skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's illegal to conceal a gun here in most cases, particularly a handgun. It technically is legal to walk around with a firearm openly if you have a valid reason to (such as carrying it to and from hunting). But you'll certainly get in trouble if you do that, outside of rural areas where polar bears roam. (One of the most common reasons to own a firearm is protection, but from animals. The bears here can and do eat people.)

It's generally illegal to carry anything as a weapon with the intent of using it as a weapon against a person, even in self-defence, unless you have one of those very rare concealed weapons permits. Knives, pepper spray, and tasers are also illegal in Canada to carry around for self-defence. Though the law does let you use whatever is coincidentally at hand, if you truly must use force as a last resort, to defend from an attacker.

So officially, no, people aren't supposed to be carrying firearms around for protection. American-style "right to defend oneself" with firearms is a bit taboo here. You're also not supposed to keep a firearm loaded at home. But I imagine quite a few do keep shotgun shells nearby and their shotgun safe can be unlocked very quickly.
Beware any company where leadership compensation is linked too strongly to short term performance. It incentivizes management to goose the short-term results, even if doing so damages long-term viability.
What brittleness? It’s just two workflows that ran together.
I got a job from a cold reach out to a VP at a company but that was 10 years ago before LI got so low quality. My profile probably didn't make a difference -- my guess is that if anything your profile can only disqualify you.
> And we all know that even if the current government is sincerely invested in doing its job in good faith, any powers that are given to the current government can and will be abused by a future government that may be invested in doing something else.

Exactly this.

For starters, and using the U as an example:

If you are a Democrat (or whatever), think if you want these powers to be available to the next Trump.

And vice versa: if you are a republican (or whatever) think if you want these spying capabilities and what not to be available to the next Democrat president.
It is not sufficient.

The amount of disclosed information, and it's utility, is non-zero, but simply weighs less than the amount of damage from not hinting which account to check.

Accounts can grow to be 20 years old and even a "normal" person who is not actively using lots of addresses for security, will still end up having used several in the fullness of time and completely forgotten about some, yet, may still have or can regain access to them if only they knew to go look.

You don't see how that can happen or really be a problem? Oh well, consider yourself informed that it does happen and is a problem.
Maybe the report already discounted the future cash flows? I agree it would be pretty ridiculous if they didn’t.
Useless comment. And gatekeeping. Amazing two for one in such a short comment.
I think that veers too close to the No True Scotsman fallacy.

It's like saying that in a {a benevolent dictatorship, real communism, true anarchy} the citizens will not fear the government.
https://archive.ph/rgrNI

subtitle: "Deal with Heirloom Carbon is one of largest ever purchases of carbon-removal credits"

Excerpt:

'Founded in 2020, Heirloom hopes to use the Microsoft deal to raise money from investors to build its first large-scale project later this year. The startup will have to contribute funding equivalent to the government grants for the Louisiana effort, which will take much longer.

Limestone naturally absorbs carbon. Heirloom accelerates the natural process so it takes days instead of years. To remove carbon from the air, the company warms up crushed limestone in a kiln heated to about 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit and powered by renewable electricity. That heat separates the carbon dioxide, which is stored underground or in concrete, and leaves a chemical powder called calcium oxide.

That powder is then combined with water to become calcium hydroxide and spread onto trays the size of large desks or picnic blankets. Outside, the calcium hydroxide puffs up like a cookie in the oven as it absorbs carbon dioxide over about three days. The resulting limestone can go back into the kiln to restart the cycle.'
Oh, please. You are proposing that people just ignore a contract that they don’t like, because, according to you, if enough people do so there are no consequences.

> I am surprised I have to say this, but it is best to read the comments before replying.

You’re not serious here. You know full well I read your comments; to pretend otherwise to prove some weird point is downright insulting. I assume you now intend to play word games about the meaning of “propose”. I have no interest in debating an obvious troll. Kindly take your semantic quibbling elsewhere.
Formstr: Free and open source alternative to Google Forms, built on Nostr
You can pin the version/commit (default). Won’t cause anything to break unless you explicitly run go get -u.

Left pad situation is a concern yes.
My grandparent-in-laws use AOL, and they unfortunately fell for a scam. AOL is what they've always used for everything. When there was an upgrade for something AOL related it all stopped working, so they reached out to a support line.

Unfortunately this wasn't a legitimate support line. The person did fix their issue, but they also charged my grandparent-in-laws $250 for it.

They called me right after they paid the person, realizing their mistake immediately.
Anduril is infamous for its AI sentry towers along the US-Mexico border.
JSON is a 4 letter name too! Could replace LISP with it.
> If account exists, you cannot make another with that email on most sites.

Many sites require you to verify your email before you can use your account. If you wanted to avoid leaking whether an account existed, you could show them a message like "if this account doesn't already exist, a message has been sent to your email asking you to verify it". If the account did exist, you might send an email like "someone tried to create an account with your email".
To governments, big tech monopolies/monocultures are good. They're a single point of control.

Want to have a back-door installed to spy on users? Want to silence a problematic dissident? - Much easier to get it done in one place than in many. Especially if you can leverage the threat of 'breaking up a monopoly' if they don't want to comply...
There is a podcast about this - "The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street":

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-city-th...
India or Bharat? Invites fuel speculation that the country could change its name
I'm always perplexed by these vague but very consistent comments about burning taxpayer money. If you think government actions are a waste of tax money just go live in a forest or something.
I don't buy this argument. Google Search and YouTube are highly separable. There is some synergy between the two, but really no more than between any two ad-driven sites on the Internet.
It’s because all consumer disks are garbage. The way it works is that disks are tested. Disks without failures are sold as “Enterprise.” Those that have failures are labeled and sold as “consumer”, not thrown in the bin.
This is also a pretty cool presentation on the topic: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-Ne...
People want more than one thing so diversity may easily fail to overcome the desire for cheaper prices etc.

That’s the fundamental advantage to many kinds of regulations, markets can’t convey unlimited information. We don’t want people constantly trying to decide where to eat based on the perceived risks of food born illness rather than price and how good the food tastes etc. By minimizing the risks of trying new restaurants you increase competition in other areas.
Especially if you pay for LinkedIn - basically gives you God mode to view profiles and meta data.
> Arbitration often means that you can not even discuss the case

This is immaterial to 90% of consumer disputes. (You can always still report to a regulator, which covers 90% of the remainder.)

> lot of the reason coorperations [sic] don't do questionable things is because of the PR backlash

Citation needed.

> you have to choose whether you will take them to the arbitrator or raise awareness in public

Right. You maintain the choice to do what, again, 99% of disputes don’t do. Or to bind a wealthier counterparty to a process they typically pay for and in which they can’t deploy starvation tactics.

> it's typically chase that chooses who decides the case

Which arbitration service lets either party chose the arbitrator?

Genuinely, ask your lawyer for advice. Most people knee-jerkedly rejecting arbitration haven’t asked a lawyer, probably don’t have one in the first place, and are clearly of de minimus legal or PR threat to a firm like Chase. In the event of a serious dispute, corporate counsel will note that to decision makers.
> Bing is making serious strides

August 2022: 3.34%

August 2023: 3.03%

Meanwhile Google has 92%: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

> their AI search is significantly better

Whether the product is the best in class or not doesn't have any relevance when it comes to judging a monopoly. At least I really hope we don't end up in a situation where courts start ruling based on speculation on the future of AI because good lord would that be a mess.

I actually wish the media would stop calling these "monopoly" trials, even though I understand why they do it. They're antitrust trials. Google does not need to have an overarching monopoly in order to be tried for antitrust violations.
price has nothing to do with the labor theory of value
What is the point? Getting some goodwill of non-paying users (aka. freeloaders), while (maybe) alienating paying users? I get that it is a project that uses lots of volunteer work, but you won't pay your hosting fees and buildfarms from latest rust helloworld-webservice flake contributions from the programmers-socks wearing community.

Sidenote: the foundation of current computing is built on DoD money.
Flipping tools has a cost because we have to think more about it. I don't know if you've tried flipping between the windows commandline and bash several times a day but it can be quite annoying just with things like "\" compared to "/" where the automatic part of your brain cannot take over for you and you have to do everything consciously.
I’m really confused at your comment because it seems to be rejecting the idea of a monopoly but then describing a monopoly with a different word (“mono-culture”).

I’m not sure how you get a mono-culture in the way you’re describing without a monopoly. Google has a monopoly on search, end of story. They have over 90% marketshare worldwide.
I wonder if this could work in your favor. "Hey, this key individual is updating LinkedIn. Maybe we should consider increasing this person's pay before they leave".
Yes. An antitrust suit against Google is itself welcome. But if it stops here, or Alphabet mysteriously gets away very lightly after appointing a few more "ex"-intelligence people to its board, we should see through it.
> Without Google we wouldn't have NodeJS, Electron, Kubernetes, Go, Flutter etc.

What a fantastic world we could have had.
There's a kernel of truth here in that bigotry/bad behavior is ignored/tolerated when it comes from the right people or for the "right cause", and conversely, the out-group is deemed immoral because they "endorse"/tolerate bad behavior from a subset of the larger group. It's tiresome, but that makes up a large chunk of shit-posting about the other political tribe.

"Republicans are bad because of January 6th! They are anti-democratic!"

"Democrats are bad because they support riots!"
> a person did something wrong and could and should have done otherwise to asserting that a person did something wrong.

These statements seem equivalent. To say someone did something wrong is to say they should have done something else.

> then you will remove and replace the broken one, you are not going to blame it or assign any responsibility to it

Yes, you are literally saying this robot is to blame for the problem. The only difference with intelligent beings is that they can understand what they did wrong if they are given feedback, and thus change their future behaviour, and that's why holding them responsible requires a different kind of action than holding a dumb robot responsible.

When AI advances to the point that the robot too can understand this, then it would make sense to also hold it responsible in a similar way to humans.

Note that responsibility and blame don't necessarily entail punishment. This is a common mistake. In many prior discussions, I've found people jumping to hard determinism rather that Compatibilism simply because they don't like punishment, but nothing in Compatibilism necessarily requires punishment.
> now you know what a monad is... therefore you will be unable to explain to anyone what a monad is

Isn't a monad effectively just an abstract wrapper for some properties that you can apply sequential transforms on? Why do people keep making out they are some form of voodoo?
Obviously the people wouldn't actually think that smashing parking meters to renege on a contract is a good idea, but, as we said, if they thought it was a good idea then it wouldn't matter if the contract states something about not smashing meters. There would be nothing to enforce the contract. It is not upheld by a supernatural force.
You seem to find the explanation unsatisfying and are getting mad at the tools. The program that defines how you recognize a bird is defined in the connectivity of the neurons in your eye and your brain. The circuit is the program.

It's not at all clear that there is or even should be a deeper explanation than "a function with sufficiently many parameters can approximate any other function with only a small change to those parameters, and thus allows tractable solving" - whether by gradient descent or some hokey approximation our neurons are probably doing.

We have even less of an idea how our own system of "understanding" works than we do of neural networks "understanding". If you're going to be mad at tools that don't provide satisfying explanations for how they work, then look no further than your own brain. Are you going to give up on thinking, just because when you look at it closely you realize you have no idea how on earth you're even doing it?
KDE Plasma 6.0 planned for release in early February
I Ported a Legacy Palm/HP WebOS App to Modern Android
With permission from the original author, and leveraging a 12+ year-old cross-platform framework, I was able to port the webOS app almost as-is to modern Android. (Its available as a PWA for iOS/Windows/Linux too)
what on earth does that mean?

the bill passed: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137

the entire thing that happened yesterday is a nobody minister (not the actual person in charge of any of this) said they wouldn't do a thing the law allows them to do. they didn't change the law, or pass a regulation or anything, they just did a speech.
Media manipulation is rampant
> Wiki link says that there is a lot of evidence against these just-so stories

If you're going to rebut me, please be specific. Looking again at my link, you're right, the cursorial hypothesis has questions around it, the others don't seem to. Can you point specifically to the evidence against, please.

> In any case, this isn’t how science is done. You’d be laughed out of the room if this was tried in most areas of life ... Non-rigorous scientists have done this a lot throughout ancient history

What is 'this' here? Making hypotheses, or something else?

> just-so stories ... pseudoscientific ... shaming skeptical people into submission — ... betrays the insecurity ... if they are intellectually honest.

Meh. Stick to facts. State clearly what you're talking about and stop implying stuff about people who disagree with you otherwise you're not being intellectually honest yourself.

I've no idea what you're talking about. Can you make your position clear please. If you're saying there's some alternative to evolution, please state it instead of teasing us.

(edit: "Have you studied the history of science" - yes

"and why people believed these theories for centuries, when they were so wrong?" - They were the best people could do at the time given the mathematical, intellectual, instrumental etc. limitations they had at the time. Perhaps you could enlighten us as to how they could have done better).
Just yesterday I was thinking to myself "I wonder how long it will be until we start generating prompts using code and then we're just writing code again"
> will get taken down next.

If this action is successful and if Lina Kahn gets a second term. Two very big ifs.
https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el#usage
The 6502 makes an appearance there too.
We can solve that problem when it arises.
That’s been my preferred model since the 2000s, too. I’ve seen a lot of projects where someone wanted to do something which they couldn’t do with RDS, etc. and every time the results didn’t match the early optimism.
fairly simply fixed by making publicly available information (email address) not part of the process:

- create an email address alias (random, unguessable)

- change your login to use that email address

- remove your phone number from Facebook

There are many ways to do this (plus addressing, apple hide my email, account aliases, etc.) Pick your own approach.
You seem to be brain dumping lots of personal opinions unrelated to the article.

Quite willing to discuss them though!

Not sure Google enforces one way of being: there is Bing search instead of Google and iPhone instead of Android.

Cashless society is a different concept, but also you have Google Pay, Apple Pay, others. so still not a monopoly.

Cloud everything, not sure want you want different. Companies to have their own serves in their offices?
> It contains pages, routes, state management, caching etc.

React does not have routes or caching. It has about as much management as jQuery.
The electronics to drive the right frequency for efficiently heating ferrous metals (about 25KHz) are affordable. The electronics to drive the much higher (at least double?) frequencies for non-ferrous metals safely are not so affordable. It would add more to the cost than a new set of cookware. Cast iron is the king of cookware and works great on IH, anyway!

You can put a few mm thick piece of steel on top of the hob and then set your copper pan on that, as a workaround.
Learn to program [at a high level]. Which means being able to write code with a type checker in a way that makes you faster not slower at producing high quality, maintainable programs.
btw read a more official answer here:

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy#5a-dspy-vs-thin-wrappers...
As a game developer, you should consider reducing branches in shaders. Though if you're CPU bound, then sure, it's something to think about.
(Biased, I work at Google), but I think there's a material difference between what Google does (as I understand it, from public info) – providing infrastructure services on Google Cloud, as all the major cloud providers do, or providing customer support for cloud workloads – and building defence related technology. To my knowledge Google and the other big tech companies aren't building application directly for offence/defence. It seems this company might be.

I would never work at a company that designs and builds missiles or fighter jets, but I would work at a cloud provider that provides infrastructure that is used to design missiles or fighter jets, in the same way that I would work at a telecoms company that provides the phone systems to a defence contractor.

Being one level removed, and providing "neutral" services, is a substantial difference for me, and I suspect for most people.
Well, sometimes they'd have someone crouched in the room next door listening and looking. That seems fairly invasive even by today's standards.
I take it you've never had a dog
Random people would just message you this out of the blue. When I was about 10 or 11 some girl did this and we figured out we lived two hours away from each other. We ended up talking and kept in touch for years. Eventually our family’s had planned a vacation to the same city at the same time and we met up in person finally and had a good time. It never turned into a relationship but we kept in touch until I was in my early twenties. It just seemed like a different world compared to the social networking of today. Things were more innocent and there was a lot more inherit trust between people online.
Get a load of this guy... he knows two erlang programs.
Sometimes that isn't a fallacy. If you have a cancerous tumors, you generally want to get rid of every bit of it at the same time - removing 50% isn't going to slow it down.
"Indecipherable string" to me means you likely don't understand the language or how it works.
The language itself works very well for what it needs to do.

It does not work the same way as something like parsing an object and manipulating it in python.
It is a query language. You are building up a result not manipulating objects.

Definitely unintuitive if you are coming from a programming language.
Once learned it makes a lot more sense and is even preferable depending on your needs.
Pretty sure it worked despite not because. Just because an abusive system works doesn't mean that's a good reason to do it.
> His solution was to buy it.

Didn't he spend almost a year trying everything he could to get out of being forced to buy it?
They dropped this company in anticipation of a future version of the CoC and sponsorship rules. Certainly, they have the right to define their rules, but they should revise the rules beforehand.
Many anecdotes advocating for college tend to be "I learned so much there" or "I made many friends and connections there" but over 4 years you'll do that anywhere.

Continuing an education and staying in the same community as your peers has benefits. However, the advantages of expensive niche schools seem to be entirely anecdotal outside of very specific academic fields or career paths.
Can we? I hope so. But first step is watching out for it. We can't solve it if we don't notice it, and there's historically been a lot of blatant things we didn't notice.
I don't have data for this, but I feel like whenever government action is announced against these big companies, their stock goes up, not down
Thanks, this was hard to find
So when the report says “10 times what they paid”, it means “10 times the amount the $1B would be worth in 75 years at the currently-forecasted risk-free rate of return”?

I can’t imagine that’s true, but who knows I guess.
Defined benefit pensions are also largely a product of a more paternalistic time when there was an implicit deal of spend your career (or at least a big chunk of it) working for us and we'll help take care of you in retirement. It doesn't really work for private company employees these days given you often don't get much of anything if you leave in less than 5 years. And the public sector has even more moral hazard as you say; there is at least regulatory oversight of private pensions.
> The illegal invasion and occupation of Syria by an imperial force of allies.

Is it the Russians or IS you think are our allies.

Or am I missing out on something here?
In the end, our butts remained unscruttled.
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Ideally try to design your loops so you're accessing memory sequentially (better cache locality) and predictably (i.e. don't branch on a condition that changes in every iteration). Using a branchless algorithm is only really beneficial if the branch is constantly being mispredicted.

As always, profile first so you don't fall into the premature optimization hole.