skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What should I put in the TOS for my internet forum?
I built an internet forum and it's been running for a couple years, but I've never had a terms of service page (only privacy policy). I want to put a TOS page up now. What would you like to see in it? I want it to be as user friendly as possible.
It does however come with three built-in things:

Calendar widget (on the side of your screen)

Calendar.app

cal in the shell. Interestingly it's the one I use the most
This is what happens when I click the time on my decade-old version of macOS:
https://i.ibb.co/jRy6vf9/Screen-Shot-2023-09-03-at-8-00-59-A...

Was there an in-between version?
The only example I can think of is beer bottles. I know it's not related to computer hardware, but I'm just trying to think of examples where you purchase a consumer item and it's still not legally yours.

The reason why it remains property of the brewery, is so that they can re-use it when you recycle it. It might be something that's specific for my country, though.
> Why would we expect superpositions of quantum states to be encoded as a vector sum of the individual state vectors?

Because that's what the word superposition means. If you don't have linear dynamics you don't have superpositions that aren't sums of other states, you just don't have superpositions.

> Why is time evolution in quantum mechanics a linear operation on those state vectors?

This, on the other hand, is an open physical question. An answer to "Why QM and not some completely different theory" is probably not in the cards, but as long as we're only considering "nearby" theories, nonlinearity gets you either superluminimal communication (bad) or basis-dependent observables (worse) depending on which bullets you bite.
Indeed they seem to be:

https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/Manua... ("BBC Microcomputer Model B +")

There is a circuit block diagram, a PCB layout diagram with all the components' part numbers that I guess you can replace broken ones (?), and circuit diagrams for the power supply and for the keyboard circuit. (starts on page 97) Skimming the text, the manual seems to assume an owner has access to a multimeter, an oscilloscope, and a soldering iron.
You have to remember to pay back your credit card debt before the clock runs out. Once you make a UPI payment the transaction ends there (because the money is debited from your bank account and you are not taking on a conditional loan). You don't have to remember to pay the UPI company anything after the fact. I hope this explains how UPI is different from credit cards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/
That would be impressive since the movie came out in 2002, one year after BitTorrent was invented.
Well, you can navigate with the help of the sun. And keep sane having some sort of structure (when to wake up, when to go to bed, when to eat), monitor tidal changes. There is lots of value in knowing the time, even on a desert island.
or a fertile era for worthless trash and porn
What do you mean “manage them myself”? You can Cmd-drag the icons to move or remove them.
I’m saying a lot more murders now than previously and nothing else
Can confirm. I received an Eco-Drive as a gift from my father about 12 years ago, and the watch has never died (although I've had to replace a snapped band several times)
There are a couple of instances of this on the A45 just after you leave Coventry going towards Birmingham. Some of these were later closed off entirely (the A45 has been there a long time, but some roads I used to cycle on 15 years ago and now closed). There's one or two that I would take my chance on when cycling, but there's simply no way to cross safely as a pedestrian because of the curvature of the road restricting visibility and the speed limit. One nice change is that the new road junctions to Birmingham airport now mean that there are more cycleable bridges again.

As to the GP's comment, since I got a gravel bike, I've been exploring a lot of random routes that are basically underused footpaths (because they don't really go anywhere useful) that cross the motorway in delightfully over-engineered ways, for instance a narrow path through a field of crops, a stile then a nice tarmac'd two lane bridge and a stile to another field on the other side.
How would the cartels get anywhere close to an important place within the US?

I think this article is imagining that the cartels are effective military, that the US military stands down, and that US citizens are weak and ineffective like South American peasants.

In reality a little bit of unpoliced chaos in the US would quickly lead to civil war level cleansing in the affected areas. How far would a gringo get unnoticed in Mexico or Somalia? (Not very far)
The screenshot is likely the precursor the the video they record since the call got established. For most non-tech, and generations prior to us, would be startled, and likely to act in a haste to avoid further embarrassment. Let's say they have a success rate of less than 10% (1 in 10 calls), it is worth their time sitting in cabin somewhere in a town in India earning ₹25,000 a month working for an "Support Call Center" helping them setup this scam patterns.

You wanna try a sure-shot scam/Spam game right now?

1. Register a domain in India or via an Indian registrar, I will guarantee you that in the next few days to weeks, you will get all the needed spam in your inbox associated with that domain registration. If you have given your phone number, then they will call up there too.

2. Register a company. Baam! Phone calls, emails, and the very famous Book Parcel scam via the post office to the registered address, and what not.

Have fun. India is definitely not for beginners. /wink
Mozilla has ended support for Firefox on Windows 7 (and 8). In a couple of years, less and less websites will work on that last-supported Firefox version. Other cloud-related software like Dropbox will also remove support sooner or later. The more difficult it gets to use online services and the web on Windows 7, the more people will switch. It will end up in a small hobbyist niche like people who run Haiku or Serenity.
I would guess 1) it is easier to screenshot than to find a picture of someone and then photoshop it in 2) scams are almost always about fear and urgency -- if you tell them you are going to photoshop it and let them think about it for a while, your chances of getting paid are much smaller than if you go 'gotcha now pay me or I hit send'
Bartender (https://www.macbartender.com) is my go-to. Been using it for many years.
This is wrong!

The term hyperplane already assumes that the hypothesis space that your learning algorithm searches has some kind of dimension and is some variant of an Euclidean / vector space (and its generalisations). This is not the case for many forms of ML, for example grammar induction (where the hypothesis space is Chomsky-style grammars) or inductive logic programming (hypothesis space are Prolog (or similar) programs), or, more generally, program synthesis (where programs form the hypothesis space).
Agreed. (Except for the part where you're not actually against of these changes in isolation. I was against all of them.) Notarization is one of the most misunderstood aspects of Mac lockdown. It was just another annoying layer atop the preexisting system of Gatekeeper and Developer ID.

Also missing on the Apple side are crucial dates such as 2007, the introduction of the locked down iPhone, and 2008, the introduction of the crApp Store.

Apple did a bait and switch with iPhone lockdown. Many people seem to forget that it wasn't initially justified in terms of protecting the end user. Rather, it was justified in terms of protecting the cell phone carriers, i.e., "Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." Which we knew was total B.S. at the time, but that was the initial story. The Orwellian move was later made to change the story, and now it has always been about protecting the end user (from themselves).
Nice! I use this app all the time. Though it is simple, I find this app essential!
Do we think about vector storage wrong?
saruman was deeply influencing the shire before he was chucked out of isengard
The protocol is simple enough that there are multiple implementations. I like this small one, which does all the necessary things:

https://github.com/b1n4ryj4n/koreader-sync
We'll have extensive documentation and understanding of pre-2000s games one century from now due to their simplicity and modularity. The same can't be same of more recent games protected by DRM and with "always online" requirements (which often implies server-side logic)...
Amazon Kindle for Mac is being discontinued in October 2023
You missed the best part where they think they're coming for our jobs.
Employment expert breaks down the future of remote work
C++14 standard:

auto add = [](auto x) { return [x](auto y) { return x + y; }; };
auto addFive = add(5);
auto result = addFive(3);
Sweden testing a semi-truck trailer covered in 100 square meters of solar panels
Thank you for taking the time to come back and write this. There's a lot here to digest so i'm going to take some time to do that but i'll try to come back and reply properly when I've had chance to do that. I'll drop you a message via your keybase profile, too. Hope you're doing ok and managed to get some sleep last night!
Because it’s only one to one messaging which is a solved problem. The instant messengers are about group chat and public messaging.
Never cared for the many linguistic convolutions of over/understatedness, as I feel I always need to solve an equation in my head to gain a basic piece of information. It’s no wonder even authors get tripped up.

Also “nonplussed”, which is its own antonym at this point, and needs to be sanctioned.

Wait a minute…
It's mainly for discovery I believe.
You would be trading one kind of "shit" for a much more real and serious kind of shit - at the new bank, you'd either be more likely to get your account drained in ways that are hard to reverse, or you'd be forced back to using dedicated hardware smartcard readers of the type that were common before mobile apps became widely used (at least were common in Europe).

If your bank account gets drained and you'd made a big song and dance about how you selected that bank specifically because it had less security on its mobile app, well, nobody will have any sympathy for you.

If your bank is equally secure but uses dedicated hardware devices instead of smartcard readers, then all you did is swap one bit of secured hardware for another, making your life less convenient and in return for what?

A bank has to know it's communicating with the real human who owns the account and not a hacker. It's going to achieve that one way or another. You'd be much better off accepting the tech and finding ways to achieve your goals within it, like by setting up a project to maintain whitelists of known good/secure OS builds. You can then make libs that wrap SafetyNet and eliminate the false positives. Even if banks don't start using it anytime soon, other smaller companies might and it's a place to start. Of course the fact that virtually nobody cares about custom operating systems to begin with is the biggest hurdle you'd face, not the tech or business requirements, but that is partly on the OS developers. You can't complain nobody cares about if you're not giving anyone a reason to care.
That's a lot of messages moving around. Kafka?
> to assist with damage control........ The political instability of the United States causes real anxiety in other countries.

>In the article: People outside of the United States are often curious about American culture, its politics, and the general way of life.

Worth pointing out, 60%+ of HN audiences are from US, roughly ~20% from UK.

I dont think most people are actually interested, but in English speaking countries we are constantly bombarded with US news, US politics, and worst, US culture war. This is further amplified by Internet and Tech.

Before the mid 00s, Modern Tech wasn't a common industry for front page news. New product announcement didn't show up in local front page until iPhone ( At least outside US ). But we now live in an age where a 5 years old kid in developed world would have played with a Smartphone, watched TikTok or YouTube. And Tech, which is 90% concentrated in Silicon valley has their own culture bias to export. As much as we the rest of the world would like to ignore it, it has its influence to the outside world. Look at Twitter for example.
here in Canada with returnable bottles, you actually buy the bottle container with a cover, but if you return it they buy it back from you.
I've recently become enamoured with the Seiko Spring Drive. I'm currently dreaming up (probably unrealistic) plans to try and DIY a Spring Drive type mechanism. I doubt I'd be able to actually make it fit in a real watch, but the goal is to have it at least working on a desk.

More or less the plan is to rip out the balance wheel/escape wheel and pallet fork from an existing movement and try and rig up a permanent magnet on a wheel, then a small electro magnet connected to something like an Arduino and see if I can even get something like that to regulate the speed of the watch.
A few things: climate. Canada has a small growing season and can't grow the plant to make coke.

Canada is a first world country with a social safety net. The risk/reward to crime doesn't make as much sense

Canadian's culturally inherited laws and culturally attitudes from Britain. Canadians are more fearful and morally against breaking small rules.

Canada's population is too small to produce the qualities needed

The US/Canadian police work together.

Thousands of Mexicans are coming to the US daily for a better life. Canadians have the same standard of life the average American.

Canadians are Americans. Most Canadians can look on their family tree and see relatives that came from America.
> a brick without an ongoing Apple subscription

This just isn’t true. You don’t have to give Apple another dime to use an iPhone perpetually. Any paid Apple subscriptions are optional for cloud or streaming services.
Google fails pedestrians for the same reason it fails cyclists - it’s off road data is terrible & it’s not interested in fixing it.

In large cities, the roads are the only routes, so pedestrians can go OK with GMaps. Anywhere else & Google is prone to send you waltzing down a main road instead of the paths marked for actual pedestrian use in my experience. Same for cycling.

Thanks for trying, at least: You weren’t able to shift leviathan, but there’s no shame in that.
Except when you need Pandas dataframes or Apache Arrows
I like timelines and other formalisations as of thinking/discussing about digital freedom... and I agree that this is a key freedom battleground in the coming decades (maybe centuries).

Alongside this, I think it's worth keeping in mind gradual changes without discreet dates.

For example, online copyright enforcement/existence has been on a complex, but directional journey over the 20 years. Same for "safety" and other "content policies," both euphemistic and literal. For a short time copyright looseness made "mashups" a major musical genre. Years later, walking by a speaker playing music triggers automatic "demonetisation" on youtube. Meanwhile, social media became much more centralised and inoffensive. Nudity, politics and such are strongly discouraged unless explicitly encouraged.

There are landmarks in the China-touching part of this timeline that are critical to understanding where we are. At one point, the great firewall was derided. Violating digital freedom with comprehensive censorship meant opting out the digital revolution.

Google "walked away" from China when they got too insistent about "getting the message" and independently censoring search in line with unwritten, but well understood censorship rules. Google regretted this and their subsequents did not repeat the error. Since then, most major tech companies have learned the lesson. Telsa, Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc.

In June 2021, a bug on Bing accidentally applied a chinese censorship setting worldwide. "Tank Man" no longer existed on Bing. A demonstration of what flipping a switch in local content settings can do.
The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel
Google Play will significantly downgrade the quality of any images, and doesn’t allow some books to be downloaded at all (mostly comics that I’ve noticed but I’m not sure if that’s all). Kobo is a much better first choice.
I disagree. The context that Jon uses is bad = careless, good = careful in the sense that I will make sure I deallocate my pointers.

Pike's argument is not about new hires being careless or incapable of writing tests or understanding dangling pointers and all that stuff.

The whole thing about memory safety is an external requirement to the whole discussion that Pike was starting. At the time it was already well understood that most security vulnerabilities at Google were caused by bugs around memory accesses and that even the most experienced engineers weren't immune to those.

What Pike was talking about was: among the solution space of programming languages that can address those issues, some require a lot of training, whole others are simpler to pick up and yet "good enough".

Rust is an example of a language that is solving the problem in a way that doesn't give up performance, but it does require a steeper learning curve. Pike argued that Google would benefit from a language that would require such a learning curve.

The tradeoff will change with time. Now that rust exists an argument can be made that there is sufficient learning already spent
I always thought it was the case just because there are card strip readers
Thanks again to everyone on here for the feedback and suggestions. Have spent a fair amount of my weekend making these improvements!
There’s a particularly hilarious bridge to nowhere in St. Thomas, USVI. I think they’re around 30 years working on it.

https://stthomassource.com/content/2019/03/29/bridge-to-nowh...
I agree that many books were bad simply because the authors could not write well and had no idea about pedagogy. I think the number of people who knew something about a particular subject was just smaller and that's why it wasn't questioned much by the publishers.

Another reason may be the fact that a lot of information could not yet be found on the Internet. That is why some authors were more interested in listing the information than in pedagogical communication. The result were books like "Chapter 1: How to start the compiler from command line", "Chapter 2: List of all functions of the standard library", no chapter 3.
> Only in recent times, (post 2019) I have noticed that people are obsessed with performance rating systems and gaming them. I notice junior engineers are not as curious to learn or challenge-seeking as engineers a decade. And I notice recently promoted senior engineers are not as talented either. I used to think this had to correlate with dominant programming language – c/c++/go vs ruby/java etc. but I don't know if that fully explains it.

The problem is financials on both employee and employer side.

If you actually want to have a chance at a decent lifestyle without being born into existing wealth, there aren't that many options in the first place, and of these IT is the only sector that doesn't take care much about formal qualifications/education - although you're almost guaranteed to make money if you have a CS degree, you still have a very high chance of doing so if all you have is a coding bootcamp and willingness to learn.

However, unless you land in a well funded startup that has money to burn and not much oversight / managers have actual freedom, the organizations capable of paying that kind of money tend to be very large, very bureaucratic, and pay rises are closely tied to some sort of "performance metric" - hence if you want to rise in level and pay, you gotta game the system because HR won't just give you a pay rise based on your manager's good word, they want something as evidence, even if only to insulate themselves against claims of discrimination or nepotism.

And to make it worse, even if you're in the first case of a well funded startup, if it succeeds and grows eventually "professionalism" will creep in sooner or later - either because the company hires enough experienced people (particularly in HR and finance) that bring it with them, because the company gets pressured to do so by investors/boards/unemployment insurance/legal requirements, or because inevitably complaints of discrimination crop up.
It all came out of Konqueror
An arbitrarily restricted resource leads to a failure of the market.

The solution is to have enough slots. How hard can it be, everybody gets an education and exams, why is this suddenly difficult if it involves pricy driving tests?
I’ve embedded it on this page here: https://py-code.org/datasets

Thanks so much for that!
That's amazing!!

The heirarchal thing is really cool.

I think ECC probably wouldn't get you much unless you reordered words by similarity and did the grey code thing, otherwise, most words would change a lot of bits at once if you mixed them up.

But with grey code reordering you might not need any ECC because single words changing to similar words might just put you off by a few meters, degrading gracefully in a way that doesn't matter most of the time. Or at the very least you might only need to protect the last few bits.

Maybe there is an ordering that puts words likely to be mixed up next to each other, but still feels like it has variety, enough to where you'd notice the difference between adjacent locations most of the time?

Or maybe word confusion isn't actually the type of error that's most relevant? Accidentally using data meant for a a different region might be a bigger problem.
? Suspicious activity isn't about this. For instance my bank reports me when I get a double debit (e.g. go to a restaurant and get charged twice), when a regular expense increases (e.g. some monthly payment that suddenly goes up)...
One person’s genre-bending fan fiction is another person’s worthless porn…

But there are some interesting works diegetically aligned with the Tolkien universe that currently can’t be published or developed in the West for copyright reasons.

I’m thinking of the Russian pro-Mordor “The Last Ringbearer,” for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
I Just Learned That Sweet Tea Is Not Universal
The real use for notifications is to sell things or get paid for services in-person without cash. The notification provides certainty that you've been paid, so you can hand over the item/stop hanging around after the service waiting to be paid.

Of course, a bank should be able to send you a text on the service of your choice. But they won't.
It's 1200 USD per day.
Return to office mandates are stronger as remote work is harder to find
We opted fo chip-and-sign over chip-and-pin, so it's probably safe to assume that everything we do is a touch less smooth and safe.

Then again, we don't really the regulation framework for making me feel like cell phones are a safe way to move money around. (Because I have trust issues with tech.)
One of the more fascinating aspects of these is how smooth the second hand movement is.

Second hands on Quartz jump once / second. This is to lengthen the battery life.

On mechanical watches, they are smoother than Quartz since the escapement releases power multiple times / sec. But still ever so slightly jumpy since power is still released in discrete increments.

Spring Drive is outta this world smooth…it can do this since battery life is not an issue since it’s mechanically generated power that can be rewound…for practical purposes, it is releasing power continuously, see for yourself here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHA5rBQxQc
Toptal: Give us your personal details, we'll hook you up with clients.

Me: OK, here.

Toptal: We're not taking on any more contractors right now, thanks for the data though.