skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"- If a US citizen conspires to insider trading with another US citizen on US soil regarding an Australian company, the Australian government will claim jurisdiction through the Corporations Act because it is an Australian security;"

This is so wrong in so many ways:

1 - Corporations Act, neither in Australia nor it's UK equivalent, do not deal with securities fraud or insider trading - it's a separate body of law.

2 - Think about implications of your claim, when you buy shares of American, Chinese, British and Russian companies on Robinhood / Trading212, etc. you do not become bound by security exchange laws of four different countries. This would be legally absurd as the laws differ and conflict significantly

3 - it's not a cut-and-dry 'Australian security' - if the security is issued listed on a stock exchange, say NASDAQ, and it's issuance is governed by the laws of the country where stock exchange is located. But a general investor never even deals with a stock exchange.

4 - When some brokerage is offering financial instruments in UK, the contract is between yourself and their UK branch, and regulated by UK Financial Conduct Authority. There is no foreign jurisdiction involved.

5 - as a general rule, an average citizen is not expected to know laws of other countries they have never travelled to and generally cannot be tried by other countries for their actions in their home country. They may be tried by their home country for their actions abroad, but not the other way round. Almost every exception to this has been related to hacking, and where they did happen these cases are highly controversial even among legal scholars.
As a Black American who has fought against white supremacists in the street I would say the government has no right to prevent their free speech.

At the same time, I’m under no obligation as a private citizen to tolerate their odious speech. This even includes in business settings… At an old company I once asked our CEO to take down “sponsored content” from our home feed that was promoted by a group on the SPLC hate group list (for comparison we also regularly took down ISIS material.)
There is an enormous amount of evolutionary pressure on sars-cov-2 now. By vaccinating everyone, not just the vulnerable, are we unnecessarily increasing the the mutation rate and thus creating strains that won't be preventable with vaccines?
He should auction an NFT and Zuck/FB/MVRS should buy it for a decent amount
I'm an author who supports CDL, and I couldn't agree more.

What surprised me the most was how many people strongly defended the IA's actions. In their heads, the IA could do no wrong. Or they failed to grasp the illogic of "public libraries are closed, so we're going to pretend we own their books and lend them out."

Even here on HN, there were some people who refused to acknowledge that what the IA did was both unfair to copyright holders and a poor strategy for trying to uphold CDL over the long term.
Punch hole cameras are a thing now in smartphones, would be better than a big block. I just feel like this was the wrong compromise. Not that my opinion matters, I bought the Surface Laptop Studio like the MS cuck that I am, which is full of bad compromises itself.
Ha. I did exactly the same thing. Took a lesson, was terrified the entire time. I like flying in the bigger stuff but a cessna seems like somebody has thrown a volkswagen beetle into the air. Every time that thing dropped a metre due to turbulence i was glad i went to the toilet beforehand.
or MVRS could just make the NFT and own it for free
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Flying is fairly expensive, no?
Wikipedia is not a group one should trust for medical and nutritional information or a fair & balanced view of most controversial topics, given its funding & obvious biases.
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One could likely produce helium, if really needed, in net negative hydrogen fusion devices, at very high energy cost.
> they cannot fight every single fight

I think "failing to support" in the grandparent comment is too weak for some. This is Glenn Greenwald on a recent ACLU amicus brief[1]:

>> This is the first time, at least to my knowledge, that ACLU is explicitly arguing in court that the First Amendment's free speech clause has been interpreted *too broadly* by courts, and are advocating *a more restrictive view* of what free speech means.

I'm not sure about that case in particular, but on your question of

> why not choose the group of people who are nicer?

I'd say the grim batman ACLU of my alternate-history fanfic cares more about precedent than it does about defendants.

1: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1449739621563346944
I sold everything I owned and moved to Vietnam in 2016 from SF Bay Area. Travel in Cambodia and Laos was obvious, but I took it to a more extreme level by motorbike and living out of hotels and small rentals for 2 years. =) Extremely fortunate to get to the most remote parts of all of those countries and really experience things. Opened my eyes a lot.
There’s a three year old (low quality) video here.

https://youtu.be/M0rpT831ngM
Can anybody recommend authors like Stephenson? He is my favourite author by far and it's going to be a sad day when I exhaust his works.
So it's just simulating the physical model? That's a rather narrow slice of the whole thing.

Edit: the real website mentions a lot more like the neural connections

https://openworm.org/
"Unknown unknowns" - often about oddball limitations of the codebase or it's dependencies - limit my ability to enumerate what I don't know, and planning is often used as an excuse to get trapped in analysis paralysis (by myself included!)

Which isn't to say there's not plenty of room for inquery, questions, and planning, but don't underestimate the value of bulldozing through problems. (That said, this has caused me to step on the toes of fellow contributors to a project without realizing it.)
Right, but do you really need an outage for everyone to find that out? It's hard to notice that fastly powers a given site, but it's trivial to notice the game your kid's playing.
Great question! Yes, this line of reasoning is vague. New lines of inquiry can be quite vague until more is known. Here are my opinions to your questions:

1) The division of labor is straight forward. The brain collects the inputs and sends the information to the NPM; possibly instantaneously.

2) I think the need for sleep is by design for a multitude of reasons. I do not believe the NPM sleeps and may possibly be the most active PM <-> NPM state.

3) I believe the NPM carries on with the limited information that it is receiving. I don't think that it gets frustrated per se because perhaps it's existence is eternal in some way.

4) Some sort of "entanglement". I'm pretty confident that this mechanism violates the physical laws as we know them.

5) See #4
It’s been a few years but I vaguely remember a discussion of address-space in the metaverse, so could be a matter of essentially paying for a “static address” on a particular server. Isn’t the metaverse operated solely by Black Sun? I don’t remember any description of a decentralization/interoperability
There has always been a clear rule that an app can’t also be equally equivalent to a web site and easily available just as a web site. You have to make a choice that if you wrap your site as an app, and it’s the same, then the web site shouldn’t be accessible via the web browser.
Totally. You'll have stale caches that need to be regenerated at the same (vs incrementally during steady operation), backed up queues, users themselves doing things like rapid refreshes, etc.

Ironically recovering after downtime is usually harder if you have downtime relatively rarely, because these problems don't get exposed.
It seems likely I'm misunderstanding something, or are you suggesting that C. elegans has a soul?
Snow Crash is really a gread book, a lot of philosophy intertwined with technology and religion in one compact package.
SimCity – How Will Wright Created a Phenomenon
> The United States has been a stable democracy with absolute freedom of speech for two and a half centuries.

The United States has had plenty of limits on free speech throughout its history. Letting Nazis or the KKK or whomever speak their mind and publish their literature doesn't mean we have absolute freedom of speech, just fewer restrictions on speech than elsewhere.

And it's worth pointing out that the paradox of tolerance was written as a reaction to Nazi Germany. The Nazis were the kind of intolerant group that paradox was arguing shouldn't be tolerated, not because of their speech alone, but because of their willingness to use violence, and refusal to tolerate any speech but their own.

If one side incites violence with their speech and the other side merely tolerates them for the sake of free speech the violent side wins. That was the relevant lesson of Nazism, not that the Nazis never would taken power in a Germany that allowed them to speak and publish freely, because they did.

This is why the KKK is allowed to march, but not allowed to make terrorist threats or incite violence (which they would be, if the US had absolute free speech,) because even tolerating the speech of scoundrels has to have a limit.
Well, shit. Booster doses soon, then... a longer lasting immunity or different vaccines?
A couple features are that is hard for an attacker to find a collision, and it is hard to reverse the original data from the hash. Both can cause serious security problems but aren't necessary in something like this where most image changes are "natural" and you gain speed by weakening those constraints.
Pat Cadigan's Synners.
The Listener (2010)
I think they're talking about just the worm moving, rather than also simulating the worm's CNS/mind.
> A particularly nasty aspect of SQL UPDATE syntax is the predicate order, i.e. SET is before WHERE. So when you type it in order, there's a dangerous phase you have to go through if you hit enter by accident.

Well, dangerous if you are using a simple terminal interface and not using a transaction when doing updates. The latter is generally a bad idea even if you aren't also doing the former.
Except it's not that there was government inaction. The very article discussed is FAA making the rounds to cover 70% of powerplants used in general aviation, which isn't just joyriding for wealthy people (and military doesn't give a damn, cause they aren't bound by those limits). The actually wealthy people don't care either, because they can afford turbine engines.

In fact despite somewhat higher price at source for G100UL, there's considerable possibility it will lead to cheaper operation thanks to lower maintenance impact compared with leaded fuel, and GAMI is hopeful about it being rated for full power usage even in place of other, even rarer fuels.

There are various problems with just banning GA, no matter how wealthy suburbs would love to do it. From impacting training pipeline, to all kinds of operations that would be involved that you might not think of (whether it's connecting random communities in Alaska, where some cargo is still flown on WW2-vintage DC3s, to medical transports).
No, the salts don't evaporate. Which is why they tend to accumulate in the soil.
Factory Kit Pattern
Chaos Engineering with ToxiProxy
OK, I suppose I should have guessed that Contemporary Latin is a thing.
Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
Scala TestContainers
Cents on GitHub Co-Pilot
Does this freak anyone else out just a little?

This project is simulating an entire organism, including its neurology. To what extent does running this code create a "real" worm?

Sure, it's just C. elegans for now. But over time, we'll gradually see additional projects to simulate larger organisms...
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It’s not possible to do this with all clients; that’s not my argument. But in a big company it should be done with as a matter of practise with at least a cohort.

But yes there is a ton of ignorance in this world. I constantly have to remind folks that the world outside of Spreadheets is insanely messy.
Isn't that double counting? In the first scenario, $2252 is the amount that they get in their bank account post-tax (marginal). In the second scenario, they get $0 in their bank account post-tax (marginal), and there is a deduction but that occurs on the amount donated so they don't really gain $1459 but rather avoided paying those taxes.
An update: YouTube contacted NovaraMedia and stated that it was not an algorithmic deletion of the channel.

Here is NM's response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUADdvOPFks
And the URL they mentioned in the footnote is https://signal.org/bigbrother :)
Exactly. Flying for sport is expensive as it is today because safety has to be a priority (as it should). Add a requirement for new engines or major overhauls on old planes and the cost will spiral out of control.
Besides, leaded fuel was a problem when literally every single car on the street was burning it. The total volume of fuel consumed by aviation piston engines is a joke compared to that.
I'm picking that the new BeagleV board they've promised to announce in Q1 2022 will be based on the newly open-sourced Alibaba T-Head "Xuantie 910" out-of-order core.

Roughly speaking, comparable to what's in a Pi 4, vs the roughly Pi 3+ SiFive U74 cores in the cancelled board.
>I can paste the wiki stuff about how it’s essentially similar to Meth

Yes, drugs that get classified as stimulants due to their physiological effects will have some similar effects. Different mechanism of action though, and not derived from amphetamine.

>it’s a serious drug.

Yes, as opposed to all the light and fluffy drugs.
That's why it's great to see numbers like "70% of GA fleet piston powerplants will be now certified to use unleaded fuel".
The obvious counter-argument, unfortunately, is that the government has a clear idea of which requests the FISA court would reject, and therefore never bothers making such requests. That would mean the court is correctly preventing executive overreach and there's nothing to worry about.
> there were some people who refused to acknowledge that what the IA did was both unfair to copyright holder

There are people here who refuse to acknowledge that what copyright holders do is unfair to everyone.
From what I loosely remember, snowcrash depict a interoperable layer where actors build marketplaces.
>the only way for that energy to be expended is in either thermal energy

Correct, much of the atmosphere would become superheated, perhaps to plasma, and radiate the energy away non-directionally. So only half would radiate toward the surface -- not that that's a whole lot of help.
Leet code style questions for an SRE is so dumb. SRE is all about solving unexpected, unique problems. Opposite of leet code!
I don't get why the interviewer suggests that the author deserves some compensation. Did metaverse as an idea did not exist before Snow Crash?
I saw a Chinese guy pulling a woman out of a casino by her hair and punching her in the face in the middle of the street. Whole town was nuts and really depressing. Probably the worst place I've ever been in that area.

A building collapsed (due to poor construction)...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48729072

and a few months later...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-gambling/thousan...

and now it is just a ghost town, which I'm sure is left half finished and a complete mess...

https://www.voacambodia.com/a/a-pandemic-and-gambling-ban-ha...

I went out to Koh Rong Island. It was supposed to be this beautiful place and it was a total dump with garbage everywhere. Sadly it seems I missed it by about 5 years.

None of this bodes well.

And you're right, history repeats itself. This definitely isn't just China.
This doesn't necessarily mean that every company that will try to transform the construction industry will fail. Vertical integration definitely makes sense to eliminate inefficiencies. Perhaps, a new company could better execute vertical mergers and acquisitions and succeed.
I mean simulating muscle contractions treats it like a clockwork machine; that's not very impressive. If you go deeper you can look at internals of cells, metabolism, chemical energy, protein interactions. That's how the worm works.

This is like simulating a computer by using a model of RAM and CPU, when you really need to model electricity & magnetism (and stray gamma rays) for a true simulation.
Idk why but a relative who regularly plays Roblox and Fornite had an inseparable connection to Farming Sim 2019.

Maybe you will try this.
This video is a better look at what they're doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaCRNX0hdwU
William Gibson, Cixin Liu
Same, it amazes me how many people around my airport don't use these. In my mind they enhance safety too because I can sump more gas and sump all the tanks at once, so if one tank is all water I'd know.
Hopefully you meant "fought against".
More or less the plot of The Mouse That Roared, which predated Dr Strangelove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared
> On the other end, setuping a linux box for the common tasks (web server, cache, db, etc) never takes me more than a day.

You can get a lightsail instance setup in less than an hour.
I won’t exhort folks not to write these things, but I write native apps, using Swift, and built-in Cocoa APIs.

As a result of using native tech, I can offer a lot of very cool stuff, but I do know that many customers are fine with a far scruffier UX.

They just won’t get it from me.
Ask HN: Would Google still kill Google+ If they new about Facebook’s problems?
It's not that freaky for me. I think it's awesome!
Also fouls spark plugs, sticks valves, contaminates oil, and covers the underside of the plane. Leaded avgas is all-around nasty stuff.
Over at LessWrong niconiconi recently posted a somewhat pessimistic assessment of the last 10 years of progress on emulating C. Elegans, including OpenWorm:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai...

Apparently there are some signs that progress is being made again now, though...
Well, balloons filled with pure hydrogen tend to go poof, but fill them with a stoichiometric mixture of hydrogen and oxygen (like the output of a water electrolysis cell) and the have a pretty powerful explosion.
I’d agree here. I found the surface rather easier to maneuver around. It’s like it improves agility. Yet it’s soft and doesn’t push back like coils do.

Foam I feel I just feel I sink into a divot and have to lift myself out before moving side to side. Which reduces agility. That feeling is compounded with another body.

Even when agility isn’t the main goal, it’s like you have to work twice as hard with foam and maybe 80% as hard with latex; as compared to coils.

This same sinking/floating type feelings also is the big contributor to why foam is feels so hot to me. It absorbs my heat then engulfs me in it.
> and yours seems to be an attitude of blaming only the individual.

Yes. Because I like to think I'm living among grown ups, not among children where nanny state is needed.

> Obese? just a lazy fatso.

Not everyone of course (sometimes it is disease), but most obese people are.

It is not necessarily bad. Maybe someone decided they are happy being obese, lazy and enjoy sugar in food, that's their choice and their responsibility.

> The impact of large corporations optimising consumer behavior is not zero, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money on it.

And grownup adults are responsible to recognize these tricks and don't use it when it harms them.

Same as with Coca-cola, which also does millions of these tricks affecting consumer behavior. I drink Coke occasionally, and partly because of their ads everywhere, otherwise maybe I'd drink more water. But I know when to stop.
Depends - here in Europe you can jojn the local "aeroclub", pay a reasonable yearly fee, perform various work alignments from the club (airport and aircraft maintenance, manning the advisory radio service on the tower, etc.) and then you can fly the clubs gliders at first come first served basis (after appropriate training of course).

This way even university students can fly (gliders) without being rich & quite a few of my friends did.

Also, not really a problem with leaded fuel in most gliders. ;-)

(The towing aircraft or the winch might be a different matter.)
I feel like someone could have tied together the election of Trump and the rise of crypto and got in by 2017 with fully rational reasoning.
Problem is, messaging platforms in "the Internet" aren't interoperable. If I use service X, I usually can only talk to people that also uses X. So "the Internet" is mostly composed of silos.

Silos are the reason that platforms get centralized in the first place: people generally enjoy using the same X as their peers, so they can communicate in a single platform.
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My parents didn’t notice any of the games we were playing.
You can’t just apply extreme value theory to spectacular events because it supports your argument. Yes, there was a hundred years between the 1918 influenza outbreak and Covid. No, that doesn’t mean you can say that pandemics probabilistically occur once in a hundred years. The world is changing at an extraordinary pace, populations are exploding, humans and animals interact more than ever, and international travel is trivial.

Further reading: https://www.govtech.com/em/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/cov...
They can easily read all the signal messages they want, by getting the phone Signal was installed on(assuming the user is logged into Signal, which 99% chance the answer is yes).

They are not willing or able to do that for whatever reason, but the ability exists.

I agree the technology used is a secondary issue, but Law Enforcement got lazy when they were able to wire-tap phones willy nilly whenever they wanted. They need to get un-lazy again. They can do all they want to do without needing un-encrypted traffic, un-encrypted traffic just makes them not have to work as hard.

I'm fine with them having to work harder instead of them getting to see all the communications they could ever dream of.
Ah I see... so it sounds like I misunderstood. You're calling for a higher-fidelity physical model, not something metaphysical :)

I still think it's impressive if we can get a decent-fidelity model of C. elegans behavior at the project's current level of abstraction.

I wonder how much behavioral difference we'd see from a lower level of simulation? After all, you can do a lot with a "RAM and CPU" level simulation of a computer...