skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's actually such an established principle, there wouldn't be such a problem with the way the law goes after "peaceful actions used by those protesting about human rights and environmental issues" because the peaceful actions it's targetting are things like protesters gluing themselves to famous artworks in museums, public protest whose main goal is to shut down major roads, railways and other critical infrastructure rather than protest somewhere where they're likely to be seen by the public, and vandalism of company headquarters. After all, it's not like the environmental activists are at risk of not having their views heard if they can't sling paint all over the doors of fossil fuel and chemical companies and banks and call their employees murderers to their faces, especially since most of the mainstream media in this country is already on their side.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the comments, downvoted into the grey, someone even linked an article pointing out that these protests included roadblocks that stopped ambulances getting through. Clearly public safety only matters sometimes. (And to be clear, this wasn't an incidental side effect of some protest where the sheer volume of protesters caused disruption. Building blockades and maintaining them for days/weeks was the protest action.)
Invading other countries is against international law, and is exactly what these regulations aim to prevent.
When people say that older music was better, they don't mean that ALL older music is good. There was lots of crappy music in the "good old days"; the stuff they're talking about is the good part.

These days, there's really no good part, at least not pushed by the big music labels. There is some great stuff outside the US, or from independent artists, etc.
It seems like you've confused 'environmentalists' with various corporate greenwashing campaigns.

Banning plastic bags was sensible, it just didn't go far enough. Banning plastic straws was sensible, but replacing them with PFAS paper was evil.

Do you think it was natural how much corporate media attention the plastic straw thing got? Do you think it's natural how little attention Coke get in the media for their plastic waste? Do you think environmentalists are unaware of this?

The main point you seem to be missing is that there are a small number of individuals making a lot of money from the "low hanging fruit" problems remaining unsolved. You're pointing fingers at an artificial straw-man, one created by PR teams those wealthy people hired.

I don't mean this to sound too confrontational; it sounds like our opinions mostly overlap. I just really dislike seeing environmentalists get tarred with a straw brush.
It's always been there. 20 years ago my father went for business in Turkmenistan, and all this was already in place. This country is one of the biggest producer of fossil fuel, it's an ultra-dictatorship, and has strong commercial partnerships with France. It's very well known.

So why is there sudden medias coverage of this?

I'm now doubting more and more that the politicians and medias really care about any environmental issue and that, like terrorism and pedophilia, it's used to motivate another agenda.

The problem is, unlike terrorism and pedophilia, climate change is an urgent issue that affects every single human in the world, so I really want this to be a genuine concern.

But some part of me now always wonder if somebody, somewhere, is not preparing us to invade Turkmenistan 2 years from now.
> AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky

I guess you can call anyone you want a researcher, it's not like the term has any legal meaning. But in a more conservative sense, Yudkowsky is not a researcher. Maybe an activist?

> regarded as a leader in the field of Artificial General Intelligence

No. Not regarded as a leader.
> The k-sound has way more air in it. You need to pronounce it as "kh". Same thing with the t-sound.

Well, if you are Dutch, all other consonants from all other languages need a lot more aspiration ;)
Are you referring to the couple of months in 2020?

Because we didn't really have any sort of lock down in the UK, the Tories just said the police would need to informally enforce a non-rule. The met responded that they were not going to enforce anything that wasn't an actual rule.
There were words said and a couple of high profile incidents which shows how little any sort of lockdown happened. I know I drove around the country still and no one ever asked why, and all my neighbours had garden parties with social gathers still happening.
There's an xkcd for everything, but only 5 or so are linked regularly.
I thankfully haven't bought any Nest things, but your mention of Google Home turns out to have triggered me slightly!

Many years ago, I bought a bunch of Chromecast Audio devices - these are/were little wifi dongles with a 3.5mm jack and USB power. I could set them up as a group and they'd sync perfectly with each other. I had a pretty cheap multi-room sound system.

Then at some point, the Google app I was using for them stopped working and it transpired the functionality had been moved to "Google Home". Over the following few months I spent hours turning the things off and on again, resetting them, re-creating groups, but it never worked for more than a few hours. I gave up, went back to bluetooth.

Google Home needs to die.
Attacking caveman cultists is not a dismissal of environmentalism.

There is an enormous distinction between pure waste or negligence such as what we see here, and genuine activity that benefits people.

If I were leaving my windows open with the AC/heating on full blast, or burning plastic in my garden - sure, that's not cool.

But going after genuine things with utility (eating meat, driving, having children, etc) is the quickest way to get me to completely ignore what you're saying.

These changes don't make the world better. They would make my life significantly worse, whilst potentially very slightly improving the lives of people who are ascetic.
Sorry this is a dupe - didn't see it had already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871108
The exact same logic applies to many things that by rights ought to be commons, but are not. Most notably: land.

The idea that, for example, any person claiming sole ownership/usufruct of a piece of land owes to the public a rent for the value of the undeveloped land is called Georgism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism).
You mean like, a special military operation?
This reminds me of the novel 'Hyperion', which explores religion and technology in the far future.
> Of course the Tories are going to try and sneak in as much abhorrent policy as they can in the time they have left.

Labour have been captured by the fringe outside of its own party, so I don't have much hopes for Labour over the Tories.
Weirdly, this started with Monster Cable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848477
An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
There is no comparison in my experience, especially when going between wildly unrelated languages instead of Latin-derived European languages.

I tested some complex sentences translated from English to Hungarian to Chinese and then back to English and it preserved 90-95% of the meaning. Google Translate will shred anything that goes through those kinds of steps.

It can also translate to Latin, which shouldn't be surprising but was still a bit of a shock when I tried it. It's Elvish and Klingon is not so good however, the round-trip only vaguely preserves the meaning.
“Your job as a bricklayer isn’t to lay bricks. It’s to solve building problems.” If you’re actually looking for an architect or designer or salesperson or manager, hire them instead of berating developers for not doing all of those jobs at once.

Also in most countries devs don’t get paid enough to solve business problems. American tech wages are the exception.
What about cumulative emissions?
"3. The AI rewrites it to be more ethical."

By who's ethics? Wouldn't it be more correct to say: "The AI rewrites it to be more biased"?
Because site is specialized, the ads are more relevant to the topics that interest me and so I _might_ look at them and click.

We need still need a mechanism that would allow to automatically distribute less trivial amounts of money without requiring a recurrent subscription.
California May Bill You for Slavery
No we can't revive these terms, that would be prescriptivism.
Well if each satellite could kill maybe 2-3 people that'd be a whopping AI genocide of around 20k innocents, in the final battle of AI vs human.
I think Formula One can say a phone company is planning a Formula One branded phone "real soon now" and C&D this phone...

There was once a McLaren-branded OnePlus 6T: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/oneplus-6t-mclaren-editio...
I feel like a team that won't accept

> Sorry, but no - my current team relies on me, and I should help them transition

as a reason to allow a transition period is setting themselves up for failure. Isn't that the kind of engineer you want?
These are also used on a highway close to Rotterdam (also The Netherlands). They are only used over a stretch of maybe 100m, but leaves a gap for bats to fly through.

Here are some images, unfortunately the article isn't available in English:

https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/nieuws/archief/2020/12/vleerm...
The right to protest is important, but there's a different between disruption and protest that I feel you're overlooking.

> Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.

> We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration.

This sounds like you'll be arrested if you leap in front of the motorcade, scream something in church, etc. Not if you carry a sign protesting the monarch along the route
Ah, should have realized :/
What the heck does same-sex marriage have to do with "crimes against nature"?
Note, that same-sex relationships exist /throughout/ nature and marriage itself is not "natural".

Me thinks your biases and agenda is showing...
It's not hard to understand what they meant.
I only listed contemporary examples.
> areas directly outside abortion clinics free from harassment by religious fanatics

There are some videos of "religious fanatics" standing alone, silently, outside abortion clinics, being moved on by police, on the suspicion that they are praying in their minds.

You can't really pick and choose which views are acceptable. Either you have the right to protest peacefully, guided by your own conscience, or you don't.
> Last November, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a resolution on the use of cleaner fuels in the Arctic to reduce black carbon, but left it as a voluntary move.

Feels so bizarre to read in the 21th century.

We’re actively and willfully preparing a global, life-threatening disaster for our own species, especially younger generations.

Millions of people are going to die because of this. Yet most people are still acting like it were no big deal.
Did you try GPT 3 or GPT 4? The latter can solve the first problem without issues:

Based on the information you provided, if it rains today, you will drive home.
However, you mentioned that you did not drive home. Given the logical structure
of the statement, we can infer that it did not rain today.
Beautiful green ecofascism. You are truly on the cutting edge ideologically.
Truss was in power in September/October and only put inflation up 0.5%

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/inflation-cpi

The problem with the Tories is that they have imposed some of the highest levels of personal taxation ever seen. If the Conservatives are not a low tax party, then they lose their whole purpose and we get the Labour-lite Davos-man bunch of incompetents we have now.
This is true, but I feel it's also reflecting of how new GPUs were back then. That they could do anything fast than the CPU gave the largest impact.

Back then the GPU basically swept textures and rotated 3D vectors, very fast.

Todays GPUs can do so much more.

Even further back, a Z80 CPU in a microcomputer wasn't very costly at all compared to all of the rest of the components. A Commodore 64 had a MOS6502 CPU, and the diskette drive for the Commodore 64 also had a MOS6502 CPU. Imagine your SSD come with a Core i7 embedded in it.

But also, competition is good and I miss it. Looking back, it seems to me so much computer development happened on a compressed time scale from the 1970s up through the 90s.

Nowadays, it feels like not much happened 2013-2023. Machine learning of GPUs is about it, I think. What changes now is "just" the sheer numbers of things and infrastructure. More smartphones, more bandwidth etc. It's also impressive in its own right of course, but not as exciting.
There was an abortion clinic in Bloomsbury square that had a core group of protesters outside it a few years ago. But generally most people in the UK feel like it's a personal decision for the mother to make and it's certainly not a left/right issue like in the US.
Don't let hospitals lie to you. It's not malpractice and malpractice insurance.

https://carbonhealth.com/blog-post/why-is-u-s-healthcare-so-...
And yet... people were arrested for having signs along the route. The police don't deserve any benefit of the doubt that you're trying to give them.
For sure, I totally agree.

Right now though, we have these protections and if they repeal (which they should), I hope they leave those protections in place.
Well, you can "risk" it by not commenting at all, my 2 euro cents.
Authoritarianism has clearly been feeling its way into the UK ever since the 90s when they put up CCTV cameras everywhere. The UK effectively has an inherently and self-evidently illegitimate government based on its own actions and words, as do most western governments at this point.

These types of bills/laws are those of authoritarian governments fearful of its own population wising up to what has happened or what the authoritarians are up to and they want to make sure they can snuff out any little bit of burgeoning opposition before it can organize and get off the ground. It’s the repression part of 1984 style government. It’s the same thing all authoritarian, evil governments do, regardless of how long they can get away with it or how much the brainwashed masses go along with it, even if just out of fear.
Media coverage of methane leaks is going up because:

a) progress on various other sources (e.g. coal) means remaining issues move up the priority list

b) new satellite measurement techniques let us pinpoint blame, rather than do back of the envelope calculations based on educated guesses and global averages, which were bad enough but less actionable.

https://www.ghgsat.com/en/technology
As they say, what's old is new. A lot of these problems I remember having with VHS. Tapes would rewind too slowly, or they would rewind too fast and I would overshoot. Early IR remotes had to be aimed carefully, so pausing took a few attempts. Some remotes had a physical cord, which could come unplugged. And if a tape got jammed that means pulling it out carefully, gently rolling it back into the cartridge, and since the tape is now back at the beginning, fast forwarding to find my place again.
I think you moved the goalposts from making a broad argument about free speech to now a narrow argument about property rights.

Now maybe try to address my actual point, which is that no rights are absolute and always need to be balanced in context against other rights and public safety.
Didn't read the article you posted, but there are different types of the amish. Some more radical than others and live more primitive lifestyle.
> I've not heard about that being a big issue here on the first place, and it absolutely doesn't justify the blatant dismantling of our democracy.

As someone who lives within walking distance of an abortion clinic, I can say that it is a very serious issue and money is pouring in to anti-choice groups in the UK.
A similar argument could be used for environmental protestors blocking a highway (the reason the bill was created) - they're interfering with someone else's right to travel.
> Usually based on common law basis

Oh, that's a great basis. Some random lord sued another random merchant in the 16th century and a judge decided whatever, how very useful as a legal base upon which to decide modern things. (Like that story which is the basis of contract law about some ships a couple of centuries ago).

It's quite sad how obsolete and overcomplicated for no reason whatsoever (as in, to understand a case today, you have to go dig up precedents going back centuries to understand how they might impact this case; no wonder there's entire professions, software, AI assistants to help lawyers navigate this quagmire) common law is, and how countries have stuck with it.
California, which was never a slave state, is talking about taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves.

CA population is cratering for a reason.
This is kind of old news. I think something like two decades ago one of my friends went on her honeymoon to Japan and got her Mac blessed in a temple by a Shinto priest.

Even Christian churches do machine stuff, just in a way slightly less goofy to our eyes.

Eg, coin operated votive candles: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/A82EPW/artificial-candles-lit-when...
>Back then the GPU basically swept textures and rotated 3D vectors, very fast.

Not really. That's what the original 3df Voodoo did, but tech moved fast. By 1999 we had multi texturing, vertex blending, cube mapping, hardware transforming and lighting on the GeForce 256 and Direct3D 7[1], and by 2001 we already had the GeForce 3 and DirectX 8 [2], featuring programable vertex and pixel shaders, fog, bump mapping and texture mapping, and the next year in 2002 DirectX 9.0b[3] dropped which move the goalpost even more giving us the realism of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 [4].

It was a great time to be alive and whitness these tech marvels unfold before your very eyes year on year.

[1] https://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~semancik/research/resources/papers/...

[2] https://www.evga.com/articles/images/11directx8.pdf

[3] https://www.pny.com/file%20library/company/support/product%2...

[4] https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/11/18/half-life-2-directx-...
Is Monal not good? I don’t know since I don’t use or recommend Apple devices, but I saw they were putting in GSoC bids for features.
> I feel you're overlooking

Just to clarify, my comment is not passing any judgment or offering any analysis. I intend to provide context in the aftermath of this weekend, and why I assume this has been posted and voted to the top of the homepage.

Of course there is nuance, and not all "protest" activities can be justified.
It's not that simple.

They are allowed to protest and have a protected right to do so; 100m down the road, where they cannot harass vulnerable women.

That's the law, and I hope it stays that way.
In what way was the plastic bags sensible? We replaced recycled and sugar cane bags with awful cotton bags while instead importing garbage bags from China. The sale of imported plastic bags skyrocketed.
But in a sense, right now is the most important of all time, because it's the only moment we have to effect change. And the levers of what we do or don't, echoes in eternity.
A copyright claim doesn't mean you've copied anything. I can submit a DMCA takedown for any video on youtube by filling out a form [0] and it's fairly likely the video will be pulled.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2807622?hl=en-GB
You are bringing up petty unsightly targets yourself. Aviation produces less than 2.5% of greenhouse gas emissions. Rich people and their jets don't even register in the scheme of things.
2020-21.
I've never had to deal with the windows side of things, thankfully. All of my experience with DNS caching issues is with other systems.
When there is a review process in place, it is usually followed. Mistakes should be expected in the tiniest commits and there should be processes that catch them. As you suggested, medical community does this ad-hoc and only for interesting/unsure cases and this is the result:

> The researchers estimate that 7.4 million misdiagnosis errors are made every year, 2.6 million people receive a harm that could have been prevented, and another 370,000 are permanently disabled or die because of the misdiagnosis.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/15/health/hospital-misdiagno...
Very interested in the benchmark between Taichi and numba, both of them are using llvm as backend
It's not that simple.

They haven't been banned, they've been moved 100m down the road from outside the doors of the clinic.

A very fair, and reasonable compromise I feel.
Welcome to theology. :-)
Yeah the American people outnumber the FBI by a huge margin
> We don't know and we'll never know. All you can do is tell just-so stories

You can compare the permanent boom and bust cycle the global economy was in prior to the Great Depression to the relatively stable inflationary environment of the last several decades.

Just look at:

https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1#:~:t....

Specie based money (with not meaningful monetary policy) is not stable, in fact it's less stable than Fiat money it's just that periods of high inflation are followed by periods of very high deflation. And unpredictability is clearly an obvious downside...

(to be fair I almost thoroughly disagree with your reasoning).
> Tricky part is how to keep it simple.

Isn’t this so incredibly true for most things. Thanks for saying it.
Why would the federal government and its budget have commanding influence over programs that are run by for-profit corporations?
> #2 is people being nervous, but seriously the "DENY incoming on $WANIF if not in state table" rule is all you need.

This didn’t exist. Many of the early implementations of “support” for ipv6 was a checkbox that said “enable”. These cheap routers (which is what the majority of people without deep pockets are on) rarely even gave you an explicit stateful firewall UI.

If you got a “firewall” option at all, it was to block stuff from getting out of your network, not in. Know why? Because “NAT already did that”. If you wanted inbound unsolicited traffic you used port forwards or the “DMZ”.

It’s not people being nervous, it’s the vast majority of network vendors not making the UX any good. I pushed people to try v6 hard, it was not the rosy transition it was supposed to be. v6 for a while ended up being a great accidental exfil path for malware for administrators that screwed this up. Don’t try to downplay it, it just makes you sound like an armchair quarterback, not smart.

> #4 A /64 is a subnet. Normally all of your devices would be on the same subnet, although with IPv6 you get a whole bunch which is nice.

A /60 is also a subnet, so is a /127. Subnetting is just breaking up larger IP spaces.

Anyway, you missed the point of the comment. What I was getting at is that doing prefix delegation for home users for anything more than a /64 is immensely wasteful. Yet a bunch of very large ISPs do just that.

Want to guess why? Once again, bone-headed implementations in off the shelf routers that do give a /64 per WiFi client. Untold waste in the v6 space because addressing guidance was (and still is) so poor.
My dad used to be a very heavy Picasa user, I eventually transitioned him to "DigiKam" which seems to be working out - so maybe worth checking that if you haven't. (If it's simple enough for a man who's steadfastly refused to learn anything new for 40 years it might be easy to switch.)

I've got a precious Lightroom 6 license so I've been sticking with that.