skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the US is actually a very responsive democracy—liberals just don’t like the revealed preferences of the polity.

My dad is a blue dog democrat. Has voted democrat ever since becoming naturalized. Wouldn’t even vote for Larry Hogan. Yet he’s apoplectic about inflation and gas prices, and hates the idea of raising taxes on people making $100-200k/year like himself. At the end of the day he cares more about those things than anything else Democrats care about.

Liberals keep pinning their electoral prospects on people like my dad. Before it was Bangladeshi immigrants it was Irish and Italian immigrants. But these folks came to America for the American dream—two cars, a house with a pool, drive through McDonalds. As a result, liberals take it in the chin every time there is the slightest threat to the low tax consumerist suburban lifestyle. The last time it happened, in the 1970s, we got two decades of Reaganism.
No they're not trying to 'rape' refugees. They're trying to "get in their pants". There's hundreds of scenarios where that is entirely consensual (e.g. people seeking sex for comfort, people using sex to gain stability in a strange country, romance forming from mere closeness, etc.).

In a thread where we are talking about the sex industry and consent, I think we ought to be more careful with our language and assumptions.

I think the above poster merely meant that Mickelwait has ulterior motives, and potentially gains something out of this transaction so we should acknowledge that even while acknowledging the good that is done incidentally.
The real treasure was all the regulators we suborned along the way
Kind of depressing to contrast that with today where there are just three deeply entrenched operating systems (phone and embedded OSes don't count since the end-user has no meaningful access to them). We, or at least I, naively thought we'd see continued rapid evolution of a plethora of OSes to accompany the rapid evolution of computer hardware.
Consider some “people who downloaded and executed ga.js from misinfo.gov.” What is the relative size of these three anonymity sets?

* browser with IP in USA but timezone in Russia

* browser with IP in USA and timezone in USA

* browser with IP in Russia with timezone in Russia

Hint: it’s the middle one. The smaller the anonymity set, the more conspicuous and therefore fingerprintable you are.
Apple has named committees and tech talks on iceberg. Like all big companies they use multiple technologies
MPTCP might also be interesting combined with an overlay/tunneling protocol like GENEVE. Although I believe software defined networks do a pretty good job already load balancing / failing over between VTEPs.
It would be easier to list the government software projects with contracts that large which aren't set up to fail. How many billions have been spent building all this government specified CRUD that never ends up working properly, but reliably enriches the friends and family of the politicians and bureaucrats buying it?
Inspirational journey, all the best !
tbh, that example kind of underlines the lack of linkage between crypto assets' market value and real world use cases. A significant number of hitherto law-abiding, middle class and computer literate Russians who suddenly wanted to take all their money out of Russia and/or realised they needed a different way to continue to paying for services as their banks were hit with unexpected sanctions is pretty much the ideal real world use case for BTC.

But BTC actually fell in value sharply this year instead (and the spike in ruble/BTC trades was surprisingly small and short lived), because Bitcoin's peak valuation was more or less entirely unlinked to its theoretically increased usefulness for possessors of rubles.
If people having money is driving up costs, why not just go after the 600 billionaires rather than the millions of others?
Wait till this guy hears about stored procedures.
> There is a certain court in The Hague that tends to have an opinion on such matters. But the US seems to think they shouldn't be held accountable when it comes to international law or human rights.. ("The Hague Invasion Act").

International law isn't really law in the sense we're used to. There is no world government. International relations are anarchic, and the "international law" that's binding on a country is pretty much what it agrees to abide by or can be forcibly compelled to abide by (through military action, etc).
Lightning fixes this.
Sorry to add salt to the wound, but I have to give honorable mention to the Slack APK. 50 MB for an IRC client. Just... WOW!

Pro-Tip: Enable desktop mode promptly after clicking the bookmark in your browser. If you're fast enough, you may not get the App-Nag-Screen© and have a short wait for the bloat to load. YMMV.
That is the opposite of what they're saying.
> with US states becoming more and more independent

I can only dream.
There are tons of more groups wanting porn industry gone. I currently live in Spain and it's part of the socialists and more extreme left wing parties agenda.
Not everyone who is not religious thinks porn industry is empowering women.
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How do the states diverge?

I think you can have a two-way binding with a controlled update procedure, akin to one-way data-binding. I’ve read some people claim to do it by producing a kind of one-way directionality under-the-hood (?) from two-way bindings. The goal being that views can update state (and other views).

I think it was here I read it:

«‘2-way’ shouldn't be a problem if a component reports user events (perhaps transformed/mapped) to the domain model without changing it's own core state (disregarding throttling etc.) and only changes its core state in response to events from the domain model.« — peerreynders @ https://dev.to/peerreynders/comment/1objn
On the other hand, one might just as easily say "Never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained by corruption." In eastern europe this worldview is taken for granted, and is largely accurate. While the west seems less corrupt on many fronts, to a large degree people are just better at hiding it—instead of doing it out in the open, things are revealed years after the fact by whistleblowers.
It's the best thing Microsoft ever did... compared to the other things Microsoft did at the time.

Microsoft has always had a shit ton of extremely smart people, mired in two shit tons of middling execs.

Windows NT was what happened when the product / political side of the company ignored the technologists for a bit.
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It's perhaps worth noting that it took Microsoft a long time to make Windows into a gaming platform.

Their initial release of GameSDK (which they later renamed to DirectX) was pretty lame. As were early versions of DirectX. They also deliberately pitched OpenGL as not- and never- being suitable for gaming (despite having championed it only a year or so previous, and talking about shared driver cores), choosing to promote their own proprietary DirectX APIs instead. (Source: I was a games dev back then, clearly I'm old) — At the time, it was far preferable to simply stick to developing games for the DOS platform, using one's own software-rendered 3D engine, plus support for various 3D cards. But folk like Carmack proved that OpenGL could be fine for games, if not superior.

Much time has passed since then. DirectX has matured, OpenGL didn't go away, and DOS as a games platform (or otherwise) died.

Apple's current situation isn't much different to the early Microsoft DirectX/GameSDK days really. These things always take time. Particularly when folk are reinventing wheels for various reasons (whether rightly or wrongly).

I'm not sure what OOTB support for Python3 has to do with macOS being a gaming platform in any way though.
Wrt deepfakes, maybe, but that doesn't exactly feel like victory. "Good news! You'll be lost in the enormous sea of tits and ass!"
I thought Mozilla still owned and thus funded Thunderbird.
Someone must be ensuring that employees who work for the Thunderbird project are being payed even if it is a mostly community ran project.

The donation page still takes me to a Mozilla branded donation page which makes me think they are putting some resources into the project even if it isn't as fully funded as most would like.
> Why not both?

My point was that it's fine if someone starts working on a new framework, but personally I would rather have all that effort be used for developing services or tools that are actually needed and do bring value to the community.

EDIT: To make it more clear, the issue is when the creators of such frameworks do believe they are going to change the world by recreating in a slightly different way something that already exists. If they are doing this for fun or to get experience, it's all good, but very often those frameworks do seem to have the ambition of becoming the next big thing and revolutionizing the way people are developing web apps.
There is an informational asymmetry, so rogue exchanges can lie all they want without you knowing for sure, and those that do not want to give you your money for whatever reason always do (lie that is).

This happened with MtGox and permanent withdrawal problems, both with USD and BTC.

With USD, it was "Oh, no, its the banks, they are limiting us to $50.000 per day, it's not us".

With BTC, it was "Oh, no, Bitcoin network has a bug, we cannot process withdrawals, it's not us".
More importantly it's only "bitcoin" because it's the first; even if everything crypto takes off the world could collectively decide to use something else (Etherium being an obvious choice, but there could be others).
To do what? (Other than enable financial engineering)
In my opinion mixing the functions of medium of exchange and store of value has caused untold amounts of needless suffering. You see 2% inflation is the middle ground. Rich people may want to save and increase their wealth but my mom just wants a job to pay rent and buy groceries, she has no grand ambitions to become super wealthy. When you mix the two functions into cash, one of the two is going to dominate the economy and with gold it was the rich, with fiat it is mostly average people because having a job is more important than maintaining purchasing power.
It absolutely can. Not the truth or falsity, which is irrelevant, but the veracity, which is what is happening here.

If I make a claim, the claim is (to adopt your parlance) true or false - correct.

But if you do not/cannot know that as a matter of fact, then it is perfectly reasonable to evaluate the credibility and history of the speaker. If the only source of information is a non-credible source we have no reason to believe the claim, which is all we can do, whether or not it is true.

If the president of the united states tells you an asteroid is about to hit the earth you are likely to take them more seriously than a homeless person on a street corner. But you are correct, in both cases it either is or is not going to hit it.

The appropriate response you are looking for is asking for other sources of evidence. Your comment is just bad epistemic noise to try and undermine a critique.
Backyard sheds seem like the best place for battery packs this large.

However, I think a lot of people with electric cars and attached garages don't think twice about it.
Some corvids are considered to be of equal intelligence as a 5-7 year old human child. That doesn't make them not-birds, and the human child isn't going to flap its wings and fly away.
Oh right, that makes sense. The new movie just came out, I saw it last night, it's really good. The comment you're replying to was referencing plot elements in the new one but didn't explicitly say so.
Hi Ryan, nice seeing you here. If you don't mind, would love to hear your thoughts:

I’m missing a story about mobile Linux. Has this been discussed; is this something on the roadmap?

There are already excellent e-mail options for iOS. Right now there is almost nothing outside of the cli that’s usable on mobile Linux. Thunderbird would have a chance of being the main choice while helping adoption of mobile Linux in the medium-to long-term.

I understand it’s not realistic to expect anything anytime soon, but I do hope this is being discussed and that we will see a strategy for it.
It would be funny, if it wasn't dramatic, that animal cruelty is so common that people are only triggered by these exotic and very small scale experiments.

Killing a few mice or cloning a few sheep is barbaric but slaughtering millions of mammals every single day is business as usual.

Obviously as soon as one points that out the cognitive dissonance kicks in and the downvote brigade shows up
That still ensures a certain price for, which i personally believe does not exist in btc.
> Apple shipped Service Workers in WebKit in 2021.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWork... shows support in Safari 11.1, shipped in 2018?
People post porn videos to Twitter all the time. They have a thumbnail service specifically for video.
Also PictShare supports S3 compatible backends, wasn't cool to see lemmy drop that so frivolously.
> Who said that?

Who said I said that anybody said that? I was giving an example of something that actually is politically incorrect, which your example wasn't.

> Once again, who actually did that?

I figured that you might, and indeed you did in the next sentence.

> A culture that normalises or encourages single parents over the alternatives results in worse outcomes for those kids.

Slaves were not permitted to marry. Children of unmarried slaves learned how to live from their unmarried parents. You're blaming the victims instead of helping them. In the next paragraphs you claim that they want to live this way and that this can't be changed. After the fall of the Roman empire, Europeans didn't bathe except a few times in their life, living in filth and dying of filth-related diseases. This didn't change until enlightenment thinking forced upon them caused large culture shifts.

> Whites don't have the best outcomes, Asians have better outcomes

Tell that to Indians living in India.

Tell that to children of Chinese migrant workers, including the descendants of railroad workers living in Chinatown slums today. https://clb.org.hk/content/migrant-workers-and-their-childre...

Tell that to children of Nigerian immigrants. https://medium.com/@joecarleton/why-nigerian-immigrants-are-...
They actually ship three different cans - one for each firewall in the base install.
I guess I'm trying to understand why we need some people to not have jobs, and also why the same people who say this fight so hard against helping folks in bad spots. If having unemployment is so important, why does everyone treat the unemployed as morally inferior - it's clearly a vital economic function.

edit: to put it another way - (extending your metaphor) who is doing the eating of us normal workers? Why am I someone's food?
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> that sounds more like a military alliance between independent city-states in ancient Greece than your average human friendship

Has it occurred to you that actual humans' ideal types/levels of friendship might differ from your own? Most people want a mix, with a few very strong friendships (of the author's type) and many more weaker ones (of yours). Many are missing one or the other. Some want something different entirely. If the author's ideas about friendship don't resonate with you, consider just moving on. Deriding it as something that's very much not true friendship by anyone's definition seems like exactly the same kind of condescending clannishness you complain about (and "identitarian" is - intentionally? - a marker of which clan BTW).
The first sentence sentence of the article: "Federal Reserve officials are beginning to signal that higher unemployment rates might be a necessary consequence of their efforts to damp inflation by raising interest rates."
This is overly reductionist. Economics, like life, is complex and situational.

Lack of water can kill, too much water can kill. This isn't voodoo nonsense.
> Consciousness is the subjective experience of "being like something"

I absolutely detest that definition of consciousness. It just moves the fuzziness from the word "consciousness" to the phrase "being like something". It means absolutely nothing. Figuring out what the subjective experience of a model is like is about as unquantifiable as it gets.
Service exploits, MITM shenanigans, DB breaches, marketing assault...

Need I go on?
Instead of making poor people poorer, why not tackle some structural issues.

Like, why does a poor person have to go into debt by 15K USD at 15% interest rate to buy a car just to work a job that pays 15-20USD/hr? This is financial lunacy.

How can cities afford to service such spread out metro areas? The police have to burn fuel to cover everywhere. Why force stores in denser areas to have so much empty, ugly parking spaces? Why not let stores pick how much parking they want to have?

We need a fleet of school buses to shuttle kids to schools. Why can't kids just ride a bicycle, walk, or talk a public bus? This is insane, especially in cities as dense as Miami.

China has much better ROI on their people, infrastructure than the US. Density or no density, I don't see how the US stays competitive wasting so much money on fluff like gigantic SUVs and huge green lawns that serve no purpose other than some e-peen contest.

I think more than anything, I am seeing a kind of defeatism in people defending this car-centric status quo. "This is the way it is, so it has to stay that way by force of law." Just let go...
you are talking nonsenses : 1,4 million EV in Germany with 15kWh/100km and 15000km/year so using 3,15 TWh a year and producing 160 TWh of renewable electricity in 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=fr&c=DE...
I’m going to have to take that on faith, their site doesn’t appear to ship the JS necessary to open the nav menu. But clicking through a few links confirmed what I recall: the major difference (apart from language) is the component/templating approach. Not that one is inherently better than the other (though I do personally prefer JSX), but bringing this concept to a dev environment which thus far mostly lacks it is a good thing for users. And with more flexibility in variety, there’s better odds users will get that experience.
From what I can understand, it seems that this is only true if you consider increased wealth concentration the primary purpose of the economy.
So, Warren Buffet should only support homes without considering affordabilility? The vast majority of customers would not be able to buy homes. Homes would only be available to those with unlimited amounts of money.
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> I've provided details here

I agree with you that Tether is very risky, but I think your revaluation of the "digital coins" class. In its attestations, Tether claims to value digital coins as "cost less impairment," so effectively at the minimum value the coin has reached since its purchase.

With that methodology, it is erroneous to apply "down 60% from market highs" to estimate the current value.

That said, we can speculate endlessly about Tether's ultimate solvency because we don't have a detailed enough balance sheet. I think it's clear, however, that despite acting like a bank Tether's capital could not possibly meet Basel 2-like risk weighting standards. Even with completely above-board operation, Tether would be reasonably likely to collapse if we experienced a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
> we'd see a whole lot of stories like "I tried to redeem $100M of tether and they refused!" out there

If I had a $100mm Tether they refused to redeem, the last thing I’d do is talk about it.
Deno was always cool. It seems like a revolution in webdev is happening above our noses.
Then there is the Soviet style:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-07-mn-13892-...

> The Jerusalem Post said the Soviet secret police last year secured the release of three kidnaped Soviet diplomats in Beirut by castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader, sending him the severed organs and then shooting the relative in the head.

> Parts of the man’s body, the paper said, were then sent to the Hezbollah leader with a warning that he would lose other relatives in a similar fashion if the three remaining Soviet diplomats were not immediately released. They were quickly freed.

> The newspaper quoted “observers in Jerusalem” as saying: “This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things--they don’t talk. And this is the language Hezbollah understands.”
I know plenty of male onlyfans/patreon accounts who would disagree with the "ultimate monopoly" statement.
I don't trust western media on anyting important. Many of them lie without stopping about a number of things. You have to verify with a number of sources to get what is actually happening.

> If you follow non-western sources, you'll see there's no imminent coup on Putin, you'll see many testimonials of Azov torturing eastern Ukrainians, you'll see Russia slowly advancing into Ukraine, you'll know about mass Ukrainian soldiers defecting, you'll know casualty reporting by western media is either wrong or pure propaganda...

I also follow (and get pushed info from) non western sources, and according to them the assault on Kyiv was on track until it was a feint. Moskva was not hit, but had minor damage due to an accident and was simultaneously sailing by its own power, towed and all sailors were saved until it suddenly sunk in a very local storm. According to them Russians are the smart and nice guys that somehow couldn't prevent [UK Snipers/Ukrainians/Voldemort] (ok, one of these is a joke but I have forgotten a couple too) from raping and killing civilians in Bucha while they were there. I've had pro Russians telling me that a plausible explanation for Bucha was a foreign sniper shooting the civilians just as the Russians happened to drive into the streets there.

And I hear a lot about all the nasty things Azov has done against Russian speaking Ukrainians, often accompanied by a mix of 8 year old pictures, some of them havily manipulated. But looking closer at it Donbas looked nicer after 8 years of supposed Ukrainian shelling than after a few weeks of Russian "liberation". And more Russian speaking Ukrainians have been killed by the Russian "liberators" than by the "evil" Azov.
As others pointed out, there is not a widely agreed upon definition of "safe".

Reposting my comment from 2 years ago:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21832009

A null pointer exception in Java is SAFE according to Cardelli -- it's a trapped error.

A program fragment is safe if it does not cause untrapped errors to occur. Languages where all program fragments are safe are called safe languages. Therefore, safe languages rule out the most insidious form of execution errors: the ones that may go unnoticed.

...

It is useful to distinguish between two kinds of execution errors: the ones that cause the computation to stop immediately, and the ones that go unnoticed (for a while) and later cause arbitrary behavior. The former are called trapped errors, whereas the latter are untrapped errors.

-- Type Systems, Luca Cardelli -- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=90442457768317510...

And practically speaking null pointer exceptions are easy to debug and fix.

It's really the memory safety, integer overflows, and data races (untrapped errors) that are difficult, and which the language should have mechanisms to avoid.

So this post is conflating two different things. It's criticizing Java for integers overflows that DON'T trap, and null pointers that DO trap!