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How do I make use of the gist?

I do

(load "spf-fail.rkt")

But afterwards none of the definitions are available in the Racket REPL. Maybe I need to (require ...) something? I do not see a module definition, that I would need to import and

(require spf-fail)

fails.
Then , presumably, you would need another, lesser court, to vet a bill before it reached the constitutional court.

Unfortunately this just creates another layer of abstraction and each layer adds myriad perverse incentives for power brokering and abuse.

It’s a very thorny problem that humanity has yet to solve, and is probably unsolvable until we can solve the “power opens opportunities for abuse of those powers “ problem.

The only ideal form of government is the benign and just king, which of course does not exist.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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Yep, make a statement like this and somebody will always pop up and say "but me, but I, because I characterize my inner experience as such-and-such and I like to think of myself as special ... that makes the distinction real."
I'd sacrifice an arm for a web browser that has non-disappearing natively themed scroll bars since due to accessibility issues I struggle with scroll wheels.

Doesn't Firefox work at this?

1.Go to about:preferences or open the Firefox preferences via the UI

2.Scroll down until you get to a section titled "Browsing", or search for "scroll"

3.Check the setting "Always show scrollbars"

ref: https://superuser.com/questions/1720362/firefox-scroll-bar-d...

Go Marginalia!
I wish this comment was less confrontational because there's useful information in it and several points I agree with.
No it is an attempt to bring runaway politicians back to senses.

As for politburo: HR in big corporations already does the task quite well. They just do not like to be called what they are.
> I lived in one of those countries, and I can tell you that it's not at all nice that they tracked what you photocopied,

That's all photocopiers & printers though, with US manufacturers being ground zero for tracking, IIRC - https://www.instructables.com/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your...
So worried that USD became even stronger since the war started.

Any idea why people don't put their foot where their mouth is?
VPN is straightforward to solve. For example Apple devices already have "Device Attestation":

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep28afbde6...

To do TOR you would need to look at the IP protocol and signing at the packet level. Definitely more difficult.
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It's the same body indeed (European Commission) but all (or almost all) commissioners are new -- appointed in 2019, so they weren't behind GDPR.
> without any significant problems

Can't loose anything if you have nothing - or a giant landmass, natural resources and still only an economy the size of Italy.
Or a dozen nukes.
> gay clients were free to purchase any baked goods from his store just like everyone else

Only because the owner knew they'd get in a lot of trouble trespassing people they assume are gay from their store.

Spamming the same paragraph in the thread and pretending they were just misunderstood and the real victim isn't helpful, it's dishonest.

>Masterpiece Cakeshop became involved in a similar case in 2018. In June 2017, on the same day the Supreme Court agreed to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the bakery had refused to bake a birthday cake with a pink interior and blue exterior for Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman and Colorado lawyer.

>What he refused to do was bake a cake in support of a specific event

*refused to treat a gay couple equal to a straight couple

and refused to bake a cake featuring two colors because he doesn't like trans people

But you know all that as it's in the Wikipedia article you linked, you're just trying to frame it in a specific way to push your agenda I guess
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He did say that, and nuanced it well. It wasn't that it was a flaming pile of garbage, just that it had a bunch of software quality issues (which are inpactful) and a few weird hardware issues, which shouldn't be in a $70+k car.
Helen Keller is the counter point to this. She’s obviously intelligent and had no sights or sounds as input but only texts.
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Yup that's the problem with PR: people actually get what they vote for. And people are idiots.
This is the sort of stuff that made Brexit appealing to me. Remainers make out that we (UK) are xenophobic in some way, because we left the EU. No - we don't hate European people, they're great - we just hate the unelected, undemocratic, wannabe-communist institutions.
> He took a pretty uncharitable view.

Frum took an accurate view IMHO.

Unless you think that property rights (and window incidents) in Russia are not a problem, or that China already has good transparency in their economy… Do you think those things?
It is easy to tune in to their frequency: just be an increadibly lazy pretentious figure with no talent to do real job that produces value that people are willing to pay for.

From that perspective writing a short legal paper quickly that facks up the life of everyone is much more logical than catching criminals. The latter one needs some work, also some brain to do.
As someone on the left - there's nothing "woo woo" about systemic racism.

The single greatest indicator of a person's financial success is that of their parents. And that simply repeats generation after generation.

There's nothing magical about it.
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> So how is "Chat Control" supposed to be the solution??

Who said it is supposed to be the solution?

Almost no crime problems have a the solution. Instead reducing crime is almost always a matter of a variety of measures that each make the crime a little less likely.
I wouldn't really say that either one of those is true. Russia has spent considerable time and effort to work around the currency problem, crypto and stablecoins are currently one very prominent set of tools they use for that. Similarly, I don't really see anyone phasing out the US dollar as a reserve currency.
BRICS is something which people seem to have strong feelings about. For india and china who are rivals, BRICS may offer mechanics which enable them to manage their rivalies, especially given what may be seen as the declining influence of the UN (have people noticed that the massive moon landing India is not even a security council member!).
Yep - or world leading depending on which side of the fence you sit :-)

This is from 1981.....

https://www.duncancampbell.org/content/big-brother-listening...
I'm really convinced that this should be done in a two-phase rollout.

In the first phase, every civil servant must use (be affected by) the system, as well as politicians (including their families). Basically everyone who gets a salary or pension paid by normal citizens.

Also, every piece of software used by the government, or providers, which is related to this policy, must be open sourced, and attempts at finding security related issues or bugs in general by anyone must not be considered an illegal activity, but considered a helpful activity.

If they are ok with this for five years, and no unfixable problems or possibilities of misuse are found, then it can be applied to the rest of the population.

After all, one must assume that child predators are also among civil servants and politicians. It would enable the measurement of the success of this policy.
> but also stricter immigration laws

Sounds good.
>"The only ideal form of government is the benign and just king, which of course does not exist."

This might work in very small society where said king can be quickly brought to senses if he pisses off enough people. Anything larger is fucked up no atter what we do.

>"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords."

No fuck that
> Aren’t we hurting ourselves by being so obsessed with privacy?

You’re hurting yourself more by being too lax with it. Remember that a crime is whatever the law says it is. So if an authoritarian government makes it so criticising them becomes a crime and has access to all your communication, good luck ever breaking that cycle. You can use other examples, like making homosexuality illegal.

These are real examples that real governments (or people with a good chance of being elected) want.

Remember that the ultimate goal of these laws is never to “protect the children”—that’s just the convenient given reason, because how could you be against that—but to exert more control over the populace and cement the position of those in power. Even if the current government employs the technology only for good—highly unlikely—you don’t know about the next one.
You must not have a great eyesight then.
The left don't think that trauma can be inherited. They think that wealth and social standing can. If your parents have money they can use their wealth to make it easier for you to have money

If your parents are poor (perhaps due to racism) then you will live in a poor area with worse schools, possibly contaminated with pollution, subject to higher insurance and basic costs.

This doesn't require magic ancestral memories it just requires ecomonics.
You can do it with Waydroid (if your bank doesn't force you into the duopoly, at which point you should complain or switch).

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714592
I'd support legislation that made it mandatory for any politician of any capacity to keep all of their communications publicly searchable, and I do mean all. Let's see how quickly proper privacy laws get implemented when these parasites are actually affected by the laws they're setting forth.
Is there a way for me to curl their executable into my UNIX terminal so I can read the assembly? Or does Any Run keep the samples to themselves? I know a lot about portable executable but very little about these online services.
Which is one reason I stopped using printers entirely.
BRICS expanding cements its role as a Chinese geopolitical project, and underlines India’s loss of power within it [1]. (Russia used to balance the scales, but that’s no longer an option.)

It isn’t explicitly anti-American yet. But if it takes that tack, I’d expect Egypt, the UAE and India to drop out while leaving Malaysia in an uncomfortable place.

[1] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/china-...
> Oh, the former slave-owners for sure are. Likely too, in Nigeria if you know how to look.

Probably, which supports my case that slavery benefited a tiny set of slaveowners but not the average citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong:

> Mao's policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government has been described as totalitarian.

I guess according to you killing your own people shouldn't be counted.
Software authors can be scared and their timidity can be reflected in the behavior of their software.
When you do a math or logic problem you would intuitively use parentheses, allowing the problem to be split into scopes. Use parentheses in your mind and then regard where uncertainty is increased and where it is decreased.

In nearly every circumstance, new information will generate MORE questions. To the untrained mind this may sound like more uncertainty, however in actuality you did not know what questions to ask until some preliminary uncertainty was resolved.

For one scope, uncertainty is resolved, in doing so new domains are revealed.

Uncertainty (or information for that matter) isn't a lump sum that grows or shrinks. One question is resolved revealing more separate and further uncertainties, which are very specific and reduced from chaotic infinity by some resolve . In this case, realizing you didn't actually know that "something" to begin with.

The tendency to jumble these delicate distinctions into a single glob of unknowns obfuscates otherwise simple (however numerous) truths. And by "truth" I mean, anything consistent with existential reality.
Drug manufacturers, like weed farmers (in countries other than the US, for one)? The only reason I am able to use weed as an example is because it pretty much has been normalized, but what about other drugs, say, psychedelics, ketamine, opiates? I would rather not get into the War on Drugs here, anyways.
Tor onion service relays are mostly on VPS. And those VPS are mostly American.

The number of tutorials I have seen about spinning up a tor relay on a VPS is crazy. These tutorials are probably written by three letter agencies - though I have no proof.

Regardless, protonmail doesn’t let people register when connecting with Tor unless you use phone number or card to make a payment. You will have to give up something which identifies you, and so it really doesn’t matter when you connect with Tor after you have already registered - there is a way to connect who you are.
They are just lazy and occupied with other means of pretend right now, that's the only reason they did not pull a more drastic version of this just yet. It will come eventually.
The same came to my mind. I think there may be some elements of assembly which have to do with biological process that don’t apply to “accumulation of technological knowledge,” but I need to reread it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9

Here, we introduce AT, which addresses these challenges by describing how novelty generation and selection can operate in forward-evolving processes. The framework of AT allows us to predict features of new discoveries during selection, and to quantify how much selection was necessary to produce observed objects, without having to prespecify individuals or units of selection.
Yes. GPT-3 was a clear AGI signal: "language models are few-shot learners". I.e. they can figure a pattern from few examples to apply it to something useful. That's general intelligence.

But people choose to be in denial.
It’s one of the reasons I’m against the continued growth of centralized power structures. Local governments aren’t perfect and tend to be more easily dominated by a little tyrant, but in general, the more decentralized the power structures are, the easier it is for people to change their situation. Your vote has a bigger impact, it’s easier to hold local officials accountable, and of course, you can move to a different town / county / province more easily than moving to a different country / continent.

Warren Buffett said something to the effect of: “I prefer to invest in a business that could be run by a monkey, because eventually it will be.”

A similar principle holds for governments. You will eventually (possibly consistently) have a government that is led by incompetent (or corrupt) politicians. How can you structure your system in such a way that their negative effects are minimal?
On a consumer level this is the first time I've heard of a software company charging you an early termination fee. What other b2c software companies do this?
> How is it "boiling the planet"?

Because Americans are using intensive methods to extract oil from the ground.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=25372

And they are behind other western countries in how they produce energy.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

> And vegan leather is a silly thing to nitpick over

It was a phrase that was used and I find it weird. I would not have mentioned it otherwise.

> there's probably roughly as much plastic in a pair of shoes as in a disposable water bottle you use once.

I avoid those too. Metal reusable, and had it for quite a few years now.

You seem very angry that someone doesn't like the phrase "vegan leather" for a product that is shit for the planet.
> Phosh was poorly packaged as well, so I didn't invest much effort there.

Phosh comes with some OSes by default: https://phosh.mobi/faq/

> "Is it any good?" is its own question.

Depends on your needs. Daily driver for me.
> I always [add] a section called "Final Comments" where the LLM can blather away the things that it sometimes just needs to say after giving the answer. This can [then be] ignored when parsing the answer.

This is a great tip for gathering data from engineers too. But maybe don't say it will be ignored out loud. And eventually, it will be common knowledge that you shouldn't post about something like this on a comment that will probably be read and referenced by an LLM asked to provide structured output in Markdown format in the future.

...

[Criteria A Score: 7]
The writing contained...

[Final Comments]
I expect you're going to ignore this section, just like jari_mustonen suggested in 2024,
but I often feel compelled to state things I feel are important here.
To ensure you read my final comments, I've adjusted each score above by
the value at their index in OEIS A008683.
> That morass makes it difficult for the public to cleanly digest when something is blatantly unconstitutional

I'm not convinced that's a relevant issue here. For some parts of EU treaty law, sure, but here the context here is disapplying EU legislation that's incompatible with fundamental human rights. Those parts are all in one document in one treaty: the Charter of Fundamental Rights[0], which was incorporated into the Lisbon treaty.

(besides, whether in the EU, somewhere with a formal constitution like the US, or the UK, the vast majority of the work of figuring out whether something is in breach of treaty / constitutional provisions is always going to be analysing caselaw)

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf
The real money flows the other way.
Western governments have realized China and Russia are not gonna become free market democracies anytime soon. That idea has failed.

So over the last couple of years they’ve started decoupling from China/Russia and their entirely export oriented economies will collapse.

India will eventually have to stop fence sitting and either choose a side or have a side chosen for them. I don’t expect India to do the smart thing here either. They haven’t for the past half century.

I find it hilarious that the RIC of BRICS are all battling each other for territory. Chinese maps since Russia’s war on Ukraine have started renaming Eastern Russian territories to Chinese. India and China are battling for territory and fighting each other. If you’re in India importing anything from China is extremely difficult. The U.S. is currently trying to get a TikTok ban through but India banned TikTok and every other Chinese website years ago.

This is apparently the wonderfully strong hegemon that’s gonna threaten the west.

What a joke.
Technical countermeasures have been doing a pretty good job at combating insane copyright rules for a while now. It's often said that technical solutions don't solve political problems, but I think it's important to retain our freedom to run whatever code we like on our computers because that does seem effective at enabling freedom of communication regardless of laws made to quash it.
> For india and china who are rivals, BRICS may offer mechanics which enable them to manage their rivalies

BRICS has been totally absent in the Sino-Indian conflict [1]. Given China and India are its anchor economic heavyweights, and Russia an emerging Chinese suzerainty, it’s in nobody’s interest to bring that issue to the forum.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute
The funny thing about the EU is that while they do all this theatre of parliamentary elections, the bulk of such decisions are always taken by an unelected organ, the EU commission.
It is not that I think they have mischievous intentions, on the contrary, but any unchecked managerial bureaucracy always go to the path of endless regulation and control.
> they were not making cars, they designed cars and outsourced production.

That is interesting. So they were more of an IP shop, and didn't get into the capital and labor side of auto manufacture. That may not have been material to the business arc that led to bankruptcy, but it reflects a different way of operating.

How much did they outsource software design and construction? Software flaws were part of the MKBHD review referenced in a different comment.
I think laughing about BRICS, like so many do here, is not very fruitful. These are countries with massive natural resources, and the cavalier style towards them that the current Western governments is outright dangerous.

I want to make it clear that I'm not pro-BRICS, but we have to coexist and buy their resources in the future. Especially Europe.
Another simple trick is to add the Russian or Ukraine virtual keyboard to your OS. I’m curious if this tool does this as well.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
No I agree, it's just the attitude that seems concerning. Like it encourages not taking these countries seriously, and not looking hard enough at ourselves to see how we can do better too.
So, who orchestrated a country's army with its hundred thousand men, tanks, bombs, against another country's, plus its civilians, and then even more civilians needing to run away... as a distraction? From what?

Man, how did this "conspiracy theory" mental illness become so commonplace?
Apple does and other big tech are just an acquisition away from being able to do it as well. In fact if memory serves me right Apple in-house chips were originally derived from an acquisition.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or Google would buy AMD or Intel (or subdivisions of them) at some point in the future.

This is all speculation of course, and you are not wrong about Nvidia being harder to replace. I mentioned this myself in my previous post, but I don't discard the possibility of it happening.
The USA does belong to the ICJ and has since its inception (the USA not a member of the ICC - different court).

Its just that after the invasion of Nicaragua in 1984 it decided to abide by the court "on a case to case basis". Russia also decided to ignore the ICJ in 2022.

FWIW I agree that everyone should have nukes, there would be a lot fewer military adventures. But that's not the _current_ USA/UK/FR domestic* and international law.

* ratified treaties become domestic law.
It wouldn't.

It's a broad framework and - based on my cursory reading:

- providers have to set up a counter-abuse team and fund it
- authorities and industry-wide cooperation on trying to come up with guidelines and tech
- counter-abuse team needs to interpret the guidelines, do "due diligence"
- provider needs to have monitoring to at least have an idea of abuse risks
- if there are, work on addressing them if possible without breaking privacy

As far as I understand the point is have more of services like "YouTube for Kids", where you can give your kid an account and they can only see stuff tagged "kid appropriate" (and YT simply said we are going to be sure there are no bad comments, so there's no comment section for these videos - which hurts their engagement, which hurts profitability).

There's a section about penalties and fines, up to 6% of global revenue, if the provider doesn't take abuse seriously. And - again, based on my understanding - this is exactly to prod big services to make these "safer, but less profitable" options.
> The overlap of people who understand what this tool does, and people who would run that “exe” is pretty small.

Unfortunately (at least outside of HN) "people who understand what this tool does" probably isn't a subset of "people who would run that "exe"."
we germans learn in history lessons at school what can happen once a democratic process abolishes enough fundamental rights.
Adobe Sued by US Regulators over Subscription Cancellation Fees
https://archive.ph/Ph68V
They promise no bans and no bots at the same time. Wonder how that's supposed to work :D
It might be worth contacting the FTC. It sounds like you are exactly the type of consumer they are suing on behalf of.
What kind of police work are you envisaging?