jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"could be that the US justice system is that much more effective"

If the effectiveness of a justice system is seen in terms of rate of incarceration, then the society that takes that view does not sound particularly as though it believes in freedom as a fundamental value, but rather prefers values like retribution and security through deferment to authority.

"US inhabitants are that much more disobedient to the same laws than those of other countries"

This doesn't hold any water either. For one thing disobedience is an aspect of freedom itself, so that a free society would presumably have a reasonable tolerance to simple disobedience and wouldn't use disobedience in and of itself to justify incarceration and would need to establish harm and public interest. Also, the rate of incarceration in the US is so massively higher than other countries that it becomes patently ridiculous to try and justify it by claiming people in the US are that much less moral than other people and so need locking up more.

I know you don't subscribe to these stances and say that they are just other possible explanations, however I do not think they qualify as possible explanations, as they have some incompatibilities with the general concept of freedom, and the actual situation in the US.
Thats what made me read it
It's unlikely to be coordination. More like is that all these companies wanted to do this, and then one went first. Or even more likely is that there was an event that caused them all to have policy meetings and that process took roughly the same amount of time at each one and they all came to the same conclusion.
>I'm only arguing against the outrageous claims that you can't convert USDT back to USD
There's a lot more value to a conference room PC than residual files.

It's a machine probably on the same LAN as a lot of the meeting attendees in the conference room, probably has Bluetooth radio as well, may have wifi radios, probably has access to a calendar of meetings and attendees (as a defined room resource). Depending on how the PC is used (a room system vs the ol' conference room PC) it may also a key logger would be valuable.

Reminds me of the scene in Firefly: "let me get this straight, you put multiple high-ranking intelligence officials in the same room as a psychic??" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9SF7TOyHQ
Not surprising, if other companies are doing it they now know its safe for their profits to do it too. They also know that hes leaving office soon so they dont have to worry about getting legislated into trouble.
How much of the carb overfeeding is marketing and conditioning though (and mostly a US-centric phenomenon)? Any caloric excess is bad, nothing special about carbs. Demonizing one particular nutrient seems like a silver bullet and I could also enjoy 50 different ways to make eggs and ham and 50 varieties of brie and keto bread, but something felt amiss. That said, still want to try going 100% vegan someday.
I'm strongly against app platforms (App Store and Google Play store) deciding what content is allowed on apps sold on their stores.
Forgot to check for replies. In particular, I was thinking of this blog post:
https://windows-internals.com/exploiting-a-simple-vulnerabil...
Thanks for the correction, sorry I typoed her name.

Here's a tweet from the original finder:
https://twitter.com/gabe_k/status/1330966182543777792?s=20

Yarden & Ionescu's work are both really top notch.
Also anything by Google Project Zero if you want to do a deep dive on the subject.
Does this mean Stripe is extending the auth and capture timeout from 7 days? Or is this a special exemption for Kickstarter?

https://support.stripe.com/questions/does-stripe-support-aut...
What? Facebook uses Stripe for their entire payments system? Even the ads?
Sure, but "you can't recover damages because the other person has no money to take" is a totally different argument from "you can't get damages because the other person didn't cause any harm".
I think it is only approved for treatment in Japan
But a hidden tank becomes an armoured, sealed, high-endurance OP, with a hugely powerful sensor and comms suite.

You think you're fixing them - but really are they fixing you?
How is that the same as malware? I.e. "software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network", if the Wikipedia definition has authority. That's not at all what Zoom does.

You're assuming ill intent where there is none. At the worst, it's incompetence. And they fixed the local http server flaw.

I'd much rather we reserve the term "malware" for actual malware and not dilute it to mean "any program made by a programmer who's either not very good at security or doesn't have the exact same opinion about it as me".
They're quite distinct energy sources anyway. You refine oil into petrol and it moves cars, whereas you use coal to generate electricity. No matter how cheap coal is I'm not sticking it in my Subaru. There might be a small amount of diesel-fired electricity generation, but it's not a major contributor to the energy mix and it's more for remote locations.
And that’s the disgusting part of our system.

We can’t switch jobs or start a business because our health and well being is tied up with an employer. It’s possible that switching jobs means switching doctors or foregoing care.

And I’d say that the worst part about employers subsidizing healthcare is that they gladly do it because it’s essentially untaxed salary.

If my employer wasn’t allowed to subsidize healthcare, they’d have to pay me more and that extra pay would be subject to payroll tax.

So the whole system incentivizes employers to lobby for this terrible system of employer-based private for-profit health insurance. Big companies love it because it’s a way in which they can trap employees and snuff out competition from smaller businesses.
I'm really curious to see the data in a couple months. There should be a slowing of melting, right? I'm not sure what lag there is between emissions and temperatures. If there isn't a change in rate, what do we do then?
They finally started making money again last quarter:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=BKS

They also managed to survive while Border's went broke:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BKS&t=6m&l=on&z=...

The stock is so beaten down because when Borders started to fall over it looked like book stores were all going to die one by one just like the brick and mortar music stores did.
I imagine it would be easy, because it's a clear cut case of good old fashion theft. Doesn't everyone (even thieves) know that theft is unethical?

Perhaps is the shoppers were having trouble taking financial care of themselves or their family, it might be worth calling an ethical dilemma, but the article mentions nothing about that.
Don't miss the detainee population visualizations put together by the NYT with help from CoffeeScript/Underscore/Backbone wizard Jeremy Ashkenas:

http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo
"Conspiracy theorists are assuming the conclusion before the evidence is in place. You know just like religious people can make anything seem like an act of god. Or believers in Nostradamus make everything seem like he was right. The list of alternatives stories one can make in retrospect is more or less limitless."

I completely agree with this.

"If you have already decided that the government are conspiring against their citizens then you will take any weird phenomena and use that as an argument for you case."

I also agree completely with this point. I also want to make it very clear that I have not decided that the government is conspiring against their citizens, nor is it my starting point.

It is however not something that can be ruled out from the start either, as I mentioned, history has proven that too.

"But you could might as well make another conclusion far less spectacular yet as horrific. For instance that the US government knew something was going to happen and they let it happen."

Agreed, there are so many shades of gray between the often official/'truthers' dichotomy that is almost always maintained and promoted.

Once again to be explicit: I'm interested for the correct shade of gray, because the official version doesn't do it for me, but most alternatives are complete non-sense too.

"This would be a far less outrageous claim to make even though it's really pretty much wrong."

At least the government messed up by ignoring too many signals in the months leading up to the day and by acting to slow on the day itself. Having a training with almost the exact same scenario on the same day doesn't help. This also applied to the attack in London.
"One would think that if there are people who leak videos of US pilots shooting down journalists, there would be people leaking a far greater story, requiring a far larger conspiracy involving thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people."

Not necessarily. Large groups of people can work on a common goal while still keeping it secret. See e.g. the Manhattan project with 100K people working on it.

"One would also think that if the government really was that great at covering up something a huge as 9/11 then they
Unpleasant to think about? Yes for the conspiracy theorists."

As I noted in another reply in this topic: conspiracy theory is also a word that's used to create false dichotomies.

The official version is also a conspiracy, the conspirators being those Arabic hijackers (of whom quite a few are still alive too btw).

So the real issue isn't: is it a conspiracy or not

It's: who are the conspirators and how can everything observed that day be explained.
Where do you see his values? I don’t see them.

I think that's the point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

Please read the section about her early life.

Edit: In case it's not clear:

Judit Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.
The nook lacks hardware features (a camera, at least) that google requires for a device to qualify for google branding and google apps including android market.
The contract to which you refer is entirely inferred, is it not? Amazon claims the AZ's should be independent[1]:

Each availability zone runs on its own physically distinct, independent infrastructure, and is engineered to be highly reliable. Common points of failures like generators and cooling equipment are not shared across Availability Zones. Additionally, they are physically separate, such that even extremely uncommon disasters such as fires, tornados or flooding would only affect a single Availability Zone.

Yet what Amazon guarantees, by way of their SLA, is only 99.95% for a region[2,3]:

The Amazon EC2 SLA guarantees 99.95% availability of the service within a Region over a trailing 365 day period.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_isolated_are_Availabilit...

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_does_your_Amazon_EC2_Se...

[3] Of course, they're not even meeting that right now. :-(
An Amazon EC2 Micro instance is pretty close to that price, plus you don't have to pay for it while it's not running, and you get to learn AWS too.
Lots of inertia to overcome. Google Offers has six options to choose from compared to Groupon's long list of cities and presence in India. (http://www.sosasta.com/startup.php)
What does she get when she attains political power? She gets to tell people what to do.
I hope you're joking. Too lazy to look right now, but I'm pretty sure legal precedence for this is already established.

If you read almost every company's AUP you'll see that by using or connecting to their systems you are consenting and giving up your right to privacy.
I prefer my ID's universally unique. I worry that globally unique ID's won't scale as we begin to colonize other planets. (yes, its a joke.)
Stupid and discriminatory, they could probably agree on. The difference is in how they react.

Leftist: That's unfair! There ought to be a law.

Rightist: Meh, they probably have their reasons. Anyway, their funeral.
Instead of showing the vote buttons but having them do nothing when the user is not logged in, use a tooltip to tell them that they can vote, comment, etc if they create an account and login.
Karma is only awarded from other members in discussion areas. Additionally, a virtual trading system is in the works to accurately track member performance. The trades are entered on the site, and compared to the actual market so there would be no fake scores.
Don't macros change the rule a bit?
How is this not money laundering? It is most definitely money laundering. The stolen money arrives in a bank account appearing “clean” because it was “earned” via Amazon book sales. The true origin of the illicit cash is now obscured and within the mainstream financial system.
Anyone interested in the neuroscience behind magic should read Sleights of Mind http://www.sleightsofmind.com/. Really fascinating book!
Perhaps "unbelievable" is an exaggeration, but Finland is more expensive. A license to drive a normal car ("B" category license) costs between 1500 and 2000 euros in a driving school (for the initial phase, which gives a temp license valid for 2 years). Then around 400 euros for the second phase which must be done after 6 to 24 months.

But fortunately a family member (or similar) can also teach, with just a few mandatory lessons at "facilities". This way, the cost is around 500 euros (if you don't include the car and fuel costs when driving the mandatory 20 half-hour lessons.)

(License categories are the same in all of EU I think: A is for motorcycles, B a car, C a lorry, D a bus, E a trailer, with sub-divisions like A1 and A2 for different power classes of motorcycles etc; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_license#mediaviewer/...).

In Finland, licenses were about to become very expensive last year after a law change that was lobbied by driving schools - that effectively made it impossible to teach your own family members to drive. But after seeing the ripping-off by driving schools, and also after extensive protests by the public, the government (unbelievably) backed down and changed the rules back so that teaching a family member is again feasible. My third kid is soon ready for the driving test...

BTW people say that it's a great test of trust and co-operation between a parent and a teenager to try to teach a young one to drive. For me this has fortunately gone very well.
> But the only palliative measure that would make a real difference is a drastic reduction in speed. Cut down the speed limit to twelve miles an hour in all built-up areas, and you would cut out the vast majority of accidents.

That is not actually true. It would reduce injury and death, but it would increase accidents.

Every bit of statistics has shown that accidents are correlated to time on the road, not miles and not speed. Half the speed limit, double the time, double the accidents.

Injuries are different, those are correlated to speed.
I think the continuation of this would be a neat project. The lib starts up a JVM, it would be interesting to see a macro [1] (or will probably have to be a compiler plugin [2]) to model Java objects and make it clear the ownership of memory.

1 - http://doc.rust-lang.org/0.12.0/guide.html#macros
2 - http://doc.rust-lang.org/0.12.0/guide-plugin.html
There is very much a social stigma. I remember being quite shocked when I lived in Canada a few years ago, and people would tell stories that would end "I don't even remember driving home that night". That just wouldn't be acceptable back home (or at least in equivalent social circles).

To get onto wild speculation and anecdote, I noticed that anti-drink drive adverts in the UK tend to focus on how horrific it would be to be responsible for killing someone, whereas in Canada they focused on what the penalties would be if you were caught.
you should go check out far right communities online, to them he may as well have said "Storm the inauguration on the 20th." He 100% deserved to be banned just for that comment's kairos.
> in Matrix the extremely low popularity of alternative servers is kind of a big roadblock.

This sounds like the opposite of the point I was making. What is this a roadblock to?
Did you mean "soft fork", or are you thinking of a different concept I'm not familiar with?

Forks can and have been used to deal with isolated malicious incidents, but do you think they can be successful against an actor in extended control of a substantial part of the hash rate?
Do they have to incite a mob to overtake the halls of a separate and equal branch of our government resulting in the deaths of five people including a police officer?
Clamping down is not notoriously effective. It has a tendency to build pressure, not release it.

Better to try and understand the complex psycho-social-economic factors that lead to this situation. Without a clear understanding of how a problem came to be, how can it be fixed?
Yes, of course, safe to say everyone on HN knows this.

Twitter banning Trump isn't such a big deal. He can get a web site and email service from AWS or other cloud providers.

But what if the cloud providers ban his web site and email?

What if backbone internet providers and data centers banned his IT team from running their own web/email servers?

There is no government run internet. It is all run by private companies. Which means that if private companies wanted to, they could restrict access to anyone they want.

This is clearly wrong. We either need to create a government run internet backbone + data centers, or to draw some line at how much power private internet companies have.

The Supreme Court could decide that the internet is so vital to the First Amendment in the modern world that the top N social media or internet infrastructure companies have to behave as if they were government run with respect to the First Amendment.
Basically, it's the loud uncle who's been screaming nonsense the whole dinner party, and now he's just shoved you and you fell down. The host told him to go to the other room and take 10 minutes to calm down. Now he comes back and returns to screaming...
I'm more interested, for now, on the platform issue itself. Barring blatantly illegal stuff, when and why should a platform like this (especially like this) itself enforce its self-made policies and act as a censor?

If it's an open vox populi platform, and if something isn't illegal (as in quotable in law), why should a platform have its own police? Leave it to, err, police? Of course, that opens up a question of whose police and laws if the platform is global... However, my point is, if the platform is non-moderated, why censor on your own?
Fascists hate being called on it, even if we are just a few days after a literal attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power in this country.

Only 5 people died, so I guess small price to pay to massage some folks' egos.
Did a podcast explainer on this here:

https://www.wholewhale.com/podcast/152-why-we-should-save-or...
The police specifically allowed the terrorists into the building. They are on the same side.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1346924307692318723
Indifferent to the Clown show.

But like him or not, Steve Bannon suggested this would happen. It has something to do with the Democrats and the way they went after Trump. He basically said they are setting the precedent for what happens when they're back in power. He said both sides need to remember respect is a two way street.

I would recommend the following Real Time with Bill Maher Interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVlN-kBjZg
With the walled garden, Apple can set enforceable timelines for the software ecosystem to adopt to architectural changes.

Remember the transition to arm64? Apple forced everything on the App Store to ship universal binaries.

Without the App Store walled garden, software isn’t required to keep up to date with architectural changes. Instead, keeping current is only a requirement to being featured on the App Store (which would just be a single way to install software, not the only method).
It's because the Mughal Kings who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for a couple of hundred years really promoted art and music (instead of science and technology, I might add).

https://www.thefridaytimes.com/where-the-mughals-got-their-m...
Hey, can you please not post like this here? or like these?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595546

We're trying for quite a different sort of discussion, and the two sorts are not compatible, the way forest fires and hiking are not compatible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a symptom.

You're not seeing the connection because you aren't thinking at a high enough level of abstraction. The entire social media and entertainment edifice is built on the objective of telling you what you want to hear. This basically generates a rapidly polarizing schism with a tendency toward radicalization, anda natural aversion toward established info sources on course correction, because if they didn't get it right the first time, or second, or third time, then why give the benefit of a doubt?

You can argue these people weren't looking for truth in thefirst place, but you're missing out on that the "Truth" is not the same to all people, and as it turns out, you rely on the fluid nature of non-bubbled organization and communication to ground disruptive social energy and disharmony.
This isn’t a failure of leadership like my code failed to compile just now. This is leadership with a vision.
> They are not the same.

They are cash and cash-equivalents. Meaning, the same.

Many large business transactions are done using t-bonds. The amount of dollars in the economy is surprisingly small, thus, at some price point, it becomes necessarily to pay in t-bonds.
why not just create a burner FB account?
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Thanks for asking, but not really. I have the back-end system done, so now the real work begins, creating the games from the escape room documents I have. I have a tutorial game done, but really want a playable game available before I launch.
Getting the right information to the right people is key to success. There are people as skilled and knowledgeable as these doctors who can only have great impact when they work together with information systems.
Maybe that person went to a place where they could get Internet, downloaded the game to a suitable storage medium and dragged it over from there into their steam folder at home.
Sounds like a Cytokine Storm as the body's defense systems do all the damage

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294426/
I had lost my sense of smell, had a very mild fever for 3 weeks that started to turn into a dry cough. But yesterday all symptoms seem to have stopped. Hopefully I’ve already had it but impossible to say...
No it wouldn't work. You'd have trucks with no engines and the brakes still locked. With that many trucks, your "worthless scrap metal" would be millions of dollars in damages.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/official-air-brake-handbook/...