skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that. "in the course of employement" is used for various things. For example, if you get injured "in the course of employement", would that include if you fall from your bike on a sunday ride? I don't think so. So I believe it naturally exclude work that you do on your own time, in your house, on your computer.
Waterman Butterfly Projection
You know, it really baffles me how these things can operate safely with the general population. No way for the operator to keep track of the whole thing and thus no way to stop in an emergency, countless ways to injure yourself or others, yet there seems to be hardly any regulation for them (given the laughably sorry state some of them are in) and apparently not that many injuries either.

Compare that to most household products with a thousand warning labels for things that are common sense and/or completely harmless. Like do idiots not go skiing or something?
For awhile I insisted that all cryptocurrencies were bullshit and also Ponzi schemes, but given how many people take pleasure in buying them, selling them, and talking about them, I've come round to viewing them as a kind of in-game currency, with the game being a bit like those role-playing games that you play in your neighborhood while interacting with the real world. Anyone who grew up playing some variation of Assassin, especially the multi-day assassin games where you and your friends were still playing even when you went to school, and occasionally you had to tell teachers "I don't want to run this message to the main office because I think my friend Jim has a plan to get me if I go there." Much laughter.

Cryptocurrencies are starting to feel like that, a massive game that people take pleasure in. Nothing wrong with that. I've enjoyed real-world role-playing games, so I don't want to judge anyone else who is into such things.

Is it crazy to make a game currency your main form of investment? Maybe, but not automatically. You should, of course, invest in a diversified portfolio, but if you want to go long on this particular kind of game, it might pay off huge in the end.

I recall when I was a child me and my friends played Dungeons and Dragons -- long running campaigns that went on for years. One of the parents of my friends was upset by this and said it wasn't really a game because it didn't end and nobody could be declared a winner. I'm afraid my initial reaction to cryptocurrencies was similar, not seeing it as a game and rejecting it as not being real.

Of course, a big difference is that we insisted Dungeons and Dragons was a game, whereas the proponents of cryptocurrencies continue to insist that this is not a game. Some make some variation of the argument "there is so much money in this, it's too big to be a game" but that's an incorrect understanding of a game. There is a lot of money in esports, but we are still talking about games.

I've come round to accepting that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. I no longer consider them Ponzi schemes, I do regard them as a kind of play activity, one that deliberately tries to blue the line between play and non-play. To the extent that they enable certain kinds of criminal activity, they become real and can be used in non-play contexts. But mostly, this is a kind of play that some people find pleasure in, and there is no point in berating them for it.
Elon Musk Uses the 85% Rule to Help Staff Increase Productivity with Less Energy
i suppose if your inbox auto-replied with an ACK you could just instantly repay the postage
That is interesting. It's basically "Big Corporate Giant Hires Paramilitary Firm to Terrorize Private Citizens". That seems like it should have been all over the news. I'd never heard about it, and it's all more than a year old.
So… busybox?
Github repo is not the original repository either. It's usually just a mirror of the developer's repository, which is the original one.
the ultimate spoke location is a grid system with hubs every block, and a larger grid with express stoos every few blocks, with a still larger grid... no city in the world comes close to the population to support that.

Mass transport is a compromise to serve the masses well, but there are always losers in the compromise. Residential to residential is general the hardest to serve because other land uses value the easier to get to places far more.

There are many different cities with different constraints. They have pick different answers to the compromise. South Korea, France, Japan, and Switzerland just to name 4 very different systems that are fairly good. Each have things to learn from each other.
Show HN: Parse Kindle's Notes (a.k.a. My Clippings.txt)
> 70% of font-size declarations are in pixels.

And all websites must be either scale up or down.
Basically all Chinese cities are equivalent to US counties.

It's not commonly known, but yeah, anything about a Chinese city should be compared to stats about a US Metro Area to make any sense.
This move says to me that Lego, like many companies today, doesn’t want to position itself in the market as a mere purveyor of a good or service, but rather as a “lifestyle brand.”

They don’t want customers buying Lego stuff just for the enjoyment it provides, but because they are a “Lego person” and it’s part of their identity. Makes for stronger brand loyalty and promotes brand advocacy.
> Web 2 was the idea of user generated content and commenting etc

I keep hearing that, but that's been the thrust of the web from well before the term "web 2" ever left anyone's lips.
I have thought about this a lot. I think it basically comes down to your domain. It’s okay to let someone else host things for you. To retain control you just have to keep your domain you are using for important things secure.
A slight tangent, but I sometimes wonder how 'humanoid' any potential intelligent alien species must be, if they exist. Some science fiction writers depict alien species as quite morphologically similar to humans – Romulans and Klingons in Star Trek – or radically different – Hutts in Star Wars, Hanars and Krogans in Mass Effect. If you take a quick look at "Star Wars alien species" or "Mass Effect alien species", most of the differences imagined by writers are around the head shape, and the overall distribution of muscle mass around the rest of the body. So most alien species you meet in pop sci fi is 90% identical to humans, with a different head. Human heads in this sense are pretty basic. We don't have a leku like Twi'leks, ridged foreheads like Klingons, long necks and slender frames like Kaminoans, a small ring of horns and skin patterns like Zabraks, or scalp-crests like Asari.

But if we did, would these traits ever go away? Would human evolution eventually "revert" us back to our present form? Because something tells me that we wouldn't, and the selection process would basically say "good enough". In other words, the reason we don't look like Asari or Twi'leks is probably pure luck, and the reason alien species may look the way they do (again, if they exist) is also pure luck. But they probably share some of the general characteristics of humanoids, such as limbs not necessary for motion and with opposable fingers, a head separate from the rest of the body, etc.
This seems like a recreation of Cubeworld, which unfortunately seems pretty much dead now (but the developer disappeared for years at a time in the past too, so who knows). Too bad they changed a lot of the systems that made the game great for the Steam release.

https://picroma.com/
With how pervasive and ubiquitous these big tech services are in our lives, and how purchases are toed to these accounts without any way to backup or export these purchases, I hope there will be a kind of law to eventually force transparency when a major change is done on an account, and to minimize the impact when an irreversible change is made, as well as having a clear and direct support line to at least settle the issue.

For example, it's not right that you access to the entire Google account and the stored files and emails if you let's say spammed on YouTube and got your account suspended there.

If you shared files illegally too many times on Google Drive, lock the storage in read-only and disable the ability to share (example).

And
TL;DW: Most ski lifts use a clamp that attaches to the side of the rope, allowing the rope to have rollers pass on the top, bottom, and other side, but not the side with the clamp. This means you can't make tight turns towards the side with the clamp.

Instead of making a thinner clamp that can go through the rollers as I would have expected, they used two ropes with a hinge from which the "seat" (t-bar) hangs. That way, they can put either the left or the right rope on top, causing the "clamp" part to be on the left/right accordingly, allowing turns in both directions.
> Mind you, if many people have the same attitude as you, the hiring people may actually make the change happen forcing the people in charge to approve a variant of the contract without that clause and offer it to the ones who complain but are otherwise excellent candidates. But this is not a quick and easy process.

I agree with the rest of your post, and I think this is the most important part: if enough people do it, than it's likely that a change will happen. If no one ever bothers to complain, nothing will ever change.
Not to mention racist as hell.

Singapore is a paradise for privileged expats who want a nanny state to enforce their special status.
The problem isn't needing to change card partners, it's not having (not having negotiated?) a 1+ year period where already-issued cards will continue to work. Having a year or more to gradually change cards the next time I buy something from each merchant would be a minor inconvenience. In the best case, it would be 2+ years and by then, it would hardly be a concern at all.

Privacy.com's mistake wasn't needing to change issuers; as you said, that's unavoidable. Rather, it was forcing customers to cut over existing cards in 3 weeks, then lying to customers by pretending this was an upgrade rather than something required by their issuer.
> It’s almost as if there’s “sizes” of uncomputability much the same as there are distinct sizes of infinity.

There is, isn't there? A TM plus an oracle can solve the halting problem for the original TM but is just as susceptible to a halting problem of its own, and this goes on ad infinitum.
The part that blows my mind is that according to this article, the idea that we evolved in a straight line was an attempt at fighting nazi propaganda about inferior races. Before ww2, the scientific consensus was that we evolved in a branching species rich manner, same as any other animal.

By 1963 it was again okay to talk about multiple hominid species, so the scientific consensus started moving back in that direction.

I find this fascinating because I never realized science could be so political.

More interestingly still, when the author talks about species being mis-identified as homo sapiens despite stark morphological differences and that they probably represent an extinct close relative, that gave me a funny gut feeling. Felt like dangerous territory to talk about …

Fascinating
In an earlier role (tech support) they had a clause like that, and I pointed it out and said I wasn't happy with that. They asked me to still start the following Monday and promised to get back to me about the contract ASAP. They never did, so I ended up working for them for 2 1/2 years without signing a contract... I guess different companies have different priorities...
I have “retired” (but not out of choice -no one wants to hire us “olds” -I stopped looking at 56).

These days, I work harder than ever, for far better quality product, than I ever did, when a corporate drone. I don’t make a dime; but it’s never been about the money, for me.

I really love designing and shipping product. There’s a special joy that comes from architecting and finally delivering a complete software project. I consider it a craft, and take great pride in my craftsmanship.

Personally, I think it’s absolutely insane for corporations to deliberately ignore and insult folks like me. I was quite upset, when I first ran into it, but, upon reflection, I have to admit that it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.

If my hand had not been forced, I would have kept on working, making other people money, and never having the joy that I experience, every day.

Definitely worth it. Would buy again.
Blueprint: A New Way to Craft User Interfaces
"The value of the stock is relative to the performance of the company"

This is one of the big lies.
> Last year Uber dropped considerably when it's IPO got out of the gate.

Some exchanges or other cryptocurrency businesses fizzle out.

Bitcoin price gets hit on world stability news.

> The main mistake of your argument is trying to compare something with tangible value with schemes driven by speculation and fear of missing out.

People have no idea what TSLA is planning on doing besides "cool car", and ape into the stock because of FOMO. Address this?
Read the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw and bell hooks - they clearly define the difference between “am Black” vs “happen to be black”.

Why do I have to do the work for you when you can’t be bothered to be aware of the world you live in?
Reading a book of that title on the Polynesians:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40536236-sea-people

* https://www.npr.org/2019/03/13/702505578/sea-people-examines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending
Btw, it would probably be more fun and true to the Lego spirit if they did the furniture with real Lego bricks instead of this kitschy thing that looks like advertisement: just a big pack of default 2×8 lego bricks (monochrome or duotone?) and some extra pieces for the functional details…

These things are not beautiful and are not fun… basically they are anti-Lego.
> And still not a single example of a good real world use case.

I think the real world use case is to try to make money from zeroes and ones on a blockchain.

And I'm not being flippant. The problem with "code as law" is that it isn't established law and your investments can be vaporized in an instant with no recourse.
I've said this in another comment but it bears repeating, and perhaps repeating in different ways.

Stamps are just tokens, as in bearer tokens. How you get stamps is a different issue. Let me give you a couple of examples how one might do stamps without cryptocurrency:

1. Alice, "I'd like 100 Bob stamps please." Bob: "Please pay me $5"

2. Alice, "I'd like 100 Bob stamps please." Bob: "Can you please do some computational work on my behalf?"

3. Alice: "I'd like 100 Bob stamps please." Bob: "How will you pay for them?"
Alice: "I could trade in 30 Carol stamps, would that work?" Bob: "Yes, let's trade Carol stamps for Bob stamps."

As for Apple Sign-In, I don't know what it is, so I can't speak to it.
Web3 or what is meant by it is just a database in the form of a blockchain. Nothing else.
And to interact with this database, you still need a centralized server.
This is the main problem, having solved which, I believe, we could reach a new level. If browsers could communicate directly with the blockchain, bypassing centralized servers, this would take the technology to a new level.
Over here in the Netherlands the regulator claims >99.99% uptime (ie downtime slightly less than an hour per year), but I think they're being a bit modest since I can't remember a single outage in my area in the last 5 years. (Though perhaps they measure country wide in which case it might be "only" 4 nines.
Personally I don't have any hopes of such a feat at a big company but I can't stand to think it's not possible to have this anywhere.

From past interviews I've seen smaller companies are willing to compromises and are reasonable in their demands, but a real example of something that already exists and is in effect goes a long way to show you're not being overly pretentious (like I've been "accused" by previous managers before). Reason why I'm searching for what people actually have in their contracts right now.
> People sometimes forget to ask the question: If humans and Neanderthals actually crossed paths as often as molecular anthropologists claim—which is not supported by archaeological or paleontological evidence—would they have recognized each other as potential mates? I don’t think so: They looked too different. Even present-day hunter-gatherer groups have been observed to engage in violence when they encounter each other.

Ok for the "looks" part, but violence is really not counter-evidence of interbreeding. Systematic rape is an ordinary part of war, and it would of course produce offsprings (biology permitting).
Brilliant idea! this is the web3.0 which should be focused on.
Yes, but you also have to be careful about many people having initials only for their bank account name, such as my friend who is in South India.
It'd be cheaper to pay off politicians to get rid of the ability for the gatekeepers to gatekeep.

And fuck it if this is what it takes to get rid of the gatekeepers I'm all for it.
I am happy as it is right now. Use Linux for most things, if I need to play a Windows only game I just launch virt-manager/qemu

Very smooth, and all malware gaming related is inside the box not messing my data and work

Windows has its market. And Linux development continues full force. And people use whatever they like
Firefox is down to 8 % desktop marketshare, from 14 % in 2017
> As much as we might like to believe the claim, rinse aid isn’t just a money grab for detergent companies.

I was once one of the people that dismissed the need for rinse aid, but I've become a convert! It's especially noticeable on glasses -- you can immediately see the difference -- but everything gets cleaner.
In china you were more than "fined"

Friend's mum was spayed or whatever as punishment for giving birth to twins.

Mind you in the 80s they were straight up executing couples who did swinging.
In fairness, the net result of this exchange is still something like, "Disneyland gives you a free hamburger." And by hamburger I mean "tank" or something.

Well that, and the hamburger vendor buys a big house in the DC metro area. And everybody else's ticket prices go up a little.

But still, draw a control volume, and it's just hamburgers flowing out.
I mainly use TensorFlow on AWS, with or without GPUs. I would like to read a reference for Gravitron, etc. support for TensorFlow.
Show HN: Open-source and simple store locator
But then again, you can now buy one (or more) "expensive" brand-name USB-C cables that will pretty much work with everything. The expensive Lenovo charger and cable will probably not fry the cheap junk you may have lying around. And it's still a win, you don't have to carry / find that one particular cable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29431272
Ironically, the worst part of web3 is that everything that calls itself that, such as web3.js and metamask, are web based.

> The web is decentralized

I know you just want to throw in the invalid "look at me I'm an old school hacker" definition that can't be argued with, but it isn't. To serve content, it has to be hosted somewhere, and that place must be a single entity, and it must have infinite money to replicate the content for infinite users. On freenet or torrent, this isn't the case. Then there are also the other 700 ways the web is centralized...
Hi everybody!

My friend Sag and I have been working on Mapzy since April 2021, and finally made enough progress to publicly launch it.

Mapzy is a store locator and allows you to easily add locations along with a description and opening times to a map, and then embed that map in your own website.

We came up with the idea when I was still making and selling plant-based cheese. We had a couple of restaurants and grocery stores that sold our cheese, and I was looking for an affordable and simple store locator to display the locations on our website. It turned out that most store locators are either expensive and overloaded with features or look outdated.

That’s how Mapzy was born. We focus on a simple set of features (more to come!) and offer a solid experience at a fair price. Furthermore, we try to be as privacy-friendly as possible. We don’t track any PII, but we still have to use Mapbox which unfortunately tracks some PII (not too bad, much better than Google Maps).

Mapzy is open-source and can be self-hosted for free. Our hosted pricing starts at $9/month, which includes adding up to 20 locations to your map.

Mapzy is a Ruby on Rails application. We also have some Stimulus and Turbo in there. Futhermore, we use the ever-aweseome Tailwind library. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.

Our focus now will be on developing more features and getting the word about Mapzy out.

Learn more on https://mapzy.io

Looking forward to your feedback and questions.

Cheers
Can and Sag
It's an economics problem then. They'd send less spam but they'd be paid more for each mail sent.
I would assume real and that the 'obviouslyfake' part means that the username is not their real one, otherwise we risk reading too much into it not unlike depression itself.
If you were to take an introductory economics course the first day would prove you wrong. Resouce scarcity combined with increasing demand means prices go up. It most certainly applies when all currencies are designed to operate in the same way because they then move in concert and there is no alternative to counter this.
> It'll never be a perfect system. But overall we shouldn't under-estimate the impacts of the wealth transfer [2] created by BTC, ETH, etc, to the hands of young and tech-believed optimists.

The wealth transfer is through ponzi schemes, shit coin pumping, and luck. There's no new merit here--instead of lucking out and making a fortune because you majored in finance, you lucked out and majored / are interested in computer science at an opportune time and place. The systemic issues still exist, and the same class of people are still benefiting.

Framing this as the money is going to tech bros instead of finance bros, like that was a quality we wanted in the system, is hilarious. Please recognize your own bias.

(Not you directly, but the people who are justifying this after the fact)
Man, that webcomic was supremely thoughless - no willingness to engage at all with the text, unlike Life of Brian.

That passage appears in the context of Jesus and his disciples making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate Passa, which takes place in April. Just after the fig tree incident comes the purification of the temple.

Everyone who has a fig tree in the garden knows that some varieties bear an early crop, which is what Jesus was hoping to find. And no one swears at trees, as the webcomic helpfully points out.

The only possible interpretation is that that tree wasn't a fruit tree at all but some random wild tree from the fig genus that doesn't bear edible fruit. The Jesus that appears in the gospels is averse to showy and thoughtless practice, and this is yet another instance.
Are you saying that permanently locking legitimate people out of their accounts is acceptable collateral damage just to make fraud a bit more difficult?
It would be nice if people could just talk about technical blockchain stuff without the most upvotes comment every time being a wholly unrelated tangent about how cryptocurrencies are useless.
I agree they’re useless, I just also find the tech interesting and find the copypaste comments in every thread pretty tiresome. Currently 2/3 top-level comments have nothing to do with TFA
Although some stocks have pyramidal like behaviors, these are generally considered fraudulent and collapse in the long run.

Legitimate stocks are expected to be backed by the efficient creation of valuable products or services the company can sell at a profit. These profits are distributed to stock holders as dividends or reinvested in growing the profit potential. The value of a stock crucially stems from the rights to the future profits they give their holders. Legitimate stocks are not just about giving the money of late buyers of stocks to early buyers of stock.