skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you are abroad and do not have clear idea about the local situation

You're walking a path you're almost guaranteed not properly equipped for. Probably nobody is but knowing not to charge ahead would already mean a lot.

If having a clear idea about the local situation is a prerequisite then what happens with locals exposed to misinformation? Do they lose the right to vote? Do you test people in advance to evaluate their level of understanding? If they vote for populist measures that are clearly unsustainable did they show a good understanding of the situation?

What happens if you're abroad but coming back in a year and are expected to live with a bad situation you could have helped avoid? Can you claim "sorry, I wasn't allowed to vote so the rules don't apply to me"? What about when you live abroad but (some of) the laws of your home country in which you're not allowed to vote still apply to you?

And more importantly, if you're living abroad and you can't vote in your home country because you're away but you can't vote in your country of residence because you're a foreigner, what happens to your right to vote? This right is given to citizens of a country just like many other rights, like the right to private ownership. If one can be taken away due to lack of proximity, can the other? Can that car or house that you haven't used in a year be taken away? What if you as a local didn't exercise your right to vote, should it be taken away because you don't need it?

> you might do more damage

You might too.
For the case of entering passwords, you can just use ssh authentication instead
It’s interesting how our view of animal intelligence is massively shaped by the animals we see every day - pets, farm animals, zoo animals. All animals that have had their natural intelligence degraded substantially.
Those “mean posts” were people organising violent riots that cost the country millions and targeted small business owners just for being ethnic minorities.

People shouldn’t get a free pass on organising violence and riots just because they did it online.

Edit: I don’t normally comment on the peer moderation that happens on HN but wow there are a lot of people online today that believe free speech trumps all other laws.

Seems it’s ok to destroy people’s property just so long as you arrange to do it online. /s

Perhaps someone can explain why they think this way?
This is for seasonal energy storage with only 1 charge and discharge per year. It competes with water reservoirs not with batteries.
Here’s a practical solution based on this:

Take your kilometres e.g 60, divide by 5 -> 12, now times that by 3 -> 36.

Take your miles e.g 80, divide by 5 -> 16, times 8 -> 80 + 48 -> 128

So any conversion reasonable conversion can be done in your head with your 3, 5, and 8 times tables
The EU considered nuclear energy to not be "green" up until very recently, which directly contributed to the demise of said nuclear power plants as well as many potential projects.
BaseX is great. It's impressive what the single developer has achieved and improved over many years already. At NLnet, my employer, we use it to generate our mostly static website. Since it produces well-formed XML as output, there is no possibility of undetected nesting errors due to typos. XQuery is a functional language so it's simpler to reason about the code: variables are immutable.

An area of improvement would be type checking. XQuery allows defining types via XML Schema, but there is no mature open source implementation that can check the types on each function. BaseX does support validation ad-hoc by calling a validation function explicitly.
Yeah, I remember reading some posts around 1993 where someone wanted to port some existing Unix program to Linux. Instead of modifying the program they added the missing functionality to Linux. I think it was about polling and signal handling or something like that.
Harder to intercept?
Sunset clauses would be great. Every X years they have to vote to re enable the law or it becomes deactivated. 1 year of deactivation gets it wiped.
the first book in the series is amazing. Unfortunately it goes down from there. Could not finish the third one ( Crow one )
Its so simple how they did it. But the fear and tech behind it damn
> Brazil is heading down a very dark path.

But predictable. Contempt of and banning speech because it’s disruptive to the regime (cynically “our democracy”) and harassing political opposition is commonplace for socialist and leftist governments.
> You can see your slaver has freedoms you don't

Cool, so slavery where slaves do not see the slavers (let us call it “proper segregation”) is OK?

> I don't see why sentience would be required for some entity or tool to have the right to learn and synthesize new things like humans do

If sentience is not required for a “right” to learn, then I have nothing else to say to you. There is nothing there that is even learning. Learning is a concept that presumes an entity with volition, aspiration, consciousness.
Warning? Messages containing that is removed, is that not censorship?

Did you consider that advertisers are leaving because they don't want their ads next to right wing extremist and nazis spewing their shit?
Yes, and for saying broadly the same kind of things that got people arrested in the UK.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...
Thinking about markers, the falconer at a railway station I frequent paints the pigeons he wants his bird to pursue with a green laser.
OP here, you must have missed my original comment where I said that claude.ai suggested this to me.
This is to fit in with the windows calculator, which also has off-by-one pixel errors:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/a5r971/t...
Maybe it was because you were A human, not the fact it was specifically you.
People were arrested in America over the Capitol riots and messages online was used as part of the evidence.

What happened in the UK was exactly the same. We had violence and riots, millions of pounds of damages, innocent small business owners targeted because of their ethnicity. It was actually a much worse scale than the Capitol riots and thus people should absolutely be held accountable for their actions.
> and neglect any other human walking by this back alley

Not just the back alley. The back alley itself has nothing specifically to do with it. The test would have to be something like the crow attacks this person but not anyone else around the building generally. That doesn't really make a lot of sense from the crows perspective either though... it's concerned with the plight of its mate, so why focus instead on a random person who's a decent distance away unless it can perceive a specific connection, e.g., by recognizing them.

It's moot anyway. I think it's pretty well established crows can recognize human faces.
>I'm not here to claim that Orban is anywhere near the level of a "real" dictator in terms of squashing dissent.

It is preposterous to concede this. Orban has destroyed the independence of media and weaponized it to support his party and spread disinformation against his opponents. He's also weaponized the tools of the state to harass the family members of his political opponents with frivolous lawsuits and exhausting legal battles.
People are also much happier these days to introduce a factor of 10 slowdown relative to what the hardware can natively support.
How would you even tell in the first place? The contrast on those digits is so low and their font weight is so light as to render them essentially invisible.

And as far as bad design goes, why are the bit position indicators on the right (0, 32) center-justified underneath their digits, whereas the ones on the left (31, 63) are left-justified?
I like lamp
Most of them, no
Star Wars walked away from the first self-retracting lightsaber toy
this is such a great experience. Thanks for that
let's see: I've met exactly one of those (Dennett) so I'll go with him. How's that for insight?

> The existence of the hard problem is disputed. It has been accepted by some philosophers of mind such as Joseph Levine,[10] Colin McGinn,[11] and Ned Block[12] and cognitive neuroscientists such as Francisco Varela,[13] Giulio Tononi,[14][15] and Christof Koch.[14][15] On the other hand, its existence is denied by other philosophers of mind, such as Daniel Dennett,[16] Massimo Pigliucci,[17] Thomas Metzinger, Patricia Churchland,[18] and Keith Frankish,[19] and by cognitive neuroscientists such as Stanislas Dehaene,[20] Bernard Baars,[21] Anil Seth,[22] and Antonio Damasio.[23]

Generally if you solve the easy problem you have a better idea of what's left and whether it's worth effort. So let's just go with that for now.
That is actually true.

Free speech should not be an absolute. No freedom in a society is absolute. Living in a society is a huge compromise.

EDIT: I am not in favor of the Chat Control proposal by the way. It is poorly thought out and will only serve to harm innocent people. True criminals will use encryption and such anyway.
> There are people who believe that their job is more important than anything else and that they deserve to have the "sudo tools"

I don't care in what they believe or how they explain they need in the total control over you. In fact, it's just a slavery, and I'm sure internally they know that and they like that. For some people it's the meaning of life to achieve that kind of power over other people. Unfortunately, a lot of such people achieve this goal nowadays.
Doctors successfully implement global remote robot-assist lung cancer surgery
We need solutions, an alternative

I actually haven’t seen algorithm questions a lot lately, so that’s progress, but even building something live can trip you up

Reality is that 45 minute speed trial would be given several days in sprint planning

We should simulate the sprint ceremonies and repository management more than code. Make their commits break because of a poorly documented linter they have to get around. That will fix their code along the way
Sure, but the conversion method does not require the numbers to be distinct or non-consecutive.
The fascists literally murdered journalists and burned down newspapers critical of them on their rise to power. I suggest checking out this podcast on "How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win". The issue was not too much free speech.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
As for fingerprinting, there are more APIs that leak data allowing fingerprinting, what I mentioned were the most known APIs. Also, I looked at Brave Github and they seem to have counter-measures for some of those APIs to randomize results. So adding more tests could also be benefitial to Brave.

> Do you think the site is still useful in some capacity?

Well, it is better than nothing although it would be better if there were more tests regarding fingerprinting.
Sure, but Apple had gone public with the iPhone announcement over a year before the PA Semi acquisition.

I think it's safe to say that they had already selected an off the shelf Samsung CPU before they did the public demo of the device.
Actually credit scorer like Schufa and similiar "pre-sorters" have been severely limited with the EuGH judgement from December 2023. Another win for the GDPR.

The new battleground is now the "essential" part of the GDPR, i.e. what pre-sorting is essential to arrive at a decision and what not. I guess we will see quite a few cases before the courts...
I'm confused, was he the only writer left? I know Anand doesn't run the site anymore, but is there really nobody to keep the site running with new articles?
In the days of landline service, you have to pay for long distance calls; so it mattered which side made the call, as the originator of the call was charged. So you make a quick call to have the computer call you back and stay on for a long time; the number associated with the computer location is billed.
If people in Switzerland wanted that they could vote for it. But they actually prefer having limits on other peoples' speech more than they resent the limits on their own, so they don't.
DisplayPort has the audio channel but AFAIK has no _return_ channel. Which is not needed in the typical computer setup but quite useful in a TV + soundbar or AVR setup.
> you need a system that prevents drug users from getting into vehicles

Driving under the influence is already illegal and would obviously remain so in a society where more drugs were legal. I think we mostly all accept that needing to pass a breathalyser test to start your car would be absurd, so why are currently illegal drugs any different?

> a system that disqualifies them from public healthcare

Why? We don’t exclude obese people, those who do no exercise, smokers, alcoholics from public healthcare. In my eyes that is the bedrock of a public service, you get it whether you “deserve” it or not. To say otherwise opens the door to far too many situations where people cannot get the help they need.
It seems like real ones will came very soon [1].

[1] https://www.wickedlasers.com/
> "Conflict of interest All the authors declare that they have no conflict
of interest."

Glad to see this in the original article. I had been wondering whether they were in the pocket of Big Crow.
so you are saying he is a standard politician, trying to discredit his opponents?
> in the wrong hands

are there any right hands?
perhaps you should strongly consider whether its you who are misinformed?
Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals
> That conflicts with the standard Emacs binding to move to the beginning of the current line

Also in Bash.
out of curiosity, why do you call the expect script in string form from a bash shebang, rather than make the script itself an expect script directly with an explicit expect shebang?
Hi,

Late to the party, do you think you could give me a comparison of Jank vs Janet ? I'm just starting to look at janet, and just found out about jank at this point.

How usable is Jank for greenfield projects, The comparison page isnt that useful as I don't know what I'm missing.

Thanks in advance.
It’s the fine difference in shade of gray that makes all the difference though.
https://nerves-project.org/
>Is it your Biden (where is he?)

He's currently at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware and he will be campaigning in Pittsburgh on Monday.

https://rollcall.com/factbase/biden/topic/calendar/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/us/politics/harris-biden-...
Where is the dotation page on the site? I couldn't find it on the site's main navigation

Edit: https://servo.org/sponsorship/

Found it. Sorry, would've been nicer to have it right up the top under "contributing" or something.

Edit 2: I think I'm just stupid. It's under "About"
I will defend utilitarianism, since I like it a lot and all your arguments against it are bad.

- The "tyranny of the majority" problem is a problem of direct democracy, not utilitarianism. Happiness in utilitarianism is determined not by a number of individuals, but by all individuals and perfect utility function must take into account both majorities and minorities and create consensus. This will only fail if majority and minority have directly opposed interests, but in this case overall good is still better this way (you don't want to deny majority people their rights too in favor for minorities).

- The "majority rules" fallacy is a problem of democracy overall. Every democracy system is vulnerable to this, not only utilitarianism. But then again, perfect utility function should take into account people's desire to not be fooled, so there's that.

- The "ignore individual rights" fallacy is the same as "tyranny of the majority". Utility function takes into account interests of all individuals and tries to create the best possible consensus.

- The "moral arithmetic" fallacy is the best one here, since it's actually close to the truth. You can't really create a perfect utility function, but you don't need to. You can create imperfect one and improve it later with feedback and democracy mechanisms. With time imperfect utility function will get closer and closer to perfect one. Profit maximizing utility function can't be calculated too, but corporations handle it just fine. But if you're not blind, you can see that profit maximizing utility function leads to a lot of real people suffering (climate change, wars, hunger, poverty and many many more) while leading to profit maximization (alignment problem).
In reality these powers get renewed forever.

See "Senate passes bill renewing key FISA surveillance power moments after it expires"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-renews-fisa...
Related discussion in the bcachefs subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1f4erbg/debiansta...

Kent's reply in that thread has more details.
Why should this be surprising at all?

Big iron RDMS have had the enterprise option to run as full OSes for quite some time now.
If it comes to that, I just hope the EU courts will strike it down.
And it is almost guaranteed in the event this ever passes, that politicians would be one of the few, who would not be monitored.
It would help whom and to achieve what? How do we know they're not lying? And how do those numbers justify irreversible surveillance of everyone's most private thoughts?

A terrorist organization isn't going to use Facebook Messenger to discuss their plans, they'll use a vetted application that doesn't have a backdoor.
I get the feeling arjvik's comment was meant to be sarcasm.
Indeed. I used this algorithm on OS/2 1.0 as part of a GUI (OS/2 did not have a GUI until 1.1). That was on an 80386. MASM came with a nice ring-bound A6 book which summarised the instruction set, including timings. I seem to remember that 3 cycles was normal for a short instruction, but many were considerably longer.
I think it’s important to not conflate trespassing with speech.

Those people have freedom of speech.

They don’t, however, have the right to occupy private property against the will of the owners.
Just a typical trick that liars use to distract from the main topic.
Is this because working IRL in the same room or building is more productive?
Binding commitments or laws preventing the adoption of this sort of scheme could be lobbied for by citizens, but in reality I think your point holds
>Yes, USA is indeed the only country on the planet with absolute free speech. Most residents of other places doesn't actually want what the USA has.

The US does not have absolute free speech. Laws exist against slander, libel, perjury and making terroristic threats. The FDA regulates the speech of food producers and pharmaceutical companies. The FCC regulates speech on broadcast television and radio. It's a felony to lie to Congress. It's a felony to call for the assassination of the President.

Even speech in "public squares" is regulated by public nuisance and noise laws and curfews.

Yes, what's considered "hate speech" elsewhere is (mostly) legal in the US. But that doesn't make free speech in the US absolute, just more amenable to forms of racism and bigotry the rest of the world decided weren't worth defending after the consequences of World War 2.
IBM big iron systems still use databases as file system.
Wasn't Servo abandoned?
https://archive.ph/kQEvl
the part they just made up of course!
Alex isn’t the host any more and there hasn’t been a 300 in a very long time.
This would be a good one for Rust enthusiasts to weigh in on.

The issue raised is that some program written in rust insists on a very specific version of various dependencies. If other people change the metadata, it builds and seems to run ok with different versions. (Developer on reddit clarifies that it builds and does the wrong thing, and recommends dropping Debian as a solution).

Linux likes to pack a finite set of versions of libraries (ideally just one version at a time) and use that dependency for multiple programs, totally at odds with the vendoring specific versions strategy.

I'm not clear what a solution is to this one. In the specific case, sure, drop it from Debian. But this isn't the only program choosing to vendor dependencies instead of use them from the environment.
Are they killing unwanted minorities and political dissidents on an industrial scale? No, they aren’t. Ergo, they aren’t N*is. Labeling them as such is unfair to them and an insult to the memory of those killed by the actual kind.

There can be widespread bigotry that falls far far short of N*ism. Words and precision matter.
That is already happening, including the AI and manual renew. One victim was a father sending a photo of his child to his doctor.

"Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse" (2022)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-...
But there comes a point where battery storage has all been used and prices go even higher. You sell at a x6 profit margin. And are able to sell at x3 profit margin for longer than the battery operators. And that assumes that 100% of the fuel would need to come from storage.
Nowadays part of it survives as ReFS.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/ref...
"Jobs at Y Combinator startups"

Remote: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/role/all/remote

India: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/india

Europe: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/europe

Canada: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs/location/canada
I doubt you would see it on surveys. However there is a lot of very noticeable lobbying about this. Our school has a parent group that organizes events to inform parents about the dangers of social media and online grooming. You will find leaflets, PDFs etc.

If you are interacting with those circles you will find folks who made it their life’s mission to protect children and who are lobbying for this. You donut need a large number of people to sway legislation, you only need determined people.
Yeh sure - what did you have in mind?
Even if you use Face ID you have to enter the password, instead of your face, regularly
I do not take it as a sarcastic question.

There is a whole community of gravel-riding cyclists, seeking monster rides.

https://breckepic.com
https://www.epic-series.com/capeepic
https://thestartlist.com.au/disciplines/gravel/ - and other affiliated European and African races
https://southeastgravel.com - a regional gravel race series
https://www.granfondoguide.com/Contents/Index/1324/what-is-a... less competitive, long gravel
Not Slashdot, buy soylent news is also circling the drain...
sorry, that's not a prime because 3*19
Yeah, the other option is to leave it there but draw more attention to it (maybe make it a blue circle with white bars). The subtle menu only works in the right place, though.
I remember being the "general public" unaware of PFAS. Anything "non-stick" contains it, you realise that it's everywhere in modern society.

Blissful ignorance was nice while it lasted.
So I guess the gauntlet is now down for any other maintainer to come and decide they do want to package it for debian/ubuntu...
Lithuania? Just pitch it as a way to fight back against Russia, and it will pass in a jiffy just like all the other anti-russian laws they've been rolling through
What I'd worry about is not PFAs, but excreted drugs. Some drugs (or their byproducts) are persistent, and have been deliberately selected to have biological effects.

I take metformin. This drug is mostly excreted in feces. The dry mass of feces might be 1% metformin for someone taking typical doses. The drug does break down in the environment, but only slowly.
I wonder if there's precedent in court regarding that?

I mean, how does one prove that a message is anything but gibberish if they don't have the means to decode it?
Web design disaster by what standards?