skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've chosen a good analogy to back up the point I'm making. Passwords aren't rhetorical devices, they're functional ones. Not only that, but they're imperative. If you present the proper password, the computer has no choice but to accept it and grant access, consequences be damned. Technical writers have appropriated the term 'privilege' in this context -- should that be submitted for revision as well?

Verbal offense, on the other hand, cannot be given, only taken. The choice to be hurt by words like "master" and "slave" is entirely up to the listener. Any other position literally disempowers that listener. There is, or should be, no obligation on a writer's part to avoid such terminology. To borrow from another comment that probably got its poster banned, we are bordering on indulging mental illness here.

Anyway, it's OT for the article at hand. This whole debate just seems like a goofy distraction from real injustice, is all.
> The US justice system is explicitly based on not considering someone guilty of a crime until proven guilty.

For a criminal conviction, the standard is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".

For sentencing, judges can consider evidence under a different standard, "preponderance of the evidence". As prosecutors introduced evidence of the murder-for-hire allegations in trial, the judge was permitted to consider it.
I think this happened today at somepoint: https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1546518198148808708

But, I decided to link to the bloomberg article since it gives a better context.

To my non-expert intuition, it seems a double-edge. Currency devaluation brings the cost of European manufactured G&S cheaper and brings a boost to the economy, and hurts US exports. On the other hand, Bloomberg cites devaluation of Euro would bring more investments in the US as it is now a parity.
The worst thing is, with the EU DSA coming in, a lot of this is probably completely unnecessary. So it creates extra bureaucracy, and gives the UK establishment a new boot to place on the necks of those that carry others' speech (and also pose a threat to traditional media), for very limited gain.
From what I know of Trump he is very anti-drug and is a classic moralist (imposing his anti-drug morals by force on others) (despite himself engaging in behavior such as adultery that many people consider immoral). After all he did put that Mississippi guy who thinks the War on Drugs needs to be magnified significantly in as his attorney general. And he (allegedly) is good friends with Eric Ericson who (as a result of his son dying from overdose) has a personal jihad against opioids and wants to throw doctors in jail for prescribing them in good faith, and doesn't care one wit that innocent law abiding people in pain are suffering from his advocacy. I would think Trump is the last person on earth who would be sympathetic to Ulbricht.
Theatres were a thing back then. But ye concerning TV you are right. My best example of that is playing Ocarina of Time on a big modern TV ... it was so much more impressive on a small ctr.
I started taxi driving in early 2012. I'd drive my little 1994 Honda Civic Hatchback to the taxi yard and check out a cab for 12 hours or 24 hours. It was a pretty good deal: the taxi company took care of complying with Arizona's minimal taxi regulations, provided insurance and customers. I could do anything I wanted with their taxi, I just had to pay them at the end of the shift. I always made money, even on my 4th day when the dispatch system went down. On that day I found some people in downtown who'd scheduled a cab to go to the Frank Lloyd Wright museum in Scottsdale. The taxi was free that day. After the 'new driver' $20 off coupon the taxi company actually paid me to drive their taxi around.

Uber arrived in Phoenix ... in 2013 or 2014? I remember sitting at the Cardinals' football stadium. Another of the company's drivers had gotten an uber fare. He said something like, "it's not that cheap". We didn't realize at the time that what the driver got was not what the passengers paid (that is, drivers' pay was subsidized).

Things started to get bad for us taxi drivers in 2015. I remember sitting in old town Scottsdale. Two ladies were waiting for their ride-share driver to show up. A "gypsy-cab" driver (someone not associated with one of the big taxi companies - who'd gotten a taxi meter and insurance, and complied with Arizona's minimal licensing) asked if they needed a ride. The ladies said, "you're too expensive." A Honda Accord showed up, with two ladies in the front... I figured the female driver didn't feel safe driving around by herself late at night, and recruited her friend to copilot with her.

Cars are expensive. I'd made enough to upgrade my old honda civic to a Uber-acceptable Ford Fusion by ... 2013? (Truthfully my father paid for most of the vehicle, I took out a $5,000 loan.)

When I did the calculations on driving my Fusion for Uber, the numbers just didn't work. I figured I'd need a transmission sooner or later, and the miles really add up quickly when you're driving. We'd put 100,000 miles a year on our taxi-Priuses. The early years of 'ride sharing' was an exercise in Wall Street tricking people who wanted nice cars into wearing out their personal vehicles for barely minimum wage.

I took to blogging about my fares, initially at kuro5hin.org [rip]. Lots of stories... reposted them at https://www.TaxiWars.org/

Had this recent comment about the taxi industry get a couple upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065345 ("The company had economy of scale in their fleet operations that was hard to beat: mechanics who knew the Prius like the back of their hand, boneyards (for parts), connections in the automotive industry.")

On the one hand, Uber's software was better than our 'electronic taxi dispatch v1.0' system [0]. But Arizona's taxi regulations were so incredibly minimal, that it wasn't very fair for Governor Ducey, et al, to throw us under the bus.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVmm3kECLxw / http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html
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No more than someone can stop their identical twin from doing porn.
Precisely. What cannot be said will find an outlet elsewhere. We'll soon find that having some potty mouths are far better than the alternatives.
Just ignore it - if everyone ignores it it will be impossible to enforce.
People in Europe know all the big American cities and are well aware of the political differences. If someone asks where you are from, don't tell them you are from the US, tell them you are from NY/Chicago/LA/SF/whatever. There is a pretty decent chance that it will lead to a nice friendly conversation that you'll never get with an "I'm from the US" answer.
Another problem is that engineers also tend to estimate only the time for original implementation, not for design, testing, documentation, bug fixes, meetings, etc.

A long time ago I read about some research that showed that the original implementation makes up about 1/6 of the total time spent on the task. This has been roughly the case in my experience too -- so now I budget for at least 6× estimated implementation cost, more if it's a tricky problem.
Ukrainian Poetry Has Been Speaking to the Experience of War for Years
There's a difference between asking an expert for their opinion and commensurate respect for the effort it takes to provide it, and demeaning an expert because you dont like their answer. I sense that OP was indicating that they felt undermined and attacked for their honest take. Being attacked for your best effort is also toxic
1) The point isn't to regulate the internet, it's to regulate what UK citizens can see.

2) The great firewall was complicated by the design goal of accessing some, but not all, foreign websites. The UK could accomplish their goals in a day or two by just cutting all the underwater cables. That sounds like an impossible crazy thing, but so did Brexit a couple years ago.
I'm literally staring at the superseding indictment right now. Page 7. Go look. He was charged, and those charges were not dropped. I don't know what title you're referring to.
Contractors are the first to go when the economy goes south, because there's no legal protection to the relationship and getting rid of it is as simple as letting it lapse. It's a huge pain to fire an employee even for cause. Without cause (layoffs), you usually have to pay severance, have your unemployment insurance premiums go up, and deal with a morale hit to people left behind.
Having done both time-based and food-based restrictions, I would say that both can work for some people but won't work for others. And I think the details matter a ton. E.g., I've happily done months of fasting where my eating window is circa 7a-1p. But I spent a month trying a switch to a 12p-6p so I could eat dinner with people and it was hell. I got mean in the 10a-12p range and that did not improve over the month.
I researched this for my Chase Saphhire Reserve card, which uses Visa as its bank.

They lock in exchange rates for the whole day, based on rates yesterday. Don't know precisely what hour it's locked in, or if it's an average for the whole day, or some other calculation.

I think I calculated that they are charging ~1-2% premium on top of the market rate. CSR has no fees beyond that for foreign currency purchases.
That's just as much a refutation of your comment as it is of mine. Remember saying this?

>>> Sentencing has always had unprovable stuff considered.

But still, looking outside this trial, sentences being handed out based on acquitted conduct is very much a thing that happens, and it shouldn't be allowed.
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FWIW, I've been running my own synapse server for over two years. It's been IPv6-only since the beginning and I haven't had any problems.

IPv4 servers that can't federate with me can go federate with some other dual-stack server that does.
Another interpretation is, that the drought is part of reverting to a trend line that is not as convenient to what we've been trying to do in the SLC area, as the past couple of centuries were.
Those charges were dropped[0]. Maybe because there was nothing to them and they were just used to poison the well. Maybe the FBI agents who had access to the DPR account who stole bitcoin planted it in the first place[1].

[0] https://reason.com/2018/07/25/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire...

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/rogue-silk-road-agent-admits-to-ste...
The Internet believes a bunch of stuff about this case that is trivially refuted by reading the actual case documents.
I actually cant imagine being this selfish. If i was 85 and living in a nursing home, the idea of society protecting my last couple years of life at the expense of millions of children's childhood seems insane.

never mind that fact that covid policies made those peoples lives a living hell anyway. Absolutely crushing loneliness because visitors werent allowed and they werent even allowed to see their families as they were dying. Unfathomably cruel, and for what purpose?
Or fork it and implement your feature. Even make a PR if you really think that something the main product should have.
The sneaky secret with this device is that it is unnecessary.

The pre colonized blocks they are offering could be placed in a Tupperware and would probably work as well.

This is a cool way to display that, though.
I completely fail to understand.

What is the moral reason for saying that a company can store, use, and profit off of data, with a kill switch that {delete, hides, obscures, encrypts} that data when the government comes with a warrant, or when the courts have authorized discovery for a lawsuit?

Isn't that just rife for abuse? "Sorry, we don't have any records of dumping hexavalent chromium. The file deletion we did 10 second ago must have included them, if we had them." That would make for a very different Erin Brockovich movie.

More to the point, why would encryption be okay, while deletion is not?

Even more to the point, what judge (or jury!) would accept that difference?
> Buying/storing disks requires a lot of space

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/924197-REG/case_logic...

or

https://www.amazon.com/Snap-N-Store-Double-Storage-6-125-SNS...

> .. and hardware many people do not own anymore

https://www.amazon.com/Blu-Ray-Player-External-Laptop-Burner...

~3 months of Netflix standard gets you storage for 100s of discs plus a drive to play them on.
It would be nice if those who didn't vote actually affected the power of the parties. Not voting is a valid choice, it says, "All the options you gave me suck. Try again." Otherwise you run into a system where people start trying to calculate the delta between two evils and think we're making progress.
People are a lot better about sunscreen too (and it's a lot more available). As a kid in the 80s we'd run around without even a thought to sun exposure, or go to the pool for hours, and come back red as lobsters; nobody thought anything of it.
The CDC summary I link to elsewhere in the comments points to numerous studies showing very little spread by grade school age children.

> They are basically a tunnel for spreading from one family to another

This wasn't and generally hasn't been the case for children under 12 as the aforementioned research points out. Spread generally goes from adults to each-other and to children and rarely in the other direction. It was a very poor rationale for closing schools, especially elementary schools. These kids have missed out on critical milestones in social and psychological development that far outweigh any known risk they face from COVID.
Are you on the SuS Slack?
Education in the broadest sense isn’t all positive. It comes at a cost of time and money. There are certainly institutions and endeavors that might not have a yield on the time and money spent. For profit colleges capitalizing on student loans are not a good thing for society.
It takes vastly less energy to keep pipes from freezing than it does to keep indoor temperatures at ~70f.

If supplies where dropping 80% Germany would be facing real issues, but that's not the scale we are talking about.
It's not meant to be good, it's just meant to spy on you and everyone you know.
"free software" is still misleading and "free as in speech" is hardly accurate.

They both fail to convey what it's really about.
1. GCC has more backends than LLVM.
2. Competition is good in general.
3. I expect this will trigger inconsistencies between GCC and rustc; because Rust doesn't really have a specification. Which will force both parties to discuss and solve them.
Facebook will be easier than what you mentioned.

Napster took off because it meant not spending 10 or 15 pounds or dollars or euros on a CD. THhe DRM came later, and what really killed DRM was the change in business model to iTunes with individual songs, the transformation of the 'star' from a face on a CD to a bigger product.
They would need to change their storage format to be able to distinguish between NULL and empty string, and probably a lot of in-memory structures and even more code logic as well. It would be hugely expensive to support both.

Oracle introduced VARCHAR2 in the 90s(?) to mean “Oracle semantics” as opposed to VARCHAR which is documented as “may change to standard SQL semantics in a future version”. However I don’t think they’ll ever materialize that distinction.
Subtle cheating is always hard to automatically detect. You can't tell with high confidence that someone used an engine for one move every couple games for instance because sometimes humans find those rare moves on their own. Thankfully a lot cheaters seem to have an ego that pushes them to cheat more and more though so they tend to get weeded out.
I'd like to point out that sometimes a "regular" generic is not an option. For instance, anyone who has a sensitivity to one of the non-active ingredients in a medication is going to jump through a lot of hoops to find medication they can take - including decreased outcomes because of "noncompliance". It is very hard to get approval for compounded medication either through private insurance or through medicare or medicaid. I'm thinking specifically of microcrystalline cellulose, but there are other problematic fillers used in medication.
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That is part of the problem. I want to permanently buy records of older quality movies. Instead of offering me that, they want to sell me jurassic rehash 7.
Bullcrap. There is nothing to wiggle out of because they don't have any actual obligation. Terms of service are a mutual courtesy and not a legal contract. They cannot have you arrested or fined for posting swears on their Christian Minecraft server but they can ban you.
Doesn't GCC support more architectures than LLVM? Wasn't that the issue a while back with the Rust dependency that a cryptography module for Python introduced?
I paid $100 extra for a PS5 with a disc reader, and buy physical copies of all my games, for exactly this reason. Not only does it work out to be cheaper in the long term (because you can resell the games), I can also use it completely offline and get to actually OWN the content I paid for.

Sadly it's seeming more and more like this is the last console generation that will have this support.
Hah, I didn't catch that!
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>I struggle to codify what “coding as a craft” is.

It means different things for different people, but for me, it means:

Step one is getting it to work, step two is making is as simple/clean as possible (most people stop at step 1 it seems).

Take time to fix issues / sloppy code when you see it.

Ideally you want the codebase to look like it was all written by one person.

Carefully balance maintainability vs speed or cleverness.

Refactoring is a necessity and should be done periodically. Same with tuning.

Take the time to name your methods/classes/variables as accurately, verbosely and consistently as possible.

Test your shit for bugs before you give it to QA, for the love of everything holy. If QA sends something back, you should feel a little embarrassed.

Take the time to write useful comments. Focus on intent, that way the next person can know if the code is doing what it's supposed to or not.

KISS, DRY, YAGNI.

The best test is when I come back to my own code I wrote 6 months ago and if I say, "who the hell wrote this shit?!" and it's me, I need to clean it up.
You have tried Scala or Clojure?
Respectfully, I'm not straw-manning nor am I shifting any goal posts. Whether or not you agree with my arguments, I believe I am making them as consistently I can and in good faith.

I'm using video games are an easy example because it's simple to point to a specific gameplay bug that every player will encounter in those boxed games. Those kinds of experiences aren't as well documented for older productivity software. I understand you don't like video games but you should be able to understand the concept of my argument, for all purposes of our discussion these games can be considered to be generic software.

My overarching argument revolves around my belief that the bad things about software revolve around its business model, not from its delivery method in isolation.
Got a copy of Stratego (one of the old-style ones with descending rank, as pleases the gods) so I could show my board game loving girlfriend one of my favorite games from when I was a kid. She hated it.
I'll admit, I haven't read the entire article - but the obvious question to me - using your example of HN - what authority does the UK have over a website hosted in another country at all? They can pass all the rules they want, but how do they propose to enforce them on a company that does not operate in the UK?

If that was possible, wouldn't CCP or Russia be ordering websites all over the world to shutdown to control information they don't like be visible?
1) Spit droplets is much less of a problem than aerosols. You can solve that problem well with keeping distance. Aerosols are a bigger problem - they travel further and linger.

All the studies I've seen so far correlate CO2 with aerosol levels. If spit droplets are a concern, I have no idea.

2) Covid studies so far have shown that there's a minimum level of viral load required for an initial infection, and they have also shown that there's a correlation between initial dose and severity of infection. So, yes, how many virus copies were there originally matters very much.

In general, this has been explored in a large number of studies. I'd suggest at least a cursory research before claiming issues that "render the data near meaningless".
Seems relevant:

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.875440864.2771/raf,750x1000,...

Signs like this are so common at mechanics' shops that they're practically a cliché.

Text:

$100 / hr minimum

$150 / hr if you watch

$175 / hr if you help

$200 / hr if you worked on it first

$250 / hr if you tell me how to do my job
Lists are absolutely not monads. There are implementations of interfaces on lists using monads, but a monad is a specifically designed term, that requires a lifting function and monadic combinators which are simply not part of the definition of the list.

The understanding of the monad as a wrapper with a combinator equivalent to function composition is simply correct.
You could conceivably implement a fully encrypted p2p social network over WebRTC within the browser. You would obtain the app by simply visiting a website that hosts it making it nearly unblockable since anyone could stand up a page. Public key crypto could allow you to verify your identity or send private messages across the network. The hardest part is establishing the initial connection but since this can be done with a variety of methods I'm sure a sufficiently creative person could come up with something fun and easy for people to use. Maybe some form of steganography where you post an image to your social feed and others can point their phone's camera at it and get the SDP offer and then post the answer as a reply or something. A more automated method would probably be better but that's left as an exercise to the reader.
This makes a lot of sense. Facebook as a brand is synonymous with lots of negative connotations, so treating it as a legacy site that still generates a lot of revenue while focusing on new tech (AR/VR) and other services (Instagram/whatsapp) makes sense.
https://archive.ph/nIgsm
" Even then, while access to GPGPUs is now pretty much universal, GPGPU programming still feels like it is in the stone ages. Despite being a thing for over 10 years."

I'd be interested in reading an article from someone who has been doing it for 10 years as to why that is the case. I have theories but nowhere near enough direct experience to evaluate.

(My hypothesis is that the extreme parallelism makes it so very tiny mistakes have catastrophic performance impact by introducing accidental serialism, and as a result, it is very difficult to create an "easy to use" framework that doesn't abstract too much away and make it trivially easy to introduce even a tiny such error and crash performance. We actually make this mistake all the time in conventional CPU code, it just generally just costs you small integer multiples of performance instead of large integer multiples of performance.)
'Cutting' is extreme but the spooky filtering that is almost certainly already in place certainly isn't, as Chinese citizens are all too aware
I clicked your video and it was run of the mill protest, crowd control, and milling around the rotunda taking selfies.
Like everything else, they either already had pounds to sell, or they went to the market (ie, another seller) to buy pounds so they could resell them.

The currencies themselves are merely entries in a (bank) ledger for an account denominated in the given currency.

The same with shares, options and other intangibles; they are records in institutions that are empowered to hold them.
A good reason not to use it then.
How is it renting? You purchase a license. At no time do you ever transfer this license over to someone else to "return the rental license."