skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually we CAN go scott free. As per the links, they not only knew about climate change but actively tried to subvert activities related to spreading its awareness. If the general public had the same awareness and sense-of-impending-doom that we have now, do you think these companies wouldve been able to withstand that kind of growing public opposition from all walks of society? Pretty sure they would be forced to course correct.
To me Mutiny looks like Lucasfilm Habitat down to the UI and C64 platform. https://twitter.com/wwwploguecom/status/628896016381685760 http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
Conversely, if you’re the kind of person who by nature enjoys to overengineer and are doing hosting for fun...
> What would you recommend instead of a bastion host?

The question isn't to replace, but to remove. If you apply the same security to the actual hosts (which you probably should anyway) then why have an intermediary?
There's a great Milton Friedman test: if license requirements benefit consumers you would expect to see consumers at the statehouse demanding legislation. But this is not what you see in the modern day. It's true very instrumental organizations like the FDA were funded based on public outcry, but now most lobbying done to or affecting those organizations is done by people already in the market.

You must not have never interacted with something like, say, AC install. It's regulated and you're not supposed to buy the parts yourself. You can, but some stores shut you out, they won't take your refrigerant back that legally needs to be disposed of, and so on. Recently I fixed some AC units that just needed a soldering touch up where "real repair companies" wanted to do a full new $10k install.

Similar stuff for locksmithing.
FRAND isn't a definition. As far as I'm aware, it didn't even really begin as a concept from statute. It's a kind of catchphrase lawyers reuse in policies, bylaws, contracts, and other terms.

The courts help to develop expectations about how it will play out in practice by rendering decisions. But those decisions are inevitably contextual. In the end, it's an interpretation question. What do the words mean? The words to interpret are "fair", "reasonable", and "nondiscriminatory".

If it's good enough for patent policies between multinational Fortune 500s...
Update your facts my friend this criticism is stale and has been superseded by a million major events by now. Read the news or hold back on your deprecated knowledge.
Back at the start of my career I worked for a mid-sized software company that was growing by buying small companies in our general field. I was assigned to work on integrating one of those company's products with my team's product. Mostly because I was young and not tied down and could happily spend a couple weeks at a time in another state.

Once I finished that, the CTO decided I was going to be the guy he sent around to all the acquired companies to work out the technical integration plans. Obviously integration was a priority, but no one understood all the technical details of the various pieces that needed to fit together.

I wasn't really poached to another team, exactly, but I also had no direct work on my officially assigned project. I spent months and months bouncing around the country figuring out how to make everything work together. I kept my same manager, but all my work product went to the CTO.

It was kind of a weird situation on paper, but on the ground it made sense to have someone "outside the system" to be the one digging around in all the newly acquired projects. Obviously great for my career, and indirectly great for my manager's career. Heck, he has his own consulting business even now that's based on supporting and customizing that suite of software. He knows all the pieces from my work bouncing around.
If you were to ask Mac-focussed companies like Panic or Rogue Amoeba I am certain they would tell you it's because they as individuals enjoy the Mac platform, and the user base is large enough to make it work despite being a niche of a niche.

I think as a society we often focus too much on growth and maximising. It's okay to keep steady and focus on the things you like.

Personally, I'm very glad that there are still companies out there targeting one platform, even for the platforms I don't use. Unless there are enough resources to focus on native versions for each platform, multi-platform software is often full of compromises IMO.
We are talking about whether college is worth the investment in unearned capital and time, we are focusing on the capital expenditure. "Paperclip optimizers are great if you want to optimize for paperclips" is not a strong selling point for paperclip optimizers in the real world. Is college worth the investment? It's not purely philosophical at all, it is very practically relevant. Will my life be better for doing it?
The difference is that people need your permission to make a copy of that poster.

I can take your NFT image, duplicate it and use it however I want. And you have no legal or moral right to say no.
Basically the same in this case, as the setInterval is set with 10ms between firings, and requestAnimationFrame would (most likely, depending on computer/display) fire every ~16ms. It would be more efficient though, that's for sure, but most likely basically the same :)
Which is the same thing you'll see in dance movies. Which is why Fred Astaire was a legend for doing his dances with a full body view, and no cuts.
> Unfortunately this would probably require an actual legal framework around it to guarantee these rights.

I'd go stronger to “would definitely require”. If companies wanted to offer this, there's no reason they couldn't right now so the question really needs to be how you'd get them to offer more consumer-friendly terms. One option is a legal requirement but that would be non-trivial to implement to avoid various scams (e.g. if I license a movie and sell it to you, how comfortable are they with the idea that I didn't save the decryption key when I legally had it?).

The most interesting example I've seen of what this could look like is Movies Anywhere. My understanding is that Disney's motivation was preventing a single tech company like Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc. from having a large enough share of the market that they'd be able to dictate terms to the movie studies the way Apple was able to use iTunes to push the music industry to be less exploitative. That only works with a list of trusted parties and seems to be about as much as I'd expect to see in the current climate.
My experiences with psychedelics in my teens weren't very insightful. Most of the time I felt like I was looking through a pair of those old cyan/red 3D glasses - but with more colors - and had brain damage for half a day.
> Another way is to smear and hope that most programs won't be negatively affected by reported seconds being 0.00001s off.

> There are other options, but I don't think there's an "obviously correct way".

Well, there are ways that following reality more and less. There are also ways that have legal traceability to time sources in some regulated industries.
If you liked this article, the book Lost in Thought[0] also references Bennet and goes into more depth on why spending some of your time learning for its own sake leads to a more fulfilling life.

I’d love more content like this on hn. Done right, tech jobs can afford a lot of leisure, and we don’t have generally good guidance from our culture on how to spend leisure time in a fulfilling way.

[0]https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178714/lo...
That's not true, they are talking about different scenarios. They are not saying we are going extinct for sure.

Of course if you consider a scenario of +6° we are talking about billions of deaths.

The problem here is the food crisis which will come and its consequences.

And, by the way, the scientist is an ipcc reviewer which is the principal authority about climate change and part of ONU.
The good that could happen: comp increase, or promotion. Or even just making sure their manager is aware that the entire dept productivity is on OP (makes their leverage obvious). Or, if the expectations are low, OP could de-stress and kick back at work, improving their life.

Possible bad: gets the other person fired. Puts a target on OPs back.

Point being, this will fester if it isn't addressed. Fairness is important, as are concrete expectations.
just repaired http://lalo.li/ddd/
as prevent default changed behaviour on event listeners some time ago (from default active to passive, needed to set them to passive)
> Among the first entries was a reference to an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology authored by Splatt and Weedon.

I love it when we all acknowledge that everyone has an internal 4-year-old who finds this kind of thing very, very funny.
I had a good chuckle putting my colleague's names in it - everyone was a superstar, famous poet, or swimmer of some sort. Any good ones you wouldn't mind sharing?
Best Wordle guessing strategy
Isn’t that covered by “switched careers?” Anyway, just to add to the anecdata here, my wife was a hair stylist in a nice part of town. Women/men would trade a weekend at their beach house (concert tickets, private jet access, etc) for hair cuts and color. She’s now “just a kickass mom.”

Point is, for a time, we had access to some 0.1er% shit that’d I’d never get to utilize in my “office job” while my wife would trade for some truly spectacular experiences with the spouses of CEOs and CTOs. Heck, she’s half the reason I got the network I have these days. There’s something to be said about someone saying nice things about you to a captive audience :)
My son is 10, he started with scratch when he was about 6, moved to Lua/Roblox a couple of years ago and has since picked up C#/Unity. He definitely got the fundamentals of programming down by working with Lua. Key to his intrinsic drive was being able to code things he loved (games).
Their position was there was no need. I couldn't understand that point of view.
Not enough info to give any detailed recommendations, as different situations warrant different things.

Having said that, I think the safest advice is to make sure your work is correctly being attributed to yourself (i.e., they aren't taking credit for your work) and advocate for a raise for yourself as you normally would, just with more confidence. Clearly advocate for yourself and the work you are clearly doing and let management put the puzzle pieces together on their own.
Nope. Stay out of it. There are more bad things that can happen, than good things, if you choose to speak out about it. And at the end of the day, your situation vis-a-vis your employment is between you and your employer and nobody else factors in.

Example: If you want more money, ask for it. If they refuse, it isn't "because of the money they're wasting on this guy", it's because they don't perceive your value as justifying it. That perception may be right or wrong, but it is what it is.

You're getting paid, you're doing your work (presumably), this other person and their actions (or lack thereof) are really irrelevant to you unless they are somehow having a direct impact on your work. IF they are making commitments to do certain things and then failing to deliver AND that in turn is making you look bad, THEN it might make sense to call this out to management; IF you can document the situation.

More likely, if it is directly impacting you, or your innate desire for "fairness" is piqued that strongly, the thing to do would be to just leave and go work somewhere else with better management.
lol let's not pretend that Apple has limited resources though. Apple has a very limited amount of core developpers (e.g webkit being abandonware) and they are probably mediocre on average but obviously this is artificial scarcity.
> ... Even aside from the baloney idea of ownership they offer, the thing that continues to baffle me about NFTs is that the very nature of them assumes that ownership is inherently valuable.

It's less baffling if you realize it's just BS "power of positive thinking" [1]. A bunch of people latched on to NFT's because they wanted to be in on the ground floor of the next big speculative bubble. However the thing is fundamentally BS, but to admit that would contradict their goals, so they use positive thinking to believe the BS in the hope that their belief will somehow make the BS true.

So, basically: I want NFT's to be valuable, so that means whatever it is they provide must be valuable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Positive_Thinking
> attempt to convey an ownership right via contract

If that attempt was a serious one it would be an actual legally binding contract.

But it's not. And the sellers know this because it allows them to scam more money out of people.
Not much logic or observation in this journal rant, but the fact that it reached the HN frontpage shows a (welcome!) renewed interest in the ideas of the roguelike game.

If you are interested in the topic a quick google will yeild lots of good articles. I found this list of elements useful to organize my thinking:

Rogue Like:

High-value factors

1. Random environment generation

2. Permadeath

3. Turn-based

4. Grid-based

5. Non-modal

6. Complexity

7. Resource management

8. Hack n slash

9. Exploration or discovery

Low-value factors

1. Single-player character

2. Monsters are similar to players

3. Tactical challenge

4. ASCII display

5. Dungeons

6. Numbers

Via: https://www.nerdmuch.com/roguelike-vs-roguelite/
I just assume they are about 5+ years behind most of the population because in this kind of media stuff I tend to be about 4 years behind the population and a little over a year ago I decided ah, this using youtube-dl to download music etc. and rip it with ffmpeg and save it to my iphone is sort of a hassle I guess I will get that damn spotify membership like everyone else.

I mean obviously I am not the last person to make this decision, but I have a feeling that the population yet to do so are vanishingly small.
And shows the AGPL solves the loophole that the GPL has.

So if a company refuses to use AGPL because they don't to respect the user freedom to see the code... Then is good they go searching for some other software with other license.
> For starter, maybe the US doesn't need to be involved in both Ukraine, the middle East and Pacific at the same time don't you think?

We aren’t, at least not militarily. The only thing we’re going to do about Ukraine is try and convince the Europeans to agree to multilateral economic sanctions, which some of them won’t do because Russian natural gas is their only reliable source of energy now that they’ve decommissioned a bunch of perfectly good nuclear power plants.

> An army twice or thrice less big could easily fend off China's threat on Taiwan

Look at a map sometime. Taiwan is an island, which means the primary means of defending it will be the Navy, not the Army. If the Army gets involved at all, something has already gone significantly wrong.

Even setting that aside, China has a bigger army than we do. So if we were going to take your suggestion and use our army to deter theirs, making ours even smaller would not be helpful.
Cool, are they going to outlaw hammers next? A tool is a tool. No judge in their right mind is going to listen to these huckster corporate lawyers.
Too bad we don't live in sci-fi land. Crypto is burning resources here and now as we already face a climate catastrophe and drag our heels in replacing fossils with renewables.

There's currently no pressure to drive anyone "off-world" for more resources. "Off-world" is not only completely speculative and untested but also prohibitively expensive. Even if we could solve all the technological problems overnight simply by thinking really hard and running simulations (and that's a ludicrous assumption for any time scale), it would still be extremely resource and labor intensive to build the necessary infrastructure to actually implement it. In other words it would require burning more resources, creating more pollution and damaging the climate even more during an ongoing climate disaster.

And then what? Asteroid mining? This would solve resource scarcity but not actually help the climate. Sure, lithium and precious metals are cost factors when producing batteries but you still need to transport those resources back to Earth and refine them. All of this is still extremely energy and resource intensive and creates pollution.

No, an astrobiologist with a good head on their shoulders probably isn't naively pursuing some speculative VC promises of a high-tech future with off-world carbon capture and space elevators. They're probably more concerned with the one world we have not totally going to shit in the next few decades.
Ah, didn't know about that. The concepts seem to be very similar, though. In US Videotel at least, there was a community function in addition to the various other functions the system provided (stocks, weather, etc).

Thanks for the info!
That probably shows just how dark and muddy things have become! The Matrix is very dark, mostly taking place at night or in dark, artificially lit rooms. A lot of it is almost monochromatic. This seems to mostly for stylish effect. As you say, the monochrome is used to distinguish Matrix from real world.

Two other very dark films at around the same time: Dark City and Fight Club. Dark City is dark because it's night time, but it doesn't appear to be desaturated. Fight Club is intentionally underexposed for the whole film for stylistic effect.
None of these snippets have the creativity required for copyright protection.

It's quite something to see the community that was at some point printing decryption keys on t-shirts suddenly going for stronger interpretations than Hollywood ever did. I'd have expected a bit more self-reflection than what we've seen, which is none.

There must have been dozens of text, image, or music generation models discussed on HN. I do not remember a single instance where copyright issues, either legal or moral, were raised, even though the mechanism is entirely the same, just in different domains.

Code on Github at least has licenses, mostly of the open variety. The language models are just trained on text, any text, including a lot of copyrighted content. Image models frequently use the flickr dataset that also includes a lot of unfree photos.
If it's good enough for Radio Shack, then it's good enough for me!
I know of at least one problem with ASN.1. The string encodings other than UTF-8 are terrible. Most of the string encodings are very limited and weird subsets of ASCII that nobody actually uses anymore. ASN.1 itself doesn't define the encodings and just refers to other standards.

The problem with this is probably most notable with the T.61 encoding which changed over the years and since ASN.1 references other standards nobody is quite sure exactly what you have to support to have T.61 actually work right.

Within X.509 certificates though nobody bothers to actually implement T.61 and just uses the T.61 flag for ISO-8859-1.

There are a bunch of gory details around this mess in this (now quite old) write-up here:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt

Since that write up I believe UTF-8 is pretty much the expectation for character encoding for X.509.

I documented some of the quirks around 6 years ago when I took an existing X.509 parser and improved it for use in certificate trust management in Subversion: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/lib...

Basically ASN.1 wasn't well defined and it only works well when people agreed to only use certain features or to interpret things in a particular way when ambiguous.

It's also notoriously difficult to parse well. It's very easy to have bugs in your parser, even if you're implementing a subset of it that's needed for X.509. Especially if you're doing so in a non-memory safe language.

I can't speak for why Google invented Protobufs, but I can't imagine anyone sane picking up ASN.1 for anything modern and deciding that this is what they want to use.
The current monetary system has absurd levels of hand wavy magic.

Are you familiar with what is being done on these systems? Uniswap alone did $1 billion in fees last year, a distributed, permissionless, unstoppable exchange. Ethereum did $10 billion in fees last year.

I know someone who bought their house with a loan from Dai, which is far less hand wavy magic than Wells Fargo. It took them 30 minutes and no permission for the powers that be was needed.
Abortion is always a possibility for me and during the age when people talk about consent is the question really honest? It absolutely should be mandatory and men should have a sat in abortion itself as well, the bare minimum society can do when there's no consent is to erase the financial burden.
This is brilliant!!

I made a game quite similar that took me years to complete. And I feel this is much more immediately engaging, could just be me being hyper critical of my own work...but its always amazing to see how other designers approach similar ideas.

Either way I love it!!!!
Yes. What's your point? I already discussed that.

>The blame doesn't just suddenly evaporate.

>The US caused most of the world's inflation.

The world follows the US in nearly all cases when there's a problem with the economy. That's what being a lead economy in the world means.
if not now, when?
That's not how it works in the real world. No one has been willing to escalate to sinking ships as retaliation over non-kinetic attacks on satellites.
Your manager almost certainly knows more about the situation than you think. In any case, dealing with it is what they're paid to do, so let them.
A friend of mine once told me "It's made me a better person all around."

This, I decided, is a way of saying it changes your self perception in a positive direction, because he was exactly the same as he always was before he started experimenting with psychedelics.

Except on one point: constantly ranting about how they've made him a better person all around. He didn't used to rant all the time. Now he does. When he gets on that kick, he doesn't sound like a better person. He sounds like a stereotypical space ace.

I'm all for the medical studies on microdosing. But that's not the same as taking party-levels. Like speed for example - gives focus to people with ADHD when microdosed, but gives everyone else a screamingly awesome night at the club when taken at party doses (ie: 6 tablets instead of 1 or 2). Small doses of cocaine will indeed increase your ability to focus creatively and increase self-confidence. But the usual doses taken turn you into a self-centered rambling jerk that needs to be the center of everything.

Dose is pretty important.
I found this section very interesting:

> TAI is a statistical timescale which is produced at the BIPM by combining the reports from many atomic clocks around the world. Anyone who wants to find out what TAI it is now must mark the time with some local clock that contributes to TAI. Then some weeks after now when all clocks have been combined the difference between the local clock and TAI will be known. At that point it can be said what TAI it was at the moment of interest.

> There are several interesting features here. First of all, before 1977 the clocks contributing to TAI were not corrected for the gravitational redshift. Because most clocks are above sea level they tick faster than TAI should tick. Through the mid-1980s there is an annual wobble due to seasonal environmental changes at some of the clock sites. In 1995 a CCTF working group deemed that the clock frequencies should be corrected for thermal radiation, and the CIPM affirmed this in 1997. The steering of TAI to the corrected frequency occurred over three years from 1995 to 1998, and the final levelling of the curve over those years indicates that the frequency of TAI is now consistent with cesium atoms at 0 Kelvin.

Basically even with TAI there are all sorts of time deviations as an artifact of history.