skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my 40s, so based on the American depictions of Australian culture in the 80's and early 90's, that "belief in freedom, mateship and irreverence of authority" matches the impression of the average Australian I've held ever since. Of course you can't believe everything you see on TV and in movies. Still, this acceptance of authoritarian governance is a shocking turn.
Somehow marxism has always seemed to me a shallow mix of Hegelian dialectic, Feuerbach's materialism, and Aristotelian categories.
I was angry at him for taking such an excellent start to a novel, and then spending... what, 300, 400 more pages, just wasting it.

I think the part where the anger really took over, as my main feeling toward and about the novel, was a scene he wrote that exists only to have one character explain another character's motivation "to them"—but actually to us, because we'd spent the last 1/3 or so of the novel with a character whose motivations and behavior didn't seem consistent, like Stephenson had recycled the early-in-the-book character straight into another role that was actually a whole different character, without explanation, without transition, without foreshadowing, without the character themselves seeming to reflect on their own change (which might have justified this scene), without doing the work to make it fit. Moreover, and as a sign of just how "whoops better patch that up without actually putting in any effort" that was, the explanation is entirely lame and unconvincing.

It felt like a chapter that got inserted because test readers or his editor went "WTF?" about all that, and it was just so, so lazy and bad, and retroactively made the treading-water-and-pointless-but-not-offensive middle section of the book worse, to know that, no, it wasn't going somewhere good, Stephenson just wrote it poorly and now, at the end, he's lazily writing his way out of his own mess, rather than fixing it.

(this is the scene between—and I'm a little fuzzy on the characters, as this was years ago—the Chinese emperor-dude and the father who tried to get an off-books Primer for his daughter, from the beginning of the book, with the scene in question occurring, IIRC, near the beginning of what you might call the last act)
> Enhanced KYC just means that banks capriciously terminate your accounts and services if they find out you're a sex worker.

When I say banks need to be better regulated I don't mean they need to have more insane rules, but that they do whatever is possible for them to a) prevent someone from opening an account pretending to be someone else and b) are forbidden to deny service to someone who checks all boxes except their hypocritical morality rules.
I think something similar but very different: not many stores mention it, not much news about it, hardly anybody aware of it.

Even companies that provide it talk on their websites about what they'll give you, the data and tooling, not how they'll take it from your customers.

(It's also hard to talk about without sounding tin-foil hat... I don't mean to. I'm mostly resigned to it, the state of advertising etc., I mean I'll block it digitally of course, but I'm not going to go shopping in a balaclava with exaggeratedly not-mine gait or anything, just still dislike that that would be necessary if one did care enough, if you see what I mean.)
In next week's episode of Legal Zoo: lawyer creates a bunch of greek t-shirts and then hits t-shirt company with a discrimination lawsuit.
I can't get OTA worth warm spit with an antenna where I'm located, but Locast worked great. I'd have to erect something much larger and there's just not enough content other than the occasional need to watch local news to justify it.

I'd like to point out that during the analogue era, I got a fuzzy picture, but I got picture and sound. Now I get compression artifacts and stuttering and entire drop-outs.
Ireland watchdog fines WhatsApp record sum for flouting EU privacy rules
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What some people don’t seem to understand about the first amendment is that while the government is obligated to not stop you from publishing, no private party is obligated to assist you.

What some people don't understand about freespeech is that it's a bigger principle then just the 1st amendment protections. Most of us are not arguing that companies ARE violating the law/first amendment. only that political/religious speech restrictions by large gate keeping institutions can have similar negative effects on society. We are arguing for ether more protections to be put in place or even for social change where instead of demanding companies censor these who disagree with us we demand they allow them to speak, EVENTHOUGH we disagree with them.
Can I do this with eth?
I've tried several times. When I lived in the middle of a big city, my condo windows faced the wrong direction and the building was mostly concrete and brick, so the signals couldn't penetrate very well. Now I live outside of the city but at the bottom of a hill that unfortunately is the direction of most of the broadcast towers, so I'm in an RF shadow.

It's not too big of a loss for me since I can't stand to watch network tv with it's insane amount of advertising but for live sporting events, it would be a nice option to have.
Dealt with the greek licensing nonsense back my in merch days.

It’s basically a patent troll, but for trademarks. They provide very little value and own the trademarks that essentially make the entire frat / sorority industry a thing. Beyond the trademark rent seeking they have three quarter million undergrads every year handing over thousands of their parents’ dollars to belong to the club, not including alumni who keep paying after they graduate.

It’s probably one of the worst entities for anyone to ever bother fighting in court so my guess is no one ever does.
Yeah, Spring is also a Java framework. My heart goes out to any software devs at the company 'formerly known as Teespring' if they had to witness the name change.
That's rich coming from a HUAC flunky like Ronnie Raygun. He could certainly deliver a line, even if he didn't believe it himself.
"protected"
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28390308
Can you MITM, deauth-bomb, or uniquely identify a 3.5mm jack?
Who's spinitch?
> shoving crappy REST endpoints out the door as quickly as possible.

I would argue 90% of the software businesses I've seen are simply CRUD REST endpoints. If that means you can get those out the door as quickly as possible, why on earth would you want to use anything else?

It's almost like you're actually advocating for it...
Alibaba isn't doing this voluntarily... They disappeared Jack Ma for re-education and he came back with wonderful ideas about donating all profits to the CCP.
“We know epigenetics exists so this treatment could have some unknown (and dAnGerOus) epigenetic effect because ???.”

Your epigenetic argument against mRNA vaccines is unfalsifiable. The same is true for eating a sandwich. Or crossing the street. Or existing. And the mainstream medi- I mean the “orthodox” dOsn’T wAnT you to KNow high school biology?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but epigenetic changes by definition don’t alter DNA, just change expression.

Your assertion that history/nature is law has been disproven countless times. “This is the way things have always been and always will be” is the classic phrase humanity loves to find a way to prove wrong.

Your arguments would have been similarly applicable to all previous novel vaccines. Should we ignore progress because “this is the way it’s always been” and that despite testing on large time horizons on massive numbers of people “it could in theory still have some unknown effect due epigenetics because ???”?
GTA isn't even that big. MW is 231GB. That would tie up a 20Mbps connection for over 24 hours, which to me is unacceptable when I both work from home and run my own business. The biggest problem, as I said, though, is upload. 3Mbps is basically useless when I need to run off-site backups, videoconference, push files to servers, etc.

> I’ve now got 5 people on 66Mbit.

That's nice for you but that's about 13Mbps each which isn't much less than 20Mbps and they're unlikely to all be using it heavily at the same time, so in reality they probably get more than 20Mbps each.

And as I said, my choice is 20Mbps vs 1Gbps. No 66Mbps option. It's not really a choice at all.
6.28 You get to joke around about how many pi radians of pie you can eat.
I saw you edited your post, which is great. Happy to chime in from the Python side: people complain a lot about the GIL but in practice a lot of the truly parallel logic happens in C extensions, which are lately quite easy to write. This is where all the heavy lifting for machine learning happens; the I/O parallelism that one might see in e.g. a scraper is a different kind of thing (e.g. fibers). I don't know much about ractors but it's neat to see a GIL being lifted!

Small nits: the image with fibonacci performance numbers needs a maximum number of significant digits. I think "implement" usually applies to an algorithm or idea; you might mean "use" Sidekiq? The thing I'm most curious about is how easy it is to write an extension in C/C++/Rust for Ruby (in comparison to cffi, pybind11, etc.).

Best of luck! It's not easy to write a technical article and face criticism, but I appreciated reading it.
Mina Hsiang appointed USDS administrator
I agree with you completely, authoritarianism is on a different axis than "left" or "right".

I was commenting on what I am seeing coming from those who described themselves as being ideologically aligned with the "left" today.

I see censorship, speech limiting, "canceling", compelled speech, etc, coming from that area today.

When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s this was very much the kind of thing I saw coming from the "right", limiting expression for political and religious reasons.

Like I mentioned, as a liberal (which I don't belive is inherently left or right) I've been disappointed in the modern "left" which seems to me to be taking a step back from liberalism. I see a lot of authoritarianism coming from that direction right now.
Which, I guess, is a good thing. You don't want politicians to have such conflicts of interest. They can have as much sex as they want, they can pay as much as they want (as long as it's their money) for it, but the moment someone has a way to extort or otherwise force a politician to behave in a way that's illegal or against the interests of the people, I'd like that to be exposed.
Banks are getting the interchange doing very little work compared to the payment processor. Some banks are operating their own processor, but I really doubt the typical bank is interested in that.

EPI is all about doing away with Visa and Mastercard, while providing interoperability across Europe, "simply" leveraging infrastructure that already exists.
It is a mistake to think that their system is more efficient, or necessarily better than ours.

You have to think about how they are more efficient than us in what way, and in what way that they are making strategic blunders.

Take it look at this way, what is the weakness and strength of the US in space? We have SpaceX which are doing bold things with resuable rockets and NASA. NASA is setting new directions, but weighted down by a congress that thinks NASA is just a job program. We have defense contractors that had ceded their leadership in space that cared more about making a buck now rather than take risks with projects.
> So it's reasonable for those people to not want to use a system that's only as good as an "average" driver.

But... no one is forcing anyone to use this system. They elect to. Thus this is the wrong question, but rather if drivers should be given the option to use the system.

If anything it might be reasonable to infer that poor drivers are more likely to use this system, so the standard could plausibly be below that of an average driver while still improving overall safety.
Temporary states of emergency have a way of becoming permanent. In the US we are currently under 38 active states of emergency, one of which goes back to 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...
Classic case of bureaucratic CYA.

> Here an element was flagged as part of this vetting process, resulting in temporary removal from the site. This listing has now been reinstated to our platform after the review proved to have no contentious elements."

> "They unblocked it but they also warned me future use of the word 'zeta' would again result in a ban," he explained

> Spring's spokesperson contradicted the explanation given to Rashid: "We can confirm that the user will not be banned for using this terminology on this occasion or for any future listing."

The tee shirt company was overzealous in enforcing trademark law. When they realized they made a mistake, they walked back some of their enforcement mechanisms, but kept a sanction on a user. Saying that if the user wrote four ASCII characters to trigger their same mistake again, he would be banned. Then their PR department lied to the media and said they never said that.
If you find this interesting, then you should definitely check out the book SkunkWorks.

It's about the special projects division in Lockheed who developed the U2 and SR71. One of the interesting things was how they were working on UAV (Unmanned Ariel Vehicles) in the 60's.

It's a thrilling read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works
The price differentiation is because it's for distribution.

If you think this is crazy (and I don't necessarily disagree) have a look at how stock exchanges' data licensing works.
I think it goes back at least as far as the wrong guy won the election in 1968. We've been on this path for a while.
+1 for Andrews & Arnold, very happy customer here.
Oh yeah?

The selfish people who claim climate change isn’t happening due to humans just want to continue violating trademark.
> the UK would be able to power itself in winter with no transmission and just a day/night storage system using 1% of its land area

I see that you use 35GW - presumably the electricity use in the UK. However, with transport and heating, the total power use in the UK is about 190GW on average, and probably about twice that average in the middle of winter when everyone has their gas heaters on.

If you propose to replace fossil fuels, you need to account for electric heat pumps replacing gas heater, and electric cars replacing ICEs - which means an electricity consumption of 100-150GW, which means 4% of the UK area rather than 1%. (Assuming electricity storage is lossless which it isn't obviously.)
> Here is an example from the financial crisis in 2008

I am not disputing the existence of the general phenomenon, I am saying the facts of the immediate case (including those directly in the article) contradict the assertion that it is the factor responsible for the decision at issue in the case under discussion.
>> What exactly is the point of a library in this case? Why doesn't this Overdrive company simply have a direct-to-consumer site with some kind of payment scheme?

The direct to consumer model already exists. Amazon Kindle provides this very well on a per book level via Kindle [a la carte] (and also for large groups of books via Kindle Unlimited.) There are also numerous site-licensed services which give total access to books for a time period for pay -- I used it in grad school. I also subscribe to OReilly Safari and love it.

The OverDrive/Libby model exists because it is free to the end user -- the public library is verifying you are a local resident and then using local tax dollars to fund the free service to residents.
> get a dual-sim smartphone (which excludes iPhone, naturally)

Since the iPhone XS, they have double SIM. One of the 2 must be an eSIM, but otherwise it works fine.
Yeah it's essentially impossible for the system to be good- the limitations force other limitations.
Cringe more at people protesting reasonable measures, and 'act' by doing your part during a pandemic.

Consider this: "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country"

It only works if we act conscientiously.

If we start with a selfish mindset, and don't consider our obligations, it will all unravel quickly.

The question of government control is of course important, which is why we have to weigh things carefully.

Anti-mask protests are cringe because the mandates are within reason for a quasi national emergency, and it's a very mild form of control, from what I see it's people who are probably angry over a host of things.

The lock-downs, obviously much more severe curtailment of rights.

Arbitrary controls such as this new proposal should be met with revolt, maybe with some protest, but really at the ballot box. It's the kind of thing that should cause a party to lose most of their support, i.e. they propose it, and then 2 weeks later they recant it and pretend it didn't happen because it was such a bad idea.

This is an investigative committee's proposal, my bet is that it won't go forward.
Parkinson's Law: Work Expands to Fill the Time Available for Its Completion [pdf]
I’ve been thinking about how this could be retrofitted to an existing frame. The generator is too big but it could be mounted in front of the crank shaft under the frame and then be connected via simple gears or a short chain. This would still have said benefits.

I think the possibility to choose when to save energy and when to put it out you mentioned is possible with a conventional e bike but not all bikes support this due to legislation.
> but if you're appropriately located

And therein is the problem. I'm on a ground-level apartment unit. The OTA antenna I stick on the corner of a wall in the living room can't pick up shit.
I've never had an issue with GPS not working indoors. I did have that issue when using degoogled ROMs on other phones but GrapheneOS on a Pixel 5 has worked flawlessly.

I guess if I was inside a big brick/concrete building then it might not work? It seemed to work fine in my brick apartment. Anyway if I am indoors then I probably don't need GPS anyway since I am not traveling and hopefully know where I am already.
Most Dutch banks have instant payments in between them for a couple of years [1]. Iirc I recently transferred money from ING to ABN and it was instantaneous in the weekend.

[1] https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/tech/artikel/4843376/instant-paymen...
Battery life hasn't been an issue for me on the Series 5. I put it on when I wake up at 7am and when I go to bed around 10:30 I usually have about 40% battery life left. I don't sleep with mine on, so it charges at night, but even if you did you could probably get by on charging it for about an hour a day. My wife plops hers on the charger when we watch TV in the evening.

The one nice thing I've enjoyed on this version is I went with the one with cell service. I haven't used it a ton, but it -is- nice to be able to leave your phone at home. I wouldn't intentionally make or accept calls on it, but having kids you always want to be reachable so in the case of an emergency it works fantastic.
While wealth (or rather, being "wealthy") is absolutely a success, it is not the only way to succeed nor is its definition "not being poor".

As such, I'd like to believe people at places like /r/povertyfinance would still consider themselves successful if they moved beyond their financial challenges through a ton of work even if they don't end up wealthy.
Good thing they're not using Greek letters for tropical storms any more.
Whether you say "The New York Times says X" or "Astead Herndon said this" is entirely subjective, and has more to do with what culture currents you pay attention to than with anything particular about the NYT. Illuminating counterexample: a pretty good chunk of nerd Twitter routinely refers to "what HN has said".

So no, that won't work. Try again.
You have to use the right tool for the job. If you have a very big project, with a requirement for strong types then you should probably use C# or Java.

If I'm in a situation where I need to throw up a rest server as soon as possible, I'm probably using NodeJS. It's dirty but it works ( except when you have the wrong Babel compiler installed and lose 3 days of your life trying to fix it)
This article presents an accurate picture of how things work at a high conceptual level. It glosses over certain details, because git is very complex. For example, git has, if I recall correctly, 4 staging areas, of which represent different sources when it comes to a merge conflict. However, this detail can mostly be ignored because it’s not relevant to the high level conceptual ideas this article is trying to present.

I would argue most things in technology are complex, and mental models are intentional ways to take something complex and turn it into something more simple. This article does not create meaningless metaphors.
I double dip too. My county and city both have Overdrive/Libby.
The total arrogance of people in technology lol. We're still just sentient specs of dust abiding by the laws of the universe on a spec of dust planet. Writing CRUD apps, flying to Mars, or driving an electric car, isn't going to save the universe.
Molecular device has unprecedented reconfigurability similar to brain plasticity
Disney and Affinity Consultants are both currently looking into whether this is true or not.
It’s 24/7/365 like other instant payment systems.
And yet the majority of those citizens agree with vaccine mandates among other public health measures https://news.uchicago.edu/story/most-americans-support-vacci...

It’s almost like the government is still fulfilling the will of the people!
> referring to the commercial availability of Bluetooth modules that can listen to messages sent up to one kilometer away.

Is this accurate? I had no idea.

Following the link it's not clear to me if you can use this module to pick up 'ordinary' bluetooth from a km away (as they imply), or if you'd need a similarly 'strong' special bluetooth on the other end to communicate over 1km.
It’s a bit unfair to label Ivermectin as horse drug while it has been used for a very long time by millions of people (very effectively) as a treatment for parasites. Which is why the inventors of Ivermectin won a nobel price for their invention [0].

Some sources found that Ivermectin had some anti-viral qualities.

When reading a headline like this, I am under the impression that the author of the article wants to give the impression that Ivermectin users are crazy.

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[0]: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/press-releas...
Are you calling him "trolls, shills, agitators, and foreign intelligence" thereby proving him right?
Slide 11 appears to say that a large number of cases were hospitalized. If this interpretation is correct, we are talking about a diagnosis from a doctor, not self-reported data.
Oh! I'm sorry for offending you. We started with such sarcasm that I didn't think you'd feel the prick.
Sounds mostly like a way for people to limit the speech and association rights of others by threatening to declare them "publishers".
There's a very Australian concept of "being a larrikin". The US equivalent might be "brat", "having an attitude", etc. It's a mental stance of giving the middle finger to authority. It seems the Australian government has found a way to neutralize the spirit of larrikinism in its people. Maybe it has something to do with the friendly voice the government has adopted. As an example, while on vacation in Oz, at a train station in Zillmere I saw a sign that read something like the following:

Cross the tracks only at the footbridges in an orderly fashion! Or cop a $100 fine. Don't say we didn't warn you, mate!

The equivalent sign in the USA might read:

DANGER -- KEEP OFF TRACKS -- VIOLATORS WILL BE FINED $100

It's easier to sneak authoritarianism in the back door when the authoritarians seem like your mates, who would never use their power against you, only to keep you and your community safe.
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