skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably someone did “something” from this cafe’s wifi network, the judge asked for the logs, and the owner said he didn’t have them, which is a violation of the law.
This website broke my browser back button. :(
This is a gross failure to both understand science and human beings.

Demanding perfection in others before even beginning to contemplate a potential global disaster is either the height of either stupidity or mendacity.
There is another problem with multigenerational housing: it can seriously reinforce inequality.

Living with your parents in a wealthy suburb is very different from living with your parents in a trailer park.
> I replaced it for free and can replace again for few more years so it's not even a problem.

Keyboard replacement is only free for up to three times.
If you count having lost effective control of a significant part of their country as a government having failed, there are plenty. No-one would say that Syria or Libya have a single functioning government controlling the country at the moment, and you can throw swathes of central Africa in there as well.

Other than a coup, civil war, or a foreign takeover, there isn't really a way for a government to definitely 'fail', but no-one would say that these events are unheard of.
People expect places like this to have free WiFi.
Kaczynski’s Ciphers (2015) [pdf]
IMDB page

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268458/
I've been struggling with something similar. Where I've landed (for now at least) is to ask, "What does this game give me? Will I be happier/better when I'm done? Is there nothing I'd like to do instead?"

If I have good answers, I'll let myself play the game. "I've been programming all day and my brain needs a break," is fine. But if it comes out that I'm playing because I just want to fill time or am procrastinating taking the next step on a project, I put it down and do something else. Doesn't have to be the thing I was procrastinating, just something that won't automatically expand to fill all available time.
This is at least the fourth submission of this type of page in the past 2-3 months.

Previous ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24600397 (7 days ago, submitted by the same person)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431132 (24 days ago, submitted by the same person)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985825 (67 days ago, different submitter)

The credits can be seen/compared here:

https://defonic.com/credits.html

https://landemy.netlify.app/credits.html

https://pluvior.com/credits.html

https://rainbowhunt.com/credits.html
There can't be one because

1. The ethical decisions that happen in the industry aren't made by the software engineers.

2. The boundaries around those decision are very grey. Can I create a feature that breaches user's privacy? What if I don't build the feature but just write documentation for it? What if I do pure research but then my research is used for a morally questionable purpose by the company? What if my company does a bunch of shady things but not my department? What if my company respects its users but mistreats its employees? What if my company treats employess and users fairly but it's in a questionable industry like gambling for example? Or what if I make a game that's perfectly fine for most players but a small number of them get addicted to the point that it ruins their lives? And so on, these questions go on forever and it's not as straightforward as "do no harm".
Tesla to acquire German battery assembly maker: source
Same here... I started using Linux in '98, for some uni project work.
>rebalanced Middle Eastern power

This is totally absurd. Do you seriously see Iraq or Afghanistan as balanced? Or are you using 'rebalancing' in the same way I could use 'rebalancing' to describe flipping a table?

The second sentence is also ridiculous. The EU stops the EU from having internal conflicts. That's the original purpose of the union. I don't know what the US has to do with it.
> We cant find our way into the future so we retreat to the mystical 'golden age'

This is such a perfect quote. Apt for many things.
“register with your email to use this wifi” seemed very common in the EU the times i’ve been there in the last 5 years.

All i have to say is that butts@butts.com logs in with the password “butts” at a truly surprising number of cafes across europe!
What that sounds like is a party room that comes with a wide screen entertainment system. What might make that work would be a system where you can group up with people you are more connected to, not complete strangers.
In Japan, it's common for normal people with flu-like symptoms to wear a mask when they are in public spaces. That probably would never happen in the western countries, but would be great if it does.
But if no one is unveiling to dissent then nothing will change. I don't know what I personally would do if faced by that horrible choice, but I admire the heroism of dissidents willing to stand their ground.

"Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law." Martin Luther King Jr.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C

This is what I think of when I see Small C as a proper noun.
We decided to save exactly $0 for our kid’s college education. Our theory is that by the time he goes the system will have imploded and far cheaper options will emerge. The whole system is on the verge of collapse. Also recent reports of parents negotiating between colleges for discounts like you do at a car dealership have annoyed me immensely. This whole thing is disgusting and insane.
He put 3 months of work into it. You don't want him to keep any equity, so he offered you 3000£. That sounds like a steal of a price for 3 months worth of work. And from an investor perspective, why should any investor be willing to fund a project whose owner won't even risk 3000£?

Just pay it.
A consumption tax can also be made progressive.
If you are already seriously ill and contract COVID, it will often finish you off. The movie theater business was quite ill going into 2020 and then ...
Older thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666793
I mean you could just hook into the API and fetch the comments that way, seems like a simple enough solution
No, they haven't. They've plastered over the obvious fact that, aside from sticking their nose where nobody wants it, they accomplish nothing (witness your example) positive.

And what-about-isms are hardly helpful. Thanks for a patriotic recitation of rights you enjoy - all very nice. But for the life of me I can't figure what that has to do with a bureaucratic committee that imagines that interfering with naming children is accomplishing something useful?
This is a very misleading characterization of what happened.

It was not secret, it was on one occasion, and it was to make a light-hearted joke at the expense of /r/The_Donald users who were calling him a paedophile.

It was a massive error of judgement, but you have tried to make out it was some kind of on-going political subterfuge.
Well I would definitely stay away from Voat. Unless you're a right-wing extremist who thinks jews control the world and that science is a lie.

Since HN is mostly meant for developers and people with science degrees, I guess the anti-science and anti-intellectual part is a big dealbreaker.
If you're a cafe, you offer free internet or your business dies.
Just wait till you’ve been to the country it’s made in.
Some universities are preventing this by saying that your spot the next year is not guaranteed. So you would have to reapply. You will be competing with all incoming freshman and everyone that deferred. We have friends paying 60K for online school. They consider it to be paying 60K to hold their spot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

A good overview of the first category for anyone interested.
I'm the guy who automated my home theatre using PHP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc8K6lg7Ag8

I tried to get it to be exactly like the movie cinemas I grew up in right before the multiplex and megaplex trend took off.

I've always loved movie theatres. I've always wanted to own several real ones, but even though it's what my heart wants, my brain always wins. The economics are tough, the barrier to entry is high, and Cineplex is a ruthless cutthroat competitor.

I was a big fan of Famous Players but always found Cineplex (Canada) to be an extraction business which runs its locations into the ground. That's exactly what they've done to Famous Players.

Landmark Cinemas (Kinepolis) is our second biggest chain, but small compared to Cineplex. They have a young CEO and corporate team and they seem to be giving Cineplex a run for their money.

I won't shed a tear if Cineplex falters and needs to be broken up or shed locations. I'm just hoping that it lowers the barrier to entry so some young entrepreneurs can take a stab innovating in this industry and moving it forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diglossic_regions

I wonder if actively used bureaucratese is far enough from Standard English to count as second lect? "In view of the somewhat nebulous and inexplicit nature of your remit, and the arguably marginal and peripheral nature of your influence within the central deliberations and decisions within the political process, there could be a case for restructuring their action priorities in such a way as to eliminate your liquidation from their immediate agenda."

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s&t=60
In a perfect world, with a responsive and easily adaptable healthcare system ..

Also how do you keep information from the public without keeping it from hospitals. Widespread publicising of a controversial tidbit to hospitals would leak within the minute if not within the hour ..

I'm not saying I agree with how it was handled at all .. I'm merely pointing out the fairly obvious realities to the claims made, which seem strong on principle but lacking in pragmatism and consideration of the realities.
While your post has some truth I have to reject your general premise that an individual can't derive any value without some sort of formalized framework. It's simply not true.
Async is the keyword here. Have several text channels, some with a specific topic, some more random. Get people used to posting in them and reading them once in a while. Get people used to move to one on ones and/or ad hoc small group chats when they have something to say.

Yeah, just like irc. What do you think Slack is modeled on?

And just to make myself more hated, cut the scheduled meetings down. If everyone is spamming status in #general (or #status or whatever) you don't really need them.

Oh and, like the parent poster, been doing this for at least 15 out of the last 20 years.
Sounds like the easiest way to handle it to me.
Can you show me the society that has used robots to replace the need for widespread employment?

The closest I can think of is Brunei and (previously) Saudi Arabia.

Both countries have massive oil income that is generated without regard to whether the citizens are employed.

They don’t use “robot slaves”, but hire foreigners to pump the oil - and do everything else.

Neither are particularly libertarian. They use religion as a way of imposing social discipline.

Saudi Arabia has been moving away from this model.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/brunei-spoiled-subjects-of-t...
It is a cool time! Yeah I totally agree, and I think it’s awesome that you’re looking at it as an opportunity to learn and have fun doing it. Some people worry, and others embrace the change and make good things happen. I think I can attest to your vision since I work for a chip maker and I’m involved in the hardware & software design of some domain specific computing - it has been a blast, and we are learning all kinds of fun things.
Young people are giving up on their dream job due to the pandemic: British study
Hopefully the UV light is blocked from escaping the device.
For one more Brazilian country classic, "Asa Branca" (White Wing) ... Luiz Gonzaga - Asa Branca ft. Fagner, Sivuca, Guadalupe ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFSHg2hxbc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFSHg2hxbc .

One of the comments there: "Sem dúvida, é considerado um hino para os brasileiros, principalmente para população do Nordeste." ... "Without doubt, [this song] is considered a Hymn for Brazilians, especially for those in the Northeast [region of Brazil]." Northeastern Brazil lives through seven- or fourteen-year cycles of some rain then long drought, leading to many since the 1980s moving to big cities elsewhere in the country.
>>most industries aren't run by monopolies

Mineral exploration & refining, media, technology, finance & banking, military industry, online retail... what % of the economy are we at with just these?

Market discipline, creative destruction and such work to full effect for restaurants, hairdressers, landscaping... It's a small part of the economy, but good. Pretty unbureaucratic and efficient. Well functioning markets are great when you have them, they just aren't most of the economy.

Some industries (eg FMCGs, shipping) are concentrated, but a degree of market discipline still operates. Not like hairdressing, but there is at least price competition within a limited frame. Some private industries are just impossible to pick apart from government: Health and pharmaceuticals, all government contracting, real estate, etc. Most market mechanisms don't apply here either. They certainly don't apply in "systemic" situations.

It is a fact that a lot (arguably most) of the economy is very far from the market ideal that restaurants operate within. It's not totally black and white, but thinking of these issues in a 1970s frame is silly.

That doesn't mean private and public are identical, but a Smithian pin factory is as bad a model for most of the economy as a local fire department.
I would say "Yes!", based on my experience they do work.
We put in filters as an adaptation to help live in such an environment. If we remove those filters for things that we can't change, won't it make everyone needlessly miserable?
Currently, yes. The first season was _much_ better, and there has been a decline (at first steep, then gradual and consistent) with each season since then.

This was the last episode they aired due to COVID-related production shutdown. They're supposed to finish this season and do another, but I wonder if the show might just shut down quietly at this point.
What exactly are the limitations that prevent this game from working in Firefox to the point where they need a "please download Chrome" banner? Just curious, I thought WebAssembly and WebGL were pretty competitive these days.
I broke my family's tax computer by trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows and instead formatting the whole hard drive. I learned more I. The three days attempting to recover that computer than most my life. I thought everybody had these tech skills until I went to work for a real estate agency and ended up making more money fixing everybodies computers. I then made a series of lateral moves and now I'm managing databases, websites, and networks of a printing company full time. I love not freelancing.
My dad was a pretty big factor. He worked for a series of tech companies in the 80s and 90s (DEC, Zoom Telephonics, etc.), so our home always seemed to be on the bleeding edge - we got DSL in 1997, Wi-Fi in 2000, etc. The 386 PC was part of the home since I was about three.

He rescued an old Compaq 486 for me out of a dumpster at work when I was seven. I got to "help" install Windows 3.1 off a SyQuest drive, and in the ensuing years helped install/configure staples like a Sound Blaster, a CD drive, a Super VGA card, and the like. I broke this machine _a lot_. Eventually, I started learning to fix it myself.

In 2001 he built a PC from scratch. This PC ran Mandrake 8.1, which was a completely new paradigm to both of us. Although he abandoned it, I was hooked - I'd go spend time in the basement just to tinker with it, even though I had my own perfectly capable PC upstairs. Eventually I got a discarded Pentium machine and installed a slightly newer Mandrake on it.

By 2008, I had several such discarded machines. I think at this point I was running Debian on them, Mandrake having become Mandriva (and generally awful).

In college, I was "that guy" who ran Linux in a VM, and could do all of the lab work remotely from my dorm with X forwarding off the big, beefy Solaris boxes. I even bought a tablet PC off eBay, installed Linux on it (I think it was Ubuntu), and got permission from many professors to sub out a TI-83 for MATLAB, again running via forwarding.

I got a job out of college doing at-scale release and infrastructure management, starting with just a bunch of shell scripts, eventually graduating to tools like Chef and Ansible, later Docker and later still orchestrators like Kubernetes. At my second job I learned way more than I wanted to about how the Linux kernel worked, due to a kernel bug that sometimes robbed us of about 400MB of memory.

I decided to switch to Linux (Fedora) full-time in 2015, and haven't looked back.

In short:
- I was incredibly lucky to have a dad who cared about tech.
- I was also incredibly lucky to grow up when discarded tech was still a useful learning tool. (Can a five-year-old tablet even speak modern TLS these days?)
- I loved finding new ways to use and learn about Linux, and I grasped at many chances.
This is mentioned in the famous "Don't talk to the police" youtube video (from this point[0] and a minute on): there are just enough laws that even lawmakers and experts don't have an actual count, can't keep track of all of them, and they can say nearly anything.

(These are my words, not the video:)
In the bigger scheme of things, you're likely to be guilty of something almost at all times. Whether or not people know, care, or come down on you depends on a variety of factors.

This is pretty much true in any country, it's just that the richest ones have codified it to give the madness more legitimacy.

[0] https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?t=279
"Reducing the amount of trash produced per capita does not eliminate the need to transport trash."

But a significant reduction would make the proposed system meaningless from a cost benefit perspective. I already see this system as having no real benefit. Trash is $250/year and sewer is $1250/year, so this new sewer-like proposal will likely be more expensive than it is now.

This is just the systems thinking approach. Who cares about transporting trash if you still have all the other problems, like dumping it in landfills. It's better to think about the entire system and make changes that benefit us on multiple levels. If you aren't willing to talk about the entire problem space, then that tells me something about the quality of the proposal...
> If you count having lost effective control of a significant part of their country as a government having failed, there are plenty.

Losing control of a significant part of a country isn't comparable to private enterprise failure, it's more comparable to the CEO of a company being replaced.

Imagine what retail would have been like if, instead of Sears being essentially replaced, we just elected a different set of leaders to run the same organization.

> No-one would say that Syria or Libya have a single functioning government controlling the country at the moment, and you can throw swathes of central Africa in there as well.

Right, and in general we consider that instability to be a bad thing, and a key goal of UNESCO (and adjacent organizations) is to make African nations as stable as Western democracies. That kind of stability just isn't sought out in the private sector.

> Other than a coup, civil war, or a foreign takeover, there isn't really a way for a government to definitely 'fail', but no-one would say that these events are unheard of.

If you were to ask me to pick a system where change happens through violence and bloodshed (civil wars, coups) vs peaceful financial transactions (M&A, bankruptcy) — I would choose the latter any day of the week.
This looks great, I’ll definitely use it.

Is there any similar project like this where LLVM IR is used? I’ll start building a language just for fun during weekends and I plan to use LLVM but it is rather hard to understand clang on limited time, so a smaller scale project would be awesome.
The original piece is at https://dna.fr/faits-divers-justice/2020/09/27/en-garde-a-vu... .
Uncertain Times: Complex systems science allows us to see new paths forward
>Still the same issue of CISC v RISC.

God No. Why is this happening on HN as well.

It has absolutely nothing to do with CISC vs RISC. x86 ( with all modern instruction sets add on ) is Complex, doesn't make a less complex ISA like ARMv8 RISC.
I still don't see how rural solutions apply. How is a dirt road a solution?

Honestly, I think it's hard to even discuss this without first understanding how road maintenance (sounds like this is the majority) adds up to $8000 per home.
Looks about what I would have expected
Maybe we need more male teachers for kindergarten and the younger grades. Perhaps some sort of affirmative action or preferential hiring for male teachers for k through 6th grades?
Wait, but Babmi does get shot in the Disney movie version.
Maybe but they sell it as something different
I used this earlier this year to split a monorepo into a submodule + 4 other repos. It made it incredibly easy to rewrite history to move files going to different repos, then remove the history of any files not staying in a particular repo.

And it was fast. Also, being able to pass in files containing rewrite rules allowed me to easily do multiple dry-runs of the code split ahead of time so I was able to minimize the code freeze for our team.
Apparently. Laws being divorced from reality isn't a new thing.
802.11 handles it, the Ethernet frames just see things as being switched with a lot of buffering and random delay.
I'm not sure what DFW and TXDOT do right but they routinely bring projects in on time and on budget (if not under). Two large projects that come to mind is the HighFive and Grapevine Connector. Both were huge and the High Five made headlines for some new bridge making machine the contractor invented. Whatever they're doing it seems to be working.
“ Without teachers’ bias in favor of girls, the gender gap in choosing a science track would be 12.5% larger in favor of boys.”

Does this not mean we have a gender bias towards females in STEM at the education level?

If so it’d turn around a long held belief that STEM education is biased towards men. At least in grade school.
As a programmer who had to wrestle with like 30 formats during his career, here's one piece of non-negotiable requirement:

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NO. OPTIONAL. PARTS. OF. THE. STANDARD!
(And no "but"-s.)
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Start there. This might sound flippant and snarky but I promise you that it isn't. Don't ever leave anything to the implementations.

Oh, and build your own compliance tool. So people can just run the results of their own implementations against your tool and see if their code is compliant with your data format or not.
> I only know of few places that actually use a compliant captive portal that requires some PII (name, email, phone...) to let you use the free WIFI.

Cost is about 15€/month for a compliant off-the-shelf solution.

I understand that there can be some tolerance in the beginning, but at some point, you can't look elsewhere, especially when the log is actually needed in an investigation.