skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get stuffed!

Snowden made the ultimate sacrifice for the USA and its Constitution.

I was put in a similar situation at one time: I was read-into a top secret program and the only part that required that level of clearance was:

"We are intentionally breaking the law and going against expressed Congressional cancelation of the project by continuing to fund using a slush fund created from black project funding that isn't on the public record".

I was faced with the same situation Snowden faced: 1) whistle blow about it, 2) cooperate with it by aiding and abetting illegal acts that could easily be considered treason, or 3) quit and have nothing to do with it.

I took the last option which is almost as cowardly as going along but marginally more moral. I've never worked on any DOD program since and I will not help or work on any DOD program ever.

Snowden went above and beyond in what he did and he was right in a very SELF-sacrificial way. He's a hero for that.

The fucking CCP does not exist, clown! Russia is more of Christian nation now than either the US is now or than the CCP ever was! Giving sanctuary like this is far more Christian that what anyone would get for the US government in the last few decades.

He'd likely be killed before he makes it to trial if he comes back so honestly I don't blame him. I'm sure he sees the irony of this because CORRECTLY it doesn't make the US seem like the bastion of freedom, due process or good. Because if you haven't noticed, the country is not remotely living up to its own founding principles or Constitution particularly recently.

Yeah, "why worry; I've done nothing wrong". That's NOT how reality works - you can be prosecuted/persecuted even doing "nothing wrong." From my experience it's only a matter of time and sheep like you will be the first to be sacrificed.
You better have the self-delusive ability to love and cherish that over-engineered system, because you will go from "not enough to do" to "can't keep up with the business because every little change requires 40 hours of heads-down work" in no time flat.
Indeed. The requirement that the content be "U.K.-linked" is particularly worrying, because a regulator may decide that images of British-made bombs being used in foreign war crimes is not a sufficient link, or similarly images of protesters being crushed in a country that Britain wants to do a trade deal with.

Even if the politically-appointed regulator never explicitly states what bias these platforms should have, there's the danger that the platforms might pre-emptively adopt a bias as a plausibly deniable quid pro quo to avoid anti-trust investigations or a strict application of a digital services tax.
My library was never that big, but I knew people who had ones at least that size and didn't have any complaints, although given your last sentence it may be relevant to note they were all Mac users. The three-column browser view seemed to work very well for "drilling down" in collections, at least for me. (That browser's actually still in Music, even though it's unnecessarily hidden under the Songs view.)

> It always felt like straight up malware on Windows with all the QuickTime update prompts.

I'm not positive QuickTime was the source of an awful lot of Windows iTunes' badness, but I have strong suspicions. :)
TLDR:

defaults write com.apple.coreservices.uiagent CSUIHasSafariBeenLaunched -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.coreservices.uiagent CSUIRecommendSafariNextNotificationDate -date 2050-01-01T00:00:00Z
defaults write com.apple.coreservices.uiagent CSUILastOSVersionWhereSafariRecommendationWasMade -float 99.99
> There's a reason the crew has four point restraints, and I'd like to have it too.

Isnt it because their seats are facing the other way?
I completely agree and you could prove it with a study.

You would just have to answer for what percentage of those call did the responding parties (dispatch, the officer responding and the person calling it in) thought there was a need for armed police.

I am willing to be that while only 5% turn out to need armed police, most of those 5% where uncertain, and a % far greater than that where armed police weren't needed, where very uncertain.

It's just not possible to predict when you need to be armed.

However, if you go down this line it is also not possible to predict when having a gun on your hip is going to make it more difficult to resolve the issue.

There is a tradeoff here that is very hard to make policy around. Something that is being tried is for there to be unarmed medical oriented mental health response units available for calls that don't seem uncertain. I think the data coming out of these changes will change the way big cities operate their departments one day.

> This is in reference to American standards of care, other countries may be different.
Most casual language learners underestimate the time and effort required to get anywhere close to fluent in a language.

"Casual" will never get you there.

If you're seeking functional fluency, expect to spend 2-3 hours a day for 1-3 years at least. Most of those hours should be spent consuming content in the target language.

Check out a system like Refold for an idea of the effort required and how to plan your study https://refold.la/roadmap

I've only learned one foreign language so far, Spanish, and I started 10 years ago in highschool.

I made the greatest leaps in my ability when I spent 2-3 months at a time spending time like this:

- living in Spanish-speaking country

- reading and watching YouTube (10-20 hours/week)

- taking private lessons (1-3 hours/week)

- using spaced repetition systems (3-4 hours/week)

Living in a country where your target language is spoken makes learning opportunities more accessible, but without focused effort you won't just "pick up the language" unless it's already very close to a language you speak.

All that said, anyone can learn a language if they put the effort in. It's mostly "hard" only in the sense that it takes a lot of time. Most of your study time could be watching TV, reading books, talking to friends, or playing video games as long as they're in your target language and near your limit of comprehension. It should be as much as 80% fun stuff/20% studying to keep yourself motivated.
I think it's pretty ridiculous. There is no reason to believe (and several reasons to doubt) that algorithms are any better or more fair than humans.
For the centipede demon fight the camera IS the boss
It's still registered though. Check any .nl domain on https://sidn.nl/en (you could try to put 'rop' in the 'check domain name' box), you just need to set a checkmark and agree to the Google terms of service to resolve their captcha and off you go.
> As GPLv3 was getting developed (in secret largely)

The above is incorrect. GPLv3 was developed via a completely open process of development, documented very well here:

https://opensource.com/article/18/6/gplv3-anniversary

Apple lawyers participated. From the above link:

"Lawyers representing vendors' and commercial users' interests provided useful suggestions for improvements from a legal and commercial perspective, but these often took the form of making simply worded provisions more verbose, arguably without net increases in clarity.
..
One lasting contribution of GPLv3 concerns changed expectations for how revisions of widely-used FOSS licenses are done. It is no longer acceptable for such licenses to be revised entirely in private, without opportunity for comment from the community and without efforts to consult key stakeholders."
> I don't buy into the argument that if those people limited their travel and consumption then all of the sudden the non-believers will start believing.

"All of a sudden" was not claimed.

> There's just no evidence that's an effective way to have societal impact.

No evidence, or none that you are aware of? Also, evidence is not required for something to be true.

> and it doesn't mean that if they did pay more others would follow.

It could be achieved via legislation, which is to some degree influenced by public sentiment, which is to some degree influenced by the manner in which we discuss and conceptualize reality.
Yes, it does. Better get some more head count for that.
Not sure Chinese authorities have thought this through.

If the video game ban is strictly enforced, but 996 ban is not strictly enforced, that's a recipe for a lot of social discontent down the line.
Cool, I'll keep that in mind if I ever buy a time machine
Decision pending for 5 years? That sounds... about right for the federal bureaucracy.
Firstly: Is the system actually "stacked against you" or does it provide better quality of life for everybody? Yes, there are people with disproportionately more, but even the people at the bottom are better off under this system than many others, including communism.

Secondly: are people at the bottom, whose skills include things like "putting stuff on shelves" and "asking if you want fries with that" actually building a career? No.

Thirdly: those people all have the freedom to start their own companies. Unfortunately, what people will find is that it's a lot of work and a lot of risk. So they don't. And then complain about inequity.

Lots of complaining, very little effort into actually improving their own lives.

This isn't to say our system is perfect, cause it ain't. But by and large people aren't complaining because their life sucks, they're complaining because someone has more than them.
It is a small quibble with the title. But Facebook is warring against switching by embracing switching costs.

They are not waging a "War on [attempting to eliminate] Switching Costs".
The search 2 filter thing is useful in some circumstance, like when you’re not sure exactly what keywords you’re looking for. You use the main, fast search as a broad phase and then rapidly try a few filters to narrow it down. Of course, if there was a way to just reuse your search window instead of opening a new one that would also work…

What really gets my goat is that there’s no way to make search go directly to the ‘show as email list’ view. I used to have an add on to do it but it’s no longer compatible.
> "Soy milk" entered the English language (as "soy-bean milk") in an 1897 USDA report.
I truly believe their are two kind of appreciators of art in the world.

1. People who like realism, photoshopped pictures, GGI in media, etc.

vs.

2. Modern art, film noir, Black & white classical movies, etc.

If you give the second a chance, you might be suprised what your imagination does. I used to be kinda a #1 guy with the exception of bad action filmed CGI movies, but completely changed as the years went by. I've even gotten to the point where I think color in film has ruined a lot of movies, along with digital.
Amen to this. I got an OP-1 for myself for my birthday this past year. I was interested in it because of joy, and I enjoy using it because of joy. It is hard to put a price on that aspect of it as an object, and it goes well beyond a BOM, a microcontroller firmware, more capable gear for less money, or an unconstrained software implementation of the same that continues to have me sit in front of yet another screen and try to free my mind. It's not for everyone, and if it's not for you, don't buy it and move on.
Apple shouldn't be allowed to develop a web browser or have an app store.

Google shouldn't be allowed to have a web browser, and its ads business should be split off from search.

They creep into synergies slowly, but it reaches really deep.

These companies have become grocery stores and movie production companies! Apple is now rumored to be building cars. In a decade they'll be cleaning our teeth and selling us our homes.

They tell us to dance to their beat or get cut off. Pay their 30% on our measly margins. Enough is enough. They can't soak into every aspect of our lives.
SEC Advances Broad Theory of Required Disclosures of Cybersecurity Incidents
> Is this possible due to the technicalities in regulations? Since they're paying a better price, it's OK that they purchase the order from Robinhood and fill it themself? The order didn't hit the "open market" or whatever we'd consider it. It was filled before then, but the best price on the open market was less than what was filled for, regulators are happy.

Sort of. It’s because the MM know that it’s retail order flow. Let’s say we forced all the volume to a lit exchange. The MM might not be willing to pay 10c (the fact that they don’t proves this) because when a fund comes in to sell, it won’t be just 100 shares. It will be 1mm shares, and so MM don’t want to quote sharp prices and then get run over with a huge order.

People think it’s MM ripping off retail. It’s not. It’s MM giving better prices to retail and ripping off professional traders.
Have you considered stealing some FAANG jobs?
You could give Vivaldi a try
Ah! But crontab.guru is such a beautiful UI/UX! I'd argue it offers the user everything it needs to perform what it needs to perform.

I will painfully admit I hassle with going from PT/PDT --> UTC more than I should, but after a while it was pretty easy to commit a simple number of hours (+7/8, depending on daylight savings timing) to memory.

I used to use [Hour](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hour-world-clock/id569089415?m...) for MacOS to avoid this problem; I'm sure there's a similar or native solution for Windows & Linux as well.
So you're entire counterargument is a "what if"... fail. None of this has ever happened in the US, or even came close. Because there would be an outrage if so.
Energy descent is another interesting angle - We know for a fact that the rate of replacement of fossil fuels is orders of magnitude below the rate at which we've been consuming it, and that there is no equal which will allow our energy-rich lifestyles to continue.

This implies at a certain point we descend to a less energy-rich lifestyle because we have no alternatives. What that descent looks like, graceful or painful, is an open question. As is exactly when it would happen - Folks were convinced peak oil was just around the corner but reality is a bit less simple.
Indeed, the effects is not the right way to go about it. Perhaps looking at the health statistics (and car accident statistics due to alcohol) would be a better way to compare the severity of the two problems
You can speak whatever language you want on the air so long as you identify every ten minutes and at the end of your transmission. The ITU regulations for radio call signs cover their format however and use the Latin alphabet. Call books are also public so anyone can look up the stations and know who you are.

Speaking in shorthand to be clear and concise over the radio is fine. Even using terms of art or abbreviations is likely fine. If you're explicitly coding your communication to obfuscate its meaning you're definitely going to run afoul on the ban of encryption.

Part of the reason for no encryption on ham bands is there's precious little bandwidth available and unintelligible signals (intentionally obfuscated) are tantamount to interference. As a listener I can't reasonably tell if an encrypted signal is noise or a genuine call. I also can't reasonably receive a call sign so I can't know who is transmitting.
Where I live we don't have any tracks.

Bikes are impractical, terrain is stupidly hilly, some places even cars struggle.

As for buses... they are not useful for me because often the reason why I am taking out the car in first place (usually I just walk everywhere) is because I am going to supermarket (and our inflation-prone economy favors you making a huge purchase once per month, instead of many small purchases)

It is no wonder in a capital city nearby, there are so many cars that the area used by all cars is bigger than the area of all roads and streets combined.
They should be allowed to develop anything they want. What they shouldn’t be allowed to do is to abuse their control of the platforms they own, to give them unfair advantage over competition.
25 here. Got rid of FB about 5 years ago. Never looked back. Never been happier. It’s actually cancer for your mental health.
Same (not SV, average programmer), but I am paid well enough now. But it took 15-20 years to catch up to my SV friends. And only because I now work for a SV HQ'd company.
True, but is the distinction between fact and opinion plausibly important, even if the conversation is casual?
Today also I've been trying to figure out how to disable the "enable iCloud" notification that keeps popping up on MacOS too.
To see Apple's reply, you have to click "Helpful Answers ⬇" and select "All Replies." There, you can see the response from "ManJor," an Apple Community Specialist.

For your convenience, here's what ManJor wrote:

> Hello arjangch,

> We would like to see how we can help you with your Mac. Have you clicked on try now? This will be the easiest way to stop the notification. If you restart the Mac, does the issue return? Follow the steps in this link to restart the Mac: [Log out, sleep, wake, restart, or shut down your Mac][1]

> Cheers!

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/log-out-sleep-wake-...
There's too many checks and balances in the US government. ex. The opposing party in congress has powers on the committees to investigate things, etc. State govs have powers etc.
Watch Disney’s Fantasia (both of them). They’re a bit of a who’s who of classical music and a good jumping board to find more stuff. The first one is also an animation tour de force (the second is pretty damn good too, but not as groundbreaking)
I was reading a recent article on the NSTB's increased focus on reducing injuries from airplane turbulence and was surprised how low the baseline currently is.

"Accidents on U.S. airlines have become increasingly rare except for one category of in-flight mishap that has remained stubbornly prevalent: turbulence that leads to serious injuries.

More than 65% of severe injuries — or 28 of 43 — logged by U.S. accident investigators from 2017 through 2020 on airliners resulted from planes encountering bumpy skies, triggered by atmospheric conditions that could be worsening due to climate change."

Sure, let's reduce injuries. But 7 serious injuries per year seems quite good already compared to injuries from other forms of transportation. I wonder how many people are injured on shuttle buses to airports that lack seat belts. I'd have to guess it's more than that.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/turbulence-continues-t...
Did you ever check out the Chandler Project?

https://www.chandlerproject.org/
What exactly is that? Are you a musician?

EDIT: Oh wow, 1121 EUR? I'm no longer curious :P
Ah, yet another cost of our demand that people social signal to us.

Do people still respect people in a suit and tie anymore? Granted, I have a bias as a techie, but my reaction is very much "why are you trying to manipulate me?"
I love using wide angle lenses, but yes, some of them have distortion that will make people look weird. You also need to know that you have to get super close to your subject to fill the frame for a traditional portrait framing.

To check out a good example for a movie, watch The Frighteners of doing traditional close ups with wide angles. This allows for normal framing of your talent while giving lots of room in the frame for the background gags.
As someone who doesn't listen to classical music, I'd say I prefer Furtwängler's recording to your other link. It sounds more epic, like an action movie, while the other one sounds more like the backdrop to some village festival. But I was surprised for sure how different the two sounded, and that's not something I had ever really considered before, so thanks for showing me this.
You can find those all over Spotify already ;) More so if the artist does not have any music on there.
This is definitely something that has been and continues to be investigated, and if it was workable the industry would definitely be keen on it. As of now it’s experimental, tho.
I think if you end up in that situation because of overengineering your engineering is not very good in the first place.

Even overengineered systems should be simple to change.
Of course a domain is registered if it's registered.

It's just that different countries offer different degrees of privacy for the holder.
Nifty Corporates
Exactly, better said! I didn’t mean to imply that riders are reckless, just that the reckless are attracted to bikes.
No. CRC32 doesn't care what you throw at it. It is related to speed of building a "database", for lack of a better word, of the file. Instead of CRC32 entire file, you just get chunks of it, increasing the speed. However this approach it's definitely flawed as there are plenty of file types that have the beginning and the end identical, so only the readings/CRC32 of the middle section might be actually useful. But CRC32 has a lower space hence collisions have higher chance to happen.

The better approach might be, for same size files, to just Seek(FileSize div 2) and read 32 bytes from there. If those are identical with another file then start a full file comparison until one character diverges then stop. If multiple files are having these same middle bytes then maybe do, for each file, a full SHA256 and compare those.

Also, as other commenters pointed, you might have same info but meta is different (videos, pictures, etc) so that needs to be implemented as well.
The definition of "abuse" is slippery and companies can stay far ahead of the judges. The classic solution for this is to separate the incentives, let different companies compete for users rather than having a single company leverage its strength from product to product to product. Then users can decide what is "abuse" for themselves.
Yes. The easiest way to stop the problem is to comply.
Why do people hate product managers?
I have thought about this before. As someone who would never use Facebook, I want to judge the Facebook—centric view of the web, but then I think about how I live my entire online existence around an RSS reader (Feedly in my case). There’s obviously a level of manipulation in Facebook that isn’t present in an RSS reader, but I understand the mindset of setting a central portal in the online world.
I've looked a few times into what it would cost for a "decent" camera that beats my smartphone, across a range of compacts through to entry level mirror-less, or even looking into what it would cost me to get some more lenses for an old 500D I have lying around.

I've come to the same conclusions each time, that I'm better off sticking with the smart phone camera in terms of value for money, there's simply not enough to pull me back to the dedicated camera world, despite part of me really wanting to go back.
There's no way of authenticating actions that way. Everyone will just cheat and break the game.
They should give this as evidence in the Apple vs Epic case.
On Hreha on Behavioral Economics
Why we don't do daily stand-ups
Jeff Goldblum told me that there was no step 3...
Thanks for the explanation! When I read the article, I felt the last step is much more complex than it is said. It seems like you confirmed this point.

I will be very excited to see a post on how these aesthetic improvements are made!
I had not heard of "keep talking" but here's a video of it being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYunaBkn9Ng
Young people haven't been on the receiving end of enough algorithms.
What you're saying sounds promising but I have no idea how to implement it - any articles about it that contain algorithms?
Ah, thanks, I assumed that was autocorrect madness.
Would you please contextualize your experience? What specific claims are you making and for what age groups?
I keep hearing about org mode but want to avoid emacs unless its really worth it. Is there a youtube or demo to show what it actually does? I'm pretty happy with a couple of text files, I'm not sure what I'm missing out on.
> In a decade they'll be cleaning our teeth and selling us our homes.

Good. I am not very happy with my teeth cleaning or home buying options at the moment.