skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if the layout of the land didn't give an advantage to Eurasia + Mediterranean Africa, the sheer size did. It had a lot more arable land, more space for nomadic tribes (capable of fast travel and spread of culture and technology), more resources, more people. Brief study of geography and climate would make it obvious that areas like Mediterranean, Middle East, India and China will become centers of civilization. All these were connected by land and sea routes, that made it possible to exchange knowledge (and germs). Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia didn't stand a chance.
It would be JQuery...
I believe this is twofold:

1. Unless you abuse Rust horribly, it is both memory-safe and fast (which to me implies a degree of quality, unlike Python which makes me more... apprehensive in using tools written in it)

2. Rust is still not a major language but has an enthusiastic community. Rustaceans like the spread the word!
I'd be a little freaked out if someone responded with that "level 3" response...
And pipe/exec not because it's a magic boundary, but because that kind of interface is often so generic and simple it's not constituting a derivate work to use that boundary. But one could easily come up with an example where it is.
I hope Dr Fernando E. Rosas writes a book for non-technical people someday. All of his research topics are super interesting and it would be cool to have him explain how they're connected in his mind in a way that's more accessible.
I have worked at the same job before pandemic until now.

Before pandemic we had open-ish layout with my teams desks all together (8 desks, four side-by-side in two rows with our backs to the other row) with ~1.5 meter separating noise/sight walls between us and the next team(s).

To me it was good. It helped me learn much faster when I could just ask a question out loud and get help. Same with bouncing ideas. Also rotating and wheeling over to help someone was easy. And when you needed someone from another team you could just stand up and see if they were at their table or not.

That lasted few years then came "smart" office of flexible seating. We had two desks side by side with separating sight walls in multiple rows and you had to reserve your seat the day before or risk someone removing you during the day. Here we could still somewhat maintain our teams cohesion, but no longer could you just ask questions and have it be heard by everyone nor could you just stand up and see if someone was at the office or not.

Now it is just random teams chats and meetings. No idea if anyone is present or reading any chats. I can shout into the void and have no responses. Of course the upside is that I can dick around all day, like now I am writing this stupid post instead of working and there isn't even a risk someone might shoulder surf me and question if I am doing my work or not.

Once a week we go to the office and work in one of the few "team rooms" which brings back the old effectiveness and we get a lot of shit done during those days. Also I have noticed that many newer employees are lacking a lot of knowledge about processes and operations that were common knowledge before pandemic and big part of it the lack of coffee/watercooler/desk/lunch talk. There is no way to just casually over hear or stumble upon or just ask about random stuff.

Part of me wishes we could go back to the office, but also the benefits of being able to start working an hour late and quit and hour early and just not do the work you are paid to do is too much to give up on. I held strong for couple years, but after seeing how everyone else was abusing WFH to take care of their kids or run errands during work day I also gave in.
> So it’s good the state wants to build additional reservoir capacity.

How likely is this to happen? As far as I understand it, the US, and specifically California, has mostly regulated away it's ability to build any additional infrastructure. This may be overstated, hard to know as someone not living there.
US DOT maintains a valuation of a statistical life specifically as a metric for this reason. (https://www.transportation.gov/office-policy/transportation-...)

For 2012 it was 9.1 million. So 8 people doesn't quite get us to 100 million, but it isn't far off.

Also PG&E absolutely doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt on their safety culture.
I’ll add to this:
Boot and compute need to be entirely disconnected from one another.

If I have a block of storage that boots on one system, it should boot on another. An OS should poll for available services, allow them to define APIs and be utilized, but no bloat should be added to a base to support elective services.

Everything should be microkernel too, but now I’m just venting.
To prove that at least a single piece of novel software was ever written in it. It's an improvement over the decade we had here and elsewhere of people asking devs to rewrite their software with it; a phenomenon big enough to have it's own acronym (RIIR).
Internal culture hijack successful. Great video - thanks!
I absolutely disagree. The restaurant managers really shouldn't need to manage servers too. They get the kiosk as a service that they don't need to care about and that is correct.

So McDonald's should be dispatching kiosk admins all around the world? That's very much not eco friendly. And of course, expensive... And a total nightmare to manage. K8s and AWS is a night walk through the rose garden compared to that.

> No, not even for a payment, because it's just asks the payment terminal if the payment succeeded or not.

Yeah sure, works great as long as the kiosk doesn't crash during the payment.
I'd say plugins are mostly safe. In case of java interface isn't part of plugin, so no copy is involved.
looks sweet! wanna try out building something using HTMX. i'm curious about its limitations in terms of project size/complexity
There is a license for that, you know...
Being sarcastic, I bet the commercial license from EntrOuvert was way cheaper than 860k, this horrendous decision should mean firing of the managers involved in Orange, but being a semipublic company the incentives are wrong and these managers probably have promoted since then.
Could you elaborate on the "giant tax dodge" angle?
Do we have measurement of that? How worse does it get on overdraw?
> apprehensive in using tools written in it)

Yes. I have that too; mostly due to the very low quality of code ‘hacked’ in the language. It is the (not so) new BASIC and everyone and their sister are launching things in it that should be considered ‘weekend side hacks’ at most, but are announced as the next best thing.
I think that it depends. People have an idea of where they want the conversation to go ("I want to talk about my rough breakup") and you should not steer it too hard ("No let's talk about my funny breakup story").

Sometimes people want validation in numbers and it's fine to relate. "Ha! I've been there too. My kid did the same last week. Children am I right?"

Sometimes they want to process something by talking about it and you should let it happen. "Oh man that must suck. How did it play out?"

Besides, relating can feel like one-upping. For example someone tells you about their trip to Paris and you mention how you've stopped there on your unicycle trip around the world. Oh well guess their trip is nothing to celebrate then. Use your experience to relate to their feelings, not to diminish them.

Usually, you can relate while keeping your anecdote to yourself. "Oh it's a beautiful city isn't it? How did you like it?"
Show HN: A tool to generate personal messages for Twitter/X cold outreach
Hey HN,

I was doing a bunch of user research to validate some startup ideas and I turned to twitter to find the right kind of people to talk to.

I found I got a much greater response rate if I included a personal message but coming up with them each time was a lot of effort. I made a tool to make it easier for me and found some really good success with it.

I thought I would release it incase anyone had the same headaches as me.

Its super simple. You just add the twitter username you want to message and it will scrape their recent tweet history and use GPT to generate a few messages to choose from. Try it out, its quite fun.

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Mrs Stewart’s bluing. Old time laundry whitener.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2997/0156/files/MSB_Animal...

Just a couple of drops. ACV. cayenne pepper (haven’t tried).

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/has-anybody-used-li...
Time Spy Extreme is basically the same, to me the 23% drop looks like a CPU bound.
Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune
In this article we are going to explore some Design Best Practices that are practically proved to be efficient.
For what it's worth I do the exact same thing (although not on Mac so I haven't encountered this bug), so not too niche I suppose!
This article was recently removed from Road and Track magazine, so not sure how long it will be available on archive.org
I'm not entirely sure if this is even possible the way copyright in the EU works today. Be that as it may, at least from my perspective what really prohibits me from actually enforcing GPL on my software is funding. I rarely go beyond sending a stern letter, because anything more would be financial suicide in most cases; I might win but it is incredibly hard to prove damages. Punitive damages don't really exist in the EU (or, to be more precise, in the roman-german law system), at least not to the exterme seen in common law systems.

At least in my case, I'd fight tooth and nail for my software, if I don't have to bear the financial risk.
You're missing the point of what I'm saying I think. The idea of 'equal' is a false one because things aren't equal, can never be equal. It sounds good to say 'equal' but its just not the way humans are. Neither men nor women are perfect. No individual is perfect.

Now you can force and harass people to do this or that.. but what you are doing is making everyone unhappy - people will be unable to act naturally and will never never be themselves. I personally think it is better to to let individuals be natural and a/ allow making of mistakes and b/ allowing for the opportunity of learning from those mistakes.

The idea that there is some known perfect state 'equal' is a nonsense - no one knows what this is - we are not gods in fact. Forcing others to adopt such an idea is certainly wrong though - we can say that much. Manipulating others, indoctrinating them will surely make people unhappy - men and women - for who can say what is right for others?
”24 years ago, Joel [Spolsky] was one of the first influencers of the burgeoning field of software engineering.”

I got a laugh out of that line. Hard to think that you could be “one of the first” in 2000! I guess we all have different perspectives of time.
One thing to note is that the library was also available for commercial licensing from the start. Makes it easy to demonstrate harm and establish damages.

Now we need two more landmark cases:

- one that awards damages for a pure GPL library that doesn't have commercial licensing available

- one that exonerates some company that is LGPL compliant but is sued by the likes of Digia in hope of squeezing some money out of them
> Do you assume he did not produce anything valuable at Google while working there

Oh - I'm not saying that. I assume he did, but was also paid to do that.

I'm more commenting on the marketing, rather than the person.
> In order to listen to fix first you must understand...

You're missing the point - it's about whether you should "listen to fix" at all. In my experience, when most people are "sharing", they don't want you to solve their problems - chances are they know everything you're about to say anyway - and if they did, they'll more specifically ask for your help

What people want is just someone to listen, to feel heard. This relates to the oft-repeated advice of not trying to solve your partner's daily problems, but just to respond with "That sucks". It's also why responding with your own experiences all the time doesn't make you a great listener

> which does not help except to make that person feel better at that very moment and nothing else.

Not sure why you're implying this is some sort of bad thing.
> Including code in your code would always be a copyright violation.

Well, not quite - shipping code with your code would be, because that is direct distributing. But if I ship a script to download your GPL library from PYPI and just use it as it comes, the argument on whether my application is a "derivative" of yours, is not an easy one.
sorry guys. it was my configuration error, I restored the service
This looks so promising! The only issue is that many MB don't have drivers available in the Linux kernel, makes reading temp control not possible yet.
More recently, Permutation City by Greg Egan and Neverness by David Zindell are all about mathematical journeys in fictional worlds. It's hard to discuss what they mean without getting pretty deep into the philosophical implications of simulated worlds, though, so they're less useful as pen-and-paper exercises and more interesting as references on contemporary philosophy.
service restored :)
I'm writing a book (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433668) and for the case study I built https://momenial.com to generate certificates for webinar attendees.

The certificate templates are HTML files, and I use https://github.com/cognitom/paper-css to make them print-friendly.
It's kind of funny how Chinese communists tried to build enough concrete prefabs not only for people to be housed but also for people who want to invest and it backfired spectacularly.

The investor class is simply insatiable and you can't just satisfy the demand because it's always growing beyond all reason.

You need to curb investors interest in real estate.
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My company is working on a product simplifying the creation of printable PDFs filled with tables and charts, leveraging a visual designer and API. It helps with the usual headaches like page breaking, page numbering, table of contents, etc.

https://www.cx-reports.com/

We're working closely with early adopters at this stage.
If the 20% is a hotspot yes. If the 20% is because it’s been inlined and split across 100 different call sites each contributing 0.2%, I don’t think it’s so easy to spot.
In other words, Apple took the bait that Tesla has been spreading for over a decade (that FSD is imminent) and ran with it --- straight into the immovable wall of reality.
Replying in exactly that way, as if you’re a sentient observation bot, is probably not a good idea but the approach itself is solid. It’s mostly about context
> there's no django for R

ambiorix might be what you're looking for.

check it out: https://ambiorix.dev/

it provides:
- routing
- api generation
- templating
- web sockets
Which is why I would guess the intermediary controls the letting prices, if the data were available to the landlord they would be able to undercut and thus push the market down, this is the problem, abstracting the pricing to a third party that has complete information makes a cartel by default.
It's a proof that "just build more houses" will never work as a solution to housing problem. Investors are simply insatiable.
I think it is known that the Chinese state is making genetic databases of these minority populations and is taking genetic samples without consent. It's also known that the Chinese state is committing human rights violations against these minorities. I have not personally read reporting about specific ways the genetic samples have been used in fact, though.

In a US lab, for instance, I would expect that a similar genetic study would have hard-copy signed consent forms from every participant in the study with 3-6 year retention requirements, and this could be audited by their institution's IRB if there were concerns. (Ultimately I think there is an accountability chain all the way to the US federal government, though I'm not familiar with how the institutional IRBs are monitored). I don't know what equivalent institutions might exist in China, and whether the journals got/requested any verification of consents from them.

Though for papers like these where co-authors have affiliations with police departments or academies, I'm not sure how trustworthy it would be even if the police did claim they had evidence of consent for the data in these papers. (Given that Chinese police are known to be collecting genetic samples without consent in some documented cases.)
Content farm impersonates 60 major news outlets, like BBC, CNN, CNBC
> LGPL allows dynamic linkage without open sourcing your components.

Also static linkage provided you provide users with the object files so that they can re-link with a modified library.

> GPL requires any linkage to open source your parts

With the exception of system components. Maybe that is what is causing the confusion because it's not intuitive why you can ship proprietary software that uses glibc but can't ship proprietary plugins for a GPL program.

> AGPL is the nuclear don’t touch because it is vital to all possible usage types.

That is an absurd viewpoint bordering on FUD. Affero licenses are only a problem if you are trying to work around the license terms. The license does fix loopholes for networked use that allowes SAAS providers to skirt the GPL but it is NOT any more viral than the GPL. Commercial use of AGPL software is absolutely possible - see e.g. cloud providers. Most GPL software probably should be AGPL.
> You should use Letter or A4 as appropriate for your relationship with the metric system.

That's pretty clearly stated near the top of the article. As a European, if I wrote a similar post I would do it all in metric and trust that my US readers were smart enough to substitute the units of their choice without whining about it. The concepts would not change, and a quick google would tell you that an inch is approx 25mm, which is enough for you to understand what's going on.
There definitely is a practical organization need for a way to call out nonsense - but this article is about the widely used workaround process (namely, honest talks during after-work drinking) that does enable this valuable feedback to happen despite the "harmonious interaction culture" in the default environment.
I love how at the bottom of the article it says, "In the meantime, if you do need help paying your PG&E bill, there is help available here."

Click it and it goes to a 404.
In bengaluru, which is notorious for is high electricity rates, I pay an equivalent of 10c a unit. As a part of a government subsidy, my first 200 units are free too!
Can't really read this without first reading The Missing Missing Reasons.

https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-mis...
Though at least in San Francisco it's sort of intentional to run the F line using historic rolling stock as a mixture between regular transit and tourist attraction.
> this is not legal

Unless the GPL was enshrined in some law I'm not aware of, it's likely to be a a breach of contract, not necessarily "illegal". If a court rules against you, in most cases the worst that can happen is having to pay some redress to the developer and stopping what you were doing.
But the only companies that pay well - at least here in Europe.
Well, no - if we assume server password db leak includes leaking totp shared secret...

But that is also why I'm not overly concerned by the bitwarden model: in client compromise (ie phone), attacker gets both password and totp secret. But so too in many examples of server compromise.

Seperate totp app doesn't really mitigate any risk factors - but a seperate hw token/device do.

You could have 2fa only on phone, password manager only on desktop - but then logging in anywhere on your phone is inconvenient.

Then again: "Security is not a convenience".
Maybe it's a mismatch in requirements. For me, I move it into greyscale to give my monkey brain less reason to want to play with it. The intention when it's enabled is that if I need to set a timer or jot down a note that I don't get sucked into the device. When I'm done in a deep work mode, I switch it back to normal screen.

So for me, the whole point is I won't be using it enough to notice eye strain or something like that. If I'm messaging or doing something the device is designed for, it's a benefit for me to be able to have it in full fidelity.
Thanks for pointing this out! Non professional experience is also ok. We've updated the question on Evalground to reflect this.
> Many don’t believe that simply importing a GPL Python module is enough to make your extension have to comply to GPL.

I can almost hear the chairs squeaking under the many SaaS devs reading this. IANAL, but as far I know the debate is not settled on whether this clause applies to SaaS, that is when you do not distribute the software per se, and the general consensus so far is that it does not. This is the "raison d'etre" for the AGPL license, which covers the SaaS use case.
With 30+ years of climate scientists warning about it.
It's fascinating how plug & play our brain is. Just consistently supply information to it and voila, you have a new sense.

One day we may have a marketplace where you can purchase a sense of north or your spouse's body temperature, it will be interesting and weird.
I just worry that the growing generations don’t degrade typesetting quality too much… Not that it’s particularly stellar in the mainstream, but I sure hope it wouldn’t get even worse!
I don't care about the private space industry, and Elon Musk didn't found Tesla or contribute any "ideas". It's a shame that you seem to have to resort to childish insults like "Elon derangement syndrome".
The ancestor of pijul is darcs, whose main weak point was slowness. Git is very simple (simplistic) in its design (in use it is another story), patch-based VC isn't.
Ffs. OP please don’t link ft.com
Ask HN: What do I need to do to start with virtual robotics?
I want to build a simple simulator so I can test robotics algorithms. Are there any good libraries that let you, for example, test out algorithms to get a robot to walk?

It would be fun to raise funding, but it seems it would be easier to get it if I had a working prototype in a simulator, for example. Any ideas?
It could be a case where the lawyers were eager to bill hours while Elon Musk itself haven't spent his time on the topic. The experience says that for complex cases you cannot just throw some idea to lawyers but engage yourself in the process, which is very time consuming.
Sure, but for basically the same reason that it's difficult to spot in a trace: you need to classify all those segments of code as the same thing.