skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Utah all left turns are unprotected, way more efficient. Similar to how intersections without traffic lights have been proven to be more efficient.

The biggest issue is that out of state drivers don’t learn these skills, so we frequently get people with CA plates that don’t know how to pull into the middle of an intersection and that it’s legal to run a red during a light change, and the system breaks down
I'm on some private trackers. When they get shut down, I won't be surprised.

In my anarchist circles, other things are recommended before z-lib, which is a second-to-last resort.

There's an ebook piracy scheme that's been going on longer than z-lib, but it's a little bit more complicated to use than just a website, so it kinda flies under the radar.
Not really, it's fairly easy to find most things on the internet without acquiring them from an official source. It's an open question of what will happen next - if "trusted computing" and the appliance model wins, then you can say goodbye to that. However, that hasn't happened yet, and computers are still open computing platforms. I certainly hope for a future where that doesn't happen.
I feel like millennials and younger folks are a lot more sex positive than older generations, but in many places reactionary moralizers are the ones with the reigns of power due to how the district lines are drawn.
Blackouts these days aren’t about filling seats, it’s all about television rights. Regional sports networks buy exclusive broadcast rights to games for particular teams in some region and that results in a blackout.

In Hawaii, for example, most of the west coast baseball teams are often blacked out in MLB.tv because some broadcaster has picked up the rights for those teams. Nobody from Hawaii is going to fly to Seattle to see a game because of a blackout.
I think the whole article is biased and far too targeted to trying to make a case not to cull invasive species, particularly in Australia.

Kangaroos dig wells. The arguments made here that somehow with a very long bow you could justify some benefits from these non-native species but they have to pretend that those benefits don't already exist from native species to do this.
"That doesn't matter!" https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ?t=140
TL;DR: it's because Israel's government is no longer a democracy.

I wonder if politicians will ever learn that turning countries into fascist dictatorships is bad for business.
> I wonder what we consider harmless today that will be taboo in two decades.

You're that implying exposing children to porn is considered harmless today. Considered harmless by whom exactly?

This isn't about being taboo, this is about parents that don't want to be responsible and let their kids watch porn, it's already illegal to expose children to that. But nobody wants to take responsibility, not the ISP, not the parents, not the online porn companies themselves, nobody.

So in an environment where something illegal is perpretrated, if nobody wants to take responsibility then it's up to the legislator to FORCE someone to take responsibility. It turns out it's the digital pimps this time...
Thank you. I spent a good few moments trying to wrap my head around this measurement.
Don't worry, our labels say calories, but are really kilocalories.

The serving sizes are often in imperial (although the closest label shows serving size 1 can). The quantities of fat, sodium, sugar, protein are all grams or milligrams for sodium. But ounces and grams for those things are equally unrelatable for me. I don't consider the mass of these items, I just know them as a quantity on a label. If I were cooking and adding sugar or salt, it would be by volume, not mass.
The light tells you that already: take it to the shop.

The annoying part for folks used to having control (eg power users) is that someone else decided that that was enough info for drivers. If you want the power-user car UI, you'll need to get out of the driver's seat and put on your mechanic hat. (Like sibling comment who purchased an ODBC reader.)
It's worth having some sort of "be careful talking to strangers on the internet, don't share personal information, use a fun username, it's okay to ignore messages, here's how to block people, etc..." talk.

Beyond that, they are going to encounter randos and need to build the toolkit for navigating those situations. Don't interrogate but try to casually chat with them sometimes about what they've been up to: anything cool, anything weird, any new hangouts.

I don't know what kids and parents are doing today with minimum age requirements for chat app usage (13 is the minimum in most places but this seems to be ignored frequently) but pre-teens might still to talk to you about weird things they encounter. You will become less cool to talk to when they are in high school but they'll still absorb anecdotes even if they scoff and roll their eyes throughout the entire conversation. If you're concerned and they don't like talking about it, an older sibling, cousin, friend's older kid, might be able to casually check how things are going without triggering the "ew, parents" reflex.
I was talking to a couple of staff engineers at Shopify about this. Inspite of getting a PhD or getting to their positions, they still suffer through imposter syndrome. They said what you said just now, try to fake it till the end. That's all that you can do
Seems to be similar to the California Effect, which I had heard of before (probably due to me being from the US) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_effect
> The client is completely open source on open source operating systems.

IOW it's by and large the GUI part that is not open source. Personally I prefer to run it as a system LaunchDaemon than a user LaunchAgent anyway.

> We never open sourced our coordination server because Headscale beat us to it.

I seem to recall reading that another reason was that there was intent to open source it but it made little sense as far as running it because its code was written for (and coupled to) Tailscale's heavy duty infra. So Headscale beat Tailscale to it by providing not just code but code that could work on much wider contexts.
How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning
There is an audible “dual input”, which was triggered on this flight.
A more effective approach might be for browsers to introduce a "Child-Safe Mode." In this mode, the browser could attach an "X-Child-Safe" header to every HTTP request. Websites with adult content could then recognize this header and redirect or block access as necessary. Of course, the onus would still be on parents to ensure their children's devices are set to this mode.
I have a bootloader, an internet connection and the C manual! I shall conquer the world!
> If you’re also getting ghosted by some Open source project, I just wanna advise you, get a life! (even to myself as I’m writing this article) and build something real and put a price on it, your time is not free, and neither is the time of the users, and you’ll really understand if your work is really valued in the free markets.
> That’s why I’m building Folksable: A Home for Internet Hustlers.

Is this article satire? What is happening.
I bought my first smart-phone last year and have not noticed any changes from when I owned a $12 dumb-flip-phone from Walmart. I suppose it may be less about the tech and more about the way the tech is used. I don't install any apps and I used adb without root to remove most of the preloaded junk. HN is the only social site I interact with and I don't use my phone for that. I still don't quite understand what people mean when they say a phone is required to function in society. I often forget it at home when I go out and don't usually realize until I get home that I forgot it. So I think that people could just uninstall most of the apps on their phone for the same spiritual experience. Or just leave it in airplane mode or power it off.

Maybe someone could come up with an app that uses the auxiliary button that is commonly used for the flashlight mode or camera to toggle-hard-disable all apps not required for voice calls or something like that assuming it could be done without rooting the phone.
> The money in [pornography] (and adjacent things...) is too large. It corrupts the users and also the non-amoral engineers who build those companies. Just look at any thread on the harms of [pornography] for lessons in excuse making, whataboutism and deflection.
They also don’t care about the HTTP headers, or the latency. All that belongs in the developer view.
For most of the co-investors, it's, er, not exactly their first rodeo in investing in stupid stuff, tho.
Even dumber, from their perspective, because there are a mountain of historical rulings that say porn is not protected by free speech. While that's been mostly ignored and all-but-overruled relatively recently (other than exposing it to minors); considering the court has been more amicable to older rulings...
The world will eventually recover from an extinction event probably, but it will be terrible for us humans.
1st Amendment exceptions do sometimes hinge on whether or not less burdensome alternatives were explored first. IANAL, but "you didn't even think if there were other ways to accomplish the same goals" can be a factor in deciding whether speech restrictions are over-burdensome.

If I remember correctly, this came up a couple of times during Covid over religious gathering restrictions -- the question was less "can the government ever restrict a religious gathering" and more "is it actually necessary for you to do this? Have you taken steps to minimize the burden, is the burden imposed greater than the state's specific need for this restriction?"

How a judge would rule on that in this case... :shrug:, but it doesn't seem to be an uncommon argument. There have been Supreme Court ruling that boil down to, "it's not unconstitutional necessarily but you did it wrong and we think you were too slapdash doing it, so try again."
I don't know what's hard about understanding "daily limit" model. If you can't download 11th book, just come back tomorrow and you can download 10 more books. You can download 10 more books the next day after that. You can download infinite amount of books, downloading 10 of them every single day. This is what "daily limit" means.
Now, "charging" means there is no other way to download the 11th book unless you pay. There will be no way to download it tomorrow, or the next day after that, unless you pay. This is "charging".
Their membership model is no different from donations, except that membership gives you benefits. You are NOT forced to get it.
The inability to simultaneously verify sentience, location, and identity
I think you have a good point but its kind of hard to watch Puritanicals destroy your legal business and do nothing. Then a bunch of other states start doing it and you have legal battles all over the place and not enough profit to weather the storm.
It says closed alpha, but also says available through the API. Is it closed or open now?
Let's just come out and say it plainly: Z-Library is a definitive net-benefit to the humanity as a whole. Simple as that.
Sadly doesn't seem to be available in e-book format?
Water-based shipping is extremely efficient. (However, they should be forced to install pollution controls on their internal combustion engines instead of just injecting raw exhaust into the ocean.)

Of course, reducing their carbon footprint would also be good, but it's currently only 3% of global emissions:

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/08/maritime-shipping...

The carbon impact of the stuff on the ships is likely much higher. For instance, this BBC article breaks it down for food, and, for ocean-shipped stuff, the carbon emissions of transporting the food is rounding error:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-bene...

The only real exceptions to the rule involve highly-perishable food that has to be flown in next day, but that doesn't have anything to do with ocean transport.

As far as I can tell, carbon offsets are a complete scam (vs. putting the money directly into stuff that reduces carbon production).

If anyone knows how to pay an existing company to extract carbon from the atmosphere, and store it in a biologically inactive form for > 1000 years, then I'd love to hear about it.
> Scepticism does not falsify reality

I don't understand why you're even making this statement, no philosophical skeptic would disagree with this. Skepticism has always attacked our understanding of reality, not reality itself.

If anything it is the idealists, like Leibniz that argue that "reality is only in our minds", verging on solipsism. You seem to be misunderstanding Hume who more so points out that the only thing we can really "know" is our inner experience of reality, which is a bit closer to what you're arguing.
You misunderstood the definition of domain in my context. In terms of ownership, if I tell you I am owning a domain, I am owning something along the format of "${name}.${tld}". I can't say that I own the domain of "example.github.io", because, well, if somebody look up for example.github.io in the ICANN domain (provided it is not redacted), it's not going to be my name in there, it's going to be Github's.

In terms of "string that I can type in the Browser address bar to go to a website", I agree with your definition.
ConfRoulette - visit a random web conference call.
PRs, not issues. And 800 of those 1035 are merged.
> the plaintiffs write that the act employs “the least effective and yet also the most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’ stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors,” and that minors can easily use VPNs or Tor; on-device content filtering would be a better method of restricting access to porn for children, they write. “But such far more effective and far less restrictive means don’t really matter to Texas, whose true aim is not to protect minors but to squelch constitutionally protected free speech that the State disfavors.”

Wow, this is a weak case. I guess the good lawyers won't stoop to the level of arguing against keeping porn away from children.

A security guard would be more effective than a lock at deterring intruders from breaking into my house, but I still have a lock. They also imply that Texas lawmakers aren't interested in protecting children, which is absurd.

I have no sympathy for these creeps. I doubt they have any interest in keeping kids off their sites (probably the opposite), so they're just projecting and trying to deflect any responsibility.
I think that's because trouble is the fun part
Better in what way? Sure, editing a PDF sucks, but why are you even doing that? The purpose of a pdf is to preserve formatting precisely. If you don’t need that, you could use something else. You could output everything as an epub file, using html.
Do they have thousands of open issues? (I'm sitting myself on a VLC bug which I can't be arsed to report)
Does anybody have a demographic breakdown of political sentiment in Israel?
"you'd have to predict that "data being generated one place and used on another" could be a vector for bugs, and that's not necessarily obvious"

It seems you never had to deal with file encodings? And windows upper lowercase does not matter, compared to linux where it does matter?

But yes, obvious was none of that to me, I naivly assumed, data should be just data, until I change it. Like they did.
If a “needle” worked to remove the ice, that’s what they would use instead of a complex anti-ice system.
Has this been implemented in stuff yet?
We could say the same thing with tobacco
Honestly, that does sound kind of fun. Requires more creativity than building CRUD app after CRUD app
Window's blue screen of death (full of cryptic error codes), for those old enough to remember!

Edit: Is the blue screen of death still a thing these days? I haven't actually used Windows in a decade.
> This isn’t that interesting unless you can pair it with numbers showing how the remainder is distributed

I didn't bring up the figure - I was just remarking on how I had a different reaction to it. And the remainder is also distributed in a non-diffuse manner.

> If the majority of people have a high quality of life, who cares how rich the 1% are

Do the majority of people have "a high quality of life"? I'm not sure that's true, but assuming it is true, then one issue is the massive power imbalance in terms of control over society: small numbers of people having huge influence over politics, the media, social tech companies etc.

> Trying to pick some arbitrary threshold

Which I was not doing. I'm not sure what would be the best distribution - but if I can't look at it quantitively, I think we can consider it qualitatively. Would we be in a better place if we moved towards more wealth inequality or less?
To keep it simple, 10 years of burning coal is 100 years of aviation.

100 years of coal is 1000 years of aviation.

And with your analogy, if I have 100,000 dollars and I give you $2000, I still have almost $100,000. If I give you $20,000, that’s going to make a dent. Repeat 4 more times and I’m broke.

Any of that sinking in?

It’s really important that people understand because they’re literally driving us into a climate disaster.
The Nintendo Help Line could be argued to be a microtransaction. However, callers talked to knowledgeable players who had the game in front of them, with maps, boss strategies, etc, available.
3D printing isn’t just for supercars, now it’s for drones, too
This is Pull Requests, not issues. And glancing through them, the majority of the closed ones are merged, and the majority of the unmerged ones are low effort/not real, or were closed with guidance on how to resubmit them better.
Thanks, I didn't know about consent-o-matic, will try it out. If it works that will be the best extension in a long time.
Muhammad Ali was pretty big too.
Not to mention Let's Encrypt...
Honestly on a whole, yes.

We now use less lead in consumer goods because of the label. I would assume other carcinogens were similarly reduced in usage to avoid the labeling requirement.

All prop 65 warnings are required only for substances that show an increase in cancer risk.

We can argue whether a higher increase in risk should be required but pretending that "increase in risk" is a lie because the naive reading assumes a higher magnitude of impact doesn't mean it isn't science based.
Thinking tech is/was immune to having leadership keep their thumb on employees was asinine.
Thank you!

Check out this demo as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK23097-25I&ab_channel=Infis...

We put a lot of work into engineering but also the design and messaging of the platform to developers as well :)
I wish there was more in this space geared toward audiobooks. There are so many brilliant novels in my collection that never got an audiobook release and it'd be amazing to be able to generate my own.
That's a general misunderstanding of the court.

PornHub has a decent shot here. Most of the laws Texas has passed around social media haven't survived court scrutiny. There is a good chance this won't either.
By "this" do you mean if someone is trying to discover this my "return probing"? I.e. opening return requests after every single purchase in the hopes of getting this response?

I can believe that, but I wasn't doing that, I keep most things I buy. I just happened to get this response for an item the other day.

FWIW it was a 7 Euro 2 meter long gas hose, the kind you use for a propane tank when camping.

I assume the restocking logistics didn't work out for whatever reason.

On second thought maybe they've got some hidden policies when it comes to certain products categories. The potential liability of reselling a gas-related product in this price range may not be worth it.
Keyword: Quickly.
Unlike before, now they will add this API to their OSINT software (mostly Babel X) so they can quickly access that, why all the paperwork in this digital world!!?
I would absolutely fight that ticket. Most states have provisions in the law for a malfunctioning signal.
Or what if they don't want to have to track adults who use their site? What if they think it's the parents responsibility to ensure their kids don't visit the site and they view what they produce as constitutionally protected speech.

No need for the government to be given a nice formatted list of all the porn each TX adult is consuming.

That information is also guaranteed to be a hacking target or be selectively leaked to prove a point by someone with a moral axe to grind
What research has happened that has changed our outlook on porn. Not counting suedo selfhelp gurus. Seems to me conservative trend.
It's a light touch (looks like the original structure is mostly intact) but if you search for 'std::' in, say, https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll/blob/mai... you'll see there's some C++ stuff floating about.
Can I just rant for a second about how much I hate the whole `<starting-letter-of-a-word-><count-of-inner-letters><ending-letter-of-a-word>` trend that folks seem to love? This intentional sort of obfuscation makes it hard for juniors or students (the exact people who would be interested in an article like this), to engage in the material. The most egregious example is doing it for the word 'accessibility'!
If the actions of business aren’t material collectively, why would government care? We’re not talking hundreds of thousands of jobs, but more likely a few thousand. I’m sure it’s disappointing to discover you don’t have pull you thought you did as a small business community. Such is life. The counterparty with the least to lose usually wins.
The fact that you can pay and get something in exchange for the payment makes it a commercial enterprise.

It's very simple.

Libgen isn't facing the same issues because it isn't a commercial enterprise.
I think low voter participation rates for younger people would be the bigger culprit.
> I'm on some private trackers [which do basically the exact same thing that Z-Library does, with more steps]

> anarchist circles

Okay well, demanding ethical piracy from everyone except for the piracy that you use is pretty NIMBY of you.

And anyway, I'm not sure why you're being downvoted! This humorless website...
You know, the odds aren‘t high, and at the risk of sounding blood-thirsty – but deep down I kind of hope that they‘ll injure each other at least a little bit. Show the world how idiotic men do idiotic things, and how that‘s a bad thing.
Years and years ago the RFID cards that Cubic Transportation Systems uses in my city were vulnerable to a similar kind of attack involving the disposable RFID tickets issued to users who bought a single fare instead of using the persistent cards. IIRC, it ended up being fixed by setting the write protect bit on the chips in the tickets, which supposedly had not been set. This would have worked because the tickets were one-time use and not disposable.

Similarly, it has been demonstrated that the iClass DY cards they use in many universities for student cards (access, food billing) are easily cloned.

It seems like most of the RFID card systems in widespread use tend to be vulnerable to various attacks. Part of this is because these systems are complicated and often run by large organizations for which improvement would involve replacement of entire fleets of cards and card readers, and would have to be a large project in coordination with the vendor.

Perhaps the security vulnerabilities aren't actually so bad after all though; in this case, provided the attack does not become widely distributed, the percentage of users who take advantage of it is probably small, and the loss proportionally small.

In the real world, the impact of scary sounding security vulnerabilities is slightly softened by the scale at which attacks occur and the value of the protected assets.