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Since the late 80s, Sweden has a system where on the first day when you're off work due to illness, you're not paid ("karensdag").

I started working just before this system was put in place, and there was so much sick leave claimed that people were seriously wondering why Swedish workplaces were so unhealthy. A year after the reform, the numbers fell precipitously.

the project is licensed under the EPL

5. No Warranty

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This is Søren, not Emil.

Maybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope

Past results is no guarantee of future performance.

The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.

Dubai's brand (before the war) was "you're welcome to come here to make money, but criticize the government and you're out". I'm sure there's a ton of young influencers who don't know the first thing about the place to not have internalized it, but I remember a spate of articles and books about 15 years ago of Westerners falling afoul of the local laws and losing everything.

Finally someone taking AGI x-risk seriously.

cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-c...

GNU has its own documentation format called 'info'.

(... less common section numbers)

One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read about it.

The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.

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The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It consumed as much electricity as a small town.

Surprisingly light though...

There's also the possibility that we, as consumers, demand that the political system solves this issue with robust privacy legilsation that prohibits any entity from tracking our phones.

Argh the liberal admixture of different units (mpg, kg, L, hr) in the first table really brings home that this is a UK piece.

Would Teller have had to mail Hoover though? Or just let the concerned people know that Feynman was unsuitable.

The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner.

I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.

I have read a lot of Asimov. That's why I said there's better stuff out there.

Even his contempories were better - Bester and Simak run rings around him.

Or don't. There's so much more better SF out there.

And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.

They also, in many camps, used the inmates as slave labor.

(2024)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513

Did my own research, and the Swedish police has decided not to continue with the complaint:

https://omni.se/assanges-anmalan-mot-nobelstiftelsen-laggs-n...

from 2025-12-19

Machine translation in part:

The report contained no information indicating that a crime had been committed. Therefore, no preliminary investigation is being initiated, Rikard Ekman of the police told AFP.

Thanks for posting the link to the PDF. I've long tried to find the specific references to the legal grounds for the complaint.

You don't happen to have a reference to the status in the Swedish legal system? The police are responsible for referring this stuff to a prosecutor, and that status should be public.

https://lobste.rs/about#invitations

Apparently, to simplify sorting.

Disregard sibling comment

From the about page

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I used to be active in chat and invited many users but I'm not that active now.

I had a burst of interest in Gemini when it was "cool", but ultimately HTML scratches my publishing itch.

The Lagrange browser is an impressive piece of software. Recommended.

The HN de-sensationalize algo for submission titles needs tweaking. Original title is simply "Huge Binaries".

Since the start, each problem has 2 parts (2 "stars"). Part one sets up the problem, ensures you have parsed the input correctly, etc. After submitting the correct answer to that part, part 2 is revealed, which sometimes expands the proplem space, adds new limits, etc. Something that solves part 1 might be inadequate for part 2.