skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok granted, yes. When I read it I thought he meant that an economic boom will result from all the new construction, but I hope you are right that he merely meant that a lot of construction will occur, to the benefit of the construction industry.
Scientists explore Thwaites, Antarctica's 'doomsday' glacier
> ...the bank still accepts the cardholders claim that they do not recognize and did not authorize the charge they are trying to chargeback and won't budge unless we can FAX the signed receipt.

This is not true. Of course you won't have a signature for an online purchase, but this isn't novel; online purchasing has been around for a while. Merchants can and do fight chargebacks successfully, or else most merchants wouldn't be in a position to accept online payments at all for fear of chargebacks. (Not to mention, we'd never hear a consumer complain about unresolved disputes if the bank just charged them all back routinely!) Banks don't only accept faxed copies of signed receipts, because they usually don't exist online. Banks want evidence. If a merchant isn't keeping good records, that's on the merchant.

In this case, it sounds like the contractor should have sufficient evidence, or else how did they come up with figures to enter manually for hours worked? Evidence that work was performed, combined with Upwork's billing policies and the disclosure about the card usage by the contractor's client should have been sufficient to address these chargebacks. Either not all the evidence was submitted (whether by the contractor or Upwork), or story is incomplete.
I'll say I'm fond of mine. I live in just such a lazy development, and my tree does a nice job of shading my front window.

I especially like the one day in early spring when it flowers but it looks like snow (until I put my glasses on).

I have it professionally cut back every decade or so, and the tree has survived almost 40 years. Eventually it will die and I'll be really sad.

Not much of a defense, I suppose, except to say that I don't find its smell too noticable. It's lazy landscaping but it's nice enough for me.
Okey i wasnt clear. The wall has to interact with the radiation. Thats why you see colours.

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-does-a-black-light-make-...
Thank you for making this. I added a link to your fork at the top of the repo's README.

Please add it to this listing as well https://www.dokuwiki.org/template
What line of work are you in where you don't need screen sharing? Most of my meetings are audio only with screen share. I'm in software development.
Because UV fades fabric, degrades plastic, damages and discolors wood, etc.
Then Upwork would have no claim to a violation of their TOS. Upwork can't choose between protections and risk.

> We continued working via Upwork while locating in Zurich, as to not violate any Upwork terms.
technothrasher wasn't doubting that you had COVID, but rather making the point that the common cold and COVID now have the same symptoms and severity, and that getting a test is now the only way to tell which one you have.
a plane without a wing is no longer a plane, realistically
End of free lateral flow tests as country told to live with Covid
Yes, you can tell by the .gov
I like RSS and Atom a lot, so I say this with a heavy heart: I don't think there's a real RSS renaissance going on. It's just one of the early-aughts standards that HN pines for and loves promoting think-pieces about, in part because it allows us to all put rose-tinted glasses on and pretend that the Internet isn't a hellscape of our own design.

See also: IRC, which I also like, but whose demise is fully complete. RSS isn't quite as dead as IRC, but it's on the way out.
The issue is that those keywords are expected to work a particular way, just like operators. Just like the operator + is expected to do some sort of addition operation, the keyword `break` is expected to do some sort of loop exit operation. The ability to reprogram the break operator to do anything else isn't useful for anything other than breaking expectations. And having to program the same break mechanics into every single iterable type rather than simply implementing an `Iterator` interface which then has those operators implemented seems less optimal.

Which is why I said, it seems like the only advantage is the ability to break expectations. Which is arguably, realistically a disadvantage.
Interested parties should also check out awka (https://github.com/noyesno/awka) and ELVM (which can compile C into awk or sed, among various other things) (https://github.com/shinh/elvm)
Haroon Meer: Moxie’s post changed the tenor of discussions on Web3
Voice calls are overrated. Plus it soon leads to multi-party voice calls and then multi-party video calls. If you've worked from home for the last 2 years you'll know how awful they are.
Great start hope to see it continue.
My ideal is an ICS for elections and deadlines, especially down to the local level. Knowing deadlines for registration, absentee mailing, and actual elections on my calendar would be great.

Chicago seemed to have one but I haven't seen a single event on the calendar since I added it to my Google Calendar sometime in 2020.
Thats not a real problem, nor a real solution. If you have a panel already built, the energy input is a sunk cost. It has no relevance to where you put the panel to maximise its output, you only care about the E part, not the ROEI part which is the hard bit to calculate. And no-one used it that way anyway.

Zooming way out, you also don't stop building panels on a global scale when EROEI reaches 1.0000001. You stop when there's an opportunity cost. Can that same input be used for something more valuable? Then stop building panels, even if their EROEI is massive. We're not phasing out fossil fuels because their EROEI is below one, for example.

Similarly, We have plenty of different solar panel designs, with different EROEI's. We're not building the ones with the highest score on this metric, and we shouldn't, it's not as important as other things like mass scale manufacturing capability. Especially because what we are building generates electrical energy. If energy is the deciding factor we can make some, by building solar panels.

I used BS specifically because it is a real thing that you can actually measure. Its just that it was only ever found to be useful to people who were making most of their facts up anyway. Its not a lie if the person saying it doesn't care if its true or false, its just BS.
And, unhappy with the manufacturer’s firmware, he rewrote the 8080 code that drives the thing.

Presumably without the source code, so he RE'd it too? In that case, I'd say he captured the spirit of right-to-repair/read/modify even better than Stallman (who, if I remember correctly, founded his GNU empire entirely on complaining about not getting the source code for, ironically enough, also a printer.)
I think that depends very much on what the stated goals and likely outcomes are. In some theoretical future where a Russia-China alliance sweeps through eastern and central Europe I don't see any way the US would sit on the sidelines watching. But Crimea certainly shows there is some level of overt Russian aggression the US is willing to watch and do nothing about.
Well, today we also have the benefit of hindsight proving me right. Germany did in fact spend ten years offsetting the loss of nuclear with renewables while also increasing the amount of gas and biomass (which is renewable, but not at all clean) used.

What have you got, ten year old hope?
It's a nice idea, but for it to work, it's going to need to be cheaper for the end user to charge their car at work than at home overnight (this is unlikely to be true in the near future, although could be made true with the right incentives), and workplaces are going to have to have some incentive to install them.
The weak spot on those is the shitty pin-tumbler cylinder, which you can bypass in seconds.
The big company isn't taking over, the big company is making the thing so they own it. The point was that having a similar distributed solution takes power away from the big company because it provides an option for users to choose if the big companies implementation becomes too onerous.
I don't think that's in AI-lab versions of the Jargon File.
Related:

My favorite simple VPN, sshuttle[1], can use ProxyJump to traverse a "chain" of hosts:

https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/issues/340#issuecomment...

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
Not streaming but https://yts.mx/browse-movies/0/all/all/8/latest/0/foreign has pretty good catalogue

IMDB itself lets you filter by language: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas... but it's PITA to then go and search for these films
If you want to get excited by this kind of thing, I can really recommend Big Bang by Simon Singh.
It's a great intro and made me go from "meh" to "wow" about cosmological things.
Testing ? Even MS lets the users test its SW. Testing is expensive and takes a lot of time and we know for sure that our SW works. /s
That's literally what the article is describing, and most people wouldn't consider that fraud, merely incompetence or poor corporate incentives. I'm just leaning into the expectations and ironically doing it better?
What are your credentials? Why should we trust your blog post over some random post on Facebook or Reddit?

I am not trying to be rude or anything. I am just more likely to believe a medical professional's opinions on medical topics than a non-medical professional.

With that being said, that doesn't mean you cannot still be right. I'm just curious for my own personal reasons.
Mine is 20 years old, it is a HL-1250 with an cheap ethernet dongle on the parallel port. I changed the drum and toner 3 years ago, third party, 30€ for both, works perfectly.

I guess my next printer will be a Brother, if I ever need a new printer.
The time tracking is to protect the client from the freelancer scamming. Time is not even being disputed here. Upwork is handling payments, and taking 20% fee for that risk (as I recall), so they need to eat it when they screw up by allowing payment with an unauthorized card. There is nothing the freelancer could do to know that payments are valid, because upwork is supposed to do that.
Kindergarten age.

Edit, looked it up: https://frontporchne.com/article/parents-threatened-jail-fre...
> will be going into the cocktail of childhood vaccinations that Christianist preachers like to rail against, along with HPV.

I think he's being too generous.
Apple TV+ show notification ads litter my iPad ever since I did the free trial of the service.
Overall, data storage is not a large fraction of the cost of a TV series or movie production. If your assets grow too big and you don't plan on accessing them, you can store them in cold cloud, or archive-grade BD and tapes.
The barking noise on airbus systems is the Power Transfer Unit which is about delivering hydraulic pressure across 2 independent systems, not fuel.
What does any of that have to do with being black? Talk about poverty issues if you want, but this 'racism' angle is just stupid.
Code Rush - A Year in the Life of a Silicon Valley Supernova: Netscape (2000)
https://archive.org/details/code-rush-2000
- Using the point k=infinity is how I would define it mathematically. In the Stan code I mapped that point to k=-1.

- I don't think a proper prior is required.

- Thank you :)

(Disclaimer: I am the author of the blog post.)
I can speak from experience. I did join once to a team, that was really some levels above me. BUT basically the only thing that helps is to actually work on something. Just ask the team for work.

Of course the best would be for you to do something together with a senior. If there is someone who likes to help, this is your guy.

In my case I think they thought, that this would only slow them down and there wasn't a "nice helper" guy there. So I did my best. It wasn't really good, BUT it was something that could be worked on. After that a lot of help came from the team, because it was kind of useful and later a central component.
There are some issues with this:

1. Reduce the ability for students to get tutoring, but leaving all of the reasons they wanted tutoring the same.

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/arti...

2. Limiting the ability of home construction companies to raise money but now they can't finish the homes they have already sold:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/unfinished-evergrande-ap...

3. The data security law issues

No one knows now where boats are, like giant tankers when they are near china
https://www.bakerdatacounsel.com/data-privacy/is-chinas-pers...

It is hard to run a ride hailing service if you can't store data on the users. For example their names and where they have gone.
https://thechinaguys.com/didi-security-data-law-chuxing-chin...

These changes should be viewed with other changes

1. sinicization of religions
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1141560.shtml

1. Church demolitions even when the church had permits and built to code
1a. https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=church+cross+on+fire+chin...
1b. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1047054983/china-muslims-sini...
1c. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/855208.shtml
1d. forced marriages between Han men and Uyghur women
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3442256

There is too much more. but when viewed as a whole this is just the CCP party showing that the Chinese constitution is meaningless and grabbing power by putting a knife to it's own businesses throat for a power grab. Is Didi really misusing information? I doubt it.

When Facebook looks to remove technical debt they try to replace that debt immediately with something better. They just don't delete bad code and say hey the debt is gone. They are wanting to mitigate the problems of the bad debt by replacing it with something better.

This is more likely a shakedown for money through fear. Normally this is done through taxation but in China they prefer to boot to the throat method (or the skin off method https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/01/25/executed-chinese-...):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2021/08/26/chinas-tech-gi...

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231990.shtml
A Hoodie with a Pouch for Cats to Snuggle Inside While Their Human Is Working
ProxyJump absolutely rules. Much, much simpler than dealing with agent forwarding which is janky even at the best of times.
There is a proof for this - when you're dreaming and hear some noise that wakes you up, in many cases the plot of your dream in last second or so will be constructed around that sound - in other words, your brain would have to know the future if it was all realtime, it leaks out faking reality perception.
Ivermectin may be "safe" but provides minimal benefit against covid
You are misquoting me really heavily by saying that I said this definition doesn't exist.

That's what you can read in my comment: "The Wikipedia definition you quote funnily enough is the one I described, "Opponents of progressive social movements often use the term MOCKINGLY or SARCASTICALLY, implying that 'wokeness' is an insincere form of performative activism."" and then I mentioned that this is the definition for PEJORATIVE uses.

At this point I can only assume that you act in bad faith or have severe struggles with reading, seeing how you ignore most of what I say and misenterpret the cherry-picked rest.
Absolutely, many large cross platform apps - MS Office, Zoom, Webex etc follow this strategy, it just doesn't seem to be that popular with the HN crowd.
I liked VB6 when I first tried it. You drew a UI, then you double-clicked the components to get a menu of stub code-blocks. It was good for making UIs.

Then suddenly there were masses of weird, undocumented APIs, including APIs from any application installed on the machine. Unfortunately I was making my living from VB6 at the time, so I had to learn it all. (And then MS withdrew support for VB6, forcing me to learn a new trade, which is only one driver of my animus against MS)

Long ago I owned a Sinclair QL. That toy had a rather nice BASIC editor. I think their dialect was called QBasic. You selected a function in the left pane, and it appeared for editing in the right pane. (I also loved that it used a 68K processor; that chip had a sweet instruction set)
I have to work at places that have staggered standups and meetings. 7am standup here, 10 am standup there. That kind of thing. I miss the occasional random meeting but I let people know.

I also underachieve in terms of moving up the corporate ladder. I've been asked to move into management for more money, and I always reject those types of promotions since it usually means more unavoidable meetings. Also, I don't bother working on difficult projects, I choose to work in roles where I have clear expertise and can complete work in 2-4 times the expected timeline.
Yeah this is my understanding. Sewage treatment cannot destroy toxoplasmosis
People want to drive one mile for coffee and there is nothing you or any government can do about it. It's th unfortunate truth
Supplimental; Federal Reserve RSS feeds:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/feeds.htm
be very honest with yourself about your current hourly rate before you leave. as a full time person, you mostly do things you already know how to do, and you may or may not 'work' every day. as a freelancer, you only get paid when you do work that delivers value

freelancing is total BS unless you're good at negotiating and have a deep network in the thing you're trying to do

it can also be valuable if you're trying to create influxes of cash every few months to break even on finances while taking a year off to start something

but it can also be an awful distraction that kills more momentum than it adds runway
Some interesting research is being done by some cryptocurrency companies like ZCash and Algorand. Their work on ZKPs and SNARKs has been interesting, but it is worth pointing out that they are not the only people working on this. Moreover, the serious cryptographers working on anything related to blockchains have more or less stopped talking about the permissionless setting (where Bitcoin, Ethereum, and basically all of the popular blockchains in use are) because security is too hard to define in a meaningful way. In the "permissioned" setting where parties have well-known identities there has been a bit of interesting research on maintaining a shared cryptographic data structure.

Meanwhile, academic and (non-blockchain) industry researchers have been pushing the state of the art in every subfield within cryptography, ZKPs included. Big companies have been deploying MPC as a means of addressing privacy concerns and regulation, and the cryptographers working on that (full disclosure: I am one of them) have been pretty active in publishing their work. Academic researchers have further advanced the results and addressed the problems raised by industry researchers, sometimes breathing new life into almost-forgotten lines of research (like set intersection protocols).

So sure, I can grant you that there has been some interesting work on cryptography within the blockchain space, but it is not nearly as exciting and significant as you suggest. I actually have a lot of respect for the ZCash team, whose work really is top-notch and who I see (or saw pre-COVID) at high-quality conferences like CRYPTO and RWC. On the other hand they are a small and very unique team within both the blockchain ecosystem and the cryptography research community, and their research work is only nominally related to blockchains (it is inspired by an application that did not even require a blockchain in the first place). Beyond the ZCash and a few other groups with serious cryptographers the blockchain space is a desert in terms of interesting cryptography.
Israeli F15 landed missing one wing but this was a fighter jet with super high thrust capability to help offset missing lift from the wings:

https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...
Also definitions would be nice
Last time I checked, there were dozens of commercial satellite ISPs ramping up their launches. Do these companies have a plan to deal with potential collisions and the potential space debris that would cause?
I'm with you 100%. I think Stross is just going for laughs. 2031 is way too soon for much of this, when you consider where we were in 2011 compared to today. Musk may shoot his load to the Moon or Mars for twitter likes, but in terms of funding and feasibility, I don't think he'll have the same billions to play with in 10 years, and NASA needs a decade headstart. China and India seem unlikely to shoot for Mars since they are focused on the global production (China) or their own capital boom (India).
It's his software and he can do with it as he pleases. It's an MIT license, so there's no warranty whatsoever.

I'm not convinced that GitHub has any business suspending his account.
What is forcing Patreon or any other company to allow you to export your subscriber list? And do you have a right to export even if your account has (wrongly?) been banned. Unless there's some kind of regulation involved, this is the kind of thing that easily could cease to work as expected once a company has enough market share.
Different time tracking methods shouldn't carry financial risk. That's absurd and stupid.
> So, take my advice with a big grain of salt. I might (...) completely wrong about this. As it often happens for most things you read on the Internetz.

> this blog post / newsletter is my way of telling a few friends (you!) that I am committing to reading 50 books in 2021, following the above rules.

I hope the author really commit to the proposed steps. I'll try it, too, and see how it ends. Not that the amount of books really matters, giving up early on the bad ones is the hardest part.
Is there a deeper meaning to take from this? Some people block anyone negative on Twitter. He's free to use the platform as he pleases, I see no reason why someone should feel obligated to have or present an externally valid reason for blocking others.
Yes, commercial social venues were closed - bars and restaurants. If I were still in my 20's and living the city life I might see this as the majority of the world but it's not.

You could still visit friends and family, public parks, or even have private parties. And since you weren't being physically pulled into work, you could visit distant friends/family or even go on vacation and stay in a hotel. I'm not saying you wanted to do any of these things given the pandemic, but it's fallacious to imply that you were only stuck at home due to government fiat.

As far as why they worked, I ran into enough people who thought such a recommendation had the force of law (and I wasn't going to correct them). At the time I had a bifurcated living situation and was concerned about doing the commute, but looking into it I could continue going about my routine as usual.
The "Great Lakes megalopolis" is hundreds of feet above sea level and getting wetter with the warming. Lots of people will still be worried about cars for a long time.
I hope you still listen to metal though! :)
Kazakh's don't have a second amendment. Which means they have to take up tyranny.
Nope, these numbers seem absurd, most likely due to heavy sampling bias.
That's kind of ridiculous. A terrorist bomb in the cargo hold is a "single point of failure" that will crash the plane, as is quantum uncertainty causing one wing to break off spontaneously. This says nothing about the actual SPoF engineering requirement, which is a very real, very relevant thing.
This really depends on how quickly the virus in question mutates and what components of the virus the vaccine keys on for its protective features. HIV evolves quickly (it is a sloppy replicator and is a fast reproducer) but if the vaccine targets a pathway that all variants use it can end up being effective for a very long time, particularly if the pathway that the vaccine targets is one that is important in how the virus interacts with (or targets in the case of HIV) the immune system.