skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are implying that people have a right to privacy, sure; except American law makes far more important and sensitive information a matter of public record. Things like home and car ownership are entirely public as it is. While you could argue that this shouldn't be public, there's still valid reasons for those things to be tracked in a central database. Likewise, I can think of valid reasons for why the government would need to know who owns a particular gun.

If you are implying that a lack of a functioning Form 4473 index protects the right to bear arms... I'm not sure I agree with that. If the federal government really got a bug up it's butt about banning private firearm ownership, they wouldn't need a Form 4473 index. They would just need to ban the manufacture and import of new firearms and/or ammunition, and let the now-grandfathered old weapons trickle out of the market - no need for a gun grab.

This is how they banned fully-automatic weapons, after all. You can technically still buy them, but the cost of a grandfathered automatic weapon is so astronomical that you would never dream of actually firing it.
Why is package manager needed on Linux? Isn't it better to download everything as source code and compile yourself?
The government already has these powers, but crowdfunding and cryptocurrency were missing. There's no good reason why we shouldn't include them in the existing laws.
Fighting Information Overload with the Impending Doom Engine
Thanks, I was just about to post it (I remembered it as "Project Brainstorm", but as you state it's actually just called "Brainstorm"). One of the most remarkable movies I've ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)
it's not nothingness. think of all the people that're dead right now, and all the people yet to live. would you characterize right now as nothingness?
It has become a pejorative precisely because it has been bandied about stupidly by people who aren't always arguing in good faith. At best, it's often invoked in an unsophisticated manner that assumes that individual freedom supersedes any other public good--i.e. during Covid.

In the American context, there's also a lot of hypocrisy on the right in terms of using that word, e.g. celebrating post 911 stuff like The Patriot Act and No Fly lists and Guantanamo, not caring about the conditions of immigration detention, but then bitching about having to wear cloth on one's face sometimes. Right-wingers literally cheered Joe Arpaio saying he runs concentration camps. So long as great atrocities befall minorities, they don't care. If they get minorly inconvenienced --> somehow it's a big deal.

I'd say more, but it's hard to discuss properly on phone. I would say there are reasonable libertarian concerns about this bill and Covid policies and a bunch of other stuff, but if you're wondering why so many of us reflexively distrust such arguments, you have to look at the cultural and political context in which we grew up. You're not seeing the full picture, to say the least.
Blocking a whole city isn't the same as making a big party.

Occupy Wallstreet was treated harder for less.
Tough truckers fearing a needle, hard to believe.
You are not wrong. The exceptional exception guideline feels circular. I would use exceptions significantly more if I could rely on their performance.
In the past this was true. Now some providers look for a minimum volume of emails to establish a reputation. It's diabolical.
>Canada is not America.

I think this bears repeating. Especially when one of the protest organizers tried to cite their "first amendment rights" in court: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tamara-lich-bail-heari...
Makes for interesting strategies for a country wishing to expand.

If you go in fast and settle the issue quickly, it's a fait accompli and anyone seeking to "reverse the transaction" is just bringing misery.

If you can't settle the issue quickly, support a local insurgency until the international community stops paying attention and then go in. Everybody will be grateful.

It's kind of how the Soviet Union and the west divided up Europe after WWII.
Entered in 2017 and got back to "the World" six months ago.
>SF and NYC are not good comparisons either. Yes, they are expensive and 90%+ of the country could never afford to live there—that part is the same—but Americans have so many more options. There are small- and medium-sized cities all over the US.

It's entirely possible in the US to rise to the top of most industries without moving to NYC, Chicago, or LA. It's not possible to do so in Canada without moving to Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver (plus Calgary/Edmonton for energy).

This is a story familiar to every Canadian, and to many Australians and Britons:

Mid-career executive accepts job offer in the US in some place like Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, or Tampa. Is excited about the opportunity and the raise in salary, and curious about living in a different country, but a little nervous about moving to a "right wing Republican" state "without healthcare".

A few months in, the reports back to friends and family change. More and more mention of the "amazing" house they found in the suburbs with an outdoor pool (!) that is so much less expensive than in Toronto or Vancouver, the "fantastic" school the kids attend with sports teams and cheerleading and other afterschool activities, and—especially—how unbelievably cheap everything is at the supermarket, mall, and gas station.

That family is never moving back to Canada. This happens over and over again.

(Also, NYC/Chicago/LA are cheaper than Toronto/Vancouver, anyway. A Canadian expatriate in the US reported recently that her home in Fairfield County, Connecticut (very, very upscale NYC suburb) is cheaper than GTA.)
It's possible to have conviction but recognize the possibility being wrong or that outside events can have an impact. With financial instruments, it's also possible to run into market-timing issues and outsized risk to reward.

On the other hand, it's easy to bet on hard assets (like real estate) and taking on debt when inflation is so high and rates are so low. It has the added benefit of not being sophisticated, requiring neither a finance nor an accounting degree.
Although not every new C# feature is as... pragmatic... as I would perhaps like, the language is continuing to evolve quite nicely. And the .NET framework doubly so.

One thing I would really like to see, is JSON literals on par with the XML literals that are available in VB.NET. Combined with LINQ, that makes for a quite interesting experience.

(Although the extent of the breakage in various tools, not just third-party solutions like Re# and Rider, but also VS.NET itself, possibly goes to the wrong side of 'interesting'...)
Currently, we do not have accessibility support for the browser, we only do the video stream. The reason we haven't worked on this yet is because of our focus on watch parties, and the video stream being streamed was usually that of a video itself, so not a lot of accessibility could be added to that use case. But now that we are looking at the bigger picture, we could implement full-fledged accessibility support where we serialize the accessibility tree and send that over instead of the video stream.
Thank you!

> Have you considered the accessibility ramifications of this, e.g. for blind people using screen readers?

We are considering the accessibility ramifications now since we've pivoted toward a general API. We didn't focus on accessibility for blind people initially because we were building a watch party platform.

I think offering accessibility features would give us a massive edge against technologies like screenshare! Is there a specific use-case you're thinking of?
> I'm having a really hard time calling 2 dots in the sky a constellation. Does 1+ satellites equate to a constellation in satellite owner/operator parlance?

I'm having a really hard time calling 2 servers in the DC a cluster. Does 1+ servers equate to a cluster in server owner/operator parlance?
A central place where you can always could download your purchased games, saves and mods and automatically installs patches is an enormous benefit.
Since the birth of our son, I have been thinking about death a lot. He takes comfort when he is in my wife's hug and sometimes refuses to sleep if she is not around. I'm sure he remembers nothing about this when he grows up (< 2 yr now). But then I wonder, maybe many years later, when he passes away, surely this replay of memory might give him the last comfort?

Anyway, as a (not 100%) materialist, I feel uneasy when I think about death. The older I am the more uneasy I feel. Of course there is no way to cheat death, but I'm looking forward to training myself to accept the inevitable before it is too late.

Or maybe there IS life after death, or certain kind of existence. I'm also looking forward to that too.
It boils down to two main reasons, I think:

1. It's easy to configure yourself as an accidentally open mail relay. Which is a fast lain to having your IP blocked everywhere.

2. You may have no issues with deliverability but it's very common. Especially if you use an IP that hasn't been in your custody for long so you have no idea what it was used for before. Sounds like you got/have a good IP.
No.

You're still relying on this pool of independent miners to not defect after you initiate your attack.

Also a 6 block re-org is not unheard of and does happen naturally with the standard consensus rules on rare occasion. That's not enough to cause massive destruction of confidence. Security and confidence in your transaction's immutability has always been a continuous function of how much work has been piled on top of it, and how much energy it would take to redo that work. If you are transacting a very large amount of money, it behooves you to give it even more than 6 blocks for real confidence.
I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
This comment is weird, it appears to be a rehashing of the populist argument "If you go against the majority then you deserve whatever happens to you", as an atheist living in a majority-muslim intolerant country, that's familiar.

And the kinds of people who say this are familiar too. They perceive themselves to be part of the majority (Or the "Right Side Of History", in other imaginations), they think it will never turn against them or - for that matter - that the people they're oppressing will never return the unpleasant favor and gang on them back.

All those countless centuries of history and people still haven't fully grasped that Power and Oppression are completely symmetric tools, totally blind to the identities of those wielding them or those they're used against. The tyranny you so gleefully cheer now is going to turn against you (or an equivalent one will be constructed by the ones you oppressed one day and used against you) and you won't be laughing then.
> The mac-book killer was very much hyperbole from paid reviewers.

Hold on. Which reviewers received payments in return for positive coverage of the laptop?
> It's become hard to distinguish right and wrong when it comes to CPU optimization. Different versions of the 'same' CPU can have wildly different sweet spots.

Indeed, though I am shocked when people post benchmarks in which they are obviously unaware of this issue. It's why compilers have all those architecture switches.

If I understand your comment correctly: in the case of the posted paper, the compiler optimization issue the author mentioned was a semantics issue, not an architecture issue. If your comment was about optimizing for the multiprocessor case, I apologize.
Well of course, they are slow so they are unsuitable. The issue is whether they need to be slow.
> indeed, that's an advantage of your approach over screen sharing.

In what way, particularly? it's streaming the video and audio from a remote browser instance, so surely that means all participants will have the same accessibility settings in the remotely viewed instance.
There's no good reason that they couldn't have passed those measures on their own, without the power of freezing accounts with no due-process. This assuming that there are some "reasonable powers" they needed, which I don't agree with.

Further, the government always had the power to freeze the destination accounts as long as they were at a Canadian bank and had a court order. This is the only distinction.
If you want an extremely quick scan of the front pages of many world newspapers (less than 5 mins), check out "NEWS ACC" on YouTube.
"Are deemed?" By whom? You mean we can throw out all those pesky judges, trials, and juries of our peers? Cool.
It immediately reminded me of http://68k.news/

Warning about HTTP; no HTTPS if you're concerned about that sort of thing.
I made a harder-to-understand investigation using Perl (non-regular, of course) regexps a while back.

https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=809842
From wikipedia:

>It later became a term for the 7,000-kilometre-long (4,300 mi) physical barrier of fences, walls, minefields, and watchtowers that divided the "east" and "west". The Berlin Wall was also part of this physical barrier.

Regardless of whether you think the term refers to the political/metaphorical barrier or the physical barrier, it seems weird to characterize it as "designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration", when it was the warsaw pact countries that were erecting physical barriers. It makes as much sense as saying that the Mexico-US border was designed to keep out american "ideology and military penetration", when really it's obviously designed to prevent illegal crossings from Mexico into the US.
The idea that Russia with their world ending weapons could be genuinely threatened by NATO expansion is hilarious.

It’s only their own expansion plans which are threatened by NATO.
I think the question is more on if the implementation of how the jvm does exceptions somehow less affected by core count?

That is, the checked part is just a language implementation, right? The jvm doesn't really make much of a distinction. (This is meant as a check to my assumption.)
> Living in a Democracy requires us to consider the opinions of our fellow citizens and try our best to accommodate them, rather than steamrolling them.

The majority of americans believe in abortion by a non trivial margin. The reason it's not guaranteed is precisely because the united states is not a democracy, but a democratic republic, giving significantly more political power to some voters based on where they live.
> My kid graduated high school, so I moved to a small town in Colorado to learn how to ski and ice climb. I am somewhat athletic, but not competitively so.

You're definitely the outlier that proves my point though. Skiing is not something you can just go "do" a few times and have fun at it like tennis or golf. You have to, as you did, live in close proximity to a hill and get out there day after day and put in the time and effort of falling on your face over and over again to do it. People can absolutely do it as adults, but you have to really really want it. It can't be a casual thing.

>Skiing really isn't that dangerous or even physically demanding.

It's what you make it. To a lot of people, "skiing" means hopping on the lift and cruising some blue/black groomers for a few hours. For others, it means hiking 3k vertical to ski 6 feet of powder on a 50 degree face, or blasting the drop line on a huge mogul field at full speed.
Some big points there, I can't even get the 64gb Macbook because they decided not to bring more than 32 into my country. So being able to get whatever I want from amazon at market rates is amazing (and probably the biggest feature of this laptop)

There is an issue with ram timings not being supported that affects the more flashy ram chips. I was lucky enough that it didn't affect the 32gb module I bought but it could've been a return (they need to update the supported ram timings in the bios but haven't)

I really like the keyboard, although I would prefer the layout was more macbooky (the function key kills me but I've swapped it with the ctrl) and the screen I'm pretty happy with. The 100% / 200% scaling thats supported in fedora though is awkward. 100 is a bit squinty 200 is waay to big.

I like the laptop but have struggled to use it. I'm starting to wonder if my touchpad is actually defective.
In the Chinese culture, there is a saying "(of parents) bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age".

my mother thinks that if I don't have any children, my old age will be lonely and miserable.

but I think that's selfish thinking. a person shouldn't be given birth to the obligation of taking care of another person.

I found it is amusing that we seem to spend a big portion of our lifetime on preparing for a more comfortable death.
History would suggest that you can do anything you want if you're willing to back it up with enough military force.
The proper balance is not to keep all of your eggs in one basket.

In situations like this having a backup emergency supply of nok-fait money is critical. If your bank account is frozen for any reason.
How do you guys handle using other libraries? Everything I can see uses stuff like std::vector and the like at API boundaries, and I'm not aware of a way to construct an std::vector without throwing an exception.
I've worked in low latency trading, and with large distributed back testing setups with hundreds of high core count machines, and not once felt the need to disable exceptions, or for that matter, felt the impact of them happening. A fair bit of noexcept stuff was useful to improve runtime performance, but that was about it.

I would suggest you need to address that 1% of failing tasks and determine what the issue is, as frankly, you are solving the wrong problem. If I might suggest a solution, it sounds like you are using threading when process farms might be a better solution.

(and if i'm way off the mark with my suggestion, apologies, i'm trying to help and have little information to work with).
UTM is good and I’m not the biggest Parallels fan, but Parallels is currently the only host with guest tools for Windows 11 ARM. While Windows 11 ARM can run in UTM and VMware, it’s a night/day difference in quality when using Parallels. I have to give credit where credit is due—I get 120 Hz, retina graphics in my Windows 11 ARM VM under Parallels on my M1 Pro.

That being said, I’m eagerly waiting for a viable alternative so I can ditch Parallels.
Yes, that's true today. But since they're running a version of Chromium that they control, they can in principle modify it to push semantic information from the Chromium accessibility implementation along with the video stream. That would be much harder for, say, Zoom screen sharing to do, because of the way the platform accessibility APIs are designed.
My package manager allows me to see the URL to download it and compile it manually. Does Steam/Bethesda/other game launcher allows this?
> I don't see how this would grant the government permanent powers unless the Emergencies Act gets renewed in perpetuity.

Label any protest you don't like an "illegal protest". Then as long as there's less than one such protest every 30 days, it's not "permanent"... Yet it is.
Why is a package repository even needed?

Managing a hundred different games from a dozen different sources is a pain.

If we lived in some fantasy utopia with standardized identity authentication and easily-verifiable-cryptographically-secure-proof-of-purchase then maybe distributed content distribution could make sense.
Terraform doesn't require k8s:
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform

OpenStack is somewhat EC2 API compatible, but the reverse is not true.
> It would seem to be at odds with the requirement that a bank keeps the filing of SARs secret from the accountholder.

If you have a SAR filed against your account, your bank will not tell you. They'll tell you that they've closed your account for internal policy or compliance reasons. And they won't be lying: the BSA doesn't require them to close the account.

The liabilities in question are both regulatory and financial.

On the regulatory side: bank employees are instructed never to tell a customer about the presence of a SAR, but mistakes can happen (and thus open the bank up to regulatory scrutiny or punishment). Similarly, the FDIC and Fed track SAR patterns, and may increase their scrutiny of a bank if customers who have historically received SARs at other banks successfully maintain accounts with a different bank.

On the financial side: SARs are filed for all kinds of crimes, including crimes against financial institutions themselves. It's a financial risk to keep those accounts around, because their rotating value might not reflect their actual "ultimate" settled value.

As for sources: here is a FAQ on SARs from the NCUA[1]. I don't have a pre-existing source for banks immediately closing accounts on SARs. Here's one I randomly found that states that a little over 1/4th of all SARs lead to account closure[2].

[1]: https://www.ncua.gov/newsroom/press-release/2021/ncua-federa...

[2]: https://bpi.com/the-truth-about-suspicious-activity-reports/
After the submenu was replaced with a single item in August, how many times have you 1) encountered Polish mojibake and 2) the single item wasn't able to fix it?
> feel free to carry on and go book your vacation to the Ukraine, drive a Volkswagen, work for facebook...

These could all be researched at the time of purchase though. There's nothing in the daily news about VW or Ukraine that can't be learned more efficiently by doing some research just before purchasing a vehicle or vacation.

There's nothing wrong with keeping tabs on the latest headlines, I personally do so and am fine with it, but there's nothing essential about it either. A person who never reads the news will still find out about something like Covid from a hundred other sources in short order.
That’s your argument? You googled and pasted in their mission statement?

Who would that alliance be (ostensibly) protecting themselves from? China? Taking that kind of stance (EDIT: against China) would not be in Russia’s interest.
>I’ve dealt with AML/KYC for cryptocurrency businesses with much higher volumes, nobody ever asked for anything crazy.

Were they legit businesses or illegal?

It makes a difference because there's more than just you and the KYC exchanges reporting, and it's survivor bias to assume they appear the same.
The real question for me is if consciousness is even real/physical or just an illusion. After you die time has no meaning and we don't know what happens trillions and trillions of years from that point. Maybe with limited matter or infinity, the exact universe patterns emerge once again that give you consciousness. Maybe you are reborn again in the same identical universe that contains your biological pattern, and live your life again and again without knowing you have done it before. Since you have no perception of time when dead, it happens instantly. Does it have to be 100% identical or are some variations allowed? Maybe you live through every possible variation of your biological self.

Or maybe quantum immortality occurs, where your consciousness jumps into a universe where you are still alive despite all the odds.

Or perhaps the universe is just snapshots of infinite patterns locked in permanent static states and this entire progression of time, physics, etc is just an illusion created by the sub-process of consciousness that creates dynamic transitions from one state to another.

It's probably my inability to perceive the concept of infinity that my mind thinks about such things, either way we will probably never know.