skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "left coast" has a similar idea in Cascadia. Up here in Seattle you'll see what's called the Doug flag, a symbol of Cascadian independence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movem...
Is it better to push people to firefox and safari or include Opera and Edge as well so we don't get another defacto standard?
Well, damnit. Thanks for the info.
A powered off computer is completely unhackable.

This idea of removing usability in the name of safety has gone way, way too far. It was crap when Mozilla did it, it's crap when Apple does it.
> The pro- slavery rigid society that somehow values individual liberty?

One thing described it's history, another - current state of affairs.
I would disagree with this sentiment.

While I don't know what law says here - but, in my opinion, the mere act of selling a legal product by a merchant should not imply that the merchant is liable for all possible damages that the product may cause.

If I were on jury in a case like this I would consider punishing the merchant only of there is some sort of negligence on their part. For example not pulling the product after it has been demonstrated to be unsafe.
It was obviously an exaggeration but maps are just an iterative improvement until we landed (for now) GPS enabled devices, in the future we'll maybe have it embedded in our glasses, eyes or brain. I didn't say that we could only start traveling or doing road trips once we invented smartphones.
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You've read a lot more into my comment than was there. My point is simply that your abstract philosophical equivalance between Monad and God does not correspond to how most people in the real world use their concept of God.
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Consciousness is a computation, and neurons are certainly capable of elementary computation.

So the building block has been pointed at (neurons), and its property given (computation). Is the problem that you don't believe that consciousness can emerge from elementary computation, or you believe that it is possible but we have no proof of it?
They are not the same product[1].

uBlock was the original tool but was handed over to another maintainer some time ago. The original developer of uBlock, being unhappy with the direction of the tool, forked the repo and made uBlock Origin which he maintains and is often considered the better product by people here

[1]https://ublock.org/faq/
You could ask the same about pretty much ever Linux distro out there, each of which feels entitled to declare itself an "OS".
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> It has a very rigid social structure and fights against government regulation that threatens individual liberty

Frankly I dont really see the contradiction. You can have a 'rigid' social structure and still frown upon the interventions of external forces such as government on that social structure. Not liberty in general but specifically liberty from government.
US states are (in most respects) theoretically more powerful than Canadian provinces, and this does show up, for example, in the criminal code being federal legislation in Canada, but state legislation in the US (though the US federal government also gets to enact criminal law, which seems rather bizarre).

However, in practice, Canada provinces tend to be more powerful than US states, perhaps because there are fewer of them. In both countries, the federal government tries to intrude using means such as conditional transfers of funds - taxing the citizens of states/provinces and only giving back the money if the state/province does as they wish. In Canada, this is most notable for health care, which is supposedly a provincial responsibility, but which the federal government meddles in extensively.
I don't understand what you mean by "lighter". You're aware that Switzerland has four national languages, right? That's a big variation!
Where does the energy go when it is not being extracted with this method?

I understand that the energy is extracted from the movement of ions between reservoirs of different salinity. If you're just letting the two sides mix, as they do naturally, where does the energy go instead? Is it released as heat?
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I don't know if I agree. The idea seems to be "shut up about your 1st world problems. Try living in Somalia". https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

On the other hand Sony Japan apparently has a policy where new employees fresh out of college (vs employees with previous work experience) are made to work 2 weeks in retail at an electronic store to get a taste of what it's like for actual customers. I ask some employees if they got any thing useful out of the experience. Most said no, it was just like getting hazed.
Not only that, but because our brains are "plastic" those inputs and outputs need to be able to re-wire themselves and building hardware that can do that is tough.
Yeah I’ve avoided it intentionally!
Really that just highlights fundamentally the true purpose of the law is guild style protectionism and not any of the pretenses of protecting consumers. That law is just a Freudian slip or a political gaffe in the "accidentally tell the truth" vein like a scandal afflicted organization head saying their highest priority is to "restore trust" instead of preventing the wrongdoing.
Were I to achieve not just being a successful politician, but one known as Mr. Pringles. What a life.
The concept is not exactly new; it's basically a hostel. Maybe it was less common in North America until now?
I don't mean literally 100% of width.

But this website - on my 24" monitor - uses merely 35%; 900 out of 2560px. You (should) know you've gone over the top when the margins end up taking twice as much space as the actual content. What a waste of screen estate, what's the point of a wide monitor then?

That's why the user has to scroll constantly, and we can't read a text comprised of just several paragraphs without taking our finger off the mouse wheel anymore. It's like printing newspapers on till rolls
> Stop replanting eucalyptus trees.

Eucalypt forests are not planted en-mass in Australia. They are more or less the default native vegetation, and part of an ancient ecology. The only place they are not found is Lord Howe Island, which was separated from the mainland back when Gondwana was still a continent.

Some sub-species actually depend on fires as part of their life-cycle -- They have evolved rock hard seed pods that can survive a firestorm and are only dropped after a fire.

Much of Australia's unique fauna depends on these forests for their existence.

Introduced species, both plants and animals, are a significant problem in the Australian environment -- What you are suggesting is frankly a terrible idea.
Our DAX and Fortune 500 customers decide where to tide the hourses, we just follow along.

Those VMs running Linux is where we put our Java stuff not .NET.
Is cloudflare affordable for an open source and low-funds project? (I honestly don't know the pricing, this isn't meant to be argumentative)
It is amazing how much GUIs have regressed in the past 2 decades. Even on Linux KDE used to provide the option for global menus.
As a long time game developer, I have the desire to tell it in my medium. The story is still ongoing 5 years later, but unfortunately so is the struggle, so it is very rare to find the combination of spare time, energy, and confidence to go past drafts and ideas.
The article aggregates. But outside of Salt Lake City, what did the author miss? Nevada is different from Las Vegas as well.

I was impressed with the north/south divide in Missouri and the east/west divide in Tennessee. However, I wouldn't put Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego in El Norte. The author may have had better reasons though.
so like 'evolution' amazing isn't it..
“Originally” if I recall correctly, Chrome was a fork of firefox right? That is a long time ago though!
Part of the issue is that most browsers other than Firefox at this point use the Chromium engine [0]. Using a browser that uses a different engine from Firefox and Chromiums would be most ideal, since that would put even more value on the use of the real standards, and not what the market leader implements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browser...
Why wouldn't they?

They figured out which products are manipulated.

As long as Amazon are offering other products and services that are worth purchasing makes no sense to not use those.

It is excellent advice and worth keeping in mind.
Reading The Overstory right now, which is a Man Booker winning fictional exploration into the survival mechanisms? consciousness? endangered status? of forests.

Edit: I read the title as “fractured forests are endangered wildlife”... which goes to show what this book has me thinking about.
It's getting harder (though not fully impossible) to find maps.

Where you used to find a stand with local maps in most fueling stations, you don't.

I'm looking at AAA's Map Gallery page trying to figure out if they offer paper maps any more. What's on offer are PDFs for online viewing or printing.

I'm someone who's got several atlases, globes, and piles of paper maps, as well as highway atlases and other paper-based navigational aids. I know how to use them. I prefer them.

They're simply not availabe as they were a decade ago (and for decades before that). And may well not exist in another ten years, except through extraordinary effort.

The "it's just an option" argument works until it doesn't. At which point it's not only not helpful, but not true.
> when the platters have been exposed, you're basically done

I've run drives with the platters exposed. I've push-started a drive (with a damaged motor) with my fingers and copied data out. You need to destroy the platters properly if you're going to prevent people from getting data out. Even partially damaging platters is insufficient.

> Frankly, having read about this, a once-over pass with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX is going to be enough to destroy all data anyway

The problem with that is that you're trusting that people have actually done that, and that nothing went wrong and that the drive firmware was not compromised. If we could trust that people would properly delete the data, then this wouldn't a problem, but the whole point is that we can't. If you're always doing it yourself, and is a low risk enough target to be able to reasonably rule out a compromised system or firmware, then that's a sufficient solution.

That said, a lot of the time, drives are being discarded when they stop working, and people assume they're unrecoverable, and are unable to confirm or overwrite data. Drives like that are a great source of data for anyone prepared to try some repairs.
I can’t solve highlighting search results in the scroll bar, and apparently I search a surprising amount and am absolutely crippled without scroll bar highlighting, so I’ll stick to Chrome until I can’t (e.g. when content blocking is crippled).
One thing that makes me love Elementary: they're sticking to skeuomorphic design.
Yes, this would be natural selection in action, with the selective pressure being human disturbance and incursion.
Blink based users (Chrome, new Edge) are 2/3 users.

WebKit based users (Safari, GNOME Web) are 1/10 users.

Gecko based users (Firefox) are 1/25 users.

Opera and Edge are neglible slivers of Blink's market share. IE and old Edge are dead.
https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/thoughts-on-rhombus.htm...
Same old story: user who only needs a web browser is well served by installing <insert distro here>.
Synchronized requesting in Communicating Sequential

Processes (CSP) [Hoare 1978] proceeds as follows: “Such

communication occurs when one process names another as

destination [to receive a request] and the second process

names the first as source for [the request] ... [in order

that providing the request] is delayed until the other

process is ready [to receive the request].”

Synchronized requesting x with request r (i.e. x!r) can

be implemented as follows using a 2-phase commit protocol:

x.synchronize[Implements Provider ⟦provide ↦ r⟧]

so that after x has received a synchronize message with

parameter Implements Provider ⟦provide ↦ r⟧, x can get r

from the parameter using a provide message (cf. [Knabe

1992]). Synchronized sending x a request r (i.e. x!r) can be

algebraically reduced (which is a primary requirement of

communication in the π-calculus [Milner 1993]) because x is

provided with r without arbitration by

Implements Provider ⟦provide ↦ r⟧.

Synchronized requesting (i.e. x!r) has the following

significant costs in time, communication bandwidth, and

robustness by comparison with unsynchronized requesting (i.e. x.r):

1. The requester must wait for the receiver’s provide
message in order to provide request r.

2. After receiving a synchronize message, the receiver
must wait for the request r to be provided
(meanwhile holding up processing of other requests).

3. Both the requester and receiver must be online
concurrently for communication to take place.

Unsynchronized requesting (i.e. x.r) cannot in general be

reduced using an algebraic equation as in [Milner 1993]

because in general, the request must go through arbitration

in order to be received. Although algebraic reductions may

be elegant mathematics, synchronized requesting is not

widely used in large software systems because it is slower,

uses more communication bandwidth, and is less robust than

asynchronous requesting (especially for IoT).
>Consciousness appears to exist outside of the physical world, in that we can describe a physical process entirely without invoking consciousness.

Only in the same ways that e.g. emotions exist 'outside of the physical world' and we are doing some work with those (e.g. we know more about the effects of hormones on them now).

I completely disagree that this is unstudiable or 'behind the veil'. We can create beings with consciousness (babies) using a purely physical process, of course there is some way to learn more.

Personally, I assume the main problem is (as it so often happens) that 'consciousness' is too loosely defined and explaining it will be easier with more strict definitions and a deeper understanding of the brain and body.
Has firefox solved its long standing issue with the rendering of radio buttons?
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The command/⌘ key is just the logo/super/Windows key in a different spot.
What elements are you referring to? It all looks pretty abstract and flat to me?
Math. Anything math that you can frame as being relevant.
I live in Manhattan too. "Just suck it up" isn't the correct response. You even admit that it's annoying, so why roll over and resign yourself to it? One asshole with a loud horn making lots of noise on the streets at night can easily wake up hundreds of people. How is this remotely acceptable? It has a real measured public health burden. We can and should do better; getting proper sleep is important.

And by the way, the vast majority of horn use is illegal.
Chrome was never a fork of Firefox.

If anything, it was a fork of Konqueror.
> Judging from all the opinions from actual owners I've seen so far, I definitely wouldn't be.

What opinions?

> As I said in another thread, that point still stands.

No, the point doesn't stand. Once again, here's a link to purism FAQ:
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-batch-faq/

It explicitly states this:

> Q: If I receive the Librem 5 from one of the first batches, will I have a fully functional phone?

> A: Yes! Even the very earliest batches will be capable smartphone, including a modern web browser and core cell phone functionality.

The FAQ says that the earliest batches will be capable smartphones and will have core cell phone functionality.
Purism says that phones from "one of the first batches" will be capable smartphones will all core cell phone functionality.

There is no way you can try and do mental gymnastics to justify your apparent belief that purism delivered on this. There is a huge difference between a device requiring some polish and finishing touches and delivering a phone:

1. That can't make phone calls
2. Has no power management so the battery lasts less than an hour
3. Doesn't have working cameras
4. Can't be charged while powered on

The device, far from being a "capable smartphone" is wholly unusable in its current state.

Simply contradicting the facts and providing no additional context or reasoning does not an argument make.
I will admit it is impressive that it "understands" arbitrary input but the output appears to be recycled from somewhere and it is highly dependent on whatever source material has been used.
Apple Maps meh. It doesn't work across devices. I look maps on my browser all the time. I need maps to appear everywhere and be sharable with the 80% of the planet not using iOS
Looking forward to more posts. Hoping for a post about GANs!
I was of the same opinion as you, but from what I read online, anyone in the distribution chain of a defective product can be liable for damages caused by it.

https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/personal-injury/strict-...
Americans by and large .. hate people who are different than them, and despite it's significant percentage in the general population, there is a lot of hatred towards them because of their language, poverty, and skin color.

Your average Border Patrol cop is a racist white supremacist and probably takes joy in knowing they might be sentencing an "illegal" to die by taking away their medications. Good people with emotions and empathy who are capable of critical thinking cannot do that kind of job.
I don't need to comment, and neither do you. We're both just silly people talking about things that we don't understand, because our egos won't let us not say anything.

You think that, because I haven't read what you've read, your understanding exceeds mine. But I also think the same way; I think that you don't grok some important mathematical concepts. So which of us is right?

It sounds like your mind is still pretty small. Let's try one single exercise from one of my "pointlessly reductive" points: Since every formal logic can be expressed in the language of category/topos theory, and topos theory can express the plumbing of modern mathematics, and since the formalization of logic is itself mathematical, we have that logic is mathematics; that is, that any logical expression corresponds to a categorical expression and is fully mathematical. Making sense yet? At some point, philosophers need to study maths sincerely; the stereotype that they know nothing but Bayes is painfully on display today.

You skipped entirely over my question about electrons and information. Moreover, you admit that science needs maths. I'm going to take these as a complete concession. Thanks for playing Orange Site.

Finally, as a bonus, here's a metric for hardness in the sciences. A theory is harder when it predicts more. But theories always predict infinitely many things, and really we want to know how accurate a prediction is. And a theory is harder when it is smaller; that's Occam's Razor. So we'll take the sum of (the squares of) inaccuracies over all predictions, and scale it by opposite of (the logarithm of) the size of the theory. Of course, we'll have to use bits to measure both the accuracy of predictions and the size of the theory. This may remind you of certain equations in thermodynamics or statistics.
Thank you for your insight. As you point out, it's no alternative to a robust defence, I was just curious as to whether it would ever actually be investigated. I would probably report it still just for accountability (e.g. insurance). Especially now you can report online.
I agree with you. Every distro feels entitled to call itself an "OS" these days and it is annoying.
I never thought it had its basis in genetics, though that is pretty interesting. At least from what I remember in reading Albion's seeds it was the result of distinct cultures.

I think the division can be pretty broad. I live in Boston, and I've sometimes heard comparisons of North Shore vs South Shore to be culturally rooted in Puritans settling North, vs Pilgrims settling in South. Generally genetically the same but a little different starting point, culturally.
Yes but a blunt counterstatement doesnt make for good reading. Far better is to provide some substantiation so everyone can learn as your more highly voted siblings did!
Why throw away that girl's music CDs? They are harmless and probably brought her a lot of joy.
Physically destroying them is more relevant to be able to evidence that the data was actually destroyed. If you do it yourself and are sure it was strong enough and that you haven't e.g. just damaged the controller, then you're probably good. Making sure the platter is actually ruined leaves less room to question whether or not it was actually properly destroyed.
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We're working on it but progress is so slow and halting. There was Times Square, then Herald Square, and now just this past year we're seeing removal of most vehicles from 14th St and a temporary removal of vehicles around Rockefeller Center for the holidays. Progress is still way too slow though. I'd love to see Broadway being fully pedestrianized from Columbus Circle down to at least Union Square; imagine how transformative an effect that would have on the city. (And tourists would love it!)
Nope. It was a fork of WebKit which was a fork of KHTML, the engine powering Konqueror. KHTML was developed by the KDE team.

Edit: It was widely speculated that Apple would use gecko for Safari and a shock when they announced they would use the relatively little known KHTML engine. The decision was based on KHTML having much cleaner code. I haven't looked at the Mozilla code in many years, but it was pretty gnarly back then. Lots of old cruft from the Netscape days. In comparison, KHTML was beautiful.
No, I really don’t. Could you elaborate?

2nd amendment rights are stronger than ever. 4th amendment rights issues kinda peaked about 10 years ago, and although Snowden certainly shined a bright light on some shady things, I would hardly call it a “big push”, given the backlash and the fact that the public doesn’t seem to be going along with it.

I’m much more concerned about the entire public’s outright willingness to broadcast every facet of our lives right out in public for anyone to see (what the IC would call “open source” intelligence) than any spying the government is doing on our private information.
No the reflex does not depend on temperature. The immersion in water is what initiates the reflex. Though it is true that cooler water prolongs the reflex. I spearfish in the Caribbean so average water temps are 70s-80s.

It is the struggling and adrenaline that causes rapid loss of consciousnesses in water, as it rapidly depletes oxygen and works against the reflex. If one calms themselves and uses deliberate movement 5 minutes is achievable in 2-3 months of training in tropical waters, by an individual in average health.

When we spearfish we don't race to the bottom or rocket to the top, we use a lazy peddling motion to slowly decent and ascend. It helps in preservation of oxygen, once on bottom we usually hover in one spot, and try to remain still while almost meditating. We only move while actively hunting a particular fish once spotted. While the reflex is active your mind can work with the reflex to help it shut systems down and focus blood to the brain which is what it is doing. Each movement reactivates a system, eating before a dive activates a system, not using the restroom before a dive can leave a system active (though the reflex generally tries to shut that down by increasing the urge as soon as you enter the water, hence the have to pee when you get in the pool reflex).
As someone who is considering taking a job in Germany, this thread makes me reconsider that dream.
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