skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won’t be a problem if you don’t know German. Everybody is at least capable of basic English so you will almost never be able to not communicate with somebody.
You can take your time with learning the German basics but you can also totally live there for 1-2 years without speaking German.
Australian/Irish pubs are generally hosted by people with English as their mother tongue.
Is almost as if we need a group of elected officials to create laws for this new digital world so that for profit, multi national, corporations do not and should not have to take matters into their own hands
Facebook has already replaced the community center and the telephone company. Both of their replacements are worse for society, from a privacy standpoint as well as a quality of service standpoint.

Arbitrary censorship, no recourse for errors, et c.

Now people want them to take over for police, too.

There is already an organization whose job it is to police illegal activity.
Because their blood tried to fight back?
Bogus article.

Intel has been talking about "features" such as video codec acceleration, power savings, etc. for the longest time.

Intel has a hard time delivering on these things because of the lack of vertical integration. For instance Intel has envy of ARM's Big/Little approach but it's the kind of thing that, by default, increases power consumption and lowers performance unless you finely optimize what tasks go to what CPU.

Intel depends on Microsoft and also application developers to finely optimize power and performance. They just don't do it.

Android has the same problem, but worse. I read the smartphone reviews on Anandtech and I am amazed the reviewers just don't kill themselves because all you see is that handset makers are cheating on benchmarks, they are nowhere near thinking about performance and power consumption in a way that would deliver results on either, never mind both.
> People defend freedom of speech and open computing.

But what does that have to do with Facebook? Facebook is not a free speech platform. They built and maintain their social network based on content moderation. Their social network, of course, is the reason anyone uses Facebook.

Anyway, Safari doesn't host and moderate the content of the internet, but Facebook certainly does host and moderate the content of Facebook. There's no real logical connection here.
I play with moderate regularity and have actually never used Dwarf Therapist. (I still regularly consult the wiki though.) The turning point for me that made the game a lot more fun was realizing I could modify the config to set a population cap. If you only every allow 10-20 dwarves you never feel like you're rushing to meet everyones needs and handle new members of your fort all while keeping everyone happy. You can focus on the story and relationships unfolding while meeting every dwarfs individual needs. Suddenly the game is fun again. I also enjoy playing small forts and never breaching into the caverns below. Without the caverns performance stays high. That's mostly a limitation of my computer though.
Louis de Wohl
It's explained here https://old.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/eau0cx/japans_deep_c...
> You can have a large facility with 10,000 automated lines.

Read the article. IIRC, it's talking about the limits of how large you can practically scale a clean room.
And wait 1h on the side of the road that their car charges.
I'm glad I don't live there for many reasons, this being just one more since I like my classic cars.

If the engine goes on my 300zx though I might do an EV conversion. It'd feel like a shame doing that to a manual though. Maybe I'd just sell it and get an automatic to do that to since nobody wants those anyway.

Edit: apparently only a ban on sales, but everything car-related is obscenely expensive over there anyway.
Not to mention there are plenty of alternatives coming from different countries. Having Google and Facebook pull out of say Laos just means Wechat and baidu would move in.
A significant issue is being able to protect your initramfs and your cmdline options during boot while still keeping the convenience of auto-unlock. By using the TPM to handle validation, you also cut yourself out of the mix by not knowing the password. Of course this comes with the risk of hardware attacks, but there is always a risk. Current distribution implementations DO NOT, EVEN WITH SECUREBOOT ON, verify the integrity of the initramfs, which can be repacked to include malicious code that will execute during boot, potentially intercepting your LUKS key.
There have been a number of attempts to solve this problem, but the most complete appear to be Mortar (a project I head) and safeboot.dev

I highly recommend taking a look at either of these projects if you want be able to improve both your convenience through auto unlocking, and security through broadened scope of audit.

https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar

https://safeboot.dev
I do, a little, and wouldn't say this is absolutely great. Nevertheless this seemingly proved to do much more good than evil. We would probably still have different power and data cables for every phone model if the EU didn't do this with USB-micro-B (I always wondered how did Apple manage to evade this for so long, even though I actually feel like Lightning and MagSafe are the best connectors phones and notebooks respectively ever had).

Nevertheless I am excited about the rumors Apple is going to bring MagSafe back in the upcoming model of MacBooks. Perhaps they could do the way it's done in HP EliteBook - it can be charged both through a barrel adapter (could be MagSafe in case of Apple) and through USB-C (i.e. by a Thunderbolt dock).

The only flaw of MagSafe I have to acknowledge is their ultra-thin cable is extremely vulnerable and you can't easily put a heat-shrink tube on it because the receptacle is so many times bigger.
I'm going to be the one comment that says don't. You won't. You don't have enough web knowledge. Do you know the intricacies of making sure your websites are secure or you are giving enough notice to users that you are collecting data about them? Why pay you to make a website when someone can just squarespace a landing page that links to a Discord? Or better yet, make a free Twitter that links to a Discord?

I hate that this is the reality of the web right now but this is basically the reality of the web right now. Almost no one cares if you can make a phpbb forum and you could set it up correctly or whatever knowledge that you have is.
>If EV sales in Norway continue to trend at 100% past April, Norway can pull forward its ban to "immediately.

Why would they need to do that?

If EV sales trend at ~100% nearly continuously then there is no reason to ban anything unless the goal of the ban is symbolic chest thumping or pandering.
It's the other way around. The car taxes have always been there, but EVs have been incentivized through exceptions from those taxes, plus other benefits (use of bus lanes etc).
thats what every government has done since forever think its time to think of future children before we cook them?
I don't know about airtight but bananas have repeatedly made a tacky mess in my backpack. Also salads. Just the other week I had a tofu salad leak all over my backpack :( I'm now wrapping these in plastic bags.
https://archive.org/stream/graphicmethodsfo00brinrich/graphi... ?

Not pretty but the actual text seems fairly error-free.
US meat production is about 100 billion pounds / year, half meat and half poultry. So removing subsidies alone would raise costs by about $0.38/lb, but it may be as much as twice that if subsidies fall primarily on one subsector.

The externalities -- both environmental and the poor labor conditions tolerated in the meat processing industry -- are probably a bigger "subsidy" than the budgetary ones.
If your attacker is both sophisticated and able to access your hardware directly, the game is over; nothing we can do can currently avoid this.

What we can do is address the scenarios in which an attacker is either unsophisticated or remote. Normal network security takes care of the latter case, and for unsophisticated attackers, a good FDE (Full Disk Encryption) system covers it nicely. For laptops you can either live with typing in a password at every boot, or get a USB key of some kind. For servers with FDE you might want to use something to enable remote and unattended reboots, like (shameless plug) Mandos¹.

1. https://www.recompile.se/mandos
Parthenon is your one, is that right?
I used to be in those groups but stopped years ago. I'm still fine just using exclusively public torrents on public trackers via a VPN.
Agreed, but IF there are going to be government mandates, let those mandates be used to balance the non-transparent power of corporations prioritizing business interests (e.g. selling more wireless headphones) instead of serving a diverse set of customer use cases.
Where an explicit exemption exists for slavery as punishment for a crime (often called forced labor in modern jargon, but explicitly considered slavery in the 13th amendment).
Bespoke shenanigans: Fine I'll learn Python already
I disagree, since I think it has more to do with lack of education that this is something you can do; have a simple deterministic algorithm for generating passwords based on your service. It's far more convenient than a password manager, and can avoid the single-point-of-failure.
What would you propose we do with people who commit violent crimes and who are likely to commit them again?
If your goal is to phase out combustion, why would you allow it regardless of purchase price and taxes? Otherwise, you'll have consumers who might buy combustion vehicles, price be damned.

EDIT: @throwaway0a5e, the approach does not need to "fly" everywhere, just enough jurisdictions where automakers have no choice but to make EVs because the combustion market is no longer large enough to be a sustainable business, just as California sets emissions standards for the US [1] (as automakers don't want to build "California" and "non-California" vehicles). Combustion vehicle bans at scale [2] get us to a combustion vehicle manufacturing death spiral faster.

It is clear that cities and countries find value in combustion vehicle bans based on them being announced, codified into law, etc [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/04/2...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
Scroll down for historical data: https://aqicn.org/city/singapore/central/
Complex Language on Earnings Calls is a Warning to Investors
How is that different? One is taxed heavily, the other not.
No you can't. This is pure whataboutism.
> Let's suppose this was even true, what would it matter?

Your analysis begs the question. It assumes the secular worldview, but that's precisely what a deathbed conversion repudiates. To a Catholic, deathbed conversions matter a great deal because Catholics don't conceptualize death (or life) in the same way as a secular person.
My rule of thumb summary of Wittgenstein: If you can spend an entire book on the meaning of a concept (IE Truth-with-a-capital-T, The meaning of life) then you may be confusing an artifact of grammar and language with something that exists in actual reality.

In other words, just because you can construct a correct sentence with a word doesn't mean it actually makes sense. Statements can be true or false, but can a heart be true? My understanding is the Tractatus was meant to "end philosophy" by implying that most of philosophy arises from the confusion between these grammatical artifacts and reality.

I read a lot of philosophy in my 20s, but I think only Marcus Aurelius and Wittgenstein actual made me into a better, happier person.
You'd also want to consider how much utility is gained from that use: a lot of food packaging is stuff like plastic wrap or paper/plastic/metal combinations which cannot be recycled, and it's only used once whereas a reusable plastic container might use 10x the volume of plastic but could be reused for many years.
> And I wonder if we in a Western democracy would ever be able to the same (i.e. pop a residential real estate bubble on purpose).

We do it all the time. It's called raising the interest rate. When we want to create bubbles, we lower the interest rate. Pretty much all bubbles are created and popped by banks and governments. Doesn't matter if it is a 'western democracy' or not.
Yep. The time is really good for a new entry in the OS landscape. I'd jump ship pretty easily to anything that isn't windows.
Thanks. I had forgotten all about that.
We used glitter glue on ports for certain traveling individuals. Took pictures of the hardened glue. Very hard for a maid to replicate, be it evil or really good.
> you come at the King, you best not miss

"it's all in the game [App Store ecosystem's contractual specifications] yo"
No, there's alternative like corn starch based packages.
Good idea RE the TPM event log - that should show the definitive perceived hash of the option ROM.

Will need to see if I have any computers that require an Option ROM - somehow I suspect shipped-with-Linux Dell XPS laptops aren't going to be good test candidates.
I'm not the op but this is completely irrelevant. It's cute. It's a window into an earlier time. But it's meaningless.
>By gas cars being taxes to death.

As opposed to being allowed to externalize their emissions to the death of the rest of us? I agree that current taxing of ICE vehicles is not optimal, what should happen is that gasoline is forced to be carbon neutral and pollution costs associated with lubricants and other fluids are built into the prices of those too, but the present situation near universally has been the opposite extreme where ICE costs aren't internalized one bit, and in fact often actively subsidized.

>You can call that a "market" if you want.

I will, since I know what a "market" actually is. Free markets are creations of government and tools of society, ultra scalable economic optimization algorithms. They require being reasonably far along the spectrum of things like cost internalization and information symmetry, the core point is that the price embodies all the costs as well as any floors society desires. That way each individual purchaser can allocate their own resources in as optimal way as possible.

The current anthropogenic global warming mess is precisely because we don't have a Free Market in vehicles, electricity, etc since they're allowed to dump an enormous amount of their costs onto everyone with no reflection in the sticker price. The result being trillions and trillions of dollars/euros all of us are and will have to pay to deal with the mess. And of course some of the damage will be irreversible at any price.
Minecraft was inspired in part by Dwarf Fortress as well.
I would also be interested in honest answers here, but would not expect anyone to be willing to have this conversation.

Facebook == bad/evil, so easy reaction.

Censorship == bad/evil, so easy reaction.

Fixing some of FB's bad requires censorship. uh-oh. This one might require some thought vs reaction.
The progressive mindset is more and more dominated by the politicians syllogism: "We must do something! This is something, therefore we must do it!"

Progress has no feedback loop, either, which combined with the above is a recipe for disaster.

It's like software code churn. A bunch of git commits must indicate we're really getting some serious work done!
>If your goal is to phase out combustion, why would you allow it regardless of purchase price and taxes?

If statistically nobody's doing it and there's statistically no harm coming from it there's no reason to ban it.

Your approach might fly in singapore but western nations generally think of themselves as free nations where everything is allowed unless there's a good reason for it not to be.

> you'll have consumers who might buy combustion vehicles, price be damned.

Those people would just track down a used vehicle.

>just enough jurisdictions where automakers have no choice but to make EVs

But if the consumers are already buying exclusively EVs and the OEMs are catering to those consumers what's the point of the ban? Nobody will be making gas cars if nobody is selling gas cars. A ban serves no end other than pandering to authoritarians at that point since the thing we wanted to get rid of is already gone.
What you are describing _was_ the borland model back in early 1990s. But then they flipped to this high price model in the late 1990s when they changed their name to Inprise.
I'd be honored to work for facebook.

Most of the facebook customers are small business, that benefit enormously from access to facebook, especially in the third world. They now have access to much larger pool of users. This drives economic growth and gradually brings prosperity to undeveloped countries, or disadvantaged small businesses. For example facebook has facebook light app, which is a lightweight app targeted for older phones.

The way ads work on fb is very simple you sign up for fb account and then basically, can post your ad. There are million of ads in hundreds of languages, although facebook works day and night to remove violating content. I'm sure facebook fight with abusers never ends. If you do not understand how hard this problem is, you're probably, have never been exposed to fb scale before.

Some companies, however, it seems, have given up on fighting the abuse altogether. For example, telegram has groups openly selling revenge porn, illegal heavy drugs, prostitution etc...

Other companies bypass third world countries and disadvantageous population altogether, like apple whose premium priced product are out of reach for these people in need.
In a setback for Apple, the European Union seeks a common charger for all phones
Two projects that are interesting and relevant work to address portions of this space are safeboot (https://safeboot.dev/) and heads (https://osresearch.net/).
Considering lightning has been around for longer than any of the USB variants (mini, micro and USB-C, approx 7 years each), this makes no sense.

Is the EU going to restrict innovation and prevent another USB connector from being developed?
Man Wah has been around for years and didn’t get a star until recently. For the longest time they didn’t even change the usual suspects on the menu. Until there was a chef change recently. They are closed for renovations..probably taking advantage of the pandemic. Interior was very dated. When did you go? I am sure the inspectors were tickled by the trad shark fin soup served alongside French Bresse poultry and game with heads on. Their one star is very very new. Summer Palace lost a star, iirc. I just checked and it’s one now. Used to be two stars.
Your comment reflects a couple of fundamental misunderstandings about both SMP architectures and the locking primitives in the kernel; if you would like technical details that guided some of the implementation decisions in illumos, see the paper that I wrote with Jeff Bonwick in 2008.[0] There are several pieces of advice in there that particularly apply to your comment, first among them: "Intuition is frequently wrong -- be data intensive."

[0] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454462
Timezone logic has much more to do than just DST.

You've got places like Kabul in Afghanistan where the timezone is 1/2 hour off the normal hourly zone (UTC +4:30). You've got countries that want to be aligned with their neighbors for commerce so normal timezone boundaries have exceptions.
The e-nv200 is mostly used as a van for electricians, plumbers, etc. Not many of them are fitted out for passengers, probably because the range is rubbish.
Your post would hold up if the court didn’t already decide that Apple is not, in fact, a monopoly. The market in the lawsuit was defined as “digital mobile game transactions”

https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/09/10/epic-v-apple.pdf
If you like this, you should probably get hold of a copy of 'The Visual Display of Quantitive Information' by Edward Tufte, which collects loads of similar examples from various points in history.
Different people have different opinions.
Lots of right wing parties in the EU advocate for a "countryname-exit" and thus lobbyism in the EU has to fight the fear of no-existing very soon. Thus, the government has to fight for the approval of the people every day at gunpoint and thus, good legislation may appear for fear of loosing ones power, job and by that even the lobbyism bribery income.
Addendum: Bach's musical sentences are even more inspiring than Joyce's prosody, try the rhetoric of the cello suites, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbH3JYfRjOQ - (this is a good recording, especially the gigue, (also try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8NYdsynAs ) but in general Bach suffers more than any other composer from dodgy performances. Chopin is much safer.)
The only problem is you wouldn't go to a gas station if there wasn't gas there. The 5x price "convenience fee" is only convenient if you are already there anyway.
Surely there are better ways than mandating a very specific technology.

It would be like building codes mandating the use of a very specific concrete mix instead of mandating that supporting members must be able to handle total expected load with a safety factor of 5 or something - I’m not a civil engineer.
I'm pretty sure the conservative party has been the "no future" party for some time now, economic policy has been benefiting those who are alive at the expense of those who are not yet alive.

Don't mind if you see a little pushback by a youth who would like to have a future themselves.
Speaking of beautiful books: I have a bunch of old radar books (I assume it was some engineer who passed away), from the 1940s to 60s, and although there are some bits that definitely haven't aged well they are mostly still useful.

The things that amazing though is just how nice to hold and read they are. They are astonishingly well typeset, legible graphs, silky paper etc.

I checked out some of the prices in the back and they are similar to what one would expect for a new hardback textbook today, sadly. So books have got worse apparently.
>Or course not, it's not like legislation is set in stone and *will never change.*

Regulations can be changed, but its not easy.

If this regulation was proposed in 2005, would we even have usb-c? or would the mobile world still be stuck on mini-usb because that is what the EU would have mandated at that time?

I don't want my cell phone designed by an EU committee.
Let's invert the argument:

Using UTC only:

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What are the working hours there? Google tells me it is currently 7:00 to 15:00 there. It's probably best not to call right now.

Using the current system:

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. When are the working hours there? It's 8:00 to 16:00, same as it is here, of course! Same as it is in New York, Bangalore and Hawaii, at the South Pole and on the Moon.

You get the point...
HN is not one person. Some commenters want strict censorship to "protect the children" - That's the virtuous opinion to have in 2021 right? Some want a free and open internet with no censorship. One crowd is more annoyingly vocal than the other, so sometimes it seems like everyone here feels the same on certain topics.
it's a huge company. not every single project is intrinsically evil (eg, there are lots of FB employees that just work on open source projects). the ones that are might be parceled out in a way that makes their impact non-obvious.

I can't think of another large tech company with such a terrible public image, but if they wanted to pay me lots of money to work on some open source project that was important to me, I'm not sure I would say no.
Er...no.

I mean, sure, I believe you that you've seen this. But I've looked at quite a number of iOS/macOS projects and this was never a problem. Not even close. If anything, people were extremely hesitant if not actually afraid of using C features outside of the very basic ones like control structures, arithmetic and assignment.
Lightning is proprietary to Apple. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it's apples and oranges.