skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a safe bet that hydrogen can be made without fossil fuels. Since hydrogen is essential to maintaining current world population (via manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer), if that were false we'd be doomed.
Large number of users is not an excuse as several businesses use Messenger bots to handle common customer queries and handover to humans for escalation.

Heck, I myself have developed Messenger bots with over 100M conversations through them.

So actual `humans_needed_for_support` would be much lesser if Facebook used their own product.
I'd go as far as to offer an explanation like this: The universe/multiverse is infinite in every (by our brains) comprehensible and incomprehensible form. Both on a macro and a micro level. Our existence is finite in nature, both in space dimension (objects have edges) and time (they change form). It is understandable we have trouble interpreting some of the rules of our universe that we are unable to comprehend. I say quantum mechanics (and perhaps natural science in general) are our attempt to make sense of something fundamentally not comprehensible.
> any reputational damage is probably nullified

In this case, Professor Chen lost his research grants. He lost several grad students. He lost a year's worth of progress in his field. Do you think this NY Times article nullified those effects?
We're focusing on the browser context at first, but expect the principles of the interface between a block and application (if not the implementation details) should be applicable to other environments - very briefly mentioned here https://blockprotocol.org/docs/faq#what-about-non-web-contex...
Which interpretation seems to make the most sense depends a lot on the framing of the explanation, and not very much on the experiments themselves. This comment [1] really drove home the Copenhagen interpretation for me, I quote:

>It's painfully easy to have a clear intuitive picture of quantum physics. You just have to ditch one concept.

>Universe is not made of little balls.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756842
This reminds me of the case of Tsien Hsue-Shen, who in the 1950s was deported from the US and subsequently more or less became the father of the Chinese space program. Iris Chang wrote a good book about it called 'Thread of the Silkworm.'
> Should one of the metrics not be to be as 'uniform' as possible ?

I don't think so; someone's code 'handwriting' always seems to me to be more about how they think about problems than specific syntax conventions.

Everyone working on the same codebase should follow stylistic conventions - where do you put the opening bracket, how do you name functions etc. - but that still leaves a lot of room for personal style/approach. Faced with the same problem, two programmers might solve it in two different-but-valid ways, and that's recognisable.
Private Network Access from the browser? What could possibly go wrong?

Another horrendous proposal by Google. Again.

Isn't Mozilla part of the W3C? When are they going to do something and stop this dreadful specification?

If they will do nothing then I will see them implement this garbage in Firefox soon.
I think this only works about 1 out of 1000 times. The rest are too unknown to get articles written about them
It’s more complicated than that. Apple’s blanket policy towards such contributions is that anything you do in your own time needs SVP approval, because it might potentially compete with Apple’s business interests. And as a general policy it likes to deny such requests. Other companies have various policies: Google, for example, is for the most part “we’ll let you do whatever but we own the code, and if you want to own it we will make it about as difficult as Apple does”. The whole “you compete with us if you do anything” is a big tech thing, by the way, because they work on so many things that they can scare their engineers with competition threats on any grounds in California. The best that smaller companies can do is restrict you from working on the limited thing they work on, such as developer tooling or a social network.
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_as part of their work_ means during their billed work time.
Last week, the government dismissed the case against Dr. Chen, which alleged that he had concealed seven Chinese affiliations in applications for $2.7 million in grants from the U.S. Energy Department. Prosecutors announced that they had received new information indicating that Dr. Chen had not been obliged to disclose those affiliations, undercutting the basis of the case.

I feel like this part could use more details. The charges were for not disclosing his affiliations, but those affiliations existed nonetheless?
Edit: I'm not implying there's anything shady he did or that he wasn't falsely accused, just trying to parse this.
Recent example of literal book burning in Canada: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario...
Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app
I think your incremental design delivers better results because you already know or at least have a hunch of what wouldn't work and avoid that. You have an abstract architecture when starting and change accordingly on the fly, while programming, using your own best practices.

Top down and bottom up architecture have their places. Being extreme in favor of one side is usually bad, as almost anything in life.
If you own the copyright to the app's source code, you can release it to anyone under any license you want. This means a GPL-licensed app can be released by the developer under a proprietary license that is compatible with and exclusive to the App Store. It's a form of dual licensing, and the app's source code is still free because it is still publicly available under a FOSS license.

Things get trickier with multiple contributors. The app store submitter would need to get permission from all contributors to dual license the code for the App Store, and the easiest way to do this is to require each contributor to sign a CLA granting permission for this before accepting their pull request.

If the submitter can't secure dual licensing permission from all contributors, the code needs to be refactored to remove the parts without the necessary permission. If this isn't possible, then the app can't be published in the App Store.

The first conflict between the App Store terms of service and the GPL concerned the GNU Go app, which was removed from the App Store in 2010. The FSF explained the conflicting provisions: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...
Science is based off independent verification of results i.e. the scientific method.

The "Science" that we're supposed to "#believe" is based off peer review where a huge fraction (in some cases... a majority) of results cannot be independently replicated. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Yes, makes a lot of sense. Sorry if I gave the impression that I think somehow this PR is wrong or similar. I was just replying to the fact that sometimes splitting up commits makes sense, outside of this PR.
if there's some distinction, that stuff should NOT go to private network access, this could be good.
Skimming the first few paragraphs, private network access has always been possible. This makes it opt in.
Isnt this a CPU optimisation thing, ie code & languages working better for some instruction sets than others?

One of the languages I've used in the past always performed best on certain AMD cpu's, but that was when we could choose what cpu the compiler was to optimise for, ie 286, 386 etc etc.

I'm also aware of backroom shenanigans going on with some languages and tools working better for some CPU's.

This 12 year old post goes into a lot of detail
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1414911/intel-x86-assemb...
It feels like a huge step backward in terms of all of that. It's what Flash used to be, except less blatant security risks I guess.
From the release notes: "Python Deprecations: Python 2.7 was removed from macOS in this update. Developers should use Python 3 or an alternative language instead. (39795874)"

What word, exactly, is being used dishonestly? Python 2 was removed from the default install because it is deprecated in favor of Python 3. There is nothing dishonest or unclear about that in the release notes. What word in that message do you regard as being "misused" in context?
> The number of kids who have died of COVID is in the hundreds, over a two year period.

That's just deaths, though. What about other long-term effects? Long COVID and MIS-C come to mind.

> TWICE AS MANY KIDS DROWN EVERY YEAR.

And you'll notice that schools tend to take measures to prevent drowning - namely, barring unsupervised access to bodies of water deep enough for kids to drown.

> The number of children dying of COVID is the same as the number dying of influenza in previous years (despite a dramatically more contagious virus with far higher case rates), but for some odd reason, there wasn't a mass of parents demanding that all kids wear masks

Maybe there should've been?
We're talking about ICU capacity. That's what flattening the curve is all about.

Marin and Santa Cruz have LESS Covid patients and are closer to overflowing than Escambia.

Also covid patients only make up 13% of the ICU?

Something is odd with your flattening the curve narrative blaming overflow on Covid patients.
Nope, rather, Apple engineers having side projects is employed-specific and usually requires some sort of special case for them to let you continue working on your thing. This has been a standard part of the contract for a while, and it’s nothing like a decade or two ago where you might have a DTS engineer make a side app or two for fun or give their own, unofficial opinions of the SDK on their personal blog without approval.
No, not really, just reboot the device and go back to work.
Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack
> The rules for england were rescinded (last night or was it earlier this week). But the laws are still in force,

Which law requires face coverings?

I can't see anything in The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2020, and the Public Transport requirement has been rescinded.
>I don't understand why Americans are so against human scale housing: where there's retail on the bottom floors and apartments (condos) above.

Americans are not against it, philosophically. It is a simple consequence of economics of scale allowing big stores such as Costco and Target and Home Depot and Kroger to be able to offer better pricing and selection.

If you allow for everyone to own a large personal vehicle, via parking minimums and sufficient road capacity, then everyone has large personal vehicles because they have very high utility. And once you have the vehicle, the marginal cost to use it is near zero, so there is a lot of incentive to drive to a big box store and save money rather than shop at a smaller store downstairs.
Including the part where he explains in which part of the memory his program is stored. This is before the age of flash.

If you want to verify it for yourself the manual is here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=HP8566+spectrum+analyzer+ope...
Protect Tennessee's growing tech companies by standing up to bullies like Apple
Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30077993
The evidence looks mixed. Worked here http://www.libraryofyoga.com:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/182... but wasn't effective in this study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5769202/.
You cannot replicate exactly. The essence of qm is not q but the uncertainty principle. The mix of both classical works after “collapse” and the so called underlying infinity reach complex number world is not a or b but a and b somehow together.

The @and@ part may answer the free will question. Not the a or b part alone.
Why would Apple be supposed to do this? Without any other argument on the table, taking that statement to its logical conclusion, it would imply Apple is supposed to help make every single project run well on their hardware.

Even when restricting that to “open source projects that (cl)aim to run on latest MacOS”, I think that’s not something a vendor is “supposed to do”.

So, if Apple only “is supposed to” support some projects, what objective criteria should it use to pick them?

I think it’s completely fine if Apple wouldn’t support any open source. I also think it’s completely fine if developers would choose not to write software for their OS because of that.
Do you know that, or just assume it?

OPs story ended with him walking away, leaving a state of mess.

Indeed funny in a way and maybe even warranted, depending on the sales guy. I cannot judge that. I have not been there.

But it is not correct to judge it harmless, when a real person suffered potential real harm.
Which requirement of PSD2 do you think is so stringent?

I have three bank accounts here:

One of them (my good bank) has a chiclet keypad physical authenticator which needs these manual codes entering to get a value back that proves I used the authenticator.

The large European bank that handles my salary and so on, relies on SMS entirely, I ask to perform a transaction, they send an SMS with a code, I type it into a box on the web site. The SMS is trying to tell me what that transaction is, and has improved (it used to say things like GBP20000 which, yes everybody on Hacker News knows what that means but I bet my grandmother wouldn't, today it says £20 000 which is easier to understand) but notice that the code you get isn't related to the transaction details, it's just an arbitrary code. So I needn't understand the transaction to copy-paste the code.

The third bank is owned by the British government and so is inherently safe with unlimited funds unlike a commercial bank (they can and do print money to fund withdrawals, they're the government) but they too use SMS and their SMS messages are... not good. Of course unlike a commercial bank if they get fined for not obeying security rules that's the government fining the government, who cares?

FIDO would be obviously better than the latter two, and I don't see any reason that (with some effort) it couldn't improve on the first one as well.
You might want to test to see if you have an astigmatism, in most cases you have it from birth, but I somehow developed it.

Take a look at this chart:

https://static2.feelgoodcontacts.net/images/astigmatism-degr...

Basically all the lines should look equally sharp when your vision is corrected. In my case - if I don't wear glasses and move close enough to see it clearly - the horizontal lines have a shadow going upwards, where as the vertical lines are sharp. The shadow is strongest on the 0 degree and 180 degree lines, meaning I have an astigmatism at one of those.

This doesn't tell you what the correction should be, but it tells you if you have it.
I think you misinterpreted this:

> Apple charges 15% for developers earning less than $1m a year.

As this:

> Apple charges 15% for developers, earning less than $1m a year.

When it actually means this:

> Apple charges 15% to developers who earn less than $1m a year (and still charge 30% to developers who earn more than that).
> t is out of their control and they didn't have a malicious intent

We just established nobody chooses what they do or how they feel, so at best it's like a matter of degree and at worst it's completely arbitrary.
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>Works like precaution

To keep scientists of Chinese descent out of US academia, yes indeed.
How is it a harmless prank if at the end the ‘prankster’ walks away smugly and the salesperson is left with a broken demo?

It’s only harmless if the prankster turns around and fixes the demo.

I remember some years ago there were people going around trade shows with universal remote controls turning off the screens. As far as I remember most posters thought that wasn’t a very nice thing to do. And that really is almost completely harmless.
The story ends with "As I walked to the next exhibit, I saw him cycle the AC power to the instrument in frustration."

So no, this was not about showing device capabilities. Nor about striking conversation. This was about feeling good and superior for making someone frustrated.

(And no, which is not even same as not caring about other peoples feelings, this is about being happy about their feelings being negative.)
Similarly in the United Kingdom, John Lewis (big department store type shop thing) is also building rental properties on their land and optionally furnishing them things from John Lewis.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/04/john-lewis-...
That is amazing, thank you for sharing. Given you had experienced sound before your hearing deteriorated, is it possible to describe the difference in sound with a cochlear implant? I always thought with the limited number of electrodes in an implant, the sound would be "buzzy" (less rich), but the brain is quite malleable and maybe adapts to the new sounds.
How? Boris seems to be in full support of receiving these emigrating HKers regardless of their English proficiency.
None of which amounts to state actively banning these books. Even though I don't agree, dropping from reading list isn't exactly same as government removing it from the school library. In the sense, it's not the exact same thing.

On the other hand, this happened
https://twitter.com/cjtackett/status/1486788612511383553
> tens of thousands of files

Try half a million.
It is youtuber Linus Sebastian
I feel like the title should add “ in bats”. With all the new variants being discovered in people (Delta, Omicron, etc) I initially thought this was going to be the source of my next 2 week stint in lockdown. Seems like this is more of a warning against a new version of MERS which kills so fast that it doesn’t spread far.
Does that apply to elected officials? I thought it was only law enforcement?

If you mean report the police for not citing/arresting, then FBI/DOJ are not interested in prosecuting. Those actions fall under law enforcement discretion. The police have the power to decide not to arrest or cite someone, even if they plainly broke the law.

On a side note, I did file a DOJ civil rights complaint (results in injunctive relief instead of criminal charges like the FBI color of law) against the state police practices. It sounds like the DOJ gets too many complaints to handle and isn't interested in, or doesn't have the resources for, small rights violations.

So my experience is that literally nobody in the system is interested in investigating and upholding the integrity of out system. Our system is built on sweeping the dirt under the rug, as evidenced in the court rulings that releasing judicial complaints, even ones containing exculpatory evidence, would be too injurious to the system (the only way they would be injurious is if they were incompetent or corrupt with nothing being done about it).
All your Soviet Unions are belong to us.
The fact that your personal experience, confidence or skill would mean _you_ wouldn't have had any problems in a similar situation is irrelevant in judging the situation as it didn't happen to you.
Agreed. It seems like the details matter here.

Were the affiliations suspect but not reportable?

Or were the affiliations unremarkable and not reportable but prosecutors screwed up?
Please feel free to open issue on Github if you face some difficulties or find some bugs/errors - hopefully those issues can be easily resolved.
I've been on the receiving side of such pranks in tradeshows, it's part of the interaction. You put up gear for the general public to mess with, you have to calculate this in.

Firato, the annual CAD/CAM show for the metal working industry, The Hannover Messe (which used to be the largest IT show in Europe) the building equipment trade shows. Put enough gear in front of enough people (especially nerds) and pranks will happen.

As far as I can see this was a harmless prank because a powercycle fixed the issue. If he had reprogrammed it to the point that it was bricked for the duration of the trade show that would be a different matter.
The idea is more that you build your website out of blocks which allow the display or editing of defined data structures - so you search for blocks which are compatible with the data you want to work with (which can be done programmatically), and swap them around depending on what the user wants to do (display x, edit y).

The goal is that blocks can be dropped into applications to provide the functionality to display x or edit y, without requiring configuration, because the operations they will use to work with data, and the ways in which constraints/valid data are described, are common across all blocks and supporting applications.
> get an adapter, with the additional downside that you can no longer charge the phone while using those headphones.

Shouldn't such an adapter have a female USB-C connector and pass that through to the male one, with the headphone jack being branched off? Do those not exist, or are they prohibitively expensive? Did the Apple "dongle" mentioned in sibling comments do it that way? (Sure oughta, IMO.)
It's possible there's a federal law about preventing someone from taking their duly elected office (even at the state level). Or some other rights violation. They would have to find the federal law.
Who said anything about terrorists?

We had terrorists blowing up the UK from the 70s onwards (and before really) with bombs. Very few events where someone uses a car to kill someone for political purposes though.

Someone found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving usually get far lighter sentences than those found guilty of causing death by manslaughter, and the majority of car drivers that cause death don't even get charged
I've taken their comments to be "Believing Ivermectin as a cure against covid is dangerous in the same sense that believing rubbing butter on your elbow is a cure against covid." (People turn down legit treatments, and are more lackadaisical about spreading it as they believe there is a universal cure)

Along with "Taking ivermectin in dosages at for the body weight of large animals puts people at high risk of overdose." (Which many people have done)

Both of those statements seem true to me.
Very interesting, thanks!

The mystery deepens. More candidate stars showing the same dimming, and all clustered in space around Tabby's star, and of the same stellar types.

Doesn't mean aliens, but it's certainly provocative.
In the Land of the Free...
Full story and update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRzaGUKEFA
Certainly that plays a part. But my M1 Air is now over a year old and I can still easily edit 4K video in iMovie for a few hours and see the battery only drop from 100% to 70%.
I’m upvoting this comment simply because it’s factual, points out new information people may not know and leaves the implications to the reader.
I'm not sure what should be done about it, but again don't see the relevance of that question. Your argument was that there's value to be had out of such a debate, which there isn't. And that a debate cannot be misinformation, which is again clearly false. Packaging misinformation up as a debate doesn't stop it being misinformation.
> I am no epidemiologist

Thank you for adding that, didn't have to read any further.
China Proposes Increased Regulation of Deepfakes and Other AI Synthesis Systems
There is an implicit assumption of substitutability of land use in this conversion that is interesting whether it holds or not:

People are not exactly asked to live in a parking lot but no matter how much you invest on specific grounds, you cannot redevelop the entire environs of the "mall area" which are typically in commercial zones not exactly designed for people to live in.

Hence it is plausible that these redevelopments will end up being undesirable, low cost housing that will be occupied by those have to be there rather than want to be there (unable to afford something more "residential").

Essentially a downgrade option for the increasingly tenuous "middle class"