skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people look distinctly male or female

In my actual experience most people are neither broad-shouldered Adonises nor voluptuous femme fatales, and it only takes an unflattering angle or non-mainstream fashion choice (or even nothing but their own imaginations) for people to start questioning someone's sex.
I am not saying anything negative about your lifestyle and I make similar choices. But, the perception is you need to be that extreme when the reality is different. People really don’t need to suffer to make a difference, which is critical as most people aren’t willing to suffer if they can avoid it.

For example rather than turning the heat down, buying a solar hot water heater let’s you save money, take long hot showers, and be toasty in the winter while also being more environmentally friendly. Carbon credits are poor policy vs carbon taxes for a host of reasons. However, if you really want to feel better about your personal choices effective leverage is available. At the same time a huge number of what amounts to scams are also out there.

PS: Of course lowering consumption has other environmental benefits
I agree there are dangers to applying band aids.

It depends on if the band aids apply enough pressure to stop the patient from bleeding out. We don’t know how much about positive feedback loops for climate change. Things like the tundra melting and releasing more CO2 could create large inflection points which we don’t understand very well. Every day we inch closer to one of these inflection points, gambling the point is further out.

It is my belief that band aids are necessary to prevent nightmare scenarios from occurring. We can quibble about moral hazards and figure out what to do with ocean acidification once we aren’t at the precipice.

If there aren’t positive feedback loops I agree pushing back the problem for a few decades doesn’t help us that much so long as the root causes go unsolved.

[Edit] As it relates to responsibility, unfortunately those most responsible will due to their wealth carry the fewest consequences. We need a way to internalize the externalities of climate change to keep people responsible rather than leaving the global poor to suffer the largest impacts.
However that subscription access might dilute their control. What bothers me about YouTube is how they try to police content and censor (ie the Wuhan lab leak). If there’s a stronger model where viewers do pay (and not just rent to use your word) then YouTube may feel they have less control to censor.
There's nothing to stop the employees from distributing it at that point and even with copyright it gets distributed anyway, it's just not allowed to be used for anything serious.
You still have sponsored segments even with Youtube premium. I refuse to pay for a service and still get ads.
Is it possible to configure multiple DoH providers so your DNS requests round robin like an actual DNS server list could/would?
Not to mention the undeserved political-economic influence Germany's energy policy has gifted to Russia.
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Oh come now, you can't just "learn by doing" when it comes to circuit layout, when you have no idea what will and won't work. Especially with modern high frequency circuits that have a lot more challenges due to cross signaling and propagation delays.

Sure copying blindly doesn't help, but neither does shooting int he dark. Having reference layouts that actually work however can be a useful learning resource and starting point to work from if you want to do something similar but slightly different.
Does the same standard apply to, say, robbery?

Small time crooks who steal $100 go to jail, but corporations who steal $millions go unpunished.
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If the whole 'Dark Horse' debacle proved anything it would be that that can still be considered a copyright infringement. Sure that particular example was (rightly IMHO) deemed to not be a copyright violation, but they still had to show their version was original enough, they couldn't just claim such copying wasn't ever an infringement.
Please read the article next time.

"Congress inaugurated the modern era of amortization by simplifying the rules in 1993: Under the new regime, the purchaser of a business would be allowed, over the span of 15 years, to write off more types of intangible assets. This might have been welcome news for the sports business. But Congress explicitly excluded the industry from the law.

Following lobbying by Major League Baseball, in 2004, sports teams were granted the right to use this deduction as part of a tax bill signed by President George W. Bush, himself a former part owner of the Texas Rangers. Now, team owners could write off the price they paid not just for player contracts, but also a range of other items such as TV and radio contracts and even goodwill, an amorphous accounting concept that represents the value of a business’ reputation. Altogether, those assets typically amount to 90% or more of the price paid for a team."
Because English-speaking readers aren't going to go to Weibo or Douyin to check out these memes for themselves.

I've seen the same kind of simplistic extrapolation done by the NYT. Take some ephemeral trend, then make it sound like a huge social phenomenon that's making the CCP quake in its boots.

If foreign outlets wrote about Western countries like this, we'd be patting ourselves on the back for solving ALS by dumping a bucket of water on our heads.
If this issue is eventually litigated, we will see. The law in the Second Circuit (where the final judgment was rendered before the case was eventually settled) may well be different than the law in a different circuit. If there is a split in the circuit courts, then the Supreme Court may have to weigh in on this issue.

When fair use is an issue, the courts look at the facts in context each time. These are obviously different facts than scanning books for populating a search index and rendering previews; and each side is going to argue that the facts are similar or that they are dissimilar. How the court sees it is going to be the key question.
This is a thoughtful and insightful reply. Thank you.
Who is to blame for outsourced manufacturing then? If one country consumes a vast amount of goods from another, are they not also accountable for that other country’s emissions?
Because fair use is an exception to copyright itself. A copyright license can't take away your legal right to fair use.
This app sounds really cool. I am very interested in using it.

However, I have read your Privacy Policy, and I see that you collect PII like the following:

* Events on all your calendars (Understandable)

* Information about your Google Drive files (?!?)

* Title, description, default time zone, and other properties of Google calendars you have access to (So other people's data).

You say that you may use your collected data for marketing:

* to provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information;

This, to me suggests that you may legally sell my Google Drive files to the highest bidder.

You also provide a broad justification for improving your services, which means you could legally look at my plaintext events and messages as part of "user research" for how people use my service:

* to gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;

This is unacceptable in a corporate environment.

I suggest you may want to re-word your Privacy Policy, and make it clear explicitly what you do and don't do with each piece of information.
Google isn't having problems monetizing... their business model is entirely realistic, in fact it's wildly successful.

Perhaps the business deal was too good before, and now it's merely good? Previously it was "acceptable" for them to store and host your videos for zero cost and show them without ads, and now you think it's "unrealistic" for them to finally cover those costs with ads?
Ask HN: How will consumer VPNs (intended for privacy) work in IPv6-only future?
That's literally it.

To clarify, I do not mean the original meaning of VPN to connect to a particular workplace or such, but rather for consumer VPNs, which in IPv4 days means tunneling under (usually) a single IP. How it will work in IPv6 era? Will services be able to guarantee the same protection as in the IPv4 version of their product?
I wonder if you could combine all of these ideas. What if you had a truck that traveled around and refilled your shampoo, laundry soap, dish soap, milk, soda, etc.. bottles. I'm thinking a truck that has what looks like a bunch of tap handles on the side and just refills things. Eliminates some trips, disposable containers, etc...
> ads are entirely controlled by the video uploader

Some Youtubers talk shop on their channels. I have learnt from them that this is not the case. Even if a Youtuber is very meticulous about placing and restricting the ads (e.g. two mid-rolls), sometimes the software "forgets" and goes full ad blast on the viewer (one pre-roll and six mid-rolls). The cynic's interpretation would be that this happens on purpose.
Filling the Chief Compliance Officer role is going to be extremely tricky. Not just because you are now liable for any content government considers objectionable (and this government is considers _a lot_ objectionable -- they recently arrested people for putting posters questioning government's vaccine export when we had shortage inside the country itself) but also because this puts that person at tremendous mental/physical risk. The government's IT cell will be the first one to trend #BoycottX when they don't agree with any of your decision.

Can't imagine someone taking up this role unless they are paid truckload of money.
I disagree. Force people to pay for the externalities their actions have. Like buying electronics from China could have a tax based on how polluting it is. Then factories will either get better to win on price, or someone might build a factory elsewhere and actually be able to compete.
Most of Koonin’s sources are directly from the IPCC reports, in fact they are what the book is based around.
When I was in high school we wrote our own code. So I guess we can stop doing open source as well right?
Ah, so users can choose to override the local network administration? I didn't realise that. No way to prevent my family browsing to undesirable and unsafe sites without personally admin-ing each device and/or directly monitoring use?

I realise this is currently all leaky, my attitude was to put controls in place (DNS based) and if they learnt to hack around it then they're probably old enough to handle what they find ... doesn't work for malware, etc., however.

Presumably enabling DoH makes malware, advertising, etc., impossible to block?

When is MS Windows going to use DoH to force access for monitoring, currently I block a few domains.
I love Woz, but does he still retain any sway in the community? He has often spoke out in favor of things or against things but it doesn’t seem to really matter to the industry.
Making money is irrelevant to fair use
It would be easy to just make `·` an alias. Then that code would work.

my &infix:< · > = &infix:< × >;

(After all `×` itself is just an alias of `*` in the source for Rakudo.)

If you need more control you can write it out

sub infix:< · > (+@vals)
is equiv(&[×]) # uses the same precedence level etc.
is assoc<chaining> # may not be necessary given previous line
{
[×] @vals # reduction using infix operator
}

I made it chaining for the same reason `+` and `×` are chaining.

---

I don't know enough about the topic to know how to properly write `∧`.

It looks like it may be useful to write it using multis.

# I don't know what precedence level it is supposed to be
proto infix:< ∧ > (|) is tighter(&[×]) {*}

multi infix:< ∧ > (
Numeric $l,
Numeric $r,
) {
$l × $r
}

multi infix:< ∧ > (
Vector $l, # need to define this somewhere, or use List/Array
Vector $r,
) {
…
}

If it was as simple as just a normal cross product, that would have been easy.

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] »×« [[10,20,30],[40,50,60]]
# [[10,40,90],[160,250,360]]

# generate a synthetic `»×«` operator, and give it an alias
my &infix:< ∧ > = &infix:< »×« >;

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] ∧ [[10,20,30],[40,50,60]]
# [[10,40,90],[160,250,360]]

Of course, I'm fairly confident that is wrong.
OK, it does exactly what it says on the tin :-)

Any explainer/further info about this?
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Yes they are but you'd have to run your own DoH server or follow the instructions to disable DoH like an ISP would (the possibility of which makes one wonder what the whole point is.)
This is kind of off topic, but, in my mind, 'right to repair' has more to do with combatting throw-away consumerism versus quality products. Certain appliances could be made much better over having to buy 10 annoying dryers over the course of your lifetime (or whatever product becomes harder to DIY repair.) The amount of waste produced every time someone buys the next generation just because something broke outpaces the ability to recycle/repair, hell even lightbulbs [1]. There's also market value in making things intentionally obsolescent after a small amount of time. For instance, Apple purposefully slowing down an iPhone when there's a new model [2].

I'm not 'anti-consumerist', I'm just aware that we've built a society around throwing things away way before their expected physical lifetime of use.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51706635
Maybe your ISP is, but mine is not.

DoH does not take that away. It might move it away from the hands of your apparently adversarial ISP, but delivers the information in the hands of whoever is running those DoH servers...presumably Cloudflare, who already hold far too much sway for my comfort.
It may be possible but is it likely? If you only have to hire one dev for the job you might get lucky but I'm talking about macro trends here. A lot of jobs to a lot of people are just plain boring. Life sucks.

You say the developer who cares will always produce something better. Isn't that assuming parity of technical ability? Big assumption.

You don't have to be jaded to not invest in the product personally. What's wrong with just doing a good job with professional detachment? Maybe it's more the case that projects/domains vary in their scope for passion and belief. A small team working in a startup is a different world than a Java team working in a large bank where corporate structure dominates.
I have a friend who tried for a time to avoid all plastic in his consumption habits. Trust me when I tell you he is not a pampered individual, having once told me "as long as I'm still shivering I'm not 'too cold'". He deemed the task pretty much impossible, so wide-spread is the use of plastics.

Which is all to say that I totally agree.
> So I guess you didn't hear what has happened at a Wi Spa [0] recently?

A woman went to the women's changing room and some bigots freaked out?
Unsporting behaviour can already get a player cautioned (and therefore a second such offence can already get a player sent off) and attempting to deceive the referee is literally the first example of unsporting behaviour given in the rules. It's strange that this isn't used more often, particularly in matches where certain players are frequent offenders.

In other situations, like putting the ball out so an opposing player can receive medical care, every player understands that this is just good sportsmanship. Likewise no-one criticises a player from that opposing team who gives possession back to the team who put it out when play restarts. So why are players who all respect that tradition OK with people who frequently take a dive or appeal for something they know they don't deserve?
I just can't understand why the Japanese companies manage to create these amazing devices with absolutely niche pricing and subpar software.

It seems like Chinese companies figured out a while back that they need to make their software at least seem good if they want to capture the global market. Obviously the price is an even bigger aspect of the equation.
I worked on a project where the buy button was off the screen on anything but a wide monitor. So I could not see it on my laptop.
Buy a little land, plant some trees and enjoy them. Its cheaper than you think.
I think the implication is that a product can do some harm, while reducing the overall harm in the system. In this case, vaping might cause some harm, but it potentially reduces the overall harm by doing much less harm than cigarettes. I believe the comment is saying that, by pushing for regulatory approval, the product may never enter the market and would thus not be able to reduce the overall harm being done.

In this case, we would certainly have to consider the potentially increased harm of non-smokers taking up vaping to assess the overall harm being done, but I see the merits of the basic argument at least.
> How would it work with not creating an account?

Notice that they said "yet another account" - I'm pretty sure that they're not objecting to the idea of creating a single account for the micropayments service, but instead creating a separate account for each individual service that they could instead use micropayments for.

> A good password manager can make creating an account almost effortless. Maybe that's part of the solution.

That was already excluded by their comment - "and giving them my credit card info" - wherein it's made clear that part of the problem is the proliferation of private data among a very large number of individual sites/services/systems. A password manager doesn't do anything at all to help secure your private information from these services that you would be signing up for.
I recommend using Firefox's GPOs anyways: Not just to ensure users can't override disabling DoH, but also to turn off arbitrary extension install (a major malware vector) and other protocols designed to circumvent security inspection like QUIC.

If you operate any network security appliances of any kind, browsers are basically built-by-default now to circumvent them, so you need to be configuring them heavily via group policy.

Firefox, Chrome, and Edge all offer ADMX templates to add support for their policies pretty much drop-in to Active Directory.
Just getting into this, but already fascinated. Great article.
"This is a fairly recent “announcement” and many people are upset about the Reserve Bank making up seemingly hostile and uninformed rules regarding something that has no notion of borders and is practically impossible for the regulators to control in terms of owning and transferring. Something that arguably does not even exist in any one location..." So now, a memorized key or password means you are transferring "right to capital" and therefore cannot leave South Africa? I'm fairly certain that Apartheid was thoroughly shot down back in the 80s.
I don't believe the distinction you make between criminal and regulatory actually exists.
Perhaps a more contemporary version would be:

| I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man!

| Let me handle my business, damn
Or if you simply read GPL code and learn something from it - or bits of the code are retained verbatim in your memory, are you (as a person) now GPL'd? Obviously not.
Well, the problem for the NP-hard algorithm is that the base line is already very efficient. It's like branch prediction. Even the dumbest predictors can be 90% efficient. The perfect solution doesn't have much room to be better. I'd say there are more microsecond level optimization problems left than on the nanosecond or millisecond level.
Not a biologist, but I have a metrics question that is suited for someone that is familiar with the biology literature:

How useful of a metric is "number of animals killed?" I don't mean to trivialize the death of 1bn organisms, but I cannot put this number in context, and I don't even know entirely what qualifies as an animal. Somebody ought to remember the bugs.

Is there a more useful metric to capture widespread mortality across all animals or all life? Biomass maybe?
The tools to administer a home network, such as DNS blocking and DNS sinkholes, are the same tools nations use to administer their populaces. If the default in Firefox is to enable blocking and sinkholes for the home administrator's benefit, it will similarly be to the benefit of oppressive administrations.

Home administrators who control their endpoints can turn DoH off with relative ease. By comparison, most governments cannot.
> If you feel powerless, try looking for systemic opportunities to drive change.

After you spend several years on that, you will find an even deeper, more fundamental sense of powerlessness!
It's interesting that your two actions you talk about also have significant benefits for yourself.

I think real change is going to require a lot of sacrifice, and won't be a win-win for everyone.
You can turn off ads.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6332943?hl=en
What do you imagine the alternative world of 100% ad-free television would look like? Hundreds of channels of PBS? I think that is naively optimistic.
It was effectively the end of Netscape. On November 24, 1998, America Online (AOL) announced it would acquire the struggling browser company in a deal worth US$4.2 billion.

Silicon Valley loves to spin this story of founders seeing a multi-billion dollar exit (what's that in today's dollars?) gets spun as a cautionary tale.

It's anti-Microsoft boyism taken to absurdity.

Or to put it another way, Viaweb by comparison sold for "dip-shit" money to Yahoo.
>countries such as the U.S. have censored plenty of books, etc. in the past.

The modern interpretation of the 1st amendment as being fairly absolute is only 50-100 years old. Don't forget the federal government had political prisoners for protesting against the US getting involved in WW 1, and the HUAC and McCarthy hearings were blatantly unconstitutional under modern jurisprudence.

We don't even need to talk about the Alien and Sedition acts, passed right after the 1st amendment was ratified!
Yes, that's what I said, it's false. Easily.
Shouldn't we tax the externalities of plastic and let the market decide whether it's worth it?

If that were enacted tomorrow, every business would just eat the cost and raise prices.

but what about the costs of glass? eg. increased weight or energy/water needed to clean them.

That's what federal subsidies are for. Make it worth it to use glass, or some other material other than plastic. Subsidies are how we got cheap dairy and meat, why can't it be used for other things?

how is driving a truck door to door delivering exclusively milk more efficient than picking it up on your way to the grocery store?

I was just spitballing, more rhetorical than anything. Milkmen used to be everywhere delivering milk in glass bottles before the plastics lobby and dairy subsidies drove them to extinction.
Uber passengers. In 2014 (as an Uber driver) I told my passenger (who was a financeBro into stocks) to buy GoPro at 40, since it would go to at least 60. It went to 90. He told me to buy Prana biotech, which collapsed from ~50 to 11 and now doesn't exist.
Not when it outputs large sections of unique code verbatim, as it's been shown to do.
Would love something like this to kill (or at least severely maim) the broker industry in NYC. 0 value added at the cost of 10-15% of yearly rent.