skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless we've radically redefined what dystopia means someone has to explain to me what's bad about a welfare system that people can't abuse to buy booze.

All I get from the article is that CBDCs enable pretty reasonable interventions like subsidizing electric cars, penalizing fast food, and so on. Which we already do because it's a good idea to not set the planet on fire or have the entire population be obese in 30 years. And we get rid of the middlemen in the process

pretty tame as far as dystopias go
Right ... So we here are opposing theories about this:

1) Journalists at Reuters suck,
2) It's standard clickbait to drive traffic in, or
3) Journalists at Reuters purposedly oriented their article.

Whatever the explanation is for this debacle of an article, I don't like it.
That changes things quite a bit, and definitely goes into the "none of our business, let the Ukrainians decide who is on their side" line of thinking for me, since all most of us are doing is putting blue and yellow on things and pretending that makes a difference.

I wouldn't be comfortable working with a Nazi on a line in a kitchen, just as I'm sure they'd say the same about me, but if Russia invaded here, I'd be quite comfortable "walking with him to the end of the bridge," as the other poster said. Deal with the day-to-day bologna after you've dealt with the once-in-a-century bologna.
What if you hold the magnet that holds something? ;d

I think we should talk force/work/energy/material structure.

Force is just force, how hard you push something.
Work is force times distance you moved that thing - moving something 10 meters is twice as much work as moving it 5 meters.
Energy is the abstract term that is basically Work, but normalized so we can define energy of any action (not only pushing something but like heating this, or spinning that).
Power is energy output per second. (not relevant here)

Person holding 1kg first uses energy to pick this up, then unfortunatelly because we're squishy uses energy to stabilise muscles (chemical energy) holding it against gravity.

Magned uses electric field energy (either static or dynamic cos there's two types of magnets) to pick up something - but once grabs it, it's no longer using energy (there's no movement) - things get 'frozen in time' and that thing magnet is holding just becomes part of the magnet. If you separate them - the thing "gives back" the energy to the magnet (you supply the energy by using force to separate them).

Now the thing that hold the magnet holds both - as long as it's not squishy human but for example the metal bar - it does not use energy to hold stuff (thanks to internal metal structure that's stiff enough to not move under magnet's weight, of course there's a border value of weight a metal bar can withstand without collapsing)

Think of a lamp post holding a lamp above a road - the post does the holding for 0 energy but someone had to use the energy to install the bulb up there. Person holding the same lamp would use energy because we're not stiff as metal.
Regarding the scanner working or not, Vuescan is a great option on Linux. Sure it's commercial but it is another way to bridge the gap and assist in the move away from Windows.
they can marry whoever they want, they just won't be naturalized ie if a Palestinian marries an Israeli, the Palestinian won't get Israeli citizenship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in...

Possibly illegal
> Apple only very recently

From the beginning, actually.

So you, as a stalker, have to decide whether to roll the dice and send an AirTag along with someone you want to stalk, hoping they don't have an iPhone, hoping they don't have someone with them who has an iPhone, and also banking on them not handing it over to the police who will just send the serial number to Apple to get your address.

Or, you know, you could just get any one of a number of inexpensive GPS trackers that don't have these risks. Why again would you choose an AirTag?
Some people have significant health problems if they eat to much fiber. They are literally on a low fiber diet as a medical matter.

The rest of us have lower GI problems of some sort if we go too much over the daily recommended amount. That can cause significant practical and social problems. But you are correct that we probably won't die. It could be painful in some cases, though, and that would be enough.
There are also many Arabic speaking Christians who don’t consider themselves to be Arabs culturally, and who definitely reject the label “Arab”.
> Subscriber has violated one or more of its material obligations under the Subscriber Agreement

I don't see the relevance - what has the bank violated? If someone introduces sanctions agaonst you, that's your not action or inaction, so this clause can't apply.

Ofcourse sanctions override contracts, I am not clear if revoking certificates was legally nessesary but I don't think it's right.

Suppose your money was in that bank and you need to buy insulin - should you die because of what the government did?

Suppose you are an immigrant from Kazakhstan, it's not even your government.

I don't think this 'press sanctions on ordinary people and hope for regime change' ever worked, dictatorships from Iran to North Korea seem to survive under sanctions
This always baffled me. Although English is not my native language I strongly dislike UIs being in any language but English. Every settings on my PCs says use English, all the apps are English versions, yet every time I find myself in another country Google uses its language to speak to me. I'm not sure I will even find how to switch the language to anything readable once I land in e.g. Japan or Armenia...
“There’s no need to shirk from the essence of this law. It is one of the tools to ensure a Jewish majority in Israel, which is the nation-state of the Jewish people. Our goal is for there to be a Jewish majority,” Lapid tweeted shortly before the law lapsed in early July. [1]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/months-after-citizenship-law-f...
not true , trying to justifying the Israel action by saying false information
I've had this problem with Steam and GOG. If you have a Dutch bank card, but you're only a few kilometers over in Germany: good luck buying any games.
See how much people this article misguided? Incredible!
Fourth paragraph.

> Proponents say the law helps ensure Israel's security and maintains its "Jewish character".

> "The State of Israel is Jewish and so it will remain," said Simcha Rothman of the far-right Religious Zionism party, a member of the opposition who brought the law forward with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.
He newer heard of Spyglass, did he ?
Because people can't comprehend the difference between 'doing it better than everyone else' and 'being a monopoly'
It's already done. This is how these "website builders" (e.g. Wix) works - your put different modules onto a template and build your site out of these.

Also Drupal and Wordpress have similar funcionality via plugins.
Researchers Figure Out How to Interpret Pig Grunts as Pig Emotions
I understand the point you're making but I think you're focusing on the precise wording of my comment rather than the meaning

I am not a psychologist or therapist or anything, lets just assume I'm using the words wrong and grouping people inaccurately. I'm talking about the people who make internet rules like don't ask to ask vs the people that don't do that
>indicate that something was breaking

Sure you might know somewhere the internet was broken, but you wouldn't know what caused it. It's a downstream issue from you so it's hard to deal with beyond filing a ticket with with some service provider.
I'm hoping we get some new green movement soon that is much more pragmatic about how we can actually reduce reliance on hydrocarbons. Nuclear, and more natural gas are the answer, at least transitionally.

Oh, and also I'd like to see green movements taking less Russian money...

"People think Europe depends on Russia for energy because it lacks its own, but 15 years ago Europe exported more natural gas than Russia does today. Now, Russia exports 3x more gas than Europe produces. Why? Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking." https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14993866370667274...

"In 2014, NATO's secretary general revealed Russia was funding climate activists, saying, “Russia... engaged actively with so-called nongovernmental organizations working against shale gas to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas"
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14993872777215508...
Term "Nazi" originally and in modern Russian [propaganda] have a different meaning. "Being Ukrainian (speaking the language, knowing the history, preserving the culture)" is equal to being "Nazi" in the eyes of Russians.

So 10% are those, who would not make compromises related to language, history and culture to have some economic or political gains.
My first official job as a teen was working in a video rental store. Indeed, new movies cost $40 to $80. Blank tapes came in different supposed quality levels (similar audio cassettes), and cost $5-$10 apiece. Writable CDs were also quite expensive at first. But floppy disks were also expensive at first.

Video rentals, before Blockbuster, cost $1-$4 depending on whether it was a new release and other specials (like rent 3 for a discount, etc.)

As VCRs got more powerful, and rewinders came into existence, periodically a tape would get ripped off one end of its spool. Then it was a task to open the tape and do some minor surgery to fix it. And of course, some tapes were designed to be difficult to open, having permanent rivets. Those were solved with a dremel and some careful work. When the tape costs $80, it's worth an hour of teenager time to fix.

We have it so much better now with streaming, although our appetites and consumption levels have grown so much that we often lament "having nothing to watch".
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
Looks like they’ve left Russia…
breach of contract is not a crime and a country under harsh sanction will not have much standing in the civil/domestic courts of a country doing the sanctioning.
Estimating excess mortality due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020–21
While the eyes of the world are looking at Russia, they are not looking at the other nasty groups of the world. Expect a lot of these groups to quickly pass all kinds of nasty laws while they have a chance.
That is correct. I grew up under apartheid. This phrase is key: “ Proponents say the law helps ensure Israel's security and maintains its "Jewish character".”

Consider if the US passed a law banning Mexican spouses from uniting with their US spouse to keep America’s “Christian character”.
I use this daily between PC and Mac (as well as PC/PC) and it is great. Much more stable than Synergy for me, with the only caveat that it gets confused if you change monitor setups on the fly.
Procedural city map generation in the browser
It is entirely irrelevant to the illegal occupation of the West Bank and the illegal transfer of populations into occupied territory.
Fund EFF, FSF amd ACLU
I think anytime there is post on this lots of down voting and canned responses are posted. That's from both sides.
I'm not sure what the solution is but I can't imagine any real conversation happening without one side or the other "keyboard warriors" derailing the conversation.
Thanks for the link. Indeed, looking at the their buildings in SpB [1], 1500 looks more reasonable.

2 towers, 8 floors, max 100 people at each floor = 1600. And they clearly built the towers with extra capacity in mind.

Still... knowing how difficult it was for 10x smaller PandaDoc to evacuate from Belarus in similar circumstances in 2020, I wish them all the luck.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/st-petersburg/
Why does more natural gas have to be part of the answer?
What you say is true but it is also true that the religious minorities in Israel don't amount for much when it comes to the law. Israel's 'religious right' (the ultra-orthodox parties) have a lot of influence over marriage law in particular.
Oh no, I'm just saying a lot of people concentrate more on symbols than they do on actions.

Nazism is evolving like everything else, and the new nazi symbol is Z.
Times are definitely changing. The situation in Ukraine, especially coming right on the heels of two years of lockdown that has disrupted the "status quo" worldwide, I hope is going to be the catalyst for the western world to find new unity with respect to our shared values and reevaluate many things. We've seen several watershed moments over the past few years completely eviscerate well-established and seemingly unassailable power structures more or less overnight.
For me it's not because I want an input/output type conversation, it's because I want to maintain asynchronous conversation.

If I reply "I'm fine thanks how are you" then you know I'm here and looking, you've forced me to into a synchronous conversation and now I will appear rude if I don't immediately answer your "I just have a quick question"

If you just post your question upfront, I can read it and prioritize it myself based on what I am currently doing.
I use a third-party client. I never see this timeline chicanery at all.

(Tweetbot is my choice, fwiw.)
Interesting to think about the implications of this for people with Asperger's- individuals with Asperger's will often avoid eye contact which means that they're missing out on essential cues.
> This is how the Middle East works by the way. Interreligious marriages are a very big deal and banned in every single Middle Eastern country.

Just to put some extra emphasis on quite how wrong this is: they are likely banned in almost no Middle Eastern country. Source: Married a woman from and in a Middle Eastern country under heavy sanctions just a few years ago.

Ironically, the law in question is not about the legality of the marriage, but about the rights of getting citizenship afterwards, and indeed, I would not be able to become a citizen of this country by way of my marriage, so in that sense, it is similar.
Not anymore. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
What do you mean by "BSD"? As I'm sure you know they are not distributions of the same underlying operating system.

FreeBSD has supported Gnome for years for example. Wifi drivers are not Linux-only either AFAIK they just take time to get ported from Linux (or sometimes NetBSD) to FreeBSD.

While it's true that FreeBSD isn't as easy a desktop system as Ubuntu is, it sounds like some (but definitely not all) of your reasons are a few years out of date.

FreeBSD's main focus is servers also to be fair.
well, and the israeli definition of "terror activities" for palestinians could be as simple as "showed up at a protest"
That's the point. There is no path to becoming "naturalized", a legal resident or much more-so a citizen in your own country - whether you see that as Palestine or Israel. This is just one more mechanism to humiliate a population of millions.
In Norway, there was a tax levied on blank media, as everybody supposed a significant portion of them would be used to make, ah, evaluation copies of copyrighted material. The tax income was put in a fund, from which copyright holders were compensated by market share (methinks).

It so happens I have excellent memory for numbers; my preferred blank media in the late eighties/early nineties and their associated prices:

Blank Fuji VHS tape, 240 minutes: NOK 89/ea (In today's money: $20)
Maxell XLII-s 2x45 min cassette: NOK 65/ea ($14 today)
5.25" floppy, 3M: NOK 179 for pack of 10 ($40 today)
3.5" 1.44MB floppy, Esselte: NOK349 for pack of 10 ($80 today)
CD-R (1996): NOK39/ea ($7.50 today)

I'll hand Maxell that, though - the tapes I used to record live music on back in the nineties still sound excellent today, so for longevity, they're hard to beat!
> They assumed every time someone rented a movie, they copied it.

That’s because they did! In my experience at least. I also remember when duplicating a tape at home with two VCRs stopped working, because they scrambled the signal somehow.
(Too deep so I can't reply to sibling...)

And there are Arabic speaking Muslims who don't consider themselves Arabs (e.g. in north Africa), as well as Arabic speaking christians who are Arabs (e.g. in Iraq).
The only thing worse than government is government used to enforce the whims of their imaginary gods.
How vague is this one then? https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
I mean, fracking shouldn't be allowed.

I live in Arizona, and the electric companies here make it hell for solar owners. I don't understand it.
Yeah. Everyone knows better than you what you want. Even the dumb robots.
I'm curious why there isn't a push for more support in desktop gui for Go.

Is it because desktop gui is not as supported in modern times and Go is a recent language that is carrying that attitude or is it because Go attracts more web developers in general and they already have web applications as their solution for a gui?

Maybe something else?
I'll DIY the stuff I trust myself with. Very minor tasks... Like oil changes and wiper blades. If it's related to mechanical safety (or benefits from precision) I'll pay a pro.

I've been fortunate to have mostly reliable 10+ year vehicles, only suffering minor cosmetic damage and expected wear/tear on consumables.

I just got a 2020 car when I should've put the money down on a house. It was a fun thing and I don't regret it - maybe a year setback on replacing rent with loan payments
The headline buries the real lead. Of course the people getting the vaccine now are hesitant. If they weren't hesitant, they'd have gotten it months ago. Many months, at this point. Regardless of what they answer on surveys, they're "hesitant" pretty much by definition.

The real lesson is which community interventions were helpful in finally getting people to get vaccinated. Remarkably, none of the answers appeared to be "Well, if billions of people have been getting it for two years, maybe it's not the instant death sentence that Alex Jones said it was."
Does anyone know how that works ? I'd be open to seeing what is the internal communication. Will the Russian employees be in furlough ? Will they cut access ? How is the business supposed to move forward ?
Just imagine your from Africa and everyone in the Media talks about "Africa" as if Morocco and for example Tanzania can be compared ;)
The title of this post is mis-leading, or at least incomplete. Read the article. It's about denying automatic citizenship upon marriage. It's not about barring or banning marriage.
Well configured web sites in such countries usually offer a choice of (major) languages on the landing page.

See https://www.apple.com/ch/ (you can also type apple.ch) for an example.
Wait till you combine this with the EARN IT act. Every transaction is out in the open.

Fund ACLU, EFF and FSF.
I cannot upvote this enough. We have a strict budget left for carbon emissions. It's not an exam in the future that we are currently studying for to pass. But thinking in budget terms also means talking about budgeting/rationing but I guess it needs to become really bad before we even dare to touch that...
The challenge for international platforms/websites are the legal/business requirements per region and it boils down to costs to streamline translations.

Organizations split responsibilities by countries/regions. Local experts get hired to optimize content for their target markets. The back and forth between local subsidiaries/experts with centralized product development teams is more complex, slower and expensive. So you would rather create dedicated customer facing sites per region that are maintained by local teams who take care of location-specific differences (Netflix filtering, Google search results, etc.)

The bigger the org gets the harder a streamlined multi-language (often also multi-currency) business model gets and hence companies opt to geo-location instead of using header lang.

Probably, there are more points, but that’s what I have learned after building an international m-commerce platform that serves users in the EU, US and Mexico
> This is, in my opinion, the main reason why Israel has never attempted to annex the Palestinian territories. The Arab majority (or near majority today) that would form in the population would seriously challenge the idea of a Jewish and democratic state - they would be forced to stop recognizing Arabs' right to vote and/or hold office.

For what it's worth Israel could go the federation route - basically, have three largely autonomous federal states, one for Jewish Israel, one for the West Bank and one for Gaza, with the federal government only taking care of finances, energy, water and security, and the rest - including passports and diplomatic relations - be done by the individual states.
A trick-ish that I've learned is to use Irish locale where possible (en-ie) , because that's a combination of English and Metric (the only sane international combination not to go wrong).

Of course this still breaks when software tries location sniffing and puts me $elsewhere.
Not true for Turkey.
This is what Web Components[0] was supposed to be, but it didn't really take off.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components
The IDF have also murdered a lot of innocent palestinians, but if you do it dressed like a soldier somehow it's not "terrorism"
If you're making a comparison its pretty relavent.

If you don't consider the details of the situation, the comparison basically becomes so vauge as to be useless.
People in the UK have engaged in terrorism against UK citizens up until the present; that doesn't justify the UK occupying Ireland, and installing groups of settlers.

I know, that's exactly what England did under Cromwell; one of my ancestors was such a settler.
I assume because it’s cheap standby power that can make the whole renewable setup more affordable. Gas turbines don’t need expensive boilers and can ramp up and down quickly.
I do marine search and rescue. We use the Bowline, Clove hitch, Rolling hitch, and Sheet bend in nearly all situations. We have to know how to tie a Reef knot as we are likely to come across them on casualty vessels, but we always use a sheet bend to join two ropes as Reef knots roll over and jam under load. Learn to tie a Bowline with your eyes closed, starting with either hand and with different rope sizes and you can cover most situations where you need a knot quickly in a tricky situation. Bowline and Clove hitch can both come undone when not subject to a continuous load so put some half hitches in with the loose end to be safe.
We had a family friend with something similar but a few years later - and every single tape was legit because he’d buy the remainders from the rental stores when they sold them off.
Which CA was used for the exploit? I know letsencrypt had work to validate from multiple paths [1]. If it were a more lax CA then just pointing CAA at somewhere like letsencrypt could possibly be sufficient protection.

1 https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/19/multi-perspective-validat...
This is certainly not the case with Iran either.

Honestly it seems like you're just making shit up.
Yep, talking about these times when arabs were with nazis, disgusting but interesting times to read about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany...
I firmly disagree with all of the above. If a site absolutely needs to know where I am in that moment, they can ask me, and I will decide where I am for the purposes of that particular site.

To pick one of a myriad of examples, I often buy software, books, etc. via the web. I don't need sites to assume I want to pay in Euro just because my IP address in that moment happens to be associated with a European IP address block. Paying with my home currency is often much easier. I should not be forced to use a VPN just to avoid this silliness.

I understand where you are coming from, but using IP addresses to determine what "locale" to use is simply not a good practice, and not just for language determination.