skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases - source available is _de facto_ open-source.

You have two limitations on a product:
- "actual physical limitations": the fact that you have the source, and that it's not a brutally-difficult life/career-consuming endeavor to edit it.
- "artificial legal limitations": what the license says you can do

Typically the capabilities afforded by the latter are a strict subset of the former (legal freedom to modify is useless without the practical freedom afforded by the actual source — I could release something with the full rights afforded by an open-source license, but if I fail to actually upload my code, even if you're legally free to edit the binary, it's a mostly useless freedom). At the same time, it's very common for the legal limitations to be utterly irrelevant, whether it's a case of you simply breaking a law that's not relevant to you (perhaps from another economic sphere of the world, or maybe you're just poor — or something is abandonware and there's nobody to even pay, not even a publisher). In all of these cases only the physical limitation dictates what you're able to do.

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If someone makes a freeware game, and it's abandonware — but it's source available, people can patch it so it keeps running on modern computers. They can translate it to other languages People can even fix egregious bugs. They can analyze it, and tease out internal mechanics and secrets, and document them on a wiki. If it's source-unavailable, then they're basically screwed.

Far from being hypothetical, what I'm describing is more or less how the entire rom-hacking community works — thousands of games have undergone this, where they've received unofficial translations, balance and bug fixes, etc. (I have at least a couple of personal favorites, where I had an RPG with certain abilities that infamously did nothing in the release copy, even though they supposedly applied buffs to your heroes. In a modded version, that bug was fixed and they fully worked as intended.) All of this is possible in the modding scene because this stuff existed in a state where something "awfully close to" the platform's source code was available in a non-obfuscated, direct form.

It's all illegal. All of it. That entire scene can't exist, legally, and survives on this wonderful, cockroach-like survivorship mentality of simply not caring that it's illegal, dodging lawsuits, and trading copies of things in defiance of takedown requests — which in turn happen so incredibly rarely that it may as well, practically, be legal.

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Unix, for another great example, basically exists because "actual physical limitations" didn't restrict it — the devs made the source available, tons of people copied it in what was probably a rather illegal/gray-area way, and sure, some people kicked up all sorts of legal fuss about it (c.f. some famous lawsuits involving SCO group), but in practice the only thing that matters was the fact that it had illegally achieved ubiquity. At that point the genie could no longer be put back in the bottle.
This strategy optimizes for figuring out all the letters that are used in today’s word. But that’s not the goal of the game, it’s finding one word in particular. Those sound similar but are not.

In the example given, the first guess already told you there is an E, but then it’s not used in the next guesses. Figuring out the position of that letter, instead of trying to find a third one, will massively reduce your search space, I’m sure someone can do the math on this being more beneficial.

Yesterday I got one green one yellow in the first guess, and got the word in three steps from there. There are very few words that could fit after those two letters + all the excluded ones. You literally just iterate through the alphabet and possible words in your head while excluding the gray letters.

EDIT: just did today in 4 guesses again using this approach. Lucky streak?

My starting word is BACON.
I think Saving Private Ryan is an early example of close-ups and jump-cuts in a battle; particularly the opening sequence, where it could get away with it because it's assumed that the audience already knows the story of the Normandy landing "in the large" so showing it "in the small" was an effective story-telling tool to move the audience away from "famous historical battle" to "oh shit all my friends just had their limbs blown off"
A lot of it is. But unless you stick to the big 3 cloud providers, you need this for bare metal / colocation server deployments, which also happen to be much cheaper.
ASN.1 standards are free: https://www.itu.int/rec/t-rec-x.680/en

Many, though not all, specifications that use ASN.1 are also freely available. I've been out of telecom for awhile, so I don't know the status of the newer standards, but when I was working in the business GSM MAP and MMS were the only proprietary ones that were an issue.
Bitcoin mining company Rhodium Enterprises, Inc to go public
Martin Kleppmann, author of "Designing Data Intensive Applications" talks about this in his excellent video series (skip to 14:30 for negative leap seconds etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ_2N3AQu0M&list=PLeKd45zvjc...
this is great! how do you feel using the coordinates? can I link the video on the github readme?
„You really must overcome this people nonsense if there's to be any hope!” as an English, upperclass, 19th century dress down.

Or French, si vous voulez comme M. Sartre quand il a dit 'L’enfer, c’est les autres.'
Older versions of the app review guidelines allowed apps that could access content sold outside the app store ("reader" apps) to dodge the app store commission if their in-app content was provided "at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app store" (formerly section 11.13 of the guidelines).

Here's a 2011 article about Apple revising that policy: https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/09/apple_backs_down_...
That's how I generated the red dots in the demo at the top of the page actually! I rendered one dot for every 10 movements and then ran some JS that would delete any element I clicked on.

I never though of that as a way to edit the underlying animation though... that's smart! The dots would be pretty close together though, so you might need a zoom control too.

Very cool idea, thank you! I'm gonna think more about this.
Idea is good but it should be made customisable:

Licensor should be able to list pricing for the large companies upfront. Fair pricing is a troublesome term.

Licensor should be able to remove clause about government organization and classify them as big business as well.

32 days for compliance is troublesome. It would be better if this was converted to an arbitration clause that is favourable for licensor. Big companies will abuse that clause real easily.

If you would like to add some customisation, please check this first: https://docontract.com/
>pay those siloviks (police, national guard, army etc.)

The fact that they (professionally) can't do anything else, and that a pro-democratic alternative to Putin would likely severely cut their numbers (Russia has one of the highest if not the highest number of siloviks per capita) or even conduct lustrations against them for protecting the autocracy, plays into Putin's hand. They are also not that demanding, higher ups known to "live of the land" (protection racket etc), and Russian economy even under sanctions still a capitalist economy, so it won't be as bad as in the 80ies.

Also Russia coming under isolating western sanctions would effectively make Russia a China's tributary state, since it's the only other power with manufacturing capability Russia would be able to trade with. So that adventure would be exchanging Putin's and silovik interests for Russian future BIG time.
This is fine advice and I think we all have a bit more time available to us than we imagine.

But as a parent, I have at best time to workout before I drive myself to work and my munchkin to school, and then what time remains between their bedtime and my own - 90 min.

I suspect with tech work and family responsibilities a better approach is to figure out how to achieve more professionally with less time, so an hour or two at your desk can be allocated to more fulfilling pursuits.
My first computer, the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer, was a no-modem version of a VideoText terminal. Inspired by Minitel, the idea was that farmers would check in daily to track spot-market prices of agricultural commodities.

If this description is just noise, word salad... well. It didn't make much sense to farmers, either.
I wonder if anyone's experimented with using rockets to charge something like a flywheel battery or reservoir for hydro power. A 777's engine puts out tens of megawatts using a less refined fuel than rockets use. What if you hooked a rocket full of RP-1 to a pump to haul water from a river to a dam? This is probably nonsense.
This is technically FreeBSD-based and thus isn't Linux, but if you're looking for a clone of macOS, you may be interested in helloSystem:

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/
That post is in the works for months now, I have a huge list of dumb ideas to go through
Using 'quite few' to mean the opposite of 'quite a few' as a non-native speaker is a terrible idea. It doesn't matter how correct it is, a large portion of native speakers are going to assume you mean 'quite a few' and have misheard or mispronounced it.

It's not like either phrase is wanting for totally unambiguous synonyms.
This is pretty much what I did, but I mixed in a regexp to hold the location restrictions, and a penalty for using the same letter multiple times. (eg guessing “added” is worse than “aspen” for “a..e.”)

I do wonder if looking at how a letter splits the space of letters and words would be interesting
It's a delicate balance to find things that are rejuvenating to do when you get home from work, yet are interruptible enough that you can easily stop them when your partner needs help, or your kids want to engage. That balance changes slowly as your kids get older, too.
Illmatic is A+ tier, but I like Stillmatic more. He recently dropped "Magic" would recommend if you enjoyed Illmatic.
It depends. I have no idea why Microsoft Teams has such terrible performance on my Mac, for example. Slack is perfectly performant.

If there's a general ("inevitable") reason it's that updating the DOM (i.e., adding, removing, and changing HTML elements) is very slow compared to the function calls that native apps use to draw on the screen. That's why frameworks like React are designed to update the DOM as minimally as possible. It's also why Figma is written in C++ that compiles to WebAssembly and draws its content with WebGL instead of using the DOM.
I computed the Pareto optimal frontier of initial Wordle guesses, showing the tradeoff between maximizing green squares and maximizing yellow squares in this thread: https://twitter.com/adereth/status/1478435989982875648
Unsolicited advice, but rather than thinking about what you "should" be doing, I've found it's good to train yourself to just start doing the first thing. Going into a self referential mental state is never helpful.
> It seems clear to me that there is an optimal starting word

I took one step further and calculated the optimal starting word for obtaining green matches (I assume that this also makes it likely to produce yellow matches, although I did not explicitly optimize for that).

Beginning with the full list of 5-letter words, I calculated the frequency of each letter of the alphabet in each of the 5 possible positions for a 5 letter word.

Then I iterated through the list a second time, this time assigning a score for each word equal to the sum of frequencies for each letter in its respective position.

By a significant margin, the highest score is SLATE (over 1400). Runners up (over 1300) are SAUTE, SHIRE, and CRATE.

Caveat: this approach assumes that all possible words are equally likely to be the answer.
I think it’s cleaner than 10. The settings/control panel stuff is slowly getting to be less ancient. You can configure everything to look like 10/xp/whatever. At 0 dollars totally worth the upgrade.
I was stopped at the age of 13 for birdwatching of all crimes. I was walking at sunrise with a small backpack and pair of binoculars. Got stopped by two Sheriff's deputies who had nothing better to do than jack me up. They got pissed that I had a small Swiss army knife. After showing them my backpack just had snacks/water and a birder's guide, they still took an hour to let me go. I'm sure tons of runaway kids have birdwatching gear as cover to fool the authorities. ACAB.
The origins outside of HPMOR: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aSQy7yHj6nPD44RNo/how-to-see...
I dream of a day when my day-to-day tools feel more like the tools in that video.

I have some hope VR will bring us closer.
Is it possible on iOS as well?
The total games market is expanding at a rate where you will have more quality indie games from new game makers than you could possibly play. If Supergiant gets bought and turned into a cash grab, there will be plenty of others out there to take their place.
Correct, "average" usually implies "arithmetic mean". I just accidentally the words before coffee enough sleep with meeting.

But I'm perfectly fine now, ossifer.
Well, you're right that the Minitel was more easily obtainable, but there WERE CompuServe, Prodigy, and other private services in the US before the Internet took off. Those had some pretty large subscriber bases; nothing like now, of course.
I agree with a lot of what you’ve said here but Microsoft might not be the best example. They’re good about some things but not others. They aren’t even close to feature parity in every single version of their apps, be it web, windows, macos, ios and android. The windows clients probably have the most features but even they don’t have all of the same features as their web applications. And I’m not even talking about things that don’t make sense on a given platform due to UX or other constraints. You can search your mailbox on macos but not your online archive. So you have to switch to the Outlook web app to do that.

And the web apps... there are a bunch of small issues and differences between using their webapps on macos and windows. Browser standards aren’t perfect but building cross platform web apps in 2021 is way easier than it once was. And that’s not even getting into just how awful they’ve been from the start. When they first announced O365 I was sure they’d use their expertise with their own products like excel to quickly catch up to Google and surpass them. They’ve never come close in features and, more importantly, quality.

My suspicion is that basing their webapps on SharePoint has put them in a spot where they’re iterating on features as much as they are fighting the platform’s limitations and constraints. At one point Teams couldn’t handle more than x number of users per team because they were storing the membership in a SharePoint list which has a obnoxiously small limit to the number of items it can store. This was a major pain in the ass at least as far back as SharePoint 2013 (maybe even 2010) when their on-prem implementation of one drive was based on SharePoint and people would hit the list limit as soon as they did a sync with their local machine.

Microsoft will cripple their own velocity and productivity with some products in order to prop up others. They’re ruthless from a business perspective and leverage their existing enterprise agreements and relationships which allows them to capture large numbers of users by using IT decision makers who care more about budget to force the rest of the enterprise to use it regardless of quality or appropriateness. So I doubt they’re feeling much financial pain from it but there’s a reason people have a lot of hate for some of their products and services. Developing your product around whether or not a sales team can convince a business unit to force it down users throats instead of building something people want to use has resulted in a Microsoft that has a weird lack of consistency across the board.

One thing I will give them is that they put a lot of effort into security, policy and enforcement across products. But ultimately that’s as much good architecture as it is a way to ensure they can leverage those IT teams. Does it really matter that slack won’t let an ignorant but well meaning security team frustrate your entire company by invalidating your session every 5 minutes? No. But since you can do that with O365 it shows up on a security theater checklist.

If you’re still somehow reading this sorry about the rant, went a bit off topic.
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One question I’ve had is if tuition paid via student loans can go to a college endowment. That should end immediately, if so.
It's not slightly better if you are trying to determine causation. I'm not sure what you think "correlation does not equal causation" means if you think this is the case.
I think it's pretty good, there's just a class of people that like to sneeringly look down on it. Cynicism (maybe snobbiness?) masquerading as intelligence.

I've found the ideas in it (and the larger lesswrong community) to be pretty good, and the nature of it is that if someone actually carries specific disagreement with any of it they can persuade others.

The general dismissals like the comment you replied to can usually be ignored (imo).
My wife had a sore throat and a cough bad enough to disrupt her sleep last weekend but getting tested would have been a hassle, particularly home tests are sold out at many of the pharmacies in town.

I can get tested easily by my employer so I went in on Monday morning then got a sore throat later that day. Wednesday morning I got a call from my primary care doc saying I was positive. Then I got an email from my employer saying I was supposed to work from home (doing that anyway) and then I got a call from the Tompkins County health department. I had a bit of a cough but not enough to have trouble sleeping.

That afternoon our son told us he had a bad sore throat.

One of us got tested and one case got into the statistics, but I am certain the other two of us got it too. All of us are doing the right thing and isolating but my employer is making me go through some process before I am allowed to go to work next week.

We are all vaccinated, I am boosted. We've had much worse colds. It's like that time I got bit by a pit bull and it didn't hurt very much.
You're right, a car is a bad analogy. Cars are several orders of magnitude more complex than a desktop environment. They probably even have more lines of code.

A desktop environment isn't that difficult to make, that's why we have so many. Gnome and KDE peaked 10 years ago and they're now stuck in a local maxima, afraid to move outside their comfort zone. A new desktop environment is an opportunity to question assumptions and try to find a better design.
Excuse me for asking but you keep saying children without mentioning particular age. In the case of Roma bride markets, I've been quoted age 12 and beyond. Quite young at the lower end, no doubt, but at the risk of drawing people's wrath, 16 and above, while bad, isn't that horrible... until we get back to our senses and realize the whole thing sucks because they are forced or at least strongly encouraged to do it.
> Can one use UTF8?

For new standards, yes. But ASN.1 was first specified in the '80s, and backwards compatibility is a thing. So really it depends on what you're doing: if you can start with a subset of ASN.1, which I think is done in MDER[0] and OER[1], you have a bit more freedom. But if you're working in legacy formats and standards that operate internationally, you could run into problems.

[0]: https://www.iso.org/standard/66717.html

[1]: see among others https://www.ntcip.org/document-numbers-and-status/
Based on what he's said elsewhere, it isn't "caring too much" that's the issue, it's just his style. Scott Manley isn't any less enthusiastic about space or SpaceX, but his style is a lot less 'hyper'.

Maybe a better comparison would be that Everyday Astronaut's style is a lot like 'new YouTube', fast paced, with a strong emphasis on being exciting etc, including the stereotypical big YouTuber slick studio setup etc.

Scott Manley's style is more of 'old YouTube' (fits given how long he's been doing things), a more casual and slow paced but still informative style in a sort of standard framework that isn't all too flashy, just casually recorded from his room.

Personally I too prefer Scott Manley's style over EA's, although I'll still watch EA for interesting enough content. With Scott's videos I can watch them essentially whenever I see them, while with EA's videos I feel like I can only enjoy them when I'm feeling energetic, as otherwise the style feels kind of draining.

In the end though, it's down to personal preference.
Ah. Apologies. That was my misunderstanding.
This reminds me of a book I've read a couple of times now, The Power of Full Engagement. Their very similar concept is that the limiting factor in most of our lives isn't really time, but energy. As described in the OP, most of us have experience evenings that felt wasted because we're too tired from work to do anything valuable, but trying to cram value into every moment of life also feels exhausting. The basic take of the book is that every area of our life needs periods of exertion and periods of rest, much like the body does in order to build muscle. The same is true of the mind and the emotional self. So for each of these realms, you ideally want to be either fully engaged, or fully at rest, not somewhere in-between. Then it gives various techniques to achieve this. One I liked in particular is to take opportunities that might otherwise be frustrating - stuck in traffic, in line at the bank, whatever - and see them as instead a time for mental rest.

Anyway, might be a good read. FWIW I'm a big fan of GTD as well. Used properly I think a system like that can be a good complement to this philosophy. When it's time to work, you grab a task from your list and get right to it. And when it's not time to work, you can free your brain of any related distractions, confident that everything you need to remember will be in your GTD system when you need it again. (Likewise if you have a stray idea that you want to remember, instead of holding it in your brain, it can go in there.) Helps keep work (and by that I mean any jobs that need to be done, not just the 9-5) from dominating your thoughts all the time.
Room and board is entirely separate from tuition though. That said, when I was leaving college in 2002 it was essentially a giant construction zone as they were building facilities all over the place. This was not unique- there was something of an arms race to make the glossy brochures even better than the competition. This was a large state school with a good but not really elite reputation and was trying to change that.
I think McCoy also benefits from the first shot being exterior. The contrast between him and Crusher is less if you compare the #4 and #5 shot. Some of the difference in character there is due to very different depth-of-field 90s TV didn't seem to use much narrow depth-of-field for some reason (maybe narrow DoF on faces had become associated with soap-operas at that point? Just a wild guess).
An casual code review of MetaMask’s crypto
Apple advertises MacOS as an OS for engineers and developers.
> when they actually could have been building shit I really need.

The shit I really need is almost always what I would have gotten if the developer had focused on a "perfect native experience" in the first place. Multi-window support, keyboard shortcuts, scripting support, better performance, etc. I find myself wishing for those improvements 10x more than wishing for some "feature."
The cost of dropping a single smart bomb from an aircraft launched from an aircraft carriers needs to include the cost of everything needed to make it possible. Including the total build and operational cost of the carrier fleet itself. You might be surprised how insanely expensive it is compared with almost any other weapon system out there.