skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR: As _nalply says, not a guide but an extremely biased opinion piece, or IMO rather an apparently deliberate attempt to cast the GPL in the worst light possible without worrying about little things like accuracy or background.

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> Sure, I would like to be able to share and change software. But guess what? I can already share and change any object in my possession — even if not allowed by the manufacturer — so long as I maneuver around the fuzzy boundaries of the law and avoid bringing attention to myself.

That you can get away with ignoring copyright is a rather flimsy argument against a license that exists to ensure that you're legally allowed to share/modify software.

> I also reserve the right to put a sizable number of people at the mercy of some of my software to make a large profit if I so desire.

Okay, then you probably shouldn't use GPL-family licenses, since they exist to avoid anyone being at your mercy.

> This confirms my previous suspicion: You do not have complete “freedom” to change GPL-licensed software. “Freedom” seems to be a loose term here.

Correction: You do not have the ability to relicense the software. You can modify it all the same. And in any event, copyleft licenses impose the restriction that you can't limit other people's freedom; while this is arguably a restriction on your freedom, it's a good trade-off.

> I don’t even know if “copyright” is a valid term anymore in the times of the internet. Anyone can publish for free to the entire world. It’s not like you need authorization to get something to the printing press. [...] First, the lack of a warranty should be enough to convey the absence of a warranty. There is no need for a piece of paper saying that there is no warranty.

I'm going to gently suggest that maybe if you have no concept of the underlying legal concepts and practices that drove a license, you should hold off remarking on it until you do. My non-lawyer understanding is that the warranty thing absolutely has been a problem in some jurisdictions, and copyright is a very-much-alive legal concept.

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And after that I gave up; the author seems to feel that a "humorous", "tongue-in-cheek" post need not worry about accuracy, context, or good faith, and it got to be more than I felt like dealing with.
Why would they care about losing you when they aren't making any money on you?

"McDonalds cracks down on people taking ketchup without ordering anything"

"Then I'll stop taking ketchup from McDonalds, that will show em!"

It is only paying/ad viewers that matters, until they start to lose those they wont care.
RRC = Railroad Commission, which is the top level of government in charge of a lot of energy things.
Gpt4 is focused on state of the art performance.

Claude is focused on state of the art context length and safety while maximizing performance and minimizing token costs.

Sorta like BMW vs Volvo.

Both highly concerned about safety and performance and having amazing features. It's about tradeoffs. Ultimately, I use all available foundational models. Each has specialized into a different niche. All are irreplaceable in my monthly life events.
Hi Owen, I'm also Owen :)

My grandmother went blind in her old age. She is pretty intelligent and wanted to learn new things so I thought I'd try to set up VoiceOver and similar things mentioned in this thread - various assisted screen technologies. Unfortunately it was a complete failure. I think that for whatever reason, in general trying to teach new things to an elderly person who's newly blind is an uphill battle. If you don't think he'll be able to hack it I wouldn't try, it's somewhat demoralizing to fail at something at any age. My grandmother dealt well with it but it was clearly somewhat upsetting to fail to learn something, especially as she was proud of learning other things quickly throughout her life (for example learning to drive, where she passed her test the first try with minimal prior instruction.) If you do think he has a decent chance at learning it I would start slow and build your way up.

What did work was Siri, an audiobook player, and a Google Home connected to speakers. The one she uses most of the time is the audiobook player, it's a large chunky machine that takes CDs that she gets in the mail. Every so often she gets a menu of new available audiobooks and someone sits down with her to pick out which she'd like. The next most used is Siri on her iPhone. I set up her contacts with various easy-to-say names and now she can call whoever she needs whenever. She uses Siri 95% just to call people, the other 5% she occasionally does look something up or ask the weather but it's mostly just calls. The least used is the Google Home, which she uses to play classical music through the speakers.

One thing that's not technology related is that being blind is lonely. The biggest thing that helps with this is regular small interactions. Any way you can facilitate more short visits is good, for example with the mailman, neighbors stopping by, family, et cetera. Even short phone calls help. The best are the visits that happen "automatically" so they don't slow over time. For example if you plan a phone call once a week to pick out some new audiobooks or podcasts to put on his device of choice.

Good luck!
Set it to Store Mode and it'll become very close to a classic display panel. You can't use streaming apps, it just lets you change HDMI inputs, volume, and picture settings, but that's a feature for me. Plus no spying.
Perhaps they will be motivated by self-preservation, and will note that humans are destroying the environment they exist within, and will decide to put a stop to that.
They had to make these rules because they weren't being followed
Wait, I swear I'm not being intentionally daft, but in this scenario my air-gapped system has a (intel) wireless card? And we are certain the ME can manage this wireless card? And is actively listening for a wireless update while 'off'? From an unauthenticated connection?
I agree whole-heartedly!

I am sometimes called upon to audit codebases for acquisitions. I've spent enough time in the strategic accounting world to realize that we almost have no concrete units of measurement to talk about software. Lines of code is as meaningful as the count of boards in a house. In a house, we can at least get total square feet, number of legally defined bedrooms and bathrooms, lot size, etc. In software, we've got almost nothing.

I've seen tiny codebases that can CRUD hundreds of different records, and I've seen multi-million line codebases that can barely handle saving a dozen different records. Consider all the ways data flows in and out of a system: asynchronous processes, batch processing, auditing, third party integrations, permissioning, reporting, and legacy system integrations. Each of these change the value and technical debt of a system.

I suspect we will have an increasing need to perform an accurate audit of a codebase. And provide the value, depreciation, and debt of a system in dollars. I would love to see a standardized metric for accounting for assets and liabilities.
I ran a miab for about 5 years, maybe around 2018, I also actively tried to do extra things that would improve delivery, including registering postmaster accounts on the various postmaster whitelist tools etc in order to increase the chances my mail would be delivered.

Unfortunately if you host your mail on linode/digital ocean, you will eventually be blocked, and mst of your email will end up in spam folders.

This year after 13 years of running my own mail services, I finally gave up, I was sending emails and then sending followup “did you get my email” messages from gmail
They don’t. It’s a CYA in case they’re sued. If/when that happens, they can point the finger at you the uploader.
See for example the Seattle "tips to recycle right"

* Empty, Clean, and Dry
* When in Doubt, Find Out
* Keep Bags Out

The page goes into detail on each. This isn't unusual in my experience.

https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-a...

Here's an online tool to help people identify the various kinds of recyclables and direct them correctly. It isn't easy and I doubt few Seattle residents know all of these.

https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-a...

If everyone started sorting and cleaning according to these rules the fraction of usable recyclables would increase a lot.
The JetBrains experience?
(Author here)

I don't think this corresponds to my experience.

I am working as a staff engineer in big production codebases (with all the traits of those: some code is good, some is bad, some is unrecognizable legacy, sometimes we are in a hurry and write awful code, sometimes we have time for refactoring etc.)

And my observations about the logic and perception of the features are drawn from the practice of code reviews, mentoring new people, and discussing ways of solving tasks in this environment. Obviously, I am frequently a driver of new code practices, but I am also trying to be a good person and a good colleague and notice how comfortable people are with various parts of the codebase, various idioms, etc.

One of the main topics of this article series is uncovering the language's logic and intuitions (to stop perceiving it as a "bag of random syntactic features you need to learn or should guess") and using those intuitions for code that is, yes, better for the reader, but the code that can be created in a quickly-changing production environment and rewritten fearlessly.
Man, you should read the original thread where memcopy was brought up as another example why netcat is a bad baseline for a network protocol and I was like, yea no that part at least sort of makes sense because that is the baseline. Sometimes I don't know why I keep commenting in this website. It is like talking with idiots all day.
Skins are more nefarious. They make you think it's ok, and you can still play a full game, only the full game isn't the game you wanted to play anymore, it's just a giant ad for the gatcha. You win to get gatcha. Gameplay just tells you to either pirate it, accept it or don't bother, it's much more honest.
Yeah, and send somebody to my house yo shot me in the head. But none of them is happening.
Not in the quantities you'd find medicinal for anxiety... and most people I know who have government weed up here in Canada take it in edible form.
Nabokov ends one of the most captivating fragments of Pale Fire with a sentence "I trust the reader has enjoyed this note."

He totally got me.

It is not the book I would recommend most often, it just came to my mind.

What I would recommend the most are psychological books. 'Mind and Nature' by Gregory Bateson is one of my favorites.

Posts like this one are awesome, always happy to sieve through.
Diplomacy is a great board game but only play it if you're OK with your relationships coming to an end.
I love these stories of sci-fi movie diasasters. There are just as many insane stories of "amazing this classic ever got made".

On the topic of disasters, I recommend reading about The Starlost:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost
It is trivial to swap LLM considering most LLM are compatible with the OpenAPI API.
Also a Québec resident. I’m a bit of an idiot when it comes to weed so I relied on a friend and a SQDC guy to get me set up with edibles. Turns out 10mg was absolutely not a good starting dose for me. Had a pretty horrible night. (That result was more on my friend than the SQDC guy, but he was more than happy to sell it to me as a balanced strain or something.)

The folks I do know that get value from it seem fine. But could they maybe benefit from a therapist rather than wallowing in stress on their own/with friends? Eh yeah also probably true.
If you’ve studies showing vaporisation of cannabis induces lung cancer I’d sure like to see them.
Less use of Google = less chance of me seeing Google ads.

The analogy is more accurately this: McDonalds giving away ketchup--instead of selling it or providing with the order--but making you watch an ad first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobro_4000

> The Mobro 4000 was a barge owned by MOBRO Marine, Inc. made infamous in 1987 for hauling the same load of trash along the east coast of North America from New York City to Belize and back until a way was found to dispose of the garbage. ...

> In 1987, the City of New York found that it had reached its landfill capacity. The city agreed to ship its garbage to Morehead City, North Carolina, where there were plans to convert it into methane.
Maybe they can create a new movie based on this funny story. Name it Doge King and chronicle the bizarre world of selling shitcoins.
Modern Serial: Read a book as a newsletter for only $4 (Black Friday Deal)
Why wouldn't they give it the ability to correctly search in the database they own?
> A survey last year found that nearly two-thirds of people said they would prefer to use cannabis rather than pharmaceuticals to treat a medical issue

Hm, maybe because cannabis is cheaper and more readily available? I am extremely wary of becoming dependent on a substance that either my doctor or my insurance can cut my access to on a whim. Hell even when cannabis was illegal, it was still usually easier to procure than certain head-meds--which themselves are of dubious long-term efficacy and carry substantial risk (looking at you, benzos and opiates).
Consolidated list of why Apple TV is 7x the cost of competitors:

- seamlessly use iPhone for input, including password manager integration through the keyboard

- AirPods seamless pairing/handoff, including really great spatial audio implementation

- It is really, really fast. So much faster than the streaming sticks. And it stays fast.

- It does not cram in more ads on every update.

- Now Playing integration with the watch, great for pausing quickly.

- Supports AirPlay for streaming from iPhone or Mac, and it works well

- Fitness+ is great, huge library of workouts and integrates well with Watch

- Really solid apps like OwlFiles, Infuse, VLC, and Synology for accessing network content

- Solid support for multiple users

I truly didn’t expect it to be so good when I first got it (workouts was my main reason for purchase, used Xbox for streaming previously).

What features did I miss?
Until retroactive DRM is injected into old titles and we can't play single player games w/o verification. Brought to us via Microsoft (after they buy Valve).
Not entirely, there would be a bit more security during bootup.
However, the risks and problems are probably not worth it.
Other benefits Graphene advertizes: they are much better and quicker applying updates (that's easy because they only support pixels), they allegedly support much more and better exploitation mitigation mechanisms, and have a Google Services sandbox that looks quite interesting.
Though, after the conversations I had with them I really do not want to trust those people :(
What do you mean in the second paragraph about gymnastics practice? It's implying kids cannot take public transit, but why? That was fairly common, even recently, and I'm trying to understand if something has changed in some regions.
That's very helpful. Press info in this area is politicized enough that the engineering info isn't getting through.

Any comments on this: “Gathering lines freeze, and the wells get so cold that they can’t produce,” said Parker Fawcett, a natural gas analyst for S&P Global Platts.[1]

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...
There was an experiment for a while of placing ads on the floor of supermarkets so shoppers would see them while walking through the store. I suspect it was maintenance issues/cost rather than customer complaints that caused them to go away. Any advertising delivery medium with a low enough cost will be exploited.
Well sweatshops normally invoke forced labor of some kind, often in relation to Human Trafficking, since this conversation is about Human Trafficking I was using that context. I will recognize the technical definition is any "employer that violates more than one federal or state labor law governing minimum wage and overtime, child labor, industrial homework, occupational safety and health, workers' compensation, or industry registration", however in the context of this conversation I think it is pretty disingenuous to circumscribe that to be violations of "minimum wages"

In the context here Sweatshops often obtain workers that have been tricked into starting work without informed consent, or when workers are kept at work through debt bondage or mental duress, or child labor. None of which have anything to do with Minimum wage, they could be paying them $20/hr and still be a sweatshop

I am not a big fan of current Minimum wages laws, and believe there is far better ways to accomplish the stated goals of those laws with out a blanket floor on the price of labor, ironically minimum wages also end up hurting the very people they purport to be "helping" very much like drug and sex laws.
Yes. Don't do drugs kids, some things shouldn't change.
Don't believe the armchair scare-mongering "experts" that will undoubtedly tell you in these comments that no big provider will receive E-mail from you.

I've been running my own mail servers for the last, well, 25 years or so. It's fine, if you get your own IP, don't get unlucky by inheriting one after a known spammer, and just keep a clean server.

Don't let other scare you into "having to use" Gmail or other huge ad-tech E-mail providers. That's not what the Internet was designed for.
ra for those interested: https://github.com/rabbitmq/ra
("A Raft implementation for Erlang and Elixir that strives to be efficient and make it easier to use multiple Raft clusters in a single system.")
Used by RabbitMQ for quorum queues + Khepri (the new metadata store)
Firstly this isn't new, this is in 2022.

Also, why is this getting so much attention all of a sudden? We already know Meta has a great AI lab and people are screaming about this Q* garbage which they don't even know what it does.

Perhaps you have to look beyond OpenAI, since they don't always have the answers. Most likely they are just good at marketing snake-oil to VCs for regulatory capture.
I have been using different UI toolkits over the past ~13 years of my professional front-end development career. Probably starting with Bootstrap.

Tamagui has a really elegant combination of a Styling system (the mechanics of applying styles to the underlying systems), a Theming system (the way sizes/colors are passed down within different contexts of the UI), and a Component system (high level components that are ready to use out of the box). In my opinion, this is where Tamagui shines above the competition- each abstraction effectively builds upon the underlying ones, and it gives you a bunch of ready-to-use components so you can start building quickly and worry about the details later. Way better than the "just copy and paste" model of Tailwind which forces you to maintain components and manually create a consistent UI for your app.

We are using Tamagui for our open source electron app + web site. We hope to have a React Native app in the future, so we are strongly opposed to any solution that is overly tied to CSS. If you want to see an example (real-world, messy) codebase that uses Tamagui, please take a look here: https://github.com/MintterHypermedia/mintter/tree/main/front...

The biggest downside, in my experience, is the heavy/complicated/fragile setup process of Tamagui. Although this is typical of any TS monorepo. If you struggle to integrate Tamagui in your codebase, I encourage you to power through the setup phase- the payoff is totally worth it!
Of course they are doing PR stunts to kepp media talking about them.

Remember Altman saying that they shouldn't release GPT-2 because of it being too dangerous? It's the same thing with this Q* thing.
>> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses

If you know exactly what you are building, down to the datatypes, sure, use static typing. But 99% of startups aren't like that. Business development is a highly dynamic process.

Once you hit $1M revenue, rewrite it in Rust or whatever.
I've used Slickgrid (open source, https://slickgrid.net/) with some success.
I'm confused, the problem here was putting further AI development on safety rails?
"Human level" does not mean "good".

Source: am maybe the only Brit who never even got off this damn island before being destroyed.

(My first and only Dippy game, an email based game)
Used to smoke like a chimney in my teens. Because I was into computers at a young age I learned how to make money to feed this habit. It wasn’t like hydroponic weed or anything like that but it was a lot. I could go through an ounce within a few days without batting an eye.

Then at some point I started to grow up and my mind changed and weed started to make me extremely anxious and paranoid. I would take long breaks and then try it once a year or something and it would make me feel so disoriented about life it wasn’t very fun at all. Still get flashbacks just writing about it now.

Haven’t smoked for 10 years and don’t miss it. It was probably just another escape mechanism for me anyway given my circumstances back then.

But I do know other people (some who used to be friends) that had similar experiences of having their feelings/psyche amplified to unbearable levels.

If it helps you it’s great (especially if you have a really bad condition) but otherwise.. it’s an absolute waste of time and just numbs you to all-familiar state.
Both RL and A* are both approaches to dynamic programming, this would not be surprising.
I'm going same way too. When first speculations about ad-blockers being blocked on Youtube I started investigating alternative video platforms, and reducing video watching overall. Worst thing is that many public services and companies are still using Youtube as single available video repository, not considering that their website or service use instructions end up covered with annoying ads, that are distracting and time consuming.
Amazon SES is great, because you pay per email and the rate is incredibly cheap. Mailgun is very expensive though, and the problem is they have a very limited free tier, and then you must jump up to a $35/year package that gives 50,000 emails - this is simply far too much for many projects early on in their rollout.

I prefer something like Brevo, which has smaller jumps per tier or even something like MXRoute for $49 per year (limit of 300 emails/hour)

Edit: Completely forgot about ZeptoMail by Zoho - incredibly good value service.
The free ride is over. I feel like the only reason this is upsetting to people is because it seemed to be free for so long. If you give someone a free meal every day for 15 years, and then suddenly take it away, they'll be pretty upset. But nobody ever asked why the food was free? It costs to make and it costs to deliver. Google have datacenters all over the world and we still expect the food to be free.

They literally created an entire market of content creators. We can't go back to torrents, we're addicted now.
Aren't we still only really a decade out from when vaping became popular? Seems like evidence would currently be hard to come by.
This comment in itself is likely to cause anxiety.

"Your mental health issues cannot be solved by anything short of a societal shift."

I agree that there's a lot of things we could change as a society to meaningfully improve mental health but that takes time and people need assistance now. Personally, I've temporarily relocated to Barcelona for my mental health and physical health because being able to walk anywhere without needing to fight cars is an incredible gift to me - the lower barrier helps me walk longer and more frequently. I wish more of the world was like this - but it'll take a while to accomplish that.