skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the 105 page opinion [0], here is the relevant statement of law:

> A creditor of another or one having a lien on another’s property who has received from a third person any benefit in discharge of the debt or lien, is under no duty to make restitution therefor, although the discharge was given by mistake of the transferor as to his interests or duties, if the transferee made no misrepresentation and did not have notice of the transferor’s mistake. RESTATEMENT (FIRST) OF RESTITUTION § 14(1) (Am. Law Inst. 1937).

(Note: The ALI Restatements are not law per se. This section, however, was explicitly adopted by the New York Court of Appeals in a prior case. Here, the federal court applies this law because it is the relevant law of New York.)

[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.542310... at p. 36.
works for me (latest Firefox on Fedora with proprietary nvidia drivers...)
How, without information on the "real" world, could you make a determination as to the fidelity of the simulation? Heck, a simulation doesn't even have to attempt to have the same natural laws as its host reality.

If you're on an emulated x86, and you know a lot about x86 architecture, you may detect that you're on an emulator. But if all you get is information on the one single instance you're running on right now, no references, no documentation, no comparison with bare metal... at that point what's the difference?
> So are you claiming Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri have experience state wide blackouts similar to those found in Texas in recent days?

Yes. That grid operator did have to implement EEA3 load shedding (rolling blackouts). However, I should note that the Texas rolling blackout seemed to go wrong when they tried to bring locations back online.
Yes, of course. Shopkit is E-ink's devkit sales. They'd never undercut their own distributors. It would be like expecting Samsung to be selling LCD screens at a lower price to mom and pop buyers than to Apple.
No...it's designed to be an OLAP database.
Some people have much more impressive skylines than mine. Like https://skyline.github.com/torvalds/2020
I guess, to some extent. If Uber figures out that drivers are currently participating in a mini-strike, they could just not increase the fare. But then it's just a matter of who's willing to wait it out longer. I just think drivers have a better chance at getting Uber to capitulate eventually and increase the fare if drivers act collectively.

And it's good that drivers are trying to do this organically, but I think there's value in doing this systematically and an easy to use anonymous way. Like if I wanted to participate in this at the Regan National, where do I sign up? Probably some group chat somewhere that I first have to chat-up one of the other drivers for.

I guess I want someone to make an app to monetize and gamify collective bargaining. If you want to skim 1-2% off the top or show me some dumb ads, sure. As long as you can squeeze that sweet VC lemon (or the rider) and make me more in the processes, it's all good.
> Mining trashes the environment and, for the majority of crypto assets/volumes, does not provide genuinely valuable economic activity besides speculation

I've actually been wondering about this -- are there any major ones that meaningfully provide other kinds of value for all of the computational resources they're using?

My understanding of blockchain as a concept is pretty surface-level, so maybe I'm just missing something obvious here. But at least at first glance, it kind of baffles me that so many of them are using seemingly arbitrary hash algorithms to calculate proof of work, when they could instead be tied to distributed projects -- folding@home, for instance -- and measuring actual work.
I'd start with your boss. Say something like "You know, I like working on this team, and working for you. But I'm kind of bored. The work isn't challenging me very much. Do you have anything a bit harder for me to work on?"

Note well: This presumes that your boss won't use this against you. If you have reason to suspect otherwise, don't follow this advice.
Wife is a pharmacist, can confirm this is true. In school she worked for a chain where everything IT related was done on an awful MSDOS program- she would get calls from other pharmacists asking how to do something and I would hear her walking them through "hit ctrl-F12 then hit tab three times now enter the furble and then return then tab twice more and enter the gurble" and it sounded terrible. But if you had built up the muscle memory, you could do whatever needed to be done while being polite on the phone to an irate doctor who was super pissed that you were questioning their judgement in an effort to save the patient $300. Their new system was an internal web app that didn't do any of that.

Sometimes, a core job of IT is eating all the pain of using the old technology that the users already know so they can go do their job and the company can achieve its objectives.
Estados Unidos Not EU
All of that is irrelevant to the argument that wind wins because it’s simpler, which is what I was trying to engage with.
Okay, does Visa offer distributed consensus and verifiable transactions with no central trusted authority? Then it's an apples to oranges comparison isn't it...?

By the same logic, trucks are useless and inefficient because my moped burns 1/100th of the fuel per km.

> This is not something that can be solved with current crypto approaches. There are information theory constraints regarding how long it would take to reach consensus across a distributed system and in such a way that transactions are serializable.

This is demonstrably false. Newer-generation coins offer better tps, and even bitcoin itself can manage due to things like segwit and lightning.
I welcome a better explanation for the phenomena. AFAIK we've been trying to come up with one for a long time. A brain floating in a nutrient tube and experiencing extremely high fidelity VR you would also claim that table and bubble gum exist. But from perspective of outside observer the only thing that is real is brain in a vat belief that table and bubble gum are real. You are right that solipsism is not the best example, I should have used Descartes Demon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon

The overarching point, is that I think it does not matter if we are in simulation as long as it is self-consistent. For the sake of argument, let's assume the world is deterministic. This will allow us to construct two scenarios. One is a real person living and dying in a 'real world'... the other one is a brain in a vat living the same simulated life. Both of their subjective experiences are identical, even if you randomly swapped them they would not notice.

Based on the above thought experiment, I think it does not really matter if we are in simulation.

Some counter arguments:
* But the world is not deterministic! What if things are better in the 'real' world. Sure, but what if they are worse? There is already a wide disparity in this world. Some people live in post-scarcity society and others don't know if they will eat tomorrow. Even if we are in simulation, I would argue average external world experience would fall somewhere on the spectrum we have.

* But what if whoever runs the simulation decides to shut down the simulation. This is honestly one of the most benign rapid ending of the world I can imagine. Other events that could cause termination of human species would cause far more suffering. This would be global pandemic wiping out everyone, all out nuclear war, massive meteor or other white sky event... Just as well as shutting down the simulation beings that run it could choose to prevent one of other world ending event from happening. So I think this one is also a wash.
I cite articles and books that I think will help my readers understand the issues under discussion. As much as I hate some publishers, I'd do a disservice to my readers if I failed to tell them about something that could help them in their work. Limiting the scope of journals to which I submit articles makes sense. Limiting the scope of journals I cite does not.
The technical issues are not confined to Texas, but it is Texas politicians who are leading the politicization that you object to.
Was involved in early PowerQuery while it was still part of Excel. PowerBI was fun to work on. I got to learn angular (the good and bad parts).
Clickhouse is not something you use for a CRUD backend.

The obsession with Clickhouse is the phenomenal performance for the OLAP use case, a scenario where there were not many open source, easy to install and maintain options. For the most part you can treat it as a “normal” database, insert data into it and query it without messing about with file format conversions and so on.
The fact that it is blindingly fast is a big bonus!
The monster math was "1/(planck time value from Wikipedia)"
I haven't been to Austin but I've only ever heard good things about it's art & culture, dining, and entertainment.
I can see how you may read it that way, but I did not state that the US does not have any social safety nets - that would be as you pointed out, obviously false. To re-iterate, my point was that the US lacks very expansive social safety nets such as those present in Nordic countries, some of which were enumerated by cambalache. Were the US to adopt some of those policies, perhaps the minimum wage would be less important.
Hahahahaha, oh this is rich. BTW The Verge has the TALLEST cookie consent banner I ever saw in my life, luckily the uBlock Origin zapper's just a click away.
It's a travesty that there's no UI for something so basic in 2021, that it can only be done by manually editing the URL like a barbarian.

Truly a blast from the past, but not in a good way.

Not the first time that GitHub has hidden features behind URL editing...
A bright-line rule like "It is unlawful to exceed 65MPH in any vehicle on Highway 101" has a pretty narrow meaning and could be concretely decomposed sufficient for the average human to understand. I think you are right to point out that standards such as "It is unlawful to exceed 65MPH in any vehicle on Highway 101 unless it is reasonable under the circumstances" break down into many more concepts (what is reasonable?) and therefore seem like there is not a fixed point to decompose the text. In that case, lawyers look to precedent, among other sources, to get guidance on how the rule plays out in a sufficient number of contexts to determine the threshold of reasonability to properly analogize to new circumstances.

I did not intend to argue against deep meaning as an approach categorically. Sorry if I gave off that impression. I think the right approach would include a combination of deep meaning and frequently updated fixed references. Regarding how that plays out on novel v. boilerplate language would be an interesting follow-up. Boilerplate language seems to favor authorities more than novel language, but there are a lot of hypotheticals to consider.

Consider boilerplate language in a Privacy Policy that reads that “The Company stores your data and aggregates your data with data from multiple users to make inferences of users habits and may from time to time sell that data to 3rd parties.” In 2007 that might have meant that Google figured out that you and Jane both like M&Ms and sells chocolate companies your craving data. But what if Garmin recorded your GPS data and that of your friend who sleeps on your couch on Fridays, sold your data to a 3rd party who then mailed you wedding planning cards with your faces in it? The reference table, unless prospectively updated with new hypotheticals, would be challenged to explain that hypothetical. Would deep meaning fair better? I can think of a few ways of how it could.
Mapquest was a whole business, a growing, going concern.
moving billions of dollars daily with csv, tsv fixed-width files and sftp. /s
YES! I hope so if only to feel like I am back in the scene for just a moment. Miss those days. Maybe they can mod the VBIOS to show the crack group's logo on bootup just like how old VGA cards would show some company text before handing off to the PC.
It's totally possible to have both: on first init, have the user choose whether they want to prevent installing apps from 3rd party stores. Changing this setting requires performing a factory reset.

Problem solved. If you want the walled garden, opt in at the beginning, and now your children/grandmother are safe as long as they don't literally reset their phone, wiping all their pictures/apps/whatever.
In one of the previous threads about Mars missions, one of the comments was how we have gotten to the ability of "land it close enough, and we'll drive the rest of the way". Seems pretty accurate for this mission.
> had they allowed more innovation in the space.

This has already been covered repeatedly. There's no "had they allowed". The problem is physics! Please read about electrophoresis. It is pigment particles moving physically in a fluid! If you make them move fast then they're not going to be stable. You can look at the past 20 years of electrophoretic products and you'll see that there's been pretty much 0 improvement in speed. Startups like Clearink even gave up on bistability meaning they decided we don't need the pigment to stick, we'll just continuously refresh it like LCD and look how the investor and consumer market treated them.

Again, this "had they allowed more innovation" seems to be coming from people who have little to no knowledge of the industry.
I wonder if you could block unknown DoH endpoints via traffic analysis. They probably have pretty unique signatures, with every request/response being approximately the same size.

Not that I want to give anyone ideas.
According to ERCOT in 2019/2020 there were 80 facilities checked for the requirements. Some did fail and were rechecked in November. There were plans, however it seems that the plans weren't built for sub zero temperatures.
Which is a much healthier reaction than blaming the poor employee that changed that config file.
Fusion is 30 years away, not 10. Always has been.
I've said similar things to my manager a couple of times. He didn't react badly but he basically said he couldn't help me; if I wanted to do something else/something more challenging I'd need to switch teams. Unfortunately I don't feel super qualified for many of the teams that seem more challenging at my company (but maybe I should just take the leap anyway).
GA in general bends over backwards for corporate rights at the expense of the commons. It's probably one of their biggest issues holding them back economically these days IMO as someone who grew up in GA.
Mayors of Madison, Miami, Austin make their pitch to tech companies and talent
>"Artificial lighting saves land because plants can be grown above each other, but if the electricity for the lighting comes from solar panels, then the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels"

Seems disingenuous.

1) Solar panels can take up space in areas not useable for farming, like areas with too little water and too much sun.

2) Wind energy is moving offshore taking no space from farming at all.
It is estimated that the carbon footprint of a single Bitcoin transaction is 660 lbs of CO2 (not a typo), equivalent to that of 670,000 VISA transactions.
I am a finance guy... majored in it, worked at Merrill Lynch, and spent the last year building a trading program. I think mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, etc. actually greatly damage economic growth. Generally all of those finance activities serve to prematurely remove founders from leadership and take skin out of the game.
If someone can draw a circle on a piece of paper they can do it on a computer. The only difference is that we start you practicing doing it on paper in preschool.
How is LSD or MDMA a plant?
> everyone’s just typing with much more force than necessary and driving the keys all the way down to the backplate on every press

After getting a mechanical with high force keys (80g) and learned to type without bottoming out I find with every key press you get a bounce back, a bit of energy that sustains typing. It's like tiptoeing on a trampoline.

One other thing I like about mechs is that you get to feel the center of the keys, as they have a small depression in the middle. this helps align hands to the buttons and reduces mistyping. Flat and crowded laptop keys bad with centering.
This somehow reminds me of [That Alien Message][0] from Less Wrong. Worth a read!

[0]:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
(Mux co-founder here) The Postgres system described as the predecessor to Clickhouse here actually was cstore_fdw with a pretty heavily customized (and outdated ) CitusDB. CitusDB is a great system for sharding and distributing postgres, but we found that the compression and query performance for this specific analytics use case was much better served by Clickhouse.
Yes, you did. Per the comment you replied to:

> As per ERCOT's status page, both of the high-voltage DC ties between Texas are currently operating at >99% of their rated capacity

So as of that comment, either the amount of power available on the other side was equal to >99% of capacity, or it was greater than capacity.

The situation has changed now and neighboring states have had to drop the amount provided to interconnects, but as of the earlier comment, more interconnects would have helped.

Your turn to try again I suppose
> I have been amazed, and also disappointed, by the amount of people that want this to be the fault of “stupid conservative Texas” and absolutely refuse to even entertain the idea that anything other than “Texas is dumb” could have been a contributor.

In my opinion this is the result of a mentality that sees the government as the obvious solution to problems, so when you see problems existing in a place where people seem to have a different philosophy of government, its clearly the fault of those morons who don’t realize that all problems can be solved by sufficient application of government force.

> if we actually want to fix things we need to stop playing these ridiculous partisan games and be honest with ourselves with the full picture of issues.

Some people actually do want to fix things on some level, but they are quite confident in their understanding of the problem and they believe that the indicated solution is clear, and anyone who doesn’t agree with them is either stupid, or evil, or both. So they’re unwilling to abandon what they see as a perfectly correct solution because a bunch of evil morons want to argue about “unintended consequences” or “agent-principal problems.”

Other people are more interested in signaling their ideological alignment with the above, and the object level issue provides them with opportunities to signal.
Another one here, it is in Catalan but with subtitles in english. Minute 18 is where it is explained although I think is worth it to watch all of it

https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/quequicom/tempus-fugit-sub...
Django is optimizing for the 99.99% of people rather than the 0.01% of people who manage billions of rows on a single table. I like SQLAchemy, but for most people the added cost of managing connections, transactions, have to decide whether to use the 'ORM' or not, manually having to 'commit' changes, eager-loading vs. lazy-loading, is a complete waste of time if all they want is a website that will be used by - at best - a couple hundred people concurrently.
How did you induce it?
Right? At this point why would you even design the system to carry anything other than IPv6 natively? You can always get IPv4 via a tunnel if needed.
So you are in fact claiming Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri are experiencing the same 'extreme weather' blackouts as those currently going on in Texas.

For example Texas has seen millions people with out power for days, millions people with no running water for days, people dying because of the cold.

And the exact same think is going on in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri but no one is reporting on this in the news or on social media?

I think not.
> Why does Airbnb need a "tech hub?"

To agree on different grounds;

They had some remote employees before; have had some remote employees (awkwardly, as an exception while promoting remote work), and will have been all remote for 1.5 years by August.

Will this actually hire jobs in the area? Or is it going to be a reserve office for occasional team building events that is located near a major airport.
I'm with you, but then so is "owning" land, etc.
You want inform 7.

http://inform7.com/
I've written a MacOS kernel extension. The API is a underdocumented mess. I understand why they would want to remove it, even it is just to eliminate the API burden, but, that means the last resort to add functionality that Apple hasn't deemed appropriate is closed off.

That's truly unfortunate.
There are operating systems specifically made to allow for tinkering with the internals. Mac OS, and Windows are not among these. Over time, each has allowed the user to control fewer aspects of the system. And there's nothing the users can do to stop it. What are they going to do, switch to Linux or BSD? Hah. Anybody who hasn't bailed already is stuck forever with their platform of choice, I would say.
I'm not saying anything bad about the landing. It was a great feat. I just find the chanting often done in US videos disgusting.
Why did you write any of this? Nothing factual, all conjecture. It’s as if you don’t know anything about the situation at all and still chose to write hundreds of words on it in multiple replies. I know my reply isn’t in the HN spirit but I’m not going to debate nonsense either.
Actually, NASA uses metric system internally. Imperial units are probably used for general public convenience.
The water and sewage pipes work due to gravity and pumps and aren’t addressable. You pump a bunch of water to a water tank above everything else and then let it flow down. The water just blindly flows down.

The water pipe leading to your house is very narrow (0.5 or 0.75 inches). The sewer pipe is bigger but you aren’t going to fit a big package through it. Tree roots growing through sewer pipes is a constant problem.

The roads are a form of a pipe. It just happens to be above ground and for people and general goods. A tunnel is just a pipe.

The automation of package delivery sounds nice but is orthogonal to pipes. You can probably accomplish that with automated delivery vehicles who can dock to a port on your house. No need for packaging.