skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked up cases of the event, found multiple instances of it happening, and found evidence that the UAE government responded to the existence of the event happening which confirms from the government sources that it existed.

I keep finding facts that support this view because the facts are still there. Why are you acting like this isn’t real at all? I even asked for some evidence that this is no longer occurring which I could believe given the UAE government has taken steps to combat it, but you just want to call people flat earthers.

At this point the only one who seems to have an agenda is you and your attempts to shut down any conversation around the topic
I live in a civilised country... France.
We work 37h a week (in France is usually 35 but engineers do have contracts that allow for more hours but you get more vacations as compensation ).
I do get 35 days of vacation a year (mandatory... you have to take them all).
Sick leave is paid up to 180 days. Nobody would dare to complain to you for being sick.... I actually had a colleague that was on sick leave for 2 months then got back and after 2 weeks took 3 weeks of vacation (you keep earning vacation days even if you are on sick leave).
As in most European countries my master degree in engineering was almost for free (so no debt).
Working environment is very relaxed plus we are all unionised (I remember some years ago we were asked to work overtime for the firs time ever, but since it was with very short notice - for that very same evening - some people got upset and decided to leave earlier than usual... no repercussion whatsoever).
Again since I live in a civilised country retirement will be taken care by the government (but I does also my employer pay a supplementary retirement plan for me).
I do indeed leave 15m away from my office...my home is 50m from the beach and since covid we are teleworking 3 days out of 5 (and this is going to last forever).

I am indeed lucky for having great mental and physical health (and so does every family member). But if I was ever to get sick I would get free health care from the state.

There is a mix of luck (health and being born in the rich part of Europe) and wise choices (I am not a French native but I moved in the south of France to further improve my life).

Point is that I don't know nobody personally that ever had a burnout... it is very uncommon here.
What makes you think HN would allow such links?
It proves that the valuations are somewhat rational.
> Importantly, the new code in the infringing product is still copyrighted, and that copyright is owned by the person who wrote that code even though they also violated the GPL license of other code.

I thought the "one GPL file touched these other files and made them all GPL too!" vibe coming off the thread felt a bit weird! But I'd read something about the GPL being a viral license somewhere so wasn't quite twigging that no that's not what that means. Thanks.

I've incidentally been looking for a good dense steak to chew through on software licensing that's maybe dense but leaves me with a properly calibrated mental model that lets me answer simple non-normative questions without pining for counsel :). Something with good signal-to-noise ratio that eschews circumstantial drama to focus on theory and how things (have) play(ed) out in practice in nuanced and unintuitive situations. I wonder if something like this even exists...?
if we are comparing web 2.0 to the current "web3", they are completely different, poles apart.

at least web 2.0 does not lose people tons of money and was immediately useful. "web3" is based on blockchains that are slow, full of disasters and ultimately resembles a ponzi scheme with imaginary tokens.
Is that 24 year figure ignoring dividends?
Used to maintain my emacs.d in github. These days, I just use spacemacs because I'm getting lazy.
Every properly controlled independent study has shown that switching from animal fats to seed oils does nothing to reduce heart disease. It lowers cholesterol, but if lowering cholesterol does not reduce heart disease, then cholesterol is not the problem in the first place, and nor are saturated fats.

In fact, seed oils have a negative impact on health. Not only do they radically throw off the omega 6/3 balance, they are also inherently unstable in comparison to saturated fats, and they oxidize quickly. They also produce more toxic byproducts when heated.

The big farm / FDA unholy alliance that resulted in the modern western diet switching to seed oils, only made heart disease worse.

The tide has been turning for a while now, as the research has become more and more solid and obvious, but you still find plenty of farm, governmental, and medical blowhards ignoring the science, and promoting a seed-oil based diet.
According to Popperian epistemology, there are no justified beliefs, only guesses that have been exposed to tests of some sort. I think David Deutsch has even used a formulation of words something similar to: "you shouldn't believe things".

Isn't that a meaningless distinction? If I've tested my hypothesis, isn't "believe" perfectly fine as a label for how you think about it then? It is, but when people use that word they often have in mind that the source of the knowledge is important -- it isn't. I think that is what's behind most of the "I believe in Science" statements. What's really important is rather how vulnerable to attack an idea is.

Edit: "believe in" also tends to get used with the implication that a time needs to arrive where you make a decision that a hypothesis is true. That also goes against Popperian epistemology, which says rather that all ideas remain subject to correction forever.
Alas, I don't reside nor am from the EU .
I grew up a military brat, and have studied this shit for years. While I never thought the Russians (or Soviets) were 10ft tall, I never in a million years thought they would be this utterly incompetent. I have some Estonian friends who were concerned about Russia steamrolling them before NATO could really respond (they joke that Russia considers Estonia a suburb of St. Petersburg). And I always empathized with them. No strategic depth, minimal forces, ethnic Russians in the Baltics who could be used by Putin as a casus belli. And NATO seemed sclerotic and weak.

Now? I think that NATO could easily handle almost anything Russia could throw at it, short of nukes.

It really is amazing how poorly they've performed. And the BTG concept has been utterly disproven as a brittle, unsustainable force.
Shocking how I’m going back to my childhood Limewire days and torrenting everything now after I’ve been burned by streaming services and offline downloads. Here are my attempts…

1) Apple TV - Some weird DRM issue prevented playback of a movie that couldn’t be resolved due to being on a plane.

2) Hulu - “Downloaded movie not available in this country”

3) Apple TV - I tested playback of a rented movie (because of 1) but this started a timer and I lost access to the movie before my flight

4) Prime TV - Downloaded a couple movies to my phone so that I could AirPlay to my laptop on the plane, but Amazon has disabled AirPlay.

I’m done always second guessing if the “right” way of doing things is going to work. I just want media files on my laptop now.
yeah I think I'd rather keep using my daily contacts and put on some non-corrective AR glasses.
As there are currently no Javascript dependencies, it is possible to use the site using EWW: M-x eww https://emacs.amodernist.com/ RET.

That being said, the screenshots get in the way so it isn't that great (ironically emacs -nw appears to work better). But a long term goal is to find a way in which the configuration options could be detached from the configuration generator, as mentioned in the last section here: http://amodernist.com/texts/ecg.html. An alternative could also be to have the configuration generator generate an Elisp script, that could be evaluated and used in Emacs itself.

The reason that I decided to implement this for the browser first, is that the interface is probably more familiar, especially if someone has had no experience with Emacs before.
True enough. This is why the simulation hypothesis is so interesting - i.e. the notion we are all living in a perfect VR simulation that never glitches. Science can't be used to address the veracity of that hypothesis, much to the apparent dismay of the fundamentalist atheists. I really lost interest in Richard Dawkins after he said something like "I won't answer silly questions about whether chairs and tables are real".

Similarly, one could argue that supernatural beings from alternative universes are constantly intervening in local events, but they make sure to do it only when the scientists aren't watching.

Personally I don't really care if we're working out the rules of the simulation or the rules of base reality, as we can't distinguish between the two.
To be clear, the above was meant as satire. Maybe not a good example of the form though.
Eating a lot of salt raises it a point or two for an hour or so.

Let's get our 'simple chemistry' right.
There's this idea of a "city as a museum", to normalize the balance of power you describe.

In NYC there's a very similar balance of power. On some rarefied streets, it's illegal to change the silhouette or facade of a building, because it's an "historic district".

But if you go 40 minutes outside of lower manhattan, relatively affordable housing abounds and there are essentially no rules. The "museum" core creeps outwards, but with sloth-like predictability.

You're right, these places are not "for you/us". They're for people whose means allow them to make mole hills out of the mountains you describe (access to education, public transit, quality housing), and for the rest of us, who are willing to compromise their ideals and cope with the egregious terms and conditions.

Your solutions make sense in a utilitarian sense, but this is not a sense that appeals homeowners who have already rationalized away the irrational aspects of the status quo. Generations of experience have shown that, absent some highly-destructive disaster, it's cheaper to move to place you perceive to align with your ideals, or to change your own ideals, than it is to change the ideals of zoning policy.

There is a selfish component to this vector of development, but it's reductionist to say it's the only component. At any given point in time, the selfish component is there; but at many points in time it is not the biggest contributor.
probably a twitter employee manufacturing the truth
War is terrible for people. I want to state that because sometimes people fixate on technical systems.

Tanks are expensive, missiles that can defeat tanks are cheap. But the question is, what is a replacement good for a tank? What fills the role? What is the role?

Does it take a platoon to replace a tank?

The lifetime value of a human is only going up. Most soldiers go on to take jobs and contribute to the economy of a nation.

You could think of a tank saving the lives of the 3 people inside it, or the lives of the 10 or 20 people it would take to fill the role if the tank was not available. You could think of the days, hours, or minutes of fighting it might save, which might translate to many more lives saved.

Also consider the political cost of loss of life.

I don't think it is AT ALL clear how to evaluate the relative costs here. One would have to consider the mission at hand and the value of that mission.
very poetic, where is this from?
Now I'm really curious what the cost of a modern U.S. soldier is. Recruitment and acquisition, training, outfitting, salary, food, etc. And if you build a tank once then you can park it in a warehouse nearly in perpetuity, whereas I expect humans require much more upkeep to retain skills and replace from turnover.

I'm guessing the total lifetime cost of a trained soldier is less than $8.9M but I wouldn't be suprised to find that the figures are comparable in the end.
I like it. I installed Doom Emacs a few weeks back but had to give it up. I personally don’t like to bring in a huge config set in the beginning. I like this idea and will try to give it a spin.
Why does perl being linked have anything to do with that? The perl script itself is GPL...

Anyway, all it does is convert from texinfo to pod formats, so that should be easily doable by some other tool or by the author themselves, if that is the only remaining violation, might as well address that.
Conventional wisdom has things exactly backwards; going back to the rise of the Information Age (say, 1980), the long-term trend is growth.

The bubbles are the brief, unsustainable periods when valuations are temporarily down. Yes, they’re bound to happen every now and then. But sure as anything, they pop and we return to normal (i.e., growth).
We are currently pushing close to 80tb mssql on prem instances.

The biggest issue we have with these giant dbs is they require pretty massive amounts of RAM. That's currently our main bottle neck.

But I agree. While our design is pretty bad in a few ways, the amount of data that we are able to serve from these big DBs is impressive. We have something like 6 dedicated servers for a company with something like 300 apps. A hand full of them hit dedicated dbs.

Were I to redesign the system, I'd have more tiny dedicated dbs per app to avoid a lot of the noisy neighbor/scaling problems we've had. But at the same time, It's impressive how far this design has gotten us and appears to have a lot more legs on it.
Good to know. He's currently using both screens via DisplayPort with USB-C going from the HP hub back to the computer - might need to consider other options to see if they will work better.
You're forgetting to adjust for inflation. The 1927 bubble - adjusted for inflation - took closer to the late 1990s to get a reasonable return (when you were going into the second biggest bubble of all time). Nearly every investor would've died by then.

Adjusting for inflation using shadow stats, you'd still have lost money.

With the Florida land bubble - you're also forgetting property taxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZxZ_YzsD_w
I don't know that much about SVG, but if it's vectorial, why even have decimal points? I guess 1 represents 1 pixel, but why? 100 could means 1 pixel too... and if that's enough precision to you, you'll even save a few hundreds dots in your file size ;) (though it's true that 1% of the time you would also save 2 digits and the dot, and 10% of the time you'll save a digit).
No I asked a metric or something substancial to back up this claim, here is another one since I can smell British humour here :
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=is+the+earth+flat
compelling counter-argument
Very neat tool. Ive been getting more and more into using emacs. I like the options you provide like disabling the tool bar, line numbers etc. these are quality of life changes that probably everybody goes through.

The most difficult part for me was setting up a LSP with golang. I would say it was difficult because I was trying to rush through by copying random bits from everywhere to make it work.

I did eventually get it to work but then noticed I have no idea modify or tinker with anything without fear of bricking my setup.

So i started fresh and actually made a point to try to understand what each lisp snippet is used for and did my best to just get default
packages without any extra flavor or config all while keeping track of it in git. Its been fun learning lisp.
Is it ethical to recommend Clickhouse? I had done a PoC a long while ago before the war but I am not sure it is ethical to recommend this to enterprises given its origins?
Financing and pricing!

Substack crunched the numbers, figured out how much people were willing to pay for certain bloggers' materials. Then they found some very prominent bloggers and paid them huge advances to join the platform. It was very risky but it clearly worked.

And now we are seeing the downstream market adapting in kind.
It is very real, unfortunately. I handles contract often and have clients who demands for wet signature, even during the pandemic. Majority of that coming from public sector.
I can see that distinction. I think this might get me to poke at Emacs again because the starter kits I've tried feel like they just include too many damn batteries. :)
Isn't it kind of dangerous to make these types of plans regarding humans well into the future? We're talking two to three decades of potential leeway time until a new generation from birth to workforce will occupy these homes. A lot can change in 30 years. 30 years ago China was an extremely poor country, 30 years from now it can easily go the way of Japan with births crawling to a near halt.

It's one thing to plan infrastructure (building railways, ports, and energy), but another to hopefully assume the human element will be consistent.

It reminds me of the of when Romania in the late 1970s banned abortion and contraceptives [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
Why don't you keep your politics off lol. The vast majority disagrees with you. If you think you're enlightened, good for you.
Not to go in circles here, so the ultimate point here is same as the article: there have and will continue to be a threat / counter threat environment and will continue to evolve.

What we are witnessing from Russia is not how armor should be employed. Armor is not suddenly obsoleted due to tech that’s been out for decades. That take is probably overly simplistic and wrong.

By the way, I’m a big proponent of FD2030.
Depends on the industry. In most web services, applications, and desktop software shops; you don't. You track them informally through various tests your team may or may not maintain (ugh) and you'll hardly ever encounter any documentation or specification, formal or informal of any kind, ever.

I wish this wasn't the case but it's been the reality in my experience and I've been developing software for 20+ years. I'm the rare developer that will ask questions and write things down. And if it seems necessary I will even model it formally and write proofs.

Some industries it is required in some degree. I've worked in regulated industries where it was required to maintain Standard Operating Procedures documents in order to remain compliant with regulators. These documents will often outline how requirements are gathered, how they are documented, and include forms for signing off that the software version released implements them, etc. There are generally pretty stiff penalties for failing to follow procedure (though for some industries I don't think those penalties are high enough to deter businesses from trying to cut corners).

In those companies that had to track requirements we used a git repository to manage the documentation and a documentation system generated using pandoc to do things like generate issue-tracker id's into the documentation consistently, etc.

A few enterprising teams at Microsoft and Amazon are stepping up and building tooling that automates the process of checking a software implementation of a formal specification. For them mistakes that lead to security vulnerabilities or missed service level objectives can spell millions of dollars in losses. As far as I'm aware it's still novel and not a lot of folks are talking about it yet.

I consider myself an advocate for formal methods but I wouldn't say that it's a common practice. The opinions of the wider industry about formal methods are not great (and that might have something to do with the legacy of advocates past over-promising and under-delivering). If anything at least ask questions and write things down. The name of the game is to never be fooled. The challenge is that you're the easiest person to fool. Writing things down, specifications and what not, is one way to be objective with yourself and overcome this challenge.
Unlike Node, here you can just copy the binary over. Rust binaries are statically-linked by default (though C dependencies can complicate that).
well that settles it then. thanks for clearing that up
So what you're describing is the work of a director - work that should be paid but that I intentionally excluded from my example because a lot of people just think by default that directors should "own" the company because that's the status quo.

I still think that directors should be well compensated commensurate with their capability and role. I just think that they shouldn't be able to exclusively control and take the profits generated by the work of everybody involved. Corporations are autocratic or oligarchic in that way - this leads to the select few that society seems worthy of profit control having more power in our society. This is because the owners can keep workers' wages as low as the market will sustain while inflating their own total compensation to absurd proportions, as we've seen. With a cooperative structure everybody involved has a stake in controlling the company, so executives have to take everybody's needs including the workers, into account, instead of just looking out for themselves and investors.

As for where the exploitation comes in - it probably comes down to different perspectives on the word. To me, it's exploitation if one person is profiting off the labour of another. Of course in a company the shareholders are often also working, but if a company grows to a billion dollars from a million its not because the directors are working 100x harder.
You're right, nothing is made to last.

But Macbooks aren't any better.. You'll be paying for a new logic board exactly 1-2 years later out of warranty.

Lenovo has firmware issues which makes an extreme amount of laptops go black screen on resume suspend.

Dell XPS has had coilwhine for ages.

All laptops suck nowadays.
More than I care to admit!

As mentioned downthread, we're doing some work soon to remove the audit table from the database, which will cut storage usage by over 50%.
Whenever me or people I know were contacted by a person claiming to be a pollster, including Levada, we just hang up.

Nobody risks a chance of being "tested" by FSB or "anti-extremist" operative. The risk is huge from being put on control to personal harrassment by unmarked men spray painting "Z" and "traitor" on your door.

The only people who actually take a chance are those who say "we support special operation" anyway.
The traditional approach to explaining geometric algebra is "bottom up": first the types of things that the theory is about (building on vector spaces), then details of operations that make sense, then how to perform useful computations in the light of useful things that have been proven, then actual code (with a detailed knowledge of its specifications).
Good thing all these people were condemning Google when US was invading here, there and elsewhere.
> NFTs are uniquely identifiable, self-executing code, that conveys legal ownership to the holder of the NFT.

> NFTs can and often do represent ownership of an asset, sometimes the asset.

> That in and of itself gives NFTs tremendous amount of intrinsic value as a tool that represents title of ownership and can facilitate trust-less transfer of title/ownership.

That is a lot of word salad.

Does an NFT confer ownership to any real, personal or intellectual property as understood by any currently existing legal authority?

My understanding is that the answer to that question is "No", invariably presented as "No, but..."

Is my understanding wrong?
In Ontario it's not just urban centers. Prices are going up almost everywhere. Towns with a grocery store and Tim Hortons are seeing prices explode.

One problem in Canadian provinces is your taxes remain the same regardless of where you live, but if you need access to healthcare or education, then you have to live near a major city. Particularly if you want quality healthcare.

In fact the cost of living goes up if you're a rural inhabitant in most of Ontario. Electricity is more expensive, heating is expensive, etc.