skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar situation with my current job, but with a happy ending. The contract was "standard" but others who also read it thoroughly had the same issue with broad, overreaching clauses that essentially attempt to claim complete IP ownership of everything the employee ever touched. The directors were very reasonable and understood my concerns, we eventually managed to remove or reword all of the offending parts.

The origins of these clauses appeared to be entirely from third party lawyers, probably derived from some boilerplate contract. I presume their priority is to maximise legal "protection" for the company at all cost... even if it drives employees away, so it's not necessarily something the company explicitly asked for. Whether or not you are able to push back against them probably has more to do with the company culture and whether the leaders or hiring managers are sympathetic to developers and how the FOSS world really works.

I think this is probably true for most small companies, that it's incidental and intended for protection... but obviously in this case Bumble seem to actively be exploiting these clauses for gain rather than protection.
It's hardly a binary thing, people put a lot of time into becoming good at games to the point where they can almost compete with pro players. Switching to a new game is a major setback in that regard.
Does a code review provide the necessary time for someone unfamiliar with the code base to understand all of the business logic that will be affected and where this new addition sits within that hierarchy? Code reviews have never seemed contextually rich to me.
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I love gaming as much as the next person - I spent most of my teens playing Half Life and the like.

I have a genuine question as I’m very naive to Minecraft. I see a lot of time / thought / energy dedicated to making things in Minecraft and can’t help but feel it’s a bit of a waste of time. I think I feel this way because I don’t know much about Minecraft or the community. Other than for pleasure (which is a plenty good enough reason on its own) is there any value generated here? People can obviously do what they like with their time but I would much rather spend my precious hours working on something to add to the real world.
> The goal of the web, as it was invented. was to allow decentralized content access via hyperlinks. That vision is essentially dead. Content is now an index on a database behind a walled garden.

This is a hard truth that web3 will have to face: centralization happens naturally in decentralized systems.

As a recent web3 example, when twitter teased the idea of verified NFT avatars, half the comments were saying things like that they should piggyback on OpenSea verification so that people don’t just re-mint other people’s NFTs.

OpenSea has taken investment a $10b valuation, to me that implies that the people financially backing web3 think they’ll be able to extract rent by being a central player in it.
GPL 3

Gnome 3

All these third iterations…
> Linux is the preeminent operating system for programmers and other highly technical computer users, for whom it can be suitably molded to purpose in a manner which is not possible using other operating systems.

That could be so, although I'm in the opposite camp: MacOS is the preeminent operating system for me because it does the best job of getting out of my way and letting me work.

I have no idea how to configure sound drivers on a Mac or what my current filesystem is (some version of APFS or something new?) because I've never been forced to learn as a prerequisite for getting work done.
To play well at high level - for Quake (or Doom before it) this meant learning all sorts of details and tricks about how the engine operated and how to deal with it - and those people would be less inclined to change to a new version.

But the mods are the more important reasons - and even now we see that in Minecraft which has very increments upgrades; many modpacks are still on the version of Minecraft that came out when they were released.
> the idea of central government holding an accessible database of everyone’s identifies, and mandating participation, is cultural and political suicide.

>In the U.K. at least, two World Wars have taught us to be wary of central government databases.

Well really it is a little more than a sort of Driving License. We might get away with it by calling it EuroClub Express.
Maybe web3 is not only about crypto bs. It's probably more about accountability and repudiation. To remove the control to central corporations like the FANG. To stop spreading hate speech and encourage to destroy the planet.

I really hate the web 2.0 personally and I stay far away from it. I'm not trying to convince anyone to follow my path, but I'm hoping that the true meaning of Internet will shine soon. Maybe the 3.0 is the way to go and in my opinion it cannot be worst than 2.0.
Yes, they do. For a couple years now:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210512
Peer Review is still BROKEN The NeurIPS 2021 Review Experiment (results are in)
Show me a stock anyone is interested in that isn’t expected to go up and reward early adopters.

“If the stock community wants to demonstrate that it isn't a giant Ponzi scheme, why not come up with a non-deflationary stock, which will not massively reward 'early adopters' at the expense of everyone else, in perpetuity?”
Then I'm not following what you think was wrong here...
Not quite sure what web3 stands for, but seems like decentralization is suppose to be a big part of it.

But I think all the proponents of stronger algorithmic decentralization ignore the fact that the web doesn't quite live in a vacuum, and "real world" power will mostly like be translated into virtual/web power as well, and the decentralization will just make it less transparent, and with even less accountability.
I did try to dig out the contract just now to see if I had a digital copy of it, but I don't think I do. It's likely to be a two decade old printed copy instead. I think you need to talk to a lawyer rather than trying to do this on the cheap. Your lawyer has your interests at heart, no one else does. If you're a member of a union (Prospect being a good one for digital workers) then they will have lawyers you can consult for free.
I would like to see more discussion around P2P solutions like https://dat-ecosystem.org/ and the fundamental principles around distributed networks/economies.

I really like the idea of being able to "git clone" your data/website into your own local browser and just make it's own webserver. For most of content we generate, that would probably be enough.

I don't see the point of trying to place everything in a blockchain. I understand the power (and need) to decentralization though.

And I'm not sure just one tech/coin/protocol/chain will be enough, but maybe if we pack:

- a P2P browser, with a wallet for authentication+payment (abstracting money away together with authentication is a near idea)

- a versioned content manager that make it easy to pull/push from/to peers

- ways to P2P nodes to sign their own content and give permission or not to peers to read/write, so we can trace ownership through version logs

- a way to run serverless functions to share computational power, but only for complex tasks like ML training, rendering, etc

- a way to automatically (and collectively) parse in-browser data to add annotations (bringing semantics to random data, or labels to ML datasets)

- automate renderers of such data to create (and host) 2D websites, data visualizations, or 3D content (you can call it your own miniverse)

Or what I just described is the Web we're already building, we just need more hands on deck to actually build it instead of wasting our time with bs.
Ah yeah, this matches my experience 100%. Give Harbormaster a try, I think you'll like it. For me, it's exactly the simpler solution you mention.
> which is a big assumption because it assumes bitcoin deposits at institutions will always be backed by full reserves

Where is this assumption coming from? I have never heard this before.

> that doesn't mean that the supply of bitcoins in a particular economic area will be fixed. It most certainly won't, unless international trade stops.

Putting non-competing sectors of the economy in competition against each other for a slice of a fixed monetary supply is another basic and sufficient precondition for deflation. There’s a very good reason we don’t do that currently.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system based on brain computer interface
I would like some feedback on a possible solution to one of the problems: Spam.
And my proposed solution is blockchain. Hear me out :-)

What if sending a mail required a proof of work (the digital equivalent of a stamp)? Then sending mail in bulk would be costly enough to lessen the spate of spam. Unstamped mail would be spam unless the recipient agreed to accept it without the stamp. Legal bulk mail senders could obtain stamps in bulk providing they agree to abide by the rules (no tracking, easy unsubscribe etc.) and provide proof of doing so.

By allowing unstamped mail to be delivered, yet be contingent on the receipients choice, I think we can deal with older clients that can't be updated, noble causes etc.

Feedback welcome.
If this is a Texas install, then the house could be running upwards of 5 tons of HVAC capacity. This is a monster load that is very unusual outside of southern US states.

Getting through a hurricane is a lot easier when you can pull humidity out of your house the whole time. Running this much cooling on 1 powerwall would take you about 4 hours before you are in the same boat as everyone else. In many cases you need to go 72+ hours non stop. Gulf coast does not cool down that much at night after a cat5 blows through. It's practically unsurvivable in some cases.
So…gonna put that wasted code on GitHub?
Hindsight is always 20/20; but hey perhaps there's a bright side: you're now an extremely qualified international shipping troubleshooter. Perhaps others would pay for that service.
Anytime I see a crypto post, I open the comments to see what the HN masses have upvoted this time as the top crypto bashing / skeptic comment. This one doesn't miss the mark either.
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Then stop acting like it’s a currency and/or infrastructure. If it just spirals indefinitely in value then it can’t be used as either. Pretty straightforward.
Hmm, I'm not sure that's true.

If you generate a noise function that dictates where the "plates" are, then the location of the "plates" is already predetermined from the construction of the function. Then the output of that function could be used to alter the mountain/terrain functions.

Thus, no need to pregenerate everything. You pregenerate all of the functions in advance, but not all of the outputs.
What's the difference between these two portals that means sharing your records with you is good in one case and bad in the other?
Dude... Null pointer exception, really.

I wish you the best of luck reasoning about life and happiness in Java. Just don't attribute the ensuing frustrations to being born.
I kind of mentioned it already, but apart from payments or other transfer of digital ownership, there shouldn't be much need for on-chain transactions. In some years when, hopefully, L2 technologies have matured and grown to live up to their promise, those won't have to either (there is always the initial on-boarding of course, but credit cards and mobile payments have those too)

As for "who's going to run the nodes", if cryptoeconomics or users don't take care of it, I assume businesses will. The nice thing is that regardless, the payment for this infrastructure is also facilitated through cryptocurrency transactions on L2 networks. For someone who doesn't want or need to take ownership of that, it can just be proxied through to the client and not need to be the concern of the developer of publisher of the app.

Of course businesses can still choose to pony up for it proactively of they have the finances to support it, potentially running it themselves or through a third party. You can always fall back to "the old ways" for certain things when it makes sense.
Thank you for the link. I checked my duckdns.org subdomain and found that I am on a blocklist and my reputation is poor. I don’t even run SMTP. Comcast Xfinity, if that matters.

Fwd/Rev DNS Match Yes
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Here's a video by one of the developers talking about some technical aspects of the new terrain:
https://youtu.be/TycBrFKEteU
I have; it's the name of the Linux subsystem for it (for instance /sys/class/typec has information on the device's USB-C ports).
Does not work against spambot networks on hacked computers.
I remember seeing a project like that (maybe even here, on HN), but unfortunately I can’t find it
But dig into the history of Singapore and it starts to make sense.

It was a British port for a long time (one of many parts of the Straits settlements). When Malaysia won independence, it included Singapore.

Lots of friction between Malay Chinese and Malay. The British colonizers left but the wealthy Chinese remained (similar trend seen in many SE Asia countries).

Singapore was kicked out of the Malay Federation not long after independence. Most simplified it was a power struggle in who would run Malaysia. Easier to cleave Singapore off as the heavily Chinese population wielded a lot a power.

But don’t get me wrong. Singapore has accomplished a lot. A tiny population be forced to go out on its own is not an easy hand to be dealt. To me, Singapore’s approach has been mostly just practical. They don’t care if public housing is “socialist” or if a single government approved union is authoritarian. They do what feel will yield the outcome they need.

But I get the sense they still have a very “survival” mentality - what they have is fragile and without close management will fall apart. Likely very true 50 years ago, but not so much today. But the governing party is the same and the mentality remains - one bad decision and as LYK says “Singapore dies”.
It's digital gold. Is gold a Ponzi scheme? No.

It's the same as putting money into NASDAQ100 or SP500 and waiting for it to go up only. Is that a Ponzi scheme? No.

It's a volatile synthetic hedge against assets with real fundamentals.
You wouldn't need to add "for n > 2" to the inductive step, any more than you need to include "for n > 1" for arguments where the base step is 1, or "for n > 20" for arguments where the base step is 20.
Loans create “virtual money” in a way, which does contribute to inflation (in fact, controlling lending is a primary way the federal reserve controls inflation)
> You can sue me for copying something, or report me to the police. The same would be true for web3 (if the courts choose to recognise that aspect of it all).

So web3 is exactly like web2 then?
> I am curious to see what will happen when the everything bubble pops

… the market is flooded with cheap video cards and we finally have a feast. Unless I die waiting, which is what will probably happen. Please, God, Jesus, Allah, Rama, whoever; I've been waiting far too long already.
A bit confusing, but I think he was drawing a PC/mobile distinction, and it probably would have been better to say "desktop" instead of PC.
How would I rectify that against the model of supply and demand, where increasing supply without increasing demand would result in its price deflating?
Detatchable chairlifts have always amazed me. They're definitely one of the bigger quality-of-life improvements that alpine skiing has ever seen. Not only do they let you ski more, but they also help keep you warm (any skier will tell you that the chairlift is always the coldest part) and increase the effective throughput of the lift.

The truly amazing thing, though, is the safety record: they have a mechanism to switch from a fast rope to a separate, slow rope and back. This transition (and, indeed, the grip on the rope) manages to have an excellent safety record despite being relatively complicated and dealing with snow and ice.
I prefer to call it the Lottery factor. How many people have to win the lottery and retire for a project not to have a maintainer? It's a little more positive :)
The plain reading meaning of "in the course of" is not the case law, though, it has established precedent - and most of that favoured the employers in question. I don't know of a case that took into account "personal time" as being relevant, and most salaried employees are not paid on the basis of hours worked.

The typical contractual language does go beyond the established case law, but not by as far as you seem to suggest.
By that logic the USD has some inflation baked in too, it’s just that in Bitcoin’s case the number is exact and in USD it’s a guess. It’s really just arguing semantics, though. I get both sides’ arguments.
Too Woke to Procreate
Yes. Compared to the HiFive Unleashed (I also have two of those) which are "spectacular" in their finickiness and general unreliability.
'Wall of secrecy' in Pfizer contracts as company accused of profiteering
always seemed weird to me that the hosts file never became a little personal address book, with some push mechanism to notify me of address changes, “gmail.com is moving to x.x.x.x”
I will talk to a lawyer as well... but I'm really interested to see something concrete too. I've asked many times but I've never actually received an example of what an actual contract had written on it.
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https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
> And often, software is similar.

That only holds if the side-project is exactly what the company does, and even then it’s debatable: if a person is interested in problem X and has personal projects around X, and the company hires them because if that, do they really expect that person to stop being interested in X on a personal level?
Does everything need to devolve into sudoku-solving coins that the makers can try to profit off of?

If we’re building all this tech for coins or digital stamps, it seems like the existing system could work fine by rolling per-contact email addresses to give out. Traceability without having to kill any polar bears. Apple is already offering this through their Apple Sign-In
RTX support isn’t a thing in the java edition, which is showed off in the article here. But you can get minecraft for windows for free if you already have a java key that’s older than 2018.
This is why in modern capitalism you can use other people’s money and buy manpower with it. You’ll have to farm for connections, though: this skill is irreplaceable.
Exactly. Any form of "agree and accept that /X/ does not relate to the employment" sort of thing.

But you have to be very specific about what is carved out.
What's unclear about what spec in particular? I've read PD, Type-C, BC1.2 specs and those are rather thorough and well cross-referenced.
Some websites to check if you are interested in Quake 1 modding community:

1. Celephais is the forum Q1 modders meet and showcase projects:

www.celephais.net

2. Quaddicted stores hundreds, if not more Quake 1 mods:

https://www.quaddicted.com/

Recommendation of the following oldskool Quake1 map-packs:

- Soul of Evil

- Nehahra Project

- Operation: Urth Majik

- The Altar of Storms

All five star map-packs on Quaddicted are worth a playthrough.

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Back in early 2000s I dreamed about working as a level designer so I was pretty interested in the modding community of Quake, Half-Life and Unreal. It was the golden age of individual modders: The engines are starting to pull off to show good graphics, yet not good enough to persuade modders to go away (modern engines take a LOT more effort to create contents for). The companies encourage modding and provide full tools (with patching) for it.

The communities are still vibrant but many left throughout the years.
languages can't be a casual factor of success, but can be a casual factor of failure. if you write an OS in JavaScript, that will cause it to be slow. if you write an OS in C, that will cause it to have bigger overflows and use after free bugs.
1/10 won't have a baby bc of climate change
That's what I'm referring to. Behavior packs are json files + assets. It's a real trip to try to have your own variables for things like items inserted, energy level, etc. In java you could edit tile entity metadata with your own java code.

In bedrock minecraft commands must be used to update these states. This is where my understanding started to fall apart.
I think there's a clear distinction in most jurisdictions between (c) and the other two.

Let's suppose this bug report really was written on company time, with company equipment, related to the company's business, so we don't have to argue about how far-reaching your employer's rights should be here.

In (a) and (b), you've provided services to the code maintainers. Perhaps your employment contract forbids you from doing that, just as it might prohibit you doing project management or fixing their plumbing. But the recipient of those services hasn't done anything wrong.

In (c) you've additionally created intellectual property, to which you have some rights, including copyright. The code maintainers can't use that code in their product unless you assign them certain of those rights (or unless they can avail of other exemptions like fair use). But those rights might not be yours to assign - they might be your employer's. In addition to you potentially breaking your agreement with your employer, anyone republishing this code may be infringing your employer's IP rights (maybe under good faith, maybe you indemnified them... But still your employer has a legitimate complaint).
The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks
I enjoyed this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
(author here) That's a nice twist on the idea! You got me wondering whether a lottery win would change my plans. I love working on Vendure, I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to do so full time.
classic emoticons aren't translated though ;)
+1

I'd also say the 2 techs that are interesting less for their density aspect and more for longevity are flow batteries and liquid metal batteries. Both would solely be used for grid storage (Flow MIGHT be used for home storage).

Flow batteries are interesting because they have an very long cycle life and their storage capacity is based on how big a holding tank you have (fill the tank, get more storage). They are less interesting because they require mechanical pumps to operate.

Liquid metal batteries are interesting because of their cycle life and they are made out of pretty cheap materials. They are less interesting because they have very high operating temperature requirements.
Stocks (aka securities) and other products also suffer from Ponzi schemes though. Hence the bureaucracy of the SEC and other governments tasked with regulating and policing the industry.