skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an offline-platform can make all sorts of bureacratic rules designed to censor those they don't like, this problem is far-far worse on a software-driven platform.

Imagine facebook wants to censor anti-Biden, or anti-Trump, posts.
They needn't design an algorithm that does explicitly that - that could be scrutinised under review.

Instead: design an 'anti-spam' algorithm.

Within this anti-spam algorithm, characteristic Y is flagged.
Characteristic Y just happens to be heavily-correlated to anti-biden/anti-trump posts. A bit of filtering later (for 'anti-spam measures' of-course), and you have achieved your censorship without being too overt.
From what I’ve read, the Ghanaian regulators have demanded that that specific aircraft not be flown within their jurisdiction because they don’t like the recurring issue with the fuel imbalance (…and advised that Delta flies newer planes because Ghanaians don’t like the old ones)

The FAA/EASA not being concerned by it (from what we know), doesn’t mean that there isn’t a possible safety issue to investigate.

It’s also easy to have politics and safety i.e. regulation mix in ways that aren’t so black and white. Consider the time it took for the 737 Max to be recertified in the rest of the world vs the US. Do you think that was all safety? Or some combination of safety and politics?

So no, I don’t think it’s possible to categorically state that it has nothing to do with safety.
How important is self-hosting? Because as it stands, six or seven corporations control the majority of internet traffic and it seems to be fine. There have never been more users doing more things at once than right now.

Self hosting is a huge undertaking and one really has to justify the value proposition, especially for people who want a presence on the internet but don't want their full-time job to be internet administration.
> I think the MDI was too complicated for most people. Simplicity wins. And wasn't it like an application had to implement it to use it, not part of the OS-GUI by itself?

It's true that MDI generally existed at a different level of abstraction (the "toolkit" that draws widgets rather than the "windowing system" that assigns screen regions to applications and lets them draw to those regions, while giving the user control over which application gives what region), but in contexts where the OS also provided a canonical platform GUI toolkit (such as Windows, see the documentation I linked above), the MDI implementation would naturally also come from the same vendor.

I'm aware that a common argument of the anti-MDI push was in fact that the OS window manager should be able to handle management of (sub)windows better and more natively than an application vendor's own low-resource proprietary implementation in the context of subwindows, but this superiority of platform window management never actually materialised and in 2022 I'm still occasionally finding myself trying to chase down all the different subwindows of multi-window applications that wound up on separate workspaces. Pre-single-window GIMP was a particularly egregious offender in this regard.
We still have that gas (about 40% maybe, or maybe half of that if the other half is Norwegian).

But we are paying market rates for it, which puts lots of profits in the hands of fossil fuel companies that came out of normal people's pockets.

Returning it to them is the economically efficient answer.
The EU sanctions don't include energy, but Russia reduced the amount of gas it delivers to Europe.
It's too late for this. The world is already fragmented and even in Russian gas were allowed, Russia would start reducing supplies and divert then to Asia and Africa.

Mark my words: this is the end of western hegemony.

Especially since brics is taking off, they are launching their own currency and tons of countries want to join it.

Bojo was a complete bozo to amp up the war.

Elect a clown, expect a circus
His PR people have been unsuccessful in framing him as anything other than a dull automaton from another world. Maybe he thought being able to talk uninterrupted and unedited for 4 hours would humanize him.
I'm the same, but I'm not sure how likely it'll be.

My fear is the gov will do everything they can to prop it up, like in covid, possibly leading it to rise yet again.
More precisely, the government has cost the people who would've built those privately funded renewable energy projects billions. The way the UK energy market and pretty much every other energy market globally is structured, every provider receives the price of the most expensive energy source needed to satisfy demand, which would be gas generation in the current market. There's no easy way to "fix" the market so that this doesn't happen; unlike gas, renewables have basically no incremental cost to pump out power to the grid when they have capacity, so they submit zero or even negative bids and are entirely funded by the difference between that and the actual market power price.

The same is not true of government-subsidised projects in the UK like offshore wind. Those are guaranteed a fixed price by the government, and receive payments to make up the shortfall or pay back the excess under what's called a "contract for difference". The contracted prices of current offshore wind projects are... well below the current market price of electricity, let's put it that way. (Not every country does things this way. As an article that made it to HN the other day pointed out, Germany guaranteed a minimum and let suppliers keep the excess which was an expensive mistake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556113) Offshore wind also fits better into an overall strategy of switching to renewable energy, since it has a much better capacity factor and is actually useful in the winter unlike solar.
Did the Big Bang Happen? – Sabine Hossenfelder
This low-quality shotgun approach (that these kitchens are using) remind me of the recruiting and offshoring plagues of the early 2000s.

Recruiters were onced skilled professionals, but they got replaced by people who spoke almost unrecognizable English and who basically spammed all day to find talent. They didn't even read resumes, so you would get calls (and later emails) for crap that was nowhere on your resume. This basically ruined what was once a very effective way of finding jobs and gigs. It took over a decade for this garbage approach to fade and real recruiters to reappear.

The companies hated it too, because they would get innundated with every resume one of these brainless recruiters would send. Companies couldn't find real talent due to the piles of unqualified candidates. That's not to say the candidates were bad, but they were not qualified for the particular skills the client needed.

Then the offshoring craze developed, and suddenly skilled developers were laid off en masse, with the more senior developers actually being tasked with training their offshored replacements. Predictably, most of the replacements were people with some basic training and absolutely no ability to think for themselves. The end result was about two decades of stalled progress in corporate software development and artificially depressed wages.

This restaurant scenario seems to be just another variation. One must wonder if this is a cultural thing. It seems obviously doomed to eventual failure, and like the other situations I described it will bring the actual good services down with it.
Exploration, in a nut shell.

Which can be interesting and fun to share (more so when it results in collaboration or derivatives), but can also exist fine without.
All countries in Europe are experiencing the same thing. This is not an issue unique to the UK so blaming it on your leadership is giving them too much credit.
Note the similarity to housing, as people that own the land syphon off the profits.
> but he wasn't politically involved like other politicians children and there wasn't much tangible beyond that

He was a board member of a Ukrainian oil company receiving tons of money having 0-energy related business experience. Then there's the firing of the prosecutor looking into the corruption of Burisma at the behest of Joe Biden ("son of bitch, he got fired"). Now we're sending billions of dollars over there with reports saying few of those dollars are going to the front lines.

Conservatively, there's enough there to warrant the appearance of impropriety and the American public deserve to have answers. When a story came out exposing this behavior the democratic party, the major news networks, social networks, and now the FBI actively peddled misinformation wrongly calling it Russian-propoganda and/or censoring/suppressing it.

Seems sketch.
I don’t believe it is possible to run Germany on only renewables

1) without massive subsidies

2) without huge investments in storage tech (research and production)

3) without building solar/wind in outside places like North Africa

Nuclear fission solves all of those problems and is a known ( and safe) technology.
It's an European standard, so maybe the criteria are different in Australia? My current apartment has an E rating and it has double paned windows everywhere, floor + ceiling insulation and I have neighbours on all side including above and below, meaning not much energy is transferred to outside.

Edit: just noticed I misread Austria as Australia (lol), point still stands though, a D rating is not that bad.
Kiwi Farms has been delinked.

Thus be it ever to bullies. News flash: trans people run the internet. If you spread trans hate, you won't be welcome on the network.
I'm not Ukrainian, so my interests aren't the same as theirs.
> An Apple spokeswoman said WebKit is important to protecting privacy and security, as well as promoting efficiency and performance. She said users can easily change their default browser on the company’s devices.

Completely bogus statement from apple spokeperson.

Personally, I prefer google over apple (degoogled google). Google gives you absolute freedom while apple does not. This freedom can be used to have more private experience than apple.
>Clipchamp is created worldwide, but we're headquartered in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples.

>We acknowledge the traditional custodians of country, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

Imagine these levels of guilt.
> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus.

Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and almost always from the same location. However because they have 2 different listings and thus 2 separate menus, they are able to create a relatively cohesive and simple menu for each listing.

So on first glance Behrouz Biriyani, looks fairly straightforward. It serves Biriyanis (with a lot of variants/sizes/combos etc). And Faasos serves wraps, rolls and other related snack foods.

If you did not know that these were essentially from the same place, you would assume that these were separate restaurants with relatively focussed menu, hence passing said cardinal rule.

With physical restaurants, the rule is easier to apply. With deliveries, it's far more difficult as the huge, unfocussed menus get separated into different restaurant listings.
This is grossly way over exxageration without understanding the geopolitics.

So US currently engaged in Syria , Iraq and Libya is also slavery?
Running MCP XIII on SimH B5500 [pdf]
An invaluable tool for Internet culture! I loved comparing the different definitions for explicit or semi-explicit terms like "thot", "coal burner", etc..

That site was immortalized by Cracked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgQMTLKmwrA

"That's a blumpkin yo."
US Government is bound by first amendment, at least in theory
The joy is probably the lack of friction.
> I picked a random video with Chomsky [1] about the topic and he calls the invasion a criminal act against international law in his first sentence.

Noam Chomsky described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "criminal", by after the face-saving copout there's always a "but".

In some interviews, Chomsky states in no uncertain terms that he believes that everyone should just hand over Russia what the regime wants as a form of appeasement, without spending any time or effort criticizing or attacking the invasion and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Russia, or any awareness that Russia has been constantly "appeased" in Ukraine for around a decade.

The cinicism reaches a point where Chomsky said Ukraine should roll over to save the lives of the people of Ukraine, because in his world view Russia's invasion of the Ukraine and ethnic cleansing campaign can only end up in the destruction of the Ukraine or the destruction of Russia, and he asserts that he rejects the idea that Russia can be destroyed.

https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/28/04/2022/chomsky-...

Quite a different tone than Chomsky's rants regarding the Iraq invasion.
You probably won’t ever fully come to peace with it. All you can do is make use of the time you have.

If you’re worried about wasting time on pointless things, keep in mind that worrying about stuff you can’t change may be the most pointless thing you can possibly do.
Strategically the best thing you can do career-wise is to write
something with multiple chapters on a common theme but with each chapter
understandable separately with a minimal introduction, get each chapter
published as a separate conference paper, and then stick them all
together into a thesis. Then you not only have a publication list all
ready by the time you graduate, but you make it awkward for the
examiners to find fault with your thesis given that it has already
passed peer review. You'll probably have to pick the trendiest topic
you can find even if your interests lie elsewhere, but you'll be in a
better position to vary your research agenda when you're more
established in your career. This advice is the opposite of what I was
given, which is that a Ph.D. is a time to explore your own interests
and then get serious later.
That's literally the experience that you get when you buy a new computer with Windows.
We need long term solutions for sure. But right now we need very urgently a short term solution to bridge over the majority of the population who won't be able to heat and power their homes this winter.

What we need is clear and efficient crisis response and all the Tory government has shown so far is a colossal ineptitude and blatant corruption coupled with near sociopathic disregard for the wellbeing of most people.
I doubt Russia will be supplying anybody in the West this Winter. Too much “maintenance” to do.

But it makes sense from their point of view. The only reason to export to the West is to swap for real goods and services from the West. Since the West isn’t selling anything to Russia there’s little economic reason for Russia to sell anything to the West.

Russia has its own floating rate currency. It has no need of our promises.
> For all we know, Facebook, Google and Twitter are doing this right now on a range of other subjects.

I thought that was a given.
Might be a 'Frencho'.
You asked how this amounted to Tory penny pinching in another stub but you're answering it. Since Tories came to power in 2010, a 1.3% fall in all social spending in an economy that has grown slower than inflation means an actual terms cut.

It's important to note that social welfare also covers housing, unemployment and other things not care in the same sense as being discussed. Housing costs have exploded in price so even more of that stagnant budget has been diverted away from care.

Once you allow for inflation, there is a growing underspend in care. A starvation. Yes, generations of growth, but not finding it appropriately now (and for a decade) means it's being starved.

https://www.health.org.uk/publications/long-reads/health-and...

I'm leaving it with the Health Foundation, there. I'd suggest you read that if you really want an appreciation of how budgets and inflation work together but if you just want to tell me "they have more money, so it's being wasted more" you don't understand how money works; I can't help you.

And if you're reading around, be wary of COVID era numbers as they include boosts for testing and extraordinary measures. Nothing that increases provisionable service.
This stupidity is how we got into this mess in the first place.

Conservative/fossil fuel interests lied to us about renewables and insulation and pollution because they were getting a cut of the fossil fuel money.

We saw this coming decades ago (scandanavia went heat pump after the oil crisis, US President told people they needed to do the same)

This very article points out that we did it again the last time. Conservatives/fossil fuel interests use every high fossil fuel price event to lie to us and lock in more fossil fuel usage.
That correlation has to do more with self selection rather than some natural order.
Would be a good start to change how electricity prices are calculated in Europe. The whole system is broken. The price is set by the highest costing source. In this case gas plants. Nuclear plants that are paid off are producing near free energy but it’s sold at the same price like gas. Wind and solar are also sold at the same price like gas. Even if only 10 % comes from gas plants (just an example) it all costs the same. It’s insane.

And cap the EU CO2 emission trading system. Speculators are pushing up those prices making everything worse.

These prices are at least 50 % policy failure.
The price cap should be on the energy producers (wholesale) as well as the retailers.

This is just naked profiteering at the energy producer stage for those that aren't using natural gas as their sole energy source.

It isn't costing any more to produce electricity from nuclear, coal, hydro and renewable sources and yet these are being priced at the same rate as gas [0].

So, for example, British Gas (BG) and EDF are profiteering massively since they use no, or very little, natural gas.

All energy companies in the UK are required to publish their energy source mix. Here for example are the six largest producers[0]. There are many more smaller producers and associated retail suppliers that use them and many are focused on 'green' sources:

Nuclear Coal N.Gas Renew Other Non-Gas Market Share[7]
EDF[1] 62.1% 1.3% 7.5% 29.0% 0.1% 92.5% 18.52%
BG[2] 35.0% 0.0% 0.0% 65.0% 0.0% 100.0% 23.70% (a)
EON[3] 5.7% 3.5% 43.5% 43.7% 3.6% 66.5% 14.07%
NPOWER[4] 6.9% 4.2% 52.6% 31.9% 4.4% 47.4% 24.07%
SCOT PWR[5] 6.0% 4.0% 46.0% 40.0% 4.0% 54.0% 10.00%
OVO/SSE[6] 0.0% 0.0% 49.6% 50.4% 0.0% 50.4% 18.50% (b)

So these six represent by far the majority. In fact adding up these market shares comes to 108.86%! That is because these companies supply both electricity and gas, sometimes separately, so one customer may get electricity from supplier A and natural gas from supplier B. That customer would be counted twice.

(a) British Gas is a trading name of Centrica which was formed when the original British Gas plc was split in a de-merger in 1997.

(b) OVO bought SSE in 2020.

[0] https://www.energycompanynumbers.co.uk/who-are-the-big-six-e...

[1] https://www.edfenergy.com/fuel-mix

[2] https://www.britishgasplus.co.uk/fuel-mix

[3] https://www.eonenergy.com/About-eon/Fuel-Mix

[4] https://npowerbusinesssolutions.com/company/fuel-mix

[5] https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/about-us/performance/fuel-mi...

[6] https://sse.co.uk/v3/assets/blt09078e271abddd45/blt04622618e...

[7] https://www.theenergyshop.com/energy-suppliers
The UKs largest solar farm is proposed to be built about 2 miles from my home [0]. Local opposition is almost absolute, I doubt it will be built.

It’s so frustrating, I agree with the criticisms of building them on agricultural land, but we are in a situation where we need that power now. The government should be pushing though emergency measures allowing these projects to be built. But then planning on pushing for further projects to utilise industrial roofs and car parks.

0: https://www.mallardpasssolar.co.uk/
UI and Content
We have a few shitty ones of these, mostly doing pizzas, burgers etc. nearby.

But there is one business [1] that's popped up which is a cloud kitchen by definition, but they bring in chefs, partner with established restaurants and teach them their signature dishes, and open satellite kitchens on food delivery services as a hub in particular neighbourhoods. It's a win for everyone. The restaurants get to expand their brand to neighbourhoods without opening a physical location, the neighbourhoods get some good food in their hoods without having to live in the city, and you can also order a couple of things from entirely different restaurants on the same order, saving delivery.

[1] https://www.huuva.io/
Collective nouns, a common feature of Indo-European languages, are not an exact equivalent of counting words in Korean, Japanese, Chinese and other Southeast Asian languages, they are their nearest functional equivalent though.

It is not unfathomable (in fact, it is rather common) to conjure up the following conversation:

- How much milk (bread) do I have to buy?

- Two packets (two loaves), please.

In this context, packets and loaves fulfill the same role as the Korean counting words although they are multifunctional words, indeed.
Interesting citation on Qwest. Does anyone remember what happened to Nacchio & the top brass shortly after the revelations? Convicted of insider trading, for crimes every other Baby Bell participated in, all the way back to the founding of American Telephone & Telegraph.

Another selective enforcement example; anyone remember when Fife Symington took the National Guard to the Grand Canyon during the federal shutdown? Convicted of accounting malfeasance, for practices that every developer in the modern world uses to pay the bills between project payments.

Trump, well let's agree he's no angel, but he is the primary focus of the latest vendetta from the deep state. Anyone who harms or endangers the deep state will be subjected to this kind of attack. No conspiracy theories, required.
Manufacturing Consent on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EuwmWnphqII
Found prefer to see a firefox version. i.e. excluding the built in chrome telemetry
Be aware having a GPD Pocket 2 myself the Device is incredibly powerful, but the battery died after 1 year, now it's more or less unusable (crashes on 100% load without battery, even if i have a really strong usb-c charger)
Ads don't have to be bad, but most are for a variety of reasons... jarring graphics, animation, unrelated to the content. If a news organization is showing a lot of junky ads then I'm going to assume it is a failing news organization.
This comment conveniently ignores the worlds sole superpower? The US will be more or less fine this winter, and likely sees a crisis like this as an awfully cheap way to get rid of one of its only real military competitors.
SWIFT isn't remotely suitable for micropayments. Most banks have to go through a correspondent bank that is going to charge at least $5 per transfer.
That other countries are also in trouble doesn't excuse the UK government one bit.

I don't live in other countries in Europe. It's sad that they also have issues. However, I primarily don't want people in the UK to freeze to death because of an incompetent government.
The expectation and contractual requirement of sole employment goes against free market principles. These requirements, and absolutely the ones making any sort of restrictions on where/who someone can work for after leaving a company, should be legally unenforceable.
Eh, there's easily enough rich parents to co-sign/pay their kids loans to fill the top 50 schools and I doubt any of the top schools would cut costs and risk lowering their perspective ranking so you'd effectively screw kids with poor parents from being able to go to the top schools.
I wonder the costs of old school build your own datacenter.

I have to believe coud costs particuarly as AWS and Google further leverage their dominance will rise to the point where some large services choose this.
Time Till Open Source Alternative
DIY out of band management: remote console server