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I agree that they shouldn't have re-edited the movie based on Carrie Fisher's death IRL, but that scene is a masterclass in bad writing.

Rian's intention was to demonstrate some semblance of humanity remained within Kylo. But the optics are that he is truly weak and in the end isn't even bothered much by the (for all he knows at the moment) imminent death of his mother. Had Kylo fired the shot he at least would have surpassed Vader in evilness, whether or not Leia saved herself.

I agree with the "fans" that she should have died in that scene, but since Rian was too scared to snuff Leia before Luke the scene shouldn't have been written in the first place.
Before I had clicked the link I thought you were not referring to Proto-Indo-European but to Standard Average European — how many of the European languages (particularly the western European languages) have peculiarities in grammar and syntax that are not explained by descent, but by areal features. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European
Thank you for trying to help your friend.

I know a disabled man who got some benefits restored after his state senator got involved. you might try contacting office holders at any level
The code for it is included with Chromium. Responsibly phasing out 3rd party cookies is important for the whole ecosystem.

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...
It was a popup explaining it and a button that took you to the ad privacy settings.
Yes, in a situation where this was easy to track (eg smart meters), it would definitely make sense to compensate people to disconnect from the grid temporarily for stability sake. This would incentivize people to build more solar panels and personal battery storage.

The difference is that this is very complex and would have a minor effect (compared to shutting down a single large industrial consumer).
In the EU, as far as the ePrivacy Directive (cookie law) is concerned, fingerprinting is similar to using a tracking cookie, even if no cookies are actually involved. And as far as GDPR is concerned, fingerprinting can identify a visitor, it counts as personal data, therefore you need a legal basis for processing it.

Not sure what the point you're trying to make is.

Also, Google under Privacy Sandbox has been exploring ways to introduce a fingerprinting limitations and a budget. Which may as well be smoke and mirrors, but if you watch their marketing materials, they talk of fingerprinting in general.
> minor and patch versions are defined to be backwards compatible and therefore not breaking. So why would it distinguish.

Indeed, why? And yet semver itself does, which is senseless.
Hindi/Gujarati/Sanskrit has mata and pita.
I brought it up because this API aims to replace a use case of third party cookies.

If you are blocking 3rd party cookies by DNS you will also block topics too.
I would guess that it would be unlikely for any ICC case to have significant standing in any American courthouse. The US is no longer a signatory to the Rome Statute which was the treaty which established the ICC and I don’t believe there is any interest in being bound to their rulings.
Hey, are you okay with non-US remote too?
How does VISA credit care actually work? (genuine question)

Like is there a single point of failure of credit card transactions? Can a cybro-terrorist shut down credit card by DDoS VISA's server or something?
Developers shouldn't distribute their own software (2019)
The WeWork Tokyo offices remain pretty well utilized. The vibe hasn't changed much the last 3 years. The stuffy corporate buildings are still stuffy and corporate, and the trendy younger spots are still trendy and young. Really just depends on which WeWork you go to. But that's how it always was.

Also, my suspicion is that WeWork Japan will remain mostly unchanged, if only because Softbank won't let it die on home turf.
Pacemakers are one of literally millions of regulated medical devices. If my CPAP fails one night, I don't die, but it's still regulated to ensure it's not gonna fail. You want this to be pacemakers vs Tetris but it's not. It's hearing aids and contact lenses and insulin pumps and wheelchairs and nebulizers and all kinds of devices that will not get you killed if they fail AND YET they are highly regulated and rightly so.
Such deals are usually structured the other way around, and have existed long before bitcoin.

The energy consumer gets a cheaper electricity prices year round, on the condition that they are contractually obligated to cut power in emergencies when the energy provider demands it (though, there still can be penalty payments if the demands exceed the maximum in the contract). This allows the provider to always know how much capacity it can shed ahead of time, in exchange for slightly lower revenue.

With this alternative arrangement, Texas is forced to dynamically outbid bitcoin profits and other uses of energy in the middle of an emergency.

I actually have a similar deal on a consumer level for my home. In exchange for lower power prices, the power company is allowed to turn my hot water tank off remotely. Usually doesn't matter unless multiple people have very long showers on very cold days.
My AI career started with R2-D2 jokes, but it’s not the Evil Empire
Lost a few IQ points trying to even understand that (X?)(tweet?)
It’s truly shocking how misinformed you are about foreign policy.

Israel attempted to maintain some level of neutrality wrt Russia bec when they show preferences, Russia punishes the local Jewish population… which they promptly did as soon as Israel showed any support for Ukraine.

Israel shares a ton of intel with the US regarding many of the local terrorist organizations in the ME. Not to mention they’re flying sorties into Syrian airspace almost nightly. (Infamously Syria AA shot down a russian spy plane, killing 11, thinking they finally caught an Israeli plane)

And Israel’s absence from that symbolic list was likely a precondition to get many of those Arab and African nations on the list. Israel has ISIS locally so there’s no doubt they’re fighting isis.

Finally wrt the Jordan’s west bank: they lost it years ago and it’s so odd you keep calling it that… maybe use the actual name for the area and suddenly Israel’s policy will make sense.
You can say China, they cannot kill you over the internet... yet.
By analogy it must be good if I just start burning gasoline in a pit because my increased demand will cause oil producers to invest in more drilling and refinery capacity. In fact, if we were just burning gasoline in pits in the 70s we wouldn't have had an energy crisis because by burning gasoline in pits we would have created the market conditions necessary for the oil companies to build more domestic wells and refinery capacity. It's perfect, because when we actually _did_ need gasoline for cars we could have just pitched the guys burning gasoline in pits some cash, they would have stopped, and we would have had enough gasoline for everyone.
In travel time, no. In energy cost, yes, but only if you're willing to wait a long time to get there. Also impossible to communicate with directly by radio.
I can see how that could be interesting, but I didn't enjoy it cause I saw it as a perversion of an awesome character. That's a problem writers face when they reinterpret beloved series/stories. I've hated nearly all the recent TV/movie adaptations that were based on written series I love - foundation, eye of the world, the lotr show, watchmen, come to mind. One exception was the Dune movie, which I thought was rad, even though it didn't entirely align with the way I imagined it, their interpretation was great.

With these types of shows, the TV writing will almost certainly be orders of magnitude worse since the originals were written by great authors with great imaginations. So, the more the TV writers try to innovate, the more glaring it's likely to be to fans of the originals. Plus, the innovation typically involves TV writers just ham-fistedly hacking in the drama de jour. I just can't treat the TV versions as independent from the source material when I try to watch them.
Seriously, people on a technical forum arguing for prohibition with the wealth of evidence showing it's a well intended failure at best, a farcical show to placate and win votes from ignorant sanctimonious puritans at worst? Tragic.

At this point It's a way to funnel money that could go to addiction treatment to the DEA, money going to an unwinnable war to control adults who are going to do what they want.

5% of the global economy in the black market we could take from criminals and turn it towards the social good. Instead of violent cartels that will serve the need no matter what we could have taxed businesses with daily limits. "But ppl will do bad things". Tell me how that's worth the cost of the war on drugs? Shocking position. Please explain it to me how what cartels do is worth your desire to be sanctimonious??

The only thing we have to do to get huge financial and social benefits is give up your frankly childish notion that we should control uncontrollable substances and police adults in something that in most cases harms no one. Police adults who commit crimes on substances extra. Let adults make their own choices otherwise. The war on drugs and anyone still supporting it as a way of doing anything but throwing money in a fire pit are a joke.
Fun fact: power prices can and frequently do go negative, since electricity can't be stored (cheaply and at scale) and the plants cost more to shut down and restart.
From my understanding, yes, but they have rock solid uptime.
India, Russia, China, US don’t care about the ICC, so what’s the point?

Seems to be another waste of EU taxpayers’ money.
I agree with you; Amazon servers receiving 80,000 or 800,000 requests per second or 8,000,000 is all a different ballgame than it is for 800 individual actual families around the world (or 8,000 or 80,000) to get their telephones totally buggered up before work that morning on any given workday -- just because somebody trustworthy has advised them to play it super safe without making equally sure the listeners were understanding the UX difficulties of recovering their smartphone's functionality in certain mundane use cases, etc, which would ensue. That's a lot of panic to deal with. Apple user help forum volunteers would be helpless to reach all the affected frustrated people.
Not really. I do the same thing, but I do not use squid. Learning how to operate a localhost proxy is not particularly difficult compared to, say, learning programming languages. The later is a topic people on HN discuss ad nauseum. No one questions when someone lists the computer languages they know and claims they can learn a new language in X minutes or a weekend or whatever.

Just because someone does not know how to do something does not mean it is difficult. It just means they did not try to learn how to do it. This is very common comment on HN. It's quite silly.

Learning how to set up a localhost proxy on a laptop is far easier than learning a programming language. But it is not something that many people on HN want to learn, cf., e.g., programming languages.
After being an amateur linguist for quite a while and living in Switzerland, where everything you buy is translated into at least 3 if not more like dozens languages for toys I recently noticed a word that was the same in dozens of languages.

We also having a toddler so we buy lots of toys (that have to have lots of disclaimers and warnings in many languages to reduce liability).

The word that I have seen that is the same in the greatest number of languages is "slime". It was basically the same in the greater than 30 or so languages I saw it translated into.

I think it is a word that no one wants to claim and make theirs, I suppose.

I was going to say it is a new word and that that is the reason it is the same in many languages, which I think is probably true - but it shouldn't be. Because after all slime grows on many things that are decomposing.
The project I'm currently working on is a community data aggregator for an upcoming election to improve election transparency. I will not be requesting user sign up or registration because the average age of the users will be over 45 and for a single day without getting into GDPR issues.

But I do intend to arbitrate if the election information being input from multiple geographical locations is valid data or not. Otherwise I'm not doing the project and the existing system of it only being owned by the largest political parties who have their own organization doing the tabulation. Others who have attempted this work have seen active manipulation campaigns over the course of their validation and speak to the only way to counteract the manipulation was bot control.

I do not want mass market appeal. I want the thing to get adoption for a day by people that would otherwise be casual at best internet users.

> The open internet is the one where we get to use whatever software we want to interoperate without restriction. It's the one where we get to use a Python script to scrape your site if we wish to do so

Sorry, Error 402, please provide payment. You're a bot until proven otherwise.
Good news for me. Somehow the local mediterranean place here had an issue with this so I got to take from the backlog of un-fulfillable orders for free :)
I'd love to sideload on my iPad, but let's be realistic, Apple will do everything in their power to sidestep the spirit of the law. Here are some guesses:

- Sideloading only works with an EU Apple Account, on a device purchased in the EU, while you are physically in the EU

- Enabling "sideloading mode" will disable a bunch of other features for [IMPORTANT_SOUNDING_REASON]
Unless “decriminalize” means something different in California, decriminalizing a drug exactly means that it’s a controlled substance, it’s still illegal to sell.

It just means you are not throwing people in jail for personal possession. Whatever you think about mushrooms, jail is certainly more harmful than the mushrooms themselves.
> the transaction fees will have to go up to compensate.

Will they? Bitcoin's difficulty can go up and down to adapt to the offered supply of mining.

Currently the fees (no subsidy) Bitcoin mining earns are about $657k/day. This comparable to the total income with subsidy of other cryptocurrencies (and substantially larger than most).

Any argument that Bitcoin couldn't exist on the current level of fee income alone ought to explain the other systems that bring in significantly less e.g. BCH has
$175k/day in subsidy and essentially no fee income because their design makes the rational fee rate approximately zero.
Because that’s the jurisdiction of the police police. Did you not read the post to which you responded?
I wonder how they will handle this day of lost revenues with businesses. Will Square offer a “refund” to businesses or there will be a lawsuit?
What do you mean "per-app in safari"? I'd like to turn it on globally, with a single exception: I want to be able to continue using shared photos albums with my two best friends.

I don't care enough about JS performance or, more generally, the mobile web, to want to disable it on safari, or even parts of it.
What I mean is that the paternoster is usually smaller than an elevator. So in the vertical footprint of a typical elevator, I think you could fit 1 or 2 paternosters (2 to 4 cars, since each paternoster has 1 car in each direction looking vertically).
It is painful to spend long time chasing in chess after a few pieces in the endgame.
https://devswag.io

This is one of the weirdest things I've encountered in a while
Unclear what turnout was, but it was at least 25%; district 7 has fewer than 800 thousand people, not all of whom are registered voters.
You don't know how many exploits iMessage has.
Careless writer
It's something that has both extremely positive and extremely negative effects. We should treat it like other dangerous medicines
I don’t think it’s a replacement for HN, but it definitely is useful in quickly determining which story is useful to dive into and read then join the comments on. Some of the comment summaries are exceptionally informative, like this one on the RAG story:

> The article discusses the limitations of using LLMs (Language Model Models) and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in AI systems due to the missing storage layer. The author points out two unstated assumptions: that similar vectors are relevant documents and that the vector index can accurately identify the top K vectors by cosine similarity. However, these assumptions are not always true, leading to the need for re-ranking and measuring the index's precision and recall. The comment section further explores the relationship between cosine similarity and relevance, as well as the use of different embeddings like Word2Vec and DistilBERT. Some commenters also discuss the benefits of using vector DBs for specific cases like customer chatbots. Overall, the article highlights the challenges and considerations in implementing LLMs and RAG in AI systems.

This makes me want to read the comments more because there’s some useful stuff, but I often would have gotten tripped up on the scale of the comment section and missed some of the more useful comments.
Small businesses such as mine have been unable to process payments nor log in. Disappointing in such a critical service. This is now 10 hours in.
This is not about excessive meat consumption. Neither is it about animal abuse in the meat industry. It is not even about animal testing for pharmaceutical products. These issues are completely unrelated to harvesting donor kidneys from pigs.

I fail to see any more obstacles in sacrificing a pig’s life to give a person in end stage kidney disease a chance to live.

Oh and besides: the numbers would not justify moral outrage either: it is true that there are many people waiting for an organ transplant. However, that number still pales when compared to how many pigs are slaughtered for meat production. It is all but guaranteed that genetically modified pigs bred for organ harvesting would be treated well - unlike their meat producing cousins.

Not to mention that there are perfectly viable alternatives to consuming meat. By contrast, people suffering from end-stage kidney failure have little choice, other than dialysis and waiting for their turn to receive a donor organ (i.e. many years in declining health on the waiting list).

So can we stop the blubber about meat consumption and animal abuse in this context please? We should rather celebrate the apparent progress in addressing a major challenge in caring for people whose organs fail.
Internet has to also be pretty up there. IIRC some languages do have their own word for it (and the Académie Française sure would like us to as well) but overall I think a lot of the world just uses the English word.
> And if matters only that this "energy consumer" be on the grid

This is not the case. The actual physical, geographical location matters, because energy transmission over long distances (like from the middle of a desert in far West TX to major population centers like Dallas or Houston many hundreds of miles away) has significant (on the scale of electricity prices) costs.

Don't forget either that when I talk about transportation costs, I'm not simply referring to energy consumption, but also carbon emissions. In the future it may be different, but as of right now, the semi trucks carrying those aluminum cans into a desert in west TX (and carrying the refined aluminum out of a desert in west TX) are spewing (literal) tons of greenhouse gasses, particulate matter pollutants, etc into the atmosphere. This would be a small fraction of the GHG/emissions IF the primary energy consumption device in question (btc miners, aluminum recycling plant) was running primarily on GHG itself, but the entire point here is that's NOT the case - those BTC mining plants are in places with high shares of renewable energy where electricity costs get extremely low during periods of high production and low demand.
That's literally my point. The problem is that there's a massive amount of hidden infrastructure behind those that you don't see and that "oh look everyone has a big model" isn't as impressive as it sounds.
I hope Square has some insurance in place to fund merchants any lost revenue. It would be nice to deposit a percentage of average tx revenue per business.
Yeah some instruction to be as concise as possible would help, and on the comments summary an instruction to not discuss hacker news or that it’s comments.
The only bothersome issue I see on lockdown mode is not being able to search through text messages anymore :’(

Please bring that back (safely) if you can, Apple.
> For example on iOS I use shared photo albums, so it would be nice to keep that feature but disable all the other capabilities.

I'm in the same boat. I was a bit confused, since I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that you could selectively disable it for some "apps", but I've never found out how to disable it for photos specifically.

My requirements of my phone being otherwise slim, I didn't encounter any other issue with lockdown mode.
Want to respect Carrie Fisher? Shut down production, and give her family time to mourn, then reconsider the second half of the trilogy. Having her come back to life in a silly way after she fucking died in real life is offensive.
Humans aren't exactly great at this either; cards needing to be banned has only gotten more frequent over time, although it looks like this year has been the first one in a while not to require a lot[1]

[1]: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Banned_and_restricted_cards/Time...
Nero was the only solid option back in the day. I made backups, music, and business card CDs with Nero. Burned many a ROM with Nero.
the old mainboards being available for $199 is pretty cool
The article is not very clear about that. It does say that is decriminalizes posetion of limited quantities for adults, it requires that institutions research the drugs further, and does not decriminalize commercial sale.

Obviously there's some amount of risk with these drugs and you don't want them to be widespread and consumed daily (like alcohol, which is also nasty). But you need such laws for medical institutions (of all sizes) to be able to touch the drugs. No one is being negligent here.
This tool was built a year or so ago, when Ghost lacked a sophisticated image API (IIRC). Just checked now, there seems to be a solid API for managing images. Stay tuned to the repo, will try to add support to this.

Meanwhile, one could always directly link image URLs (say from Google Drive).
Yes, we are :)

I just published my newly hand-rolled config https://github.com/adityaathalye/dotemacs

At some point if/when I upgrade to 29.1, I will be able to delete some lines such as the ones that install use-package. :)
A truer measure of the [Astan & Iraq] wars’ total costs pegs them at between $4 trillion and $6 trillion.[0] (2015 article)

US debt in 2000: $5.6T, in 2022: $30.9T [1]

The larger wars of this century drove about a quarter of debt growth. Major but not the majority. That more people will risk life and limb to immigrate than emigrate indicates to me that as bad as inflation is, living elsewhere is still worse.

0. https://time.com/3651697/afghanistan-war-cost/

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/187867/public-debt-of-th...
I think you are overestimating R&D budgets for companies. Very few tech companies - even large ones - have R&D budgets in the $10B+ range, let alone $100B. Most of the fortune 100 isn't even $10B.