skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Those observations are also consistent with "Inverting cause and effect", but not in your position's favour.

Actually, they were meant to be both consistent with "Inverting cause and effect" and in my position's favour.

My position isn't that poor areas can't possibly fare lower in IQ tests than richer areas.

It is that (1) IQ tests are not good indicators of human potential (or even of intelligence), (2) IQ tests are biased against poorer people and cultures, (3) poorer people aren't poor because of low IQ, if anything it's the opposite (both in that such tests are stacked against poorer people with less education, and because poverty related stress, lack of nutrition etc, can stall development and thus make you fare worse in cognitive tests, in ways that the exact same person, genetics-wise, wouldn't if they had a richer upbringing).
Probably a naive question, but why don't they use multiple drones instead? Wouldn't that be much safer and cheaper?
"Nuclear power" does evoke France to me. Mis-management and poor safety controls are what Chernobyl evokes for me.

It was close to 90% Nuclear a decade ago though. Some of that has been replaced by renewable sources, some by natural gas :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France
Privacy becomes worth what the market will bear. If that's unaffordable, that's just because it's valuable.

There's all sorts of other premiums on the exercise of your rights in a private context. It's very hard to get a job in information sectors that lets you retain copyright of your creative work, or in general a job that lets you exercise your freedom of speech without potentially risking your job. If you have physical handicaps, it's more expensive to get a house and a car that are accessible (because there are fewer opinions on the market), you can't necessarily use public transit, and your choice of jobs is also quite limited. Medication and treatment for chronic conditions, whether physical or mental, often exceeds what your insurance will pay. Having a child is quite expensive. If someone has wronged you, depending on the issue, getting a lawyer may be very pricy.

If we think that the market should not set a price for certain desirable basic things, it seems like the fault is on society for allowing and encouraging the market to do so in general, not on the market participants for taking rational advantage of it in particular cases. Personally, I'm of the opinion that everyone should get privacy for free, but I'm also of the opinion that everyone should get health care for free.
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I mean it wouldn’t be right to publish a list of all the people with AIDS, right? That could have some implications for the public but it still probably shouldn’t be available.
The Baumol effect does not imply that the value of the doctor is not higher today. It just means that on a per-unit basis physicians are not more productive (and possibly less today thanks to EHR). A doctor can still only see 1 patient every 15 minutes just like they could 50 years ago.

A BMW factory that produces 100 cars/day might be more valuable than a Toyota factory producing 100 cars/day, but it wouldn't be more productive on a per unit basis.
The problem with belly-up charging is that it's ridiculous quite literally. Maybe usable, but ridiculous, that is all.

I think a docking/charging station for the mouse would be more elegant and nice to have, though more expensive too of course.
correct, and that is why I think stable is an important feature.
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Seems like it's solving part of the problems we're having really well, I'll have to read up more on it, thanks!
Trump says US gov will 'take a look' at Thiel's accusations of treason by Google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
The records are no less public in either situation? They can be accessed by anyone, regardless if they’re actively looking for a specific record or stumbling across one while scrolling through their local clerk database on a Saturday afternoon.

I still don’t understand the conceit.

If one were to say checking documents out from a central clerking office acts as a check or something against unauthorized and potentially unethical use of public records, well then yes absolutely I can see some merit.

As delivered presently, not as much.
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I would, except this isn't the forum for those claims. Needless to say, do some browsing of various subreddits and you'll see these opinions--and worse--are indeed shared by many.
> The M5 does a 10.5 1/4 mile

Source? On your wikipedia page it says 10.9 ... Also, it's currently more expensive than a Model S Performance.
Trial and error. I got a list of Google's IP ranges (using something like the technique in [1]) and input them into the app layer firewall and tried browsing using Chrome and nothing broke, but that's because when I use Chrome I don't browse to any Google sites.

I use uMatrix on my main browser and I'm well used to breaking sites, I suppose it's increased my patience for refreshing pages until I find the magic minimum for them to work.

I almost always have to turn off all kinds of blocking when doing a payment though, especially anything involving redirects, like plane tickets. Javascript is the biggest pain, IMO, next would be sites that use Recaptcha.

[1] https://snurps.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-many-ip-addresses-do...
To play devil's advocate, 911 calls are information about yourself that you are giving to the government. There isn't anything more than that which makes it a "public record". I can think of other types of information about yourself that one gives to the government, such as your tax return. Should that be public record, and how is it different to a 911 recording?
Try https://auditus.cc
It won't become unaffordable, it'll just be like cable tv did to commercials. Once they started airing them, they didn't go away, and now you can't get cable without commercials.
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1) Copters have been around a while, drones have only gotten "good enough" in the last 5ish years

2) Its ~30 12 hour days of racing, I am not sure drones have that kind of capacity. Would need many many drones and some complex rotations.
> Off the top of my head I can't imagine a reason why the tent would be such a great place to work.

It's in Fremont California where the weather averages 49-69F with extremes being 42F and 79F. It's outside so constantly moving fresh air, and it's covered so no sun beating down. The ends of the tent appear to be open letting natural light in and allowing you to look out at the sky.

Contrast that to a typical factory that's a climate controlled coffin.

I have no experience working in a factory setting but it seems like it's the difference between running outside vs indoor on a treadmill.
This made me curious: in what accents of English are JSON (J-SON) and Jeison pronounced the same? To answer questions like this (as I'm not a linguist) I first turn to "lexical sets" ([1], [2]) but there I find the related vowel only in the "FACE" set, marked /eɪ/ in both RP and GenAm, with examples "tape, cake, raid, veil, steak, day" not all of which I pronounce with the same vowel. Searching further on the page revealed it's known as the pane-pain merger [3], which says that they are pronounced the same in "most dialects of English":

> In the vast majority of Modern English accents the vowels have been merged; whether the outcome is monophthongal or diphthongal depends on the accent. But in a few regional accents, including some in East Anglia, South Wales, and even Newfoundland, the merger has not gone through (at least not completely), so that pairs like pane/pain are distinct.

And indeed just as in those accents, in my Indian accent too (influenced by spelling pronunciation [4] no doubt, and of course the fact that the distinct vowels exist in the phonemic inventory of Indian languages), I distinguish between the

* /ɛː/ vowel: face, tape, cake, steak, plane, lane, late, pane (and in the context here, JSON)

* /ɛɪ/ vowel: raid, veil, rain, maid, rein, pain (and in the context here, Jeison)

(Wikipedia lists day/play/they with the latter for those accents, but in mine they go with the former.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lexical_set&oldid...

[2]: https://www.uni-due.de/SVE/SNDS_ENG_WhatAreLexicalSets.htm

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phonological_hist...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spelling_pronunci...
I loved the first part of it but there was a time skip in there somewhere and I completely lost interest. I never finished it.
For me audio books are great when I listen to a book which I have read long time ago. This way I can revise my favorite books, and I wont worry if I miss some sentences.
I was thinking about cracking CO2 into methane and oxygen - in that case you would need a high temperature. But I get the general drift - no good cooling. Maybe on could be plunked into the ice cap. You would need a lot of plumbing then though...
> "Couldn't you afford a "real" Tesla?"

If someone says that, then they are the type of person that would mock any car choice.
The G4 Cube had issues but I honestly liked it as an experimental design from a well-known computer brand. It was a breath of fresh air among the monotonous beige or gray towers of the time. And it wasn't the only G4 computer you could get, as you could've bought the tower (which I ended up doing at the time).

For me, the biggest miss is the touch bar and butterfly keyboards. Those single-handily prevented me from upgrading from my 2012 Retina MBP.
I think it's valuable to know if a source is generally biased in one direction or another, whether there's accuracy in comparison to other major media sources - who knows, we unfortunately don't have a system that makes that easy and obvious, yet.
If people got fired for missing deadlines in software development everyone would be fired.
I think people overestimate the fallaciousness of examining the motivations of the speaker. It only applies to the factual and logical matters; the fact that CNBC may or may not hate Tesla or Elon Musk does not affect whether or not tape was used to correct cracks in parts or whether or not people were asked to work in low-quality conditions on pain of firing, or any strictly logical conclusions you may draw from those facts. Those purported facts may be true or false, but whether someone at CNBC has it out for Elon is not a relevant consideration in whether those facts are true or false.

However, it is entirely relevant in determining whether or not the slant of the piece is necessarily factual or whether it has bias, and in determining the probability that the speaker may have left out information unfavorable to the cause they are advancing.

It is a logical fallacy, but it is only a logical fallacy. It is completely relevant in arenas other than pure, strict logic, such as meta-logical analyses about potential biases.

(There's a few other "fallacies" for which this is true too; many of them like affirming the consequent are just straight-up errors, but "appeal to authority", for instance, is a fallacy in Aristotelian binary true/false logic, but in a more realistic probabilistic logic, it can be valid to use it to update your probabilistic beliefs about the world. You just are not logically justified in taking an authority and setting your belief in their statements to a true, mathematical 100.0000...% (which is what the fallacy would be in Aristotelian logic), and you are obligated to make judgments about the quality of the authority as you make the updates.)
You could just ask the clerk for all the records, this is what public records databases do. They drive around to all the court houses and make copies of all the public records, put them into one big database and sell access to it.
Nothing to do with visas, it's just how others treat people that look different there.
I like D, but if you spend a some time in D forums, you would get that coherency is something that even D could improve upon, specially attribute usage, inline assembly compatibility among its implementations and some constructor/destructor corner cases.
The last paragraph for Magic Mouse 2 seems a bit forced. This mouse has not garnered the same level of controversy as the other products in this article.

I've personally found it more enjoyable and ergonomic than my Logitech M705 and Microsoft Sculpt. It's not inherently more ergonomic but the additional functionality enabled by multitouch means I don't have to move the mouse as much (on macOS at lease), which vastly improves usability.

The charging port is not in the most functional location, but it's a worthwhile tradeoff IMHO. If we assume Apple doesn't want to change the shape of the mouse, the only alternative location is on the side of the mouse, which makes the mouse asymmetrical and would probably give Jony Ive a fit.
It allows voyeurism.
In a capitalist society, something being a right has no bearing on whether you need to pay for it. You have the right to life, but if you get sick, you need to figure out how to pay for it, and if you can't, you might not be able to exercise that right. You have the right to liberty, but if someone infringes your liberty, nobody is going to give you a lawyer for free and you have slim chances of succeeding without representation. (If you are accused, you have the right to an overworked public defender who has little incentive to fight for you, or you can pay for your own lawyer; if you're the accuser there aren't public prosecutors.) You have the right to property, but only what you can afford. You have the right to pursue happiness, but if your happiness requires a college education, let's hope you were born to parents who could afford it.

You have the right to marry whoever you like, regardless of gender - as long as you write a check for $30 or so to the appropriate local government office.
So could you ask the clerk to produce every piece of information he has? Would he be obligated to give it to you?
I wanted to do something similar to Darkfall, i.e. players would only be able to chat with those in their vicinity.

I'd also add a voice volume so as that in order to whisper, you'd have to come real close to someone and keep your voice down.

Global/area chat and channels simply ruin some aspects of MMORPGs.
Are there shops that will take advantage of this stuff by limiting what features they use and following a certain style? For ex would a C++ team use some functional approach or a Rust style approach to ownership etc? Or it always just a mishmash?
Do these sort of x of y descriptions ever make sense? I dont think I've ever come across one that was better at conveying what a startup does than a straightforward description. It makes it seem like an unoriginal ripoff riding on some other company's cool factor. How is calling it the Twilio of payments better than calling it a payments infrastructure as a service provider?
Browse enough forums and you find any opinion you want. That doesn't mean that people holding that opinion make up more than a vanishing fraction of climate activists.
Thankfully, that particular one is hopefully dealt with by the fact that deliberately infecting someone with AIDS is punishable and hopefully deterred. The whole world doesn't need to know that a person has AIDS for that person to take necessary steps to avoid infecting people.
Same thing happened to a lot of workers who worked with Asbestos. My dad, his brother, many of their friends got a few thousand bucks in the 80s if they agreed to never sue. A lot of them died a decade or so later from mesothelioma.
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Does Ford use electrical tape in lieu of heatshrink tubing?
I disagree. This isn't about all games. This is about some AAA games literally bolting a gambling mechanics onto a crap game, to cause gambling addiction.
This is a terribly depressing article, in that it was written with a 2005 mindset, before the astonishing breakthrough in pricing for wind, solar, and storage over the past 15 years.

The irrational attachment to "hard energy," the thermally generates forms, has been dripping away quickly for most of the energy sector as economics are making it less feasible.

The LADWP seems to be a small pocket of backward thinking, however. I just heard about them for the first time yesterday as part of a petty political squabble with the mayor, in television advertisements that decry green energy.
True for the old Model S, but not a factor on the Model 3 unless you are on the track.

Bjørn Nyland has an amazing series of EV videos (of course, mostly Tesla). He recently set the 24-hour EV range record, and has milllions of views. He's also funny as hell to listen ramble on and on.

Here is him trying to overheat a Tesla Model 3 [1], but you could spend an afternoon on his channel watching him drive around [2].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oeV0Cgyk0

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/user/bjornnyland/videos
I have this same issue if I try to listen while stationary. I either zone out or doze off. I listen during long cycling rides and have no problem staying focused.
So... LA is doing the only feasible thing, apart from building nuclear power, that will avoid power cuts? Seems reasonable.
It's be great too if someday they could replace the motorcycles with drones.
My daughter is playing several of those games such as Roblox on her iPad; she can't install new applications of buy credits without me entering the password in the apple store.

The cool part of doing that is that I ask her to convince me why she needs those credits, what she will use them for, doing that I can understand what she does in the game and see if it fit her. Another side of those games is that they have a social side and you can interact with other kids, so it's important to know that and make sure your kid understands that not everybody can be nice on a social network.

In the end, I don't understand a parent that gives that power to their children...
Looks like it's solving part or even all the same problems we are.

Will surely be researching on how they approached it.

Thanks for it! Will surely help us going forward.
The old "OpenID" is dead; the new "OpenID Connect" (OIDC) is an identity layer on top of OAuth 2, and is very much not-dead.
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When prices start to go down, current homeowners who have been counting their paper profits and relying on them for retirement will put their houses on the market in large waves to lock in their gains, this will create a feedback loop of more supply and even lower prices.

There’s simply not enough buyers able to afford top 10 city home prices. If homeowners try to cash in en masse, there won’t be enough wealthy buyers able to support it.
As opposed to oil subsidies that are reported at $4 billion annually with estimates that they're actually somewhere between $10 and $40 billion?

The tax rebates amount to ~$4 billion subsidy for a BEV manufacturer. Maybe we should just eliminate subsidies on both and see what happens.
Norway offers an interesting example. There, tax returns are public... but so is who looked yours up.

https://qz.com/784186/in-norway-you-can-browse-everyones-tax...
>Today's battery technology is good enough for overnight storage when you have a mix of wind and solar and for longer production lows you can use Methane produced by power-to-gas facilities.

No. It isn't. That's why it isn't deployed anywhere. That's why there are no large-scale plans to deploy batteries for that purpose anywhere.

>and for longer production lows you can use Methane produced by power-to-gas facilities.

Those that suggest solar/wind usually will then invoke some exotic and unproven technology to make the said solar/wind deployment viable.
The number one threat vector against nation states is social engineering first responders.

Anyone who publically advocates this, yet cannot follow the rules, should prepare for Micro Plumb Island.

Micro Plumb Island is when I use highly individualize accoustics to keep you from doing things a toddler knows. Don't walk into the street. I don't care if you die, but you may kill the nice mommy and daddy just driving to by food or medicine for baby. Food and medicine makes baby feel good, I'm a baby, and I want to feel good.

This ends with all adolescent fools of all shapes and sizes, ages and ethnicities, blips and blops, flips and flops, being duct taped to a guerney at their local behavioral ward.

For you may very well leave the Emerald Palace of Cheshire Borgia, noble wanderer, yet it never leaves you now, does it? At least, all the way ... ... ...

A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Thanks for sharing. This is cool, just what I wanted. I like the fact I can create config files and query not just he database but also query JSON.
The moon landing will look less fantastic once space travel becomes commonplace. People will largely forget his name, especially when the US hegemony has ended. Your assessment comes across as a tad hyperbolic.
First sale doctrine allows the purchaser to resell their purchase, which is the opposite of what you are suggesting.
I'm sure at least one rich and powerful person thinks that (beliefs can be pretty diverse in any group of people), but the people posting about their misanthropic animal supremacy on Reddit are not usually the movers and shakers of society.
As an absolute amateur, the fixed wing aircraft/relay helo probably can't carry the equipment (big? satellite dish? that have to be aimed accurately?) to send it to the satellite. The relay helo probably can't have LOS with the first truck all the time so the fixed wing plane is used to relay to the truck. The producers, where the signal needs to go to, want to sit at the finish line because that's also where the ceremony is located.

I think most of complications come from the varying terrains blocking the signal path to the producers at the finish line.
Same. Also podcasts. The whole medium doesn't work for me at all. I'll try to get into some podcast I'm assured is up my alley, make it a couple minutes, then realize I've been zoning out for a solid ten minutes and haven't processed a word they've said.

Talky video programs are sometimes OK. I can pay attention to them, at least, it's just that most aren't very good.

I can do the dedicated-listening thing to music but the point of podcasts is supposed to be that you can listen to them while doing something else—almost none are worth dedicated listening time. I can't manage that. I miss too much to follow WTF they're talking about, so it's just noise, and I have enough of that as it is and don't need more.

[EDIT] I also hate—hate—having the TV on as "background noise" so maybe that has something to do with it.
Depends on the jurisdictions’ open records laws I would imagine yes they more than likely would be. Presumably if they have such statutes, some jurisdictions have provisions to catch such types “burdensome requests” and either slap a heavy fee for processing such a request and hopefully deter the requestor, or they appeal to a higher court when denying the request entirely

But otherwise if a state has open records laws and you make a lawful request for a large body of publicly available records then I’m inclined to say by definition the clerk is required to provide them provided all requirements of the request are satisfied.
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We're all gonna die sometime. Some of us will starve from no food, others will have a heart attack from poor quality food.

Eat Arby's.
Spying indicates lack of consent, which does not apply here.
Fixing
"he - doctor" : "she - doctor"
to
"he - doctor" : "she - nurse"

is kinda sexist.
my my there's been 3 oped against google in Bloomberg just this last two days... A little too obvious pals...
This is a nice troll but yeah the Performance Model 3 is literally a supercar for 55k~.

I have the slow one and it's Very Performant, so much so that I rarely get a chance to use the speed.