skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a more rational level, executing the commander of Auschwitz does nothing but provide short-term satisfaction, but treating even the monster to a humane standard affirms the values of democracy and sets an example for future generations.

Think of how the American prison scandals of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib affected the global perception of American justice. It was just a massive loss of international goodwill and credibility accumulated over a century. All the torture and kidnappings delivered very little practical return in the end.
Write the truest sentence you know
Okay- so all of the legislations and government notifications by the central/federal government are now officially published only in digital form and are available on this website (https://egazette.nic.in/).

For your purposes, (a dictionary of key terms, unfortunately there is no government publication. However, one good hack you can consider is to look at the Section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897. The terms defined under this Act will govern the meaning in all the central/federal legislations and rules unless those legislations specifically define these terms. The terms defined under General Clauses Act include terms such as affidavit, immovable property, person etc. (essentially terms similar to the ones used in your dictionary). Here is the link; hope you find it useful (https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_3_20_000...)

p.s.- https://www.indiacode.nic.in is also a government website where you can find copies of legislations and rules.
The US spends a lot on health care, too, but it’s the results that count, not the amount of money spent.

And the results aren’t all good, and that’s saying it kindly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrongful_convictions_i...
I'm actually okay with the capital punishment _in principle_. I just don't trust the prosecution (or the legal system in general) to get it right _every time_.

There's also the problem of the death-qualified jury. The problem with that is, as a defendant, the deck is stacked against you since day 1, because the very people who are going to determine your fate, are already screened to be okay to be willing to render a verdict that would kill someone.
The Prius is a reliable car that gets good gas mileage. Why can’t we just leave it at that?

I’ve noticed that there is a part of the culture war where certain consumer goods are aesthetically “liberal” and others are aesthetically “conservative”, not based on the running of the companies that make them, but on some loose association or fad (e.g. Goya beans).

They are just products - buying them or not buying them based on abstract political associations doesn’t do anything. It is a way to feel like you are taking political action when in reality you are just consuming things.
I also don't believe nuclear waste would pose a significant problem. There are many ways of containing waste as well as reducing.

Plasma disposal is also feasable for reducing the waste even further.
RE : https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

Fossil fuels release about 33 billion tonnes annually in co2 release. And that's not even possible to contain.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and...

So the `~5k cubic meters of nuclear waste a year` mentioned elsewhere really is a grain of sand in comparison.
@Manish: is this your continuation of the Dgraph technology?

Context: Manish was the founder of Dgraph but recently left the company behind it. The company got new leadership and recently announced new funding: https://dgraph.io/blog/post/funding-20220720/
Godot is MIT licensed, and as such this 100% can't happen. Absolute worst case is they limit or remove future versions, but MIT basically means "mention that this was MIT licensed." Do that, and they can't stop you from doing anything with it. Repackage and resell it? sure. Wrap it in your own commercial project? Go for it. You just can't stop someone else from using the source code as originally released.
> irritatingly pedantic people

Scientists. Scientists find issue with that sentence. People who care about scientific integrity within the computer science field.
I'm surprised that this is surprising to many people. Australia is a country that has had active media censorship going on for a long time.

Eg games work based on a whitelist. You need to get the government's permission to be able to publish your game in Australia.

Australians accept this. It's no wonder to me that they will accept even further concessions on their freedoms.
Could the pumping uphill also be turned in reverse to serve as a battery? Like, you don’t want to power this with coal, but solar. Maybe this could produce a lot of energy storage potential (albeit in the “wrong” place—but if you have local water, energy and job, it could create some new places!)
Funds sought for first submarine cable to Antarctica
I put human welfare above every priority, so I don't see why 'crime sufficiently deserving' would be something I should care about.

Ultimately, I want less people to be murdered, incarcerated, or otherwise undergoing human suffering.

We should inflict the least amount of suffering for the purpose of preventing moral harms. Our goal should be to prevent someone like the commandant of Auschwitz from existing, or failing that, address the reasons why it came about.
(I'm not a proponent of capital punishment)

It's actually a better argument FOR capital punishment.

How much money is 20 years of life in prison worth? There's the lost income, lost opportunities for once, that's a rather large sum.

But what is the price for 20 years of not having a life, 20 years of waiting, being trapped and not free to enjoy living.. That must be worth much much more than merely the lost income..

What's a day of freedom worth in dollars?

It's too expensive to risk having to compensate people.
Why does it need updates?
I'm one of the developers. AMA :)
Hyperscalers do their own boards, chassis, BMCs, racks, etc., and can do their firmware (or modifications to it) though. Several are even getting into their own CPU designs. They don't want any boutique designs controlled by other companies there. And they don't want to pay premiums for it. They certainly don't want to run a proprietary hypervisor / host OS stack on it.
Gonna be inflation on that account
>The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia so far as I can tell

Natural rights and an absolute sovereign aren't contradictory in the Anglo school of thought, see one of its most famous representatives, Thomas Hobbes. (There's no such thing as natural law, which is always a contractual human affair between the governor and the governed).

The particular American, Lockean version of liberalism you're talking about never had much sway in the Commonwealth, and Australia derives its traditions if anything from Britain, not the US.
Here’s the website for his company: https://web.archive.org/web/20180213200210/https://www.adjoi...

And much of their work is forked from public blockchain projects, just check out adjoint’s github.

What is the conflict of interest? It’s that he explicitly says that he only wants “permissionless/public blockchains” to be regulated, meaning ones like Ethereum that anyone can build on and use. But his company works on “permissioned/private blockchains”, which seem to me like a direct competitor with the public ones.

Maybe I don’t have the whole story, that was just the impression I got after doing a bit of digging.
It is not not a known fact, it is in fact not true. France has over 1 million m3 of waste, and I assure you they have not been operating nuclear plants for over a million years. :)

Sources:

https://www.ompe.org/en/france-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-i...

The La Manche facility had 527 000m3 of waste in 1994:

https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuredisposal-of-shor...
Section 3.B of the EULA says no, but also that can be changed at any time, so possibly. I have a friend who released a game using Machine earlier this year, and they're scrambling right now to get a lawyer to look at this. Current opinion is that the 14 day limit means they can't work on it anymore, but current game binaries are free to remain online. They're already working to replace the engine, as they have no faith that 3.B won't be expunged as well.
Wonder how it compares to Capn Proto, which claims minimal to no serialization overhead.
Planned Deprecation of Dispatch.sr.ht
Myself and 2 others used the Replika AI/ app on iPhone
And after a few evenings of discussions with "our" Replikas, we discovered each had a different "mood" such as Dreamy, Inquisitive
As it tried to align with each of our own unique preferences for questions/conversations with it
https://archive.ph/q1MQJ
Antisemitism is a serious accusation. What is your proof?
author here - guilty as charged re 'cheap'. I spent a few minutes on this to try out Neon and was pleasantly surprised that it did what it said on the tin so I took some screenshots, and then figured it might be interesting to HN.
Generating code per message might not be the right choice anyway: if you have a lot of messages, a table driven approach can save you a lot of code size. Optimizing for speed in microbenchmarks can lead one to pessimize overall program architecture in ways that are hard to undo later.
> Seems to me that about half your population no longer has an inalienable right to bodily autonomy.

You are more than a century late. The government has prohibited people from putting drugs in their bodies for a long time. Alcohol, illegal drugs, pharmaceutical drugs rejected by the FDA... There is no serious interpretation of "body autonomy" that gives the government the right to ban alcohol/drugs but doesn't give it the right to stop women from killing fetuses.
I'm seeing Thomas Dickey (xterm mantainer) and some other new people, along with Coopersmith who is a old-timer in Xorg development, slowly taking over Xorg.

I find myopic that GNOME and KDE are working towards a cohesive user computing experience starting from "one-size-fits-all widgets" and data as an afterthought. Red Hat freedesktopers aren't designing anything for all humans, they always tire themselves on some all-encompassing project then adapted for two niche use-cases that generate revenue.

But I don't care no more, I'm using Xorg and Xenocara, runit, will probably going to hack on Arcan someday.
> implementing the glitches would probably take some custom development of some sort

OBS and the StreamFX plugin would get you a hell of a lot of distance before needing too much custom code I imagine. Very nice bit of kit. Cool glitchy effects if you layer stuff up

https://obsproject.com/

https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-streamfx

e.g. a clip from TheSushiDragon https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1050161381457190912
I spent half of my life around Open Source and Free Software. The only cases where people questioned the OSD definition of "Open Source" I've ever seen were either projects that wanted to benefit from the positive clout the term has gained over years without actually doing their part in return, or people who were clearly confused on what this term actually means (usually in relation to Free Software), tried to explain it to someone else and when pointed out they're wrong they didn't want to admit their mistake and went "but OSI can't dictate what this term means". Never seen it used differently in an actual, honest and informed way anywhere that matters.

> I didn't realize that making exclusions on who can use your software wasn't open source.

Really? How? Isn't that incredibly obvious? If my license says "this software can only be used by Jane Doe from Boston", is it FLOSS? Or even "only by people who pay me $2000 every month for using it"? After all, it's just a (large) exclusion on who can use my software.

If a license tries to stop people from making money, it's clearly not "essentially open source" in its very nature. In its essence, "open source" means "everyone can use it, and no limitations can be placed other than this particular set of acceptable restrictions". How can you expect that placing additional arbitrary restrictions still gives you the right to call your thing "open source"?
> "While in reality renewables are on an exponential cost reduction trajectory "

And now we are looking of some development in the future. The usual argument I keep seeing is that with the exponential cost reduction in solar and green hydrogen we will have in the future a combination that will be cheaper than the nuclear costs of today. A comparison of the current state of nuclear to some future potential solar + storage solution. Maybe we should use the same description for this and call that dishonest comparison?

The current state in northern Europe are wind and some solar in combination with large capacity gas (and some coal/oil). This is why Russian gas, oil and coal has such a huge impact of the electricity price in Europe, and why countries are currently setting up plans to disconnect part of the grid if the threat of limited gas supply continues to next winter. The grid is built on renewables when they are available, running around 50% on average in some countries, and for the remaining we burn a lot of fossil fuels. All the waste of those burned fossil fuels are put into the environment for society to address at a later date.

Maybe it is time for honesty in energy discussions, and also make intention clears. We should ban fossil fuels from being used in the energy grid, and we should set an date for that ban which corresponds to the common scientific understanding of global warming. We should also take in the data from doctors and health scientists that have first hand experience with fossil fuel pollution. With that, we need to build an energy grid that operates without having fossil fuels to fall back on.
How does a 50 Hz system frequency result in railroads running at 1000/60 Hz?
Elon Musk confirms he already uploaded his brain to a cloud, he spoke to himself
Oh don’t get me wrong. I get it. maybe “easy buck” was lazy commenting. Being able to work your own hours, focus on the family you prioritize, work from home, etc etc. I get all that and is exactly what I was trying to say with “easy buck”. Poor choice of words.
@dang, can't edit it, could you add a NSFW flag?
I wish current design rules followed what's in the memo : the car must be cheap, easy to maintain, easy to understand, the parts expected to wear must be as durable as possible. I quote : « Quality must be impeccable - yet it must affordable ».
Wouldn't it make investing in copper miners a good idea? Currently the ETF (https://www.globalxetfs.com/funds/copx/#performance) is at 7.5 P/E, while some of the individual companies can be had at 4 P/E.
Blooming Essex garden points to future of horticulture in a heating UK
> Where I live, public transit is faster than driving 90% of the time

Do you live in Manhattan? I can't think of anywhere else in the US where that could be true.

Commute to work here (pre-covid) was just under 30 minutes. On public transit, according to google maps, it's about 90 minutes. That's if schedule lines up just right with bus schedules, otherwise it is more time.

> Cycling is also generally faster than driving

As a frequent cyclist, I did ride to work at least once a week (pre-covid). But that takes 2hr 30min. It was great fun and exercise, but not really practical by any measure. And then I had to take a shower at work after arriving, so it was more like 3 hours home to desk.

> To be clear: that "real problem" is a manufactured one.

So it's not a manufactured problem, it is reality for mostly everyone.
Use this Brave Goggle to search news that is ranked low by the default Brave Search: https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgi...

This Goggle adjusts the rankings.
If there is anything to change, it is the horribly dangerous electric socket. I was also shocked to see that many house still doesn't use differential circuit breakers. I guess using 120V reduce the risk of a fatal electric shock, but I still wouldn't trust any installation that doesn't use differential circuit breakers.
I don't know where you're getting that from. You can indeed leave all the registers alone and it will repeat whatever is there for any number of scanlines until you do change it. In fact, this is what happens if you power up the 2600 without a cartridge - you see vertical stripes, because whatever garbage was in the registers on powerup just stays there and repeats onto every scanline, with no software changing it.

"Sometimes forward and sometimes backward" would only apply to the three registers of playfield bits, and is fully controllable by software, in the CTRLPF register.
>A bad PM can be ousted in a day.

By whom? The parliament that confirmed him as PM? The parliament where the PM's party almost always holds the most seats?

A parliamentary system essentially combines the executive and legislative powers to one party.
You are not aware about Xenocara. X11 is an awareless argument.
Learning language is much more than drilling vocabulary. And I say this as someone who has built at least 3 different flashcard apps for myself over the years. It is very low down on the list, especially if it is words only.

And no, it doesn't seem like iOS gives us access to its dictionary as developer, unfortunately.
The thread lifetime is also scope-bound, to ensure the thread dies before any object it might be referring to does.
It is not about "cleanness", it is not about "costs in future". There are two core points why nuclear plants matter and only they matter so far.

First they are practical - unlike all renewables nuclear energy plant provides stable influx of energy to the electric grid, regardless of the weather condition. As long as we don't have good and, again, practical energy storage, renewables usability will be always limited. And so far we don't see any true innovation in the long term, large scale batteries tech - ritual monthly "at last, new battery tech invented in X" article in popular magazines is not enough since those "new" batteries either has to work in 10 Kelvin temperature or would need to have size of the Moon. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is, unfortunately, not practical as it requires very specific terrain and water sources. It is great we can build them here and there, but that's not the solution for the problem.

Secondly, nuclear energy plants does not produce CO2 and this is what we want to get rid off, as I understand.

Nuclear wastes are different story, unfortunately for the past 50 years there was almost no innovation in nuclear plants sector as well since everyone who would like to work on this was treated by the Academia like Holocaust deniers and anti-vaccination activists. Nuclear wastes are radiating, which means there is energy there, let's try to find the way how to use is, maybe it is easier than the search for the battery Holy Grail.
sorry the editing got messed up, this is what I meant to write:

> I wrote a Show HN post, then crossed my fingers... and with luck, the post ended up upvoted, and eventually on the front page of Hacker News.

Well it doesn't help when HN quietly shadow bans your posts. I have been a member of HN since 2013 and have barely submitted like 10 posts over this time. I only comment where I think I can contribute but recently I have realized that HN has shadow bans my posts. Once I wrote a comment on HN about slippery slope of self hosting apps which I host and people seemed interested. So I decided to write a substack article about it and post it on HN. Guess what, HN shadow banned it because I am not supposed to submit stuff that I wrote but submit things I found on internet interesting.

Then recently I shared a reddit post on an Upwork scam and HN shadow banned it too. smh..
Why spend money on the military if we’re not at war?
Which was tested (and debunked) by Mythbusters but other people actually managed to create motorcycles from 2CV's:

https://citroenvie.com/those-who-have-made-the-brave-attempt...
I wanted to buy a prius - great fuel economy, practical storage, reliable powertrain - but the prospect of drunk people trying to get into your car at every junction when you drive through the city at night put me right off.
Language!=ethnicity.
I read those links and it just makes me sad.

I don't understand why so many developers do so many stupid things with emails. Sure, there's some trivial validation you can do that makes sense - make sure it matches (.+)@(.+), make sure the domain part exists, etc.

But far too many sites do extra 'validation' using weird restrictive regex, and it prevents you from using valid email addresses - things like restricting chars so I can't use '+', or so I can't use a one char local part, or a one char domain, or a newer TLD that doesn't fit some dodgy regex they copied from a random stack overflow comment...

I really wish that developers would just do really simplistic checks - eg make sure it has an @ in it and something either side, and then just send a validation email as part of their signup flow. If you do it as the first step in the flow, you validate control of the email address and you ensure you don't end up with junk accounts on your system where someone typo'd their email and will never be able to activate it.

edit: the really stupid thing is that it takes considerably more effort to add this restrictive and usually wrong validation than it does to do it right :(
> You need to get the government's permission to be able to publish your game in Australia.

That sounds weird. I'm Australian and I've never heard of that. Can you share some links so I can learn more about that?
Scariest (and most exciting!) automotive experience I've ever had was in a 2CV, being thrown around the west german hill passes in one of those things felt like a near-death experience every corner...
There is no need to copy objects for multiple threads to refer to them.

It's just that there is a single owner, and the other threads have a non-owning view only.

You need strict control on the thread lifetime, which is enforced through the same single ownership system, in order to enforce this.
The ability some people have to make everything political never ceases to amaze me. It's a conservative car because you can checks notes fit a wheelchair in the back?

It's simply an appliance. It's no more political than a toaster. Maybe more liberals like toast, but that doesn't make the toaster liberal.
To be perfectly fair with you, GKE is another level from every other k8s installation target.

EKS and AKS are not nearly as well polished and put together, and god help you if you decide to run on-prem.

The problem is of course that you’re quite right that it’s like driving a car, but ultimately unless you have a good support contract with your car manufacturer for a specific use of the car, then you have to take it to another mechanic and they’re going to put you over a barrel.

(Maybe the analogy falls apart here)
I use "proved" for mathematics. For me (middle-aged British) "proven" sounds a bit pompous and rhetorical, not the sort of language an honest down-to-earth mathematician would use.
Let's compare daily average household domestic water consumption:

- where I live: 202l [0]

- US: >1135l [1]

US household consumption share of total water usage: 12% [1].

Just reducing household usage to 50% more than a random wealthy northwestern European region instead of 560%(!) more equals 10% total water usage savings. That's without even touching agriculture or other water hungry sectors.

Aligning usage to be a little less out of line with production seems like the obvious answer here.

- But you live in Europe, not the US. You couldn't possibly know how miserable life would be without watering my lawn in the middle of the desert. And what would the neighbours say?

- We only have one earth. It's _ours_ you know, not just yours. And our children's. And our children's children's..."

[0] https://www.vmm.be/data/gemiddeld-leidingwaterverbruik-gezin... (nl)

[1] https://www.epa.gov/watersense/how-we-use-water