skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selected quotes from the linked page:

> About the Settlement

> Epic Games, the company responsible for Fortnite, agreed to pay $245 million to settle FTC allegations related to in-game purchases. According to the FTC, the company charged parents and gamers of all ages for unwanted items and locked the accounts of customers who disputed wrongful charges with their credit card companies.

> On September 19, 2023, the FTC began sending emails to millions of Fortnite gamers, and will continue sending additional emails for one month.

> Who is eligible to apply for a refund?

> You may apply for a refund if any of these statements are true:

> - You were charged in-game currency for items you didn’t want between January 2017 and September 2022

> - Your child made charges to your credit card without your knowledge between January 2017 and November 2018

> - Your account was locked between January 2017 and September 2022 after you complained to your credit card company about wrongful charges

> You must be at least 18 to complete a claim form. If you are not yet 18, a parent or guardian must complete the claim form for you.

> How do I apply for a refund?

> Apply online at www.fortniterefund.com/file-a-claim.

> To apply for a refund, you will need a claim number or your Epic Account ID.
Killing a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil seems like an obvious attack on Canada, I don't think there's any question on this.
> tech companies

Oracle is not a tech company but a law firm that happens to have an engineering department.
Never personally dated, but like anime women. Over the decades however I've just been reaffirmed that dating simply isn't worth my time or effort.

I'm single and enjoy that.

I do not exist to either entertain another person or validate their self worth.
herpes is the worst thing? What about chlamydia, gonorrhea?
What about DC plugs for the home? Maybe the kitchen appliances are the last that use AC natively?
... and I find it very hard to stay at a low dose. If I quit entirely for a few weeks I could probably manage one small coffee a day for a while but inevitably I'd have a rough night and then I need a small and then another small or maybe just a large and pretty soon I can be drinking two whole carafe a day.

I have the same issue w/ cannabis. Right now I have a few plants (legal) in the garden and also a bag that is going to a friend and I don't care. If I had a little puff though the next day I would want another little puff and another and in a week or so I would be like the guy in the Bob Marley song

https://genius.com/The-toyes-smoke-two-joints-lyrics
There are bad people in every group. I’m going to go with: what’s your point?

I stand by my statement until shown statistical evidence to the contrary. This link is insufficient.
Seconding Gil Fronsdal's audio. He's very clear and reasonably concise.
Gene links exercise endurance, cold tolerance, and cellular maintenance in flies
Thailand is a bit over simplified. No one goes by their Pali language name. Only in a very formal or official setting would you call someone their Pali name, which can be absurdly long and difficult to say, even for Thai people. Everyone has a Thai language nickname that is simpler to say and is of their own choosing. Often the Pali names are chosen by monks to be auspicious. They are however their official names and if they sign their name or write it in a document it’ll be the Pali name.
This morning I asked it if it could query YouTube and I got short description of the YouTube API. I don't know whether the API details have been public.

I then used it to search for videos,

> There are several YouTube videos with a title that begins, "Gregory Blackstock, The Incomplete Historical World," List those videos with the YouTube URLs.

In this particular instance, the titles aren't unique, but the videos are different. The result appeared to be correct. The list was formatted to I can paste it into an email, something that doesn't happen when I search YouTube itself. Nice!

My next prompt was

> Make a list of the top 5 most viewed YouTube videos about moths.

Strangely, the result was 3 groups of 5 videos, with some duplicate results.

> Why did you list 15 videos in your reply when I asked for 5?

Reply: "I apologize for the confusion. I am still under development, and I am always learning.

I listed 15 videos because I found it difficult to narrow down the list to just 5. There are many beautiful and fascinating moth videos on YouTube, and I wanted to share as many as I could.

I will try to do better next time. If you have any feedback on how I can improve my responses, please let me know."
Why are you being downvoted? You're right.
Carrying the remainder microcents as a bill seems overkill and not necessarily correct. Accounting regulations and accepted practices have well established rules on rounding, like bankers rounding (1).

You could probably treat the extra microcents as being on the next pay period. Though that's annoying as if I close an account I'd expect it to be paid in full, not a few microcents remaining.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45223778/is-bankers-roun...
You're saying Canadians let Facebook have total media control?

The blame lies on Mark Zuckerberg. This is a Mark Zuckerberg (or more generally, unfettered capitalism) problem.
Are you in the US? I'm in the UK and have had an ad for it in the Google app for a while, but it always errors when I tap it on my phone.

Believe it's US only which is why it won't work, but would love to give it a go. Did try a VPN but no luck still!
Does this counterargument mean that DRM is actually good, and in the future all cars should be unfixable without approval of producer?
Where did you access information that this became truth for you?
Alpha Phoenix has been consistently making many concepts “click” in my mind in topics that other content creators struggle.

Subscribe everyone, it’s great.
I'd bet it's even more true now.
That’s a little weirder, but at least the companies won’t have people asking why they’re funding him.
I wasn't talking about rounding up. I meant exactly the same thing you're saying about month 4.

> Because the bill included a detailed breakdown of all the fees by type and transaction.

Was it all rounded [down] to the nearest penny?

That type of bill can already fail to add up to the total very easily, like x.xx4 + x.xx4 + x.xx4. So I'm still not sure why there was a need to have a line item to explain this single penny.

Was there only a single charge on each bill that used fractional pennies? So that this was the only time that things wouldn't add up perfectly?
Not to mention Tesla employees were sharing pictures and videos of customer's external cameras. Including Elon's own Tesla.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
> My childhood was filled with warnings and media depicting the tragedy of HIV/AIDS, the surrounding bigotry, and the history of this pandemic still has some cache

... but for years, the HIV/AIDS crisis _was_ ignored, or even laughed at by critical people in government. When you say your childhood was filled with warnings about the tragedy of HIV/AIDS, I think you must be talking about the early 90s, a decade after the crisis got started? I think the fairer comparison will be to however we talk about COVID in the 2030s.

https://www.history.com/news/aids-epidemic-ronald-reagan
Unpairing a device from icloud should probably require a second factor or a mandatory safety wait period. Same for every potentially really harmful action.
I'm charitable up until this is pointed out as A Problem, in the "golly, we should do something about this!" sense. Then ... then I want to see a little balance and a wider perspective.

This article goes past the "I feel insecure!" and into the problem territory. She's not at the "let's make policy" level yet, but make no mistake, she doesn't like that this exists.
"It was totally legal to build the technology to make deepfakes. It doesn't mean that it was ethical."

We're not debating if it was ethical, only if it was neutral. Technology is applied by people so it's always a people problem. If there exists a state where it is good and a state where it is evil, then it's neutral. If it has only one state, them it is not neutral (either it's good or bad; either of those is rare).
> My hope is that when the pendulum swings the other way again, the mean will actually have shifted in a positive direction.

Nah. Every time people popularize some kind of extremism, the reaction is some other kind of extremism. Allowing the pendulum to swing high is never healthy and never solved by its reversal.
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According to

https://inside.java/2023/09/19/the-arrival-of-java-21/

Oracle provides roughly 3/4 of the commits and fixed issues. It's a majority, but there are other significant players (always surprised to see SAP higher then Google and Amazon).
Thank you for the correction. Let me swap it out for Zambia
I'm not saying they would punch if there was something to be done--the pilot could have found the problem was one that couldn't be dealt with. I'm saying that the control surfaces might be operational on a plane the pilot was punching from. Desert Storm an Iraqi pilot punched from an intact plane--he beat the Phoenix (long range shot) but ran out of fuel doing it.
> Men seem to be under the impression that their desire is the default, that if a woman is on an app, she wants what they want. But raaaaarely do women on these apps, or in general, only want sex.

that's not a problem with men or women, it's a problem with the apps. There should be apps that are strictly for scheduling casual hook ups and other apps that are for people looking for meaningful relationships. At the very least, if an app wants to cater to both markets, there should be a means to filter for that within the app. That way people who only want sex have an easy way to find it and nobody is wasting their time.
100% agreed - yes and you helped me realize that I was confusing FSD and Autopilot. Everything you've said about Autopilot is correct and accurate and I agree. What I really meant to ask about is FSD -- thanks for the clarification!
The UK always wanted to carry on as partnership in many things including the Horizon, alas red-tape of the `brexit` deal saw the whole Ireland border customs handling becoming a sticking point that saw lots of things put on ice.

So not a case of the UK joined the Horizon Europe, but was allowed to resubscribe.

I do know, that whole mess really upset many scientists, not only UK nationals, but others who saw them cut-off from the collaborations saw pain not only in the UK.

Politics is often science's best friend and worst enemy.
> And it is “anti-consumerist” to make my property a less desirable target for theft?

That's not the main purpose, it's an excuse. You can tell because they don't take relatively simple steps to make things easier for non-stolen parts replacement like the one being suggested
Herpes is permanent. While there are some stubborn antibiotic-resistant versions of the other two, they weren't that bad back then. So, yes, herpes is the worst thing.
This was rather well done. Kudos.
No I didn't miss it at all, I simply do not think that's the reason and you didn't do anything to persuade me.
How do the thieves get the contact details of the person whose phone they stole to fish them? And why did they steal the iPhone I mentioned without having the contact details of the person?
Don’t you need to go into the settings to turn on circular references (ie iterative calculation) and then you can choose the limits/tolerance?
The only rotating thing in this story is the person actively wasting time erasing all the traces of history without any easily available sync that would prevent the need to type "google" countless times.

But even then compared to that effort remembering a new word is trivial

> So if you would say my usage pattern is an outlier, I would say, 1 so what?

I'd say it's not relevant to this conversation where you barge in with an uber-confident "100% wrong" when it's only "1 person" wrong
If you are concerned about your risk of depression, it is important to avoid smoking tobacco and cannabis.
The evidence is certainly classified and disclosure of details would probably result in unacceptable risk to Canadian and/or other Five Eyes intelligence assets. This is not a court of law, the Canadian government is not obliged to give up the identities of its sources.

Trudeau briefed the leaders of the opposition ahead of the announcement and they are all offering a united front on this. That's enough for me to infer that the intelligence on this must be rock solid.
This is a myopic take, the attacker could not spend the bitcoins because of the public ledger and the value of bitcoin would drop to nothing once it is realized that wallets are not secure. They'd burn bitcoin for no gain, for a loss even, because they would reveal their capabilities and maybe even who they are.
this was our experience as well. Both with GraalVM/Quarkus and .NET CrossGen/Native/CoreRT. It's almost a different platform that's far less supported and less stable. Even if you put in the work to make things work, they'll eventually break. Quarkus tries to give a full experience like Kotlin Native, but both are also not really there.

It's really unfortunate how Java and C# are perceived as slow because of their painful startup time.
I would say it's what consitutes adequate childcare combined with over reliance on parents as caregivers. So emphasis on nuclear family means you don't have grandparents, aunts, and uncles around so much. Paying for childcare is increasingly expensive as well. Even older children tend to be busier now with school and such which means that in a big family the older siblings aren't available to help out with the younger in the way that for instance my mother did as the third oldest of nine when she was a teen.
That's the alternative
> The JVM has ~nothing to do with the scheduling of platform threads

I didn't say it schedules platform threads, but JVM has many other performance issues with its GC/object identity/lock monitoring model, which makes it harder choice for ultra-high performance apps, so virtual thread scheduling may improve your app perf by 5%, where other 95% stuck in other bottlenecks

> But why would you want to do that when, if you used virtual threads

because virtual threads are not supported in ecosystem well, and it will take another 10 years for it to catch up, before that most API/libs will use old concepts and you take large risks of fragmentation by introducing virtual threads to your app.

Also, you can avoid all switching with 20 years old ExecutorService, where you have exactly the same m:n mapping between tasks and machine threads.
Maybe they shouldn't have their corporate login page on the Internet.

https://mgmresorts.okta.com/app/mgmresortsprod_neocaseemploy...
From 5 years ago, but still fascinating: Ten Things You Can Do With GraalVM by Chris Seaton

https://gist.github.com/chrisseaton/535e0e80ea19803d5529c623...
Which is why I love X - no censorship.
Asrock should be fined for breaking the law [video]
False equivalency fallacy.

You are assuming an extreme position that nobody expressed.
the phone is likely linked to an apple account. seems reasonable that if the components are approved for a specific phone and that phone is linked to an icloud account, that account could permit a swap?
I've seen so many sockets that were worn down over time from the weight of the plug just hanging out from it, usually straight since most aren't angled. (because there's no strain relief either, which a recessed socket would provide). So you have plugs that are usually exposing parts of the plug thanks to gravity.

Yes, it can be fixed by replacing the socket, but it's just such a terrible design. (The 240V socket isn't much better - if I was wiring my house for 240V, I guess I'd have to use that one to be up to code, but I'd really consider importing some Schuko sockets instead)
I think this is being downvoted as it initially reads as a snarky way to say "the way it works now is fine", but reading closer I think they are saying it should only happen when the screen is marked as stolen which seems reasonable
I'm not sure the math on that works out. Sounds exhausting. Like, how do those men have time for anything else! Are women really okay with passing the same men around?
We didn't "agree it was a good idea", this is just how the federated network we call the internet works. It's facebook's prerogative to determine what type of content appears on facebook's website.
It doesn't matter, something will be found that will coerce them into talking. Nobody is an island. Everyone has a breaking point, if it's not rubber hoses, it's socks full of rocks, or it's bottles of mineral water, or any number of methods. Don't think for a second that someone hasn't thought of a better way to get information out of somebody else.
Musk's Neuralink to start human trial for brain implant chip
Sure. That is not the sort of thing that is guaranteed to catch all bugs. Model checking approaches are better at providing proofs of non-trivial properties.

The problem is that model checking checks a model which often fails to properly match the actual implementation. Plenty of people have used model proven algorithms but had implementation bugs that mean that the highly desired properties proven for the model are not upheld.

Being able to automatically check the implementation against specific race conditions (etc.) helps to provide confidence in the implementation working correctly, which means your model proven results are more likely correct for the actual implementation.
> and someone like my mum can get her all-in-one “nice” experience.

This is a great example of what I had in mind. Apple has successfully convinced you that pairing every part of the phone to the motherboard such that it can never be replaced by anyone other than Apple (usually for a price greater than the phone itself) is somehow essential to the iPhone Experience™ and beneficial to the user.
Why We’ll Never Live in Space
Facebook and Alibaba deserve a lot of the credit for MySQL’s recent renaissance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU
To those saying "But Bill C-18" - it's not the Canadian government taking things down. It's the Indian government, taking down articles and posts that accuse them of assassinating a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.

C-18 is a problem. We need to deal with it. That's not relevant to the issue at hand.

And to those saying "Well he was a terrorist..." we, in Canada, have something called the Rule of Law. You have to prove someone is guilty, in court, with real evidence. They serve time in prison for their crimes. They can be extradited to other countries to face court there.

If Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a terrorist, and there was sufficient evidence to convict him, the Indian government should have brought it to the Canadian Government. It's very simple really.

Murdering someone without trial because you don't like their political speech- why, I think there's a word for that.
Not pictured, but the US also has a socket that looks like type B, but it is for 220-240v (mostly used for window air conditioners, or tools). It is not compatible with the normal type A/B socket/plugs though because one of the pins is sideways.

I once saw a house in the US which had outlets that would accept either type, and you had to know if it was 120V or 240V. IIRC this was a type A socket, but it would accept either voltage.
>but that it actually pays an okay/ish salary to work on fulltime, while upholding all those lofty goals.

He pays himself a fairly low salary for the work he is putting in.
Your ability to classify everyone who doesn't agree with you as an "Apple fanboy" is equally amazing to me.
yep. I'm getting really weary of these shallow protests about protecting anonymity and "technology" above all else, that are grounded in some sort of vague idea that technology is beyond moral reproach or has a mind of its own, and isn't in fact just an extension of ordinary, and in the case of this article, mean-spirited and cruelty-motivated human intent.

These deflecting arguments amount to no more than a modern irreligious version of "the s/devil/technology made us do it"
Facebook is not playing a smart game either. The government is already and understandably furious at India for this encroachment to sovereignty (the murder of a Canadian in Canada by a foreign state), it was also already not happy at Facebook for their previous encroachment to sovereignty (the blocking of Canadian news), and now it has more reason to be mad at Facebook for this latest encroachment to sovereignty of applying Indian law on Canadian citizens. I imagine the pushback could be very strong.
This is exactly how it works. If a thief knows the passcode (be it numerical or more complex), he can change your iCloud Account password without knowing the current password and disable Find My without.

Apple acknowledges this and seem to be ok with it [1].

[https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/19/apple-responds-to-iphon...]
Microsoft misjudged Baldur’s Gate 3
>I talked to a friend of mine who had a sense of attractiveness so strict that she literally could not find someone she found physically appealing within a hundred mile radius

I found this tool to be very illuminating: https://igotstandardsbro.com/

(Please ignore the misogynistic verbiage)
I don't even understand the AdWords UI these days.
> And in case of employment in many countries you can’t be fired unless there is a just cause. The same thing with important services that cannot be denied at will, eg buying drugs at a pharmacy. There are many protections in many countries in many spheres of life that go beyond the color of your skin and your pronouns; and those countries are doing okay.

Cool - but you didn't propose anything? Are you calling Russel Brand an employee of YouTube who deserves labor protection? Does YouTube get to fire Russel if he doesn't get enough views or stars? Does YouTube have to employ everyone? Do they pay FICA taxes on his earnings?

> What about the government deciding who should be published on YouTube or in a newspaper? What about the government deciding who should be able to watch or read stuff? Wouldn’t it be scary? Why? Isn’t because the government is a huge powerful monopole? I don’t want my life to be governed by a will of a huge powerful monopoly, even if it’s democratically governed and especially if it’s not even that.

That's my point - I don't want the government making speech decisions - and it's expressly forbidden by the 1st amendment. Google isn't a government entity and I don't want them to be one. They don't have police powers - and I'm certainly not giving it to them. The government does have police powers and if not restrained can not only fire you, but throw you in jail and worse.

If they're a monopoly engaging in anti-competitive behavior, beat them up over that. If you think there's a better way, build a competitor. But don't go giving the government more power to regulate speech.
That's not what this is and you know it. The equivalent would imagining a fictional world where we could say just raise the dead or Borderland's style instantly print you a new body at the phone-booth down the street. In that world there's no point to murdering you, they get no benefit it's only an inconvenience to the person being murdered.

In that world you need very little actual protection against murder because there's no incentive to do it. That's the current state of iPhones, you don't need to lock them up, use those chest pickpocket proof bags, or strap them to your wrist because no one wants to steal them.
They can already "unpair" the phone by removing it from iCloud, as you say. The phone could simply check whether the serial number on a part is already associated with an iCloud registered device and if not, allow it to pair. Fairly obviously, they don't do this because it would reduce the demand for their parts, which is a multibillion dollar business.