skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is not that the situations are equivalent, it's that something being illegal doesn't inherently change the morality of it.

Where I live, it would be a fine if the person were found guilty. My state does allow the use of reasonable, non-deadly force to prevent the commission of property crimes (which vandalism and trespass would fall under, and likely some other applicable laws).

In order for jail time to even be a possibility, some form of bodily harm would have to occur or be threatened, or they were a repeat offender.

My state deserves derision for entirely separate reasons, but I think their laws around this particular facet are reasonable.
You don't remember the phone-bolted-on-to-an-ipod renders. There were lots of surprises, and even then the impact of half the innovations weren't widely recognized at the time.
https://theultralinx.com/2014/07/6-crazy-iphone-mockups-real...
From my experience, the key feature for a pomodoro timer is that breaks should start automatically, whereas the next pomodoro should not. This way, even if you took a 6 minute break, you can have the full pomodoro. Plus, I prefer starting the focused work with a deliberate action (click).

Quite a lot of timers I tried, however, cannot do that. Great that this is possible here (settings)!
What about “make this arbitrary wav file a ringtone”. No?
We started watching House of the Dragon, and stopped because it was impossible to see anything on the TV in our bedroom with any ambient lights. Only way to watch is on our basement home theater setup which allows us to black out the environment. It's ridiculous. When we watched the GoT final episodes we had to wait until after dark to watch them.
A British judge named Alfred Denning was Posner's spiritual predecessor in the last century. Unlike Posner, Denning made it to Britain's supreme court.

In law school, student's were warned early that while Denning's opinions were regularly published in casebooks because they clearly illuminated the law, he was often on the wrong side of the result.
If you're going 8 km/s in one direction (like you do when orbiting earth), changing direction even a bit is a big deal.

That's why the space shuttle had those humongous wings and fragile thermal protection and why its payload ratio was lousy. To be able to go around once and land to the same spot it needed cross range and very good aerodynamics. It doesn't make sense to bring those wings to orbit just for that.
The Problems with Helion Energy – A Response to Real Engineering
There is nothing in that article about right to anon speech in a court room. I'm assuming that was your best argument, proving my point.
I like how they’re not Luddites but evaluate every new trend and piece of technology through a lens of, “Can it improve / maintain the quality of the old stuff?” and only if so, examine questions of efficiency and cost savings.
Nope. It is illegal if you do it on ms paint too. Images of naked kids (real or fiction) + transmitted over internet (ie state lines) = bad bad day for all involved.
They can handle 5 transactions a second while constantly providing proof to millions of users that the data has not and can not be tampered with, even if you bribe or threaten all 5 lawyers? Those are some superhuman lawyers.
No, but isn't that where confidence levels come in? Consensus is formed because of research showing statistical significance of however many sigma or something
Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT
Franco-German relations under pressure on Elysee anniversary
Seeing a thousand of those images on a single page captures the ‘90s internet. All it lacks is the giant throbbing pulsating ‘N’ up in the corner.
The story is boring if it's not set in a compelling world. If I wanted a clean backdrop, I'd go to a stage play.
I think you are vastly overestimating the amount of cognitive effort most people apply to Google search results.

It's more like "First one on the list? Well, that one's right -- unless it disagrees with my personal biases, then maybe I'll look for another one."
Why are South Koreans losing faith in America's nuclear umbrella?
3D game shaders for beginners: step-by-step guide to SSAO, lighting, and more
> “Linux is only free if your time has no value”

This motto, although actually true in the past, is probably no longer valid. Install the latest Ubuntu/Kubuntu with KDE/Plasma and you get a high performance, GUI-configurable, aesthetically pleasing desktop. You will need to drop down to the Linux command line only if you need to pull off some kind of advanced networking, virtualization, etc. setup. (While you're at it, switch to the free ZFS filesystem and enjoy disk bit rot checking without Windows Enterprise/Pro ReFS). The entire Linux system and almost all user apps upgrade automatically from a set of pre-defined online installer repositories. If you want to game, boot Linux on a CPU-integrated graphics card and pass-through your stand-alone GPU to a Windows-guest KVM-host (QEMU) virtual machine for 99% native gaming performance, no need to dual-boot.
I'm pretty sure I paid over $100 for Windows 10.
Virginia, Amazon announce $35B data center plan
Wrong comparison. Compare the movie/TV viewers to the number of people playing mobile games on the subway or the toilet.
Who holds the private key, the end user or a centralized entity?
Or maybe, instead of that, it is inaccurate to dismiss real problems with sexism and gender discrimination as "just cultural differences".
The fat people in the pic aren’t carrying the sign calling for those actions. We don’t know if they agree with those sentiments or not. I mentioned this in my post.

It doesn’t pass for humor in my view. It’s just a dumb, childish retort. Let’s look at an extreme example to illustrate why the retort is foolish. Suppose it was a pic of Hermann Goering holding a sign saying, “We eat Jews” and the response is to note that Goering is fat. It’s just a dumb take. The response ought to be about how abhorrent it is to call for eating people or decapittimg them.

Notice how because of his dumb tweet we are not discussing the important issue of being able to advocate for a position without the threat of violence. We are talking about Paul Graham’s dumb tweet.

When get into a fight with mud slingers you come out dirty.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an upsell in Spotify, to what does this refer? Are you not paying for Spotify?
Unsustainable production-consumption systems and appropriate policy responses
We've always been heading towards this showdown of individual free speech versus nanny state authoritarianism. What's truly unfortunate is that we spent two decades detouring through centralized webapps. This has made the authoritarians (both political and corporate) accustomed to having concentrated power, made it so the few apps that do take users' security seriously are seen as aberrations, given crazy extermist political movements a head start due to centrally stoked "engagement" metrics, and normalized everpresent meddling/surveillance in our personal lives. Now we're left fighting an uphill battle after the sheer majority of the population has been conditioned to expect that the computer they're carrying around in their pocket doesn't actually represent them.
I'm the exact same way, PowerRun all the way with desktop hidden.

But that's no justification for shifty MS behavior.
> legally mandated

It’s not.

A discussion of the details: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_...
One of my biggest dings against Godot is not having support for Photon Networking's newest products

Photon has a new group of network libraries that are essentially the evolution of "rubber band networking" that's been default for networking middleware for the last decade

One is especially interesting in that it uses IL weaving to provide a completely deterministic engine for simulating gameplay based on inputs only: https://www.photonengine.com/quantum#
Serverless runtimes don't shut down the instance immediately after the invocation is complete but keep it up for an undetermined time depending on many factors (usually ~15 minutes) in order to process a possible new event without the start-up overhead (cold start). This means that in a system with constant traffic some instances may have a surprisingly long uptime. The instance gets destroyed when it throws an error though so a function with a disabled GC would clean the state when it runs out of memory. Slower processing done by memory-starved instances would probably eliminate any minimal performance gain you could get by disabling the GC though. (EDIT: I just realized that with no GC desperately spinning in place the starvation would not have much performance impact so this would actually be a very interesting approach if you can tolerate some invocations erroring out on out of memory errors, sorry!)

In regards to performance optimization of Lambdas, start-up time is the most important factor as cold starts happen also in cases of concurrent requests when no warm instances are available. This means that Go, Node and Python are pretty sweet for serverless. Thanks to recently released Lambda SnapStart feature that launches new instances from snapshots taken after application initialization Java (even with DI frameworks) is a plausible option if you're inclined that way. Previously you had to use a custom runtime and AOT compilation (that rules out any runtime DI stuff) to achieve tolerable performance with Java on Lambda.
I do 50-10 as well. I do, however, count my pomodors.
it's crazy to me that reddit doesn't have staff doing the moderation job for the bigger subreddits. most of the content on the front page is from 5-10 subreddits which are all moderated by the same super-moderators, who effectively set the policy for what content is allowed and not allowed. and they do it with complete autonomy and independence.

either that, or the few anonymous people who run reddit actually are reddit staff, and reddit prefers to keep the appearance of subreddits being "community-run" because unpopular mod actions can be swept away by retiring a moderator's profile.
Contraception is also available to people descended from very fertile parents, so again, the evolutionary argument does not hold.
I wonder how they tested these compilers.
Yes, there's not reason to think that every movement, every decision, that humans make is made according to a purely rules-modeled decision engine.

If a GM makes an invalid move at chess, they demonstrably were not following the rules in that moment. That decision wasn't made according to a rules engine. They scanned the board, made a series of statistical inferences and other processes still well beyond our ability to describe, and made a move without validating it against all the rules and a complete observation of the board.

This doesn't tell us anything about OthelloGPT, and honestly I think it was self-evident about humans already. "We are not calculators" shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
GP says:
> I had the privilege to live in Japan for one year, the real culture shock was coming back home to what we call normal.

I think that's really the crux of it - as a place to visit, or even live for a relatively short period of time (particularly if you're a man), it is vastly superior to most Western countries in a whole host of ways.

That is, of course, different than saying it's a place to make your life and career or that the country as a whole is moving in a positive direction. Spending a short time (even a year) in a place, particularly as an outsider, only lets you see the superficial parts of that place. Is it clean? Is it safe? Is the cost of living reasonable? Do people treat you well in day-to-day interactions? These are all important, but the answers can also all be great while the underlying political and social systems and outdated, patriarchal and oppressive to many.
So all cinema and all producers are targeting precisely the same level of impressionism? None desire any more or less realism?
I built a demo for NPC background chatter using GPT-J-6B. Each call took about three seconds. I expect this technology to be usable interactively in a year or two, but we aren't quite there yet.
For anyone wondering "Why 88x31?"

Back in the early days of the internet, a lot of websites were hosted on Geocities, which was popular as it offered free hosting on one condition - you had to embed a small banner into your webpage advertising them. The banner image they provided was 88x31 pixels, and so many Geocities sites would include other external links as 88x31 images so that they matched the dimensions of the mandatory Geocities one.
There was a beautifully made book from 1936 called "The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature" that was set out and edited to be more like a normal book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.10239/

I picked up a copy secondhand years ago and I'm happy I did.
Here's a list of some of them in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Mobile_Payment_System...
Since English is my second language, I checked a few dictionaries just now to check if I got what I intended wrong. Only one (Cambridge) restricted abuse to only the sense of impropriety of action. The others included variations such as physical maltreatment (Merriam Webster, American Heritage Dictionary), to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way (Collins / dictionary.com), "Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them" (Collins, collinsdictionary.com).

If we restrict it to the impropriety of action, then I agree it does not apply to self defence, but that was not the meaning of my reply. I of course can't speak to the poster of the original statement, so if we interpret it as impropriety of action, I agree with you; in the broader sense allowed by the other dictionaries I stand by what I wrote.
Looks great!

I'm really missing support for remotes. There are lots of tools for local-only development (like https://gitexercises.fracz.com/), but very few allow to demonstrate stuff like "Syncing a GitHub fork with the original repository" which involves two remotes and three copies of the same branch at the very least.
https://archive.ph/0TmOb
Yeah, the difference is just that the first movie’s DP was aiming for a naturalistic shot, whereas the second DP wasn’t. Tons of 80s and 90s movies have heavily-stylised non-naturalistic lighting (e.g Tim Burton’s Batman)
Unless you have set hidden files as visible as some of us do.
> I was under the impression we often allowed anonymous testimony in courts for criminal trials

We specifically do not. The 6th Amendment: "...to be confronted with the witnesses against him"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/right_to_confront_witness
There is one exception to the foreigner comment though. Blonde / white foreigners usually have an advantage, even over native Japanese people since the Eurocentric beauty standard is much in play there. You can see evidence of this in their modeling industry where high paying modeling gigs go to those who are Caucasian or half Caucasian.

Source: Interview with a model in Japan (https://youtu.be/VEubSC2CidA?t=157)
You're completely right. But I need to a place to launder^W air my related complaints, too. :)
> noting that sped-up clinical trials for vaccines might be missing some issues related to vaccine efficacy and side effects, there's a problem.

Clinical trials weren't sped up: there's your problem.
Think about it at the population level: nobody is impervious to theft but it lowers the window for an attacker to quietly steal money considerably and forces them to slow down their activity trying to avoid canaries.

To use a physical security analogy, real world bank robbery is a fool’s game now because of many measures which do not perfectly prevent theft but effectively reduce the profits & odds of avoiding capture. If attackers can’t get enough money to be worth the risk & effort far fewer people are going to try even though it’s still possible.
Pirate encodes long have been fixing terrible banding and other artefacts on BluRay releases, it seems now they have to start messing with gamma math. Wonderful.
> When you say something needs to be commercially successful to be viable, be careful what you're optimizing for.

I'm optimizing for survival. If an apple variety has no market, it won't be eaten or enjoyed (so it becomes at best a museum accession), and in the longer term, it won't be grown, propagated or maintained, and because these things don't live forever, and don't propagate themselves, it will disappear. It doesn't have to have a huge market, it can be regional, or highly specialized; it can even be for nursery trees so people can try to grow it in their back yards. But just like anything that has to be produced (that is, that doesn't just persist on its own), it will disappear if no one is willing to pay for it to be produced.

So, I'm not making a value judgment about commercial vs other, I'm just saying what it takes to keep something alive.
A 150 person start-up is significantly more likely to 'pivot' in a way that makes a lot of roles or business lines redundant than Microsoft is.

The size of company doesn't matter to the point anyway - I used Microsoft as a well-known example so I could say 'imagine if they stopped doing GitHub' et al. I can't do that if I pick some random small start-up that I'm familiar with. (Maybe I could have said 'if Notion went all-in on AI' or something? But I wouldn't have had multiple examples.)
Sequelize was one, but it doesn’t appear to auto generate migrations like Prisma can. I think Prisma will be fine in the short/medium term.
This seems wild in the free-to-play era, where multiplayer with in game purchases is, like, the main business model. Maybe Unreal figures the multiplayer implementation is the metric on which the game studios compete, so there’s no hope to commoditizing it, or something like that?
Like most tech forum moderators, dang is actually a closeted trans women who is secretly obsessed with My Little Pony. So please don't be bigoted.
So we are in agreement that it is not violating copyright laws to run the algorithm on copyrighted works to produce the model, because if it is, my thoughts could be illegal too. In the end only actions such as reproducing the work and distributing it can be a violation. In other words, the end user of the model is the one to be held responsible if they reproduce and distribute the copyrighted material.
Tried, not good enough. I don't understand why this conversation has to be had ad nauseam.
What I find astonishing is, that they were fined 561 million once by the EU, for not having an explicit "ballot box" where the user was offered different browser as alternative and now they can do way worse, without getting fined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission

"On 16 December 2009, the European Union agreed to allow competing browsers, with Microsoft providing a "ballot box" screen letting users choose one of twelve popular products listed in random order.[45] The twelve browsers were Avant, Chrome, Firefox, Flock, GreenBrowser, Internet Explorer, K-Meleon, Maxthon, Opera, Safari, Sleipnir, and Slim,[46] which were accessible via BrowserChoice.eu. The automatic nature of the BrowserChoice.eu feature was dropped in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 in February 2011 and remained absent for 14 months despite Microsoft reporting that it was still present, subsequently described by Microsoft as a "technical error". As a result, in March 2013 the European Commission fined Microsoft €561 million to deter companies from reneging on settlement promises"

The only difference is, that back then IE was dominant and is not anymore. But Microsoft is still pretty much in a monopoly position for Desktop market.
You are moving the goalpost. The prior comment said "taking on an investor." Public trading doesn't work that way. That's a concept for privately held companies. Those are just facts.
Exactly! Good point about forums/tutorials/courses pushing unification.

And interesting, Mike Acton's point goes all the way back to the late Fred Brooks. Not the popular main topics of MMM, but the "Surgical Team" chapter, where he mentions that there should be someone taking care of the tooling. Now, in 1974 this could have been a person. In the 90s game studios it was common to have specialized teams building reusable tooling. This seems to be disappearing.
No need to enforce rights on the moon - enforce them on earth. Unless someone plans to never return or interact with earth, that should do it.
“Windows 11 Pro for Workstations” doesn’t have 3rd party crap. You still get the MS crap though.
Backend frameworks are fairly interchangeable, the possibilities don't change based on what the site you are looking at is built in.
Sure if guns didn't exist, we wouldn't have gun violence. The question is: given that we have guns, what is the right form of regulation that would lead to better public safety overall? After all, there is meaningful evidence that guns are often used (even just presenting the gun, not actually firing it) for legitimate self-defense purposes.

I said nothing about borrowed guns. To my knowledge, most of those homicides are done with stolen handguns, and are used by people involved in organized crime in the most highly gun-restricted cities in the nation.
could be lighting. could also be a deliberate choice to make movies darker[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qehsk_-Bjq4
That's a fair and good correction. My only point is that they are still extremely vulnerable to extinction, unless there is demand for them in the market.
> Come on, there’s no absolute correctness for a result in being in Google’s first versus second answer.

“Absolute correctness” is an irrelevant standard. Order can affect satisfaction without "absolute correctness" being a thing that can even be assessed meaningfully.

> Even Google doesn’t change the order of answers based on the user’s context.

Yes, it does. [0]

> Otherwise it wouldn’t say in Google Web Console “your site appears in nth position”

I think that reflects the experience of a no-context user (e.g., not logged in or otherwise tied to a history to provide context.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_searching#Automatic...
I hope some of those trees are still around somewhere waiting for someone to find them.
Haha we would need to meet in person for that to invalidate my previous statement!
Kinda tempted to add this to alias: git commit -m $(curl https://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)
I find that only a very specific demographic writes comments like this about Japan

From my point of view Japan is a bit like Alabama with a coat of cyberpunk drawn over, but that also has to do with how I'd be treated there.

I guess I'm glad it's a place that works for some people, but it shouldn't take much imagination to see how it's not the utopia you're describing unless you fit in a very specific bucket of being: that's what their society is essentially built on.
Other people invented pagerank and used it for pageranking before Google.
It's just a centrality metric.
Because third party front ends will show competitors shows next to Netflix shows and none of them want that.

That said, we are sort of there. Google can tell you where a show is streaming and I think Apple TV displays shows from different streaming services. Just not to the point anyone that wants to can build one.
If the attacker has userspace access to my VPS or - even worse - my daily driver, then I have much bigger fish to worry about than. The attacker is then a single zero-day away from gaining root access and being able to keylog everything I input on my physical keyboard or send via SSH, at which point the issues mentioned in the article become meaningless.
By the way, some googling on your claim found this as a first hit.

https://www.newswise.com/politics/gun-ownership-and-homicide...

"... [A] 1-per-cent increase in the rate of ownership is associated with a 1-per-cent increase in the rate of homicide by gun, which is three times higher than the previous studies had estimated,” Chalak explained.