skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't an unencrypted website also fail the same test? You need specific software (web browser) to access a website. And if you allow that, encrypted websites (TLS) would probably fail because you further need a browser that supports TLS.

If those don't fail, I don't see how Tor would fail, since Tor requires similar software (Tor browser) that if freely available, just like a web browser.

Likewise, wouldn't other services, like video games and chat applications also fail because you can only access those through a specific app?

Honestly, this seems completely unenforceable. If there's proof you've done something illegal, you can already be charged with that. If there isn't, then this law is too vague to add anything. This law should go straight to the dumpster...
1. No points for non travel/dining currently
2. $0.01 = 1 point
Interesting. I've got several banking apps, each of which sends push notifications for charges. Either there's wiggle room on what's deemed truly "private", or everyone's openly violating this.
It honestly wouldn't shock me if, taken as a whole, over half of reddit comments and posts are either paid shills, bots, or propagandists.
Now just make bottled water from cow urine and profit.
A shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim Jong Un raided a North Korean embassy
Any website could be a place where it is "more than just sharing ideas...they're now websites where people incite and plan violent crimes."

There are many SFW boards on 4chan related to specific hobbies. I have learned a lot from diy, fa, mu, g, and ck. There are many NSFW boards on 4chan that do contain posts inciting violence.

The same situation is present on reddit, but due to advertiser interest, subs get banned.

There were crazy people before 4chan and there will be crazy people after. Removing a site does less than helping those in need before they become radicals.
Worth noting that despite the epic rain this season, San Diego county is still "abnormally dry".
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Ah, but in this case you have already done the spec, otherwise the type system couldn't have checked it.

With a more loose way of going about things, you don't have to write the spec. Spec'ing is hard, sometimes harder than actually solving the problem.

I feel like someone is going to point out that spec'ing is a lifesaver in a certain situation, and I would agree. But perhaps not all situations.
Ah I did confuse Origin Launcher for Epic. Thanks for addressing that.
You are incorrect. The argument structure does not lead to the conclusion that the amount of emissions is necessarily higher. It's too ambiguous for that. It's possible to infer more than one argument structure from the writing. It was a series of questions and a statement, not a series of premises and a conclusion.

Different readers will infer different argument structures, but what I find interesting is that the assumed answers to the questions are conditioned on effort expended in becoming greener. So the questions are implicitly polarizing.

People with Tesla's who have taken steps to ensure zero emissions are more likely to respond no to each question. They are also more likely to do this, because they've invested significant resources toward producing an environment that doesn't have externalities. It isn't a random sampling. For someone who assumes no or for whom the assumption of no being possible is obvious, the implied argument is invalid. For others, it's easier to arrive at a yes to every question. Neither answer is correct though, because these questions are not able to be answered in a yes or no fashion. The actual answer is that this is conditioned on investment in green energy infrastructure. You'll notice many arguing in other comments to the effect that this is a boring argument, entirely on the basis of ongoing investment into green energy infrastructure. That doesn't happen randomly. They've thought through the implied argument structure and moved beyond it to the causally important factor on which the not quite an argument hinges.

And they call the argument boring; which it is, especially if you've ever bothered to consume any Tesla marketing since it tackles this question (spoiler alert: the efficiency gain is one of the reasons to buy a Tesla, not an argument against).
Even with a top down approach you can end up with insane type level machinations or group/category theory that only the best Haskell developer can decode. Sure it's elegant, but damn near indecipherable.
I think a great hole-in-the-wall meat and three fills a similar niche. Good barbecue is the great social equalizer in the South.
Instead of giving cashback/point, why don't lower the transaction fee instead ?
Everyone agrees* that the gov't should at its root fundamental level handle infrastructure. Water, the most essential element to human life, should have been prioritized over over every other foolish pet project. Let's hope it gets done; looks like it's going nowhere: https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-droug...

*I don't agree, but let's go with it
I thought California. Has the best climate in the country?
>It seems like a much better solution to this 'problem' is let cows live outdoors and graze on grass.

With the number of cattle on this planet, this would require an insane amount of land.

>FDA should mandate that all cows raised in confinement conditions get labeled as "prison beef'.

I'm sure people would consume less if the simply put slaughter pictures on each piece of meat they buy. Rather than outsource the killing to a third party, which keeps people emotionally detached from the killing of billions of animals every year.
There's a lot of burn out and bitterness that goes along with being a Sysadmin. The stereotypical "shouted at that you are incompetent when things go wrong, shouted at that you are lazy when nothing goes wrong" comic is very true.

/r/sysadmin reflects that thankless nature of the job. I'm lucky to have gotten through my ~20 years of being one without any major health issues from stress.
Trolls are not persons, they are characters.

There were a lot of trolls in the old days of newsgroups, and none of them fit in any of your categories: they were neither in it for the money, and they certainly were not true believers. They were in it for the entertainment. The best way to fight them was to ignore them, hoping that the lack of reaction would bore them.

In 1997, imagine that you are arguing with the user Voldemort on comp.sys.mac, as he is claiming that the Mac is awful, that Mac users are idiots, and that surely Apple will be dead by year 2000. Maybe J.K. Rowling agrees with you that the iMac will save Apple. But that's completely irrelevant because you are not arguing with her: you are arguing with the evil character she created, that wishes death upon the Mac world. What you need for Voldemort to calm down is not to win the argument against him, but to convince the author of altering the behavior of her character. An entirely pointless endeavor...

EDIT: that said, I agree that the internet landscape has massively changed since the nineties.
Modern Western society, especially American society, seems to put all its attention on the subset of people who have difficulty coping with tragedy. It makes sense that that's where attention will shift as a society becomes prosperous and safe. You can finally begin to optimize on the 10% problems.

But most people have okay coping skills as tragedy was common place for hundreds of thousands of years. Using the same strategies can re-victimize them. Think of PTSD. The problem with PTSD is an inability of the mind to let go--a person is always reliving the moment in terms of stressfulness, if not literal imagery and thoughts. Forcing someone to sit in a room and discuss a tragic experience whose memory of the experience has already, naturally begun to fade into the background is its own tragedy.

That's my $0.02. Maybe I'm just naive.
I wouldn't bet my PhD on it, or get the entirety of my education on a complex subject from it. Though it has a TON of factually correct statements. It is a good starting point for a ton of stuff, and I would never wish it to be gone.
What is a moderate approach? Blocking distribution of a gunmans rampage seems ok to me. Allowing angry rap music seems fine. Where is the line?
...and he was ultimately executed for it.

That behavior is acceptable in an academic setting, but nobody blithely posting contrarian or inflammatory content on a fansite or Facebook is doing it because they're hoping to inspire Socratic discourse.
Oh my god, as someone who works in the consumer IoT space this is hilarious AND informative for people who don't know how MESSED UP this space is. OP expect a donation when I get home tonight.
I've seen that before. It certainly doesn't say it's impossible. I need to have look in the certification requirement but I'm pretty sure it would be uncertifiable if the trim couldn't be neutralised.
The meaning of the word has changed somewhat; it was mostly about curiosity and exploration in the 80s/90s. Less of the economy was reliant on computers so there wasn't much crime to commit beyond mere unauthorized access. Heck, "2600: The Hacker Quarterly" could be found on the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble back then.
> the political and media classes hail him as some sort of superlative political leader

Look around and see what we have to compare him to. The bar is pretty low in general nowadays.
Yes, the body of text in law is usually nearly burdensome with all the flowery language that makes it seem like they're trying to cover edge cases (and sardonic comment aside, I'll grant your assumption legislators want to cover as many edge cases as possible to prevent loopholes).

But at least in the United States, very many of the sentences in our laws end with weasel phrases like "or similar uses" and "or other software" and "or related activity", which is exactly where the problem arises, and where interested parties are inserting their own special loopholes. And sure, we hope that these loopholes get hammered out in the courts in our favor some years later -- that is, if there happens to be a good and willing samaritan that is more "invested" in taking the issue to court to try for an outcome which is favorable for the public versus one favorable to corporations or the police or the wealthy. But I'll just go ahead and continue supporting the option where the stupid law isn't created in the first place. Even if that means the police don't get their bogey man running a dark market.
There are some US companies that will let you work remotely.
These people tend to be extremely online, I am skeptical blocking a couple websites will change their overall behavior or ideologies. I suspect they'd just make a different website.
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is it legal to get rain barrels and other types of rain collection systems?
Well, that's after you conveniently take away the fact that Pakistan essentially started the latest skirmish. You really can't blame India for responding to the murder of their people on their soil, can you?
Right. That’s true. Is a fetus property? Are pets property? Women used to be property. Children? Are thoughts property? Bodily fluids, organs and DNA can all be deemed property and can be ‘owned’.

Possession is not ownership. So hypothetically..how can we make a case that our bodies are our properties? Legally speaking? How does one prove ownership?
This is incredible! Thank you for posting and outlining all your work! As a fellow 80s/90s kid, this is extremely my shit.
Hey, we're talking superstitions, not 100% true facts like the existence of Hell.

That said, I'm inclined to distrust Pew's evaluations on this matter, since so many of their surveys are done by phone, and the methodology seem almost certain to cause a disproportionate focus on those people who have a landline and are either without caller id or who just go ahead and answer calls from unknown callers. This was true just a year or two ago, and I'm not really inclined to re-evaluate their methodology. Actual numbers of church attendance don't seem to reflect the trends that Pew finds, and tend to point to even more dramatic declines in observance. Obviously this is biased towards larger cities, but so is the population density so it isn't a total illusion.
I prefer the definition as described in UK Law under the Theft Act 1968:

Blackmail consists of making an unwarranted demand with menaces with a view to making a gain or causing a loss.

This article seems to focus on ANY demand - your credit card 'threatening' to release information about your non-payment, for example. That is part of your agreement. That is not unwarranted. That is not blackmail.

Heres some clarification with case law (again, this is UK): http://www.e-lawresources.co.uk/Blackmail.php
And this article doesn't even mention Bluetooth Mesh. Yes, it's still very new and yet to be deployed to the extent of Z-Wave and ZigBee, but with the ability to directly connect to smartphones Bluetooth Mesh could overtake those protocols in a few years.
> while free speech laws might protect the content of speech they don't protect the manner of said speech or the forum in which such speech occur

Yes they do, the standard may be a bit lower, but they still have to show that a bunch of conditions apply.
That's why I built https://github.com/Nick-Gottschlich/Social-Amnesia

Sure as hell ain't perfect but can potentially clean up some of what you have out there.
This is a good argument, but isn't privacy all about keeping secrets from the public?

Incentives are tricky and I'm not sure we can clearly distinguish between "good" privacy and "bad" privacy. There are clear-cut cases but also a lot of grey.

But I guess that's why it's better to avoid incentives and hope for good judgement.
Tech giants' free pass means they haven't innovated in years
Netflix Uses Flink for Scale Data Processing – Flink Forward Preview
I think the word the GP was looking for is "Kafkaesque".
The Brexit Blog: This is what a politics based on lies looks like
Well after reading the article I found that it discussed the economical advantages this system could bring. " To limit ammonia emissions from the agricultural sector, dairy farmers have to pay high fees to meet ammonia emission and manure disposal requirements. Therefore, ammonia reduction is a high priority for many dairy farmers.
Grinding leetcode or similar things would probably work if you have the right work ethic. You could also consider a coding bootcamp like Lambda School. Way cheaper/less time than a 4-year degree, and they have much better job placement programs. (And will probably teach you the skills needed to pass an interview better than most 4-year undergrad programs would.)
> You could do better by knowingly tuning RGB values—or, even easier, HSV.

Yes, I've been doing generative art (e.g., https://i.redd.it/1tuvtfuwsfz11.png, https://i.redd.it/ymg1ix4t8qu01.png), and one of the challenges has been learning to think about colors differently. At the beginning, I would add a bunch of colors randomly to the art. Recently, I've learned some things about what makes colors look good together.

Basically, colors have three "axes": hue (is the color red? blue? yellow? green? purple? etc), saturation (how _much_ of the hue is there? low (but not 0) means pastel; high means neon), and brightness (low is black, high is bright). Play around with the axes here: https://codepen.io/HunorMarton/details/eWvewo (not mine)

If you're going to have different colors that conceptually are on the same level (e.g., four colors for tiles in a grid; three colors for different generated trees), keep two of the axes the same, and vary the other. You can see one example I've done (https://imgur.com/dFGu9Wg) where I vary the hue, but keep the saturation and brightness the same. In another example (https://i.redd.it/ymg1ix4t8qu01.png), I believe there are two colors, but each one keeps the hue the same and I vary the brightness.
When I visited a friends dairy farm in New Zealand that was not my experience. In conventional farming the cows do live outdoors and are free to graze in large paddocks. Twice a day though the cows are full of milk and will be in pain if not milked. The cows are milked in the dairy twice a day and this is where this innovation applies. When out and about they go wherever, when in the dairy though the urine mixing with the poo seems to be an environmental problem.

A conventional dairy farm does not confine the animals it just collects their milk each day and the cows know the routine.
What a completely unhinged rant. Pink-haired SF crowd my arse.
Ok, so here's my take on most new debit card and checking account offerings.

Things I do not care about:

* points and loyalty programs
* measly 2% APR
* tracking my spending habits
* how the card looks

Things I do care about:

* a card that works and gets accepted (no spurious declines because the bank thought so)
* a card that works with Apple Pay (hi Revolut)
* no nags, upsells, emojis, animated GIFs, or other teenager stuff (hi Revolut)
* do not waste my time
* have secure online access (as in, do not use SMS for 2-factor auth, because really)
* ability to issue new cards quickly
* ability to change my address quickly, even if I move to a different country
* whether the company will disappear and/or steal my money (don't laugh, this happens, and recent Revolut scrutiny scares me)

In other words, I am looking for no-nonsense banking, and a debit card is just a small part of it.

This offering, unfortunately, seems to bring nothing new compared to Revolut.
Neither of whom is white nationalist.
> "prison beef"

It's funny the dissonance of having the video cut between shots of the entrepreneur pitching the product while walking through an open green field, and shots of the cows in standing-room-only stalls.
How the Mighty Fall (2009) [video]
In my experience (anecdata abounds in this thread :P ), everyone here is right! Kids act like their friends in school, and then once in adulthood become more like their parents than they often would like to admit ... so the stuff you teach them as you raise them gets embedded deep, and resurfaces later on (arguably when it really matters ... school is so short in the grand timescale)
They’ve been saying it for years on Chinese boards.
Clarifying the differences between what animals and humans hear
As a Northerner, one of the places I wish the most we had is Waffle House. They're so good, but the closest is ~5 hours away.
I know that I am echoing the same sentiment, but how cool is this! In the video where you demo'd BASIC and had that ball bounce across the screen, my jaw literally dropped, and my mouth stayed open the whole rest of the page. Amazing :)
recovery procedures are developed under certain conditions within certain assumptions, see for example the laudair 004: the recovery procedure couldn't have ever worked under the condition three plane was into.

just that they exists doesn't mean they work. doesn't mean they don't either so the safest bet is to wait for the investigations.
Uantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields
I see what you mean. I thought you meant they were able to bypass the media as gatekeepers, rather than just using the media in a different way.

I'd also add that AOC is able to use social media now to build national support, but she won her primary with old-fashioned shoe leather politics. Even local NYC press didn't run a lot of stories until after she won the primary (I was closely tracking a race in a neighboring district so I think I saw most of what was out there.)
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Many of these things that look like loopholes are actually invocations of standing case-law. I.e., lawyers are relying on an implicit layer of interpretations for these jargon phrases, that have already been "hammered out" in previous litigations.

(Admittedly, some are not. But law written by teams of legislators with centuries of combined legal experience—and passed through dozens of third-party QC checks + redraftings before being submitted for consideration—usually does not have this problem. Or, if it does, then usually it is an "out-of-context problem" nobody could see coming—an interpretation that wouldn't have even made sense to consider at time of drafting—and the first time anyone hits the relevant snag, we get some equally-good lawyers [e.g. the US Supreme Court, for US-Constitution out-of-context problems] in a room to re-interpret the law.)
Something that would help me is an example implementation based on color palette selections. I'm am expert at selecting colors I like :) But I don't necessarily know how to apply color palettes to the elements of a site. What should be primary, secondary, etc?
California is a big state. It has almost all the subtropical climates in it somewhere. https://www.touristmaker.com/climate/california-climate-zone...
There have been many, many dams built since Hetch Hetchy. The region of Hetch Hetchy alone has been expanded threefold with two newer dams that feed into the same bay-area penstocks.

Almonds are exceptionally water intensive, which is why the almond king has been spending so much on Sacramento lobbyists to tilt water rights. California is on it’s way to Arizona so maybe depending on water intensive crops is not the way to go. I don’t care much for baitfish but there should be room for ecology in the overall water plan. Otherwise there won’t be a drop left downstream. Heck maybe we should just let the tree farmers have all the water, after all they’re closer to the main sources!
> Their model used 256 of Google's Cloud TPU v3, though I've not seen training durations. The TPU v3 is only available individually outside of @Google (though @OpenAI likely got special dispensation) which means you'd be paying $8 * 256 = $2048 per hour.

https://twitter.com/Smerity/status/1096189352743301120

> Thanks. So then it was 32 TPUv3s, to be more precise, and sticker-price training costs would then be per Smerity 32 * 24 * 7 * 8 = $43k?

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aqlzde/r_o...
The fact that this is coming out so early in the presidential cycle is a good thing for him though. Lots of time for it to become old news. Lots of time for him to spin it. He seems to be good at spin.

Anyway this makes me respect him more.

Anyone know his handle btw?
Credit cards have specific legal protections and abilities (e.g. chargeback) that debit cards do not. MC's policy (thanks for linking to it!) offers none of those -- for CCs because there's no need, and for debit because the banks really really want to not provide them.

Ironically those protections were pushed for by the CC providers in the 1960s to encourage use of CCs. Now that CCs are ubiquitous, banks are pushing debit cards because they don't have those protections.

It's quite painful trying to get an ATM card from your bank that isn't also a debit card. Doable, but in my experience hard.
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on Diversification
whaah? We have had debit cards in Georgia (Country) with points for years now. Maybe first in the US - Yes.
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>But 4chan and 8chan long ago crossed over the line into being more than just sharing ideas...they're now websites where people incite and plan violent crimes.

This is a quite excessive claim. While posting in these communities is extremely easy, they are also extremely moderated. I'm somewhat familiar with the sites, and I know that while hateful posts do happen, they do get removed and posters do get banned fairly quickly. Often, within seconds. What could pass legally as actual incitement is extremely rare. Most communities and regular threads in these places are extremely friendly.

Ultimately, freedom of speech isn't about being able to say whatever you want, but about others being able to say that which you don't like. Few people understand that.