skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some states in Germany have (very!) recently started to implement it, but it's not a general thing.

Here's a good overview: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennzeichnungspflicht_f%C3%BCr...
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You can kill someone with a hammer or a chair. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have them.
Obviously we must drain the bad humors from the brain or shock it. If that doesn’t work maybe spray them with water.
Do you mean because he's arrogant? Who cares? The software is great and saves me a ton of time and money.
> that cap out at fewer lends than a physical book would be good for

Oh yes - my favourite local library branch [1] is mostly volunteer-run and as such was the last one to get computerised lending, so any books older than ten years or so still have that paper slip in the back onto which the due date used to be stamped. Looking at those, quite a number of books (and not just the ultra-popular ones) would have already expired if they had been subject to the same lending caps as digital books, but in practice are mostly still in an okay (or even a bit better than just okay) condition that still looks good for quite some more lends.

On top of that, it seems that some publishers now use licenses that simply expire after a fixed term (two years or so!) regardless of the number of lends (compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20982315).

[1] A former US Army library in Germany that was donated to the city when that particular Army base was closed in the mid-90s and now effectively functions as a dedicated English language section of the regular city library.
I wanted to be an Optometrist but went into software engineering instead. I think Optometry is fertile ground for disruption by technology. Similar to pharmacists, the only thing keeping so many employed is a cartel.
Freedom. Nobody, and least of all a government, should be able to decide what software you use. If their will stands above yours, you are a slave. Do you like slavery? Do you love yourself?
Or people who have let's say an ebook reader, a phone, a laptop, and maybe a desktop that they want to share books between and don't want to eat up multiple GB of storage on each device by duplicating their library everywhere.
> Developers these days truly don’t know SQL

Has that ever not been true?
I understood it as “computation required to replicate stuff outlined in a paper has doubled” not as “we do more research so we do more computation”.
That’s a dangerous thing to try. We like to think we are smart but even the lowest level HR person knows things that aren’t even on our radar.

Ever had a complaint made against you? Possibly - maybe it was quietly filed away. Ever wonder if people are paying attention to when you come into the office? They are.

I went through an outsourcing at my last job and for nine+ months the only people that knew it was coming was executive leadership, the CIO, and his HR staff.

HR is risky because they have hidden information in spades. The interests you think align might not after all.
Unless the price of rice goes up. If they're buying rice now instead of something else with limited funds, that suggests that they need the rice more. Goods aren't all perfectly exchangeable. If you need shoes, a shirt won't protect your feet.
you can call it whatever you want but if they can’t reproduce the findings the they are dangerous at best. Especially with a study as sexist as the original here.
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Crypto ETPs Now Trading on Main Swiss Stock Exchange
HP Announces Restructuring Plan: Up to 9k Jobs to Be Cut
no ... not even in terms of all the money they spend on social programs that further attracts that element vs. focusing their efforts on enforcing law/cleaning up the city. Also and way more importantly making sure every adult man and woman has a job that sustains them and allows them to contribute to society.
Just to be clear, I’m not trying to put down Clash. I disagree with your statement about it being an alternative to Verilog or VHDL. It’s like saying Java is dead because Scala exists.
I’m sure Julie Evans knows a little bit about how databases work...
Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
The UK police have been able to do this for a while. I haven't been involved in activism for years now, but if I remember correctly they used to be able to make people remove face masks within a particular area during demonstrations.
The best thing to do when you see a study that counters your opinion on the causality of something, just swap the causality, and move on. Many association papers are just written to confirm the investigator's prior beliefs.
Entrepreneur's shouldn't be afraid of competition
For credulous you mean.
Highlight negative results to improve science
I love this devil's advocation. I certainly don't agree with it but it makes a great conversation.

Stir that pot.
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I agree this is really frustrating. Even twitter has group chats. How can you have a social app without groups? I also would love events - then I could get rid of facebook entirely.
> If their will stands above yours, you are a slave.

I'm not making an argument about encryption, but you know there are these things called "laws", right?
Agreed and I wish this was exposed more, so people might spend their cash or insurance credits on alternatives that can be more innovative and cheaper.

I supported Frameri through their crowdfunding and beyond for this reason. I bought several sets of interchangeable frames and lenses from them and am pretty satisfied. But then they closed up shop and left me hanging with a never-fulfilled final order. :-(
I relly want to like and use Calibre, but none of my several tries to get started were successful.

No idea how to browse my Kindle library, how to browse books on my Kindle, or do anything else. It's a totally non-intuitive GUI.
As a motorcyclist and defensive driver I find these kind of articles worrying, because they imply that riders are rolling around trusting other people not to hit them.

The first rule of motorcycling, that you accept when you swing your leg over a bike, is that no matter whose fault any collision might be, it is your responsibility and yours alone to anticipate and avoid all such incidents.

"But he pulled out in front of me" is never a valid excuse for hitting a car. You should have seen them. You should have slowed to a speed where you could evade or stop in time. You should have anticipated their dumbassery and accounted for it.

If you're not willing to accept responsibility for your own wellbeing you should not be on a bike, full stop.
Interesting. I searched a few terms and so far I like it. For me, it is faster for my brain to recognize a familiar icon than to read several chars. Searching sacramento for example I can quickly see wikipedia, usnews, sacbee. I hope google monitors for malicious icons that try to trick users to go to phishing sites.
I’ve been wondering the same thing myself lately, the only advantage I can think of this accumulated information on the site (in the form of Q&As). I’d imagine a majority of SE traffic is people reading old questions, though if anyone knows this assumption to be wrong please correct me. I also wonder if scraping the Q&As and posting elsewhere would be some sort of legal violation? It would be fairly trivial to host the current body of knowledge up to this point on a static site and then start fresh.
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No I wasn't making that point. The side-pedants talking about racing cars, those represent a tiny amount of braking activity compared to the total amount of braking activity across the world, so my statement about expecting the average velocity to go down still stands.

Also, I drift corners instead of braking, it seems to be a lot faster if you nail the tire orientation on the exit.
Is this about adding E2EE to the common platforms?

Pedophiles and terrorists are already using E2EE I would think, so this is really about government being able to spy on everyone.

They don't have that ability IRL, why should they online?

More importantly, what are the macro consequences of government access to everyone's private communications, and especially, the oppressive effect on free speech etc when everyone is aware they are being monitored (I do sometimes wonder if Snowden was more 'deliberate leak' than 'whistleblower').
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Does 1.1.1.1 send ECS info to Cloudflare’s own nameservers? More generally, does 1.1.1.1 in any way treat Cloudflare’s own nameservers in a special way and send it information that it doesn’t send to others?

If the answer to these questions is no, then Cloudflare’s reasons for blocking ECS (ie privacy) carry weight. Otherwise no.
What are your arguments in favor of knives? How do you respond when someone brings up concerns of knives being used to stab people?
This did strike me as strange. Imagine going to a doctor getting a blood test and being told your numbers are good or bad but the doctor refusing to give you the actual result. They are your results, you paid for them and are part of an overall need to understand your health.
> He doesn't hold a trademark on "Software Freedom".

Has he ever claimed that?

> I was there when it was reported and had confirmation from a witness.

It is true because I say so it's not really an answer to the question.

> I was on the board when he was fired.

So you can confirm you fired him?

That's interesting.

Back then you wrote

> This, in conjunction with his behaviour over the ZFS issue, led to him stepping down as the FSF's general counsel.

You did not say "fired" anywhere.

Why didn't you just say "fired"?

> Why would you be in a position to know?

I'm in the position to ask why you're accusing someone of taking money, without proof.

It's just human decency, I happen to be a contributor (a tiny one, but sill one) of both FSF and FSLC and I would like to know if Moglen took money from Oracle to sue other FSF foundations.

You seem to know though, but you don't say.

And even if it was true, is taking money from Oracle a crime per se?

What about taking money from Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft? more than a few FSF folks work there.
>Instead people wrongly think fast food is cheaper than home cooked food.

Fast food is cheaper than home cooked food when you factor in time & mental effort. Cooking at home requires skills that many people do not have.
Hm, I struggle to see an upside with levelling the playing field that way. Groups that have the budget to throw huge amounts of resources at problems are still providing important insights. That can happen in parallel to optimising wattage/computational unit. In fact, that can be an almost completely parallel track in AI research.
Sure, and nor is it a good idea for women to walk home late at night in their clubbing attire. But failure to heed this "common sense" very much does not make it their fault if bad things happen to them in those circumstances.

It's fine to counsel people to dress brightly when crossing the road at night, but it's really important that that not be the focal point of a discussion about road safety— dressing brightly is a common sense coping strategy to handle the fact that there has been a cascade of failures elsewhere in the system that has led to an environment of unsafe roads, unsafe vehicles, and unsafe drivers.

Blaming pedestrian choices instead of examining root causes just excuses and justifies the unacceptable status quo.
Well, GC latencies don't bother game developers who work with Unity or people using Java or C# for high speed trading.

Realistically, having the option to use a GC is a boon for many applications. Not everything is hard realtime all the time. Some complex applications tend to have a hard realtime part and parts where it doesn't matter. E.g. a CNC machine controller does not need a guaranteed response time for the HMI or G code parser. But it needs to have a tight control loop for the tool movement.

D is a language where the GC is default, but optional. And the compiler can give you a guarantee that code that explicitly opts out does not interact with the GC and -importantly - can't trigger a GC run that way. However, as this was an afterthought, parts of the language need to be disabled when opting out and not a lot of library functionality works with that.
> how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?

These are only a tiny part of uses of encryption. Ask anyone if he would like to have his bank transfers, or his credit card credentials in plain text. End to end encryption allows the whole internet to act as a commerce platform.

Encryption allows journalists and activists in strict, controlled regimes to let facts out.
It allows an abuse victim to safely expose the abuser.
It allows at a broader spectrum to maintain secrecy when secrecy is the only way a subject has to distantiate himself from harm.

Disabling end to end encryption requires an implicit good faith on those who look at our communications, and the history is full of abuse from those figures.
I went through a few years of unstable income in my early twenties (circa 2000), it wasn't altogether bad, just very very sporadic. When I think back on those years I had all kinds of bad behaviours that were not rational. For example, not paying bills because something more urgent might come up. Not looking at balances because it was easier to not know.

I would go from feeling rich one month because a freelance client had paid a bill, to not having a cent a month later.

There were times when it felt like I was running a pyramid scheme on myself. Needing to use money from a previous job to buy computer hardware to sell to the next client.

In retrospect, I was also too proud to ask for help. I let things get way out of control before my mother ended up taking out a personal loan to bail me out at one point. If I had asked for help earlier it would have been a cheaper problem to solve.

It took years to shed some of the residual behaviours, even after I started earning decent money. Despite having savings and reliable income I would still let bills run until they were overdue.

These days I'm a lot more proactive about personal finances and good money management, but it's hard to tell how much of that is just maturity, and how much is the fact that I no longer have problems with unstable income.
For people who don't like its desktop GUI, you can also run integrated web server and access/edit books via browser.
> and she’s not happy to share the measurements with me as she fears I’ll run off and get my glasses made online

I hate this! Are they really allowed to do this?

"What's my prescription?" "Not telling"
>Despite local and international objections, the city and its archeological sites are soon to be flooded due to the completion of the Ilisu Dam.

People who object to nuclear power often claim that in the worst case scenario, the plant might blow up and render large area uninhabitable. And yet we routinely flood settlements and fields with water for "clean reusable energy" even before any energy is generated! And in the worst case scenario the dam will burst and flood even more cities! Not sure how seismically active this area is, but a nuclear plant near this town might've been more preferable in all possible ways, including the amount of energy produced.
I find it strange that the part of the conversation where AI has the potential to save thousands of hours of human labor doesn’t show up more often in these types of threads.

That being said, we need to definitely be thinking about lowering the cost (environmental and monetary) of training these models. I’m glad research is being done within this domain.

I’d love to see a study on what the human labor cost potential vs. training environmental costs would be for certain large models.
>But he also found that participants were much more likely to miss the motorcyclist than the car driver.

Drivers have to sort threats in terms of risk. Cycles, motorized or not, are simply not as much of a threat as cars/trucks. So it makes sense that they would fall off the bottom first. Cars are dangerous to things that are less dangerous than cars and it is inherent I think. At some point we are going to have to stop blaming the driver for stuff like this and place the blame directly on the use of cars. The only real mistake a driver makes is to decide to drive somewhere in the first place.
do you integrate with pocket? i tried but miserably failed. it results in a mess of files and data that i can't read.
do you have a source link or good link on how to setup?
Lane splitting is generally quite safe if:
a) Other motorists are expecting it and paying attention and
b) The motorcyclist isn't going much faster than other traffic (if I remember correctly, where I live the law is that you shouldn't go more than 15mph above the speed of the traffic).

I used to lane split when I had a motorcycle as the highway traffic was terrible for my morning commute and it was generally fine, though you would occasionally get an idiot doing that thing some drivers do where they indicated a lane change as they were doing it and without checking mirrors so you have to be very careful.
> For example, when the Washington Post tore apart Bernie Sander's claim that 500,000 Americans were bankruped by medical bills...

Are you talking about this[1]? Have you read it? The Post makes several factual errors - like claiming that the study which was the main source for the claim was not peer-reviewed - and ironically commits the same sin of cherry-picking data that it accuses Bernie of by choosing to favour a much more conservative estimate that only includes "bankruptcy caused by a hospitalization".

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/28/sanderss-...
no programming languages, just the hardware. I think the only way to reasonably think about data races is at the hardware instruction/memory level, not the programming language.
Is adding "62.192.168.106 archive.is" to /etc/hosts a work around?
Last time I touched permissions the app was able to give the user a link to iOS Settings page where the user can grant previously denied permissions.
> should also do better at their jobs and interview

Would this apply to group layoffs from blue colar industries, or general downturn in specific industries ? (for instance drivers as Uber/Lyft entered the market, and now that revenues are also lowering)

It seems to me there could be an awful lot of cases where income drop has little to do with a worker's brain health or memory capacities. We are contemplating automating whole industries, subsequent layoffs will also be par for the course, whatever performance the worker was showing.
If you don't know someone's gender or preferred pronouns, it's reasonable to use "they/them".

If someone has explicitly asked you to use "she/her", and you exclusively use "they/them", you are still not using that person's preferred pronouns.
thanks, this comment (point 3 in particular) did a great service in clearing up the disconnect.
You could say that if you allow building everywhere it lowers the inflationary pressure everywhere.
This article found 13 out of 30 opticians were off by a significant amount (poor or very poor): https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/high-street-opticians...
This is again being used for obvious political reasons, but there are in fact such laws in many countries. [1]

The UK had enacted a similar restriction the last time they had riots, in 2011.

This is usually aimed at stopping people who are obviously up to no good before they actually break something or hurt someone. Wearing a mask may also embolden people to do something they would not otherwise do if they were not wearing a mask.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law
This is great news. Last I heard, the author of Calibre's said:

> I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase. [1]

> calibre has half a MILLION lines of python and python extension code...calibre has lots and lots of code that deals with bytes -- network protocols, binary file formats, etc. Python 3 is simply worse than python 2 for this use case. It has a crippled bytes type among other unfelicities. [2]

> There is just no way that calibre is ever going to be ported to python 3. [3]

Glad to see some outsider, flaviut, stepped to to the challenge and kovidgoyal accepted his pull request.

Looking at the pull request it seems that kovidgoyal's fear about external native functions, network protocols, binary file formats, and python3's byte type was not so insurmountable.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1456642

[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1756458
> Is he really a Doctor??? He doesn't know there's a Mastoid bone there that the "bending" (aka: Adjusting) the optician is doing is to AVOID putting pressure on that bone!?

I think that's a little harsh. I took it to mean he realized he had no idea how to properly bend it, and pointed out an optician is the expert here.