skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It only becomes a big career-ending problem when a whole lot of other people agree

generally agree but have seen plenty cases on social media where the barrier to that agreement was incredibly low. I've even watched myself at times backing the wrong side -out of solidarity[1]- simply because I followed that person already for years and agreed to most of their other opinions.

[1] and what monster would not "always believe the victim"? As a proud father of a gorgeous and smart daughter I have an almost automatic response to see women's rights as something I need to protect. I'd always be harsher on my won sex when it comes to blame or "whodunit" (I'm aware of it so I'm able to counter it but no doubt that this pattern is always present like some muscle memory)
Mobile apps get their data
> "I would have had eaten"

Where are you from? "I would have had eaten" makes no sense to me (British). I don't think it's a valid construction.
Stallman's skill was as a visionary. His role wasn't limited to that unfortunately. Multiple FSF employees say they unionized because of Stallman's management.[1][2] And people have pointed out several examples of him overriding GNU project maintainers.

Stallman said several times adults having sex with children was fine if the children consented.[3][4][5] He changed his mind in 2018 or 2019 apparently.[4][6]

[1] https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1374499598853545986

[2] https://twitter.com/NovalisDMT/status/1172573166956437505

[3] https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html#28%20June%20...

[4] https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20...

[5] https://stallman.org/archives/2013-jan-apr.html#04_January_2...

[6] https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
France > Spring > April > Fruits:
Apple
Banana
Avocado

Ok......
Aah, k, makes sense :)
I wish there is a protocol from GPL community that any GPL violation will always be given 7 - 30 days to sort things out.

People argued that the maintainer or developer are under no obligation to be held liable for the violation, and hence yanking it was their only option. Which is fair.

But if we have had a convention in place, where by allowing time to fix the issue. It wouldn't be in a mess, especially those in different time zone across the world.

Yes we could argued it was developer's problem doing without vendored gems or a rubygems mirror which doesn't obey yanks. But I think that is a different topic.
Perhaps time for CERN to get on the NFT hypetrain...
Ok, sorry, killed by google 8 years ago. Better?
Federal income taxes are highly economically inefficient. They create a huge deadweight loss of taxation (productive employees wasting their time helping corporations comply with tax law).

Land and gas are economically efficient to tax. They don't have a big deadweight loss of taxation and create positive incentives.

The Federal government creates tax laws that corporations need to follow. The government added the concept of net operating loss carryforwards to the tax law. Not looks like government officials are complaining about the rules they added to the tax code.

I used to work with the Section 482 tax laws for pricing among multinational enterprises. I found the laws to be complicated and ridiculously impractical, particularly the residual profit split method for valuing intellectual property. Many companies used these laws to shift IP offshore. Politicians are made about the tax structures that were created following their laws.

This isn't a democrats / republicans thing. Both political parties are adding tons of rules to an already bloated US tax code. And congress is constantly upset about the rules they have created.
Sounds awesome. Citizens don't owe anything to the government, we shouldn't be born with a liability towards the government, we should be born free and be in total control of our finances, and be free to choose the hosting city that offers us the most.
Like with Git, the usual set of common *nixy tools (coreutils as well as certain shell built-ins) contains tools in both the 'porcelain' (meant mostly for human consumption) and 'plumbing' (meant mostly for scripting and constructing pipelines) categories. Perhaps tutorials and reference documentation should place more emphasis on which is which, and why. Using the right tool for the job leads to better results and less frustration.
What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging?
Let's make a gentlemens' bet. If Deno is still completely free in 5 years, I'll give you $500. You up for that?
Ha, me too, but then I've also been caught out on 'latest' (which I typically reflexively click on after opening) having some crucial difference from what we're using (12 vs. 13) too, so hard to win there.

I don't know off-hand if it's possible with the search (e.g. it might use a last-selected version cookie) but we should probably be using version-specific 'bangs'. `!pg12` or whatever, in my case.
Really? That’s not true. Shut down the internet. Easy.
Show HN: Mosh Mallet: Single packet UDP port knocking for Mosh without SSH
My vote is "when it says so". I can't really prove it's not.
There's tons of propaganda trying to diminish the likelihood of a lab leak (purposeful or a mistake). Watch this though - https://youtu.be/q5SRrsr-Iug - and it's very clear that it likely originated from the Wuhan lab (they were studying those bats originating from 200 miles away + multiple markers in the genes showing human intervention/editing) - and that what's being promoted by these orgs into mainstream is gaslighting.
I've only dipped my toes in the water with Deno, but it solves a few pain points I've felt with Node. Direct deps via url vs npm as middleman, a standard library (thank goodness!), and single binary distribution. Types are great too, but these other things would be enough for me.
Here is an attempt to draw a cross-section of the situation: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2021/03/26/suez-canal-s...
Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began
I am glad that our company started using initials during our code reviews. We have an assignment for the applicants and our HR sends us (developers) the promising applicants but we only know their initials. So we are not biased against females or other nationalities.

Not because it will help us at reducing the bias, I am glad because no one will think of me as a sexist/racist when I give a negative feedback on an assignment review.
Most people will do things when in difficulties that they swear they would never do if asked while comfortable.
It's kind of the other way around here.

RMS: "Well I invented the free software movement, did a lot of badass things for open source etc."

Interviewer: "What about personal hobbies?"

RMS: "I write unpopular opinions on my personal blog and express them in ways that annoy people"

Is this enough of a reason to not hire someone?
Lying about a clearly provable fact is not generally how attorneys misrepresent reality. When you have an inconvenient fact and you are not obligated to disclose it, you can paint an alternative picture with the facts that you have disclosed. There are many specific rules that also limit what an attorney can say once you have actual knowledge that your client has committed a crime. You have more flexibility in civil matters but not to the point to which you can lie and escape liability for it.

There are many contexts in which you may be obligated to disclose exculpatory evidence in either civil or criminal cases. This really limits how much you can actually lie because of the discipline and transparency that are imposed by the open exchange of evidence.

So, right, you bring up the painting the rape victim as a slut defense. The way that you do that effectively is not by libeling the victim or inventing things out of whole cloth. You do it by creating the possibility for reasonable doubt in the jury by describing objective facts about the behavior of the alleged victim e.g. "On the night of the alleged incident, she posted "I'm gonna get laid tonight, hell yeah!" on Facebook. She texted the defendant "I'm really horny... u down?" not long afterwards.

Do either of those facts mean that the rape did not occur? No, it could have still occurred. The defendant could still be guilty. But your job is to establish reasonable doubt in the jury, and if there are good facts for your side, you go with that. If the prosecution brings up better evidence like security footage, the defense is screwed, but you could still use the 'good facts' on your side to try to bargain down the charges.

So, attorneys misrepresent the truth not by lying but by constructing narratives that favor their side using the best evidence that supports that narrative. Attorneys don't lie if they can avoid it, but they can deceive with the truth!

Confidentiality, yes, that's how the system works.

Here's a compilation of successful disbarments over client abuses compiled by a plaintiff firm that specializes in getting other attorneys disbarred: https://attorneygrievances.com/recent-court-cases/disbarment... Almost all of these issues are related to dishonoring the wishes of clients or just acting irresponsibly.

There are other compilations from any state bar. It's also frequently a topic of news articles in attorney periodicals about attorney sanctions and disbarment, especially because the stories are often funny and colorful such as attorneys being sanctioned for encouraging a witness to be rude or attorneys sanctioned for sassing judges.
You can. It's not even hard to work out: if we take "charging" to mean "buying energy for ₿", then "discharging" ought to mean "buying ₿ for energy".

If you think about it, both of those describe the same economic transaction — just from opposing vantage points (what is "charging" to one party in a transaction, is "discharging" to the other).

Relatedly, consider Switzerland's pumped hydro at Linthal. It'd be hard to dispute calling that plant a "battery" (works on gravity+water); but also consider the economic role it plays: it's an energy price arbitrage facility.

During the night, when grid prices get low, the plant "buys" the energy "for" water volume in the high lake. During the local day, the plant "sells" the water volume back, "for" literal electricity fed back into the grid at a higher price.

... Why have the water?
GPT-3 already says so. You can't "prove it" either way. Such is the nature of consciousness. Good luck using that metric.
Translations are usually done directly from the original language into the target language. The study of early Hebrew and Aramaic and Koine Greek remains an active field and there are lots of people who can read those languages fluently.
No one said a profession was guaranteed labor. Who made that a right?
> Due to the sheer number of hypotheses get tested all the time in particle physics, 3 sigma effects appear all the time, and then disappear before getting a larger certainty.

See, eg, the look-elsewhere effect [1] or the problem of multiple comparisons [2].

---

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
Sounds less awesome if you aren’t wealthy
Maybe because he distributed some of these as part of his Ponzi scheme? So he is being order to pay the remaining amount.
That’s a terrible default. That will make a country collapse. I guess you don’t have to look around too hard then to see that coming into fruition.
Statistically, ~0% of normal business interactions result in any Twitter outrage at all.

The premise that powerful men having interactions with women is risky isn't proven, there's all sorts of evidence to the contrary, where egregious behavior is ignored. Recent years there have been some consequences for things like physical sexual assault, not widespread consequences for misinterpreted advice.
Also somewhat related, "Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act" covered similar ground for automobiles. This help discourage auto manufacturers from keeping the digital aspects of repair (error codes, etc.) from being too secret.
Ask HN: Is buying crypto good today
Is this location specific, as rules can be modified based on countries govt
should have used monero
Stallman lost his job for years, and apologised - what are you talking about?

And this is over - and I can't BELIEVE this still has to be said even here - his words being twisted COMPLETELY out of context.

Smh at this community for tolerating comments like yours.
"You wouldn't know an IF from a THEN!"

"Oh look, another dev surprise."

"They improved the code... To run in O(2^n) time."

"I'm sure it worked in dev."

"I can't believe it passed QA!"
1) The car can have different behaviour if a passenger is onboard or not. Most passenger cars already disable the passenger side airbag if no one is sitting in the passenger seat.

2) If I’m not in my car and it’s driving around, and police pull it over, and it unlocks its doors and rolls down its windows, do the police need a warrant to look inside my car?
Interesting. You could attempt to self-serve with a workaround and share the result, but instead you chose to complain out loud.

Anyways here is a mirror if you can't read due to the paywall: https://archive.is/RL4my
I can also provide some input on how to insult different kinds of astronomers depending on the field they work in.

Cosmology: Use the word "cosmology" interchangeably with "astronomy."

Simulations: "Did you include dust?" If they say yes then ask about magnetic fields. Either way, claim that they tuned their physical hyperparameters to achieve their results.

Observations: "Did you follow up with <X telescope at different wavelength>?" Pick one that's especially competitive to request observations, such as Hubble or SOFIA or ALMA, so that if the answer is no they'll feel extra bad about their rejected Hubble/SOFIA/ALMA observing proposal.
My university (back in the early 2000s) used your initials and last 4 of SSN as your student ID number. I think they finally stopped a year or two after I graduated.
EY drops appeal against $11m Dubai whistleblower case
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Also I guess if human like awareness arises in AI it's probably going to be as a result of someone deliberately building it in which case they'll quite aware of what it's doing and trying to fix the bugs.
Accomplishes the same, but it's a different mechanism.

RTBF does not use robots.txt (and then require that it be respected) on the site hosting the thing to be forgotten, it's an exclusion on the search engine side.
I seem to recall that as originally conceived in the Toyota Production System, suppliers of Just In Time inventory were supposed to be sited in the same location as you. I wasn't able to find a reference for this though ...
Cana-duh
Who needs GPT-3?

printf("I'm conscious!\n");

There, it says so.
> However, X.25 had significant limitations, and was married to the telephone network in uncomfortable ways (both in that it relied on leased lines and in that X.25 was in many ways designed as a direct analog to the telephone network).

This is a bit harsh.

I downloaded Minix updates, and indeed my first Linux kernel disk images, over an X.25 network.

X.25 was one of the first packet-switching protocols - predating IPv4 by a few years - and therefore is very much NOT an analog to telephone (circuit-switched, predominantly, historically and at the time) networks. (Okay, there were VC's, let's not muddy the waters.)

I recall in the early/mid 1990's a colleague hunting down a weird X.25 network utilisation pattern, where a customer was establishing and tearing down connections at a rapid rate of knots. Details are fuzzy, it was a long time ago, but IIRC the customer had worked out how to embed payload in the connection establishment header, but at the far end was refusing that connection (while ingesting the payload). Billing was done based on connection establishment and subsequent transfer. Great (loophole) success, etc.

TFA touches on SNA (IBM's System Network Architecture) but doesn't seem to attribute as much blame to it as I believe we should. SNA was, coincidentally, a 7-layer model. The obvious distinction, to modern minds anyway, is the hierarchical vs peer relationship between entities on a network. (An interesting question to ask graduates is to define a network -- this historical view disparity is objectively fascinating in the contemporary context where peer addressability is an assumed function of same.)
How do we know anything is conscious but ourselves?
Really depends what you use it for (dual pane SSH file manager/FTP file manager/file manager). You can do this with Nautilus or Fman plus GNOME if you want to, since gvfs abstracts protocols such as FTP, SSH, SMB, ...

On Windows you go such as well, including Fuse/Dokan, and on macOS you got MacFuse. Hence on macOS I use (by default CLI but if that does not cut it) Finder/Fman, and if that doesn't work, Cyberduck. Fman and Cyberduck also work on Windows, on Linux Cyberduck does not work but Fman does. CrossFTP might also work for you, as might Wine.

I'm not sure about all features, such as FXP (which is insecure anyway, and only used in scene).
It's astounding people aren't grasping this point, even now.
According to the FAO, no:
http://www.fao.org/faostat/

I'm sure grape production would work in southern Sweden, but I assume it'd be restricted to the summer months. :D
This is false, RMS changed is opinion on that sensitive topic and on the other issues so far I only read things like "X said that 20 years ago RMS did Y and X felt uncomfortable" , what should he do?

The other difference between Linus and RMS is that RMS is the GPL guy and many people on HN hate GPL with a passion and will spread FUD about the license any chance they get, I think this RMS controversy is fueled by the GPL/free software hate.
Amazon delivery drivers have to consent to AI surveillance or lose their jobs
Thanks for the link to a great resource. I don't mean to detract in any way from any of the other terrific resources available online - free or otherwise. I created selfstudyclassics.com to scratch a very particular itch. When I started to re-learn Latin after many years, I was looking for something which was focused on examples and featured a lot of practice with instant feedback - something like Khan Academy, which I love. My hope is that it is helpful to others with a similar itch.
Truth is truth, there's nobody that "decides" what truth is, truth can be verified not decided.
>The problem is that people still need something to do that gives some meaning to their existence and provides accomplishment, intrinsically and within their peer group.

I seriously doubt that's something anybody has trouble figuring out. The issue most people tend to face is finding something to do that will provide income. Especially, since all of the things we would want to do requires money. Even if it's just watching sports and talking to friends drinking beer.
It moves infrastructure to someone else _whose core job it is to manage this infrastructure_. I definitely trust GH more than myself in managing a git infrastructure securely
Why do you think that?

The only known case of human-like awareness ever arising occurred naturally as (presumably) an emergent phenomenon of an intelligent system.
Yes, they were known and used especially in Java-Sprache before and had a good quality product.

Having a company like Google pushing it into the AppDev community and offering it for free certainly have attention and certainly a nice financial contribution from Google.
Thanks!

It's great that you don't need to sign in or do captchas.
What you are describing is actually a popularity contest, not leadership.

I can see why you would be mistaken for confusing the two these days - it seems to be an insanely common misconception - but they are NOT the same thing and never will be.
According to this video it seems to be freed: https://twitter.com/DarrenEuronews/status/137647222452644659...
The manufacturer states it can "grab and move boxes up to 23 kilograms (50 lbs) in weight"
For those you simply increase the ambient pressure in the room.
This looks like evolution of Boston Dynamic's 'Handle'. This URL which ends with 'handle' now redirects to an URL which ends with 'stretch': https://www.bostondynamics.com/handle

In 2019 BD released their updated Handle robots which used swinging counterbalance tail to lift warehouse boxes. Looked very dangerous to be around them; this 'Stretch' version seems to have been tamed much.

APR2019 Handle: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robo...
All I read is that:

* the EU will give even more money to big EU corporation to produce very little

* we will have 5G by force if need be (I don't believe it's inherently harmful but I just love things done by force when my net is, honestly... fast enough)

* all my data will be pushed by force into EU "clouds", from identity to health data to whatever else so we can encourage some local data mining operations too

* more regulations will be introduced which will mean only big business will dream of afford filling all the forms so my small business will be, as usual, ignored.

In the mean time, I dread having a customer in another EU country due to the damn VAT which requires a separate fiscal/declaratory dance.
Netmask NPM package, used by 270k+ projects, vulnerable to octal input data
CrowdNotifier explained: tracing Covid-19 contacts with privacy in mind
> After 30 days of inactivity, issues are closed with a timeout label. If there hasn’t been any activity for that long, it is unlikely that leaving the ticket open is going to change anything. Maybe it was a feature request that no one is interested in implementing. Maybe the reporter was asked for details but is never going to provide them. Maybe nobody knows how to answer the question or what it even means.

I don't agree with this part. An issue should stay open _until it is resolved_. A timeout is not a resolution. It is extremely disappointing from the issue author's perspective to see their issue closed without any feedback from the developer. The developer should either provide a solution, or manually close the issue with a specified reason, e.g. "wontfix", so at least the issue author knows what to expect.
Very true, but this whole incident was caused by greed. This ship should NEVER have been let into the canal in the first place. I expect it and ones of its size won't be again. The size makes the wind much more of a problem and the size makes the rescue efforts problematic as well.
Holy shit, did I just witness the birth of Skynet on HN?
generally agree but have seen plenty cases on social media where the barrier to that agreement was incredibly low.

This doesn't contradict anything I've said. If anything, it reinforces it.
And of course it was much more complicated with many more "firsts"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_jet_engine
When it comes to America, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Americans are so worried about losing their freedom that they'll sacrifice their freedom in order to keep it, all the while never realizing that they've been free all along.
There are pictures of Stephen Hawking on Epstein's submarine with two girls. He almost certainly knew what was going on.
Economist subscription is very easy to unsubscribe .You signup for a year and you don't have to extend beyond one year. Economist does not automatically charge you for the next year. I did not renew my subscription due to my financial constraints and I did not have to speak to anyone to not renew.
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