skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're breaking other country's laws, in a way which would also break USA law if the situation was reversed (so they can't even say that the other country's laws are bad and wrong), and hiding behind "[it] is very much legal" (in the USA), even though that argument would not be accepted by the USA if the situation was reversed.

Except that US allies spy on the USA, constantly, and it very much is accepted by the USA! This is expected, accepted, and happens all the time.

Head of French National Intelligence admits to spying on the USA:
https://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squar...

“The French intelligence services know full well that all countries, whether or not they are allies in the fight against terrorism, spy on each other all the time,” he said.

“The Americans spy on French commercial and industrial interests, and we do the same to them because it’s in the national interest to protect our companies.”

“There was nothing of any real surprise in this report,” he added. “No one is fooled.”

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellig...

Germany has also admitted to spying on the White House specifically, along with surveilling “telephone and fax numbers as well as email accounts belonging to American companies like Lockheed Martin, the space agency NASA, the organization Human Rights Watch, universities in several U.S. states and military facilities like the U.S. Air Force, the Marine Corps and the Defense Intelligence Agency,” and phone lines “at the U.S. Treasury Department and the State Department”

> There's a good chance that this was illegal according to German law, and depending on the exact details on how it was done, there's also a good chance that it could be considered as being under German jurisdiction.

This is an absolutely absurd argument against spying. Should no one ever spy on Russia or North Korea just because they make a law against it? Only spy if you’ve declared war on them? How do you see this working in the real world? As written, it holds no water and would need to be steel-manned beyond recognition to approach anything reasonable.
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Is there any good uk computer museum, other than the cambridge one I am planning to visit? Just hope the brits is better in maintaining its legacy. I saw at least 2 European museum mentioned here.
Based on other comments, likely because of the title.
Many of the day-to-day tasks that keeps people regularly employed are not creative tasks, but repetitive and predictable.
Please see my reply above, but to answer your specific question regarding the content being the same;

If I watch the MOOC courses from the MIT's CS Masters for 2024, would that mean that I've got an Offline Masters in CS from MIT? Same content, as you put it.

And if it doesn't matter if it's offline or online, why not be transparent about it? Why go as far as to straight up lie about it being an offline masters degree, when it doesn't matter, as you put it?
Would one need to invest in certifications or college degrees for such a job?
> What would you do if you had a magic box that met all your needs? Pay a consultant? Hire a gardener? Call a maid? Request an escort? Why.

Because that magic box is… magic, fantasy.
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> You can argue divine right of kings or white supremacy from political necessity.

Those arguments can be incorrect without entailing all arguments from political necessity are false.

I can incorrectly argue a justification of the flat earth theory from physics - but that would discredit my own intellect rather than the subject of physics.

> Some kind of systems to allocate scarce resources is needed. This doesn't have to be property.

I agree not everything has to be property, but some things must.
Essentially anything that's both important and "stealable" needs to be protected by property rights of some kind.

Regardless of how your food and water come into your possession (trade, charity, gov allocation), it's necessary that some of it remains in your possession for you to consume.
Maybe they can finally make Google Sheets, etc... off-line stand alone app.
> They haven't picked a technology and it may actually end up being driverless cars on dedicated lanes, or automated rail technology.

Which completely undermines the title, hence the doubt.

If they haven’t picked a technology, they haven’t really done much more than express interest in having an option to do something. The talk about extremely long (and expensive) tunnels or conveyor belts feels silly when the obviously more economical solutions like autonomous trucks or traditional train rails are vastly cheaper.

The conveyor belt thing is just a PR stunt. Nobody could possibly think it’s a viable option compared to traditional alternatives.
Slices as language features wouldn't be needed if there's just a way to associate a size/count with a pointer.

For instance:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafetyImplPlans.html
> Reynolds was in for yet another unwelcome surprise: The developer sued her for being “unjustly enriched” by the construction of the home on her land. The developers’ lawyer told SFGATE in March that Reynolds appeared to be taking advantage of the developer’s mistake. “Keaau Development Partnership is the only entity that has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of losses,” Peter Olson said. “She’s trying to exploit the situation to get money from my client and the other parties.”

Can you imagine if this had worked? If someone could screw up so badly as to build an entire house on land they had no authorization to build on, and sue the owner of that land? Who didn't even know it was happening until it was over?

I can think of a long line of people the builder might have a case against here, but suing someone with the argument, "I unjustly enriched you. Give me money," is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile.

Just imagine the precedent.
At some point we should stop treating our mothers as infants. It doesnt matter that they didn't grow up with the internet, they should adapt , despite their age. It has happened before and will happen again.

(it makes me mad that similar arguments are often brought when discussing mobile phones' walled garden policies)
You are certainly putting in a lot of effort in this discussion and I thank you for that. I would prefer a discussion done in good faith however.

I say that only as it seems you have added paragraphs in all of your previous comments to retroactively protect yourself from points I later raised in my replies and you also seem to have deleted your paragraph that enough seaweed was not being produced and so you believe the problem is not solved.

Seaweed production is in line with current demand. When the market places enough pressure on Farmers to adopt the solution then seaweed production will naturally increase. Seaweed is one of the easiest and fastest growing organisms in the world.

Your most recent arguments regarding Marketing etc being a problem. You are scraping the barrel now looking for problems.
In the US my dad had something like this happen to him. His lawyer told him the charges were misdemeanors and it'd be better to plead out, so he did. After his prison term, almost a decade later, he successfully argued this in front of his state Supreme Court and was granted post conviction relief. At that point he'd lost almost a decade of his life, but he was now able to get a real job. Long way of saying I don't trust our legal system to be fair and I pity anyone caught in its gears.

Edit: the details were fuzzy. Rereading the case, he plead nolo contendere and it was a PCR trial decision appeal. I updated those parts.
Yes this does seems to be more common. What are basically blog posts with no date to be found at all, at least this has a "last updated".

I can only assume "old" pages are down-ranked more by Google than those with no date at all.

Maybe the content date is in a metadata tag somewhere, I've not bothered to check yet. But if it is why not make it visible on the page as well?
Here's a detailed fact check:

>Fact check: North Korea has not announced plans to send troops to Ukraine — yet

>While Russia and DPRK are boosting military ties, reports that Pyongyang said it will send troops within month are false

https://www.nknews.org/2024/06/fact-check-north-korea-has-no...
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Hatsune Miku ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku ) has done live performances: https://youtu.be/jhl5afLEKdo?si=GFDC01IKkJDNIkmS
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Actually you're meant to write "morphey". But the original is clear enough.
NYU has the same content for their Cybersecurity Online Masters as the Offline one, but;
1. The offline accepts ~20-50 students per year, whereas the online accepts 5000.
2. The offline costs ~$70k, whereas the online costs ~$18k.

Are these two the same, would you say?

And if they're, why go as far as to lie about having acquired it online, when it doesn't even matter?
Another thing: have you considered how your content moderation works? ActivityPub based software makes it work mostly through their distributed nature and established commercial social media has armies of moderators and ML tools. And not having content moderation is not really an option. People will post things that are illigal to even store on the server.
In the event that happens, it does not rule out krisoft's hypothesis about the purpose of these inquiries.

I would point out that if criminal proceedings are a possibility, the presumption of innocence will have the consequences listed in krisoft's post, and while these consequences are convenient for the people and institutions directly and tangentially responsible, it does not follow that this convenience is the inquiry's only purpose.

Is there a serious possibility of criminal prosecutions arising from this inquiry? if not, then conducting them as if that possibility existed might itself be seen as a delaying tactic.
For the UK legal system the meme needs to be : Attribute to malice what most would consider just incompetence....
Exactly my reaction as well. I hope they never rebrand it as MS GitHub.
That sort of precedent seems like it will just lead to abuse. Buy a less desirable plot of land, 'accidentally' build on a nicer plot near by, force the owner of the nicer plot to hand over their land to you (Since they're just a bit different and not "completely different").
Some of the differences between Indian and US CS courses
Perhaps in the UK, but in the US a private meeting is not fine. The term is ex parte and in most states if it isn't outright banned it's highly discouraged.

Pretty much the only time it's allowed is when there's classified information in the mix, and for that there's a huge process beforehand to make sure the defense has access to enough information to make their defense.
As a layman space exploration enthusiast, I'm just worried we'll treat this like the moon, where we get rid of the existing very cool and exciting thing keeping us in space, and don't replace it for a long while.

The ISS has been a beautiful international collaboration for decades and it'll be a shame to see it gone.
IMO it's "pretty good" from a technical and power efficiency perspective, but to someone who doesn't know/understand/care or has to deliver a "product" this is far from good or acceptable.

Having said that, it's pretty impressive.
Click the shutter button multiple times.

We can’t read your mind, so please spend some time thinking about what other requirements you have that we don’t know about.

Also think about whether this is the right forum to ask your question. Will this be “Anything that good hackers would find interesting”? (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
I remember being really impressed with Adelaide's public O-bahn bus service back in 1999, I'm sure it's improved since then and a quick google shows it still exists, so it's obviously been a success.

At the time these were slightly modified busses that could disconnect the steering (or maybe the driver just let go of the wheel), and were fitted with rubber bumpers and/or wheels on the corners (I can't quite remember) and drove in a concrete channel a bit wider than the bus, but not much, and the bus just kind of bounced off the wall until it settled in a straight line. The bus driver just disengaged the wheel and floored the accelerator and it sped along its section until it got to the suburb it needed to be, then he slowed down a bit, the walls got a bit further apart and he re-engaged the steering wheel and just carried on driving normally as the concrete sidewalls ended and it turned into normal road.

Looking at the pictures now, it seems they've revised this design a bit and there are now 2 sets of concrete channels that the wheels sit in and the concrete doesn't go high enough to require bumpers and just operates against the tyres instead. I guess they discovered that it didn't cause enough tyre wear to be a problem, or they have extra thick sidewall tyres or something. Also possible I've just misremembered that detail after 25 years!

Anyway, these weren't driverless, but there's no real reason why they couldn't be. They could just slow down and stop in a bay at the destination city and then have a driver hop in to take it the last leg of the journey. To fulfil their green ambitions they should maybe add charging and power rails to power the vehicle along the route (also helps avoid inconveniently having one run out of fuel halfway and cause everything behind to be blocked up) and leave the battery with plenty of charge for the local part of the journey.
> As long as behavior like this is incentivized, it will continue

Sometimes I wonder if cheating is always incentivized and the only interesting question for governments, economies, etc. is not "who is in charge?" or "who gets paid and how much?" but "how do we suppress corruption?"
> You have a choice between being offensive and being ignored.

The author of "The No Asshole Rule" explains the incentive to be an asshole and succumbs to it in the title to get more attention.
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Wow… This is going to murder Google Slides in the design industry. We only used Slides because it was remote friendly—designing slide layouts in it was absolute torture.
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This is potentially a clever way of getting round the fact that his speaking time is counted as part of his party's campaign for the legislative elections*.
The French media must maintain a semblance of pluralism of opinion and each candidate's speaking time is counted. The speaking time of the President when he is not speaking directly to the French people as part of his duties is counted as that of his party.

Podcasts are not subject to this regulation and ARCOM does not measure the audience for podcasts.
I think the skepticism comes from other companies and countries taking about using autonomous battery-powered sleds when the power of trains comes from the reduction to one or more traction units, which is far less complex.

If they have dedicated conveyor tracks* above grade the system makes sense, but this is expensive due to the costs of grade separation.

It's possible but probably the most expensive route.

* The tracks should probably be catenary or third rail, not battery.
<sarcasm>

How will the ATF help me with my taxes?

</sarcasm>
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I wish we had some form of "TCP/IP" over rail, where the "packets" are containers or pallets...
Thanks for the response! I'm torn between AI research and just implementing models with my own data, I do enjoy math but I can't seem to understand advanced math, that might change after I get an engineering degree though, or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But for the time being, I'm just wondering if people who win Kaggle competitions implement their own algorithm, or do they just read a lot and try techniques that are already out there?
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A ton of people in the comments are talking about Google Slides. Does nobody use PowerPoint anymore? What advantages does Google Slides have over good old fashioned PPT?
If you’re on an iPhone, slide your finger toward the thumbnail and it will take a burst of multiple photos into you let go. Slide it the other way and it will start taking a video.
Tip of the iceberg imho, I would say this is fairly standard practice in UK law now for everything from police notebooks to dna evidence.

UK legal system stopped being about law and became all about trying to stem the collapse of trust in it a very long time ago.

Now imho there is nothing to trust, every decision some corrupt kafka like show of idiocy.

To see how corrupt they are you only need to look at Rishi soon sacked taking pride in a promise to leave the EHCR if they dont let him deprive a few people of basic human rights in order to demonstrate he is tough on immigration - all while his government gives every illegal immigrant free hotel accomodation and a huge weekly allowance higher to make them come in the first place.

The only thing we are seeing here is yet another public glimpse into why no one I know still in the UK, rich or poor, has any faith in its institutions any more.
> I'm a native English (Canadian) speaker and, given this context, would never pronounce "morph-y" as "morph why" (if that pronunciation was intended I'd capitalize the Y and probably not hyphenate it, "Morph Y").

Words conjoined with hyphens are always pronounced separately in normal usage -- the only exception I can think of is the special use case of hyphens representing continuations of a single word across a line break.

> Indeed, sometimes I'll use the -y construction when I'm inventing an adjective from a noun like this, especially if omitting it looks "wrong" to me because it's an invented word (not sure if I would've for "morphy" but whatever).

It's an "invented word" with or without the hyphen. But the standard way of "inventing" word forms in English is to apply suffixes directly to the root word without hyphens.

Using an interstitial hyphen as metadata to indicate one's own squeamishness about using a novel word form seems very strange to me. (The typical convention for this is to enclose the novel word in quotation marks, calling attention to the word itself in addition to invoking its meaning.)

> I don't know if you're a native speaker and there's some kind of cultural or generational gap here where some of us are more/less particular about this than others or if you're a non-native speaker trying to be helpful but underestimating the flexibility of casual written English.

I am very much a native speaker, and it's precisely for that reason that I find this nonstandard use of hyphenation jarring and disruptive of reading comprehension.
What happened? The prosecution lied to his lawyer and said they were only seeking misdemeanor charges? His lawyer lied to him?

Do you by chance have a link to the decision? I'm interested in what went wrong here.
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Both of them came down in a pretty similar manner. Not to mention building 7 which was not directly hit.
No, Scheme does not make self-modifying code defined.

See this example in R7RS for the set-car! function:

(define (f) (list 'not-a-constant-list))
(define (g) '(constant-list))
(set-car! (f) 3) ⟹ unspecified
(set-car! (g) 3) ⟹ error

It is an error in Scheme to modify a constant list. The implementation is not required to diagnose it (an exception is not required), which basically means that it's undefined behavior.

In Common Lisp, it is likewise undefined behavior.

Running Lisp code is not necessarily still made of nested lists. That may be the case if it is interpreted, but Lisp code is often compiled. Modifying the original nested lists that comprise the source code will do nothing to the object code, except if those parts are modified that serve as literals, which the compiled code may be sharing with the source code.

In short, your understanding is wrong. When Lisp people talking about modifying the running program, that just refers to redefining functions and other entities. Common Lisp has strong support for redefining classes of which there are existing instances. Existing objects can be migrated to new representations in the redefined classes.

None of that is related to homoiconicity or related topics.
Is there anything under the parking lot?
It is still in operation and is a nice place (sometimes a bit crowded...).

PS: the old purely mechanical doorbells are also still operational (can be seen in the photograph, the forged metal rod to the left/right of the entrances)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei
Oh I told her what it was, she said she'd put her reality glasses on. We'll see how it goes :)
It may be funny and charming but Amazon wants $105 for it (or $35 to rent the ebook) and it's nowhere to be found in my statewide library system.

wow.
There’s a long history of users and consumers having unrealistic ideas of technology true capabilities. How many times have we encountered users who think poor quality images can be computer “enhanced” to show detail that’s not really there, because countless murder mystery movies and tv shows do exactly that?

The blurred line between fantasy/hallucinations and reality will only become worse, I fear.
Methane.is what the.problem is.

The serious denialism that avoids actual science on HN is astounding.
Am I overengineering my code?
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It wouldn't work well:
Coefficients of thermal expansion:
Nylon: Typically ranges from 80-100 x 10^-6 per °C
Steel rebar: Typically around 11-13 x 10^-6 per °C
Comparison: The coefficient of thermal expansion for nylon is significantly higher than that of steel rebar - about 6-9 times greater. This means nylon expands and contracts much more with temperature changes compared to steel. That's not even taking into consideration the tensile strength of nylon and steel. But an interesting thought, for sure.
If you use WebGPU, for your acceleration structure, try to use the algorithm here presented in the Diligent Engine repo. This will allow you not to transfer data back and forth between CPU and GPU: https://github.com/DiligentGraphics/DiligentSamples/tree/mas...

Another reason I did it on CPU was because with WebGL you lack certain things like atomics and groupshared memory, which you now have with WGPU. For the Diligent Engine spatial hashing, atomics is required. I'm mainly using WebGL because of compatibility. iOS Safari still doesn't enable WGPU without special feature flags that user has to enable.
"Destroy" seems inflammatory.

It's being retired, which in space means destruction.
Not really, Java Web Start essentially provided a way to download a fully-capable Java application running on normal JVM, from a click on website.

It's been used in place of applets a lot, but mostly because you could provide a complex application that opened in a new window with a click (assuming you dealt with the CA shenanigans).

It couldn't interact with DOM unless it accessed a browser over something like COM.
Seems to have zero details about... anything?