skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you’re in standard time, the sun at noon is, in most places, right above your head—you’re really aligned. When you’re in your daylight saving time for eight months of the year, you’re an hour off, and you're getting not enough light in the morning and too much light at night.

This seeems silly. "Noon" is a made-up thing, there is nothing in your body that "knows" it's supposed to be when the sun is right over head -- which by the way will be an hour off anyway from the eastern to the western edge of a time zone. There is nothing in your body that says you have to start "work" at 9am.

In the winter, in most of the USA, certainly the northernmost half, you are getting not enough light in the morning AND zero light 'at night' either way -- there are only so many hours of light to go around no matter where you put the clock. In the summer, at the same locations, you're getting plenty of light in both morning and night.

Having grown up in Detroit area (western edge of timezone) and then lived in Chicago (eastern edge of next timezone over), that makes as much of a difference as DST does, does it mean that people in one of those places "things are just off-kilter" regardless of DST? Which one? Or both? If this guy thinks noon with sun directly overhead is so important, he should presumably be advocating for many more timezones, perhaps with 20 minute offsets? But that still wont' actually change "how much light" we get, the sun and the earth's physical relationship that effects how much light is in a given day at a given location and date doesn't care what the clock says.

> I personally am an advocate for permanent standard. The reason I am is because I look at light as really important for our well-being, our mood and our sleep. Getting enough light, especially in the winter, is critical.

I have lived in several places in the USA, in every one I both wake up and go to sleep in darkness in winter. So I am getting all the light there is to get, either way. No DST change would change that, unless you change it so it is getting light before I wake up or after I go to sleep! Now, how much light I can get when I'm not stuck inside during work hours can change -- but it's permanent DST that would maximize the light available when both awake and not during standard business hours, which is exactly why people like it, because they want to get more light when not at work.

There's lots to say about DST, but this professor seems to have some odd theories about the "natural" state of the completely socially constructed clock time.
What about onions? [0] Not an email provider, but AI enforcing TOS can go badly...

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/onions-...
With the MIT license you must still keep the copyright notice in the source files.

So no changing the license per say.
But no way from a binary to tell if this has been adhered to.
Double nitpick: it's Messerschmitt, not Messerschmidt!
>>> accessing your bank is the one time you would really want to use a VPN.

what makes you possibly think that?

using a VPN is the equivalent of walking into a bank with a motorcycle helmet or a bataclava, don't be surprised of the unwarm welcome.

I've worked in bank and fintech around fraud. Blocked quite a few VPN/hosting at the network level so they couldn't even reach our network at all.
> The author IMHO can relicense their code to whatever their like.

Assume it's true and consider what it can lead to. Person A writes code under GPL. Person B extends that code significantly, also under GPL. Person A relicenses his code to a closed source.

Now person B, of course, is the rightful owner of his own extensions, but they don't make sense without person A's code. So suddenly person B's work greatly decreases in value.

I'd assume it's not as simple as just relicensing one's own code; other contributions, depending on that, should be taken into account. Or you can't just relicense.
Maybe your goal is to stain your teeth, and you don't particularly appreciate the drug's effects/addiction.
In 1970 when these AML thresholds were set a dollar was tied to gold at $35/oz. So based on the gold price today it's actually:

$10,000 (1970) = $10,000 x 1880/35 = ~$537,000 (2020)
Thanks for the info. The extension is handy, but hardly essential. Removed.
This is why PHP deserves it's reputation. The state of the language is one thing, the state of the ecosystem surrounding the language is another.

Anecdotally speaking, the vast majority of PHP projects I've been exposed to have been horrific precisely because there's a laissez-faire or "get the job done at any cost" attitude to software development that's uniquely prevelant in these communities (this exists in all languages, but in my experience it's way worse and way more normalized within the PHP silo). The language improving will only be positive for new projects that are started today, or that have been maintained by dilligent and empathetic engineers. Often teams are not as united on this front as they should be.

I think using almost any other comparable language in 2020 (Python 3, Go, Typescript) is a better solution than starting a new project in PHP these days. I suspect the real reason many still reach for PHP first is because it is "easy" and PHP developers are ostensibly cheap and easy to replace. It's a false economy.
You're arguing a meta-point rather than the issue in question. That sexism, racism, and harassment is not uncommon enough and these are real issues that need real solutions.

Arguing about the meaning of words couldn't possibly be less to the point.
That’s pretty funny and might be a good reason for it being sunsetted.
How much work was put into this it's impressive!
Put on a "Make America Great Again" hat and walk through downtown Chicago, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, or Cambridge before or after election day 2016 (or 2020). Now, put on a "I'm With Her" or "Biden/Harris 2020" shirt and walk through Provo, Fort Worth, or Pensacola before or after election day. In which scenario are you more like to be yelled at and/or physically attacked?
AFAIU, the star being lensed was within the Milky Way, so they could establish some limits on the size of the lensing planet. The upper size bound in the paper is 2 earth masses.

(Jupiter mass does come up, but only in the context of a binary system - when ruling out that this planet is orbiting a star, they can only rule out a parent body larger than a few Jupiter masses.)
Very sad MSN Messenger did not open. This was still a hell of a nostalgia trip for me.
I think people can vote with their wallets/feet if they don’t approve of someone, it’s their right. I am not sure whether that constitutes cancel culture or not. However, there are cases where the cancelled is abused, sent death threats and such and this is absolutely a bad thing and should not happen. Also some people are ‘cancelled’ before the complete news breaks out or the whole picture emerges and in the end it turns out they were setup or completely innocent. That is a big problem and seems to be a part of the cancel culture. An example of a guy coaxed to do the ok sign, filmed and posted everywhere had his life ruined for no reason. That is not okay and we should do something to stop it
Definitely easier to get back a gone domain(unless I missed payment) than a gone gmail/other free account.
Indeed. He also worked as a life guard at the Portobello pool.
I’m sorry but this is in no way a fair characterization of his comments to Barbara Walters. It is specifically brought up in the context of slapping women, and he is quite obviously not talking about slapping in response being verbally abused, not at all. That is an attempt to completely whitewash what he said and the circumstances referring to his earlier quote from Playboy.

I am sickened to see this mental gymnastics and attempt to whitewash what he actually said. It’s absolutely misogynistic to try to reinvent the meaning of what he said so as to obfuscate the fact that gender played a dominant role in his suggestion and that it was specifically in reference to slapping women.
>Would a DMCA takedown from one of the authors be valid?

Well there's this: https://web.archive.org/web/20160726212936/https://github.co...
> All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.

IANAL, but this doesn't make much sense. Changing all lines that come from a single author can still result in a derivative work. In fact that even seems like a probable outcome, assuming that author's contributions were copyrightable in the first place.
> That has not been my experience

Sure, but this is not about personal experience, but rather about history. Maybe it just happened before your time? Also, please read my reply in context.

Pretty much every other language that's similar in purpose and popularity is provenly more stable regarding framework popularity than PHP.

Sure it feels great to bash Rust and Kubernetes or whatever like the GP poster did, but PHP suffered from the same problems until very recently, whereas Python, Ruby, Java and C# among others did not.

Even Javascript has been historically more stable in the backend than PHP: it's been pretty much just Express from almost the beginning, and other contenders never reached much popularity.
Is the novelty that it only works on certain filetypes, so is optimized for those?
> That said, that approach may piss off people as well. Imagine paying $50k for a Tesla, and only being able to get $30k when you sell it because you paid $20k for features that won't transfer over to the new owner. Even worse if your new car isn't a Tesla: that money would be lost.

There's an easy fix for that: add the option to transfer the Autopilot to another account. Then you can sell off the Autopilot as well.

Given, of course, Tesla being willing to allow that, or if not, sufficiently consumer-friendly legislation.
Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta’s performance from the sky with scary near-miss
https://www.tunetranscriber.com/

Accidentally ranked high on some slow down mp3 keywords and make a small bit of cash each month with no time spent.
>..."electricity from nuclear energy will be so cheap, it will be useless to install a meter in privates homes".

That was simply a statement from the head of the AEC at a meeting with science writers along with a lot of other bold statements about the future:

>...It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.

>...A later survey found dozens of statements from the period that suggested it was widely believed that nuclear energy would be more expensive than coal, at least in the foreseeable future.[6] James Ramey, who would later become the AEC Commissioner, noted: "Nobody took Strauss' statement very seriously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
> All car manufacturers sell products that can kill people.

Yes, that's exactly why most of them have much better QA than Tesla.
What about buying a house that is part of a HOA?
I like that people think that every major newsroom in the country can be involved in a politically motivated conspiracy to shape the narrative, but don't even bother to consider the possibility that a couple of overt Left-wing anti-Democratic-establishment political activists selling unverifiable stories. that exactly fits the ideology of their long-time overt activism might just be doing the same thing.

Sure, the universal mass-media conspiracy the Greenwald-Taibbi axis is pushing is more “shocking, if true” than the idea that they are doing the same kind of narrative-shaping that they are trying to point fingers elsewhere about. But it's not more likely to be true.
Please tell me how to send a 10k USD from US bank account to EU bank account for $23.46 or less. Transferwise is one of the cheapest and it costs $50 USD in fees.
Not sure what you mean about global variables. PHP 5 had the same scoping rules like it has now. You couldn't access global variables directly from anywhere but the toplevel execution context.
> After billions of years, I would expect all planets be attached (gravitationally) to a star, shouldn't they?

Planets are formed around stars, but some escape due to gravitational slingshotting etc.. Some of those might be caught again, but why would you think all are?
As someone who works on open source AGPL'd products it is pretty obvious to me what is going on. He has someone sniffing around to buy the entirety of the intellectual property. He wants to cash out.
Borland dragging their feet on 64 bit support helped me win quite a few customers from one of my competitors.
So I have a problem with this. So his worldview differs from your own, even promotes a little violence against women. You never had to date him so what does his views on that have anything to do with you? Or anything to do with his work? I'm a supporter of social issues, but social justice advocates who dismiss someone's life's work because of their beliefs is a shallow, hypocritical, human being. So you don't have to like the guy. That's really only your problem. Stop trying to make it everyone else's. The guy was stuck in 1950s style misogyny, HE WAS JAMES BOND! His character was that to the extreme. But to take what someone said once, and forever label them that is wrong, immoral, and is completely unempathetic.
You’re asking for evidence that can’t possibly exist yet. They’ve only had the FSD beta out for a week, and only for a tiny subset of the fleet. It takes time to accumulate accurate stats and publish them. According to the NHTSA, there is one accident for every 479,000 miles driven. For Teslas with automatic safety features disabled (no AEB), the accident rate is 1/3rd the NHTSA average.[1] They’ll need tens or hundreds of millions of miles driven to get accurate safety figures.

1. https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Welcome to Don't Be Evil :)
Thanks, I see that in the paper now - I didn't get further than the abstract :)
If you have to supply your own less-apologetic paraphrase ("sorry you feel offended"), rather than quote any such constructions in the actual text, is that really a fair reading?

Other than the apparently-magic word 'sorry', your suggested wording doesn't address most of the specific asks of ~btilly's complaint above. (Don't worry, his proposed rewording didn't, either!) Perhaps, because it's exactly tuned to what you saw as worst about his treatment, it'd adequate for you. But not necessarily for any others demanding more groveling.

It's also not consistent with the NumFOCUS committee's substantive position, which is not that they had prematurely concluded anything, but rather that they had erroneously communicated that they'd concluded something. That's a salient difference, even though the two errors look the same from Howard's perspective! (The two distinct failures would require different internal correctives, too.) You wouldn't want a public apology to lie about the actual internal errors identified just to be extra-palatable to third parties, would you?

So, don't quit your day job to specialize in public apology writing just yet!

And to entertain that idea of professionally-improved apologies a bit a more, realize that in certain situations, no matter how good the apology, or how well it hits certain notes, some on the warpath will always want X% more, & be able to find specific faults.

Short & emphatic, as per your (& ~btilly's) rewrites? "Wasn't specific enough, too patronizing."

Detailed with even a whiff of actual analysis as to the real org/psych reasons for an error? "Not empathetic enough, making excuses, rationalizing the behavior".

Long enough to include all of the emotional cloying, and the exhaustive victim's-viewpoint confession of sins, and promises for changes? "Tone-deaf, insincere because if they really believed this they couldn't have made the error in the 1st place, seems over-wordsmithed." (But also: risks setting unrealistic expectations for the future.)
Same. I reread it at least once a year.
I'm very skeptical of any diet related advice based on studying mice. Mouse metabolism is very different from human metabolism.. Fasting a mouse for 24 hours will result in a fairly large loss of body mass. Fasting a person for 24 hours will result in a pound or two of weight loss.

I'm not against doing these kinds of studies on mice but the only conclusion you can really get is that we should do longer studies on animals that are closer to humans or on humans themselves.
Not necessarily if you are in possession of your own keys. Which admittedly most people today are not. A hardware wallet can be physically transported in the same way gold can.
Someone is going to ask for a wavelength soon, so get ready to calibrate for 450–485 nm :)
I agree with you. As a counterpoint though, I worked somewhere that generated some of the heaviest and biggest reports of anywhere I’ve ever seen with a lot of concurrency and PHP handled the task fine. Node would have still been a better fit though :)
Apple does not charge for OS upgrades.
What a bad thing to do.
Automatic emergency braking also has false positives.
Uhm, no. No single factor, but the USA going into an arms race with the USSR combined with the USA in association with Saudia Arabia tanking world oil prices played significant roles in the demise of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc.
Thank you for answering. My apologies for not engaging previously with your answer.

I agree that computation is likely a better model than string theory. However I have the humility to not insist that reality must match any set of concepts that I have.

In particular in this case results like the ones discussed at https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3827 and https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372 say that quantum mechanical systems can perform operations in ways that are different from and fundamentally impossible for classical computers. Therefore it seems likely to me that classical computing is going to break down pretty hard as a model for how things really work.
If you wrote most of the code yourself and received only minor contributions (which is common for most OS projects) it is possible to remove those contributions and rewrite them, legally it would be hard to challenge.

We almost had to do this once for our own proprietary codebase as we discovered during due diligence that we didn't have a proper copyright transfer agreement from several of our interns. Fortunately we were able to resolve this with them (by paying them some extra money to sign a CLA), if it wouldn't have worked we would've removed and rewritten the code instead. It's silly but legally it's doable.

Of course this strategy doesn't work if a large part of your codebase originates from third-party contributors, but from my experience Github projects receive mostly small/cosmetic PRs from non-core developers (not saying that those contributions are not valuable btw).
It's only proselytising if it's Christian. All other worldviews get a free pass :)
Even if that is true now, it certainly wasn't always true. When did Java add its trust store, and when did Windows and Debian and Solaris?

There's also a consistency issue --- write once, run everywhere doesn't work if you need to resign your webstart program based on the OS you're running on.
Mainstream media occasionally conforms to reality.
> Bitcoin is a terrible savings vehicle for the same reason cash in checking accounts or collectibles are: there is no basis for its value.

10 years is a long time to hold an erroneous belief based on a misunderstanding of what money and assets are. I had the same wrong beliefs as you do now for a long time and misallocated capital at a crucial moment. Parker Lewis explains[0]:

> [Bitcoin] is backed by the only thing that backs any form of money: the credibility of its monetary properties. Money is not a collective hallucination nor merely a belief system.

An interpretation:

Money is an emergent property of human cooperation to allocate capital, labour, and limited resources. (i.e. economics). Productivity is the use of time and energy in the satisfaction of human preferences.

What are the properties a money, be it gold, cowrie shells, baseball cards, nudes, exploits, fiat currency (legal tender), must strive to meet for humans to recognise it as "a money": durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply (scarcity), and acceptability. [1]

Incidentally, if you pick up a US dollar bill, you'll see the inscription: "this note is legal tender, for all debts public and private." Therefore, that note derives its value from the implicit debt underlying it. That debt is based on some person's labour in the creation of a product or delivery of a service.

[0] https://unchained-capital.com/blog/bitcoin-is-not-backed-by-...
[1]: https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/economic-lowdown-podcas...
Requiring a functional programming approach when you teach makes your life much easier. I teach a computationally-intensive course for advanced economics PhD students. These days I have them think carefully through their problem, set up a recursion, and make one call to reduce. The vast majority of problems fit into this framework. I no longer have to work my way through 500-line monsters that look like entries in an obfuscated Perl competition. I read a few lines of code, I know exactly what it does, and I get on with my life.
This is brilliant. Do you think it will be possible to have abstraction layers that can be commonly used by everyone?
Like dependencies/modules that can be imported and tweaked on giving them parameters.
That was literally the teams uniting over politics and burning the city down.

Bread and circuses was a state policy in the Empire for a reason.
They climb and they fall, that’s how it’s always been and probably won’t change anytime soon. The Overton window is sliding a bit faster and characters who did questionable things get in the spotlight in their lifetime not a few centuries later. That is okay as long as it doesn’t degenerate into violence, but that is easier said than done
> it is relevant to acknowledge the portions of someone's legacy that aren't clean

For sure. I think this gets complicated, especially in the middle of heated discussions or on the internet, when this stuff is brought up ad-hominem. Or close enough. It's why I don't want to bring anger into this discussion and create another pro/anti divide, because we're all going to see it different ways.

I challenge anyone to come up with a person who was a squeaky clean legacy. I contend that it is impossible, because the goalposts for 'cleanliness' change as the times do.
The pathway is a DMCA takedown notice. It's rarely appropriate, but this is the time for it.
Next step: pneumatic fast-change arm!

https://youtu.be/G9ZdMgCMsV4?t=23

...with gigantic magazines!

https://youtu.be/oTz2P5RaoDk?t=427
Home Depot signs lease to take over 120k-SF space in New York City
If you have received any contributions, no matter how small, then you are no longer the sole author.

All copyright holders must agree in order to relicense unless all such holders signed a contributor license agreement which signs over all rights to the original author, and as multiple contributions have been made.

Every single contributor must be contacted, and they must all agree.

(Also, of course note that relicensing does not invalidate previous licenses - if I have a copy from when it was under AGPL, then nothing will ever change that.)
> Assuming they could even find an interested prosecutor/attorney which is rather unlikely

It would be a civil matter, so prosecutors would not be involved.

Finding an attorney isn't hard assuming you are willing to pay for one.
Video of Sean Connery justifying hitting women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38