skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this a straw man argument?

"A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man"."
Efficient use of resources in a government agency has no connection to capitalism that I can see.

I think its reasonable to ask why the IRS is moving mountains to sting a few hundred grand of bitcoin here and there when there are people scamming the US government for orders of magnitude more money than that every year in ordinary tax fraud, and the IRS claims they do not have enough resources to go after them.
> The airplane could be momentarily upside down and passengers would not know.

That's certainly amazing to me. I assume the "momentarily" part is significant.
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People keep blaming the police (rightfully so, to a degree) but it’s the _pathetic, coward_ DAs that refuse to prosecute the police. If they lied or manufactured evidence, they must be held accountable.
Yeah that makes sense. Revolt was posted to r/Rust yesterday so OP is probably a person who frequents r/Rust and thought it was notable.
>Yes, it’s ill-advised to keep one’s savings in cash, but a shockingly large number of people do it.[1]

Try doing a stint in Fintech, and then get back to me once you realize how the number of ways for you to be deprived of access to your savings, and the nigh impossibility of finding out why or who to talk to to remedy the situation. Note how how account freezes only freeze withdrawals, and will allow continued deposits all day long. Note how no one will be straight up with you about compliance requirements, and in fact, how knoeledge of reporting requirements instantly elevates you in terms of compliance risk, possibly requiring a SAR to be filed out of an abundance of caution.

Once your money is in the financial system, you'd best plan on it being in adversarial hands. You are suspicious by default. If you use your money in ways the government deems unusual, they are obligated to report it to stay in business.

This is not paranoia. I know the implementation details of these policies and systems. It is, in fact, creepy as all hell. It makes me sick, and I don't even have anything to hide.
People donate to help avoid this from happening
And here I thought I was funny when I renamed the internal DOS command “dir” to “duh” on my boss’s computer.
Sending cash through the mail is not itself illegal. Sending it through the mail for illegal purposes is. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sending-cash-u-s-mail-ille...

You are required to report cash imports of $10k or more into the country but not across state lines.
Your statement is valid for individuals. But as a society, we could value reparability. And laws are there to enforce what the society values, not the selfish individuals you and me are part of.
You can use HEREDOC for multi line commands in Buildkit now: https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock...
It sounds like you're arguing against the article. But the article agrees with you completely.
Because when you add non dispatchable energy sources to your grid, without storage you have to keep the rest ready to function. Unless you agree to have enough electricity only when the sun shines or the wind blows...

Otherwise at best you can adjust the output of your dispatchable energy sources (mostly coal and nuclear) to make up for the unpredictiveness of the solar and wind. But you still need the same capacity.

This is why Germany and Spain, 2 countries who invested a lot in solar and wind, continued to grow their use of traditional power plant at the same pace as before they started on renewable. For Germany it's even worse because they decided to stop using nuclear, so they burn even more coal than before.
Netflix leans towards FreeBSD.

Is ZFS removable there without recompiling?

https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/fosdem/looney-netflix_and_fr...
Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer here

Waiting on someone inspired to build something better. I spend $50/year with Protonmail.

I expect Proton to communicate differently about what they offer.

And to educate users about what surveillance is, and what Proton can and cannot protect from. Train the future generation to expect trustless, adversarial systems but still thrive.

Promote Tor. Don't just put up with Tor. Educate users about Tor. Defend Tor.

I appreciate that Protonmail specifically addressed this in the headline of their response "Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist". Rather than "Updates on our privacy policy" or some bs.

I don't expect Proton to behave differently to law enforcement or warrants. I believe they did whatever here. No company can resist the law.

You can see my response here in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427259
> I guess that's why they stopped using it with await

await cannot be a macro, it has to be built into the language, and so it doesn't have the ! because it's not one.
You can always pull from neighbor countries as well to smooth it out.
> And it's not as if everyone ditches their phone because of lack of updates.

Often it's because of lack of app support, which is in turn because of lack of updates. Of course some people will always want the latest phone, but there are plenty of people that don't, and the second hand market is thriving. This is especially true in countries with lower income levels. I went on a trip to South America a few years ago, and most of the young people seemed to be using iPhone and android phones from top-tier manufacturers, but several generations old.
> Frequently SoC manufacturer make quick and dirty changes to a fork of the Linux kernel.

SoC makers deliberately do this as a way to force phone manufacturers to buy new chips.

For example, if they release a chipset in 2020, it will ship with Kernel 4.14 (released in 2017). Why ship such an old kernel on brand new hardware you say?

Well Android 11 (also shipped in 2020) supports Kernel 4.14, but you can be pretty sure that Android 12 won't support 4.14. So that means that OEM's can't make android 12 work with that chip without a massive engineering effort (and by the way, a bunch of chipset blobs will be compiled against those kernel headers, so changing kernel versions is pretty much impossible).

So, the main reason to use a deliberately outdated kernel is to prevent last years chips running next years android release, without the chipset manufacturers permission and a share of the profits.
> if you use Discord, you don't care about the backend, it doesn't run on your machine

If you use Discord you probably don't care about self hosting, which a Revolt user might.
Elixir inspired me to try and replicate pipes in Go, using the upcoming generic type parameters
It seems there were 57 dogs flown to space, most of which survived.
>consider if someone is a proponent for privacy, but isn't sure if the're joining software created by activists they disagree with .. the folks behind Gab

Gab is a hilarious example because it is a non-federating fork of Mastodon.[0][1] This is especially noteworthy because the ActivityPub "Fediverse" is full of antipathy between camps of users who run Mastodon (more Left) and those who instead run Pleroma (more Right) to the point where you can predict a user's politics by the software their homeserver is running. Is this the future of FOSS that we want?

If you support the right of individuals to run social networks, and if you believe in libre software, you have to understand that sometimes people will use the tools you release for free to do things you disagree with.

An analogy: if you're a manufacturer of hammers, you have to accept that someone could use your hammer to commit a murder.

[0] https://joinmastodon.org/
[1] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork...
What worries me the most is corruption and data loss due to power outages.
Giving civil asset forfeiture hasn't actually been tried in enough courts to establish enough constitutional case law what you say is an uneducated inaccuracy at best.

Also the Constitution United States isn't a law or statue. Laws can violate the Constitution because the constitution sets out limits for laws it's not a law in of itself.

I'm pretty sure you already knew the first part... but given Hacker News doesn't like illogical claims without evidence I figure I'd make sure you knew why you were getting downvoted.
You misread. GP specially says they think the law makes sense because currently an iPhone 6 isn’t supported but they feel it should be.
I was speaking with someone from the military. It seems that's more or less required in some cases for interrogations, taking pictures of proofs, etc. With time-stamping and GPS coordinates using purpose-built cameras.

I can easily imagine the camera digitally signing pictures and asking for notarization. But there will always be an analog hole -- and the first faked pictures weren't altered after shooting, the scene was.

I'm all for fakes being widespread. It makes people more critical of what they see, and protects them against the few that had this capability before.
> Go's standard library hasn't suffered as badly as Python's has

In no small part because it was born 20 years later: lots of modules were added a bit haphazardly to the Python stdlib early on and the tech ended up mostly dying, but for the most part they're still there in case you care to use them. Like sunau, aiff, or dbm. Others were added because package managers were not really a thing back then so you'd try to get useful packages into the stdlib so they could be used easily, but then the maintenance burden increases a lot (and all the users assume the stdlib is maintained anyway).
The civil asset forfieture problem won't be solved until someone goes postal with such enthusiasm that it puts the judiciary and the legislature on notice that people are sick of them not solving the problem and are solving the problem themselves. Look at history. The government pretty much never solves problems that are a cash cow from them unless there is a high likelihood that further ignoring the problem will cause bloodshed.
It’s 2 way. The tracking and profiling algorithms infer a lot by watching people. The viewers might not realize it’s two way though
> I've also been asked by HR when interviewing where I am in terms of the process with other companies

One piece of advice about this sort of question: The truth is irrelevant, answer what you think will serve your interests best.
Only if you believe the relatively recent fantasy of MMT, which is younger by far than taxation.
This is a general problem with modern SW. You always need the right version.
He specifically mentions storage in several contexts. “You don't have to make the storage super cheap, you've got cheap power (see Fallacy 3) and you don't have to solve storing the power for weeks or months. All you have to do is suck up enough power at 2pm and sell it at 2am in order to turn power prices positive during the daytime.”
You can use ProtonMail Bridge with your own mail client to remove the dependency on the ever-changing webapp. I'm not sure if it's possible to build Bridge from source instead of blindly trusting the binaries they offer, though.
> Sure, but they're in the business of selling as many phones as possible which means getting you to upgrade every so often.

Indeed they are, but planned obselescence should quite simply be illegal. For sure it'll hurt some businesses, but it's better for everyone else.
> TO THE PUBLIC. HAVING received an Inſult from Otho H. W. Luckett, for which he refuſed to make the Reparation demanded—I do declare him a Coward, a Braggadochio, and a Fellow, at whom the <white right pointing index finger symbol here> Finger of Contempt ſhould always be pointed. WILLIAM CHAPMAN. Frederick-Town, Sept. 23, 1803· 3w

The usage of the long s (ſ), the archaic form of the letter "s", is also quite interesting. Note how "Inſult", "refuſed", and "ſhould" are written with the long s but "always" is written with the short s because it occurs at the end of the word.

The long s is one of my favourite extinct characters because it is the ancestor of the current day integral symbol (∫) introduced by Leibniz.
Stock based compensation to an extreme like Palantir does, is not that.
Some ideas I had for what a regulator can do to protect our consumer rights (including right to repair) on the software tech side:

- All devices should come with unlocked bootloader. No exceptions.

- OS updates should be mandated for a certain period. Especially security updates.

- Standardisation: An open standard API for device drivers should be mandated for the hardware components used so that system developers can easily create support for any OS, and don't need to resort to reverse engineering.

- Copyright restrictions on software code should be valid only for a certain period and become public domain (open source) after that. (It should definitely not be 75+ years of copyright that is currently mandated for films and books).
> I don't see why this is flagged

Because HN rules disallow title editorialization, especially for clickbait reasons. Why title is not "4,000+ Free Movies Online" as in original?
It's very rare to actually change things in a liberal democracy with voting. This is a central contradiction of the system, because there is very little incentive for existing governments to offer the ability to vote for policies which would change the status quo. Probably doubly so with something as subversive as what you are suggesting, states don't like it when non-states are able to keep secrets.

Modern labor rights, environmental policy, and basic equality for marginalized groups (women, POC, LGBT people etc.) under the law, are frequently touted as victories of liberal democratic systems but almost all of these rights exist because of massive civil disobedience, and often violent protests.

In all cases, you need huge support of the voter base for a particular issue before voting for a candidate to represent it is ever an option. Even then, there is simply no way to hold elected officials accountable to implementing their platform, and how could there be? No plurality of elected officials would ever want to pass that law in the first place.
Coal and nuclear are not dispatchable. Their output is constant. They take about a day or more to ramp up and down.

This is the reason why electricity was traditionally cheaper at night.

Germany also doesnt burn more coal than before. The amount of coal they burn has been falling steadily since about 2010.
A citizen is quite the same as a "defendant" and a defendant is not a "Guilty person" or "drug runner", yet.

What if Mr Lara (who is not a guilty or accused drug runner) has not been a veteran?
Sadly, it is impossible hide your identity from gov and legal enforcement (from US to China) if you use any commercial service. As far as I know, FBI knows identity of all “ransomware” hackers. But they just cannot get them.
From a reddit post:

>After an auto-update your phone will reboot and be non-responsive. It will not show a charging screen, respond to power+volume button boots. The only sign your phone's hardware still works is when you plug it via a usb cable into a computer and you'll see a QUSB_BULK_CID:123456SN:123467 in your device manager->other(may have to select view hidden devices) or via lsusb.

Star and reply with info if it happened to you: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/192008282

More info:

https://9to5google.com/2021/09/01/some-pixel-3-devices-are-g...

https://www.androidpolice.com/phones-devices/google-phones-d...

https://www.phonearena.com/news/pixel-3-and-pixel-3-xl-model...

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/326636-something-is-brick...

https://slashdot.org/story/21/09/03/019201/pixel-3-and-3-xl-...

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/fix-pixel-3-qusb_bulk_cid...
When trying to make sense of why things are the way they are, one very successful technique to use is “follow the money”.

“We want you to backdoor your product for ‘National Security’ and if you do, we’ll buy many millions of dollars worth of your gear.”

What doesn’t make sense about that?
you’re a genius ;)
Instead of yet another app/platform, why not Matrix protocol?
An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar (2015)
So in other words, protonmail is only safe if you use it for tax evasion, as there the swiss authorities won't help foreign governments.
> And then what would the Blockchain provide in this case?

The main thing a blockchain provides is a cryptographically secured logbook of history. It doesn't guarantee you that the entries in the logbook are true, but it gets a lot harder to fake history when you can't go back to change your story. You have to fake it right when you claim it happened and hope that nobody else records anything in the logbook that conflicts with your story.
HackersList Inside: Top Notorious Cybercriminals In The World: https://www.hackerslist.co/hackerslist-inside-top-notorious-...
Presumably you mean sales of cheap phones couldn't be supported as there would be less demand.

So it seems like new sales would be hit but in favour of second hand phones? That seems like the right thing - more use of products that can be repaired and maintained for longer is good, right?
Most social change over the years has happened because of activist action which was considered 'illehal' at the time. Civil rights, workers rights, voting emancipation etc etc. Legal and ethical are not necessarily the same thing.
Can we still “Contain” Holiday Shipping this Year?
When political parties are constantly trying to undermine privacy in most of the world with excuses ranging from terrorism to "think of the children", it's hard to pretend it's not political.

That said I don't find "revolt" all that bad. Out of context it's only political if you let it, just like "master" branches aren't a statement about slavery by themselves.
I get that waterfall has a bad reputation, but complex, heavily regulated systems are where waterfall projects shine.
Yes, that is what this blog does

> the typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition

It defeats anti-renewable fallacies, by making up some easy to defeat fallacies.
I don't want to "beat" the device, I want to experience the device as it was intended.
> the _pathetic, coward_ DAs that refuse to prosecute the police.

Prosecutors (not everywhere in calls them DAs) have a huge disincentive: they rely on police officers to testify, investigate and collect evidence.
I had a lot of this last time I was looking for a new job! I applied to about 15 as well, heard back from a few quick no's but had only one interview which led to an offer.

Literally months later I then received about 6 interview requests! It blew my mind how so many companies were months behind.
It's good it say rust since I fail the "correct political opinion" test for using rust I will be unable to install it.
In the US, doing the latter is a tax write off and perhaps enough to give you a stimulus.
Honestly the best project management I've seen was a well maintained document listing high level projects, with named owners. Every week or two it got copied up and trimmed by the tech lead, and we would talk about it for 20-30 minutes.

For junior people, we'd pair them with a more senior person to help break down work but other than that there was very little overhead.
Element (uses Matrix protocol) can capture Pipewire as of a few days ago.
Exactly what I said yesterday in a different thread:

> One thing that makes me appreciate it even more is the fact that it's written in rust without the authors trying to make it into a primary selling point, which is annoyingly common in these days("X written in rust").
> This is factually wildly wrong. I wrote a fair bit more here but decided it wasn’t helpful. Précis: web stuff tends to load it indirectly (though amusingly most of the time actually not use it, so that Base64 code won’t actually end up in your binary), but it’s not terribly common outside of internet stuff to reach for Base64.

It also seems to be distinctly losing popularity as time goes on, as the alphabet is not restricted enough to be easy for a human to sight-read/copy, and a wider alphabet will have as good an ASCII channel compatibility.
It's not copyleft compatible. You can't write GPLed software in it, and that's by design.
I guess Rust isn't guaranteed to be memory safe considering unsafe blocks but it does make it much more memory safe than languages which only offer manual memory management.
Ditto. It's a good indicator of being a sloppily-written pile of dependencies I don't want to touch. I also discriminate against Electron software, at least as much as I'm able.
The advantage being what?
Money Through the Eyes of Mowgli
> There isn't much storage needed for renewables unless you get to very large numbers.

That's categorically false, and the article alludes to this somewhat. The biggest problem with renewables (primarily solar) right now is the "duck curve" [1]. That is, there is plenty of energy available mid-day, but then right when available solar starts to subside is also when you get a sizable demand increase in the early evening (e.g. people getting home from work, cooking, watching TV, doing dishes and laundry, etc.) The slope of that rise means that you not only need as much dispatchable energy sources as before, but you need to ramp them up and down much more frequently, which takes a higher toll on equipment.

Thus, there is a real immediate need for the type of "time shifting" storage the article talks about right now.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
I suspect the OP would argue that the stimulus you receive from McDonald’s is not the taste, but rather the variety, sugars, salts, ease, etc.
There been a number of US laws prohibiting US government from "purchasing" corrupt regimes...

Egypt is one of biggest US military aid recipients.
It's in their FAQ[0] as well. But seems to boil down to because they wanted it. And there's nothing wrong with that.

[0]: https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/why_new
I'm trying to understand from what you got your snark from. Do you refer to:

"I think the renewable industry will end up better and cheaper than the current system but if I'm wrong about the renewables industry being good at optimising that bundle of benefits, problems and"?

As far as I know, nuclear fuel is rare and we don't have a solution to thorium reactors yet.

I would personally not mind more nuclear were it makes sense though. Germany is not very suited though as it's quite populated but there is plenty of empty space in USA.

There is a risk though as current nuclear power station have issues in drought situations.

Nonetheless I haven't read is arguments. Perhaps he wrote about it.
> How often are folks writing applications that don’t need to connect to the web these days?

Every day? I think the only one I've done that in Rust it was through the program I was wrapping anyway.
I guess I'm not a part of this "general" then.

Solutions should solve a problem. Tech demos should demonstrate tech.
You're right it's stupid this guy clearly deserved to have his money stolen illegally by the government. it's doubly his fault because he allowed the police officer to follow him for long enough that he violated one of the uncountable number of traffic laws. it's Triply his fault because he was trying to be kind and courteous and respectful and cooperative with the officer. what other ways can we blame the guy who had his money stolen for getting his money stolen?