skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are cherry picking local initiatives that some progressives have won that have basis on European ways of handling these sort of issues but have been hijacked or undermined by others who want them to fail.

> Also, the proposition 47 passed in CA that makes stealing a midemenor

With the whole hijacking of BLM the police have become very cavalier towards even attempting to do their jobs. What started as a request to not shoot unarmed black people has morphed into police protesting by not enforcing their duties and using their unions as cover. This is to help encourage the failure of these proposals and revert to an exreme right wing policy.

In places like Oregon they don't even follow the will of the people (eg. ballot initiative to decriminalize all drugs just gets ignored by the mayor/police). The purpose of this law is to follow the Dutch model where people are given the drugs in a controlled environment and offered treatment options to wean them off. At least thats the end goal. But like everywhere else in this country where these bills get passed, they will be sabotaged by people at all layers that want to keep the crappy status quo(ie. a permanent racial underclass that serves the upper classes\corporate interests)

You are also ignoring all the big ticket items that they never get. Did you see how Bernie Sanders was totally curb-stomped by the DNC and afterwards they went back to sleep? Where is universal healthcare? tuition free college? federal jobs program? Green new deal Infrastructure/Jobs/R&D investment? Almost nothing progressive gets passed and when it does it gets sabotaged immediately.
So... if I have a handicap, I should look at it as an opportunity or challenge? I should just rise-up to the challenge? Yeah, well, if I don't have any options, then I'll make do.

I really only see lack of empathy in your response. Stuttering is a handicap, plain and simple. Yes, some of us can live with it. It is debilitating and humiliating and if you do not suffer from it, I can't imagine how you can begin prescribing advice. You can have the universe, I just want to order some coffee (thank god for self-serve POS).
It is pedantry. This is just idiomatic human communication and not specific to any single domain. People say thing like this all the time. Saying ‘than it should be’ instead of ‘than we expect’ is everyday English language usage that confuses nobody and complaining about it is entirely performative. You’re technically correct, here have a round of applause, but it contributes nothing. Dealing with smug nitpicking like this that’s completely beside the point is one of the tedious chores or reading HN.
From the Bose QC-35 manual

"Remove headphones immediately if you experience a warming sensation or loss of audio." [1]

Probably could use a few more words for good measure.

Also, they do not explode. Explode has a specific meaning. Lithium batteries experiencing thermal runaway get rather hot and then burn quite vigorously, but they do not explode.

1. https://assets.bose.com/content/dam/Bose_DAM/Web/consumer_el...
Epistemologically, using a fake name and a threat of legal action to elicit a response from whoever's picking up the phone is no different from dressing up as a cop and harassing someone on the street. The question of whether the content of your accusation stems from their own or their employer's action is peanuts compared to the ethical boundary you crossed when you decided to impersonate authority to witness their reaction.
> I think it's pretty ludicrous to expect Bose to design for that eventuality.

That decision is, indeed, up to Bose.

But should they choose to continue making a headphones that have a 1-in-N-million chance of exploding, this should be clearly indicated on every pair they sell.

So that their competitors who choose to invest in safety would be able to reap the fruit if their labor in the free market.
Yes. That's exactly what I did. Doctors think this significantly helped, but we'll know more in a few weeks.
First thanks for the civil way you're discussing this. These sort of topics easily get heated.

I'm probably seeing this through an ideological lense myself.

I think his nastiest attack was on Cenk from the young Turks. No body seemed to care about that. But I could be wrong.
Grow up? US used NATO article 5 to get European NATO partners to join US wars in the middle east. The soldiers went there and died in US conflicts to help you with your ”war on terror”.

How about pay your fucking debt and keep Russia at bay.
Where do you stand between airflow and dataflow?
> I will say that as an outsider, the Bay and San Francisco often seem to get conflated when people discuss them.

Yes, from an outside perspective SF and South Bay (clasically Silicon Valley proper, though in the last decade many companies have settled in SF) are mingled together. I know I used to say "SF" when I meant the Bay Area, before I lived here.

But SF is about an hour north (or way more if traffic is bad) from the classic Silicon Valley. And a very different place with its own unique problems. I go to SF once a year or less and it always feels like an alien place.

The rest of the Bay Area is still mostly pretty great, if you can somehow deal with the expense.

Source: Just my observations, closing in on 25 years living in Silicon Valley.
South Africa Hospitalization Rate Plunges in Omicron Wave
Well, someone paying $400 for a pair of headphones is probably not very knowledgeable outside their narrow field of expertise.

I bought a few power tools recently and would've paid 2x-3x as much if I went with the usual Bosch/Makita/Hitachi. But no, they're mostly the same exact stuff as other, Chinese made tools.

I'd you look carefully, you can buy the same design/materials/electronics for much less by just foregoing the brand name.

Black&Decker is now just a front for the cheapest shit. If they still have any quality stuff I haven't seen it.

It's not about the country of manufacture, they literally use the cheapest stuff at the same price as better tools from other brands. Whether it's made in China or Japan or EU, it's the materials and design that matter.

Pretty much only the high end hydraulic/pneumatic stuff has no competition so you have to buy a known brand at a high price.
Well, it’s all good and nice and shit, but doesn’t explain how there are thin type IIs, and doesn’t explain how there exist lean mofos who guzzle down sugary coke and eat ultraprocessed junk food all the time and don’t get diabetic at all.
> "Poverty makes things harder, no doubt."

This is all you needed to say.

The problem is that the system is designed to identify the most effective parents, not the most talented children. If you look at college admission as a function of personal merit, then it's unfair to judge a child based on their parents' ability to raise them. If you look at it as a system to identify those who will benefit society most by being educated, then you're going to get a lot of false positives that have parents from higher socio-economic classes.

Providing a test that produces an empirical result is just making it very easy for parents to game the system. It's a single, stationary target that they can fire money at. If you take away the test you're still selecting for the best parenting (all of life is). But it lets universities put more emphasis on grades and personal stories, areas where students whose parents have never heard of the SAT can still excel.

If you can use money to game the test then it's culturally loaded toward people who have enough money to game the test. A broader admissions criteria doesn't have this specific flaw
I think India has virtually the same problems as America or any other western country and a few problems that are unique to it like the caste system etc.

However the problems are more pronounced in India. There's more uneducated, more illiteracy, more corruption, more hatred among groups etc.

Having read the wonderful article about Going Critical [1] it's made me realize that, if one society is worse off than another by only 10% by some metric, it could mean that the society is far worse off than 10% due to cascading effects.

If you've ever been to India and stood by the side of a busy road in one of the poorer areas of a city, this or any other kind of news will not surprise you, infact I'm sure you will, like me, be dumbstruck as to how India manages to do keep it's shit together in the first place.

[1] https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/
I'm surprised by no mention of the Chinese room argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room - it's closely related to the topic.
It's called Delayed Auditory Feedback. I've never tried it but I've heard it works on individuals with severe stuttering.
Libertarian types are actually not opposed to lawsuits. They are seen as a possible substitute for many government regulations, e.g. maybe you don’t need a bunch of regulations on the safety of things like lithium ion batteries when the threat of lawsuit is enough. Obviously that doesn’t work 100% of the time, though.
* Libmobi: C library for handling one specific vendor's eBook formats

If this let you at least ingest basically any eBook format, I'd be super interested. Unfortunately, it does not.

For example, literally the only (OSS) tool I've found that can parse .lrf files is calibre. There are zero other library tools that can let me extract the text content from them. MS's .lit files have similar issues, but at least there's no python libraries for it.

Outside of epub, there's a similar story for most other file formats too.
> much heavy metals I've been exposed to by inhaling the toxic smoke

Sounds like a hypochondriac person.
France is bad, controls Africa and is responsible for everything going bad there. Yeah I've heard that already.
If you are interested how to implement this in Python, check out this Gist: https://gist.github.com/kissgyorgy/beccba1291de962702ea9c237...

It's really simple. I used this snippet for a real-time application which can react to any kind of change in the database instantly.
There's currently a whistleblower affair on french nuclear industry incidents cover up, some MP are asking for a commission about it:

https://news.in-24.com/news/274159.html

French:

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/centrale-nucleaire-d...

https://www.lyoncapitale.fr/actualite/drome-des-parlementair...

Original article by Le Monde (paywall):

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2021/11/12/nucleaire-...

This is fairly new, we'll see what judges and regulators say about it.
I really like reading through a post that can make people think. Also, many thanks for permitting me to comment!

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Yes, Telegram WANTS you to explore their free app infested with paid backdoors, a portal for marketing BIGDATA querying, ID trackings and in-your-face advertisements.

Oh, they’ll let you use the E2EE feature that Signal provided by open-source but only if you explicitly and individually enable them, but not as a default ON feature.
One thing that seems to have helped some of my friends who have experienced the same issue of not wanting to read anymore is to find one particular book or style they liked before and go deep into that author's backlog or similar styles. And to add to that, don't be afraid of reading pulpy fiction; you're not trying to impress anybody with what you're reading, you're doing it for yourself. Enjoy it. Read young adult fiction, read Stephen King and James Patterson, read Beverly Cleary, whatever. As long as you're reading, you're building that bit of your attention span back, and you can move on from there to other things.

I fear there is a big subconscious element to it in "smart people" circles where it almost feels bad to be reading without learning.
These feel like co-routines.
Vaccinated people also get the disease and act as a petri dish.
Looks like big tech emplyees have become the new aristocracy. They are the only ones that can change the situation and also the ones who benefit from it, be it in the form of social status or, as the article mentions, as Grey market sellers of unlocks and reinstatement.
That's a straw man you've constructed. I've never said that negative behaviour is going to be rewarded.

Getting back to Harvard, everyone who goes there will be extremely competent. You seem to be suggesting that they'll be accepting slackers and truants.
Using and understanding something does not necessarily go hand in hand.

Asbestos for example was used for quite a few years and seen as a safe and cheap building material. Then it turned out that it gives people cancer. A similar thing happened with lead, although some people knew how dangerous it is but kept quiet about it for profit.
> You are 100% correct.
> Source: I am the Drata CISO

May be you should go over your user agreement documents and:

1) Make sure that all relevant information is available, so a user can make an informed decision.

2) Distinguish between the user roles, and have different agreements for the different roles. One role is your customer. A second role is the employee of your customer. A third role is the contractor for your customer. A potential fourth role is the person(s) working for the customer that is responsible for dealing with personal and confidential information related to you, employees and contractors.

As of today, your user agreement is a mess, appearing as something you have copied and pasted together without much thought, except for how to cover your own asses. Including the ridiculed clause Microsoft is infamous for, warning that your software is unfit and unusable for any purpose.
>It is scary and is something that we should be aware of and is scary

Great point!

So what I'm hearing is that Bose should recall all wireless headphones they ever made, and continue selling their new products with appropriate warnings.

In fact, I think it will be a great improvement of their slogan:

BOSE. Better sound through research. Scary, and something you should be aware of is scary.

Until then, It's safe to assume that people think their products are safe, not scary, because that's how they market them as.
Wow! Another TOS survivor. Despite all the RSI talk in the programming community, I still find it very rare that someone is actually diagnosed, let alone, goes through TOS. However, I do suspect that its prevalence is higher than estimated in this target community.

TOS killed my programming career. It ruined my life and brought me untold mental and physical pain. At one point I couldn't use my arms for more than thirty minutes a day. Even taking a shower was exhausting. I underwent two surgeries, one two remove the ribs and muscles entrapping my nerves. After the first surgery things were good for awhile, my hands were no longer purple (due compression on the vein/artery) and I could actually use a keyboard again. Unfortunately scar tissue grew over my nerves and entrapped them again. At this point I required a second surgery to remove the tissue, which worked quite well and enabled my to use my arms again. Unfortunately, nothing is perfect in life and I still have some tissue that is interfering with my neck and causing chronic pain for which I take a variety of medications for. I currently work a low end job in health care because I can't sit at a desk for 8 hours a day without substantial pain (trust me I've tried everything, at this point I could open an ergonomic store).

I just want to give a shout out to a fellow TOS victim, especially one in the tech world. It's a very rare condition and it's very damaging (imaging not being able to touch your phone without pain) and I wish there was more awareness.
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Not necessarily. If there's an instance of someone blowing the whistle, and there's no investigation it's completely reasonable to suspect that the whole integrity of the process might be iffy.

Blocking the article (instead of opening relevant books to show that in fact it was just exception to otherwise solid prices makes) makes even stronger case that the prices is not honest.
It is not mean to tell people don't work for Facebook or nestle which makes money through Shenanigans. Politicians don't do anything against Facebook as they have lot of wealth to lobby politicians. As long as intelligent people are going to support mammoth corporation like Facebook what can we normal people say?

I don't know if it applies for majority of people but in my social circle we treat palantir with stigma and actively tell people not to work for them. So, is it really mean to tell that? What can normal people do ? Telling people not work will help society in long run and also signals advertisers, consumers not to use their product:) It is similar to why USA has banned companies to not use any kind of cotton produced from xiangxinag although they might not personally know if that company is in mortgage and can afford to survive if they don't use cotton from china?
I totally agree. It's a very silly way to look at the things.
I've reread my comment and it was unnecessarily harsh - in hindsight, I apologise for that.

Okay, on a serious note again - I'm happy to see this blog being shared. I know how this sounds, but I really love it, both for dealing with pop-culture myths and both for the fact how it is written.
It is probably location dependent but I am especially disappointed, angry and bitter about the way government here has pitted groups of people against each other by pinning the blame on them, by ridiculing them, by making people tell on each other and making examples out of them.

I can live with how ridiculous it is to at the same time preach about beating the virus together. I can understand how the elite breaks the rules they set for others and I don’t care for the scandals. But the divisiveness that is being created really is poison to society.
Also to the OP, ever heard of most of Africa and some country/states in Asia?

Portugal is small now but it's history is a bit bloody.
Do you really think everyone is willing and medically able to get vaccinated? Seems improbable.
No one's saying they shouldn't get compensation from the manufacturer. Such an expensive pair of headphones should maybe even have the battery in a special housing, so it vents outside in the rare worst case.

But for fuck's sake, ban lithium from headphones? Same idiotic shit like banning cars on roads because some kill people.

I had a vaper that vented its battery. It got too hot to hold so I put it down and it turned into a smoke grenade lol. It would been bad if it was in my pocket.

Also had a Sony Ericsson phone's battery swell up enough to break it a long time ago. But it didn't vent. Quality design on that cell!
Your data belongs on other people's storage in encrypted form only. I have long stopped trusting clouds with my private data in plaintext.
Interesting it also says it shouldn't be connected to a Airplane Seat Adapter yet I'm sure my QC 35'S came with a airplane adapter. Wonder what happened there.
"Good taste" is just your opinion. Framing it this way makes it sound canonical, which it is not. We all have opinions on what good taste is, and they all differ. To see this, all you have to do is go read the codebases of all your dependencies. They all taste different. Which is my point. These comments are useless noise.
It's a problem because it miscommunicates to non-scientists about what science actually is and it causes scientists themselves to be misinformed about what they're really doing. I greatly enjoy science, but you have to admit that there's a problem of scientists being viewed as "elites who think they know everything" that is fueled by journalism and the miscommunication of science.

It's alright to critique something to try and improve it, you know?

Lastly, it's not really besides the point, as our models and possibly our observations being wrong is entirely the crux of this "problem".
still that tangible “can’t have all three” anonymous traits of any secured IM platform: identity, content, anti-replayability.
Wisej 3 beta is out – now supporting .NET 6 and Linux
Sounds like somebody who just had something blow up on their face (quite literally).

The burns are real. There is actual palpable damage. It’s only natural to go into “what other things might have gone wrong?” mode in response. Sure, it’s probably an overreaction, but it seems to me like an eminently reasonable overreaction given the circumstances!
Sahara solar panel project is a good idea, the problem is the location. There is no way that France can rely on Algeria, algerian leaders are still today blaming France for the problems they are facing now, it is so tiresome.

Marocco or Tunisia are better candidate for such projects.
yes, but then the title wouldn't be as click-baity
How does this compare to AVIF, based on the AV1 video codec? I.e., is this thing obsolete already?

[Edit: looks like the only important differences are that XL supports progressive rendering, and AVIF is way better at extreme compression settings.]
I think the best answer is put up with it because it actually mostly works better than anything else out there. New things will have new problems.
> Most importantly, we will be releasing Community editions of Wisej Developer and Wisej Server at no charge. These versions are meant for small business and independent developers (as defined in the Wisej Community Terms and Conditions).

This is really great news!
Especially for non-production code, setting the bar to 'is it a net improvement?' makes code review quite a bit shorter. When it has become 'is it perfect?' then nothing gets done anymore. For re-factorings, do one kind of small change but do it over the whole code-base.
That’s their own problem to worry about.
It doesn't have to be intentional. It does generally has to be foreseeable. If I throw acid out my front door onto the sidewalk without looking and some passerby happens to pass through the stream, I should be held responsible for my recklessness even if I didn't intend it.

Bose engineers surely understand the risks inherent in their batteries.
Meanwhile, Boeing suspended COVID vaccination mandate for its US employees.

https://komonews.com/news/local/boeing-suspends-vaccine-mand...
Bob Shaw wrote a duology "The Ragged Astronauts" & "The Wooden Spaceships" in which the ratio of a circles circumference to it's diameter is 3. As far as I can tell, the only reason this factoid is included is to defuse any arguments about the plausibility of other elements of the setting (a binary planet with a shared atmosphere such that it is possible for a feudal society to stage an invasion from one to the other using balloons).

Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle has Ptolemaic cosmology and Aristotelian physics.

The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
by A.K. Dewdney is sort of a modern take on the classic Flatland by Edwin Abbot, and manages to improve upon it considerably.

The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter posits an infinite set of parallel Earths that can be reached with a trivial but unorthodox electronic device. You have to travel to them incrementally, one sideways step
Facebook bans Delhi-based IT firm for hacking accounts
Yes, the problems in one site, especially if not dealt with properly, might indicate larger problems.

We all know that the trials were rushed and for a very good reason, there was a pandemic. Still, if issues are discovered they should be resolved. Pfizer is a private company, they are not obliged to be very transparent with everything they do. FDA is the main organisation that oversees such trial in the US, so this is their responsibility to investigate.