skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the problem as I see it:

* Person A makes OSS project P

* Organisation/Person B uses P

* A vulnerability in P causes financial harm to B

Is person A now liable under this law? What happens if person A has a Patreon or GitHub sponsor page? The latter seems to imply you're being paid for development and so this is now a commercial project?

Or is the requirement that the end user directly pays for the product? In that case this directive would not cover a variety of large objectively commercial products: Chrome, Slack, Java, arguably macOS and iOS (because you get new versions for "free" so the software is "free", right? Apple makes a point of stating its products are the hardware), etc - hence you can't say the "commercial" restriction requires money being exchanged directly for the software, but that gets you back to "does a Patreon, GitHub sponsor, etc mean you're now a commercial developer?"

Again the problem here is the ambiguity, and the massive disparity between revenue and liability. If you make a few hundred (or even a few thousand) a year from sponsorship should you be subject to massive liability because a huge organisation, or a large number of different organizations pick up your project, you could now be liable due to damages the organizations are subject to.

There's a lot of focus in these threads on "company uses your OSS project in products they sell and a a bug impacts their customers" rather than "company uses your OSS project, and a bug causes the company itself harm", e.g. the company is now the end user. To make it even more direct, what would happen if (as some companies do) the companies provide "sponsorships"(or whatever) for the OSS project development, now the company is the end user and they're paying for development and that sounds pretty "commercial".

But also this legislation completely undermines all OSS licenses as they all say the software is distributed without liability or warrantee. The liability restriction is completely neutered, so now contributing to any OSS project requires you to be able to afford a lawyer to determine whether you can do so without acquiring boundless liability, which seems like a sure fire way to immediately price-out the overwhelming majority of OSS contributors from ever contributing to any OSS projects.

[addendum]
One other follow on from this would be that if you do have any sponsorship mechanism it would seem you're now liable for bugs in code submitted from other people unless you're paying every contributor for their contributions, specifically to transfer liability. If you don't do that you're acquiring liability for code written by others.
No, but his writings from 20 years ago on software design have been influential in our thinking. I’m working with Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd.
The most important thing is to figure out what you want to achieve. Banal, easier said than done, but always important to keep in mind. Your goals and understanding of them are likely to change, but having more understanding is always better than having less. This understanding can only be gained through practice, and is personal to you, which makes it hard to give specific advice.

CS is not really a field that can be mastered as a skill. The skill sets of people developing web services, games, robots, programming languages, hardware architectures, and software that runs on space shuttles will be somewhat different. There are also purely theoretical and mathematical aspects: algorithms and data structures, type theory, formalized logics, etc, etc. All of those have their own resources and communities.

There are some general things that would be good to know for anyone working on anything CS-related. Check out a few computer science courses in big universities, and the things they all teach in first and second years would be the most universal ones.

As for the practical stuff you can do right now: for engineering aspect, I would recommend picking a simple project (website/app/game) and implementing it end-to-end using best practices you can find for everything: code style, testing, repo, CI/CD, and so on. For theoretical aspect you can check out Project Euler and see how far you can go in solving the challenges on there.

And I wish you best of luck on your quest.
Yeah, in my experience the drug can curb appetites to somewhat dangerously low levels. I get pretty full on 650-800 cals/day and eat one meal a day. My TDEE is around 2100 cals/day.

Frankly speaking, while I enjoy the weight loss, it's not healthy at this rate. This is probably just a dosage issue. Still, I can't imagine a drug that curbs appetite would be good for someone that already doesn't eat much.
> The blades have a 20 year lifespan

What stops us from making blades with a 60 year lifespan?
Gastroparesis, and mostly found when on liraglutides (Saxenda),[1] though that hasn't stopped lawsuits against semaglutides.[2]

There's some interest in GLP-1 receptor agonists as IBS _treatments_, specifically for pain relief in IBS-C and IBS-M, though it's way too early to talk about meaningfully.[3][4]

1: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2810542

2: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/makers-ozempic-mo...

3: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35234561/

4: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31602785/
> I’d be surprised if those bananas didn’t arrive on some freight ship. Talk about inefficiency!

Freight ships are extremely efficient.
One of the smartest essays I have read about AI.
I have always had a respect for these machines. Interestingly enough, Brother (the printer company) started out as a sewing machine company, and somehow it makes sense to me.
Farming is necessary, correct. I don't see how this removes the wide gap.

> farmers sell their produce for profit

And that means they can pay for the resources they use!
If you have any kind of Patreon, GitHub sponsorship, buy me a coffee, or anything to "support development" it would seem you have met the requirement of being a commercial developer who should be liable.
Yeah but shut up.

Talking about things that are feasibly solved with willpower as if they should be achievable because people ought to be able to willpower their way through any plausible challenge is just bullshit. The world is full of people who are so eager to say that they did it ergo everyone else is just being lazy. But just… shut up. Everyone has different circumstances. Things that are very mentally hard are very mentally hard and we don’t need to pretend otherwise. It’s complete bullshit and moral high grounding. It’s not helpful in the slightest. It’s not an easy way out. It’s a way out.
Meh we're down to 1.1% of generation being coal in the last year; low enough to stop worrying about. Lets worry about how to get rid of the 33.5% of gas!
As someone who goes to farmers markets, that is absolutely not why we go.

We go because the food is better, fresher, and often it has things you won't find in a supermarket.
Best way to get a quick cheap laugh is to accuse the pharmaceutical industry of only being interested in "bonor pills for old men". Probably doesn't work as well post-COVID but you can work that into the joke!
Why should a completely different industry be bent the same way legacy industry operates? Why does it have to be so? It makes little sense outside being "regulatory capture" of sorts for established players and a money maker for auditing companies.
To add on that: there is a duality between closures and OOP methods
I think you could view the append-only B-tree as a deamortized version of the traditional update-in-place B-tree + WAL. It's true that it eliminates the problem of maintaining a separate WAL, but only by trading it for an arguably harder problem: compacting the B-tree. It's easy and cheap to truncate the WAL; it's difficult and expensive to compact the B-tree. I guess LMDB solves this problem by only updating at page-level granularity so it can reuse entire pages without compaction, although I haven't studied its design in much detail.
good maybe this will take the heat off of CGM/FGM tech, which is a waste of silicon and batteries for healthy individuals to use.
> History also shows us that when the government runs collective farms that have no profit, people starve.

Yes? I'm not sure what you're implying here.

The argument isn't "farms shouldn't profit", the argument is "farms should pay for the water they're turning into profits".
Does anyone know how to realize versioned articles with Hugo? The visitors of an article should be able to see different edits and diff them. (this has nothing to do with git)
"Harm" can over time mean your software was used to view non-approved content etc. Slippery slope...
https://savee.it/ - for inspirations
I'm curious to see how much ad revenue is gained from impressions to those scam farms that plague what remains of Facebook's actual users. Typically preying on the elderly.
> ChatGPT punched out a reasonably sensible t test!

I think the distribution is decidedly non normal here and the difference in the medians may well have also been of substantial interest -- I'd go for a Wilcox test here to first order... Or even some type of quantile regression. Honestly the famous Jonckheere–Terpstra test for ordered medians would be _perfect_ for this bit of pseudoanalysis -- have the hypothesis that M3 > M2 > M1 and you're good to go, right?!

(Disclaimers apply!)
Can someone help me understand what the science says about obesity, because it seems to change daily.

We're being told that people are healthy at any size. So why sell people Ozempic?

How is it okay to encourage weight loss with an expensive and possibly (likely) harmful drug, but not okay to encourage weight loss with a sensible diet?

Is being overweight a bad or a good thing? Despite all of the research, that part is unclear.
Like having a Patreon or similar sponsorship? Sounds like a recipe for licenses that say "you are not permitted to use this software if a bug could cause you any harm"
HTML has this, yet browsers seem to cope...?
What does the climate crisis have to do with the drastic mental health crisis that is present in the US/Canada? Genuine question.
> The water in deep wells will eventually run out. Why waste it on grass?

That's a different regulation issue. We shouldn't be overdrawing from those deep wells at almost any price, outside of extreme emergency.
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Thank you. I saw your other post, but it’s gone now. If you want to find me, I’m in the Eventide project Slack and on GitHub (you can find links to some of my posts here in this thread).
Example: I will make a library controlling some integrated circuit as open source and charge money for commercial use. My software has a little bug that occasionally causes misreading of the IC values. A military software company uses my open source library in their nuke platform. My library misreads values on one nuke that goes off. Are you telling me I am going to be liable for that? Let's say independent multi-pass root cause analysis pinpointed the problem to my library and only to my library.
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Similar for me. It is almost as if once I bookmark something, it disappears from the internet. I never see it again.
So my wife and I have been talking about this recently. She is not overweight, but after we had our child, she put on some extra weight. She's keen on losing it now and going back to her pre-pregnancy weight.

She's been very consistent in going to the gym and has seen some good results. But it does require a lot of motivation and effort.

She's tempted to ask our GP about Ozempic, but also afraid of unknown risks that comes with going off-label.

My opinion is that she should continue in the old-fashioned-way because it's been working well, not just for weight-loss, but also as an escape from childcare.

But now seeing people lose weight very much faster than her, I almost see her lose the motivation to do it the old-fashioned way. Some of her gym friends are on it, and so is a daily reminder for her.

So I am a bit mixed on this. We're also planning to have another child soonish, so unsure if this even factors in.

I am worried that collectively, the world has gone a bit too fast in using this for minor weight-loss.
Yeah, definitely. I just think it's worth noting that both organizations approve of basically the same list of licenses, and that even the FSF occasionally recommends using a permissive license depending on circumstance.
Everyone's Existential Crisis
I must be living in another world then. GDP of EU is stagnant since 2008 whereas US and Chinese GDP exploded during that time. Ultimately whoever has the most money is going to win so let's not try to redefine economical indicators and say that GDP is no longer relevant etc.
Here's an example, before WWII brake lines were made out of Monel, a corrosion proof material aside from galvanic. Nickel and copper being expensive and needed elsewhere the lines were made then made from painted steel. After the war steel lines became the standard.

The cost difference is small but it's indicative of a larger issue of disposability. One of the reasons Japanese vehicles started to dominate was that they lasted longer. This is due to better tolerances, more efficient engines, and more robust component design.

The Toyota production method, lean and just-in-time were mostly methods for rationalizing better systems to eliminate waste within production and to minimize inventory. Such methods don't inherently make a better car though they leave more io the table to spend on coatings, quality parts etc.
Surely this all becomes unnecessary with mandatory e-prescribing for controlled substances?
You could use this argument to justify almost anything. We need slaves because of how thin the margins are!

The price point is determined by the costs involved. If everyone had to pay employees decently, the price would adjust.
Why shouldn't they want the easy way out? I was obese twenty years ago, and lost the weight via diet and exercise. Keeping that weight off is the single hardest thing I have ever done, and a battle I still have to consciously fight every single day. Why should it be that difficult? So that I can pass some kind of purity test?

The fact is that the food we eat has evolved over time, and is too hard to resist overconsuming for a large fraction of our population. If we can create more addictive food, why not create antidotes? If we could easily treat alcohol addiction with a pill, would we tell alcoholics to just apply willpower instead?
The Year That Cryptocurrency Somehow Didn't Die
I use KDE-Connect. Connects my Linux desktop and any Android or iOS device. It's originally a Linux Application but runs on Windows and MacOS as well.

You can send/receive files, photos, clipboard, notifications etc. On Linux I can also use it to control media and use my phone as mouse or keyboard.

The pairing is painless via QR-Code. You decide what is shared and what isn't. It works directly over your local network. No cloud servers are involved.
> Why do you think this so absolutely unacceptable an idea?

Because industry standard safety practices are there for a reason and taken very seriously. The parent poster said:

> allows a worker to step in front of a robot

and

> depends on a wireless communication mechanism for safety

But industry standard safety practices would ensure at least one of those is not true. What the person you are replying to is suggesting is that you can have robots with wireless safety mechanisms or you can have robots which people can walk in front of (which have wired safety mechanisms), you just do not want both. That is a pretty mild claim you are responding to.

I am a robotics engineer and we are very aware of the risks robots pose to human beings. Furthermore business management is very aware of the liability concerns these risks pose to the business.

It isn't FUD to say that we would not put humans in the path of a robot which had wireless safety systems. That's just a fact of standard practices.
The sign seems confusing to me; just looks like a lopsided Z. I much prefer the American design: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/curvy-road-sign-mou...
You need a Mexican prescription though.

Here it is for $211 per month: https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/ProductDisplay?urlReque... though that’s only a deal if your insurance won’t cover it in the states.

I bet it’s not in stock.
What is a wiki?
How mathematicians use it:

> to mark passages tricky on a first reading or with an especially difficult argument.

When I try this (on macOS) echo -e "\u26A0" it gives the 'triangle with an exclamation mark in it' icon (i.e. https://imgur.com/a/SJbl67s).

I think there's no exact unicode equivalent of the dangerous bend symbol?
I'm in the same boat. I had to literally starve myself
in order to lose weight and I did it but it was the most miserable experience and absolutely fucked me up mentally. My tipping point for actually losing weight is 800 calories a day with exercise, my body will kick scream and shuts down all major functions to avoid it any higher than that, I just get to be miserable with negative energy and still not lose weight. I now get to live the rest of my life with an eating disorder so that's fun but I did it I'm skinny yayyy :( I'm fiercely jealous of anyone whose metabolism let's them
run a deficit and just burn fat to make up the difference instead of just passing out.

Being able to just lose weight while maintaining a healthy relationship with food is going is going to be a night and day generational shift for women.
I’ve seen figures that show that 98% of overweight people cannot lose and maintain weight loss. For obese people, the numbers are horrifyingly worse:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539812/

If at best only one in fifty can do such a thing, when the entire world is screaming at them to do so then you must re evaluate your position that it’s about just making some changes and having it all work out. Becoming a normal weight is just not something that you can expect for most currently obese people to achieve. The facts were have seen do not support the idea that it’s something that people can knuckle down and do in the majority of cases.

Whether the causes are biological, social, or whatever it’s something that we have not been able to even slow down as a society yet. The article mentions the abject failure of decades of efforts from doctors, government and individuals that have lead only to greater rates of obesity.

Even these drugs won’t be enough, given the best results in studies only show something like a 20% loss after more than a year. For many obese people, that leaves them still obese but $15k poorer if their insurance doesn’t cover the drug.

If you managed to lose a bunch of weight, congrats. But the experience is not generalizable, unfortunately. It’s really not for lack of effort on anyone’s part.
Let's assume that the wind turbine operates and generates power for a few decades, and is them chipped and burned in a biofuel power generation plant - it would be carbon negative.
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> We're being told that people are healthy at any size

Who told you this? Where are you getting your news from?
That is already part of CRA:

> It is of particular importance for manufacturers to ensure that their products do not contain vulnerable components developed by third parties.

> Manufacturers shall, upon identifying a vulnerability in a component, including in an open source component, which is integrated in the product with digital elements, report the vulnerability to the person or entity maintaining the component.

EDIT: Also, I concur the poster below. It's developers who oppose against management to allocate time for bugs and technical debt instead of new features.
Also, a lot of companies (and the US government) start their fiscal year on October 1st to avoid the year ending during holidays.
Oh... well, for benefit of others since you seem to know well already, there's no need for merge at all if you are just adding patches that have already been rebased to the HEAD of the tree they're going on. They just go on top cleanly and naturally, and all right with the world. Consumers of the branch fast-forward as normal. There's a pure, linear history with no hairballs that people can bisect to patch granularity. Just say no to merge.
Ontario vintners have fans installed for this purpose. Helicopter seem like a convenient business write-off so there is a plaything for the weekends.

https://niagaranow.com/news.phtml/6869-vineyards-crank-up-gi...
The thing to keep in mind with Ozempic (and other GLP-1 agonists) is that it's essentially a forever drug. The data is clear that when you stop taking it, you will gain the weight back, rapidly, with almost near certainty.

For folks who are risking health complications due to obesity and yet still struggle to achieve meaningful weight loss, this can be an acceptable tradeoff. Especially considering the increased life expectancy. The health benefits of being in a normal weight range can't be overstated.

But if you're "not overweight", or are fortunate enough to make progress through diet and exercise, you probably don't want to be taking this for the rest of your life. It's not cheap and there can be side effects.

And if you're not planning to take it for the rest of your life, there's no point.
> a chat interface to your ... data Generally, the process includes:

> Exporting your data to a CSV

> Create an ‘Assistant’ with a prompt explaining your purpose, and provide it the CSV file with your data.

Once MSFT build's the aforementioned process into Excel, it's going to be a major game changer.
Hmm, seems to work fine here on MacOS Sonoma and Safari 17.2.1. Happy to help you test if I can be of help.
Being overweight is unequivocally a bad thing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01165-5
So what you're saying is that it was still a communication issue. I'd view it that way if what I was told was either wrong or very out of date. Docs are how you communicate.
Is the inside lining more likely to sever my femoral artery now in a side impact?

These are almost always significant things, at the very least worth looking into.
Until an outside observer collapses the wave function, it’s a Schrodinger’s conflict? A Tolstoy Superposition (of War and Peace)?
I personally am very skeptical of the other salt theory - salting the earth as a means of disrupting enemy soil.

I started to think about it in depth when thinking about weed control in my own backyard - should I salt my own soil?

The I realized how quickly it would wash away in the next rain. And for ancient times, the sheer volume of salt one would need in order to disrupt a significant amount of land.

I dunno maybe it happened, but it seems like a very very dumb way to go about it. Then again, humans repeatedly prove the magnitude of our stupidity.
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> 65,487.17

Just 0.7% off "double $33,000"...
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Ultimately casting is an ineffable creative skill. Execs find it increasingly harder to trust in the simple skill of artists as the piles of money get bigger. Hence they invest more and more money into 'safe' and more measurable areas like name-recognition, special effects, and marketing. Eventually it ends in disaster though, hundreds of millions of dollars can only go so far to save bad story-telling, and the effort to create a 'guaranteed' blockbuster is revealed as simply putting all your eggs in one basket. There's an excellent memo by Jeffrey Katzenberg about the phenomenon in disney: https://sriramk.com/memos/katzenberg.pdf

I think the effect extends beyond artistic domains as well: how many times have we seen large organizations get burned by 'safely' spending billions of dollars on contractors and getting bad software anyway when they might have simply done their best to hire smart people and then pray for a fraction of the cost.