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While punishment may lead to justice it is not required for justice to take place. What is required is accountability, rehabilitation and restitution. The current focus from the public appears to be, instead, retribution. That seems to be insatiable for those who have been transgressed.

None of this requires the use of prisons. Although in the case of offenders likely to commit more violent crimes while justice is sort for previous offenses it, appears, to be our currently best way of management.

Similar to how the aim of schooling is to create citizens who can engage productively in society; the focus of prisons should be on recreating productive citizens.
I would appreciate a read about people behind EU technology regulation rage. Are there any specific lobbying group behind that or is it just some form of collective thinking?

I might be bad at web search, but I couldn't find a single human name on EU AI act - and, FWIW, GDPR.
My SO lost thousands of dollars and was in pain for a month after her Honda Fit was totaled by a Big Truck that didn't see her over its huge hood.

Proposal: special compact car paths where people can safely drive smaller cars that don't belong on the road.
No cats were harmed in the migration from Python 2 to 3.

Programmers and project managers on the other hand...
Interesting question - it’s not trivial to find a metric that’s directly comparable between a 486-era chip and a modern x86 chip. MHz isn’t the whole story, as modern chips have multiple cores and greatly improved instructions-per-cycle. Synthetic benchmarks like Whetstone might provide a point of comparison, but it’s hard to be sure the different benchmarkers were running the same version.

Wikipedia says the 386SLC from the article drew 2.5W at 25Mhz. A Ryzen mobile CPU draws something like 15W. My gut says the Ryzen is a lot more than 6x faster.
All I can say is that the phrasing looks quite biased to me and it would have been easy to not phrase it that way.

Subtext is hard to prove, but that doesn't make it not real.
Labour did introduce ID cards. It was one of the first acts of the Cameron government to scrap it.
> love and friendship, die when the participants become meta about them

I am wondering how you make love "meta" in this example. Is it like a sitcom where they start pointing out each other's mistakes passive aggressively?

But personally I don't fully agree. "meta" is simply another tool, and like any tool you need to know where and how to use it for the best effect. I'd say it's more like comedy: you need to consider the context to really nail it, and sometimes it simply isn't the right time to use the tool.

But the agreeing part here is the general sentiment that people love to run a certain tool to the ground when it becomes trendy. See it all the time in media. trends come and go because companies treat these tools as gold rushes rather than ways to properly convey a message. Flanderization, in a nutshell.
How will this impact single thread performance?
Maybe it's because I work on embedded system where I only have to worry about a single process, but I find observables really ergonomic.

"If/else" are a core construct in programming languages. Observables add "when", which I think is just as essential. Whenever someone describes an autonomous system, they will use "when X, do Y". So it makes sense to me that code follows that.

A lot of the time I just want to write a piece of code that and plug it into the system without having to worry about coupling or its effect on other parts of the code. Most of the time I don't have clear requirements, and need to stay flexible.

For example, new requirement to turn off the LCD after X minutes of inactivity, and turn it back on when the user presses a button? I just create a new component (instanced based on a configuration flag), plug it into the event bus reacting to ButtonPress events, and call it a day, without having to worry about something else breaking, often without even having to read existing code (except how to get notified of the event).

Even when modifying existing code, it's easier to replace an event, easy to find which components are depending on that event, etc.
Yes and to be precise this is the relevant source :
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

The optional iCloud feature called "Advanced Data Protection" is currently an opt-in. It comes with a significant drawback for typical pop and mom users --> If you lost you password and recovery key it's game over you loose everything. So I guess it's sensible to keep this as an opt-in until users are better educated about this drawback.

What will be quite significant is wether or not this feature will be available for chinese users.

It make sense from a technical POV to block ADP feature in poorly democratic countries that might request it like China and maybe tomorrow the UK.

PS : Once a significant % of users activated ADP it could be a good UX improvement to display a warning to mixed ADP status conversation that the conversation is not fully e2e encrypted. However this might be premature right now otherwise early adopters of ADP would be flooded by such warning.
There could be public executions of children caught for stealing candies and nobody would go protest in the UK. There's nobody with less backbone than the Brits.
They should be banned anyway. The more we can do to make their operations impossible the better.

Their mere existence makes a mockery of the idea of the stock market as a considered reflection of value of companies and explicitly makes it into a gambling den for dead-eyed people competing to have the fastest card counting systems under their suits. If a company is valuable now, it'll be valuable in 5 minutes.
I don't think anyone finds it surprising that the guy in charge of the organisation being accused of covering up evidence is upset about this.
I weigh a tweet by the BBC more than the tweet of my racist neighbour.

I weigh a news article in a tabloid newspaper less than I would an article in the New York Times for example.

Why do we need to make a blanket statement about social media being untrustworthy? Information without context can't be trusted no matter the medium.
Much better link.

Some footnotes: Sadly the genus is not new (That would made the case much more simple). There are at least 39 extant species of Panagrolaimus (Rhabditida, fam. Panagrolaimidae) know yet. So we aren't talking about an isolated, last-of-their-kind, live fossil.

Also not exclusive from permafrost. Relatives of this species had been found in China, USA, South Spain, Iran, Peru or India.

They move fast and are very active. They aren't parasites, and feed on bacteria and microorganisms

So they live in soils with decaying organic matter. A species is common in agricultural soils in California; other is often found in dead flower heads of ornamental Asteraceae (=family of the sunflower) like Chrysanthemum or Zinnia. There is a third associated with leaf litter and bark beetles in Utah, and a Peruvian species appeared in exported rotten ginger rhizomes.

So we are talking about a kind of nematodes closely (but not exclusively) associated with agricultural practices, sometimes in temperate or Mediterranean climates

Well. The scenery does not suggest endemic Siberian fauna, or points directly towards -46000 years ago, but neither discard it anyways.

I still think that the proofs that an animal lived for 46000 years (much more than corals?) are circumstantial at most, and shouldn't be taken as definitive
> you won't be able to leave the United States from the point you file your I140/I485 until your Advanced Parole document turns up

How long does this take usually?
But would a yes be immediately obvious? Is there a test for superconductivity that doesn't easily show false positives?
Costco electronics are often times priced very similarly to Best Buy and any other major retailer (see for example Apple MacBook and iPad, which are items that I regularly happen to buy every few years so I actively keep an eye on their price trends). If Costco is breaking even on them, are you implying that also the other retailers are? Otherwise, are they not, actually, just breaking even on every item? Tons of people buy their Apple electronics at Costco, so I have to assume it is a significant percentage of their revenue.
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"...whether the site’s original tech-intellectual culture can be responsibly scaled up to make space for a more inclusive, wider-ranging vision of technology."

I don't come to Hacker News for "inclusive" technology - which these days appear to be a politically-correct euphemism for forced diversity.

I come to Hacker News for discussions on technology.

Anything that prioritizes the "inclusive" nature of technology, versus the "technology" itself, is irrelevant to me, and has nothing to do with the main interests of the site (hacking and technology) and should be downvoted. Keep politics and social politics out from Hacker News.
>AC magic I suppose.

Yep. Think of a long pipe open on one end and capped on the other. If you seal the end with your mouth and blow, it will quickly pressurize. But if you seal a loudspeaker to it and sweep through the frequencies you will find that the loudness of the speaker varies proportionally to how close the tone is to a resonant frequency of the tube.

The elections in a monopole antenna have a sort of elastic relationship to one another where the influence propagates at the speed of light rather than the speed of sound. They are also able to move quite freely within the conductor like gas molecules in the tube. So if you have an antenna that’s two meters long and play a ‘tone’ with the equivalent of the loudspeaker at 150 million hz, the tube of electrons resonates.

Just like the atmosphere can couple resonant cavities of the same frequency, antennas are coupled by the electromagnetic field to resonate at the same frequency. This provides a certain ‘gain’ of the energy at the end of the ‘tube’ relative to other frequencies that aren’t resonant, which is what feeds our ears or amplifiers with something differentiable from the rest of the noise.

Now, imagine you have your ear glued to another tube just like the loudspeaker tube and your other ear is plugged. You’re going to hear the world around you, but it’s mostly going to be at harmonics of that resonant frequency. So when your buddy asks ‘can you hear me?’ a you get this really ringy ‘mwaa mwoo mwee mwee?’. Now imagine he turns on the speaker tube on the other side of the room? It’s going to brightly stand out among all of the other things you hear, ooooooooooooooooo.

Ok, now, he hands you a roll of paper and says draw along the roll relative to how loud it is. Up is louder down is softer, and he goes back and starts messing with the volume knob:

oooooOOOOOOoooo....oooooOOOoo..ooOoOo

The thing you draw on that roll of paper looks like a sound wave.

And now you know how AM radio works.
Historically, poor people's children started being "profitable" (as in doing more work than they take) much more quickly - they were raised communally (spreading the required work evenly), and they started working and helping earlier. This made having many children a legitimate strategy to deal with poverty. This has completely turned around - community is almost non-existent, and children will really only be "profitable" once they are adults.

The situations are simply too different for your argument to make sense.
You couldn’t create anything resembling the Instagram experience on any of those services, let alone using some of your other suggestion like email. If the only thing you think a substitute service requires is a way to send images, then you could replace Instagram with the postal service by that standard.

The most absurd part of this argument is that discord, WhatsApp, messenger, etc… are all also social media platforms. This is by far the silliest “well actually” I’ve ever seen on HN.
Meta would be thrilled to see KOSA pass, since it the time and effort required to censor any content alleged to trigger anxiety or depression would cause smaller social networks to be infeasible to run. How is a Mastodon instance supposed to operate when its volunteer moderators' workload is compounded by KOSA's censorship mandate?

The EFF has raised many good points about how KOSA's censorship mandate would harm people under 18. Calling the EFF's well-reasoned arguments "FUD" and labeling people who oppose KOSA a "hive mind" is not a substitute for engaging with the facts at hand. If KOSA is as innocuous as you are claiming it is, then explain in detail how a website covered under this bill could "prevent and mitigate" anxiety or depression to comply with the bill without the use of censorship.

The EFF is not the only organization that opposes KOSA. There are over 90 more who have signed this letter condemning KOSA, including the ACLU, Yale Privacy Lab, GLAAD, and the Human Trafficking Prevention Project:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-11-28-letter-90-...
Or a good argument for. Depending on your convictions.
Reminds me of an interview with the composer Elliott Carter, where he said that to fall asleep, he would conjugate Greek verbs in their various moods and tenses. It actually works, and in very short time.
Prometheus can also receive remote write requests, however, we recommend only writing metrics scraped by another Prometheus or the agent. The datamodel still has a few things that expect the metrics to have been scraped.

If you try to use Prometheus as a native push system and push directly, it'll work but you might not have the best experience. https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#r...
Wow, thanks for mentioning this. I was also under the impression it was e2ee by default but it was actually disabled for me.
Circuit theory breaks down when it comes to antennas.
The justice system has many flaws including incompetence and corruption, they don't always get it right.

Assuming the parent poster's guilt is fair, but god help you if the system ever gets turned against you.

"show me the man and I'll show you the crime"
I had no idea ! This is great news, it’s a pain I learned to live with
Twitter, now X, opens up its ad revenue sharing program with global creators
In the eyes of NHK (the Japanese broadcaster), Twitter is internet and internet is Twitter.

Every single time they say "Let's see what people on the internet are saying.", the scene always changes over to tweets and tweets and tweets.

Journalism is beyond redemption.
Not Creating AI May Be a Bigger Threat to Humanity, Says Facebook Expert (2018)
I don’t think I’m getting your point here, SD is superior to Dall-e almost in every way.
As much as I like physical books, academic libraries are intended to serve informational, educational, and creative needs regardless of medium (and public libraries add social, civic, and practical needs). The discovery aspect of physical libraries is valuable, but running a library requires balancing a lot of different communities and needs. Sometimes that means removing shelving. I don’t have the context to weigh in on the changes the author mentions, but I dislike the implication that repurposing shelving space is always bad.
If I had to take a guess, it's more about policy than "they don't catch them". I doubt it's someone coming in, taking a TV and walking out.

It's more like if an item or 2 "sneak in" and the checker just lets them go. It'd cost more money in congesting the line, grabbing security, etc. to contest that item than it would be to just let them go. They don't want to press charges on someone who spent $100 because they wanted to sneak some $15 pills by. All stores expect X% theft anyway and build it into the price of their item (or secure it better if it's a small, often stolen good, like tech).

It's probably a cultural choice, though. Meanwhile, the Walmart down the street is much more aggressive on that stuff.
It's great to have a place to buy bulk items every month or two. It's not a symptom of bad zoning, and can happily coexist with small local groceries.
> They will not affect 'innovation.' Innovation comes from publicly-funded organisations and projects.

Looking at my home-country Germany that is a funny thing to say, since the public sector is living in a 90s/00s alternative OOP timeline and doesn't get anything
done. The car oligopoly is frantically trying to gain competence in "user software" by stealing game designers and buying foreign startups. Meanwhile, the local startups are held down by German bureaucracy(tm) which additionally usually doubles down on any EU guideline.

Over the last 20 years, they all reached a level of incompetence which makes it very hard to not believe in a conspiracy.
I learned writing with a fountain pen as late as 1995. We’d stopped using separate inkwells at the time though.
Until private jets and superyachts are banned, it seems wrong to complain about this.

It’s very wasteful, but I’m assuming it’ll ‘entertain’ a large number of people, at least.

And it’s nothing compared to the waste and environmental damage of warfare, another global problem we still face.
(3 days later, responding to myself).

Maybe this was bad advice, this approach is like trying to learn a spoken language by listening to a recording and looking up each word at a time. Probably it'd be better to get a deep understanding of how CPUs work in general, I can recommend the book Computer Organization and Design by Hennessy and Patterson for this. I agree with the other commenter that 15 years is more realistic so maybe just start by getting a 4 year degree in CompSci (and that book will probably be required reading).
I think a lot of people believe much of the regulations introduced by EU are a way the EU found of taxing US global tech companies that operate within it without paying taxes.

There's obviously examples of targeted European companies and some privacy regulations were and are needed still, but the motivation is likely at least partially motivated by this in my opinion.
To think that when Andy’s Coho Data built their first prototype on top of my abandoned Lithium [1] code base from VMware, the first thing they did was remove “all the crazy checksumming code” to not slow things down…

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807128.1807134
Well, a 486 with an FPU @70mhz would stomp it.
They already have Newark NJ and Newark DE on the northeast corridor.
The VM without a phone number was a way to offer free trials without having a phone number. Will see if it takes the test of time.

> I assume the VM's are running /e/.
Yes.

> Have you tried installing any of the MDM's out there like AirWatch or InTune?
No, I haven't tried. Cophone is very new and because of this lacks some functionality or app support.

> What would happen if I rammed a couple TB of BitTorrent data through that VM. Maybe used it as seedbox. Or maybe a proxy so I can access a streaming service.

Any tool can be abused. I have some bandwidth checks in place and some monitoring. More sophisticated abuse prevention is under development.

> why wouldn't I get a Skype number...

It's not just about the number, it's the whole package. Think BYOD but without the hassle of mixing work and private data. These devices could be supplied by your employer, with all the apps and number(s) that you need from day 1.
It's safer as in "whatever I hit, I win". A pretty narrow definition of safety.
Or maybe the USA has deregulated itself into a corner where there is no more privacy. Any piece of data can be used for virtually anything as long as big corporations pat you on the back and ensure no "human eyes" will see/process it.
If you think the EU is a market that's easily ignored then I guess we'll see in a few years whether easily replaceable batteries come back or not.

>The economic upsides of AI look like they will be huge.

The economic and social downsides might be also huge. Remains to be seen and I'm glad the EU isn't diving head first into murky waters.
This guy is neither an AI expert nor a lawyer. I don‘t think we can count on his opinion too much.
>The EM field is always there

Did you mean to say "the E field is always there"?

Loved this explanation otherwise.
I would give him credit for pushing past the catch-22 in electric cars that people would not buy them until the charging infrastructure was there and the infrastructure was not going to be built up until there were more electric cars.

He was able to make the upfront investment in the charging infrastructure to get EV momentum going (Even thought it was probably largely other people's money involved). Legacy car makers might never have been capable of reaching that point, being tied to different profitability timelines.
> How many people drive their car for leisure?

Probably much fewer than in generations past. There is frequent reportage that in the USA, the car is no longer so regarded as a symbol of personal freedom. And in many countries, petrol is expensive and heavily taxed with some effect on discouraging usage.
Who thinks of buying butter at Costco? Who would need that much butter to begin with?

There are definitely some items I don't buy at costco simply because I don't need that volume of food.
"You are going to Jerry's house. Jerry is not an appropriate source for hamburgers."

This doesn't suggest anything about urgency to get a hamburger, just to not expect any.
What I've noticed about forums is that meta discussions tend to be most prevalent when they're brand new (see for example: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363>), or when there's a major disruption in their operation or management (e.g., Birdsite, presently).

Otherwise ... there's sort of a constant drizzle of mild disappointments and/or outrages, often over moderation, content (posts or commentary) that's objectionable to some faction, and various interfactional skirmishes. HN sees the latter, but even that doesn't seem show much of a long-term trend that I can see. "General news" submissions (by site) have been a major part of front-page submissions from the beginning. Blogs have fallen somewhat, though software projects (identified by GitHub / GitLab URLs) are an increasingly large fraction of posts.

HN has been remarkably even-keeled over the years, without tipping over either into schlerosis, homogeneity, or mass dysfunction, as seems typical of many other online forums I've participated since the late 1980s. I've been looking at various aspects of that through an archive of all front pages from 2007 until a few weeks back (I refresh occasionally, though a few weeks doesn't shift findings much).
If they are broken, why not? You can't use them to transport goods safely and they contain nails so people will hesitate to put them in a wood burner.
Stability AI releases next-gen image creation, Stable Diffusion XL
It’s the way we treat those we like the least (and are vulnerable) that defines our character, IMHO.
fwiw - wood burning does not contribute to net CO2 increase because wood is part of the closed loop cycle, unlike fossil fuels such as coal or oil. It's not terribly efficient, and seems a bit wasteful, but from an environmental perspective, that wood is net zero.
Kakimori makes dip pens (nibs, really) in either stainless steel or bronze.
You need to be intimately aware of your data input, the models you’re proposing, and initialisations.

Practically, this means iteratively visualising your data and making informed judgements to even make your model run without humans thinking much about the structure of the data and model.

The ML promise is that there are robust models that you can feed nearly unlimited amounts of data to get better predictions.

Probabilistic modeling is better for people who have a fixed dataset they can visualise and fit an elegant model that incorporates lots of prior information about the problem of interest.
Minitel didn’t go global. Instead a Brit working at a French-Swiss institution built something which did.