skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are the practical differences between the two?

Historically (pre-17th Amendment), the treaty power allows government-to-government agreements without the directly elected representatives of the people intervening to screw things up; their interference was feared to complicate diplomacy.

But other than procedural differences, there aren't any practical differences, a treaty ratified by the Senate and a congressional-executive agreement passed by both Houses and the President, and normal legislation (with the President or over his veto), or, I guess, a hypothetical sole-congressional agreement [0] all have exactly the same legal force.

> Is it that we aren't making any binding agreement with sovereign countries like we would when ratifying a treaty, instead we just happen to change our laws in line with the accord, but are free to change them again at anytime?

The Supreme Court has found (and the fact that Congress in Art. I, Sec. 8, is given the power to define what is and isn't an offense against the law of nations suggests that this is correct) that Congress is free to amend ratified treaties for the purpose of domestic law by normal legislation, so that's not a difference (though it is definitely also true of congressional-executive agreements, which are normal legislation.)

[0] where Congress takes a text, say, adopted by an international conference and adopts it over a Presidential veto; active negotiation of such an agreement might have some other legal issues.
Not op but I also stopped using Firefox due to profiles. I have one monitored/controlled profile for work and another for my personal stuff and I really need the complete separation so I don't do the wrong thing in the wrong place. I use different themes for both of them so it's obvious which one I'm on.

I also have multiple google accounts because of it which are super simple to use in Chrome, the containers might cover that for me.
What is the SAT/ACT if not jumping through hoops? Why do I have to be in the top 10% of my HS class, AND in the 95th percentile of SAT scores?

People are accustomed to jumping through hoops to pay an already rich institution several thousand more dollars.

In contrast, you study for Google's exams, and if you pass, Google ends up paying you.
Mining Bitcoin Using Nuclear Power May Be Fine
That seems like a strong claim. Any proof?
Knowledge is power... and they don't want you to have too much.

Imagine if almost everyone knew that they could use things like userscripts and stylesheets to enhance their browsing experience. Or that DRM can often be cracked by changing a single byte.

This is why the war on general-purpose computing started. There are some things they don't want you to know because they'd lose control.
That’s a pretty huge distinction. Can’t believe he misrepresented the author like that.
An alternative may be to listen to songs in a language you don't understand.
$35M to leverage AI for better water management (Olea Edge Analytics)
Why do we need to appeal to the differently abled?

If I own a general purpose computer, and I purchase a connection to the internet, I'm entitled to interact however I desire* with an internet service, or the information it chooses to send me.

It is not entitled to have the information it sent to me displayed in a certain way, and it certainly isn't entitled to bitch when I choose to interact with it in a way different than its preferences.

If that's what it wants, then it's welcome to sell a sealed appliance that only interacts in allowed ways. And we'll see what choices people make.

* With the exception of actions that impact others, e.g. DoS, authentication bypass, malicious hacking
Show HN: Rimgu – Self-hosted free and ad/trackless front end for imgur
Galactic Spaghetti: The smallest stable orbit around galactic center with pasta
If they break the script, they'll probably break the unfollow UI for legitimate human users

Messing with this is a lose-lose for Facebook.

Nah, this sort of thing really happens all the time. Think hundreds of scripts like this automatically disabled each day. This one just flukily got some press attention. Large tech companies will have teams entirely dedicated to preventing scripts from doing things while keeping the site running as normal for regular users.
I'm not allowed to reply to you directly but responding to your response to "so quit," okay, go live on a commune then. Live your values and demonstrate to the world why your way of life is better.
It's pretty easy to dunk on people when you divorce their words from the surrounding context.

This statement was within the context of advising organizational leaders who are trying to "keep the peace" (and thus, inadvertently enabling distraction and morale rot) instead of creating clarity and focusing the mission.
Perhaps, more like Armada from “The Scar”.
My Markov chain hiring process: Flip a coin. Heads, hire them on the spot. Tails, give them the usual guantlet of algorithm problems and coding challenges.
For some countries Facebook, Instagram and WhatApp are the internet.
Official entities and company use them as the only form of communication with the citizens and customers.
Energeia Review, Is Energeia supplement a scam?
Aiding and abbetting by continuing to collect rent from an known criminal engaging in criminal behavior on their property
Alright; fair enough. If I am willing to give criticism I need to also be willing to be criticized.

I stand by my original comment though. I really don't think the team should take my feedback as a personal insult, it is simply my own personal view on it, not a formal critique.

I read the research because I was genuinely curious, and I still think it feels like it falls in line with the old adage "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". The fact that the lead researcher was a doctor doesn't change that for me.

I dislike a lot of projects like this because I have had experiences in my industry where people want to optimize and automate everything. Perhaps this will work, but in my experience things like this fall flat; I am always opened to being surprised though, and I certainly will not be upset if this does end up helping people and my read on it was wrong.
Often in discussions about blackholes, the question arises of observer experience when falling into a blackhole. Due to the extreme tidal forces experienced along such a path, the observer would be stretched out - a process colloquially referred to as spaghettification. This week I would like to look at a happier use for spaghetti near blackholes. If an observer in a stable circular orbit around the supermassive blackhole at the center of our galaxy were to use spaghetti as a tether, how much spaghetti would be required? Restated, the Fermi-Problem question of interest this week is:

> How much spaghetti would be required to form the smallest stable circle around the supermassive blackhole at the center of the Milky Way?

Without giving away the numerical answer, the result is around 3 meals for everyone on Earth!
"I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram".

https://prunescape.fandom.com/wiki/The_Reply_Given_in_Arkell...
It is anecdotal but we had a JPEG at ~115KB and after encoding to AVIF the quality remained the same but the file size dropped to ~15KB.

Having looked at caniuse.com it seems that Chrome, Opera and (only just now by default) Firefox support it. With Edge, Safari, and the majority of mobile browsers still to catch up.
The status quo is not necessarily a bad thing, for instance if you have a lot of activist coworkers who want to "burn the system to the ground," then I, for one, become a huge supporter of the status quo.

One must remember that things can always get worse.

Just because there exist concrete problems in society does not mean that you, or activist coworkers get to assume that you're/they're automatically right nor that you/they have workable solutions.
> I assumed they were talking about an event pre-1989.

Same at first, but then having spent time in the South years ago I also realized the prejudice from the North on the South for economic reasons.

The South is typically seen as the most affluent of all of Germany and depending on the Stat the most influenced by politics: as in the case with Baden-Wuttenburg and the Green Party. Hell, people from the Schwabish part (Stutgart) are used looked down on by the rest of Baden-Wuttenburg for being typically very stingy and aloof (even by German standards) and seen as not worth building ties with. I had a bad experience with them, after being warmly welcomed in Germany, but I took that more a random situation rather than anything worth looking deeper into.

It's frankly a very odd situation and makes you wonder why they're even united at all, I spent time in the North near Cologne this summer and to be honest the amount of Turkish people was a very welcomed sight especially how well integrated they were in Society.

I wish I could have remained with that feeling because stuff like this makes me realize how deeply scarred the German psyche is in regards to this topic.
For banking specifically, you have the Open Banking initiatives around world, including the PSD2 directive in Europe, which requires that APIs for banking should exist and be offered to all.

There is no regulation or other government directives requiring social media companies to provide APIs open to all.
Then cloudflare should respond by forwarding this information to the authorities rather than sweeping it under the rug and continuing to collect money from the phishing website
Well, it would have been hard to be eBPF because it pre-dated it. But perhaps you meant to say that eBPF is not DTrace? On that point, certainly agreed.
> Of course none of the other languages have "no_std", and don't need it. Your Rust code doesn't need it either. Don't want to use library features? Just don't use them.

1) no_std allows composability. One of Rust's biggest strengths is its package ecosystem, and I imagine this will only become more true in the increasingly "weird" and sprawling hardware ecosystem described by the OP, where the ability to re-use code that other people might have written for your hardware could save you from having to "solder in a JTAG connector and reverse-engineer the code in there to figure out how your code can operate in the environment". "Just don't use [the standard library]" doesn't work when you want to use third-party libraries.

2) no_std's static checks are nice even in your own code. The value of static analysis has been argued about so many times in threads like these that I don't feel like re-treading that ground. But suffice to say: it's clear some people think they can write flawless code and don't see the benefits of assistance, but plenty of others know their limitations and benefit from static analysis.

3) Rust seems to have straddled an interesting and useful line in terms of which features are available in these limited contexts and which ones aren't, giving you as much to work with as possible. And thanks to #1 and #2 you can use those features fearlessly; you never have to guess about whether or not they're in the "safe" category. Hygenic macros in particular can act as a compile-time force-multiplier when you want better abstractions but don't want to (or can't afford to) do extra things at runtime.

As always comes up in these discussions: yes, you can technically cover this usecase with C and C++. You can technically cover it with raw assembly code, or binary strings, or a pair of wires. Don't discount ease-of-use as a factor that can take things from "technically possible but practically infeasible" to "doable and worth doing".
Facebook apologises as services including Instagram hit again
Except if you find a business plan where you increase profits by emitting CO2 which doesn't have a direct cost associated with it, or make people angrier so they look at more ads, or take bets where if you win you get money, and if you lose you get bailed out by the government.

There's been plenty of failures of profit seeking as a social good that may have been avoided if companies felt a duty to society beyond profit seeking.
you are using a rhetorical sleight of hand when you say that (paraphrasal) "with strong Senate support the President can bypass the House, but otherwise a treaty can be considered normal simple majority legislation." That's not the way the Constitution is written, and treaties are not normal legislation.

I'm not saying that "you're wrong", I'm convinced that it's being done, but imho SCOTUS should overturn this style of treaty.
Delivery drone can deliver quite a range of things.
Hi HN,

imgur has become increasingly infused with trackers and won't even function without JavaScript anymore. rimgu is a alternative front-end/proxy for imgur similar to these projects:

* piped (youtube)
* teddit (reddit)
* nitter (twitter)
* bibliogram (instagram)
* wikiless (wikipedia)

Once you have it running, you can simply replace the domain in any imgur URL with wherever rimgu is listening and it will return the content (including galleries, videos and social pages) from imgur, without tracking or JS.

The only dependency is nodejs (and some form of reverse proxy/load balancer for seamless https use).

PR for integration in Privacy Redirect - rewrites links and embeds on pages: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/pull/303

I hope that software like this will increase and that more people start running small instances for themselves and their non-techie friends to take back some privacy online while retaining access to the global hivemind.
You could short COIN on the stock market
This would be a good argument if google had diversified products. But it relies so heavily on one product it makes you wonder if engineering quality even matters to google's success. Google's Ad business can hide the worst systemic problems because it makes so much money.

In other words, google's success says very little about the quality of it's hiring process.
I disable remote fonts on my browser, so it just uses whatever font I enforce.
Americans feel unrepresented. This makes us despair and forces us into increasingly unpopular, existential crisis, that are good for no one.

I do not believe the problem is we aren't progressive enough. The problem is no one trusts the goverment. And no one trusts the goverment is because no one in goverment is accountable to the majority and no one governs the way we would like to be governed.

Frankly it's not about 'centrism'. It's about the fact the parties do NOT represent the diversity of opinion in America. there pro-choice republicans, pro-life democrats, republicans who like trans-rights, pro-capitalism democrats, pro-gun democrats, anti-trump Republicans ... But despite all this diversity of opinion, you have a system that forces binary choices between slates of options.

We are a very diverse country - ethnically, politically, socially. It's beautifully diverse. Among the most diverse in the world. I do not believe the current political system reflects that diversity accurately.

Which is why voter participation in America is low, and most elections across the country do not matter. This is wrong. Every district in America should be competitive.
Nah, just like salary, I'm getting a ball park range on that topic before bothering to come into the office for an interview. Otherwise, you're wasting other people's time and your own.
Cloudflare isn't even telling the police any of this information. They took it from OP, said "OK, we will continue to profit off this client," and swept it under the rug. They don't have to be the judge jury and executioner here, they should however pass that information along to said legal system rather than continue to turn a profit off of the criminal behavior.
apple's eula allows you to run macos on apple hardware.

Just install proxmox on a mac mini or old mac pro and run macos VMs
Globalism is inherently fragile. This is part of a continued trend which has enough inertia to carry us to an inflection point where it could conceivably destroy everything human, either in real terms or something less tractable. We made a wrong turn a very long time ago, and since we've been extraordinarily misdirected but inextricably committed to the mistake we've made. We're totally in the dark, and truth becomes ever more indefinite as we travel down this timeline and the path we [never] elected.

You see, the way that we made exchange was translated from a moral domain to a material domain, which was finally transposed to a symbolic one. Dollar valuations of a lifetimes is an intrinsically abhorrent concept. A life can never be repaid, thus it can never be valued in real terms - yet it is, billions of times over. Globalism is just a long-range result of this. Exploitation and undervaluing of billions of lives in order to create increasingly competitive products to grow dollar values of a investments in the hands of an increasingly small proportion of the population. This itself founded on false pretense.

Every move towards globalism is increasingly dangerous, this is no exception.
Is it exploitation when those people choice themselves where to go AND the same people know they had other options. Its not like SpaceX couldn't get job anywhere else.
So this means Cloudflare can ignore DCMA takedowns?
I'd argue that it has no negative feedback mechanism. More security isn't always useful. There's a reason you don't wear 25 seatbelts in a car or drive a tank to work. At some point more security is ineffective, and then eventually detrimental.

Yes, more energy is more security in this case - which of course you can obtain in alternative ways. But so is driving a tank. So is living in bubble wrap in a missile silo in the middle of an open field. We don't do those things, though, because we have negative feedback mechanisms. Bitcoin does these things (analogous versions) because it doesn't.

And as for why it's failed as an L1, it set out to be a digital cash. 2-3tx/sec isn't enough to support a mid-sized Costco or a flea market let alone a global currency. 1 transaction per person on earth today would take over 75 years and cost 1/3 of a trillion dollars, and 100% of the remaining block reward. It's like a soviet-era phone line - better put in your order early, I guess.
Living on a commune is giving up. The current order must be overthrown, everything else is just implicitly endorsing exploitation.
That's actually... interesting. It's a well established tactic to go to another country and publish your stuff from there if you like to keep annoying a government or institution. You know, Snowden is in Russia, some Russian journalists are in EU countries. It happens all the time since ever.

What if someone creates a Telegram group where developers from hostile countries(like US&Iran, UK&Russia, Japan&China) pass each other projects that are not obviously illegal but not feasible due to risk of persecution?

In this case, If FB thinks it has a case can try its luck by sending Google a scary looking letter then proceed to compel Google to remove the extension by court order.
There's a combo box on the top right corner.
Did you read the tweets? He said that most stakeholders told him they were very happy with the mission focus.
As a European living and working in the US: your comparison is very shortsighted.

European countries literally have no legal concept of at-will employment. They have strong social nets that make quitting your job much easier, and more prevalent unions that fight to improve working conditions (all of these things are, gasp, political! incidentally)

By comparison employment in the US is messed up enough that if you leave your job you lose your health insurance. Companies with great policies can sometimes retain employees on that basis alone! Is it really any wonder that “politics” ends up being an issue in the workplace when your employer literally controls your access to healthcare?

All of this stuff is emblematic of a deeply unhealthy relationship with employment in the US. Despite widespread agreement that this arrangement is bad, the US political system is broken enough that changing it feels all but impossible. CEOs like Brian are taking a hard stance against the effects while ignoring the causes.

You’re right that such a thing is only possible in the US, you’re just wrong about the reasons why.
The mantra of every unreasonable person.
What about torrenting? Why not offer is somewhere a bit more decentralized?
That's exactly what the parent commenter is saying: that this principle apparently holds true unless it's in the context of certain things that Coinbase doesn't want its employees talking about.
"Alongside a minimum corporate tax rate, the pact includes provisions to ensure that multinational companies pay tax where they generate sales and profits, and not just where they have a physical presence. That could have major ramifications for tech companies such as Google and Amazon, which have amassed vast profits in countries where they pay relatively little tax."

I share your skepticism generally, but it seems like this agreement is a good step towards getting corporations to pay taxes. There's no point in starting a shell company in the Caymans if your taxes are paid based on where your products were purchased.
I once single-handedly beat an entire US armed force at an arm-wrestling tournament.
MLOps in AWS
I used to work with kids in an international program. I had a hard "mission focused" rule. Most of the social justice type advocacy talk about political topics would be banned under this rule (along with a lot of other stuff about back home like what they owned etc).

Kids whose parents would have hated each other getting along well, making friendships, etc. In the long run, seeing this humanity in each other (I think) will contribute more to some large benefits than always going to war on every issue.

Some examples - Student (jewish) whose dream was to join IDF to kill "terrorists" vs kid whose parents were palestinian (and hated jews). The kid who talked trash about blood transfusions for some reason - with a friend whose medical form had a history of them. Some crazy wealth disparities (the private jet kids with the extended passport filled with stamps vs kid who saved mowing money to go on program).

Stripped of all the baggage from back home (and with no cell phone / internet access etc), working together (outdoor program), no parents spoiling them (for the spoiled ones) or whaling on them (one or two parents from south still do this) - very cool to see what happens (in most cases).
Ah, I see.

In short, I consider `From::from` implementations for errors to be an anti-pattern. It is super easy to become lax about adding context with these implementations in place. Especially as code is modified in the future.

I describe the approach that I use for errors in a detail in an article (https://kazlauskas.me/entries/errors.html) that has already been linked elsewhere in the thread. It is, as far as I can tell, pretty much equivalent to what `snafu` makes users to do.
I recently moved into a neighborhood with a stricter HOA, after avoiding them for most of my life.

My plan is to wait until February 2022, and build the ugliest golden Trump mailbox I can slap together. Then, when they ask me to take it down, request an appeal, and film the ensuing meeting. Then, send said video to Fox News et al. Then, run for HOA on a platform of abolishing the HOA.

... I really don't like neighbors telling me what I can and can't do.
yeah, that's a good idea. thanks for the suggestion :)
There was an anniversary edition over ten years ago, but the last time a decade passed by they didn't seem to do anything special. Might have something to do with how much money they make off of non-Mac sales, or maybe Steve was super enthused and everyone else was just humoring him. I suspect the headache of managing a low-volume specialty product is substantial.
I'm not sure what you mean by "continuously", but the answer to your question is "no, it doesn't."