skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PBS (and BBC in the UK, and other equivalents) enjoys extra privileges to accept tax-free funding in exchange for the mandate or promise to stay non-commercial and not give priority to specific donors' requests. [0] Libraries, should they accept donations to operate (or public funding!), accept some restrictions as well. There are commercial libraries as well, incidentally, which don't get to accept donations, but are funded by some associated commercial business - my local bookstore had one before the current pandemic has started, though it is unknown if they will continue to have one by the time it ends.

Churches are "complicated" - and less said about the funding the better, especially in context of the US. Suffice to say I very much prefer the German model - which happens to come with quite stringent accountability requirements.

I have no problem sending money in appreciation for the work with no expectation of any return on it (not even a tax deduction). I do not have a problem with someone making a profit on those "gifts" - I wish them all the best, in fact. I do, however, firmly believe that you can't have your cake and eat it too: you receive the ability to accept donations in a way where you enjoy various exemptions (in this context, from Apple/Google delisting you or taking their cut) in exchange for actually going through that bureaucratic rigmarole to get registered. It's not a $DEITY-given FOSS right.

Side note - as I wrote before, my local tax office would like to know who the money is going to, to either try to get their pound of flesh (cynical and realistic view) or to identify the money going to 'bad actors' (take your usual terrorists/criminals/think of the children BS excuse the politicians always make up to pass the relevant law), doubly so when the money is sent internationally - if I wanted to actually send an one-off gift to Jason/zx2c4, I can only assume he is not in my country.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/about/producing-pbs/funding-standards/
If the method is so common, don't people think that maaaybe... it's the police behind it? :D
Looking for a good Twitter alternative. Let's discuss
GNU/Linux Naming Controversy
I don't have a good source on this, but I saw $300,000/month bandied about social media the other week.
Arduino is able to sell quite a lot of official boards for XX USD, when the same products are available unofficially for X USD.

Brand has value.
Absolutely! And we're even less tolerant of software errors (even ones without safety implications) in vehicles (and other appliances) than on computers.
Which programming community does mytheme identification in text?
Amazon's patent prevents in-store shoppers from online price checking (2017)
Thinking of photons as waves in 3d space breaks down as soon as there's entanglement around (eg delayed choice eraser). You need to think of the system as a whole as a wave travelling through configuration space.
It is decomposable; this doesn't affect that. It just means what we've decomposed it to cannot be modelled sufficiently with the current metaphors.
> up is not good at all

I think that's the point. As far as I understand their reasoning (although I don't agree with it), is that some people buy drugs when they are easily accessible over the internet, but wouldn't do so if they have to meet risky people in person AFK. Of course, people who want drugs will get drugs, somehow, and if it's safer, that'd be better. But they want people to move into the riskier meat-space as it's easier to keep track on people and eventually arrest them then.
honeypots are not allowed in germany afaik. The police is not allowed to sell drugs or ask people for drugs and then take them in
You seem to know quite a bit about this, do you know why there isn't some sort of a "compile" phase where the jquery examples wouldn't be translated into the minimum js equivalent? Seems like then you could get the same syntax and minimum size.
Nah, the guy running this site was a moron and kept leaking his server IPs.

https://twitter.com/SttyK/status/1349034993893265408

https://twitter.com/5auth/status/1349358474476613633

https://twitter.com/SttyK/status/1349261670477045760

The owners previous identity was known for a long time on Dread (.onion reddit clone)
This is OT, but since this comment is already here: I usually browse HN on WP8.1 with IE11. Now I don't expect people to care for that platform anymore in 2021, but in this case it was especially ridiculous since the page actually loaded the full article, but then about 5 seconds later it was replaced by a "oops something went wrong..." message.
I found something like this when managed to accidentally break the Drupal.org git parser by adding emojis to a commit message. It wasn't on purpose, I was just on a 2015 emoji kick.

That said, it did uncover a bug that obviously hadn't been tested for which gave the infra team more impetus to solve utf8mb4 support for the database.

https://www.drupal.org/project/infrastructure/issues/2531884
https://github.com/govCMS/govCMS7/commit/ab5da5fd0cb3d7e1d33...
She is probably liable for that data egress bill.

Also, how does some randomer have ten of terabytes of disk lying around?
Would be another great acquisition for Disney.
From the article, this sounds like it's an improved LCD not an e-ink alike.
For years I was extremely interested in an e-Ink tablet for reading scientific papers, but while the technology and hardware became more and more available, I realized that there is no scenario that such hardware would ship with software able to properly annotate PDF documents in an interchangeable format (like valid PDFs f.E.). And that this would be stable and supported for some reasonable time.

Source: My experience with Android tablets, iOS and Linux PDF-Software and every presentation of eInk-tablets seen so far, where this is never really part of their pitch.
>You've got in backwards. The ContentFilterExclusionList was itself a hack. It never should have existed.

It might or might not be a hack, but that's orthogonal to the functionality or whether it uses a ContentFilterExclusionList.

The fact that it wasn't there before, or that it is a misguided feature idea, doesn't mean it was done as a quick and dirty implementation or that it's hastily made feature done via cutting corners.

If you accept the need for your own apps to bypass user application filtering (eg. because you consider your traffic/apps integral to the OS operation) then that's the kind of thing you'd implement -- and you could do it with a team of 100, working for months with fine specs, to deliver the same thing.

There's nothing inherently hacky about it.

>There was no problem with that until Apple decided to exempt itself from getting blocked.

That's neither here nor there though, as to whether it was done as a hack - or, to get back to the point, as to whether they could just rip it off trivially.

People forget this is not just a single feature, but part of a change to how network filtering is done (not through a third party kernel extension anymore), accompanied with new APIs.
> Europe doesn't value property ownership like the UK/USA/AU does

It's funny, because my father in law (French, but who spent quite some times living in the US) often says the opposite: “Americans don't value property ownership. That's because they have wooden houses that last for a few decades and get replaced, while in Europe we buy stone that last for centuries”.

Clichés are clichés.

UK is in Europe btw ;)
I think this is a fair point if you genuinely want to keep your bundle size as small as possible. Many times, the people complaining about jQuery's size are serving 2 MB bundles. 30K is immaterial in that scenario.
Racial discrimination is a crime.

And what makes it so? The law, I presume?

If so, then "censoring a user" is equally a crime, because this Polish law says so.
There was a time when people thought like that about their $10k Samsung 8K TV ... you know, the one that now shoves ads into their face :(
Genuinely curious, how old are you? don't want the exact number rounded up or down to the nearest multiple of 10 is fine.
There are conflicting reports about every little thing.

I've never seen a single indication of remote viewing and I've never seen any such claims hold up. I know of no mechanism that would allow remote viewing. Null hypothesis and Occam's razor points me to dismiss claims of remote viewing.

Experts from CIA have apparently researched this, found nothing and closed the project. The James Randi prize has not been won.

If remote viewing was possible, why are we not seeing the results?

That's me thinking, like you asked for. On the other hand, I don't see any actual evidence from you. Do you have any?
> My net salary is just over 1000€ per month as a software dev.

You're way underpaid even for Latvia. The national average now is 1100 EUR gross, or 812 EUR net (https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/videja-alga-uz-pap...), but for the IT field the average gross is 1829 EUR, which I believe is around 1300 net. Unless you're somewhere in Latgale where everything is much cheaper, or unless you just graduated last year, your net income should be at least some 20% higher.
We've all been asking that question for 5+ years since they began the FSD lies. Never made sense to promise major software ahead of time in any industry much less promise to support old hardware. That's always been a death knell.
Over time you end up adding just about everything back in as the app grows... But worse!
I love that effect. My JS changed a lot once I grokked LISP, and I finally understood why there was a Haskell course on my degree track.

One of the most rewarding training experiences was giving my old Haskell textbook to a junior team member and watching his (at the time .NET, w/LINQ) code change over the course of a few weekends.
> The slightly stronger argument seems to be that the people making these death threats on Parler should not have been banned from Twitter/FB in the first place.

That's not a strong argument at all. Spouting death threats gets you arrested if you do it in public (and someone records it or calls the cops), so it should also lead to a time-limited or permanent ban from social networks.

Social networks are not a free-for-all zone.
But this happened in the current situation where the drugs are considered illegal, so clearly keeping drugs illegal isn't effective at preventing these occurrences, in addition to inciting violence.

Decriminalizing drugs wouldn't fully solve the problem of drug abuse either but at least it would significantly reduce the violence surrounding the field, so that's still a net win in my opinion.

How many people are hurt because of irresponsible drug use itself compared to being collateral damage as a result of the current (illegal) drug supply chain powered by gangs and violence? I bet the latter is much bigger and decriminalizing drugs would reduce that significantly.
Parisian Accent in 1912
It's not even remotely believable that this is anywhere near an efficient way to eventually catch people irl instead of just spending all those resources on irl operations in the first place.
> I see open debate as part of a healthy society. I value the ability to hear perspectives other than my own. That's what "freedom of speech" means to me

I don't think this open debate you're talking about actually happens much on social media. At least, outside of a few select Subreddits, I've very rarely seen it.
Les propriétés promues en PHP 8
A better alternative to a small bike head unit screens, same benefits as for cars: navigation overlay over real world instead of a map; increased safety because you don't have to look down away from road. Some cyclists would appreciate a cleaner cockpit without phone/computer.
This is most markets. Arrests of market operators are not very common, usually they exit at some point and are never heard of again.
From an article [1] I read here a while ago:

"""

Now, goods are hidden in publicly accessible places like parks and the location is given to the customer on purchase. The customer then goes to the location and picks up the goods. This means that delivery becomes asynchronous for the merchant, he can hide a lot of product in different locations for future, not yet known, purchases. For the client the time to delivery is significantly shorter than waiting for a letter or parcel shipped by traditional means - he has the product in his hands in a matter of hours instead of days. Furthermore this method does not require for the customer to give any personally identifiable information to the merchant, which in turn doesn’t have to safeguard it anymore. Less data means less risk for everyone.

The use of dead drops also significantly reduces the risk of the merchant to be discovered by tracking within the postal system. He does not have to visit any easily to surveil post office or letter box, instead the whole public space becomes his hiding territory.

...

To prevent theft by the distribution layer, the sales layer randomly tests dead drops by tasking different members of the distribution layer with picking up product from a dead drop and hiding it somewhere else, after verification of the contents. Usually each unit of product is tagged with a piece of paper containing a unique secret word which is used to prove to the sales layer that a dead drop was found.

"""

It's worth reading the entire article for more detail, the business model is quite clever.

[1] https://opaque.link/post/dropgang/
I assume it's ultimately in good humour but some of the things she does seem quite "out" for a physicist e.g. the annoying physicist things looks like position yourself towards outsiders.

I'm still a mere trainee so I'm basically neutral on her opinion of HEP and Accelerators, but I know enough that it looks a little weird for an academic.
From a social networking perspective, I grew up in the era of chain emails, and social media took over when I was in my teens. There was an awkward moment in the early 2010s when some people were still spamming others with chain emails even if they were asked not to do it (which is oddly similar to what happens on Twitter when you reply to many people).

What amazes me about this hoax is that I'm from a country where English isn't widely spoken, but somehow many people knew about this hoax and believed it (possibly due to having a different sense of humour than, say, a British person, who is more likely to see it as a joke).
"It is “axiomatic,” the Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” That’s what Congress did by enacting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which not only permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech but immunizes them from liability if they do so."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the-constitution-from-big-...?
Public entities have no obligation to be neutral, in fact quite the opposite: many political parties and labor unions are public entities, and their non-neutrality is the main reason for their existence.
Is nature made of waves or particles? The annoying answer is neither. The wave model and the particle model are approximations of nature that are each accurate for different conditions.

Quantum field theory describes reality with wave functions. In this theory there is a field for each type of fundamental particle spread across all of space and time. Regions of a field can evolve into a localized excited state. Particles are a useful mathematical approximation of these excited states.

For example, an electron is a region where the electron field has more amplitude, or bigger ripples. The electron field exists everywhere, but electrons are more likely to be measured where the field amplitude is larger.

Fields interact with other fields, and with themselves. These interactions can be approximated with a Feynman diagram, which treats everything as particles.

Using Feynman diagrams electron field interactions generally model well as particles. This is because the most complex electron interactions are weak enough to be mathematically canceled out. Quarks, the particles inside protons and neutrons, interact through the "strong force". This force has frequent complex interactions that don't cancel out, making the particle model less useful for calculations.
I always was confused when somebody told me exactly like you did. These levels are inconsistent across different lands. How much brutto is that practically? My calculations are 75-90k, but this is a huge spread :)
Anyways thanks for the insight!
Hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) has helped the US earn a place among the top crude oil producers. But that's a recent scenario.

The domestic oil production has been roughly like:

- 2000: ~100,000 barrels per day.

- 2016: ~4,000,000 barrels per day.

- 2019: ~15,000,000 barrels per day.

During the Bush administration (2000-2004), the US had a lower domestic oil production and a higher dependence on foreign oil.

Additionally, the oil production in the Middle East was much higher and has decreased over time.
Can't the answer be both at the same time?
I'm not sure that's how MWI works?
My solution: Increase taxes on all alcoholic beverages. Make pharmacies able to sell 20% by volume alcohol mixed with water that is drinkable in non-branded, medical-looking bottles. Addicts with little money can buy that and mix it with fruit juice or whatever, and everyone else buys the expensive real stuff.
> (Full credit to Alice Goldfuss for the absolutely incredible title.)

As far as I see the article doesn't describe Parler's architecture old or new, or has any knowledge what Parler will do in the future.

Update: 19h ago the title was submitted as "Parler's Serverless Architecture: What It Would Take to Relaunch". Now it seems like the title was changed to attract clicks.
In defence of millenials
It's common the market, the police can't really do much about the buyer if it's delivered via postal service. You can just claim you didn't know what that package is or who ordered it.
Dendral – 1960s AI system for scientific hypothesis formation
Additional recommendation: The Fog of War, the McNamara interview documentary. Absolutely fascinating look into the mind of the secretary of defense at the time.
I have.... it was a bit too much of a leap for me at the moment. And also I rely for work on proprietary software such as MS Teams which I wasn't sure I could install on GuixSD?
Desktop, to be fair.
> But if "planning and executing crimes" is the standard by which platforms should be shut down, then Facebook also should be shut down.

That's fine by me tbh
Dendron is more opinionated. It seems cool, but I didn't want to get too involved in a system.

Foam is just markdown with some vscode extensions. Foam is closer to obsidian.
Not really, the buyer can just claim they didn't know who ordered the package or what was in it. It's not a crime to pick up your mail.
If cars were used like software, fire engines would be dragging around truckloads of cars turned sideways with their gas tanks filled with water. Long-range drones would be flying around filling tanks of random parked cars with glue/sugar/squirrels/nuts covered in glue/sugar/other cars/fire engines/the tank itself.
I was thinking recently about the same thing (I'm not American, if it matters), for better or worse Trump was the first US president in many decades who had managed to actually help in the opening of diplomatic relations between Israel and some other Arab States (UAE and there was some other one which name escapes me right now).

Is there any recent non-inflammatory/non-partisan analysis that discusses about Biden's possible future strategy outside the US borders?
Huh, wonder where its spending all that time and if different ciphers would make a significant difference. I imagine many of the modern ciphers have hand tuned assembly for 64bit computers but probably not for older computers.
Does anybody know if there is SBC with a large RISC-V cpu (8, 16 or more cores)?
sdksbkhs
I have always found interesting the question of why countries go to war? Obviously, if you need to defend yourself you don't have too many options.

But why the elite of a nation will start a war will all the consequences and the danger of loosing territory. Of course, this elite believes they will never suffer the consequences of war. That's why nuclear weapons are a terrifying deterrent.

However, something I read recently was very illuminating: every time somebody decides to go to war, believes it is going to be short and quick. You don't start a war when you don't believe you have a clear advantage. We can also see that many times this thought was wrong and led to lengthy with a high cost on human lives.
Sure, but the question wasn't "does the NSA have access to data", it was "how do we know that information isn't stored."

The answer is that signal includes an industry-leading attestation process using CPU security features. If the CPU manufacturer is compromised that would compromise anything running on it, including attestation. But that's not a flaw in Signal's implementation, and it is out of scope of the question.
100% not true in many non-meritocratic societies. In India, the highly successful people tend to simply be children of the industry's market leader. Because nepotism is so blatant, you can easily pinpoint people like Arjun Kapoor and Rahul Gandhi who so clearly betray your claim.

I believe the same is true of the American Mega-rich. They have simply gotten a lot better at hiding it. Use donations and legacy backdoors to get degrees. Be promoted to the 'board of directors' and claim credit for any growth the company sees, even if you're not involved in an active capacity. Be a varsity player in obscure sport with no competition, benchwarmer or not. Promote 'initiatives' that help <insert group that needs help>.

They know how to build resumes. In India, there is no pretense. These folks know how to socialize with the mega-rich and curry favor with them. But spend that long with anyone and even a dog would learn how to get treats.

Then there are memes. Those who kept their bitcoins in 2012 despite not knowing what they were and those who decided to invest big in drug development right before 2020. If you were banking on a massive 'once in a lifetime' event to propel you to overnight success without any real insights, then it is practically like participating in a lottery. Memes by definition, did not get successful due to their intellect.
Wars end up with those best at surviving surviving. The ones best at getting allies to protect them, the ones who keep their children alive even at the cost of thousands of others' lives, the ones who groom an ally to throw themselves on the grenade, the ones who climb the power ladder and then use that power to keep themselves safe from the conflict…

War is a terrible selection pressure, if you value the light and good in this world. (Probably) less bad than the ones genocidal dictators apply, given how indiscriminate (and therefore bad at selection) it is, but it's certainly not in the “good” category.
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A quote from the latter:

"The total death toll as calculated by the Joint Chiefs, from a U.S. first strike aimed primarily at the Soviet Union and China, would be roughly 600 million dead. A hundred Holocausts.

I remember what I thought when I held the single sheet with the graph on it. I thought, this piece of paper should not exist. It should never have existed. Not in America. Not anywhere, ever. It depicted evil beyond any human project that had ever existed. There should be nothing on Earth, nothing real, that it referred to."

https://apjjf.org/-Daniel-Ellsberg/3222/article.html

"A hundred Holocausts" - that has haunted me ever since I first read it.
You can get a beer case in germany for as low as 5€ - 10€ for something mildly decent - that's 24 bottles of 0.5L beer.

As much as I enjoy my beer every other day it's crazy. Double that and pay for rehab/hospital costs with that money.