skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say petty theft is absolutely less common in Japan and I will leave my laptop in a starbucks while I go to the toilet or go to order something which I wouldn't in Europe or the US for example.

However, I have seen crime in Japan, a close Japanese friend of my non-japanese ex-wife stole her bankbook and proceeded to withdraw money (my ex-wife used the same pin for her phone and her bankbook and so her friend most likely saw the pin from the phone). My ex-wife reported it to the police, the "friend" gave the money back and got a slap on the wrist but no real consequences.

My female roommate also had a lot of experiences of various sexual crimes, over the 7 years she lived in Japan, her underwear were stolen once, she saw a flasher who was completely naked under his coat and opened it when she passed by and she was concerned enough by someone following her over multiple blocks that she went to the koban.

And finally, as a male, I once went to the urinals in the toilet in osaka and noticed the guy to my right making noises, he was looking at me and touching himself... Kind of turned me off for years of public toilets.

So, the myth of Japan being crimeless at least to me seems like a myth. Crime takes different form, sexual crimes are definitely in my anecdotal experience more common than in other countries, theft of belongings are definitely less of an issue than in Europe/US.

Also, I don't think any of the above crimes would show up in statistics. I'm pretty sure the first one which was straight theft would not have been reported at all.

However, as a counterpoint to reporting, my ex-wife knew of a foreign student at her university who stole for a bit more than 1,000 jpy of things from a combini, was deported and not allowed to enter Japan for 5 years. I'm pretty sure that any crime committed by foreigners in Japan will always be reported and treated harshly.
It doesn't just download random things. Cargo generates a Cargo.lock file with checksums and will make sure that those checksums match when building later on. It's about as safe as vendoring all dependencies while being far easier to work with (though tools like cargo-vendor do exist, of course).

Edit: for things like the kernel, vendoring dependencies is still probably not a bad idea, of course
> I either trust them or I don't.

“False dichotomy”
The other day I was reading the HDMI spec. I realised, in almost full horror, it’s stupidly streaming pixels instead of image deltas. When every TV has memory enough for several full frame images, this is just crazy.
I'm also looking for a new Linux laptop for this spring. I thought about the Tuxedo laptops, but after reading around there are a lot of complaints about quality and even Linux driver issues.

I've been pretty disappointed with my Lenovo X1 Carbon and don't want another Chinese laptop, so I'm thinking to go ASUS. Currently maybe one of:

- ASUS Vivobook Pro 14X, 14" OLED, 600 nits (peak), 3K, 90Hz
- ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, 14" LCD, 500 nits, 120Hz, 2560x1600, AMD GPU
You prove my point. Most people who are against nuclear have and want nothing to do with political activists of the sort.

There may indeed a counterargument in that right-wingers and Neonazis are pro-nuclear because they hate those who rationally say no to the risks.
Because there are many.

And an ill-maintained tank from the Soviet/ww2 era is still a tank.
Might be better off using a computer plugged into a screen + speaker combo to have the most control
I think you don't understand interest rates. One man's interest is another man's cost of capital. If someone is paying you 4% for a riskless loan, it means they are overpaying for capital.
Amen, brother. As someone who belonged, when you put on the chest your AKM, take that red folder and say "Торжественно клянусь" - you swear to protect those people no matter what. And when you turn you weapon on them ... I don't expect russian military men to read HN and understand English :-), but anyway - once you turn your weapon on civilians, you may take those epaulets, stick them up your ass and hope nobody can find you. But they will.
To think I'd been getting the 'hard' service for free last time I had to set foot in an office.
There's also certain people with very vocal fanbases who do this. Sometimes I'm rather happy Twitter added the feature to restrict replies to your follows.
A brief look at hey.com stack
> We can clearly see that the current generation of tank the Russians have are useless.

You deeply underestimate how much worse things could get.

After receiving tens of thousands of ATGMs, Ukraine still only destroyed a fraction of the current russian armor and equipment. Russia has many times over in storage. Sure, it will take a while to make that operational, but we shouldn't be taking any chances and just build overwhelming force to stop Russia, especially when it's so cheap for us, relatively speaking.
The code should be on GitHub
Something can become a topic of political decision without being a political ideology. The broad majority of Germans who where anti-nuclear are just not ideologically uniform and don't behave that way. We don't dislike nuclear power because we hate the proponents of nuclear power and vice versa. Of course there are exceptions.
Gambit – open-source tools for doing computation in game theory
Any takeover is non-hostile if the board/shareholders acquiesce.

So far, it is merely an offer for a takeover.
I've switched to buy computer monitors since I realised I don't watch TV anymore. Even if I did there are more than one way to watch TV on non-TV devices over here (some free, some paid, some both, e.g the quite awesome molotov.tv, which gives a TV experience quite better than any smart TV)
Every TV is "stupid" when it's not connected to the internet, and none of them can transmit your data when disconnected.
Gerrit Is Awesome
I think you hit the points yourself, Google is an advertising company that also makes business software. They never really had to offer support for SMBs, even for Ads, you need like double digit million spend to have a account manager. I've heard similar complaints from friends at big cos who moved to Workspace and even from Googlers themselves.

In terms of competitors, MS and Zoho the big ones are actually productivity software companies.
The issue tend to be services who are not upfront about it. "This is potentially really damaging, so in case it's a mistake we'll just hide it for 24 hours during which you can undo" or something to that effect would be sufficient.
Is there a reason I’m not aware of that not connecting a smart to to a network isn’t enough?

Do they auto-connect to open Wi-Fi for example?
He may be focused, but not on finishing A Song of Ice and Fire.

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/03/21/this-that-and...
> ... ignoring the fact that the disposal facilities were planned before they decided to prematurely close the plants.

That is not true, there are zero long-term storage facilities for nuclear waste in Germany. We only have short term and midterm storage facilities. That is the root problem. Nuclear power plants were build and operated without a plan how to dispose of the waste.
They not only have ship escorts, they have submarine escorts. But no fence around a carrier is perfect. An attacking submarine doesn't have to chase a carrier, they can lie in wait in ship lanes. A new development since I was in the sub service is submarine launched cruise missiles in addiction to torpedoes.
> European countries are ramping up expenditure simply because Russia has increased instability

Russia was/is spending something like 17% on military. Obviously they planned to use it at some point, I can't believe we were this dumb not to see it.
You say you shop around but only mentioned KDE, while XFCE, MATE and Cinnamon would be more suitable first alternatives for a previous GNOME user.

Unfortunately they're still susceptible to GTK maintainers bad decisions but despite that they're still a breath of fresh air compared to GNOME.
If you define quickly as "over the next 10-20 years, maybe", then yes
Is it technically possible to... unsink it?
Indeed. The comment cited in the article is pretty stunning:

> Other crates that I'd like: anyhow, bincode, byteorder, log, once_cell, pin-project, rand, serde, slab, static_assertions, uuid plus some more esoteric ones.

This makes Rust devs look infantile, with no real understanding of what it means to develop for the kernel. Or what it takes to develop security and performance critical software of any kind, frankly.
Without 200%-300% collateral? Where?
Examples of mathematical patterns that eventually fail
Building the kernel shouldn't require an internet connection.
Is Braswell hardware reasonably common outside Chromebooks? AIUI, Cherry Trail (e.g. MS Surface 3) was released alongside Braswell and is now well supported in some mainline distros at least.
It's kind of absurd that 16 years of Merkel were ignored in the article. She was the one who made the decision to shut them down. You can't just undo 11 years in half a year. If Germany wanted to have more nuclear power it would be better off designing a new nuclear power plant and building a dozen of them.
I don't think that the author has fully outlined the case for cultural anorexia.

If I was going to try and prove the premise: that people are now shedding a wide cultural "diet" for one consisting of a few mass produced, single sourced things.

But I don't see evidence of that. If anything its the reverse.

What I will concede is that locality of the cultural "sources" have gone. You're not going to find your next life changing art exhibit at the local gallery, you'll find it online, and then seek it out in person.
Not really. Money seems to be a universal proxy. I guess we need to acknowledge that 54k GitHub stars has some sort of monetary value (Web3 anyone?), and then it would be obvious that you couldn't just delete it, because who would want to just delete money?
The title is click-bait as hell and is actively misleading.

Damage to prefrontal cortex (PFC) — the region of the brain that's important for emotion regulation, cognition, impulse control, planning, etc — can be very subtle. Visibly, someone with an impaired PFC, or other parts of the brain, might behave "rationally", but emotionally they can be severely broken[0].

This topic of is now abundantly studied by leading neuroscientists such as Antonio Damasio and others. FWIW, here's some references[1][2][3], if you're not actively studying neuroscience.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31037882

[1] Descartes' Error, by Antonio Damasio

[2] Behave, by Sapolsky

[3] On Task, by David Badre
Denny Delk
Wherever your family lives, scattered or concentrated, when the place you live gets invaded a lot of the people around you die. You might be willing to flee all the time with no particular attachment to any place. This is uncommon but not impossible. Anyway war or submission will get you sooner or later.
It's physics. Any system responding to a stochastic driving system can be considered computing. In fact any system that retains information about past environmental fluctuations must have information that is predictive of future ones for the system to be thermodynamically efficient.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3271

This physics creates complexity. It selects for increasingly complex thermodynamically efficient structures with predictive power. Stars die, they become entropy, but until they run out of fuel they drive the creation of localized complexity maxima.
Also the Barbary Wars, strange to see Sweden involved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
Tell that to the families of the "exterminators" in Chernobyl. Tell them that it had nothing to do with radiation from Chernobyl that most of them died by cancer years after the accident.
> I never quite figured out how to get debug symbols to map correctly with this Wine-under-GDB setup going on, so I had to manually explore the address space to figure out what I was looking at.

Yeah I had the same problem and never solved it. In fact I don't think I even got a handle on what the problem is at all. In what format are symbols created by mingw-gcc (I think PDB??) and in what format either Wine's debugger or GCC can consume symbols (DWARF???)
Apparently some(? many? most?) of them refuse to work at all until they've been "set up" over the internet. Don't know for sure though; I'm clinging to my old dumb TV like a life raft.
What's currently worth mining on the moon and sending back to earth? Most resources are great for building more things on the moon, but valuable enough to send back.

Helium-3 is the obvious one, but that is also betting on fusion reactors becoming viable in the near future.

Some "rare earth" minerals might also be economically viable.
You're thinking of bandwidth savings?

Rethink that. If HDMI were delta-compressed, then what happens if you exceed the bandwidth limit for several frames in a row? To be reliable, it needs to have as much bandwidth allocated as is needed for bitmap streaming. And in that case, why not just stream the bitmaps...
The Germany voters made the concious decision of trading a small amount of abstract wealth (economic growth) for more nuclear safety.

I find it strange that the strongest proponents of capitalism and parlamentarism have most trouble understanding this. We can choose with our wallets and our votes to produce less nuclear power, and we will not get brownouts, but the market will "swallow it up" and companies will just produce less energy intensive stuff, and more other stuff.

Also, the biggest problem is not random nuclear meltdowns. The problems are: Nuclear is very centralized, which is something we are trying to get away from. It has not been profitable without subsidies for a long time. It produces nuclear waste, which we still don't know what to do with. And as you can see with the recent events around Chernobyl, it is a liabilty in times of crisis. It is just not worth it.
Was the Russian military ever that good, actually? In WW2 Russia definitely played a strong role against Germany, but they took massive losses to do so, they desperately needed US equipment/supplies to even do that, and then when they pushed back across Europe they were war criming all over the place, including mass rape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes#Mass_rapes

Then when you look post WW2, they were mostly just used to brutally crush a few uprisings, never really had to fight a real war until the current one.
Those things are always factored in. Also the mining for the fuel has to be included, which is also quite expansive. The costs for decommissioning a plant seem to get underestimated a lot though.

There are sometimes calculations where nuclear comes out on top of renewables. But these calculations are hugely more complicated for the nuclear side, and require nothing going wrong, or at least not much more than in the past, which is a dangerous assumption in my opinion. And with nuclear you lock yourself in.

A country needs to build up a large nuclear industry to make it profitable (or pay extra for imports), and to decommission plants or stop building them ahead of schedule increases the costs.
Caste system in India was created by British to divide and conquer for solidifying their colonial rule. Prior to that India had a “Class” system based on person’s nature(Guna) and actions(karma)- also called Varna system. Based on ability and to some extent traditional societal role.

In modern India the political parties propagate it for their demographic politics whereas nobody cares about caste in day to day life. Surprisingly in USA there is an Ivy League caste system supposedly based on merit. If that is justified so is India Class system based on ability and track record.

With the inadequate Sanskrit knowledge and billions in Missionary funds this “caste” from “caste” continues to be a milch giving cow for ngo activism & regressive politics.
Yeah, fully agree on being cautious here.

On Phineas Gage — indeed, he made headlines for his seemingly "normal functioning", but the devastating impact on his emotional capacities was skipped over in the popular press! So let's hear what happened after he "fully recovered", quoting from the 1994 study on this topic by the maverick neuroscientist, Antonio Damasio[1]:

[quote]

Gage was fully recovered. He remained as able-bodied and appeared to be as intelligent as before the accident; he had no impairment of movement or speech; new learning was intact, and neither memory nor intelligence in the conventional sense had been affected.

On the other hand, he had become irreverent and capricious. His respect for the social conventions by which he once abided had vanished. His abundant profanity offended those around him. Perhaps most troubling, he had taken leave of his sense of responsibility. He could not be trusted to honor his commitments. His employers had deemed him "the most efficient and capable" man in their "employ" but now had to dismiss him. In the words of his physician, "the equilibrium or balance, so to speak, between his intellectual faculty and animal propensities" had been destroyed.

In the words of his friends and acquaintances, "Gage was no longer Gage". Gage began a new life of wandering that ended a dozen years later, in San Francisco, under the custody of his family. Gage never returned to a fully independent existence, never again held a job comparable to the one he once had. His accident had made headlines but his death went unnoticed.

[/quote]

[1] http://jneunuebel.psych.udel.edu/Webpage/Courses/assets/Pape...
> Some of them have been directly involved in cancelling non-native English speakers over pronouns.

This is the kind of claim that could do with a source. In general, it seems Rust is rewarding enough and complex enough to master that people just don't pay much attention to the silliest kinds of 'activism' compared to other dev communities.
Problem for them in this war is that the survivors don't learn much, they just didn't get hit by the Javelin this time.
It's often useful to be able to replace a power cord with a longer one -- depending on your setup the standard 2m cord might be too short. Extension cables are pretty unsightly, especially with big grounded plugs like the Schuko plug we have in Austria.

It's also useful in some setups to use power cords with right-angled connectors, because they make cable management easier.

Also, moving to another country is easier with standard sockets: just get a couple of new power cables from any random hardware store and you're good to go!
> their blinky app is like 100KB

I just compiled the blinky example for a cortex m4 board (the example in the rust hal crate for that board, not using any unsafe), and the striped binary is 420 bytes.

So you probably want to review your stence, because you're about 3 orders of magnitude off.
It probably is illegal, but only if there's damages, because that is usually how civil penalties work. In a way it makes sense: how do you know they did it if you have had no damage done?

The illegality is the damages regardless of how they occurred, but potentially also breach of contract if you think to specify "no backdoors" in your contract.
But it wasn’t the Russians in WW2, there were everyone Soviet, from Ukrainians to Georgians, and Russians of course, but to give the Russians the mantle of only WW2 winners from Soviet side is wrong I think.
To be fair, L-thirtythreet-speak pronunciations can be quite confusing!
Perhaps seven thousand of them work on SRE and moderation, and the rest work on that infuriating 'See what's happening' doorslam which reminds me I need to write an extension or something to always use nitter instead.

Anyway, if someone has any idea what they're actually doing, please share. Couldn't find anything in the linked thread.

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I forgot about Spaces, that was kind of neat. It was released May 2021.
Remember, these are just random opinions of some random person..
Education, institutions, politics, technology, sex, work, art, and media. This seems like a very random categorization of "things".. Why is food or religion or violence or consumerism there?
In a normal organization where stuff like this happens one has backups since one runs these things internally.

Humans make mistakes all the time. We build systems to try to mitigate these and build them better by learning from new mistakes.
Similar, but larger and with added crypto-libertarian stupidity:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya... The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
More to your point, the book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a scathing indictment on this system, and how incompetent apparatchiks were chosen over less politically connected entities, and how this had a direct hand in the result of the occupation. Strongly recommended!
If it turns out that too many people are disconnecting their tv, the manufacturer would merely add in a sim card.

They don't yet ATM because they don't need to - too many people are stupidly connecting their wifi.
The way the author dismisses engineering concerns lets me strongly doubt that he is an expert. There is a discussion on fuel, spare parts and personal, where he basically says that he doesn't care.

The burning of nuclear fuel is actually very closely managed, fuel elements are regularly shuffled around because the ones in the center burn up faster than the ones at the edge of the core and the shuffling around is planned a long time in advance. So, when the end of life is planned for 2022 then the plan is actually to have the fuel spent at that date and you couldn't get much additional power out of it.

The same is of course true for spare parts. First of all, the industrial environment that supplies spare parts knows since 20 years about the plans to phase out nuclear and plan accordingly. They are actively trying to run out of spare parts right now, while of course all the maintenance task that get a rating of "should be ok for some time" get skipped in the power plants. That means, that they would need major maintenance right now, while the spare parts are planned to be not there and the industrial capacity to build spare parts has been re purposed or dismantled.

The same of course also for personal, they knew for a long time this was coming and planned their careers accordingly, though this is probably the least problem of the tree, but still that lets me doubt wether the author ever did plan a moderately complex project, let alone being an expert about nuclear power.
To be fair the same is true for every power generation source that ever existed. CO2, coal slag, disused solar panels, composite rotor blades, all lack a clear strategy for long term disposal.
An extension to that question: Why do people say elevating your heart rate is good in relation to exercise, and bad in relation to cocaine? People frequently say things like "stimulants stress your circulatory system", but so does exercise.
Not trying to nitpick. Probably the parent might have meant “forget it when moving the monitor to a different place”. This happens more often than one may think once you have trashed the box the monitor came in.

But yes, it is a bit strange to write it down as an “advantage”.
I think its kinda funny that Office is so ubiquitous that everyone forgets how the productivity software market is like. Microsoft has 90% of it, so credit to Google for taking on the incumbent. It will be insanely hard for any challenger to dislodge MS from a company with thousands of employees, let alone build multiple products to beat all of the ones bundled in Office. The moat is large, like taking on Google themselves in search/ads
It is not generosity, they hook you in for free so when your needs grow you will stick with their platform and pay. Static sites are cheap to host that is why it is free.

Should your needs grow past simple static sites they are hoping you will use their paid options. This isn't a "you are the product" situation.