skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to S230 providers could be shielded from liability through common carrier status. But they couldn't enjoy that protection and remove crap. For point to point services, a very hands off approach makes sense. You generally don't need to remove crap: Garbage in, Garbage out, people can ignore or locally filter what they don't want. But for public online forums a degree of moderation is required (otherwise someone can just flood it with garbage and make it useless to everyone) and generally desirable. S230 is as much about letting people moderate with immunity (both for the things their well intended efforts missed, and for harms created when their moderation goes over broad) as it is anything else.

By count most of the deplorable material that shows up on platforms is not illegal or tortious. Material which is offensive, abusive, demeaning, misleading is often lawful and it often doesn't create doesn't create substantial real liability-- except in the form that without broad brush protections like S230 people can sue over whatever frivolous thing they want anf unless you're a multi-billion dollar entity you may well be bankrupt before your inevitable win. A world without powerful liability shields is one where you can't safely irritate or offend parties with significantly more money or power than you.

And we can see that already platforms facebook, google, twitter, etc. are effectively immune already to civil suit by virtue of their size and wealth-- just look at the lack of effect litigation over their privacy breaches or shutting users out of their own data with no notice causing them grave harm. ... Or incidents like Apple & Google's wage fixing conspiracy, which while they were eventually convicted cost them less than they saved in wages. Their bad policies are in part because their size, wealth, and power make them significantly immune to public opinion.

To the extent that the bad governance of social media sites is harmful to the public we've be better served by having more alternatives. Facebook, Twitter, etc. could survive in a world with S230, but the smaller and better curated alternatives you'd presumably like to see move over very likely couldn't.

When we look at laws like the proposed what we can see is the government trying to deputize corporations to investigate and enforce the law on their behalf. One of the drivers of this is that it throughly undermines due process: The constitution established safeguards against government search but we've figured out that we lack the same safeguards against corporations (since we've "voluntarily" handed our data over to them) and so if governments coerce corporations to search they can substantially bypass our fourth amendment rights.
I worked with a small (4 to start, then up to 20-ish) group of people for about 20 years, starting at a university research group, moving to a startup, through prototype, early product, pivot, and finally to mature products. Always spread over multiple continents: Europe, US, and Australia.

You need some facilitating technology:

* A good chat system. Slack is ok, but its message threads are terrible. And threads are really good for context, which is really important if conversations need to spread out over time.

* A shared whiteboard. Lots of people think well while diagramming, and it's a great way to communicate ideas and evolve them. There's a lot of bad whiteboards out there. It's probably worth buying a big iPad and pen for everyone just for this: if you have to use a mouse and draw like it's Visio, you've killed it before you start.

* Integration between your repository (git?), your CI system, and your chat tool. When people aren't in the same room, or at the same coffee machine, this is a great way to build peripheral awareness of what's being done.

* A wiki, but ... it's useless unless the culture is built to make curating it part of everyone's responsibilities. Given timezones, you need information to be available in written/drawn form. A badly manged Wiki is just a dead zone, but a good one is a fantastic resource for coworkers (and your forgetful self!).

* A final tech thing: we found that keeping a daily, public log of what we'd done and how we'd solved issues was useful. Just a few bullet points, a few cut'n'pasted command lines, and some text explaining what and why. Aside from documenting solutions to problems, it's also a great resource for seeing how things developed to where they are, and why. If you keep it in the wiki, it can be easily searched, and becomes part of the shared knowledge.

So far as timezones go, there's advantages to being far apart: Asia/Australia and east-coast US for instance means you get two chances to catch up in real-time every day, whereas Asia/west coast is usually just one. Realistically, you need to be flexible about work hours: a quick check of messages when you wake up (possibly logging in to resolve urgent stuff), early calls, then a break before work proper, then a break in the late afternoon before a late evening check, answer questions, and maybe another quick call. Everyone kinda needs to be committed to this, while realizing that it can't be _every_ day.

Calls/video/meetings are productivity killers if they happen too often, or run too long. Treat them like they're costing you a lot (and they are).

So far as early-stage customers go, having folks in different timezones can help a small company to be super responsive: someone can work on a customer query or issue overnight, and you can get back to them first-thing the next day. It really helps you look professional.
Yeah, it isn't going to hurt the salt ponds. What is more, we did the math and found you could harvest more salt faster for less money when starting with a higher salinity brine which would be a win for Morton.
Formula E would be electric only, right?
Brendan Eich getting fired was like watching the original internet get murdered by progressives. Everything since then has been about how I thought that would go.
So what about those that own the cables between the nodes that served the files?
To be clear - unless there is work done to reduce the pressure at -230m below mean sea level, there is zero pressure gradient there. Anything sitting at -230m will feel a pressure gradient of essentially zero.

So you couldn't run a filter or anything, unless it's literally magic.

If someone put a pump at -230m and pumped out the water on one side of the membrane so that on one side the pressure was 'ocean' at -230m, and the other side was mean sea level, then yeah the membrane would work.

Notably, this requires roughly the same amount of work and energy as pumping water from the ocean at sea level into a filter so it has roughly the same pressure you would find if you did the first thing.

There is no free lunch.
Musk trolls on Twitter like a thirteen year old edgelord and promotes awful stuff either because he actually believes it or is trying to provoke controversy. There’s so much negativity toward him because he invites it upon himself. It’s entirely his choice and his doing.
I think what he meant by the “cyberpunk dream” is actually the “solution” to the cyberpunk dystopia - i.e. “the net” was supposed to be a refuge from corporate/government monitoring and control.

In the early days of the internet it kind of was. Corporations haven’t waken up to the full commercial potential of the internet. Governments/law enforcement hasn’t quite figured out how this new at-the-time Internet thing worked - “series of tubes” or something.

Then as he noted, there is a significant downside to such a refuge.
Oracle VirtualDoxx likes to phone home. I'd rather use qemu.

* edit: Oracle VirtualBox even calls home to check if you've got a valid Windows Server License, and it will Narc and Cop you out. Use qemu or something else; people! Oracle is the cousin of cancer. If an Oracle product is free, please re-think! Stay safe, people! Oracle VirtualBox virtually, not a pun, logs tons of things that you do within it.
I don't like water that has a taste. It's the reason why it's so hard to get me to drink it on a consistent basis. I always go back to soda because water tastes bad. Some people say I might be tasting the hydrogen or oxygen in it, some people say it's the minerals or whatever, but either way, I find it unpleasant.
The article says that the net price (price after discounts) has gone down over time. This surprised me.

They cite a College Board report, but don't specify which one. I suspect it's this one:
https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing

Tables CP-9 and CP-10 do indeed show net price going down for the last few years. But the figures aren't expressed in dollars, but in '2022 dollars', i.e. the charts don't show the actual net price, but the net price adjusted by CPI inflation.

This is an important distinction because, when people pay for college, they're not comparing it with the cost of other goods and services (which is what CPI measures), but whether they can afford it, based on their parents' current/past income, or their own future expected income.

If you agree with this perspective, using CPI to make the curves look flatter does everyone a disservice. Wages for many people haven't kept up with CPI, so a higher nominal net cost still makes college less affordable.
Kids with no credit history can borrow limitless money that’s backed by the government and not discharged in bankruptcy. Is anyone surprised to see the prices rising to slurp up as much of that cash as possible?
Try referencing `exports` or `module` in your code. That will automatically make it use CommonJS which doesn't have strict mode by default.
Except it can't because of thermodynamics, if you pencil it out.
That's not quite what the parent is trying to say. Assume that int is not None. Create a type called T that is int|None - a term of type T can be an int, or it can be None.

Now have a function whose argument is T|None. Substitute in the definition of T and you get (int|None)|None. If the function's argument is None, what does that mean? Was it given a T that happened to be None, or was it not given a T? Nobody knows.
And that's fine. In fact, I would document the prefixes in the docs and make ot official.
I applaud another step towards competition and commoditization of hardware.
Why so many people leaving cali? it sounds like a wonderful place to live investing in the future.
The changelog looks pretty mundane: https://web.archive.org/web/20230721185635/https://www.virtu...
This used to be true, but now it transpiles to CommonJS with sloppy mode by default when "exports" or "module" is used
Zalgo is Tony the Pony he comes vibes
Universities aren't the only places research and development take place.
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> Without any estimates of magnitudes that is meaningless.

I see you didn't click my second link, and/or research it yourself. ;)

But even if the magnitude of harm were unknown, that doesn't mean we can just default to "ignore it."

Additional sources:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.8451...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959559/
firefox 108 gives me:

An error occurred during a connection to match.dev. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
Context? Why is this significant?
There is a significant second-hand market for good quality tools that were built to last. But you have to be reasonably informed in the first place as a consumer to know what's good and what's bad.
I'd hoped the pre-requisite that titles matched duties was implicitly understood in the message, sorry!

But you can absolutely come into an engineering role at a company with 40 engineers (40 person org charts to director at BigTech), grow into leadership of a 200+ person engineering (charts to vp) and then go back to BigTech for bigger bucks.
This number is including the fact that we already lower standards for those on the left side of the bell curve. It's entirely the difficult life situations at play.
Okay, I've just checked, and apparently the ld and ld.so are two completely different executables: the loader, ld.so, is 236K large and statically linked while ld is 1.7M large and dynamically linked. And now that I think of it, I believe that alternative linkers such as gold, or mold, or lld, don't come with alternative loaders so... they have to manually follow the GNU's ld.so ABI and evolution?
That’s the conclusion I came to when I was lifting, running and cycling without any progress aside from the mystery pound or kilo that would come and go. What you eat everyday makes the real difference.
Banners cover the text on mobile so it’s still unreadable =\
But they are where the vast majority of researchers are educated.
Also the M1/M2 version download has disappeared. Can anyone find it?
> but isn't it the case that reputable scientists have predicted an overlaid major warming over the next ~10 years due to the recent Tonga eruption's injection of unimaginable amounts of water vapor into the upper atmosphere?

Via JPL [1]:

“In contrast, the Tonga volcano didn’t inject large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, and the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, since water vapor traps heat.”

[1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprece...
The "About" section on the side mentions the USA specifically.
It’s like buying used cars. As a parent you have to shop around and pit different colleges against each other for the best deal. No one knows what the real price is. And you may get a good deal, but the terms require a GPA that 85% of students fall under so mathematically the college knows they only pay the merit scholarships mostly for the first year.

Undergraduate is a racket. If my kids choose to get into tech I will use my connections to get them a job, either working for one of my companies or for a friend of mine, or start a company with children of friends. Now that is how the real world works - not handing 6 figures every year to a government sponsored scam.
> This sounds far more like a roommate situation than a semi-nuclear family.

Think again.

If there's someone in the house who downloads CP, do you think that person's kids don't know who it would be?
haha i was also homeschooled and the 10% is self-reported in my state, so I just checked yes on all of those.
I got my item and went to the register to pay for it, and the credit card screen gave the price, and then displayed a menu for tips (it was specifically labeled as being for a "tip" amount). This tip menu had three options, in USD amounts (not percents), none of which was 0 dollars. There was no option to skip or "no tip" or anything like that. I would have had to refuse to pay and put the item back.

I suppose I could have, but I was buying food for my daughter, who was with me and was hungry.

It wasn't that much money overall, but the minimum tip amount was a pretty large percentage of the total cost. Five years ago it would have just been bundled into the cost of the item.
From my amateur ear, Moon and Bonham are the only ones who both played match grip but were exceptional and were members of popular bands. Even Peart is a bit of a yawner compared to these two. Compare to all those great drummers not playing match grip, like a dozen including Buddy Rich, Keith Carlock, Steve Gadd, other great jazz drummers, and with the exceptions I mentioned, match grip doesn't hold up as well to my ear.

One more match grip exception would be Tony Thompson, who exemplified why xor decisions suck for just about everything in life.

Oh yeah, Modula2 foundationally rules. Just needed some more iterations.
I should add one thing:

It's really far, far better if there's no "head office". Once you do that, everywhere else becomes second-class by default, and suddenly it's up to them to bend their schedule to fit with call times that suit head office, or people have meetings at head office that don't include remotes, and so their opinion isn't considered and often they're not even told what was discussed or decided.

It's hard to do, but making sure that everyone is treated the same is really important to making remote team members work effectively. This is much easier when you're super small, but maintaining it as you grow is crucial.
How is anyone excluded from education? What you are saying is the exact opposite of what is happening. A far higher percentage of Americans are getting degrees than 30 or 60 years ago.
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In order to increase the reusability of SQL statements, I converted existing SQL statements into objects and made them editable.
Fun fact: A good number of Greek islands end up using desalination.

E.g.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c....

And this is not by choice: Greece has to deal with extreme volatility in resource consumption throughout the year. Add to that it has ~6000 islands (around 200 being inhabited year round -- 227 as I google). And the tourist island/islet focus changes throughout the years. With this context, there can be no "I will create a pipeline of fresh water" or any other project like that really.
That is the banner from the last battle. TLS is exactly the type of centralizing protocol that these people now want - "security" that is fully contingent upon (ie vulnerable to) corporate middlemen and other centralized entities.
> continual access to every major vpn provider increases the probability of getting caught

Could you point out one example where CIA/NSA faced any real consequences after being caught doing something shady?
Correlated with decline in critical thinking skills unfortunately.
WRC team called “Special ONE Racing.”

Not Formula 1 or Formula E.
By "battery" here, I just mean a dam that holds a few days worth of fresh water.
But it is where the majority of useful research takes place, because Universities are where researches are created.

Most research at private companies is namesake.
Just about every personality trait with a name has a high degree of genetic heritability. We know this from e.g. studies of identical versus fraternal twins. And people abused as children tend to be closely related to their parents; we know this because we know where babies come from.

So, how much of the “chain of abuse” thing is just genetic confounding? I don’t know, which is vexing. As far as I can tell, very few of the chain-of-abuse theorists even think of genetics, even though it’s the elephant in the room, and many are hard-line blank slate believers. (I don’t have citations at the moment, but last time I looked at the relevant academic literature it was, broadly speaking, an absolute dumpster fire.)
Fully customizable ? you can change the color only
These days I tend to use $() over backticks, anyone wanna fight me on it?
Reddit at the moment is trying everything to inflate metrics before their IPO.

Dislike an advertisement of a brand and it will ask you do you want to subscribe to that brand’s subreddit.

“r/Place works by letting users drop a pixel of one of eight colors wherever they want on the canvas, but they have to wait a few minutes to be able to drop another.“ - the functionality users have been demanding…

I was getting spammed on LinkedIn by the CEO of an infra platform company. I looked on Reddit to see what the company was about. Glowing reviews from numerous accounts that all mysteriously stopped posting shortly after leaving those reviews.
The moment I personally really started to dislike him, was when he gleefully destroyed the dreams and hopes of people by pumping and dumping his favorite shitcoin.
I don't want to know how many people in dire conditions lost their life savings while he was mocking them.
objdump -x /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED
So now instead of a democratically elected government writing laws and appointing people to enforce them, a private corporation will "patrol" my online interactions...
Elaborate. Also, if you could elaborate on how one would partake in such things without previously having a degree.
I think you gotta admit the focus on risks, especially along the rural/urban divide are considerably unhinged from reality. And it's largely to do with the memes.

As I make my drive from a 30k population county to 5m population county, and I have to adjust from telling people, no the cities aren't full of shootings, 5G microwaves aren't harmful, to no climate change isn't going to kill you, no covid isn't still overflowing morgues.

Cars man. Never can convince people of the dangers of car accidents.
Toyota group company started making Ni-MH since 2021 https://www.toyota-industries.com/news/2022/08/30/005417/ https://www.toyota-industries.com/products/automobile/batter...
You're looking at the number of invoices, which need to be decided by 12 for an accurate picture of users. If you look further down the article, Drew lists the actual number of subscriptions, and it's actually the opposite of what you said, there are more people paying yearly than monthly.
I am one of those people and it's control of my finances. Yes j pay more over time, but the ability to cancel and not have lost a portion I don't use.

I regularly cancel and restart subscriptions depending on usage, to keep things balanced and not waste money.

If I pay for a year, even if I stop using it say 6 months in, I've already paid for another 6months, losing that money.

I refuse to pay yearly subscriptions for most things. Amazon Prime is the only one because I use them year-round.

Though Sourcehut would be one I pay yearly for if I did a full move there, but I would start with monthly at first.
i believe stable diffusion can work on the M1, see https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...
A lot of Rails developers don't actually know Ruby.
> Also the argument that descendants of slaves in America are better off than their counterparts in Africa is problematic because it assumes that the progress of African nations would have been the same without the devastating effects of the Atlantic slave trade, which significantly hindered their development.

Slavery in Africa was widespread before the Atlantic slave as well as after the Atlantic slave trade. There's some apologism (interestingly enough, quite similar to Southern U.S. slavery apologism) claiming that it wasn't that bad, but if you look at the actual accounts it could be extremely brutal. Like with the U.S. there was certainly a degree of different experiences, but like in the U.S., that doesn't justify the practice.

In the end it was actually European powers that ended most slavery in Africa, often with a great deal of local opposition ("The End of Slavery in Africa" is a decent starting place if you want to see how it happened in each individual area).

Ethiopia is an interesting example - it wasn't colonized[1], and so slavery there persisted long after it ended in most of the continent. The League of Nations kept pressuring the country to end the practice, but it kept dragging it's feet. It only ended when Italy invaded in the run-up to WWII (it's also interesting as a non-colonized control country when it comes to colonization).

[1] It was conquered by fascist powers for some years, the same as most of Europe.
FTA:

> it includes particularly controversial language holding companies accountable for conduct they don’t report if they “deliberately blind” themselves to the violations.

So it sounds like the "actual knowledge" is false advertising that doesn't reflect the actual dynamic of the bill.
“Lydden Hill Race Circuit fire started in battery of Special ONE team electric car while charging, say FIA World Rallycross Championship officials” is the actual title. Yes, it needs shortening, but it's important for it to remain accurate while shortening.
You forgot their most famous joint venture clusterfuck

Made in Japan. Designed by Tesla in California.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV
Practical Engineering just did a great video on Desalination.

Why Is Desalination So Difficult? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxqOPdEUNTs