skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's easy to turn your back on the ocean" - this almost deserves its own category. Other/shipping traffic, waves, weather, lightning (especially risky on a sailboat!), hypothermia ... there's just very little margin for error in some situations, and those concerns can so easily compound.

I've done some crazy things in my life, but it's always been the ocean that puts me truly close to death. If there's anything positive about those experiences, it's the lesson that sometimes the difference between life and death is keeping your head and not panicking.
My Pocketbook has borders that are 1 cm or less. May be only 9 mm.

Except in the bottom border, where it has four buttons.
Really interesting to compare such early thinking to where we are today.

> 4. Values and objects in programming languages

> Most languages confuse them.

Indeed. All programmers have an intuition of (primitive, immutable) values and (mutable) objects, but e.g. Dan Abramov claims the intuition is often lacking w.r.t. how a specific language actually works in practice. His book Just JavaScript explicitly describes the full mental model for one language, and I found this approach valuable when I taught a JS bootcamp.
https://justjavascript.com/

For example, JS strings are superficially similar to an array of characters, but their semantics such as equality are completely different because strings happen to be primitives while arrays are not.

> Names should be fixed.

Here, they are advocating the use of const/final (single-assignment) variables, which has become a best practice but wasn't widely available back then. This is orthogonal to the value vs object distinction though (with const-immutable being what pure FP requires.)

However, further in conclusions:

> We have
shown that objects correspond to real world entities, and hence
exist in time, are changeable, have state, are instantiated, and
can be created, destroyed, and shared.

I think this is the naive OO hype of the time (1982) talking: whether something should be modelled as a mutable object in a program is orthogonal to real world entities.
What are the big names? Paizo/Pathfinder? Can't they simply do their own thing and stop relying on D&D precisely because they are so big their customer base already knows them?

Or is it computer games? With computers handling the rules, you can just make your own RPG rules, right? Or is it the setting? Do people really only play videogames that are set in Faerun or Icewind Dale or whatever? Can't you just make your own stuff up and call it Arda-- er, Middle-- er, Ancient Magical Land of Elves?
Why not buy another crypto instead?
FWIW I don't think this really fits into robots.txt. That file is mostly aimed at crawlers. Not for services loading specific URLs due to (sometimes indirect) user requests.

...but as a place that could hold a rate limit recommendation it would be nice since it appears that the Git protocol doesn't really have the equivalent of a Cache-Control header.
If you are in the states and having trouble getting access to church organs, find your local theatre organ club or ATOS chapter. Most of them have some form of access to theatre pipe organs and if you learn on a theatre organ you will be able to transition to a less diverse and more refined beast like a church instrument. It also helps to not be in a high cost of living area.

The lower the cost of living, the lower the cost of auditorium space. The lower the cost of auditorium space, the easier it is to get access to organs (to a point).
True, it doesn't seem likely to apply to the government itself.

I'm not a lawyer, but my interpretation is that it may apply to credit bureaus and data brokers. As well, for better or worse, pretty directly affect FinTech.

But I digress, the implications of this bill could result in more unknown unknowns than I realize.
I agree, same reason people use json in the first place despite the inefficiency, it's easier.
Mike's primary complaint is bad register allocation. It is very important to keep the most important state consistently in registers. In my experience, compilers still struggle to do good register allocation in big and branchy functions.

Even perfect branch prediction cannot solve the problem of unnecessary spills.
You're correct, but I believe this line of thinking is a simplification. If you operate a public company and your shareholders demand a return, odds are you'll have a board that's going to force you to have specific policies. Some of those policies are along the lines of "take any discounts you can get on things that cause operational expenses."

The only real way around this is having shareholders that care about employee privacy, and I think _that_ will only happen if these privacy issues impact the bottom line in some way (difficulty hiring, increased costs, etc).

It's frustrating in that this behavior is cultural and endemic to how businesses operate in the US. Change is possible, but it requires support from more than just the line of business employees and management.
Sure it is if you’re borrowing for somebody/on their behalf
The D&D world is not covered by the OGL. its the core mechanics that have been mirrored by not just other TTRPGs, but video game RPGs as well.

This is like if the names of the functions in the c++ STL (and their argument/return types) was released under gpl, and they came out and "updated" their license to be basically cc-by-sa-nc but worse and also claimed it retroactively applied to the license. It could technically have repercussions to other languages that mirrored the style.

Now the fun question! how much of what was covered by the OGL was actually copyrightable?

Ideas and facts are not copyrightable, arrangement of ideas and facts can be copyrightable with a higher bar of 'creativity', but the barrer to change before it becomes a new 'arrangement' and not covered is also lower.
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What's wrong with fire escapes? I see plenty of space to add those to a point access block.
Normally I wouldn’t be a pedant and nitpick this but you went out of your way to be confidently incorrect about there being exact ZERO cleanup.

The only way this is true is if the filter dissolves into the coffee and you consume it.

But it’s not, there’s still a thing you have to throw away. You can mishandle that waste and accidentally spill the grounds everywhere. If you drink enough cups you have to take out the trash.

Given your familiarity with the product, I consider your statement as pretty much lying, and it’s driving me (and probably others) to distrust your more. In the best case someone is gonna try it and realize, oh, there is non-zero cleanup
How to migrate from BibDesk to Zotero for pandoc-based writing
Nice to see some evidence for the hypothesis that (unlike Hoare with QuickSort) von Neumann wasn't trying to develop merge sort as a new sorting algorithm, but was merely trying to see if he could, in software, do the part of the job that had up until then been done, in hardware, on a separate unit record machine.

> He never actually gets around to coding
the entire sorting routine in this document;
only the merging process is described.

> He formulated the merging method as
follows (based on a procedure then used
with the IBM collator):
But make kinda sucks for this kind of thing. The CLI tool we use based on pyinvoke gives you tab completion for all the commands and all the options which by itself is worth the switch from make.
> make init

Even better, make this recipe's dependencies work so it doesn't do anything if you don't need to run init, then have everything else depend on init. That way no one needs to remember to run init first.
The bioinformatics scene is generally legacy in the good way, like how bash tooling is legacy: consistent and highly modular. Sure, the tool you are using might not be able to support compressed data or some new compression algorithm, but then so what, you can just add whatever hotnewcompression tool before and after this tool in your pipeline, and throttle the work to maximize available storage and compute. Many pipelines are written simply in bash, or use something like snakemake or nextflow to ensure consistent environments.
Hang on, this article is explicitly about mid-rise buildings and the fire safety of one vs two stairwells in those, so you can't drag up statistics that show combined data for all housing types. I'm assuming a large chunk of those fire deaths are people dying because they accidentally burned down their single-family single-story building. That's completely irrelevant in this case so you have to separate that out.
Not true. One of the very first lines there states that:

> OGL 1.1 makes clear it only covers material created for use in or as TTRPGs, and those materials are only ever permitted as printed media or static electronic files (like epubs and PDFs). Other types of content, like videos and video games, are only possible through the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy or a custom agreement with us.

The Fan Content Policy is:

https://company.wizards.com/en/legal/fancontentpolicy

Which says that:

> You can’t require payments, surveys, downloads, subscriptions, or email registration to access your Fan Content;

> You can’t sell or license your Fan Content to any third parties for any type of compensation; and

> Your Fan Content must be free for others (including Wizards) to view, access, share, and use without paying you anything, obtaining your approval, or giving you credit.

> You can, however, subsidize your Fan Content by taking advantage of sponsorships, ad revenue, and donations—so long as it doesn’t interfere with the Community’s access to your Fan Content.

All of this exists (IMO) because game mechanics aren't subject to copyright, so you can, if you'd like, read these two sets of rules as Hasbro saying, "This is what we're willing to let you do without having to get a lawyer to defend yourself in court, even if it's legally allowed."

Note, though, that in GP's post, "places and characters from one of the world say Ansalon" very much are covered by WotC's copyrights (and probably some trademarks too).
Russian's main export is oil/gas/coal/etc. It's roughly half of all their exports and over a $100 billion worth every year. Yes, squashing new nuclear plants profits them tremendously, and protecting their oil/gas/etc export business is likely one of their top priorities.
Thats true, but we do tremendous amounts of human DNA sequencing for certain causes at scale(e.g. understanding/treating cancer) whereas environmental sequencing is usually done to monitor/search for things at a much lower sample rate(e.g. disease load in wastewater, biodiversity from environmental samples, and looking for natural products produced by the zillions of bacteria/archaea in the oceans). From e.g. a wastewater sample perspective the latter type is going to be the majority of data, we just filter out the stuff of interest and analyze it in situ - but theres no reason to store 1B E coli genomes whereas this is necessary if we want to understand cancer evolution.
Oh, so this is retroactively re-licensing existing stuff? That's bad.
> I've been on mountain peaks on nice summer days when storms appear as out of nowhere (not the typical afternoon rains), and there's lightning, high winds, and 50ºF temperature swings. In that kind of situation, things can turn very dangerous very quickly. Stuff that you take for granted suddenly isn't true any more: some rock which is rough and gives great traction suddenly gets slippery, winds that come from a prevailing direction suddenly come from somewhere else and the formerly sheltered areas aren't any more, clouds and fogs may come in and visibility may drop to zero.

Even hiking out here in the Appalachians the swiftness of the arrival of thunderstorms has caught me offguard a few times. You can go from sun to hail, blistering wind gusts, and lightning in short succession, and if you're on a high bald you really may have nowhere to hide.

As the essay above hints at, this potential danger is part of why we seek these places out. When you follow the happy path, you get exercise, views, solitude... all rewarding of course. But being apart from the safety net of civilization can put you on a knife's edge. You can find yourself off that happy path surprisingly quickly - and for the adrenaline junkies among us, it's part of why we're out there.

(Maybe ops engineers, or old school sysadmins, can somewhat relate...)
“guzishta kal”
Bart say the line. "It's always DNS."
Yep I know, but it’s a core part of my vim workflow.
The decision to not require retrofitting of existing, undisturbed construction means that new code can evolve more quickly to adopt new technologies or safer methods. If every 15A and 20A residential outlet had to have AFCI protection as of some specified date, I can tell you that date would be sometime still in the future from now. Requiring it only for new construction or new circuits means it could be phased in starting in 1999.
> Knowing my mother's maiden name, the history of addresses I've lived at, any of my various ID numbers, account numbers, etc. should not be sufficient to prove identity.

What should be, then?

I'd like to see a compartmentalized ID that doesn't have all the information there in one easily human-readable (or scannable) form. For instance, a bar only really needs to know if you're of legal drinking age. They shouldn't be able to get your exact date of birth, your address, a copy of your photo, etc.
But that's hardly an issue, since you can just add the new compression tool to your pipeline before and after the older tool. Many tools don't even support gzip because they assume the user will be piping in uncompressed data from zcat anyway.
There is still a browser URL limit, I have hit it recently while applying a large number of filters to a search in Kibana.
I didn't say "that any cryptography engineer critical of PGP must have a weird personal vendetta against it". I know the history and context around the matter. I know Filo has actually tried to do the work to replace PGP. I know it didn't stick. I imagine he more than many people understands how difficult the task of replacing it is. But in my opinion that should lead to a more tempered stance that represents an understanding of this subtlety. Instead we see him on team deprecate PGP software because it's not what We want golang users using. Excuse me if I attribute a small ounce of personal pride to that stance. I could be wrong. This is a discussion thread not a formal essay. I respect many things about Filo. I'm just critical of this particular crusade.

I mean yeah, you're right. PGP has been culturally deprecated for years now. There's no skirting that. I am quite happy that Debian is switching to minisign. Once that transition is complete that will be one less reason to keep PGP around. Really, I have absolutely zero allegiance to PGP. I'm just willing to admit that it works (and quite well) despite all the shortcomings that cryptography engineers love to spar with during happy hours. I sincerely do not disparage efforts to replace PGP. I am just tired of the passé mantra that PGP sux amirite or gtfo. As we both clearly understand, it's not really that simple.
You definitely can, and many do. But D&D is the lingua franca of this space. If you say you're casting Magic Missile, I know you're going to toss a few d4 on the table. Even if I'm brand new to your adventure, if you say you're a Level 15 Magician, I know you're a pretty righteous dude. No other system has the same level of familiarity across such a broad audience.

I think you're right though. No one with eyes on a big audience is going to want to tie their brand to a Wizards product after this decision. Shame.
Important to note that:

1) you are required to report your income if it is above $50k.

2) Once you sign they can arbitrarily adjust that $750k with nothing but a notice that the license has been updated.
My favorite takeaway from social media has been realizing that many people have an agenda to push, and will use charged language to push that agenda.

Riling people up and making them angry at other people is a good way to get attention, and from that attention you can make money by selling that attention to other people. The more angry and upset you can make people, the more money you can make selling ads.

It's a cycle and I want no part of it. When I catch myself doomscrolling I remember this, and start skipping the electric stories in favor of ones of beneficial interest to me. It's done a little good for my mental health.
And of course the program to run on the simulated tetris is Conway's game of Life.
> 1. Outline the next thing you write, before you write it. It sounds like rewriting as you write is a problem. Outlining gets you out of that habit like few other things can. It forces you to focus on what you're trying to convey and who you want to address.

Yeah I should try to do that more, it's a good suggestion. It usually helps when I have laid out some bullet points before writing.

> 2. You didn't mention anything about you HN (or other media) use. If you're using that as a way to escape, it's time to stop.

I have blocked distracting websites on my work computer, but you could put me in an empty room with white walls and just a typewriter and I would just be as easily distracted. I just start to think about other things when I eliminate all distraction.
Thank you, Maybe I change them to buttons later.
The Pinker playbook. Do a bunch of statistical handwaving to define a question in a way gets a cheery outcome but hides the real issues.

Claim everything is getting better so there is no need to fix any of the actual problems by doing things like regulating polluters
Consider how opinion might be colored by the LATAM country next door as opposed to one >3000 miles away on a separate continent with a separate culture and society.
> That is 193 KPH -- seems pretty fast to me, even for the autobahn.

German here, it's not fast for the Autobahn, per se. The issue is though talking about the speed on its own is nearly meaningless, the most important factor becomes the road and what speed it is designed for. There are plenty of stretches on the Autobahn where there is no speed limit AND you can "safely" go 250+kph. Although I personally get uneasy at speeds beyond that because it starts to feel like you're entering an event horizon where unforeseen things on the road ahead are now beyond your ability to meaningfully react to them.

That being said, there are lots of stretches on the Autobahn where the speed limit is 80-100kph, often with good reason.
Except you can't produce a clean cup of coffee with a french press.
Maybe! But the filters are currently under €0.02 per unit on Amazon in a pack of 700 and it makes incredible coffee when paired with pretty much any (non spinny-blade) grinder, and pretty decent coffee when paired with preground. And the inventor says he washes the filters off and uses them two or three times each.
Which part of the Constitution is violated by the government scanning a website's publicly-available, advertised resources on the clearnet?
Google bought Android for the eyeballs it would bring to their ads.
They honestly could care less about user experience or usablility.
Apple built their portable device to generate a customer base for their store.
Anything that makes that easier makes Apple money. People keep updating their phones because of lock in and by making sure the updates don't work well on old phones.
I took my then-girlfriend to cinema for Prometheus, convinced by the "TED 2023" trailer that it's going to be a nice transhumanist sci-fi. I didn't lose the girfriend that day, but I did lose my sci-fi cred - the name of the speaker in that trailer, Peter Weyland, should have rung a bell.

(For those who, like me then, don't know the reference - that's Weyland as in Weyland-Yutani, the evil megacorp that sent the ill-fated crew of the Nostromo to their deaths in the movie Alien. Yes, Prometheus turned out to be an Alien prequel.)
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I always liked Doom the most. But I was like 13 when I first watched them so perhaps the campiness of Doom appealed to me as it was perhaps Goonies-esque for me at the time..
Yes, exactly, that's what I do as much as possible. I have a commercial microwave with literally one control, and a handle; it doesn't even have buttons. I expect it to outlive me, given that I put it through 1/1000 the duty cycle of the commercial kitchen for which it's designed.
That's a pretty expansive statement. Are you doing error-corrected sequencing to look for rare mosaic variants? Do you care about transcripts expressed at very low levels? Are you trying to tease apart subclonal variation in cancer? All of these could be good reasons to sequence deeply.

If anything, I see the opposite problem much more frequently: People who cheap out on the sequencing depth, neutering their statistical power!
They tend to bury the waste extremely far underground, and even than that isn't very expensive. It's a hell of a lot cheaper the the real world impacts we're seeing from carbon emissions today (over a million deaths a year).
The Taoist influence on Zen is overstated in my opinion. Most of the non-dual stuff Westerns would consider "Taoism" is right there in the Diamond Sutra (straight out of India). Westerners also typically underestimate how much Taoism has borrowed from Chan Buddhism. A lot of the similarities are because Taoism copied Zen, not the other way around.
Maybe it's a regional market thing. I speak from a german POV. But I've seen these things appear in the nearer 'neighborhood', since at least a decade. Also mentions in mass media. Even the stuff you call 'range' has these options, in addition to turning knobs with fixed settings. I started with a single 'hot-pot' and that was/is accurate. Still keeping that as a spare. I mean, just look at the stuff Ikea is offering, AFAICT they all have it. If accurate I can't tell, but I've heard no complaints from people I know, who do have them.

So... shrug?
It's interesting you mention SA cases. I'm not proud to admit it but prior to this experience I was firmly in the camp of "Of COURSE you report it, go to the police, testify, etc". In my incident even though the responding officers were terrible, racist, victim blaming, etc they filed what I'm sure was a mandatory report. I received a call (voicemail) from a detective about a week later. I was still having nightmares and pretty messed up at that point. I never even called them back - I just wanted to move on and after the initial experience with the police I didn't even want to think about how much worse it could get. I felt (and still feel) very violated and a bit traumatized by the experience. I can't even remotely imagine how much more violated I would feel if it was a SA.

The most positive outcome of this experience was the 180 in my understanding of these types of violations and the empathy I acquired. Again, I'm not proud to admit it and I'm still a little bothered it took something happening to me personally to better understand this.

While we're on the topic of empathy I also better understand poverty. The perpetrators of this incident risked kidnapping, armed robbery, who knows what charges with what I'm sure would be considerable amounts of jail time - for the $100 I had in my pocket and $100 (or whatever) they got from selling my locked iPhone to part out (after being marked stolen with iCloud it pinged once several months later - from China IIRC). I couldn't imagine risking going to jail for $100,000 let alone $100. Poverty and life circumstances create a level of desperation I can't fathom.
The same as in times of a booming economy:
Sharpen your tools, learn new and old stuff, revisit the basics.
Work on your social skills and networking. Maintain or improve your physical and mental health.

Recessions are turbulent, sometimes chaotic. Companies fall, others raise.
Hypes die faster, as everyone turns to businesses that offer real value…