skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cultures do certainly exist. Consider for example the difference between high-context and low-context cultures.

As an anecdote about russian culture, a russian coworker once told me how amused a shopkeeper was back in russia when he asked them if they could please give him something. Where in russia it is typically not done (and its not at all rude to simply instruct a shopkeeper to give you something without please or thank yous, and certainly not asking someone if they can do something but just telling them to do it). The shopkeeper thought it was endlessly funny to just say no, as though it was an earnest request. Living in the UK had changed how my coworker spoke even in their native language.

Sure some may regard these as aspects of language still, but imo the fact that it affected how my coworker spoke even in their native language perhaps shows its more a cultural thing.

Now I WOULD be very wary of making cultural arguments as relates to crime. Imo its only really appropriate for analysing individual interaction.
Whenever he decides to (shadow)ban someone, he usually warns the user multiple times in replies (as evidenced by his comment history). Additionally, if you turn "showdead" on in your settings, you can see all comments even from shadowbanned users or that have been flagged or voted-dead by the general community (I think and hope for legal reasons that this excludes links to legally prohibited material such as CSAM or piracy).
i wonder what fraction of these fixes came with automated texts to prevent regressions (and to aid new implementations from making the same mistakes).
Laws regularly restrict the power of contracts as well. For example, you cannot contractually give up your right to reclaim a non-work-for-hire copyright at 35 years until some period of time near that duration.
it's parody on the level of "MiKKKro$haft" - parody by idiots and for idiots. so it should be protected, of course
Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Ads to Defraud Users (2022)
I'm surprised the Kernel doesn't count here.
He means that a world that requires engineers for most things vs. a world that doesn't is a very different world.

If your average joe on the street can automate their own random business task, that's a very different world than the one we have today.

This is totally a 10x opportunity if it pans out. Maybe even bigger.

If it pans out.
I didn't say emergency. I mean stuff like the NHS, local authorities, charities etc, schools etc. putting out timely information to their followers
That's the term used by the academic literature also, so Hallucinate is an industry standard term.
IDK what's new, but I'm 100 percent in agreement.

If you claim logical consistency, I don't know how the group having rights an individual does not ever gets reconciled.

In a town of three if two vote to take from the third it's clearly not just.

Yet somehow as the group size grows people lose sight of that.
Bumble announces Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will be its new chief exec
handlebars.js runs in the browser:

https://plnkr.co/edit/LXb5TOMoyAxdbTxB
> usually picked on the basis of the highest compensation because that's what pays the bills, not out of which is most fun.

I think you should reconsider some of your life choices then.

You're spending a large part of your life working. Why wouldn't you choose a job that's fun?

> job and tasks at work also happen to be an activity that's fun to you but that's super rare, and it's best not to spend your life searching for that magic workplace where that could happen, but simply to learn to separate and containerize work and fun.

This is some of the worst advice I've ever seen. Those workplaces are not rare at all!

So instead of spending your life at a fun job your advice is for people to spend their life at a job they don't like? Jeez. That sounds like a life worth living for sure.
I still miss outline.com

I use txtify.it
I live in California and I think both state and local gov do a good job. The people are competent and nice and the results are pretty good.
>According to reports, the northern lights were also spotted in Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. There are also photos from Poland and Slovakia.

More pics: https://www.facebook.com/meteobulgaria/

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2023/11/04/haarp-exp...

>HAARP experiments could cause artificial aurora over Alaska this weekend
Guest-First Memory for KVM
>Chomsky's analysis of society, and the media, is common across radicals of all political persuasions. They need a theory to explain why their radicalism isnt popular, despite being "obvious" -- so you have false consciousness (marx), manufactured consent (chomsky), class envy (ayn rand), etc.

There is a difference between "people don't agree with me, it must be a conspiracy!" and "I see people reliably making choices that go against their self-interest" there are likely other factors manipulating them based on those factors own self-interest.

>Well chomsky would always 'find his enemies' in the elite: trump down to his base. Whilst this analysis is partly correct, it doesn't explain the existence of trump in the first place: his base chose him. Rather than any prior 'political elite'.

Trump's base chose him... from a sample of one. Whether by design or happenstance, Trump's political shock-jocking drew eyeballs to the media covering him and got him vastly outsized mindshare by doing so. And the same thing is happening again right now as most media outlets dwell on every single outrageous thing he says, which helps Trump by making it more difficult for any casual voter to see the underlying pattern of fraud, failure, and severe personality disorder.
I say that's a win-win.

(inb4 beetlejuicing.)
> Bob Childs, one of the architects of the 286, worked underground to lay out some ideas of what could be a 32-bit extension to the 286. After about six months

How the hell does _that_ happen? I've never had a job in 30 years where I didn't have somebody breathing down my neck to produce something tangible every couple of _days_.
Great question. Something like you suggest could help. I definitely think it's possible to do better, because some of the apps have a lot fewer fake profiles/scammers compared to say, Tinder.

I think there isn't enough incentive for some of them (again, Tinder) to bother. If enough people stop using them, maybe they will incentivized to do better.
Firefox development is moving from mercurial to Git
For the newer USB-PD modes, you also need to know the maximum safe voltage (and related construction features, such as CC pins being a bit shorter to enable a safe/spark-free connection teardown), or you risk arcing.
Do you mean ‘global super power enforced’ hard lines, or social norms?

I’m pretty sure the opium farmers of Afghanistan wouldn’t give two shits about private uranium enrichment, for instance. And would be happy to keep someone’s secret about doing so if they had an incentive to do so.

And while growing and selling opium would be considered a hard social taboo in most places (and the Taliban, for example, regularly executed folks for doing it in those areas of Afghanistan!) the US was more than happy to allow
it in exchange for popular support in the region when they were occupying it.

[https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghanistan-opium...]
If you like to push buttons, I have tried these 2 options:

1, Kim Uno: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/kim-uno-get-or... - it is basically an Arduino emulating all the hardware of the KIM-1. Battery-powered, and fits in your (large) pocket.

2, PAL-1 replica board: https://www.tindie.com/products/tkoak/pal-1-a-mos-6502-power... - uses more-commonly-available parts than an original KIM-1 (e.g., 65C02 instead of the original NMOS part, and a RIOT+EPROM, instead of a mask-programmed RRIOT) but still a lot of fun to solder together. The creator has also made an expansion port and lots of gadgets to attach to it, including an optional backplane. Works with a DE-9 serial port! I have connected mine to a Digital VT520 serial terminal, among other things.
This exactly.

People generally don't even understand what the term "free Palestine" means, even without the "From the river to the sea" part. It's not a call for an independent Palestinian state. It's a call for a Palestinian state where Israel stands.

And we all know how that would end for just about all non-Arab Israelis.
I doubt it would be as straightforward as "you can't file another arbitration case"; it would be something more like "we reserve the right to cancel arbitration cases if we find that yadda yadda".
According to Matt Stoller [0] we have Alan Kaplinsky [1] to thank.

> Kaplinksy’s claim to fame is that he’s the lawyer who figured out you could get rid of the ability of a consumer to go to court by using what’s called a pre-dispute arbitration provision in a contract.

I'm no expert but Kaplinsky sure sounds like a modern day super-villain.

[0] https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ending-junk-fees-the-most...

[1] https://www.ballardspahr.com/People/Attorneys/K/Kaplinsky-Al...
This seems particularly relevant: https://www.fastcompany.com/90965361/why-did-the-metaverse-d...

(Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110059)
Or you could do the sane thing that Java/Maven did and have a classpath and have a single local repo and references just to stuff you need, without any conflicts (barring conflicts inherent to any package manager with transitive dependencies).
I am curious to hear an example where a lock-free algorithm is needed for correctness, because I have never encountered any such case and this does not seem possible.

Access to any kind of shared resource is always correct when only a single thread can access it.

With mutual exclusion it is very easy to guarantee correctness due to serialized accesses. With lock-free algorithms concurrent accesses are possible and the algorithms must be carefully analyzed to demonstrate their correctness.

Moreover, exactly in real-time systems is where lock-free algorithms are undesirable. Any pure lock-free algorithm must detect a transaction failure and retry it. There is no guarantee of success and no limit for the number of retries, so any hard real-time deadlines can be missed. Lock-free algorithms can be used in real-time systems only if they detect too many retries and then they fall back to lock-based algorithms before it is too late.

The lock-free algorithms improve only the execution time of the typical case, but they increase the execution time for the worst case. For non-real-time applications the typical performance is more important, so lock-free algorithms are good, but for real-time applications the worst-case performance is the most important, which makes lock-free a.k.a. optimistic algorithms bad.

Also neither mutual exclusion nor lock-free/wait-free algorithms have any problem with reentrancy when implemented correctly. Problems with reentrancy appear only in programs where there are mutable variables that are shared between threads and which should not have been shared (like when using some of the old standard C library functions).

It is very common to have a very large number of threads that use reentrantly the same code that implements mutual exclusion for accessing some shared resource that is guarded by a lock.
Unless you need to support ancient browsers [1], I'd go the easy way and leave the URL parsing to the browser, e.g. `['http:', 'https:', 'mailto:', 'tel:'].includes(new URL(value, location.origin).protocol)`

[1] https://caniuse.com/url
You should try again. I think that code is verbose because of the borrowing and because you're trying to do a one-liner. I use the nrf-hal library with the nrf52840, and the code reads pretty nicely. Here's an example:

https://github.com/nrf-rs/nrf-hal/blob/master/examples/blink...
How does that saying go? Make the tax payers responsible for the government's poor decisions... take credit for private (in this case, municipality) successes, which aren't shared with the tax payer.

I hope this doesn't happen. The government in California is an absolute mess and deserves everything coming to them.
Keeping local versions of every dependency and trying to get around the mess is a 90's/2000's model of dependencies

This does not scale

Linux distros are too big. They need to determine what to ship and be part of the system and what to have the bigger vendors bundle
The way states in USA compete with each other by giving corporations infinite tax breaks is super toxic. Seems if you are big enough you never have to pay tax, but if you are a regular joe opening a nail salon, bend over
Something doesn't need to be 100% true, in all times and places, to be valuable or essential.

That expectation overlooks the complexity of reality - there may be reasons that Random House, etc. are exceptions, and we just can't explicitly identify and define every complexity. It also can throw away 99% of the value of things. Classical mechanics, in physics, isn't true in all situations, but it's still pretty valuable.

The value to something depends on what we can learn from it, not the flaws we can find, and how well it predicts things. If your expectation is perfection and then the theory doesn't meet it, the problem is with the expectation and not the theory.
This has been done for years on HDMI/Cat cables, but instead of on the connector on the cable itself. Why make the connector larger to print very little detail on it, if you have literally a whole meter to write complete sentences.

This is roughly the same solution, but in my opinion more poorly implemented. So please make more USB cables like HDMI or Cat cables, print all the relevant info on the cable.
Yes been there, still am actually.

Also as a merchant I like a pro-active attitude of the bank to deal with fraud. But, more on-topic, bank accounts are definitely more stable than CCs. But they are not immune for seizures and fraud detection.
I nearly bought one, but ended up getting a Synertek SYM-1 instead. It was great in its day, and quite capable as a development platform. (I had a terminal connected to the serial port, tape recorder for loading/storing content, added the BASIC ROM and the Editor/Assembler ROM, and doubled the RAM to 8KB.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYM-1
It could, but it also could not. Don't take it for granted, it might not happen again
Considering the number of features and capabilities that can be given to a usb-c cable, I think a better alternative would be to take cue from the humble resistor and use color coded bands around each of the ends. Text can only really cover 1-2 capabilities and it’d be nice to have a way to know exactly what a given cable can do, even if it requires a decoder ring.
[dupe]

More discussion on the blog post over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162514
Is it automatic or does one need to do command line parameter gymnastics?
No - it's not possible to avoid. However, arbitrators aren't robots, if claims are being filed in a clearly malicious or frivolous manner you can expect a level headed mediator to provide a remedy.

In a case where one million people were legitimately harmed though, this can be absolutely disastrous for the company unless the wronged agree to waive the arbitration clause with the company and pursue something like a regular class action lawsuit. It'd still be more expensive than a regular class action lawsuit however.
The root cause seems to misdirected in my opinion. The article also reads like there are two issues, arbiters can be financially swayed, and contracts can force giving up rights, but the conclusion is vaguely "corporations are evil".

The article suggest big companies gaming the arbitration system. Read any civil (or even criminal) court case, and both sides will do the most possible tactics to win. The disparity of expertise is not an evil behavior of the parties. Yes, individuals with fewer financial means to find lawyers in arbitration are at financial disadvantage compared to corporation, and they would be in the same, if not bigger financial bind if it was done through the court system.

The notion that arbiters are beholden to corporation because of compensation is the biggest, glaring problem.
AGPL+CLA that assigns copyright to them. So element can do anything but others are held to the AGPL.

I mean, it's better than SSPL, but considering how heavily they've marketed in the past on matrix being truly open, it's a little disappointing that they've chosen to go to asymmetric openness.
No measurements though
So what is a realistic, effective solution?
> The above is not a political argument. It is a moral one.

First, politics and morals (and ethics) are inherently inseparable.

Second, you are not making a practical argument.

Individual humans are simply incapable of having informed opinions on all matters that require coordination to maintain a peaceful productive society.

Thus, we have representatives who we do get to vote for individually, or appointees acting on representatives’ behalf.

And we have other levers as individuals, including processes for commenting on decisions prior to finalization, challenging decisions in courts, etc.

Is this perfect? Far, far from it!

Is there room for improvement? Absolutely!

But anarchy, where all individuals are sovereign, isn’t workable at all. Who can enforce any shared concept of equality if all concepts & organizations are varied & opt-in/out?

Anarchy has a very short half life. Power abhors a vacuum. People start banding together & enforcing their values on others very quickly, because the real natural default political system is might makes right, not some imagined innocent condition of a magically unanimously shared & voluntarily abided definition of “natural” rights/sovereignty.
I suppose the smart pirate would diversify their portfolio. Keeping it all the bank doesn't sound super smart for a pirate who might be unmasked and assets seized.

Certainly no form of wealth storage is without risks!
Cicada – Open-source cross-platform version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI
Sorry, this was before my times and in a land far away. I started with the ZX Spectrum.
Buffet knows that you never outsource your core competency.
You obviously can't cold call an attorney and ask for help laundering money. But if you find a money laundering operation through the proper channels, then it will likely involve a law firm somewhere that's facilitating making it properly legible to the system - setting up less-than-truthful companies, generating copious fraudulent documentation, etc. If anything attorneys' trust accounts should be receiving more scrutiny rather than less - using your account to handle money held in trust for someone else is generally something that sets off compliance department alarm bells, and for good reason (well, as good of a reason as there can be in the context of this topic).
It is commercially known as the iBiquity In-Band-On-Channel (IBOC) system a.k.a. HD Radio, now owned by DTS. It has been implemented in the North American FM radio band and features multiplexing of 2 or more subchannels per station. It has been introduced in the AM band as well but a variety of technical issues have tended to be too problematic. Unlike DAB, which has its own dedicated bandwith, HD Radio is a system of sharing an analogue FM radio station's existing bandwidth with a slice of digital payload. HD Radio-capable receivers pick up the analogue signal as usual, and if the digital streams are viable will switch to reproducing them for the listener. HD Radio can be broadcast digital-only, but I'm not personally up-to-date on any presently doing that, given all the legacy analogue FM receivers out there.
OpenBSD is mainly used where other Unices can be used, and provides widely used software like OpenSSH, OpenBGPD and OpenSMTPD. To say that it's a hobby project strikes me as very ignorant. That said, it is not very easy to convince the developers that a function is missing because it's a pretty opinionated project, and they might not share the user's definition of needed functionality. Thankfully, they're nowhere near ebassi levels of functionality deletion disorder.
> This state has become such a shit place to live

> Make sf great again by pushing apple out.

So the current status of SF must mean the whole state is like that? You started off the sarcastic note but switched to saying seriously, thanks for the sweeping statement.

> Actually maybe this deal will make apple move to Texas.

Eh, people leave for no individual income tax then get hit by the even higher property taxes.
Is there a stated reason that a handful of the biggest companies are sitting on cash piles greater than the yearly GDP of mid sized nations?

Are they convinced that a more muscular re-investment in their businesses won't provide returns greater than interest?

Is there a tax advantage here that pushes companies to hoard?

Is the C-suite set really worried about the greater economic environment going forward and so want these cash piles as a buffer to get through coming lean times?
Nice marketing gimmick. It should effectively cover for most of the the deficiencies a late competitor in the space would have while also appealing to a demographic that can't tell the difference and would be entertained by a bit of inserted juvenile comedy.
Share private thoughts between you and your friends in the future and get rounded up in no time!

I know we're already close with NSA, Five Eyes and whatnot but could the plutocracy be a little less blatant?

I wonder if at some point surveillance and tech bureaucracy will become so cemented there's zero chance of revolt or accountability for the upper echelons.

Whoever's on top at that point will stay on top until there's a sunstorm.
The Happiest Man in the World
They can both be symptoms of a suboptimal system configuration.
One is online only (the one I use the most), the other one is a completely different bank with very different objectives and clients plus physical offices everywhere.

Each account can send money to the other via wiring, but that's it.

Saved my ass several times already when I lost my credit cards or other unpleasant situations.
I use services like this as I often skip news site paywalls because I just can't afford, nor is it practical, to have so many subscriptions.

That said, I work in news media (and have been involved in building paywalls at different orgs - NYT and New Yorker). I know how money for these directly support journalism - salaries and the costs with associated with any story.

If you are skipping paywalls a lot, I would encourage you to pay for a subscription to at least one or two news sites you respect - bonus points if its a small or medium local newsroom that benefits!

For me that has been; NYTimes, New Yorker, Wired, Teen Vogue, and my wife's hometown paper in Illinois.
I've run over two dozen marathons, twice run 100 miles, and also run timed races of 24 hours and 12 hours (multiple times). I'm a decent runner, having run the Boston Marathon 5 times.

I've never really experienced anything like what they're describing with Diane Van Deren. I'm not sure I've ever really experienced what folks refer to as the runner's high either. At best, I can say that there are times that my running is as effortless as walking, even when running at a fairly decent clip. During those effortless times, I've gotten lost in thought or in conversation with another runner, but no differently than I'd get lost in thought or conversation during other activities. I've never experienced any sense of euphoria when running. Joy and tears and emotional overload at the end of Boston sure, but not what I'd call euphoria.

That runner's high sounds great though, for those who do experience it. :-)
Those numbers are still too big to be easily comprehensible.
The aha moment for me was realizing there's a set of scammers who scam other scammers by selling them the ability to scam marks.

It's why so many spam campaigns are completely broken (no link, nothing to even possibly send anyone any money) because the money was made when the spam gun was sold to someone, and they have no idea how to use it.