skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the big issue is that people seem to think you need permission to "obey the laws of physics". I have no way of enforcing a license under legal regimes with which I can't negotiate. Therefore such terms are meaningless and useless for my licensing purposes. The MIT/BSD licenses require legal interpretation and are not appropriate. Even the "public domain" is a jurisdiction-defined term that is not universal.

How can I create unambigous legal language if I don't know the laws to which I am subject? Am I supposed to assume US or "Western" style copyright? Will this work in China? What about Russia or North Korea? Does this language work in 2122? 2222? Under what authority?

And since I live in the US, let's be clear: nothing will prevent someone from suing you. The best chance you have is to hope the judge agrees with your interpretation of the law.
I've noticed that emoji and stickers are absolutely not used in the same way.

People often combine multiple emoji to express certain things that can't be expressed with a single emoji (and too difficult to find/create a sticker for).

Stickers are also much less subtle and more in your face, and therefore not appreciated in the same way.
4 Categories of pseudoscience – and how to talk to people who believe in them
Java doesn't even have subobjects in this sense, so you're quite right, you can't do this!
In real life, planners are well advised to employ a laissez faire approach in many cases. But it wouldn't be too much of a game, if Sim City would let you just stick to the minimum and let citizens handle the rest.
Instagram is a nest for influencers trying to scam their communities with random products and drops, a cancer, conditioning new generations to consumerism and beauty filters, it should be banned

It's the complete opposite on tiktok, you see almost exclusively entertainers and creative people

So it's no wonder they are trying to copy this, but copying the UI won't be enough if you keep the same userbase

The only one close enough to TikTok is youtube, but their Shorts UI/UX is one of the worst i ever seen
I can provide both anecdotal and academic data:

Because companies have imperfect reading on worker productivity, and are also trying to balance other priorities when determining pay, high output workers are consistently underpaid, called Wage Compression (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_compression)

After getting a 2% raise in the last cycle, and knowing that my granted options were going to be worthless (a factor which is under-discussed in popular news articles), I decided that it was a particularly opportune time to jump. Like many, I was not particularly unhappy, so I had not been motivated to go through the effort for search process before.

When I got an offer, my employer quickly matched it (suggesting that I really was worth that much to them) but burning a bridge with the contact you got me the new job was not worth simply reaching parity in my current one, so they lost me. If they had preemptively gotten a few percentage points closer before I sunk effort into interviewing, I probably would not have started looking.
As seen on SN: https://stacker.news/items/49651

Are you familiar with Narrow Banking? If not, grab a coffee, sit down with me and get ready to leave the room more pissed off with the Fed that you were before coming in.

You are most probably familiar with the Fed's interest rate. When the rate is positive (which used to be the normal thing until recently), banks can safely store their own cash at the Fed and earn a return determined by the interest rate.

But you can't do that. You can't simply deposit your money at the Fed and get a nice return with the most secure entity in the US. Only selected banks can do it. As George Carlin said, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it".

The issue is infuriating, right? Why the heck can they do it but we, simple mortals, can't? This sparked the idea of The Narrow Bank, and it's service proposal, which was dubbed Narrow Banking. The idea of this bank was very simple: to provide you access to the same deal banks are getting. You would deposit your money in the Narrow Bank. They, in turn, would deposit it at the Fed to earn the interest rate. That would be paid back to you, minus a tiny service fee. End of story.

It sounds like a great deal, doesn't it? From a safety point of view, it's unbeatable. The Fed is the lender of last resort, so there is nothing safer than having your money there. It is quite a difference from depositing your money in a regular bank that gets involved in all sort of complex and risky financial operations to earn more. Plus, you earn interests. There are strong arguments to support the idea that a bank going the narrow way would have plenty of customers and business going on.

The Narrow Bank asked to open an account at the Fed to start operating. The Fed rejected their application. The reason? They fear it would take away funds from regular banks. The Fed is literally forcing you to take risk by working with regular banks and preventing you from accessing the safe accounts it does offer to them. Remember: it's a big club, and you ain't in it.

I'll leave some links here for you to read and get more pissed off.

https://www.tnbusa.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fed-versus-the-narrow-bank

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20190306a.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-reserve_banking

https://www.econlib.org/why-does-the-fed-oppose-narrow-banking/

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/safest-bank-fed-wont-sanction
Could be water lean if pools and lawns were banned, anyway. And golf courses. But every attempt to control water use in Vegas is a political death sentence. It has to be imposed on Nevada cities from outside.
Myth of ‘Free’ Checking Costs Consumers over $8B a Year
Another cool game of hidden identity and deceit is Coup.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup
Six-digit pin works well for me in European countries - Czechia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy.
Why does HN have to be about braggadocio? Thought it's about curiosity. If you make a point with certainty people trust it more than if you make it modally. But that's not about the facts or history.

You haven't convinced me of your thesis, but I get you don't believe mine. That's OK. The world is a big place with lots of different opinions, especially on history, right?

I think my view was similar to yours, and vaguer, before I read these books. They helped me understand a lot.

Don't you think you should read the book (or books) before you dismiss it? Maybe you're smarter than me and all those other people and the guy that wrote the book? Maybe you're not? But how are you going to know until you read it?

Maybe I am an idiot and I was duped by a really bad book (or books)? But maybe you are for dismissing it out of hand before it had a chance to work on you and you had a chance to look at the argument presented really well?

I don't care what you believe. But I get that history matters, and it's an important topic.

For me, that countries go to war because they didn't tax effectively is what the book convinced me of, and it fits my world view that there are basically simply forces underlying human behavior. Conflict is about resource competition. If you have enough (or more than enough), you're unlikely to risk or want conflict. Taxes are the main way states fund themselves (so it is OK to say it as the main or anywhere near the top reason, it's not foolish at all. But I think it is foolish to pretend there's complexity when there's not. That's how you get sucked into propaganda and narrative, and get manipulated by it. Don't you think?). Anyway, it makes a lot of sense. And all the racial/national/group hate is then manufactured in service to an economic motive. But I get your (or others') logic may clash with this, but maybe your logic is not expanded (or experienced with enough of the world / history) to know that? Maybe I haven't read enough books and so got duped by the ones that pretended to offer new insights and a simplistic perspective? But the book lays it out really clearly, and I loved that book. The arguments are also quite subtle, and complex, and backed by a lot of data I think, even if they're maybe contrarian in some cases. I think it has new insights. That's how I took it anyway, and I'm still very comfortable with that, and I think the book is a great resource, despite what you say and how confidently you (and others') say it. Because what do you really know? I'm going to trust this book, that lays it all out for me, more than you. Who are you anyway? What do you know about history? I don't know you or what you know.

I get you don't want to take my word for it, and I respect that. I don't want to take your word for it either. I think you need to read the books to rebut the points made in the books. They can make it better than me right now and they have all the data and examples.

A side note, it may have been Japan before invasion of China. But same point.

Anyway, I hope you learn something!
Not sure about Ether, but there are plenty of people that 'bought in' to the Bitcoin idea and mined some coins early on without 'taking wealth from others'.

VCs are in there for entirely different reasons, and 'later stage investors' are always at risk of having their hair cut if what they invest in isn't worth what they paid for it, after all, they too were trying to take money from later day suckers.

I never paid a cent for any bitcoin, but I did pay about $100 to my electricity company to mine some just for the heck of it (and ended up giving it all away).
Opening space for traffic lanes does not reduce congestion, it induces demand (for more traffic lanes).
Can Chips Bring American Parity in Semiconductor Production?
Why would they go with a measurement that has two well known definitions? There is ton and tonne. Most people don't know the difference.

KG is metric and universal in most countries.
Let me know if it breaks ground, a lot things like this just end up being basically vapor ware.
Also, a circle, you couldn't expand indefinitely
Look at the Canadian Indian residential school system or the Christian reconquest of Al-Andalus for textbook examples of forced conversions
Wow, that's bad. With the word cowboy the results are totally broken and yield asian women or macarons, changing it to cowgirl fixes it. They're charging people money for these images and then giving back garbage results because they're just appending random race/sexual identities that woke people think should be more prominent to the end. And that's happening to the extent that you can't actually get the image you want anymore because OpenAI deems your request racist or sexist:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w0r284/anyone_notic...

when I tried to generate images of a correct-looking Link (Zelda) 50%+ of the images were asian / black

I put in Queen Elizabeth the First and got back results with men and Asian women

When I write “a photo of a male wrestler” I still get female wrestlers too. When I write “a photo of a white male wrestler” I still get women generated again.

with a prompt like "a human holding a sign that says". It gives pictures of signs with a gender/ethnicity descriptor written on them.

https://labs.openai.com/s/PHVac3MM8FZE6FxuDcuSR4aW

https://labs.openai.com/s/4jmy13AM7qO6cy58aACiytnL

It says a lot about the times we live in that such a wonderful advance in technology is being wrecked by the rampant racism and sexism of woke purity spirals. OpenAI should be deeply ashamed of themselves. It is a crude attempt to force their ideology on people even at the cost of wrecking their own product. This stuff inevitably creates backlash because it reinforces the narrative that diversity = crap results.
Well, they already use Kerberos, his dog.
> That's simply not an option in most areas of the world.

That is an option in 2nd-3rd world countries, even to a greater extent than in the US (because the market is global and local jobs usually don't pay well).

E.g. my compensation (I'm from an ex-USSR country) increased by a factor of 13 after two job changes (for the same amount of work).
Not full sentences perhaps but there is a reason the Egyptians used hieroglyphics, and a reason we say a picture is worth a thousand words, so adding some to a text message is very common
I was thinking about something like this a few years ago. I felt like a linear city could work if it was basically treated like a game of snake.

There would be a constantly advancing head region that pushed ever forward as new structures were needed.

It would prevent NIMBY because once constructed, changes would be minimal, yet there would always be a place where new projects were welcome.

As the snake wound its way forward, anything in it's path would be trampled or assimilated.
I would like to understand all of this. :)
There are no ex-engineers, only recovering ones.
It doesn't affect daily life much unless you live in the south or one of the big cities.

Netherlands has higher taxes than Germany, there's also wealth tax and soon some others. But foreigners can deduct their taxes by 30% the first 5 years (the 30% ruling)

Basically OP can move to these places without visa (excluding UK). https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/38/10/c63810cb1a63e6529835...
This seems to be a shell company to advocate for a rule change as described here: https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr_online/vol95/iss1/1/

Basically it would take deposits and park them at the Fed, and do nothing else. A non-lending bank. Or a passthrough for a feature of the current financial system that doesn't currently exist, but could: direct Fed deposit by the public. Theoretically that would be safer than a bank and could even be more convenient: circumvent the whole inconvenient mess that is payments in the US and just move numbers from one Fed DB entry to another.

Currently this bank is not FDIC insured.
This is exactly right, when I left my manager was pretty clear about this with me. I think he valued me as much as any potential external offer, but he has to sit in front of a compensation committee whose very goal is to regress everybody to the mean.
That’s my understanding as well after listening to Crypto Critics and Griftonomics podcasts. Highly recommend both although so much stuff is way over my head. I wish there was a beginner’s version :)
Its basically just like tradition. Each no person who want to be a big player in Saudi must announce a new future cities.

They have many already, all of them unfinished and unpractical. And then the money moves on the a new city of the future.

I think is basically just a status competition 'my city is gone be a revolutionary design'.

The guy after MBS will likely try a city in a spiral or something.
Grafana Mimir: Graphite, Datadog, Influx, and Prometheus Metrics in One Place
Maybe not jealousy, but you don't think skepticism is valid when Cities are (relatively) easy to build but ensuring they are livable<>populated is hard?
This highlights really important factor in all discussions; employees can be in a very different life situation which naturally leads to different priorities. Congratulations on yours!
There is actually at least one good anime produced by Netflix, to my great surprise : she-ra and the princesses of power. Just discovered it and watching it with my two daughters (5 and 8 years old). Not saying it is comparable to Princess Mononoke, but certainly no garbage (especially compared to other cartoons intended for a similar audience)
The work probably has to be political, I agree with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc
Imagine a hose in the bottom of a bucket, but the opening to the hose is lowered below the bucket. The flow would go in the wrong direction.

So without the elevation step, this project would drain the lake.
I back of enveloped how much solar you'd need to replace water in the California Aqueduct with desalinated.

Takes about 4000 kwh an acre foot. Aqueduct delivers around 3 million acre feet a year. About 1.2 X 10^13 Watt-hours.

If you assume 5.5 hours of sunlight a day, 365 days a year. You get

~6 GW of solar. That's a doable number.
Full title was a bit wordy and did not fit the limit, I've attempted to keep the essence of it.

This is the launch of OSS write proxies that allows data from other agents to be ingested into the Grafana Mimir ( https://github.com/grafana/mimir ) metrics TSDB.
What is eBPF, anyway, and why should Kubernetes admins care?
Security has degraded to snake oil on a lot of topics. Boot infection are really rare and the whole TPM module isn't really needed in my opinion and I don't want it either for my systems. There are edge cases and sensible applications, but I don't want to see it as standard.
I had to make my girlfriend stop doing that because I couldn't decipher what she was saying, it was like +30% extra information I thought was decoration :D

Also, on Tinder bios emoji soup is a thing.
As a classic example of a naturally evolved emoticon language, on the SomethingAwful forums anyone could (and still can) buy an emoticon for $30. Here they all are: https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilie...
> Ahnold Schwarzenegger was told he had to lose the accent. Instead he owned it.

It did stop him getting certain work when trying to get into acting though, because to urban Germans he “sounds a bit like a farmer”. For those familiar with UK accents: think west country (oive godda bran-new combine'arvester…).

He could afford to pass on that work, rather than having to change himself, because he was already financially comfortable from his successful body-building career and having carefully managed & invested his income from that. For someone starting from nothing, standing by yourself and refusing to change, owning and controlling your identity on principal, can be a more difficult choice.

Of course Schwarzenegger's move to the American film industry got around the accent problem quite nicely: to a non-German ear the association of parts of his accent with particular places/work doesn't exist.

No slight on Schwarzenegger intended here, he worked himself into a position where he could take the risk of making those choices rather than being in a comfortable position from, for example, the luck of being born into wealthy circumstances.
When I first visited the US I was pretty appalled. Silicon Valley towns are huge stretches of residential areas where you can't even get a coffee on foot, you might be ok by cycling if they're not too large. In inland non-ancient cities, even the city centre is built for cars --- you can go around and get things by foot in the centre, but the roads are still made for cars, so you're constantly crossing 4-lane roads and walking across huge parking lots.
Do you actually live and work here? Your statements can be generally correct in many places, but they are certainly not correct about Suisse (people are generally paid well and treated even better, seniors really don't move much since they are most valuable employees and are given good conditions... this is really not SV... as written having frequent jumps hurts your career), based on my 12 years of experience here in few companies.

Conservative is the name of the game here, and its not specific to banking, whole society runs like that and you would struggle to find a company behaving differently, mostly just startups.

They simply prefer stability over bleeding edge, and job hoppers are anything but stability, that's obvious from a light year away to anybody with any experience. In fact it signals a person who is often not happy and instead of improving things they just move - one of the trademarks of juniors with big egos.

Also hiring on a perm position takes time and effort (and costs a lot), nobody is eager to waste so much resources again and again just to have potentially slightly more efficient employee.

I've been on the other side and agree with arguments generally, but this is generally their way here and they are doing just fine.
This is just incentives.

If you reward people for conserving a scarce resource, they'll use less of it.

If you reward people for wasting a scarce resource, they'll use more of it.

There's some natural human value attached to space, but in the current system people are incentivized to own more than they need, because to do anything else would be giving up free money, but the fact that everyone else is doing the same, ruins things for everyone.
Agreed, also with OP. I'm not sure why Alex didn't mention that the original publication date (or date range) is a standard item in the `content.opf` file that is part of every ebook.

This data is important to me, too, when choosing ebook—e.g., reading Dickens or some other prolific author in order of publication. The edge case for non-inclusion is a bit of an outlier–itself readily solved by using range, as noted (and producers already can do a fair bit of research when producing an SE volume!). (Conversely, the date of publication of the SE edition is of no interest to me at all...)

For personal interest, I maintain a "cumulative index" of the SE corpus which includes the original publication date, scraped from the `content.opf` file. Anyone interested is welcome to have a look: https://www.sudalyph.org/seci/
You’re absolutely right, there are uncertain challenges associated with the benefit. But I am reminded of this study where people were challenged to flip a coin when making life decisions, and the random half who took the leap were (more often) happy with their call:

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/decision-making-process/
Get a job in crypto and then combat it "from the inside"
Obnoxiously watermarked video of the incident for the curious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l295j5IifeE
You don't need high density to not need a car. Its totally possible to design cities where most people don't need cars that are not full of huge towers.

The idea that car-free or very limited car is only possible if you have absurd density is false.

Its totally possible to have nice suburbs that are totally walkable and don't require a car for 90% of the population.
> Crypto company employees, however, stand to be boned.

I'm not going to be crying any tears for them. If you got into this from a business perspective you have zero excuse for pretending that you are not also partially to blame for the outcome. They'll be lucky if they avoid jail time in some cases.
They are coming very late, and that's surprising, they were super reactive during the Ripple(XRP) drama

Coinbase is not a big exchange so that might explain why

10x less volume than Binance

https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/
How an economist might look at it: simply put a fair market price on water instead of giving it away to farmers by-right for next to nothing.
Huh? Which constitution guarantees mail service?

The US constitution merely allows congress to establish post offices and post roads. In a wider interpretation, it gives congress the right to regulate the postal system. But that seems to be a right to do something, not an obligation.

And it certainly doesn't read as an obligation for the government to run a postal system themselves. They merely chose to do so.
Lua C API manual pages
> encryption is military-grade tech too

Anything painted green and sold for 10x the price is military grade.
Notable Internal Systems at Amazon
Yes, it’s difficult these days to imagine the software situation of the early 1980s: how little software there was, how expensive it was, and how much effort was spent on copy protection that sometimes prevented legitimate customers from using it.

I was just reading a book called “Almost Perfect”, a first-hand history of WordPerfect by one of the founders. He mentions that they bought an IBM PC when it came out and wanted to port their word processor (over from the Data General minis that had been their initial platform). But they had to wait five months for an assembler to become available.

Imagine buying a $5,000 computer and you can’t even get an assembler for it for any money.

(WordPerfect was written entirely in x86 assembly, even when it was a billion-dollar product.)