skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t pay it off if you weren’t able to afford it up front. You’ve changed the scenario from “I can’t afford the full cost but can afford monthly payments” to “I can afford this and am using monthly payments as an interest free loan”.
> [...] game mechanics and rules are NOT copyrightable. We never needed OGL to publish material compatible with D&D (or any other system) in the first place.

This is something that I've been seen written over and over again.

While the mechanisms themselves are not subject to copyright, the rules, as authored by Wizards of the Coast, are. That is the specific implementation of those mechanisms (e.g. the definition of a feat, skill, or spell) is subject to copyright.

The OGL and D&D SRD allowed limited republishing of copyrighted material by third party publishers.

If you aren't using the words from the D&D rulebook you can publish a game that's 100% compatible with D&D. You would also have to spend a lot of time reimplementing the spell, skill, feat, and weapon boilerplate.. Which is why the D&D SRD and OGL were created.

It's like a hash table. While you can't implicitly[0] protect the concept of a hash table you can copyright and implicitly protect your hash table. Someone else can create a hash table but they can't copy and paste the code from your proprietary implementation. It's yours.. Unless you give them a license to use and/or distribute it.

The death of/community moving away from the OGL and D&D SRD is a good thing.

The RPG world is a victim of the OGL and D&D SRD's success. How many games are based on the six attribute format? I've been playing games like that for 30 years and I've had enough. When I pick up a book and see dex/str/con/wis/int/cha my eyes glass over. I want D&D to fade, I want publishers to create new, entirely novel, systems, and I don't care what it means the status quo. The ideas haven't been there for many years now.

What's great about the OGL and D&D SRD is that it brought an open source mentality to game publishing. It created a framework for companies can collaborate on a system and made that the default way of thinking about the creation of RPG material. That isn't going to go away. We're just going to be getting more and, possibly, better systems.

It's going to cause fragmentation, turmoil, consumer confusion, and it's going to be great. We'll get a burst of creativity, followed by a plateau, and finally everyone will congregate around a new system in a decade or so.

[0]: Copyright is implicit, patents and trademarks are not.
I am certainly not a heavy user, but for work I've made myself a "workflow" repository which pulls together all the repositories related to one task. This works super well. There sure is a bit of weirdness in managing them, but I found it manageable. But I'll admit that I don't really use the submodules for much more than initial cloning, maybe I'd experience more problems if I did.
FAA says ‘damaged database file’ prompted halt on domestic US flights
Good discussion on this at https://old.reddit.com/r/askmath/comments/10a2xmc/do_corners...

One of the requirements is that you have to clearly define whether your n-dimensional object is a solid.
There's a much larger than zero possibility something (network gear) North of this thing is black-holing ICMP echo and/or your ISP is dropping the responses.
PFAS are called "forever" chemicals because they take thousands of years to degrade. In 65M years, they'll be gone. Same for nuclear waste.

If the dinosaurs had Teflon pans and nuclear power plants, we wouldn't necessarily know. The Himalayas didn't even exist yet when the dinosaurs were around.
but, there are many paid component libraries out there, for various different frameworks, right? other than this being first-party, what’s the difference?
41000 now.
Insisnwrite unit tests, but they often passed for reasons other than the intended ones because of the dynamic typing. I kept adding tests every time I caught something runtime, but I was at an order of magnitude more tests than I would need with a strong and static types language. Pylance kept me from making thos mistakes in the first place.
Made me think of: "You're telling me Julius Caesar, who has been dead for well over 70 years, made this salad?"
The grandeur of early 17th century English prose really is something quite special. Charles Rosen gave a memorable account in his review of Burton:

>The first part of the seventeenth century was, for Samuel Johnson when he compiled his dictionary, the moment when the English language reached its ideal state. One would have thought that he would have preferred the clarity that was achieved a half century later in the prose of Dryden and Swift, but he was evidently conquered by the Baroque exuberance of the time of Burton. in the seventeenth century English prose came into its own, and reached the distinction previously held only by verse. With the exception of William Tyndale’s translation of the Old Testament (which seventy years later became the basis of the King James version), English prose in the sixteenth century has nothing to set by the side of the contemporary power, variety, and subtlety in France of Rabelais, Calvin, or Montaigne. English prose remained a somewhat awkward, provincial mode of expression. At the very end of the sixteenth century, however, prose suddenly took on a new vigor in the prose sections of the plays of Shakespeare, Middleton and Dekker, and in Richard Hooker’s Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity of 1594.

>Unfortunately, much of the magnificent eloquence of the early seventeenth century lacks a considerable readership today, even in academic circles, perhaps because it deals largely with religious matters in sermons, tracts, and prayers. The prose of Thomas Browne and John Donne still finds a few readers, and Lancelot Andrewes was taken up by T. S. Eliot. But Thomas Adams, so much admired by Coleridge and lamb that he was compared to Shakespeare, is almost forgotten, Richard Hooker is read only by specialists in the history of religion, Thomas Fuller recalled only for a few quaint details, and Jeremy Taylor, previously revered, is now neglected, as his suavity does not recommend itself to modern taste.
I am 54. I am now working with Go and Flutter. It's not as good as when I was a 40 year old young programmer.
Humans in the universe don't know how the protomolecule or the gates work though
The things on the left are talked about. The things on the right are measured. What gets measured gets managed and becomes the focus. Is anybody measuring the things on the left?
If you wanted the modularity of microservices, but couldn't use microservices and were forced to use one process - what would you use.

We want to force programmers through the language to only go through services' public interface - and if possible prevent them from even knowing about the private data,classes, and methods of the module internally.
The amount of time C#/.NET developers waste on abstracting away all kinds of shit, creating three different layers for "separation of concerns", having 10 projects in some basic web app solution.. my god, they truly are suckers for punishment.

Yeah mate, let's create a generic repository over the top of EF's perfectly decent DbSet<T>, just in case we ever decide to switch ORMs!
> I'm not questioning the survey results, I am challenging the lack of importance of eggs.

The survey would determine how many eggs people eat, both directly (omelettes) or indirectly (or as a component, as in cake):

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/183678/per-capita-consum...

And from there the BLS would know how many to put in the basket of goods it uses. Which they have listed in this table:

* https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm

And here's the data series for the price of eggs:

* https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000708111

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series?t=bls%3Beggs

What people put in the the survey would indicate the the "importance of eggs" (in the average case).
How many bugs should a software project have? You can’t justify a rewrite of working code because there might be bugs.
Are there "influencer" blockers?
UAE’s Cop28 president will keep role as head of national oil company
They're cheap if you buy them from China. China is world leading on this stuff, and has built tens of similar lines in recent years.

However, I'm sure 'national security' will require the equipment be procured from a western world supplier with no expertise.
I'm sure that could be corrected by even a very basic language model
I am 54.
Programming in Go and Flutter.
It's not as good as when I was a 40 year old young programmer.
Guy, you're not following me. I'm not saying US is better. I've not even mentioned it.
https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/sustainability/environmenta...

No further questions, your honor.
Ah yes... the oral tradition. How could I forget?
Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
My “favorite” part of the trilogy, is when a character in the book praises the writing and quality of a couple of fairytales that are part of the plot and written in the book

As in.. Cixin literally calling his own writing great and patting himself on the back
Random example I did the other day: I wrote a small Dependency Injection library for a project in Common Lisp. Because it handled wiring up both big and small systems, and was designed to be composable, it wasn't easy to see the entire graph of all the components from code. It wasn't impossible - I designed it to be declarative and locally readable - it was just tedious.

My solution for this was to write a helper function that, when called, would walk the entire graph of those components, and print it in PlantUML form. More specifically, the code walked the pointer graph and made a mirror of it, in the form of lists of vertices and edges - then, it would loop over vertices to print a "class Foo as Bar <<Baz>>" kind of line for each of them, and then loop over edges, printing lines like "Foo <-- Quux" or "Foo +.. Quux". The result, also bracketed by @startuml and @enduml lines, could be copy-pasted or streamed directly into a file, which I then fed straight to PlantUML, resulting in a very nice DAG of actual relationships between all concrete instances of components in the running program.
It’s my understanding that row-based relational databases are basically key-value stores that map from row ID to column values. The “magic” of SQL-based relational databases is how the KVS is queried, and the consistency guarantees they provide.

Part of the consistency guarantees is having a reliable storage engine. That’s the value RocksDB provides.

The rest of the “SQL stuff” can be built on top this.
For anyone who wants to play with dithering in mac/iOS apps, these have efficient implementations in Accelerate in the planar8toplanarN conversions, eg: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/1533024...
It seems like a pretty straightforward fraud. At the very least civil liability should be a question of how much, not if.
I believe the OP means on a grander scale, not individuals.

Individuals in the series largely act as if their personalities have been hit by the dual vector foil.

But the series is rarely about the individuals. Instead its about exploring how humanity - and aliens - might react to the existence of one another.

In this regard I feel Liu created in the reader a vertigo-inducing sensation of depth.
You are sort of implying that people just aren't trying hard enough. That is your experience, sample size = 1. If you strike that sentence from your comment nobody would be rubbed the wrong way by it.

There may be many reasons why someone can't remember somebody's name. And not trying might be one of them, but invalidates all other experiences people have.

My friends say I always run into people in public. The thing is that I instinctively remember faces of people I met, not at a first glance, but if I met them maybe 3 times or more. I will recognize them on the street, from afar, 10 years later.

Because of my ability to recall people's faces, even with aging changes, I have a much higher chance of running into people I know in public, than somebody who can't do that.

However I can't remember names for the life of me. For one I have an attention problem. Even if I try to listen to people's names when they introduce themselves, in many cases I won't hear the name. The other is that I'm very forgetful with names even after learning them.

I have worked with people for years, but a few years after leaving that job I won't remember their names. I will recognize their faces though.

I wouldn't say people don't try hard enough to remember people's faces.
>but no real oppressive technologies figured out yet

And there-in lies the arms race, for if you figure out an oppressive technology, you can oppress people with it who don't have the means to resist.

Hmm... the evil argument starts to make more sense.
what does 'by earth' mean?
I wonder if the locations researchers are staying at are located on top of the land or if it's just randomly located and could be either. Like if all (or a majority of) the ice melted how big of an impact would it have on the locations?
Also have to mention another big collection of these types of models which you can download and print for free at https://axmpaperspacescalemodels.com/.

They've been on my "one day" list for a while now...
There’s an alacritty fork with sixel support[1], albeit without vector support.

There’s also kitty that has some improvements over sixel[2]

[1] https://github.com/microo8/alacritty-sixel

[2] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
It's not quite as bad as you are describing it. IME, TUIs via ncurses, UNICODE characters (e.g. for box drawing) and at least 256 colors work pretty much everywhere and gets you pretty far (think 'Turbo Pascal' or 'htop' style UIs).

...unless you're on the old DOS/Windows terminal of course (the new one should be much more conformat: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0...)
It’s actually amazing how prescient folks like Kubrick (or maybe it was Minsky) and Turing were. Turing basically predicted that we would teach AIs rather than program them. (He likened it to teaching a child.) And Dave Bowman doesn’t just switch HAL off, in that incredible scene where he’s pulling HAL’s memory banks. Instead, we watch HAL gracefully degrading.
Bootleg Compromised Network Gear in Our Corporate Environment
good to know thanks!
I was going to read his books, but then discovered he parrots Chinese government propaganda about the Uighur genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Cixin#Political_views
Or that was a facetious joke...
Windows Defender update is removing application shortcuts
Isn't this the opposite of hard science fiction? In my mind, hard science fiction is that where the science rules of the setting permeate and constrain the story, rather than being things to fill in.

That said, I see more and more that people are accepting an alternative definition of hard science fiction, which is simply a way of distinguishing science fiction that does not involve outright magic from the fantasy/sf that does.
Types and Prigramming Languages by Pierce
He said "in the same way as a bike with one wheel is a simpler version of an ordinary bike." Meaning, not the same thing.
Yet another JS framework. How fast is it really? The learning curve may not be worth it if it's slower than https://www.solidjs.com/ and according to https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht... few things are faster than a very little-known framework called Mikado (https://github.com/nextapps-de/mikado). That being said, I would never sacrifice performance of my software for how trendy or popular something is, e.g. React is #1 in popularity yet it's overcomplicated, massive, slow as hell.
Ask HN: Cringe Acronyms
Infra, algo, ..., are we all on first-name terms with basic concepts or just trying to sound "in crowd"? Examples of cringeworthy acronyms requested, the more egregious the better, ...
Ironically, buried in a footnote at the end of the article is a reference to the only technology that will actually matter in the future:

"All images generated with Midjourney."
It always seems like earning nearly consistent profits is under appreciated, whereas revenue and profit growth (unlimited) are seen as the best markers for valuing companies. Apple has generally had very good profits (which also seems enormous in comparison to many other tech companies). While Tim Cook could do a lot better on getting the company to improve the quality of its products (especially software) and reducing efforts on slowly sliding into targeted advertising and tracking — both of which erode consumer confidence and could have a negative effect on the money Apple makes — he’s done quite well in keeping Apple mint a lot of money every quarter (I seem to recall “record breaking quarter” multiple times over the years).

I’m curious to know what kind of pay cuts the CEOs of Meta, Tesla, Amazon, Netflix, Uber and other (tech and non-tech) companies are taking. Not just cuts in base pay, which is usually a paltry sum, but bonuses and other compensation.
Which rules/exceptions are there that are an inherent part of JSX (and not React)?

The only ones I can think of are className instead of class (unfortunately a reserved word in JS), and the addition of convenient event handler attributes (like onClick), which aren’t real attributes in HTML (where handlers are attached to elements manually via JS). Other than that, it’s just like HTML, no?

(Now that I think about it, I’m not even sure that those are parts of JSX and not the React API)

Regarding being XML-like, it’s a matter of personal preference I suppose, but I prefer it that way since it’s basically HTML with tags that you can make yourself.
To me the language is very secondary to me as it exists in an endless swamp of:

- chaotic and baroque layers of tooling that need to be figured out and made to keep working

- a software tradition where poorly thought out ideas are implemented with vigor resulting in design by accident

- ...which then results in frequent rewrites

- a universe of low quality libraries and frameworks resulting in frequent discovery of serious bugs

- every project having lots and lots of dependencies

And that's before we even consider the language or the congenital defects inherited from JavaScript.
Yeah but you have to balance the positives and negatives. Sure you being alive is all very well, but sometimes GP has to overhear teenagers talking about TikTok, and that is unacceptable.
>“#ExxonKnew” is a campaign orchestrated by activists and trial lawyers to misrepresent ExxonMobil’s position and research on climate change. For the past several years, activist organizations have sought to punish ExxonMobil for voicing its opinion on climate policy, even though the company supports policies to limit climate change.

The last part there is almost comical.
Management Debt
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34366696
> Cook’s annual base salary and bonus will remain unchanged at $3m and $6m respectively. But the “targeted” amount he will be given in share-based bonuses will fall from $75m last year to $40m this coming year.

Not a smaller base salary, or performance related bonus (which is seemingly guaranteed), but a smaller extra bonus bonus.

His $40mil of shares next year will probably be the same number of shares he received last year for $75mil anyway.
> If the medium of space itself dispersed light for instance, red shifts might be observed that explain the astronomical data.

This is called tired light theory. There's a professor of physics at UCLA who has a good breakdown of some of the major flaws with that theory.

https://astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm
It’s neat to see a high profile case of Say on Pay (from Dodd Frank) actually working in the wild.

It’s an advisory vote, so the company doesn’t have any legal obligation to act on it. But it forces the company to take a straw poll and share the results, which can be enough to nudge them into acting on it, even when only ~35% disapprove.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_on_pay
Eh, December issue for 1976, I don't know how I failed to include the year. (Too late to edit original post)
The Dark Forest problem posits that in the time required to send a message to a distant civilisation, the sender could just as easily send something that would destroy the distant civilisation. Further, that it is not possible to know without communication whether a distant civilisation would have peaceful or belligerant intent. Therefore, any civilisation that knows the existence of another should pre-emptively destroy the other rather than risk waiting to find out if it is peaceful

If FTL communication is possible, it could be possible to establish the other civilisations intent before they could send anything destructive.

As for the Sophon's it might be that they require a compatible recipient to work and so first require matter to be sent to the distant location. It's a long time since I read the Three Body books, but I seem to remember them being based on quantum-entangled particles, which would fit with this.
A room of rich people complaining about the share price when they know the share price is dictated by the fed printing or not. Seems stupid.
It's a plot point that these stories are well-liked. The stories themselves are objectively simplistic, but in the minds of the party to whom they are supposed to be good (trying to avoid spoilers here), it can make sense that they would like them. I didn't cynically read it as the author saying their own stories are so amazing.

I do think the embedded extra meanings are well-made. Whether it would actually work and remain undiscovered by the aforementioned party is a bit besides the point for me: the fact that the author made it work at all is nicely done. A lot of 'bad' writers show only reactions and never more than shards of the actual text to avoid having to make something that lives up to the claims.
Yeah. Good points!

You could also use the techniques of [1] but use `set term png` and `set output "/tmp/pl.png"` instead and then auto-launch any image viewer on "/tmp/pl.png" instead of relying on terminal graphics at all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34366758
Tesla China Plant Expansion in Doubt over Starlink Concerns
It gets points for audacity that has been largely lacking in domestic production. It is forgiven various flaws, for that. Tackling big themes is hard enough that we are obliged to forgive much to get it. So we do.
You gotta admit, it's pretty funny though

And to your edit, I agree, the fairytales were a highlight of the book
Yeah but that does not equate to "process that has 0 proven results"
Creating a Tools Pipeline for Horizon Zero Dawn [video]
I extremely enjoyed the trilogy, was hesitant at first because I‘ve never read Chinese sci-fi. One thing I enjoyed reading about was the whole concept of the „Dark Forest“:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
Sidebar:

For anyone who liked it, and wants a related, a bit more "out there" story: The Redemption of Time is fan fiction, but the novel has been officially blessed by the author and published by the original publisher, and later by Tor in English.

It’s not quite on the level, writing wise, but quite close. This sequel takes place so many years in the future, that it’s buttery-soft sci-fi, though. I still enjoyed it.
Note that this isn’t necessarily what the continent would look like if all the ice melts.

The lack of ice weight would allow the land to rebound upwards:

https://polarjournal.ch/en/2022/07/13/what-greenland-and-ant...
OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits