skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know I was saying that in the context of gp asking if it’s legal to sign in Apple preview which is essentially appending a picture of your signature to a pdf with no guarantee from a third party if it’s you that signed it.
But the rope can't get steeper at a mast. This works well when there are no sharply increasing slopes at the hill.
On the one hand "don't add additional layer unless its clearly and instantly beneficial" is a good advice. You can do this at any point in time. On the other hand "allow people to use any feature on AWS they ask for" is a wrong reasoning. When you allow for this you get a ton of dependencies that are not requiered and in turn make your system hard to maintain and sometimes extremely cosly. Keeping your dependencies controlled is always a good advice. The real problem is how to do this without creating internal tools that become costly dependencies on their own.
This sounds lile really greay areas though. Can an employer claim the work of something done outside of work (as in paid) hours?
If the employer didn't retribute this time in the first place, can it be considered as being in the "course of the employment"?

This seems that if this kind of super generic statement will always go in the way of the employer, it would be a giant loophole to go any regulation on working hours.

In this specific case though we don't really know the details and maybe some of the work was done during working hours.
I was hopping for list of ideas, like what kind of investment give how much return, along with the risk:

- real-estate -?

- rent vs flipping

- pension funds - ?

- mutual funds - 5-8% annual?

- stock market -10%-20% over 10 years?

- bank savings 2%?

Strategies ?

Diversification ?
This might be more feasible-ish in a community effort?

I'm not entirely sure how the jigsaw system (the subsystem the game uses for building villages and bastions from a large palette of pre-builts using a set of rules and connectors) integrates with the custom world generator options, but that would seem the best bet for it in a vanilla game.

The problem with an "official" player creations is both vetting them and the social backlash because you didn't pick little Timmy's shack. As well as the disjointedness of theme that could occur with a player's playstyle.

I play a modpack. Create: Above & Beyond, they've added a bunch of new random structures to the game, but they're all within a similar theme of quasi-medieval for the surface structures, and a few of the underground ones stray a bit more modern.
This is either outright bullshit or a clumsy attempt at historical revisionism. Web2 didn't introduce technology that wasn't existing before. It was the unwashed masses flooding what had previously been a space of high SNR AND the big corporations seizing control (and terms like "web2" were used to that effect) in order to exploit the herd.

This is happening again now with the web3 fad. A new generation of gullible idiots and sociopaths to take them for a ride.
Then you could say every game (not "every" literally, but a lot of them) is always being updated. But "being updated" implies to nearly 100% of people you'd use that phrase to that it's the original vendor doing it, even if it were simply giving mods their public stamp of approval.
The snippets actually do the same thing, as long as you add a .findFirst() to the first example to make it valid Java code.

Intermediate stream operations like map or filter are always lazy. And .findFirst() is a short-circuiting terminal operation, that does not need to consume all stream elements.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base...
So what is the latest promising battery tech in 2021?

Are we going to see a decent factor density improvement over Lithium ion anytime soon?
Someone created https://github.com/ishandeveloper/github-wrapped last year which mimics it.

As far as I know GitHub itself doesn’t.
I was curious if the German Verbraucherzentrale (consumer center?) has info on this sort of thing. At least for the Amazon case, there is a template letter stating that Amazon isn’t legally allowed to deny you access to previously purchased goods. I know this topic has been discussed in other threads. I was just curious about the legal situation here, and apparently there is legal precedent from 2016.

(link in german)

https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/musterbriefe/digitale-wel...
I don’t think you read or understood the link you posted or my original comment?

You know I was saying that in the context of gp asking if it’s legal to sign in Apple preview which is essentially appending a picture of your signature to a pdf with no guarantee from a third party if it’s you that signed it.

I don’t know, maybe English is not your native language, in that case, you’re mistake is understandable.
> I don’t understand how a post-scarcity society would even be desirable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_vulture_and_the_little_gir...
Not nowadays. Nowadays theft is doing something like copying a file, or using a vpn to watch YouTube. Permanently depriving someone of something they paid for isn’t theft.
Instead of thinking about how we can teach our ML models to filter out the discrimination in human society, we should think how we can get rid of the discrimination in the first place.
But don't you keep the same IP as you roam by train? All you need is a way to whitelist your new IP easily (I created a website that has just a button for that), and wait less than 5 minutes that the server picks up the new list.
Lol, exactly
I really dislike this rose-tinted view of the past. Things in the 70s weren't great. Everyone stank because of all the polyester, and asbestos was still a thing. People say the cars looked good back then. Sure, but they were desperately unsafe.

Similarly, we might look back fondly at marquee tags, but my god early websites were an ugly affront to readability. I hated the spastic myspace pages. I really disliked Verdana and Times New Roman. We've got better fonts now, sharper, more colour-accurate displays. Fuck the early 90s. Make something cool that's modern! Technology allows us to create nice things. We can make something small, minimalistic, creative and self hosted, without such cheap attempts at nostalgia.
web1 was reading other people's content, web2 was about creating content and handing it to someone else to publish online, and web3 should be about retaining ownership of your own work. In theory, a web3 website could aggregate content produced by users while the users would be free to revoke the site's access, or they could move their content to a different site if they want, or they could delete it entirely. In a web3 world it should be the case that Reddit's access to content is by looking it up on a blockchain to publish, rather than claiming joint ownership of it.

This, obviously, assumes that you believe users retaining ownership of the content they make is a real and necessary benefit. I'm not sure about that yet. I don't really see why people need to.

Unfortunately however, regardless of whether web3 content ownership is a good thing or not, the current cohort of web3 businesses and evangelists seem more interested in shilling their own coins and many-thousands-of-dollars coding courses instead.
Practical sales tips (or “The psychology of selling” mini-summary)
Assuming for the moment that their claim is legally sound, what are the practical implications? The code is already published under an open-source license, with multiple other contributors to which they don't have an employment relationship...

Ownership would allow them to relicense the employees original contributions, but they'd still need to negotiate with or replace all code by other contributors, and they can't un-opensource the existing codebase, right?
Discord's join new server flow is super broken, not surprised it has these deep flaws.
If it somehow forgets your credentials, it is very unintuitive to login again.
Norway is a bit unusual in the way it handles ID. In many parts of the world (including the US & U.K.) the idea of central government holding an accessible database of everyone’s identifies, and mandating participation, is cultural and political suicide.

We can argue all day about whether or not this is a good idea. But ultimately, it’s red lines we’ve drawn in the ground, and we’ve decided the trade off (such as identity theft) is worth it. In the U.K. at least, two World Wars have taught us to be wary of central government databases. We’ve seen how they can be abused people in power seeking to persecute part of a population, and even now we’re seeing it again with the U.K.s governments persecution of migrants.

At least in the U.K. there are clear and simple guidelines for undoing the damage caused by identity theft. If a bank account or loan was opened in your name, the bank has to close it and write off any losses, and they should compensate you for the trouble. If the mess you around, there’s a number of Ombudsmen and regulators filled with people waiting to take the financial organisation to task and make them really regret their obstinance (I’ve been on the receiving end of their wrath, it’s not much fun).

All of this creates very strong incentive for banks to prevent identity theft in the U.K. Unfortunately US consumer protection is lacking in comparison.
> Web 2 allowed the public site users to generate/curate the content on the site.

This distinction only matters with centralized platform like AOL, Medium or Facebook though. Wikis existed long before big companies hijacked the web.
> It's striking how the guy goes out of his way to not be angry at Apple. Very interesting psychology. Stockholm syndrome or just begging the king for forgiveness?

What would getting angry accomplish?
Actually it does, unless you think government is the only entity that can restrict speech.
From memory, the original image/clip was taken directly from a Ghibli movie, "Whisper of the Heart", but following a copyright complaint, it was replaced with an original work that was the same style and subject matter (a girl with her cat studying in her room, with a nice view out the window).
The visuals are original since 2017.

But the music which streams live on YouTube for ages I have no idea. Could be AI generated, could be original, could be stolen. The music (elevator lofi trip hop) is streaming for years without any interruption.
Check. Your. Contracts. It is risky to do open source work without having a written agreement with your employer that exempts it.
The question the title asks can be answered with a single word: yes.
I think there was a small glacier when the lift was build 1982. So they didn't have a choice and suspended the mast. I suppose when the glacier melt away they lowered the mast. It's not the only skilift with suspended masts. I know of a skilift in Verbier with suspended masts.

And how to architect it: you need steep rock walls not farther than about 300 meters (not sure here, just from what I've seen). Then «just» hang the mast from ropes attached to the rock walls.

I am sure that the word «just» is wrong here as this needs complicated engineering and as in the mountains the weather is harsh you'll need solid and antifragile solutions, as well.
Weak states use terrorism.
Strong states respond with military force.
This is from memory, but here's what went down in Calif.

The accountant for the public pension funds gave the numbers for 6%, 7%, and 8% returns. Obviously the 8% annual return was the least likely to be sustainable.

To maintain favor from unions, 8% was selected by politicians. (Around 20%-22% of any population worldwide works for the state, so public unions easily capture their politicians.)

And here we are, with every city and county in Calif. headed off a cliff. (The only exception I'm aware of is Mountain View, which owns a business park that contributes 1/3 of city revenues. Some towns further north on the peninsula are complete basket cases, with some getting fleced in the 2008 meltdown.)

So if the accountant had just quietly omitted 8%, bk wouldn't be looming as certain as 7%.

A former San Jose mayor tried to reign in pensions, and was vilified for even trying.

The trope is, "Every town in California will have one city hall staffer to write checks, with 100% of town revenues going to public pension retirees."

One town accountant said, "I felt physically ill writing pension checks to a 39 yo healthy retired firefighter." because that check stream would go on until he was probably 100 yo, contributing to bk'ing the town.
The one thing that always stuns me is how in the hell did they (both Mojang and terrain pack creators) figure this out from math?

Like, it's perlin noise and a bunch of algorithms and it makes mountains and caves and overhangs that are all decorated and such and a river bleeding into a ravine that leads into a giant cave network.
There are plenty of theoretical physicists who live to old age. As far as I can see, they all become increasingly irrelevant as they age. Scientific obscurity is all but guaranteed at around 80 years old, despite some people publishing until well after that age.

It is quite a sad future that awaits.
This is still a problem :

> Finally, the USB Battery Charging spec enables a weirdly missing feature: a device plugged into a battery pack had no standard USB command it could issue that simply asked, “How much current can I draw?” Instead, different manufacturers came up with solutions that were not always compatible, limiting charging among certain devices.

It's not a proper power delivery standard until this issue is dealt with.

(Note that this also applies to other unreliable power sources.) Heck, even to the main house power : you can only draw 240W so many times before you trigger the circuit breaker...
I live in an area with an unreliable power grid — California.

My friend lives nearby and has a whole house generator. Uses it 2-5 times per year. It's funny at night when he's the only guy in the neighborhood with his lights on.

Runs on natural gas.
Not too bad as I have far more recourse than getting locked out of Apple or google.
> but Docker has kind of imploded and its Swarm project has been long dead

Is it? I mean, it's still there in docker and its setup instructions remain a lot more concise and simple than even the most "it's easy, really!" tutorials of k8s-related things tend to be.

It kind of seems like it's not so much dead as it exists, it does some things, and probably isn't going to be doing a lot more new things in the future but it's honestly pretty appealing when you go looking at things like this for 'simple' use cases.
You won’t be disappointed it’s a wonderful show. You can also check out the movie “The Prince of Egypt” if you want more. I love it during Christmas.
Decentralizing the hosting of the servers leads to a poor UX. In the past setting up your own IRC server was really confusing for the average user. With discord the process is much easier since they abstract away the complexity by hosting it for you. It's decentralized because there is no central discord server. A bunch of different people run their own discord server and you are free to choose whoever server you want provided you have an invite.
At its core, web3 is the idea that the web shouldn’t be free.
Show HN: Pytransform3d – A Python library for transformations in 3 dimensions
I'm sure there are people who see the building on their commute but weren't aware of the move; I wonder if something feels weird to them.
Don't underestimate the role of the human observer focusing and exploring the most interesting parts.
>permit yourself to be lazy

By not setting limits on my 'free play' I always find myself gravitating back to productivity because I engineered a life where my business is aligned with my core interests. Play time is critical to keep me fresh and up to date with the field as well as let me go down rabbit holes that often lead to innovation. But importantly, I genuinely feel refreshed!
They sold access to send or send/receive messages for use cases where customers would legitimately consent. E.G. a wireless Bluetooth accessory that wants to access and reply to SMS message content on Apple devices that Apple won't grant access to.

Still. It meant a very powerful API key had to be protected and never abused.

I can only imagine others obtain God SMS access like this with less than ethical intentions.
You likely broke some form of law (depending on the media and your jurisdiction) in the process.

While laws like the DMCA exist I don’t see the point in buying a film and ripping it, as I’m breaking the law just as much as not buying it and downloading it.
The point was, something is checking credentials.
Wikis existed long before the term "Web 2" was invented, "Web 2" wasn't about user generated content or "socializing", but simply a commercial land grab.
Sudan's forgotten pyramids risk being buried by_ sand dunes
Sudan (esp. Meroe, of the Kush) has shockingly unmissable pyramids-based monumental areas. «Beginning around 2500BC, Sudan’s ancient Nubian civilisation left behind more than 200 pyramids ... in addition to temples, tombs and royal burial chambers». Those in Giza are champions in size, but those around the south of the Nile are breathtaking gems.

But the topic is actually _desertification_.

That article of impressive images exemplifies the threat against monuments and constructions in general, but the issue is of course biological. The opportunity for this submission comes as a podcast just came out on The Conversation, "Soil [... is] the foundation of life and needs real care". Of course. Soil is the condition for vegetation, hence for animal nutrition. There seems to be no transcript for the podcast (though the The Conversation sometimes offers them). Its page: https://theconversation.com/soil-isnt-dirt-its-the-foundatio...

They have a page specific for the topic: https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/desertification-19970

and a more abundant search results page: https://theconversation.com/africa/search?q=desertification

here is the search results page for 'soil': https://theconversation.com/africa/search?q=soil

Of those linked articles about a fundamental topic (and strongly interesting engineering contexts), I would also like to highlight as an aside one (very recent) title for awareness: "Microplastics aren't just a problem for the ocean - they’re in our soils too", https://theconversation.com/microplastics-arent-just-a-probl...
...If your customer service team are sufficiently well staffed, trained and have escalation points. In the article the customer service team couldn't even read a decision made by 'The Back End Team'.
Such an anonymous mode would be damaging for GitHub because it needs to stay friendly with its commercial and corporate customers. Besides, such a mode only provides obfuscation, but no legal protection at all. In fact, lawyers would turn it around and claim that using that mode showed that the owner of a repo was aware that what they were doing was wrong.

Your idea would have a better chance of success as a separate platform dedicated to anonymous code hosting. But that in turn would likely attract bad actors, as usual.
Looks? Many people are conditioned to like the near death look of royalty through association with wealth and power. Does a defect in the observer's taste make the observed not bleed to death?

Anemias such as sickle cell and malaria are the text book example. Having two parents from the same area means high frequency of them having the same gene. The same sickle cell anemia gene makes one quarter of their children fully anemic and leaves one quarter unprotected from malaria. One such parent makes half of children protected and half unprotected.

Anyone can breed on the dominant traits of genes and talk about looks. Their results are defective because of recessive traits. Thus a first mutt with their line has much higher odds of being healthy even if it's other parent is also inbred. But two cross breeds from those same lines are going to be more likely to produce unhealthy offspring again when compared to fuller mutts.
I agree it is weird, but there is a Blob API so you don't strictly have to use a filename.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6454685/265521

And do you have a reference for the caching issue? I tried to Google it but all I found was people saying that web workers were cached too much, not that they aren't cached at all.
Dry your tears, then you might see better and see what the fuss is about.
This is something the EU is currently taking on with their Digital Markets Act, and the concept of digital gatekeepers.

I pretty sure (I haven’t been following too closely so it might have changed) the Act requires digital gatekeepers to provide human customer support, and provide clear explanations for moderation activity and account closure. Along with a clear appeals process.

In theory all of this should make it much easier for a normal person to appeal an account closure, and refer a company to a regulator, or sue them in court, if they fail to provide a fair appeal.
Re-thinking electronic mail
I've just checked before replying above, IP changes on every reconnect while being in the same room. It would be really bad usability with a whitelist. In my setup only 2FA cannot be saved in a browser, and login session is valid for a long time, so I do not have to re-login on every reconnect.
>think of commiting your code in the meta-verse or in VR using Apple Glass

How is that different from what I do today in my terminal?
The code is text. A delta of that text is uploaded to a repository.

"metaverse" is just a pretty marketing-term. Underneath, it's yet another I/O-device.

And btw. I have yet to see anything in VR, and I use my Quest2 almost daily, that could even come close to the efficiency and simplicity of writing code on a keyboard, and controlling software with commands typed into a terminal.
Between the proprietary plugs and USB-C, we had the dark ages of micro-USB which somehow always came loose after a few weeks of use
This isn’t just about the Westboro church. And yes, albeit less explicitly homophobic or such, there are a LOT of churches and movements in that style. Can find lots of street corners with someone preaching by guilt, telling you this is your last chance not to burn in hell, and indeed not at all following in Jesus’ footsteps.

American Christianity is gross. Megachurches are gross. It’s all capitalistic, a massive industry, and consistently knee deep in homophobia, misoginy and more. Everyone uses God as a way of justifying whatever shit they’re into. “Guns are my god given right! God is on my side!”. It is all the absolute opposite of what Christianity supposedly stands for. And just because some cute little hometown church in the south only has sweet old ladies and is super tight knit etc doesn’t mean this doesn’t apply at scale.
He said "most large". GitHub does not have 200M large projects on it.
Speaking of Judas, I think he was pretty great in Jesus Christ Superstar. They definitely managed to portray him as a sympathetic character who was doing what he thought was right.
Didn't we all do that as kids with the Mandelbrot set viewers? Just explore it to find some cool visualizations.. then zoom in and repeat %)
It took me a couple years to transfer all important online accounts to a new email, one by one. I feel free now.
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