skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, this is about the self-immolation of Wynn Bruce last week, on Earth Day 2022, on the steps of the US Supreme Court.

In my opinion, what makes this article worth reading even if you're familiar with the facts of the matter is that the author personally knew someone who died of self-immolation and had previously researched Tibetan self-immolations.

https://archive.ph/kROTJ
I bet you can build an AMD system that beats this handily and costs half as much.
Google now lets you request removal of personal contact info from search results
Given that this law went from draft to law in under 96 hours, it's hardly surprising that the implications were not fully reviewed or understood by the legislature. Further, a number of the points being discussed here were brought up in conversations before the law was passed, so it's not like the legislators couldn't have, or shouldn't have known--they just chose to ignore the issues rather the spend time to understand and address them.
I agree that software patents shouldn't exist. I think the taxation is on leveraging your brain to prevent others from using concepts you've learned to be useful.

With some clever legalese it should even be possible to minimally harm individuals with brains while adding a non negligible cost to those who would (and are) abuse the system
"Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Revenue up 9 percent to new March quarter record

Services revenue reaches new all-time high"

For anyone like me who didn't want to actually have to go a read them :D

Revenue: B$97.3, up 9%
EPS: $1.52
Operating Cashflow: B$28
Returned B$27 to shareholder (buybacks, dividends I assume?)

Ah:

Divided: $0.23/share
Share pepurchase fund increase: B$90
> It just seems that trying to use the Mac UI purely by touch would be godawful. I mean how do you Command-click, or right-click a UI element with your finger?

That's already in iPad OS/iOS. It's the long touch.

>Microsoft tried this approach and it was disastrous.

Surface Pro/Go is a pretty successful product for Microsoft.
pet friendly flights seems like the best bet here... I was sort of assuming this was a pet friendly airline, not just a plane that you can put your pet on.
The state doesn't, the taxpayers of Orange and Osceola counties pay for it.
How to Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite Without Losing Your Sanity
I got a pair of bone conduction headphones that allow me to still hear my surroundings while on my bike. Nothing goes in your ears that blocks sound.

Agree with your point, though.
In a few of the financial centres, seemingly led by New York, companies are pressuring mostly reluctant staff to come back in for trumped up reasons that a cynic might boil down to "come back or a bunch of sandwich and coffee shops will fail". It would be ironic if this return was instead undermining much bigger fish.

Clearly the return to work isn't behind all of Amazon's woes, but anecdotally people i know are spending less online in part because: they aren't there to receive items so easily, they waste time in other ways now (idle hands -> more OneClick impulse purchases) and they're feeling the pinch having extra expenses from the commute and lunches near offices all add up.

I ordered a UPS battery the other day and realised i hadn't bought anything from Amazon in two months and I'd barely missed it and seen very few attempts by them to check if they could tempt me back. The shift was dramatic, having averaged weekly Amazon purchases during the pandemic.
> spending more time and money than is needed

Needed for what? To make it go away for you, while the troll gets more money to extort everyone else?
Getting feedback is tough. It’s why bigger companies will even pay you to give them feedback.

My method has always been to be offer a few companies/users a free account. Assuming your product is something they really need, a free account in exchange for feedback is a win win for both sides.
Reflection is essential for things like code generation and introspection in go. It isn't something you can classify as wholly harmful. It is of course possible to write bad code using reflection, but not having reflection isn't the solution. https://go.dev/blog/laws-of-reflection
Income from patent licensing is already taxed. We don’t tax assets for existing except for land. This would be a form of wealth tax.

That said I don’t agree with software patents as a concept.
"use it or lose it" that's what I was looking for! Thanks. I see that
open-carrying firearms analogies around here I'm likely to shoot
myself in the foot.
Welcome, Ghosts
As noted elsewhere in this thread: the special district laws and the RCID, specifically, have survived constitutional review by the Florida Supreme Court. The state certainly understands that these laws we deemed constitutional.
Videos provide much more space to hide data in than your typical images do.

I've always wondered if there was some way that hidden information inside videos could be designed to survive the re-encoding that youtube does when you upload a video.

Has anyone investigated this?
considering these guys made the humble bundle in between bouts of making this game... (plus a bunch of other projects I personally love)
yeah I got a studio w/studio display+trade in, the studio itself arrive in a week or so I think? with a week available for the return. Then at the end of the delivery window for the display the silently bumped it to Aril 27. Yesterday they silently bumped it to May 27.

Fair depressing experience.
How can he state the obvious like that?
Better ban his Reddit account, his twitter account, remove his comments, etc.
Yuji Naka says Square Enix doesn’t ‘value games’ after Balan Wonderworld mess
Hot air ballons are a good example of replicating a natural phenomenon without exploiting the principals behind it.

Technically it is flight and it can certainly be useful but it's a different type of flight.

Until we learn the principals behind how our own brains work, AI will forever be artificial.

If it were as easy as fire we would have solved it long ago.
Two and a Half Bad Bits
Datadog isn’t exactly the best example of friendly pricing as well.
You're right. s/trillion/billion/. The key fact is that the two ton object had the impact of 1.5 tons of TNT. Thanks.
Zip system sheathing, while great, is not enough. You still need either cavity wall insulation or exterior insulation or both.

For cavity wall insulation, dense packed cellulose is a carbon negative option currently widely available.
Is PoW actually decentralized? It's more like multi-witness because miners aren't able to see the block they're working on and validate it before submitting back to the pool operator and they can only trust the pool to keep paying out rewards through non-blockchain means.

In ideal worlds as designed for PoW and PoS everyone has roughly an equal stake and equal incentives. Reality differs.
Heroku already provides a managed database service using Postgres, so you're fine for that.

It's if you want to store any kind of user uploaded or generated binary or large content - images, PDF reports, audio files, videos, JSON documents, code, logs - all common things you may want to manipulate in a web service.
First world countries are proposing to fight climate change, while rolling out air carrier services to transport bulk chihuahuas. I feel like this is going to be an excellent target for those in favor of a carbon neutral future.
The prices you were paying as a child are probably equivalent to first class travel today (or even more). If you pay for it you can still have that same luxury experience.
Duck Typing in Rails (2019)
That's why companies do 1:1, retrospective meetings, and surveys, yes. People tend to hold back on those too, but of course creating friction while employed is much riskier than airing grievances when leaving a company. That's why I think it's important to get it all out at the end. It gives the employer another opportunity to complete the picture and understand the magnitude of which compounding problems enabled a poor working environment.
"Vichy" France vs "Free" France. Korean War. Vietnam war. A lot of civil wars. The list is quite long.
Sounds amazing. Can you offer some insights in how other people might apply your approach? Are you a contractor? How can you tell if someone is offering a job of the sort you want, and how do you convince the gatekeepers you can do the work well?
I've repeatedly heard stated that after a sufficient amount of force is applied to controls, "the link" between the controls is severed or deactivated, without any details regarding how this is done or what the actual effect is.

Here's an article stating exactly that: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/04/28/Pilots-p...

> If opposing forces on the two columns pass a certain limit, the link between them is deactivated or “desynchronized” to prevent accidents in the case of one side getting jammed.
WhatsApp seems to be back up again.
Thanks for the tip about binding the object instance.

Just to share an experience on the other end, I worked with Erlang several years back. While it was a harder language to learn, every new thing I learned about the language gave me the impression that the language designers did the right thing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm having fun with my current Typescript/NodeJS stack at work, but if I was building my own stuff it would absolutely be on the Erlang VM.
Apple services subscribers grow 25% to new high of 825M
I go swimming in the West short of lake Huron. It is by far the best water for plain old swimming I've experienced. It's a big body of water so nice rolling waves are constant. Yet, unlike some inland lakes there is no stagnancy, just clear salt free water. Huge sand bars, miles long a hundred meters or more from shore.
Just like "on a computer", which allowed many previously unpatentable ideas to be patented (even potentially in previously expired patents).
Quality isn't amazing, but it's acceptable and it isn't like you'd be enjoying a high quality audio experience with wind rushing past your ears using normal headphones, anyway.

Also beats getting hit by a car that you didn't hear.
I have flown with my cat several times. It’s unbelievably annoying and my cat is the by far the least of my worries. Usually, it’s a $100 or so fee one way, so around $200 round trip. But yet, the pet takes up one of your carry on luggage bags, and you have to sign something that they (the airline) will provide absolutely no additional service for anything and they have no liability. Then, they only allow a certain amount of pets on the flight (their discretion?), and so it amounts to a first come, first serve basis. There’s no way to pre-register the pet. You have to do it when you check in. So, what is the ridiculous fee even for?

Oh, and to go through security, you have to take a nervous and scared cat out of their carry case in the middle of the security line, walk through the metal detector, and then they have to test both of your hands for residue while still carrying the cat. They will not let you put the cat back before they’ve tested your hands. It makes no sense.

The whole process and fee is basically security and the airlines saying “we’re annoyed, so we’ll make you pay for it with process and fees”.

I always make it a point to notify the passengers next to me that I have a cat in case they are allergic. This again is something the airline does not care about to do themselves, which again makes no sense because it’s probably the single biggest risk for the flight and passengers (someone having an allergic reaction in the middle of a flight).
The country is turning right wing because your precious refugees do grenade attacks on a daily basis.

There is a point where the left needs to wake up, smell the coffee and realize that not all people are alike, not all groups are alike.

The idea that you can absorb any culture into any culture is completely absurd on its face, and now we have a proof of that not just in Sweden but in basically any Western country that tried to do the same thing (and in fact non-Western countries too, although in their cases they rarely welcomed mass immigration of people from different cultures on purpose, it's generally more a series of unfortunate incidents of history, because everyone has known for ages that it was generally a bad thing).
People have tried this so many times and it always fails. It's a huge issue for going to/from Puerto Rico, due to 1) weather 2) shitty ground services 3) no land connection. My friend has planes and one of them will be part 135 (charter) compatible, so I've been looking at doing monthly flights with a vet and ~10 animals for 2.5h from South Florida to Puerto Rico (especially for people with animals banned on flights due to size or facial structure, or people who value their pets enough to be less price sensitive generally).

(I fly cats for adoption from PR to ATL, MIA, FLL, TPA sometimes; it's interesting traveling with them in the cabin. Usually they are very young kittens and very quiet the whole time.)
Invest in a good pair of noise cancelling head phones?
We’ve had all three in NYC (depending on what you mean by antifa since outside of Seattle it’s mostly a non-existant scarecrow of right wing talking heads) and things are booming. Homelessness is pretty bad and crime has climbed, but we’re very far from the 80’s and 90’s, and the city is very alive with restaurants thriving.
That said the changes due to work from home are far more devastating than anything else to specific Manhattan neighborhoods that relied on large workday populations that have yet to return, so I wouldn’t say it’s all roses.
All I know is that the cost of Prime keeps increasing, the video content is lackluster, and the last six (!!) things I ordered they either sent the wrong thing, the order was lost in transit, or the item that arrived was clearly counterfeit junk. I live in rural America where retail is essentially dead, but the internet is a big place and I'd rather pay a bit more and know what I'm getting rather than the roulette wheel that Amazon has become for so many items.
Uhm, what Russian aggressiveness was tolerated? In Ukraine? Even with their fluffs, it is still being tolerated, so I am not sure of your point. The West is reasonably careful to appear as not participating in the conflict, yet it obviously is.

I also can't believe that someone would make a claim that "Russia, as a state, can (not) survive this defeat". Like USA cannot survive a defeat in, say... Vietnam? Afghanistan?
This may already be implicit in your question, but that putative company has to be clearly intending to offer goods or services to EU visitors (which isn't specifically defined but might mean something like accepting payment in Euros or advertising towards EU citizens). This seems like a vanishingly small percentage of "small US companies" although I do see your point re: enforcement.
I'm not sitting next to a pit bull. Also, what if the dog simply refuses to stop barking the entire time? And where do they go to the bathroom?
Bigotry is a piece of jargon meaning “those who hate them”. What else do you call somebody burning a religious book for the sole purpose of generating a response? Would you prefer fascist? Nihilistic performance artist?

There is no sane way to defend these actions, so those offended by what I’m writing must be nuts or participants frustrated on being outed.

And it’s quite disappointing the right wing leaning of at least some of hacker news. As there’s anonymity in up and down grades, they might all be trolls. But there’s a lot of fondness for cash here along with much less interest in helping others with it.

Y’all win. Have fun in the stew.
I don’t mean to defend what this body shop was doing, but I fail to see how this could be considered vandalism absent intentional damage being done.
Cameras used to be notoriously bad at picking up dark skin colours correctly. Apps might fix it.
> If you remove the communication links between those nice round planets shown in the animation, they become drab and dreary, and not worth having at all, and you're back to twitter.

True, if you are the toxic community that was cut out. You know who still thinks the Mastodon is worth having? Mastodon.social users, who were able to protect themselves from unfriendly/unwelcome users, and didn't have to go back to Twitter.

Also, you gave an extreme example, of a left-leaning and right-leaning instances not agreeing with each other. But I see no reason why an instance mainly populated with geeks and an instance mainly populated with gamers/musicians/sport fans can't peacefully federate.
Pop _OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle
This will get interesting from a regulations perspective. How much does it weigh? It looks like it might be sub-250g, which would exempt it from Remote ID and registration of flown under the recreational exemption. If not though, you’ll need to stick a big old broadcast module on the top of it next year.

Where this drone is more like a stickless selfie stick, I can see people using it during things like Stadium TFRs, flying over crowds inadvertently, etc.
Rock Dust Carbon Sequestration
I am not disagreeing about that the conscript are being recklessly sacrificed. But the Mosin Nagant seems to be for rear guard use for which it is perfectly fine. I have not seen it in front line action in any video or picture, except in the sniper configuration.
> Cox Automotive’s Research and Market Intelligence team conducted a survey from Jan. 19 to Jan. 26, 2022, of 217 consumers who intend to buy a new vehicle in the next two years.
Apple was shipping nano 2.0.6—from 2007!—until the current mid-cycle release, macOS 12.3. Probably due to newer releases of nano being GPLv3, they quietly replaced it with pico, which unfortunately lacks the critical Go To Line (^-) function.
Am I the only one who instinctively thought this story was going to be about sweaters? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/jumper
When I moved states, I had to fly with my rabbit. At the time, Alaska Airlines was the only carrier that would allow a rabbit in the cabin. I thought that was odd, considering a rabbit would indubitably make less of a commotion than a cat or dog. My rabbit was shaking the whole flight, poor thing; I can't imagine him being in the cargo area.
Not looking forward to suddenly being unable to buy some basic cleaning or lubricant product because the EU nannies decided I'm no longer adult enough to handle it
It’s probably also that it really depends on the place. If you’re in SF really does feel like the housing market has stood still.
Sorry, I meant claiming any dog is a service animal.

Per this website:

https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...

And this one:

https://beta.ada.gov/topics/service-animals/

It seems like there is nothing stopping someone from claiming their dog is a service animal.

The DOT website says airlines can ask service animal owners to fill out a couple self attestation forms, and while that puts a little bit of skin in the game for the service animal owner, it does not seem easy to prove fraud.
It never ends, which is why the world is filled with hyperbole beyond all possibility of recovering and no one can communicate at all.
I can't say I've actually played the game itself much as I'm mostly casually looking to add an economic mod to make it more similar to Anno1800/Settlers. :) I do recall you can win easier by taking over competiting towns. The nice part is that there's less risk for your friends since they don't have to buy anything. Just be be sure you're on the same version.

There are some Youtube videos by Nookrium and Tom 0ad

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-SFei6NFRuGN8CKtAsYrA

Interestingly the base game itself is implemented as a huge mod and is mostly JS, so if you're willing to go spelunking.

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/mods/pu...

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/mods/pu...
My dad told me I was one of _those_ type of cry babies. :) Now, I've been on those flights and I just laugh. A little perspective may help.
>You don’t just “declare” they’re a service animal and all is well.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-changes-policy-...

the peacock didn't get to fly, but before they changed their policy it was $125 for a pet or $0 for a comfort animal, and they hadn't been checking if the animal was vaccinated, obedient, or that there was any medical reason for the person to have the animal (so it seems like you could just declare your pet to be a comfort animal and save $125)
When using AirPods pro in the "transparent" mode I can still hear really good, so I am just using that when cycling right now.
I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL9PcGu_xrA&t=174s
I think it's just not overriding a Wordpress template default, but it's hilarious that their main homepage link goes to a wedding rsvp url* lol.

*https://divi.dev/wedding/#rsvp
Nah hard disagree. They have beautiful modern games, FFXIV, DQXI, Nier, Bravely Default etc. Hit and miss always happens. Balan was also developed by Arzest and only published by SE so it's not fair to not share the blame with the devs.
"If IP is real property, it should be taxed."

Surely it is taxed already by profit related taxation eg corporation tax in the UK and I'm sure most other countries have a similar one. Also any sales tax or VAT will capture some loot back to your friendly local Exchequer or equivalent.

OK let's get down to brass tacks: What you seem to be asking for is that if someone can be allowed exclusive rights to something then they should pay for that privilege in some way. That seems fair enough to me but you need to define what exclusivity really means and what sort of return should be sought by the authority involved. If we look a little deeper still: what on earth is IP? You also seem to advocate that if the IP is important enough then it can be purchased by the authority and that authority could release the IP to the commons or a form of commons.

You give away where you are from with the abbreviation USPTO. So we are going to need an internationally agreed definition of IP, if we are even going to begin this discussion (which has already happened and is enshrined in ... some international agreement that I can't recall).

Back in the day there was a somewhat backward colony belonging to a super power, located to the left of the Atlantic ocean. That colony grew, expanded and exploited its natural resources. That colony also had a pretty fast and loose approach to notions like copyright and patents. That colony only acknowledged their own local notion of patent and largely ignored any objections from the right hand side of the Atlantic for quite a while. OK, I'm taking the piss but not much. There's another modern equivalent to my "left pond country" these days - more than one.

So, let's start again: What exactly is IP and how does it get enforced, paid for or protected or whatever?
Definitely seen that fashion, but never in a coding context. Must be an SF thing.
Parallel Economy
It was originally posted without the (2020) disclosure, having been posted at least twice in past years. Doing so looks like "karma-farming".
Similar vein:

* PayPal's links go to paypal-communication.com

* 3DSecure, where random third party web sites ask for bank credentials

* Some banks call customers without being able to meaningfully accept a callback, with negative consequences if you don't react to their call
exactly how much arsenic are you comfortable eating in your home grown vegetables?
Haugen: Europe Is Making Social Media Better. The U.S. Should, Too