skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/frankwilczek/status/1183476893049380867

Shame on Frank for trying to downplay his connection to Jeffrey Epstein's billionaire sex-trafficking ring!

Pinker once tried to claim that "he never really liked the guy" either .... but signed on to Alan Dershowitz' legal defense "dream team" to help the latter find a "linguistically valid" way to interpret a law prohibiting the use of the internet to entice minors into prostitution in order to help Mr. Epstein avoid prosecution on racketeering charges in federal court that would have subjected his estimated $500 million estate to criminal forfeiture proceedings ... instead of Harvard and MIT's endowment !!!

Indeed there are also plenty of child rapists hiding within the Catholic Church, which is mentioned in the article.

But Frank is an even bigger fraud on this topic. Students and other faculty members should throw a few proverbial pies at the two-face whenever he attempts to give a public talk ... as they should his colleague and fellow Epstein acolyte Mr. Seth Lloyd:

https://thetech.com/2019/10/23/seth-lloyd-should-not-teach
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Thanks! Yes, we are investigating our legal options.

We just recently filed an appeal regarding getting access to the API documentation.

We have gotten a lot of PR in Sweden from the major news papers and tech press. So I think the pressure is building but if it is one thing Swedes are worried about is the appearance internationally. So help us getting this story to Wired, TechCrunch etc - that will make them crazy. We still live on the front page of Newsweek from 2000 - the capital of Internet. That might be true for the tech scene but definitely not the public sector.

We would rather concentrate our limited time and resources on making the product better instead of this crap but we have an amazing community that are helping us with both legal advice, artwork, communication, UX etc so we will continue the fight and will keep you updated here in Hacker News.

Thanks for all support so far!
Thanks, I'll check it out. Does the app work offline too in a situation where the crisis also includes lack of internet connection? (eg. natural disasters or places without reliable internet coverage)
The scary part for me is I thought it was real, I got sucked in hook line and sinker until DT was mentioned at the end, hinting that the author was somehow responsible for his election victory.

That was the red pill moment for me as there is only one person that realistically can take credit for his win and although plausible because she might be just as evil, the last time I checked HC doesn't have a science background but a law degree.
The alternatives are... nanites?
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The article said it was in an email.
> How does this square with “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The whole play here is that congress will not make a law to limit free speech. The tech giants will limit free speech on their own, out of fear that congress will make other laws, such as laws to hurt them and break them down.

They're basically being extorted by congress into doing dirty work (limiting free speech) that congress is forbidden from doing by the constitution.
The paper seems to deal with the pathways by which teeth sense cold, and by which cold is sensed as pain. However, the BBC article seems to introduce another element by using the term 'brain jolt' - which probably refers to the intense 'cold headaches' one can experience from eating too much cold food or drink too quickly. However, I don't see that this is referred to anywhere within the paper (please correct me if I'm wrong) - so this aspect of the BBC's article is extrapolating too far, and should probably be amended.
Mode declarations aren't really a feature so much as they are additional information provided by the programmer to the compiler. In Prolog if you have a predicate

foo(X,Z) :-
bar(X,Y),
baz(Y,Z).

Traditionally if you call foo(1,Z) it will try to find an answer for bar(1,Y) first then feed that Y value into baz, if you call foo(X,3) it will still try to find values for bar(X,Y) first. Sometimes that's okay because the engine will be like well yeah there's something that'll work so we'll say bar is true and move on to baz but some times it tell you to go suck eggs.

You could write two different versions of foo

%foo(in,out)
foo(X,Z) :-
ground(X),
bar(X,Y),
baz(Y,Z).
%foo(out,in)
foo(X,Z) :-
ground(Z),
baz(Y,Z),
bar(X,Y).

but having to do that sucks. First it's forcing you to think about Prolog's implementation rather than the logical relationship between X and Z; second it's repetitive and forces you to keep both versions in sync with each other which is gonna get rough for more complex predicates.

One of the things Mercury uses that mode info for is to re-arrange the body of foo(X,Y). So if you tell it that you will use both foo(in,out) and foo(out,in) it will compile two different versions of foo and dispatch appropriately.
That's a grave danger. (Of course, adding newer restrictions to the GPLv4 would't change anything, as users could still be bound by the v3 thanks to the word "or". The real problem is removing conditions, such as the right of the users to get the source code).
In the US, it’s whoever owns the platform. Congress can’t do it, per the constitution.
Apple uses Qualcomm as well for their 4G/5G modem. They've started work on fixing that (by buying Intel's business unit that was working on that in 2019) but iphones still contain Qualcomm modems for now.

Most of the industry, except some Chinese vendors, use Qualcomm technology. There just are not a lot of 4G and 5G implementations out there.

In most markets, you end up licensing their patents regardless of whether you use their hard and software too. They have a near monopoly because building a replacement is a non trivial exercise and even if you succeed, you'll still have to license the patents. So, even when Apple ships their replacement, they'll be licensing patents from the likes of Nokia, Qualcomm and a few others for quite some time.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/apple-sta...
No. It's legal to require non members to pay an agency fee for the services the union is required to provide them.[1]

[1] https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-compulsory-union-member...
Thanks for sharing your opinion! Hopefully at least it contains something more than meta complaints :)
One thing Greenwald misses in this article is related to:

>Zuckerberg in particular has minimal capacity to communicate the way human beings naturally do. The Facebook CEO was obviously instructed by a team of public speaking consultants that it is customary to address members of the Committee as “Congressman” or “Congresswoman.” ... For every question directed to him, he paused for several seconds, had his internal algorithms search for the relevant place in the metaphorical cassette inserted in a hidden box in his back, uttered the word “Congressman” or “Congresswoman,” stopped for several more seconds to search for the next applicable spot in the spine-cassette, and then proceeded unblinkingly to recite the words slowly transmitted into his neurons.

Anyone even superficially prepared by a lawyer for a deposition (and testifying before Congress may be the most serious deposition possible) is instructed to lengthen all responses to just before the line of "obstructing the questioning."

In this game of modern "congressional investigation," where congresspeople are incentivized to advertise their agenda as opposed to acquire new information (investigate), it is in the best interest of the testifier, as in most depositions, to say as little as possible.

Who knows what Zuckerberg is really like personality-wise. It is likely that how he is in front of Congress is not how he is in a relaxed setting. This fact doesn't generate the clicks that calling him a robot does though...
Apart from supporting Solidarity (and then help the economic bullying to make sure they didn't get any chance what so ever to have their own economic policies), I don't think much was achieved that the Soviet Union wouldn't have managed without US "support".
Leah Rowe is probably the "highest level" hacker who is publicly on the pro-RMS camp. Even if that message seems a bit exaggerate, I would still take her a bit seriously.
I went through a similar loss ($11k in Mt Gox). At the time, it felt like I'd lost everything.

It took years for me to really get over it. I'd like to spare your nephew from that, if possible.

The next week is going to be really rough for them. Just be there, and reassure them that things are going to turn out fine. Even if it seems like a massive deal right now -- possibly the biggest problem they've ever run into -- it's an illusion.

The fact is, determining how the money was stolen won't get the money back, just like determining why Mt Gox collapsed didn't get mine back. But I could've been much happier if I'd just accepted it and moved on.

In their case, this theft might be easier to stomach than an exchange collapse, because at least they won't live with uncertainty about whether the money is coming back. It's gone.

Try to remind them that as much as it sucks, they still have their health and their sense of humor. Both are priceless.

(Or perhaps just listen to them. Sometimes saying anything isn't really necessary.)
It turns out that the ability regulate interstate commerce in practice allows you to regulate everything else.
I completely agree with your premise. It is unprincipled that you can make fun of some races, disabilities, and traits but not others.

But I completely disagree with your conclusion. The debate was much healthier with fewer limitations. The limits didn't make it more nuanced and interesting, quite the opposite. Instead of making a point, people just squabble over who offended whom. Unbelievably boring.

Since this is from Glenn Greenwald, here's an interview with him where the interviewer straight up calls him a "pinko faggot" and the thing is easily the best interview I saw this year.

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn...
There's a difference between condemning him as a person and making an assessment that his character might lead to certain drawbacks if he is in charge of one of the world's most powerful media companies.
You need to learn how to code without crutches. IDEs are great, and people should definitely use them, but I’ve met too many programmers who just are lost without them. The worst example was a guy who couldn’t even navigate his own small program except with the debugger. Even though he wrote this small program himself, he didn’t managed to have a mental image of the call stack.

So, some of you who rely on the IDE all the time maybe need to do without it a little to train some muscles that have atrophied.
I think you could make the argument it wasn't a coup, but you'd have a hard time making any meaningful points.

To say that "people trespassed and vandalized, but that is about it" however, is a gross mischaracterization.

Here are some things that constitute WAY more than what you described:

- Planting of explosive devises

- Proud Boys in organized and coordinated groups with zip ties and walkie talkies (charged with conspiracy for allegedly staging planned missions in the Capitol)

- The general goal of preventing a democratic process from taking place in order to overturn an election

- 5 people dead including a police officer

- SEVERAL Secret‑level laptops were stolen

I don't think you are providing a good-faith interpretation of the events.
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i love it! get political, go broke. or as it is more known, get woke, go broke. if companies want to do politics instead of business, they will have to play by different rules.
This is exactly my painpoint with C++ too. With Rust and such I'm one simple command line call away from installing a dependency. With C++ every dependency is a battle.
The one denying claims of pee bottles is factually wrong & is actually evident from the operations staff guidelines, which probably the one tweeting doesn't know about.
It’s convenient that they’re dismantling our rights in sequential order.

When they get around to the fourth and fifth, people will wish they’d acted while they were dismantling the first and second.
Have you tried letting users extract the token themselves, when your code can't find it?
Well, it's the same in many Asian countries I would guess. I know for a fact that Thailand restricts land ownership by foreigners.

In Thailand, the only way to own land as foreigner requires working many years for a Thai company, then obtain Thai citizenship and finally apply for Thai nationality. I believe either in citizenship or nationality stage it's possible for a foreigner to own land, but it's limited to a maximum of 1 rai (1.600 m2). Foreigners can own condominiums in Thailand, but 51% of the condo complex has to be owned by Thai people and foreigners don't have any ownership of the land the complex is build on.

(Well, I believe there's one other way using a company, but for most companies setup in Thailand one has to give away 51% of shares to Thai people with few exceptions. An example of one such exception is if a foreigner owns an international import/export company, I believe in such a case it's allowed for the company shared to be 100% owned by the foreigner).

Even though I am a foreigner living in Thailand and I have to admit these laws are somewhat annoying, I also feel it's good to protect the Thai people from rich foreigners buying land and increasing prices.

I feel it'd be better if more countries would be more protectionist for their own citizens in this regard. I believe if it's more difficult for foreigners to own property in any country, it would reduce speculation on real-estate markets, thus reducing prices and rents.
> So somebody who isn’t verified on mainstream social media or generally hasn’t made themselves publicly available for a comment is a fair target then?

Fair target of what? If someone gains a reputation using a anonymous wallet and sell their NFTs via that wallet, then that wallet is the author people would follow, no mainstream social media needed.

> Besides, where does the idea that NFT purchasers even care who listed the NFT?

Because the value of the NFT is around the chain of ownership, not sure why it's so hard for people to wrap their head around this fact.

No, Mona Lisa painted by Moron #1 won't be as popular as Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci. One could say the only reason Mona Lisa is popular, is because it's made by Leonardo da Vinci, otherwise it would get lost in the river of other, better art made around the same time.

People don't actually care about the bytes. They care about who published the bytes, and that they now can be written as the owner of those bytes. Sure, you can copy the bytes, but if the ledger doesn't change to reflect that you now "own" those bytes, it's not hitting the same feeling as the ownership via NFT gives.
>In Germany, there are a lot of so called 'hidden champions' - companies that are small but focus on some higher end, niche products, e.g. oil filters,special purpose ball bearings,etc.

Which is great, but manufacturing those products doesn't generate the kind of cashflow or global influence that US tech companies generate.

Curious how many people here praising these hidden champions has worked for or wishes to work for one. I worked for a couple and it was eye-opening on never doing it again and avoiding them like the plague since they provide no high paying jobs and generate nearly no innovation as they simply survive on having cornered a niche market where neither US nor Chinese companies bother to compete because either the margins or volumes are too low and the decades-long relations with their customers are more valued in those businesses rather than cheaper price or better products.
Your comment is exceedingly political. It’s unfortunate you mistakenly feel you are politically neutral and that you represent “actual” free speech, whereas companies who don’t choose to render services to insurrection-plotting fascists and racists apparently only practice “convenient” free speech.

I hope you can step back and evaluate the mistake in your perspective. Number one, you are demonstrating that you care more for politics than for free speech (let alone the fact that your viewpoint literally leads to people being harmed in preventable ways where the prevention methods don’t threaten free speech). Number two, you are trying to define the conversation in a way where you are neutral politically and merely hold up an ideal principle, but that’s very clearly false to huge degree and you’re not admitting the political bias and blinders you are yourself bringing into it.
I don't entirely agree with their comment, but while "technology" is a single noun, it's not a singular noun - it encompasses many different things.
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The Met Museum did something similar a while back: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection ... A list of (all?) images https://github.com/gregsadetsky/open-access-is-great-but-whe... .
Oh, be careful.

At my previous employer there was the concept of the "90 day sprint". Top management use the term without irony. All they have done is substitute "sprint" anywhere you would say "quarter". So now they are agile. I wish I was making this up.
There were ~11 million homes in England in 1939, and ~23 million in 2019. Even if we allow for single homes being split into multiple smaller ones, and assume that every 1939 home was still standing in 2019 (ignoring the effects of the Blitz, and of the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s), that would still suggest that half of English homes are less than 80 years old. I doubt things are significantly different in the rest of the UK.
How about OVH with an rsync?
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Here’s the searchable collection of the Rijks:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
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This comment is probably going to go under most people heads.
>Demand shaping" is a nice euphemism for energy shortages.

It's a euphemism for storage heaters, storage air-conditioning, aluminium smelters that dial usage up and down and smart car chargers.

Lithium ion batteries are useful too, of course, but they cost more.

This is a problem where market based solutions shine. The only reason that fact isn't getting rammed down our throats by lobbyists is that the people who got religion about markets tended to be oil/gas people, who have since been thrashing the "renewables are unreliable" drum.

>Overproduction helps but doesn't eliminate intermittency.

Why should the goal be to eliminate it when we can adapt to it and thrive?

Personally, I'm more excited for applications of periodic free/-ve priced electricity than I am worried about shortages.
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From another article on the FT it sounds like they’re talking about ballast, not that it’s taking on water. -

“ Alongside specialists dredgers that are working to remove sand and soil from around the vessel, salvage experts Smit are looking to bring in high-powered pumping equipment to remove ballast water from the front and back of the ship, BSM said.”
There is missing NULL check, but it doesn't crash, because the function would get nonexistent filename only if filesystem driver would do something strange (or file would be deleted just between readdir and fopen). xD
I also noticed, that I don't close files and directories. Not a big deal, because fully functional and 100% correct program wasn't the goal here. :)

EDIT: Actually fopen would return NULL when file is not readable. My bad. Anyway, such problems are trivial to debug.
thats not a coup, thats obstruction of procedure and didny have a snowballs chance in hell of succeeding. Calling it a coup is bad-faith interpretation of the event.
Reading Greenwald (at least lately) means to almost constantly run into phrases like:

"Words cannot convey..."
"one of the most stunning displays"
"truly despotic hearings"

It is tiresome.
Look in a mirror at what's behind you, then rotate your head upwards until you're looking at the behind. Look back at the mirror.

As you can see, the mirror is reversing up and down, not left and right.
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>it boggles my mind that people think this way.

I don't agree at all that the things that are bad in the US are as bad or worse with those countries, first of all because it is a misunderstanding that it is "in the US" because the problem I was referring to with the US is outside the US.

The US is doing everything it can to control and dominate the world and we need a counterweight to stop this ASAP. It does much more harm than good. What happens inside US borders is another matter. The problem is when the US can do as it pleases which is basically what it is like today. I dislike Russia too but if Russia makes the US pause before invading a country or the PRC did the same it is a win in my book. The US is an extreme aggressor and someone need to force its fleets back where they belong and stop its political steamrolling.

Besides the problem of using its military to "make right" we are also seeing a death of culture because of Americanization. If half of huge US businesses were exchanged overnight to other strong nations businesses the world would become a better place. McDonald's and Disney doesn't belong outside the US as the dominant local business. Local burger and movies does. We live in a time where many children think American food and films are the norm, instead of something foreign, new and exotic as it should be. Every culture is becoming one culture. It smells a lot like something PRC does that the US is extremely critical about but is doing much more itself..

Of course I'd rather see the EU as a power that could put the US in its place but I'd also rather see Russia or PRC doing so if the alternative is no-one doing it.

ETA:
Saying imperialist tendencies are worse in Russia and PRC than the US is mindboogling. Russia and PRC does a lot of bad things but they are light-years behind the US in imperialism.
Interesting.
A lot of western clothing is already made in China.
> and vague insinuations

He isn't being vague, he is directly accusing the US Congress of authoritarianism. Then later despotism. He names names. He includes video excerpts. He questions if political censorship is maybe not a good idea and makes it clear he is accusing Congress of exactly that.

You can disagree, but he is specific.
Are you deliberately phrasing this as an antagonistic position to the parent comment, or am I misreading?
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