skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can only do that if you have cornered the market.

How does capitalism address the fact that so many companies have cornered their markets not on merit but on resource access inequality, and have now accumulated enough resources to engage in lobbying and legal harassment for a long time even if free-market "reforms" are eventually passed? Should these companies be closed based on their past record?
Next: Europe loses the fight and submits to the coalition of authoritarian regimes.

Those swiss baboushkas will be writing complaints from their gulag cells in broken Russian or Chinese.

Nice job. When conquered by the authoritarian regimes, we are going to lose the environment much quicker while losing our freedom, democracy and human rights too.
!CVE
Is it documented, how the individual ETFs are holding their assets?

I know they state that they do it via a custodian and name it like "Coinbase", but is that really all? All they got is an IOU from Coinbase? Maybe they have more specific setups?
Very cool, I'll try it later.
For a more balanced contemporary (from 1985) depiction of the Vector story, see [0]. Basically, Bob Harp was the main technical force behind all Vector products, akin to Steve Wozniak at early Apple. In 1982 Bob and Lore could not agree who should be running the company and Bob left. Soon thereafter Vector deflated.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-20-fi-2173-s...
The majority of people are short-sighted and/or greedy. The only way to make change is through action such as this. Or violence. But let’s try this first.
But I do see how you fail to understand the failure of this logic, and me reading the manual again won't help you get it. So why don't you correct the assumption that you're the only one who reads manuals and try to think about the substance of the conversation?
Switzerland was the most participatory democratic country in the world in 2023[0] and Swiss voters rejected a stricter CO2 law last year[1].

This court ruling seems quite perplexing then, doesn't it?

[0] https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/switzerland-votes-on-c...
The far right and NASA go back a long way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Beating up the first Flat-Earther AI [video]
Isn’t that for windows only?
I don’t take a group that’s all advocacy, zero expertise as a serious attempt to solve a complex challenge facing society.

If you wanted to be taken seriously about “equitable pay for musicians”, then you’d absolutely need people who understand the economics and market dynamics of the music industry. Only having legal expertise makes it seem like you’re merely lobbying your personal feelings — not about a real problem.

> And I could build a data driven case without many musicians at all.

But not without data scientists, economists, and probably music industry insiders to provide data. And that’s not a job for lawyers and lobbyists; which was the original question.
That is not a good faith reading of what was said; the words "too much" have meaning.

Good day.
> So the human rights violation is being committed by the population themselves.

Isn’t that fairly common? Slavery in the US, Nazi concentration camps, Rawandan ethnic cleansing…
if [ "$os" = "Darwin" ]; then
arch="universal"
os="macos"
elif [ "$os" = "Linux" ]; then
os="linux"
else
echo "Unsupported OS."
exit 1
fi

This is nothing to emulate.
The court just ruled and it did indeed find that Switzerland had failed to comply with its duties concerning climate change:

https://www.echr.coe.int/w/grand-chamber-rulings-in-the-clim...

"The Court found that Article 8 of the Convention encompasses a right to effective protection by the State authorities from the serious adverse effects of climate change on lives, health, well-being and quality of life. However, it held that the four individual applicants did not fulfil the victim-status criteria under Article 34 of the Convention and declared their complaints inadmissible. The applicant association, in contrast, had the right to bring a complaint. The Court held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life of the Convention and that there had been a violation of the right to access to the court. The Court found that the Swiss Confederation had failed to comply with its duties (“positive obligations”) under the Convention concerning climate change."
Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy
> Oh, and the fact that Vaxry slagged off Lyude publicly in his blog for good-faith enforcement of the code of conduct

From what I see they both slagged each other.

Again though, I'm asking for where's the spreading of hate.
I have personal experience of Workday - the UI is not great from a user perspective - I suspect a consequence of the generic design that allows configurability.

The whole challenge with software ( and why it keeps getting written again and again ) is the challenge of balancing flexibility with usability. There is difference between whether the software can technically do something and whether people can achieve that task using the software day to day.

The other problem with systems like Workday ( and this isn't Workdays fault per se ) - is that they are used as a mechanism to 'cut' HR operational costs by simply moving the cost from HR to everyone else via 'self-service'.

Actually most people want to simply talk to somebody - explain what they want and have somebody make it happen - 'self service' only really works for frequently done things where the time saving offsets the time taken to try and work out how to do the operation in the tool for the first time ( or the first time in ages ).

Same thing in finance systems - when large companies move from a purchasing team to a 'self-service' model - most line of business departments simply recreate their own purchasing teams as people who order stuff infrequently have no idea how to fill the forms in.

As I said before - it's about thinking about the people in the system, not the tool. Thinking just about the tool leads to tool implementators blaming lazy users and users blaming tools.
It should be a human right for people living near the equator. Wet bulb temperatures there are hot, and increases of 2+ degrees C is genuinely very dire for them.

It's easy for this to be out of sight out of mind for anyone living in a colder climate or with enough income to ensure indoors air conditioning.
> what monumental human rights violation is committed by India

a) You know the answer.

b) Last time I looked on the map, India was not in Europe.

> Instead we have people arguing literal nonsense in a court.

Either you're arguing in bad faith, or you don't understand that this might help pushing governments to take stricter measures.
Well, actually it can. For example, there was 'Popular initiative “For responsible companies – to protect people and the environment”' [0] which got voted NO because of electoral votes, even though it received the popular vote at 50.7%. Same reason as in the US: electoral votes overrepresent low density, conservative areas.

[0]: https://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/de/home/themen/abstimmungen/v...
Irrelevant court makes an irrelevant verdict.
Im so confused by Europe and Climate. I think they are too at this point.
This is truly impressive, not just the work, but the way you have laid it out so simply and effectively. Huge kudos!
Or rather GLSL... The C++ code looks like it's mostly just scaffolding to kick off the actually important GPU work, and for that it's a surprising amount of code. Quite typical both for Vulkan and C++ though ;)
T. gondii ≈ person
Yeah the real question is if climate immutability is a human right
Yes, this misunderstanding does seem to be very popular. No, that's what was going on here, the OpenSSL code had two places where it copies of a bunch of bytes, and one of those copies can end up with uninitialized junk, so that's wrong.

Somebody wrote a patch which fixes this, and then - even without assistance from an LLM just using normal human incompetence, somebody said "There's another similar copy nearby, we should get rid of that one too" and Debian landed the patch to apply both changes.

The result is now OpenSSL doesn't copy any bytes. It doesn't copy the uninitialized data, which is good, and it also doesn't copy the truly random entropy into the pool. Oops.
What does this even mean??? It's a command-line utility, why does it matter?
No need for conquering, I am appaled that in the recent Portuguese elections, my fellow citzens decided that the best way to use their voting rights, was to do a protest vote on the extreme right parties, briging them to the highest number on parliament since the dictorship ended.

Two months away of celebrating the return of freedom to the country, the end of colonial war, and the secret state police doing whatever they felt like.
Capitalism in the original, competition-focused sense of the term has never existed in the real world, any more than Communism in the purely egalitarian stateless and classless sense. Late stage capitalism refers to the inevitable end-state of what capitalism actually evolves into, which is essentially oligarchy, preceding collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
I've actually read this book recently. I thought it was quite interesting, but would be better with less political stuff (most if it is at the end though).

My favourite thoughts and takeaways (that are not in the article):

We trained the algorithms to predict our desires so well, that they turned on us. Now they effectively train us by informing us or feeding us with what we would or should like. This is the power every marketer would like to have. They ("techno lords") can nudge our feeds however they want and manipulate. We wouldn’t know.

Another one is:

Technofeudalism has smashed the veil between refuge from markets (usually when you got home, you were home, but now you are on your phone); and one such market is the market of “self-discovery”. You need an identity online today, or you basically don’t exist. But what happens then is: you have to think before you post about “who could read this?” What does that entail? Well, that causes you to curate what you broadcast – so what you broadcast the best version of your identity. You should “be yourself!” – but at the same time noone is themselves. You can see this effect on Instagram quite clearly. Nobody posts their “real” authentic day when they binge series in sweatpants – they post their vacation and food pictures. I'm sure there is some equivalent version of that here on HN!
The idea of late-stage capitalism is that if you create a system that prizes monetary gain over all else and allow companies to become sufficiently large and powerful then in the process of optimizing for maximum profit those companies are incentivised to capture the state and wield its power.
Most modern A/V codecs won't fit in that limit by several orders of magnitude.

Even standard-compliant JPEG decoder would be hard to squeeze without some serious codegolfing. Discarding some barely used features gets you close to that limit, though [1].

Smallest popular TCP/IP stack [2] is ~20kLoC.

[1] https://github.com/richgel999/picojpeg

[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/
Russia is one thing but China might be on the way to pull one giant success here, despite being one of the worse offenders up until recently. They actually built giant infrastructure projects like high speed rail and become the leading country in automobile electrification(at least we can say that it BYD is the top dog when it comes to electric cars, not Tesla or some established company like VW).

I have never been to China but recently I've been seeing reports on how China has actually leaped ahead in some areas like automation, electrification and environmentalism. I'm really not fan of their style of government but if a change is going to happen, it has to happen with Chine due to their insane population and industrial base. Therefore, it seems like China might be on the right track there.
There are plenty of articles telling me that renewables are already cheaper than nuclear.

Articles are poping up that those small scale reactors are also getting more and more expensive. Wouldn't they not just succeed if they would deliver what they promis?

There are also plenty of articles telling me that all of those nuclear power plant projetcts took longer and are more expensive than they thought, including the last example of this "Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant".

Uran is not limitless and thorium is not finished being researched as far as i know.

And at the end of the day, you still have to handel radiactive waste.

While this is going on, PV, Wind and Batteries are getting cheaper.

Btw. we will have plenty of capacity available sooner than later. My EV has 100 kWh and this is already enough to buffer a whole house for heating and lights in winter.

All those EV batteries will be used for secondary live after normal lifetime soon. Regarding costs: i read the opposite that the prices are going down faster than people originally thought they would.

Would our world look different today if we globally agree on just doing nuclear? Doing proper research with proper money behind it and aligning globally?

Yes.

Did we do it?

No.

So what gives? I bet you the world would look better than today if everyone would vote me in as the leader of earth.

My point is: I can investe in PV, EV etc. now. I don't have to ask anyone so i do. People in rural areas can do that too, poor people as well.

PV/Wind and batteries are a fundamentally great thing to have and there might be a reality out there with so much nuclear power so that you could make h2 or methan for cars and heat houses by just converting it 1:1 but batteries and heat pumps are smart technology to have.
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It's just a large-scale Prisoner's dilemma, or Tragedy of the commons.

In their effort to optimize locally, they lose globally.
Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof
I have not formed any opinion whatsoever about the decision itself, but regarding the court itself:

> This is legitimately insane. You have a court, which was created in an attempt to give legal options to victims of crimes committed by nation state and which could not be heard elsewhere. And people are suing over whatever a tiny European state doesn't do to stop environmental harm. Which may or may not even effect the people who are suing at all.

The court was created to evaluate any situation that violates the general principles of the European Convention of Human Rights. There is no rule that only those suffering an injustice is allowed to complain about it.

> And these people are from the country on earth where the population has the greatest control over their government. Switzerland isn't some rogue state, the population has legal means to force the government to do essentially whatever they want. So the human rights violation is essentially being committed by the population themselves.

The government is still the final party responsible for having policies and nation-level actions adhere to laws and conventions.

It would not be fair to sue John and Jane Doe for having voted for a possibly non-compliant government action, or for failing to push policy suggestions sufficiently for them to be voted into action. The regular population only has limited knowledge about statecraft.

> If Switzerland is commiting a human rights violation by doing this, what monumental human rights violation is committed by India. A country which uses the oceans to distribute it's waste globally? How about China, burning endless coal?

India and China are not parties to the European Convention on Human Rights. Switzerland is. Whataboutism also has no relevance to the court ruling.
It infuriates me that all of these aren't met with a 'if it turns out you can't, you need to make it right at your cost' clause.

Estimation is hard but it seems it's far too easy for the vendor to blatantly lie with all the risk on the customer.
Perl pioneered language-specific package management with CPAN, why can't you use that?
Yes it was Windows 95, probably the original release, as a lot of things were improved in OSR2: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/294907-why-moving-the-...
Okay, so we can decide as a society to enslave some minority, and then it's not a "human right" to be free?
Not sure what the point of this argument is.

Are you saying that human rights cannot be violated if a democratic decision was made beforehand?
The court might also accept projects to adapt to climate change as „climate action“, but to my knowledge such projects are pursued even less than reducing emissions (for good reason).
If democracy isn’t working and you’re looking for an outside authority to start forcing your agenda on people, then what you’re looking for is tyranny.
> When you post on twitter, you can be rewarded with engagement and attention and even the possibility of growing your own brand and following

wikipedia on serfdom:

>Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the lord of the manor who owned that land. In return, they were entitled to protection, justice, and the right to cultivate certain fields within the manor to maintain their own subsistence.
> Behind every successful woman is a man, who tried to stop her

What are you talking about? Her husband Bob Harp was the head of R&D and main technical and product force behind all of Vector products [0]. After he left in 1982 over the dispute with Lore about who should run the company Vector quickly deflated. Vector was a great partnership between Lore and Bob until it wasn't.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-20-fi-2173-s...
Paying is just enlarging your profile with some payment method, is there any reason to trust Fb or any other resource just because they promised?
>b) Last time I looked on the map, India was not in Europe.

There is an international court of human rights. How often was India found guilty there?

>Either you're arguing in bad faith, or you don't understand that this might help pushing governments to take stricter measures.

I am 100% convinced that there is nothing which makes you object more to climate protection than a foreign entity trying to compel the government you control to "do more".

And even if. When will India/China act? How many International court of human rights ruling will that take?
Answer in https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?library=ECHR&...

> Decision of the Court
> The Court began by noting that it could deal with the issues arising from climate change only within
> the limits of the exercise of its competence under Article 19 (Establishment of the Court) of the
> Convention, which is to ensure the observance of the engagements undertaken by the High
> Contracting Parties to the Convention and its Protocol

So this is not even a news to discuss.
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> I wonder how Scientologists view Christian nationalism and vice versa?

They very likely will never release comments about each other, that is, not walking into the other's territory, because although from different angles they're essentially doing the same thing: turning gullibility of the many into the power of the few, and the amount of wealth out there is still enough to keep them and other similar crooks in business without competition. I don't see any of them going at war against others anytime soon.
Have you read the actual court ruling and not only the clickbaity headline?
Yes? We should stop extracting finite resources from the planet and polluting a limited environment without paying our future self the corresponding pportunity costs.
Summary: principal agent problem (companies hired to administer an employer's medical fund discovered a way to take that money for "fees" instead of paying it to doctors and hospitals).
But why Switzerland? They have taken some climate actions, although they of course could have done more. Why not sue major offenders like India or Russia, just to name a few, who could actually make a difference to world climate? Or if you want to stay closer to Europe, sue some country that still uses coal plants, like Poland, Germany or Slovakia. It all feels quite hypocrite to me.
No, but the human rights violation here is being committed by the Swiss, who apparently didn't vote hard enough for climate change laws.
Marrkap! Τερψιχόρη approves; after all she's not gurrutumiriw

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myKF9mxAJ70

[EDIT: and gu marryuna dhu marryuna may not exactly be a hyperlink, but it does serve as a songline.

TIL "Cockatoo" is a place, in the Top End]
Thats neat. Thanks. I tweaked my little abbreviation maker tool for that. https://abbreviation-finder.streamlit.app
When I find myself in such a situation, I pinch zoom with the touchpad or the touchscreen if reachable in the setup I'm using. On Firefox on Linux it doesn't reflow.

Of course, I sometimes end up with a zoom mess where the page is zoomed, and then pinch zoomed.
The experience for users is just much much better if everybody is on the same platform. And the platform operator has to deal with spam, abuse, and compliance issues. Federated platforms haven't even attempted to seriously deal with this. Twitter has thousands of people working on this stuff and open source can't replicate that. You need many lawyers just to respond to overbearing governments demanding immediate censorship.

It's not some feudalist "rage bait" conspiracy that keeps people on twitter. Federated software just sucks in comparison. Twitter, despite all its flaws, is the only game in town.
I believe that people who see a need to control dating preferences of others should take a step back and consider reorientation. I cannot see any gatekeeping of platforms here either for that matter.

Dating isn't fair, often it is opportunity, chance or pure luck. The attempt to correct anything here will likely not bear any fruits, on the contrary.

I also use another definition of racism. The belief or often conscious conviction a race or ethnicity is superior to others due to intrinsic biological/mental advantages. I am not racist against anyone I might not consider attractive.
They were the only option at the time.
Anti-government spending apologists keep saying that politicians should run their budget like households...

(Also, I'm not saying you're one of them the way, but you happen to sound like one.)

... Negotiating debt settlements is the very first thing a financial advisor would tell you to do in case you (or an irresponsible family member) has contracted a huge debt. The fact that the lender denies your request doesn't say much about you besides your ability to negotiate. If you're dealing with a loan shark, that says more about them than it says about you.
It's always morbidly interesting to speculate on how a user-hostile behavior like Reddit's image handling exists. Like, the default things that browsers do if you put in no effort beyond an img tag, work better than this. To make an experience as shitty at Reddit's takes a lot of time and effort. At Silicon Valley dev rates they must spend many millions of dollars just making stuff worse.

Remember when Google used to be cool and was basically just making simple tools that were on the web? I have not seen that philosophy of engineering come from Big Tech in many many years.
Chickadees have unique neural 'barcodes' for memories of stashing away food
They are not divided, but just lazy. Why not to stop surfing TikTok and finally read those 500 pages?

Part of the problem might be caused by the Government whose grant system just doesn't work for this scale of problems.