skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an Australian context at least, COVID has absolutely nothing to do with this. The Federal Government in Australia has passed more surveillance and ostensibly “anti-terrorism” laws (funnily enough they’re mostly used on whistleblowers) since 9/11 than any other country, despite basically never having a “real” terrorist attack on our soil. The laws started getting worse and the bills more frequent when a certain politician was given a cabinet portfolio with massive power a few years pre-COVID (Home Affairs, a cobbled together super-department with little oversight that is incompetently run).

On the other hand, COVID related restrictions are directives that only have authority all under a temporary declared ‘state of emergency’ in each state, by the State Governments. They literally have no on-going effect once those state of emergencies end, unlike the 86 or so permanent surveillance/ “anti-terror” laws the Federal Governments have passed over the last 20 years (which is why I’m really hoping to get the opposition into minority Government next election so the minor parties can push for repeals and reworking of the whole mess).
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By "share structure" they mean (the various degrees of) analogy - a widely-known concept that has been made rigorous within the framework of category theory (via the notion of a functor).
Add to this - it's a more convenient approve button for my 2FA app, and Audible app.
The CCP’s Tutoring Crackdown and Political Risks in China

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It does have pretty nasty flares...
If that 5% figure is correct then this is pretty amazing.

Do you automatically get regen if you're going downhill? Some ebikes require backwards pedalling to trigger that.

I'd been looking at belt drives which apparently aren't as efficient as a well lubed clean chain, but may perform better than a neglected chain.
This is hyper partisan bullshit. The democrats have 100% always been in total support of trading security for freedom.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

Republicans have only recently woken up from this due to the absolute madness coming out of the left.

I was a democrat who voted for Biden and has only donated to democrats though I likely never will again.
Not so effectively if they're far out from the sun.
Yes. I use Nextdns (which is a PiHole in the cloud) with a recent Samsung TV, and it can block ads while all smart TV services work just fine.
It makes sense to have single standard. Denmark and Finland use yet another called MobilePay. So there clearly is cottage industry of these by the banks themselves.
> I don't know about America, but when comparing payment infrastructure in Europe vs. Asia, I'm always amazed at how bad the EU is.

Europe, Asia, EU... why make such meaningless generalizations?

Have you ever done banking in Japan?

> Even if I'm using this "immediate payment system", I'm pretty sure my local bank will still delay my payment by a few days "because they are used to do it that way".

You realize there are EU directives behind the standards implemented by banks? SCT Inst has to be operated 24/7, and transfers available at the receiving end within 10 seconds.
I'm always surprised that more people don't just use antennas. For truly local channels, it's generally going to work and be a one-time cost to get things going instead of a monthly one. Plus (if it matters to you) the video quality will generally exceed getting the channel via most other methods.

As you mention, some situations may not have reception due to special circumstances--and for them, I understand--but I think many people just don't think of just using an antenna these days. Or maybe they just want to hit the easy button and pay the monthly fee. (?)
And in Sweden there's Swish. The writing is on the wall, if it's not this initiative there'll be another I'm sure, sooner or later.
seems to be the top? no?
If you JUST want a pedometer, heart rate and sleep monitor that syncs with Apple Health and can also send push notifications when in Bluetooth range of your phone... then the going price on Amazon right now is around $30-35. For something that looks nearly identical to an Apple Watch, and has a battery life of 7-10 days. And for which you can find non-proprietary metal or leather replacement bands for ten to twenty bucks.

It's insane at this point. I resisted getting a smartwatch for years, because I like the aesthetics of traditional analog watches, and did not want to charge a battery every day or two. Especially when the cheaper options a few years ago often required you to disassemble the band to reveal a USB male plug for charging, instead of just attaching a magnet to the back.

But for "starter" smartwatches, prices have fallen and quality risen to the point now where you can try one out as a next-to-free impulse purchase, and just shrug and move on if it's not for you.

Now I'm hooked on it. I don't so much care about push notifications for calls and emails, etc (i.e. my phone is already right there). But it's pushed me to walk about twice as many steps per day as I used to, and get about an hour more sleep per night. I've lost over 20 pounds since buying mine six months ago, from no conscious lifestyle changes beyond that. Plus the aesthetics have grown on me, so I don't think I'll ever be going back. On the other hand, I wouldn't even consider "upgrading" to a true Apple Watch until their battery life improves 5-10x.
I loved how it had precise examples of bit flipping because of cosmic rays, and its consecuences.
Its probably fair to say that tech was less abused in that era, not that people were less paranoid about it. Your run of the mill telemetry would have been considered spyware (a term that's nearly dead) back in the day.
Maybe Australia was always a surveillance state, and instead, we are just now becoming aware of it?
> Why should I read these decades, centuries, millennia old books as a beginner [1]? In no other field are beginners asked to read old primary texts.

I think there are a few reasons:

1) I can't explain why, but, unlike physics or math, distillations and commentaries often miss key points and insights, and not uncommonly badly misrepresent works. Reading one then the other makes this clear. It's also the case that the canonical works are often (not always!) well-written, so difficult to improve on—possibly this is a side-effect of how philosophy works, as a field.

2) (I think this one's very important) Historical works of philosophy (which, see above, also have a tendency to be quite good for what they are) are, in themselves, a bit like exercises in math. Skipping wrestling with (at least a good number of) them is like trying to learn multivariate calculus without having yet put pencil to paper and worked through any exercises, for any kind of math, your entire life. In math, you have to do the work, to learn the material. Critically reading touchstone works in philosophy is philosophy's equivalent of doing the exercises, to a substantial degree.

3) The way philosophy has developed is kinda like rap: a lot of it won't make any damn sense—or, worse, will seem like it does, but actually you're getting entirely the wrong idea—unless you're familiar with the work of the person this track's responding to, and then that one is also part of a larger conversation, et c. Maybe that's a bad way for it to have developed, but that's what we've got.
I don't know. If it's actually going to happen, I somewhat like the idea. You transform the money directly into action without losing a good chunk of it in state bureaucracy, without corruption where bureaucrats hand out subsidies for favors, and probably much more quickly and efficiently.

If it happens, that is. It might also just be a way to funnel money to party apparatchiks in a more direct manner.
Interesting. To me, Facebook and other social media sites are most definitely not the Internet and don't really prevent anyone from being able to conduct free speech, since you can always go outside these places. (This very conversation is happening outside them!) Facebook is a for-profit business and we've seen these come and go over the years. Yahoo was ubiquitous once; now it's in some hedge fund's portfolio.

There will always be a place for people to express themselves, but it may not always be as convenient as some would like. But the Constitution does not require convenience or free amplification services.
TLDR Fleetbase Storefront will be available as a Shopify app, essentially allowing you to manage your store from Shopify.

The Shopify integration is currently a work in progress, but will allow you to use all the on-demand and features of Fleetbase & Storefront while allowing you to manage your products, categories etc from Shopify. Your ad-hoc orders will bing through Fleetbase to your agents or drivers giving you the best of both worlds.
The greek alphabet has existed since 800 BC, which is when Affinity Client Services invented it. Clearly their trademark has not expired yet
I have LA library card and I don't live in LA. So here are the details on their page[1]:

How do I get a library card?

"To receive a library card you can fill out an application in person at any Los Angeles Public Library location, or download the application form , fill it out and bring it in to any location, or pre-register over the Internet by visiting the Library's Web Pre-Registration Page. If you only want access to online resources, and are a resident of the City of Los Angeles, you can get an eCard online. Library cards are free for California residents."

[1] https://www.lapl.org/faq/how-do-i-get-library-card

Looks like they allow you to get a library card in person at the library if you're not living in LA. They just don't allow you to get the card online. I got my Card when I visited their main library in LA.
There is scope under the GDPR for much larger fines if the misbehavior continues.
When you outlaw being anonymous then only outlaws will be anonymous.
I like to think it’d be something like the planet Kricket https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Krikkit
As a Canadian I hope this doesn’t come here, though it seems to be creeping in year by year, and as you said it could be entrenched in two generations.

I always thought of Aussies as flippant and carefree, but rugged and hardworking. It seems like there is a new streak of nanny-statism and parochial mindedness similar to ‘Little Englanders’ in the UK; but knowing a little bit about your political history, maybe it was always there among the affluent colonial class vs the farmers and herders.
> Severely controlling kids access to video games etc..

As I understand it, the games to which they're controlling access are basically gambling and designed to be addictive.
The “horse drug” meme is so stupid. It has treated on the order of billions of humans IIUC
> Are you suggesting that the Wikipedia page is wrong

I knew this question would come up. The problem with Wikipedia isn't that it's wrong. It's that it's usually technically correct, and that it takes an expert in the topic to point out where articles, while not stating anything factually incorrect, nevertheless fail to accurately convey understanding of the topic.

In other words, Wikipedia is usually "right enough" for many topics, especially non-controversial ones, that people generally accept it as correct.

Things like the NPOV rule mean that you often see bogus "all sides" content, the lack of enforcement of the reliability guidelines for sources, and so forth make it possible for articles to obfuscate reality.

In this case, we have people pointing to Wikipedia saying "look, it's approved for human use" and citing other sources as a way to intentionally confuse and raise doubt about whether or not the drug is effective for COVID-19.

In fact, no studies have shown it has any value for COVID, but the misinformation is to ignore that and keep pointing out that it's not just a horse de-wormer, that it's approved for certain uses in humans, and encourage the reader to wonder if maybe the FDA can't be trusted, or that experts on SARS-COV-2 are wrong, and so forth.

It's the same tactics used by the tobacco companies, as I mentioned, and also global warming denialists and proponents of DDT. I recommend reading Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change

And stop quoting Wikipedia.

Arguing over what Ivermectin can or can't do or how that fact is presented is simply a way to keep the discussion "in doubt".

Ivermectin has no therapeutic value for COVID-19 and in the form commonly available as a veterinary medication can be harmful. End of story.
Yeah. Honestly, the email from the legal team reads as if it was written by a human who couldn’t believe it either.
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Of course, this is one of the use cases we planned for to allow medical professionals to essentially launch their own app for out-patient appointments or even pharmaceutical deliveries to those unable to come to pharmacies.
Systems programming language that's safer than C++, just as performant and has lots of functional goodies.
Do they have a say where they can invest that money? Or the Chinese government will dictate that?
I dont know what you think India’s demographic looks like. But you will rarely even find a middle class person buying a 20k USD car.
Majority of the population wouldn’t even go above 10k.
There's also the pessimistic view that we will actually lose progress and regress over time. Jonathan Blow has an interesting talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
Unless it does.
Does it works with docker compose files? Thats why i still use docker these days tbh
Not really, Alex Jones got famous by opposing the Iraq War.
Starship is definitely big enough to carry up a third stage.
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Check out this section of the SEP entry on Category Theory:

3. Philosophical Significance
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/

I suspect a lot of the formal work on ontology involves CT.
Hard disagree. We need to apply taxes and laws fairly, and uniformly. This is the philosophical underpinning of our entire system.

Thankfully, the US constitution forbids Bills of Attainder.
My guess is some bean counting VP found out and took it away.
USA banking is usually a few years behind Canada, and 10 years behind Europe when it comes to adopting new technology.

In Europe the last time I saw a cheque was in the early 90's, and they are still used in Canada for things like rent.

I also remember traveling to the states in 2016 with my tap-enabled credit card, blowing people's minds in shops. All their equipment was ready for tap, but no US cards had it yet.

It also surprised me that things like Venmo have a reason to exist! I don't think many Americans know how bad they have it terms of banking tech.
Your ID wouldn't disappear from your wallet, though. It would probably just show an alert. Either way, the cops would have to check the validity of your license/ID. They don't just accept IDs at face value unless they're only verifying something like your age.
I mean, it's better than nothing, but it seems needlessly messy vs a supertax on giant companies.
That's a way to describe pretty much all container things in a superficial way.
Fee for instant transfers is optional, my bank charges me 0€ during normal banking hours and 0,10€ outside banking hours.
Yes, I thought they were an outstanding service. I probably won't bother with local TV at all at this point; I'm certainly not paying confiscatory rates to consume it, and there's little other than local news I can't get elsewhere.
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I just started learning Elixir, Crystal is another language that I want to try at some point. From the first looks of it, it is not going to be that hard to learn (like Haskell or Rust). Lucky framework also seems interesting. I don't think I'd need some niche library for my personal projects at least, but it would be nice to know what one is getting into.

I haven't looked at other languages seriously - at the moment Elixir and Crystal seem to be the most interesting to me
I don't understand why people with a large audience feel compelled to weigh in on things that they don't know anything about. It makes sense when it's entertainment but when it comes to medicine and investment advice it seems ill-advised. But hey, Joe Rogan and Jim Cramer have been making buckets of money doing what they do. Maybe it falls into the category of "you get the universe you deserve?"
Why do you say that? Are you familiar with the OPs situation? Have you used aggregates?
I would assume that, if anyone owned the greek alphabet , it would be greeks
Any CA resident can apply but you must be in-person to receive a card if it is not your home library.
if this can be made lo-tech, without any software and hi-tech gadgetry, then it's a killer.. even if 10-20% less efficient. Most people don't need racing.. It won't need any gears and switching them anymore, as electrical motors have mostly same torque on whole range ; The force of pushing pedals does not need to match the uphill - as long there's something in battery ; And one can keep pushing downhill regardless of speed, and that energy will not be wasted..
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I don't understand why I need to wear my watch 24 hours a day. I wake up, put it on and wear it until I go to bed. While it is charging it is my nightstand clock.

Other than the nightstand clock thing, this is how I wear my "real" watches too.
Eventually we should see some convergence and interoperability between these systems: https://empsa.org

But EPI solves a different issue.
I think India's demographic is very poor compared to the developed world. I believe my top comment communicated this ("Change doesn't occur marketing and selling to those with no purchasing power"). The poor have no purchasing power. EVs may be out of reach to your median Indian for some time. As a rapidly expanding business, you have to go where the revenue and margin is.
Isn’t that exactly what we are doing? (-slightly, as we would need to define the threshold)
> the legislation they passed within 24 hours allowing police to read/delete/edit social media posts of anybody without warrants

You can't be serious. I hope you're not being serious.
Is there an axiom of your personal philosophy that causes you to conclude that something must persist for infinite time in order to possess meaning?
that's not really correct. we have a narrative for why leeches work, but it's not really a "provably affect the cause" sort of thing. We just know they eat dead tissue and suppress immune responses.
Note I said "should be". I know there's no legal distinction today. I'm saying that that's bad, and I want there to be one.
I sometimes wonder if we have a gap in public education around epistemology.

In this era, we have more sources of signal to access than ever before. I don't know that people are equipped with enough tools for knowing how to know things to discern fact from fiction given those sources.

In an era where people would have barely known about ivermectin / COVID-19 interaction because most doctors who look at the research discard it as insufficient, there would have been no choice to be made. In this era? Now everyone has to have a passing familiarity with how clinical studies work (or trust authority), because the data isn't filtered (and, in fact, there are people who dedicate themselves to spreading misinformation... This observation is independent of whether ivermectin is effective; we know people have been doing dishonest things "for the lulz" for decades).
250W is simply not true.

The directive says that the motor (when preheated) may not exceed a temperature rise of 25°C over a certain period of time, nothing else. I sure don't understand why all people talk about 250W. Its a myth.

My pedelec (bosch perfomance line CX motor) definitely peaks at over 1kW of power (plus my power), so for example uphill I have a combined power output of around 1500 W.
Also traveled that area, late 90s thru 2000. Somewhere with caves we went scrambling all over until through one hole a friend and I had clearly and unknowingly climbed into a families living room. Their first words (in Arabic), would you like some tea? You're english, right?

We hadn't realised (or ignorantly) but we were scrambling over a lived in area, peoples property. The reaction from everyone we randomly met was the same, warm, smiling.
The government does not have rights. In the United States the power resides in the individual citizens. The "government" are individual citizens selected to do the paperwork. When their corruption exceeds our disinterest, they're done.
Some clearly haven't read the article properly. It's not individual customer bandwidth data that's being monitoed and transferred to a 3rd party as inferred, but data on which endpoints are the source of most of that bandwidth usage on the basis they may be pirate IPTV sources, partliularly when they spring up at a similar time to a big event starting.

And it's no big secret, Sky announced to the world they were doing it back in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDNw3t-2euU, video described as "A fascinating look at how Sky Broadcasting in the U.K. is using Google Cloud to combat piracy of licensed sports content to defend the rights of copyrighted content owners everywhere and reclaim lost revenue in the process."
Was it ever really Jack's Alibaba?
Maybe stop presuming you know more than your sister? Its fine if the spike protein circulates, its a very small amount and it has been modified so it can't bind to your cells. Its fine if it kills a small number of epithelial cells, covid would do 1000x worse. Finally, how is the mrna going to cause epigenetic changes if it can't get in the nucleus?
While UPI is completely online, EPI looks like it's working on a card based solution (which makes it a competitor to visa & mc)
So, about that. One of the weird things about General Relativity is that if we COULD travel at or near the speed of light, then time dilation and length contraction will conspire to enable a trio to the end of the observable universe in 30 years.

So we could definitely explore the universe, we just have no way to share what we discover with our friends back home.
Locast wouldn't let you watch over 15 mins before interrupting you to donate. Then you would need to exit out and join the channel back. To remove this you had to donate around $5/mo AFAIK when I used it last time. So it wasn't really "non-profit"