skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several organizations beside the UN that can make a list of numbers or abbreviations, so no, that doesn't make the UN unique or valuable at all.

> There have been very few wars since the UN was formed.

Because the US is the only global superpower, since 1945.

Our taxes have paid for relative global peace, which is not the normal state of mankind. (The normal state is a situation like Saddam annexing Kuwait, and then on to KSA.)

However, the US was prepared to use nuclear weapons against China during the Korean War, the USSR planned to use them in 1969 against China, and Castro (and China) wanted to use them against the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which went on for years after the press stopped covering it.

Prior to that, the pre-UN League of Nations was a joke, with Japan simply walking out, and then attacking everybody in the Pacific.

The parent comment illustrates the childish understanding of the world prevalent on HN. And BTW, the US has been the major funding source for the UN since its inception, despite how corrupt it has become (ie. a CCP mouthpiece.)
I'm not expecting the average person to adopt a crypto payments system any time soon. Currency is only one aspect. B2B will come first.

There are already a large number of crypto projects partnering with existing businesses to address real problems. I don't see a minority ideology standing in the way of this.
Dark energy survey releases most precise look at the universe's evolution
Official start of internet is 1983.
What's completely unreasonable though is that we have to pay Spotify execs with this money for something that should be a public service based on free software and p2p infrastructure.

A little less than two decades ago before HADOPI was adopted in France, a considerable share of the population/parties were defending a "global license" that would have legalized filesharing and instituted a tax on Internet access to finance arts. Basically, spotify-netflix-as-a-public-service. I'm not saying it's the best model ever, hell i'm for abolishing money entirely. I'm just pointing out alternatives were imagined and are entirely possible.

Compared to a private corporation profiting from the situation and dictating what music will/won't be available tomorrow (i used spotify before i lost some songs i loved due to their contracts expiring or whatever), such a system would be much better.
Without Taylor Swift (or any other big name major label artist), Spotify might not be a viable business though.

Taylor Swift may argue that she's entitled to a better deal since she drives traffic, similar to how Apple Stores can negotiate better rents in shopping malls.
The US is an out of control rogue state and nobody's doing a thing about it.
THe filibuster in the senate can be changed or removed with a simple majority, i.e. 9 less than the number of votes needed to break a filibuster.
It's a sobering reminder, what, every year? Since the 90's at least. Yet very few people are doing anything about it.
How about the 20 million they spend on awards and grants? It doubled between 2019 and 2020, isn't it weird that they spend 10x as much in awards and grants than they spend on hosting everything?
It's also a terrible system that basically makes it impossible for a country-wide third party to ever gain significant representation.

See, e.g., Scottish National Party having 35 seats with 3% of the vote vs. Lib Dems having 12 seats with 7%.
Not trying to offend any party here but the violence in Mexico seems more organised, targeted but brutal and extreme. The violence in ZA seems more random, more opportunity crime and more about property than people.

At least this is how media show it. I may be wrong here.
Competing smartphone app stores (Twitter)
> Like at least put in an applications

Job interviews take way too much time. People have better things to do, such as working for free translating old games.
Nextcloud is great, but not for photo galleries. The thumbnail generation is very unoptimised and it cannot handle folders with more than a small number of photos.
Oh, Planetes got a movie?
> I've never seen a differently sized microwave no matter the price category

A quick look at the Amazon search filters for 'microwave' will tell this story - there are some that would fit the whole pizza and others that wouldn't even take your dinner plate.
I haven't found a way, although I never had the need. I remember you could compile your software targeting a specific LSB release, and there were some tools to do that, but I don't know if it would be the same.
2.2 via Google[0]

> and there's no % in engineering calc

Use 0.1 instead of 10%, it has the same vibe ;)

[0] https://www.google.com/search?gbv=1&q=2%2B2%C3%9710%25&oq=&a...
Three-child policy: China lifts cap on births in major policy shift
It's about aligned incentives. I worked for a not-for-profit which needed 10 people, but had funds and grew to 100. From there on, it did less with more. The CEO had his headcount and first-class airfares. Beneficiaries turned into cash cows. Etc.

I trust the founders. I don't trust new leadership. That's not specific to Wikimedia.
"Under" as in the day-care being on the second floor, the truck being parked in front of the building.
How do you forge the mental toughness to become insanely excellent at tennis while also claiming that pressers in the contract hurt your feelings so badly as to risk mental illness if you happened to have lost that day?

Are the players entering the sport getting more and more easily-offended and milquetoasty?

Even if the other side is Evil Corp., if a contract you signed says you have to do something and you don't do it, that's shirking professional responsibility and non-performance. Contracts are contracts. Don't like it, don't sign it, negotiate it, and then sign it.. or your word and signature are meaningless.
Please pardon the author, you might never know what severe depression does to a brain. Having been on both sides of the spectrum (mental and physical disability, albeit small), I can say it may not be abusive usage of the word.

In any case good luck, may research progress (and there was some recently) and find solutions.
> What percent of the population do you think has as the first priority when visiting a website the detail that they are tracked or not?

Why does it have to be first priority in order to matter a lot?

> What percent do you think even cares?

I don't know, exactly. I seem to recall that several tens of percents of people are worried about technological tracking, so I'd hazard a guess of a few tens of percents.

> I still have to discover the horrifying malice tracking does to visitors.

So you're one of those people who'd happily stream your bathroom to the public?

> This is how it is when a bureaucrat decides to protect you from yourself: reminds me of the War on Drugs.

What a terrible analogy. It's not protecting you from yourself. You're welcome to accept all the tracking if you so wish. It's protecting you from the trackers!
It seems this will change very little especially in expensive urban areas:

"People are held back not by the two-children limit, but by the incredibly high costs of raising children in today's China. Housing, extracurricular activities, food, trips, and everything else add up quickly," Yifei Li, a sociologist at NYU Shanghai, told Reuters.

"Raising the limit itself is unlikely to tilt anyone's calculus in a meaningful way, in my view."
I don't think anything is needed. People just like to fuss over language too much, when its clear (from the context) what was meant.
This is the kind of thing which makes me roll my eyes when people try to argue that the "New Microsoft(tm)" is actually benevolent and developer friendly, and I should be happy about things like them acquiring Github.
That is common practice, not just in modern art. Unknown soccer (and probably other sports too) players transfers are also used to launder money, or simply to move big amounts of money in ways that could raise questions if done through normal operations. Who defines a player's value? All it needs is building a fake career, have him score some nice goals, arrange some set up friendly matches and shoot videos that will make him look like a champ. Then nobody would complain when his transfer will be reported as amount X while in practice X/10 is the real transfer cost and the rest is money being moved under the table from A to B. That practice is harder to do in top leagues, but easier to conceal in minor ones, and still profitable.
Simple doesn't have to mean poor quality.

I have a Moulinex 800 W microwave with a turntable. It has a non-linear timer dial so that short times are easy to set. Five minutes on that dial is 180 degrees but from then on an extra five minutes is only 20 degrees up to a total of 30 minutes. The power knob is continuous and spans 270 degrees (but the actual power regulation is a simple on off duty cycle control).

I inherited it from my mother thirty years ago and apart from the internal lamp failing it works perfectly.

Moulinex still make microwave ovens with similarly easy controls.
Where does that stop? Should we "walk on eggshells" for everything we say, lest a well known metaphor is not understood immediately by someone, or someone (perhaps even in another country, speaking another language, with different social moral norms) gets offended?
I'm a long time Google Photos user myself, and have always been disappointed by the lackluster sharing and organizational capabilities in GP -- Google threw AI at the problem and considered it solved.

We're working on a new app that solves those problems by adapting to how actual humans organize and share their memories. We're also making it offline-first (https://twitter.com/cachapa/status/1395321808400883712) and obviously, end-to-end encrypted.

There's more at https://storyark.de, and while you're at it sign up for our upcoming beta test too :-)
The expenses for operating Wikipedia.com would be around $10m. Their $112M expenses include the sky high executive compensation, money sent to the fund, millions spent on fundraising itself, and financing a host of programs not directly related to Wikipedia.

I stopped donating because of this - definitely want to contribute to keeping Wikipedia online, I don’t necessarily want to give my money to a larger foundation running all kinds of other projects and wielding that cash as a political tool.
But WNF does not emoloy any moderators so I am sure Wikipedia would do fine.
There are cases of Bitcoin mines stealing electricity and fossil fuel powerplants being retrofitted for Bitcoin mining there is no way miners care about the source of their energy.
I was explaining this to a co-founder and they insisted on having a banner anyway because they didn't understand the law, didn't understand the difference in cookie types, and were worried about fines.

I've come to the conclusion that this should be baked into the browser rather than letting every site owner do their own thing.
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https://www.onevanilla.run/
The problem is if the US authorities ever find out, you may be fully banned from the country. Is that a risk worth running?
Reminds me of a short story I read recently: https://sprague-grundy.github.io/dying_to_know/
> Sure, as long as your favourite artist doesn't receive money from anyone who doesn't listen to him.

Yes.

> All the money from a small percentage of people or a small percentage of money from everyone is the same.

Only if you assume that people with lots of hours listen to the same mix of artists as people with few to medium hours. If accounts that are left on all day have a bias, then they will steer everyone's money in the direction of that bias.
No, what they threaten to invoke is Article IV §A.3 which states that if you commit many offences it counts as "Aggravated Behaviour", with Aggravated Behaviour carrying potential penalties up to never playing in a grand slam again.

> A. AGGRAVATED BEHAVIOUR
> 3. A series of two (2) or more violations of this Code within a twelve (12) month period which singularly do not constitute “Aggravated Behaviour”, but when viewed together establish a pattern of conduct that is collectively egregious and is detrimental or injurious to the Grand Slam Tournaments.

> Violation of this Section by a player, directly or indirectly through a Related Person or others, shall subject a player to a fine of up to $250,000 or the amount of prize money won at the tournament, whichever is greater, and a maximum penalty of permanent suspension from play in all Grand Slam Tournaments.
> It is the (supposed) repeated violations which carry the possibility of a forced default.

"Possibility of a forced default" isn't really indicated by the rulebook for repeated violations of the MEDIA CONFERENCE rule. That's specified on the Point Penalty Schedule, which MEDIA CONFERENCE offences don't use.

It could be AGGRAVATED BEHAVIOUR under the third defining clause ("A series of two (2) or more violations of this Code within a twelve (12) month period which singularly do not constitute 'Aggravated Behaviour', but when viewed together establish a pattern of conduct that is collectively egregious and is detrimental or injurious to the Grand Slam Tournaments.")

But the penalties for Aggravated Behaviour are much more severe than that: "Violation of this Section [...] shall subject a player to a fine of up to $250,000 or the amount of prize money won at the tournament, whichever is greater, and a maximum penalty of permanent suspension from play in all Grand Slam Tournaments."

It would be interesting if she chose to appear in just one tournament a year specifically to invalidate the potential charge of Aggravated Behaviour.
In big tech’s dystopia, political propaganda trying to pass for journalism earns millions while real research and reporting is barely funded.
I guess they depends on whether you, as a fan of the sport, prefer athletic excellence in the game being played vs being make-believe friends with athletes.
Oh yes, I remember immediately googling how to turn this one off. It's a checkbox in settings that's labelled something along the lines of "suggest ways to improve my windows experience"
This, plus also if you change passports because they happen to expire or you lose them, the trail is completely broken. US immigration doesn't have a clue, not from global flight data, not from your IDs. The negative side is you have to lie on ESTA form which sucks, but the whole US approach to Iran is plain stupid and amoral so I didn't mind it.

I went to Iran, it was the most amazing 1-week trip vacation I've ever done (Damavand, Isfahan, Yazd, a bit of Tehran). Amazingly friendly people, everybody spoke english, most signs are dual farsi/english, and the best part - its completely untouched by mass tourism. Feels surreal in current world, in the best way possible.

Even if this trip would ban me for life from US which is practically impossible with current tech, trips like these are 100x worth it. Can't recommend enough.
So you'd want them to cut the item in their budget that most directly rewards and supports their volunteer editors' work on the projects? That would seem to be unwise.
As a Bitcoin skeptic: I'll take my shitcoin money (or lose it) and that's all there is to it.
Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120
Why do you think that MediaWiki is not optimized to handle thousands request per second just because it is written in PHP?

MediaWiki repository size is about 1.4 GB and according to phploc it has closer to a million lines of PHP code. Sounds like fools errand to rewrite it.
I've been wondering a few times about how to best search the medical literature given a set of symptoms. How did you search for and find your particular disease?
There is plenty of proof that the CIA facilitated cocaine transports to get their weapons in Nicaragua?
>Wikipedia is using the University Endowment model to fund its work. They are creating a permanent source of funds that will finance its work for the long run(forever?) and are using special fund raising for special projects.

I think people wouldn't feel off about this if the fundraisers presented themselves as such. When you see them asking for donations, it is typically worded in a way it says "no one donates! if you don't we are on the brink of going bankrupt and shutting down the site! stop, don't scroll away!" and I think if they are sitting on a pile of cash (however noble their intentions are) some people might feel off about how they are being manipulated. Because that is not what they are asking the money for, at this moment. It is disingenuous to make it seem like they are asking for donations for covering the immediate day to day operations. Yes, it probably allows them to gather more donations that way but some people are not comfortable with being a target of manipulative ads. Immediate gains vs. poisoning the well situation here.
Elsa-D is up there now running some tests.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense/Japan-s-A...
Twitch, Discord and other gaming related communities for the young ones. Twitter attracts the 20-something crowd.
GDPR says: "The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest." in its preface.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Anyway, flimsy legitimate interest excuses are easiest to override. You just object to data processing, then it's upon the other side to provide overriding reasons why their legitimate interest is more important than your "interests or fundamental rights and freedoms" of which right to object to data processing is one.

Almost nobody even tried to pass that hurdle when I objected to data processing. And those few that did try, I just sent them the decision to fine for almost identical situation (where a company tried to claim legitimate interest for mining data from public registries and sources and publishing them on a website) from my country's DPA. And that made them comply too.
We just started looking at building a new UWP app and have been wondering what reasonable alternatives may exist. I don't think anyone on our team is hellbent on authoring XAML documents, so maybe we start looking back at stuff like win32.
Reddit, Discord. With the caveat most communities are a cacophony of people not having anything intelligent to say, but there are gems in between. Many educational YouTubers and open source projects have their own community on one or both on them.
Pity it's not in homebrew. I realize I can manually download a binary and manually install it and make a note somewhere where I got it from in case I forget and then periodically re-check manually if an update is out, or just never install any updates, but I'm trying to not do that if it can be helped.
I have some supporting arguments I have not seen in responses before:

1/ Ŕunnign a website requires constant change just to stay still. Technologies change, usage changes and user needs change. There is need for experimenting, dealing with drama, and getting funded.

2/ WMF cost per user is very reasonable for the amount of usage.
If WMF would run as a subscriber based service, it would cost just $0.5 per month/per user (rough estimate). Total expenses:$112M, 330,000 active users editing site. >800 million monthly unique devices (en-wiki alone).
Please try to follow the line of thinking your own questions suggest and stop the ad-hominem.
China to introduce three-child policy to cope with ageing population
Well, if you’re funding something you pretty much own it…
There are still lots of nukes in the NATO without the US.

And germany does not have russian speaking and feeling areas, who would (at least partly) welcome green man, which was the case in east ukraine and crimea.

And as far as I know, Trump is gone.
This is happening in the UK, we are having voter ID requirements, limits on postal voting and redrawing of constituency boundaries. It’s really an elective dictatorship at this point. Might as well just join the Tory party and stop pretending there is an alternative outside of them at this point.
CSS Clamp() for Responsive Websites
I don't think it is _just_ as brittle. There are two mitigating factors:

1. XChaCha20-Poly1305 (I think you _should_ be using the extended nonce version if you're going for a random nonce) ihas twice the amount of bits of AES-GCM. That alone make birthday collisions an entire universe of order of magnitudes less likely.
2. I might be wrong here, but I'm not quite sure if the Poly1305 MAC itself is as brittle as the GHASH MAC in GCM.

That being said, if you're really paranoid about your RNG, even the greater safety margins won't help. If you use the Sony PS3 RNG which always returns 4, it doesn't matter how many bits of random nonce you've got.

You do have nonce-misuse resistant constructions such AES-GCM-SIV. I'm not a cryptographer so I can't comment about how well reviewed they are, but they are only claim to protect you against accidental nonce misuse, not intentionally fixed nonces, so if you have the legendary PS3 RNG, I guess it's no dice (sorry for the pun).
It’s not some independent entity, it serves industrial and mafia interests.
Yes exactly, this has been the best part of switching to Linux at home. It just does what I tell it, when I tell it, and that's so relaxing. Using corporate platforms is like inviting a Microsoft/Apple/Google representative into your home. Imagine if when you bought an Ikea kitchen setup, it came with an Ikea rep who lived with you and reminded you periodically that the cabinets "work best with Ikea flatware(tm)!".

A computer should be an appliance which executes instructions on command, and that's it. Everything else is electricity theft as far as I'm concerned.
>There's data that suggest that a third of all people are infected. Perhaps these are cat lovers.

Sounds like something that would be both extraordinary and easy to find a correlation if it was true, no?
Online pharmacy lab finds benzene in 78 sunscreen products
I wonder why you have nothing substantial to argue and feel the need to resort to ad hominem
The Veluwemeer Aqueduct: Netherland's Unique Water Bridge
I use the internet a lot but i have never once seen an advertisement for something i thought "hey, that looks interesting". The problem is that millions (billions?) of dollars are spend on subconsciously making people want to buy what is advertised, no matter if they need it or not. In any other area this psychological meddling with people's subconscious would be highly illegal. So in short, as long as this exists (and it always will as you can't put research already done back in the box) all advertisement should be illegal if not consented into, targeted or not, beforehand.
Apple: Supply Chain Progress Report 2021 [pdf]
That's not was Arrows theorem says at all. It just says that all (deterministic) voting systems can sometimes incentivise tactical voting.

"Tiered" voting, where we add up local majorities, is known as the tribe system in mathematical social choice theory and can be proven to be the worst possible in terms of making the individual vote matter.
Isn’t the word aerosol appropriate? A droplet is just that, and an aerosol is a speck that can travel through air under the right conditions.
If I look Ukraine I see a country with an old rivalry with Russia, which the US stepped on to use as another proxy against it in the area.

I also see a country where the legitimate, voted for, goverment was overthrown by "orange revolution" style riots led by bona-fied neonazis and celebrated/sponsored by foreign powers. It's also a country whose an area has 60% Russian ethnicity population.
iTerm 2 is just a hugely superior app, if you're doing real work in the terminal. otherwise, it probably doesn't matter.
Nextcloud! I can't praise and recommend them enough! https://nextcloud.com/

You can self-host it, it's license is ASGI, so it's never going away, and it has an app for photos: https://github.com/nextcloud/photos

and another one where you can put all your photos on a map:
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/maps
Isn’t the problem that the record companies keep most of that?