skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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My sources are people (at least 2) whom I know IRL, who work with people with autism one way or another (which is group I'm part of).

FWIW, here are some sources I found with a quick DDGing:

1) https://www.hearingsol.com/articles/adhd-and-autism/

2) https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/large-set-brain-scans-reve...
> the large legal companies contracted to write

Are private companies actually writing annotations that affect judges decisions? That sounds like they are effectively writing the law.

Or, if they're just compiling judges' writings, how do they have copyright on those?
And I don't think that this is true. First party toolkits do the very same GL calls in the end than a third party would.
Howdy leereeves, I've seen you posts alongside mine in previous climate change threads, always on opposite sides.

Would you mind having a conversation offline? I'm interested in learning more about your point of view outside of these HN threads. Feel free to email me at the email in my profile.
> Well, hard-working but not clever people will do useless work and create extra work overloading everyone else. BUT, this happens when they don't have good management and leadership above them, to prioritize and handle them bite-sized pieces, and to set their frame of mind to focus on "results in the bigger picture".

I've always thought of "stupid" as different from "not smart". I can't fault people for not having the experience or knowledge that I or others have. I tend to think more of an "active stupid" as a lack of common sense, and making actually poor choices as opposed not making good ones.

To me, it's more the difference of "My laptop is overheating and I can't figure out why" versus "My laptop is overheating so I poured water on it to cool it off."
That would mean that a woman lying about being on the pill in order for a men to agree to have sex with her, would also constitute rape from her part.
I make my own bar soap, but I keep a bottle of Dr. Bronner's Peppermint around anyway. It's quite concentrated, so it can be used to clean around the house as well as a body soap.
The fact that the US military has no qualms with killing random innocent civilians

Factually untrue.

You can say the U.S. military doen't care nearly enough about it. Fine. Now we're in the realm of opinion. I'd probably agree.

But "no qualms?"

If you want to see a military power with literally "zero qualms" look at regimes like Assad in Syria, using indiscriminate chemical attacks in civilian areas. That is what "no qualms" looks like.

Or look at landmines.

Suicide bombers in civilian areas.

Large-yield nuclear weapons.

High-altitude carpet bombing runs.

Those are "no qualms" weapons.

Even a standard explosive drone-launched Hellfire missile is a weapon of extreme precision and minimal collateral damage compared to any other explosive weapons that have been used for the last hundred years or so.

It would be utter madness to spin Hellfire missile strikes as benevolent acts of kindness. They are acts of violence that sometimes hurt and kill innocents and thinking about that should make anybody with a conscience feel ill.

But as far as those sorts of things go, characterizing their use as "no qualms with killing random innocent civilians" is just untrue. They are remarkably focused compared to just about any other method of killing people from great distances that humans have managed to invent.

There are plenty of injustices perpetrated by the U.S. military. We don't need to invent or exaggerate them. It doesn't help the cause of legitimate criticism.
It's a terrible article. My understanding is that the state has an agreement with Lexis/Nexis to have the laws annotated. In exchange Lexis/Nexis can publish and sell the annotations. Presumably, in order for this relationship to continue, the state must defend its copyright to the annotations which Lexis/Nexis has produced.

So although using 'terrorism' is clearly ridiculous, the rest of it is not so clear cut.

Also note that the laws with the annotations are available in public libraries. So freemium.
I know a professional accountant who kept using her maiden name in business contexts after marriage because otherwise people had a hard time finding her skillset and work history etc., but for all other purposes she’s Mrs $NEW_NAME.

As regards trans names, I’m told quite a lot of people (not 100%) find their old names an uncomfortable reminder of an uncomfortable past.

Plus it’s a sign of respect to use someone’s chosen name, and a sign of disrespect to use any other name — for non-trans examples, what does it say about someone’s respect for the other party if they call David Tennant “David McDonald” or Boris Johnson “Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson”? (At least, without the brackets that the previous poster used; with is useful for the same reason as my friend using her maiden name, but it’s still often frowned on).
> Maybe it is you who should re-think their position?

Maybe. That's what I offered already. So, can you convince me?
That is a well known "business" in some places.
Well, at least I don't think our governments would actively stop us from finding and using them.
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At least in England and Sweden, it is definitely the case that one cannot consent if one is not conscious, and therefore consent has not been given, therefore an offence has been committed. I believe this is true in the US as well.

Consent has to be given prior to each occurrence, and therefore prior consent means nothing about future consent.

See, for example, the High Court judgment (linked elsewhere in this thread) on the EAW served for Assange's extradition to Sweden in 2011, where the High Court concludes that the offence would be rape under English law.
The Republic of Georgia claims that the legal code establishing the rights and obligations of its citizens (including annotations commissioned and approved by the state) should not be freely available to its citizens or anyone else, because it is copyrighted by the state.

According to the article, 20 other states around the world are making similar copyright claims.

The written laws of a state (along with annotations commissioned by the state) are, in effect, the source code for running the state.

Citizens must behave as specified by this code. Otherwise they are fined, incarcerated, or worse.

Shouldn't the code that controls people's lives be free, open-source?
I mean, it's not the point, not to sound picky, because, the point is not to know whether the action is justified or not, people are better off or not.

It's because people under this rule have no power, no influence, almost no clue about it, because of the imbalance and the disconnect (of power, of knowledge, of capacity).

Such as would any creature under a powerful god, would gods exist.
But you at least expect gods to have some sort of perfection or status or narrative that could somehow justify their whereabouts.

But here, there's no god. Just imperfect, broken humans breaking other humans, imperfectly, often for the wrong, or no reason at all.

That will never make something right. That will certainly entice more hate and more evil.

That's why this kind of weapon should be banned by treaties as unconventional (which they are).

This is not war. This is ruthless domination, for better or for worse (more than often, worse).
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Why would there be any issue at all with putting the law online?

Serious question.

What do, say, reporters in Georgia do when they write a story about court proceedings or what-have-you? Is the state code just never referenced? Or explained? Or even just written out so that people can see what happened and how it worked?

Is the general public simply not allowed to know what laws they live under? Or is it that only people authorized by the government are allowed to tell people what the law says? (Which, to me, sounds even more problematic.)
They're not accusing him of literal terrorism, no, but it's a legitimate angle to the story to point out that the state of Georgia is using way over the top language to oppose Malamud's attempts to help the people of Georgia.
> I'm sure the Trump campaign will be a bit disappointed you don't turn up to their rallies,

settle down, i'm not some right wing climate change denier. My point is that yours (and my) entire existence is dependent on a whole chain of environment decimating externalities. Simply existing in modern society makes you complicit in the destruction of the planet.

Ever eaten an avocado in winter? yup you just did your little bit to kill the planet. And even if you completely went off grid, zero carbon, neanderthal level of self deprivation to earn your environmentalist eagle scout badge, then guess what? The world is literally brimming with people who don't give a fuck and will vote out any politician who even thinks about raising power bills by 0.001% for the sake of climate change.

Add to that the billions who still aspire to the luxury of a flushing toilet let alone the luxury of being an eco warrior from behind a $2000 Macbook and you see... we are fucked.

Unless of course some clever silicon valley nerd comes up with a way to capture carbon, sequester it, provide clean energy for the 4 billion people who are clamouring to get out of poverty.

Nah, more money to be made from ad networks and ride sharing apps I guess.
This is what they accused Aaron Swartz of too.

"Misdemeanor Terrorism" was one of the charges I believe.

The lawyer that said that this is 'terrorism' should be disbarred. This is borderline slander.
Huh that sounds a little bit like me, though I don't think it's as strong. I definitely have those cycles of things that are interesting to me and anything else is just so hard to focus on.

Just wondering, what sort of things are you trying to combat that?
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> Frequently the letter of the law itself is publicly available, but there are also significant annotations and explanations that form the real body of the law/code as used by the courts, law enforcement, etc

So its the interpretation that is used. Then shouldn't the interpretation be open to public? What kind of justice system is this?
You forgot those who you would call evil + rational. These people willingly rather take their chances in Max Max world than give something up now.
It technically isn't. The annotations in question are expert's analyses of the law, approved by the state.

The defendant was told he could publish the actual law, and his own analysis. However it gets really murky when “Georgia’s courts have cited to the annotations as authoritative sources on statutory meaning and legislative intent.”

I can see the argument against this being freely publishable. If I wrote a textbook which explains some badly written and archaic laws really well, and lawyers and judges started to look to it as the de facto law, should that void my copyright? On the other hand, the public should have free access to the interpretation of the law as enforced.
Uh, without the "unprotected" part, surely?
> So the solution is quite simple.

hehe that gave me a chuckle ;)
Ironically, in Japan, the video is geo-blocked by Sony Music Entertainment Japan:

この動画には Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. さんのコンテンツが含まれており、お住まいの地域では著作権上の問題で権利所有者によりブロックされています。
We should not be tied up by our work although the society thinks that it is what defines us. In that situation, the best solution is to find another job where you do not have to do 'firefighting' all the time, life is too short to be sacrificed for that.

It's kind of frustating when you care for others, but they do not appreciate your effort. Well, big corporations care about profit, not about the employees. Try to find smaller companies or do your own business.

Wish her the best
I'm pretty sure there was also no one around to complain when their coastal cities filled with millions of people went under water. Pretty terrible example if you ask me.
When I'm anxious, for sure the racing-thought/chatter is more pronounced; I've also been diagnosed with BPD and that psychiatrist actually asked me to do and ADD/ADHD test because these go hand-in-hand (I've scored 6/9 for ADD, which was apparently sub-threshold for ADD in adults).

Depersonalization/feelings of emptiness -- I do experience those occasionally because those are part of BPD, but they've gone down significantly over the years and I have a pretty stable life right now.

The bad thing for me is if I'm well rested/not anxious I'm usually not interested in doing anything at all; it's just my hypothesis that anxiety is my high-functioning mechanism for my ADD.

While on certain stimulants (they're not all the same) things just click and I am very calm, zero chatter in my head, I feel a bit dumber than usual, but I also can just focus and do meaningful things. Other stimulants make me euphoric and while I can focus I can easily end up focusing on the wrong things; on other stimulants I'm more anxious than usual, more driven and still better able to focus; unfortunately I live in a country where adults cannot receive stimulants period, let alone find a psychiatrist who's willing to play with stimulants/non-stimulants, dosages and so on.
Just making a good product people actually have use for. I can't think of a single useful thing I own that I've disovered via someone advertising to me.
> Apart from the name, will be interesting to see how well they can succeed with a "Google-free Android", which is much easier said than done.

I tried and I really wanted to like it - but while I could easily replace Gmail with Outlook (or use the AOSP mail app), replacing Play Store with Amazon Appstore provided a very sub-par experience, and using apkmirror almost felt like piracy.
Agreed.
I think one of the messages she is trying to convey is that the legal system is 'bogus'. So it's coherent refusing to play ball with it.
Yes absolutely, the soldier have every right to refuse.
Your country is broken
I really really wish that we are overdoing it.
The data just looks that bad, and we are one the worst path.

We emitted 5/6th of what's ok to stay below 1.5°C, and 2°C is not that much more, and we're not stopping. (500 Gt vs 600 Gt)

At the current emission rate (12 Gt/yr) we have 10 years left to stop completely. A few decades won't cut it.

Almost all scenarious of the IPCC now include negative emissions to be able to reach the targets.

The technology does not exist, would need to be implemented on a massive scale (eg plant all the available area minus agriculture and a selected few sanctuaries with trees and make biochar out of them) and the investment in eg artificial photosynthesis is not there, probably because there is little money in it. (The process is different from that for biofuels.)
We might not make it in time. Don't rely on this.

(The total available stored carbon seems to be on the order of 3000 Gt.)

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/summary-for-policymakers/ (Figure SPM.10)
And no one ever talks about how we’ll handle solar waste. Has it changed and is no longer a problem going forward? Last I looked into it a few years back it was shaping up to be a very serious and toxic problem. They were very difficult to recycle, and full of lead, cadmium, and other nasty things. Something needs to be done with them but everyone was pretending they’re completely clean and safe.
Ah, yes, decommissioning, that dirty little word no one in the nuclear industry likes to talk about. Decommissioning can take decades and cost billions, usually passed on the ratepayers. These costs are never mentioned when the industry discusses its economics.

I'm also getting kind of tired of the "solar pollutes, too" argument. Yes, solar pollutes. So does making PC processors. But neither of those activities create radioactive materials which can poison people from a distance and persist in our environment for thousands of years. There is simply no comparison between poisonous heavy metals and radioactive nucleotides.
The state should have developed its own annotations or paid Lexis/Nexis to make the annotations public, not have them in this messy limbo state.
Isn’t terrorism the use of physical violence to further political means? How does this meet the standard of terrorism? I feel like if this is part of the official record some pro bono lawyer will be looking for a decent payday.

I feel like there should be some personal penalty for those unborn government who willingly engage in acts that are not in the letter of the law and cost the taxpayer money.
I think the issue here is that the Georgia courts cite these annotations in their opinions, meaning that they effectively have the weight of law. If there is no de facto difference between an annotation and a law, why can one be copyrighted and hidden behind a paywall while the other cannot?

This is a separate from the (also unbelievable, to me) issue that a paid private corporation writes these annotations that are then referenced with the force of law by the courts.
China has a very different view of personal liberty.
"If the state of Georgia is not content with its populace, the state should dissolve the populace and elect a new one."

Amazing how the same things can be applied to "different" political systems.
Word of mouth. The same way you learn about all those other things you didn't want to know, like who dies in the newest Avenger flick.
I think we’re confusing 2 kinds of trust: personal trust in a business and Google’s trust in a domain for SEO purposes.

For SEO purposes there is no downside to TLD:

> Overall, [Google’s] systems treat new gTLDs like other gTLDs (like .com and .org). Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search.

https://searchengineland.com/google-explains-how-they-handle...

As far as personal trust goes, I remember that I am not the audience. Yes, .marketing seems weird to me, but I am not the owner of a small business looking for SEO services. Maybe it is impressive to them? Maybe they never notice the domain because they find the site by Googling and never type it themselves?
No, I would counter that something needs to be done about poor train infrastructure.

You are mentioning an important problem but I firmly believe that cheap flights are not a future-proof, sustainable solution as long as kerosene is the fuel.

Trains on the other hand could be a wonderful approach. Political incentives have stifled train infrastructure in the past. Trains in Germany are already a joke but its insane how this concept is just non-existent in the US due to the reign of cars and flights.

But I guess its more important to spend $600bn on a massively overinflated military or in case of Germany to politically support Big Car.
> the abuse of "terrrorism"...abuses of power

The federal court opinion [1], which rules in favor of Malamud's NGO, does not once mention "terrorism". The case is a copyright one. (And an important one at that.)

I'm guessing the quote was from the lawyers' remarks, not the actual charges. So serious faux pas more than abuse of power.

[1] http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201711589....
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/fallacy-israel-hum...

I wonder what kind of person pushes false narratives dehumanizing a people who have been oppressed by a brutal occupation for decades.
I'm just curious how such cases are proven in a court of law. The consent in such intimate situations is generally verbal;so if party A claims there was consent but the other party says there was no consent, I think that's a dead end for the prosecutors
Hanford and Rocky Flats are two of the most polluted places on Earth. Hanford has polluted the Columbia River, a tragedy in itself.

Nuclear is like the insolent child who refuses to clean up his room. There isn't any cleanup, really. The waste keeps piling up (usually in something that looks like a swimming pool). It must be attended to by humans for decades or centuries. And the uranium cycle leaves its dirty underwear all over our planet.

There is nothing eco about nuclear.
Thank you for reminding me how much I hate regex
Udacity has a local Chinese version. Slack works, kind of. Google groups is a shuffling zombie abandonware project outside China so I fail to see how the lack of access within China will impact anything there.
i'm surprised i didn't get mentioned, since I have a fork dedicated to the Corolla. but yes the system is actually in use and comma have logged over 10 million miles already. on top of that, the Discord community reports any and all accidents and none have been due to openpilot. there have been a few accidents were people got rear-ended or sideswiped, but fortunately there has never been an accident with the system engaged or due to openpilot.
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I'm not sure on which law this whole fad is based on. Is it an old law?

> [...] The last time the Supreme Court addressed the matter, in 1888, it ruled that “the whole work done by the judges constitutes the authentic exposition and interpretation of the law, which, binding every citizen, is free for publication to all.”

A solution to how ridiculous old laws are is automatically expire them. That way, the politicians are forced to reevaulate them.
Maybe. But as the article discusses, globalThis !== global
Hi, thanks for the review, especially for the list of things point. Yes there’s ai in it but it’s assisted by humans which is also why you get to wait a bit more than other ai apps.
[Remove the two spaces before https, so the link becomes clicky.]
My opinion would be different, I believe the good understanding of human behavior is the key, e.g. what motivates people, reward system, FOMO, etc. Try to read "Charlie Munger's 25 Cognitive Biases".
This looks like a strategic move to prevent him extradited to US soils. I believe there are strong negotiations going on in the background.
Sometimes the law will refer to a third party set of codes.

For example, the law might say that it's illegal to operate a pressure vessel unless in satisfies all the requirements of ASME Section VIII Division 1 or 2. As you might guess, the ASME boiler and pressure vessel code is a copyrighted work owned by the ASME.
......misdemeanor terrorism. How does that term even exist? Is that like flying a Cessna into the World Trade Center instead of a Boeing 757?

Agree with you there. Either it’s terrorism or it isn’t.
The SL 5x5 website and random videos for form are plenty, the book is not really necessary.
Another vote for Pepperfire here. Absolutely delicious.
This looks very useful.

See also "rlwrap", which is a very useful tool for enhancing those command line tools which lack readline support.

Not to steal the thunder of the guys behind the orignal post, but Google for "rlwrap sqlplus" to get an idea of how quickly useful it is.
So, we made the polyfill horribly hideous in order to make it run everywhere JavaScript can run, and yet, it doesn't work on IE10-. Maybe it's not a good way to set globalThis after all :)
Let me pull out a quote from the article.

“But Tori and her mother, Stephanie, 45, stayed. Every weekday morning, Tori would wake up early, her mother would feed the chickens and together they would head down the serpentine mountain road to Beckley. Nights and weekends they spent in the glow of their laptops — bought from a website on credit — learning the rudiments of Ruby, the programming language.”

To steal a shitty term from mainstream media, let’s unpack this. Tori [Frame] used to be an assistant manager in a Family Dollar location. She decided to take a bootcamp with her mom so she quit her job. And, the family bought laptops on credit from a website. I’m pretty sure we can all guess what kind of website that is.

With all due respect to the Frames, I don’t buy that either of them were qualified to assess whether the bootcamp was any good. Instead, they sound a lot like desperate people caught up by predatory marketing.