skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally in this case, the law would refer to a German contract, not a translated one, and there is no need for the two to be 'legally equivalent'.

But the process should be clear for all those who take part and so much stuff in Germany is not even clear to native speakers, and I don't even mean legal contracts, just objects and instructions on stuff you buy at the hardware store.
> It's not clear that any of this is legally enforceable, though.

In the absence of an enforceable license isn't the default no rights, not all rights? So why would a user make that argument?
The last two suggestions you offer (OS/2 and Linux) absolutely would be the case. I’m not sure about Solaris, at least officially. I’ve never heard of it in the PPC discussion groups in the 90s/00s.

EDIT: A trusted friend in this space (part of the MorphOS/Amiga PowerPC community) told me that one would absolutely be able to run the PPC Solaris port. The proper reference machine was actually the RS/6000 (see: https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/05/28/powerpc-solaris-on-the-r...), which ran on the 601, so the PowerStack I and PowerStack II would be absolutely capable of running said Solaris port competently.
I think that this is a very solid point, but perhaps the reasoning underlying this type of issue is somewhat more complex. For example, we run a what is now a v5 of our API as a bunch of microservices and have been running it as microservices since v4, about 4 years now. These are "children" of v3 - our monolith. The monolith is still alive and kicking in a much reduced state but the reason we cannot decom it has nothing to do with design or time or priorities - the monolith is sitting in a data centre and is the only regulatory permitted way (in our case) to access the mainframe. So, it sits there as a gatekeeper and will do so for the foreseeable future...
Serious question: the burn off in crypto should theoretically help with fiat inflation, correct? The Fed prints, and crypto evaporates.
In live just outside of Portland, OR and we have a makerspace in our local library. It’s not hugely decked out, but it just opened so it’s a work in progress.
They could also use a quarter to do a coin flip if a marriage will end in divorce. 45% by 2021 estimates.

No ring, no alimony and no child support has free love written all over it in the 21st century.

Its obvious that it takes a lot of synergy nowadays to not be a statistic :)
Modern video codecs almost entirely remove grain and replace it with a lightweight description of what it looked like so they can generate a new and random grain that looks pretty much the same.
Oh, completely agree!
Looks great! I built a similar system a few years ago as a dashboard for a home weather station, and ended up using Joan Home devices instead of assembling the hardware from components. Highly recommend e-ink as a format for these sorts of low-key displays around the home.

Some notes on my approach: https://github.com/schwartzie/weather-joan
I think the author focused too much on the “it’s in German” argumetn. All other problems listed with the process do not shine that much when people in comments focus on that: a foreigner should not expect a country to conduct its legal proceedings in a language different to their native.

On a different note I found the tone of the article a little appalling with author’s dismissive attitude like “What is a Notary? I’m not sure”, “ I have not checked, but I strongly doubt…”.

One does not start a company every other day so this process requires attention and not checking or not researching certain things demonstrates little patience and “I know better” attitude that is harmful down the line.

It would be interesting to see the author research why some things are the way they are, there is always a historic reason that might be valid or not in the current age, but it’s good to understand before we critique.
Adding more fire to the discussion: "No, Polyamory Is Not A ‘Solution’ To Cheating" [1]

[1] https://www.polyphilia.blog/home/polyamory-is-not-cheating
This is peak private equity mentality stupidity. Why is he even thinking about a problem where he can at most save a few million a year? Twitter is losing $4m a day and is bleeding talent. Providing food is one of the highest benefit to cost ratio expenses for employee satisfaction. At a time when employee morale is at an all time low and Elon is forcing a return to office, I can legitimately see charging for meals as the last straw for any remaining talent at Twitter.
Yeah I think that pretty much covers it - the sudden shock of falling, the expansive view of everything beneath me, and perhaps the experience of deliberately doing something that I've been terrified to do my entire life. From what I've heard about meditation (never practised it myself) it was something like achieving enlightenment at 120mph :-)
I disagree the notary doesn't add value, he takes legal responsibility for the truthiness of what you're signing and does all the checks to verify you comply.

Is that value worth over other systems? I cannot say.

But in other systems you will likely have to hire a lawyer, with the huge difference that if the lawyer makes a mistake he bears minor to no responsibilities in front of the law.
It doesn't change the per-watt price at all and it might even increase the per-watt price as the average efficiency will likely decrease over its lifespan. It does drop the per-joule price though as it will produce more energy due to having a longer lifespan.
Ambiguous ZIP parsing allows hiding addon files from linter and reviewers (2019)
I'm mostly concerned about government debt and bond yields. When governments start having a harder time bailing out the larger economy this can cause all sorts of problems, england atm is a prime example. If many governments start having this problem, FX contagion can start playing havoc with industry as no one knows who to export or import from or to.
That’s not what economist means by easy money? That article is referring to a fault that is purely a function of legal and administrative regulation of programs.

When economics refers to east money and recessions and interest rates it’s how easy it is for businesses to find investment and loans for expansion.
Nobody digs a ditch because they enjoy it, but plenty of people operate heavy equipment because they enjoy it. Nobody trims meat in a packing plant because they enjoy it, but plenty of people design and operate robotic equipment because they enjoy it.

We could end all that if we wanted to, it just wouldn't be as beneficial to the capital class. We have the tools to do the hard and dangerous work without destroying human lives, those of us who benefit the most from the status quo just lack the inclination.
The author is not American, afaik he is Scottish
> Four-year colleges require Ph.Ds for those roles, no exceptions

In British academia it is not impossible to get a lecturer position (equivalent to US assistant professor) without a PhD.

Simon Peyton Jones, who is famous for his Haskell / GHC work, got one and progressed all the way to full professor.

The OP might want to consider this. If one aims at CS positions that are mostly / fully devoted to teaching in not-so-prominent universities, it's totally doable. There is a shortage of good programming teachers because of the big pay gap compared to industry.

A lecturer will get ~£40-50,000 gross, whereas a good programming job in London will be more than 2x that figure. However, if you land a lectureship somewhere cheap, in practice the paygap won't be so dramatic.
It appears deliberate. They don't necessarily want a bunch of Delaware-style entities doing multilayered shell shenanigans (they outsourced it to the Netherlands).
This is true. What a surprise that has turned out. A lot of us were boohooing Oracle buying Sun. I ate my hat on that one.
If you really believe business should only be conducted in the official language (ie not both official language and English), then it better be worth the cost. Nobody is going to go to trouble of learning your language to deal with your market unless it is worth it. Multiply this by lots of counties and languages and it means you are missing out unless you are large or important.

If your country wants foreign investment, you don't attract people unless you meet them where they are (or, again, your market is really worth it).

On top of that, basically all international business between two companies will be done in English.

So in practice, it will be your countries' loss to establish these sorts of barriers.

Now, if your country is happy with the level of investment it gets from foreign small businesses, then great, nothing to do. But you won't get to have it both ways.
After some monkeying around with MariaDB I stumbled on this:

use test;
create table JsonTable ( a_str varchar(32), a_int int, a_float double(12,4) )
engine=CONNECT table_type=JSON option_list='pretty=0' lrecl=128;

which when given

insert into JsonTable values ('bar', 43, 3.14);

produces

{"a_str":"bar","a_int":43,"a_float":3.1400}

in the file /var/lib/mysql/test/JsonTable.json

I note that according to the documentation and the setting of secure_file_priv it should be writing the file in /var/lib/mysql-files/ but oh well. (MariaDB 10.2.25)
> Yes but nobody speaks Polish except the Polish, or?

Now substitute Polish with Spanish or Chinese and take note how dumb that statement sounds.
Another highlight is SBF describing how when they were raising capital, they couldn't answer investors' questions about risk, custody, and audits.

https://youtu.be/J2V4tg0QkBk?t=1523

"I don't know, we just fucking started this company like two months ago and we're trying to scale up extremely quickly. Like, we don't have great answers to some of your questions"
you’re repeatedly sidestepping the core of what I’m saying. we are talking about the practicalities of trying to legislate against this one specific kind of corruption

no sane court of law is going to convict representatives for getting a good job post hoc. there is far too much possibility for reasonable doubt. unless you fundamentally change the way the justice system works, that is not going to change

>which reasons?

do I really have to come up with these reasons? bear in mind that they don’t have to be rock solid, they just have to introduce reasonable doubt. since you almost certainly have no other evidence, “perhaps that could be true rather than collusion” is enough.

“their term made us aware of them and they seemed competent”; “they’re famous now and that’s good for sales”; “they made connections that could prove useful to the company”; “they look good to foreign investors/trading partners”; “patriotism!”; “we feel we have a duty to support our ex-reps!”; etc etc etc. there are a million reasons that any lawyer could come up with and sell to a jury

also, please don’t specifically try and defeat each thing I say. just address the central issue. I say that just like you can’t convict people for using drugs because they possesa drug paraphernalia, properly functioning courts will struggle to meet the burden of proof to convict this kind of bribery

you say that they won’t struggle because:
Fellow WHM practitioner here. IMO it’s not that woo’ie. Being connected with breathing means regulating the autonomous nervous system

I was a participant of the pnas article [1]. There’s quite a bit of science to it.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1322174111
Cloudflare made it much easier to become an indie founder
AGPL is quite permissive license, they may use last AGPL licensed version for quite long time.

One guy handling support doesn't stop them from using the product on Linux, does it?

Dev is the best quality in the world, as I said. I mean, there's no one who could be better.

If it's cheaper to build by themselves, why they didn't to that already?
How did the police find out about the joke? Was Waylon facebook friends with the sheriff? Did facebook proactively alert the police and forward them this user's information or was this the police leveraging their own system installed or pointed at facebook to catch anyone who dared to make fun of them?

It's insane that the police would go after this guy just for making a joke. It's not as if he posted song lyrics or anything! (https://www.14news.com/story/26443062/muhlenberg-man-arreste...
This. I am working on a personal project and definitely initial design and dev is easier in a monolith. Microservices, at the stage my project is at, will bring too much overhead to solve a problem I don't have (scale).
The notary doesn't check whether it's true, only that it's actually you declaring whatever you're declaring.
Are there any FOSS licenses that cover build and deployment?

The ability to deploy - especially on user owned devices, seems underconsidered to me.

Then again, given the number of non-compliant routers in the world, it probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
> In particular, e.g. RedHat's policy of publishing only the "final" source code for their patched kernels, and not the git repo with history (which is what they use when developing it internally) is a straight-up GPL violation as far as I'm concerned.

I've worked in the past on an open source project that is forked from an upstream codebase where the git history and all new tests in recent years are proprietary so I'm definitely very sympathetic to that argument. Its very hard to get people who have no experience in that kind of environment to understand just how much work goes into merging such changes and reverse engineering the bugs from the code changes in order to test for them.

In that kind of situation, I think you're better off just hard forking but still keeping an eye on upstream's release notes in case they make a specific change that would be useful to your fork. Trying to maintain full compatibility with upstream releases that don't share their git history is a Sisyphean task and that's probably the intent of many of the corporations that do open source that way.
Farmland Values Hit Record Highs
I sometimes wonder what would cause software to be faster (or less buggy). Websites seem to often struggle with this despite overwhelming incentives for speed (and if you browse without an ad blocker things are even slower!) where typically any internal study will show that increased speed improves key metrics.

SaaS apps also seem to suffer from often being slow or buggy. I guess part of the reason is that switching is hard and performance problems may not be obvious until it’s too late. How do you even evaluate some product like Jura without using it a bunch? A demo is surely insufficient. I think people buying software are also more drawn to features than speed and maybe they are right or maybe they need to somehow be taught that they are undervaluing quality/speed, but how do you teach that? And how do you even asses software quality – how well it actually solves your problems and whether it is full of bugs – without a significant trial.

Maybe there is an argument that the software is so valuable that even awful software that is not fun to use is valuable and quickly becomes hard to cut.

One solution might be more heterogeneous services but then you might be paying more per-seat as you still have lots of overlap and it also sucks to have N bug trackers and M wiki/doc systems and so on. So maybe you then want services to be more interoperable but I think that may just force them all to suck.
Yes, I am saying that. Provide GPT-3 with a webcam and drop a book in front of it. Provide it with a microphone and set it in a rainforest. Provide it with a shortwave radio and let it listen to the world.

It will fail to draw any meaningful conclusions from any of these things, no matter how long you let it sit. Do the same with humans and eventually you will get science, art, mathematics, radio astronomy, etc. That's the 'general' part of AGI.
Starve the Beast starts to break down when you get into the details.
Probably "against the wishes of assembly language programmers who were familiar with microprocessors like the 8080 and Z-80 - and those who would have preferred to standardize on the official intel syntax rather than deal with two different and incompatible assembly language syntaxes."
pfft. The C brothers have been on their way out for 25 years
Points taken, but I also wonder how much of this is due to our dysfunctional work culture (as a society) where people are so detached from their jobs it feels like they're just an invisible cog in some big machine.

I don't think people can give 100% to anything 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That's just a recipe for burnout. Our productivity ebbs and flows like moods. I mean, we're really not that more evolved than apes, and to expect us to behave like finely tuned robots is kinda unrealistic to begin with.

My quality bar is basically "does it work, is it readable, can it be modified and maintained without too much frustration". It's not going to win any awards but it's also never caused any major complaints that I know of or any major catastrophes. And to deliver that, I give 80 to 90% pretty consistently, between 30 and 50 hours a week depending on circumstances. My peers too. Sometimes my coworkers have kids who are sick, sometimes they have some personal errand to run, sometimes they're moving or having a bad breakup or just needing a mental health day. And sometimes they work late because they have nothing else to do and really want to wrap up that new feature for the next version. My managers follow similar balances too. I don't expect them to behave like machines, because they're not. And it goes both ways.

I never once thought, "I'm going to try to get away with being lazy today because the boss is away". I value my contributions at work, and even if it's just mediocre code, it's stuff I still pour a lot of energy and sometimes emotion into. It's just paced so as to not cause burnout. I also don't think of my employers as temporary steps on some treadmill to riches. I work with them as much as I work for them, because I believe in the company's projects and values.

Shrug. Different cultures, maybe? I don't work for assembly line code mills. They don't think of me commodity labor. With a bit of mutual respect and empathy, it seems to work out pretty well in the end. That's just my anecdotal experience though.
Neural networks can and do encode data from their training sets in the models itself. That's the reason you can make some models reproduce things like the Getty watermark in the images they produce.
If you don't mind the open source thingie being outside the TV, why not get a Raspberry Pi with LibreElec on it?
Yet it's funny how BHO's party whipped up the Trump + Russia connection, fed that fiction to their left leaning media co-conspirators, and both enties played pile on (the BS).

Yet BO didn't have anything to say about that. He's a great spokesperson. A great orator. But there are too many instance where credibility is questionable. The Paris Climate Agreement immediately comes to mind.
How about insurance? Can that mess you up since mortgage requires your house to be insured.
>>who they trafficked children to

Well, in the very least, we have flight logs. I think that's better than nothing.
> and that doesn’t belong in 21st century

That's your opinion.

> Then they should be free to hire them on their own dime.

Cool thing of living in democracies is that people can propose and campaign for these changes. Maybe Germans like it as it is and it's their business?
I introduced a friend to tvtropes while on IM. Later that day ...

> That's an amazing site, but I'm going to have to go to sleep now.

"Yeah it's fascinating isn't it.

> Night.

"Have you looked up 'Videodrome'?"

...

> You bastard.
This is a really interesting top down approach, starting with Chromium and pairing a minimal bit out of it.

https://github.com/vercel/satori is another interesting recent project that goes bottoms up to achieve something similar. Def a lot smaller aimed at edge rendering, but at the tradeoff of significantly more random compatibility / rendering issues.

Both approaches have their tradeoffs.
"Feargal Sharkey... the singer?" I doubt I've heard A Good Heart in 30 years but it's still a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Der6SkXRk
Of course not to Instagram, I despise social media.

I think diet and lifestyle may have a large part to play, and I suppose as well all the dental and cosmetic treatments available to people nowadays.
William Shatner Rocket Man
Do you have a link to the data?
> Did you not read 4 lines below that on how you should indicate that your app does in fact use Instagram APIs?

Read the rules in their entirety. Simply calling the app "X for Instagram" doesn't absolve them for the other rules they obviously broke...

Like using a gradient and rounded rectangles together while calling it "InPlan" is so blatantly trying to associate their brand with Instagram's it's hilarious they think it's ok simply because they added "for Instagram" at the end.

Edit - their new logo is so derivative it's still a blatant ripoff, all they did was tone down the yellow and purple lol...
Ask HN: Social Relationship Management App?
I looking for an SRM - a CRM for social connections.

Specifically I want write down and browse thing I know about a person - name, photo, how we met, basic facts, likes and dislikes, important dates, when we talked last and what about, when we should talk next and what’s going to happen in their life in that time, that sort of things.

This doesn’t have to be fancy. Anything better than the yellow sticky notes I use now would be an improvement. Maybe just a list of entries, hashtags, and alerts or timeline / calendar view.

Ideally this would not hold my data hostage but would instead hold a local database that syncs across devices.
Do these emissions take into account emissions caused by building the structures? Just curious as I really don’t know or know if it would make a difference.

Certainly if we wanted to minimize carbon footprint, something like Hong Kong is probably the best we can do right now, but at the same time residential homes have more capacity to add solar and to do things like repair their own home or open the windows to let a breeze in. I guess what I see is the fossil fuel based infrastructure that’s required to build and maintain these large skyscrapers that is of concern. Skyscrapers are monolith.

Aside from that though I also think mega cities are a little bit fragile in their centralization versus something more akin to Europe (and similarly elsewhere) where you have towns and villages and farms with local producers. They also IMO are not as psychologically healthy as compared to smaller towns or smaller, less ominous cities landscape.
SBCL is still broken on Windows.
Ah I assumed it was recent, but didn't check. It's fixed now, thanks!
More precisely it refers to the California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5150[1], regarding the procedures for involuntary psychiatric holds. I doubt IBM was aware of the connection at the time, but it's definitely fitting. :D

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
builtInThe70's apartment building. I can't convince the management body to take this seriously.

I don't want to install chargers everywhere. I just want a thought out plan.

IE have a planned build for the electric backbone sometime in the future, and each owner can build their part and be connected when they wish.
The old saying “The great is the enemy of the good” applies. I had a coworker once who seemed to be one-step short of saying that we should all just lay down and die so we would stop affecting the environment. Even as I think about that, I realize that human bodies contain some toxic materials, and “laying down and dying” would still be troublesome.

There are no zero-cost solutions. “Chasing the 9s” of no-impact is a fools errand. Do what you can. Correct where you can.
I thought it was fairly well known that this is intentional obfuscation on Red Hat's part in order to make it harder for Oracle to use their work. I can't blame them on that account.
The hard part is when you start hiring people. Then you're gonna need professional help.