skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A porn user claiming he's fine carries about as much weight and authority as a drug addict claiming he's fine. You've been watching since your early teens, and presumably wanking. It's all you've known for practically your entire post-pubescent life. Porn is very damaging, and habituates destructive habits, disordered views of human beings, disorders the appetites, and impacts cognition and perception of reality (which used to be called "mental blindness" in the classic texts). It creates a fantasy harem in the mind, an escape into delusion, and cripples one's ability to relate to members of the opposite sex in a healthy manner. Never mind the destructiveness of wanking itself.

No one has the right to make, distribute, or watch pornography. The idea that it even could be a right is absurd, as no one has the right to what is unethical. And it isn't free speech. It is obscenity, and obfuscation of this fact is tiresome. If banning the production and distribution of this filth outright is too difficult to achieve politically, then burdensome regulation is a good Plan B. I would prefer targeting the industry, personally, rather than individuals, but perhaps there are reasons why that, too, is too difficult to achieve politically in the current climate. Recall that Alan Dershowitz pulled off a nice piece of legalistic sophistry when he defended porn as "free speech". Perhaps that's the notion that needs to be roundly defeated first, before we can crush the industry as a whole.

But it is worth mentioning that restrictions on pornography use are not new. Israel effectively requires citizens to register to be able to view it. That's quite a light touch, but obviously goes beyond what we see in the West. The law has an instructive dimension, and banning porn and stigmatizing it can help nudge most people away from such bad habits, and signal that it is not good, serious, and shameful. Consider that porn is also weaponized, and has a history as an instrument of psyops, both domestically and against foreign enemies. (In a military context, and since we mention Israel, recall how Palestinian airwaves were flooded with pornography when the IDF captured a Palestinian TV station in Ramallah some years ago. You think the Israelis were trying to "liberate" the Palestinians by doing that? If porn was a nothingburger, you think it would have been used in that manner? The US has employed similar tactics.)
The NYPD has had a Joint Terrorism Task Force with the FBI since 1980.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/joint-terrorism-ta...
"I still don't know if I can call my uncle, though!"

My grammar teach would have comments. "Why are you unable to call him? Are you physically unable? Is the phone not working?" Of course you can call, it's more of a good question on how convenient it is for the uncle to receive your call.

I hated those teachers. Okay, hated is a strong word, but I really liked them much less after banging on such stupid method of teaching. I'm clearly affected by it to this day
You're not a foreign adversary - you're a colonial overlord. If a European or other US 'ally' nation attempts to act against American 'national interest' their government is swiftly toppled - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the...

More often they don't get elected at all due to coordinated media campaigns influencing elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_United_K...

The US Army literally have an entire army unit dedicated to running propaganda campaigns on social networks internationally. It's ludicrous to suggest this isn't employed to impact political and social policy in 'friendly' nations.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

That being said, there are worse things than Pax Americana. I'd certainly rather living under US influence than CCP. I'd be the first to argue that NATO has prevented another war in Europe. But lets not deny the reality on the ground.
I've been reading about them for years. Rolls-Royce was going to make the engine (the most important and innovative part of the plane), they dropped out in 2022, and then they said they are going to make their own engine. That update you posted is from 2022. Latest update they've posted is from June 2023[0], and they only mention some contractors and that the engine doesn't exist yet. I think the whole thing is vaporware, they'll never make a single flight.

[0] https://boomsupersonic.com/press-release/boom-supersonic-ann...
Don't worry, with chatgpt the software is going to be safer. The plane won't even take off :)
A lookup table for what? If everyone is living on the same time, what exactly are you looking up? The only answer is "local solar time", in which case you haven't "abolished time zones", you've just made them eight billion times worse by making them informal and person-dependent instead of statutory.
That's nice, but you have to defend democracy from people who wish to overthrow it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance)
> Because no chance in hell is China selling this thing, and Trump is already talking about how much he loves TikTok now.

Which is insane because in 2020, Trump was the one trying to ban tiktok and Biden was defending it. Now the script flipped? In the meantime, all they've done in the past 5 years is give tiktok free advertisement.
It's good summary of why it's a totally insane idea, and yet whenever it comes up on HN there are always a lot of commenters who are still in favour of it.
That's not an ad blocker, it's a tracking blocker.
The world worked fine before 1908-1967 when DST was introduced.
> We prove that the time complexity of self-attention is necessarily quadratic in the input length, unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) is false. This argument holds even if the attention computation is performed only approximately, and for a variety of attention mechanisms.

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v201/duman-keles23a/duman-kele...
I have been online since 1992 and have never seen this pattern.
“Artistic license” assumes agency, that there is some artist who understands the facts of a situation and deliberately changes them in the work.

It does not apply to a machine doing a poor job because it lacks context in its training data. Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE
Yeah, it looks like his career at Boeing prior to being President and CEO was entirely on the defense side of things, although it's worth noting he became President in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg

> Muilenburg held numerous management and engineering positions on various Boeing programs, including the X-32 (Boeing's entry in the Joint Strike Fighter competition); Boeing's participation in the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter; the YAL-1 747 Airborne Laser; the High Speed Civil Transport; and the Condor unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. He was later vice president of the Boeing combat systems division and program manager for the Army Future Combat Systems program.[10] Muilenburg was president and chief executive officer of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, later renamed Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), from September 2009 to 2015.

> In December 2013, Muilenburg became the president of Boeing.
A couple of good videos about the business of dollar stores with similar takes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QGOHahiVM (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpUV--2Jao (Wendover Productions)
Thanks for helping me take a break to be grateful in my job search. Cheers
Oh no.

(I wonder if what I'm feeling is deja vu, or if you really did remind me of a previous time someone told me that…)
Previous threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902765

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416337
More than safe, it would be the best option to abolish it completely.

In brief, our bodies evolved in the the movement of the sun, not numbers on a clock, so called solar time. Standard time aligns the numbers on the clock the best with solar time for most all of the world. There are some exceptions along the equator and at the poles at different times of year, but those are exceptions that have been, and can continue to be, handled well by people in those areas.

https://savestandardtime.com/
Yes, many models have guides out there for disabling wireless connections. On a previous vehicle of mine, it was as simple as disconnecting the bridge/jumper between the main board and the wireless board.
It's not hypocrisy to expect free trade to go both ways.

China blocks many major Western websites and apps. Reciprocating is far from unfair: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_...
> You don't seem to understand what the phrase "locked-in" means. A document format that is open and documented is not lock-in at all.

An open document format in the context of a government is only as good as the integrations made with these formats.

What you seem to not understand is why the "poor saps" are locked into Google, Oracle etc. Because OSS is incapable of understanding that a format or a protocol on their own are worth nothing
Or more accurately, it's a merger of the Concorde manufacturer with two other aerospace companies.

Or even more accurately: it's complicated :)
That's the exact argument e.g. Turkey used to ban Wikipedia/Youtube/Twitter etc.

Make of that what you will.
Cdebug: A Swiss army knife of container debugging
I think it varies manufacturer to manufacturer, but even those that make it possible seemingly make you jump through hoops. I was researching potential replacements for my 16 year old car and found a lot of discussion about this re Mazda models:

https://www.cx30talk.com/threads/thoughts-on-tcu-disable.374...

> Mazda CEC makes it quite difficult to actually request/disable your TCU. It can take many phone calls and escalations to get someout to understand the request and actually "push the button" to send the disable event to your car.

Honestly I’m just totally disinterested in just about every current new car model.
I get to choose the apps I use and certainly can (and do) take who owns them into consideration.
Just fill in pa-contact@photofairy.ai for the address.
What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
This case is a bit different, because it's not merely a policy preference, but an accusation of a bad faith metagame strategy of "intentionally breaking government and wile complaining that it's broken".
Reading this you really have to be a bitter swe to suggest such a thing. Now with llm its so easy to get an agent to deal with all those issues.
Is there any evidence it's been used for propaganda? I don't use TikTok a lot, but it seems very non-political (maybe it's my filter bubble). The real cesspool of hatred and madness is Facebook - but of course Congress doesn't care too much about that.

As far as I remember from the previous elections the Russian bots were operating on US based platforms
"StoneToss" Tossed: Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, TX
You'll be pleased to learn that most (if not all) Cantons (= states) in Switzerland, a federalist state, have a free online tax filing solution, that computes both communal, cantonal, and federal taxes.
Sore after a fall? Beware these can't-miss injuries.
There are slightly different issues here: fragmentation and cost. You could have a mix of non-free and unified, or free and fragmented etc.

It's fragmented because states here in US have their own laws, taxes, etc. So do local municipalities. Some cities collect some types of taxes, some others and so on. When it comes to stuff like taxes it may be easier to think of US as the EU.

Non-free is because of lobbying by various tax prep companies. It's a large business and here in US there is thing about not wanting the US government to compete with companies. So all these parasites popped up and now are saying "you can't compete with us, it will destroy us!". They always say something how anyone can get paper forms and mail stuff in, so all the electronic stuff is not needed and is just a convenience.
The line that matters (from their continuous time article):

>At the equator, the position directly underneath the mean Sun travels west at about 463 metres per second. That means a standard [server] rack unit is about one millisecond wide.
So being anti genocide and pro humanity is now China ideals only? Boomers eh
You have to first distinguish between infra moderation and app moderation. Infra is the aggregation layer (the relay and appview). App is the application client.

The application client sets its labelers and filters entirely client side. Our client hardcodes our labeler then lets users choose more. Other clients could choose otherwise.

The infra layer handles illegal content takedowns. We do that, and we try to keep that minimally scoped. Other people can run their own infra which is outside of our control and with its own infra moderation
Very sad. I hope him and his family will find peace. His story was interesting and the team that helped him refurbish his iron lung were angels in disguise.
It sounds like you learned nothing from the pandemic.

It is practically impossible to avoid catching covid in modern society.

'On a long enough timeline everyone's chance of survival drops to zero.'
The love for Aldi must be very regional or personal. Because I walk into them and just see knock off snacks such as chips/poptarts, an aisle of rice and pasta, and an aisle of canned food items, and pretty much nothing else in them.
Or not. My country has a lot of water, so cars end up in canals somewhat regularly. Very often passengers are able to escape.
I don't want to abolish time zones, I just want all the servers to run on UTC and all the apps to use standardized date/time libraries. Is that too much to ask?

Yes, the answer is yes, it is.
Cozystack: Free PaaS platform based on Kubernetes (just applied to YC)
Just submitted an application to YC with our project, do you think will it have success?

Any tips and tricks?

https://youtu.be/24i9wIsJHGE
Pray tell, what are my options in hardware if I want a laptop with a good (Apple-level) touchpad, battery life, screen and performance?

You could argue I'm just saying they're high quality, which may be true, but the software has been degrading and I have no options if I value openness _and_ quality.
Cloud Run is pretty slick... services, batch jobs, easy to deploy, very flexible.
The artisans who are still making clothes in American factories
I think it's both. You don't think it's possible TikTok usage data is being accumulated for prominent Americans and/or their children for the purpose of intelligence gathering? I'd actually be surprised if it wasn't happening.
What about my perfectly reasonable and rational idea to have infinite time zones, all based on solar noon for whatever longitude you (or the system) are currently located at? I'll even compromise, we can limit the resolution to a single geographic second instead of infinite.

If only the idiots in charge would accept my brilliance.
The whole thing about laminated glass is interesting.

Historically speaking, side and rear windows were made from tempered glass that would explode into many small, not-so-sharp fragments when damaged. Laminated glass does not do this; it breaks, but the inner layer(s) between the glass layers holds the window together. If you want to get through a car windshield, this is why you end up needing a saw rather than a hammer.

Due to new regulation that aims to reduce the number of drivers ejected from vehicles during crashes, some manufacturers have been switching to use laminated glass for side and rear windows.

This may be entirely rational if the number of casualties avoided in those cases exceeds the number of cases where escape is hindered (which is almost certainly the case as being ejected from the vehicle is very strongly correlated with serious injury or death, and drowning deaths represent basically half of one percent of deaths in road traffic accidents), but many people don't like to hear about good risk tradeoffs and want impossible global improvements.
If you don't want the automation stuff, it's perfectly usable for free.
Does the auth flow for id.me go through that domain on the ccTLD or do they use a different gTLD for the auth flow?

If the auth flow for a government service goes through a foreign nation's ccTLD, that's a terrible, terrible precedent to set. Hopefully the US is on good terms with Montenegro, now and forever.
This conservative’s objection is to building the IRS data collection and analysis infrastructure needed to support “one click” tax returns for even just the most important parts of our absurdly complex tax code. Many here seem to think this is only constrained by tax software lobbying, and I think that’s naive.

Take the EITC: It’s one of the most important redistributive/anti-poverty components of the tax code. It’s also a massive source of fraud, much of which is potentially unintentional, as the eligibility requirements are complex.

Do we want the IRS tracking whether a supermarket cashier living with her boyfriend and her child is contributing more than 50% to the household’s total income? What if they break up 9 months into the year and he moves out? Does she need to send the IRS a notice?
While TC^0 can divide or multiply through say FFT, it actually can't do counters or addition which I am pretty sure requires TC^1 or Log-depth Threshold Circuits.

LTSM is much more powerful.
> All explicitly stated goals of both Bejing and the Kremlin, and the misinformation and distraction campaigns carried out by Russia in the last presidential election are about to ratchet up again. I don't believe we should be making these objectives any easier for our ideological rivals.

Those campaigns mostly took part on platforms owned and operated by US companies.
US Citizens still have the same freedom of speech and freedom of thought and democracy. Those rights don't extend to foreign adversaries. If you want to relay Chinese or Russian or Ukrainian or Israeli or Hamas propaganda, you are completely free to do it, without censorship. Limiting the ability of any of those countries to project it within the US is reasonable stance.
Startup idea: instead of ticket scalping, plane scalping.
> there's no way of un-scrambling the egg.

As usual, there's a kids educational show to drive the concept home (fast forward to 3:30 for the meat of it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wegg7ewXC8

With the associated music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAAnGjjCI5M
Implementing (parts of) Git from scratch in Rust
Also, literally the Nazis. We lost over 400,000 people helping free Europe from the last lot who tried consolidating control. Pax Americana has been one of the longest stretches of peace in Europe. Vaccines and peace…
I think you misunderstood the question.

The grandparent comment wasn’t asking about the likelihood of the US enforcing the ban (assuming the bill passes and TikTok refuses to divest). Obviously, the answer to that is somewhere near 100%.

The question was, assuming the bill passes, what’s the likelihood of TikTok deciding to divest (and thus remaining non-banned) vs. TikTok refusing to divest (and getting banned).
> Login.gov will catch up and meet IRS in the future as Direct File expands next filing season

Are you confident login.gov will be caught up and avaialable by next filing season and if so based on what?

Your cite at [3] above (thanks!), is dated Feb 2022, and doesn't have a timeline, but also sort of implies that login.gov should be ready by the "next" tax season (Feb 2023), when it says "While Login.gov is not expected to be ready in time for use by taxpayers during the current tax season…"

So this is now the third tax season since then that login.gov is still not available. What leads you think it'll be available next filing season?

(Note: I am not saying it may not make sense to move ahead with the pilot in parallel anyway, instead of blocking on waiting for auth solution work. Certainly in a normal industry software engineering scenario, parallel development is often better than blocking. I don't really have an opinion here. I do wonder what the budget allocation to login.gov looks like and if it's really being considered a necessary component of this product or not…).

[3] https://fedscoop.com/irs-to-adopt-login-gov-as-user-authenti...
Standard time keeps noon relatively close to the middle of the day, and midnight pretty close to the middle of the night (which, as the article suggests, is the entire point of having timezones).

Summer "daylight time" tweaks that by an hour (or two?) in order to make customary "waking-up time" closer to the summer sunrise.

Permanent daylight time just shifts everything over one timezone to the east, which to me seems kind of silly (along the lines of the "these go to 11" bit in Spinal Tap) but does have the benefit of not having to rename things like "the 11 o'clock news".
My understanding is that the Max 9 has no inherit door problem, but it had a process/installation that lead to the incident? Boeing has a problem, but not the Max 9?
Aldi's or another store is often very far away. I go to them because they are close and available. Most of us know they are more expensive. Time and travel need to be taken into account. Nearest grocery store is a minimum of 25 minutes one way. Family Dollar was 5 minutes away.
The call your house rep backfired? It actually proved how a chinese firm controlled media can manipulate USA citizen. Coloured revolution in red?
> the exact argument e.g. Turkey used to ban Wikipedia/Youtube/Twitter etc.

Which one(s)? (Genuinely curious.)

Also, was it a ban or divestment requirement? What wins me over on this bill is it isn’t a ban. It isn’t even a requirement to be controlled by an American. ByteDance could sell TikTok to a Korean or Hugarian or Middle Eastern country—even Turkey—and be in compliance with the law.
> The thing I don't like about these stores is IMO they take advantage of poor people who think they are getting cheaper products

This only makes sense if you think poor people are dumb or naive. They don't know how to compare prices?

As other people have mentioned, sometimes the value is the amount you can buy. If your personal financial margins are small, it is okay to spend more per oz on a single bar of soap because it is the difference between having soap vs not.

We shouldn't assume cost per unit is the only value a store provides.
It is, my region (outside the US) got rid of it and I couldn’t be happier. Other than a few systems/apps with the wrong time causing some inconveniences, I didn’t hear of major issues.
It’s actually news that there isn’t a good answer to the question.
The haggis requires very specific ecological conditions for its eggs to mature.
Time zones are definitely annoying to deal with in software, but conceptually they’ve always seemed like the least bad option. The thing that’s annoying is that they’re always changing and sometime on fairly short notice.

The things that have worked for me are:

- Storing dates as dates, not datetimes. Sure, you can make sure you always treat them as local/timezone less, but someone at some point will apply a timezone to them and it will break.

- Integrate pulling the latest zoneinfo as part of your CI.

- Store everything as UTC and use the client’s TZ for rendering.

How to deal with customers changing their timezone is always tricky too. “Do they want this to run at 3PM local, or 3PM of their previous TZ?”…