skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alcohol will never be on the table for a ban, but there's been some movement on having a New Zealand style phase-out of tabacco.
I'm not an accountant or lawyer and I'm not your accountant or lawyer. You should speak to an accountant or lawyer familiar with IP law or software companies.

All I can say is that it's de facto possible to create a GmbH after you already have started building something that will be owned by the GmbH without requiring a formal transfer of the assets. To do so in a way that is legally safe and sound you should speak to a legal expert.

As I understand it, it's less that there's a legally defined period, it's more about the limits of what you can rationalize or to what degree history can be redefined. If all the code you've written is sitting on machines under your control, who's to say that the code you wrote before the company was founded is the same as the code the company ends up owning? Especially when it was just a draft prototype you definitely threw away anyway. If sale of the company or investment ever comes up, they'll do the due diligence to make sure the documented history is up to par anyway.

If any of this was too subtle: legally, history consists of what everyone agrees history is. Founders can be expected to bring in their prior knowledge when founding a company, so any software produced by them for the company while employed by that company is owned by that company, even if it happens to be indistinguishable from software they wrote prior to founding the company, as long as there are no third-party claims to that previous software (which would create liability for the founder anyway). If you're the only person who knows what color your bytes are, well... .
Zardax called today's (MS Word) "Autotext" a "Glossary", cool.
What "Patron Saints" section? Where?
I have the same question, the UK has a very well-known Drag Strip (Santa Pod). People all over Europe goes there, it's going to hit the track.
You're trying to derail that drug-fueled rant to Godwin, while in that list there are much more modern demons of our age: Nick Land, Neven "you don't like conservative arguments but they are right!!1" Sesardic, John Galt, Nordhaus.

Nothing less of what I would expect of a pioneer in XML as main information medium and full-time conman since Ning.
I wish they sold BOOKS. My local B&N (15 miles north of Philly) has converted 25% of shelf space to toys. The tradeoff: just 2 shelves of computer-related books, now titled "Technology", most of which are about using Windows or Office.

Does this trend reflect the dumbing down of B&N or its customers?
A lot of math draws conclusions from something not possible in practice (e.g. "let's take all the natural numbers and ...").

All the parent says: if it's possible even theoretically to learn the answer to the BB problem then we've proven something that cannot be proven, as shown by Godel incompleteness.
If there is a consortium which is ready to protect this project from legal threats (C&Ds) from platforms based on their overreaching TOS then please share it as many OSS maintainers out there are stuck in legal purgatory who need help and dont have the same backing that futo does.

Us C&D'ed maintainers have the context to help this kind of app potentially win legal battles but in exchange we want to get back to work without fear!

If you care about OSS maintainers being protected from billion dollar bullying anticompetitive megacorps then please reach out.
> Maybe it helps to push for Murica to finally adapt SI units.

Nitpick: Celsius is not an SI unit.

Answering the substantive point: it’d be nice if we switched to SI units (plus Celsius); personally my phone is already set to display those and I wish we’d join the rest of the world and do standard stuff. However, I think it’s extremely unlikely to ever happen. The deadlocked US political system makes it impossible to enact any reform on any topic that anyone can create controversy about, and that includes switching to international standard units.
Nushell is quite nice. Tables are nice to work with and look at, and the cross-platform support is top notch. It feels like what Powershell would have been, had it been designed by people who have actually used a command-line before. The main issues I have are bugs. Most recently, I find that it can't properly handle files with square brackets in the name, which isn't really all that uncommon.

I wouldn't recommend it for day-to-day, production usage just yet, but definitely worth keeping an eye on if you're not a huge fan of the typical stringly-typed shells.
X starts experimenting with a $1 per year fee for new users
> where the value from these developments don't end up in the hands of a centralised few at the cost of the many

Where specifically in the manifesto is this being argued?
Wealth is poor proxy to real world resources. Especially for most tech billionaires there are very few real world resources hoarded. Owning shares in some highly valued SaaS company pretty much consumes negligible amount of none virtual resources. Even if a tiny fraction of "concentrated wealth" were to be spent for physical assets we'd just see a hyperinflation spiral.
Delta's like temperature are standard issue to resolve in globalization. Another fun one are complex units that are a combination of more base units like luminance (nits = candela / m*2 or mph.

I worked on a package to globalize a consumer-oriented fintech reporting product. With ESG reporting this has become increasingly important to get the unit conversions and Delta's right. You end up mapping the data source units to locale targets.

In Python, the Pint framework plus Babel locales are excellent.
Like all the other alternatives, something that offers a comparable set of features. On MacOS the Preview app can handle some aspects but for example it cannot copy and paste visible parts of a page.
I was pondering on this recently. So many "tech" companies these days are about taking away the livelihood of the little people. What used to cost $5 may be $4 now, great, except the profit that used to flow to hundreds of thousands of little people now flows to Andreessen and his handful of goons. In worse cases, what used to cost $5 is still $5, or maybe even $5.5, only with some added convenience, but the little people have to each pay Andreessen and goons a 20% protection fee to stay in the market. This is not a healthy state of affairs.
What harm does nitrous oxide usage inflict to the user or to the society and how is its criminalization meant to do any good to anybody, let alone more good than harm?
I don't think it's completely bullshit. It's pretentious, tone deaf, and he's mostly tilting at windmills. However, most of what he says is correct, though trivial, and of the rest, nearly all the opinions are inoffensive milquetoast ones. The manifesto itself is just a manifesto.

The most damning thing about Marc Andreessen is that he doesn't actually live these ideals, as shown when he complained to his local council about their plan to build affordable housing near him. There's nothing more pathetic and cynical than "statism for me but not for thee".
His advice in the last 20 years worked for plenty of us. How about your advice?
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Hello, fellow mountain ape. I get Norwegian text in /some/ apps on the Mac even though Norwegian is 2nd in "preferred languages." I guess some use "Region" to decide instead of the logical setting. And setting the region to something else will cock up in other interesting ways by showing wrong units instead of the wrong language.

Even the keyboard on my MBP is physically US ANSI, because if you've ever coded more than a hundred lines using brackets on an ISO keyboard you know why.

I managed to get everything right in KDE on my PC though, by some weird way of using "Danish (UK)" or whatever it's called in some specific settings -- I don't even remember how or why but everything worked just right. Sorting, decimal point, app languages, everything. Could never replicate it though.
The best civilization came up with is a revolutionary civil war and even that doesn’t work more often than it does
More time means more supplies and better radiation shielding needed thus the ship gets heavier.
The intention could be to force the program to execute its exception handler
Indeed, very interesting. Also note that among the adhd population the smokers had a lower HR than the non-smokers. Nicotine is known as a stimulant and to be used by undiagnosed adhd patients as self-medication. Would be interesting to see the HR for the smoker split among the medication exposed subgroup.
Well you can obviously convert shares of some SaaS company into extra raw resources thats a very simple physical process without any limitations.
Actually you don't. See this page at the bottom:

https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/keyconcepts/filming-a-l...
Nah, this is two things:

Ostensibly it's a link to a real identity. This is something that social media always struggles with and money —any amount— always seems to be the leveller. Until bots can register their own credit cards, this helps prevent spam, abusive posting, account cycling and a host of other nasties.

But I suspect the true aim is getting a foot in the door. Once they've saved your card details, future billing gets super-simple. Activating trials of Blue and micropayments for small oneshot promotions, even silly little things like super-likes.

But they're not going to stop seeking advertisers and using what they know about you to link the two. If anything this just gives them more data points.
> The good part of capitalism is that people are rewarded for their effort

Well. They're rewarded for value provided, not effort invested. I don't care if you worked really hard on it, I'm not buying your $50 fizzy drink. I want the one that took less effort (and thus cost less) but still was a good product.

> the bad part is that those rewards tend to coalesce into a very small subset of people. Winning compounds.

This isn't exactly true. Rewards work in different ways. If people want steady, mostly-guaranteed income, they (e.g. me) get a day job with a salary. If they want a shot at doing really well, they do a risky thing and, often, it doesn't work. For the few people it does for, you still wouldn't call most of them highly rewarded. A restaurant owner might well still do worse than a salaried Silicon Valley developer. But still, for the industry, you take a risk to get big payoffs.

Also, "reward" is a poor lens to look at this through, as it's slightly infantilising. It's not a pat on the head for a job well done. It's an exchange of value between adults. Steve Jobs did very well financially with the release of the iPhone. But the only reason he did so is because millions of people got value added to their lives through owning an iPhone. They got value far above what they had before, for a price they would pay.

The problem is with looking at only the successful people as examples of the overall system. The system rewards value. If you happen, through hard work, connections, innate abilities, and a bit of luck, to provide value to other people, you do well. If what you do scales to provide value to millions of people, you do really well.

> Whats more, winners have a lot of power to control how people think and act.

I don't think that's true. No one is controlling thoughts and actions. You might say that people who own news outlets have this power, although ownership conveys less control than you might think, but this is a very specific industry. And people who control vast investment sums get to set criteria for companies to fall in line with. But both of those are under fire for this reason: money shouldn't translate into power over people's thoughts or actions. However, in the normal success case, e.g. if I own a restaurant chain, I do really well, but I don't really control anything.
> and there's something nice about not having to interact with a real person

This is the end-goal, I guess? Not just avoiding a taxi/Uber driver, but avoiding as much human interaction as possible.

Is it surprising that technology is (collectively) being evolved to isolate humans from each other?

AFAICT, we can't have our cake and eat it too -- a completely frictionless life is a zero human-interaction life, which would be very sad.

Edit: I fall into this trap too, but I'm aware that every time I choose convenience over friction, I'm losing a tiny bit of my Human-ness.
Absolutely normal for me. And it's definetly not productive vs lazy, it's a spectrum
Translation:

Your company does not have enough users for us to sue yet.
Is the extension pack still needed for VNC?
It also leads to people seeking drugs illegally, which in turn can result in people taking more dangerous drugs because illegal drug dealers have a profit motive without being constrained by the legality of the drugs they're selling.
Very, very, very interesting. Will take a look.

Though part of me just wants to say "Nice, you've just reinvented Emacs Org-mode". Of course, Org-mode probably isn't for everyone.

Good luck with this project!
Pedestrians stop being there like all the time. Typically they cross on red, either because they saw a gap (and there's no law requiring them to wait, just politeness) or else they risked it anyway because they were impatient. Having crossed, the pedestrian no longer needs the lights so unless there's a pedestrian cycle anyway (as there may be at a junction) it should be elided.

I've literally never had to "keep begging". I believe them that the sensors exist, but the event you seem to think would happen frequently has never occurred in my experience.
I wonder why we're using N2O at all for whipped cream though? Why not propane like for deodorants or even CO2?
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To the user, over a period of time, brain damage
Try Canadian English: en_CA. That might be an even closer approximation of what you want. (They still spell some words the British way, but a lot the American way).
The "tat"?
I had weird buggy issues with Wise when setting up an account, which really turned me off. I ended up using Payoneer instead, which so far has worked reasonably well. They seem to ask for more data on a regular basis but respond quickly once it’s submitted.
I was pretty much an addict of it, and it did make me laugh just a couple of times. That is not the main appeal.
In fairness, I'm Canadian and I have never heard anyone describe mixing tobacco and weed as a "popper".
Neither of these seem ad hom? Examining how someone’s wealth biases their worldview is hardly an attack on their person and pointing out that one of the architects and inspirations for Fascism is called a Patron Saint isn’t either. The latter isn’t even ‘guilty by association’ as the author freely makes that association themselves by speaking glowingly of them.
I wish this was a web app.
Higher quality random floats
Well, I didn't know that it was only 1D lenticular (they keep that under their hat!) But let's pretend for a second that it is 2D lenticular.

In that case, yes it is absolutely the same as a hologram. Consider this thought experiment. Take a real hologram. Cover everywhere up except a tiny opening - a pixel effectively. Now what information does this pixel encode? It's just colour as a function of view angle.

Now do the same thing for a 2D lenticular display. You can reproduce exactly the same thing - a colour that varies as a function of angle. Therefore it is the same.

I guess you could consider LookingGlass to be a hologram in one dimension rather than two. Or alternatively it is a hologram if you promise never to move up or down!
> When used as a recreational drug it is inhaled, and can make people feel relaxed, giggly, light-headed or dizzy.

sounds much less riskier than alcohol, then why not ban alcohol?
Oh well, why wasting yet another opportunity to control people's behaviour?
Same. I've had to do tiny tweaks to my scripts when updating recently, but I'll take fixing those 2 lines over trying to maintain a script full of callouts to jq, weird quoting, carefully manually managed dictionaries, etc. Nushell is already amazing for devopsy usage.
It's the same in Dutch. In the past, Microsoft had very good translations, but even they seem detoriating.

Open source is also quite reasonable, except from the latest features that didn't get translated yet.

Apart from that, only local software seems to understand the language.

There is hope, however. ChatGPT does quite well translating. You can still see the original English words in the Dutch text, but at least it doesn't descend into total gibberish.
Use a CDN for the HTML and other static assets, that will drastically reduce load on the app server. Flask can scale to 10M users if you use a load balancer, so you can build with that. Every cloud provider can scale to 10M users, so your options are open. Read heavy workloads can work well with SQL, consider using read-replicas to scale that if/when you need it. Consider load testing if your worried about scale.

You may find lower costs if you use a language other than python or use async python. You may be faster to market if you build with tools you know well. There's not enough info about the project to make recommendations.
As long as the boundary doesn’t happen in the middle of the work week, I find it completely arbitrary whether the official first day is Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Why’s it any more weird to start on one or the other?
Underworld is usually closer to techno/tech-house than trance although I feel trying to fit Underworld into any genre is a disservice. They are masters of their own sound and a class act!
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> Even though we have no idea how to even approach that.

We'll have to cheat somehow.

Sure, this is still effectively magic, but a few years ago I thought we're also anywhere near having the software layer solved - specifically, the Star Trek style computer interaction and holodeck "storyteller" - the thing that would let you create a high-fidelity interactive world with believable characters and a story generated as you play, out of a command like "computer, give me a cafe in Paris, circa 1890". Now we suddenly have all the pieces for that - we can literally just do it, as long as we constrain the medium to just text, with perhaps some generated imagery for extra mood[0]. And I'm not even talking about GPT-4 - I've had a convincing holodeck textual roleplay on AI Dungeon back ~2-3 years ago, back when GPT-3 just came out.

Note: I don't want to hijack this thread and make it into yet another LLM discussion - but I want to point out we have a bunch of parts converging into an entirely new kind of experience. And while we may not crack hard light any time soon, a wearable VR/AR holodeck experience now seems in reach in under a decade. Or perhaps closer to SAO[1] than a holodeck, but still - something that felt way beyond our capabilities just a couple years ago.

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[0] - Though GPT-4V should be able to play a board game where you send an image of an updated board each turn, shouldn't it?

[1] - Sword Art Online
MS Visio refused to run in anything other than English on a PC I used because Windows was set to a specific flavor of German which Visio didn't have in its language list. As far as I could tell there was no way to change the program's language other than changing the OS language and reinstalling Visio.

Now Firefox added stupid popups offering translating websites written in my native language because the OS is set to English. And they didn't see a need to create a checkbox for that outside of about:config (Mozilla, if you want to get rid of me you can just say so instead of spamming me with popups)
In Australian terms it's the text you receive from your friend a few minutes after he disappears into a pub toilet accompanied by a guy wearing wraparound sunnies and holding a rolled-up $5 note.
Just a note this container will not work on MacOS right now, so if you want to run on MacOS follow the regular (non Docker) instructions in the repo.
That's very interesting! Do you happen to have any sources? A brief search didn't turn up anything this specific.
The irony of calling other people uncritical when using logical fallacies to make your point.

https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/log...
I guess the risk is getting to little oxygen if inhaled in concentrated form? At the dentist it is mixed with oxygen. Doesn't warrant a total ban on for fun use though. Maybe pubs shouldn't sell it ...

Also long term use might lead to chronic problems.
Hi, I've just add Ingresses to object selection menu in kube-dialog Have fun!)
Big respect to anybody who makes a thing. I have seen a new task manager every year for the last 23 years. I feel like there may be something here that is cool, but its difficult to see what it is.

In a couple of sentences- why should we care about Floutwork?
Whats bogus is the strawman of talking about trickle down.

There is no such thing as "fair", people will take what they can according to market forces
I'm in my mid 20s, but already have ~4 years of professional experience.

Basically for me this "day of productivity" can extend to up to 3 days, but yes the cycle in general is always to some degree:
Productive -> Lazy -> Something inbetween -> Productive -> ...
Surprisingly, I did not see any synergy with mushrooms. Just lsd.
I don't want the government to "send me signals" to control my behavior. That kind of crap belongs to unfree countries.
I am struck by how empty the timeline is from 2000s onward. It might be explained in part by Ishkur's own age / detachment. It matches my own experience but I expect I am a similar age.

Is it true that there just aren't any major new genres and subcultures with music? I know people will respond with "I love new genre X" which will turn out to be a handful of bedroom djs on soundcloud. There needs to be some notability standard for a genre which IMHO is that there are multiple clubs that specialise in it and larger clubs have a regular night for it showing some general appeal. Anything else is just some micro-niche that should be categorised under an existing genre.
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If the context was to use in a VR/AR headset it has to be real-time. And I guess that use-case, and the related that you interactively want to walk around a scene are two of the main use-cases
New report claims Amazon will pay over $1B to license Microsoft 365 services
In that case, user are going to use Butane instead. It's far worst for the body, but easily accessible and cheap.
Always seemes like a significant percentage of commenters just react to titles.

Also the occasional "moderation" of titles in response to complaints suggests titles are more important than the submissions themselves.
Just to confirm regarding Stardew Valley, Wikipedia says it was initially created in XNA framework and then later ported to MonoGame (also FOSS).
I use Mellanox ConnectX 3 for 15 USD on Ebay and SR-IOV which provides virtual functions for my VM's, and get full 40Gbps.
So... you too are unable to actually articulate the issues you have with it?
Except now the web browser will offer to translate every Italian website you visit.