skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, sanctions on Iran have zero to do with its authoritarian government - the US has no problem selling to authoritarian governments - but rather the geopolitical conflict stemming from a slew of lovely US actions such as overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran and installing a repressive and brutal dictator which destabilized the country to a degree that the events of 1979 and after were possible.

The efficacy of economic sanctions is complicated and debated, but one can absolutely say there is little compelling evidence that they result in positive outcomes for anybody.
Since they controlled for both ethnicity and age, all you have to do is read the study to answer your questions.
Regarding God, it’s a rhetorical question meant to make the reader think about all the moral concerns raised by religious people and the ensuing arguments dismissing God by atheists, feminists, etc. An inversion of what is generally happening with the AI discourse, where concerns about the health of society and the existence of supreme intelligence seem to be spurring existential questions about humanity but from the technocrats instead of the clergy.
A terrestrial version of Ark B??
Since the dawn of man we've wondered: can I make fire? Can I set this on fire? And the modern conundrum: is this material flammable, or inflammable?
I dont think we have a policy of sanctioning dictatorships. Dictators in Saudi Arabia too.

And Iran is not a dictatorship. (Surprised?)
I don't disagree with your premise that KYC enables governments to violate the 4th amendment, but in general, for certain industries this is just generally a really good idea. Banking is the first industry where I encountered KYC, and it strikes me as being obviously good there.

Isn't effectively the majority of what the Snowden leaks covered essentially violating the 4th amendment?
To be fair, I specifically called out the printing press, comic books, and D&D as examples of panics we got wrong. The other side of this coin is that there are indeed cases where concerns were justified, and only focusing on the situations when they were not justified is at the heart of the issue.
My playbook for a total beginner would be:

- start using Ctrl-r

- learn how to make custom lists and actions with fzf
> Why have they banned us on a game and deprived it from us when we already bought it? Isn't that theft and illegal?

You paid money, but it is possible that the transaction didn't come with full unencumbered ownership.
There are plenty of Iranians alive today that were around before the current Iranian government. Iranian youth are also much more "aware" of global politics than any generation before them...

I think it's difficult for most Iranians to not be aware of their government's decisions and actions around the globe...

Besides - what alternative would you propose? Just pretend everything is ok and business as usual? Bomb their government instead of using sanctions?
This is not the industry-standard or NIST definitions of these terms. Something like Google Workspace Suite is Software as a Service. Something like Heroku (or Dreamhost or Wordpress) is Platform as a Service. Something like EC2 and S3 are Intrastructure as a Service. The distinction is renting out undifferentiated server space that a customer installs their own software onto. If you rent a VPS from Linode and install self-hosted Wordpress, that's IaaS. If you buy Wordpress's managed hosting, that's PaaS.
The people (in Iran) have been trying, but the dictators killed hundreds of people and put an end to that, for now at least.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests

> otherwise the populace can just ignore their government's foreign policy decisions

It's a murderous regime. It's not a government that you can write letters to and vote away.
If someone knows about KYC because of their profession, they are quite literally the opposite of a layperson.
> That's not much better than "everyone runs Windows"

It's absolutely better. It's open standards based instead of proprietary, all current engines are opensource, there are multiple implementations.

> select few browsers

There are three current engines, and I try https://ladybird.dev/ every now and then. It's gotten pretty good and proves that even with a small team you can write a browser that will work with many sites.

> And there will certainly be users who just want to avoid the low-contrast always-animating nature of some sites, for example.

You could make all of that without JS. I'm not sure why people keep conflating the language with the design decisions the website author took. Just HTML+CSS is enough to make all the badly designed sites you want.
I believe it's the same as:

http://winterdienst.info/50-digital-wood-joints-by-jochen-gr...

(which is the original site and which would be better to use/link to)
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A set? Only US customers are unaffected, i.e. 96% of the planet would no longer be able to use AWS (or anything similar based in the US, all the way down to simple web hosting or e-mail services) without going through KYC.

There are so many things that can fall under the IaaS bracket. Think anything 'cloud'. Maybe that's not how they'll apply it, but legally they are free to do so. It's a huge reach.
We're just asking questions, man.

Does the CIA control my kitchen appliances? There's no evidence that they don't, any why wouldn't they?

Actually here's a clip of a man 50 years ago admitting that the CIA do have an electronics division. So it's quite likely that they never gave up their aspirations to control my teapot.

And here's the Wikipedia page for qassam solemani, you can see how the weapon which killed him involved electronics.

It's hard to deny that the CIA control my kitchen appliances, stay tuned for more of this series, where we'll also cover my washing machine and garage door
Presumably 10 feet is already room for plenty of fun.
A History of AWS Cloud and Data Center Outages
"Additionally, body mass index (BMI) was computed for 274 participants who self-reported their weight and height."

So self-reported data. And only provided by 274 participants out of 591, so less than half. It seems very probable the more overweight you are, the less likely you are to self-report your weight. I still think the most likely explanation is that they are picking up on obesity, which would surely be strongly correlated with "lower face size."
Any company with a solid product would be able to expand into other product sectors based on the profit margins from that main product.

The only thing investment does is abrogate control to “investors” who care only about profit. Once investors get their claws into an altruistic company, that altruism must take second shrift (if any presence at all) to short-term quarterly profits at any cost, including long-term viability.

I mean, vampire/vulture capitalism has become absolutely endemic for a reason.
I believe chess evaluation functions are always the difference between your opponent and you - i.e. it's "the same" to take a piece or avoid them taking yours. You must simply find any path to check.

STS, on the other hand, is about accumulating some resources while spending others. Which resources you want to spend and which you want to accumulate depend a great deal on your character and build. Skillful play often involves recognizing which resources you would benefit from losing at the current stage of the game. Training is also made much more difficult by how long you need to go to determine if you are on a winnable path. Power spikes are non-linear and many deck compositions would optimally play in a 'losing' way for a certain period of time before getting the pieces they need.
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Scooping up from the middle class, one class of professions at a time. But this is not just the like how the internet disrupted ‘everything’ and moved things online, this is going to take all the liveleyhoods and suck them dry filling up the technobros coffers until there’s nothing left. But there are upsides too, the potential for good applications is quite broad.
Melting frozen driveways (residential). Burning land (commercial)
I stuck with home-manager standalone for many years, but after setting up other nixos configs I found myself wanting to 1) align systems more closely and 2) manage more system-level stuff on darwin. It took some time to rework my standalone modules to nix-darwin modules but overall I'm really happy with the result.

I run everything through an idempotent 'rebuild' script, so I don't really notice any day-to-day difference between nixos, standalone HM, or nix-darwin.
What is being proposed here will be used as a tool of fear by the government to suppress speech it doesn't like.

Comparing what one individual did in the past to a formal government policy doxxing away peoples' 4th amendment rights is a strawman argument.
The study cropped hair styles, shaved facial hair and controlled for age and ethnicity. They even looked at it BMI could explain the predictive accuracy.

The conclusion is that facial shape alone is as strong a predictor of political affiliation as interview performance is a predictor of job performance.
pick an open source software, like nextcloud or a game and follow the instructions for "build from source" youll get a bunch of errors for some dependency not installed and that will lead you down a rabbit hole of installing and downloading tools and show you commands like make, mv, cd, ls, curl, etc. error messages usually contain a lot more information that people expect.
> In my experience, the only people who think architecture/model choice makes a huge difference are n00bs and academics.

The most notable voice refuting this opinion on Twitter was Yi Tay (founder of Reka.ai), who definitely does not belong to either of those categories!

Tay (ex. Google Brain) founded Reka.ai two years ago, and their latest multimodal language model is close to SOTA in performance.

https://x.com/YiTayML/status/1779895037335343521
It's hard to give advice without knowing what you do, and why you want to learn to use the terminal... But:

Learn about the command line tools that exist, and actually use the ones that match what you regularly do.

Take small steps, first move a file from the command line. Then, compile your stuff, launch an application. Then use git to commit, pull, push, drop changes. Then learn more git, cherry pick, interactive rebase, stash, diff.

If something feels tedious, and you think "there must be a better way", take a moment to Google if there is a better way. Even if you might not save time (for the first time)
, give it a try, and see how long it takes to solve something new.

Make your terminal yours and a joy to use. It might just be me, but I like when my terminal looks and feels great.

Don't make learning an overwhelming experience. It's a marathon, so if on the beginning, you only learn 2-3 tools, that's okay, you'll learn the others when you need them. I picked up Vim (Helix) and tmux only years after I was proficient on the command line.

It's okay to forget stuff... When I worked on the backend, I was good at grep, log tools, etc, but today, I need some time to get things working.

Watch videos about other people's set up, it's great inspiration on what's possible.

Write your own tools, learn what makes an intuitive interface, learn to handle different kinds of flags, arguments.

Learn to type. Practice typing faster.

Learn "terminal adjacent" skills. Learn how to navigate your OS with the keyboard (close tabs, windows, search, lock the screen, launch an app).

Don't be afraid to "toss things out". Some tools are just trash, some tools just don't click for you. If it hurts, stop doing it. If the tool is actually good, you'll hear about it later, at which point, you can give it another go.
This was the reason why Cuba was kept out of the “organizations of Americas”. When they finally let this stupid reasoning go, it was too late. And Cuba was no longer interested in being part of the org.

Democracy is a doorstop for foreign enterprises and influence. The locals suffer.
GameShell

https://github.com/phyver/GameShell

If you have issues with the install, try using the devcontainer
via Codespaces on my PR branch

https://github.com/er2/GameShell/tree/devcontainer
Of course the words are open to interpretation but "unreasonable searches" seem to encompass this sort of thing. Usually it's taken case by case and reasons would need to be given for every individual being searched. This is a blanket excuse to search every interaction without a reason.
async is a strange choice but perhaps the closest equivalent from a software vernacular. time-shifted energy transmission/generation.
I just don't have time unfortunately, it's a large subject.

But if you're genuinely interested in learning why bitcoin is fundamentally much better money than gold or fiat, or in fact anything else then I highly recommend listening to at least the first 9 episodes of this podcast series - one of the most interesting podcasts I've ever heard:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jAZ0x9H0bQFY6wIbQfn...

In fact make that the first 10 - the tenth is called "The Death of Gold"
Yes, but you think that possibility of government oversight/monitoring is an inherent necessity for government permitting any kind of media to operate in the US?

If doesn't work in many cases anyway, Government has no way to track who is tuning in and listening to hostile radio broadcasts.

Even it might be hostile propaganda, First ammendment protects both publishing and consuming content, without any "national security" considerations. But US lawmakers are now seemingly keen to introduce such conditions in the publishing and consuming of content.

During the cold war it was perfectly legal for the Soviet Life magazine to be published in the US and for people to buy and read it.

First ammendment really does say that "Congress shall make no law .." without any caveats for national security or even war-time exemptions.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out in the SCOTUS.
Not the most approachable option, but you can also setup a mod dev workspace and launch that way. Or download and launch the game directly with a `java -jar ...` comand.
I've played some idle games just like this, though the name escapes me at the moment. I enjoy the checking in and seeing what's happening with these kind of games.

I made a container image to run the cli version, this way I can keep it isolated and also deploy it remotely.

PR: https://github.com/rr-/pq-cli/pull/25
Fork: https://github.com/BnJam/pq-cli/tree/main
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Wildfire control. The biggest killer with wildfires, or any fire, is the smoke inhalation, and I guess this robot would be immune to that, which is pretty cool.

(I got caught in a small house fire as a child. All I remember is not being able to breathe or see anything. I had to basically feel my way out of the house.)
Truly LOL!
I thought it was a zipper manufacturer tbh
So, we're going to stop selling weapons to Israel?
You shared a single infographic without a source, but taking it as fact I would take a guess that it's easier to discover old music now and there's more music to listen to thus flattening the curve.

I'm sorry that it's difficult for you to find what you like. My tastes are very broad and I find new artists every week just listening to Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube while working. My wife and I and our friends share music that we like with each other. We see live music and get exposed to openers we've never heard of.

That said music is a big part of our lives.
Great project, but can the devs comment on https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-December...

>[tor-dev] N reasons why the spooks love Tribler (Number N' will surprise you)
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It's funny because most of the firearm laws aren't even that enforceable. For example: magazine size limits. It isn't federally prohibited to ship large magazines into California, so unless a cop catches you with one then you can easily own a magazine larger than 10 rounds.
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This is an absurdity. The US did counterinsurgency brush fires and that's it since major combat operations ended in Iraq. Go look at Ukraine. THAT is what "being at war" looks like, and you should be thankful we haven't been forced to do that for 30 years.
yeah- from the github repo linked

"Numerous other projects try to create a generic approach using an ICO for funding and promising the early adopters a dazzling return-on-investment. Tribler is different. rant warning. We are non-profit academics. We do not want to replace the old elite with a new crypto-currency elite. What is changed if we replace backroom deals, lobbyists, middleman, and legal monopolies with the tools of the new elite: algorithms, early investor rewards, proof-of-dominating-stake, and smart contracts? Replacing the analog world and breading digital-native inequality does not make the world a better place."

totally agreed, that's my problem with all of the bitcoin hype - it's mostly there to make the early investments more profitable which doesn't excite me much
I would much rather buy a new phone than stand in the DMV if I lost my driver's license. I thought I lost mine days ago and was ready to hop on TaskRabbit to employ a line stander.

Also, biometrics to verify ID? Hard pass. Would rather not have to be fingerprinted or swabbed at the gas station for cancer sticks.
South Korea's doing pretty well.

Germany's in one piece.

The Balkans aren't on fire.

Granted, the Middle East is still its perpetual religious/sectarian/ethnic clusterfuck...
Even for a moderately tech-savvy person, finding a usable crack of the most popular game ever is a treacherous task. Sailing the high seas as a layman is as risky today as it has ever been, especially after so many old hats (kickass, rarbg, etc.) have been decapitated by law enforcement.

The most effective anti-piracy tool today is to prevent communities from actually earning trust and moderating content trackers.
FYI MemoryDB is a Redis compatible managed db.
(For someone who's not familiar with AWS offerings)

https://aws.amazon.com/memorydb/
I have tried very hard not to realize this, to avoid making the mistake that you have.
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element.srcObject is very useful for <video> elements when the srcObject is a direct stream feed from the camera. I don’t even know how I would go about passing that as a string attribute.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl...
That's a good point, we might not even need new policies. I bet the detectives or a court subpoena could get records of internet history. People might just be able to sue whoever generated the deep fakes that caused damages.
I do not think the actual experiments demonstrate this. The experiment the BBC demoed probably would, but it was fabricated. The actual experiments just demonstrate a pretty obvious aspect of learning. If you tell somebody who doesn't play chess all the names of the pieces, and ask him to tell you which is the rook, he's going to be slower and less accurate at it than somebody who plays chess. But there's not some huge epiphany like you can show him a collection of 5 bishops, 1 rook, and him be unable to tell which is different. It's no different with colors, or any new term.

I have personal experience with this, learning Russian. They don't have just blue, but rather a term for dark blue and one for light blue. It's hardly some eye opening thing - it's basically sky blue vs ocean blue. It's obvious and easy, but obviously I will always be slower than a native on a quiz of which is which for reasons that have nothing to do with the colors. Vice versa, compare our speeds in English with 'sky blue' vs 'ocean blue' and I'd be back to winning.

A common trend in the social sciences is creating experiments that aren't designed to challenge one's hypothesis, but confirm it. The publication bias against negative results is probably necessary, but also turning a lot of soft science into a facade.
I bet the ayatollahs are not sipping wine. I think I'm happier not knowing what they do for fun.
> But in general, yes, sanctions against non-military goods do work to change the minds of greedy leaderships if they can be tailored to remove a sufficient part of their income.

Why are they not working to bring about regime changes in Russia and Iran, and why did they not work to bring about regime change in Cuba and Iraq?
from sec 3.2 in the paper

"Due to our choice of using passive replication, mutations are
executed on a primary node before being committed into the trans-
action log. If a commit fails, for example due to network isolation,
the change must not be acknowledged and must not become visible.
Other database engines use isolation mechanisms like Multi-Version
Concurrency Control (MVCC) to achieve this, but Redis data struc-
tures do not support this functionality, and it cannot be readily
decoupled from the database engine itself. Instead, MemoryDB
adds a layer of client blocking. After a client sends a mutation, the
reply from the mutation operation is stored in a tracker until the
transaction log acknowledges persistence and only then sent to the
client. Meanwhile, the Redis workloop can process other operations.
Non-mutating operations can be executed immediately but must
consult the tracker to determine if their results must also be delayed
until a particular log write completes. Hazards are detected at the
key level. If the value or data-structure in a key has been modified
by an operation which is not yet persisted, the responses to read
operations on that key are delayed until all data in that response is
persisted. Replica nodes do not require blocking as mutations are
only visible once committed to three AZs"
Charitably, nobody is arguing that AI shouldn’t be taken seriously. People are arguing about whether it will dismantle society and pave the way to the end of times. Surely we can agree that while there are valid indicators that we should tread carefully, there is no proof that any existing technology in our hands is the harbinger of doom.
You mean creating them?
Oh. Forget all I said then. All is well.
Thanks. Just commented in support.
>>An interview only works if you're setting the stage for the interviewee, not for yourself.

Yeah, unless the interviewer is a big name in their own right (so not in this case), your aim is to let the subject shine and fade into the background. The quality of your questions is only judged by what answers they elicit.
Unfortunately, KYC has been bleeding into far more commercial interactions over time. I now deal with KYC multiple times per year in unrelated contexts and I don't work in finance. It has become quite intrusive.
PalmOS is worth it's own focus for sure.

It was a more usable, and actually usable NewtonOS.

Lots that can be learned from it today still. When horsepower wasn't cheap, the device and OS had to focus on something and that was actually assisting with productivity.