skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mainstream browsers & spec authors sneer at & detest userscripts, wish they'd never been a thing. https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/issues/444

I agree. This is simple & stupid a problem. It's grossly anti-user. But today, security rules, and security sees all the misdeeds of users, and those who would prey on them, and they have no emapathy left for creativity and fun. There's no moral-value-party left anywhere that defends user freedom, that is pro end-user-hacking.

The Manifest V3 (MV3) catastrophe is still scheduled for 4 months out, even though there is still only 1/3rd the work done thay it would take to allow GreaseMonkeyTamperMonkey/et-cetera to live. The new browsers are actively unwinding power & possibility, forever trying to undo the permissiveness that it had (ex: CORB, and now ORB). The standards authors & browser makers are infected with deep deep fear. Certainty & closedness is winning.
Which ones do you have in mind? Making the argument the other way round seems a lot easier, for instance, wheels and axles weren't inspired by existing biology.
Wow, the sarcastic and judgemental language in the FAQ for a perfectly legitimate question says it all. It's borderline "how can your little brain not understand that..." and yet fails to answer it. Another "magnets, but this time it works" perpetual motion BS.

Quote:

> But I've been told that free energy is impossible because of the Law of Thermodynamics.

> Does your mental flexibility allow for the scenario where the KryonEngine doesn't actually break this law? Can you imagine that there actually is no energy "coming out of nowhere"? Can you imagine that this "new" energy has in reality always been there, and we simply haven't been able to perceive it, because we haven't been taught how and where to look and measure? Don't stay trapped inside mental prison cells somebody else has built for you.
I guess my perspective would be "I'm so thankful my grandmother put this money into savings that grew over time for the benefit of my child, while also feeling somewhat disappointed that the growth wasn't larger". That comes from many years of experience (both positive and negative) in investment.
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> If you're wading int moral relativism, then what is the point, really?

Moralizing geopolitics is the domain of children and warpigs
I have a little trouble remembering all the details, and I'm not sure I can speak to where things are now. Maybe it's more helpful to mention where I thought we got off-the-rails with building our own stuff?

- unit tests with ephemeral dbs

- db migrations

- ORM library

Many of these things exist in Java and in retrospect, were probably the way to go. One other pain point was that Clojure libraries would stop being updated, lag too far behind the java libs, or lack features. I remember this being the case with Google Cloud and AWS, and I think Elastic Search. I remember a number of times just completely swapping out the Clojure wrapper lib for the java lib.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. This is a rather superficial explanation. I'm curious about the details of political discourse around the law when it was signed.
> How many aggrieved ex-spouses, neighbors, and coworkers would turn to violence to solve their problems?

This isn't the real problem, most people aren't murderous, they're kind. The problem isn't retaliation against mundane grievance, which is taken up by people with no sense of proportion and consequence anyway, but the response to crime.

If a hit-and-run drunk driver runs over my child, and the legal system refuses to punish them, I (and most people) are going to take on that punishment as my responsibility. I may not carry it out, but if I don't I'll take the guilt for not punishing that drunk driver to my grave. There's a ton of pressure on me to hurt that person. After I do, their loved ones may retaliate against me in the same way. If I fail and I'm killed myself, that raises the level of grievance among my family and friends. Even people on the sidelines have to become involved.
Ten years ago it felt like a huge gamble that I dropped out of the computer science program at college and just started writing code. But based on all I’ve heard, and based on my career experience, as long as I can write code halfway competently and communicate well with others, it sounds like I’m going to have a job.

It really helps alleviate hints of imposter syndrome, honestly.
Why do you so strongly believe that you know what is going on in China and Russia better than the respective people? What is your source of knowledge?
There are more persons in a lab than only high qualified researchers. Cleaners for example. And one bat might not be much, but if your job is to dispose 20 or 50 of them and you can just go a few hundred meters and sell them to a vendor for a few bucks?

I don't say that is what actually happened there, I just think that this would be one possibility.
That's not representative though.

Imagine if the whole world refused to use any car older than 2 years... how many cars would have to be made every year? even if that made any economic sense, it certainly doesn't make any environmental sense. You might not think of it this way but those people you know are privileged, they would not be able to get a new car less than every 2 years unless there was a 2nd hand market. Cars need to last.
Not only that, but so much attention is on Tor and there are irreconcilable problems with its architecture.

People should consider using I2P instead, which didn't come out of government research and has superior anonymity.

https://geti2p.net

The downside is it doesn't have a browser bundle like Tor, but it's possible to configure Tor Browser to use it. Turning off scripting all together is really a better approach no matter which tool you use, be it I2P or Tor.
Why do you say that? BBC has a rich history of engaging in disinformation campaigns, from the Cold War to Syria and Ukraine.
I grew up in a place and time where everyday life was permeated by a constant threat of violence. What I can tell you from my experience is that idea of minor retaliatory violence is kind of ridiculous.

The thing about violence and retaliation is that it can and will escalate very fast. What are you going to do when you tap them on the knuckles and they come back blasting? My advice is that you should avoid violence unless backed into a corner and all other options are exhausted.
I don’t grade on a curve. Each person’s grade is independent of each other student. There is no competition for grades as such. Me sucking as a teacher is a different matter.

My question to you. Given what I implied about pay and what I said about apathy of my bosses on this issue what makes you think you’d respond differently than me after 25 years in the system?
In fairness solar efficiency was below 10% in the 1970s, while the world was already producing many gigawatts of nuclear energy at that time.

It's not as though Germany could have 'decided' in the 1970s to have 2022 technology. Sure, increased investment at the time may have sped up the development of renewables, but it still wouldn't be fast. Science doesn't quite work that way.
Did you use the same prompt for all the images? How much cherrypicking did you do? How many images did you generate to get this set?
The scene (actual video footage) of him testifying in front of congress was so amazing I wouldn’t have believed it actually happened if I saw it in a dramatized movie. I tried to find a clip on YouTube but I can’t - it’s worth watching this documentary if only to watch him actually convince a skeptical senator to fund PBS.
The other problem is that the anti nuke crowd had a point back in the day - they were wrong about Nuclear not being safe theoretically - but they were right about a few asshole corporations doing things too cheaply.
that has opposite correlation with wealth, atleast in the west.
since C++20 you can get around this

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/no_uni...
Excerpts from letters to Celsius bankruptcy judge
> Counterintuitively, best way is glassing it and dumping it on the abyssal plane in the sea.

That's how you make Godzilla!
It's not the US Military generally that is held up as an example of nuclear safety, it's specifically the US Navy's track record for operating nuclear reactors. Hanford was a big mess, but that wasn't run by the Navy. Bikini Atoll was bad, but that wasn't caused by a mistake operating a nuclear reactor.

Your supposition that reactor accidents smaller than Chernobyl might be hidden from the public doesn't seem well grounded either; we know the US Army fucked up the operation of the SL-1 reactor, resulting in 3 deaths. Here's a big list of nuclear fuckups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid... Some of those severe, some minor. I don't see much reason to believe that substantial naval reactor incidents have been omitted from that list. Such accidents are hard to hide from long, particularly if it means a bunch of sailors got irradiated or a ship had to be taken out of service for decontamination / repair. The incidents on that list bracket the sort of mystery accident you're supposing; it lists accidents much less severe and much more severe.
I agree that it's a potentially slippery slope, which would need to be carefully addressed and constantly balanced. Not all laws need to be eternal, some just apply to the current social status.

I think your principles also come from us not defining any clear separation between minor violence (a slap, a shove, anything that completely heals within a week and is a singural episode) and major violence (breaking a bone, acid attacks, etc) -- in the same way there is a distinction between asault and battery.
Request a current account statement. I would hope it would partially show what the money is invested in.
Many causes can be attributed to the disaster.
VCs Squandered Billions on Scooter Startups. Investors: They’re Worth a Pittance
Cost is a larger issue than proliferation. Civilian nuclear reactors care a lot more about fuel costs than military reactors do and highly enriched uranium just costs more.
Today I learned that Word files are just zipped XML and can be edited directly in a text editor if you change the extension from .docx to .zip.
you mean like the literal tons of radioactive waste sent into the atmosphere by burning hydrocarbons?
I must admit, I do not understand why (some) people seem to get so excited about the latest "Web Framework" for Clojure, over and over again.

Yes, there seem to be a lot of them but they are mostly failures -- they rarely get any traction, and the creators often quickly move on (several to other tech altogether).

I don't think those people would have directed their efforts into other things -- libraries -- to any degree that would mitigate some of the other points in your article. People tend to work on what interests them and if someone wants to design and build a web framework, persuading them not to isn't going to encourage them to work on a "more useful" library I suspect.

I think the abandoned API library problem is real but partly because they were wrong-headed in the first place: Clojure is designed as a hosted language, specifically to take advantage of the vast, mature ecosystem that already exists on the JVM. When we got started with Clojure at work over a decade ago, it was common to see "all-Clojure" as a mindset and reject interop as a solution. I think that has changed a lot over the years and people now leverage interop and Java libraries as a "first solution" these days, perhaps with a thin wrapper around those libraries just to provide a more fluid, more functional approach.

At work, we've certainly taken a conscious decision to switch away from "all-Clojure" where there are mature Java libraries that are reasonable to use via interop (unless, of course, the "all-Clojure" equivalent is very well-maintained and really adds a lot of value).
There are many societies you could suggest as a model to improve what Japanese culture lacks. The UK is not one of those.

Urban UK is a crumbling non-society, plagued by social disgregation, ghettos, wanton violence, relentless vandalism, shocking rates of theft, and significant amounts of abuse on women and minors. Compared to urban Japan, it's a Middle-Age hellhole.
Does it matter? (Hint: no)

Their specific lies are leveraged to harm us (the west) therefore something should be done about them.

Gone should be the days of giving autocracies special privileges in the media while they maintain a tight grip on their own.
Yes, these are two different meanings of "stable".

In Clojure, "stable" means that your code remains working after the upgrades of its dependencies.

In Python, "stable" means that the dependencies themselves remain upgraded.

I am not suggesting that one thing is better than the other. What I meant, is that one thing is more attractive than the other for an average developer.

Currently, there are very few Clojure libraries from a decade ago that are still being actively maintained today.
It’s the blatant racism in the post that really takes the cake here.
Is it true that all children are equally capable of learning?
“ Then, Zhao envisions ultrasound stickers could be packaged and purchased by patients and consumers, and used not only to monitor various internal organs, but also the progression of tumors, as well as the development of fetuses in the womb.”

It would be amazing to be able to easily ultrasound the womb at any time. I get so anxious in the first months of pregnancy since I cant yet feel kicks to make sure the babys still okay. But if I could continuously check… well, it’d either squash my anxiety entirely car or amplify it to the extreme! Either way, it’d be a game changer.
there's a similar swindle in Zone 1 boroughs e.g. Pimlico for "communal areas" - strips of ~20x100m gardens behind 2m high iron railings dotted amongst the eyewateringly overpriced townhouse squares. the waiting lists are around 15 years, by which time your housebound puppy is dead and your asthmatic newborn is still wondering what a flower looks like IRL. you either have to wait for the greedy elderly bastards to die sooner or move out of London altogether
It’s funny because in Canada/US the saying is: “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”

I’ve never ever seen “replaced” being used instead of “grease”.
Keep in mind that all of the mainstream browsers are funded by companies that make money off of advertising, so you should always look for ulterior motives from them.
It’s the case with .docx modern files. Older .doc files were binary (memory dump).
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What is Farer?
ESA scaling back design of X-ray astronomy mission – SpaceNews
Your argument amounts to "Rust prevents X, so X is important. Rust cannot prevent Y, therefore Y is less important."
That may have been the reason for mothballing the old ship designs, but why weren't the new ones nuclear powered? That seems to be independent of the missile launcher design.
Dijjer P2P HTTP cache (2004)
Good. Paperclip maximizer is working as intended.
> The latter sentence is predicated on the existence of a society that ignore rules, I'm allowing that such societies exist but the context is not applicable to the average Western drivers.

It was a counterfactual hypothetical.

>There are three populations at work: * People who will not run the red light because they respect the rule of law * People who would run the red light, but don't because they fear the consequences of breaking the law * People who will run the red light regardless of consequences

This is missing the 4th and most important population:

* People who will not run the red light because it's likely to kill themselves and/or others.

That's the population I rely on.

> They don't consider in the moment the risk to their own and others lives, because they think their skill or a sense of invincibility prevents such bad outcomes from happening.

Do you have any empirical basis for this claim? Does it come from personal experience? We can't read minds, except our own.

I think it's bizarre to say that risk is not a factor, since nearly all red light runnings occur right after the yellow, when the relative risk of a crash is lowest, rather than in mid-cycle, when the risk of a crash is highest. Unless the streets are deserted. Hardly anyone ever thinks they're invincible enough to thread the needle of present perpendicular traffic.

Even when the streets are deserted, red light runners don't just plow through mid-cycle. They treat the red light like a stop sign.
> Simple and cheap privacy, yet most people can't be bothered to do it.

Most people don’t have businesses registered.
That's the first time I heard of Cocoa as "Java for kids". How cute!
I've been a Dart developer for three years and had zero issues finding anything Dart related.

I also had to write some Go, that was actually pretty bad in terms of searchability.
Masten Space Systems files for bankruptcy – SpaceNews
The Financialization of Tech
The Consciousness of Bees
well you can choose to remain ignorant if you want, the second link I provided was based off prices in california...not just california, but berkley - which is right next to the most expensive grocery city in california (oakland)

Not to mention I'm being extremely generous by using a salary that is 50% of the poverty line on top of only utilizing 30% of that for food and on top of that building meals that provide more nutrition than the average wealthy american gets by far.

but you've since left the domain of attempting reason, but I'm hoping that's just because you have too much ego on the internet but can still absorb information and utilize it later.
It’s not just Samsung Apple does the same. I was shocked when I wanted to replace my iphone display and the technician asked me to turn off pass code. Like he didn’t even give me another choice. I did a quick backup on icloud and wiped my phone and gave it. It was annoying to restore everything.
https://archive.ph/QimkA
I guess a word to the wise, or others who may not have your experience, be careful about assuming natural stuff is safe. Some essential oils are irritating, and some can be bad for you unless carefully handled (eg jasmine oil should be well diluted into a carrier oil before it touches your skin).
The Lonely Office Is Bad for America
You can only go so far as a society copying work of others. You can’t progress without innovation and if innovation is happening in other parts of the world then your are highly dependent on them. The society that produces innovation is never crippled because others are copying them.
Now in the way of Lottery men do also tax themselves in the general, though out of hopes of Advantage in particular: A Lottery therefore is properly a Tax upon unfortunate self-conceited fools; men that have good opinion of their own luckiness, or that have believed some Fortune-teller or Astrologer, who had promised them great success about the time and place of the Lottery, lying Southwest perhaps from the place where the destiny was read.

-- Sir William Petty, 1662

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/21/lottery/

Sir William was apparently a very early Reddit adopter.

(Numerous other versions and observations at the QI link, for those with substantive interests in the history of the observation.)
TIL latex is pronounced “laytek”
https://archive.ph/Y1SKw
> Perhaps this is my response to office gossip. But I'm talking about my coworker who regularly brags about corporal punishment and how he's a good father for hitting his kid on the regular.

Depending on country and legislation, you may want to report this. In some places you may even be legally obligated to report child abuse, which this sounds like.

It is not your (or mine) place to judge whether your coworker actually abuses his children (or if it is "just" talk, for example), only to report to the relevant authority so that they can investigate. Please, if you are worried for them, act
The video is from Mar 29. Must be an April fool's joke. I actually needed until the "double-blind study" to get it ...
The VIN number in modern cars is located in multiple places. Usually: engine mount, central tunnel, under the windscreen, often in the trunk.
Filecoin-esque networks may.
Seems like very elaborate pr stunt and what exactly did they stand to gain from this? I’d hesitate to explain something with a great conspiracy what is much simply explained with incompetence
Apple M2 SoC Analysis – Worse CPU Efficiency Compared to the M1
> They continued building up their nuclear power plants well into the 1990s but failed to bring construction costs and delays down like your comment suggests.

Absolutely true. It proved expensive even at large scale and with full support of the state. I don't trust promises or hypotheticals of cheap nuclear power, at all.

But here's the thing: France succeeded with decarbonizing their electricity production. It's a pretty notable success. Yes, it was (and remains) expensive and yes those plants are now failing often, remaining expensive ober their whole lifetime. But it worked and France could afford it.

I'd argue many other countries could afford it as well. The German electricity mix is a lot dirtier by comparison.
No paywall:
https://archive.ph/EkWNq
Ya... those are not great places to start with him... as far as philosophy of science essays in conjectures and criticisms and objective knowledge are really great and much more mature than the logic for the reasons you mentioned. Plus he develops some of the logical tools like content theory and verisimilitude in really cool ways.
That's taking a blameless post-mortem approach which is a valid tool, but not the entire answer.

The reality is to cause the issue, the operators had to drive the reactor well into a dangerous and hard to control regime which it would not get into under any normal operation circumstance.

So while yes, it shouldn't have been physically possible to do it, even with that design it took substantial, deliberate malfeasance to get that result (you can also only get that result with that design - a meltdown is not normally an explosion).
There have been reminders on The Conversation only a few months ago ( https://theconversation.com/considering-buying-a-smart-devic... ),

but here is a generic article on The Atlantic from 2016 - year relevant, because there had been cases of actual ransomware for some thermostat models then:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-e...

Which also contains the line:

> When it comes to connected vehicles, the possibilities are even more frightening. And thanks to an experiment where white-hat hackers remotely hijacked a Jeep as it hurtled down a St. Louis highway, they’re not that far-fetched

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-high...

Which raises another point: security faults in cars have been used to stop them, to take control of them etc. Among the malicious purposes, one can emerge of ransom: "We now control your car. If you want to drive it again...". Nothing new in the crime scene ("We just stole your car. If you want to drive it again...") - only, now through fully avoidable technical holes which should not be there in the first place.

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About the thermostats:

Hackers demonstrated first ransomware for IoT thermostats at DEF CON // Ransomware-infected smart thermostats, it's no longer hypothetical. An attacker could crank up the heat and lock the IoT device until sweltering occupants paid a ransom to unlock it (Aug 2016)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3105001/hackers-demons...