skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, you're saying that any law enforcement that has a gun, threatens its use. Given the amount of speeding fines handed out daily that's provably wrong. The guns and laws around the use of those guns are there to ensure that you don't disagree using violence. That's not a threat, but a conditional measured response. There are many things tyrannical in this world we have right now, but this example in Australia is not even close. :D

Again I'll note, "staying in the house" is a reasonable thing to ensure the populace do when the effect of not doing so is potentially harmful to the entire population. I say this as an Aussie living elsewhere. I yearn for the freedoms that you've had in Australia for 2020. We've got some of them over here due to vaccinations, but who knows how long that will last.
Jeez, 7 comments and not a single "Well done."

Well done. I love the smallness. Small is strong.
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I don't have any issues using multiple displays with different scaling settings on Linux.

Pop! OS, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint are among the distributions that flawlessly accommodate different scaling settings for multiple displays without any special adjustments.

On Wayland, both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments support multiple scaling factors.

For GNOME on Wayland, if you need fractional scaling, you'll need to turn on a setting if your Linux distro doesn't do it for you:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/enable-fractional-scalin...
Sounds like these issues are caused by the nvidia driver, which I thankfully never had to deal with, and the Steam Deck won't use that either.
Apple also kind of removed itself from clang contributions as their focus is on Objective-C and Swift, with most of their C++ use cases covered by ISO C++14.

Which is one of the reasons why ISO C++20 support in clang is lagging, alongside Google also kind of reducing their involvement.

Concepts support was mostly done by one dev.
> I've gotten emails from multiple bigtechs -- dropbox was one IIRC -- that were half in German, half in English.

There is one website I use that sends emails when a staff member takes an action on your account (an extremely common and expected behaviour, something that can happen multiple times a day).

The only problem is that these emails are localised to the language setting of the staff member who performed the action, not the language setting of the person actually receiving the email!
> The surgeon will have spent many years studying while the street cleaner can just get started tomorrow.

Indeed but if it is paid for by the government then what difference does it make? I would rather work my ass off as a SWE than collect garbage even if I'm getting paid the same amount, however that's just me. I suspect it's you too, if you're honest with yourself.

As as for poetry, this is my argument for UBI. Go for it, IMO, poetry has societal value.

> The surgeon has responsibilities the cleaner does not.

[edit] This is true, and also a surgeon generates value through the people they save. I can get behind that. Thanks for entertaining my thought exercise :)
$5/month VPS on Digital Ocean.
In the context of learning at work, there's a good chance they'll be trying to make some minor changes in an existing project, instead of doing something from scratch. For that they need to interact with the CVS.
NXP, Volkswagen, and Several European Projects Bet on WiFi DSRC for V2X
You could always use "Deploy keys" which are per-repo read-only SSH keys. You could set up multiple repos with the same deploy key and use the private key in GitHub Actions secrets.
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The point is that with this technology, Apple can now please both the government and Apple users that want their data in the cloud to be fully encrypted.

First they enable this technology to prove to the government that they can still scan for bad stuff, then they enable true E2E. I don't know if this is really their motivation but it sounds plausible to me.
They do, after signing serveral NDAs. There was an article here few days ago describing the process as a small hosting operator.
For years they delegated their advertising platform to a third party. Last I heard they were trying to build one in house, and I am not sure if they succeeded.
Is Apple's approach even likely to catch any pedophiles? Seems to me at most it would succeed in keeping such photos from Apple devices, which is perhaps good for their public image, but does nothing to catch predators?

It is very public now that Apple will scan for such pictures, so how many pedophiles will keep them on their phones?
Great answer! I'm adding this comment to my favorites.
I am surprised to see Tracking in Privacy Policy marked “Y” for ProtonVPN.

Why do I need to enter my email address on their app?

I just need an anonymous connection to their servers. It can be done without email (you pay and get a random ID from them).
I'm experimenting with a solution in C3 that has this behaviour. I don't have a sum type as such, but the binding acts as one. I call the binding a "failable".

int! a = getMayError();
// a is now either an int, or contains an error value.

// foo(a) is only conditionally invoked.
int! b = foo(a);

// The above works as if it was written:
// int! b = "if a has error" ? "the error of a" : foo("real value of a");

// A single if-catch with return will implicitly unwrap:
if (catch err = b) {
/* handle errors */
return;
}
/* b is unwrapped implicitly from here on and is treated as int */

if (try int x = a) {
/* conditionally execute if a isn't an error */
}

I think this is kind of formalizing the poison technique but external from the call (that is, "foo" does not need to know about "failables" or return one, the call is skipped on the caller side). Here are some more examples: http://www.c3-lang.org/errorhandling/

I'd be interested in hearing what you think about this (experimental) solution Walter.
So why didn't they make a soft keyboard you moused over and clicked to enter text the norm...
Oh man, I always thought my kid had shitty homeostasis but thought it boiled down to just having little mass, I never considered it might be an energy thing!
I think (no data again) that if he assessed digital natives by their ability to work with video - capturing, editing, self-presenting - he might actually see the difference. Assuming that they would work better with GUIs from the 90s is almost as absurd as assuming innate programming ability.
Somehow there is little reaction when white people are being shot, though (or killed in general, like the white guy who died in the same way as Georg Floyd sometime before). I think there is more to it than just accessibility.
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28143315 as well
I suppose contributing is easier with the built-in vs code editor now? (Press `.` when logged in.)

The only thing lacking is public code spaces. I can’t even try them out without paying for GitHub Teams or GitHub Enterprise.
> 1. Your comment didn't add any information—it was just grandiose, inflammatory claims ("extreme mental gymnastics", "farce to begin with" and "blatantly obvious")

"Extreme metal gymnastics" was the only inflammatory claim and it was the same language used by the person I was replying to. "Farce" has no more charitable a synonym [1] and "to begin with" does not make it any more or less inflammatory. "Blatantly obvious" - really? It was. Plenty of replies agree based on the merits of the argument. This isn't a flamewar

> 2. Replies like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28163531 are to be expected to such comments. This is the way that discussion degrades. (That was the top reply to your comment before I downweighted it, so the effect was a lot more obvious before that.)

People get defensive sometimes, so what? Take the charitable interpretation. (and this is a deflection - I was asking about my comment).

"Please stop insulting... Don't act superior..." - how in the world did that get flagged!? How does this level of genuine politeness degrade the discussion?

"No one thinks you're any smarter by saying "I told you so"." - ...really? By HN snark standards thats praise.

> 3. This entire subthread is way more generic than the better parts of the discussion. That's to be expected from inflammatory comments that don't add information. Generic threads are much more predictable and much less interesting than specific ones: ...

That's a self fulfilling judgement (see above).

Worst case I'm guilty of extreme snark. Call it a coping mechanism.

[1] https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/farce https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/facade
Can you imagine the beautiful New World we are building under the wise leadership of corporations and politicians motivated by unstoppable greed, control and power?

Can you imagine "the screeching voices of minorities with critical thinking"?

The big picture of hyperconnected future in which automated systems will decide your fate is in place and it's running well. It is not perfect. Yet. But it will be. Soon.

You will find a way to cope. As usual. As a collective. As a "exemplary citizen with nothing to hide".

"A blood black nothingness began to spin. Began to spin. Let's move on to system. System."

The system will grow. Powered by emotional reasoning created by the social engineers, paid well to package and sell "The New Faith" for the masses.

You are not consumers anymore. You are not the product anymore. You are the fuel.
Your thoughts and dreams, emotions and work are the blood of the system. You will be consumed.

"Do you get pleasure out of being a part of the system? System. Have they created you to be a part of the system? System."

Yes. The pleasure of collective truism. In the name of the "common good" - the big, the bold and the brave brush, build to remove any form of suspicion or oversight.

"A blood black nothingness. A system of cells. Within cells interlinked. Interlinked"

Wake up, Neo...
Because Venezuelans have been buying and selling things locally in black market dollars for decades, and even if they want to hold their dollars in offshore accounts, the US isn't interested in stopping them unless they're a regime insider (quite the opposite actually)

As for Maduro, he's just trying to stop capital flight.
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In the US however this division remains, even if it has been lost elsewhere. (This loss is one of the reasons I have had to never want to live in the UK nor Australia.)
"This may be more important that it at first seems."
no, because it only catches registered CSAM, however if you sent your pictures to relatives etc. and somehow someone who was into CSAM got one of your pictures and later gets arrested, your photo in their collection could theoretically be registered in the official archives - then you might have something that matches one of the hashes of a known CSAM image in your collection of images (maybe enough matches to have the police come talk to you)

on edit: later on of course this will make a great article in some place like the Atlantic with a stolid monochromatic picture of your family in the lead-in and we will all read about it on HN and talk about how this was an obvious problem with the whole system (if it gets posted at the right time and gets enough upvotes).
The concept still confuses me

But one thing I am not confused about is that I can't shake this gut feeling that electric cars are going to doom us as fast or faster than any other 'solution' we come up with

One aspect of Jevons is that electric cars make driving cheaper

Which is good

If you want a society that drives more

E-cars would also indirectly make electricity cheaper -- thru tech innovation, thus driving up demand for electricity, this causing us to ultimately use more electricity and all fuels.

The other rationale or argument against e-cars is that it is a 'tech solutionist' answer to our global warming problems

That is, there is a theory that we can 'just' employ technology to fix climate collapse

So, if an e-car saves the planet each time you drive it, then you had better drive it _a lot_.

But this looks at the single unit measure of consumption, not the systemic / epidemiological / holistic view of what e-cars are doing to us.

So, is there any more movement yet for a carbon tax since THE DISASTER REPORT came out?

Maybe its still too early.

But the Union of Concerned Scientists keep saying e-cars are better, cradle to grave, so that's that I guess.

I just feel like we are all going to burn on hell -- aka earth -- by not thinking a bit more deeply about these things.

I've heard people say, "if the rest of the oil comes up, we are all dead."

I believe it.

But is there any real push to stop drilling, etc?

Don't worry about it -- get yourself an e-car and everything will be alright.

Jevons would say that to prevent the ill effects of the paradox from kicking in, you'd have to increase the tax on electricity for every efficiency gain in generation and use that you experienced -- if you wanted to drive down electricity use.

For us, practically, I would guess that would mean for every bit of e-efficiency we gained, up the taxes on / lower the subsidies for oil/gas/methane/etc, and the opposite for 'green' energy production and use.
Why would any company supposedly worth 10B, need 400M in funding? Is there really that much massive growth going on with Reddit?
Could it be due to TeleSUR? I know there is some overlap between them and RT.
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They would not talk about this in their public messaging because it would require them to admit that their privacy policies are influenced not just by their own company morals but also by the government.

They would have to say something like "We know some users want to fully encrypt their cloud data. We also want to encrypt their data. But the government won't allow us to do it until we protect their interests in stopping child abuse and terrorism". That would contradict their marketing image of having their interests being aligned with their users'.
There have been massive conversations here about immunology and virology by confidence-men who have zero understanding of the human immune system. Even the most well educated medical scientists recognize there is a giant amount of uncertainty surrounding SARS-CoV-2, much of which confidence-men show up and attempt to resolve by lying, usually to advance some political/economic agenda.

Have some respect for the scientific process and its pursuit of slowly unraveling the fog surrounding pristine knowledge. Grow comfortable with uncertainty and don't assume you have the answers. Be a little bit humble in the face of this virus that has caused so much suffering.
Oh yeah, my two kittens (and any kittens for that matter) were notorious in this matter.

Play like nothing matters for half an hour, run, jump, sprint, crawl, scratch, everything like your life depends on it. And then just fall down on the spot for like an hour or two, followed up by a repeat of the same cycle.

It's cute to watch, but also kind of scary. They just look _empty_ after that intense a playtime.
I'd say opting for continuous, non-paginated documents might be a good indicator too. Footers are for people who print things..!
> A volatile currency with direct transaction fees ranging from $0.05-60 [edited per FreeRadical - thanks!]

You don't need to transact on-chain (i.e. settlement layer). There's a lightning network, where transactions are instantaneous, and fees are a few satoshis.

It's amusing how most Bitcoin critics focus on on-chain fees and pretend that lightning doesn't exist.

> And why did it drop 50% in a month? Because the worlds 25th largest automaker decided it was a bad medium of exchange for buying electric cars.

That wasn't the main reason. It was the China FUD and the lack of Grayscale's neutral arbitrage, which took out the biggest buyer off of the market.
I recommend SELECT, as its built on digital wellness principles.
- They make a distinction between high signal and noisy activity. For example:
- Doesn't send you notifications or activity to your inbox UNLESS its was sent to you personally, or there's activity on a post you've interacted with.
- Notifications are batched to max 1/hour or 2/day
- If you've consumed all your high signal activity, and you're still in the app a minute later, it will prompt you to lock your phone.
- No public popularity scores
- Everything is private by default, so no privacy settings but instead - opt-in exposure settings
- Based on your 3 criteria,
- Reach of Posts is limited to specific selected individuals or a single group.
- even in the group context,
- No Feed. No infinite scroll. No algorithmic recommendations.
- No Ads or other conflicts of interest.

It's early, but promising. It's community oriented & only works by invitation, so here's one if you're keen to try -
https://scholer.select.id/jdlj
But does the location really matter? At this rate its cloud service providers up next.
Nonsense. Building an entire system as opposed to adding a single image to a database is a substantially different level of effort. In the US at least this was used successfully as a defense. The US cannot coerce companies build new things on their behalf because it would effectively create "forced speech" which is forbidden by the US Constitution. However they can be coerced if there is minimal effort like adding a single hash to a database.
I guess war isn't all peaches and roses. Our era's Vietnam, but even more shameful on our governments behalf.
The alternative is not always better. When judging a country's success, we always assume 'if you change, you become US's standard of living', while in reality, things are always complicated.
They could also use a decentralized stablecoin that doesn't rely on fiat backing, like RAI, if they fear potential regulatory crackdowns on USD-backed stablecoin use in their country.

Though so far US government authorities have been supportive of USD-based stablecoin use by people living under repressive anti-US governments, even going as far as facilitating transfers of USDC, via Ethereum, to medical and humanitarian groups in Venezuela: https://www.coindesk.com/circle-usdc-venezuela-airtm
Bitcoin doesn’t scale as they will soon find out!

$10 fee on every transaction and an immutable 7tps. LN is joke.
Yes, sure, we can go mine the bottom of the oceans and extract it by centrifuging ocean waters, that probably would give us marginally more than a doubling of margin.
Point remains: reserves are exhaustible, an exponential consumption may not be desirable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#:~:text=As%20of%2....
> Do not implement end-to-end encrypted communications for accounts where a user has indicated they are under 18 years old.

It's repulsive how the NCMEC is pushing to deprive minors of privacy and agency, while simultaneously claiming to advocate for their benefit.
If your app depends on postgres, the current habits to state in the readme you have to install it and setup it yourself.

That's not packaging.

Goog packaging deals with that for you.
Client-side scanning? As in they can scan what is stored offline on a personal computer? Or is it just their cloud?
Oh, right, mea culpa. I just copy&pasted this from a tweet and didn't notice the added ://.
Doing it the way you describe requires an Apple ID, which requires a phone number and email address, and also transmits your unchangeable hardware serial number (a supercookie) to Apple when you launch the App Store.

I believe it also requires that system integrity protection not be disabled, so any other Apple spyware in macOS (eg serial-linked APNS phone-home) cannot be disabled.
I prefer using VPN based in countries that are NOT based in USA/EU and that are not friendly to USA/EU -> Russia, China, Myanmar, Iran etc.
Given that the case was initiated by the website owner (CBS) who claimed that the documents were in a private, password-protected directory, I'd say the falsely-accused campaigner (Mr Hutchinson) has good grounds for a civil suit against CBS.
I understand your points, but it's important to understand that humans ARE Turing Machines. We don't know of anything that CAN be computed bit can't be computed by a Turing Machine, so General AI would be a Turing Machine.

The Turing Machine model is specifically designed to abstract what a human (mathematician) does: you have a notebook (tape) and some kind of working memory inside your head, and at any one time you can either read something from the notebook and change the state in your head, or you can write something new in the notebook. This is what a TM does - it is an extremely abstract description of what it means to think, basically.
> You don't need to transact on-chain (i.e. settlement layer). You can use a lightning network, where transactions are instantaneous, and fees are a few satoshis.

Sure, however LN is not sufficient because it requires an on-chain transaction to open a channel. To open a channel for everyone on earth would cost up to a third of a trillion dollars and take over 75 years, plus or minus deaths and births. Like getting a phone line in the Soviet Union. Further, complexity of routing is quadratic and will quickly exceed our patience.

> It's amusing how most Bitcoin critics focus on on-chain fees and pretend that lightning doesn't exist.

Well, that's because the underlying that LN is strapped to is so incredibly inefficient LN is a rounding error at the limit.
You can indeed tell how tired and old the complaint is by the nature of what it complains about.

In 2021 we are instead lumbered with inconsistent support for hidpi displays, lack of DTMF in linphone, and Evolution’s option to disable pc beep on new message being a plugin.

But that was just the last week. Next week will be better and the fight for freedom is indeed an eternal struggle.
This shows one of the few uses of Bitcoin: evading the law (in this case the US-embargo)
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What kind of hot garbage is this?

> the Word module

I have used Word between 1994 and the late 2000s, and then I stuck with my copy of Word 97 (or 2000), and it didn't yet have the changes/comments function yet (afaik, or I never used it). So by adopting too early and writing my stuff in latex I failed this arbitrary test. Great ;)

More seriously though, this shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who is of that age. While some of us learned the ins and outs of computers in the late 90s, the bulk of our classmates could write an email and that's that. Maybe my generation where I live (in the VERY narrow sense, of being +/- 3 years old) was especially lucky as somehow the web just came to prominence when we were in our teens and it was so new and everyone was excited that you at least got an email address and used computers at school for a bit. But real knowledge was rare, so I can imagine even 5 years later there was less incentive and it's already been some kind of commodity...
It is absurd because societies which do not restrict pay like that will outcompete societies that do restrict pay like that.

Your brain surgeons will leave and you will be left with the other guy. Which may be fine for you but many Americans do not want that and consequently find things that would bring that about absurd.
I figured the "made us an offer we couldn't refuse" was "they offered money even though we're killing the site off so we cashed in just in case, my salary is a cool milly a month now"
> Bitcoin was a saviour for many ordingary folk in Venezuela during the hyperinflation crisis.

During a hyperinflation crisis everything that isn't money appreciates rapidly by definition. This means the often touted usefulness of bitcoin as "inflation hedge" is rather meaningless, because literally any asset that isn't money is an "inflation hedge". The shoes that I'm wearing right now are an "inflation hedge" just as good as bitcoin. In fact they're a better inflation hedge than bitcoin because their price is more predictable.
Knocking everyone down to achieve equality is not desirable.

Not desirable in terms of average income, just desirable for the majority of citizens.