skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but as I understand it, it's not legal in the UK, EU or California (but it doesn't take much for a company to be able to claim the IP - using a company laptop or a company subscription to a journal, for example, would easily push it over the edge)
This is tricky. There is one sense of "spare time" which concerns output - you aren't always expected to be working. But salaried knowledge workers are commonly considered to have no "spare time" in an intellectual sense, especially when it comes to overlap with the company's core competencies.

This is obviously controversial for individual contributors, but it's well established in IP precedent. It's why you can't work at Google and develop a competing product in your off hours, even if it's "on your own time" and on your own equipment.
tl;dr:

"Here are some binary operators for a certain notion of specification and some very good examples of why these are not sufficient to express some obvious specs we would like to express."

But:

As others have noted: The given notion of composition is to restricted. The central shortcomming, as indicated in the article, seems to be that the individual parts need to be reintegrated into a new whole. Binary operators can obviously not do this.

Candidates for a compositional calculus that should be able to deal with this are operadic composition via wiring diagrams and comprehension expressions interpreted via arrows (here, the final return/yield is used to reintegrate the individual parts).
Basically like Singapore HDB apartments. Unfortunately, no western countries able to that well due to lack of political will that some Asian countries gained through lesser democratic freedom. Essentially those that shit themselves in rent affordability gets what they deserve from years and years of voting pattern.
More likely this was a "show up at a forward base and visit the troops" type thing and the other guys got their hands on his itinerary and a) dumped a bunch of mortars on his general location b) threw every available asset at said forward base and overwhelmed it.
> And for x years after leaving the company belonged to them

This is the even more crazy part. They continue to own you after no longer paying you.
The Powell Memo (1971)
in my social circle, the number one reason why families leave the city is the abysmal public school system.

That is true. If my daughter hadn't gotten into a good charter school in the city, I wonder if we hadn't looked a lot harder at moving. However after we did eventually hop over the county line my daughter still 'commutes' back into the city because she doesn't want to change schools.
Can't really use it in Firefox on Windows, the drum track isn't synced to the synths.
> Nvidia don’t need ARM in-house to be successful. They already are.

You keep saying this, but this still does not match the reality that Nvidia has bid a lot of money for ARM.

So there must be something "in" for them that makes it worth it for them to pay 40 billion dollars.

The claim that this deal will be a disaster for ARM is IMO equivalent to saying that "killing ARM is worth 40 billion dollars to NVIDIA".

That makes no sense, at all. The only reason ARM is worth 40 billion dollars is because of its users. If ARM loses its user base, it is worth as much as MIPS or OpenPOWER (aka 0 dollars).

Also, if ARM loses its user base, NVIDIA ARM CPUs become worthless.

I have a hard time believing that, after investing 15 years of R&D into their own ARM CPUs and finally shipping serious ARM CPUs to market, NVIDIA would pay 40 billions to make that all worthless.
And yet there are plenty of videos like this...
https://youtu.be/VS5zQKXHdpM?t=93

My guess would be Tesla makes the driver detection relatively simple to defeat compared to what they could enforce if they wanted.
Yeah, American cities are actively hostile to young families. It doesn’t have to be this way. I lived in Japan for several years and it seems like a much healthier urban environment for children and their parents. But in the US, it’s hard to justify in most cases the cons of living in dense urban area with young kids, even if you as an adult would enjoy it more.
I strongly feel that for computer vision to take the next step, it needs to work on a predictive basis, using directed sampling and disentangled semantic priors, etc.

That would mean that before percepts are updated and available for applications (with knowledge like depth), a lot of information, not just the current frame, has already been integrated. Information such as previous frames, common shapes or surfaces, objects, the current full scene model, etc. That will make the system significantly more efficient and robust. And also enable things like true video understanding including the 3d structure of scenes.

Definitely easier said than done of course.
i thought it was related to the old hotdog code editor. think i used that to learn html back in the early noughties.. better, simpler days - i really miss them.
What's the alternative? You need a place to live. I guess you can rent but that is constantly increasing and you get 0 equity out of it
There is some bullshit that goes on here though. Many companies do not have a contract that you sign and consent to, they just try to back door it as fungible company policy - like the way social media companies get you to agree to new privacy policy and terms by your continued use.

Many companies put these IP and non-competition clauses into bonus award agreements. By accepting a bonus you agree to a bunch of terms and that’s where consideration comes in and makes it a real contract and legal. I have less of a problem with this arrangement than the back door approach.
I learned about Gopher at the same time I learned about the World Wide Web, in a kids book about Cyberspace in 1996 or so (I was a six year old!).

It’s been fun revisiting it as an adult!
The thing I feel is missing is: Why?

Why would IBM care that an employee spend free time working on something. Can they be held legally responsible or something? I can understand that if it's with normal working hours that they would like IBM to get the credit associated with a commit to the Linux kernel. That seems reasonable, given that they effectively bought that persons time.

Also, is it only because he committed code to something related to IBM? Could he have submitted patches to other unrelated parts of the kernel, without using his IBM email?
It's not just security. There's incompatible dependencies. Virtualization allows you to run Windows and Linux on the same server, 40 different C libraries with potentially incompatible ABIs, across X time zones and Y locales, and they'll all work.

You can provide the same level of replication and separation of dependencies in an OS, but at a certain point you're just creating the same thing as a hypervisor and calling it an OS and the distinction becomes academic.
20 years ago, I heard people online saying they were running their cat5e cable in conduits for ease of upgrading. Reasonable enough, after the 10-megabit to 100-megabit to 1-gigabit upgrades of the preceding decade.

Not once, since then, have I heard of any of them pulling new cables.
With Bitcoin surging again & NFTs in the news there have been more stories on the energy requirements needed to drive these blockchain based systems. This is a great paper that really puts it into perspective.

"energy consumed by Chinese Bitcoin blockchain in 2024 will exceed the energy consumption level of Italy and Saudi Arabia"
It sounds like you and your clients need to learn more about modern JS bundling techniques. Making a waterfall of requests can be okay in development but should never ship to production.
Wouldn’t this be akin to a military based government?
Prostitution makes all those involved highly likely to contract STDs and that's a public health issue. It's also unquestionable hard science that the more sexual encounters you have the higher your risk of contracting an STD and spreading it to others is no matter how safe you are.

Are you willing to pay for law enforcement to make sure prostitutes and johns get STD tests before and between each encounter (and make sure they don't have any other sexual encounters after their tests)?

I'd wager most people try to skirt such enforcement and it becomes expensive and leads to increases in STDs amongst the public.
> any small town worth actually moving to

This is the crux of the matter. There is a lot of demand for less humid, mountainous regions with lots of outdoor recreation nearby. And it’s easier than ever to scope (due to internet) out the nice locations from wherever you are in the world.

So people are taking advantage (or already have) of an arbitrage opportunity to go where they want to that they previously may not have known about, or been able to go. The population of the world also exploded in the last few decades.
It's true but they also have a reasonable set of processes for open sourcing things. I have been through various forms of it a few times and never had problems getting permission.

I can understand both points of view, but I imagine from Google's standpoint: they do an incredibly large number of things, "working hours" are often a pretty nebulous concept in the world of software development, and simple accidental leaks could lead to bad litigation situations or critical IP leakage.
> I’m not sure why people sign these things though...

Two reasons actually:

1. Companies actually need those agreements because it's how copyright works [0].

2. Capitalism - companies have leverage.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
JitBit: Screen Sharing
New England generally as well as the rest of the Appalachians to the south generally don't have water issues.
I'll admit to not knowing the details, but dissolving parliament and putting the old guard's son in charge sounds like more of the old guard, but with more power.
Part of it is increased size of properties. And increased regulation. But I wonder what are we doing as civilization if the building materials aren't cheaper. Why haven't we gained significant efficiency gains there? Labour really should be in inflation though...
If it weren't legal I could go and say "oh, I invented that algorithm in the morning in the shower, sorry company not yours" Creative work, software development isn't like factory work, where you switch off the assembly line and are done.

The complicated part is to find the right balance. Company lawyers will by default be more protective over the company.
They have a legal department and you don’t though right, so if they chose to fight it you’ll probably decide it’s not worth it.
That’s like the point.
This is more like if the police come to search your house, and find that you've burned it down, or you've barricaded yourself inside with guns and hostages.

But, let's assume for the sake of argument that your analogy is the correct one. You know where they assume that if you don't let the police search your house, or if you don't answer police questions, you must be guilty? China.

So, we can just as easily judge the Chinese government by another heuristic: The Golden Rule
User experience affects the security of mobile money platforms
> It should be legal.

It should be if consideration is provided.

I do think there's an argument to be made whether the base salary counts as consideration for things outside of the defined working hours though.
Then the Battle of Agincourt happens and you lose something like 1/2 of all of your leaders. Then your status as a world power is lost forever.

Besides, I don't think anyone wants a government based on military service today. Military is important, but not as important as say, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, technology, engineering, or a myriad of other government services today.

I'd rather have more government officials who know the details of building road projects or high speed fiber. Or heck, maybe a few web designer politicians so that official government websites actually work
I got pulled over driving through rural Missouri in December for speeding (something like 77 in a 65). I was pretty surprised to be pulled over, but I had out-of-state plates so figured I was just being picked on for an easy ticket.

The police officer was polite enough, but he asked me to sit in the front seat of the police car while he ran the papers, since it was cold out. Now obviously, I know my rights, and could easily have said "No, I'd like to stay in the car". But from everything I've learned from routine encounters with the police, being compliant and friendly is the recipe to getting out quick. So I agreed, got out of my car, and got into the police car's front seat. Nothing about it was particularly aggressive or intimidating, but I almost had a panic attack in the police car because of how weird and uncomfortable it was, and that the officer was not wearing a mask at all.
The Economist never uses bylines. Everything is written by “the Economist”.
The Treasure Valley is awful close to OR which has plentiful options. WY proximity to CO mostly the same. Most probably are not swayed either way on this issue when moving to these states but when all the neighbors are offering options and are disadvantageous to live in, people will make ID or WY work to get the best of both.

See living/working in WA and shopping in OR for tax advantages as a similar analogy.
> In the critical first weeks of the pandemic, Beijing suppressed essential information and prevented World Health Organization investigators from entering the country.

> ...

> Second, the Chinese equivalent of our CDC tested 41 species in the market and to date no intermediary species carrying the virus capable of transmitting the virus to humans has been identified.

If you don't trust the Chinese government, why do you take their evidence against a competing theory at face value? Shouldn't they protect equally their research institutions, their meat markets, their public health authorities, and anybody else who might have committed a serious mistake?

Of course, reading not very much between the lines, this piece looks like an attack by some right-wing clique with accounts to settle against Anthony Fauci, prominently noted as supporting the animal market hypothesis and having funded WIV coronavirus research; propaganda for a semi-smart audience.
I thought California had a law - on your own time with your own tools, it belongs to you. Worked that way 20 years ago anyway.
Last year I moved from a top 3 city to a small mountain town in Colorado. In my experience, your hostility is extremely common in small towns that have big seasonal influxes. I continue to be amazed by the overt disdain long-time locals have for second home owners and relatively newer full-time residents. The one constant is: "Everything was great until shortly after I relocated here and you people moved in." A week doesn't go by here where a long-time resident doesn't write an op-ed for our tiny newspaper with this exact message, and delusional descriptions of how their once-great town is now a hellscape.
Or because they don't want to live in a giant anthill?

They are not obliged give any piece of their land to the people who want to live there. It's in their interest to fight to preserve local communities and local businesses, putting obstacles to the "nomads" and corporations.
I'm aware. I was using it as an expression for how binary a lot of people assume urban vs. rural is.
What about the baker baking at home and then selling his cake? Selling it to potential/ex customers of the bakery?
A popular way to do it wrong is to use summary statistics that regularly emit a quantile, for example don't collect the p90 from every server every minute. That discards far too much information. Instead, collect the CDF of service times. CDFs can be combined in a lossless way, and they carry their own denominators. Basically if you are using the typical Prometheus setup, you should be getting the right data.

To go to the next level I would suggest also emitting the sum and sum of squares, which will make your summary statistic far more useful.
The analogy is a little fraught. If a baker bakes at home it's ostensibly not for public consumption. If you work at IBM you could literally code at home too.

This is more like a baker baking things at home, and giving them away for free under their own shingle. That still lacks the nuance of software scalability and licensing but it's a little closer.
More sex, higher income? How to tell the diff between correlation and causation
I built this partially because I often found myself wanting to use jq with toml or yaml data, or converting toml or yaml files into a more widely ingestable format

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
I am currently working on a project attempting to achieve something like this called Valar (https://valar.dev). It's still quite experimental and in private beta, but feel free to take a look and put yourself on the waiting list. I'm targeting small, private projects so it's not really suited for full-on production workloads yet.

The core of it is a serverless system that shrinks workload quotas while running them (similar to the Google Autopilot system). This way you don't have to rewrite your entire codebase into lambdas and the end user can save a lot of costs by only specifying a resource cap (but probably using a lot less, therefore paying less).
On the contrary, turn 2.4 way up, and only use one channel on one AP, not mesh. Then 3 homes can co-exist.

By contrast, for 5 GHz, turn it to minimum and use one AP per room with wired (Ethernet or MOCA not Powerline) backhaul, and ideally APs with smart DFS.
Churchill had to be talked out of attending the D-Day Landings by King George VI - apparently he thought it unfair that if he couldn't attend the landings (which he wanted to do) then Churchill shouldn't be doing it either.

Edit: Out by one error for monarch
This is the pure definition of NIMBYism. You built a house there eight years ago that has increased 6x in value. Now others are trying to do the same thing and you demonize them for it. You should be complaining about state policy, not the people seeking a better life for themselves.
>Right, but remember that censorship isn't just bad because it silences truth-tellers. It is also bad because it can amplify falsehoods.

True.

>Your sarcasm is ambiguous. Perhaps you mean that it's unlikely that all the topics your discussing are conspiracy theories. Perhaps you meant that they are all true and are all being painted as conspiracy theories. Perhaps you meant something in between.

I think a third option of 'I dont have a clue.' It sure sounds fishy that these are so established as at least something that should be discussed? That the fishy factor is making me think there's actually truth to it.

>The irony is that to me that kind of hedging and sarcasm starts to smell a lot like conspiracy theory rhetoric.

What did I ever say or assert? I provided links which are hilarious. The story possibly had absolutely nothing to do with covid19.

Do you believe in coincidences? To this degree? Why is discussion about this immediately shot down as conspiracy theories? Why cant we discuss these things?
They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War
This is such an awful idea, I love it.
Thirty years ago I went from self-taught programmer to working for a 10,000 ppl company almost overnight. Turned out to be a great thing, and I bet you will do great also. My one pithy bit of advice for Big Company work: try to stand out, and fit in, at the same time.
Notation wise and officially it is a loop. But the tuning is a compromise. Hence some sounds are not harmonised that way using the current scale. There is a reason why well-tempered clavier tuning is still a bit of debate. You may have to tune fir some songs differently in those days. Hence assume all flat and sharp are equal is a bit too pure that might not exist n the real world.
This guy's stuff is next level, wow.

The top level site vitling.xyz has a large set of complete executed concepts like this. Unbelievably cool.
So, does the light in the refrigerator really go off when you close the door?
Generative Adversarial Networks and Some of GAN Applications
Ask HN: Resurrection of Jesus Evidence?
Hey Uplevel,

I'm trying to understand why someone who I consider to be one on the smartest people on the planet believes in the bodily resurrection of Christ? Specifically that Jesus was murdered and brought back to life.

Peter Thiel interview video source (2min):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JXuMQphVPyKVY5nVOgnmiOCaKWmR68Ob

What evidence is there?

The best I evidence can come up with the sheer amount of time which this narrative has survived. The second is that for a person with such a message of peace and love to be murdered says something deeply troubling about humanity.

I've heard claims that there were dozen of historically-verified accounts of different groups of people who had confirmed seeing him alive after he was put to death, but I cannot find any actual sources on this.

What evidence am I missing?
Others have already suggested that your best bet is access points connected by copper.

Ethernet is the most obvious choice, but it might be a lot of hassle to run Ethernet through the walls or attic or basement and add outlets everywhere you need them.

If you don't mind visible cables, running along the top of walls can work. Here's part of the Ethernet cable that is connecting opposite ends of my house and also speaker cable for on of my rear channels [1]. Ugly, but since when I'm indoors I look down a lot more than I look up, I'm fine with it.

Powerline networking has also been mentioned.

One more alternative to consider is MoCA [2], which is an option if your house is wired for cable TV. The easiest way to think of MoCA is that it is like powerline networking except instead of running Ethernet over your power lines, it runs Ethernet over your cable TV lines. A typical MoCA adapter has two coax ports and one Ethernet port.

You hook up one MoCA adapter at your cable modem between the modem and the wall using the two coax ports on the adapter, and hook up the adapter's Ethernet port to an Ethernet port on the modem. (If you don't have cable internet, same instructions except you only need one of the coax ports on the adapter, and the Ethernet port gets hooked up to your DSL or fiber or Starlink or whatever modem).

Then anywhere else in the house that you want Ethernet and have a coax outlet you hook up another MoCA adapter to the outlet via one of the coax ports on the adapter. The MoCA adapters do their magic, and that Ethernet port is logically on the same Ethernet as your cable modem. You can use the other coax port on that adapter to hook up another coax device, like a cable TV box.

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/uZ0VvtM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Alliance
I do not think that’s actually enforceable though.
To be fair, they should have the right to say you can't work on our project as a hobby. They did at least make an effort to say this was related to just VNIC.
No one is willing to buy it. Think of Detroit, old towns build on single factory, mining towns. In quite many places like those there is minimal demand.
If the employee works in a similar area within the company then there is no defense against copyright infringement in IBMs commercial product(s).

Every IBM software engineer knows this and is inculcated annually. IBM basically doesn't care what you're doing unless there is a clear legal reason, at which point the company will move heaven and earth.
How is it with Prolog practitioners, did it make 'click' at some point where you then suddenly approached problems differently or was it more of a slow change where you incorporated more and more ideas from Prolog in your daily work until you realized that you got it?
To me, the end goal is to be able to procedurally generate live Grateful Dead (fair amount of training data) and Sphongle (not as much, but fairly repetitive).