skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the store has no right to get me to sign a civil contract saying I can't give that win to my 15 year old son"

It doesn't? What prohibits that? Is there a law that requires liquor stores to sell to you if you're 21 years or older?

I'd be curious to know what law or regulation compels a store to sell to you without adding conditions. It might be a bad business practice, but what would actually stop me from requiring customers to sign a document that says a customer won't provide alcohol to an under aged drinker.
Well, I've yet to see any web project of that scale survive more than 2 years. What do you think would be a better stack with similar frontend interactivity?

(Genuine question, not being snarky)
Cookies and advertising are, imo, the provided excuse for surveillance by the governance system.

Understandably, people will object to this - after all what have corporations got to do with the governance system?

I would say however, that we already live in a fascist governance system. No democracies exist. At best, we only have 'representative democracy' - not the same thing!

This is as per Mussolini's definition of fascism:

> "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

I argue that corporations and states are 2 wings of the same bird.
SBERT
https://goomics.net/50/
AFAIK the concept of legal tender doesn't mean that you can use the law to force a business to accept dollar bills. If you want to trade your black lotus for my foil charizard, I can't refuse to trade and then sue you to pay you in cash instead. Rather, AIUI, the "debt" referred to there refers to legal debts, so e.g. if my dog gets into your chicken coop and you sue me for damages, you can only ask for an amount in dollars rather than forcing me to provide you with replacement chickens.
AntiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but design by committee isn't always best for Linux
Meant to do? We're apes that have figured out how to build decent shelter and communicate over long distances. There's nothing we're "meant" to do.

Just be grateful you live in a time after the invention of indoors
The real issue is that FBI/NSA/CIA has abused our trust in the so completely that we have to make E2E communication. From assasinating people like Fred Hampton to national security letters, the government has completely lost the trust of tech.

That is a bigger problem and it will take a long time to fix. So long that I suspect that anybody reading this is long dead, but its like the saying with planting trees.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

The original source in question:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/26/brazil-webdetetive-spyware...

Previous submission,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37277833 (25 points | no comments)
> Pain is a subjective experience of fleshy beings and a "smart" AI model, as described above, would place little weight on pain and suffering in its moral framework because it has no way to experience it directly.

Can you elaborate? It sounds like you're assuming a "smart" AI model would project its experiences onto others, as a human would. However, it's not obvious that this aspect of human intelligence would be mimicked by a "smart" AI model. (Let's leave aside the question as to whether a "smart" AI model would necessarily be self-aware and capable of subjective experience in the first place. That argument is endlessly rehashed elsewhere.)
That's part of the reason why experts exist: to tell laypeople how to correctly use the language.

In other words: why should laypeople (who have no clue about the technology) decide how to call things? And why should someone who dedicated substantial effort to understanding, cataloguing and organizing the terminology give any thought to how non-experts, who haven't spent as much time and effort decide to go about it?

Imagine going to a medical doctor and demanding that they switch terminology they use in medical reporting or pharmaceutical nomenclature to work by the "rules" established by people who have no knowledge of, say, anatomy or pharmaceutics? Like, say, you decide that it's convenient for you to call all pills "paracetamol" -- do you think a doctor would humor such an "initiative"?

So, why should anyone in the filesystem making business humor laypeople concepts of files?
> how do you violate the TOS on accident

Because it's been months since you've read it, and you're a human who makes mistakes?

> are you alleging that multi-accounting results in a fingerprinting ban

Multi-accounting where just 1 of those accounts was banned from 1 subreddit results in a fingerprint ban across all accounts if any of those accounts is found posting to that subreddit. There is no warning, and I was not banned for something else (except originally, from the 1 subreddit, which was based on a highly debatable mod decision). Not sure what part of "I actually experienced this" you're failing to understand.

> if you got a ban and then attempted to circumvent it

Again, you're not understanding the problem. IT CAN LOOK LIKE I was "attempting to circumvent" a ban, when I simply forgot that I had been banned from 1 subreddit on some other account. I was not "attempting to circumvent" anything, I simply failed to unsubscribe from that subreddit across all my accounts. And AFTER THAT POINT, when Reddit has already "warned" you or whatever, you sign in with another account, it is IMMEDIATELY flagged as a "ban circumvention account" and then THAT account gets banned. It is a runaway explosion, basically. And if you try to at least leave a single account unbanned by removing cookies, etc. then those actions are seen as adding further guilt, which is hilarious because you're actually trying to avoid violating the ban any further but being penalized simply for using another account to not step on the same toes!

Feel free to peruse my comment history on HN, which is pretty representative of my online presence in general, and see if you can detect any personality flavor that is worthy of a sitewide ban. Remember that on HN, I can't delete past comments, so I can't now game my history to try to misrepresent myself.
Treat yourself, buy the largest case you can find and nice custom cables :)
Quitting is the best decision I have ever made (the worst decision I have ever made is starting). I started off by vaping - although based on recent research I wonder if that was at all safer than smoking - and working my way down to 0% nicotine fluid over a few years. That wasn't too hard (probably 4-5 days of mild cravings at most once I switched to 0%), the oral fixation provided by vaping was seemingly enough to fool my brain. Things went really poorly when I tried to quit the 0% fluid, nicotine patches used per-instructions were the savior. I would have cravings for a few hours after each dosage decrease, but did have a test of willpower when after quitting the patches (possibly 2 weeks). I kept some patches around, just in case (you don't want to revert all the way to a cigarette if your cravings get the better of you), but never used them. After about 2 years I stopped getting cravings in all situations (social and drinking being the worst). The advertised benefits of quitting are quite real - once you start reaping the rewards the cravings are easy to deal with ("this goes away if I smoke").

I also quit drinking at the start of this year, on a whim. The effects aren't as pronounced as quitting smoking, but I have much deeper emotional reserves when things get difficult. I have also done more research, and it's scary what even a single drink a week (which counts as "chronic usage" if you are doing you own research) will do to your body.
Two things I've learned working with SPE in its 100 Mb and 1 Gb configurations for a few years:

1) PoDL is substantially lighter, smaller, and simpler (though not necessarily cheaper) at 1 Gb than at 100 Mb, due to the increased frequency separation. Just like with other Ethernet protocols, the lowest frequency of comms is basically DC; it's only statistically brought above that by the scrambler, but there's no useful true lower bound. Having an order of magnitude more separation, such as it is, allows a more reasonably sized filter to stomp over less (ideally, approximately none) of the data.

2) Only the 1 Gb protocol includes FEC, 100 Mb is a simpler, non-error-correcting encoding. This means that even though the maximum frequency on the twisted pair goes up by an order of magnitude to ~660 MHz, requiring better cabling, better twist spacing, etc... it allows a "sloppier" job at both high and low frequencies, since the FEC really does hide a few errors. This can be spent on even worse filters for PoDL, on frequency-specific interference (e.g. an RF amp running nearby), etc.

Basically, I was surprised to find that 1 Gb was not only not more challenging at the system design level, it was often simpler. (I haven't played with 10 Mb in either of its two incarnations seriously yet.)
The technology has changed distribution, yes.

It hasn't particularly changed production, which is where the actual abuse happens. There are still actual people abusing and filming actual children, and those can be found by the police by the same old-fashioned methods they've always had available. (Plus many new ones that don't violate everyone's civil liberties or destroy the security of every networked device.)
It's a tie in product to a popular cartoon series.
I have this kettle, and its selling points are: temperature control, ergonomics, and the steady, controllable flow rate. Using it is pure joy!

It reaches the desired temperature before I'm done preparing everything else (throw the beans in the grinder, pre-heat the V60, etc), so it does not matter that it can't draw 3kW.
Are those the shitty ones that indicate an empty battery by beeping a single beep once every five minutes? I think I took a baseball bat to the last one I had.

Those things drive me nuts. It's always a single beep, which isn't enough to locate which one it is. And for some fucked up reason they always start doing that shit right when you're about to fall a sleep.

I happily spent hundreds of euros on Nest Protects just because of the sensible early warning of an empty battery. My sanity is easily worth that.
I only have Unifi products for networking (UDM and a couple of APs) but love it. Have ran into a couple of small issues but Unifi really gets out of your way when you want to fix something.
but the claim wasn't that is was a "a conservative library" (consisting or specialising in having of a large amount of conservative titles, presumably for conservatives) - but that it (or a large selection of its titles) caters to RW culture warriors, to the extent that you ask "why would they have published this one if it was not?", i.e. it cannot be merely conservative, but assumed RW-extreme.
Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving Beta tried to kill me last night
XSLT still works in browsers believe it or not. It's great for making templated static sites.
I was just trying to say that healthy diets are still healthy, and that this study does not implicate healthy foods in the same way that it implicates supplements, which I agree, are generally either unnecessary or unhealthy, with a few special cases.

I was also just making this point of clarification for other people, and not implying that a reasonable reading of your post would determine you thought otherwise.
I have worked a few times in Riyadh (one time for an 8-month stint!) and one thing that rather shocked me is that capital punishment is done publicly, and it draws huge crowds.

Literally you can't even drive by the square because the entire area is packed with spectators there only to see the hand and head choppings.

Also, if you fight for this one person, you have to realize there are several put to death or getting their hands chopped off (for theft, etc) every week that are not being rallied for.

I believe it was Mondays, but it's more than a decade ago now, so I may not remember the specific day. But yea, it was a family entertainment event. I myself never went because I find the whole idea abhorrent. A number of people I was working with there wouldn't miss it for the world.

Working there gave me a whole perspective on totalitarian societies that I had not expected. I'm glad I don't live in one.
> And it’s not the job of American billionaires to tell other societies how to govern themselves.

It hasn't exactly stopped them and I don't remember Elon ever couching his statements with "in the USA". I mean he wasn't even born in the US, wasn't a citizen till 2002, and holds citizenship in 2 other countries as well. I wouldn't exactly expect him to hold only to American values (or any values for that matter) nor is free speech a uniquely American value.
The auto industry’s Congress member is worried about losing the EV race to China
Since somebody will ask, it doesn't appear that Dave Cutler is in this photo.

Cutler worked at the DEC Mill campus in Massachusetts.
It appears that this originated with XSB Prolog but subsequently SWI Prolog is offering something similar/compatible too:

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=janus-intro

https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/a-bundled-python-interf...
Even better, there could be a list of garbage cookies that this experiment produces.

As an anti-tracking measure, Firefox could put them into a global pool (shared with all other users), then randomly sample from the pool whenever making a request to the offending site.

The effect would be severe breakage for any sites that set unauthorized cookies.
AWS doesn’t have to be complex if those aren’t your requirements, you can use something like Lightsail. If all you need is a VPS, get a VPS. (Though if that’s what you need, I personally like Hetzner more).

But AWS needs to be complex to handle the needs of huge organizations.

I will also point out that the AWS console EC2 launching interface has come such a long way. So much to the complexity is handled for you.
EU set to block Booking’s €1.63B purchase of Etraveli
you can't defend something grotesque then say i'm not defending him and be wiped clean of your previous gross comment.
For how much love went into the imaging and description of everything, the actual coffee knowledge is maddening.

You want your water in your Aeropress to be as close to boiling as possible if using lightly roasted beans (which I'd wager is most of Aeropress usage)! None of that 80-85 degree celsius nonsense.

Similarly, their description of ceramic burrs is bizarre. Ceramic burrs are not considered "better" than stainless steel ones! If you look into high-end grinders sold for hundreds and thousands of dollars (both commercial and "enthusiast" ones), they will all have stainless steel burrs!

And don't get me started on their description of conical vs flat burrs...
True, and I guess they've promised to keep renewals at the same price for a year after that. After that they're (currently) notably more expensive, though, and I don't have any interest in being upsold on anything else Squarespace offers, so...
What's the current state of eGPUs these days? I had a quick look, and wow, there aren't many eGPU enclosures going about, and what there are, are expensive.

I always saw them as intended for laptops rather than desktops - are there any downsides or performance penalties compared to slotting directly into a PCIe slot?
ARM wrestles assembly language guru's domains away, citing trademark issues
Indeed, but this post is about commercial surveillance.
I am sitting in my house 100 feet away from a 4 lane divided street and don't hear a thing.
> When you're writing a specific program, e.g. it's never going to be anything more than "Hello, world!", why would you use the fattest framework when you can write it in plain HTML?

Emphasised the parts I think you should re-read
You need to have prohibitions, they just need to be thought out carefully so they have the intended effect.
This seems to be due to [1], so the project is hardly demoable now.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub/issues/124
This article is worth reading start to finish. It's about more than fungus, it's about how a scientist can try to impact society and the limitations of it.
The fact that intelligence agencies get a carve-out is a distraction from the point, and not a reason not to pursue improvements.
May be of interest that GPT-4 RLHF’d can’t estimate probability of correctness correctly https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
I currently have a large tower case. But even with such cases, it's typically really difficult to even get access to the PSU.
What I worry about are future malicious actors. These are parties that will use today's harvested data to achieve a malicious agenda in the future.

For example: The Dutch used to collect a church tax that was used to support your church, or temple. When the Nazis invaded, church tax records were used to track down and exterminate Jewish people.
Everyone I see is smoking in Spain, Portugal, Greece, lot of places in the U.K, Germany, China (all parts they think belong to them), etc. It’s dying in some places I guess and definitely not smoking inside is better for all of us.
That's a lot worse than I expected. I thought Wayland was supposed to be able to handle this without performance loss, but that's clearly not the case here. It doesn't make me eager to try out Wayland, but maybe I should try it for myself.
People can make the things the way they want to make them. Makers have no obligation to make things maximally permissive.

What this sounds like is entitlement. That really should be obvious.

Besides, if users want permissivity and it doesn't exist, one of them can step up, make it, and be a hero.
Archive link: https://archive.md/CPyXw
Yes, he told them last year that the harvest would be worse this year due to unsustainable habitat destruction and he was right.
I'll have a cigarette and a "Feierabend" beer, please.
https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/ode-smoking-cigarettes...
Still the same in regards to C++.
Go is sufficiently entangled in a lot of modern tech to ensure that someone would take ownership. Possibly even the CNCF, seeing how most projects under their wing are Go-based.
A lot of the anti-lawn talk speaks to me of places that are arid and low on reliable rainfall and fields of grass are ecologically stupid and require watering etc.

But anywhere in the humid temperate eastern half of North America, plants are just gonna take over like crazy anywhere, grasses included, and if you don't mow or have a goat, or carefully "curate" what's growing you're gonna just get something... crazy with knee high crab grass, thistles, brambles, and volunteer shrubs of a million kind.

Here (southern Ontario, on 6 acres), if I leave an area unmowed, it'll be covered in staghorn sumac and invasive mulberries within a year. I deliberately let the back half the property go that way, but I absolutely have to mow elsewhere. Urban areas aren't quite the same but the same principle applies: it is often a lot more work to maintain something that looks like a nice "native plant pollinator" garden, so some of the "you shouldn't have a lawn, it's too much work, just let the native plants grow" talk I hear just makes me go cross-eyed "huh?"

I don't seed or sod or fertilize or level or aerate. I just run over the grass with a mower and it just takes care of itself.

A lot of what people hold up as "natural" alternatives to lawns are in fact highly cultivated and maintained patches of aesthetics.
> Since this research shows that people hardly ever start smoking cigarettes after the age of 20, the team poses the idea that it could be beneficial to raise the age limit for buying them.

Interesting, the recent tobacco age limit increase in the US from 18 to 21 should help.
They do it when you're falling asleep for a reason, though not designed deliberately that way. The reason is that the voltage drops when it's colder, so you're much more likely to get those low battery smoke alarms at night in the winter.
I'm so happy to see this! I daydreamed and sketched plans for such a device about fifteen years ago (angled, staggered static brushes to push broken glass to the curb, mounted just fore of the rear wheel in one case, but I considered a collector, too), and if I ever live in a city with bike lanes again I'll gladly pull something like this around now and then.
If you check the bibliography of this article's author, his latest book seems to be a wistful longing for Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution.

The greatest "myth" I'm seeing in this thread is the idea of objective pop history writers (or readers). All of these works are goods being sold to a consumer audience. Perhaps in decades past, many consumers favored works that expanded or challenged their worldviews. But in today's zeitgeist, most consumers want to read things that reinforce how they view the world already.
There are definitely spaces like Indie Hackers or Startups for the Rest of Us/MicroConf centered around smaller sustainable software businesses, but those people aren't starting with hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment -- they're building something on the side and then bootstrapping or investing their own money. It's going to be a lot of work, but that's what you need to do if you're not going to get venture-sized returns that will attract VC's.
An algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system
I assume they meant they were hashing the response rather than hashing the request. Then you don't have to keep the entire response around for comparison, only its hash.
Ukrainian soldiers’ phones targeted by ‘Chisel’ malware
This might have been a concern within the first few years of its life, but at this point Go has too much community inertia to get killed.
I can completely understand the concern with a compromised promotional website listed on the packaging, but a full product recall seems to me extremely wasteful. Presumably, all those bags (which look to me like they're made of plastic) will have to be disposed of, if not the actual biscuits themselves.

This is just one factor in a multitude of reasons why single-use plastics are wasteful, but I believe that if a company is not responsible enough to look after a URL they should not be plastering it all over consumer products.

A URL is for life, not just for Christmas. Not sure whether to link to the Dogs Trust or the W3C here!
You guys used PHP? I started out with include directives with Apache, *.shtml files, and cgi-bin. SEO didn't even exist yet. You were either in the Yahoo! registry or you weren't. You just put your website URL at the bottom of the printed glossy brochures at the trade shows. "Mobile" wasn't a thing. Almost no one had any kind of cell phone. Pagers were still common. PalmPilots were brand spankin' new, a few hundred dollars (not including the 14.4kbps modem), and did not have web browsers.

(I'm not gonna claim things were better back then.)
In your clarification, I still don't see anything I disagreed with.
Gotta love the media. Attacks social media's financial interests to limit speech on social media the past decade and then mocks social media for limiting speech to protect their financial interests.

Also, let the saudis, russians, africans, iranians, chinese, indians, etc protect their own 'values' and let them punish people for 'disinformation' as they fit. The same propagandists complaining about foreign interference sure love to interfere everywhere.
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