skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the state could give the victims rights. The state could give the victim the right to discontinue the prosecution against the state's wishes. The state doesn't give the victim that right, because the state cares more about its own power than about the victim.

Of course there is the risk that victims might move for leniency due to psychological domination, grooming, threats, etc. However, I don't think that is what is happening in Geimer's case, when decades later, as an adult woman, she is asking for the prosecution to be discontinued – indeed, I think to suggest that is happening in her case is deny her agency, to continue her disempowerment. I think the system could be designed to have safeguards against those risks while still giving victims such as Geimer some legal rights over the proceedings. So that would not mean giving victims an absolute right, but a relative right, as opposed to no right which is what they have now.

If a thirteen year old girl doesn't want her abuser to be prosecuted, I think it is legitimate to disregard that on the grounds that as a minor she doesn't understand her own best interests. But when she says the same thing forty years later, to refuse to listen to her, as the California court system has done to Geimer, is to treat a grown woman as a thirteen year old. That's insulting.
There have been no investment in grid interconnects because ERCOT does not want to abide by federal regulations.
Yes, Apple's control increases user privacy (cf permissions on the Google app store, and how flashlight apps used to demand call log access, contact lists, and of course network access to exfiltrate it all back to the mothership).

It's difficult for the HN userset to understand, but a more private, more secure experience is more of a benefit than the ability to install arbitrary unsigned apps.

Most normal users don't care about installing the handful of apps that can't pass Apple certification, and it is in fact probably better that they not be on the platform because there are reasons they're being excluded.

Epic's fight here is to block that user experience from being allowed in the marketplace. There exist "open platforms", people choose Apple because they want curation.

Moreover, Epic is mad because that user experience is winning, there are a significant number of users who prefer curation over the ability to sideload whatever garbage.
That porn server sounds like a huge liability. Did you have any vetting process to make sure it didn't accidentally collect child porn or other illicit images?
This place sure does have an insistence about returning to the exact same conversations.

Is this something old people do? The article is about trains sir, trains, not university administrators.
According to the Ars article, you have that backwards -- 6GW were produced while only 2GW were expected.
> You can't install anything unapproved by Lexus on a Lexus system

Only as of recently and still rarely. Most cars of the world hardly used original parts for repairs. The whole auto repair industry is based on a bunch of hacks and fixes that are not licensed by holy overlords. Most of car computer AFAIK can be sideloaded and hacked with exception of something like the infamous john deere.

Speaking of which, John Deere has been in the news for this for ages now and maybe it's time to seriously liberate car software as well.
I'm reminded of a quote by Jack Stratton of Vulfpeck; "It reminds me of the comedy approach. You're just gonna eat it for ten years then hopefully be in a movie or something."
Respectfully, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Since about 1995, eyeballs have been shifting from all forms of media to the web. Newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, books, etc. have all been disrupted by the web.

Rupert Murdoch has been particularly salty about this and has worked with the coalition government for years to undermine the internet in Australia. News Ltd, with the help of the coalition, fucked the National Broadband Network and now they’re shaking down the most successful internet companies. I have zero sympathy for them.

The proposed law is crafted in such a way that Facebook’s only viable option is to block all news content in Australia and all Australian news content internationally.

News Ltd has failed to innovate on the web for 25+ years while internet startups have gone from idea to almost trillion dollar market caps. News bought MySpace for $580m then sold it for $35m because they are clueless idiots.

It makes me sick that people would side with our overtly corrupt federal government.
17 minutes to do something that should take 17 seconds. These folks are the masters of dark patterns!
I don't think you understand. The layout engine could be on the server, not "non existent". (Although one could program directly with coordinates if they wanted.) Coordinate based vectors allows the layout engine to be on the server, so that we are not stuck with a one-size-fits all layout engine.

And what's wrong with the "m." standard as an option? For some jobs it's the right tool.

And what's good for public site phone use may not be the right tool for internal CRUD applications. I don't recommend Google make an email client with the additions I suggest, for example. The existing standards are fine for light-input consumer sites, but lousy for productivity-oriented CRUD. I'm not saying get rid of existing standards.
It seems that everyone wants to talk about science until it involves race and IQ... why is that?
Sheepdog sells for $38,893, breaks Guinness World Record
Let me write these solutions to these research level problems....Just give me a couple years and some funding please. They don’t have solutions yet. Hello? You have to figure them out because the professor doesn’t know.

Are you even reading what I’m saying? How do they write solutions? I feel like a crazy person as everyone is talking about a walled garden. Like hello? Do you understand what, “there is no solution until you find it” means? Do you understand what, “there are many worked solutions in the text” means?
There are (small) interconnects, yet ERCOT is still not federally regulated.
Some hospital labs. The systems are scheduled to be replaced within a couple of years.
It’s just straight up incorrect. They’re throwing google under the bus to distance themselves.
I use FreshRSS which is similar to tt-rss. I really think I should turn on email digests in it because I often find myself forgetting to check my reader some days and then it feels cumbersome to try and "catch-up" with the feeds.

I actually really like the idea of being able to convert newsletters into RSS feeds. I have a decent amount of newsletter I currently get and for a lot of them the only reason I have them in newsletter form is because they offered no RSS option. So if I wanted to stay up to date one of my only options was newsletters.
They're banning emergency services as well ("by mistake").

They probably just want to increase the backlash. The emergency services Facebook pages will obviously be back within hours.

I live in Australia but I don't have a Facebook account and I don't read the fake news media, so I actually don't have a horse in this race. I hope they both mutually destruct each other.
I actually think this is the most amusing comment I've read on HN. Thanks. Workplaces seem so sterile these days.
I don't think I follow. The point is a hardware wallet is not as convenient as an exchange as you can always recover your account if you forget your password. It's not as secure though, as the private keys are hold by someone else.
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> The ultimate learn-by-doing experience might be a lesson from Japanese parachutist Yasuhiro Kubo, who holds the world record in the activity's banzai category. The sky diver tosses his chute from the plane and then jumps out after it, waiting as long as possible to retrieve it, put it on and pull the ripcord. In 2000, Kubo—starting from 9,842 feet—fell for 50 seconds before recovering his gear. A safer way to practice your technique would be at one of the wind-tunnel simulators found at about a dozen U.S. theme parks and malls.

I’ve met some crazy people who’ve done some crazy things. But wow.
I know nothing about this area, but I'm not actually sure why the author is so sure the American managers are wrong that there is a big difference between what they can do and what can be done in other countries? Labor laws and availability, safety standards, material costs, etc. seem like plausible things to be very different.

Can someone who knows something about this domain chime in?
The way YOU want.

I, as an Apple device user, do not want to change Apple’s behaviour. I like ‘em just they way they are.
Cuomo Faces Revolt as Legislators Move to Strip Him of Pandemic Powers
Rick Perry says Texans would rather be without power over more federal oversight
German company: The 5-Hour Workday Gets Put to the Test
i will have a hell of a time remembering where it was, but a few years ago i read an interview or essay that said this payload was actually a decoy, that the soviets were responding to the SDI program but could not get a workable laser with enough power in such a package, and that it was just there to look like a laser -- including by slowly leaking carbon dioxide, which would be the signature sought by american ground observers
I in fact did not say that it runs Linux binaries faster than Linux itself.
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What? Is 25% change in total money a modest change?
im just trying to get mentioned on n-gate poggers
>>> employees need to be fired... but sometimes management also needs restructuring

Don’t get the asymmetry. Why no firing for mgmt?
My father's ex-girlfriend went to work as a Kelly Girl for one of the biggest players in the music industry back in the early `70s. She ended up at the top of their executive positions and was paid very well and retired very comfortably. I can assure you she was never sexually harassed there.

I'm sure they had their parties and people mixed and hooked up, but that's not the same as "favors". They never invested money in something they didn't think would sell, and they made a shit ton of money.
> Because if I want my startup to succeed, I have to have an iPhone app.

The only person responsible for your success is you. There are plenty of other things successful startups need besides an iOS app but you’re targeting your anger at Apple instead?

> Apple makes this hostile to everyone that isn't them.

Apple isn’t hostile to its users. Sure, Apple is hostile to developers and it’s understandable to be upset about that.

As an Apple user I appreciate and trust their protection over the OS for this very personal device that goes in my pocket.

I appreciate Apple ID gives me a layer of privacy between me and the developer.

> Would you still have this opinion if history had been different and Microsoft's Windows Phone had taken the place of the iPhone

I have no idea. I’ve never used a Windows phone. If my choice was between Google’s Android and a Windows phone with the same consumer protections that Apple gives me now, yes, I would have a Windows phone.

That said, Apple is successful because they did things that Microsoft wasn’t doing and I find this premise silly.
He's not trying to deal with the question of potential violence, though. As the parent comment said, his books are mostly descriptive and just lay out data pertaining to extant trends. It's not a book about possible existential risks or tail risks. These are important topics to address separately, and I don't think that Pinker would dispute that (although he is a little too dismissive of AI risks for my taste, but that's separate from those books).

You may wish to read his reply to Taleb's critique of these books, where he addresses the criticism that he ignores tail risks.
What about them? They’ve made their choice, and you don’t get to impose your values on them.

Believe it or not, people generally buy Apple devices knowing full well they’re entering a walled garden ecosystem. And they’re doing it for that reason specifically, not in spite of it.

You might disagree, and you’re free to make a different choice, because it exists (and is more popular anyway). Everyone wins.
plz stop nerdsniping me

More seriously, I'd love to see this modeled in Promela/Spin. There was a go bug a while back where I reproduced it in TLA+ and someone else reproduced it in Spin, and I personally liked the Spin solution a lot more. It seems well-suited for these kinds of problems!
I use a self-hosted RSS reader, I'm curious if you could use something like that and have some email digests generated from that. I know tt-rss supports sending email digests. You could set it up to check sites on a less frequent schedule and then the setup sounds just like what you're talking about.

You may be fine with your solution so this comment is more geared towards others who are interested in a similar solution.

I am sure managed RSS platforms also offer some kind of email digest if you don't want to self-host.
If the person wears a mask...the camera & lidar footage wont do much good.

You also assume the SF police force will bother hunting down the perp even with a picture for a crime which likely will go unpunished in SF with its effective decriminalization of petty theft & crime.
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I suspect it is similar to naval warfare: distances are long, there's nowhere to hide, and maneuvers are limited.
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A few comments follow; note that I'm not unbiased :)

RetroForth is smaller and easier to build than gforth or Factor. I actively use it and seek to improve it, and I've been told the documentation is good, though I still feel I have a long way to go on that front. It's not a traditional Forth, but it works well for me. I borrow things from traditional Forth, colorForth, Factor, 8th, and other languages when I think they make sense for my needs. Releases are quarterly, with daily snapshots provided.

Gforth is big and I find it to be difficult to build from source. If you need or want a traditional/standard Forth, it's probably what I'd recommend if using one of the commercial ones isn't an option. Definitely build it from source though; the releases are infrequent and the development versions have a lot of bug fixes and improvements.

Factor is big, has lots of interesting stuff, but apart from stacks and colon decisions, really doesn't feel like Forth to me. It is under active development, but releases other than snapshots are very infrequent (last in 2018). Building from source isn't something I've done with this in years, and platform support is more limited (Linux, Windows, macOS, on x86 or x86-64). I've borrowed some ideas and terminology from Factor over the years and would consider it worth learning from.
> I connect this with solipsism, because this failure to acknowledge is paired with severe incuriosity about the rest of the world.

I don't know if solipsism is the right word, but the second part of that sentence ("severe incuriosity about the rest of the world") is definitely a huge part of dysfunctional / mediocre organizations. I've interfaced with a lot (think low-level government bureaucracy in developing countries), and you often hear things like:

* "X is impossible" -> "How come this other person or organization has been able to do it?" -> "Nope, impossible!" -> "But what if we tried Y?" -> "Nope, impossible!"

This so-called "impossibility" is often because someone tried something and failed years ago, and so a huge part of possibility is now impossible via an immutable, sweeping generalization. No curiosity to revisit that assumption, no willingness to question if it's wrong. No willingness to consider whether times have changed, or whether someone else has figured out something we haven't. No willingness to experiment.

It was incredibly frustrating.
Well, of course costs of resiliency would practically exceed savings for energy companies. But the costs of outages are tremendous for Texas overall. That's why critical infrastructure must be well regulated. Corrupt politicians are sure to protect profits of the energy industry, but in the end we all pay for the shenanigans that deregulation allows them to get away with.
No, the racism is a real issue, though a lot of it is caused by limited training data. Having an image recognition algorithm identify Africans and South Asians as gorillas doesn't happen because the designers intended it, but because their training data had only light-skinned human faces and dark-skinned primates. But the effect is racist even though this wasn't the intent.

Likewise, if the system is trained to duplicate human decision-making (like who gets loans), interesting things can happen: if the decision-makers unconsciously favored whites over blacks, the algorithm could wind up weighing skin color or stereotypically Black or Latino names negatively, meaning that the final model is explicitly racist, just because there is a correlation in the training data. That doesn't mean we shouldn't use deep learning, it means that it's not responsible to just fit the training data and ship without testing for such problems.
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That's a somewhat odd statement. Gay marriage was legalised in several countries before the advent of what we consider social media (Facebook etc.) - and a lot of other social change happened well before computers were even a thing, let alone instantaneous communication. Can you expand on what you mean?
I cannot help but wonder if a free and open internet should only exist within national borders, and between treaty partners, but severely restricted, monitored, or even cut-off between rival nations.
> Except we all know the real option will be to buy game X from X's own app store for $39.00

Why? Epic Store is literally giving games and discount vouchers away so you'd get _on_ they're platform. You somehow imply that there wouldn't be competition between competing services?
I think eraDB is built for time series data but I don’t know what tool other than whatever it ships with is best for manipulating the data itself
Marginal. I was doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation about getting an EV and realized that the $/mile cost to charge it would be about the same as paying for gasoline on a car which gets 30 mi/gallon.
I think I agree with mysterianism (new term for me).

My take is that consciousness does not need or permit an explanation (c.f. Goedel Incompleteness) and no new information about the world can be found by attempting to formulate one. In practical, empirical terms it makes no difference if experience is subjective or just an objective illusion of subjectivity. It is of no use and akin to sophistry.

I think Chalmers is a charlatan or just making a living off of being confused himself and reality is more toward Daniel Dennet. However panpsychism may be true but empirically unprovable. It is kind of like the old "if a tree falls in a forest does it make a sound?" question.

"If a being thinks that consciousness is separate and essential to the process of *thinking, does that make that being conscious?"

*Provided feelings count as thought.
Industrial X-Ray capability is trivially accessible and is frequently used for relatively simple tasks like ensuring an assembly is put together properly or that the correct part was ordered etc.
> All of this is possible, it just requires elected officials who have the ambition to take risks to effect tangible change rather than play petty office politics every day.

Welp, we’re toast.
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The price of nearly everything has gone up about 40% in the last 12 months, so I guess we'll get to see if that was a lie rather soon.
This kinda parallels the alt-rock of the 90s as mentioned in other comments. Back then it was called that because it was "alternative" to what was mainstream rock, but over time it eclipsed the mainstream and now most new rock music falls under the "alt-rock" umbrella.
So I don't know if you read the terms of service for this site, but it isn't Reddit. While any topic can be discussed (and is), this site isn't about shilling your pet political ideology and character attacking political opponents.

If you want to have a discussion about the merits of different political ideologies then do that. But this is not a community designed for you to crusade.
the 42 to 8 statistic is from a government organization.

generation is not equal to consumption because texas lacks batteries to store excess energy.

the politifact article is correct that the failure is on carbon based plants, and its on plants that are not used to cold weather for obvious reasons. but its also silly because the implication is that you just need more windmills. which is obviously silly because texas has one of the highest wind energy %s in the US.

but carbon based plants are running 3 times as hot as theyre used to and plants are shutting down because they dont have fuel. So you obviously need carbon fuel to help out.

the carbon plants are stepping up as much as they can but its not enough.

thats it. no huge conspiracy theory. but lots of people like to make fun of the other side.

they need more power, and you cant magically sprout up wind turbines
We all know how this will eventually wash out. People will make noise for a while, there will be legislative noise. Power operators will grease the skids and nothing will happen. Then the next big freeze happens and the cycle will start again. Meanwhile, the governor will deflect the blame onto Democrats, who haven’t been power for 20 years and can’t get elected here anyway, no matter how many people die.
The cost of manufacturing 10,000 lidar units is much different than the cost/unit for a batch of 10,000,000 units.

Just look at EVs and the drop in battery cost over the years. Lidar being cheap at scale is just a matter of when, not if.
The majority of Americans do not have any real (or any at all) amounts of money invested in the market. That may change slowly as more people come online, but right now the majority of the stock is owned by a small percentage of the workers of the country. I'd expect there to be a very long road ahead of us before we find most Americans holding a sizable amount of their capital in the market or even in a bank account at all.
Does my Ops strategy need a revamp?
We get freeway projects done because they’re sufficiently popular that the administrator who gets a freeway completed can use that as the good star on his or her resume forever. But Americans don’t seem to care much about any other kind of infrastructure, so it doesn’t get done.
Imagine if driverless cars start reporting human operated cars around them that are speeding (excessively) or driving recklessly. Companies like Waze could even build up their own private databases containing the license plates of known “problem” cars they need to be extra careful around. Maybe that’s already happening.
Calling this blackmail seems hyperbolic. Australia is imposing a tax on serving links to Australians, so Facebook is no longer serving those links. If the US imposes a tariff on BMWs and BMW stops selling cars in the US is it blackmail? This is the same deal with Google News in Spain. Spain imposed a tax, so Google stopped doing business there (at least insofar as Google News is concerned).

This isn't blackmail any more than I'm blackmailing my local coffee shop when I go elsewhere when they jack up the prices. Increase the cost of doing business and people are less likely to want to do business. What is surprising or nefarious about this?
I'd say most people who spend an inordinate amount of time focusing on politics, particularly party politics, have become untethered from reality.