skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who has higher moral ground in a human conflict should be irrelevant from a standpoint of a general purpose web search engine, which DDG used to be.

The moment it starts to openly prefer one kind of misinformation to other, it is basically stopping to be a general purpose web search engine (optimizing for search quality) and starts being a publisher with an agenda (optimizing in this case for a political outcome), becoming a part of the propaganda itself.

Having said that, some DDG users may be fine with this, but many aren't obviously. And I am afraid that those that are fine with it now, are likely to be fine only until the exact same process is used against them, their own interest or political/idealogical/religious beliefs in the future, which in the case of DDG is now a matter of when, because a precedent has been set with this.
It didn't stop them from committing crimes, so the "deterrence" angle seems as flimsy as ever

It would be unreasonable to expect a deterrent to stop everyone - some people are arrogant/stupid enough to believe they might get away with their crimes, and some are actually clever enough to do so. The point is that it deters all the people who might be tempted but aren't (rightly or wrongly) sure they'd pull it off. I don't imagine there's a way to measure how many people that is, but if it's "some" then the deterrent has worked.

Also, specifically in the case of money laundering, the laws aren't vague catch-all things that try to cover every base. They're very specific about what reporting you need to do when you carry out financial transactions. If you're doing those transactions you have to complete certain reporting criteria, and if you fail to that properly you committed the crime. There's no need to assume the state was infallible and had to define every crime. They don't. They just needed to define every type of financial transaction, and what questions to ask when those transactions happen (they're things like "Ask the person where the money came from." and "Please attach confirmation, in the form of a bank statement, that this is really where the money came from."), and that's quite easy.
We don't have inexpensive cloning and rapid growth technology.
What do people use to block garbage domains from their Google results? Google results, especially for developer stuff, is so awful -- cluttered with junk sites ripping off content from blogs and Stack Overflow, etc.

I've been trying to figure out some rules for uBlock Origin, but haven't gotten there, yet.

Edit: Multiple fantastic options in the replies, below. Thanks, people!
I use the app PeakFinder all the time and it’s incredible for determining what mountain is what when you’re on the go!
> I assume that a "psychoacoustic effect" would not harm anyone's hearing, whereas volume - i.e. the measure of energy ouput - would, right?

Not quite true. It’s a psychoacoustic effect because it’s something that can’t be observed outside of someone’s conscience, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a mechanical component to the effect.

Most importantly, the effect almost certainly has a substantial mechanical component that’s determined by how effectively your hearing system can couple sounds from your outer-ear into your inner-ear. Like all mechanical systems it’s transfer function is non-linear, it’s much better at coupling some frequencies that other frequencies.

If the compression done to the music is pushing the sound to in a frequency band that’s more strongly coupled, then energy output from the speaker might be the same, but the amount that ends up in your inner ear will increase, bringing with it higher chances of permanent damage.
The comment made my whole day. I love it when 'old-guard' engineers who literally built the playground we're on come out to yell at everyone to get off the damn grass.

It's a weird combination of inspiring and humbling at the same time. Inspiring to think that this massive ecosystem of interconnected computers was actually made by real people, and humbling because yeah, I should get off the damn grass.
Make it run in a Blockchain, relying on last-gen AI-powered Oracles.
And so the slippery slope becomes more slippery.
I’m a web developer, but I use noscript, despite the sites I work on relying on JavaScript and the business not allowing us to make them work without scripting enabled.
If you click on one of the export categories, it shows you related articles for the country. Might want to consider changing that so that it doesn’t give away the answer, otherwise awesome game!
That's ridiculous. Kids start asking questions about sex as soon as they or one of their friends mother gets pregnant and they deserve honest answers and they can handle it, probably better than many grown-ups.
That doesn't mean they need to know about all or even most aspects of sexuality, but some basic and factual knowledge doesn't hurt.
Right but what are they really competing with for those top spots? Most other functionality comes built into the browser these days.
That doesn’t have the Barksdale AFB “missing nuke” listed. As a result, I wonder if that’s just a conspiracy theory.
I'd upvote more than once if I could! If every tracking / ad provider would like that the internet would be a better place!
Maybe you misread it, and/or maybe I miswrote it, and/or maybe both. But I meant about the phrasing and my understanding of it, not about the actual job of a regulator.
Other news sources

https://www.dawn.com/news/1679361 :

an unarmed Indian supersonic missile had intruded into Pakistani territory, endangering several airliners during the course of its flight, and finally hit a private property near Mian Channu.

“When it fell it damaged some civilian property. Thankfully, no loss or injury to human life was caused,” Gen Babar further said

https://www.trtworld.com/asia/india-s-supersonic-missile-dam...

damaging a wall in a residential area but causing no casualties.

there were no sensitive military installations in the area where the missile landed.

https://dnd.com.pk/indian-supersonic-missile-hits-124-inside...

The Charge d’Affaires (Cd’A) of the Republic of India in Islamabad was summoned to the Foreign Office today and conveyed Pakistan’s strong protest over the unprovoked violation of its airspace

https://southfront.org/india-accidently-fired-supersonic-mis...

India announced that [...]
“On 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile. It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident,” the Indian government said in a statement.
Nothing says "our entire industry[0] is a blight upon human society" like a thriving ecosystem of popular software existing for the sole purpose of shutting you the hell up.

[0] advertising and marketing industry
Nice work.

If your interested in using this for evaluating solar production then check out https://solcast.com/

There is a free version. I have it hooked this up to Homeassistant and predicting output for my home solar rig.
"The overflow" has been moved to the puzzle piece menu, I had to open that and manually pin the extension.
Agreed. No promoted tweets. No “what’s trending”. No suggesting I follow the influencer of the week.

Just the stuff I want to see in the order it was tweeted.
If they stole $2M in gold from my home safe, whom should I legally sue? Or do I even have a case?

You don't get the self sovereignty without the responsibility.
It is a well-known fact they do.

This is why adtech has gotten craftier about ads, and adblockers have had to respond accordingly.
Huh TIL. Kinda defeats the purpose of calling it a toaster strudels tho, doesn’t it?
No I mean like virtually every document pertaining to hotels is search engine spam. It's very hard to actually find documents that aren't in this category.
The hotel booking industry is extremely shady and evidently has pretty deep pockets to be able to afford literally registering hundreds if not thousands of domain names to attempt to manipulate search engines.
Isn't it the other way around? Google took a hint from Roland perhaps? Strange thing to say either way. Roland has been around for decades making synthesizers, arrangers as well as sophisticated software. Moreover, Blob Opera has very little to do with Roland 50 besides "they both make sounds".
Casualties per miles driven is a terrible stat for current self-driving technology because as it stands, it forces drivers to take over in the most dangerous situations. And you can't generalize for all miles in cars capable of self-driving because the population who own cars like that are not representative of the average. It's a very tricky thing to accurately measure whether it's safer for an individual to drive themselves or let the car do it for them.
And dozens of essays by post-modern philosophers about (e.g. Public Opinion Does Not Exist by Bourdieu [1972]) and subsequent psychological studies about inherent biases, which together pretty resoundingly proves the non-existence of unbiased media. Furthermore it shows that biases correlate with benefactors, so you can expect more biases in platforms which rely on shareholders, named donations or advertisements.
Startups sure but this article advocates for never having titles even at a large company. And that can lead to problems. Netflix only has "Senior Software Engineer", and when people leave Netflix they sometimes have a hard time getting a Principle eng role at another company because "you can't jump from senior to principle", not realizing that at Netflix you can have people with the Senior title who are doing Principle level work already.
Some more modern monitors can also be switched by software. I personally use a laptop with an external monitor that is also connected to my desktop. Whenever I need to switch from laptop to desktop (using Barrier or Mouse without Borders on Windows) I then invoke the magic of ControlMyMonitor by the wonderful NirSoft [1] using an Autohotkey-shortcut. This way I can share my monitor with the desktop and laptop. Sharing the keyboard and mouse works with Barrier.
I provided some short instructions in an SO-answer [2].

[1] https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/control_my_monitor.html
[2] https://superuser.com/a/1556618/299215
The Past is in Front of You – How we perceive time and space
I find it rather fascinating that we require a human-in-the-loop for a train but not for a car.
> For me it's not because I want an input/output type conversation, it's because I want to maintain asynchronous conversation.

In the context of an IRC chat room, isn’t all conversation assumed to be synchronous? (Forgive me if this has an obvious answer, as I’m not too familiar with IRC culture.)
This will never fly in Europe. So the cars will have both system regardless
Here are a couple docs I dug up, I'll read them later:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-02...

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/institut...
Missile-Like Drone from War in Ukraine Looks to Have Crashed in Croatia
I'd heard about their pizza but not the sandwiches, interesting!
Well, in my new house I'm all electric, but it's a new one, in the old one there is a 30kW heating system, it's a bit expensive to run it on electricity, just a little bit...

And that's essentially the same for the point: build new houses. It's surely positive and needed in the long run, but to do so you need many resources, wood itself is renewable at a certain level of demand, not renewable above that level. Long story short: not counting some mass-genocidal ideas, at a level even the original nazi probably never though of IMVHO the quicker changes possible is start to re-localize anything that can be re-localized, starting from a massive agricultural plan with very strong incentives to try to maximize local, even inefficient, food production to cut transportation as much as possible.

For many area of the planet that's still not possible tough, too many people in such areas respect of the nature local production capacity... Local and inefficient agriculture might run at a slow peace, for instance instead of powerful diesel tractors fields can be handled by less powerful on-rails electrical agrivoltaic tools, something unsustainable without government incentives, but ultimately probably doable with. That's can reduce general pollution to more manageable levels and still provide enough food in most cases. Pushing rails with similar criteria (only goods trains, running when there is enough energy, slow, inefficient, but enough for non-perishable goods).

Quicker than that I know only mass genocide and unpleasant things like that.
The force amplification of technology empowers individuals, not necessarily just the incumbent leaders. This allows other countries to catch up and offer alternative, competing visions for the future of governance. Just like YouTubers have used new prosumer software and hardware to produce content rivaling or surpassing their much larger, legacy predecessors, so to will the upstart governments and economies of the world. Just like there will be more competing businesses for non-serviceable hardware (e.g. ASICs or SoCs), there will be more governments capable of servicing their infrastructure needs. Cash-less societies can mean many things, there will be credit-based barter networks which are hyper-local, regional, national, etc. There are privacy coins. Users can mine new, anonymous coins on other networks to obfuscate their purchases and funds transfers. Technology gives users these many avenues to avoid government monitoring when fighting tyranny. We don't need cash, and we have options if it looks like the enslavement is upon us.
X: "Can I ask you a question?"

Y: "You just did."
Comment of the day. Thanks for the laugh.
It's like saying my new Macbook Pro is outdated because it uses the old telephone copper cables for the dsl connection.
I think there are 2 valid reasons:

1. Sometimes for legal or practical reasons other than language, the site needs to be different in different places, e.g. terms and conditions, cookie popups, prices legally required to include tax etc. These have to be based on the users location.

2. Users don't set their browser language correctly. The options to change are hidden where no one looks and hard to understand - you an allow multiple languages and set a preferred order for them. I think this was common years ago, but is probably no so much the case now - it will default to the system language.
I agree that there is a significant monetary incentive to "move fast and kill people". In the end, paying out a few $MM to random families is financially minimal compared to the $BBB that are up for grabs. We will never really have executives going to jail for things like this. We've built a system of profits > anything else.
Not really commenting about the law. But as an arab from a country that Israel has tried to unsuccessfully invade about 3 times now.

We had nothing to do with the holocaust. Germans and their friends were complicit.

Im genuinely interested in how come normal
people of the world don’t really flinch at what Israel was allowed to do and what it keeps doing.

I don’t blame Israelis who were born there since we have little control over where we’re born and how we’re raised.

Apologies for the rant, but why does it make sense in the broader context to allow israeli actions that directly cause palestinian suffering if all of the jews’ suffering was caused by the germans?
Cross-compilation would be nice. I have used asyncio to allow the GUI to run in the main thread but have other processing done separately. I am not sure I understand why you are getting a new window on Windows. Were you trying to create new windows separate from the thread the root window is in?
I can't believe this is just one guy. Get him a MacArthur genius grant, quickly
Presumably, if a specific person is a very good driver, entering an automated vehicle that is merely better than average driver, with no controls to interject, results in a net reduction of safety for this individual.

More specifically, what IF or rather WHEN there is an incident that could've been prevented by human interjection, but wasn't?

Other aspect is, why are we only ever discussing these separately? What is the safety of a automation-assisted human? Can we get to the point where safety is better than either system alone?
It’s the quickest way to get downvoted on Hacker News.
Only marketers love ads in general. To the rest of us, it's just annoying noise, to be filtered.
There was another somewhat similar incident in Europe today: an autonomous plane - presumably coming from Ukraine - crashed into a park in the capital of Croatia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60709952
You can switch video inputs using dcc (eg https://www.ddcutil.com/) so you could bind a hotkey to do that or if Synergy/Barrier/Input-leap can be scripted it could do that part too.

There is also a utility that watches for usb device change events on a cheap USB keyboard/mouse (no video) switcher that does the video automatically, but I had it lock up the usb stack on my Linux machine and never really got it to work reliably enough.

I use one of the cheap usb KM switches and changing the input on the monitor manually. Still kind of sucks, but better than nothing.
2022-03-11, actually. It's an ISO standard, has no ambiguity, is more language agnostic, and alphabetical sort coincides with chronological sort.

https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
I've tried a handful of fad diets, and nothing stuck until I learned of and developed some habits around calorie deficits.

Use a BMI calculator to figure out where you're currently at and where you might want to be. A good one will tell you your maintenance calories and the calories you should target to lose weight.

Invest in a good kitchen scale and make it your best friend.

Use an A5 notepad and rubber-tipped pencil to count calories daily. Food, drinks and all. No more than one sheet per day is a constraint that works for me. Use a highlighter to reflect and identify your mistakes at the end of the day.

Be militant about portion control. Use the advice written on boxes for cereal and the like. Measure your milk portions with cereal and any hot drinks too.

Another tip is to replace treats with low calorie alternatives. Hartley's sugar-free jelly is magic!

In the UK, folks typically weigh themselves in stones (st). I prefer weighing myself in pounds (lbs). When looking at the scale every other morning, it takes weeks for 21.00st to become 20.00st. Weighing yourself in pounds seems more satisfying. May be the same for kilogrammes to lbs too.

I use a few spreadsheets. I took the numbers from the BMI calculator and created a spreadsheet with three columns showing how much I would weigh at particular dates in the year if I maintained -1lb a week, -1.5lb a week and -2lbs a week. It shows that I could reach my goal by next year - and that's incredibly motivating. Weekly weigh-ins going into a line graph with a trendline helps too.

The trick is that I don't feel like I'm on a diet. The food hasn't actually changed all that much. It's just that I'm now mindful of the portion sizes and learning to say no so that I hit my daily targets.
> That “no” is never going to happen though. Every individual might know that they aren’t a Java expert, but they don’t know that every other individual is also not an expert. So there is nobody in a position to answer “no”.

A lack of response is equivalent to a "no." I suppose I could have phrased it more clearly, but my though is the asker would wait for an affirmative response to proceed with investing more into asking the question.
The word "virgin" doesn't get explained to the children, it's just another one of those "old bible things" for them until they're old enough.
Most cars still have some aspect of mechanical coupling between the steering wheel and the front wheels in case of electrical failure. There are some cars that have had "steer by wire", but it's still very uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire#Steer_by_wire
Such a good point about housing. Also, green new deal jobs upgrading the energy efficiency of our housing stock. Lots of work to be done.
Car accidents kill someone every 100 million miles driven in the US.

Anyone claiming they're safer now is either selling something or doesn't know what they're talking about.
Or rather even if it is deterministic, it might as well be random to us.
>a train compartment on wheels. //

A bus?

Yes, autonomous public vehicles seem likely - like a Flexi-bus - but people like to travel without random members of the public, private hire of small vehicles will definitely be a thing unless the public get priced out of it.
Windows 10

Was on 97.0.2 and did not have that issue.

Just now updated to 98.0 and still do not have that issue.
> I feel like they missed the primary point which is that E2E encryption is the primary thing protecting everyone from hackers/criminals/other-governments.

Implementing a backdoor securely which only allows some government agencies to snoop in the decrypted data could technically be possible but I never happened to see a secure implementation of such a scheme – probably every cryptographer of name would refrain from contributing to insecurity.

So, IF a backdoor would be implemented securely, that would increase the power of the current government over all the people, including the opposition. If the US would go ahead with such legislation, countries like Hungary and Poland would follow soon, in which the new tool would be welcomed to suppress opinions diverting from the governments ideology, undermining freedom of speech further and increasing the "chilling effect".

In the mean-time, terrorists (etc.) would switch to steganography and add an undetectable layer of encryption on top.
Have you ever considered the following possibility:

Perhaps Lawmakers belong a different class than you and that they are fully aware of what they are doing. Perhaps they actually want to rule over you by removing your rights one by one.
> People are sensitive to the danger of being nickled and dimed to death.

And yet, people will sign up for multiple subscription services (Netflix, Disney plus, HBO max, Amazon prime, etc), which I consider to be the same as being nickeled and dimed.
All ProtonVPN servers in Russia are currently “under maintenance”
How do ya'll feel about the idea that adblock can be morally equivalent to theft[1]? I see this argument pop up from time to time in relation to people who use alternative clients to services such as YouTube. But if you're using uBlock Origin, you are probably browsing many, many sites that rely at least partially on ad revenue, so it's a similar case.

[1] https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/518154828166725632
> unarmed Indian supersonic missile

What kind of in-flight missile is "unarmed", exactly?

Even if the warhead had its "safety" (hah!) on, that doesn't stop leftover explosive propellant - or even just the kinetic effects - from killing people.
Who? And how much of their success was due to screening tools?
While I agree on supporting the things you use. I don't think "the lists are everything". Quite the opposite, Its the blocking features.
For me I like uBlocks disabling Javascript with an easy click and the other granularity (popups, multimedia) it allows on a site by site basis.
I think that's the dangerous part of kicking out diplomats/spies. They offer insight and backchannels between unfriendly states or states with very strained ties.

Somewhat counter intuitively, we do need spies in high enough positions to know what the counter party is thinking (obviously on both sides), so eliminating this kid of spy is counter productive (as opposed to industrial and technology spies who serve a different purpose).