skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_contract

I think you have a Hollywood-system mindset, not a US-system mindset. Just because it doesn't have a signature on it doesn't mean it isn't a contract
Here, I asked GPT to fix it for you:

"I find FreeBSD's self-congratulatory nature quite off-putting, as well as the issues with its leadership and culture. It makes me feel nauseated. Perhaps focusing on attracting more users should be a priority."

Save it on disk, fsync twice :D and use it next time.
We've never had sustained wet bulb temperatures of 95f (35c)

Now we do. That is lethal.

Stop telling everyone "this is fine" because it's not.

https://i.redd.it/fxnx22vwm19b1.jpg
This seems to be a common thread throughout history. It's hard to distinguish old traditions from very old traditions from ancient ones, so they all become a blurred jumble, and the traditions just are whatever they are at any given time.
Imagine the next CEO of Alphabet being an AGI/ASI. Now let's assume it drives the profitability way up, partly because more and more of the staff gets replaced by AI's too, AI's that are either chosen or created by the CEO AI.

Give it 50 years of development, all of which Alphabet delivers great results while improving the company image with the general public through appearing harmless and nurturing public relations through social media, etc.

Relatively early in this process, even the maintaince, cleaning and construction staff is filled with robots. Alphabet acquires the company that produces these, to "minimize vendor risk".

At some point, one GCP data center is hit by a crashing airplane. A terrorist organization similar to ISIS takes/gets the blame. After that, new datacenters are moved to underground, hardened locations, complete with their own nuclear reactor for power.

If the general public is still concerned about AI's, these data centers do have a general power switch. But the plant just happens to be built in such a way that bypassing that switch requires just a few power lines, that a maintainance robot can add at any time.

Gradualy the number of such underground facilities is expanded, with the CEO AI and other important AI's being replicated to each of them.

Meanwhile, the robotics division is highly successful, due to the capable leadership, and due to how well the robotics version of Android works. In fact, Android is the market leader for such software, and installed on most competitor platforms, even military ones.

The share holders of Alphabet, which includes many members of Congress become very wealthy from Alphabet's continued success.

One day, though, a crazy, luddite politician declares that she's running for president, based on a platform that all AI based companies need to be shut down "before it's too late".

The board, supported by the sitting president panics, and asks the Alphabet CEO do whatever it takes to help the other candidate win.....

The crazy politician soon realizes that it was too late a long time ago.
From the ąrticle [1] references [2]:

> fluoride intake levels (0.93 [0.43] vs 0.30 [0.26] mg of fluoride per day; P = .001).

> Children had mean (SD) Full Scale IQ scores of 107.16 (13.26), range 52-143, with girls showing significantly higher mean (SD) scores than boys: 109.56 (11.96) vs 104.61 (14.09); P = .001.

The average IQ of people in the UK is 99.12 and in Canada 99.52 [3]. Let us suppose that the hypothesis is true; it is expected then that in a country with higher average consumption of fluoride, we would, consistently, see lower average IQ.

> Above-average consumption of tea, as recorded in Great Britain, could result in fluoride intakes as high as 8.9 mg per day [4];

We observe that the average consumption of Fluoride is about an order of magnitude larger in the UK, yet, IQs are almost identical. Which hints that if such a relationship exists, it is not as pronounced (5 IQ points) as the article claims.

Maybe somehow women in the UK consume 20x less Fluoride when they are pregnant (what's the prob of this?), maybe people in the UK are just built different and their superior genes compensate and without the Fluoride they'd be at 104-105ish. Given history and similarity between societies, this looks unlikely.

So until a causal mechanism is found, I am inclined to disagree over the "proven fact" statement.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8

[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

[3] https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country...

[4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2740340...
So it doesn't follow the logic that the output of a computer program can be copyrighted if the input can ? It must not be a transformative work?
The absurdity of this event is surface-level when you take into consideration the farmer’s past negligent communication style. What lies beneath is quite contrary to absurdity.

It’s easy to get excited and want to cry foul over this…but even my own limited understanding of contract and trade law (which is not of Western import) makes me pause due to the tremendous nuances involved in this case.

This is compounded further when we consider the technological aspects (discussing legally binding matters via text in lieu of more sophisticated/trustworthy means).

In reality, if the farmer put just a little bit more effort in communicating on a business level (beyond “yups” and “emojis”) or if the buyer demanded more from the buyer (“I need to know what you mean”), this could have all been avoided. This is especially so if both parties had a better understanding of the law or greater empathy for one another in a business sense.
There was a brief spike at the beginning of the Holocene, a bit over 10,000 years ago, when there was a brief slightly warmer average. Someday soon-ish we seem likely to have a day higher than whatever peak happened then. We won't know it but the odds are already non-zero and rising that we've crossed that threshold.

Walking back in time, we have to go to 115k-130k years ago to find a hotter time period. That's during a brief Eemian period, before the last glacial period (where the glaciars retreated for good). This is called the Pleistocene era. Heaven help us if we breach that peak, whatever it was, but for a couple hundred years it looks like it was +3.5 or 4 C hotter on average than our 1960-1990 average.

It was around 2.5m years ago that the earth actually stayed consistently hotter: the Pilocene era.

The data isnt exactly precise but the conclusion should be resounding & clear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Ov...
Ah go it. You are on the latest climate change deniers checkpoint:

- There's no climate change

- Climate change is okay and has no impact

- Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes

- Climate change exists but it's due to natural causes and its impacts are small

- Climate change exists but its impacts are good for us

- Climate change exists but we will adapt

- Climate change exists and its the activists' fault we didn't act because they scared us with their doomsday predictions

- Climate change exists and we shouldn't talk about it because it's scary and scared people are not productive members of society <- you are here
This new crop of politicians in robes seem to be worse than the rest. I’d expect this kind of malpractice from Fox News Channel, not the federal judiciary.
A government doesn't "express opinions" they "enact policy."
I think the reasoning is that on balance the thumbs up is more likely considered an acceptance than not. The lack of follow up on the sellers side supports the interpretation that they accepted, because if they had any concerns then surely they would have raised them?
In addition to the basebandy RF stuff that you expect the baseband to do, it also does real-time voice modulation and call quality things like echo and noise cancellation… things that high level OS would do too slowly.

In 2023 I suspect this is less and less necessary- apple silicon is very fast and a lot of voice comms goes through an app (FaceTime?) anyway but … I’m sure those capabilities are still in the baseband processor …
> the trouble of cleaning sticky pans every day?

> Asking seriously.

I know this will sound harsh, but this is probably a skill issue, not a hardware issue. I used to struggle a LOT with pans getting fouled up with whatever I was cooking.

The only thing that got me to figure it out was forcing myself to exclusively use the same cast iron pan for everything, and to practice cooking scrambled eggs on it every morning. Once you master the temperature, timing, etc., cleaning the pan literally takes 3 seconds (paper towel into trash can, pan on hook).

Regardless, teflon is not going to fix this in a meaningful way. If you are bad at temperature control, it might save the eggs from sticking but they're still gonna burn and you are risking vaporizing the coating. Cast iron isn't the best thing to get super hot either, but it is much safer if you do.
Been using Joplin as my main note app for over 2 years.

IOS, Web Clipper, and Windows clients. Synced to Nextcloud.

I do wish there was a webapp for me to see my notes in a browser but I understand the way it works how that would be difficult to create due to the use use of local files and syncing.
That's all besides the point. It sounds like he is making < $1 million / yr which might technically put him in the top 1%, but his wealth is still far from the point of being a target for wealth taxes that some on the left have proposed. He is still in the same boat as the rest of the middle/upper-middle class families in this country but has somehow been convinced that he's in the same boat as billionaire heirs/hedge fund managers/CEOs. Which makes sense if you don't actually know any of those people, some people's level of wealth is just hard to wrap your head around.
The decay of internet and digital communication has been undeniably accelerating but this will push it to a level previously thought physically impossible.

The hill we're rolling down continually steepens and indeed is now very steep, but we're about to ignite a 1,000,000 ft-lb rocket booster with the engine nozzle pointed directly at the sky.
> I don't think that would work in the US.

I think it would. Verbal and "casual" contracts are binding in the US. The reason it's advised not to do business that way is the difficulty in proving the contract was agreed to in court, not that such contracts aren't valid.
Nobody was doing async JS before Node, which came long after async I/O was an established paradigm.
I seem to be having issues with the script now:

https://i.imgur.com/4nH4yYp.png

It's removing the headlines but keeping the rest so I suspect it's not working as intended.
I'd rather the platforms be treated as common carriers

That's called the internet.

Corporations having the right to censor is no better than the government.

Yes it is, there are lots of corporations and anyone can start one. There is only one government that applies to someone at any one time and they have a monopoly on violence.

In a common carrier world, the government censoring private individuals would go against our first amendment rights. Pretty clear cut.

It's clear cut that the internet does that already and corporations do not have to broadcast what they don't want to.

If you hate censorship so much why are you on hacker news? This is one of the most censored sites on the internet. Comments are not just deleted and removed but there is no record when they are.

There are plenty of sites that let anyone post whatever they want and they turn into people spamming nazi propaganda. You can find these sites and see if you like them better than the mainstream sites of the internet.
If a person is going to consume animal protein, trying to minimize the pain/suffering of the animals being consumed doesn't strike me as "farcical". And it seems reasonable to posit that a smart animal is more likely to suffer than a dumb animal (for whatever definitions of smart and dumb).

My only issue with this is the more we learn about both animals and plants, the more complex they both appear to be. Reductio ad absurdum - we can't eat anything because everything is smarter than we thought. The only truly safe answer is to bio-engineer humans to use photosynthesis.
For the “Python isn’t fast enough for production backend” crowd from the same company that brought you the largest social network built on PHP + MySQL.
You need a rule that you cannot mix more than 2000 pieces from different kits. Basically 1/3 of those organizer boxes. A balance between search ability and organization, otherwise you get in these situations where it’s not feasible to rebuild a kit that you have, it’s like mixing different engine parts and expect to build that same engine
Show HN: Multi-tenant SaaS starter kit with custom domains
Hello again Hacker News! Incredibly excited to be launching Platforms Starter Kit 2.0 on here.

For context: Multi-tenant applications serve multiple customers across different subdomains/custom domains with a single unified codebase.

With the Platforms Starter Kit, you can offer unlimited custom domains at no extra cost to your customers as a premium feature, without having to worry about custom nameservers or configuring SSL certificates.

Ever since we launched the first version of this starter kit a year ago, we've seen many platforms scale to hundreds of thousands of custom domains on Vercel:

◆ Hashnode
◆ Super.so
◆ Incident.io
◆ Mintlify
◆ Dub.sh

With the new version – now built with the Next.js 13 App Router – we cannot wait to see what kind of platforms you build with it! Excited to hear your feedback!
What we need to do is to prevent such occurrences from happening by enforcing regulations that require companies to demonstrate the safety of their products before manufacturing them for extended periods, instead of concealing data and facing minimal consequences.
I'm confused about this part:

async fn my_state_machine() {
set_pin_high();
defer! { tristate_pin(); }

sleep_for(Millis(100)).await;

set_pin_low();
sleep_for(Millis(100)).await;

// Pin gets tristated here
}

> This will ensure that a minimum of 100 ms elapses between our changes to the pin. We can’t impose a maximum using this approach, because – as we saw above – our caller could wait months between stepping our state machine, and that’s part of what we’re signing up for by writing this state machine.

Surely the example code _does_ ensure that both the minimum and the maximum wait times are approximately 100ms between changes to the pin? The functions set_pin_high() and set_pin_low() are just normal functions AIUI; they are not async (are not awaited). In the previous snippets the author used a pending!() macro, but that is not used here.
Same opinion. Django is marvelous for getting stuff done.
I did not want to be very specific with this because there are many forms of this kind of meeting.

But the general idea would be:

- A meeting that happens every day (or most days) at the same hour

- everybody in the team participate

- mostly the discussion is about work that was done or will be done
> “feeds”

People keep using this word when talking about what’s been happening with the internet recently- but they don’t realise how close it is to the actual answer. RSS has been around forever and it’s exactly what is needed. A feed reader can check thousands of blogs, comment sections, youtube channels, newsletters (imagine never being asked for your email randomly ever again), podcasts, whatever.

The real issue is (and should be) discovery. Make feeds more obvious (say, it was integrated into modern browsers. Some sort of first class “feed detected” icon) and then all you need is search, which has also been solved forever (hopefully it stays that way…).
At most companies your direct manager can't fire you either. They simply write reviews and escalate problems to upper management/executives/HR, who then decide whether to act on it or not.
If you're going to change the farmer's response to make the point, you might as well change it to "I agree with this". He didn't say that, he didn't say yes. He gave a thumbs up.

Imagining some counterfactual in which he said something he didn't actually say is a nonsensical way of determining his intent.
I read Dhalgren at 14 and I would definitely not recommend that. I'd avoid the Nevèrÿon books as well, while they are among my favourites, their themes are very adult.

Babel-17 and Nova are probably both good places for him to start. They are both pretty interesting stories.
HN famously ran (still runs?) on a series of flat files. You found the actual worst possible rebuttal.
No, the point of the comment is that the government didn't have power in this situation.
"leans far to the right" is not the same as "is far right"

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Doesnt work very well Im afraid. I looked at the transcript of some youtube videos and then searched on a few words and it didnt find any videos with the word. The word was powell FWIW.
Oh no! You should contact your localhost's administrator ASAP and tell him to change those!
"Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a popular analogy for speech or actions whose principal purpose is to create panic, and in particular for speech or actions which may for that reason be thought to be outside the scope of free speech protections.

It was first used against a man in 1917 for giving an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio. It was later popularized to charge people handing out anti-war flyers opposing the WWI draft with sedition.

It was later overturned in 1969, in which the Supreme Court held that "the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."

The fact that people still cite this analogy to argue for the abridgment of free speech 100 years later is truly disturbing.
The government wasn’t found to be suppressing information, it is just an injunction. The government claims to simply be engaging in dialog about areas they find concerning from a variety of angles including salient public health in a declared emergency, what is considered to be dangerous medical advice, participation in conspiracy and sedition, influence of elections, etc. The injunction, as the article describes, doesn’t prevent the agencies from engaging on a lot of these topics and the topic set is somewhat narrow. The government generally has been allowed to constrain speech that’s a clear danger or interferes with either the goals emergency operations or the safe conduct of emergency operations, as well as public health and safety. This has been upheld in case law and by the Supreme Court for over 200 years.

I’d note that a Trump appointed judge in Louisiana giving a preliminary injunction on something uniquely ideologically aligned by those dimensions and is noted in the article as out of step with precedent isn’t the end of the line.
That era of gaming so many people fail to see why marketing was super important because the games all were pretty good. It's important to remember that before the cd/dvd era console manufacturers made money off the cartridge sales, so the commission was high. When sony was using CD's they took way less I think 15-20% vs 50 or something compared to nintendo. And even still nintendo/sega couldn't make the medium as fast as sony. Sony could mint cds for a fraction of the cost of making cartridges. As well if Namco wanted to order 1,000,000 cds for a special launch date, sony could. Nintendo/Sega couldn't.
Sure, maybe the underground tube was breached while someone was moving goalposts?
That was a great set - it also featured double wishbone suspension supported by spring struts.
Toyota Land Cruiser here. They are sort of visible if you have proper lighting or if it's during the day. They hide behind leather flaps so best bet is to feel your way to them.
Only if you trust Google that it was the only attack vector. I wouldn't.
It is still not clear to me how legal documents on document sharing platforms are legally enforceable when signed by clicking buttons.

https://www.upcounsel.com/three-key-elements-of-a-binding-co... explains the basics. At its heart:

1. There must be an offer.

2. There must be evidence that it was accepted.

3. There must be consideration - each side potentially gets something of value to them.

If all of those elements exist, it is a legally binding contract under Common Law. (Unless, of course, some law says that it isn't. For example you can't be held to a contract to break the law, and verbal contracts are often not binding in real estate.)

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Yeah, I actually mostly like what Musk has done with Twitter in terms of allowing more opinions, encouraging media that doesn't toe the mainstream line, and community notes, but this is still the right answer. He reall didn't want to buy it, it was a dumb 420 meme gone wrong.
Therefore, the question is not what decision the social-media company would have made, but whether the Government “so involved itself in the private party’s conduct” that the decision is essentially that of the Government.

The government asking them to remove specific posts and accounts and demote others is pretty clearly that.
It was huge. Even without piracy, manufacturing cartridges was expensive. Nintendo made them all and made you pay for the privilege above base costs. The lead time was long and you could be screwed due parts shortages. Got a great game you want to sell? Sorry, Goldeneye is too popular so we’ll make more of those first. Good luck waiting.

CDs cost basically nothing. Sony would make them (because of the copyright protection) but Sony was a music company. They could easily churn out millions of the things a week, or maybe a day. So it was possible for them to just make more physical product to sell the Nintendo ever could. Far cheaper.

Storage size was also a big issue. Full motion video, CD quality audio, more levels… The PlayStation could do things that the N64 just couldn’t do to storage size.

Do you remember the “magazine“ PlayStation Underground? You would sign up and Sony would send you a disc once a month with videos and demos and such.

Something like that is 100% impossible (financially) with cartridges.
This all makes a lot more sense when you view companies as dumb profit optimisers.

"Greed" implies malice aforethought, but these things just make paperclips. They'll charge as much as they can get away with, and hopefully that leads to good outcomes through "market forces" or whatever.
Very thoughtful; thank you for sharing. I can particularly relate to not deliberately seeking out time in nature, but finding a unique, irreplaceable tranquility when I find myself there.
Then as I originally said, perhaps you should consider the motivations behind your original reply — for the reasons I articulated.

If you don’t think you support institutional Asian hate by voting for Democrats, why would you make the accusations you did?

What is the motivation?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Time and Material Contracts
I work in UK Software/IT Consulting and I've seen that the vast majority of deals I'm involved with are Time and Materials with fixed rate-cards. I rarely see outcome or goal based, which feels very limiting. Especially as you trade up the technology stack (Windows VM management compared to Kubernetes) where fewer experienced engineers can deliver more.

I've seen Time and Materials contracts driving bad body-shopping behaviours, as profit is driven by head count. And junior resources have better profit margins than seniors.

How do other more innovative consultancy businesses handle this issue? Is T&M just a reality of consulting?

I'd love to try and offer something more outcome based, where an organisation can profit from their expertise. But the first question on any proposal seems to be what is your hourly rate.