skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) happened with the first multitasking OS, or possibly when CPUs got microcode; Android and iOS are big increases in freedom in comparison to the first phones.

(2) and (3) are bad, but a tangential bad to this: it’s no good having an untainted chat layer if it’s running on an imperfect — anywhere from hostile to merely lowest-bidder solution — OS. (And most of the problems we find in software have been closer to the later than the former).

(4) for all their problems, the American ones held off doing that until there was an attempted coup, having previously resisted blocking Trump despite him repeatedly and demonstrably violating their terms.
>Being afraid of some "government policy" is a paranoia coming from countries where the first point does not apply

So like a long tradition from Gary Webb to Assange, cancel culture, attacks on the integrity and reputation (and de-platforming) of people like Taibbi or Greenwald, and so on?
FYI: I watch NTD media (Epoch Times) daily on Youtube.

The link in the parent is the infamous hit piece done on NTD by NYT because US MSM (and/or leftists) are losing subscribers and viewers by 60+% since Biden entered the WH - the MSM is in a business death spiral.

You'll find similar pieces on Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin, etc. for the same reason - all who are Liberal moderates.

NTD is one of the best sources of actual reporting in the world today. They're anti-Marxist and anti-China, so that makes them by default pro-Trump, who is a Liberal moderate.

- they're demonetized and their subscriber counts are frozen across their 20 Youtube channels. This proves they're legit, along with the NYT hit piece on NTD linked in the parent.

- in the past year, they've had no story retractions, whereas the US MSM has monthly retractions on US politics and corona news. That's the difference between actual reporting with two sources, and being a leftist organ.

- NTD interviews weekly current and former US top officials. Nothing that NTD has said contradicts what other experts say (aside from Fauci, who's a habitual liar.)

- the NTD China-related channels combine Western and Chinese sources, so you can see what's really happening with political and business events in China

I suggest you watch NTD for a month, then compare with what you see on cnn.com. It's amazing the difference in quality of reporting. NTD today is like CNN in 2000, before CNN lost its credibility.
Abrogating the 4th Amendment is just common sense mental health controls.
Which comments specifically?

I've never seen anything that looks like wumao on HN. On reddit theyre usually pretty obvious.
It matters geopolitically speaking in a big way, since any significant improvements to nuclear reactors built by China will have corresponding potential for improvement in their nuclear powered submarines and their future aircraft carriers which are being designed around a similar electric power heavy design philosophy as the US Navy’s Gerald Ford class, with the Chinese Type 004 aircraft carriers being designed as “full size” nuclear powered carriers using electromagnetic catapults to their launch aircraft.
Why not both? Seen that work quite well.
Who’s been hit with Pegasus spyware so far?
> closed social networks

It’s not clear that governments would give the open social networks an easier ride either. It could be argued that distributed FOSS developers are easier to pressurise into adding back doors, unless we officially make EFF our HR/Legal department.

The other problem is workers have a right to be paid. The alternatives are FOSS and/or distributed social media. Who in good conscience would ask a tech worker to give away their labour for free, in the name of everyone else’s freedom?

In a world of $4k rent, who amongst us will do UX, frontend, backend, DevOps, UO, and Security for 7 billion people, for anything but the top market rate?

The real alternative is to attack the actual problem: state overreach. Don’t attack people for using SnapChat — get them to upend the government’s subservience to intrusive law enforcement.
What cats do when we’re not looking
Counterpoints: https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2015/05/keep-reading-mcc...

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/05/it-is-hardly-la...

> Filburn was not a hobbyist growing a little food for his family[ ...] was someone with a commercial farm who [...] wanted to take advantage of federal price supports that allowed him to sell the wheat for more than twice the price it would command on the world market. While he wanted to take advantage of the federal guarantees, however, he wasn’t willing to comply with the federal regulations, which included a production quota that was a crucial element in the price supports
Looks like a few new chapters. e.g Deep Learning

I own the first edition. Made it through the entire book during the pandemic with a study partner.

There are other resources:

https://github.com/melling/ISLR
> On a related (and likely just as improbable) note, perhaps cities should start treating delivery as another municipal utility.

Hmm, or maybe national governments should step in and provide this as a subsidized basic service to everyone. It could work for all kinds of post, not just packages. And we could go to great lengths to make it work also across borders! I suggest we call it something like a public postal service.

:-)
>That’s not entirely true

That's why I said it's not inherently illegal. Of course, if you have a folder called "porn" that is full of naked children it modifies the context and therefore the classification. But, if it's in a folder called "Beach Holiday 2019", it's not illegal nor really morally a problem. I'm dramatically over-simplifying of course. "It depends" all the way down.

>That’s a bold blanket statement

You're right, I shouldn't have been so broad. It's possible but unlikely, especially if it's not shared on social media.

It reinforces my original point however, because I can easily see a case where there's a totally voluntary nudist family who posts to social media getting caught up in a damaging investigation because of this. If their pictures end up in the possession of unsavory people and gets lumped into NCMEC's database then it's entirely possible they get flagged dozens or hundreds of times and get referred to police. Edge case, but a family is still destroyed over it. Some wrongfully accused people have their names tarnished permanently.

This kind of policy will lead to innocent people getting dragged through the mud. For that reason alone, this is a bad idea.
Liked a lot. The physics of the device is laughable but the possibilities explored are really cool.

Sometimes when I want some thoughts to linger on while falling asleep, I reconstruct one of the places and imagine what would it be like to stay in that world.

Blake Crouch has really good imagination from my opinion and his books stay in your mind quite long. If you do not mind the week scientific background they are good rides.I liked very much the the wayward pines trilogy.
Why is it a dead-end and building on the outdated Motif isn't?
That's my wording, not theirs. It seemed close enough to be acceptable at the time. (Technically it is not even an SO-DIMM but a module in the form factor of an SO-DIMM.)
> but saying that drones are worse than wheels

I meant wheeled drones, not flying ones.
Well, good! Next time, start with that! :D
Fortunately house wealth can help via equity release / a lifetime mortgage. Of you don't want to pass it on to your kids that is.
Why do they DESERVE to be so? Despite what you say there was and is no mechanism to really change or affect the course of these affairs.

Apple? How? Your other option is Android, who do you choose when they start to do it?

Or when governments decide to mandate that ALL phones need to legally have "scanning all the files on it and report them back to the police database" mechanisms?

The EU? Particularly how? An organization that has been deliberately structured to supersede the legitimacy of nation states and export it's power to all of it's members at the whim -- sometimes it seems -- of some aging out of touch bureaucrats.

I'm not even a #brexiter, btw.

Should Scotland become an independent nation? There was a public debate and people had opinions -- and there were mechanisms in place to act on and make a change, as an example.

There has been no public debate on this in a national sense (anywhere), and also no mechanisms by which people could decide to change it. I'm not sure people deserve it.
Average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 ranges from $51,000 to $78,000, based on age.

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/average-cost-hosp... (Nov 2020)

Vaccination reduces the risk of hospitalisation by 25x. (CDC data, 29 July 2021, leaked report).

I don't have good data on hospitalisations, though for quite some time early in the pandemic it was about 15% of all detected cases. I strongly suspect it's lower than that now (nonsymptomatic / low-severity cases are now detected), but it's still substantial.

Just on a per-person basis, that's about 50-65 large you're looking at in excess claims for shunning the vaccine. The actuarial risk is probably on the order of 10% of that, though you'd need to add in other costs and long-term health consequences. Severe cases can of course run far higher --- some patients have had double-lung transplants.
I checked a few files, and a lot of the foundation library have 2007 until 2009 copyright notices. Another random check, CALayer.h and CATransform3D from the Quartz framework, shows terribly limited functionality in comparison to the files on macOS 11.5. The latter comes with 198 frameworks, Airyx has 16, 2 of which don't exist (anymore). Catching up seems an impossible task.
For what sort of jobs?
With non-stock (assuming not jailbroken but just a totally different operating system) I think (I might be wrong... I should know for sure but I awkwardly don't) you aren't even allowed to use Google Play Services at all?
foxpurple proposed making homelessness illegal and forcing everyone into shelters. They didn't mention encampments. The strongest plausible interpretation of what they said is outside encampments too.

xnyan explained problems with shelters relative to unspecified alternatives. They didn't mention encampments either. The comment they replied to didn't mention encampments. And you pointed out some of their points don't make sense if they were just comparing to encampments. The strongest plausible interpretation of what they said is they weren't just comparing to encampments.
Innovation is really not the goal of most places. What makes RoE is extracting as much as you can from what you have and only innovate when needed (i.e. customer tells you/margin pressure etc.). If you can burn money then you can disrupt etc., but if you are measured on profitability innovation is mostly a drag (better to buy innovations you like).

Coming first isn't always the best place to be, sometimes being the last to enter is also quite a good spot.
I thought it was a more polished version of PureDarewin.
Ah I’m done now. That’s one step too far. When something overreaches into my data and risks integrity and privacy problems it’s game over.

So which Linux desktop sucks the least at the moment?
Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
This is too vague. We need something concrete.
They said "_software like_ Little Snitch"... Don't assume.
This is the big one right here.

A malware will definitely be created, almost immediately, that will download files that are intentionally made to match CP - either for the purposes of extortion or just watching the world burn.

I'm usually sticking my neck out in defence of more government access to private media than most on HN because of the need to stop CP, but this plan is so naive, and so incredibly irresponsible, that I can't see how anyone with any idea of how easy it would be to manipulate would ever stand behind it.
We currently have a severe moral panic on the topic of racism. Almost everyone accused and not distancing themselves from anything that could be remotely associated with it makes someone guilty.

Just to remember: Racism is if you attribute properties to races, a very unscientific term, and think yourself superior to others due to these properties. Luckily, that is a quite rare occurrence today.

It doesn't have anything to do with power, it doesn't have anything to do with privilege and most people accused of it are innocent. There are exceptions of course.
A valuable resource, but needs to catch up with the gender diversity issues now coming to the fore.
It's not nearly deadly enough, unlike smallpox. From Wikipedia:

The risk of death after contracting the disease was about 30%, with higher rates among babies.[6][12] Often those who survived had extensive scarring of their skin, and some were left blind.
Congratulations on the launch of Keyri!

I run a problem validation platform and the need-gap in 'Password less authentication' is being tracked here[1].

You're welcomed to explain how Keyri addresses that need-gap so those who need it can find it easily.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/49-password-less-authentication...
Having private devices randomly snooped for forbidden materials is fine, okay. So why limit this to phones?

There are kidnapped children being locked inside homes. If you don't open your doors and accept weekly full home inspections, I think it's safe to say you support offenders and hate victims if you oppose this. I mean, we're all against people kidnapping and abusing children.

There's a small number of victims, a small number of offenders (but much more than "a handful"), and hundreds of millions of other home owners. This change is in the direct interest of victims, direct opposition to offenders.
Every so often I feel a wave of revulsion that the computer I use the most — my iPhone — is an almost completely closed system controlled by someone else.

Contrast this with my desktop where, in the press of a few buttons, I am presented with the source code for the CPU frequency scaling code.

Bring on the Linux phones.
Ya, the ongoing joke was that it was like he was on cocaine, but we all knew that wasn't the case. It was basically the rich guy equivalent of "meth lady shopping": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6KMeKHSx0

But later having witnessed a few manic episodes from people with bi-polar disorder, it was definitely like that, but without the depressive moments. And he would occasionally have moments of clarity where he would make a bunch of rational decisions. So it was hard to spot that something was up.
So obvious. It's an Holy war.
One thing I wonder is why they're using FreeBSD as a base and not Darwin. I use FreeBSD myself and it's great, but if you're really going for Mac compatibility I would use the same kernel considering it's FOSS.
Oh wow, that's just silly. You're talking about immegrants from about 400 years ago. They were colonialists exploiting a "virgin" land for profit.
This has nothing to do with contemporary entrepreneurship, for all intent and purposes these Danish Americans are Americans.

Continue to think the US is a dreamland while the median Dane have a much higher quality of life.
I'm asking for a specific proposal. I'm interested in reading it. Searching for "EU legislation unauthorized software" yields no results.
Few 386 machines had GPUs
So, you are definining "nothing to do with" based on the assumed end result, and not... whether it had something to do with it?

It's a strange argument, but, ok, I guess? Thanks for clearing it up.
"The common idea that unless you are building your own dream, you are building someone else's ignores the fact you can do both." - me now
Imagine things like:

- A kitchen with nobody in frame.

- A couch with nobody in frame.

- Outdoor scenery with nobody in frame.

- A bathroom with nobody in frame.

Is it hard to believe you wouldn't download something like this without knowing where it came from?

I'm not talking about borderline stuff. I'm talking about content that has not even a hint of pornography or illegality.
"thinktank InfluenceMap "

Will people catch on that the environment lobbyists are as powerful as big oil. And care about you as much as big oil.

At least big oil sold you a product, so they had some responsibility to make a product that benefits you. Environmental lobbyists like InfluenceMap have zero responsibility to either you or the environment, only the people funding them.
I wonder which regulation you're referring to. Most ticked boxes I can think of are indeed of the "does not kill a certain kind of person"-kind, or of the "can be used by a certain type of person"-kind.

And of course, regulation can not cover every case. And if it turns out to be a problem, we can cover the additional cases. This way (in Europe at least) we gradually require cars to be safer for passengers and the environment.
- Don't you want to get the terrorists?

- Yea yeah

- Great. Give me access to every part of your life so i know you're not a terrorist.
Recent studies point to fructose and vegetable oils being toxic for the human body, at least in the proportions used in mainstream dietary advice.

Big supermarket brands in UK are still selling low fat variants of food, more often than not packed with sugar for taste.

Because of course, fat in the arteries comes from dietary fat, isn't it obvious?

Let's not even start with the red meat propaganda.
Haha, I know :).

But here I was thinking about technology and logistics. In-city drone-based delivery promises features that neither public nor private delivery services can... deliver ( :) ). The package stream utility idea promises those same features and more, without the drawbacks of having fleets of lawnmower/brick hybrids zipping around everyone's heads.
It could also mean that most Americans think the US is the world, and they don't know that Denmark exists.
Must be raging that that doesn't include EU citizenship now
laowhy is an excellent channel.
Oh I'm not suggesting it's not a win by any means. Any debris removed is better. I'm just wondering how much of a difference it would make at the end of the day.
You’re right of course but I think in this case it was due to the reputation of the poster on Twitter. At least, that’s the only reason I would take this rumor seriously. But yeah, a rumor is a rumor still.
That's like saying an abusive relationship is a great way to learn about life and humanity.

You can get a ton of valuable experience working for a startup without a CEO that's an absolute knob. You don't have to jump straight from worst company ever to boring enterprise grad position where you don't learn anything.
We have come a long road to establish transparent protocols to run stuff on our browsers (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSON, HTTP protocol), yet we are going to towards compiled binary code, towards black-box schema.

The users will have less power of the content on their browsers with compiled code and something like ad blockers become challenging to implement again. I'm not really big fan of this trend.
For example Google Docs is being rewritten to use canvas and who knows what it actually does behind the scenes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy
There is plenty of engineering involved.
They may refuse to serve me if I appear to be under 18 and refuse to show proof of age. I do not appear to be under 18 and have only once or twice in my life been asked for proof of age, in each case I declined, chuckled, and moved on the next pub.
Just change it to US international or EU layout. It takes a few weeks to adjust, but I'm typing English and German with US international layout and I can use every Umlaut without any problems. :)
Really, if you look at the history of this vaccine, it's the complete opposite of reckless. It was a great technology that had been in progress for years and was essentially held back by too much government regulation. Solving a vaccine for this virus within days was an incredible outcome of American soft power capitalism, and letting the free market pursue a profit. That's why the Bernie/communist crowd are so desperately eager to force Moderna and Pfizer to hand over the patents. How dare we invest in and make something so successful and lifesaving for some reason as ugly as profit. Remember, loosening responsibility is the norm and the ethos for a capitalist society. And the only people asking to see a vax card are private enterprises. It's good news all around, good for the economy. It's only bad for the mentally crippled who are so mired in conspiratorial thought that they can't see what's obviously good for themselves. But no one's ever going to make you get it. I just think we should turn the wilfully unvaxed away from the hospital when you get covid. Why should we pay for your mistakes?
Did you get to Green and Blue Mars?

I didn't find the people or relationship issues to detract from the Mars trilogy because the personalities interweaves with the politics, and the inescapability of personalities and relationships being factors in the close proximities necessary in almost all stages of colonising a planet.

Greg Egan, recommended on HN in any sci-fi related thread, seems idea-heavy from the little I've read so far.

(edit: reading down further I see I've been beaten to this recommendation)

The novel I want to write is a thoroughly depressing the-future-is-the-just-present-for-those-born-during-it exposition about the inescapability of human nature and how this means that any and all revolution is doomed to just change the people and not the structure and that whilst your fellow revolutionaries are your closest friends and allies now, in the unlikely chance that the revolution is successful, when it comes time to actually make decisions affecting reality, you'll find yourself in the company of strangers with familiar faces. Highlighting that in any future-state technological context this remains true.
Speaking of which, the Russian in the firing post is atrocious. It's ungrammatical, full of typos and jargon, and gives an impression that the author can not express himself properly in any language. Which is kinda bad for a CEO :) Really, English translation is a much more coherent text than the Russian original.
Google billionaire Larry Page is a NZ resident, Government confirms
How would a victim of CSA ever find out that I downloaded a particular file? Surely the harm there is caused by the distributor, not the consumer.

Conversely, when I use drugs, I'm paying someone, so I'm actually directly funding criminals. Depending on the country and the drugs, this is often putting cash in the hands of a very violent cartel.
For a historically accurate overview over how cities actually were, and on how they sustained their size, I recommend Bret Devereaux' excellent history blog: https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-pa...