness" is universal/objective and the cause for disagreement is misunderstanding.

One version of this is trying to convince someone to switch language/framework/platform/paradigm, because your suggestion is objectively better. On the receiving end, it sounds like "admit that your investment into <old thing> was a waste and instead become a novice in <new thing>".

Another version is trying to convince someone to change business strategies. And so on.

Many ideas are bets on the future, but people are stakeholders in different versions of the future. If your argument amounts to asking someone to freely give up their stake in the future, it will fail. The more clearly it is explained, the worse it sounds on the receiving end.
Some Latin countries practice burning of certain home contents once a year. This "Noche de Diablos" (Night of the Devil) where straw and fabrics are burned help rid the community of pests, but is troublesome for cities. Guatemala's government asks people not to burn things in the street as it stresses the asphalt. But there are small bonfires all across the city on December 6th. And used toilet papers are regularly burned on the pavement once a week. Such is life in an agrarian culgure.
I think it's the period before death that scares me more than the big empty void. The big empty of death triggers a bit of anxiety but the process of my health degrading is what I feel triggers the depressed feeling...
I agree with the majority of your well considered comment. I'm okay with LLMs being really unreliable though. I think if they actually worked, it would be an unmitigated disaster for workers globally.
Shouldn’t that be benware?