skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of food, what happens when the manufacturer uses a new additive in their food that happens to decrease your lifespan by 1 day every time you eat one serving. It just happens that this additive is cheaper than the previous ingredient that was used for the same purpose (as happens so often color / texture / ...) The manufacturer receives a benefit (decreased cost) while pushing the cost (decreased lifespan) on you, the consumer.

Now recognize that this happens across all industries in the world every single day. New things are discovered that displace old things. We don't know all of the consequences for the new shiny product when we start producing and selling it to mass markets. Sometimes the new things have major disadvantages that we just don't know at the time we start using them. Look at historical problems with CFCs (which lead to ozone holes in the atmosphere) PCBs (which cause birth defects and can cause cancer), or how neonicotinoids impact insects (which can lead to the deaths of beehives). If the vendor pushing these products had to bear the full cost of the consequences of their use, they might never have been widely accepted. Capitalism is and always will be imperfect in this regard.
Most likely, yes. But consider none of this would be happening without Russian backing.
100k hits over a week isn't much all things considered.

A static blog post that requires ~0,5 MB of transfer can be easily served from low powered server in an hour. That's only slightly above 100 Mbps and 27 rps. Servers are fast, much much faster than that.

Of course, poorly written code might make any solution too slow.
What are you talking about, the military industrial complex made an insane amounts of money from that war.
Germany, or Italy also ignored UE Court of justice rulings. Nothing new.
They’re not difficult, but they are far less convenient.

If you want large groups/numbers of people to do something, you have to make it as easy and frictionless as possible for them.
There is no irony. Poland being a difficult EU member has nothing to do with their plane being diverted.
"I feel that users will only install the necessary app from the alt store and not anything else."

Have you ever had to wipe a relative's computer to get rid of the malware-infested browser toolbars they installed, not knowing any better? Or worse, pay a ransom in bitcoins to unlock the billing systems that help control a gasoline distribution pipeline? You may be somewhat overestimating the sophistication of users when it comes to technology.
Using photos of someone who shares one's name seems like it could turn out bad for that person.

In some contexts of how info&photos are used, seems like it could constitute impersonating that person, and knowingly fabricating/asserting false information about them.
Indeed, this plane was indeed intercepted and directed to land via radio. I think you're missing my point. Clearly it was forced down, technicalities notwithstanding.
> a lot more aggressive

Yep, unsophisticated peasants tend to use more force than experienced urbanites. Dreadful, don't you know.
Apple’s excuse for no AirTag in Siri Remote: it’s too thick to easily lose
Also, Rossmann clearly views himself as a Right to Repair leader. Fair enough. But if you are going to be a leader of a broad movement, you have to be willing to speak about issues that plague broader computing, not laser-focus on one company when others are doing similar or even worse faux pas.
That is simply not true. You are partially correct on Marx’s use of the term, but by Marx’s standards, nothing about the USSR could conceivably be considered communism. Marx was starkly against pursuing revolution without first achieving capitalism. He was against Russian revolution because Russia was not a capitalist society.

That said, Marx was also less consistent on the definitions than some suggest.

Regardless, “communism” was the term decided on shortly after the civil war ended. It was confusing and a poor choice but there was certainly no confusion as to how well it correlated with the idea that communism was a final stage. Nobody believed the USSR had reached a final stage of anything.
Strong disagree. We should regulate based on what's best for consumers and the free market.

Consider that different classes of vehicles are regulated differently, even though they all rely on the same underlying technology.

The law should serve the people, not some rigid doctrine.
> even though Gorbachev was promised NATO would not expand eastward

This is modern-day Russian propaganda that sprung up in 2007. Gorbachev denies that it ever happened.
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Oh my. :) There's always some quirky little thing to learn about PostgreSQL, lol.
I wonder if this might be considered an act of war [0].

[0] - https://www.britannica.com/topic/law-of-war/Legally-defining...
I love making tiny projects for fun and not for profit, using tools I enjoy working with and not tools I would need to scale to a trillion users, trying ideas I like and not ideas I can monetize. I almost forgot why I enjoyed coding.
It is clear a fighter could not do anything about any bomb on an aircraft.
Create a temp directory for your app in Node.js
Yes, that's the right approach, if you can't develop your argument, just jump to another thread and assassinate my character with generalizations.
The problem with GMO is that you end up with varieties that don’t naturally come into balance with people and the environment, especially since the reality is that GMO implies large scale industrial farming with crop monocultures. People don’t want to experiment with their lives and discover decades later that some obscure ingredient in a pesticide has some long term effect. Nor do they want to have issues like water tables dropping and aquifers getting depleted because the high yield crops are not sustainable with a region’s water cycle. Cooks are worried about losing the diversity of crops that support their culinary diversity. Farmers are worried about getting bullied and economically enslaved by seed manufacturers. These are all risks - and your evaluation or perception or appetite for risks may be different - but I don’t think it’s illogical for people to be wary of GMO or want to take it slow, especially when operating in a world where humans regularly get things wrong and where human processes (like government approvals) can be corrupted.
There are claims that KGB operatives onboard forced the plane to divert - that's a completely different situation from ATC calling the flight to land:

https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1396446650718117890
That argument might hold water if Apple allowed for other methods of software installation. Since they don't, that argument is pretty hollow.
It would be the expert witnesses who would have to do the math--and they would reduce it down to a simple percentage chance.

But now that I think about it, I bet defense counsel already does this. They did during the OJ trial.
You move to tactics that can cripple a country even if the country doesn't need international trade.

The focus shifts to cyber warfare where you take out infrastructure.
Please don't make unsubstantial comments on HN. You're not being as clever as you think you are.

Edit: The context of my pro-free-market comment is app stores. Of course it's not absolute. You very well know this. Please don't argue in bad faith.
How is that the same logic? Amazon does not charge end users for allowing services they use to run on AWS.
Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion
I am pleasantly suprised this does not have its own internet connected microcontroller. So at least one element that is still not hackable.
lex fridman is highly naive and has chosen to wisely pursue the money but immitating and co-opting joe rogan's youtube audience which was left high and dry.

rossman is not as naive, but he is unable to see the forest for the trees when it comes to 'right to repair'. the bigger issue is u.s. economic system in general but you gotta give him credit for being focussed.

meanwhile, it's time lex fridman has luis rossman on his show.
>>> Coming from the words doro, meaning “mud” and dango, a type of Japanese flour cake

think they’re missing out in the context that dango are specifically a desert that’s shaped as tiny little balls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dango
> If you need that you definitely have buggy abstractions, but then we always do.

Not quite, or at least not always. D embraces something called design by introspection - that basically means adapting behaviour at compile time based on what a parameter can do rather than what a parameter should do (in the case of a template). This allows you to write extremely expressive (and fast) code, however you do at this point need to test at a more granular level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzwvY8Mo-w
The problem is users would always choose short-term gain of saving a buck, over security, over user experience, over the health of the ecosystem. The average user doesn't understand all the complex implications of their choices. But they understand paying $3 instead of $4.

And that's ok, the average user doesn't have to think about all these things. But this is why Apple has to.

What's really disappointing is this sub should be populated by relatively intelligent individuals, yet this intelligence, which I'm sure is there, didn't help in figuring out how Epic getting what it wants would significantly harm the iPhone experience.
Github features a search engine.
Yes, but in monopoly law, the rules haven't changed from the perspective that Apple hasn't raised prices. Apple can lower them all they want, but if they raise them when they got their monopoly status so as to take advantage of their market, that would be illegal.

However, that relies on the idea that Apple is even a monopoly to begin with, and that really depends on what you define "the market" as. Is the product an iPhone and the whole cohesive experience with it (IAP and App Store included) in which case it's a duopoly at best, or are these separate markets that it is possible to have a monopoly in?
What about other analysis?

This also seems definitive:
https://cjlockett.com/2021/01/10/the-rhetorical-laziness-of-...
I think it depends on what he is specifically criticizing.

I have not designed a motherboard, but plenty of smaller digital IC-based schematics and PCBs and in my experience the most problematic part has been either erroneous or lack of proper documentation or bugs in ICs which there are plenty of.

What I recommend you to do is to compare the schematics of, for example, Thinkpad T420 and Keithley 2001 both of which should be available with a search. What you will find is that the former is a collection of specialized chips (including one for battery charging) with mostly datasheet reference design based implementations + bunch of mosfets for enabling/disabling/routing signals, whereas the latter has almost none of that and plenty of analog "cleverness" and "raw" digital design, let alone the power input, which in my opinion was totally overdesigned. Or take any oscilloscope, where you need to design not only a computer but also an analog front-end + high frequency signal processing, not only routing. And I'm not even going into the actual RF board designs which you are probably well aware of is more physics than electronics.

Again I am not saying that it is easy for any guy on the street, but "relatively easy" to understand what is going on on the motherboard as opposed to the actual complex stuff. So if you see a common fault among many motherboards you can probably conclude that that specific area of the design was bad and criticize that. Whether the criticism is valid might be another question, but I would not automatically dismiss it.

Edit: I will put designing a motherboard on my todo list.
Do you really think that companies lobbying for side-loading of their apps, and getting legislation through to force it on Apple, would be satisfied with heavily locked down access to subsets of functionality? To more restricted access than App Store apps? Somehow I don't see that being acceptable to the side-loading lobby.

An App Store App can be granted low level network access etc because it can be vetted and censured if found in violation of policies. Side loaded app developers will demand the same access.
Not necessarily. All of the DifferentialEquations.jl defaults use pure Julia BLASes which outperform the Fortran BLASes. Mainly, RecursiveFactorization.jl and Octavian.jl, which tend to match or outperform MKL and OpenBLAS on our benchmarking computers, form our workhorse.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavia...

https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl

https://github.com/YingboMa/RecursiveFactorization.jl
I mean, Snowden actually ran off with state secrets and wasn't being targeted by a authoritarian like Putin or Lukashenko. He was being pursued for breakingbreaking laws NOT meant to protect the authoritarian, but to protect the rule of law as passed by its representative government.

If you want to argue that there is no difference between an authoritarian state like Belarusa and Russia and the United States in the way they pursue and prosecute those that threaten the state, then go for it, but I'm not buying it.
It's a signal when humans will do something against the law - and generally it seems to be a fair response to excessive control or at minimum a counterweight to the actions of a selfish for-profit or industry. Piracy comes to mind as well: if content becomes too expensive, requiring monthly subscriptions to too many places or then unreasonable cost to buy a specific film or series - then more people will pirate, and more reasonable people willing to pay will start to pirate - the more friction and unfairness in the balance of everything, the more piracy. The ability to pirate or repair by third-party both I believe are necessary to keep organizations in check.

Edit to add: makes me think of Bitcoin too, people certainly have reason to be unhappy with local-global financial systems which have heavy-matured regulatory capture and overall corruption whether it's printing excessive money or being deceptive to foreign players so it's an uneven playing field.
Ultimately it's the people's responsibility to form a functional government that doesn't abuse it's neighbors or fellow citizens. Punishing the entire country is punishing the responsible party. If they have little power at this point to fix it at this point it's their fault for arriving at this point and they may need to pay the long term cost in blood for letting it get that bad.
Tying is actually not illegal and is common business practice if you don't have a monopoly. Apple started doing this all the way back in 2009, before they had a monopoly even from Epic's perspective. Therefore, the argument is that they aren't tying monopolistically because they were tying before they were even close to monopoly status. In which case, they haven't changed the rules, and also in which case the current antitrust law doesn't really address.

If you are following Apple vs Epic, even Epic admits this and says they can't pinpoint when Apple became a supposed monopoly, and argues that the tying is illegal because Apple is so large, not that it was illegal to begin with (because Epic admits that it would not have been illegal when Apple started). This is also why many legal experts say Epic has an uphill battle, because antitrust really only addresses abuses in monopoly power, not so much on what got you to that monopoly power.
I worry that believing the jobs are not coming back is a self-fulfilling prophecy – one with dangerous consequences of locking its believers into perpetual dependence on supply from places that act essentially as sin externalization depots.

If $2/hr vs $10/hr is indeed the thing preventing repair being economical , that seems like it can be fixed with a mixture of incentives, apprenticeship contracts, and elevating the social status of "vocational education" (the name exists IMO only to serve as status-lowering). Or if not one of those, then some other untried thing.

Edit: as sibling comments mention, if in fact the main limitation is not labor prices but exclusive-supply agreements for certain consumable parts, then this seems easily within the scope of Antitrust to address.
Tübingen here... and working in Böblingen (or nowadays "for a company located in Böblingen").
Agree, that's not much. Since I submitted this I saw up to 2K concurrent users at some point when I was 1st. Would be nice to have this sort of traffic for a week! :p
Thank you! And good luck, congrats on launching
I don't think you're part of the cool crowd until you've ignored some legal thing the EU requires.
There’s always a price.
Pardon me, but that just sounds paranoid. What are your chances after all...
This is a deeply philosophical issue. Ideas can be encoded in text there are laws that protect ideas, but then there is rights such as free speech which are meant to protect what we say and how we express ourselves. From a socialism perspective ideas should belong to everyone, capitalism would say an individual has the right to own an idea from the set of all ideas if they discovered it, or own some text (code) from the set of all possible text.
Hackernews needs a „flag Russian troll“ button.
Are you saying that the hub drew more power when more devices were plugged in (expected)? Or that the hub broke the USB-C port on your laptop, such that when you unplugged it, any device you plugged in directly thereafter also reported drawing too much power?

Hubs drawing too much power was an issue with USB-A hubs as well -- to mitigate this you want a hub that is independently powered (that is, has its own DC barrel plug and wall wart).

You can also find hubs that charge laptops (Thunderbolt 3/4, or USB-C PD, assuming you have a compatible laptop) although you want to be very careful about the choice of charger and cable since a short can brick just about anything that's not properly protected on the USB-C port (basically most non-Macs).
Of which only the mental challenge is a given. Higher language compilers are steadily (still, after all those years) improving with no end in sight. Are your assembly programming skills? Are you rewriting old code with recently learned tricks? And once a superoptimizer is used, it's game over for hand assembly.
Sorry, I'll keep this in mind next time. forgotmypw17 posted the correct text
Potentially war that drags in the Russia, the EU, NATO and ultimately the US.
If this is true, I'm just going to delete Triplebyte and all things associated with it. If the practice becomes, "wait until theyve forgotten about it then try again." I dont trust them, and wont again.
It is insane that they are going to do this again after all the outrage from the last time this leaked. What a shame that they are going down the dark patterns rabbithole. the service they offer on first brush looks useful from a developer's standpoint but these kinds of posts i've seen sour me on trying their service. a shame really.
Netflix pays AWS (and their other services) based on their use. AWS "takes a cut" in that Netflix pays for their service.
> Again mutagenesis I would consider "manipulating DNA directly using technology" its just using a less targeted and more random approach.

Right, I would put mutagenesis in my second category of "modern GMO". (Edit: I interpreted your use of mutagenesis as the controlled use, as in the original topic of this post. Maybe that's not what you meant?)

> Which process is more likely to produce harmful side effects? Is there data to warrant engineered organisms are more likely or is it just unwarranted fear?

That's essentially what my question was, for traditional artificial selection (selective breeding) versus genetic engineering. I wasn't making a point one way or another; it was a genuine question.

The point about random mutations occurring naturally is fair. Perhaps part of what scares people is simply the speed of the process, combined with not really knowing or understanding what technology is being used in the labs.
In that sentence, "on the plane" refers to the bomb, not to the "someone"
Controlled by a Cabal of Its Enemies
you don't need to exercise reserved skepticism here. there was no bomb and we know what happened when the plane landed. you're playing devil's advocate when they've already won
What is illicit person? So according to (d) Belarus could intercept that aircraft just to extract that journalist as an illicit person?
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Which is exactly what everyone wants to avoid.

Imagine if there were 10 inspection groups, but sometimes they get bought by corrupt investors who let standards slide while pocketing the extra profit, and consumers constantly have to stay on top of which food inspection groups are the current OK ones and which aren't, and restaurants can't afford to get inspected by all 10 so they only do 2 but then people who only trust another 2 won't go there at all even though the food's fine, meanwhile the most trustworthy group jacks up prices for restaurants like crazy because restaurants know they have no choice...

It would be a nightmare. There's a reason that literally no country does this, that food safety is virtually universally considered to be a basic function of modern government.
Being able to get a refund is quantifiably better. What do you mean?

Are you suggesting other vendors would be unable to compete with that for some reason?

As an aside: I don't think the same pricing among different vendors is necessarily a requirement. If one entity offers more security or other benefits, then their pricing should reflect that.
I’ve heard it put this way: if you give the user root on the device, you are giving the malware the user is tricked into installing root.

iOS is an OS for people who are non-technical or for applications where people don’t want to worry about that stuff. If you want full control run Linux. MacOS and Windows also offer a balance that is skewed a lot more toward user control because they’re for “pro” use cases.
Microsoft store on PC is a 12% cut. Documents revealed during this case show that the same is (or was) planned for Xbox store: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

For Steam there are many viable alternatives, which allows for user/developer choice and fair competition in the long run. Epic Store is about half as popular now (31.3m vs 62.6m daily active users), but it's growing fast. I don't think what Steam is offering is worth the 30% cut, and I imagine we'll either see them reduce that cut or get overtaken by Epic in another few years.

I don't like what the other stores are doing, but to me it's a smaller concern on game consoles/stores than on every application for general purpose computers and smartphones. I'd fight the fight on the latter first.

I also disagree with the implication that something is "certainly not exploitative" because of it being an industry standard - in fact I'd say that can be a contributing factor to it being exploitative in many cases (price fixing/oligopolies). To me it's exploitative if the only reason they're getting away with charging so much is because they're hindering competition in that particular area (e.g: can't change app store without buying a whole new phone).
Bear in mind this is a very old power supply.

A modern supply would use the same principles, but would probably have mostly surface mount components, a single controller IC, and probably separate switching supplies for each different supplied voltage.
Other entries in the recent wave of "compiled high-level" languages also neglect support for operating systems outside the mainstream Linux, macOS, and Windows or ARMv8 and x86_64; D supports a variety of operating systems and targets thanks to its alternative compilers:

=> https://wiki.dlang.org/Compilers

C and Go also fare well in this regard; D sort of fills a niche between them.
Microsoft drops Windows 10x before it ever launched