skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software that exclusively has illegitimate uses has been shut down. Whether we agree that it is a good argument or not, it is definitely an argument people have made (that some types of guns are mainly designed to hurt people).

With software of course it is a little complicated because:

* it can be produced really easily in a distributed fashion over the internet by anonymous people in many jurisdictions, so there isn't always an obvious company or entity to sue

* most automation tools can be repurposed for malicious use (nobody would sue John Deere because their tractors can be armored and turned into pseudo-tank things)
From the link you posted:

> The first ruling states that, to the extent a user creates or “mines” a
> convertible virtual currency solely for a user’s own purposes, the user
> is not a money transmitter under the BSA.

That seems to leave rather a lot of open space IMO. For example, does a POS validator create convertible virtual currency? Clearly. But is it solely for their own purposes? Do they become a money transmitter as soon as they sell their crypto? Also, only part of miner income is the block reward; there are transaction fees as well. Is a miner allowed to accept fees from sanctioned individuals for providing payment validation services?

2014 was forever ago in crypto terms of course, so I can imagine that the viewpoints of regulators have evolved together with the technology.
For those unaware of the travesty that is MUMPS please consult the following article.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
> Destroying democracy isn't creating value.

Peter Thiel begs to differ.
How stable is it?

I've been screwed over twice by Angular, RXJS, etc. Every month we had to redo most of our work as the community kept deciding on new directions of correctness.
Ah, thanks. How does the forked chain reconcile with the rest of the network once the networks sync back up?
With only 2 types of pizza with the same base, I'm inclined to agree. But if there are more, or a strong potential for more (as there is with pizza), I'd argue that this factoring allows simpler implementation of new pizzas as well as easier comparison of existing pizzas.
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
So, like someone else suggested, it was plain false advertisement.
Researchers want to know about every single tree lining Denver’s High Line Canal
I’m wondering if 7065 articles is enough to train the model.
From wikipedia, Tata Group is worth $300B.

Tata Group owns 70% of TCS, which is worth $200B.

Also this: > more than 70% of Tata Sons' dividends were generated by TCS

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

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

TCS is around half the value of Tata.
> clearly these people just wanted an automated way to access their own data

GDPR and CCPA (and probably many other national/state privacy laws) forces facebook/instagram/etc to let you download and/or delete your data without using third party websites. Usually people self-compromise their accounts in exchange for money: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...
No, what's creating the problems is the gas and coal lobby that dug into the conserveratives (CDU) and social democrats (SPD) to prevent the Energiewende from completion by creating burocratic and economical hurdles.

For example, it was forbidden to have more than 50GW installed capacity of solar. By Law.

oh and also destroying the industries building the solar panels, therefore losing the entire market to China…
> My daughter’s trans identity started when the school taught a module on ‘identity’ during which they told a group of 11-year-olds that, if you feel uncomfortable in your body, it means you are transgender.

Yeah, I don't believe that happened.

Sex ed books explicitly say things like (quoting https://www.google.com/search?q=puberty+%22uncomfortable+wit... ) "As you go through puberty, you may feel uncomfortable with your body as certain parts are growing and changing shape.", "So the next time you have a “fat day” or feel uncomfortable with your body please remember that both men and women ... ", "Puberty causes a lot of changes to happen in a short amount of time. If you're uncomfortable with your body, you're not alone.", "On top of all that—maybe even more important, from a teen's point of view—it's just not fun to feel uncomfortable with your body."

Why isn't this parent complaining about the lousy quality of the sex education in the kid's school? Or covered this possibility long ago when teaching her about what might happen with puberty?

> Their official policy seems to be to just go with whatever the kids say without informing the parents.

Okay, and so? We had a kid in school who went by the nickname "Moose". Does anyone seriously think the teachers informed the parents of that?

> we are trying to protect our kids ... from having radical surgery on their developing bodies.

Just how many minors are getting 'radical surgery' without their parents consent? Who then is paying for it?
Very cool, I wish the UI would indicate which song I'm currently listening too, though.
Trieste seemed like a quiet coastal town. It has enough "old stuff" if you want to take day trips examining such but without it being overwhelming or overhyped. It's off the beaten path despite having decent international transit links. I also saw more than a few nice-looking ladies and I generally prefer women from mid-tier cities over the more cosmopolitan types.

I was only in Zagreb for a day. I took a train from LJ, then walked several kilometers to scope out a university with a Masters program that I was curious about. The city felt a little "rough", reminding me of Philadelphia but with much less urban decay. The staff and the students at the university were stacked with attractive and curious females. Being the only black guy in a 3-piece suit in probably a 1000km radius may have been a factor.

"unpolished, quiet, probably a little dangerous, but FULL of beautiful women". The Former Yugoslavia is kinda like the Thai or Philippine countryside, but with better infrastructure and weather.

Sometimes I wonder what my life would be if I had applied to the Bled School of Business, setup shop as a defense consultant in LJ, and rotated through a circuit of bachelor pads in LJ/Trieste/Zagreb....
*on Chinese Wikipedia
How much water savings is possible on high-country hay meadows?
"The ethics of sleeping with your employees aside (which reflects poorly on both parties)"

It should not. This new culture of no relationships at work is extremely off-putting. Work is one of the best places to meet potential spouses, even if there is a "power differential" between them. Some of the most healthy and happy relationships I've seen have been between people who got together under a so-called "power differential". The cases where it goes wrong (Weinstein) make the news but the majority of outcomes where there was genuine consent don't make the news.

I utterly despise the trend we are going towards where more and more organic relationships like this are judged to be morally wrong -- and such judgement is cast without knowing any details whatsoever -- and everyone is being herded into dating apps, being bred algorithmcally and are pitted against others of the same gender into a narcissistic and dystopian performance game.

If Elon and Shivon are both willing and consenting, then I say screw the uptight moral busy-bodies in this thread and elsewhere, trying to enforce their in vogue morality on two people who are harming nobody by doing what they've done, and good on them for doing what they both want in their own private lives and ignoring the judgemental onlookers. It's hard to work against unjust social scorn.
Looks like a perfect case for a builder pattern, that way you can support sensible defaults in just about every language.

default_pizza()
.with_crust(Crust::Cheesy)
.with_sauce(Sauce::Garlic)
.add_topping(Topping::ExtraCheese)
.cook()

I'm not going to weigh in on the DRY stuff because it's being discussed to death. I just liked thinking about how I would approach this problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea

"During the campaign, conventional weapons such as explosives, incendiary bombs, and napalm destroyed nearly all of the country's cities and towns, including an estimated 85 percent of its buildings"

No idea why they have bad infrastructure and hate the west
Like traffic fines in some European countries, but with a lottery system as well if the number of potential visitors is high enough, with no substitution of people to eliminate reseller market for lottery. Some national parks in the USA already have to limit visitors and state and county and local parks in California that I have seen during the pandemic had to put limits on people visiting and a lot of that was free. Most of the US solutions are based on first come first served or reservations with first come first served so equity of any kind is not addressed otherwise.
That's also why TTY is the name for abstract devices. Terminals are simulated teletypes.
"In France, top positions in the administration are usually filled by people that are technically excellent and have gone through the system of grandes écoles (ENS, ENA, X, ...)"

These are schools that train bueurocrats, "technically excellent" yes, at politics and public service but not engineers. For example the new energy transition minister has a business degree and went to ENA.

I'm not one to call people elites but it's strange how you are using this to differentiate between France and German
When it comes to people, relationships and life I remember the words of my mathematical optimization college professor:

Life is not an optimization problem.

Other words that also resonate with me are that sub-optimal solution is not provably optimal, but it's provably not the worst.

I live my life in accordance to those two statements.
Try on the Hololens 2, that is the experience of the future, just need miniaturization.

Replacing secondary monitors will be the business case for AR/VR near term, but everything will go this way. The digital and physical worlds are already merging.

Do you really think in 100 years, everyone will be carrying around a tiny screen that acts as a portal to the digital? Or will the digital float around the physical world.
A brief Google suggests the problems aren’t new and are very prevalent.
You really want to use drag and drop as a dev?

I've been a front and back-end web dev for 20 years. For front-end I almost always use vanilla CSS, vanilla JavaScript, and vanilla HTML by way of the back-end SSR template system.
People will always gamble when its other peoples money. And for those who did not find true inflationary shelters to soften the impact, things are going to get worse before they improve.

Admittedly, I too was stuck with some laggard energy ETFs for years thanks to being naive enough to listen to a banker once (tax event trap), and even that garbage has bounced back like a dead cat (I have to donate to VOKRA every-time I repeat that colloquialism).

We live in strange times... ;-)
I' redoing all the UI on my eCommerce app to be "server driven" across iOS, Android, Web.

I get near parity on design on all platforms yet keep full native speed on mobile.

The main issue with old widget system is how hard is to theme them, and theming is, I think, a major driver of the use of HTML/CSS (certainly on my business customers, where they demand the UI be colorized with their corporate stuff!).

Fix that (like with SwiftUI) and suddenly using native is more doable (bussines-wise).

Combining with server-driven architecture, so far my eCommerce app with 3 dozens of screens is made with 2 files of SwiftUI (app specific, plus a one-time cost in build the boilerplate), very doable to a solo guy to code all in 3 platforms.
Keep in mind that at 10% inflation in the US, 20% inflation worldwide, nominal earnings will probably be increasing in most companies. And eventually the stock market will build the money devaluation into the prices (i.e. nominal stock prices will go up)

So while the market might only be down 25% which isn't the biggest drop ever, 10-20% inflation on top that makes the actual drop larger. It also might mean the bottom in closer than it would normally be.
It happens to this day in many parts of the world (like mine).
I'd suggest watching these to help inform your decision and conversation:

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers -- https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. -- https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY
Because social consensus can be achieved on which Ethereum fork to use but not on every transaction that fork processes.
If we only replace coal with gas and leave climate change go awry, several order of magnitudes more will become inhabitable.
Wasn’t there a recent attack on solana/ solend, where the attacker was willing to lose more than 30% for the chance to cash out and crash solend at the same time ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacuna_(manuscripts)
who could've foreseen that a microtransaction-based multiplayer user-generated content platform designed for children (with the ability to cash out in-game currency to real money(?!)) could've led to these sorts of problems
> Facebook has hidden much of Instagram's content behind logins, so that makes most of it "not public".

1) It was public when the content was posted by its authors. Facebook locked it down retroactively, regardless of the author's intent.

2) A login requirement doesn't make it non-public, if making an account is trivial, and there are already hundreds of millions of accounts. Is the plot of Avengers: Endgame also not public, because it's locked behind a ticket purchase or subscription?
Congress or a state legislature could pass a law that says "No terms of service are ever enforceable" but to my knowledge no one has done that.

So, under the current state of the law whether or not a contract is enforceable depends entirely on what the terms in that specific contract are.

Unfortunately, this is yet another instance where the law has failed to keep up with technology. Contract laws (at least in the USA) date back long before anyone ever dreamed up the idea of a EULA or ToS. Our laws contemplate two or more parties with roughly equal bargaining power sitting down and hashing things out, and go from there.

Laws based on that assumption are a pretty poor fit for a world filled with EULAs and ToS but it's what we are stuck with at the moment.
What's the alternative? If a company is essentially a zombie, what is the ideal outcome?
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> The saddest thing about the whole affair is that it has a stifeling effect on new devs. Who would dare to write another systemd after that? Certainly not me.

Me! I want systemd capabilities in a small package. I also want it to not take over my machine like systemd did. I want to be able to compose individual daemons, not have the init subsume them.

I do like the idea of supervision systems, though, and I am glad systemd popularized (not invented) them. So since the alternatives are quite...user unfriendly (s6), I'm making my own.

It's called Ur (universal runner, also after the ancient city of Ur), and I'm building the dependency management for it, which will also go into a build system.

So why wasn't this affair stifling to me? It's because I see why people got angry: Poettering used politics to limit user choice. User choice has been a theme of Linux use for decades, and people were not happy about it. I'm not going to limit user choice, so I'm not worried about angering people in that way. I'm also not going to advertise and push Ur like systemd was. I'm going to advertise my build system, and Ur will be bundled with it, and I will help people use Ur, but I'm not going to push Ur because an init and supervision system is just too central to Linux machines to push it on people.

Actually, the dichotomy between build systems and init systems is a good example. If a distro choose a build system to base their package manager off of, and you are on that distro when they make the change, their choice does not affect your use of another build system, unless your build system does not come installed by default, in which case, you install it and then continue as normal.

But if your distro changes the init, you're in for a long period of relearning and retooling everything.

I think Poettering pushed systemd through politics because he wanted to have a popular piece of software, and that's only the real way to do it because distros adopt init systems, not users. I don't blame him for wanting a popular piece of software; I do too. That's why I have another piece of software to advertise, just so I don't have to advertise the init.

So why make it? Because I want it, and I'm on Gentoo, so I have the skills to switch out the current init (OpenRC). It's for me alone, and maybe for people who like it.
I think that misses the point.

If you reckon it's OK to leave waste lying around, especially in constrained economic and political circumstances, that's a legitimate point of view. Argue for that. But don't declare that "decommissioning" simply means something like "Do your best, and then be done with it". That's dishonest (I'm not accusing you personally of any dishonesty).

If "decommissioning" doesn't mean complete reversal of all harmful results of the operation of a plant, then we need a new word that does mean that.
> My dream would be that france, with help of germany and other eu countries would build new reactors with an overcapacity for france alone and would then provide this energy to other ue countries. Nuclear energy is a chance and is not mutually exclusive with other energies.

I think this will stay a dream. Aren't "modern" nuclear plants such as the EPR all a) very late and b) massively over budget?

The EPR project is basically a complete train-wreck.
I wish somebody would create some scheme to like self host the backend of an app.. like you launch Signal and it has a button to type in the name of your own server, where that server runs a VM that you configure and setup on your own PC locally then upload to AWS or something and has some facility to constantly report to you the hash of the memory and disk contents, along with some contract from AWS that states that Amazon cannot alter the results of the hash function results sent to you under any circumstances. Plus there would be some facility to validate the contents of what runs in that VM at any instant in time. Basically the idea is you can’t trust anybody at all. I guess pgp would maybe solve this for direct messaging?
This is awesome, i found a very simple dutch oven bread recipe.

Cant wait to try it.
It was possible to open recommended pages in a new tab. This is one of the things we tried at StumbleUpon's quasi-successor, Mix. It was significantly less engaging for new users than having everything in one tab. Some people who had used the real StumbleUpon didn't just find it less engaging; they hated it and sent hate mail to make sure we knew. It was a distinctly inferior experience.

You can no longer deliver the full StumbleUpon experience through a web browser, at least not legally. The tightening technical constraints make it impossible to replicate what we could do 10 years ago. Of course now it's also harder for someone to enroll your machine in a botnet because you played a game, or steal your passwords because you installed a browser extension, so those things are to the better. But increasing attention to security and control also make it harder to offer "fun and weird" experiences of various kinds.
Disagreeing with a content producer's distribution methods is not a moral justification for theft.
Something like that but in the clothes of a XPS (but not as thin for the sake of thinness by sacrificing cooling). I'd eat it right away.
Seems like France nuclear power has it's own problems

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-p...
I would love to hear your explanation for that claim. They have publicly entered legal battles over compliance with LE requests.

The government doesn’t have the resources to compromise every online service. There’s money on the line for entities like proton.
The Worst, Best Prime Minister
I have. Twice, actually. Both times when I reported directly to the CEO. But the rest of my career has been better. I've learned not to try to be too high on the org chart, and decided that even if you are the #1 tech dude in a small company, you really need a buffer between yourself and the CEO.
Boris Johnson set to step down with tech legacy in tatters
How is technically solved? We are talking enormous timelines for which we have to guarantee safe handling of the waste. Every try until now has proven to be inadequate.

So we are in the situation where we live with old powerplants that are not up to standard and no way to handle that but we will definitely be in the future?

„Can‘t happen“ is always the argument until it does and it‘s a difference if we are talking about something that will be over in short time or will remain a problem forever. But my point was more in the direction of how to handle that, if the solution is bury it and move far away from it, it‘s not something that can be scaled.
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We're not even really feeling any real economic pain right now.

Still waiting for the first month of negative employment numbers.

That is when things are likely to start getting interesting. Right now we're still in the warm-up act.
I've said it before here, but Facebook is pretty damn well-integrated into society in many European countries. People scoff at it for being boomer-tech these days, but truth be told, I had to check what parts of FB I regularly use, and here's the list:

- Messenger to communicate with people

- Hobby groups

- Buy / sell. Both individual groups/pages, and the FB marketplace

- Community (my hometown) historical groups, for pictures, stories / research, etc.

- Community / town information page. Basically the town bulletin board.

- Community groups for events, concerts, and similar.

And sure, there are alternatives for most of those things - but many of the alternatives from yesteryears migrated to FB and similar platforms, because running a forum was too tedious, and what not. And there are lots of older people that prefer to just use FB, now that they're so invested in it.

In short, FB has become a one-stop shop for many things these days.

And, I guess this will sound weird - but it is probably the only place I can still find pictures and stuff of the people I knew that have passed away.
Boris Johnson should go immediately
If this were commonly true, who are the dumbasses buying companies from private equity funds, and why would they continue to buy them? And, whether your statement is true or not, why should I (or anyone else) feel bad for anyone who would buy back a company that has been gutted and has no future? This is business, people are supposed to be professional and to differentiate opportunity from disaster.

Lastly, "Cutting long term viability for short term gains." actually sounds somewhat noble. Why should a company exist for 50 years when all of its usefulness (i.e. profit) can be extracted in 5? Let everyone move on to something else productive. If you owned an oil well you could exhaust in 5 years, you'd do it, not sip at it for the next 50.
Ignore advice that doesn't give a rationale. <-- Like that

Don't be afraid of Tailwind. It does not require NPM/Node. Utility CSS can be very helpful. If it works for you, tailwindcss is a great tool. By all means, give Basscss, etc a look as well.