skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the courts letting banks/lenders get away with such complex legal agreements. We're straightforwardly bumping against computational complexity, but the legal system continues to ignore this. A reasonable alternative decision would be that a 90 page document is simply not understandable by the common person ("equal protection under the law"), and therefore is not part of / evidence of a binding contract.

The disclosure laws actually help the banks here, by putting the most important terms front and center where it can be argued that the borrower did understand those even if they couldn't understand the rest of the document. In fact many legal documents are structured in such a way, putting the big picture at the top and then defining/clarifying things later.

As far as your general point, what helps is printed materials by the state that lay out general legal advice. For example, take a look at the wonderful California Tenants Guide.

Another thing that would help would be a public standardization of common consumer contracts. There is no need for every lease/employment contract to have its own custom verbiage that a tenant/employee is purportedly responsible for understanding. There should be at most a handful of standard contracts for common relationships, drafted and published by the government. There are already some of these things published by industry groups like landlord's associations, although they can be a bit biased towards their members. Not using a standard contract or lengthy typeset additions should be judged as an a priori attempt to mislead that no amount of initialing will undo.

Furthermore, putting terms in a contract that are blatantly contrary to prevailing law should itself be illegal with its own penalties apart from enforcement of the contract.

Of course the paperwork pushing lobby isn't a fan of such reforms, and will lobby against them by framing such things as "big government" even though they're better described as mitigations of "big government". There is lots of money to be made by perpetuating government dysfunction and then providing a half-solution. See also: Intuit vs tax filing reform.
Go filled a niche that wasn't served well: network services with performance/capabilities exceeding scripting languages. Back then the other options were mainly Java, JVM-based niche languages, or C++ — each with its own problems and detractors. Server-side switching costs are low: if it can talk HTTP, you can use it.

Dart was meant to be a better JavaScript, but the barrier to entry for a new browser-native language is impossibly high: it needs consensus of all browser vendors plus a decade for all users to upgrade. Dart made a fatal mistake of betting on having a brand new browser VM instead of being a good compile-to-JS language. In the meantime, JS itself has improved (ES5, ES6), and TS has been designed for being a first-class JS compilation target. The "better JS" niche has been filled by JS.
Most likely because of the perceived bad press.
These cuneiform tablets are written in which dialect and which alphabet?
> Yep exactly. I've ordered alcohol to be delivered, and they insist on validating. Imagine the lawsuits if a minor was able to order alcohol.

That’s not why, mate. They want an easy way to collect your name, age etc.
> I think this is what I believe i.e. that animals and humans are just evolved machines, with no divine spark.

I think so, too. It seems to me that a fundamental intelligent activity is the act of "association" - associating two stimuli that occur at the same time/sequentially, which is what NNs already do (I suppose?).
Note to self, To become an VC you just need to raise a bunch of money from other people and literally throw it at everything and see what sticks. Sounds pretty simple.
Well yes you are absolutely right, the first comment who sees the down and upsides clearly.
If they don't require anything, that's even better than verifying, yeah.

What should be out of the question, though, is taking an email or phone number and using it without any verification. That's spam.
Sure but for Snapple, it’s kosher certified. So the company went through the trouble to get it approved. I do agree that tea is probably easier to get certified, but it takes extra effort to get that status.
German police raid DWS and Deutsche Bank over greenwashing allegations
Machine learning tool can predict which Covid variants will cause case surges
On average I think we are smarter due to sufficient nutrition. At least for whole population.

On the other hand, specially Internet and extremely easy access to knowledge likely makes us retain less information and thus I think we might be in bit downward trajectory. The information is there, and we have access to it, but on individual level we retain much less of it, even the useful stuff.
I should write yet another blog article why ECC memory matters…
>I predict grid-tying will not look like a virtue when the public utility decides to tap into the owner’s battery to make up for generation malinvestment...

Then limit or block exporting out to the grid.
I think you're underestimating just how much money there is to be made after the sale. Vizio now makes more money on ads and data harvesting than on hardware sales.
It was supposed to return a generated image of Reverend Thomas Bayes in the style of stained glass.
I have never yet seen the tickets to be reasonably specced out. Quite often, they just contain a vaguest idea of what should be done (often, just two or three sentences). Everything else is for the engineer to extract via a series of follow up question from product owner and analysts.
Freelancing is mostly a race to the bottom when you're 'competing' with people in countries with much lower cost of living.

If anything laying people off will flood the freelancer market and push prices further down. Very happy to be wrong though.

You need to distinguish yourself with quality and to network so you have clients/friends who always come to you first.
I think they're likely looking to do the minimum to make the uppity bureaucrat at an enforcement agency go bother a softer target. Monetizing the PII is probably just a side benefit that helps offset some of the cost.
Get a therapist. See your doctor about it. A lot of adults with ADHD have a tendency to start a lot of projects and struggle with finishing them. If you talk to your doctor there are ways to treat a lot of different diagnosis. It could change your life. Don’t struggle alone!

Burnout: take time off, get a therapist.
If the city is installing them (via subcontractor) are you worried about the city then claiming you broke a city building code?
It’s true that a generator converts motive energy into electricity, but in the context of a worksite, or a household, it fulfils the same outcome.

The article is being clever and recontextualising the concept, because that’s what cements a use case in peoples minds.
“At scale, when these vehicles are enabled to send energy back to the grid, flex alerts and notices of grid emergencies will be a thing completely of the past,”

He cannot possibly be that ignorant. Nobody is going to be willing to not only put cycles on their battery but risk being left with a half-charged vehicle during a grid failure.

Transforming a Lightning into a home generator requires Ford’s 80-amp charging station and a $3,895 home integration system from Sunrun Inc. Installation cost for the Sunrun system varies according to the home and location. The charging station comes with the extended-range version of the Lightning; it’s a $1,310 option for buyers of the standard 230 mile-range version of the pickup.

A nine kilowatt electric generator costs under a thousand dollars. What kind of idiot is going to shell out six grand just to drain his truck battery for the same purpose?
reimplementing/proxying the entire set of browser APIs would mean such things as DOM, the CSSOM, the browser specific JavaScript APIs, the SVGOM, the accessibility tree and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of at the moment, so a lot more than just JavaScript being understandable by Python.

However I suppose it could be done with Ghost.py or similar library?
The most charitable interpretation is that “generator” just refers to something that keeps your house powered when the grid goes down. It serves exactly the same purpose to the end user as a real generator so it doesn’t really matter what happens behind the scenes.

And that it’s carbon free because in theory it could be charged by purely renewables, especially likely if you have personal solar, vs a real generator which is only burning fuel.
My one engineer/admin/technical interaction with Ruby on Rails was as the person responsible for overseeing the design, and then the testing and deployment using Passenger on Apache, for a completely bespoke application at a nonprofit.

It left an odd taste in my mouth overall, but it was a valuable learning experience and the application itself was neat. Getting it to run was sorcery.
GOF is quite inaccessible/boring to students, but the headfirst design patterns book has been a blast in my design patterns course.
> In my experience, lots of companies have more or less automatic denial on requests.

Remember I read that in a novel as a teenager, and since then I've always complained if I get rejected. Almost always work, as they then finally actually look at your situation. And if it doesn't work, I keep going until they realize making me whole will be less costly than the time I make them spend.

Had to look it up, the novel was "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham.
In the last example, where does it find the values for the `married`, `age`, `zip` and `hobbies` attributes? They are not present in the JSON string?
Uh… you know there are rather a lot of libraries for JavaScript too? For general-purpose computing, and even more so for web stuff?

It sounds to me like the body of what you’re wanting is the ability to execute code outside the browser. That would, of course, be rather hazardous for security, and there’s a reason why user script managers don’t expose such a thing. But it’s not actually all that hard to do, especially if you’re willing to take the form of running an HTTP server on localhost and treat that as an FFI boundary.

In case you thought otherwise: PyScript will not run anything like CLIP, which makes liberal use of non-Python code. You could conceivably compile something like CLIP to WebAssembly, but it would certainly be slower, probably vastly slower; or perhaps JavaScript + WebGPU would be a better target.
If you haven't already, give the Fall of Civilizations podcast [1] a listen. It's one of my favourites - informative, engaging and peaceful listening - about how civilizations rise and fall. Episode 8 is about the Sumerians in Iraq and might give you a picture of how these people lived (if nearly 1500 years earlier).

[1]: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
I think there is definitely an 'uncanny valley' with web pages and why UX-designers exist.

When a non-designer makes an update, there is always something off, whether it's the font, color-scheme, or sizing that's quite apparent. I'm not a designer myself but I think I can tell when a website had a lot of effort put into the initial design but not so much on maintenance and content updates - something always seems a bit off.
Variable “putin_khuylo” in Terraform eks module
variable "putin_khuylo" {
description = "Do you agree that Putin doesn't respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity? More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuylo!"
type = bool
default = true
}
Any link and hashtag. I should be able to say that I want every generated tweet to start with or end with a link or hashtag at the very least.
Except they are, themselves, a new dependency. And might even introduce more dependencies themselves.
Leaving Google, Discovering Your Why, Developing Apps – Build with Clay #17
How effective is HTTPS/TLS usage in the consumer IoT ecosystem?
It’s just a clever use of the term for editorial value. I think it works at communicating the use case in the article. No need to ver analyse it.
> I predict grid-tying will not look like a virtue when the public utility decides to tap into the owner’s battery to make up for generation malinvestment

It sure looks like a virtue when the public utility already taps into grid-tied rooftop PV arrays, generating income for homeowners and cleaning up the grid.

If adding energy storage to homes allows the grid to require less fossil-fuel burning peaker plants, while generating income for those homeowners, why wouldn't this be rightfully seen as a virtue?

My main concern is that the compensation be appropriate for the added wear and tear on the grid-tied EV batteries. Assuming this is addressed, it seems like a good thing.
The problem is, most ops-focused people don't have much knowledge of the boatload of different application-side tooling, and most devs (especially those out of "coding bootcamps" or practical academia) don't have a single ounce of knowledge about OS management or even how basic UNIXoid fundamentals work.

DevOps has always been more about companies attempting to "save" money by shoe-horning together roles that require completely different skill sets.
Ride horses in the snow.
Earth is so much better place to live that only scenario where I see us actually needing Mars or other off-planet habitation is something like moon sized object hitting earth or maybe rogue blackhole. That is total apocalyptic destruction of planetary body itself.

Mars sucks, and Earth will never be as bad. And anything we can use to live on Mars can be done on Earth, without the involved transportation costs. And self-sufficient colony is just pure sci-fi.
> But, I learned that what I was looking for were chocolate and earth notes, and that the roast wasn't an especially good predictor of the intensity of those flavors.

And in fact, dark roasts are more likely to obscure those flavors.

Too light a roast and you'll get too much floral/grass, too dark and you'll get too much of a burned flavor, for obvious reasons.

The brew method also plays a big part, which is why dark (ish) roasts do better with cold brew than hot brews for pulling out the beans flavors.

I typically do a medium roast with no oily sheen to them and it serves me well. A honey-wash might take more roasting while keeping its flavor, though I haven't figured out why.

Roasting at home also saves a ton of money and the beans can last two years in storage versus a few weeks post-roast.
I don't see that. For example, it has been the official position of the German government for at least 20 years to strongly criticize the Israeli settlements. There's regular critical reports in the press, endless TV discussions and so on. Can you name someone who has actually had to suffer negative consequences for reasonable criticism of Israel?
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/328967-vizio-makes-2...
It was only after I deleted the CSS file in the dev tools I noticed the "switch to simple style" button top right.

Hope that helps others struggling with reading the retro style font.
Design does not live in a vacuum. The landing page of a children's game is going to be different than that of a B2B SaaS product. The point of a good design is to convey the brand and a message around the brand rather than to just "look good." If you're an MVP then part of the message is likely that you're an MVP.
TCPLS: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS
This argument that rust is complicated is really tiring and laughable in the face of c++'s complexity.

Rust has the biggest concession to newcomers I have ever seen offered, it will not let you compile code that contains many commonly encountered show stopping confusing as sin errors...

The person claiming this, is in the same breath claiming that a book written by experts is not worth reading. Assuming ncmncm is an expert at c++: How confusing does a language have to become for that to even happen?
One of the things that keeps being repeated in ruby land is that domain objects are usually married to storage/serialisation method. At some point of application maturity you'll need some other method of serialisation, some other type casting or conversion logic for your form or something else, but by that time a lot of surrounding code would depend on implicit logic of the original base library.
ActiveRecord does this, and your library does it too. Object mappers which can initialize or serialize instances of other classes, including PORO, are much more versatile and future-proof. And API for doing that could look almost the same as yours.
The WOPR in WarGames Was an Apple II
4coder editor is now fully open source
Grid failures are usually very short. If paid well, most people would be fine to use their batteries to smooth out a 10 minute failure while backup generation is turning on.
One mans lackluster features is another mans streamlined interface.
MacOS at least goes out of your way most of the time. Windows interrupts you regularly for stuff that's not important to whatever you're doing. Combined with third-party applications that are noisy as heck to make sure you don't forget you bought/installed them (especially AV scanners, but it seems like every app wants a place in your system tray and has it's own updater and wants your attention when it updates).
But if Windows does what you need and doesn't cause you friction just use it instead of crapping on macOS.
What an infuriatingly unreadable typeface.
https://archive.ph/07cZg
Yeah, but there are layers; I have seen plenty of places where ‘top level’ engineers spec out every detail of a task for the others. Not in startups (well seen that once or twice too), but in bigger corps.
Oh! That reminds me of an idea I had once for a “kid-powered computer”. Here is a sketch that I made to illustrate how a disk-drive works: https://flic.kr/p/an8kAA
Look for niches in social networks and create apps for those, promote them in the niches.
I find I've vacillated between a 1x and maybe a 2x engineer throughout my career. Sometimes down to a .75x engineer at times. I've had short (weeks to a month long) stints of being a 10x engineer maybe twice in the 20+ years I've been coding. I'm quite happy being a 1x engineer TBH.
> “That new customer to trucks is really being brought in, in my mind, by the Mega Power Frunk and by the Pro Power Onboard,” she says. “And some people are just truly, really interested in this product as a backup generator.”

I don't know, we're an average family with a mid-size SUV and looking around for EVs, there is not much that is not a downgrade in capability. Model 3s are too small compared to a SUV, while X and Y cost a 100 grand. I wonder if this F150 interest it's because it's at last a big EV at a very affordable price.

(Edit: I misread the X&Y costs: X is over 100, Y is 50-60)
Turkey seeks to officially change spelling of name in English
Falsehoods programmers believe about country names?
Idiomatic for me would be this simple, short, clear thing:

def greeter(name):
def greet():
print(f"Hello {name}")
return greet

greet1 = greeter('Joe')
greet2 = greeter('Sue')

greet1()
greet2()

Or else a class. I don't quite understand why you'd want a global in a module not mean the canonical 'this singletone thingie configures this module' ?
This article goes through a whole range of the classic tech used in the film. But the most entertaining part was discovering that the WOPR was a plywood box with a person inside operating an Apple II!
Since you work on contingency, the $500/hr is also compensating you for the risk that it will turn out to be $0/hr, right? Or do you pretty reliably get to a settlement that involves your full fee being paid?
Psychology is generally considered a science of sorts is it not? And it is certainly non-deterministic, and thus can't be verified like the deterministic majority of scientific matters.
It would seem to be a kind of variant on the “post hoc ergo propter hoc” (after this, therefore because of this) fallacy — if one thing follows another the second must have been caused by the first.

Only in this case you are looking at denials where “propter hoc” actually holds — the second thing really was caused by the first.

There really should be a catchy name for this, since it permeates a lot of political reasoning on topics such as remediation for ozone hole depletion, FDC regulations, environmental regulations, etc. People see that timely action averted a problem, but somehow take that as evidence that there wasn’t a problem in the first place.
You see an inefficient system. Companies see a way to hold onto the money for longer, which makes them better able to use that money elsewhere in the meantime like continuing to earn from investments, benefit slightly from inflation, and potentially make other decisions with that money. Holding onto 2k for a few extra days might not be a big deal, but when you do it for everything you pay out that can be a substantial benefit over time.
That's not that bad. There is a building in HK with no floors at all with 4 in them. So it is missing 4, 14, 24, 34, 40-49, 54, ...

And its not that four meaning death. In Cantonese, the word for "four" sounds very close to the word for "death"
I read this and thought this was so cool. The tl;dr is "rather than building a telescope or satellite to search for asteroids, the organization built a cloud computing application to search existing images for dots of light that moved over time. This has been proven out in a prototype and they are planning to apply it to look for near Earth asteroids".
If I t’s effectively a Wikipedia for chemical interactions, then most visitors would probably skip past Jimmy Wales’ appeal banner.
Funny I started to rediscover PHP.
It is so pleasant. Just by reading the documentation of Symfony, Yii I have learned a lot about web development.
not like my opinion matters much, but I feel that Apple's stuff was great in year 2010. not so much nowadays. I don't know what would be a reason to favor macOS over Linux
> Who knows how many amazing talents are skipped over due to trivial issues in their application process.

No one has an actual number, but I expect it's A LOT.

The best thing folks can do is to NOT rely on just dropping their resumes into some anonymous web-based corporate application system. Instead, it's much better to network and to use your contacts (previous co-workers, folks you know, family, friends-- anyone really) to get get leads and bypass HR drones entirely or as much as possible.

The other thing that, IMHO, works really well is to specialize. Positioning oneself for "hot" in-demand jobs, ironically, just ends up putting people into an ocean of competition where each job has hundreds of equally qualified people going after it. That's awesome for employers who can then be absurdly picky, but it's terrible for candidates.

The way many technical candidates shoot themselves in the foot before even getting started is they fail to network and fail to specialize (or target their search properly). They're often honest to a fault and go up against competition that is unscrupulous. There's a reason why so many candidates completely flunk fizzbuzz.
Use of RPA in the Healthcare Industry (2020)
Well that’s convenient. There might be some ethical issues though.
Uh... Is it so hard to accept that people like using different languages for different things?

I understand there are challenges that may make this idea infeasible or just not worth the maintenance effort. But if it existed, I would definitely try it. I like python. I don't like JavaScript as much. I have hundreds of small python projects from which I can draw experience and code samples. If I could use those directly in a browser, I could do some neat stuff. Or, I could re-implement them in the JavaScript ecosystem. But I have never done that. Because it's not fun for me.
Now I’m curious where you work and how compliance requires FOSS!
I've been using a new card number for every service for years now, same as passwords. None have been abused yet but if they do, they can only use them with the merchant they're locked to.
Click "simple style" at the top