skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't a good development at all. Problem is that this distance isn't realized for large interest groups. This bill is an example. It is still on the menu despite numerous lobbying attempts have been made public.

The EU shifted power from voters to larger groups with particular interests. Those groups have the resources to address people in Brussels, while voters have more or less no voice or impact.

This is a structural problem.
I hate to break it to you but all European cities have walkable streets and yet most still have shit public transport, even on the continent.

It simply isn't economically feasible to have London or NY style underground networks in most cities.

I don't really get why public transport extremists are so against driverless cars. It would be a huge improvement to transport. Just think of them as small buses that aren't shit if you like.
That's an implementation detail so far from what we're talking about that its almost nonsense. Even if you don't have any infrastructure at all, simply injecting a NullLogger and audit logging to it is better than nothing at all (and filing a ticket to address that ASAP). That's two lines of code, but what I was talking about was exactly one line of code because the infrastructure already existed.
> With the deletion of .yu, historians and researchers lost access to websites that contained important historical records

Don't worry, these sites probably moved to some other location - after all a website only exists while the owner has a stake in it (and is paying for that dns record + hosting/traffic)
I would presume that the President actually has implicit veto power over the decisions made by any regulatory department placed under the executive by Congress — which in this case includes the Patent Office (part of the Department of Commerce.) or, to put that a other way, the President’s ability to override any military order as Commander-in-Chief, generalizes to the civilian operations of the executive branch (as “CEO of the Executive”) as well.
But the point is, you're just asserting that. I think the parent poster was observing that, as effective altruists, they might attempt to quantify the pros and cons of such reputational factors (some game theoretic calculation, perhaps?) and include it in their determinations.
We could remove this comment and not lose much of value.
> but if you want your issue prioritized then paying $$$ is a fair ask

The problem usually is that this will cause a conflict of interest with the maintainer role. Leading to demise of the open-source/community side, and the rise of better alternatives while you're busy navigating this transaction and trying to balance the stick.

I'm just saying that I haven't seen much successful examples of projects that went down that route.
The problem is, unless the government forcefully does it, the people sue the hell out of the city. “Bus lane lawsuits nyc” google search will result in bunch of results. Also doesn’t help how it would be a political suicide for anyone to be pro-mass transit during local elections. Sometimes they even oppose bus routes to go through their neighbourhoods as well, becoming some sort of an inverted “tragedy of commons” issue.
Are Halloween Pumpkins a Future Superfood?
Apple gets the hate because almost everybody has an iphone, and because they are one of the worst offenders (making critical parts unavailable and parts pairing).

Of course there are other companies that have similar approach, but if you want to make a change, I am guessing Apple would be the best company to try to force into more nature and consumer friendly practices.
In Germany they have to, but most of the plastic still gets burnt. Market failure. With paper, glass, aluminium and tin plate the numbers (and the economics) are better.
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/chatkontrolle-lobbyismus-in-37-...

Here's an article in German about the sketchy dealings of the commissioner in question. Apparently, Ashton Kutcher (who's the main lobbying force behind this - how did that happen???), got a meeting with her confirmed 37 minutes after requesting it, while emails from privacy advocates continue being ignored.
> It's reasonable for advertisers to care about where their ads appear and what content they're associated with.

It's reasonable for them to care, but it's less reasonable that anyone else care about their concerns.

Advertisers are the clients, but they also need something to attract our eyeballs before they can hijack our attention with their shitty ads. Media is a lot more consolidated than the ad industry and they have a strong enough position to push back. All media has to say is "if you pull your ads we'll never run another ad for your product in any of our magazines/broadcasts/websites again"

There's zero reason why anyone should assume that just because an ad is shown in a magazine it indicates total approval of the full contents of that magazine anyway.
ISO codes generally avoid using words like "United", "kingdom" or "Republic" in case that changes for the country.
EA and e/acc have a lot of overlap in being free market, pro technology, urban, fairly online groups. The "doomer" and charity parts are the difference. EA's mostly believe that current trajectory of AGI will "paperclip maximize" humans, regardless of our suffering. While e/acc believe that heralding in AGI is the next frontier of tech, and that more tech is always good, that tech = positive progress. EA like to donate towards helping humanity. E/acc believe in getting really rich through tech and by markets, this helps other people too, via Randian market prosperity.
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> However, as one who speaks BCMS

The languages spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro (this order is by population size) are one and the same language. It is a southern slavic language, which is what the term yugoslav means. That it is not used is solely due to political correctness. God forbid that slavs should think they are one and the same, instead of constantly being at war with one another

> For Albanian speakers, Yugoslavia was a Slav-dominated project

Albanians were actually a small minority in Yugolslavia as a whole. The country was 90+% slavic. On the other hand Albanians, as an ethnic group, had unprecedented political autonomy (Kosovo) and language rights in Yugoslavia. Im certain they had more freedom and a better life than in Enver Hoxha's Albania. Also if it was not for socialist Yugoslavia, Kosovo would have just been, and hence remained, a region in a centrally governed Serbia.

As regards opposotion to Yugoslavia, it is actually more correct to say that Yugoslavia was opposed by nationalists of all ethnic groups it contained, including the Serbs, Croats, Muslims (as Bosniaks called themselves during those times and some period after), Slovenians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, and of course Albanians. Even though people mainly know about Greater Serbia, each of these groups wanted (wants?) a Greater <insert your nat. here>, including the Albanians
Why was it scrapped?
The bill will probably piggyback a lot of other caveats like age verification or online ID requirements.
> we all saw how that went

I mean... it went quite well all considering? There was some site instability for a brief period of time and now it's back to working normally. The initial hypothesis was that the data center was vital and so couldn't be shut down quickly. Turns out the hypothesis was incorrect. So I'm not quire sure that makes the point you're trying to make.

Of course Twitter is definitely not all use cases, so trying to generalize from one data point isn't a great idea in general.
Well, we are talking about GDPR. Setting a date to comply by is part of the enforcement of the GDPR afaik. I bet someone is setting points of a legal case, e.g. MS can say "oh no one explicitly stated a set date and GDPR" - now they cant use that excuse.
> We have a long waiting list for recipients, and we don't have an excess of donors to be picky with.

That’s not how this works. Organ donation is inherently picky and fallible: without that pickiness, you get coerced organ donation and people undergoing mental crises seeking a form of salvation.

I don’t understand where the moral judgement or grudge determination came from: everything I’ve said is a prima facie plausible reason to reject a donation candidate on basic medical ethics grounds.
We have a similar thing in Switzerland but it’s not only done by the Hotel but mostly by the train organisation SBB. Someone will pick up your luggage from your home (costs about 50$) or you can deposit it at your local train station (30$). Then on the day of your flight you don’t need to worry about your luggage and on your flight back you can specify to which train station or home they should deliver your suitcase.
https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/before-your-journey/l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup

"The following 32 teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings,[11] qualified for the final tournament."

"
...
Romania (22)
Scotland (41)
Spain (15)
FR Yugoslavia (8)
"

So obviously "international community" is a very vague term. If we were talking about anything material, like who owns an embassy building in e.g. London I'd see your point, but insisting that Yugoslavia not use a .yu domain because it was assigned to another Yugoslavia that received the name three years before it dissolved sounds like not solving problems but having an axe to grind.
Actually, that's happen to some people that I know.

Roem.ru site (small but ifluential at time) recieved official, but illegal request from high level FSB agent to disclose commentators identities. They send formal complaint to a FSB own security and to public prosecutor office.
Former officially warned FSB to stoppes illegal actions.

Funny thing: 7 years later FSB agent was convicted for being CIA asset.
Author here. Surprised to suddenly find my project from 2021 on Hacker News!

If you want to learn more about NTFS internals and my crate, check out the talk I gave at FOSDEM 2022: https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/misc_ntfs_rus...

Also I'm open to any questions here.
Mass transit in the US is a political problem. Political problems in the US are unsolvable by design. So driverless cars it is. Meanwhile countries where political problems are not unsolvable by design (either because they are dictatorships or they don't have broken political systems) will move ahead with mass transit.
Ah, I see how that paragraph could be misunderstood. I actually meant it as an advantage of the service. Sharing a link to bookmarkl.ink is trivial in any system since it's just a regular link. Where as if you want to share a bookmarklet (as a use-friendly-link) directly in chat system like Slack (or in a github comment) you can't since these most likely refuse to display javascript: links
There's stuff like dynamic soaring that Albatrosses use to travel thousands of miles over the ocean using little energy.

Some enthusiasts use this to make RC gliders go really fast, and the record is over 500 mph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring
Your suggestion is equivalent to getting rid of 'that internet'. Actually such a development would make sense - first there are the regional wars, then comes fragmentation and the end of that global communication network.
It cost a metric shit ton of time and manpower to create the game engine. What benefit would they have giving it away for free?

Game engine creator studios, like unity or unreal, have vastly different objectives than a game company. Releasing and being required to maintain a public game engine costs resources. Where game devs are always crunching.

Even then, look at the state of Unity, hardly profitable. Unreal was cruising on Fortnite cash so they don't care too much. More interested in setting themselves up to be the top dog first. This isn't exactly a money making situation.
This is from 2013. President Obama Vetoes ITC Ban On iPhone, iPads; Apple Happy, Samsung Not https://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/08/03/pres...
Annual net income of Amazon.com from 2004 to 2022
The first NHC advisory mentioning the rapid intensification into a Cat 4...

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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2023/ep18/ep182023.discus.0...

TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM

Hurricane Otis Discussion Number 10
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL EP182023
400 PM CDT Tue Oct 24 2023

Otis has undergone very rapid intensification today. An eye became
apparent on visible satellite images only a few hours ago, embedded
in very deep convection. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft
penetrated the eye around 1900 UTC and again around 2000 UTC, and
found that the maximum sustained winds had increased to near 110 kt
over a very small area near the center, while the central pressure
remarkably dropped around 10 mb from the first to the second center
fix. The intensity of Otis is well above the Dvorak satellite
estimates, and again underscores the value of aerial reconnaissance
in monitoring hurricanes.

Otis should remain in an atmospheric and oceanic environment
that will be conducive for further strengthening later today and
tonight. Vertical wind shear should not be too strong, with SSTs
near 30 deg C. Based on the observed changes, the short-term
official intensity forecast remains above the model guidance. The
system is now forecast to be at extremely dangerous Category 4
hurricane status by the time it reaches the coast of southern Mexico
late tonight or tomorrow morning. After landfall, the system
should weaken rapidly over the mountainous terrain of Mexico.

The hurricane continues on about the same heading, or around 330/7
kt. For the next couple of days, Otis should move between a
mid-level ridge to the east and northeast and a trough to its
northwest. The official track forecast is about the same as the
previous one and is a little faster than the dynamical consensus.
On this track, the center of the hurricane will make landfall
within the hurricane warning area late tonight or early Wednesday.
> Reliable self-driving would be a huge boon to public transport.

Public transport would also be a huge boost to reliable self driving .. some years of only having to follow already established routes is a perfect middle step to self driving everywhere.

Vehicles can be tuned to the specific trouble spots of specific routes, there is a reduced need to deal with unfamiliar routes, in a number of cities public buses have established right of way | dedicated bus lanes, there's a pool drivers who can be migrated from driving a single bus to remote over watch of several buses, etc.
I've never heard that web design is a "femine" work. Anyone knows where the author lives? So different culture
Why try to engineer effective solutions to transport that have known benefits and costs when we have can burn billions of dollars in the hopes that someday in the glorious future, everything will be the same but you can check instagram while in the driver's seat?
... and then you start wondering about the calibration of the gear you fabricated, so you buy some high-quality parts with NIST traceable calibrations, and make some test equipment using them, and then.... then you go down the metrology rabbit hole.
It would have allowed them to intercept those bogus malware domains though.
First thought: Otis the dog was improperly put into the some kind of vacuum hold on a flight to Acapulco and burst wide open.
The point is that Taiwan claims to be the legitimate government of the whole of China (being the island where the former government fled to when the Communists took over the rest of the country - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War), and they express that by using "Republic of China" (as opposed to "People's Republic of China"). Similar to how there used to be a "Federal Republic of Germany" and a "German Democratic Republic". You could call both "Germany", but that would be confusing...
> People got so mad at some British EAs who used donor money to “buy a castle”. I read the Brits’ arguments: they’d been running lots of conferences with policy-makers, researchers, etc; those conferences have gone really well and produced some of the systemic change everyone keeps wanting. But conference venues kept ripping them off, having a nice venue of their own would be cheaper in the long run, and after looking at many options, the “castle” was the cheapest. Their math checked out, and I believe them when they say this was the most effective use for that money. For their work, they got a million sneering thinkpieces on how “EA just takes people’s money to buy castles, then sit in them wearing crowns and waving scepters and laughing at poor people”. I respect the British organizers’ willingness to sacrifice their reputation on the altar of doing what was actually good instead of just good-looking.

When other organizations do so, they are wasting money that could have been well-spent. When effective altruists do so, they are “sacrificing their reputation for a good cause”.
Internal/external names distinction. It's always ugly.
Because Apple upsell the shit out of those chips with outrageous pricing on other hardware parts. In the PC world that cannot work since nobody would buy a machine with such an uncompetitive price on configuration and that is if we pretend that Apple Silicon is actually competitive with the current x86 offerings.
In some ways it is but in many other it is absolutely not.

Qualcomm stuff won't sell well, not because it will be terrible but because unless it is priced extremely competitively nobody will care; because "battery life" is not a good enough argument that makes worth the hassle of dealing with a new architecture. There are so many cheap ways to extend the battery life of existing notebooks that it is a non-issue and complete Apple reality distortion field.
I’m absolutely positive they don’t. That’s why they don’t get to choose other peoples’ organs, and why we don’t let the families of victims determine the suitable punishment for the criminal.
It was a hard-sell to the rest of the org. Most people didn't understand why it needed to exist or why it ever started to exist in the first place (this was before the AI renaissance fwiw, so AI wasn't sexy again, even if it made millions of dollars). After a reorg and re-prioritization, resources were moved away from it.
Yeah but China also has its own self driving cars, and Baidu already operates a taxi service without safety drivers in multiple cities. I guess it’s not a dichotomy between driverless and mass transit..
It is possible if the barcode would carry longer serial numbers for identification, not classification of the certain product. The dream of rfid proponents in the nineties was to push a whole pallet through a gate and get a super quick control of packing list at arrival. That would not be possible with optical scanning without unpacking the whole pallet. In production, under somewhat controlled conditions, Barcode ids for parts are used for decades.
Sweden will not expel man behind recent Koran burning
Tough nut to crack in terms of free speech:

"STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Sweden's migration agency said on Thursday it had decided to deport an Iraqi man who burned copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, but that the order would not be carried out because the man would risk torture in his home country."

"In August, Sweden raised its terrorism alert to the second-highest level and warned of an increase in threats against Swedes at home and abroad after Koran burnings outraged Muslims and triggered threats from jihadists."
Unfortunately(?), Transactional NTFS is deprecated and Microsoft claims it may not be available in future versions of Windows.
Nice, thanks.

It seems like sometimes what we want is the state at a point in time (eg. for rolling back the database of a managed networked embedded device).

Other times what we really want in these systems is state as of a point in time based on the current set of timestamped, (effectively) mutable facts.
"I don't know how else to answer this, besides: the gendering of design as women's work is why people don't use the title "web designer" anymore."

Yeah ... nope. The reason for the split (and I think it started earlier) is that front-end development changed from being a bit of HTML, CSS and a smattering of JS or PHP, to real actual structured, architected programming with complex frameworks etc. Web design similarly become something much more professional, and more aligned with design in other fields. Therefore 'web design' carried an air of amateurism, and was no longer fashionable versus simply 'design'.
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> Maybe I'm just an old grouch.

Yes.

Reading on iPad is great.
Depends of the orientation of the tag and the background interference from other sources (or other tags).
Campaigning for live organ donations and donating yourself is such a waste compared to the real solution, which is opt-out organ donation.
In this particular case, yes. Battery EVs will clearly win over fuel cell
> With the deletion of .yu, historians and researchers lost access to websites that contained important historical records. Gone are firsthand accounts of the NATO bombing and the Kosovo War; the mailing lists that scientists used to update their colleagues on the progress of the conflict; nostalgic forums and playful virtual nation experiments

Ah, that explains it.

When I try to explain what actually happened during that war to younger generations, I find it hard to impossible to find backing documentation to prove my point. As paranoid as I am, I usually attribute this to "history rewriting", and although that is probably part of it, i didn't realise a lot of information was actually lost.
Agree. The location of Chinese HSR stations is terrible. Japan's are much more central.
I agree. But we also only have Scott’s telling; it’s entirely possible that they expressed other concerns to him and only concluded with a final point.
>legitimate interests

No, telemetry is not something MS needs to fulfil the primary purpose of VS Code. Best example is that the OSS version is there, without any telemetry enabled by default, still doing by and large the same job.
Meta-nitpick: cel stands for celluloid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel
Same here. Actually back in 2000-2010 men I knew were very interested in modern webdesign with modern html code underneath. A lot of fun things (wars even) in browser-land happened back then.

While I believe every word of that article I still think it's a very personal view of a very personal situation.

Were I lived girls were just <5% of IT in university and while they actually had great grades and only half of them dropped out/resigned (it was 3/4 dropouts for guys ;/) I know only two that wanted to stay in the field. One was actually a dropout as well, but switched to construction engineering and is a doctor in that field. Other one was always a Linux enthusiast and became a somewhat known security researcher. That's 2 out of over 400.
I think there's a very obvious error in the calculation:

The author jumps from 30mS increases the risk of cancer by 1/660 to 1 in 660 get cancer after the procedure.
What does "at risk" mean?
Is Ashton Kutcher the actual "main lobbying force" or the hired face of the main lobbying force?

It's relatively common for lobby groups to hire known public faces to front for their interests .. a celebrity face can open a door to a meeting that might not otherwise happen.

It works both ways, celebrities will often hit a point in their careers where they start to look for a good noble cause to front for in order to keep their name and face in the public eye and aligned with <insert feel good values>.
...or Quake 2

or even 3