skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principle that shrinkwrap licenses are based on is that you're entering into a contract by agreeing. Part of that contract is a grant to you: that you're permitted to have a copy of the work. Then there are various arbitrary clauses to restrict your behavior with respect to that copy. If you break those clauses the agreement is null and void. All of it, including the part that grants you permission to have the copy. So that is then what you're violating: since you're doing things the game vendor does not like, you're no longer an authorized user, and so you have retroactively violated copyright by having a copy of the game.

The contract idea is sound, but it the legitimacy of those restrictions and the bundling of the behavioral clauses with copyright should only be deemed to be valid if a paper document was signed: either with all parties present, or else notarized.

These kinds of restrictions should not be held valid if they are imposed against users who can download the game without signing any actual agreement.

At best, a copyright-based license agreement attached to something that is downloadable by the general public should only be able to impose copyright-based restrictions, like whether redistribution is permitted and in what forms.
I cant believe the Apple of Gaming discussion with no mention of Nintendo.
I've created a set of VS Code extension packs a while ago to make installing those useful extensions easier: https://dsebastien.net/blog/2019-11-24-vs-code-extension-pac...
Sean Parker's Email to Spotify's Daniel Ek
Maybe there is a market for paid apps and services that do not sell your data?
Ooh, I'm going to start trying that!

Edit: Thanks! It worked.
What does Apple switching to ARM *instruction set* have to do with ARM chip design stagnating.

Apple doesn't use ARM designs and RISC instruction sets shouldn't technically "stagnate"
Anyone with a two-liner what this is all about?
There's a guy, Michael Kofman [0], who actually does have a clue on what is/was going on there - he wrote extensively on the topic and with more depth than most articles that got produced by the mass media.

[0] ... serves as Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at CNA and as a Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC.

https://www.cna.org/experts/Kofman_M
I think we can and should be confident about the short-medium term negative effects of high CO2 on human civilization. You can always spread doubt about anything that's long-term(say more than 2 decades) but it doesn't help to hope long-term it works, and short-term let it hurt as much as possible.
This is a misrepresentation.

Paying folks under the table is a sign of exploitation - and undocumented folks easily fall into exploitation. I would have thought a fair reading would have come to this conclusion. Of course it isn't always that way.
Kind of reminds me when one of the foremost mRNA researchers, Dr. Robert Malone was temporarily banned on LinkedIn regarding his views on the vaccine. While speaking at a JRE interview, he says later on after the ban, LinkedIn (probably after public backlash) sent him an apology letter, quoting they could not assemble a team (or they themselves were not) qualified enough to fact-check him. Let that sink in for a moment...

When did we turn to social media spaces to get our health facts from. Fact checking from big tech is the silliest thing normal people have embraced on the Internet. Kind of loony when you think of the historical context of the internet.
This is close to what nginx does today, if your platform supports unaligned reads. The check for 'O' is a specific fast-path only for HEAD, most others are done via ordinary comparisons.
> "I entered Steve's office with a bit of trepidation, because I thought that Switcher was worth at least a quarter of a million dollars to Apple, but I was sure that Steve would never want to pay me that much. But I was also proud of Switcher, and was interested in seeing how Steve would react to it."

The previous paragraph
I rent an apartment in a building that was erected around 2015. They laid an ethernet connection... with a 100Mbps bandwidth limit.

Some people just don't care.
Yes Bitcoin security increases when the mining council uses more energy! This is not a proof of stake scheme where more of a single validator decreases security.

If the honest miners put more energy in, dishonest miners must outspend them. It increases network security.
The author disclaims copyright to their source code.

See the actual license here: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/LICENSE.md
I love what you're preaching, but I actually worked on something similar to what you're describing (just not for nuclear reactors, but something else famously dangerous). Ultimately the company footing the bill decided to axe the project because they decided they'd rather send people into a deadly environment rather than continue to pay for the R&D to develop the robot.

> When looking at robotics is also good to consider not just economics but safety.

The problem is the companies paying for the robots only care about economics, at least in my experience. I'm glad your experience differs from mine.
> When you dedicate the work, you are no longer the holder

I wonder how courts know how to distinguish between "I dedicate this work to..."

- "my wonderful husband"

- "my devoted readers"

- "the revolution in $COUNTRY"

- "the public domain".

Or perhaps there's no distinction and you all owe me copyright fees for those worjs dedicated to me as a devoted reader.
I regularly eat bunya nuts from the Australian bunya or false monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria bidwillii). It is said to have appeared in the Jurassic (~200 - 145 mya). They are very tasty.
> There's only one objective reality/truth, regardless of human ability to measure it.

This way of thinking doesn't respect relativity enough to be settled. Sure if you go meta enough you could say there's only one universe, but maybe that's an imaginary descriptive construct and two particles whose light cones don't intersect aren't actually in the same "reality".
It definitely works with gokrazy, we even have a guide for it: https://gokrazy.org/userguide/install/caddy-http-server/
Wow, this is bad advice for any time you're in a hierarchical relationship. Try this with your boss

- I'm not going to do the thing that you asked me to do.

- Why?

- I don't explain my decisions as a matter of principle!

- You're fired.

Similarly if you take this tack with your children or employees you give up any hope of teaching them reasoning abilities or giving them wider context they need to not ask you for things you can't give in future. Ultimately they are likely to come to the conclusion that you are a petty tyrant whose decisions are arbitrary and simply bypass and/or despise you.

Sure, you don't owe the telemarketer an explanation, and you may not owe your relative, but there's a huge class of relationships where not giving explanations is just damaging to you and the people around you.
Read the page, but essentially `/foo/bar/..` is not the same as `/foo`. It makes loads of things way more complicated than you'd expect, e.g. normalising paths now requires filesystem access, and normalising paths that only partially exist is really complicated.

Another annoying issue is symlink loops, but I'm not sure if Plan 9's solution solves that.
I can't speak to Judaism or Islam (the latter in particular seems quite legalistic), but Christianity has the concept of "Christian freedom." TL;DR: A Christian is allowed to partake in any activity that is not outlawed by Christ as long as doing so does not cause the Christian to stumble or cause others to stumble. So whereas Islam or Judaism forbid consumption of pork, Christianity allows it insofar as it does not cause someone to stumble. Or take alcohol: it's not explicitly outlawed (though debauchery is), yet the Christian should probably have more self-control than to drink to the brink of debauchery. It's just a matter of personal governance.

So IMO, Christianity does indeed have quite a bit of subjectivity, but it's all calibrated around creating good and forging a tight knit relationship with Christ so we can better emulate Him to the world.
[1] "...The group [Lehi] referred to its members as terrorists and admitted to having carried out terrorist attacks."

[2] "... The Irgun has been viewed as a terrorist organization ... , In particular, the Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by ... the 1946 Zionist Congress and the Jewish Agency"

Seems like everyone agreed they are terrorists... But, even then:

[2] " However, Bruce Hoffman and Max Abrahms [claims] ... the Irgun went to considerable lengths to avoid harming civilians, such as issuing pre-attack warnings;"

So turns out it very easy to separate terrorist from freedom fighter. Just see if civilians are one of their targets. Multiple suicide bombing in public buses in the past and Rockets on civilians [3] in the present tells us all the story we need about the org that sent them. (See the "Motives" section in [3])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_...
Because consumer found wifi more convenient and serves them well.
In some areas, mainly microcontrollers especially with additional custom features. But not really in the high end at this point.
Of all the reasons, I was stunned with how much detail went into the work at seeing the little globe/Earth in the satellite orbits section -- the Earth has the weather patterns and clouds running in animation as you spin the globe around!
ARM China has gone rogue:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731

That was a big chunk of business to give away for free. Now you have a Western ARM, and an Eastern ARM competing with each other, in a market which Western ARM used to have all to its self. That can't be good for your valuation.
Ninja edit: I blogged about it here if you want to see the script, predictions, and measurements: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/measuring-the-tonga-erup...
I interned in sales. One of my jobs was logging into CRM, counting how many people have tasks to do today / tomorrow / overdue.

Count how many deals moved since last day. Count deals value in the basket for specific stages.

It would take me 15 minutes a day, before I spent 15 minutes automating it. I know this is extreme example, but one that happened in my job. That was a startup with some of the best VCs in Europe.

Another international unicorn, had me create a marketing campaign and then copy the data from the marketing software into an excel. Just copy it like date, name of campaign, number of target users.

I guess I spent like 30 minutes a day doing this. Just copying stuff from one web app to a spreadsheet.

Automating customer service is hard, but work is so manual people in the programming field I think have no idea. Also made me unable to work in marketing or sales as I would just want to spend time automating stuff.
Feynman Lectures are incredible and available for free!

I actually first learned about calculus from this chapter :)

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_08.html
This isn't "hacking". This is "using". As long as the current vocabulary is used, it will be advantageous for "hardware hostage takers".
Hello, I’m the maintainer!

You’re right about the lack of a C runtime being intentional. However, C programs can be run if you take on the task of keeping them up-to-date: https://gokrazy.org/prototyping/

Regarding WiFi, we have https://github.com/gokrazy/wifi which currently only works for unencrypted WiFi. If at some point there is a Go solution to configure encrypted WiFi, I’m all for it!
TSC cycles likely have more precision than any other clocks on a modern computer. They are also low cost to read.

Early systems with TSC and multiple processors (or possibly multiple cores) either didn't synchronize the TSCs or may have done a poor job. If you've got a cpu that reports constant TSC, the rate is declared to not change when the cpu clock is modulated, but it may pause in some low power states. If the cpu reports invariant TSC, it should continue running in all cpu states other than power off.

Anything new enough to have invariant tsc probably has at least all the cores in a single socket properly synchronized. Multi-socket you'd need to read docs or kernel code to know what's specified. OSes often prefer tsc timekeeping, if available, so they've got rules by hardware generation and tests to run when it's not clear. There's some cases where the OS attempts to synchronize the TSCs as well (such as CPU hotplug or startup firmware didn't sync), but they only stay in sync if the clock source for the counter is the same or at least linked.

Hope this helps you find more info.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1068930998
If nobody ever takes more than they give than nobody can give or take anything.
Perhaps getting a copy of SQLite fired at you in a rocket isn't enough to make you part of the user community.
> brings massive amount of content and updates completely for free 9 years!!!

Which can be a bad thing. The Minecraft I played first and the Minecraft I played recently are two different games, and I don't like how overpacked with stuff the new version is.

Most game expansions - paid or not - follow the philosophy of "more of the same", rather than stopping somewhere between that and "less is more". Depending on the game, that can make it tedious.
We know that, at least, thousands of species, including many not catalogged, will be driven to extinction, that large currently inhabited areas will become uninhabitable, that tens or hundreds of millions of those inhabitants will be converted to refugees unable to provide for themselves, and the influx of those refugees will drive temperate nation governments to fascism. If that is not bad enough, I can go on.

The "everything is so uncertain, we must do nothing" line has worn out its welcome. It was dishonest 30 years ago, and is reprehensible today.
If in the matrix you could only look at food, or listen to the wind.
it's not just about high end PCs, though. like i said, something as basic as an SSD has been affordable for nearly a decade, for not high-end builds. but the fact the xbox one and ps4 exist, and didn't come with one by default, means nobody cared. it's a tragedy. whatever hardware level they decide that consoles get for a given generation holds back the development of gaming tech for their entire lifespan.
Eurasians sounds like a neat way to group people who are given a handicap when they apply to Harvard.
The HN search will probably quickly direct you to this post, and you'll remember where you saw it.
Interestingly the previous Labour government had raised the standards for insulation but one of the first things Cameron did was abandon that legislation. This stuff is so frustrating.
France reports nearly half a million new Covid cases, a record increase
Yeah, major VR fanboy. I have umpteen headsets. Meh. It's just been eye crossing eye candy, who needs it. Even the kids who enjoyed it at first are pretty meh about it.

Still, the idea of working in VR is actually good, not the 3d or VR part, but the efficient use of physical space and replacement for multiple monitors.

But I highly doubt it's there yet, FOV and resolution.
This reminds me of the TV Show "Dexter".
Might be useful for some readers. I originally saw the life calendar concept in Tim Urbans excellent TED talk about procrastination a few years back. I couldnt find one on his site so I simply used the ASCII square character on Word and printed out a box for every week from birth until I am 85.

I decided I wanted the weeks bigger so I deleted the already passed weeks, and changed the end date to proposed retirement at 65. It's not fun. I've lost the file but easy enough

The talk https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU
All of the air from here to the Karman line moves over the spot you put your capture machine?
We generally can't get fixed term mortgages that are greater than 3 years.

Most of us have variable mortgages with less conditions placed upon them.
? They are like $20 for single mode fiber which you can run for miles.

https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/11555.html
I will admit that it is impressive to compress this message into several tweets. That said, I have a fundamental problem with the message presented. Biggest one of all is buying into 'hate' speech primarily due to how loosely it is being defined and how eagerly various governments jump on it to curb remnants of free speech. The fact that this is presented to the public and law makers suggests to me that:

1. Author knows his audience and wants to present issues in the language they understand
2. Author believes it

Both could easily be true.
Erasmus Darwin wrote in "A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools":

"For the drink of the more robust children water is preferable, and for the weaker ones, small beer..."

Sounds rather...Darwinian.
I also used baby buddy and it was great.
An alien invasion may be imminent. Then again, it may not.
Not sure I buy the whole "pornography is harmful to women." thing - I can imagine there are several angles to try to make a case for it, and I know it won't matter how much people argue about it, some people will say that baywatch is harmful to women, 50 shades of grey, and perhaps harry potter.

It's fine to have concerns, and I am all for teaching the next generation not to treat people how they see them treated in movies and to care for others even if they aren't as awesome as the 'celebrities' we are sold, or what have you.

I think when it comes to polls we should all know that people taking polls are very likely (or is it mostly likely or slightly likely?) to not be honest about porn. Surely when speaking to someone who is recording what you say and has your phone number, telling them every truth about your views on porn is well skewed.

I also think if you really want to delve into this, it's not right to paint with a broad brush, it would be better to classify dozens of different types of 'porn' and have discussions about the various kinds instead of all porn is X or Y.

I also do not think that ohnlyfans / camming is worse than porn from a decade ago - not sure why you are considering that - perhaps because it is more accessible to the average girl/person you feel that it's more dangerous?

I believe that it's less 'dangerous' for many reasons, and mainly because that kind of work allows you to control what you want in your performing script - as opposed to having to do what others have written, or (what happens sometimes, but not as a general thing) some group trying to get you to do more things once it's started filming, that weren't in the original plan.

I do believe we need more education about not living your real life like you see in the movies, so called 'reality tv', and other media.. how to separate your expectations and not get caught up in binges with pleasurable things that make it so you 'have a problem' - but I don't put it on 'porn' is the mind-control/body-possesion thing if the universe.

Also I'd consider that some porn may be helpful in having conversations with people to get to know more about how things may work, and lead to some good - as we have not gotten better about teaching basic human touch or communication much less sexual touch and intimate talks since the days VHS beat betamax, and without porn, you'd have even less.
Is there more to your pandemic prediction than 14 months before Corona-19 was declared a pandemic your writing "I have an ominous feeling ... for the last few days I had a sense that a pandemic would come" ?

If not, then that doesn't seem a very striking prediction: public health bodies have been apprehensive for years, maintaining (to varying degrees of effectiveness) pandemic preparations. In the past 20 years there has been SARS (mk 1), MERS, several substantial avian influenza outbreaks, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and so on. Even a popular movie "Contagion" (2011) about a pandemic from a novel virus of swine + bat origin.

So there has been plenty of awareness of pandemic risks and the foreboding that someday soon the next mass human pandemic would arrive; plenty for your restless subconcious to haunt your sleep with.
> I'd recommend he look at Aquinas' just war theory

There have been whole books written about this - though I can't blame you for not having read them, many of them are turgid in the extreme. Christian ethics aim to break cycles of recrimination and escalation, but not in general to the point of helpless passivity. Of course the strictures of just war doctrine are considerably harder to square with the de facto imperial power of a country like the United States which is practically and to some extent aspirationally similar to the Roman empire in its heyday.

For a more modern take on the ethics of warfare you might find it interesting to examine the Lieber doctrine, which was instituted during the US civil war and (nominally) still in force in many respects.
If an Arduino can do it, how bad can it be (:

https://crawlingrobotfortress.blogspot.com/2021/10/semigraph...

(Blitting unicode glyphs to screen is not hard or slow; In this project, the glyph rendering code turned into spaghetti to save on space. Cleaner rendering code is possible if using uncompressed bitmap fonts. If there is a concern about size on disk, you could only install the codepages needed for a given locale? But then again, unless you include the various pages of Chinese characters, we're still talking no more than a few hundred K to store all of Unicode as a bitmap font. True, handling combining modifiers probably would increase binary size and maintenance costs, but again... if it fits on an Arduino it's probably OK for the desktop. And if you're already OK with not supporting unicode, you're probably OK with supporting most of unicode except combining modifiers.)
The fact that you think this has anything to do with personal responsibility makes it clear you don’t understand the circumstances these people find themselves in.
Yeah in the end, this may be the only killer app for VR. Replacing multiple monitors.

Think about all the space multiple monitor desk environments takes up in the real, and how little space a VR replacement takes up via the virtual.

The other cool thing is the separation between home and work. Once the headset is off, work is done. That separation is actually very important, and ironically it's actually the worst thing about playing in VR while being the best thing about working in VR.

Financially, we're possibly talking up to a $100K if you think about how much a fully separated and furnished home office can cost. That's a real value prop.
> There is no danger of overloading the depths with CO2 or acidity. The sheer volume of deep ocean water to disperse the surface CO2 into is overwhelmingly greater than what could be pumped from the surface in even the largest conceivable process.

Do you have any source or actual maths on that claim? As in the aspect that pumping CO2 into seawater would not significantly increase ocean acidification?

I thought ocean acidification is basically one of those extinction level events. It affects the building of shells in crustaceans and the ability for fish to hunt (see shark electroceptors) it basically is a catalyst to disrupt the food chain all the way up to us, no?
The experimental farm network has them for sale - apparently they'll be available March-April.

https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/monkey-pu...
80 Better
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Golfing is not the best representation of day to day text editing, but I must say that optimal Kakoune solutions are usually pretty close to normal workflow.