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I disagree on both counts.

> Personally I feel this is law is a great step forward to stop hate speech and other forms of severe harassment

I can't speak to Japan, but harassment is already a crime in all US states. Using a telecommunications device to harass often carries even stiffer penalties than just harassment.

All US states also have laws specifically about cyberbullying [1]. Although there have been successful challenges (e.g., in Colorado) most of these laws are almost certainly constitutional.

It's hard to form an opinion on this particular law without more details (about both the law and Japan's legal system), but the way it's described in the article is worrying. Publicly insulting someone can be a component of harassment, but on its own is clearly not harassment. There is a distinct difference between insulting someone in the course of a conversation and a sustained campaign against that person.

> but the thought that if you happen to “rage” on someone mid game and receive jail time for that scares me.

"Trolling" in gaming is like "tagging" in certain tagging-adjacent communities. In both cases the crimes (vandalism, criminal harassment) have become so normalized that membes of the community reframe plainly criminal behavior as positives -- "free speech" and "art" respectively.

Criminal behavior has become completely normalized among certain pockets of heavy internet users, most of which are heavily adjacent to gaming.

I'm not talking about being rude or divisive on a forum. I'm talking about things like death threats, doxxing, brigading non-public-figures, messaging people on all social media channels from dozens of obvious sock puppet accounts and continuing for months after being asked to stop (happened to a local teacher after appearing on a 3 minute news segment), etc.

A lot of what passes for "just trolling" among heavily online individuals -- gaming-adjacent communities in particular -- is in fact textbook criminal behavior. A lot of the behavior during Gamergate, for example, should've resulted in restraining orders, fines, and jail time.

[1] https://www.stopbullying.gov/resources/laws
> 22Kw is still overkill for a home

I know many homes with three adults (one driving parent, two kids) who have cars. 22kW isn't enough to charge three cars + home. It's not that crazy, considering the average home has 1.9 cars.
> as is yelling “fire” in a crowded theater

You really should stop spreading that falsehood. It was overturned over 50 years ago.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
I've been blocking cookies actively for a long time, and except some technical embeds (for example STEP file viewer on misumi) I had zero issue.

This is great news. I really hope we will not lose firefox. I'm not saying it is better than chromium, but I think it is important that it exists.
I don't think the reasons are good, but gamers often trash talk and bully each other in game. For example, Riot needed to ban people from typing “kys” in League of Legends because it means “kill your self” and they were worried about it. (Whether that is because they care about the players or their liability or both is not for me to decide)
What's the relevance of doxxing here?
I've had a young relative who never had any money problems (trust fund to look forward to etc) get hooked on opioids and eventually die a horrible OD death in someone's airbnb.

I think @sema4hacker makes some excellent points about the lack of guidance for children and youths having been through the hell of chasing a child around on the streets to try and save them. Had I tried to educate that person when they were young maybe they would still be here and his mother wouldn't be a broken person.
I think the appropriate aphorism here is "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

No doubt the Japanese government believe that this law is for extreme cases where someone sends thousands of awful messages, or where a mob drives someone to suicide, but this will end up being used to prosecute some poor 14 year old kid who calls someone else a bad name in Call of Duty. Without strict limitations in laws they're always used to overreach. It's a shame there isn't a technically-minded group that governments can talk to for advice about this sort of thing.
It feels bad too have a ton of structure, but the opposite is worse IMO.

Single line tickets from the CEO that turn into months long projects with no guidance on the functionality. Engineers that burn down entire features because "it's bad code." Secret projects where you get berated for asking stakeholders to to clear up requirements because "you're scaring them."

It's easy to look at a rigid structure and assume it sprang wholecloth from Zeus's head - but most of the time it's an overcorrection. Being burned by a company where Freedom is just an excuse to make employees to work overtime will make anyone go a little overboard.
Looks like the existing methods for measuring neurotrasmitter concentrations in the brain are pretty invasive, e.g. electrodes at best and the analysis of extracted tissue at worst. And I am not sure whether blood concentrations are indicative of anything.
If you’re referring to US law, then yelling “fire” in a theater is indeed permitted under the Brandenburg v. Ohio standard.
That's total bollocks.
> If you feel a tool as as much downsides than upsides in your workflow, you don't use it, whatever its price is.

↑ that was in my answer (with the typo, on the “as as” instead of “has as”, my bad)

You might be confounding mine with another comment. I recognize the talent and expertise of JetBrain’s staff, but don’t like their products in general, and use VSCode as a primary editor, and (paid) Textmate for the rest.

To your general point, looking at project like Bitwarden, with their initial kickstarter and their current revenue, I don’t feel like people are restraining from paying for useful software, even when it has a generous free tier.
Compilers are pretty good most of the time. If it was a platformer game, it'd have been fine in vanilla C.

But this engine was desperate to squeeze absolute maximum performance (including hacky hacks to get extra registers), and you can't get that from C.

GBA has some quirks, like the CPU with SRAM that isn't a cache, but an explicitly addressable small bit of memory. If you want functions "cached", you have to do it yourself. It's doable in C with some hacks, but it's an area where code size matters. Getting C code to be small and maximally fast is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-employment_theorem
USD is not on the blockchain. You can't use it for peer to peer trading.

USD is regulated. You can't use it for instant free market reading at a broker.

USDT, despite its potential unsoundness, is one of the rare cryptocurrencies that is actually a currency
In Colorado many mountains are super crowded and no longer peaceful respites.
Everyone pretends every flight is €40 return

A fair few people pay €100-400 with all the addons/last minute.

If I’m paying €200+ I have higher expectations than the things I listed
How does forcing a person to defend their harassing behavior in court do anything to curtail free speech?
Yeah, we're not here for any purpose, so just do what makes you and those around you happy. Combine that with a reasonable amount of what'll keep you around longer so you can continue to enjoy things and you're doing just fine.
I am surprised how much less discussion takes place about cyberbullying and the deaths caused by it. I agree with freedom of speech but if it violates someones right to exist then shouldn't the culprits be punished? If not punished atleast have a legal process to discuss/debate it in the court of law? Thoughts?
I'm curious what numbers you've heard, my quality of life here is significantly higher than it was in Warsaw, but I was making relatively much less back then.
Python Garbage Collection: What It Is and How It Works
Zx 7.0.0
Not necessarily subsidize gas. You can also tax coal for its special danger.
> “fire” in a crowded theater,

This is simply not correct. This was a dum analogy by justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a case about a draft protest. He later overturned his own opinion in that case expanding free speech.

> Libel and slander are already illegal speech, as is inciting violence

Libel and slander mean the same thing. You're thinking of libel and defamation. All of these are extremely narrowly defined in American law.
You wrote: <<People who are experienced in the field don't want to go through the same hoops that newbies do just to prove they know how to write basic algorithms.>>

I am constantly interviewing candidates for roles at my company. It seems like CVs are a complete gamble. Either some are lies, or wildy understated, and everything in between -- at all levels of experience! "[J]ust to prove..." and yet so many can not do the 2022 version of FizzBuzz. I am stunned how many senior (well, so they say!) hands-on technical applicants cannot do basic things like write a very simple linked list class, or explain to me how a hash map works. For get about explaining the finer points of sorting algorithms (honestly, very low value in my line of work).

There is no reasonable alternative to testing of some kind for hands-on techincal roles -- I am flexible about method: (1) white board coding (ugh in 2022), (2) IDE/text editor on shared PC / video chat (meh / eh in 2022), or (3) take home (the best in 2022, even if there are drawbacks for people with families).

Joel Spolsky said it best about hiring: The goal is to avoid bad hires. Average and above are fine.
I'm not making it out to be anything and I'm definitely not claiming that I know the solution. If anything, I was contemplating that the problem is more complex than it seems: it doesn't matter how you measure self-awarness, since it's not well defined and since the measurement is guaranteed to be inaccurate, you have to decide which side you will err on.

> we have no idea how to prove other humans are conscious, other then I am human
> and I believe I am conscious so if other human claims to be conscious then they must be.

Indeed, however we operate, we have defined consciousness based on that, so that part of your argument is false (or even meaningless). Now the reason we assume other humans are conscious too is because we know that we're pretty similarly built, so we mush operate in a pretty similar way. More than that, we have made a lot of observations that proves that most humans do operate similarly (think e.g. fMRI experiments). So it's not only that others say so.

But you are right, we don't seem to have a very good definition of what self-consciousness is after all and we don't have a fixed set of criteria or measure that can be applied to any non-human entity. But that's basically what I said originally.
They've had those things as the country of Scotland under the UK, so I'd assume you could argue that they qualify with that.
That's history coming back to bite it though. There was a period where the symbols True and False existed in Python but the bool class did not. True was _literally_ 1, and False was 0. Because of this, for backward compat, bool is a subclass of int.
Even Doom itself had the engine rewritten to work on some of the consoles it was actually released on. Most people consider "it runs Doom" to be "it runs the PC version of Doom, modified" but there were other engines.

The most famous may be SNES Doom, https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Super_NES
Timeline of the Great Depression
Fixed: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/oncall/
They claim "All languages can communicate all ideas and feelings", but I think it is wrong.
First of all there are ideas and especially feelings which can not be directly communicated with language at all. Surely you can label them and hope for the best, that the other side can relate to it, but you can not actually transmit the true idea or feeling you have. If language could truly communicate all ideas it should also be able to communicate all tacit knowledge, i.e. the term for the concept of "tacit knowledge" wouldnt be necessary to begin with. You can try to explain, but the explanation is only the map, not the territory.

Or to relate it with computing terminology:

Language is digital but existence is analog.
Is there any practical evidence of this slippery slope? Here in Canada hate speech, defamation, and obscenity have been illegal for a while. The idea is that you have freedom of expression, but it only extends as far as it doesn't infringe on another person's entitlement to a life free from discrimination & harassment. I don't feel like this has been a slippery slope for us, only a different place to draw the lines between your rights and mine than where America does. But I'd be curious if there's any practical examples of this happening in other countries.
They did this by proxy in the UK by ruining the dinobabies' (decent) pensions unless they quit - if they quit they get to keep the pension, if they stay they'd be throwing away significant sums in pension.

Only the older IBMers had these decent pensions, so there was a huge loss of older IBMers who understandly just quit rather than miss out on their gold-plated pension.

Ironically many were rehired as freelance contractors (by their individual projects, not "centrally" if that makes sense) on significantly higher rates, so they got to keep their pension, keep their job (as a contractor) and get a pay rise too. The millennials meanwhile were kept on low salaries (it was the main reason I quit )
Alternative android/android tv client with sponsor block baked in.
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/
Hopefully only used to shut up these bad guys with the wrong opinions from fuming up my internet with infuriating rhetoric that I would never condone and not us good guys with the right opinions that exist between my keyboard and chair.
Think OCaml – How to Think Like a Functional Programmer [pdf]
CircleCI is the best system I've encountered so far that enables running locally what one can run "in the cloud." GH Actions has "act" which is some kind soul's attempt, but is ultimately emulation. The gitlab-runner binary is a cruel joke (I mention that both in support of "seems local CI running is damn hard" and also because GL allows just using it for CI of GH repos, presumably a feature from back before GHA existed)

Earthly just switched their license to MIT, so that's something I intend to try out, and Dagger is a new entrant into that race, but (a) requires learning cuelang (b) shit itself when I last tried it
Emissions per passenger is a fake number, because it folds in flight distance, which has no business in the calculation.

Absolute emissions and emissions per passenger kilometer are real numbers.
Extended release on the lower end of dosage + self-medicating with caffeine as a booster has been my go-to for about 15 years now. As an adult who's been taking it since middle school I can say that, while it's had its ups and downs, overall life is better with it than the times I've had to go without due to insurance disruptions or moving and having to find a new doctor who will prescribe it.
> None of those things are rioting, nor is it rioting to express an unpopular opinion loudly.

Who gets to decide that?
Or more specifically "what if a run on USDC causes Standard Bank of New York to collapse?" The bank is part of the legitimate, regulated economy. The regulators should be insulating the real economy from cryptocurrency scams and gambling.
You can get kicked out of a restaurant/hotel/casino as well
So and so. One may observe an increase in dark humor, but mostly the pareidolia levels increase. People start seeing the illegal thoughts all around them, whether anybody explicitly tries to elicit that response or not.
Ask HN: Should I pay student loans?
Does anyone have insight on how likely it is that student loans will be canceled? Should I consider not paying and instead invest the money?
Anybody can be offended by anything. You use iPhone,while I use Android? You're using a wallgarden system, that's offensive to me. Welcome to prison.

I had people offended of some things I said, because they misunderstood.

Free speech is much more important than hurt feelings.
Character creation, posing and expression editing all from only text prompts
I know someone with a theory that the rise of "the pill" is a factor in male-typical gender role behaviors. Essentially, the pill is only 91% effective over a year in practice, the mother doesn't know she's pregnant, continues taking estrogen pills during the first trimester, and this impacts the development of the fetus. In the US, it wasn't really widely available to around 1970, so it lines up somewhat with increased rates of homosexuality.

No idea if it's true, but the timeline and mechanism of action seem plausible. The rise of the pill also happened around a time of greater LGBT awareness, so overall awareness is also a factor.
Agreed, let the platforms face fines and regulation, not jail the end users. Although some online bullying is much more blatant than your example.
But they had money for an NBA finals commercial and can sponsor F1 racing. Looking forward to cancelling my account. If they'll fsck employees I can only imagine what they will do to customers.
It's hard to blame students when they look at job postings and all that they see advertised is positions for programmers using languages X, Y and Z, or when they see tweets and blog posts by hotshot programmers about frameworks A and B.

The entire industry focuses way too much on 'experience with tool X' as a proxy for 'technical skill Y'. It's a bit like asking a carpenter how many years of experience they have with DeWalt cordless nail guns rather than ask about their house framing skills.
Paywall Mirror: https://archive.ph/fThXR
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Super_NES may have some info, the SNES wasn't able to run Doom as it was written for the PC.

Of course, for many of the "it runs Doom" the reality is that whatever the device is (fridge, toaster, printer) it has a much MORE powerful computer than a 1990s 386.
I’m not sure this is the reason, but OOP is supposed to handle encapsulation of state. For example lazy initialization of an object can be done by proper encapsulation and interior mutability, while the outside view can be completely immutable.
Can you name all the tools you use to develop software? Just thinking about it makes me tired.
Extended release (XR) is very nice, since it avoids the dopamine peaks and valleys caused by individual doses. I will say, generic XR is usually pretty crappy, since it basically breaks the dose into two parts. Name brand XR is better because they construct the pill to where there is an actual extended release. Which sucks, because it's super expensive as a result.

What I do instead is two lower-dose XR pills per day. The four hits over about 8 hours seems to work pretty well for me.
> more and more I give up on trying to figure out how to watch a NHL or MLB game without setting up some VPN to get around the blackout restrictions

The point of this deal is that there are no blackout restrictions. Every game is on the service, regardless of where you are worldwide. If you want to watch MLS games, you subscribe to this Apple service, and whether you are in the parking lot outside the stadium or in Indonesia, the game is on it.
Theoretical underpinnings for a stablecoin pegged to price of electricity
Look into the SimonK firmware, and related, which can be flashed onto a large number of cheap, off-the-shelf brushless controllers to add (configurable) niceties like this, soft-starts, braking, etc.
> as is yelling “fire” in a crowded theater

A popular term from a decision that was overturned by the Supreme Court decades ago.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Use a shared memory region. For example: https://github.com/erikhvatum/py_interprocess_shared_memory_...
Is this comment section not a social medium? Or are you saying you don't take your own opinions seriously?
Well, you can get almost everything delivered. The only challenge is second-hand stuff, but this can be addressed with car sharing
This same guy - Randy Linden - got DOOM to run on SNES. I don't know where I read the original article - but the amount of skill it took for him to accomplish this was just incredible:

"DOOM on SNES happened thanks to the genius and determination of a single man: Randy Linden. The man had an admiration for the game and decided to port it to a mass-market machine so more players could enjoy it. Randy never had access to the source code or the assets from either the PC or the console version. He started from nothing."
I am godless and I will try to avoid death, but I know it's inevitable. So I enjoy life.

As per Stephen Covey, only some things are in my circle of influence, so I don't bother with what's outside.
For those looking to change something today, for themselves, consider indoor air pollution and your contribution to it inside your own home with various household "cleaning" chemicals and "fragrances".

I have been to several communities which are entirely fragrance free, including entire towns (rules for public spaces) but it's still behind the threshold of public awareness outside of "canaries" and their allies and a few NYTimes articles. Google is your friend on this issue, WHO and EPA have information pages about it.
I bought iA writer in 2012 or 2013, and in 2016 they renamed the app to "Writer Classic", and built a new "iA writer" app, which I then was supposed to buy again.

At this point I decided that the company doesn't deserve my money, and I use other text editors now. It was quite good if you like minimalism, and (if the above hadn't happened) I'd recommend it.

Not for $50 though, that is a silly price for an iOS text editor.

(Edit: fixed typo)
No, if you're making a law, you need to strictly define it. Otherwise we will create another fuzzy law that can be interpreted any way the judge sees.
I know people are often sceptical about Apple, but here is yet another example of them doing something that makes me go "hmm yes that's better than everyone else". They're still not back to their Jobs days in terms of uniqueness and innovation, but I am glad that Apple and their race-to-the-top philosophy exists in this market
Zoom out, down 85% since November
Little bit of an aside, but what's the use-case for Asana here?
Seems like you need to run a herd of McKinsey suits through your paper trail once a decade or so to really get away with this.
Firefox boosts privacy by giving Total Cookie Protection to all users by default
It makes sense if you know C or any architecture's assembly.

But it is an issue, and high level languages shouldn't just replicate it. In a high-level language `1 == TRUE` should be either an error or false.
Hey! I'm trying to plan out my career a bit and I was wondering if I could pick your brain a bit. There's an email that can get to me in my profile, if you're willing to give me some advice :)
They're spending $100 to invest in the growth of their company, which is quite different from "love spending money" or "begging for something to buy" to reduce their taxes.
Well yeah, and they lost 15 billion because they offered the subsidies to Millennials and Gen Z a group that was always aware of the subsidies and were more than happy to take advantage of stupidly low pricing and then bail.

Literally I’ve probably gotten thousands of dollars of value from companies who are salivating over customer acquisition and then knowingly stabbing them in the back by leaving when the free money dries up. It’s practically a badge of pride at this point to a customer of one of these companies with a negative net profit.

So they can’t really act all surprised pikachu that once they’re not selling dollars for 80¢ the people who knew they were doing that all along will bail and laugh.

Half our economy is just thinly veiled wealth transfers to the rich, zero shame in separating stupid VCs from their money.