skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem with democracy at the moment, vested interests have taken control of the forum because (a) they're able to and (b) the majority of citizens are just not interested in or engaged with the issues.

You see this everywhere not only with security etc. but also in many other areas. A classic case is copyright law where a small number of powerful people have hijacked the debate and managed to impement grosely unfair laws in their favor. They're so organized and powerful that they've not only been successful domestically but also internationally with treaties etc. It's almost impossible to break these nexes when the populace at large is so complacent.

In short, our current democratic structures favor the powerful, money-rich and organized at the expense of the disinterested who are disinterested because they're not yet aware of the issues involved and thus don't yet know that they stand to lose or be disadvantaged. There is no effective advocacy system to support them and conterbbalance the push at the early stages of law formation and thus we end up with laws that overcompensate the initial lobby and which are extremely hard to unwind later, especially so when international treaties are involved.

Outside a revolution I cannot see change happening and revolutions are the very last thing we need, they end up disastrously for everyone.

It's all rather depressing really.
Australia's Defence Policy Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18
I tried to use Win 7 recently and I've gotta say, I really prefer 10 in all aspects. It's faster, and still supported and feels more modern.
Of course, these are free countries both formally and informally (except for certain areas like Belarus and Krim)
> The DMCA notice itself only contains the repo name and the DMCA submitter.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to-submi...

> Provide your contact information. Include your email address, name, telephone number and physical address.

They redacted a couple of those on the actual DMCA request, but if via their form mail name/email was in a different field.

That's a bunch of info they could verify, though:

> You May Receive a Counter Notice. Any user affected by your takedown notice may decide to submit a counter notice. If they do, we will re-enable their content within 10-14 days unless you notify us that you have initiated a legal action seeking to restrain the user from engaging in infringing activity relating to the content on GitHub.

[...]

> GitHub Isn't The Judge. GitHub exercises little discretion in the process other than determining whether the notices meet the minimum requirements of the DMCA. It is up to the parties (and their lawyers) to evaluate the merit of their claims, bearing in mind that notices must be made under penalty of perjury.

They say just "don't be a bot", "ask nicely", etc. There's a lot of trust on the DMCA notice itself... kind of a weird way to handle this. It's also the same way Google/YouTube and the like handle them, just trust the submitted implicitly.

I wonder what percentage of Facebook/Google/etc "censorship" claims are just their inherent belief that threat of perjury is something that a criminal/miscreant gives a crap about.

"But they promisssseddd it was the truth!!", technically legal, probably legally safer to argue that in court than leave it "knowingly" distributing copyrighted work after you've been notified. Thanks legal system! This country is a complete mess.
I'm having a hard time seeing said employees as victims here. They knew they were getting pay and no equity. There was a "we don't intend to sell", but c'mon, 12B is a ludicrous amount, and I'd be amazingly surprised if they didn't sell for at that point.

Now, if it ended here, I'd fully understand feeling stiffed and lied to. But mailchimp has about ~800 employees. a 500m pool is more than half a million per employee. That's a hell of a payout, considering the previously accepted stability and derisking.
Yea, I think it's probably an exaggeration for dramatic purposes.

I've been around the block for a while, too, and I don't think I've ever learned a language of which I thought it might be useful career-wise which then later fell of the surface of the Earth completely.

I mean, how long does it take to learn a new language, once you're experienced with some others? Hardly as long as new trends arise and die again.
It may be convenient to blame the French (isn't it always?) and indeed the deal was not going smoothly, but these are hugely political decisions and I think a key to what has happened is American pressure on Australia.

The French are not only 'pissed off' for commercial reasons. The deal was part of a long term strategy of France in the region, with India and Australia being the two main partners, so this has serious consequences for them beyond a simple arms sale.

Now, on the other hand, two good questions are whether the Australian ever discussed the possibility of France supplying nuclear-powered submarines instead of conventional ones, and whether France would have accepted. I don't know the answer to either though I'm doubtful about the latter and that may be an objective and very good reason for Australia to switch.
Listen, the libertarian troll Schtick works better when it’s not about the most obvious “tragedy of the commons” good in existence presently.

You don’t think society should do ANYTHING to combat traffic, global warming, vulcanized rubber micro plastics, parking scarcity in cities, auto-related deaths, OR global political instability tied to crude oil trade?

Ok boomer.
Absolutely ridiculous indeed. That example is from a month ago for a medium-sized, research-oriented child company of a much larger tech company. They get a lot of funding from grants and collaborations so one could argue it as a way of funneling money from grants back into the larger company's pocket.

I have been trying to find/join/create a organization or group structure for research that would be more open/fair and less susceptible to corruption/waste but it's not visible enough of a problem to get support for it, and too new or odd sounding to get granting body to take a gamble on it.

A non-profit with everyone's salary visible, who work on delayed-release but open-source projects, seems like a good start to me, after all most of the research grant money is public money, it should be visible where it's being spent. Bounties for researchers/the pubic to fix active bugs. And a mandate that the code (or other work) gets released after ~2years no matter what. Commercially-paid early access and support. Harder to make a business around for sure but the amount of projects I have worked on, that don't get released as they are not profitable or the company/university are too lazy to make a profitable license/product around and refuse to just release the IP. I had one project that was patented and then the company is just sitting on it (for almost 10years now) waiting for a competitor to release something similar so they can seek licensing from them. It's heart breaking seeing all that work/energy/money just get locked up in a private gitlab repo to die when some of it can literally save lives or kick a field into the next step.
Well, my fix would be to remove the "dick face" art.

And, if I was feeling fancy, spend an hour or two applying consistent styles, and trying to apply a linear and progressive story structure to the posts to help people understand the charges better.
In that case we should allow serologic tests to prove natural immunity for the workers we are firing. What we are doing is pretty insane. Natural immunity is accepted most other places in the developed world. The U.S. is an outlier.
Fantastic idea and it works quite well for short phrases that I tried.

As expected I am getting a lot of early 2000s sites which is something that I miss on regular Google.

Hilariously searching for "array data structure" got me one of the top results this little tiny page: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
So then everyone should be convicted/sentenced to prison for the crimes of the corporation they are a part of in proportion to their ownership and/or control over the corporation.
> in the north where any attack would be reasonably expected to come from,

There is no reasonable expectation of an attack on Australia. This is not about defense of Australian coasts, it's about strength projection towards South China See, Taiwan Straight and Pacific Ocean.
The commentary here reminds me a lot of the comments around Windows 10 as it was at a similar stage. And not without merit! Windows 10 did have many issues in the early stages, but got progressively better with updates.
Sadly, it looks like I was: "Thousands of health workers across France have been suspended without pay for failing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of a deadline this week, Health Minister Olivier Veran said Thursday." [1]

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210916-france-suspen...
Interesting they made an app in the first place, can they move the activity to a website, maybe multiple domains?
RIP Sir.

I'm too young to have experienced the computers many speak of on this thread. They seem to spark a surprising amount of nostalgia, though.
The NPT restrictions the proliferation of nuclear explosives, not reactors - not even naval propulsion reactors.
I'd expect them to predict this problem and design a system where it's not a problem. They'd specifically built a system that allows them to do this
There's 'modified' in there as well:

> Eventually, he figured he had had a name under his nose since 2008, when his lab’s staff started experimenting with modified mRNA and referring to it, for short, as “mod RNA.” Moderna.

https://qz.com/2001718/modernas-founder-says-mrna-can-treat-...
True enough, it is a sick day.
Sadly US labor relations has been cast into a them versus us scenario - recall the worker riots in US and UK history.
This has it's roots in the relics of 'royal rule, kings - god linked etc = workers are to be out down, and of course slavery follows. Japan and Europe treat the workers as partners in an enterprise, US/UK and Canada in the past cast the worker as the enemy who wants to steal the bosses $$ by underworking and overcharging for that work - thus we have Amazon's labor relations - to a degree. Amazon is a middling abuser, however, Amazon is rapidly improving, as we see, when they sit down and think about traditional roles. Of course, labor wants an enemy to rally against. Recall how the UAW steadfastly refused boards seats on the car makers board? I think union management wants an adversary. They do not want to see 100% of all financial and management matters. They would be able, as board members are entitled to, see the details of all costs, wages, benefits etc., so they would know how much an auto-maker can afford in reality. Makes you wonder. This board seat process works very well in Japan and Europe - on occasion the unions see that a manufacturer has a valid need to lower labor costs and the unions agree, and the car makers agree to restore wages after a depression - after all, no-one benefits when the company goes broke.
Try upgrading version by version, not directly to the newest. I've dockerized instance I upgrade very regularly for over a year, and it had zero issues.
That seems to be a US rule [1], not a condition imposed by the knighting jurisdiction. Maybe some other countries have similar no-titles rules, but I couldn't find any (might be searching for the wrong terms).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Emoluments_Clause
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Don't sell stuff in that country and act like the saviour of human rights in the other.
Your brain can be “brute-forced” and Mossad will do it.
Apple uses databases from 2 or more child safety organisations.

Specifically to prevent governments from being able to include entries.
For those that haven't memorized every single HTTP error code, 422 is "Unprocessable Entity": 'the server understands the content type of the request entity, and the syntax of the request entity is correct, but it was unable to process the contained instructions.'
It's called a beachhead. Take Darwin, then you have a safe platform to threaten the rest.

However, I doubt anyone expects an invasion of the Australian mainland. Attacks on shipping are a more likely threat. Maybe naval support to Australian allies that are closer to China.
> That's the problem with democracy at the moment

I disagree. The problem with (multi-party) based democracy is that it is way more important to be popular with the party seniority, than with the constituents.

If fact, if you want to be a member of a parliament, its essential to first be popular with the party, before you get a shot at being popular with your voters.
I made a synth a few years back that lets you use a bytebeat formula as a signal generator. The `t` variable which represents the 8kHz sample rate of the audio in a typical bytebeat is instead proportional to the frequency of the pitch of the pressed key. There is also a `tt` variable, "tempo time", where the sample rate is proportional to a global tempo, making it easy to make beatsynced rhythms. The bytebeat itself can be written in either JavaScript, WebAssembly Text format, or a little stack based language that can be written in either RPN or S-expressions, which compiles to Wasm and is basically a thin wrapper around the Wasm semantics, which is why it doesn't include the DUP and SWAP commands from the original Glitch machine. It works with WebMIDI too, so you can hook up a keyboard to it.

It's here if anyone wants to play about with it. https://stellartux.github.io/websynth/
5-100 million is life changing generational wealth money.

12 billion is "ascend to the highest rungs of of wealth" level money. 12 billion puts you into the top 3000 list, looking at wikipedia's billionaire count.
Money is money. Thats sad but predictable. The future web should be decentralized.
I think what changed their mind was that the market changed. Mailchimp was run like a company that wanted to prevail in the market and not just grow and sell. That affected their strategy in a good way since it allowed them to spend time improving their services long term, but most importantly it prevented them from trying to grow aggressively for the sake of growing, which is a very very bad idea when it comes to sending bulk email.

In the end what changed is that e-mail based marketing was on the decline, with other mediums taking over. There's a point where an industry that stops growing fast eventually consolidates and it tends to get absorbed by groups that has other revenue streams.
Imagine if he had never existed. We'd probably all be accountants or something. What a talented man.
Amazing!
How do I make this my search engine on browser? Not home page.
Programmers and dancing is something I have _only_ ever seen mentioned on HN.
Australian nuclear subs will not be allowed into NZ waters, Jacinda Ardern was quite clear on that. However, there is no reason why they would want to enter NZ waters.
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Which means sooner or later US is gonna say something like "hey, wouldn't it be nice if you also spent some cash on this mutual defense thing?". I guess it happened.

Might also have something to do with Biden publicly demonstrating that he's going to stop the fight, consequences be damned.
> It's widely accepted

By whom? The benefit of nuclear power is that it is low on CO2 emissions (unlike fossil fuels) and can produce sufficient amount of power for an industrial society (unlike renewables)
Buildbot definitely wasn't using it in the common sense.
You just suggested what could be an interesting idea: what if we could give "the google database/engine" the equivalent of a psychedelic? What would that even look like? What could the results be?
Right.

There's also an amazing influx of new competition from countries where wages are a lot cheaper than in the West.

Give it 10, 20 more years, and programmers might be the new factory workers: easy to replace, and hence not a valuable asset any more.

You might think "But hey! Factory work is mostly manual labor that almost anyone can do. Programming needs intellectual acumen.", and watch kids with AI-powered tools eat your lunch.
WinForms or COBOL. You'll be set for life :-)
There is no law in Russia that prevents Apple from hosting an app called Navalny published by Roman Rubanov. The content of the app is also legal even by Russian standards: it is basically a list of officially registered candidates supported by Navalny.
If you throw a 404 to a completely valid GET for a file that doesn't exist for example, how is that a "complete overlap" to something like asking a database REST API to print a PDF? In the latter case, you have the ability to give a more detailed (better) error message, so why shouldn't you?
They have bot in telegram @smartvotebot
China is massively bigger than all of its Asian neighbours except India. That's a risk in itself as they may want to avoid becoming satellite states because of that. It's a bit like a small country next to the US...
I'd argue it's not even quite that. Common law is not perfectly defined. So there aren't really levels of 'law breakage', but rather something more like, "what's the likelihood the potential legal costs of this outweigh the benefit?"
The bottom line is Tailwind is not a component library so this doesn't defeat the purpose of Tailwind any more than it would defeat the purpose of StyledComponents.
Everyone has different tips but here's mine:

* Walk. Get a Fitbit or other pedometer and track your steps. First try to hit 10k a day and then increase that over your first few months
Currently, no. Bringing a new drug to market takes several years and a billion dollars. And I haven't seen any compelling evidence that anyone is working on a "solution".

A large part of the cost and complexity is the clinical trials, of which several stages of increasing complexity are required to get FDA approval. While it might seem inefficient, it's also the reason why vaccines work so well and have such small side effects - about half of Phase 3 candidates either fail the clinical trial or are rejected by the government for some other reason.

Each round of clinical trials requires significantly more money than the one before it, but it's also arguably easier to get investors on board in the later rounds as risk is lower. Smaller pharma companies often aim to get bought outright before their product is brought to market because it makes more sense for everyone involved.

Maybe someone will come up with an algorithm that lets us simulate clinical trials with sufficient precision, but that seems like a far-off sci fi fantasy to me.
just because we're part of the treaties doesn't mean we abdicate any responsibility for playing our part in upholding it.
What stops governments from requiring that "this one list" is required to be used, regardless of other organisations? Certainly not "Apple TOS".
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I like this idea from a purely environmental perspective (ignoring the strategic reasons, which I leave for others). It's about time we stopped that ridiculous plan to modify an already nuclear design for diesel-electric. Not to mention how poorly the delivery was performing. However small difference a nuclear submarine fleet would bring, we urgently need to wean ourselves off polluting energy and start being progressive again.
Yes, but they are not forced to add new features, only to remove, which is kinda big difference.
> Miner agreed that software is not a constant of nature. If I want to fork bc at current block and change bc supply from 21mm to 10 billion and offer miners 30% premium over classic bc ... Nothing stops me.

To make a change to the actual behavior (such as to make new money or move money without authorization)--as opposed to merely the order of events (which is important, of course: it allows you to change which of two parties got money if someone tried to send money to both and only had enough for one)--requires the users to all buy into your new fork, not merely the miners; this is something many people seem to get wrong, but it is the most important property to understand: the rules are the rules and no one can change them without pretty extreme buy-in (which does happen, but is quite difficult to pull off).
Hey, we'd be interested. Would be good to know more about it.
Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab
This article is not an how to or explaining anything, I just wanted to share how I spend my current free time. It's obviously OpenBSD related.
> SQL is a great language for working with state

SQL is a great* language for querying relational data..

(* Unless you need to pull relational data out in a tree like structure rather than flattened and denormalized set of rows, in which case you need to wrap a bunch of logic around it to get that type of output)

> you're ultimately playing Relation Stitcher by needing to connect the various pieces together.

I don't see how doing this in SQL does away with that.

SQL also runs in to the same problem pointed out about Ansible; You, the "meat bio-processor", have to pre-calculate and declare the load order for dependencies (make VPC, then make firewall rule tied to VPC, then make VM tied to VPC and firewall rule), you can't leave the execution order or the decision of conditional execution up to the engine (VPC with that ID found, just get the ID, don't recreate it), it's on you to make each of these decisions... That's easy enough for a toy use case, but any large production system and it'll fall apart from too much context needed.
See, you're putting so much emphasis on safety: your entire text is about how safe Australia feels. I just don't see what's so valuable in feeling safe on a dark alley if you have zero control over the situation should anything go wrong.
I've updated my Surface Book 2 to Windows 11 by accident (thought that it was just another windows update but next morning I was greet with totally new system :O)

It works just nice, but it has the 1 thing that drives me crazy - rounded corners! WTH Microsoft, you could at least has an option to toggle it - I really loved the square UI of Windows 10... :|
RIP.

His Sinclair C5 vehicle was being laughed at in his time. Nowadays electric bikes are a thing.
But ex post facto shifts in what is publicly acceptable are common, opening up possibilities for blackmail or negative life consequences (like being denied jobs, housing, ...).
Windows is not selling upgrades anymore, 8 to 10 was a free upgrade
One of my first Walkmans was a mint wm-6 from sony. And I was so amazed by the auto reverse function.
I still have my Acorn Atom from Christmas 1980.

The user manual "Atomic Theory and Practise" was an amazingly good introduction to computers, and is still on the shelf above my desk.
They can be forced to do either.
Well India sees China as a threat. And outside of Cuba, I don’t see a lot of concern from being in the sphere of influence of the US.
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