skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I might be in favor of such a requirement if it only applied to larger organizations. Otherwise regular people would have to hire lawyers all the time even to write up a simple contract. If a company employs more than 500 people or makes more than $10m per year in revenue its employment contracts must not contain unenforceable sections, for example.

I presume, perhaps incorrectly, that an industry would spring up around "standardized contracts" offered for very cheap/free. Seems like something Intuit might offer for free as a hook to get you on the platform.

Individuals would also likely use standardized contracts when dealing with other individuals, ideally. I would be okay with exempting them, but I really do think there benefits to centralizing on some standardized contracts. We could do something like what GitHub does when you look at licenses and it tells you what the license grants and denies. You could probably get specific case law for questions, because there are a lot of cases using the exact same contract.

I think it's typically (though not always) an anti-pattern for two individuals to write their own contract. I do not want my landscaper to write his own contract, which I then have to make sure I understand correctly. I'd much rather get "Standardized Lawn Care Contract V2 /w Owner Liability Option" and be able to find an infographic that summarizes who has what responsibility, up to what amounts, etc, etc.

> Even then I might want to keep the scope narrowly to employment contracts. A contract between two large companies would have wider implications if it could be invalidated completely.

I specifically limited it to contracts between individuals because I think having lawyers at-hand is a fair expectation of companies. They have enough resources to find out what's enforceable and what isn't, and B2B contracts would typically be for amounts where hiring a lawyer doesn't erase all the gain from the transaction.
Sorry if I have misunderstood. But I still don't understand the reason you put the electricity map website and saying "I suggest poking around ... to be a more accurate view of this specific question we're addressing", this website is 100% useless for that discussion, due to effects I've mentioned.

You also said "we should still criticize them [germany] for their emission levels and inability to actually match what others have done ", which seems to be exactly what I was talking about: "inability to actually match what others have done" is pretty much saying that if 2 countries spend as much effort and goes into the same strategy, they will match.

Maybe you don't think like that (in which case, my bad), but a lot of people do and your previous comment is very not well written to not amplify this way of thinking by implying this logic is sound.
I'm always fascinated with die shots that look like artists drawings (black pen on purple/blue felt tip marker fields) as shown on a tube TV (slightly blurry/color fringe).

But no, it's not a drawing, it's an actual photo. Well, I guess it's slightly blurry because of the magnification, but it's such a surreal look. Love it!
Four years on, long Covid still confounds us. Here's what we now know.
The reference to WEP makes this sound pretty dated. Has anybody encountered these in the wild?

(I went to a restaurant recently that had its WiFi profile on a QR code, which I found very convenient.)
Memories flooding back of so many useless CD-Rs thrown in the bin until I could perfect the procedure of getting bootable CD-Rs with DiscJuggler/Nero
TIL about various things for rpm-ostree distros:

gnome-randr-rust: https://github.com/maxwellainatchi/gnome-randr-rust :

> `xrandr` for Gnome/wayland, on distros that don't support `wlr-randr`

Kernel-fsync: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sentry/kernel-fsync/

gnome-vrr:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kylegospo/gnome-vrr/ :

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate']"

obs-vkcapture: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kylegospo/obs-vkcapt...

system76-scheduler: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kylegospo/system76-s...
https://archive.ph/TDRj1
OK I guess I have to put some more effort in.

Buddhism does not lend itself to cults and abuse any more or less than any other religious system, and certainly not compared with Abrahamic religions. Yes, Christian denominations are the same as Buddhist cults. We call them cults because, from the Christian point of view, all non-Christian religions are cults. But it is, in all practical purposes, the same. Buddhist "cults" and Christian "denominations" are differing schools of thought, worship and ritual which diverged from a common religious and philosophical core.

"All is one" is something you find on a fortune cookie, not a description of Buddhist philosophy. The article doesn't describe the practice of Buddhism, rather the incorporation of vague concepts such as “authenticity,” “purpose,” and “passion,” which it ascribes to Buddhist thought but which could just as well be affixed to Judeo-Christian ideals. Your further implication that Buddhism recognizes no clear distinction between the sacred and the profane is absurd, and based on no apparent knowledge of Buddhism, much less anything evident in the article.

The conclusion you seem to want to reach is that the Judeo-Christian religions teach a better work life balance than Buddhism, but this is patently absurd given that American work culture is based on Christian ideology, and the entire premise of Buddhism is balance. The Protestant work ethic is a thing. That Protestants go to church on Sunday doesn't contradict this.

The "theocracy of work" presented in the article is not Buddhist, it is Capitalist. That some small part of a particular movement within some part of it uses superficial Buddhist trappings says nothing about Buddhism as a religion. The premise that one must devote oneself wholly to work is explicitly a Christian philosophy, not a Buddhist one.
Looking forward to a brief rush of editorial cartoon-level works doing absolutely nothing not already covered by parody or fair use. Maybe a bad horror or porn movie.

Then nothing, just like happened with Winnie the Pooh.
War transit riding
How does this compare to Winesapos?
I’m surprised no one has brought up the fact that this code has quadratic time complexity when the underlying algorithm could be linear.

And the fact that it’s allocation behaviour is horrible, leaving behind ‘count-1’ garbage objects, count-squared garbage memory, and forcing the GC to chase after the algorithm.

I can accept this example as a contrived scenario to talk about TCO… but even in the presence of TCO one would not want to implement the function this way.
I recall Paul Krugman discussing the composition of Ivy League college student bodies, and how legacy admissions allow subpar students to matriculate while the schools have the resources to attract the most intelligent / capable students — so the student body let’s say is half legacy, half brilliant outliers (one maybe consider rich legacies as societal outliers too for different aspects). The brilliant students give the schools clout for being intellectual; while, the legacy students support the elite way of life and make that associated with the school — elite lifestyle as an enticing prospect for many brilliant students. A symbiotic relationship is formed, one that may then essentially slowly corrupt the minds of people to aggressively pursue elite-perpetuating actions (so then elite are preserving their position in society, a position that can be challenged by the more intelligent).
Further revolutionize the famous Boring Company Loop system [video]
In Haskell, all functions are syntactically and semantically curried. That is, a function that takes two arguments is essentially identical to a function that takes one argument, and returns a new function that returns a second argument. (In fairness, part of this is the laziness of Haskell, and a language like OCaml which also uses currying behaves slightly differently, but still similarly enough.) The `curry` function is not a library implementation of currying, it's a way of unpacking tuples into arguments.

In Javascript, a function that accepts two arguments is meaningfully different from a function that accepts one argument and returns a new function that accepts a second argument. Both semantically, but more importantly syntactically. It's possible to overcome this at the library level as you say, but it usually has performance and usability issues - error messages start looking very funky! It also often doesn't play well with other Javascript features, such as the famous `map(parseInt)` issue.

That's not to say that currying isn't possible in Javascript, just that it's a feature that doesn't play well with the rest of Javascript. If you really want currying when you're coding, you're probably better off choosing another language - currying will work so much better, and you will have so many more advantages.

What I've said is specific to currying, but in my experience, this is generally true. You can use certain functional idioms in Javascript (particularly higher order functions), but it isn't really a functional programming language. Adding features to make Javascript more functional makes the language a lot more complex, but it won't magically turn Javascript into a good functional language. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to include things in Javascript just because they're useful in a functional context, it's first important to validate that these features are useful in a standard Javascript context.
I don't think the financial incentives are particularly relevant; it's the idea of containerization which is here to stay now. All across the different software stacks certain modifications are being made so that applications can be containerized. For instance, FreeBSD can now run OCI containers in FreeBSD Jails. OCI came from Docker, but FreeBSD Jails has no shared history with Docker.

If you look further, you can see similar trends to support this. Distributed computing is more relevant with projects like Kubernetes, and Erlang is having a revival. Likewise with functional programming languages: because you can't directly have long-lasting state inside a container, being able to create a pipeline of immutable containers is valuable.

All that is to say that looking at either Docker or Podman itself might be missing out on a lot of really exciting developments that aren't necessarily as easy to spot. Here's one of my favourites from 2023, dynamic resource control for containerized applications: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/container_cgr...

I wish you the best of luck!
And his mom is Susan Glasser, who was assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, the founding editor of Politico Magazine, and a global affairs analyst for CNN.
Nat Friedman has tweeted that this is false.
There is so much obvious stuff to do when not refreshing the feed:

- playing video games;

- reading a book;

- going for a walk;

- preparing food;

- looking out of the window;

- calling people on the phone;

- doing drugs;

Literally anything is better than the default option of mindlessly taking the the thing out of the pocket and diving into entropy.
Is there any advantage to playing fluid [wavefield,] recordings in reverse with their parameters as training data?
It's a bosch cx performance line motor. :(
I see the difference when I drive home - so many people looking at phones when driving instead of paying attention to the road.
I have a better idea. Denmark should kill all of their royals, burn down all of their palaces and enter the 20th century, where civilized cultures no longer believe in the divine right of nobility. I don't care if they are just figureheads.

Actually, that makes it worse, because then they're just rich assholes whose only purpose is to be paid by taxpayers to breed more rich assholes. At least in the US our rich assholes do something.

And England? You still have a chance to do the right thing. Is is really worth keeping up appearances for King Sausagefingers? How many tourist dollars[0] do you think he's going to bring in? He looks like a Sontaran trying to pass as human. He looks like he's constantly being interrupted in the middle of taking a shit. He looks like the default model for "Old White Bastard." Come on.

[0]edit: OK pounds whatever shut up.
You are mistaken. I distinctly remember attending gatherings with friends of my parents’ when I was a kid (1980s). At some point in the night, usually after dinner, someone would pull out the latest issue of “People” or “Cosmopolitan” and narrate their favorite article(s) to the rest of the group.

Now, this is much more communal than you posited but if that was happening I have no doubt people were sneaking an article or two while out with friends.
It's not "basic safety", it's akin to mandating helmet use while driving cars.
They are both elite institutions with sub 8% acceptance rates, it's a valid categorization
Canola oil is one of the healthiest oils there is, assuming you don’t have a dietary sensitivity to bogeymen.
When paperback books came out they too were looked at with disdain. Too inexpensive to produce, therefore not trustworthy. Too easy for anyone to read, anytime. They were designed to fit into pockets. Then, even cheaper and disposable comics were created. They were taken away by parents for being junk, a waste of time. Then they got rebranded as graphic novels in order to give them more legitimatcy.
I understand & support your cynicism. I was actually hoping to find here answers that are exactly off the "AI"-hype (LLM will solve world hunger)
Lots more info here on the Y2K24 bug -

http://www.film-tech.com/vbb/forum/main-forum

Expired cert. Some players refuse, some ignore it.

Affected - Sony (XCT-M10) / GDC SR-1000 - "15-08-2011 18:10:59 UTC 31-12-2023 00:00:00 UTC (expired)"

There was a known Y2K24 bug that needed software updates to fix around certs, unsure how/if related -

http://www.film-tech.com/vbb/forum/main-forum/26517-dolby-do...
cost per watt is overwhelmingly important, but for satellites weight per watt is what matters. still, starship might change this
Maybe your company should stop hiring children and adolescents.
The pricing makes a lot of sense when you consider there’s one price for domestic students and one price for international ones.
I would agree with him that he didnt pay a fair market value price, but it's harder to accept he overpaid. He initiated the deal, and agreed to the price, so he clearly paid the correct amount for him. The difference in price might be that he valued immediate control more than anyone else or he valued changing their censorship policies more than anyone else. But he paid what he wanted to pay to get it.
>The entire agreement is either valid or not

You find out your contract has an invalid clause. What now? Contract null and void and you pay back all the wages received? Or just stop being employed from that moment forward?
I think it would be beneficial if every Stanford admit just went to their state schools.

The purpose of these institutions isn't to educate, it's to confer status (in a tax efficient and positive-eugenic way)
Yes, and people losing their savings when their banks went under used to be a thing as well.

That doesn't mean it isn't the most likely place for most people to hold their savings.

With any cold storage, you have to consider where you are going to keep the cold storage device. Are you going to run your own bank/vault (which was the original intent of crypto), or are you going to find a trusted party wit the correct protocols in place which will manage that for you?

For the people who have billions in crypto, the cost of managing their crypto probably makes sense. But at what point do you trust a 3rd party who's sole purpose is managing crypto?

I'm sure there is a world where the best way to store crypto is with a distributed service, rather than a wallet.

And note, I am considering the OP to be referring to a hardware wallet. Maybe that's wrong.
No need for category theory (although that might be interesting in its own right, later) or Haskell (ditto).

I might start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid#Definition or pp17-20 of https://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hehner/aPToP/aPToP.pdf

Monoid is a greek-derived name, but the structure itself is very simple: as the name implies, it's completely one-dimensional (aka linear: you can think of them as being like those whiteboard pens that snap together).

If I have a monoid y, I can prepend x to it to get (x;y), or I can append z to it to get (y;z), or I can do both, in either order, to get (x;y;z). You are certainly familiar with this behaviour for addition: 1+(2+3) == (1+2)+3, and may be familiar with matrix multiplication, which differs from elementary school multiplication in that A*B is no longer necessarily equal to B*A, but it is still always true that A*(B*C) == (A*B)*C.

This is distinct from the behaviour of lists, where one order will produce [x [y z]] and the other order will produce [[x y] z] — despite having the same leaves, they are different lists, with distinct nesting patterns.

Finally, what distinguishes monoids from semigroups is that they have an identity: if we call it ∊, then we have that ∊;y == y == y;∊ (in practice this is not a big distinction, because even without a natural identity one can almost always add a formal identity) Note that you probably are already very familiar with identities in various contexts: 0+2 == 2 == 2+0, 1*3 == 3 == 3*1, and ""++"foo" == "foo" == "foo"++"", etc. (and you may be familiar with the difference between finite automata which allow identity transitions —easy to build, not so efficient to use— and those which do not —efficient to use, not so easy to build—).

Does any of that make sense?
They are, the WSJ were speculating and people ran with it. Nat Friedman said Copilot is profitable: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712140497127342404
Is that really the point worth focusing on here?
Doing things like making it so student debt isn’t dischargeable in bankruptcy effectively creates a market for more credit than would exist otherwise. Student debt should at least be held to the same standards as regular debt.
>but it's not my liability: you should secure your property, or said differently "your problems aren't my problem"

But we're talking about you deliberately not securing or even actively reducing the security of your property in a manner that could reasonably be predicted to lead to harm to other's property, and that harm occuring, through no fault of the harmed party. You're not supposed to store loaded guns unsecured on your front porch (not around here anyways).

>By any chance, are you European? Europeans seem to have very different concepts of freedom and liability than we do.

No, I'm from the US.

>You are using loaded words to 1) imply I would support some questionable actions where you assume intent and 2) refer to negative externalities, but I'll suppose you are not trolling interact in good faith with you.

I'm asking whether you would, not suggesting that you do. But yes, the acts in question were significantly more questionable than those in my previous comment, since your answer to that was more extreme than I expected. So how about the middle ground: Do you believe that the EPA should impose restrictions on companies' or citizens' right to dump whatever toxic waste they want into rivers? If you think the physical commons should be protected from predictable harm by negligence or reckless disregard, why not the digital?
Food is not really a surprise cost. Accommodation is surprising with how much it costs considering you're basically staying in an tenement home with people stacked on top of each other.
> And unfortunately, it turns out that this kind of entertainment consumption is directly related to the biggest money firehose that humanity has ever invented: targeted advertising

I'm not convinced they target any better than the newspapers. I'm British and FB's targeting showed me an ad for how to renounce "Your US Citizenship for tax purposes", local news for a city I've never been to in Florida, and my response to the Brexit referendum result was to move to Berlin yet FB is showing me UK-specific ads. YouTube is no better, showing me an ad fronted by Nigel Farage, and a lot of obvious scams that couldn't (at the time) be reported. Twitter, back when it was that, classified me as being interested in three languages I can't speak and spectator sports I've never once watched.

It is of course possible that I'm merely weird enough that the optimisers can't figure me out. Anecdotes don't make for good datasets.
didn't know about this, installing a-shell now. thanks!
People have to have the innovative ideas and skill to make them happen, and others need to know them to fund the venture.
Ah, so after you’ve been with them a while and it’s a pain to go elsewhere.
Given that MIT grads are objectively superior to the rest of us that didn't get into any elite schools in basically every dimension I'd wager it's fairly high.

With that said, the Square interview process isn't as algorithmic as most tech or finance companies and is instead more collaborative, so the raw IQ most MIT grads would use for their Jane Street interviews probably doesn't apply here.
Thankfully all programmers have a CS degree, as there are absolutely no career paths into the industry that could possibly bypass a four year degree. What a relief, imagine the horror of working with plebians that never took a course on statistics!
It reminds me more of the TNG episode "The Game" where Wesley Crusher brings back that addictive game device: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Game_(episode)
> If you're trying to teach people about the scales of space, I think you need something humanly navigable

The Somerset Space Walk [1] seems to be a very nice candidate for your requirements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Space_Walk
Happy new years you crazy people. Hear’s to many failed ideas, to many outrageous schemes, to many goals gone amiss. I love you lot xx
I'm not sure how to respond to this. You're making the claim that Apple is violating the GPL by not publishing the source of the bash. When shown the open source repository that Apple provides to comply with the license you wave it off and suggest that the binary that Apple provides isn't compiled from that source.

Do you have any evidence to support the claim that bash on a Mac is not what is build with the source there? If so, I am sure that the FSF would love to have an easily winnable lawsuit against a big company that goes in favor of the GPL. That the FSF hasn't done so in a decade and a half suggests that there is no license violation.
In a positive sense, they are the two top tech oriented universities, west coast and east coast counterparts.

In the negative, you have this story at Stanford. With MIT you have the Jeffery Epstein connection, some high profile retractions, and the president part of the three Uni Presidents who flubbed the anti-semitism question in the congressional hearing.
When does "no" mean no? Insights from sex robots
Long time lurker, but I get so much value from this community and wish everyone well for the year ahead!
The replication crisis and data colada showed there's tons of dubious science. About half of papers results don't hold up to replication.