skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This fine article also says “It comes off as more xenophobic or racist (than other laws) because it’s not only giving extra rights and privileges to Jewish people, but also preventing certain basic rights only from the Arab population”.

People are opposed to it because it 1) codifies that an Israeli citizen’s race is an acceptable criterion for determining which rights they are entitled to, and 2) the law is a reactionary measure expressly designed to discriminate and maintain racial/ethnic composition. The people who voted for it aren’t even trying to hide it or dog-whistle it away: “"The State of Israel is Jewish and so it will remain," said Simcha Rothman of the far-right Religious Zionism party””

Any such law, anywhere, would be soundly denounced and repealed. Especially in Europe, which you had mentioned in your hypothetical question.
For the bees, this article is pretty (unreadable for my eyes), and the source is also listed
https://www.arenaflowers.com/pages/bees-population-graph/

Their source http://www.fao.org/home/en/
Absolutely, and of course Norway also depends in great part on fossil fuels to generate wealth.
My Archlinux installer [1] uses fyne and I found it to be quite easy and straightforward to use. My use case is quite trivial though so not sure how that scales.

[1]: https://github.com/oxplot/raspberrypi-archlinux-installer
Israeli right-wingers don’t see Palestinians as a persecuted minority in a vacuum. They see them as members of the Arab ethnicity of the surrounding states which are much larger in size and population. In the late 1960s Syria and Egypt actually formed into one state and tried to annihilate and absorb Israel in a pincer movement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic
>... and I suspect there will be a day where I cannot find a washing machine that isn't "smart"...

What's worse is you'll have to have a monthly subscription to their service or it won't work.

I bet there are people just salivating at the thought of all that MRR.

Our future is one in which we don't own a damn thing. We're all renters.
No, not a bot either, just don't want my actual account getting downvoted to hell for expressing my honest opinion.
There isn't--if you can get materials. And afford them. The windows in my house are starting to go. I've probably got another five years or so before they're a problem, but they were the most obvious future expenditure when I bought the place. The windows that best hit the durability and insulation points that I expect, for living here for the next 10-15 years, are around $1100 apiece. $1800 for the bigger one in the middle of the bay window on the first floor.

Oh, and they also have a 9 month lead time, if you're lucky!

And this is after I've spent five figures opening every wall, heavily insulating the place, and buttoning it back up.

I'm not complaining personally; I can afford this okay, but it's impractical to expect even moderately well-off Americans to be able to. This isn't just about the bottom line of developers, 'cause most housing stock is already owned. We're probably looking at massive subsidies to make it happen, and significant resistance because doing it is a huge imposition (one I did willingly, but I knew I was getting into it) reliant on limited labor and materials.
Hi! I agree 100% that stocks are not the only investment vehicle, and you're right it's not meant for everyone to buy.

Also, we are developing support for viewing ETFs as I type this (well, Nick is today). Which will be released in the next couple weeks.

Our MVP here, is built around communities of people who want to learn more about stocks, as well as get better research tools than what they use currently. We do not have any intention of pushing people to buy anything, the "vibe" is moreso giving as much information and education as possible, which we believe/are seeing will lead to people making more confident informed decisions with their capital. Whether that's buying stocks, or something else, no skin off our back.

This is a great topic :)
Yup, old houses can be insulated, but they do not insulate well. Currently in an 1890s house which has been superficially renovated at least 2x in its life, with all the insulation you could possibly pump into the walls. Winter heating is still grossly expensive, and you can never stop all the drafts. During a kitchen reno we tried pulling everything back to the studs and using spray foam as the insulation and vapor barrier -- better than the rest of the house, but still noticeably draftier than a modern house.

There's no real way to fix that without completely stripping the house down to the frame and rebuilding with modern techniques and materials.
Are satellite phones an option? Although it may be very expensive. Or what if we broadcast some kind of long range radio signal that can be read even if its not written to. Something in binary that can be consumed digitally - say we broadcast the source code for some useful tools, or simply news. I am making this up as i type but maybe there is some sort of software that takes in radio signal, converts it into binary data and can be used on regular pcs.
When one factor "Capitalism vs. Communism" is the lens through which you view the world, then "are they on our side" becomes more important than "are they good people".

That is why the west supported some terrible regimes, including Apartheid South Africa and Pinochet in Chile. Because they could claim to be "anti-communist".
There's actually a growing subgenre of horror videogames that utilize this aesthetic to great effect. It's mostly an "indie" thing right now, but heck, the most recent prominent example I can think of is Puppet Combo's 'Murder House' game, which looked and played like a '90s PS1 horror title, tank controls and all, and yet it was still scarier and spookier and than Resident Evil's latest triple A title.

Here's the Steam page if anyone is interested in what it looks like:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1064460/Murder_House/
Italy is explicitly defined in its constitution as a state that does not discriminate on the basis of religion or race. It even recognises a level of jus-soli citizenship for children of non-citizens if born in the country, although after they reach 18 years of age. So I don't know why you'd point it out as an ethnostate - which it definitely has not been for generations, if ever.

I know "Italians are racists lol" trends in football subreddits, but that has nothing to do with the law of the land.
There could be two factors, but one is much more interesting than the other.

- NATO is on a heightened state of alert, but that doesn't mean they will go around shooting down aircraft. It may have been observed on its trajectory, but not intercepted or simply not shot down.

- There has been repeated video of Ukrainian flown Byaktar drones conducting direct line of sight air strikes against large Russian air defense such as the BUK system. There is a possibility that low-observability features in drones are good and cheap enough that low cost drones are temporarily immune to alerted air defense. This could be due to both economics where the air defense missile costs to much to use it against a drone (less likely) or the air defense isn't designed to target small low-observability objects (more likely).

A Byaktar drone costs ~1 million dollars, you can buy 3-4 of them for the cost of the US Navies SM-6 missile for air defense.
There are two parts there - which one? Banks certainly did issue their own money. And there wasn't a central bank - at least not as a central bank is defined today.
Easy money-laundering enables other types of crimes. If it's easy to move money embezzled from the Russian state into legitimate London properties, then presumably that makes embezzling a bit easier. (It's good to question these assumptions, I agree).
Global warming is likely avoidable using geoengineering technology. But, for some reason, many don’t think a technological solution is morally appropriate. For instance, here is a concerted effort trying to permanently ban all scientific research on geoengineering [1].

Sure, no one wants to loft sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, but it won’t cost much [2] and we have plenty of natural experiments demonstrating safety (volcanoes). The critical thing is that it would buy time to transition. It’s not like there isn’t a massive interest in transitioning from fossil fuels. But, will we transition fast enough to prevent irreversible runaway positive feedback loops?

[1] interestingly, the rationale for banning solar geoengineering is not the potential danger of the technology, but the (claimed) inability to govern the process. https://www.solargeoeng.org/

Alternatively, here is a view from the Editor of Science, calling for “Symmetric Precaution.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8462

[2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d/...
How is it that you and user adielsa paste this same reply here multiple times?
Oh, I misunderstood your comment then "can we do something similar for Web APIs?", I thought you were referring to a similar way to build web apps.
FWIW Steam, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2 all worked great for me on FreeBSD. The other things you listed are issues/have their own problems. No Docker is the showstopper for me.

https://www.freshports.org/games/linux-steam-utils/
In that world would it be illegal to help a criminal clean their funds, if you did not participate in the crimes themselves? Seems tricky.
IANAL, but I think "money laundering" is a colloquial term used to describe the process of obscuring currency's provenance used for/acquired in criminal activities. Maybe I'm not having a very imaginative day, but I can't think of any other reason you'd do this.
Pointing to a vague they makes for a very uninformative comment. I believe most people see a future where civilization progresses. There is just somewhat of a consensus, among left leaning people and groups of scientists, that we need to dial back energy usage short term, until the sources of that energy are moved away from fossil fuels.

I don't think a willingness to accept less energy for a decade or two, constitutes an anti-civilization agenda. I don't even think the small fraction of extremists who want everyone living on an organic commune are anti-civilization.
Agreed.

But damn, that's a short list.
Yeah the best thing about BSD is that it hasn't had a bajillion different idea people come in and implement the same thing a billion different ways. Would prefer it stayed that way.

Desktop BSD works. It's a pain to set up but you can get there.
I tried searching for kagi, and all I got was jewellery results. This is absolutely true
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man5/maildir.5.h... | https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man5/maildir.cou... | https://gist.github.com/pwillis-els/b01b22f1b967a228c31db3cf...
It's the difference between:

1. Grouchy geek who wants to optimize

2. Cheerful regular person who thinks everything is great (*and doesn't really want to bother)

As well, it reminds me of how everybody believes themselves to be a great driver. Try getting advanced driving school gift certificate to a friend, family or special someone - they almost universally find it insulting and offensive. "I've been driving for 20 years!". (sure, what new skill have you learned or worked on in last 19.8 years?)

Similarly, no matter how kindly I suggest headset, I invariably hear some variation of angry "I do this for a living, trust me" or a strangely patronizing "No, this works great".
What does the ultra-Orthodox Jews think about those parades?

Just by the demographics alone, those guys will be in charge very soon. (or Israel will cease to be democratic).

So yes, Israel is not there yet, but well on its way. (and I have no problems with that, as long as they don't try to impose their religious values on me).
I actually think you already understand it.

Depending on how you define it, money laundering could be seen as just the act of hiding the origin of some pool of funds. That, by itself, is morally pretty neutral.

For example, in the US campaign finance laws effectively allow money laundering by allowing legal PACs which can receive donations, spend those donations on political activities, and obscure the source of those funds. This is justified on the basis of protecting free speech.

Conversely, it can also be used to hide the source of funds generated in the commission of a crime, which impedes the work of law enforcement.
See sibling's link. Much better.
Sometimes you have to adjust the amount of information you are allowed to disclose depending on who you are talking to. And you don't want to exclude people based on this as any amount help can move you forward.
China censors online Ukraine debate, bars calls for peace
so knowing the buliding height we could figure out which time and day the aerial picture was taken?
And given time and day we could figure out how high the buildings are.
Could this be used to generate large scale 3d building models automatically?
Does anyone know whether this has been attempted?
I prefer text and images but in this case I regret not watching the video sooner. Absolutely amazing demonstration.
And just like that, I said goodbye to all job productivity today.
It looks like Roland took a cue from Google's Blob Opera: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW...
Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share
> Putin now thinks (with some justification) that this is a template for Russia. As he eyes up tiny independence movements he has to wonder if they'll suddenly grow into NATO backed rebels with major firepower.

World powers backing separatist groups with funding has a much, much older history that Libya in 2011. Heck, Russia is currently funding several.
No DNS records were changed. They literally tricked IP routes so users received traffic from malicious servers.

Nothing to do with DNS which translates names to IPs
dad took us kids to buy first VHS ever as present for mom; was in $90-$110 range
Thank you! I've been avoiding it and I prefer not to.

Its the other side of "someone on the internet is wrong!". Now I know better and am happier for it.
More importantly it was built in Palestine. So they kicked out Palestinians from their own land, restricted them to small piece of land and now they are kicking them even from the stolen part of land after marrying the Israelis.
Well that's just poor reporting. Which dutch internet providers? Freedom definitely hasn't, I just checked.
Damn this sounds so cool. Accidentally clicked the red clear button and deleted score though :(

Would love a way to ctrl-z to save myself from myself.
"I don't think it was built with the intention of subjugation,"

But was it built with the intention of segregation?
Yeah, very important to electrify the supply side in the US as well. Pretty dirty at the moment. There are still gains to be realized just on the demand side though, like how EVs still emit less per mile than ICE cars even when the electricity comes from coal plants[0]. In that case, the efficiency comes form the improved thermal efficiency of an industrial-scale power plant versus little gasoline car engines.

[0] - would have liked a better source but https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/electric-...
I think you're indirectly agreeing with the parent (and great-grandparent); both are saying "Google (and others) shouldn't just use the IP; use the browser's language setting, and if that hasn't been set, the OS setting", which you also seem to be agreeing with.

The only one differing is the grandparent, which was asserting first that users might think showing anything other than the local language is an error, and then asserting that users want their native language, and so I'm not really certain what they're asserting since those two are not always the same (maybe that the first is the reason Google does it, the second is asserting the preferred behavior, which is nearly agreement, in that the latter is doable via OS or browser preferences).
I love Western Culture as a term. In Central Europe it meant whatever was on the right side of Iron Curtain (mostly liberal democracy and all what comes with it), then Iron Curtain dissapeared and it got second meaning as white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant values protected in white, orthodox/catholic Slavic countries. Currently you have to guess which one it is from the context of the sentence.
You've kind of hit the nail on the head. Money laundering is illegal because the only time you need to launder money is when that money was obtained through illegal or fraudulent means. Because you launder money so the government is aware of the money, but not where it originated from. If you obtained the money legally, "laundering" it is just you willingly choosing to lose money.

It's kind of why there is also a way for you to claim illegally obtained income on your tax form as well.

They may not have proof you committed the crime, but they have proof you tried to hide the crime. So if you make that a crime as well, you get them anyway. The goal isn't to be accurate, the goal is to stop criminals.

Also, by knowingly helping someone launder money, you are kind of aiding them in their crimes. So it's a way to get accomplices as well.
Httpstatuses.com now redirecting to vastly inferior site
"older macbook" might imply that one of the two machines will not support UC though
I wasn't commenting specifically in the lens of Mexico/America just that generally it's thinly veiled racism.
> It's not like there are a lot of options for small depositors, it's one of the set of too big to fail banks

You might be outside the US? In the US there are literally 1000s of options. And the idea that banks get all the "free money" they want from the Fed...

I don't think you should be suggesting anyone is naive with those two statements.
The Tu-141 has a range of about 1000km, so presumably 2000km one way. Draw a 2000km line form Zagreb through pretty much anywhere in Ukraine and you end up a little way over the border into Russia. Seems pretty obvious what could have happened and not terribly surprising. The surprising thing to me is that it crashed in a city center vs the countryside. edit: Though the Jarun/Yarun both spelled "Ярун" theory would totally explain that.
> Nobody serious said the world was going to freeze.

Honestly, if I prove you wrong, will you apologize and retract your libel?
Conversions don't grant full "membership" in all circumstances, there are strict conditions.
One thing that stood out to me when reading about the Rwandan genocide was that Madeleine Albright—who lost three grandparents to the Holocaust and was touted as being humanitarian in part as a result—was center of the US' diligent refusal to acknowledge the genocide they were watching unfold, and recasting of the Genocide Convention as merely allowing intervention in genocide. (It obligates intervention.)

Less than a year after the Holocaust Museum in DC opened its doors, proudly declaring "Never Again".
Article I believe is saying commercial pre-recorded VHS movies are collectible. Re: point 2, such tapes should not have a copy protection tab, so a properly functioning VCR should prevent this scenario. Just mentioning lest people get the impression VHS simply didn’t address this case. Cf. https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/record...
So supporting AL Qaida was morally right in the context of the American invasion/interference in the middle east? They were after all at the forefront of the fight against the invaders too.
But in the case of London properties, the actual laundering happens in Russia. The money is “clean” when it arrives in the UK, with extensive documentation to demonstrate it’s provenance.

Both the UK media and government like to apply the term in super creative ways. When they speak of Russian money laundering in London, it’s usually a complete fabrication.

E: Throttled, so can’t reply directly to rwmj.

Why would you risk bringing dirty money from Russia to the UK when Russia is so deeply corrupt that it’ll be trivial to come up with extensive documentation demonstrating legitimate sources of funds?
At the macro level, major currencies are already digital, and maintained by central banks. There is no specie or notes moving between bank vaults for most interbank transactions. That's precisely why the United States and Europe are able to nullify Russia's foreign currency reserves as effectively as they can. The only thing Russia has to exchange for most of its USD and Euro holdings is the right to tell the Fed or the ECB to move money from the Russian Central Bank's account at those institutions to some other account. By freezing those accounts, Russia's money effectively ceases to be Russia's.

Consumer transactions are not yet typically digital currency based. Rather, they are digital notations reflecting desired real currency exchanges between and through banks, that happen to increasingly satisfied by digital means. But no specific digital "coin" or bill is moved by my credit card transaction. Yet.

But more robust and ubiquitous CBDCs are inevitable, especially if central bank-independent cryptocurrencies actually start to gain traction as currencies. Central banks and the governments that underwrite them will never permit fiscal policy to be controlled by an independent, non-manageable currency. Governments and central banks use their ability to control the volume of currency, and the cost of acquiring capital to manage economic stability through monitoring and influencing inflation, employment and investment. For them to not be able to do that would be catastrophic (read the economic history of the nineteenth century for a minor key preview of the results). That means they need to be able to control their currencies. If the future of transactions is digital currencies, all the way down to consumer transactions, then central banks will have to issue CBDCs and mandate their use.

BTW, a cryptocurrency, as we currently use the term is, if it actually becomes a currency, only one possible species of digital currency. A CBDC need not be crypto per se. It will use cryptographic techniques for sure, but may not be crypto/blockchain as we understand it.

Finally, note that a CBDC requires ubiquitous reliable digital identities to be workable. A lot of what the banking system does is the work of "know your customer." That's only more important in a full digital currency world.
Wondering how many laid off?
Neither of those things matter for air exchange.
> It is silly and quite time wasting online too, but it's what they need to feel comfortable asking you questions...

No necessarily. Asking "Any Java experts around?" takes little effort, while formulating a question for a Java expert could take significant effort. A "no" response for the first question could save everyone from wasting their time with the second.
That's exactly my approach as well. My devices are usually in English, as it's the "lingua franca" of the OS and the internet. For non country-specific applications, it's much harder to search for, well, any issue if your OS/browser/IDE/complex application is not in English.

On the other hand, I want my local apps to use the local language, as they were developed with the native language in mind first for a use case that makes sense with that specific locale in mind, and it just doesn't make sense to be reading an English translation of something that you're used to see expressed in your local language. An English translation in that case is usually not only subpar but confusing if you're also fluent in the local language.

My ideal would be to somehow state that, say, "I speak English and German. My preference is to have content displayed in what you consider the "native" language of your application if it's on that list, otherwise my preference is English, then German."

In practice, no one would bother setting this up (as we see in the case of Accept-Language) and no one would bother implementing this correctly. The next best thing is just an application/website specific language override, which is easily explainable to any user.