skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the standard nonstochastic way is the obvious recursive subdivision: given a triangle, find the middle points of the edges to subdivide it into four smaller triangles, then continue recursively for the new triangles except the center one. Once you hit the recursion limit, simply draw a triangle.
I thought I'd note that one of my favorite pages on the web pertains to exploring Sierpinski triangles [0]

"The sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages ™"

[0]:http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm
I have a feeling that "it's perfectly legal" doesn't work in every country.
Game services aren't allowed to give away games for free. The game you own on Steam is a different one than the one you own on GoG. So it requires the publisher's permission to allow this kind of import which in turn means it's rarely available. Also this kind of import essentially allows you to duplicate games, as you can import a Steam game into a GoG account and than sell the GoG account while still keeping the game on Steam. Without proper tracking of ownership it's a mess.

With NFTs you have a framework of ownership and both the entry on Steam and the one on GoG become the same thing. If you sell or refund your game-NFT it disappears from both services.
> At the moment nobody can complete with Steam because Steam has most of their games.

Exactly? You're right. Which is why Steam will never allow this from their side.
People do not seems to have any trouble producing unreadable and unmaintainable code in statically-typed compiled languages.
It's almost as though it were a bad idea to put all the eggs in one basket
Well afaik Android Auto won't work at all without gapps (Play services)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/8zf31q/anyone_... … supermarket checkout queue
This gives me a 403 with the following error:

```
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
```
To communicate is to put thoughts into someone else's head. Those thoughts — and one of those options was that there isn’t a genocide — were what your words put into mine.

I want to think better of you than that, which is why I keep asking you to do better, even though from my point of you it’s you that is lashing out.

If someone misunderstands me as badly as you say I’ve misunderstood you, my general response is of the pattern “oh no that’s not what I meant, what I meant was…”, but I can’t fill that ellipsis in for you.

But if you don't care to, I'm not going to push it. My fursona isn't a sealion, if you get the reference.

Happy holidays.
> say, Ada programmers.

I stand summoned.

> Unfortunately, none of them ever seem to show up.

We do from time to time, but people assume our language is dead (it isn't). I learned it last year and I've been very impressed by how simple it is, given the speed you get with it.

It was a "big language" at the time, but now it's a language smaller than Rust or C++ which offers good performance with straightforward syntax. Ada also has a package manager now which includes toolchain install.

Ada has inline assembly, easy usage of compiler intrinsics, dead-simple binding to C, built-in multi-tasking (which includes CPU pinning), a good standard library, RAII, and real honest-to-goodness built-in, not-null-terminated strings. It's a compiled language, so you get good speed in general, but the built-in concurrency really does help work which can be split up. Ada 202x is getting even finer grained parallelism (parallel for-loops) in the language itself to even further help this.

- https://alire.ada.dev/

- https://learn.adacore.com/

- https://github.com/pyjarrett/programming-with-ada

- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming
In many jurisdictions it's not a legal infraction to steal back some property since it was legally yours.
As others have said, imports from government data do happen. Here's an example from a random village in the Czech Republic: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/103631362

It's tagged as coming from RÚIAN, our basic geodata registry. I'm not sure how these imports are organised, if they are fully automatic or semi-manual, OSM is unfortunately opaque and divided into small subcommunities like that.

Many cities here do have more specific data available, but every dataset has a different licence (often none at all) and a different format, so there's not much incentive to do an import, except for large-ish cities, but those are usually mapped pretty well already.
I had opportunity to use Roslyn's SDK APIs to build some tools that operated on full source code or uncompilable code parts

and it really feels as if that was written with tooling in mind, really impressive.
Not to mention all his videos on the Oroville dam spillway failure and reconstruction process. Top notch reporting on the subject from an individual.
It's actually really hard to align different data sets, their schemas, and their quirks, licensing, restrictions, completeness, conflicts, etc. And with governments and local governments pretty much doing their own thing everywhere, it's a unique set of challenges for each city pretty much. And half of the problem is that they are not being required to actively work on this problem. The work related to that is hard work and somebody needs to pay for that.

OSM makes it possible for people to contribute their data but it doesn't necessarily solve all the issues. A lot of the data in it actually comes from various people importing data. All the low hanging fruit here has long been picked.
Some interesting points, thank you. I guess if I wanted a final answer I'd need to look into the specification sheet for a specific CPU to see to what extent it can parallelize and or reorder instructions or perhaps even break them down into "micro-ops". And then a new CPU comes out and I'd have to do it again. Maybe, for a higher level programmer (I'd call myself that), this is indeed a waste of time for very little gain.
Who cares if it's illegal? It's not like you're gonna get caught. Just use a VPN.
>I don't expect my account to be terminated after 1 year of activity but I also don't expect it to last forever and to be able to pass it to descendants.

Why? It doesn't have to be passed on to descendants -- you could for example sell it before you die. I'm not sure why any time limit would be imposed.

It's already happened to me -- EA Origin. I simply can't play my C&C Generals games anymore despite legally purchased them from EA. The only option now is illegal.
How much have you paid for this journalism you want?
This weekend we also saw the loss of Tom Lovejoy, one of the most important conservation biologists of the last century.

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/tom-lovejoy-prominent-cons...
I look at the stars and try to think about how long it took for the light to reach my eye and how big time is.

I also meditate but I find that habit harder to keep up.
I've thought about keeping a log, but if I did, it would not to this level of detail. It is enough for me to know that I performed a specific activity but I wouldn't want to log how many hours and minutes that I spent on it.

The author writing their own Android app to accomplish the logging was interesting to read.
Command line tool and Go package to generate tree
Their point is that actually no, it's not similar. I won't call pooping an integral part of life.
This is from 2012 (should say so in title).
Cow or Orangutan?
> Eye tracking is the one feature we're still undecided on, but right now we're tending towards yes. It allows us to have automatic IPD adjustment which is a requirement for our class.

You can leverage front-facing cameras for IPD adjustment – look at the headset before wearing it, boom, your IPD is correctly set.

Why is SLAM difficult for this kind of headset?
Masks were not "often" banned at the local level. Tons of Asian tourists, Muslims, and people in cold places wore them.
> They include an STM32

This might explain partly why they are all sold out :(
Lua appeals to my sensibilites and I want to make use of it. It seems to be a well-designed language and it has a very performant JIT. But a big weakness for non-embedded use cases seems to be its ecosystem. A recent little project I wanted to use Lua on included a sqlite database, oldschool 3DES encryption, and an SMTP client. For many languages, there would be a clearly mob-approved library for each of these. But I found 3 or 4 possibilities to use sqlite in Lua, with no clear winner. I ended up using Ruby instead.
About 42% of e-waste is recycled in the EU and about 15% in the US. Even those numbers don't reflect reality since a large percentage of "recycled e-waste" is shipped off to poor countries where it may or may not be strip of some parts before being dumped.
I really don't see how any proof is necessary.

Taking midpoint between a point and tringle vertex is a transformation that scales everything by 1/2 with this vertex as pivot.

By choosing one of such three transformations randomly you are scaling the whole triangle into three smaller copies of itself that it cosists of.

If you start with a point belonging to Sierpinski trinagle, you are adding more and more points belonging to that triangle.

Fun thing is that you can use the same algorithm with different number and kind of transformations to get other fractals with such random walk. For exaple a fractal tree or fern leaf or Sierpinski carpet.

Another interesting thing is you can start with a point not belonging to a fractal and it pretty quickly coverges. It's because fractals are attractors.
Societies aren't human constructs.

Bees, lions, ants, meerkats, and many other animals do have societies as well.

It just happens ours is more advanced, but it isn't anymore complex than a highly elaborated bee society for instance.

What would happen if we'd need to change our Queen Bee Kim Kardashian?
As usual with all places, the fertility rate decreases among those with means (I reside there). The upper middle class usually have less children, often 2 or 3 at most, while the poor are the ones with the most kids.

As an anecdote, I personally know a low-earning home security guard who has 2 wives and about 10 kids. His kids are signed up for school but don't go most of the time, rather playing around and the parents just don't care. Sometimes, I wish there's something I could do about that, but I can't. We have no equivalent of CPS here to help such kids.

I dread to think of how those kids will turn out to be, because with minimal or no education at the foundational stage, they're bound to just continue the poverty cycle. Sad.
this has potential
As someone born and educated in the US, her name is well known to me, but I had no idea what her accomplishments were.
>>>until we all have quantum computing based smartphones or some other comparable esoteric technology...

I suspect even after quantum supremacy is achieved those who wear an iron ring will have an advantage due to their ability to grasp new concepts and foundational skill sets acquired through their pursuit of an engineering degree.
Putting on music and doing the dishes. I find that it helps my brain reset.
Most likely she is just partially wrong, same as you

Try thinking the other way around, how do you convince the vaxxers that experimental vaccines can still give you health problems after 10 years? And that you have to make that choice yourself

There are leaked emails from Pfizer talking about used aborted fetuses cells to develop the vaccine. They are not being killed on purpose, but some people object to their use
Words do go a long way and can make the distinction clear for potential customers.

As an example, in Sweden, a country with historically strong consumer-protection regulation, you are not allowed to market something as "gratis" (free) if you need to pay to receive it. You can say something is "included" or "receive X without
additional cost when buying Y", but free needs to be truly free of cost. You are also not allowed to say "the [best/fastest/strongest]" etc without pointing to an independent party backing it up. Carlsberg gets around this with "probably the best beer in the world", for example. They would not be allowed to drop the "probably", and it would take more than some random magazine or website to address that.

It does make a real difference in businesses ability to manipulate consumer expectations.

I agree with OP that requiring "buy" to mean actual transfer of ownership without hooks would make a huge difference.
How would an NFT help here? Nobody is disputing that you bought the music (or, more precisely, bought a license for the music, that they may revoke at their discretion). The NFT proves nothing that a receipt wouldn't also prove. What you want is a law that forbids the current practice of revoking ownership.
No, but I do use an external trackpad left of my keyboard. Mainly for drawing programs and sometimes for scrolling. Otherwise I try to (but often fail) to use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible.
Who pays for things that don't exist?
Thanks, I didn't know that but edited my comment accordingly.
How does Treblle scale on AWS without breaking the bank?
Ask HN: The devil's hiring. Would you work for him?
At what point or for what amount of money would you throw away all your ethics, all your independence, to take a paycheck for putting your hands on the wheel of putting something viciously evil into the world?

I came across this tonight:

https://www.bermanco.com/careers/

Like a lot of my generation I'm a Silver Jews fan and I've read a lot into David Berman's music and his thoughts about his father. I'm glad to see that the father can't find a web developer to do his "controversial" dirty work. I'd assume the money is right. You just have to "believe in free markets and limited government" and "have a sense of humor".

I have a sense of humor, and believe in free markets, which is why I'm posting this. I find it funny that this schmuck can't find a fucking web designer in America willing to touch his toxic shit.

So what would it take for you?
Same, and it made me feel less guilty about myself for abandoning AoC for a second year (after 17 days in 2019 and 19 days this year). It becomes just too time consuming after around 17-18 days since I am not a genius.
You can research happiness while still believing in a life with ups and downs.
I'm at 77 on the nose. Well, a bit above my nose buy you understand.
Do you ever struggle with the parts of the bible that feel outdated in the modern context? I never read the bible by myself, but I went to Sunday school for 9 years and I remember struggling as a child to conciliate what I was being taught at school and at chruch, and specially ignoring the hipocrisy of the people lecturing the bible stuff not practicing any of that. I don't remember specific examples, as this was 15 years ago and I've since become atheist.
Always good to hear all perspectives on a story.

>FWIW that was only intended for store managers

Do you mean intended for store manager and applied to store managers only, or intended for store managers and applied to everyone (because template/boilerplate [0])? This press release [1] states it covered positions more junior than store manager.

As an aside: interested if anyone knows what is meant by copyright in the press release above:

>Madigan’s suit alleges the companies required all employees to sign a non-compete agreement, which the company claims is covered by copyright, as a condition of employment.

[0] I experienced this. Would recommend to anyone to at least question any condition you don't like, even if you aren't able to negotiate. I was taking a low-level position at a large organisation so I had no real leverage and had a condition crossed off because it was meant for full-time and fixed-term employees but somehow made it into my casual contract, presumably because it was part of some boilerplate.

[1] https://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/pressroom/2016_06/20...
A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers
You didn't read what I wrote, I'll try and rephrase it. I am talking about NFTs where you as the owner of the NFT control who you can transfer it to, I explicitly mentioned this. If you can do this, then it can be a solution to the current problem. Because then you simply transfer your ownership rights to your new account.
Self-executing programs on EVM would entirely remove the need to force anything, which is OPs “solution”.

We have seen it time and again with centralized services right?

Just take any one of the horror stories where PayPal has shutdown/frozen accounts. People have been frozen for months/years/indefinitely with funds they need to live and feed their families.

You don’t need to force PayPal to unlock you account/funds if you can take your seed phrase/private key and access my funds on any other wallet.
The rest of the proof is in the Wikipedia page linked by the GP. It even has a description of the method used by the OP:

> The most common algorithm to compute IFS fractals is called the "chaos game". It consists of picking a random point in the plane, then iteratively applying one of the functions chosen at random from the function system to transform the point to get a next point. An alternative algorithm is to generate each possible sequence of functions up to a given maximum length, and then to plot the results of applying each of these sequences of functions to an initial point or shape.
As the other commentor has mentioned, much easier for management to manage costs and assign to cost centers or buckets. It's a big difference to track consumption monthly based on actual instead of straight line depre, eg. depreciation hits even if everything turned off
Find maintainers for FastAPI
That's astonishing to me! My sister has golf and her husband a Jetta. I love the golf but Jetta is, as designed, a bigger car. There are definitely loads that will fit golf and not Jetta due to different trunk entry ways, but I'm still surprised to hear that in terms of sheer volume, golf wins with seats up :O
If you own several similar assets, and sell one for a large profit, it brings up the value of the others on paper. Stock shares for example.
Legend. Ants. Bees. Learning. The essence of science.

He came up in casual conversation yesterday, re science and learning math, as well as how tough learning math can be once you're older. (He famously attempted to learn calculus in his 30s, and had a struggle, despite already being a Harvard professor, and world-class scientist)
Is there not physical damage to doing it that often ?

Ive done it twice in a row 3 years ago and it was fine but i was wondering that b.c. in the community i did that they were literally giving it to children starting 3 y.o.
Ask HN: Hetzner dedicated and crypto – what have you been told is allowed?
Today I was told by Hetzner support that they do not allow any crypto applications.

This was in the context of my dedicated server - not cloud.

First, I asked whether I could run a non-mining Ethereum node. The answer was no.

Then I asked:

>How about if I sync one copy of the Ethereum block chain (about 350 GB of data) to
my server without allowing it to be publicly accessible - is that allowed?

and also whether they allow crypto applications at all. Hetzner support answered

> Dear ladies and gentlemen

> We do not allow any crypto related applications.

Hetzner's public documentation only seems to forbid mining applications, which they started doing in May on all servers including dedicated.

There is also this Reddit post from about 1 month back that indicated they forbid crypto applications on cloud servers

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethstaker/comments/qwteod/be_careful_with_hetzner_any_crypto_activity_is/

but it appeared that did not apply to dedicated servers.

Has any one else on HN received a recent response from Hetzner regarding what is permitted on dedicated servers with respect to crypto applications?
I'm not sure I agree with this take.

> It is not composed of matter at all.

Is this not false? Maybe not at the level we can see with our human eyes, but any computer process does exist as matter, in the bits of code stored on the disk and the electrical circuits that execute it
Maybe it's a silly question, but what happened with the attempts of using a smartphone instead of a whole new hardware? Isn't it easier to just create a helmet with some extra sensors and connect it to the smartphone?
> ads often do a little bit of favor by providing variance

If your neighborhood needs ads to have variance, it says something really sad about it. You don't need gray concrete everywhere in order to build dwellings. Some cities like Cuba overflow with city gardens to feed the locals.

> As for claim about accidents: how about murals, decorative lights on houses, big brightly lit windows?

Murals are not a problem: they're part of the environment, not something designed to stand out of the street (literally). As for flashing or strong lights, they are indeed a problem in my view.
If you read enough of it to disagree with something you read too much of it. It belongs in the pile of things you read the first page of and go, oh shit, I just clicked on clickbait.
Oh yeah. At my previous job at a large Russian social media company, I remember our app getting rejected over this. They went to the video section, disabled safe search, and searched "porn". Lo and behold, naked people came up! And this was the reason for rejection. Like, what tf did you expect to see by doing that, cat videos?! And it's not corporate America, so our ToS did not disallow porn. From our point of view, the app is just working as intended, and no rules were broken. And the app was rated 18+ anyway.

And then "illegal file sharing". On a strange coincidence, they started enforcing that one relentlessly just as Apple Music was preparing to launch. Yes, you could upload, search, and stream mp3s on our service without any regard to this dumb thing called "copyright". No, it's none of Apple's business to be policing any of this.

IMO, at this point, the only way out of this is for Apple to be forced by law to allow sideloading apps on iOS.

edit: I now vaguely remember that at some point we created special limited accounts for iOS reviewers. This somewhat eased the pain, but they would sometimes sign up for their own accounts too and see things they weren't meant to see. I didn't participate in any of this first-hand because I was working on the Android app.
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

— Edward O. Wilson
You want to avoid Google for Microsoft? What is the reason?
Yes, I've been seeing inconsistent failures with Actions since 19:15 UTC yesterday (26th), seems to have gotten worse up to 00:45 UTC today (27th) where every run since is now failing with Actions errors: https://github.com/MattIPv4/monitors/actions
> the center begins to shred the papers.

No, not "the center", but people with names and addresses that can be served legal papers.
I was just listening to an interview with him on Vox Conversations yesterday, that's so sad to hear. "EO Wilson's Plan to Save the World" is well worth listening to. RSS: http://feeds.megaphone.fm/theezrakleinshow
>Even if you just want some pretty graphs, create some random test data and set everything up so you can see these graphs. Don't just throw data into a black hole for years.

"Avoid black holes" is a good tip when you struggle with forming the habit of logging. If you have a graph that auto-updates as you add data, it's fun and the habit will stick better.