skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really just no amount of message board writing you're going to be able to do to make "Joe drank too much last night and we got in a car crash" not imply, to a reasonable audience, that Joe drove drunk. I get that you can have a lot of fun making a sport out of ever-more-elaborate arguments saying it doesn't imply that at all, or that we can't really know whether an intent to imply it was present, but none of that matters.
> It is also always helpful to remember to treat US not as a country but as an association of countries under a single flag and currency.

But is this materially any different to other federations, like Australia, Germany, and Canada (who’s provinces generally have significantly more autonomy than US states)?
Tamil Translation of Paul Graham's Essay “How to Start a Startup“
In the trend of questions we kinda know are dumb questions, why not just capture it where it comes out, at the powerplants?
When faced with the same issue I decided to just setup VPN to the office so I can offload stuff to my office machine when I’m on my laptop at home or traveling. Maybe that’s possible for you too?
The difference between Mapillary and OSM is that Mapillary is a for-profit company, while OSM is an open dataset managed by a non-profit organization. The OSM Foundation can't sell its intellectual property rights to a for-profit company like Facebook without violating its mission statement:[1]

> The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international, not-for-profit, democratic organisation with the tasks of supporting the OSM project, running and protecting the OSM database, and making it available to all. The OSMF membership is open to all who want to support the project and participate in the OSMF’s democratic process.

> The OpenStreetMap Foundation is there to protect the OSM data to keep it Free and Open.

Mapillary had always stated in their terms that any street imagery contributed to them belong to them. They then relicensed the imagery to be used for OSM contributions and other non-commercial purposes free of charge, but charged for commercial use. When Facebook acquired Mapillary, they obtained ownership of all of the contributions for their own use, but also relicensed them to be available free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use.[2]

Many Mapillary contributors like you did not want Facebook to obtain the data. Since the OSM Foundation is non-profit, a similar situation would not happen to OSM as long as the OSM Foundation continues to be governed by people who have the best interests of the project and the community at heart.

[1] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement

[2] https://joemorrison.medium.com/why-on-earth-did-facebook-jus...
One note about Climeworks is that Climeworks only operates the carbon capture part of CCS. Climeworks can not store the carbon themselves so they rely on re-use of the carbon, or buying storage from other companies, mostly Carbfix (afik).

Carbfix, has been researching the storage part for a while now, and they plan to import CO2 to their facilities in Iceland with tankers from European polluters (crazy idea, but apparently works out).
All of this reminds me of when Zoom was getting all of the attention. It's something that's been around for a while that nobody noticed, then somebody did. Everyone freaks out, and then New Vuln comes out weekly because now everyone is looking for it. Log4j hit servers, where Zoom hit people directly at home. Which is worse? Depends on persepective
Paying to skip the grind in a game is a pretty common thing. As a commenter in another thread mentioned, this has been happening since Diablo II at least. If a game has content that is gated by tens or hundreds of hours of grinding some people will happily pay to experience that content immediately. Historically this has been viewed as dubious behavior - especially in MMOs - but it's becoming more normal.

EVE Online, for a time, had a monthly subscription. It also had an in-game item called "PLEX" which could be purchased using real money and then used as a substitute for the monthly subscription. Because it was an in-game item PLEX could be bought and sold on the in-game marketplace. I happily bought a few PLEX with real money and sold them in-game so that I could purchase the ships I wanted without having to spend hours "earning" in-game money. On the other hand, I knew people who had set up efficient in-game money-making schemes that let them avoid paying anything to play - each month they'd just exchange some small fraction of their enormous in-game wealth for a PLEX token purchased by a person like me. It was an interesting system, I don't know what their monetization looks like now.

Point being, I think there can be a value to these things outside of speculation. That said, I have a fairly dim view of most of the crypto-enabled games that I've come across. From the start, the developers have always seemed more interested in enriching themselves at the cost of their players than they have in making enjoyable games.
I'm from Ohio, by way of Pennsylvania, and have been living in SoCal since 2008.

When I tell people out here that I'm from Ohio they reflexively think I'm talking about Iowa.
> gameplay designed to be dull enough that rich players will pay to outsource it to poor players

Do I understand it correctly that the point here, and maybe the central point of Bullshit Jobs, is that we tend to structure our economies with built in inefficiencies so that tedium appears where there is no need for it. And the reason for this is that otherwise the organisation or person solving a given problem would immediately remove their own lifeline, their income or their raison d'etre?

So the point of this article is point out how this happens even when there isn't a problem to be solved - which is reason to believe that it happens all around us as well in situations where we're "solving an actual problem".

It's like a machine that endlessly inflates all pockets of human interaction with tedium and labels it as efficiency or "fun". A paper clip maximizer of sorts.
Grinding is boring but it's also extremely satisfying when you finally achieve your desired level. It feels like a real achievement, and it lets you show off to other players because they know how much time you had to spend. If it was also fun, it wouldn't be as impressive. In that way it's sort of like Proof of Work in Bitcoin. If it wasn't a total waste (that is, if the work itself produced something useful that was worth something) then it wouldn't do its job as a disincentive to cheat the system because you're not actually wasting anything by doing the work.
Bitcoin itself does not because its low transaction speed makes it unusable for real world applications. Second, why use something in a financial transaction whose value can fluctuate 10-20% a day? That's not a stable currency.

So for all intents and purposes, Bitcoin is an unstable investment product.
I know this story is baffling enough, but these things are nearly identical to gold dodecahedra found in South East Asia. See figure 3.

https://journals.openedition.org/archeosciences/2072
IANAL but a few things you need to look at

1. What was the file date the patent got?
2. Is that file date after any date that you can prove that you had invented the system (best if it was publicly available already).
3. What country was the patent filed in?

Now, worst case scenario, the patent is prior to any date where you can prove that you invented the process (or whatever the patent is covering), and the patent was granted in a country in which you operate.

Under those circumstances, what does the patent holder want, and how much damage are they willing to do to get it. What are your options?

Annoying case 1 - the patent was granted prior to the date you can prove you invented it, but was granted in a country you don't operate in and don't care about.

they can't really do anything unless they can get the patent granted in a region you do care about. It's now up to you to ensure that doesn't happen.

Annoying case 2 - the patent was granted in a region you sell in but the date granted was after a date you can prove prior art.

You may have to prove prior art and go through the process of getting their patent nullified. If you're working with consumer software, I probably wouldn't worry about contacting your customers. But if you are B2B and are close with your customers, get some 3rd party advice on if you should let them know of the situation, in the event that the patent holder may start contacting your customers. I'm not sure of the right move there.

That's my 2 cents, but definitely get input from an expert.
The Bay Area seems to have a lot of cognitive dissonance, where the statements made don't seem to even remotely match the reality on the ground or the policies pursued: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/08/19/what-santa-barbara-says/
P2E F2P and P2W are more loose buckets than categories with hard and fast distinctions.

I don't think that P2E is inherently bad. Indeed, the history of RMT in games that try to prohibit it (WoW, Eve, etc) shows that P2E is a mechanic that is hard to avoid in certain types of grindy mmo games.

What makes Axies a pyramid scheme is not the incorporation of P2E mechanics directly into the game, but that the game requires players to "buy-in" to the economy to start playing and tries to incentivize that initial purchase by promising later earning capacity.
> The police report, however, did.

Police reports are evidence that can support a finding of liability, but they are not a legal establishment of liability. There are very good reasons (the due process clause of the 14th Amendment comes to mind) why that should be the case, it's not a scam..

> Throwing ones hands up to say "well, of -course- the company is going to avoid paying anything out unless taken to a court of law" is to abdicate corporations of all responsibility other than profit making.

Untrue. The corporation here has other responsibilities, but they are all to their paying customer.
I do have contact info for a patent and IP attorney that has helped me out, in the past. Pretty knowledgable guy. He used to be the Chair of our local IEEE chapter.

I don't get any kind of spiff for recommending him, but he has helped me out (Long Island, NY).
I guess if we're offering data points - I lived in SF for 17 years. My car (during the years I had a car) was broken into multiple times to steal completely worthless crap. A couple friends got mugged on the street. One person I know had to have her jaw wired back together when some random homeless guy ran up to her (unprovoked, completely by surprise) and shattered a glass bottle on her face.

I personally don't feel at all unsafe in SF, but I do feel pretty icky there these days. Expensive and dirty and not really any fun. I moved to the country and don't regret it in the slightest.

That said, I think the east bay is still pretty fun. Much of the life that used to be in SF seems to still exist in Oakland.
ish. The link to Github prods Microsoft to either take it down, or leave it up, and we'll have to see what they do. Content producers aren't going to be happy about this and are going to put pressure on Microsoft to do something about it, same as with youtube-dl.
I suspect the experience varies pretty widely based on what languages you use and what you’re trying to do with it. If you’re just building Go binaries then I’m sure Bazel is great, but if you’re doing anything with Python 3 or if you’re doing something a little off the beaten path like code generation, it’s probably a frustrating experience.
My father and I have an annual tradition where we find a country and go get stuck in. I typically end up as the navigator and manage Google maps (among others). Having a dedicated navigator is the only safe way to use Google maps outside routine conditions, in my opinion.

It often recommends incredibly dangerous detours that aren't visible in the navigation UI because they're off-screen. The only information you get is "alternate route available 3 minutes faster" that you have to decline in 10 seconds or it will autoselect. If you're lucky enough to have a dedicated navigator, they'll still have to know to review the entire change every time and have pretty extensive knowledge of the area to know those conditions ahead of time.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the country/region. And as I said, sometimes you can't even buy SIMs as a foreigner anyway due to legal restrictions.

Plus, in reality who needs "lots of GBs" these days when travelling ? You need "enough" GBs to tide you over between WiFi hotspots which, let's face it, in 2021 are everywhere and free in many places (hotels, conference venues, offices, shopping centres, coffee shops etc.).
So follow up question, wasn't the carbon in oil itself sequestered from the carbon cycle? If so, this would be a reversal of that sequestration and not introduction, right?

Maybe if you want to remove the carbon permanently, creation of synthetic polymers like plastics and things similar in composition to oil might be the trick.
Building more housing won't solve the homelessness problem

"Solve" is a big word, but substantially ameliorate? Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193206
You can use the web client which uses the browsers audio interfacing.
> 1. If LastPass has been compromised, the scale of these attack would have been tens of thousands times higher. But it isn't.

Wait wait, what do we know about the scale of the attack and how?

Even if the attacker had every single LP master password, that says nothing about how much resources they're spending hammering the service.
I think when Netflix says they are 'resillient', they mean server failures, not armed SWAT and carpet bombing.
5 Solidity Code Smells That Every Blockchain Developer Should Know
I started one but I couldn't figure out the markdown peculiarities of Github's renderer. https://github.com/fragmede/internet-sacred-texts/
After 10 years, HTTPS is truly everywhere
One of the most frustrating aspects of the process is that once outside of insurance/insurance-adjacent industries, the credentials are useless. I have my FSA (fellowship of the SOA) and CERA (chartered enterprise risk analyst) from the SOA. I no longer wanted to work in insurance and left for data science. I felt the need to obtain a graduate degree to feel qualified enough for the data science space. My Master's degree was a cake-walk compared to the actuarial process but that is what my peers care about, and I always feel not quite at the same level as my peers with PhD's.

It's even more constrained than my experience. The U.S has two actuarial governing bodies: the CAS and SOA - the former handles P&C, the latter just about everything else (life, health, retirement). The two organizations hate each other and it's almost impossible to get a respectable job in one industry if you have the wrong credentials. What makes it even more crazy is that the two orgs have the same exact first couple of qualifying exams.

My advice has always been: only consider dedicating your time to these exams if you're highly certain this is the career you want. The pay isn't as great as it once was, you're constrained to legacy industries, the process is as time-consuming as a PhD without getting the respect that comes along with it, and you need to decide early on which area of insurance you'll want to practice.
The only fair assumption from hearing either of those two statements is that yesterday contained two events. Either "uncle died and dog hit by car" or "shoelace broke and dog got hit by car".

It's a common tendency to link related subjects together. So people infer that sharing a sentence/utterance means the two are directly related.

Causing inferences like, "Oh, did he have a heart attack and run over your dog??".

It is true that some people prey on these inferences and use them to lie/manipulate but it is also very possible that they are just two things that happened on the same day - related only by their traumatic impact. TLDR: Yesterday sucked because these two separate things happened...

To a person who experienced these events, it's completely possible that you don't know people think your uncle ran over your dog. When he actually died in his sleep and your dog was run over by the neighbor.
So, no authentication is billed as a feature, but just means you might get spam notifications?
How many interview stages did you go through at Google?
> Am I missing something here?

> Shouldn‘t the other driver pay you personally?

That still means the burden is on OP to sue the other driver since their insurance company was not paid to represent them in this type of case.
Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None, the lightbulb has to want to change.
Mental health and addiction problems are substantially ameliorated by inexpensive housing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193206 and it is easier to maintain housing that is inexpensive than housing that is expensive.

The extent to which people ignore the obvious point that homelessness is exploding in the most expensive cities, like SF, but not in less expensive cities, I find mind boggling.
Factor because it is the most regular language with the most clean syntax you can think of and because symbol names can contain almost any character. (abd->d)+]? is a completely valid function name. My next favorite language is Python because it is so damn practical.
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See works by Johan balle and Lucas this. Lots of work done by them on this topic.
> Gamers have a word, grinding, to describe repetitive tasks undertaken to gain some desired in-game goal, but are not fun in themselves.

Before gamers used “grinding” it was in normal use for hard work. More commonly used as “on the grind.” Looking up the origin it’s “back to the grind” referring to returning to work from break, but also specific to the ancient job of a grinding grain at a mill.

All things being equal, the thing about “crypto,” as the article labels it, is that playing games or being a early adopter of technology was not historically a paid or rewarded activity.

Maybe web3 is exploiting attention spans the same way as web2, but no matter how web2 spins it, token airdrops to web3 users are often 10’s of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands, and even millions in some instances.

Where business has historically been about maximizing shareholder value by exploiting labor, web3 is proving to maximize user value by directly rewarding users. In many cases it is life changing money for young, regular folks who would never have had a shot at that type of financial freedom, in fact likely would have gone in to debt trying to pursue their education for a better financial future.
Thank you for the positive example!

Have you had to get anything paid out from renters insurance?

Pet insurance seems like a great business to be in… is there anything that requires you to actually have pet insurance? Would it cover costs from your pet hurting someone else? Or is it more to cover pet health costs? Really curious to know the ways it’s similar or not to US human health insurance hah
Not to sound snarky, but this was my reaction as well. It's also the very nature of insurance: you get insurance to cover the rare but costly problems that arise. If they're not rare, you don't need insurance because you address the problems another way.
One of the best layman hacks to rip all these services is still using ffmpeg/sse with Xvfb.

They can DRM and engineer all they want but nobody can stop me from recording what's playing on my screen :D
Murder rates are useful for estimating the prevalence of violent crime, and crime overall, because they're almost always recorded. Compare to something like shoplifting in San Francisco: the number of incidents reported to the police is probably a big underestimate of how often it happens, since the police can't really do much.
An aside to your aside. I had quite an argument once with a man, who I learned after the fact was autistic (I wouldn't have engaged him on this point if I had known...), that was from New York City who was beyond adamant that Ohio, where I grew up, couldn't possibly be in the "Midwest" because it's not near the literal geographic center of the country. I eventually had to walk away from the guy because he would not let it go.
In practice these rarely work for useful image compression.
Good chance the capabilities have improved... Also check out project gotham... Crazy stuff
You are right, time is more like capital and even great artists sometimes release some unsuccessful art. However time can be exchanged. There are time banks and time based currencies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency
> as the author and his fellow locusts

Yeah, /you're/ part of the solution.
I was going to say, a flat object (out of wood or metal for 'genuine-ness') would be a lot more practical, and they'd be using them everywhere.

In western Europe, they would use scales to determine the weight of coin, since size itself doesn't mean much - that's logic used by modern day vending machines.
I live in a city that most of HN would call a rust belt post-industrial shithole. The kinds of petty crime, squalid behavior and cost of living issues I see people say "is only in a few areas" in defense of SF I haven't seen in any area.
Thank you for the recommendation. I've also recently read Ásta's Categories We Live By which references Searle quite a bit. So it definitely tracks with the line I've been going down :)
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There are ways to call a function that cannot be caught by static analysis: basically you just need a way to jump to an arbitrary address of memory where a particular function is stored. If we exclude languages that by design sandbox the code (for example JavaScript, and most of the time it isn't enough because engines are bugged and thus browsers also use facilities of the operating system to sandbox the entire engine itself) no other programming language can do that.
I grew up 15 minutes from Minneapolis, and have lived & worked in the Southern California area as well as up and down the Northeast (from Boston to DC).

It's not that people are specifically ignorant of the Midwest, it's that they're insular and myopic, and generally ignorant of anything outside of their regions and vacation spots (Hawaii and Florida respectively, sometimes Western Europe).
For contrast, ants have around a quarter million neurons.
By not legalizing drugs the USA is directly responsible for the violence in Mexico.
We should do that too, but then the question becomes what to do with the carbon. It turns out that getting rid of it in a safe way is a pretty difficult problem. The solution that's described in the article needs a lot of freshwater and the right type of rock for it to flow through so it can't be done where most of the power plants are located.

That leaves basically two solutions; capture the carbon from the air, which takes a lot of energy, or ship it with tankers. The first is being done (at a small scale) and the second is being worked on.

In an ideal world, we wouldn't have power plants that release carbon, but that's another discussion :)
> And yet creating an obsession and a goal and providing a way to grind or spend to that goal is popular.

Now that the veneer of such "games" is dropping away to reveal that they've just been casinos all along, the bright side is that society might finally find the gumption to start taking gaming addiction as seriously as gambling addiction.
> but I do feel pretty icky there these days.

This is what really blows my mind. SF is the only city I know of where you can walk out the doors of a multi-billion dollar company to be greeted by absolute filth. I'm sure there are parts of NY/DC/Boston that are comparable but I don't understand why they're so central in SF. Even in DTLA most of the economic activity is reasonably separated from skid row.
Don't give up, let's make it happen.