The exact example you mentioned (a person's weight being taboo) was my first "culture shock" when learning Japanese. My mind was opened to the multitude of prejudices carried just by speaking English many times after…
SESTA and FOSTA are certainly DC's doing, but I think it's fair to say there is a serious aversion to sexuality and eroticism among incumbent platforms, that did not require any prodding from US lawmakers. For example,…
I get where you're coming from, but this website is called Hacker News. Getting around limits is a primary part of the tradition.
Japan's expressways are privatized and tolled per-kilometer. They are competing with long-distance train lines, so the toll is in the same ballpark as a train ticket (about 13000 yen or $110 from Tokyo to Osaka). The…
I'm the furthest thing from a lawyer, but "knowingly and intentionally" sounds to my lay self like it's a test of mens rea. If I were operating a Tor node in the EU, I would probably assume until stated otherwise that…
Being able to send an SMS to a US phone number does not guarantee the ability to send an SMS to, eg, a Chinese phone number. SMS isn't even widely used in a lot of locales outside North America. Email works the same…
Peopleware is astonishingly relevant and short enough to finish reading over a weekend. Definitely recommend it to anyone starting a career in tech. Then give it a second glance 5-10 years in and see how many more…
Is the code or any of the models available to the public? I'd love to mess with this on a local GPU cluster.
Not offended at all. I do see some Meditations showing through here. There is a lot of wisdom to be found in that work, and plenty of parallels to be drawn to the modern world -- Aurelius was, after all, dealing with…
The student dating event I described was among university students, so 18-22 age range. Japanese goukon are usually among the working crowd, but they're not exclusively for >30.
This articulates something that feels quite truthful, but one has to take care not to assume that every sexual phenomenon is biological. For example in the States, in matching tools like group dating events and dating…
This seems backwards -- anecdotally, it feels like the most politically active people I know are doing quite well for themselves. In contrast, those who are working harder to make ends meet seem more likely to be…
I was under the impression that spending your crypto required you to file and pay capital gains tax. If this is true, won't you have to have a line item for every single purchase you made with this card for the whole…
To my understanding, the GPL does not require acknowledging the original author's contributions any more publicly than the Apache license (used by the project). The Apache license already requires preserving the…
Sadly, I think you are right. All reasoning starts with postulates that you cannot prove. For ethics and politics, these axioms are our emotions and values. Two people who have a different set of values can't have a…
I was thinking the same thing -- obscure its view with a few well-placed paintballs and see who shows up to clean it.
This is a godsend. Zoom screen share doesn't seem to work at all on Wayland.
The original Project Zero article was discussed here 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22315235
Maybe I'm missing some nuance here, but most of these (excepting maybe "Complicated explanations are suspect" and "All interconnection is apparent") just seem like different manifestations of fundamental attribution…
GTK isn't any more "native" than Qt -- they're both abstractions atop X (or Wayland, or Broadway).
Can I ask what you're using to park them? I have a few unused domains myself.
The trouble with this argument is that both sides agree with it.
I was under the impression that Google Play Store apps were cryptographically signed by the developer/publisher (not by Google), and the phone would refuse to update the app if the key behind the signature had changed.…
The state of Washington publishes the entire voter roll, complete with names, addresses, and dates of birth, online in CSV format. https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/vrdb-current.zip
When authoritarianism is prevailing, the shrinking of the Overton window is, to my mind, exactly what one would expect.
The exact example you mentioned (a person's weight being taboo) was my first "culture shock" when learning Japanese. My mind was opened to the multitude of prejudices carried just by speaking English many times after…
SESTA and FOSTA are certainly DC's doing, but I think it's fair to say there is a serious aversion to sexuality and eroticism among incumbent platforms, that did not require any prodding from US lawmakers. For example,…
I get where you're coming from, but this website is called Hacker News. Getting around limits is a primary part of the tradition.
Japan's expressways are privatized and tolled per-kilometer. They are competing with long-distance train lines, so the toll is in the same ballpark as a train ticket (about 13000 yen or $110 from Tokyo to Osaka). The…
I'm the furthest thing from a lawyer, but "knowingly and intentionally" sounds to my lay self like it's a test of mens rea. If I were operating a Tor node in the EU, I would probably assume until stated otherwise that…
Being able to send an SMS to a US phone number does not guarantee the ability to send an SMS to, eg, a Chinese phone number. SMS isn't even widely used in a lot of locales outside North America. Email works the same…
Peopleware is astonishingly relevant and short enough to finish reading over a weekend. Definitely recommend it to anyone starting a career in tech. Then give it a second glance 5-10 years in and see how many more…
Is the code or any of the models available to the public? I'd love to mess with this on a local GPU cluster.
Not offended at all. I do see some Meditations showing through here. There is a lot of wisdom to be found in that work, and plenty of parallels to be drawn to the modern world -- Aurelius was, after all, dealing with…
The student dating event I described was among university students, so 18-22 age range. Japanese goukon are usually among the working crowd, but they're not exclusively for >30.
This articulates something that feels quite truthful, but one has to take care not to assume that every sexual phenomenon is biological. For example in the States, in matching tools like group dating events and dating…
This seems backwards -- anecdotally, it feels like the most politically active people I know are doing quite well for themselves. In contrast, those who are working harder to make ends meet seem more likely to be…
I was under the impression that spending your crypto required you to file and pay capital gains tax. If this is true, won't you have to have a line item for every single purchase you made with this card for the whole…
To my understanding, the GPL does not require acknowledging the original author's contributions any more publicly than the Apache license (used by the project). The Apache license already requires preserving the…
Sadly, I think you are right. All reasoning starts with postulates that you cannot prove. For ethics and politics, these axioms are our emotions and values. Two people who have a different set of values can't have a…
I was thinking the same thing -- obscure its view with a few well-placed paintballs and see who shows up to clean it.
This is a godsend. Zoom screen share doesn't seem to work at all on Wayland.
The original Project Zero article was discussed here 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22315235
Maybe I'm missing some nuance here, but most of these (excepting maybe "Complicated explanations are suspect" and "All interconnection is apparent") just seem like different manifestations of fundamental attribution…
GTK isn't any more "native" than Qt -- they're both abstractions atop X (or Wayland, or Broadway).
Can I ask what you're using to park them? I have a few unused domains myself.
The trouble with this argument is that both sides agree with it.
I was under the impression that Google Play Store apps were cryptographically signed by the developer/publisher (not by Google), and the phone would refuse to update the app if the key behind the signature had changed.…
The state of Washington publishes the entire voter roll, complete with names, addresses, and dates of birth, online in CSV format. https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/vrdb-current.zip
When authoritarianism is prevailing, the shrinking of the Overton window is, to my mind, exactly what one would expect.