skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a false dichotomy. The choice isn't between total exploitation of the biosphere and poverty. Nowhere did I say that European development should have been minimized. I simply said the example of European development was not a good argument for attempting to transform the environment of the American West.

Let's look at the chain of argument. The poster was countering an assertion that humans have created massive ecological turmoil by seeking to fundamentally reshape the Earth. Their counter was that Europe was once forest and swamp. I can only assume they meant that we take for granted that the present condition of Europe is good and because it was once mostly "just" forest and swamp that Europe demonstrates that these transformations are acceptable or even preferable and therefore we should do them.

I think this is a bad argument because it contains many assumptions and implications which I think are false.

Assumptions:
#1 The magnitude of exploitation of Europe was necessary to achieve modern life.

#2 The development of modern European life occurred on an ideal or preferable timeline and things would not be better if this process had been gentler to the environment and taken an additional 1,000 years.

#3 The ecosystems of the American West are not more unique or prized than the temperate forests of Europe and their loss represents a similar loss therefore justifying the trade off.

#4 Wilderness, despite its increasing scarcity is not more valuable today than it was 1,000 years ago.

#5 Exploitation of the American West would have a similar economic and developmental impact as the exploitation of primeval Europe and therefore represents a worthwhile trade off.

I don't think any of the above should be taken for granted.
Tor was originally designed by a mathematician working for the US Naval Research Lab (NRL) to provide a way for MI agents to "phone home" safely from the field. It very quickly became clear that if only mil used it, it created anonymity about as effective as Batman on a rooftop backlit by a spotlight -- you didn't have a name but you knew precisely what the agent was about, and where.

So he persuaded NRL to give the project up to open source. Good thing, too, because he was a math geek but not a cryptographer. The two cryptology doctoral candidates at MIT who took the project over chucked his code, and rewrote Tor from the ground up.

Since it's open source, this can be documented. Getting spooky about it being designed for spooks is a red herring.

That GitHub doc vaguely mischaracterizes Signal -- all Signal ever sees is the connection negotiation metadata. Past that point there are no "servers" involved, or data to be retained for future discovery.
Get rich quick by farming?
Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome
I believe that's called mutation testing. Using an LLM to perform the mutation sounds like a great idea
True. On the other hand, if you control the clients and can guarantee their behavior then DNS load balancing is highly effective. A place I used to work had internal DNS servers with hundreds of millions of records with 60 second TTLs for a bespoke internal routing system that connected incoming connections from customers with the correct resources inside our network. It was actually excellent. Changing routing was as simple as doing a DDNS update, and with NOTIFY to push changes to all child servers the average delay was less than 60 seconds for full effect. This made it easy to write more complicated tools, and I wrote a control panel that could take components from a single server to a whole data center out of service at the click of a button.

There were definitely some warts in that system but as those sorts of systems go it was fast, easy to introspect, and relatively bulletproof.
Edit: Deleting this comment. After being removed from the moderator's post it was replying to, it serves no purpose.
But Google didn't pay 2 billion to the couple - it went to the EU government. So now they have a civil lawsuit...
I'm confused, Google deprioritized their site in search results, and then several years later launched their own shopping comparison tool.

And this is the basis of an unfair competition case?

On what basis then should or shouldn't Google deprioritize rankings? If a website offers products for $1 and hides a $99 shipping fee, should they still appear in the search results?
You speak as if the fine was issued for no reason, or that no assessment of the facts and law were conducted.

Google did abused their position. That was determined to be true in fact finding.
Working from home I can report that leaf blowers ruin my day pretty quickly. Some days it will be 4 hours of lawn equipment running.
maybe you want manjaro (week late arch) and dual root.
"In summary, it is highly misleading to suggest that Microsoft (or ICOMP) initiated or in any way controlled Foundem’s European complaint or any of Foundem’s other initiatives."
Source: http://www.searchneutrality.org/uncategorized/foundem-is-not...
Whatever that point is, it's not in any case relevant to the case at hand. The EU hasn't actually levied that many fines on Google. I think it's three significant cases total in the lifetime of the company, none this decade? (Shopping results in search in 2017, Android in 2018, Ads in 2019, the total fines were about 8B euros). Those numbers are big, and enough to act as a deterrent, but even if I've forgotten about some additional case,m they can't be anywhere near big enough to leave a market where they must be making >10B/year in profit.

You're just thinking it's been more frequent than that, because you keep reading reporting on the same fines over and over, as the case works its way through appeals.

And in case it makes you feel any better, based on these comments you're not the only one getting fooled into thinking that this is news rather than a case that ended in 2017.
pyworkers.so isn't even registered (https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...)
Except anyone who has read up on this topic knows that Boeing got fined for several billion dollars by the FAA and that the FAA has increased the training requirements and that Boeing has lost 20 billion dollars from aircraft groundings and cancelled orders.

Clearly, it doesn't look like Boeing was hurting for money whatsoever. Bean counters allocate money to billion dollar fines but they won't allocate it to safety and good engineering.

There aren't any deep or hidden truths behind the crashes. Turn off the MCAS and you don't get autopiloted into a crash, but telling pilots to turn off the MCAS would defeat its purpose, which is to save money on recertification and pilot training precisely by keeping it a secret.
> The "culturewar fodder" in this article is so distractingly dumb and laughably factually wrong that I couldn't make it past the first few paragraphs. Whatever the author's point was supposed to be, they're going to have a tough time reaching any audience that hasn't already drunk the kool-aid.

Ok. In that case there are 29 other threads on HN's front page to look at, and perhaps have curious conversation about.

"Dumb", "laughably wrong", "couldn't make it past the first few", "whatever the point was supposed to be", "going to have a tough time reaching any", "drunk the koolaid", "I certainly wouldn't trust", and "completely indifferent to correctness" are all markers of the kind of conversation we're trying to avoid here.
Boomers shoulder the heaviest student loans–but not for themselves
An article about California's political culture but only mentions Hispanics only once and doesn't mention Oakies or Asians at all.

Methinks it might not be the most representative of California's political history.

California is just California, and trying to apply an "Anglo" lens is dumb and ahistorical.
Feds arrest Princeton grad who raised $257M for fake crypto social media site
I think you can make a very convincing argument ALL philanthropy falls into either category. That doesn't it make it bad either. If someone does something that helps other it doesn't really matter in the end why they did it.
"Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented".

Your sampling method is flawed. Only Cybertruck fans are approaching you. Most people aren't going to come up and tell you they think your car is ugly.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2024/october/andrew-b...
You mean the alibaba/aliexpress stuff from China? Eh, okey. :)
This level of micro management sounds hellish. It suggests levels of anxiety so great they warp the fabric of spacetime.
I wonder why the video is age-restricted.

There are plenty of videos on YouTube that are clearly sexual in nature and publicly available to people of all ages.

Searching for the video ID (2-VKgdhfNpY) on Google Images returns obvious images of a laparoscopy.
I feel the same about when I play HoI4-- really winning a two-front war on ironman and building webapps have a lot of similarities.
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "just go independent"
I think LW transmission antennas are too large to be built bu amateurs
Fun fact, the built-in adblocker for GAMER BROWSER OperaGX (of YouTube sponsorship game) excludes search engine pages by default, and is happy to report "zero trackers" on google.com

But I'm glad Opera is committed to providing a terrible product. The marketing seems to be working!
I don't know. It's good that we have know conclusive non-effectiveness, right? Is Olga Khazan volunteering $150m to run the first two phases of a drug trial? Should that money be spent on worse bets? Does she have an opinion on which bets were better (no)? IMO, better to live in a world where drug development happens due to good storytelling and we get an answer, good or bad, regardless of macro, rather than drug development only occurring during ZIRP.
Alex Jones fighting attempt to sell his personal social media accounts
Unethical entities being held to account is a good thing, not a bad one. Even the spineless US government is finally reaching their tolerance point and preparing to break Google up.
http://archive.today/tgTd1
'We are in danger' – Spanish anti-tourism spills into winter season
So that’s why so many puzzles seem to be impossible to solve except trial and error
First I've heard of LionsOS. It is mature enough to run a web server: https://sel4.systems/Info/Website/
Less than 1% of the population would understand this bill. What concerns people on the day to day is quite different and that’s what the government is talking about (housing, immigration, policing, health care, dental care, pharmacies etc).
Opera was at it's best and cutting edge when it used Presto rendering engine, and Dragonfly for devtool. It took a shit on the competition, easily and handily!

I still miss and lament the loss. We lose something beautiful!

Now I follow ladybird browser, I have very high hopes for a true fresh take on a browser.
I don’t know what else to expect from a scientist who previously worked at can’t-possibly-work-and-didn’t HyperLoop.
Delta is a very large company. Surely they're capable of procuring or developing software/systems with an appropriate warranty.

Like, a plumber can just wrap pipes with duct tape so they stay together but they actually use solder or another joining method that has a warranty.
There are thousands of relays run by altruistic volunteers. Unless your opsec sucks (i.e. you configure Tor to favor performance and not swap circuits every ten minutes) the opportunity to correlate by malicious nodes is small.

Also, these nodes operated by bad actors are constantly identified and excluded.
Having done exactly this math for GStreamer bindings in JavaScript (where the built in numeric types are double or nothing), this would also be my prime suspect.
And when the remaining owners are finally made to pay the true cost of upkeep by disaster or government they will complain bitterly about how the system failed them.
When I moved to California some years ago, I also found the default combination of political positions weird. The best half-serious description I could come up with was that California is a country of conservative libertarian social democratic hippies. Those words don't make sense together, but neither does California. At least to someone from the left/green end of the European political spectrum.

I don't know if I buy the explanation in the article, but at least it's an explanation for the weirdness.
The deranking in question happened in 2006? Goodness. That’s, what… more than half of the WWW’s lifetime ago? And 7 years since the 2017 judgment?

The wheels of justice turn slow and all, but man… this has to come as awfully cold comfort (assuming, as the courts found, this couple was in fact wronged).
One of the things that I’ve found interesting about neurodivergent people who are sometimes offensive is that they are not abnormally hard to offend.
I’m not neurodivergent so I hesitate to speak to your experience but perhaps try this.

Before engaging, ask yourself, if positions were reversed how would hearing this make me feel? Is that how I want people to feel when reading what I wrote?

Treat it like a chess game. If I do X (call out their ignorance for example) they will do Y (feel attacked and shut down). Do I want them doing Y? If not, what do I want?

Everything you say and do, does things to other people’s thoughts and emotions. If you want them to feel good, follow the feeling good script (honest engagement with their positive qualities, friendly behavior, active listening, positive engagement with what they’re saying) if you want to pick a fight follow the fight picking script (say rude things, call names, make people feel bad)

Sorry if that all sounds stupid. While following my own advice I realized that what I said could sound painfully obvious, and maybe is offensive and patronizing.
In my defense I don’t know what’s obvious to you and what is not.

So if it helps and made you feel good you’re welcome. If it’s offensive or I made things worse, I apologize. (See what I did there? Predicted how what I said might make someone feel)?
Which global platforms? I can talk of Canada and every social media network that sell ads in Canada also has an office in the country and must follow laws.

Of course the organic reach can be manipulated, but the influence seems to be still somewhat limited.
Agreed about the others but wouldn't the Okies be part of the Scots-Irish strain he covers?
In general I think as a majority-minority state, applying a primarily UK-focused take on California misses a lot. The largest group in CA is Hispanic-Latino (40% of the population), and that's a group with neither Puritanical nor Scots-Irish background ideology. And 15% of the state is Asian-American... A very small percentage of CA descends from either Puritans/WASPs or Scots-Irish!
The article is fairly off and overindexes Anglo-Saxon influence in a state where the largest influences tended to be Hispanics, working class central/southern/eaatern European settlers, Okies during the Dust Bowl, Asians of all walks of life, and post-WW2 immigration globally.

California is just "California", and an "Anglo-Saxon" tradition or lens just doesn't track back west - be it California, Texas, Washington, etc.

Just think about it - Kearny Street is named after a racist Irish immigrant. Levi and Haas were the most prominent businessmen in that era and were German Jews. Gold was found in Sutter Fort - a hacienda owned by a Swiss German. Much of the settlement in Central California was farmers from Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Asia, Armenia, etc. Chinatowns and Japantowns dotted much of California, and Filipino, Chinese, and Japanese fishermen were overrepresented.
It used to be a good browser, but nowadays it's just another chromium wrapper.
Before streaming, you'd then probably be the kind of person to purchase your music. Most streaming users will listen to industry approved artists, the only difference for them is that they can choose when they listen. And that's why Spotify can't make them pay more, because radio is still free.
Interesting diagrammatic notation. Does the author give inference rules for truth preserving transformations of diagrams?
That's interesting. I wonder what will protect these models then, if anything? NDAs? Or maybe the model can be a trade secret or patented?

I think dictionaries are copyrightable, however?
Most attacks on Tor are through social engineering. Think DPR. Error occurs between keyboard and chair.

Tor can't protect you from terrible opsec.
More people have died in the last 50 years than in the last 150 before that. The ghosts should be modern, with tape decks or pinwheel hats and mullets.
Fair enough. It could be that good. Is this use for commercial purposes? Do you have to interface with legacy systems or unusual stacks?
> performance hiccups

I am sure you have tried all these, but just listing them if you havent:-

1. lib-gccjit native compilation

2. GCMH

3. explain-pause-mode

4. Buy a new PC

5. Compiling emacs with -O3 for your own hardware

6. --with-x-toolkit=lucid

Please dont abandon emacs in haste. It was home for 10 years for good reasons.

Would somebody please explain to me how 'casouri/vundo' compares to the semi-abandoned 'emacsmirror/undo-tree'?
In order to truly understand this article, it helps to have read Albion's Seed.

It's true that Spanish influence isn't taken into account enough in this article, but the article is still pretty sound in the importance it puts on Puritan and Borderer (Scots-Irish) cultural influence, as these are the two foremost cultural forces at odds with one another to this day, not just in California, but across the United States. The Okies in this case would be Borderers.

And again, although we see other non-Anglo cultural forces, immigrants typically align and integrate more or less with either the Puritan or the Borderer ethos.
What happens to all these cases? There have been probably 40+ arrests since 2021 of crypto fraud, like Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan who were arrested in February 2022 for the Bitfiex hack. Do these people actually go to trial or what?
It's an election industrial complex, a self-licking ice cream cone! It's amazing how the election season gets longer and longer.
Ghosts are just your brain breaking down in to schizophrenia.
Sounds like this study is about what people say they want (and perhaps when given a multiple-choice selection of ideas), but not what their actual behavior is.
The absence of Spanish culture is boggling - it's delibrately avoided ..

A third were born in California,

and about an equal number were born in states populated by what the writer Colin Woodard calls “Greater Appalachia”.

And so the ideology of California came to be shaped by two very different migrant cultures

Clearly there's a third missing (assuming numbers correct, etc).
Just ask it to do both.
Unless you are doing nuclear physics, those elements will persist. Let's say you are growing grain for cattle. The manure gets spread on the fields. Closed loop.
My point was that it was no longer accessible via normal HN perusing (went through a couple pages of stories), which I found odd since it was fourth or some such an hour prior!
No thanks. I do use VS Code when I just want an editor (i.e. I don't want my CMake & vcpkg files parsed). Otherwise I prefer CLion for CMake projects and use the real Visual Studio for C++ vsproj files.
That is what sucks. Humans evolved to eat too many foods, which in the past was a blessing, but it now a curse and is why obesity is a major problem now. Bulimia, a weight loss technique, is ironically about trying to simulate forcefully the body rejecting food.
> The device features a 1404 x 1872 resolution panel with a fast refresh rate

What's the refresh rate?

Also a 30 day warranty doesn't inspire much confidence, or am I missing something? Is this something you're intended to repair on your own if it breaks?
I solve that the blunt force way. Heavy duty over the ear hearing protection, like shooters eeesr at a gym range. I find it works better than noise canceling. If things are really intolerably bad you can double up with foam earplugs under.
You mean hinges on our federal subsidies going to corporations. Without wellfare, Tesla and SpaceX wouldn't be a thing
But it wasn’t, which hints that detection models should be adjusted. It’s a judgement in the same category as “he looks criminal”.
Full verticals, dipoles, Yagis or logs, yes.

Marconi T or L antennas with capacitance hats and loading coils are well within amateur practice on 630m[1] and 2200m, and common from 40m/7MHz on down.

Not very efficient still; an ERP of 1W, as demanded by the 2200m band, can still take a lot of power on a less-than-ideal antenna. Similar story for 630m. (160m and up is usually not so bad, just that even a good Marconi on longwave is still too big for most people.)

But the current LowFER[3] regs limit the transmitter to 1W final stage input power, and a COMBINED feedline and antenna length of 15m. At least allowing amateurs to operate more here would allow more than just extremely low SNR modes like WSPR to be used at any real distance.

[1]https://www.hamsignal.com/blog/dog-days-and-the-marconi-t-an...

and https://vk6ysf.com/t_antenna_arrangment.htm

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2200-meter_band#International_...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LowFER
Sounds like a very stupid custom
I was wrong. sorry about this comment which I am unable to remove
> you are not answering my question

Lol, your question asked me what I meant. I told you what I meant.

> are there any WASM based webapps that are as fast as pure js webapps?

You can browse links from Google for examples and benchmarks. Maybe one of these will scratch your itch, but I won't vouch for any of them:

https://madewithwebassembly.com/

But really, JavaScript and WebAssembly are both very fast. I don't think speed is the reason to choose one or the other.

For me, I like WebAssembly because it lets me program in languages other than JavaScript. JavaScript makes me want to scratch my eyes out.
Annual net income last year was $87B. So they’ve been fined a little over one month of profits.
Jirarrhea
Difference between the first and second there is basically the dividing line between the gender-critical feminists and the conservatives, on this topic.
Not really. Much of Texas and Oklahoma was/is a cultural mixture of southern settlers, Central Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Hispanics, and Native Americans that turned into it's own culture.

There's a reason why bock bier (eg. Shiner Bock), dryland farming (a Russian German thing), frybread (from the Bureau of Indian Affairs era), Cowboy culture (a merger of older Hispanic Ranchero culture with southern settler culture), etc became a thing in Texas and Oklahoma
But we they were already removed, then any revenue from .io does not support it, since it already happened.

And while the continued existence of the UK/US base prevents Chagossians from living there, that seems unrelated to the question of sovereignty; for example, the US Air Force base in Ramstein also prevents Germans from living in the territory occupied by the base's footprint, but nobody calls this ethnic cleansing.
LF, MF, and so on are bands, or frequency ranges. AM is a modulation technique. It, like FM and others, can be used on any band (although regulations can limit this).
Yes, when we change the URL I almost always post the original link in the thread - I did that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957788 but of course these things can get lost in the shuffle
And when they die not having paid it off, does it not just fall onto the kids because they are on the loan too adn signed the master promissory note?

"Oh these poor boomers!" No. Poor kids who got roped into an exponentially expensive sinking ship.