skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does have some idea what $5k would get him. He mentions that a new, well-made, leather-upholstered sofa would run 5 figures, so, at least $10k. That makes re-upholstering the economically rational choice over both a new $5k sofa and a hypothetical, same quality version of the 1965 Sears sofa.

I don't see what your point is.
This is not about preventing you from doing that, it is about preventing services with many users from providing that service to you without a backdoor.

You can just send anyone you want an encrypted e-mail or message, but Signal can't facilitate that without the required provisions set out in those laws. If these dumb laws get enacted, Signal cannot get away with just pretending you are sending gibberish whilst providing true end-to-end encryption without any client-side scanning or whatever to you, but you are well within your rights do so yourself on top of Signal (if that's even possible); they just can't provide an automated means to do that for you.
India's Russian oil imports at 10-month high in May
> the original server-side (probably IMAP) message no longer exists.

Doesn't Outlook rely on the Exchange mailstore?

It's a long time since I was near to Outlook and Exchange, but I thought the Exchange mailstore was some kind of X400 abomination, and that the IMAP capability was a bolt-on.
CppCast: Safe, Borrow-Checked, C++
What's the definition? If you generate porn with Stable Diffusion, which generates generic faces, is that a criminal "deep fake"?
This is similar to a "right of publicity" law.
For those, there has to be an identifiable person who is the victim. Is the law that narrowly drawn?
I absolutely support Signal's position and abhorre the whole security circus with cries of "think of the children".

But, I'm in Europe (France) and I wonder who actually uses Signal? There was a move a couple of years ago to quit WhatsApp and go to Signal. Some groups did make the move, and then everyone went back. Today I have dozens of WhatsApp groups, and just one Signal group (and it's dying).

If no one uses Signal in Europe then obviously this threat is moot.
The opposite, dark patterns, are an accessibility nightmare.
One exception that proves the rule: the best sofa we ever had was a hand me down from Pottery Barn c. 2009 made of softwood and particle board with stapled on polyester velour. Extremely easy to clean, easy to take apart, and easy to re-assemble. It cracked in the middle but I reinforced the frame and added extra feet and the design meant the re-stapled fabric covered all my bodges quite neatly.

Yes, modern furniture is crap and there is an epidemic of junk sold at fancy prices. If you reframe your crappy sofa as purchasing a sofa kit and pay a reasonable not-West-Elm price for it then it doesn’t seem so bad after all.
I hadn’t made that connection about 56k and public IPs until now. I just used it at the time before I had any of the knowledge I did now. Interesting!
Making this argument whilst ignoring the trade-offs of federation (that Signal has historically addressed) is somewhat disingenuous and a little fundamentalist.
I had surgery to repair a shattered wrist; after the cast came off, the surgeon said he'd follow up in 3 months to start physio, but in the mean time as much as it hurts, I can't break it by stretching.

So I spent every waking moment looking for motions that I used to be able to do but which hurt when I started to do them, and slowly working those motions despite the pain.

At the followup to start physio, the surgeon did a quick range of motion check. His jaw literally dropped when I demonstrated that I had recovered 95% range of motion without pain, full flexibility. “You… don't have to come back.”
Since we're now talking about verbal rather than written:

> No matter how fast or slow, how simple or complex, each language gravitated toward an average rate of 39.15 bits per second, they report today in Science Advances.

-- https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...
Without JS, it does not show any content at all, but once you disable CSS as well, the contents show up.
> people could have an option to vote from their computer and use their phone to scan the QR code and confirm their vote and sign it. They can then verify their vote was included correctly!

Besides destroying the secret ballot, you can do this now! You look at the paper and the electronic count. If you’ve been a poll worker or observer, you know there are hundreds more checks a well-designed system has.

> Everyone would be able to check

Few people would be able to check any of this. (Fewer than can observe a poll today.) And it’s much easier to invent a “hack” that makes people distrust an electronic ledger than a paper one folks can audit ex post facto [1].

There is no similar audit capability for a blockchain. Did the person actually vote that way? Or was their phone hacked? Short of re-polling everyone, you cannot know.

Remotely coordinating a poll attack on paper ballots where every precinct has its own system is impossible. Crypto voting is a textbook tragedy of trying to solve a social problem with a band-aid of technology.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Maricopa_County_preside...
Thank you for stating this.
I've found this particular article tends to have a lot of Luddites, perhaps they see it as a career threat or have a case of the green eyed monster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-Eyed_Monster_(disambig....
I honestly don't understand it.

I sarcastically posted this is akin to using Windows 3.11 Vs a modern multitasking OS and we should do that because humans can't really multitask, and it was unsurprisingly downvoted perhaps because it went over people's heads.

AI gold rush is just like the internet gold rush or the file sharing gold rush, and it'll settle down with the marginals vanishing, leaving local models and the big players.

Those who don't embrace will be left behind, like COBOL Devs of the 80s as newer languages came about (mostly VB and Java) and took their banking jobs (I've seen this first hand, and not ironically I've seen this start to happen with Java as a language now and the "old guard Devs", of the generation I am now in, but this is off topic).

Back on topic, Linux will go the privacy route, Microsoft and Apple possibly the sales and analytics route, but regardless of the negative side, people will be able to achieve their work and goals faster.
I use ML day to day, and for me my personal use case is to have 2 FE developer AI on tap. These have been https://github.com/wandb/openui and ChatGpt 4o.

Eventually I expect the former to be the more capable and use just that, but who knows, either way my FE Dev time (I'm not a FE Dev) has been cut from weeks to hours.
Good luck to any average developer without FE skills beating that.
> Will my email client using SMIME have to implement this? Seems kind of ridiculous.

Seems about right for the EU.
Parallel with front door was appropriate answer:

1. This is default expectation (to have privacy, to have doors)

2. If you go abstract, it’s not too useful (its good to have of control of information sharing/ it’s good having control who access your house)

3. It seems impractical to go into details, due to very many different scenarios, details, expectations.
Take a set of different “motivations” (incompetence+personal gain+for terror+for ideology push), multiply it by types of actors (phone manufacturer, government, enemy state, criminals), mix in the possibility that law and approach can be changed/ expanded, while keeping in mind that motivations and actors will change year to year. (One thing when such tool is available for consertive gov., other thing when such tool is available for extreeme right/left gov.)

Parallels do diverge eventually, with door if somebody breaks it you most probably can see it immediately. While negative effects of privacy breach can take years to surface.
Those sofas were about the same as what you'd buy at IKEA today, maybe even a bit more sturdy. And they basically were an IKEA kind of product: cheap and mass produced.

Interestingly, a Soviet-era sofa in good condition is now worth quite a bit for its retro properties.
OpenCtx: See contextual info about code from your dev tools
Editline Library (Libedit)
Don't know about the postman, but wikipedia says $175m was spent on waterwold and it was eventually profitable. I'll bet costner will eventually get money back even if its a failure.

I'm reminded of george clooney who does films he wants to do personally, then returns to oceans <n> or similar to make hollywood money in a cycle.
Well, not all employers/occupations offer WFH, so those who must drive a long way to a low paying in person job suffer more from milage tax than a remote worker. This is regressive.
I think you mean ‘phantom limb’.
Related. Others?

Little Lisp interpreter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14392519 - May 2017 (21 comments)

Little Lisp interpreter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605118 - May 2015 (9 comments)

Little Lisp interpreter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090464 - July 2013 (46 comments)
Mother-of-six Poonam Shah is one of those people.

She can't buy water with her usual 3$ a day income from her food stall. Maybe the problem is not only the heat, but like doing so many kids when you can't afford to.

I'm not really sure of how this climate event is related to climate change, but if it is, we can be sure that in India it is self inflicted.
the issue is how would you define consciousness? if you killed a program and ran it again, it would still be the same program with the same bugs, i/o etc the only changes would be the memory addresses the program runs on & it's PID. But it is still the same program

I think there are net positives to this idea, but the concept is too dystopian for our generation to accept it (if its even possible). I dont think human consciousness is like a state machine, but if it was a copy would not be a copy if you are dead, it would be the canonical verison of you
Two 30 minute "walks consumed 30 percent of Einstein’s workday"?

Cushy job.
> ...from the dark lunar hemisphere.

Argh! Every time! Pink Floyd has a lot to answer for.
Oh, please. Such a behemoth business and only one channel of income?

This is ridiculous.
I don't think the EU says anything about how much texts should cost...

Edit: I am *obviously* not talking about surcharges for roaming but cost in plans, which I think is the point of the OP when he asks who pays for texts. Pricing is not regulated and has nothing to do with the EU.
IKEA shelves and stuff are cheap (in both senses of the word, generally, although some pieces do hold up surprisingly well), but their couches in particular are somehow both crazy expensive and wildly uncomfortable. I remember trying one in the showroom that felt like a massive hard frame with some sagging cushions tacked on, and it was about a thousand bucks.
Wilders only formed a coalition about two weeks ago, and he isn't the prime minister so wouldn't be in the Council anyway.

As for the others, why do you think these laws come from the council? EU law never comes from the council, it's always proposed by the Commission. There's a list of people who are most responsible for this specific law here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/Q4fRGd1a2e

None of the people on the list are heads of state, as per usual. They are senior members of the Commission and the usual assortment of lobbyists who feed them ideas.
> this train will keep rollin’ for a while yet.

OK. And then what?
Yeah I forgot a question mark.
What does stateful mean: I always wonder how loading states of users is done, it seems that one can call `llama_state_set_data` , does this load balancer create a central store for such states? What is the overhead of transfering state?
He paid somewhere between 3 and 4 thousand dollars for that couch in 1999, which is probably over $6k in today's money. Sure a $999 leather couch from Ikea may not be the greatest, but is it really so impossible to get a good quality leather couch for $6500 today? That sounds ridiculous to me actually, I'm certain that you could find many great options at that price. And I don't believe that mere availability of cheaper options is somehow a bad thing.
They try to prevent people from sharing links?

Oh no, I wish there was a way to obfuscate links

//news .ycombinator .com/item?id=40551260
You make the politicians here the bad guys. And they are. But can you compare these assholes to terrorists?

If the states aren't the bigger fish, the bad actors would be.
Have you, or anyone you know, been able to stay on it successfully long term? I know a couple who have tried it, had good results, but later stopped, but none who have stayed on it long term.
I can't believe this place bans cleverness and Unicode. Oh wait this is a startup farm
This doesn’t make sense to me. The marginal increase in infrastructure costs for each new person is less than the tax revenue they generate.

If anything we should tax low density, since more infrastructure is needed per person.
ah yes, that's a bit clearer now :) And I'm glad that I used to play starcraft before google decided to be involved.

> I tried the demo. The default player is too weak. It makes too many silly mistakes. The harder players is hard. I'll try again tomorrow.

Thank you for playing it. And that's great, that's more or less how I intended. I want players to start with a bit that isn't too intimidating, so that you can select a stronger one after if needed. And I'm glad that the stronger one gave you some challenge.

> The bishops that bounce against the walls when there is a corner with 3 squares in the border are weird

Currently, I define a diagonal as 2 tiles sharing a point and no edge. So by that definition, you will indeed see tiles on the edge which make up a diagonal. Definitely the type you can't see on a regular board. There could be an alternative definition where you need to have 2 other tiles that share edges with those first 2 tiles (as is the case almost everywhere inside the board), but I like to embrace the weirdness that this brings, so I keep the first one.

And yes, knights here are much harder to predict!
Next week we have the European Parliament elections. Any tip on any "mainstream" party which is strongly against this? I know for sure the Pirate Party but they would never get a seat, at least in my country
This is something that has bothered me for a while. When we're discussing capitalism, people seem to get it in their head that it's either what we have now, or you can fuck off to North Korea.

How I would characterize my ideal economy is one where the feedback loop works: people can make reasonable guesses about what a product is, how long it will work for, and what its cost is. They can adjust their purchases according to their needs, which tells us which products should exist and which should not. Businesses do not trick the customers into thinking a thing has more value than it actually does. A very large part of this economy is accurate information, and a very large part of accurate information is trust. After all nobody is going to know more about the product than the people who made it, and they will always have an interest in representing their product in the most positive light. Lemon problem.

The thing that seems to characterize the economy now is that businesses will violate your trust in order to make money. They know that you won't read the license agreement when you sign up for a service, and they will use that. They know that you won't be checking what kind of joins your sofa has. They know that you won't get as much value from their items as the adverts say. All of these abuses can be done within the law, perhaps because these same businesses are involved with shaping the law.

The feedback loop is broken, and this leads to the same problem as what the Soviet Union had. Their problem wasn't that people were lazy and didn't go to work. Their problem was that they made the wrong stuff. Things that nobody wanted, often with the same quality issues as what you get these days buying an item from a market economy. Note that GDP figures will still not know this, it just sees all the crap and counts the money paid for it.

Often we pick on MBAs when it comes to this sort of critique, and there's some merit to it. If your only goal is to make money, and the economy is riddled with loopholes where you can make money without providing value, then we will have an economy that doesn't provide a lot of value, because MBAs are really good at finding these types of things.
Maybe this was the intent, since the original Mac did not do anti-aliasing?
Leave it to Microsoft to come up with nonsensical stuff, be it names or something like this. They must have an ample supply of specialists for braindead language.
Switzerland has incredible trains and train networks. Just before people chime in with "Trains are good but mountains are too much of a challenge so might work in other places better with a flat geography".

Sounds reasonable until you see how the Swiss do it. Nobody said that but that's where I feel this conversation is going and the previous commenter did say 'buses first'. Probably to exploit the existing road network and achieve ambitious goals in a piece meal manner.
The question remains: how can something that does not exist contain anything?
The hardware store probably has a delivery service, because not everyone has a van or a pickup for those 2x4s. But if you DIY big stuff often enough for that to be a factor to consider, you're probably not the target group anyway. Just like people who need to drive 800 miles without a stop every other week aren't the target group for current EVs.
USA annual rainfall = 7000 Billion Cubic Meter [1]

Annual rain water runoff = 2100 Billion Cubic Meter. As per source runoff could be between 10% to 50%, taking 30% as a value [2]

USA annual consumption = 445 Billion Cubic Meter [3]

So, looks like one has to harvest 20-25% of the rainwater to be self sufficient (without tapping into ANY of the current source of water.)

[1] https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/topics/Wat...

[2] https://www.britannica.com/science/climate-meteorology/Amoun...

[3] https://irrigreen.com/pages/water-consumption-statistics#:~:...
Real non-consensual revenge/rape porn is even less of a joke and PornHub distributed it for years and earned from it in ads, allegedly refusing to take it down after victims requested it. Let's check how many of their execs spent even a month in jail, let alone 7 years...

Not saying PH is Australia's business but if it was would they be behind bars for longer amount of time? If yes then at least it can be somewhat fair.
Not if it doesn't exist.
I'm in the same situation because I forgot to change the country, but you totally have the right to vote for the EU country of residence.
What anomalies are they looking for? There are protocols that make traffic look like something mundane.
The Sword of Kumdor
My experience is that there's a high probability they won't have space for it, or the will to refurbish it, and it will be sold in a garage sale or even thrown away on the curb.
If you are an EU citizen you have free movement rights to move to Switzerland.
This is the MBA curse. Some bright spark will recognise that they can make a short term profit by cheapening the product but retaining the high price.

...but if they don't then other firms selling crappy (but "good enough") products cheap will still drive quality products out of the market. To stay even slight competitive quality manufacturers will avoid investing in new processes or equipment so that they can sell what they currently make slightly cheaper.

Either way the products go to shit.
I've embedded Lua in my game engine and I'd say that

- performance is a joke
- GC can cause really bad hick-ups
- loose runtime typing makes it hard to build static tooling for developer support
- lack of predetermined more rigid structure makes some things confusing (like you can mess with the internals such as the meta tables and stuff, which can be useful but also confusing)

+ functionality wise it's adequate for a game programmer, perfect for writing (smallish) scripts of game play
+ it's simple to integrate and provide bindings for
+ lots of flexibility how you use it and what kind of code you use to write with it

In my experience I'd say that if you're planning to integrate and use Lua in your projects you need to

- have a fallback for performance sensitive code, either by being able to mix and match native and Lua user (game) code or provide functionality natively in your engine OOTB
- make sure you can run things properly (using real threads not joke threads) in parallel as much as possible
- stay on top of perf at all times and integrate performance tests and bench marks to your development process

Despite the problems I've managed to build a Lua code editor that has

a) auto formatting
b) syntax highlighting
c) auto completion (limited but still)
d) simple navigation support
e) built-in help

The editor is integrated in my game engine's editor.

You can find more details on my GitHub

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator
Not at all, OOP type theory is OOP type theory.

Not what most people on the street think OOP is all, with their anti-Java bias, rather the Computer Science studies of type systems and their application across all forms of OOP in all programming languages ever invented.

Rust has enough features from OOP type systems, regardless of the anti-OOP feeling trying to pretend it doesn't.

Static and dynamic polymorphism, methods, data encapsulation, type dispatch, all there.
See the following. It seems more EU procurement lobbying and corruption, using child pornography as the dog whistle to garner public support. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/the-eu-fight-agai...
You are missing the point. Us hackers will always find ways to circumvent the surveillance. But the rest of the population is not that fortunate. A solution has to include general awareness and mobilization of the non-tech population against this law.
It does, quite a lot. For example, it says you should pay the same regardless where you are in the EU (roaming), it also says you get a clear and transparent pricing for your mobile service, it also says all kinds of things about your rights to cancel, change providers, get refunds etc... you should look it up.
Catabolism is an integral component of metabolism. Both anabolic (growth) and catabolic (breakdown) processes constitute the entirety of metabolic activities.

The study that I linked examines a fasting period of 58 hours. Fasting for 58 hours is considered a form of prolonged fasting. Prolonged fasting refers to an extended period without consuming food, typically lasting more than 24 hours.
> I don't rely on Signals encryption, since there is no way to verify that it works in the way that it does

Totally. Not everyone is a cryptographer to review the code and ensure the app they're downloading is what was compiled by the aforementioned vetted code. That's what F-Droid and cybersecurity audits attempt to solve (and Apple's vetting process, though I think their mandatory $100/yr developer license is what drives malware off the platform).

The one reason to use Signal is privacy, and its replacement of Meta apps is under that umbrella.
This sort of thing is satisfying to write and even more satisfying to read and nod along to.

But it's paper-thin histrionics.

"an ad said I'd value something and I didn't" and "I didn't read the license agreement" are trans-mutated into "abuse" that should obviously be illegal, and somehow become grist for all sorts of grand invocations, GDP, capitalism, MBAs, North Korea...

You're free to check what joins your sofa has. In fact, we all seem pretty well-informed on that. God bless the info markets.

It is legal to make cheaper sofas than artisanal leather couches with joins approved by a FAANG employee. God bless the sofa market.
With enough of these submission titles lacking any kind of useful description, HN is just going to be a random click-lottery.

No one seems to care though and it's becoming increasingly frequent, maybe I'm in the wrong place.