skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why aren't they being punished for illegally requesting the data without a warrant?

It's generally not illegal for ICE (or government more generally) to request information without a warrant (not having a warrant or other compulsory basis just means people are not legally compelled to acquiesce to the request), and the state consumer protection law at issue neither purports to, nor could it Constitutionally, apply to federal law enforcement agencies.
Printing money was alway the job of private banking in the US. Bank notes were used in the 19th century but sucked because podunk bank’s note wasn’t accepted in NYC...the federal reserve fixed that by centralizing all bank note creation to a consortium of reserve banks.
1800$ per year will adds up to a lot for anyone still working. if you earn 20K after taxes then that's 9% of your income! If you earn 140K before taxes, 100K after taxes that's still almost 2%! that's almost enough to pay rent for a whole month in many parts of the country!
Roles and permissions to your React chat app
It's easily replaceable. They choose it because ath9k works without blobs. You should know what you are buying. Not the wifi card, the ram or the storage. Not even the cool-aid. You are buying a laptop that comes without bootguard enabled and can run coreboot. That's it in a nutshell. system76 is also a decent option since they have also started working on coreboot (https://github.com/system76/coreboot/), and you can hack on it if it interests you. system76's products look more polished since they are clevos made for a wider audience.
The title of the article is ever so slightly misleading.

It would lead one to believe that VSCode and thus by extension VSCodium could be run in Docker and accessed from a web browser

In fact, you can run "Coder" (https://coder.com/); a product, which according to their GitHub had some non-trivial effort put into it to make it run as such.

Not least of all, looking through their issue list, is the fact they compile extensions themselves and they are therefore somewhat outdated (according to issue comments from their users).

It's nice, but it's not VSCode per-se and sadly means no dice for Codium users.
I'm really not sure what point you're making. Are you saying:

• it was inaccurate of me to characterize the UK, Germany, and France as being liberal democracies according to the consensus definition of the term?

• the consensus definition of the term is wrong or bad, and the term should have a different definition that France, or Germany, or the UK wouldn't satisfy?

• something else entirely?

P.S. I also am not sure what it means for the Yellow Vests' wants and needs to have not "really registered". Didn't Macron rapidly rescind the gas tax that initially sparked their anger, and then make a bunch more policy concessions besides?
Perhaps more significantly, refrigeration and air-conditioning allowed previously inhospitably hot regions to increase in population and productivity.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
“The Precession of Simulacra” by Jean Baudrillard Translated into American
> "there were 825,000 fewer Canadians living in poverty in 2017 than there were in 2015" from official website.

Yeah, that's meaningless. Those 825,000 could have been murdered and that statement would still be true.
Sorry I had to edit the title since the original one didn't fit. The original title is:

"The Precession of Simulacra" by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American
That's an ultra-qualified "yes". Hardware isn't magic. Once you've got a Turing-complete device, software can cover the rest. However, HW implementations of functionality are 'better' than software in the sense of being either faster or more power-efficient. (Or some trade-off.) Our chips are better because we can throw more customized hardware to side-step (slow; power-hungry) software implementations. We have access to more customized HW because we have more transistors.

If you're asking long-run questions in terms of HW/SW stack performance, I strongly suspect we've got another 3-10 doublings with "just more HW". If any of the post-patterning mechanisms pan out we could, theoretically, get another 15-20 doublings by going all the way down to atoms. After that ... I dunno; sort of the realm of scifi at that point.
The DVD catalogue isn't the same as their streaming.
Isn't the wear on lithium ion batteries very small as long as they are only charged and discharged in the range of 20-80% of their maximum capacity?
'Influencer Fraud' Costs Companies Millions of Dollars
Well, it's very strange. I'm trying to look up more about it but at least the first 5 pages of google results are all from MRA/redpill type hate groups, so it seems this is one of those issues that has been latched onto to create anger around without providing much actual reasoning.

Also, not sure why you feel the need to attack me personally, as if I'm going to "lengths" by pointing out when you've said incorrect things because something (not sure what) makes me uncomfortable?

Anyway, I was able to find a quote from an actual French official on the subject:

>Nadine Morano, France’s junior minister for the family, says foreign tests are not reliable and warns against “the psychological impact of results”. She has spoken of the danger that “If all fathers start asking whether they’re really the fathers of their children, we enter into a society of doubt that imperils the family.”[0]

Personally I disagree with the idea, but it seems you've heard/created a twisted interpretation of the intent behind such laws (which are not limited to France, Germany has instituted similar laws, yet France seems to be the target of this particular rage-fest).

0: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/french-men-s-insecurity-over...
For a while I did this because I wanted movies to watch while donating platelets at the local Red Cross and they had DVD players in the donation room with a small library but eventually I watched all the movies they had that I wanted to see. Eventually they upgraded to having Netflix streaming and I stopped.
I know this is a nit, but the incorrect use of commas is making this a really tough read for me...pet peeve of mine, I suppose. Anyway, salient points: use the right tools for the right jobs and all that jazz. Depends on the required level of correctness for the application. Are we coding for an airplane control system, or a slack bot that lets us know when the build biffs?
Ask HN: How to Build a New City from Scratch?
Food for thought:

* Where do you start (continent, geography)

* How do you pay for it?

* Who joins first?

* What is the political system?

* What type of housing?

* What type of transportation?

* What industries do you promote?

If anyone has resources that focus on the future of cities I would love to read.
How was it illegal for ICE to request the data? It certainly wasn't ethical, but what is right and what is legal are not the same thing. Hell it sounds like the only law broken according to the article was a Washington State consumer protection law. Hence the settlement is against Motel 6 and not against ICE.
There could also be a network effect at play; electric cars have done a great deal to progress battery technology, and China, India, and much of Europe have made fossil-fuel cars illegal a few decades from now. Between that and other regulatory measures pushing for renewable energy, investors may be coming to the conclusion that gas is a sinking ship.
This works well if you only care about the class of destination. In Citybound, people have unique, persistent homes, jobs and favourite suppliers of goods, so you always need point-to-point routing. I'm using a kind of internet-like dynamic routing table embedded in the road network to distribute the problem.
White Dwarf Debris Suggests a Common Destiny
If you've taken calculus, you'll understand the idea of area under the curve- the number of people using your app will likely go up over time, and it takes time to accrue customers (the area under the curve of the rate of customers). One thing that you should think about is that it takes time for products to gain momentum, and as a product gains momentum, it generates revenue. As such, it might make sense to ship your code without much accessibility support and add it in the ensuing months. If you can be available to even 50% of potential customers three months before the first scenario, by only releasing for people using the OS you develop on, and then you go cross-platform in three, (making your population ~90%) and then add accessibility in the sixth month, it would still make sense from a business point of view to do so.

Keep in mind that things take time to develop a userbase, and that large companies really like things to have an established userbase and support before they get on board. For instance, one of the major reasons that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has seen so much success, even though they aren't the fastest or the cheapest, is because they have a large community support network and support their stuff well.

As such, as long as I (and / or management) are committed to implementing solely-accessibility related features in the near future, I would take the first option, and release as soon as I could.
I love this article! Thank you for sharing, Steve. I have two followup questions, if you have time to answer. I used CDBaby and got a deal on uploading a full album, as long as it was under a certain number of tracks and the tracks themselves were under a certain amount of minutes. It was a very affordable way to get my band's music distributed throughout Spotify, Apple Music, Google, Amazon, etc.

If I wanted to trickle out a series of singles leading up to the release of our album to "prime the pump" on all platforms at once (like CDBaby), what service can you recommend that might be the most affordable to do this? Secondarily, what would happen when all these tunes are collected later to become an album? Would we have to pay again and re-upload the same tracks?

Thanks in advance,Steve!
I hear that recycling li ion batteries requires a lot of pretty nasty chemicals, and wouldn't be surprised if the long tail on handling and cleanup of those plus the actual process is fairly resource intensive.

Oil is a pretty nasty chemical too, so I don't know what the balance is.
Too much scatological language. Fail.

Somehow the best route to French theory comes through Japan. In the U.S. French theory has been appropriated by an academic establishment that benefits from obfuscation.
Student activists demand the punishment of dissenting professor
That's $100/$200 a month depending on how many coffees you drink per day. That is 4-5 nice meals in a restaurant. It sure is significant for me.
It has nothing to do with homophobia.

Also, I'm fully aware that you don't have any reliable data and are just hoping to make an appeal to emotions.
Assessing Unikernel Security [pdf]
Perhaps it's not illegal by the letter of the law, but it certainly seems like a major injustice to me. Could it be considered entrapment if Motel 6 was pressured into giving ICE the information?
It is a joke...
I imagine a lot of people saying "Just give up your $5 coffee and you, too, can be a millionaire someday!" are trying to be realistic without being wrist-slashingly depressing about life.

But it amounts to left-handedly saying "The big problems in your life/ the world that make your $5 coffee An Issue for your budget? Yeah, honey, you can give up on solving those. Justice just ain't a thing."
Researchers unearth 74 Facebook cybercrime groups with 385,000 members
It is dramatically slower than ICE cars dude. Over time ... it will still be dramatically slower.

Teslas are an expensive fragile toy for rich people that can afford to stop for an hour every few hundred miles. But literally who wants to do that ?!?!? Not me
In the US, lots of people have 55" TV's and bigger and at that size the streaming artifacts are really noticeable. A Netflix streaming 4k video looks terrible when the screen has a lot of black/gray gradients. It makes people wonder why they even bothered with a 4k. But, throw a blu-ray on there and you see how great the TV looks. Even better, throw a 4k Ultra Blu-Ray on and you see the brilliance of the TV and the amazing picture. This was my case - I got a 4k UHD from Redbox and now will never watch a blockbuster movie any other way.
That sounds like a pretty good deal—for the credit union. They get paid their fixed share no matter how poorly the firm performs (short of bankruptcy). The firm and its employees are taking almost all of the risk.

Selling equity would allow the firm to raise capital while splitting the risk with the investor(s). It makes the investor a partner in the firm's success or failure.
You can do that in a basement without AI. And I think, given the topic, that's all I'm going to say on the matter.
Kurt Gödel: A Contradiction in the U.S. Constitution?
Why can't Turkey leak us information about the S-400 missile that will help the F-35 evade it?
They didn't change the race though, they changed the person running it by giving them pseudo-feet. To continue your analogy, in order for a bling person to use this we just need to give them pseudo-eyes.
If you're within the same session, the Generate Password popup likely has a down-arrow next to it that will show you a list of recently generated passwords. This has been useful occasionally.
I would actually like to go back to subscribing to discs-by-mail, but have been put off from doing so via Netflix for two reasons: first, because they reputedly haven't been keeping up their inventory, leading to lots of titles being more or less permanently unavailable; and second, because it's clear that Netflix views this line of business as an embarrassing burden they'll be thrilled to dump the second they feel they can do so without going through another "Qwikster" debacle.

Are there any alternative discs-by-mail services out there that actually care about and want to be providing such a service?
So, I absolutely agree that the Heritage Foundation is less dangerous to trans people than Nazis are to Jews. However, the parent seemed to be objecting prima facie to removing someone from an ethics board on the basis of their views on issues. If we concede that Jews should object to even a single Nazi being put on an ethics board, then that objection evaporates it's instead just a question of degree: how harmful do you think the Heritage Foundation's views are compared to those of a Nazi?

If Google put a literal Neo-Nazi on an ethics board, I would tell everyone I knew to stop using Google products and applying for jobs there. I'd probably set up a script on my university Gmail to auto-reply to everything saying that I can't be reached through a Nazi-supporting platform, and explaining to the sender can run the same script in protest. Knowing my university, we'd be off Google in a few weeks.

I'd say that the Heritage Foundation is about 2 percent as bad as a Neo-nazi organization (supposing that they were the same size), so I'm about 1/50th as concerned as I would be in the hypothetical scenario. But that's still enough that I'll post on Hacker News about it, and I'd probably sign the petition if I worked at Google.
Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed [pdf]
Graph of Total Number of Websites on the Internet (1991-2015)
Or imprisoned locally indefinitely.
Sorry, but you're just validating my stereotype of a typical OOP critic.

OOP != Java.

>OOP is great if all you are doing is OO and if your solution to a problem is running a simulation (what OOP was invented for).

Most problems most programmers solve are simulation in some sense. Including DevOps. I wish larger number of people realized this. Things would become much simpler.

The problem with class-oriented languages like Java is precisely that they are horrible for making simulations. Been there, done that.

>There's always the boundary issue where you are giving up your careful encapsulation and where state needs to be transferred instead of being hidden away in some object (like exporting to JSON). Poof, your encapsulation is gone.

Solving boundary issues is what OOP was designed for. Like, that's literally the original goal of the whole concept, as explained by Alan Kay many, many times.

You were able to send objects over the wire in Smalltalk in the 70s. Every time you open a webpage with JavaScript you're performing an ad-hoc reenactment of the same idea. The fat that this idea is implemented badly on the web doesn't mean this is a bad idea.

>Furthermore, may OOP languages don't deal with ownership at all. If I'm a constructor and someone passes me an object A or worse, a list of As. Can I hold onto that list? Should I make a shallow copy? Should I make a deep copy, because I need the A objects in the state they are currently in?

This problem has been solved in 1978.

http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...

>Can I call methods on objects from multiple threads? I need to rely on the documentation to figure that out or provide synchronization myself just to make sure I'm not breaking things.

See the paper above.

BTW, guess how I found it? Alan Kay's talks.

>Too bad if someone then passes me data that only fits the old classes and too bad if consumers of my library are getting nasty surprises.

Again, getting rid of "raw data" was one of the core motivations behind OOP. See the email above.
Image recognition and flight control makes a drone, but probably not a killer drone, as that would presumably require some sort of munitions - like a gun or explosives. So it might be efficient enough to just limit access to those parts?
Can you actually get iTunes gift cards reliably for 25% off?

Even the dodgy ones on eBay seem to be 10% off max, and I'm fairly sure those are primarily used for money laundering and/or credit card fraud.
I thought it was an Onion article headline.
I can't speak to everyone else, but I also still have a Netflix subscription because I use it as a place to dump movies or TV shows I'm interested in but don't have the time (movies in theater) or inclination (lack of TV cable) to see right away. A couple months later they show up without any extra work or hassle on my part.
Why not do both? Save $1000 in coffee and another $2000 in car purchases.

It's not like having an expensive cup of coffee has been an intrinsic part of human life forever. It's not even a 50 year old phenomenon.

There are certain things you should treat yourself on, but a cup of coffee is too insignificant a hill to die on. Especially since I'm not sure how many people buy lattes everyday because they truly love lattes, and not because it is an extremely well marketed product.
It was a free purchase and there wasn't a built-in flashlight app, just a flash light quick setting, and they weren't familiar with quick settings.

Also what kind of strange victim blaming is this? You want to know why they got a flashlight app instead of knowing why the top Play Store result is malware?
To be clear, I strongly support free speech rights for many reasons, one of which is that I agree with you that they make for a better democracy and better society.

But you're being reductive. Of course the act of voting itself is meaningless if state doesn't vest power in it, but countries around the world suppress speech to varying degrees yet are stable, not in any immediate danger of turning into North Korea, and vest enough legitimacy in their elections as to be widely considered democracies, if illiberal ones. Many European countries have notably less freedom of speech in specific areas than the US but are even still widely considered liberal democracies (praising Nazism is illegal in Germany; UK defamation laws impose some of the highest burden of proof on the defendant in the Western world).
I'm surprised it's not higher.

The implicit promise -- actually, occasionally made EXPLICITLY in marketing -- of high-speed broadband was that everything would be available, but the reverse has proven true. A person living in an urban area had a larger selection of movies available for rent in 1999 than they do today because the first sale doctrine protected the video rental business, but streaming is governed by different agreements -- which leads to ridiculous "availability windows."

We mostly use Apple's movie rental system, because the quality is better than Netflix, but you still get the availability shifts. Sometimes something won't be available for rental anymore, but remains in the list as a purchasable (ha) item. This is just straight-up rent-seeking bullshit, and it didn't (and couldn't) happen when movies were tied to a physical object.

If you want a deep library of rentals, DVD/BR by mail is still better. If you want better quality, DVD/BR by mail is the best option. And obviously if you live somewhere with shitty connectivity (basically the entire rural US), then by-mail might be your ONLY real option.
Stupid question: would it be possible (legally or economically) for studios to just cut off Netflix from rental licensing rights?
Interested in seeing the linked tool Reji but the link (https://reji.me/en/) has a redirect loop for me.
Saying that he deserves a harsh penalty is one thing - but double life sentence and 40 years means he'll effectively never be able to have a life.

It's almost like a death penalty (some would think even worse). Ross did facilitate bad things unintentionally and/or turned a blind eye, but he was also young and reckless.

It's time to pardon this young man so he can actually contribute positively to society and make up in other ways.
The upcoming MKTME support in future Intel processors will hopefully make this problem simpler to solve.
I think it actually uses "Cheerpj"? Or at least it's listed as one of the demos: https://www.leaningtech.com/cheerpj/demos/
Amazon Alexa Is Now Hipaa-Eligible, What’s Next for Healthcare?
i don't know why Reedx decided to post this story, but would be interested in his/her reason for posting it.
Bengio is asked: What will be the next big thing in AI?

> "Deep learning, as it is now, has made huge progress in perception, but it hasn’t delivered yet on systems that can discover high-level representations — the kind of concepts we use in language. Humans are able to use those high-level concepts to generalize in powerful ways. That’s something that even babies can do, but machine learning is very bad at."

I read this as: "We have super-advanced skip-logic software that can produce specific results when provided a large enough data set, but "intelligence" as it is defined, does not exist."

AI is really just sophisticated software algorithms.

In my opinion, there is no true artificial intelligence, and it will be unlikely that we will ever create such a thing for quite some time, if at all. AI is being used as a buzzword to garner attention.

It seems much more likely that we will build a brain-computer interface before true AI, and it will prove more efficient than what we have today, which is effectively many computers churning through a super-long list of "if-then" statements.
Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?
Do you actually have any data on how many people don't use Python because of significant whitespace? I suspect it's actually a very vocal minority -- it's about as well-formed of a reason as refusing to use C++ because it requires semicolons.
I've noticed Netflix stuttering on Edge too. I think there is a combination of web player and compression issues happening.

The quality is really good on some titles, like the latest F1 docu-series. Others have terrible quality, like the original planet earth. Lots of stuttering and compression artifacts.

Like another commenter somewhere, I'd be happy with smooth, artifact free 1080p over 4k any day.