skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What is the value in putting a person through forced rehab when the reasons they are drinking/ on drugs hasn't gone away?

Most successful rehab is voluntary. People need to first admit they have a problem. Simply making drug rehab programs more widely available without court intercession is likely to have a much bigger impact.

If people are released from rehab right back on the street, the chances rehab will be effective are even less.

Unless you at least attempt to fix the underlying issues, you are just pouring tax money out the door.
I just read that it is being restored from today. Definitely a step in the right direction.

https://theprint.in/india/governance/4g-mobile-internet-serv...
This title lead me to believe I'd be finding the result of a study.. not receiving the sales pitch. There have been studies before[0] with available tools[1] and advice[2].. perhaps this should be linked to the results [3] OR the title updated to "Join a browser fingerprinting study"

[0]: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pd...
[1]: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
[2]: https://restoreprivacy.com/browser-fingerprinting/
[3]: https://browser-fingerprint.cs.fau.de/statistics?lang=en
Many years ago, I remember going to Borders Books (years prior to its bankruptcy) to buy a book by James Baldwin. I looked in the literature section and surprisingly none of his books were there. This was pretty odd since most bookstores carry at least one of his books. I asked for help from an employee and they told me I was looking in the wrong place, guiding me to the African American section instead. I found the irony of what the bookstore likely thought was a considerate distinction, pretty mind blowing. Here was James Baldwin, who had been a huge proponent for civil rights and a major critic of segregation, having his own books segregated away from what the bookstore categorized as “literature”, into a racially defined category instead.

I'm not much of a social critic so it's difficult to formulate the right words to explain my position, but racial profiling just doesn't seem right, regardless of its intent.
Democratic senators' Act strips Section 230 immunity for ads and other content
Hi I love OpenWrt. Firmware for routers is full of holes. OpenWrt lets me know what is running on my router and what it's doing. There is one more thing and that is I am blind and a lot of stock software on routers just is not made to work with screen readers. With OpenWrt they care about a11y and if there has ever bin any thing that breaks a11y it has bin fixt in a matter of days. I have never bin made to feel like I am bing a pane in the ass for asking for a change to the webinterface to help me use it.
https://openwrt.org/
The other project I could not be with out is the one that makes my screen reader called NVDA. With out it I simply could not use my computer. https://www.nvaccess.org/
> yet I see uncommon values for WebGL Vendor and WebGL Renderer

I don’t know how Firefox does it but instead of trying to make the WebGL fingerprint the same for everyone every time they could also try to make it unique for everyone every time and it would have the same effect.

If every time you loaded a page your WebGL fingerprint differed then a website can’t use that to tell if it was the same browser that loaded the same page previously or any other page anywhere else previously.

(Assuming that the WebGL fingerprint anonymization was so good that it could indeed not be correlated between different fingerprints in any meaningful way.)
Advice: be patient, use the various techniques to get your cat acclimated that are listed on the site.

Ultimately, how cats deal with being harnessed even after being acclimated is extremely individual personality-dependent. I've seen some happily walk like dogs. Mine don't particularly want to walk alongside people and very quickly want to go off under plants or other places where they can hide and stalk, and where people can't easily go. We take them out for as long as both they and we can stand, and don't jerk them around.

The Kitty Holster type harness is significantly less escape-prone than say the PetSafe style of nylon straps, and probably less uncomfortable as well.
I've never used MacPorts. Go figure, I just realized that "MacPorts" means "bsd ports for mac". I'll have to try it sometime and see if I prefer the look and feel of MacPorts.
The laws generally require that these things be “arms length transactions”, basically meaning that the two parties are legitimately at odds over the price. Your example would not be that.
I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

I think it's *likely a motivated mega-billionaire would be far more effective with 100B than a self-interested bureaucracy.
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Regarding HiDPI there are some ideas, but right now they are not implemented (see i.e https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM/issues/827). I'm writing a vt100 terminal backend to reveal some underlying assumptions about the pixel size.

Thank you for working on McCLIM back then! If you feel motivated to join development efforts please don't hesitate joining #clim @ freenode :)
Sprint was awesome, but was designed to intercept non-manouevering targets using hard x-ray flux. Both of which are sub-optimal against hypersonics.
It’s a dev community. The language is important as a hook for people interested in writing code in the language.
Text Blaze is a freemium product. The free version works great for basic use cases and also lets you try out the more advanced features. Then we have paid versions that offer more advanced features (like embedded forms and formulas) and improved team collaboration.

We actually are interested in the possibility of selling premium snippet packs. Not something we have had time to explore at the moment, but the "give the razor away" model is an interesting one.
I read CODE before reading The Elements of Computing Systems. I felt like the former provides details that you actually implement in the latter. Highly recommend both and in that order.
Different company, maybe different problem, but importing code at Facebook was similarly difficult. The build issues were the least of it. More significant by far were the all-but mandatory requirements to integrate with the in-house deployment infrastructure, service discovery, background-task scheduling, metrics, logs, alerts, data structure libraries, RPC framework, etc. Your project already implemented some of those internally, or used open-source alternatives? Too bad. You could keep the core logic, but practically everything about how it connected to the rest of the world would have to be rewritten. Often, it just wasn't worth it, and a new "FB native" service reimplementing the same functionality was easier. If you didn't do it yourself, some other group would constantly be threatening to do it for you. It's hard to focus on code when you continually have to justify your project's very existence.
If you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.
I'm also not really that familiar with either Rust or modern multiplayer games, I'm just speculating. It seems like if you could buffer-overflow the server, there are more sinister things you could do besides game-the-game...

(that said, I have personally found bugs in text-based MUDs that could have been prevented by Rust. They were all "just" DoS bugs though, instantly crash the server type things)
Unfortunately, I think these studies are a bit naive because the proprietary, data-driven, probabilistic fingerprinting models used by Facebook and LinkedIn (to name two of the most elaborate fingerprinters) are years ahead of anything a few researchers could come up with.

1. Get a gazillion users on your site

2. Require a user account tied to a real person

3. Log IP, host, geolocation, and as many JavaScript/browser APIs as you can (there are hundreds at this point)

4. Among the fields you track, find the ones that ones that are the most stable and unique over time

5. Assign some probabilities to these fields to eliminate false positives

6. Generate personas for users for when they are at home, work, one their phone, etc.
Too much of the tooling that people want to use is GPL.

Apple is more allergic to the GPL than any other company on Earth. They would never do something official that would even put GPL software in their orbit.
Not the weekend cosplayers and gun collectors. If both the Army and the NG are against you, you lose. Your AR-15 is no match to APCs with rudimentary night vision let alone tanks/artillery/air support.
Articles such as this are a product of the never-ending "never waste a good crisis" crowd.
iOS. Decent discussion with pic of dialog:

https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/12/ios-14-precise-location/
Checkout UWMC for a long term SPAC play.
I wish I could stomach firefox, but everything about it just absolutely infuriates me. Even with a bunch of addons it is bothersome to run. The issue is that most people spend majority of their time on a PC in a web browser, including myself. Even a 5% worse product is still going to add up to a sizable amount of wasted time/ unneeded frustration. I personally spend hours tinkering with my OS to make it better for me to use, I can't justify using an inferior product in regards to taking a moral stand.

Or at least if I was going to take a moral stand I would start by spending at least 50% more time & money for clothing/ other products not manufactured immorally.
1. The protest on the republic day was not peaceful. Some groups among protesters hoisted a different flag on the Red fort, Delhi
2. Not all farmers across the country are protesting. Some are. Mainly Punjab, Haryana, few from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, Rajasthan.
3. It's true that the government has not been totally transparent. But they put a stay on implementation of farm laws for the next 18 months and offered to continue further discussion. However, the protesters continued the protests and vandalised Red fort, a historic building in New Delhi. The protests did become violent on the Republic day where the police were injured.
I.e. republicans holding Biden to the unity standard because Biden claimed that mantle, when it was never a goal of theirs for the last four years.
Creating Provenance on the Blockchain with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
> There is no free speech analogy to countries with a different constitution

You use the phrase "free speech" as if it referred only to a legal requirement, and not also an ethical principle.
Amazon aims to improve safety by monitoring drivers with cameras and AI
That is frustrating, but fortunately `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` will take care of it. Then you have to remember to update every now and then yourself, though.
Note that this is not about quantum speedup, but, rather conversely, making the classical part of the computation more efficient. Still important to get these quantum-adjacent things correct, but not as groundbreaking as one could hope for just reading the headline.
Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
I am confused by this. sudo seems like a far larger surface area than running as me. If it's just me then it's just me, but if it's sudo, then it's the entire box.
So for licensing purposes, GitHub is the End User?
I've been told that NOAA uses tape to stream time series weather data into long-running simulations.
Google: "tape library robot"
Any communication platform with enough users is politically relevant.

(In fact, I wonder if this explains some of the change in tone here on HN. If HN has become big enough to be politically relevant, then it attracts people who are here to do political and ideological battle, not just to have a reasonable conversation. That could explain the annoying rise of the number of people who will argue to the ends of the earth, and never listen to the other side's point. It would also explain the rise of the number of people who deliberately twist the parent's words to try to create a zinger at the other side. Both of those kinds of posting annoy me and, in my view, detract from the site. I wonder if this is why that kind of thing has been increasing.)
NYTimes' Rukmini Callimachi Moving to Higher Ed Beat After ‘Caliphate’ Collapse
The detector could just be the entire galaxy, it doesn't have to be an artificial construct.
To your question, you have already seen it, hiding in plain sight.
> brew bottle and bottle do blocks use a new syntax format (one :cellar per platform).

ahh finally. been looking for this nifty feature for a while.
Sadly, it is unrealistic to hope that my country will also ban Twitter.

Details of the software behind an online forum make a big difference to how the forum affects its participants and the society they are part of. It would take a long article to begin to describe exactly how the details of Twitter are bad, but as a start we might notice how difficult it is for a reader to find the responses to a particular contribution (tweet) and how difficult it is for the writer of a response to predict which readers will see the response -- making Twitter a worse tool for arriving at collective truth than are most online fora or at least worse than most pre-social-media online fora. We might notice that (probably for complicated reasons, perhaps partly because it is a bad tool for online truth-finding) experience has revealed that Twitter is more likely to assist in the formation of an online mob than other online fora are.
My favorite quote from the article:

> Chromium has taken a path similar to Android's; there is a core built with free software, but getting its full functionality requires accepting layers of proprietary code on top of it. The fact that said code is running on a remote server somewhere does not really change that situation.

Google has used this wolf-in-sheep's-clothing approach for yeas, and it has worked. Fortunately, though, it's also backfired a bit. With things like Microsoft Edge using the open core that google has provided (Chromium) on the market, users have a choice of browser host, including what servers their bookmarks/syncing lives on. Not the best choice, perhaps, but still, a choice. :)
Doubtful this is useful because it’s just not enough mass to be stable.
The functional component of this technique is still just quantization (as in the parent). One might argue that this is actually more complicated.
You would have been happy with ArchMac[0] then.

Unfortunately after a dozen or so years as sole maintainer and user I dropped it a month ago[1].

If anyone wants to take over just reach out.

(not in the post but I had to pull the DO storage because I was severely out of cash, I still have the packages locally)

[0]: https://www.archmac.org/

[1]: https://lna7n.org/2020/01/06/pulling-the-plug-on-archmac.htm...
A country's law can be bypassed by not doing business there, an option that Google is already familiar from its 2010 decision regarding China. Pakistan is a large country, but I don't think it is a big market for Google - certainly much smaller than China.

Also, I found it disingenuous that Google plays "it's the law card" when it spends millions of dollars a year lobbying in the United States to get laws changed. Now, it may be much harder to get the Pakistan government to change its mind around the inclusion of "Muslim" for online content for this group - but I doubt Google has bothered to try...

There is more than a country's law to consider, there is international law and war crimes tribunals. Nothing maybe for Google to worry about yet, but what if Pakistan passes a law is passed that requires Google to give up all search data on this minority population in order that the government can monitor, imprison or kill them? I'd like to see how Google's legal team would respond to that. I'm guessing comply and cover-up, but I'd like to be wrong.

Note it doesn't even have to be an international law, it can be a better, future Pakistan, perhaps one with an Ahmadiyya leader - as inconceivable as that seems now. Germany for example, is charging an old lady with aiding and abetting murder (10,000 times!) for her secretarial work as a minor in a concentration camp. Pakistan is bigger than Germany and Google is good at doing things at scale... so let's hope Google leadership leads.
It is more nuanced. The peaceful protestors got violent. They attacked the Red fort and flew flags for a separatist movement after bringing down the Indian flag.

Such an attack on democracy should not be allowed.
Pot, meet kettle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037357

> volta83 1 hour ago | parent [–] | on: Homebrew 3.0

> I used MacPorts before hombrew. Homebrew "just worked", MacPorts sucked.

> Maybe I was too dumb to use MacPorts, but all other MacPort used I knew back then all moved to homebrew very quickly.

> reply
The worst thing is that, you can’t even really opt out.

My parents tried to gift me a kit for xmas one year, "hey we think this is fun, might be useful to know if you're prone to eyeball cancer or whatever." I explained all the privacy issues and politely declined. But of course they and my sister had already gone ahead and done it, so now my family’s genetic fingerprints are in their databases, nothing to be done about it.

This is how the "Golden State Killer" was nabbed, which is obviously an example of this kind of thing being put to good use… I hope I don't have to argue against the dumb old "people who are innocent have nothing to hide" discussion here
Indeed, in the final appeal that failed in Pakistan against these laws (Zaheeruddin v. State) the Supreme Court bench cited the Coca-Cola trademark as an example
what would be the advantage of this vs established libraries written in C#? any thing Rust offers that other languages don't? website is short on details, would be great if they could display its features. There are other MMORPG/MMO frameworks that are quite mature but this looks promising too.

edit: reply to one of the comments below regarding the argument Rust = good therefore great for gaming. This. Neither does a good engine. For me I stopped UE4 and went to Unity because of the sheer lack of documentation and community support behind C++ with UE4. C++ is a powerful language but man was it hard finding tutorials and documentation that was up to date.
This. I understand why some people don't know (or care about) the difference between the search box and the address bar, but why engineers accept the merged input is beyond me.
Here's what I think the likely outcome would be. High end restaurants that pride themselves on good service would increase their pay to keep good staff. At the very bottom end waitstaff would no longer have to tolerate the worst of their customers behaviour just to scrape by on tips. In the middle you'll see the increased turn over that you predicted.

Do you tip other service positions like the employee that helps you at best buy or the cashier at the grocery store? Why are they different? If people staying in one job longer is a good thing and tipping helps that why wouldn't you?
Amazon drivers are much better than UPS and FedEx.
Citation? You'd think they'd be being boycotted like Shezan was then. And the claim about India is even more out there. Are you sure you're not thinking about Memons like Adamjee?
how do you generate revenue to sustain this service?
this one is more immediate, full blackout.
> This isn't censorship, this is just a private company deciding who is and isn't allowed on their platform

This fits the definition of censorship. Maybe you meant to say this isn't governmental censorship?

Edit: Poe's law
The paper of record, one of Wikipedia's favorite "reliable sources" debating this topic is illustrative of the environment we live in.
All data is stored physically. All backups are physical.
The De-Democratization of AI: Deep Learning and a Compute Divide in AI Research
It could use neighborhood. Use GPS to locate your neighborhood then give your location as the townhall or central park or whatever in that area.
> But I just do the bare minimum of setup to get VNC and SSH working

Lucky for you those are both fully supported out-of-the-box, and have been for a couple of decades. Sounds like your IT team is forcing the right solution down your throats.
It seems to fall pretty naturally from the theory that any government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence[1]. An insurrection would violate that.

The original insurrection was illegal under the old government, but that government no longer exists to prosecute it. The new regime doesn't need to explicitly make insurrection illegal, but it implicitly does through its inherent monopoly on violence.

Democratic countries split the difference by allowing peaceful, scheduled transitions of power. That's not insurrection. Insurrection occurs only when that is violated, especially by violence. Peaceful insurrections are conceivable, but only if the existing government consents to it, which stretches the definition of "insurrection".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Ah, a category vs tag problem. Nice.
> So it's up to Google and other international companies to decide which laws are diabolical, which laws are bad and which can be tolerable?

Why not? If they can decide which speech is tolerated on their platforms and which isn't, then why not this?
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I went through a similar thing with my son. The best part was when an acquaintance recommended the “easier on the stomach” variant of one of the popular formula brands. I checked the box, first ingredient: corn syrup!

For what it’s worth, it’s very hard to be sure switching brands is the causation of a better outcome vs just a correlation. Babies change rapidly so it’s possible that unrelated development is there true source of recovery. But it was definitely a dramatic difference for us exactly when we switched formulas too.
Wow, I've been waiting for this! As someone that english is his second language this tool is a time saver!
I have been trying to find an nice Window Macro app for doing the same thing.

A Windows app because I dont use only Chrome. I use Slack, Outlook, VSCode, WSL2, Citrix VM, etc. Would be nice to have this for any and every window.
Fair enough.

I was not responding to GP - only the parent who asked:
> I often see this “half” income lost to taxes figure on HN and it often doesn’t stand up to scrutiny

Elsewhere on HN, many people do use their marginal tax rate (and do so correctly). I was only explaining how that 50% is a good benchmark to use and why so many use it.

You are correct that if I was responding to GP, my comment would be misleading. Unfortunately, I think my brain short-circuited when I saw "Clinton" in GP's post and I skipped by it :)
Why? Rome was vastly richer and more powerful than they were, and the only model of success they ever knew.
The main issue is how Apple and Google are able to profit from the decision. The only way I can see the situation being avoided is by not entering the particular market in the first place, or by not allowing corporations to get so large that their actions can be construed as political interference (whether it is intentional or not). Either way, the current decision is the consequence of earlier ones.
Also microfiber-based data storage media (first paper on this was in 1998) which require new lasers that we still don't have yet.
This is not true, Rust woudn't prevent anything in most cheats / issues you see in online games. 99% of them are busines logic related.