skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you greatly overestimate how “worked up” Americans get. In reality, there is an enormous amount of lobbying and horse-trading that goes on behind the scenes whenever Washington wants to do anything that touches the tech and telecom sectors. Tech and telecom are seen as areas that drive tremendous economic value and national power, so they have the ability to bend things to go their way.

Australia is quite the opposite. The tech industry is a bit like a spoiled, privileged trust fund kid who shows up to the family holding company’s board meetings in flip-flops and a t-shirt and makes a lot of demands. I’m pretty sure the tech/VC industries take more from the government, in the form of mining revenue-funded tax and incentive credits and fast-track high-net-worth immigration residence schemes that require parking money in VC funds, than they contribute back to the Treasury. In fact, I would posit that the state of Western Australia’s share of mining-related tax revenue this past fiscal year was greater than all of the taxes paid by all of Australia’s tech companies combined. (I could be wrong, but it sure feels like I’d be proven correct.)

And on the side of law enforcement and ASIO, well, public sector employees and unions have a LOT of political power. If you think union members are going to vote in favor of policies endorsed by tech plutocrats than those being pushed by their counterparts at other unions... It’s time to go talk to a couple union bosses and see what they think of your ideas. It really doesn’t help the tech crowd that half of them are obsessed with union-busting pseudo-libertarian nonsense, in a country where these organizations still hold a lot of kingmaking power.

Australia’s tech industry just doesn’t have the leverage, either politically or financially, to pursue its agenda. I would flip what you said and turn it back on you, and the other commenters; it seems like all of you are applying American ways of looking at this to a country that has very different dynamics. Trying to import American-style “activism” to make your point isn’t going to get much done there, mate. What plays well on Twitter won’t work in Canberra.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/12/11/china-to-renew...
One of those requirements being that you participate in the FDIC/NCUA insurance system, so that end-users really don't have any risk up to the maximum insurable amount per account.
Sometimes in Western Australia I forget covid is happening if I don't check the news. Brief, sweet moments. We haven't been in a lockdown longer than 3 days in quite some time.
If you lose your money when the company goes bankrupt then that sounds like it's "at risk" to me. If not, any investment at all would be considered to not be "at risk".
Hi, if I can ask, what is that keyboard? My local electronics chain had it listed as "Raspberry keyboard" but it's no longer available and I've been looking for it for months.
Meh, an ad of diving services. The most fascinating (and dark) aritifacts of the Baltic seabed are: the only German aircraft carrier, Gustloff, Goya, Steuben, deposits of chemical weapons. The last one is a ticking time bomb.
Someone posted a trailer they found (that has since been removed) with “7000k” in the url, so… maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361

Having looked at it a bit more, I only see "low" and "high" mentioned as qualities. You can replace "high" with "low" in the list of URLs I included (see my gist, posted above) and they seem to work e.g.,

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/lo...

There is an intriguing list in the source code though:

["4000k", "5000k", "6000k", "7000k", "8000k", "9000k", "12000k", "15000k"]

which ... could be a list of (pretty extreme) resolutions? Or are these color temperatures?
I don't think the argument is that. It's that Coinbase asked if they could, SEC said "no, I'll sue you" and Coinbase is like "WTF dude, all these other platforms aren't being sued for doing exactly this."

Coinbase may not have known the SEC's opinion on this before they started talking to the SEC since it seemed like the SEC was ok with it happening elsewhere.
I see people comment this on HN on a daily basis and it always boggles my mind. For me this reads as: 'This thing that was initially conceived years ago when computers were incapable of much more than display text should never evolve/change to take advantage of current capabilities'.

Yes, initially the web could only display hyperlinked text. The same can be said for many technologies/inventions, should we therefore never expand the capabilities of our tools? What is the difference between the web and your operating system in that regard? Why are OS APIs so different?

We can also look at the positive effect this evolution has had where what used to be platform specific tooling is now often simply available via a URL. I much prefer that over random executables that are not sandboxed and by default have full access to all your data. Yes, this can be mitigated, but the average user won't.

No it's not all sunshine and roses, we've made trade-offs with regards to performance and UX among others, but this is still an ongoing process as the modern web is still relatively young and changing.
You may want to brush up on your international recognition history. Officially, for the UN and literally all countries bar a few microstates, Taiwan is a province of China. The fact that they are, for (almost) all intents and purposes an independent separate country isn't recognised by anyone officially, and that probably won't change unless a regime change happens in China.
At work, we use some pretty complex stuff in our builds, including linking to C libs, Groovy testing, Kotlin modules, as well as the majority of the code in Java. It took quite a lot of effort, but we managed to move to Java 11 this year.

It's great to be able to use new Java language/platform features. We're moving to Java 17 next year once the dust settles (it will be the first LTS release in 3 years and comes up this month - Sep 2021)... it will be a much easier migration as there's nothing like the big Java 9 barrier to cross.

I can't understand why anyone would start something new in Java 8, all traditional Java tooling already works really well with Java 11 and even Java 17.
HTML has never been XML.

And HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete without Javascript anyway: https://accodeing.com/blog/2015/css3-proven-to-be-turing-com...
> We use United States Customary Units

Actually no, not for potential difference, current, resistance, impedance, luminosity, amount-ofsubstance …

For those you use the SI units.

Its just length, mass, (plus force and torque).

Not far to go.
There are lots of things stopping the DFL from doing what it wants with the police force. I suggest you look into how police forces hold cities hostage when city government acts in a way they don’t approve of.
I came across this while googling but it seems the jsonb_pretty function isn't available in my postgres
Not just _look like_ — on Windows 95, moving the mouse _actually_ made things process faster, for fairly bizarre reasons.

Source: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
Perhaps in the past.

The sheer numbers and equipment of modern police and military forces are overwhelming. You need a lot of people, good organization, support from the inside.

Not to mention you'll be hit with the media first, discrediting all of your efforts and painting you as a terrorist or traitor in everyone's minds. Then you're easy pickings.
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You just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org)

It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!
In which 5 years did you live here? Some time in the 90s? We endured the GFC comparatively well thanks to shrewd economic leadership from the Labor government of the time but to say we haven't faced downturn in two generations is absurd. Speaking as someone who has been out of the office due to COVID since March 2020, I'm amazed you can say it seemed like it was going to pass us by "until recently". As for natural disasters passing us by "other than wildfires", those bushfires have killed hundreds of people, burned thousands of homes, killed over a billion animals, cost billions of dollars, and most victims of the most recent bushfire which scorched half the country still haven't received any relief. There are a lot of very misguided ideas about Australia in this thread, but the least someone driving by could do is spare us condescension.
The IoM isn't in the UK and nor does it have MPs. Probably just semantics but I have to point that out.
I wonder if this has to do with copyright. It's easy to get the rights on content that was created in the last two decades. It's much harder to get rights on content that was created 70 years ago. The people involved are dead yet copyright (or some other intellectual property law) still applies.
> Quarantine for coronavirus, in a pandemic that’s claimed millions of lives.

So are we going to do a quarantine for the flu next? A pandemic that claims up to a 2 million lives a year globally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932018_United_State...
Great for you, what about all non-citizens ( what, most of the world) who have no protections under US law, but have their rights as humans violated by the US?
Or postal vote... Like how would you ever secure such system to acceptable level. Maybe it is barely acceptable in limited scale. But in general it seems open to exploitation and something that would only be used in countries without real democracy.
That's exactly what it was... and it really depends on how a locale defines gambling. In Costa Rica, for instance, you can run the game of chance as long as the money isn't landed onshore, because you're just generating random numbers. IoM was slightly different in that they didn't mind you landing cash, they just wouldn't allow you to generate the numbers. So it seemed natural to co-locate, and then Switzerland was a better backstop than either.
With all this trouble, why not just set up shop in one of the many places where online gambling is legal?
But Javascript has little to do with tracking.

Third party cookies is a much bigger concern there, and mostly orthogonal to the use of Javascript.
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I have Tutanota to be quite reliable end to end encryption and no ip logging. Also provides ability to send encrypted mail with pre shared passwords. Good client apps too.

Given Protonmail trust issues Sir Lee ought to have avoided.

Signal mail service/client would be great too. Long time FastMail user but they too give fuzzy answers on mail privacy. Mailbox.org seems to be decent with encryption at rest.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201204-climate-change-h... still says "phasing out"

Would the fridge die sooner if it was used more?
cock.li was indeed used for bomb threats - https://www.dailydot.com/debug/cock-li-email-service-vincent...
I also have a BOOX note Air, and I am very happy with it. I even installed python and Jupyter LOCALLY. I had no problems processing a few millions of primes in milliseconds. However, the display is not good enough to program as growing code often requieres to fast refresh the screen while browsing code or following stacktraces, which is quite uncomfortable. Also the lack of syntax highlight but I guess some people could get used to those.
Love me a whitepaper on this topic. But couldn’t (easily) find it.
It's always fun to compare let's American and Russian social media presence... Goes to show how deep those convictions run...
This is awesome! I'm still afraid that one of my friends will go on a Minecraft binge (or idle in a farm) and drive up the costs beyond the $13/month or so I pay for VPS hosting but I think this approach would objectively be quite a bit cheaper for the casual vanilla SMP server I run for a dozen or so folks. Anyone know how to estimate the "worst case" monthly cost for this config?

Edit: Just saw that the GitHub includes a link to an AWS calculator. Looks like a month of continuous usage caps out at $40-ish. Not too bad since my realistic worst case is probably more like 8/hrs per day rather than the full 24.
> western governments will do very little to prevent this kind of extra-territorial control

Yeah remember Meng?

A Chinese businesswoman showed some PPT to a HK based bank, then got arrested by RCMP for "bank fraud", at a time when Canada had no sanctions against Iran.
Yeah, sounds like brass nuts used instead of steel - they expand about 80% more per degree than steel.
Can the quarantine be shortened with negative PCR test?
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You don't even need to install anything, there are plenty of programming environments online. My kids wrote their first programs using Scratch, there are dozens of sites that will let you type in Python and run it right there and then. There are programming apps for mobile phones and tablets. You can even develop applications in Swift on the iPad using Playgrounds and soon will be able to upload them directly to the App Store.
Sounds like your mother is obsessed with control and worry.
I suppose the Ansible and Docker versions are both built from the source, in a reproducible manner. What would you gain by going through the build steps manually by yourself?

From my point of view, having to build things is a hassle: one needs the dependencies, it will work differently on different OSes/distros, the maintainer needs to keep the build instructions up-to-date and verify manually that they won't break (for all OSes/distros). Ansible or Docker just gives you a reproducible thing, easier to verify in one step whether the build instructions in it still work.
I'm trying super hard to decipher your message.

Post WW1 didn't erode rights, it actually increased them. Post WW2, the same.

Korea and Vietnam didn't leave behind any long term repression that I remember.

War on drugs and terror, ok.

Covid is a disease. We have vaccines, we'll have treatment. Just get vaccinated. We've had pandemics before, they always end and I can't remember any rights still taken away abusively after the Spanish Flu or SARS or HIV.
Your isn't a valuable comment to this news, whataboutism is a very poor rhetoric.
Which is interesting considering they take no issue with sites like KiwiFarms which harass people to literal death, terrorist groups, criminals (carders, phishers, etc.), racists & other forms of hate speech.

I guess it all depends on how much money you bring in for them really.
I can't recommend https://float.exposed enough. A great tool for exploring floating-point representations.
Empower third parties to hold the balance of power. We did it last century with the Democrats and it moved the needle on some vital issues. We can do it this century with the Greens.
> I love the JVM but it works well with transactional workloads and starts showing its age when its dealing with analytical loads.

This is interesting. Can you elaborate a bit?
There is? I must have missed it. I'll check again. Thanks a lot.
I'd just need it to get rid of the goddamn karma. I like Reddit and I participate judiciously, but I had to write a UserCSS script[0] to hide all karma.

[0] https://paste.sr.ht/~runiq/aebc83743e3b864a681c6a878df4f7cd3...
>Heck, the only real recent unrest of that magnitude, the takeover of Capitol, was without guns as far as I remember. As in, no standoff.

Condescending to other countries with smug quips by the American founding fathers turns out to be much easier than taking those principles seriously on your own soil when facing the prospect of armed Federal police.
I had a bad connection for the majority of my internet usage life. People don’t understand that excessive data loading is superfluous. But to call people who worry about that weird is truly strange to me.
Private minecraft servers as a service doesn't exist yet ?
I see only really, really bad hires getting fired, after a year or so. Simply mediocre people are not fired, and don’t leave by themselves.
> Seems to work just as well.

Curious what country this is where things are working "just as well" as Australia?

The only major places I can think of in the "developed" world faring similarly* to Australia statistically (deaths per capita) are South Korea & Taiwan; both have had similar citizen monitoring.

* leaving out NZ here obvs which is faring significantly better
> We are here to judge how someone can do the job.

You missed the most important part of my point. Someone who crosses the finish line at the same time as someone else, but started from further back is almost always better at doing the job.

I already said it's very difficult to objectively measure. But any improvement in doing so will give you a competitive advantage in finding the best candidates.
Or perhaps also the Time Tunnel.
Oh, hi all! I didn't my project to show up here today! This was just my private notes-to-self I'm using to organize a group to create this thing.

These notes haven't been cleaned up to be public yet (near the end it gets particularly messy and the memory map has changed from the state shown on this page), but oh well, it's been found!

I will answer any questions you may have.

And if you want to help make this, my email address is in my profile. Programmers, electrical engineers, testers, documentation... whatever skills you have, I'm sure you can help!
Well, generate the gas with renewables
Traditional software your instructions won't work for:

GNU coreutils: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/README...

sudo: https://www.sudo.ws/packaging.html

curl (does use configure and make but you need to pass args for your tls lib): https://curl.se/docs/install.html

Once you get into GUI's, all bets are pretty much off, e.g.

Firefox: Custom Python buildscript: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.ht...

KDE anything: Custom build tooling: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development#Applicati...

Blindly running ./configure && make && make install isn't the universal norm you think it is
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Altruistic startup = a non profit ?
I am going to guess the article is PR to Coinbase going ahead with plans and getting sued, in the hopes they set a new precedent. I am cautiously hopeful for cryptocurrency in general, but this genuinely seems like it would be an easy lay up for the SEC.
From the guidelines[1]:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Their other games were really good, like Knight Lore and Head Over Heels.

Also, anyone who enjoyed those probably will love Lumon PS4. It has a lot of fan service to anyone who used a ZX Spectrum.
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The United States does not use "Imperial" units. We use some Customary Units that are defined in terms of SI units and share names with some Imperial units.

The point is that saying "The United States uses Imperial Units" is, generously, ignorant.
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In any case I must admit that the trick, while we agree wouldn't (probably) hold water in court, it might have actually helped (we'll never know) to keep that casino out of some law enforcement watch list... especially if the officers were too overburdened with more important issues / lazy enough / not looking into that kind of activities at the time.
$3B, or $4B, or perhaps $5B, they are not sure.
Combine this idea with the problem of CO2 buildup and Hey Presto you have a growth industry: HVAC upgrades almost everywhere.
It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
Non profits and charities can certainly be altruistic.
>That's to say, a percentage of all future salaries, as opposed to debt, which is a fixed amount per year on some schedule that produces interest income for the payee.

You're talking about income taxes right? The education would then be paid with negative income tax credits.
This is shortly after launch while the satellites are still tumbling. Within a few days they align themselves so that their sunshields reduce their brightness and over the next few months they will raise them selves to their operational orbit.
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The general idea of charging road users partly in proportion to miles traveled makes a lot of sense. But why, every time this is proposed, do people talk about fancy tracking mechanisms? Why can't we just use odometers?

I mean, yes, the odometer cannot measure how much of your mileage is in Virginia versus other states, or how much is on what kinds of roads, but it is so much cheaper to implement that I would expect it to still work out much better?
UK and Israel have proven the "vaccinate your way out of trouble" strategy doesn't work, therefore Australia's lockdown regime will not work either.

Australia is, at a massive social and economic cost, delaying death and cases. They are not preventing them.

At extremely high levels of vaccination, Australia could see 10-50 daily deaths presuming lockdown is eased. There's already prior evidence, other countries have been through this.

Vaccination is not a silver bullet, and lockdown advocates need to stop implying as such.

80% vaccination will mean thousands of daily cases.

Not to mention lockdown advocates routinely ignore the massive costs associated with the ideology, such as additional deaths (suicides, delayed medical treatment, poverty etc) and mental health (1 in 10 Victorians "seriously considered" suicide in 2020(!!!)).

Also, poverty, which will absolutely be the result of this economic destruction, has a directly link to excess mortality (mortality is >100% more likely when you're in poverty).
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Meng did obviously and intentionally lie to US banks and got them to commit illegal acts without their knowledge. There is a good argument to be made that others also did this and this is selective enforcement but that is another matter.
We have HTML and CSS, which evolved quite a lot and already allow for what 90% (estimate) of the websites do.

Usually it is people using JS, where they should not and tracking from FAANG and others, which are the reason to block JS. You are painting a wrong picture there.

If 95% of the web devs used JS in appropriate ways and it was not used so much for spying on people, well, then it would be a different story.
Is there any indication that 'Maksims Galkins' has changed his name?
Very cool. I added it to my homescreen. Might even register later :p
This has been posted before.

Descartes's point is about existence in the strictest sense , not about being a social person. He means that the only certainty is your own existence as "thinking thing".
The AI would lack training data.
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I have no idea why this has been down-voted. Sure, it's a strong opinion but that's what HN is all about.

Couple of questions:

- Do we have any estimates yet on how long olivine would take to be effective?
- Can we do HFC-capture in a similar way to carbon capture? Would this be more productive?
The Good Ancestor is also a good read on this topic
https://www.romankrznaric.com/good-ancestor
Some things to think about

- Build tools for legal aid

- Helping a volunteer organization with their website

- Building a site where users can see hospital prices in their area
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That policy is a nice PR name for the intention to take foreign territories, but it's not something anyone else has to respect. They can say One-China means the whole world belongs to them if they like, that still doesn't give their claims any more weight.