skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU has set fairly aggressive target for battery and solar recycling. The supply chain will be far easier and cleaner when most of the materials can be gotten from recycling.

Kind of a bad deal for China in the long term if you think about it: they’re polluting themselves to refine battery and solar materials for the west, and I don’t think they’ll get much of a long term dependence/benefit from it. Renewables are not like oil where you build up a long lasting supply chain dependence.

The good thing for China is that they’re keeping a lot of batteries/solar for themselves as well and the west is helping to finance that.
There isn’t much incentive for them to compete. They have demonstrated numerous times they would gladly work together and not compete openly if it were entirely legal. Non compete clauses are an example of this. Additionally, as we’ve seen with asbestos & lead use in personal care and beauty products after it was demonstrated to be horribly toxic, many corporations would gladly even kill their own customers as long as they got paid first.

That is to say, megacorps have way too much power and access and this must be globally curtailed. To achieve such a goal the EU cannot be going forward with these changes that put more power into the hands of megacorps who will have no problem complying, as they do in China.
For sure, the BNLP is no where near as good at the credit card deal. In the apple specific case with the apple card, you'd be leaving the 3% cash back on the table where as the links shows, you won't get that with the BNLP. Which for a $2,000 MBP with 3$ cash back, you'd get $60 on the cash back making the device effectively $60 bucks cheaper. And a little more cheaper if you put the cash in the HYSA.

My guess to answer the question at the bottom of your comment you linked. Its a mix. For some, its a lack of financial literacy. For others, its not being bothered with other options and taking the first option thrown in their face (even unaware that better option exists).

Which in Apple's case, seems like a perfect way to push their credit card, and can use that to push it harder. Why even bother with BNLP when there is a better option. I also imagine Apple benefits more from the credit card than they do their partnerships with Affirm. But that would just purely be a guess.
Mixing peanut butter and gum.

As a matter of fact, it is a perfect solution for getting out gum stuck in your hair.

It just dissolves.

Another unexpected solvent I found was when I was a teenager working on a gasoline engine. Don't pour gasoline in a styrofoam cup. The gas went right through the cup, like it wasn't even there. Ate a hole anywhere it touched.
Reference to the traditional historical intention about having libraries and to relation between codified law and practicalities will remain vacuous to you in meaning for as long as you will refuse to see the communicated point about a clash between principles, which makes the copyright laws you mention, as part of a dialectic, even weaker than normal positive law.
The problem is same as it has always been, getting old.

I have got old now and the medium of artistic expression that young people are into is not the same as when I was young.

In 40 years old people will complain no one makes crazy tiktok videos like they use to.

Of course in the moment, no one considers social media videos art. Just like at one point rap was noise, rock music was noise, the electric guitar was noise.
William S Burroughs, jazz, blues, on and on back.

Same narrative over and over by old people. "My youth was filled with high art while kids these days like such trash."
I was using source repositories on gcp for this. I have it mirroring my github repositories. Unfortunately it is getting killed.
I already kicked up a shit here in NL together with a few other well connected people (with success) but it's a little frustrating that there's little more to do other than hope that nerds in other EU countries can make a difference.
>something is off with react

The amount of rope it gave to hang yourself. Hooks were the harbinger of the sad state that what was to come.

The OG React was a breath of fresh air because it introduced the world to immutable data flow. The component model was dead simple. You had a fat (for better or worse) class that served as a management point for your side-effects and IO, then a bunch of stateless transformation functions / components.

The old class + lifecycle methods imposed a much needed friction on the development process. Their clunkiness was a feature (imo). It raised the cost of creating stateful components / performing side-effects wherever you wanted.

Then hooks showed up. In a lot of ways, it feels like React is now rediscovering the bad parts of OOP: uncontrolled mutation and side-effects. "Immutable data flow" means very little when everything is launching side-effects, updating some global store, modifying 12 layers of caches, writing to local storage, etc. etc. etc. etc.

It became a complete nightmare to reason about what an application was actually doing. Most of my experience with React (at least as of a year ago) was debugging performance issues, or UI quirks from component A clobbering updates from component B, because some special GraphQL caching magic modifies some global cache somewhere in some provider, which is 37 layers removed from the code you're actually looking at.
Htmx and asp.net validation works great, btw
The same reason I would not fault a print encyclopedia publisher for not including video game strategy guides?
their last twitch stream was two years ago, the day before twitch stopped counting iframe embeds in the viewer stats
Quoted in major tech press first, and then in non-tech press if the case becomes prominent enough to get to national news, would have a serious poisoning effect.
I wonder if very large bounties create incentives to create bugs...
Agreed, but IMO the greater threat is smartphone apps. There are all kinds of AI photo and video manipulation apps and they have multiple ways to get precise location via gps, wifi, and photo metadata with the added advantage that many photos are taken both indoor and outdoors.

Seems like a ban on all those apps (not just tiktok) is more appropriate or at least required in addition. From a security POV, the restriction really needs to be at the iOS or AndroidOS level.
you can sorta-kinda do that with anything with a high fat content.

the fat interacts with the gum base and emulsifiers. the fat also coats the components in a way that reduces likelihood of re-amalgamation.
> You pivoted the conversation by introducing a new hypothetical for me to respond to.

I wasn't trying to introduce anything new, I was trying to point out a gap in the logic of your original statement.

> notice how you didn't actually respond to my comment or explain why you thought LLMs were moral entitles or why ML and teaching were comparable?

Yes, of course, I wrote that to explain why I'm not engaging on this new, different claim.
https://archive.is/5XdU8
Its not a brain memory. The argument is that epigenetic modifications can be inherited and thus the ancestor's environment is "remembered". As for how long it lasts and how much the memory is attenuated, well, that's another matter.
Isn't the real question how to rank this level? Is an elephant smarter than a dog? Does that mean it feels more emotions?! Is a cat smarter than an octopus? Does that mean it knows how to better manage time?
Output licensing is not enforceable currently. Only humans can produce copyright-able content. Haven't heard a single country that has changed this.
This may be tangential, but the interesting thing to me about the Warcraft Wiki is that it serves the lore and API information in great detail and is my go-to resource for those. But when it comes to precise data about the content (e.g. spell data and its coefficients), guides for current content, etc. Wowhead has much more relevant content in greater detail - which is a shame because to me the navigability and discoverability on Wowhead is nowhere near as good as MediaWiki.

My dream is somebody takes the data from Wowhead and ports it into MediaWiki and the community rallies behind keeping that in date, but I know it's a bit of a pipe dream.
can't upvote this hard enough
And no one ever talks about this. Doing a code review when dropped in cold in SO hard for this reason.

Yes, I can tell what you're doing here, but is that what you're SUPPOSED to be doing?
Disclaimer: My startup is made to get user domains automatically onboarded to applications, DNS-related things such as SPF/DKIM/DMARC. It's a "Stripe-for-DNS" called cloudvalid.com.

I like the quality of this SPF/DKIM/DMARC guide. This is the industry I started out in, and I actually wrote the guides for SendGrid, Amazon SES, and a few other email products. I don't mind saying that author has done a better job at this than me.

That being said, I see SPF/DKIM/DMARC guides like this pop up with some regularity, but users continue to have the same level of comprehension as before. I think the nature of this problem is not one that lends itself to being solved by guides. It's the sort of problem that a user is really only faced with once, which means that they're not getting the repetitions in to warrant any long-term comprehension.

I'm naturally biased here, but if you're onboarding users with SPF/DKIM/DMARC to your application, it's good if you can just get them setup with automation.
And even if they are at one point in time, there's no guarantee that this behavior will continue. The rush to scan everything into AI is a prime example.
I was going to say "it would be like documenting every chess opening move", but I looked it up and the article exists, so I guess I've just argued against myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings
I wish i had a product that people just wanna use and i have not figured out yet, how to monetize it. What a luxury position to be in. Sigh.
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"In Japan, her name has always been Princess Peach (ピーチ姫 Pīchi-hime), but in the West, she was originally known as "Princess Toadstool", due to Nintendo of America renaming her when localizing Super Mario Bros., feeling that "Peach" was irrelevant to the theme of the Mushroom Kingdom."

https://www.mariowiki.com/Princess_Peach#Name
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I think it would be feasible for Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal to form a coalition that pledges to withdraw from any country or market that tries to pull these shenanigans, such that the sum of them is big enough to play that game.

The hardest to convince would be Whatsapp, but I think that Zuckerberg is one of the few big tech CEOs that still has principles, at least sometimes. I think it could happen.
It's been frustrating watching articles for stuff I cared about in the 2000's get deleted because the mere passage or time has rendered the topics non-notable
No, the study you linked had ~2200 respondents who had temporarily detransitioned but later went back to identifying as trans.
Not only do they slide, the "known size" changes not only due to wear but also due to variations in the gauge from metre to metre along the track.
I am fairly confident that people's agency is pretty low on the list of reasons why loneliness had reached epidemic proportions. There are very obvious cultural and geographic (and ultimately economic) factors at work that none of us as individuals ever really chose, but which have been decided for us. Anomie is not something that can be overcome through sheer force of will.

I know enough about my neighbors based on small glimpses of their lifestyle to know I will never want to or need to know them. I don't make friends with child abusers. And the reality is that those sorts of value conflicts are commonplace in contemporary American life.
The Dutch Hunger cohort study is highly suspect. However, the idea that someone is literally starving to death just before or during gestation having some knock on genetic effects is not all that surprising. But again, the phrase "inherited trauma", as it's typically used is bunk.

Also the phrase "a heritable memory" is kind of nonsense even with respect to epigenetic changes. Again what we're talking about with epigenetics is up or down regulation of your existing genes, not some new information being encoded.
People complaining about Lisp parentheses mainly just trolling, not actually working with any kind of Lisp dialect at all.

Traditional Lisps are not functional, but multi-paradigm.

Working with lists is functional though, in that operations that build larger lists out of smaller lists or atoms return a value that you must capture. You don't create an empty list with a persistent identity, which you treat as a bag. New programmers are encouraged to write "pure Lisp", which is a term that denotes list manipulation which treats cons cells as immutable (or any other objects you happen to be using, but mainly those).

Javascript treats character strings similarly the way traditional pure Lisp treats lists. You cannot mutate an existing string to add characters to it, but perform arithmetic on strings to produce new strings. Yet that doesn't prevent the adoption of Javascript. People are cheerfully doing text processing in Javascript in website after website after web application.

The most popular Lisp currently is supposedly Clojure and it is much more doggedly functional than traditional Lisps like Scheme and Common Lisp.

Nope; the parentheses thing is just pure trolling by mainly non-users.

Anyone who actually uses some kind of Lisp could easily write comments that target true weaknesses.

I suspect there is a group out there who has genuine problems with the parentheses, due to cognitive problems like dyslexia and ADHD and whatever. However, I don't see how they can do well with any programming language syntax. Show me what you do use, and how far you've gone with it before I can take you seriously about the parentheses.
I've always had an appreciation for odd hardware, and I've just tried to keep what I like of what I have.

Big fan of the Sinclairs - small, simple, yet filled with all sorts of neat tricks that made them inexpensive and simple. That cleverness makes for a great set of lessons to modern computer programmers and architects.
He used Chat GPT to hallucinate his CV, I guess.
I hadn't, no. As I said I nominally just check every couple of months if support has been moved to Tier 1.

That OPAM 2.2 is actually nearing release is good news. I'll keep a more vigilant eye on it for the next month or two.

Ironically, I can't even remember what v5 feature it was that was a deal breaker (to not have) anymore, anyway.
> Easy example.

As currently drunk person, I admit that my senses are impaired. But doubting my consciousness makes me doubt yours. Yes there can be scale of drunkness so is different scale of thinking. Idea that one mammal has unrelated thinking/sensing from other mammals does not makes sense.
> I believe I saw a site that decompiled their app and found a number of worrisome things.

Every Android in America is sold with a rootkit called Google Play Services and it can do absolutely anything on your phone. There is no limit to what Google Play Services can do on your phone unattended or clandestinely.
Circumscribed by whom? The government is notoriously bad at stopping itself from abusing power.
Won't someone think of our childrens' rights to eternal slumber?
Oh yeah, the old cobra effect. However, you could only pull it off once. I am sure a postmortem of all related design and commits would be done, correct?

Also, FAANG level salaries are pretty high for anyone involved with that type of code, right?
> There are also trains with slam doors - ones that open manually outside, not slide sideways automatically.

Haven't seen one at Waterloo for decades. Could be wrong of course. I miss them.
It is pure in the same way that Rust is memory safe. That is too say there are a tiny number of exceptions/escape hatches, but they are not meant to be the norm. Every day programming doesn't involve them.

Exceptions aren't impure anyway.
GoPro should enter the drone market.
I hope FTC gets DirectTV next -- which also fails to adequately disclose to
consumers that by signing up for a subscription your're agreeing to a 2 year contract.
Frankly, the DoD likely spent something like 5-8 trillion dollars over the last 10 years.

If we establish that drone manufacturing is a matter of national security, it seems critically important to understand why domestic production keeps failing and fix those problems rather than just giving up.
If anything, I would guess it's some silly outdated but codified ISO standard that propagated far and wide and entered contractual obligations, like passwords needing to be changed every 3 months.
> In China you cannot not be explicitly a CCP data-collection front

Unintelligible.

Rewrite as “in China it’s very hard to avoid turning over data to the CCP.”
I feel like you're underestimating the average large state actor's ability to employ subtlety when they really care about a long-term foreign intelligence operation.

For example, it doesn't have to be the case that DJI has ever been told to collect data for the CCP. That would be a big OPSEC violation — as soon as anyone in the foreign media learned of it, DJI would be as dead as Huawei or Tiktok.

Instead, it could just as well be that the CCP have left DJI themselves untouched, but have instead manipulated market conditions around them: arranging it so that DJI "just seems to never be able to" hire any security experts; and so that DJI (and everyone else) hire product managers from a pool trained on CCP-sponsored university programs and industry media sources, that have those product managers parroting "useful" beliefs like "more analytics is always better."
> I have to pay the artist to make the tiniest changes because I can't edit the original file

Hire the artist and ask them for the files exported into a format you can open. If they refuse, hire somebody else.

I do agree with the sibling that open standards should be set by state actors. But they should only make them available, not mandate them into private actors.
The functions leather provides should be on some "milli-helen" arbitrary scale:

Has Feather-Pucker: 0/10

Smells like a dog when wet: 0/10

Sliiightly stretchy but mostly comes back to shape except after 10,000 times: 0/10

will remove bugs from windscreen: 0/10
I successfully canceled a newspaper subscription in like 2005, but for a few months, they'd call. The first couple times, I said I wasn't interested and hung up. Then I just stopped answering, but they still called. Then I finally answered once and said "Stop calling me" and they tried to say "If you want to be removed from our call list, you'll need to call our customer service line" and I said "No, that's not how this works. I asked you to stop calling me, so stop calling me." and hung up.

Surprisingly, they actually did stop calling.

SiriusXM never called me, but I got mail from them every damn week. I had even tried telling them to stop sending me mail, but still got it until I just changed my address to some bullshit fake address that didn't exist.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

it's interesting to consider the implications of Taleb's essay in light of the companies trying to make globally inoffensive LLMs.
But it’s not related to this story. Nobody prevents you from using services that do not operate like signal (and esp with desktop it is now very easy to backup your messages)
Just use those. This is just about whether sth like signal should be allowed to exist.
Great! This is what I wanted to know!
Who would be the most logical adversary who would cause this? Seems very unlikely for 3/5 to just happen.
And yet the US government isn't worried about a US company leaking photos of sensitive information to the US government.

The same cannot be said of the Chinese government who may be happy to get extensive drone footage of everyday US infrastructure which can be used in a future war.

Meanwhile, China won't even let Google provide a valid map of the country...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Google_Maps_in_Chi...

But tell us all more about how we should be more concerned about a US company requiring an internet login.
Back before the war it was possible to obtain hacked DJI ROMs from the Russians that disabled all of these connections and restrictions including no-fly zones.
There are some oddities here. The least interesting is that drag is not the only reason satellites station keep and I can't imagine why you'd say it is. The weirdest is that we're actually having an argument about whether satellite mass continues to matter once the satellite is in orbit.

More interestingly, the majority (perhaps not yet "vast majority" [0]) of active satellites right now are Starlink satellites. Those things actually maneuver all the time in the interest of collision avoidance, and the rate at which they maneuver is predicted to increases as the number of satellites increase for obvious reasons. [1]

[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/who-owns-the-most-satellite...

[1] https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-conjunction-increas...
Suppose you give a test to a room full of perfectly average B-grade students who know they are average B-grade students. Most will get a B but a few will do a little bit better and a few will do a little bit worse.

Now, you focus in on everyone who got a C and you find that everyone who got a C estimated themselves as a B student. From this you conclude that low performers overestimate their ability.

Then you look at the A students and find that they all also thought they were B students. You conclude that high performers underestimate their ability.

But this is just a statistical artifact! It'a called regression to the mean and this study does not account for it. If you isolate low-performers out of a larger group you will pretty much always find that they expected they would do better (which they were right to expect). You are just doing statistics wrong!
Nothing stopping the US government making big bets of its own. But perhaps it has in military tech. At any rate, the free market ideal has been proven as fallible as any ideal in practice
I'm directly addressing your claims, not arguing a point you didn't make.

You said:

> Because they set an unrealistic bar by excluding all research which wasn't double blind,

To which I replied with a BBC News article quoting Cass, which refutes this falsehood. While noting that you could also confirm this yourself by actually reading the publications you're so misinformed about.

The problem is that you'd rather listen to liars like Erin Reed and Alejandra Caraballo, who have apparently made it their mission to sow as much disinformation about the Review as they possibly can, and those who amplify their mendacious nonsense.

I mean, all you've been doing in this thread is further spreading their lies, and then doubling down when proven wrong. Are you really so in the thrall of these prevaricators?