skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banning encryption is basically banning certain maths. In a way, it's an affront on free speech, because it is explicitly saying speech must be done in a way that can always be eavesdropped.

An analogy I use to explain to people who don't have a technical background is, "Imagine if we made it law that every pen ever made was required to be chained to a special clipboard that makes a carbon copy of whatever the pen writes." Even when explained like that, it's clear how such a system could be bypassed and would only harm innocent users, but even worse is just how ridiculous it all seems, since this would all be because we can't subpoena a pen. Hopefully it's made clear that despite the subpoena being lawful, it simply doesn't make sense, and attaching this fictitious clipboard doesn't really help make it make more sense, since it seems even more ridiculous once it's made clear that you can't subpoena a pen. It's no difference than saying you can't subpoena math, and that's OK.

I hope as we progress technologically, every day users will understand encryption to the point where they can form their own analogies as to what a ban on encryption would even imply.
There is a possibility Putin made a deal with China before Olympics to try and convince the world thats what happened.
well, after closing a page that advertised some disney crap on firefox...
This sounds very much like a society in slow collapse.

There is this book that I have difficulty getting through just because it depresses me so much. Your story reminded me of some if the issues discussed in this book.

I'll put it out there. Highly recommended if you want a sobering take: America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/America-Farewell-Tour-Chris-Hedges/dp...
How many protests are in the form of e.g. bank and payment information? I mean if the argument for breaking encryption is terrorists, then the argument against it would be criminals stealing your banking info.
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Government is what creates the economy. You earn money so you can spend it again, but you could achieve this also without money. What you cannot do without money is paying your taxes, which you are forced to with ultimately the threat of violence of throwing you into jail or worse.
Besides the shortcuts mentioned by the sibling comment, you can also just go from the exit (yes, you can enter through the exit), straight to the warehouse.

You need to know the name of what you're looking for and then use their kiosks to find where the thing is in the warehouse and just pick it up directly.

This trick turns 1 hour trips through Ikea into 5 minute trips.
Why should you care whether or not the service will work with the police? Seems specific
Lol, reminded of of wat: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

And I completely agree. What the hell are they doing, and is it worth the candle? Copyright aside, torrents and a shitty imdb wannabe site would have smaller CO² footprint and better content.
Because money for a person is different from money for a government. "Creating money" generally means increasing the ability for banks to give out loans, which spurs economic activity like starting a new business etc
So parsing and enforcing these types would be fine, performance-wise, but having a flag at the start of the module that says "discard types yes/no" would be a massive performance hit?

I really don't understand.

It wouldn't have to support any smaller granularity, and it wouldn't need to change parsing at all.
Just enjoy what little online freedom you have while it's here. It doesn't matter if this bill passes or not, the fact that 99% of the general population just don't think about or care about this sort of thing means that we will eventually lose this war.

Politicians also don't know a damn thing about it, but the incentives are very strong for them to insert more gov. into everyone's life, so that is what will inevitably happen.

Sorry about being the party pooper, especially on a Friday, so just enjoy your PGP, E2E encryption, Tor, Btc, etc. while you still can (the more you do, the better our chances of keeping them for longer).
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The glorification and even fetishisation of plain, everyday things in Japan simply because they're thought of as being uniquely "Japanese" is a weird aspect of the culture, which thanks to the Internet has found many adopters from all over the world.

It's a function of an ultranationalist view of one's own culture as being "uniquely unique", i.e. more unique than any other culture is unique.
The Japanese even did come up with a quack "science" named "Nihonjinron" which is still a basis of the domestic school curricula. This and the military, rote-learning nature of their education system leads to obviously ridiculous overestimations like the alleged "magic" of a convenience store sandwich never being questioned or ridiculed, so they stick.
Any Japanese person in Japan is confronted with a million little "Nihonjinron" falsehoods like this one every day, thereby creating a false sense of superiority and regrettably, xenophobia and chauvinist nationalism: "All other cultures are inferior to ours!", "Are your convenience store sandwiches even magical, gaijin bro??"
There are lots of examples in which artists that Stalin respected where crushed less hard than one might expect them to be crushed, Zamyatin comes to mind.

http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1929-2/proletarian-writers/prol...
Indeed this is by design. Cryptocurrencies are deflationary, which means that it is always better to hold your coins than to spend them. They must be deflationary as there is no reason to mine them or buy in early other than the promise of future gains. Working well as an investment is antithetical to working well as a currency.
As far as I can tell, this is a single individual that has done all of this work. I am floored at the design and intricacy of this project.

Really, truly blown away. I'm sure there are plenty of edge cases to correct for but I haven't gotten so excited by a demo in a long time. I've obviously signed up to learn more.
Yes, a lot of us do this. My wife keeps telling me to read "mistake were made, but not by me", she says it's paradigm shifting, and helpful to allow you to spot this behaviour early.
> but also your internet bandwidth

Usually, not. You get the full bandwidth of your DSL line when you need it, the hotspot either only gets what remains (aka is in idle) or has its own PPPoE session that lives outside of your contractual bandwidth limit (obviously that one only works when the line bandwidth is greater than the bandwidth you're paying for).
I was going to say: you should be able to program it on a single esp-32... and then I noticed the sibling's comment and a working prototype.
...and get shit done. I mean come on, who asks a person in another team to help with a regular expression. There has to be a line somewhere. You can be a go-to person for an obscure technology, some complex framework, but being a go-to person for regular expressions? What's next? Go-to person for iteration?
U.S. Ambassador Tells UN – Russia's Actions in Ukraine 'Constitute War Crimes'
This is an interesting angle I´d not heard before, as cryptography had at least at some point been classified as munitions (maybe still is, I haven't been watching that).

"Okay, in that case, the constitution says you can't infringe my right to it."

Although I would fear going down that path would lead to them saying, "Well, we already infringe on access to certain kinds of munitions, so you can still have encryption, but only the stuff we have a backdoor to." which has been on the agenda before.
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> "Should you cancel after 14 days, you'll be charged a lump sum of 50% of your remaining contractual obligation and your service will continue until the end of the month's billing period"

Is basically hidden. So if you forget to cancel the subscription by the end of the 7-day trial, you end up paying 50% of the annual subscription from what I understand from the website
> I wonder if any of these VPN services are actually peer to peer, so that your IP is an exit address for people that want to pretend to be in your country.

It is not quite peer-to-peer, but not as hidden as you might think. Nord and few other vpns that provide so-called 'residential IPs' are doing this in the background. You have to dig a bit into the T&Cs of the agreement before you find the little clauses that let them use your computer as an exit node.
the problem with Nitter is you can see only one user's timeline, I want to see multiple users combined, then I can ditch Twitter site completely just for passive reading, but until then it's still more convenient with one account read multiple accounts in one timeline instead opening them one by one unless I'm missing something and Nitter allows combined timeline from multiple accounts
> I don't cheer for dead Russian soldiers

you are a bigger person than me.

> because it mixes some real events by trying to present

I have never seen it but if that's the case then it deserves to be called out for sure.
Age doesn't cause faults of creativity. Cumulative changes in personal philosophy, time constraints and disease are most likely responsible.
That's unusual, majority of people in the UK have simple taxes and don't need to fill in any forms.

The US is deliberatly difficult because

1) Companies make a fortune selling "solutions" to this, thus spend a lot of money ensuring it continues

2) Americans don't like taxes, so by making it more obvious the government is taking your tax money, and making it painful in the process, to fund their military, it helps cement that idea there's should be a small state

The US takes 27% of the GDP in tax, the UK 33%, although personal taxes for normal people tend to be about the same, its just that the US pretty much requires an accountant, or at least some expensive proprietary software, and hours of your time.
I agree, either compare at the same size or the same perceptual quality. I know the latter is subjective, but in this case the JPEG is significantly higher quality.
I would just like to warn people that you shouldn't use this in any production or client-facing app, it's trivial for a malicious actor to change the SQL and drop your database or whatever.

If you need to access a sqlite database remotely, try https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite, it offers clustering on top of a basic SQLite database as well as a HTTP(s) API.
>What do you want for 15kb?

I dont want 15KB, because difference between 15 and 70 is 5 milliseconds.
Is "being curious" a tongue-in-cheek way to describe breaking the law? "I was just curious whether anyone would notice if I step out of the store without paying"
I got the joke. But it is arguable whether the wording implies "the accused was at the scene of the murder" or "the accused committed the murder on purpose".
Author seems to be attempting to harness the energy from Hawking's spinning corpse.
I've heard in the South of Chile there used to be all these "sapitos," frogs, that completely vanished when water became fluorinated.
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> you can't copy unbound free variables.

You can copy them in a pure functional program if the function AST you're transporting is sufficiently expressive, because the values of the unbound free variables in pure FP are available at the point where the function is defined, so can be inlined into it, and included in its hash.

But when it's not pure FP, then indeed you can't copy the values into the function AST, because the environment at the point of each call to the function is what matters.

(The pipe stuff is just for making it more efficient, and handling black boxes which sit outside the paradigm of concrete values, things like I/O monads and devices).
Is it actually common to seek information about news from a search engine? I find that kinda surprising.

I get news from outlets I'm already reasonably familiar with, so that I know how much to trust them, and what to trust them about.

It hadn't occurred to me that people might take apparently-factual information at face value when they find it via a search engine (without recognising the source site).

The whole point of a search engine is that it finds anything that any old person put on the internet, so why would anyone think a search engine is a reliable source of trustworthy assertions that accurately describe the real world?

Like, even in a physical library, just because a book is in the “factual” section doesn't mean that every assertion in the book is genuinely true — maybe it's out of date, or just plain wrong. All the library is asserting is that this book exists.

Twenty years ago people seemed to need to be told that, despite stuff on the internet being in written/printed form, that didn't automatically mean it was actually an authoritative newspaper. Have people forgotten that? Like, do people actually believe any old shite they read on the internet?
What matters are embedded encoders, since I guess that's what smartphone camera outputs.

A new format is good as long as firmwares can encode it at good speed.
> As a general rule, inflation disproportionately harms people who can't easily adjust their income upwards.

That's actually interesting. Especially in countries with job safety, where you can't fire one easily, nor reduce their salary without consent (such as France, Germany, ...) this seems to be an easy way for employers to "adjust" salary and essentially get people fired who earn "too much" from the perspective of the employer.

On the other hand, this is good for people who _can_ negotiate their salary upwards.

Would be interesting to have this part covered in more detail.
Ffs.

The availability of the chronological timeline is the only reason why Twitter still works for me and Facebook and LinkedIn don't. I keep seeing the same shit on the latter two, despite extensive attempts to train the recommender engine.

Facebook just keeps showing me the same posts over and over again. LinkedIn shows different posts, but they are all so cookie cutter similar that they might as well have been the same. And even more insipid, it will do a repeat of network updates at two weeks and four weeks. Nothing says "we got interesting content" more than reruns!

I'm soooo looking forward to Twitter being uninteresting repeats as well.

> But when I force close and re-open the app when looking at the Latest Tweets column, the Home feed is what Twitter shows first.

Great. Choose between keeping the app always-on or having boring shit first.
Also the spin-off movie In the Loop.
First of all, GDPR is not about cookies. It is about personal data. And so far, courts have considered the user's IP to be personal data.

Since advertisers need to know if you really show their ads, the ads need to send some signal back from the user to the advertiser. So ads always send the user's IP to a third party: The advertiser or a trusted intermediary.

Assuming no consent to that for everybody would mean that the revenue of my website goes to zero. And I would not be able to run it anymore. As the ones paying for the costs are the users who consent.
I think Shibuya has them covered with their ubiquitous and delicious honey toast, but perhaps I need to try Korean toast to know for sure.
This is a geek / nerd forum. Exaggerated praise of anything Japanese based on hearsay, falsehoods, or simply not knowing much about the world outside the US is par for the course.
levels.fyi should be accurate

It tells you the date so you can see if the data is current. Smaller companies might not have enough recent data to be accurate though.
My father-in-law argues against climate change with both "we can't trust natural/historical temperature records" and "the earth has seen far more significant climate change than we're experiencing now".
I wonder when loyalty to a company meant anything? I mean, I'm sure there are, and were companies where it did. But was it ever a norm?
why not just mute accounts you don't wanna see unless you ar elooking for them specifically and also disable retweets from people you are not interested in RT
But most of the nazis people speak of in the context of Ukraine are not foreigners traveling there, but Ukrainian citizens.
It's difficult when you're searching for something where there's money to be made because all those sites are fighting for the top and using all the tricks in the book do it. See also: blockchain.
"Western" - have you ever been outside of the US? Also, gas stations are not convenience stores.
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Really? As a European who's never been to the US but lived in Japan that's shocking to me. You must have it pretty bad if the Japanese options look appealing to you.
How could a website identify where in the world a user is right now?
This is one of the most, if not the most popular kit car. An alternative for DIY types who want an EV, but not a car as a service. Full ownership and responsibility for the entire build.
Yet another example on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LQhf17i33g
This [1] here. Sadly, the maintainer has had enough. It still works for the latest minecraft I think. It runs so nicely on linux - far more processor efficient than the java version, and runs even better than bedrock on Win10. I'll be sad when it stops working, but will probably just 'hold' on an old minecraft version at that point.

[1] https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_starte...
Can we argue that social media Facebook/Twitter and Co becomes the most effective weapon ever ? I mean, you can keep the population highly motivated, you can shift the perception of war. Right now even people returning to Ukraine for fighting, I think it is highly driven by social media.

If the answer is yes,could we conclude that most of the war related content is not really controlled by Facebook and rather by the military?
Yeah the real culprit is the media. This is the world they wish to come into existence.
It sure is convenient to just say "don't do that", but it's a lazy answer divorced from reality.

Netflix does way more than "streaming big binary blocks of data from a CDN". Think of all the backend stuff behind the scenes that might go into this - encoding/re-encoding all these "big binary blocks", request tracing, audit logs, BI, etc.

Part of Netflix's success is powered by collecting this detailed information. Hiring 6 smart people to build something that can handle that volume of events is a complete no-brainer compared to the business value it generates.
Ask HN: Why does MacBook randomly shifts sound balance on connecting headphones?
Macbook Pro M1 randomly shifts the sound balance to either right or left after connecting headphones or earphones. This happens probably 1 in every 20 times. What is the reason for this?
In the future we won't own anything, corporates will. And with the data they will collect, share and collate, and use against us, they will effectively enslave us. But we'll all still be under the illusion that we have autonomy and freedom. .
>Banning encryption is basically banning certain maths.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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You must not have been around much in Japan. Probably just Kanto or Kansai - but if you go farther, the Conbinis are really becoming rare.
There's a small chain in the Bay Area that makes them:

https://www.onigilly.com/

But I'm thinking this is more of a gourmet/specialty food positioning rather than a mass-market fast food positioning. (The onigiri there are all hand-made to order, not pre-packaged.)
It's much more likely that money started out from debt/obligation systems. Coins for immediate payment stayed pretty uncommon except between parties that didn't trust each other for a pretty long time. With fiat money the government acts as a trusted third party.

Early taxes like the tithe were also not money-based.
They're crap. Don't trust American weeaboos on anything they say about Japan.
thanks, hadn’t heard of Nano before, it looks interesting.

I should correct to say a decentralized public ledger “free of transaction costs” is hard if not impossible. Nano seems to remove fees by having users engage in PoW (ie: cost of energy expenditure), so it is feeless but not free.
> You can't claim that it's fair to give someone a bigger pay rise on the basis that they already earn more. That makes no sense.

That it does not accord with your intuitive sense of fairness is not an argument that other people have to bow to. Treating everyone the same according to a blanket rule, uniformly applied, is absolutely a kind of fairness.

Fairness is a subjective judgment, not a property of the universe. Which criteria to be used in making decisions is a choice, not something immediately obvious.
I think 7-Eleven in Denmark needs to be mentioned.

The prices aren't comparable (it's significantly more expensive), but the pictures are fairly representative of the products, and they don't short-change you on the filling.

(But 43DKK is 740JPY.)

https://7eleven.menukitt.dk/restaurant/7-eleven-hellerup

Indoor Google Maps photos of one above Nørreport Station in Copenhagen, which has a few photos: https://www.google.com/maps/place/7-Eleven/@55.682304,12.570...
A car isn't the only type of vehicle. You can own an electric bike, which is an electric vehicle.

If you see “vehicle” and automatically think “car”, consider why that might be.
That's a good point. There probably will never be a one size fits all solution. Luckily the img srcset provides an option for this scenario.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...
Evgeny Zamyatin was not a singer, so I really dont think this proves singers were uniquely safe. Also, reading story, he had contacts which allowed him to get passport and leave as he was persecuted.

The political persecution he was under was not that unusual for times. It strikes me more like "I heard many stories kinda like that" then super unusual.
I think you're under-estimating the quantity of articles Nature and associated journals publish that aren't scientific, or are outright wrong, just because they flatter the preconceptions of their readers. There's even a cute saying in science, "Just because it's published in Nature, doesn't mean it's wrong".

Example: Nature published Flaxman2020, a modelling paper by the epidemiology team at ICL which claimed lockdowns saved 3.1 million lives. People who actually read the article realized that it was a massive exercise in circular logic - the model assumed that any reductions in case numbers could only be due to government intervention. It was then presented as proof to the media that lockdowns saved lives. It had many other problems - in fact the authors themselves in the paper itself that it was illustrative only and that in reality, the effectiveness of NPIs would be lower. The circular nature of the argument was pointed out immediately but Nature only published a response letter 8 months after publication, and never retracted it.

As for your legal point, that doesn't mean much. Lawyers try any argument that might work. Facebook have argued in front of the court that their fact checking isn't actually fact checking at all, that it's in reality merely corporate political opinion, and that no reasonable person could possibly construe otherwise!
For that 33% (+6%) you also get universal healthcare (which isn't accounted for in the 27% Americans are paying), so those numbers aren't apples to apples.

That would be another thing that would be great for the GAO (U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)) to produce reports about.

Where are (my / your) Tax dollars going? How does that compare to other countries, in absolute, per person, GDP and other metrics, etc?
It’s basically an interview with the Russian state, and looks like we’re not allowed to see that anymore.