skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maps in Commonwealth countries made by their geophysical departments tend to have Crown copyright rather than Crown authorization. Unlike US government products which are by definition and law, not considered subject to copyright (ie are in the public domain).
A better compromise is to insist on this:

(
"one",
(
"a very very"
"long long two"
),
"three"
)

And of course a,b should be syntactically invalid. It must be (a,b)
Prime example: if you go to any article about "OKR methodology" you will find the authors stating that it was OKRs that made Google what it is. If your manager sees such an article, you will be switching to OKRs instantly.
IANAL, but I don't think so. See, for example, the famous R v. Dudley and Stephens case concerning cannibalism at sea [0].

The group was shipwrecked, surviving on a turtle and drinking their own urine. The victim, Richard Parker, was apparently in a coma. Despite these mitigating circumstances, the two defendants, Dudley and Stephens, were sentenced to six months each in prison.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens
Nope, this was from the same supplier as used by the supermarket. In fairness to them it might have been one day fresher than the stuff you get in the shop alright.
You're still missing my point: your claim about Gorbachov having no memories of NATO borders negotioations is false, the sole purpose of my comment was to debunk it. There's one thing I can agree with you though: this argument had really taken imbecilic position.
Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub
Completely independently of a mars colony, this would be an interesting experiment.

You might want to start with just building a very large east/west solar installation to create a large shaded area, then some water extraction systems and high intensity greenhouses. And obviously give the whole place very good internet connection.

It would not have to be fully closed, like biosphere 2. Many things you don't have to worry about, like CO2 from concrete accumulating. You can even have a bit of water loss.

But the problem is this: if you are successful and create some thriving city there, one of the neighbouring countries will suddenly discover some long lost claim to the land and annex it.
My layman's understanding of earthquakes is that they have a heavy tailed probability distribution which makes predictions fundamentally difficult. Does ML (as in this approach) get around that somehow?
You don't run youtube either, so why is what you think relevant?

For all you know it could be C&D letters, not all the vids have been stricken.

You've an obvious axe to grind, which is fine, but does not give you the right to dictate what is and is not misinformation, nor harmful.
Do you have any good resources / links for a beginner who wants to understand the fundamental theory behind chords, scales, etc? Especially in a way that lets me easily re-derive stuff and not memorize as much.

E.g. I just learned from my roommates that I can form the major chord for any note by adding the keys that are 4 half-steps and 7 half-steps higher. And then swap out the 4 half-steps higher key for 3 half-steps higher to make the minor chord. Very cool :)
The lesson here is some of us aren’t selfish. Ive paid all my debts, and I found it awful. I would rather a greater proportion of humans weren’t debt slaves
This isn’t constructive to the conversation
Survivor bias is a thing.

It reminds me of all the stories of the young college drop out with the successful company… that’s been funded by their rich parents.
It's not allowed in the Netherlands and Belgium. I thought it also wasn't allowed in the other european countries but I'm not a 100% sure about that.

If the police are allowed to lie about evidence then this undermines the suspects chances for a fair trial (false confession). If the defense can show at a trial that the police lied during the interrogation, this would impact the chance for a conviction. At least this is how it works in the EU. In the US, I have the impression the judges don't take this into account.
This is often used as an argument against space settlement. How can they build a settlement on Mars if they can't even build a settlement in Antarctica.

But doing anything like resource extraction or permanent settlement is simply not allowed by the antarctic treaty system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System, and would be heavily fought by all the signatories of that system.
Great Programming with ImportC
>OKRs

Today I learned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
> Did they hate firewalls?

What's a firewall? By that I mean, firewall wasn't a thing when FTP was designed.
I watch some live Fortnite on Twitch from time to time before falling asleep as I sometimes play with my son. Now I am a natural skeptic but I'm actually a little embarrassed to admit it, but a Twitch one of these scams actually had me for a few minutes. I don't own any crypto but it actually had me searching for the best way to get some bitcoin fast as I didn't want to miss out on this gift from Elon. If I actually owned any crypto I might have fallen for it fully, it was that good of a trick. It was so good I told some my wife the next day I saw one of the best scams in a while.

It was exactly as you described - with Elon Musk looking like he was "live" and the chat was busy and full of people saying "it worked for me. Thanks Elon!" type stuff. Even the channel had used ElonMusk in its name. I honestly thought I was just lucky and happened to catch a billionaire, who is also a known crypto supporter, being generous and trying to get more people into crypto as well by giving some away to the lucky few who caught him live.

What stopped me obviously is me not actually owning any crypto and not being able to get some instantly and without large fees, but also a few things that didn't feel right in the gut. Like the channel was something like "ElonMusk3239". I thought "surely Twitch would make sure the real one didn't need to have the 3,239th account with his name".

Also the website the link directed you to in the chat looked a little to simple and supposedly showing in real-time all the lucky people getting double along with all the crypto addresses - ALL without any sort of signup or verification, etc. You just submitted everything right there and boom you would get double back. Reminded me of those "free VBucks" website my son has come across before.

The final reality was when the channel got taken down while I was watching and another popped up within a minute in the Live Chat area again but with another ElonMuskxxxx name. Then that would get taken down and again another popped up. That is when I realized Twitch was currently in a battle with some group trying to scam crypto.

Definitely one of the most realistic looking scams I've seen in a while.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
> Tabbed Finder windows are the most useless thing ever.

Hard disagree. I use them all the time.
On this note, there is also a talk at last's year CppCon.

"Making Libraries Consumable for Non-C++ Developers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r09pv9v1w0
>But that’s because such measures exclude the very asset the person borrowed to buy—an education that increases lifetime earnings. That’s like assessing a homeowner’s wealth by counting their mortgage balance but not the value of their home.

The value of a higher education that it's sold to young people with is the income it allegedly brings in. If that's the case someone uses the product and their income goes up then we already have a means to tax that income it's called income tax. If the product fails to deliver that income but the money is still taken (and as others mention in a non dischargeable way) then I don't see how that isn't fradulent.
Learn to seperate tools from garbage.
Maps is a tool (actually i still like navigation without it).
Social media is a garbage.
all push notifications are garbage.
Messaging is a tool without push notifications.
Banking is a tool.
Most phone games are garbage.
Many apps are garbage because any hint of adult content is banned. And guess what: I’m an adult.
You can go wild with S3 ACLs, including limiting by IP.
It's a Bethesda game. So it needs mods to truly be appreciated. Doubly so 11 years after release.

I did this with Oblivion, glad I did cuz I love that game
parallels meaning running Linux in a virtual machine on a m1 Mac? yes you can
I had issues with an external display which were solved by using a USB-C to DisplayPort cable (supports 4K@60Hz). USB-C to HDMI in particular didn't work well.
Ehh, I'd rather society focus on stable foundations that allow for thinking, tinkering and inventions, rather than moonshot attempts at getting rich that destroy you if they fail.
"Harmful" is a big, big hammer. It may crush something you enjoy next.

Isn't sitting on Hacker News a harmful waste of time?
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.

For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA.
Yeah. I sometimes compare it to gardening. You take care of the causes, and let mother nature take care of the consequences.

As said below though, practice is an entirely different thing from intellectual understanding.
No, I'm not. And this line of reasoning doesn't refute my original point anyway that moving to a different state is easier than moving to a different country.

Let's try approaching this from a different angle. Let's have X be the number of Americans who have the resources, knowledge, and paperwork required to move to a different state. And lets have Y be the number of Americans who have the same requirements, but to move to a different country. Surely you can agree that X is a much larger number than Y, right?
You've not watched any Kurzgesagt have you? Sit down for a wild ride:

https://youtube.com/c/inanutshell
Being able to only upvote you once feels so little.

Many thanks to sharing this information with us.
Many phones dont boot without a sim. I dont have pinephone but it looks promising in this regard
If you can't get applications to handle events on linux, good luck with a hobbyist pet-OS.
> Unfortunately, this assumption has failed the test of time

I can't agree that it has failed the test of time. Peer to peer is still the superior solution to nearly every problem.

What happened is that the Internet became commercialized and now profit runs everything. Centralized solutions are better at: injecting advertising, tracking users, requiring subcriptions, ensuring lock-in and preventing interoperability. None of these are good qualities for anyone involved, except the company making the profit. But these companies now rule the internet, so they hate peer to peer.
You're welcome! Thanks for the reply and the expansion!
There's nothing stylish about being an alcoholic, but people often conflate the two because plenty of prominent, stylish people were also alcoholics. Drinking didn't make them stylish, and anyone who thinks getting lit will turn them into Keith Richards is probably a massive burden on everyone who has to put up with them.
Not precisely. What makes a "take" hot is its provocative or controversial nature. It's not quite flamebait -- that implies more of a deliberate attempt to sow discord -- but it's along the same lines.
A lot of our biggest and most transformative "successes" have come at a price, and so do some of the biggest failure. I think the jury is out on net gain.
> the calculation of an athlete's Vo2 max really isn't all that useful

I can hear thousands of Garmin owners screaming about this comment as they obsess over their VO2 Max.
Dont they say you do not invest in the idea but in the team (and hope the succesful pivot makes you rich)?
Or a fully static host, like Netlify, Firebase Hosting, CloudFlare Pages, etc. which have extremely generous free tiers. I got twice to top ~15 of the HN front page, including once briefly at #1, within a month ( the billing period) and got to only ~90% of my bandwidth allowance of the Firebase Hosting free tier ( which isn't the most generous one).

Not only is it cheaper, it's also with less hassle ( there's nothing to manage, you just send static HTML / code to build to static HTML).
Side note.

One of the cooler things I ever saw Claus Gittinger do with his innovative Smalltalk/X was implement a user space file system interface to the Smalltalk image/object memory.

You fired up a Smalltalk virtual machine, and then did a mount. The root Smalltalk namespace became the mount root. Classes were directories, subclasses sub directories I think?. Methods showed up as files, meta data (like class properties) showed up as special files (dot files maybe? It’s been too long). Because Smalltalk/X had private (or scoped) classes, Namespaces wet just classes themselves.

It was pretty cool. You could grep, ls, navigate.

But it wasn’t just for viewing! If you vim’ed a method/file and saved it, it changed the method. Of the live system? Want to rename the class? Just mv it. Also useful for changing class hierarchies.

And because Smalltalk, was this crazy navel gazing virtual machine with turtles all the way down… you could cd to the very objects that molementuaons of the live user space file driver!

I think the author of the original article is naive though.

While this was cool and meta, it actually demonstrated one of the problems that the Smalltalk Browser with its direct integration to live object memory of code objects was trying to solve.

A rich full self hosted all-objects system was not small. In these years, you could get a cool poster from Microsoft showing the class framework for MFC C++. It was like 300 classes. A full up VisualWorks or Smalltalk/X image might have 2,000. When I would do meta analysis on Smalltalk method ASTs, it was not uncommon to traverse 20,000 methods.

Today, I don’t do Smalltalk, haven’t for nearly 10 years now. I still find programming with files very quaint. It’s like we’re stuck in a world where VHS beat Beta…
Wrote an essay a few years back on how to critically dissect a success story: https://invertedpassion.com/how-to-critically-dissect-a-succ...

I think there's definitely a lot to learn from success stories, but being critical and actively engaging with counterfactuals is the key to getting that benefit.
As the good old Tanenbaum quote goes: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway".

I work a lot with video production and mailing SD cards or driving around hard drives is still the best way to transfer data quickly and cheaply. The cloud is too expensive (both storage and egress) and P2P (Syncthing) is too slow with more than 2 contributors. Despite most of my regular team now having FTTH (except me!!), we still manually transfer media files and use P2P for the rest of the project.
How Racket Started
"Objectives and key results (OKR, alternatively OKRs) is a goal setting framework used by individuals, teams, and organizations to define measurable goals and track their outcomes. The development of OKR is generally attributed to Andrew Grove who introduced the approach to Intel during his tenure there. John Doerr published an OKR book which is called "Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs" in 2017."
It reminds me of Onyxia in WoW, where the leading theory for a long time was that you needed Damage over time spells (DoTs) on her to prevent her from doing her damaging fire breaths, which would wipe the entire raid group.
Turns out it was just random (confirmed by a developer long after), but it is interesting the meaning that can and will be assigned to random events. Probably the same mechanism that causes myths and eventually religion to form in real life.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.

For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA. That's the testing one we had on our site as we're testing the latest release of our self-hosted version on our own website. This has nothing to do with what our customers place on their sites.
Workers comp for death is always paid without any dispute. There isn't even a hearing.

There is no such thing as "workers comp law," so even though they advertise as such, there's no such thing as a "workers comp lawyer." They're personal injury lawyers, personal injury being a type of civil law.

If an insurance company refuses a claim, there is a right to appeal. That's a hearing before a judge or mediator. If won, and the insurance company still doesn't pay, your personal injury lawyer will file a personal injury lawsuit on your behalf.

Did you read the thread? OP believes it's a conspiracy. There's no conspiracy, only bureaucracy. If a claim is denied, it will most likely be because there is a problem with the application, i.e. an error made by the applicant, and not because employers and their insurance companies have teams of high powered attorneys that all day every day work to make sure no one gets paid workers comp. That's ridiculous.

The fact of the matter is that only 7% of workers comp claims are denied. Only 5% get to an appeal hearing, and only a tiny fraction resolve in lawsuit. 93% of all workers comp claims are accepted outright without a fight.
Indeed. Through the 90s at $JOBS, my desktop workstation has a public IP address and was directly on the Internet without any kind of firewalling.

Sendmail ran locally and I'd send/receive email to/from the world directly on my workstation. Same for FTP, HTTP, etc. That's how the Internet was originally intended to operate.
> I think I learned more about eastern philosophy by taking a taichi class than I ever did reading about it or listening to lectures.

Yes. Before Covid I did some lessons too. Very humbling experience when you've only intellectualized so far. When Covid hit, I did some Qi Gong in the morning and it did wonders for my meditation.
Because they actually are, the fact that they use the Linux kernel is an implementation detail.

Termux folks keep hitting walls, because they refuse to acknowledge these are the only APIs they are allowed to call.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

So when they make use of other Linux stuff that according to Google are private APIs, things don't go well.

As for ChromeOS, the kernel isn't exposed to userspace in any form, which are basically Webapps.

Running Linux applications on Chrome OS makes use of a secondary distribution in a VM, pretty much similar to how WSL 2 works on Windows.

So they might use the Linux kernel, yet they are far away from being distros that can easily run the GNU stuff.
I am not remotely excited for any reboots. I don't want Stargate: Discovery
> Can anyone recommend resources to learn this (and tell me if harmonization is the proper term)?

Harmonization is the right word.

http://openmusictheory.com/

(But, as the name suggests, it's not a shortcut rules-of-thumb bypassing the theory kind of resource.)
An honest question - what is the problem with inconsistency in using lambda calculus as a programming language and not as foundation of mathematics?

"""The lambda calculus was introduced by mathematician Alonzo Church in the 1930s as part of an investigation into the foundations of mathematics.[7][a] The original system was shown to be logically inconsistent in 1935 when Stephen Kleene and J. B. Rosser developed the Kleene–Rosser paradox.[8][9]"""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#History
Djokovic to be deported from Australia after court upholds visa cancellation
Does anyone know a site that collects failure stories? Would be nice to check it out.
I have a theory of "software literacy" where software is a new form of literacy - and everyone should become literate. All you are saying here is that businesses will be populated by people who can ... read and write. I think there will
come a time when businesses stop outsourcing their reading and writing to external dev shops, but that's not the idea you are thinking about.

IMO your idea is "a dev shop will write lots of paragraphs in such a way they can be fitted together by an illiterate person using config"

I think putting it that way highlights the problems

Edit: another way to look at it is that managers "design" a company with policies and hiring etc. When a company is "software mediated" then the management is now one step removed from reality of the design of the company - the code is the design and the coders are the new managers

Before software you were hiring people to follow your written policies and your occasional orders as policy did not meet reality. Now with software mediated companies, you are hiring people to write the actual policies - and as you do not / cannot be specific enough except in code the actual design is done for the managers - in short management moves to be either the coders or the managers are investors. Either way the "management" work becomes that of coders.

And management this means writing code. Don't write code? not a manager. you can be an investor, a visionary, an accountant and budget holder. All fine. but not actually an executive
One issue I’ve seen with the Aura N95 is that the straps are flimsy and snap after several days of occasional use. I wish they’d make the straps stronger.
I'm surprised that there was no mention of AlphaFold2.
I like the essay - thanks
Last time I bought a car the process involved multiple people that was there only because of a centralized database. First of all I need a contract with a dealership, so there is a lawyer involved. Then I pay for a car (cashier) take my contract and go to a special road police department that exists only to register car ownership transfers. There I have one guy that takes my contract, another who will check it and fill-in data into the centralized database. So we are looking at least 3-4 people who are there only to review documents and authorize update to a centralized database.

Instead of this I could have pay to a smart contract and get my car ownership record in exchange. No clerks or lawyers involved. I cannot imagine how you implement this scenario as an API on top of a centralized database.
And it spread well beyond KFC. Christmas is the fried chicken day.
I too wouldn’t get anything done and would forget everything if it weren’t for the Reminders app on my iPhone.

In the past I tried more GTD focused apps with contexts, inboxes, start dates, due dates etc. but I’d spend more time tinkering with my todo’s than actually doing them.

Now I just dump something into the app with a due date of today. At the end of the day if I cannot do it, I move it to a sensible day I know I can do it, or if I still don’t know, tomorrow.

Also great for keeping track of repeating tasks like home maintenance.
My mother got me to listen to the directors commentary of SG-1 and there are real gems in there.

For example, how the early seasons had a 1,2,3 use of the phasers. Zap 'em once, and they are incapacitated, twice and they are dead, and 3... cleans up the mess... They abandoned it later because it was "too convenient".

Also, take notice of the giant wrench that appears from time to time in the background scenes in the base.

Also, there are so many callbacks and references in every episode, you really can spend hours or days drawing lines through story elements to see how long running some jokes are in the later parts of the series.
We don't know that. We have a single report so far, just like GM apparently got.