skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The legal system basically believes in itself, and trusts that its own rules are well-considered.

If the other party has 90 days to respond to something you say or do, that's because people have discussed how long is reasonable in this class of situation, and decided on 90 days as a a reasonable threshold. One party benefits if the deadline is short so the other doesn't have much time to respond, the other benefits if it has more time. Someone has thought about it and decided on fair rules. Acting by the rules is not seen as abuse because the rules have been carefully considered, see?

Not acting on a verdict until it's final is regarded as acceptable because the meaning of "final" is that now you have to act on it. Again, carefully considered.
This.

"When we want to have more control, i.e. persistence on disk, a workers pool, retries, among other things, there are several popular solutions:

Oban: a robust PostgreSQL-based queue backend process system. It has a UI in its pro version
Exq: a Redis-based Resque and Sidekiq compliant processing library. It has an open source UI exq_ui
verk: same as Exq. Is is compatible with Resque and Sidekiq job definitions"

https://sipsandbits.com/2020/08/07/do-we-need-background-job...

So basically sounds to me like Elixir is doing pretty much the same thing as Ruby. We usually do want more control and disk persistence, so...
This is exactly the reason why I'm against Apple CSAM. It's just a matter of time before someone innocent gets flagged.

Lots of parents take a photo of their child having a bath or something similar at least in Europe/Asia and it's clearly of non-sexual nature. Now, how does the Apple algo know that?

I'm generally curious: Have you tried to contact Google before about any kind of issue? It took me like a day or so to chat with an actual person the last time I had an issue.
This is awesome for generating background patterns for websites.
Any one remember the Global Warming mechanic, which was removed in some of the subsequent games if I'm remembering correctly?.
That was the first thing that came to mind for me too. :) I imagine it's intended to be a mix of Raku (the language it compiles to) and ハック (hack).
> it hasn't been worth your time for at least two decades to spend even 10 hours a year repairing a machine more than about 3 years old

I replaced the battery in my X1 Carbon using a screwdriver in about 15 minutes. No significant downtime or hassle.

> You could build and script ffmpeg to transcode all your FLAC files to ALAC

Hardly "Just Works" though is it? I might as well stay on Linux...
When will DF be playable on Steam?
> I have absolutely no clue why you're continuously focusing exclusively on Japan to avoid the fact that vaccine/immunization mandates have global precedents and they've existed forever at this point.

Because Japan is a counterexample that shows your position to be de facto false.

> Japan might not mandate a certain vaccine. But if you're going to Bangladesh, Bangladesh does not in fact care about Japanese law.

Correct and irrelevant.

Bangladesh also allows Japanese travelers to enter the country without having to demonstrate any proof of vaccination.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1440896036487245...

indeed

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> as far as I know that thing will keep going forever to the point the tech will be (or already is?) so old not many people could hack it

You're underestimating young people's ability to grasp and enjoy obsolete technologies. I am personally fascinated with DOS and Palm OS despite definitely not being around to witness their heydays. Give me a few years and the binaries/manuals people had back in the day, and I will hack it one way or another.
I like Crystal for this, the standard library has support for the most common stuff (HTTP server, JSON/XML parsing, logging, templating), installing additional packages is easy and the build step also.

Nice bonus: the resulting app is native and fast.
> You seem to confuse "not easily discoverable" with "doesn't exist"

From the point of users this: "information is not trivial to find right now for end users" is equal to "doesn't exist".

This is true for both clients and servers. When I asked "what if I don't want to run my own server", the very first link you provided me with was "Check the compliance of your server". Wat? I immediately closed the page, and I will never come back to it.

These things simply do not exist for anyone except hardcore geeks who are willing to figure all this out. 20 years ago when I was young I would do that. Now I will just open Telegram.

> My belief is that simply telling people to "use XMPP", and requiring them to find appropriate clients and servers is solving the problem from the wrong end. XMPP-based solutions should be attractive to people in their own right.

Yes! That's so very true.
I'm ready to sink money into it. They just don't serve my part of the world
That’s why I’m really curious about Algorand. I think they did two interesting things, although I haven’t really looked at it, but they:

- removed execution from consensus. I believe consensus just gets the execution result from elsewhere and thus doesn’t get slowed down by execution (the bottleneck when I was working on libra/Diem)

- have a random committee that verifies the execution, as opposed to everyone on the network like in Ethereum
> But storing things off-chain kinda kills the entire concept, doesn't it? If I hack into DigitalOcean I can mess everybody's NFTs by tampering with one database.

It's not about storing off-chain, you compute off-chain and post to the network a cryptographic proof of the computation.

Rollups provide something akin to lossless compression proofs of computation. You execute the computation off-chain with high throughput and post a proof to the Ethereum network, this proof contains everything necessary to verify the correct execution of the computation. Sounds mind-blowing but we can thank smart mathematicians for figuring out the cryptography that makes it possible.

This means that we can scale off-chain while enjoying the security guarantees of the blockchain.

These techniques allow scaling the network throughput towards the 1000-4000 transactions per second range. Which together with data-availability sharding will push the throughput towards the 100K transactions per second range.

To be noted that this is not anymore a theoretical construction, these things are live running today on Ethereum. You can check the different solutions as well as detailed explanations of their trade-offs, limitations, etc... Here: https://l2beat.com
Nope. A security update that removes a feature should add a checkbox to a control panel that's pre-checked to disable functionality. The system administrator is prominently notified that they must take a look at whether this breaks their use case, and make the right call following risk assessment.
Really at every landing site. And given the wide distribution of terrain and minerals I would be very surprised if there weren’t many sites that different countries or even teams have their eye on.
I wonder how one could mutilate a map such to prejudice the honour of a copyright holder.

> "Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?"

- Romans 9:21 (KJV)
In Europe, I haven't had an objectively bad experience with michelin starred restaurants. A few of them were not to my taste in terms of seasoning but I could appreciate the execution and quality of ingredients.

In HK, I know two restaurants that are objectively not up to par in that the ingredients do not taste fresh, some of the dishes are served overcooked and in the worst case, one of the dish was served both burnt and cold. To be fair, I've tried a lot more michelin restaurants in Asia than in Europe so the sample size is a lot bigger.

To name and shame, the two restaurants I'm talking about are Man Wah and Summer Palace. I did have a not so great (but nowhere near as bad as the first two) experience at Run but the second visit was michelin star worthy so at least at that place, it's understandable that they'd get a michelin star (although it does point to the fact that the inspectors might not be visiting during busy weekday lunches)
I read the linked article and the referenced paper [0] fairly closely, from the point of view of a vegetarian that wants this stuff to work from an animal suffering perspective.

Long term, I don't think there are any physical limitations argued for by the paper here, and the report doesn't change my ~50 year expectations that slaughter will be greatly reduced in wealthy countries due to tech impact (of either plant replacement or cultured meat).

But, it does present a compelling argument against "right now" technology scaling up. If anyone is selling you "we'll grow it in a bioreactor" without answering the questions of (macronutrient sourcing) and ((immunity to bacterial and viral infections) or (cell density)) then they are peddling fake news.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bit.27848
It doesn’t but this is how Ethereum was designed: everybody re executes.
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Not everyone is rich enough to also buy a desktop computer or have space for it? Not to mention that the hassle of duplicating software and data files between a laptop and a desktop is too much work for anyone who does not actually like to spend time on tech.
Corporations hire hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in management positions whose main purpose is to think about how to increase market share in a world where those corporations already have far more market share than they deserve based on their production ability.

Given this, I think it's normal to expect political manipulation and conspiracies to arise as an alternative to value creation to extract wealth. Remember when Google and Apple agreed not to poach each other's employees? It's irrational to assume that hundreds of thousands of managers just sit around all day doing nothing. It's also irrational to assume that all of these managers are honest, virtuous people. Surely some of them are conspiring with each other across different companies to give themselves an unfair advantage within their respective companies.
The article is nothing but a hit piece, very likely funded by meat industry. I don’t see any theoretical reasons argued here. You cannot write off future potential based on current state of technology. It’s like you will look at mainframe and say that there will never be a computer in every home. The thing that matters is rate of change over time.

Write’s Law dictates that as the total production capacity increases, cost exponentially declines. This law is the driver of Moor’s law and it is exactly why we can enjoy so many modern conveniences ranging from TVs to refrigerators that was initially affordable to only ultra rich. The cause of this law is believed to be the fact that far many more brains looks at various parts of production pipelines and optimizes it relentlessly. Cultured meat factories may look expensive today but over next couple of decades, they can become norm compared to traditional industry.
>is starting to no longer be competitive with the establishment

the establishment has scale of billions of users and decades or even centuries over which it has evolved its machinery. Doing something "on a computer/over internet" allowed to beat a lot of incumbents in less technical areas, while in this case the incumbent - the fintech - is itself one of the first adopters of the various "on a computer/over internet" tech.

So just doing it "on a blockchain" may be not enough. Especially given that, like negative feedback in control systems, the blockchain has that limiting control loop of "higher demand and wider adoption -> higher transaction fees" which naturally results in curbing of the demand/adoption. I.e. economy of scale works in the opposite direction on blockchain.
Striving to become something more is exactly what makes humans special. It is ironic and sad that in the article it is presented as a disadvantage.

This is an eloquent elaboration on the subject: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2SSedCJ29M
They can still use lightning, they just cant have that be the charging port ;-)
Any company with a customer base needs to develop a strong customer success strategy. There are so many different metrics out there that it can feel overwhelming. That’s why we at PayPro Global decided to clear up some of the confusion. This article will provide you with all the metrics you need to measure customer success within your SaaS business: https://bit.ly/2ZiKTdt
comically true.

then again, a goverment project basing on osm is about as trustworthy as a dissertation citing wikipedia.

and i guess there is value in having different mapping projects as long as there is no real consensus (taiwan, crimea ...)
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"Safe but Efficacy TBD" is a phase 3 clinical trial. And measuring out the level of benefit vs. the cost to medicare is a totally different issue, I think. At that point, we know it works, and it deserves an approval. I think that's where these laws around publishing prices come in. No individual is going to be able to interpret them, and not even doctors were aware of what their treatments cost. But having the prices published gives advocacy organizations a chance to run the numbers of effect size vs treatment cost and point out areas where the cost is extortionate.

It could also be pretty awesome if there was a labeling requirement on all FDA approved drugs for effect size, from a red "not very effective" to a yellow "moderately effective" to green "highly effective".
Makes me think about Gene Roddenberry, too. The more I learn about history of Star Trek, the more it seems that Roddenberry was a bit over-the-top with his ideas. If he got his way with everything, the show would be quite cheesy (the way Andromeda is). Star Trek's golden era (TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT) is the result of other producers pushing back on Roddenberry's influence, and after his death, increasingly subverting some of his ideas.

(Of course over time things strayed too far from the original vision, and the result is the post-ENT crapfest that carries the official "Star Trek" name, but is otherwise a generic action movie franchise. A strange situation, in which the only work still sticking to the deep and hopeful vision of the future is the little animated show that everyone thought will be a joke.)
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Which is a pretty minimal contract, a few hundred LOC
People could just not connect some devices to the wider world. Make them offline, or support airgapped usage patterns, or support a 1:1 connection only with a management interface (like a KVM), or support fully online use but with as simple a protocol as you can to reduce surface area.
Imagine one of those drivable bridges the army has for fording rivers where there is no bridge. Make it radially symmetrical instead and use maneuvering thrusters instead of wheels.

It’s going to float on the regolith, instead of water.
There's an easy mechanic to understand about recommendation machines (which let's face it are the main reason for so-called echo-chambers to exist [1]) it's decontextualization. Any good scientific work has a introductory section explaining the stakes of the field, a section about related works, an auto-critic section about shortcomings and possible future improvements, some declaration of interest. It might seem artificial but it is key for turning bare information into useful and digestable information. It explains how, why and by whom this blob of content has been made.

If we actually took down facebook and co and promoted content using a liberal network of peer-reviewing (in bazar-style of wikipedia, not in cathedral-style of big academia pubs) then i'm pretty positive a big chunk of information and institutional mistrust would go away. But then again really putting the true power of contextualized information in the hand of everyone is not something control-structures like states or multinationals have any interest in doing.

[1] "fake-news", deceitful information, pseudo-science and fantasy-conspiracies have always existed, what's new about them is that they're getting so big. Yet they're not getting big out of nowhere, they spread on plateforms that (1) promote content based on past performance (which is not a curation method) and (2) ease low-context sharing like reposts, likes etc. They are also aggravated by goverments and entitled newsoutlets being pedantic and dogmatic, by fact-checkers that act like judges instead of investigators.
> How about the toilet?

So long as you flush the cache manually after each use, no, the toilet does not need software. Cache invalidation is classically a very difficult problem in software.
> 1. Corporate news (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, New York Times, Washington post, etc) [..]. Imo it’s completely government propaganda, primarily far-left leading.

Either you slipped a bit in the heat or i misunderstood something but it's pretty wild to qualify "government propaganda" as "far-left". There's hardly any government in the world that is far-left. Besides one could argue that governing far-left isn't far-left anymore since any governing party has to compromise because inertia.
The cost of food as a share of income has fallen dramatically over the last fifty years or so. It's not unfathomable that it rises a bit again in exchange for properly pricing in externalities.
The country with the most expensive meat I know is Switzerland. The local chains Migros and Coop mostly sell meat produced in Switzerland. Here's the chicken you can usually find on the shelves in Migros:

https://produkte.migros.ch/optigal-poulet-241001011000

> Whole chicken - $10/kg

https://produkte.migros.ch/optigal-poulet-schenkel-241110100...

> Chicken drumsticks - $15/kg

https://produkte.migros.ch/poulet-brustschnitzel

> Chicken breasts - $30/kg

https://produkte.migros.ch/bio-pouletbrust

> Chicken breasts (I suspect this is free range) - $58/kg
A replacement for mouse/keyboard has been on my wishlist for a long long time. I'd happily accept a steep learning curve to reduce it to something that could be controlled with a couple of fingers.

This guys on the right path I think, and big props for taking it as far as he has done.
Security updates alone pretty much refute your entire premise. Not to mention that if you don't have software updates all your options for repair are costly and leave you without a device for a while. Scaled to everyone that's mountains of electronic and time wasted. The problem is not software updates.
> Unvaccinated people are a danger to themselves and others.

False for COVID. The available prophylaxes do not prevent spread. They merely prevent the disease from becoming acute. E.g., get the shot, get covid, and you're less likely to suffer severe effects from the disease. That's it.

You could argue "a danger to themselves", but that's their choice.

Hence, my stance is science-based: Get the shot if you have a risk factor (especially obesity!), or if you just want to. Or don't. Either way, you get to make that call.
We already do this with national libraries holding a copy of each book ever published. We can do it with software.
It is definitely a thing in Civ 6: Gathering Storm. I don't think it was a feature before that.
The second expansion for Civ 6 -- Gathering Storm, has a global warming mechanic built in. Civ 5 did not have it, but Civ 4, 3 and 2 definitely did in one form or another. I don't remember if it was a thing in Civ 1.
Of course it is, but in practice they are both limitations. When a non mobile developer user looks at these limitations, they generally just look at the actual ranges of applications available to them in practice. The theoretical freedoms the libre way grants them frankly puts very few apps on the table in practice. It's great in theory, but it just doesn't come up with the goods.
I’m replying to a comment that said, I quote, “but in the US there are free speech laws.”

Given that context, I thought it was clear I was talking about the nature of free speech laws in the USA.
That was the inspiration!
Can you say a bit more about the libraries?
Demand for food is pretty inelastic.

If the external costs were included, consumer would simply be forced to pay for their consumption.

This would give a fair advantage for food that has less external costs.

External costs are also hard to estimate, especially if they is burdened on another species. How much is the suffering of a chicken worth?
From duck typing to platypus typing
I thought the same at first.

At the end of the readme the author says it’s partly from the male protagonist in Spirited away, who is also named Haku.

So if Ghibli can get away with it …
Touchscreen?
Thank you. That’s an interesting thought about “aha” moments versus meticulousness. I’ve tended to offer “slow burn” puzzles, although I think there’s one exception in the escape room at present.
My grandmother had to raise the meat she ate herself. That meant that meat was fairly rare, usually only on Sundays you'd get an actual piece of meat on your plate. Today we eat way more meat than in the past because it's so cheap thanks to subsidies.
On the other hand, meat doesn't really have much of a taste. It's more about the texture. If you forget to add spices to your meat, it tastes like nothing.
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Problems with circumvention require better laws, or better law enforcement. The idea is still valid.
Civ 2 had pollution and rising sea levels due to melting ice caps. The most interesting unintended gameplay that came out of that must have been the Eternal War savefile:

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Eternal_War_(Civ2)
That's taken care of by parent's second paragraph - if you're not comfortable with supporting a device indefinitely, make it offline.
Why stop there? Couldn't the mother be brain dead as well?

It's a dystopian idea - breeding zombie cows that aren't alive on a cognitive level - but you can draw parallels to abortions and pulling the plug on brain dead human patients. As a society we somewhat agree rationally that the lack of subjective experience or cognition renders most ethical concerns moot.

From an emotional/intuitive stand point it still grinds a few gears though. Would we be fine with growing brain dead humans for consumption?
I meant as the other "person" in the transaction. I believe Japanese regulators adopted the term "person-to-machine" or "machine-to-machine" transactions in order to describe "smart contracts", as they are not contracts in the legal sense.

The reason I called them "autonomous agents" because they don't really fulfill any part of a standard contract. No choice of jurisdiction, no severability clause etc. More of a judge&jury&executioner all in one.

They are rather rigid and somewhat limited today, but I'd guess they are autonomous in the sense you can make them nearly unalterable once deployed. I suppose wih time we will be interacting with AI-agents at some point, there are some rather wild projects trying to do just that.

It may not strike you as particularly useful, but some decentralized exchanges (uniswap, dydx) that now clear more trading volume than Coinbase, a 100 billion dollar company. This has to mean something.

I have no idea if they could ever supercede legal contracts. Maybe in a 100 years.
But gathering storm is by far the worst civ expansion ever.
Sometimes you must send a proper PDF. And saving a page to PDF (or "printing") is a basic feature of a browser. They shouldn't release a mobile browser without that.

Also, sending a low quality screenshot of a mobile screen isn't a professional thing.