skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens if you print out the source code and publish it as a book? Can the courts prohibit a book?

Certainly under most European circumvention prohibition laws there's no requirement for the distribution of the circumvention tool to be done electronically, so yes, you could definitely prohibit a book.

(And books are prohibited in the likes of the UK by courts all the time for libel at al so it wouldn't be hard to see happening.)
Enough information leaks out of China that we can be fairly confident they at least don't have massive waves of deaths and overwhelmed hospitals.

Totalitarian governments can do better in this sort of scenario, for a while. It's not a great trade-off 99.9% of the time, but there's a reason wars, disaster recovery, etc. tend to be fought by executive fiat rather than democratic decision making.
I believe they meant to express the idea that such a scenario is beyond morally reprehensible, so as to liken it morally to a war crime.
Could be better fit for current viewers? Weird comment tbh, are you a bot?
The other novel issue is the craze participants are here now, alive, and we can learn directly about and from them.
Some people (like my step daughter) don't have an internal hunger alarm.

She has never had one. Remembering to eat is a conscious activity. If she's occupied or stressed then she doesn't remember to eat.
> the 3090 scores twice what the M1 GPU does

It helps that you can buy a maxed out macbook pro for the price of a single 3090 though.
>Is it the word 'sovereign' that's confusing people, here? 'Administrative districts'?

Perhaps, since US States are closer to sovereign than to administrative districts. In reality, they are neither. But to call them administrative districts is easily falsifiable, so I think that's why you got pushback.

Things like gay marriage up until a few years ago, abortion laws and drug laws today are the most visible examples where states are far from administrative districts. People can open up stores in some states to sell drugs out in the open, despite them being illegal according to the US Government. Yet there is nothing the Federal Government can do to stop it. Even taxation where you see some states have no state income tax (Florida, Tennessee and a few others) while states like California tax almost everything. The Federal government has no power over the states in those areas. None.

Whereas gun laws are probably the best example of the limits on that sovereignty only because the enumerated things in the Constitution (ie 2nd Amendment) put some limitations on the freedom of states to do as they please. But the Constitution is a small document and the limitations contained are few, leaving states with far more power than an administrative district.
You found a perfect way to drag the discussion into the gutter.

> Please enjoy your freedom to advocate on behalf of a foreign govt on a US based forum

Is this freedom transactional? Because you suggest that in exchange for "freedom" or access to "a US based forum" I should refrain from any remark that offends your sensibilities.

I made very specific points related to the likelihood that China is able to collect or process the amount of data for continuous global surveillance (rather than targeting what they're specifically interested in), knowing where the country with the highest such capacity was ~10 years ago at the time of the Snowden leaked data. Then I showed some evidence from mainstream quality publications exercising their freedoms by showing an obvious bias. This was also supported by a recent discussion on HN [0]. This is relevant because those are the kinds of sources the overwhelming majority of people (and you) in the free world use to form an opinion when deciding the relative positions of different countries on the surveillance/hacking map.

How is any of the stuff you said pertinent to this? Are you going to count how many civilians are freedom killed in the Middle East every day just so you can have the freedom of buying cheaper freedom gas? Oversimplified of course, to your freedom benefit.

You are not properly equipped to have this conversation. You took an opinion as is and support it with personal feelings and demonstrably biased sources, then instinctively fight any suggestion that doesn't fit your world view even at the cost of bringing trash arguments. The Chinese people have a gun pointed at their heads, you choose to be ignorant and aggressive. They are forced to accept biased sources, you are free to use unbiased one but here you are complacently putting in more effort to attack the person pointing out an issue than solving the issue. Good thing you're free to do that, how would society progress without people like you trying to shut up anyone highlighting a weakness that can be addressed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835933
FireWomenAndDangerousThingsNounClass
You certainly wouldn't need them, but there are benefits to secondary liquidity, compared to running some custom trading server - way more people will have ethereum wallets than an account on your server, the ethereum network will allow them to trade even if the amazon availability zone your server is on goes down, your NFTs can be included in baskets and traded transactionally with all kinds of other assets or listed on distributed exchanges without you having to build any of that stuff.
acyclic graphs, hopefully
India:
3,000,000 / 1,300,000,000 = 0.002307692307692308

Of course a lot and too much.

Germany:
120000 / 83000000 = 0.0014457831325301205

But why arguing with absolute non-comparable numbers without context?
Click rate?
So I guess you would love 2001, for the really slow shots of spaceships moving from one side of the screen to the other.
Does their city have at home testing where someone comes home to collect samples and results are emailed to the patient?
That may be the case, but that system is quite poor because it leaves most people without good care.
I've been using my Thinkpad T420 since 2011 just fine and I haven't needed to do anything to it.
I assume this is being posted because qBittorrent recently released version 4.4 which includes libtorrent 2.x and therefore support for BitTorrent v2.

Hopefully we'll start seeing hybrid torrents/magnets in trackers soon. Although these are mostly automated so I'm not sure how fast the tools will catchup.

One thing I'd like qBittorrent and other torrent clients to do is to allow users to upgrade v1 torrents to hybrid torrents if they're fully seeded, this would allow cross polination for old torrents where peers are scattered between the original torrent and batch torrents, or where trackers add extra files causing the v1 hash to change.
Real men use ed.
So many downsides to that.. how do you get tested if you dont have a car? How do you drive a car when you are very sick? How do you make sure properly do the test on themselves?

Sorry, but I dont find this a good argument in favor of a car-culture at all.
After so many "conspiracy theories" that later became true, I now tend to put more weight on the idea that this is a bio-weapon or lab leak and China knew the solution or actively even tried spreading it throughout the world. For example to influence the outcome of 2020 election.
Hope so. And hope that this bring attention to the issue.
> Then contact discovery would not work, which is the main advantage of collecting the phone number in the first place.

I believe the real reason Signal requires a phone number is that it is a pretty good anti-spam filter
Both paracetamol and ibuprofen are sold as generic medicines, so I really don't think being lucrative is the reason. I had a quick look through some pain relief pages on the UK's NHS website, and every time a drug is referenced by name it's either paracetamol or ibuprofen.

I've first seen people randomly using aspirin on US television shows, so perhaps it's just less common elsewhere.
"He also focused on the large cities, where death rates may have been lower than in the countryside"

Didn't the WHO estimate 120 million people would die in developing countries of hunger brought on by economic conditions of the pandemic.

This seems to meet the criteria. They also said delta was much more deadly than alpha, 2021 being more deadly than 2020, ie hunger, malnutrition, my guess is 2022 will be more deadly than 2021. Due to the same reasons, mainly in the country side, poorer communities.

The average age of registered people in India is 26, you should expect a low IFR in such a population living in a warm climate, with limited air conditioning - where you see summer spikes in Texas for example.
I agree. The "everything is a market" ideology had a good run of almost half a century, but it should be heavily criticized in hindsight.

Institutions like healthcare, education, public transport, prisons(!) and so on are more efficient, less corrupt and of higher quality when they are in large parts collectively and democratically organized and funded. The "in large parts" is important here: A community should agree on what that means and let the market play out on the edges, or the bureaucratic costs become too heavy _and_ unfair. Decentralization is key here.
> There is nothing inherent in using packages that means you have to blindly trust the code

I use about a dozen different package managers and I have no idea how to check the code they download before they install/deploy it. I often check the source on Github if I need to look something up, but I have no idea how I'd go about verifying that the code on Github is the same as whatever the package managers install.
Not really. It's an application you install to your internal network and most probably do not make it accessible publicly. I have no way to know who and where has installed it. I assume that the app is forked in Github and the changes to disable license key check are also committed to that fork, so this would make it valid in terms of AGPL.
Omg y re making list for packages. It's not a technical cure, but it connects developers and library consumers and creates far more accountability.

GitHub issues can work in theory but in practice, developers are often slow to respond i.e. GI is where problems go to die.
Sure, that works in theory. If you basically magically change the whole gaming market landscape in a fundamental way.

In your point you are basically leaving out many steps:

> If a 'set' of items represented by NFTs is valued by a large group of users

Good thing you mention this, we don't have to speak hypothetically to evaluate this. Highly valued assets on a gaming marketplace already exist with Steam Marketplace, where you can buy and sell virtual items from games that exist on Valves Steam Platform (Steam offers an API for this and developers can support the feature if they choose to do so). Items for e.g. Dota 2 have been sold between players for >2000$ on the Steam Marketplace, I believe this deserves being called highly valued by a large group of users.

The Steam API offers the ability to check a users inventory [1], so any game that is on steam could verify your ownership of a marketplace item and do something using that knowledge. Steam is a huge platform, so huge in fact that for many players Steam is PC Gaming, right now it sits at ~23 million active players (that is only players that are currently playing any game they own via steam).

Now let's go back to NFTs. What would they change? Basically connecting them to games somehow would be just the same thing, which is verifying ownership of items outside of Steam.

"Outside of steam" is not all that many players and it is very hard to get them away from there, just look at the struggle of Epic to pull users away from Steam: they have now been giving away >250 games (including many AAA titles) for free since 2018 [2]. And Valve has made its stance on NFT/Crypto pretty clear for now [3].

I believe that this puts into perspective how realistic the NFT gaming revolution is.

> Items which offer in-game functionality first and foremost, and are released according to semi-predictable mechanisms are the stronger case.

Those, in my opinion, would be even harder to carry across games because they are even further embedded inside the engine and programming and logic.

> In this case it will not be the game developers controlling the items, it will be artists who sell the raw NFT which becomes integrated.

So if I understand you correctly you believe in a market of NFT driven games that explicitly form around NFTs, rather than NFTs finding their way into the existing gaming market?

[1]: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamInventory#GetAl...

[2]: https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-store-free-games-list/

[3]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728425/valve-steam-blo...
That only says something about the company and creator instead.
This is interesting! So you‘re extrapolating the reduction of babaricness that humanity expresses historically into the future and that the threshold will be so low that killing animals for food will be seen as one of the most babaric thing humans do by then. I think for this to happen we would need to shield us quite well from the inherent babaricness of nature. „Why should I not eat animals, if lions are doing it everyday?!“ on the other hand we also got better in shielding us from reality in form of video games, netflix etc. On the flipside these virtual worlds are often excessively babaric, e.g. horror movies or shooter games. So in the end it is not so obvious to me that we will see eating animals as babaric. Maybe we will rather view it as very inefficient and primitive instead?
> the free market

This isn't.

With the amount of lobbying, financial contributions to campaign funds, oligopoly, the market isn't free.

This is also one of the market where you have to pay. You can choose to not go to vacations or not to buy an apartment (even if you live horribly); you cannot just not have an appendix operation or not fix your ankle if it is broken.
Can you expand on that or provide an article please? Sounds interesting
Please explain what is wrong with my reasoning. I'm here to learn.
I don't think it's fair to say their point is incorrect. If you're talking in absolute technical terms about what "a blockchain" is in the abstract then, sure, a blockchain is immutable... but cryptocurrencies don't use "a blockchain" they have "the blockchain" and "the blockchain" is just whichever blockchain the network has decided is the blockchain. For all intents and purposes, "the Ethereum blockchain" is mutable because it can be swapped out if everyone agrees.
> the government paying me to pay the insurance company

it gives you the direct control over which insurer to buy, thus encouraging market competition.

If the gov't controlled which insurer got paid instead, there'd be a lot more lobbying and "corruption" and backroom deals which would not benefit the citizenry.
Wouldn’t the banning of additional bitcoin production limit supply and drive the price of existing bitcoin up, assuming similar demand?
The solution to fix FLOSS is for it not to be FLOSS?
It's not a theoretical harm, either.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-07/op-ed-drive...

> For each walk-up site, we looked at how many people live within a mile radius and could conceivably walk to the site. You don’t need to look at a map to know that too many people and places are left behind. If you don’t have a car but live in South Los Angeles, chances are you can find a nearby walk-up test site. But if you’re carless in East L.A., there is not a single walk-up option in your community. The entire San Fernando Valley — with a population of almost 2 million — received its first and only walk-up site, in Arleta, in late June.

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-yorkers-without-a-car-ar...

> After trekking nearly two hours on public transit to get to the testing site in Flatbush, a neighborhood in New York's Brooklyn borough, the 30-year-old taproom manager was surprised to discover a line of cars snaking around the address instead of a line of people. McGrath, who does not own a car, approached a state trooper at the testing site to confirm his suspicions that a vehicle was required to be tested.

> "I walk up to one of the state troopers and he says, 'You can't walk in, you have to have a car,'" McGrath told Business Insider, adding that it appeared as though he was not the first New Yorker to arrive at the testing site on foot.
> why a site like worldometer would post this as facts.

I love worldometers. What would you expect them to do? They aggregate official stats. I don’t expect them to use a statistical model or something, I want the real reported numbers. The only thing they could really do in my opinion is put an asterisk on the numbers that are wildly unbelievable with a small disclaimer or something. I don’t check the Chinese stats there so maybe they have done this already?

Other than that, what would you expect them to do? They can’t have country specific heuristics and different methodologies even if we “know” the count is wrong.
Ok, and is this chicken a perfectly spherical chicken?
Well, you can't make a gift, then demand to be paid if the receiver (unexpectedly) makes money out of it. Better to foresee that offer paid services on top, e.g.:

https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/bugreport-free-support/
Greed unfortunately seems to be an endemic issue. It creates these fanatics that want to leech on every part of the system imaginable, even if it means people die
Several animals display theory of mind, including the variety of pig common in farming.
"drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"
Two floppy drives and a serial port... Maybe it is possible to hack the "boot" drive with a floppy emulator and put FreeDOS on it modify autoexec.bat to turn the computer into a serial terminal when it is powered on; remove the other floppy drive and stuff an ARM SBC inside it, connect it to the terminal using the serial interface. Small linux ARM laptop :)
The PoW algorithm's complexity factor is adjusted automatically every two weeks iirc, so the supply of new Bitcoins is steady.
correct, father side is prefixed with 堂
mother side is prefixed with 表

堂哥 male cousin older than me
堂弟 male cousin younger than me
堂姐 female cousin older than me
堂妹 female cousin younger than me

表哥 male cousin older than me
表弟 male cousin younger than me
表姐 female cousin older than me
表妹 female cousin younger than me
In India - at least in the cities - you don't even need to step out for a Covid test. You can request a technician to come and collect your sample from the comfort of your home, and you'll get the result in a few hours or the next day at most. I'm not sure where the commenter's parents live, but if they live even in a moderate-sized city, they're being unnecessarily paranoid.
Maybe limit the capabilities of software e.g. dictate what permissions are reasonable. Maybe require certain "standard libs" for things like console output that limit what can be output.

Also, no auto-update of packages.
>In 1998, a poll by the phonetician John C. Wells found that 84% of Britons preferred the pronunciation of gigabyte starting with /ɡɪ/ (as in gig), 9% with /dʒɪ/ (as in jig)

Roughly every 10th person pronouncing it with a soft G doesn't sound like an "anomaly" of a single movie to me (as claimed in the quora post), more like a less common variant.

>It's not a well-researched documentary.

Of course, it's not. But it gives us audio evidence that some people in the 1980's pronounced it with a soft G (or thought it's pronounced with a soft G because they wouldn't usually use -- and hear -- the word IRL, just like with GIF's)
Dead horse? It's only been a year since an attempted coup d'état that went without consequences for the perpetrators, who are gearing up for more by stacking the deck at various government levels. The incoming problems from pandemic-related economic trouble, climate change, plus the already existing troubles ( spiraling costs of living), will certainly add fuel to the fire, but it's already there.
How does a maintenance contract make the software not-FLOSS? It's a working option if you need more promises than the license gives you.
"Effectively" in legal terms means "to have an effect" (as in any effect at all), not that it has to be "effective" as in "good at it's job."

The plain English meaning of the word isn't really useful here.

All "effectively" in laws such as this (and the European equivalents) means that there has to actually be some mechanism of protection, i.e. you can't just have a file full of junk binary in the directory called "DRM" that doesn't do anything and claim circumvention by deleting it. But there is clearly an effect here.
Getting enough sleep is important. But some nights you will not achieve the ideal of 8 hours. Once this has happened it is a sunk cost and you need to get on with your day.

Psychorigid and neurotic attitudes towards sleep do not promote good sleep. You can not "catch up" on lost sleep by napping. Instead, you risk throwing off your sleep for that night and perpetuating a pattern of sleeplessness. Afternoon naps are bad sleep hygiene. They are something you unlearn in treatment for insomnia and many other sleep disorders.
If that was the case Bitcoins would sell for 2 cents, charitably.
I’m not a Haskell developer and Arch is my goto Linux precisely because it’s on the of easiest distros to fix when things go wrong.

YMMV but the snide remark is definitely unjustified.
These days I just wish we'd go back to the days of easily removable keyboards, and several keyboard options for each model.

I'd like a 15" laptop without a weird offset numeric keypad I never use, and the old style short travel keys you used to get rather then these rubber things with no surface texture - like you would've found on an old gateway laptop.

Somewhere along the way, everyone trying to emulate Apple has just ruined things.
It might be multi-finger gestures maybe? I use those a LOT on touchpad for scrolling, panning and dragging. Back when I was using Touchpoint, the trackpads weren’t capable of this, if I remember correctly. And they were like 2x3 cm in size anyway.
>code is speech, and speech is protected in the US

is it really? i've never thought of it like that.
> I now chalk this up as growing mistakes which every project makes in early stages.

Except it's not new at all; regular banks and the fiat money they have been handling have been dealing with these things for literally centuries.

But the cryptobros decided they could do better, converting their PHP Magic the Gathering trading platform to a Bitcoin trading platform and thinking yeah, that's good enough for handling billions. To name but one example.
The healthcare industry already pisses away huge amounts of money. Its evident in all those stories we hear about people getting a huge $5000+ medical bill, then calling the hospital and suddenly its $100 or less. That $4900 is literally all wasted
Possibly automatic voting ring detection, e.g. a user having multiple accounts or asking the same friends to upvote. Then some upvotes don't count even though displayed on the website. The user's previous and following submission also got exactly 5 votes within the first 10 minutes, that might be an indication. If in doubt contact the moderators to look at the raw data.
I wouldn't take it that far. Fauci wasn't the only one peddling in lies, and Trump made plenty of mistakes early on that could have saved lives.
ICE cars are still needed because battery tech is not good enough.

There are plenty of studies showing that an hybrid car is much better for the environment on the long term than the current state of lithium battery electric cars. Long range EV are a pest. Lithium mining is way worse for the environment than people believe, and there is the whole other issues related to mining in general.

We still need ice cars
So that cow WAS laughing at me!