skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, I think individual action is quite useless to stop climate change. Too many people still do too many things that have a more negative impact. For example, SUVs is still a fast-growing car segment (the fastest?). The number of SUVs in Germany (where I live) have significantly increased over the years. People want their fat cars.

On the other hand, if more and more people demand certain things, for example organic food, then it causes companies and politics to change their behavior. If nobody wants microplastic-free soap and shampoo, nothing will change. If 50 people per day ask in a supermarket for microplastic-free soap and shampoo, management might notice.

But then: One big supermarket chain in Germany (REWE) ditched plastic bags altogether for paper bags and reusable cotton bags. I don't know what caused this – customers asking for it, politics, or some marketing guy with a "go green" mission. But obviously, this has a much larger impact on the environment than educating the masses about "reusing their shopping bags".

In a way, "saving the enviroment" is something that starts on an individual level, but the real useful stuff is actually implemented through politics, laws, and ultimately corporations chaning their behavior (or forcing a certain behavior on the masses, like REWE did).

Edit: The question now is: What can I do to make political changes happen on an individual level? Is it really my behavior that changes anything? Or can I have more leverage in any other way?
It is probably more mature then a research prototype as it has received more real-world testing.
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Or to many people, they may feel that their everyday 'sacrifices' are enough.

"i switch off all the bulbs and recycle all my bags. i should be able to buy that nice SUV i want"

Which effect, identifying with environmentalism or i-do-enough-ism, is stronger takes research to find out.
Your "challenge" isn't difficult at all. Just look at every EU country where Christian democrats and other conservative parties neither trump up stories of voter fraud nor pursue policies to keep young people, women, urban dwellers or gays from voting, even though that "hurts" them (because their voters tend to be older, straight men in rural areas). This may be changing with the rise of far-right parties, but hasn't been much of an issue thus far [1].

The Brian Kemps of this world really are exceptionally malicious, and your attempts to normalize their behavior are completely misguided.

1: https://us.boell.org/2017/11/01/achtung-voter-suppression-co...
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flibe can also be used in thorium reactor and at a much smaller scale, I guess to make fusion reactors feasible you need to scale up the supply and demand of flibe. what better way to do that than create thorium reactors too.
Mossad aren't exactly known for being subtle. Just look at the way they took out the guy they mistook Ahmed Bouchikhi for. Sure, they got their man... along with his four bodyguards and four bystanders. Not to mention the sixteen people injured when their bomb attack on Ali Hassan Salameh went off.
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For anyone that isn't aware, this is a brilliant tool. I just wish it supported ARM hardware (as far as I remember there are some interrupts that clobber state, so this can't be used. Please fill in the details if anyone remembers).
Yeah, though I recognize the sayings through 'pop culture' obviously. As it goes "all generalizations are bad!". But I'm under the impressions that they meant this is a poem known to all _American_ readers which could be possible if it is required high school material.

Personally I'd have expected 'The Raven' by Poe to be more well known, but that might just be my bubble. :)
From the statute:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

> (a) The home address, telephone number, email address, precinct number, or other number specified by the Secretary of State for voter registration purposes, and prior registration information shown on the affidavit of registration, is confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person, except pursuant to Section 2194 of the Elections Code.

Section 2194 (3) of the Elections Code: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

> Shall be provided with respect to any voter, subject to the provisions of Sections 2166, 2166.5, 2166.7, and 2188, to any candidate for federal, state, or local office, to any committee for or against any initiative or referendum measure for which legal publication is made, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, or political purposes, or for governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State.

Both OutVote and VoteWithMe state political and election purposes in their respective About pages:

> VoteWithMe is powered by The New Data Project. In the current climate, causes and campaigns too often lack the time, expertise, and flexibility to work beyond immediate deadlines. The New Data Project (NDP) is a new 501(c)(4) organization built to address this gap by testing new approaches, looking beyond the current cycle, and serving as an advanced technology research lab for progressives. [0]

> Our mission is to promote voter participation within progressive campaigns, this November and beyond. [1]

[0] https://votewithme.us/about.html

[1] https://www.outvote.io/faqs
For better or worse this is standard practice for how most people get their beliefs about pretty much everything. Some people are more discerning in who they believe and others more skeptical but a lot of people will just add random fact to their knowledge base because they heard it from someone they know.
I wonder if some day, some one will anonymously post solution to the P vs NP problem, without fully understanding the scope and effect of the solution on the world.

Some times not knowing the history and hardness of a tasks helps in a novice attempting an impossible task, and arriving at the solution, completely ignorant of the history of the problem.
I also didn't like the suggestion that FSF should compromise. Every year I find myself more sympathetic to their point of view.

It's funny, really. A decade ago, I hated GPL, would avoid GPL dependencies and favour LGPL and MIT for both projects I used and projects I wrote. But today, I'm increasingly liking GPL/AGPL. The past decade made me realize how exploitative the market is, and how it slowly but surely robs individuals out of capabilities. RMS may talk about "Service as a Software Substitute", but in general, we get services to substitute for individuality, self-reliance and basic human capabilities. You mention TVs, printers and tractors. It took me a while to internalize what those examples mean, but I finally did, and find myself looking increasingly like a free software activist.

You say, "Perhaps not very many people agree with that, but I'll tell you that there are a hell of a lot more these days than there were 35 odd years ago.". Well, now you can count me as one.
How does the abstraction of order from number to letter help people understand what is required?

Or is the concern the possibility of confusion around "rank 1-5" vs "Score candidates out of 5" etc
Yes, you can fly without ID. The TSA’s website says as much: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification

At least in my state, you can also travel on a train, go to a baseball game, attend a concert, and buy lottery tickets and cigarettes and beer (provided you look old enough) without ID.

If you want to make a voter ID compulsory, let’s have that discussion but included within it must be that the card is free, available the same day, easy to get on a weekend, accepted by every state and territory and voting location, and has minimal paperwork requirements for all circumstances of birth including home, midwife, unknown parent or parents, overseas, and domestic to two non-citizen parents.

Until you do that, the ID requirement is effectively disenfranchisement and that cannot stand for voting.
Desperate move by Intel. They are stuck with Cascade Lake until 2021, when their 'new' architecture will be available.
In order this Xeon to be under 300W TDP, they disabled the Hyper Threading and when they benchmark vs AMD Epyc they disabled AMD's SMT. Just wow.
If anyone is interested in a practical attack that relates to this problem, you could check out Samy Kamkar's open sesame [1]. It leverages De Bruijn (explained in the post) to create an efficient sequence containing the required permutations.

The short description is: a project using a child's radio-toy to open a garage door, without knowing the correct code.

[1] http://samy.pl/opensesame/
I'm not speaking theoretically at all.

Obviously you can shrink both. But my guess is you need to keep the Chinese bigger.

I don't know if it's 1:1. I can't read Chinese so I can't give exact legibility numbers. But when I shrink the text closer to the limits of legible English, with letters still basically intact, many of the Chinese characters are completely destroyed (while some are perfectly fine, but with more information per character losing any of them is much worse).
Apple iPad Pro review 2018: the fastest iPad is still an iPad
Is that the major factor? I'd thought it was more:

* Proximity to low latency backbone connections (originally located there due to government agencies)

* Tax incentives by VA

* Low risk area for disasters

* Cheap power

* Available land
It seems to me that, if you were to write that in Java, these would just be regular functions returning arrays of Strings or something similar. There would be a similar shortening of the source code. (It still wouldn't be as short, of course, but the same shortening would take place.)

Am I missing something? What's the special macro-ness here that is different from regular functions?
In the abstract that is certainly true, but you are missing the bigger picture. You are acting as though people are somehow able to discern what is and isn’t an emergency and decide that all by themselves with perfect accuracy.

The point here is that it is preferable to sometimes use resources badly in order to avoid sometimes not at all using the resource when it would be necessary. The point is to not discourage people from calling 911 (or the local equivalent).

If there actually are constrained resources† then, sure, that cultural value should probably be set somewhat differently, but I cannot for the life of me imagine why that should be the case in the US. It’s not necessary to set that value differently. (If it were that would be a real shame for US healthcare and you should demand immediate change from your political representatives.)

—

† I am aware that at some point all resources are constrained. What I’m talking about here is that the system should be designed in such a way that there is spare capacity availible at all times when looking at the maximum number of required ambulances at the same time during, say, the past twelve months.
Federal Judge Allows to Block Native Americans in North Dakota from Voting
As part of that commitment, we commissioned an independent human rights impact assessment on the role of our services in Myanmar and today we are publishing the findings.

An entity paid by FB to investigate its misconduct is, by definition, not "independent".
From that writeup, it seems like one is forced to program Rust in an object oriented manner. Is it possible to program it in a functional manner like Lisp, or a procedural manner like BASIC or assembler?
The salami strategy! Thanks for sharing. It makes some good points. Basically you can't defend your allies if all you have is nuclear weapons. Mind you, maybe you don't need allies either. If anyone is foolish enough to invade you directly, you wipe them (and yourself) out. Probably no state is that suicidal to bring on such a suicidal response (isn't that a logical contradiction?)
> I don't see a reason to still use software encryption.

Why not? Software encryption can still be hardware accelerated (thanks to encryption instructions in the CPU), and it is fast enough to not be a bottleneck unless you have a very fast IO device (and very fast in this case mean either Optane or modern SSD's in RAID-0). Also, the impact in CPU usage/power consumption is low.
But software - the best kind of software - is really more similar to a screwdriver than a book. A book is just data, and more useful as an example in discussions about IP/piracy. Software is a tool. My copy of `dd` is my screwdriver. My copy of Emacs is my combine harvester. Software freedoms are connected to the idea that you should be able to own your tools, and use them as you see fit.
If you think 3 hours a week is enough to make you "fit" - we have very different definitions of that word. Certainly, 3 hours a week is a lot better than nothing, and does make an absolutely huge difference over a sedentary lifestyle, but it's not going to make you what I would call fit, unless those three hours are incredibly intense. (to be clear, I think I'm a long ways away from 'fit' - I do pretty reliably hit your 3 hour a week number.)

That, and excess fat is a problem, even if the rest of you is strong Over the last six months, I went from about 100kg to 90kg; (now I'm about as far as you are from my ideal weight, at least with the muscle mass that is historically realistic and a fat content goal that isn't.) We will see if I can keep up my calorie counting and make it to the goal or not.

Oddly, I can lift a lot more and run a lot less than you can. Running seems to be a lot harder on my knees than squats are. I could run forever and squat very little when I was young and skinny. I still bicycle, but running, if I really push myself, pretty reliably ends in minor injury, and I always attributed this to the extra weight I wasn't carrying around as a youngster.

my problem before calorie counting was that it didn't matter how much I worked out, working out makes me hungry, and I'd put on more fat to go with the new muscle, and... that gets to be a problem. I mean, I wasn't weak, sure, but I was also 30% body fat. That's... a lot more fat than is healthy for a guy. I started developing the medical problems you'd expect from someone who was on the low end of obese. After losing enough weight to put me reliably in the 'just overweight' classification, some of those problems seem to be receding.

I mean, I'm losing muscle, too, which is bad; I can't lift what I could three months ago; partly just 'cause I'm eating less and partly 'cause I switched to a new office and there's a lot more contention for the barbells than there was at the old office, so while I'm not doing a lot less cardio, I am doing a lot less lifting.

But I have a whole lot of confidence in my ability to build muscle; if I can prove that I can actually lose fat... well, that would be a new thing for me. That, and in spite of my neglect of the gym, I am feeling better, and like I said, objective measures like blood pressure are looking better, so that seems like a datapoint, for me at least, to say that excess fat matters and is a real problem that needs to be dealt with.

(on the other hand, those health metrics might be improving because I've treated the obesity-associated problems. Sleep apnea messes you up good, but is fairly straightforward to treat. So maybe that's why I'm doing better rather than the reduced excess fat. But, sleep apnea is very strongly correlated with excess fat. Still, it's possible that just treating the sleep apnea and then working out while continuing to be fat would result in the same sorts of improvement in overall health. If I'm being truthful, vanity is a big driver of me wanting to lose weight. I mean, the health benefits are also really important, but there's vanity in there too.)
Good point - I'd forgotten that the primaries are all run by the states, not by parties like the caucuses. So it doesn't matter if it's on one day or not, they should be able to have a master list of "has voted" that gets marked no matter which party ballot you submitted.

So, the only scenario where you need to know which primary they voted in is for states with an open primary that can also have a run-off election, which would give you the option of voting in a D primary first round and the R primary runoff if they didn't keep track (e.g Georgia has this system - https://www.wabe.org/party-matters-in-georgias-primary-runof...)
> startet using oat milk for their coffee

Are you and they using honey or white sugar from farmed sugarcanes? For the environment sake I wish that vegan diet would include honey as it has a big net-positive effect on the environment compared to farmed sugarcanes by not causing eutrophication or water pollution, and helps with pollination both for wild forests and agriculture.
real currency on anonymous
message boards is the quality
and content of your ...

I suggest to generalise this great insight: anonymity, and the requirement that one's arguments must be valid independent from any reputation associated with the speaker, is the core essence of the scientific method. The edge case is mathematical proof: nobody would accept a mathematical theorem because it was from <famous person>. Instead it must be accompanied by a proof, a proof so detailed that everyone can verify it. Over 2000 years ago, Plato (in his Meno) use the slave boy as an example for "everyone", while today, we are even more stringent: even a machine (e.g. Isabelle/HOL, Agda, Coq, Lean), the prototypical mechanised slave, must understand a proof.

Scholarly tools like anonymous peer review, double blind reviews, double blind experiemnts, anonymous grading etc all work precisely because of anonymity.

A key mechanisim behind the positive qualities of anonymity is that the anonymous author no longer must fear punishment for the anonmous speech. The key invention here was the invention of writing, which enabled the separation (in space and time) between author and audience. This was amplified by the invention of the printing press (which amphified the audience), and later the internet.

I'm not a historian of writing, but I suggest the following hypothesis: contemporary arguments against online anonymity (e.g. leads to trolling etc) are structurally somewhat similar to (but not idential with ) historical arguments against writing and the printing press.
We've been doing the same thing, and it's great. We've also taken more time to sell unused items, even if they're only worth $10-$20. I look at it as a more effective form of recycling.
The resolve to this apparent paradox is easy. You can like the civilization on this planet yet not care one iota about the gene pool (of course you have to care about it to the extent needed to reproduce humans, on which the civilization relies for the foreseeable future, but no more than that).

Let me give you an analogy. Is teaching meaningless? I mean, why do it, when you're not going to be around when people you teach will run things. You're trying to give advice to someone else, without being sure that they will follow it when you're not around.

So, I posit, not having kids and working on resolving climate change is useful, just like it is useful to teach or do your job properly to be an example for further generations doing that job.
Unfortunately the report itself uses diplomatic language which can be hard to parse.

Which is, of course, central to the very purpose of the report.
AI learns to play Hill Climb Racing [video]
As opposed to node with runtime implemented in C++?
Out of curiosity, if someone proved P to not equal NP, what kind of scope and effect would it bring to the world outside academia? P == NP would obviously be a world-transforming proof
You'll see these kind of preferences long before kids have been exposed to much more than their parents, and even if their parents try to hard to avoid it.
Arlington has been running a fairly high office vacancy rate for a long time. Amazon moving in doesn't really require new construction.

https://data.arlingtonva.us/dataviews/227253/vacancy-rates/
One number cited in this article is scary: 30% of jobs in the US don’t pay enough for a single adult to feed, clothe, and house themselves.

As long as this is the case, it doesn’t matter how far any given individual pulls themselves up by their own bootstraps. Nearly a third of our population - if they are going to work at all - will be stuck doing jobs that leave them hungry.
I think ideally the government sees it as net positive for democracy to maximize the participation of as much of its electorate as possible, in order for the process, and the winners, to have as much legitimacy and buy-in as possible. In an ideal world, no one would have to be "nagged", but realistically, everyone has limits on their time and attention span. Why is the college student who finally agrees to go with a friend any less of a valued participant than the retired citizen who has no other time commitments?

Party affiliation is part of voter registration in the states that run primaries. Primaries are not part of the Constitution, and before the 1970s, party candidates were picked via convention, i.e. party elites. Making the primary vote accessible to all voters was ostensibly an attempt to democratize the selection process. Seems like it'd be logistically difficult to hold party votes without having a record of voter affiliation.
Well, you could make a point that if everyone has powerful appliances at home then the network has to be robust enough to handle quick changes in power needed. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

So, in a sense, boiling water with gas has less externalities.

EDIT: You can of course also argue, if we can't have powerful appliances why bother with electricity at all. I'm just saying it's not an issue that can be so easily dismissed
They are grown up enough to tell you, but that does not mean that they're quantifiable as doing as well as others.
Given theverge's historical tendency to love everything Apple, I can't tell if that headline is supposed to be ironic or not.

So ofcourse I had to go check out the article. Could we be speaking about a new and ultra-subtle form of click-bait? :)
Who said people have to decide all by themselves with perfect accuracy? Not me. Tesla employs medical professionals to make that decision. In the absence of that, people can call their doctor or 911 for advice depending on the urgency. Even a call to 911 doesn't always have to end in an ambulance ride.
TL;DR as I see it: there's permissive vs copyleft dichotomy in licenses. Both camps are made out of activists and commercial players - copyleft camp has FSF and upstarts, permissive camp has BSD hackers and corporations. The situation is changing, as the commercial players from both camps joined together trying to forge their own "open source" license type, leaving activists from both camps aside.
> Having medical professionals decide whether an ambulance is appropriate, instead of patients, is one of the main things the article is slamming Tesla for doing.

TFA says Tesla managers made a policy to not involve emergency services. They are not entitled to make either a policy or a decision in this regard.

In other countries making such a policy is flat out illegal, telling subordinates to not involve emergency services is illegal and following such directions from superiors is illegal as well.
No. At price X, there are Y tons that are economically extractable; at price 2X there are more than Y tons that are economically extractable. If you want more than Y tons of it, the price is going to have to be more than X.
> Sheltered from fallout radiation

It might be included in this, but you'd also want to have an air supply isolated from fallout.