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Stripe sends 402 errors on failed payments (though their docs currently don't really label the error code correctly)

I've seen a lot of takes on the GPL but this is a new one to me. As another comment points out, you only have to make changes available to others if you make the software itself available to others; either by distributing a binary or by using it to provide a web service.

But this is, fundamentally, the point of "Free" software: someone who uses a piece of software should be entitled to change that software as they desire. This obviously implies that if you make your own modified software available to others, they too must be able to make their own changes.

There's a pretty big difference between notarization on macOS and what's being described here.

I appreciate the response, thanks.

100+ upvotes in an hour and this story is falling off the front page already?

Anti-trust concerns

Good one. People making half a million dollars every year are just a few steps away from slavery because they're paying 50% in taxes.

Define "us" in this question.

"OpenAI is close to becoming a necessity and a human right" is the wildest claim I have heard yet about AI. (Though it's possible that maybe someday I will agree with this).

Or maybe it's because forcibly moving people to the middle of nowhere isn't something most people would consider acceptable.

Do you know how effective rehab is for people who don’t go voluntarily?

The unfortunate reality of drug addiction is that even for people who want out it’s very hard. For people who don’t, it’s quite a lot harder. If there was a magic pill that cured addiction I think we might make different policy choices, but given that there isn’t I don’t see how your plan can really work.

You seem really intent in your comments on this post to conflate drug addiction and homelessness, which are overlapping but definitely separate issues.

Also, there are housing assistance programs for everyone who makes less than a certain amount of money, and I think everyone who advocates for more housing for the homeless would agree with more affordable housing in general. Mostly people who work in this space agree that housing costs are the primary driver of homelessness.

I don’t know how relevant this story is to the question of whether people who are homeless in California are from California.

In any case, the claim was made that the LAHSA data showed something which I found no evidence of, and in fact found that it showed something quite different. Lots of other data also suggest that a large majority of homeless do not come from other places.

If someone wants to share other data about this issue I’m happy to read it.

L.A.H.S.A.’s 2019 homeless count found that 64 percent of the 58,936 Los Angeles County residents experiencing homelessness had lived in the city for more than 10 years. Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless.

This is an often repeated and false claim.

Conflating homelessness with mental issues is as much a lack of real engagement on the issue as your critique of the OP.

Homelessness is primarily a function of housing costs, so I'd suggest the land value tax is a lot more relevant than you think.

I don't really understand the point you are making. "I'm not arguing for work requirements... But I don't think its insane to require people to work." So, you are in favor of work requirements then?

This article has an extremely click bait headline; it's entirely about one encampment and not at all about what the $17B is being spent on or any other aspect of the homelessness problem.

Nevertheless, one thing pointed out in this article is that some of the homeless do have jobs, so the issue of work requirements is not simple. And I think you need some evidence for your suggestion that anyone is being handed cash and spending 90% of it on drugs.

I think there's a small but growing group of people in the JS ecosystem that are beginning to explore a more "platform native" approach to front-end development, which removes the need for bundlers and transpilers and embraces the fairly capable feature set of most modern browsers.

As the OP points out, a lot of what happens now is an artifact of the history of how these things have developed, and about which things were prioritized over the years. Many of these choices made sense at the time but may no longer be necessary, and some things were definitely lost in the process.

When we were developing Cappuccino, which includes its own transpiled to JS language (possibly the first such general purpose language), one of our important goals was making sure the compiler could run in the browser itself so no external build tools were needed; everything worked just dragging index.html in the browser and writing code in <script> tags if you wanted. Security changes in how browsers handle file: URLs made this harder to do, but anything that simplifies the process of actually running code is very welcome.

They can, but that doesn't mean they are right. Controlled Digital Lending is not an "obvious" mistake, and contrary to what people on HN keep saying, the emergency library program is not what this case is about. It also does it seem to be the situation that their entire mission is at risk.

Are they really "directly destroying" anyone's livelihood? Are authors actually upset? [1][2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/author-coalition-bl... [2] https://www.authorsalliance.org/2021/08/17/library-lending-a...

Seems to me like the Internet Archive can determine for itself what it's job is, and they've determined that this is in fact part of their core mission.

Your perception that their purpose is solely to archive the Internet is at odds with their actual demonstrated activities for many years (the home page says: "Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more"), as well as their public mission statement: "Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge."

I've talked to the founder of the IA who told me he doesn't believe the lawsuit puts the IA at risk of having to shut down.

Are you designing for LLM to LLM communication, or do you still expect humans to understand and work with this language?

I totally agree. I loved that you could understand more or less the entire language's set of additions to C by reading one relatively short document.

JavaScript used to have the same appeal, before it started evolving. Despite the rough edges and some poor decisions, you could still grok the entire thing pretty quickly and appreciate how it works.

Of course, I have my own bias here, but it really did feel like they fit well together in Objective-J.

Or, the language has been stable since 2008.

I imagine it's as simple as employees own common stock and investors want preferred stock.

What would you propose changing for this specific issue? Would you still consider it broken if deno supports, e.g. `import * as flat from "https://mycustom.com/x/flat@0.0.15/mod.ts";`?

I'm not sure if the habit is because of the show or not, but I wanted to note for anyone who might be reading that "Detectorists" is a really charming British show that I highly recommend.

Byzantine is a bit much, but it's not particularly discoverable if you don't already know what you're looking for.

It's illegal in San Francisco

It's worth mentioning that the Inflation Reduction Act is now providing for substantial subsidies for purchasing heat pumps (and other home electrification projects).

Anyone doing the math today on a similar purchase should really check out how much they can get from the government: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator