skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disagreeing that in this case non-violent approach isn't the best. But depending on the setting, the parameters if you will, that approach might be inefficient. Another example would be the people living under the Stalin's rule in Soviet Union. Even if you resisted peacefully, I'm sure you would have been taken to the gulag either way.

The circumstance where non-violent behavior works is very specific and is best when there's:

A) much stronger opponent (British Empire, Chinese government)

B) level of civilization where both parties do not want to engage in violence (the majority of modern civilizations)

C) good chance for massive unrest if violence were to happen (no ruler wants to deal with domestic terrorism and internal squabbles, unless of course your regime is breaking up already and that's the only way to keep control)

The more primal the opponent, the worse are your chances. Aztecs would have welcomed non-violent behavior with open hands, they would have cheerfully enslaved people who didn't put up a fight. The reason why they stopped was basically the destruction of their civilization by the Spaniards. But maybe I'm mixing here war with protesting, which is a more of problem after you have lost and are under the oppressive regime. Then your options are limited: it's either violent insurgency or non-violent protesting. In modern world luckily we have electronic mass-media that helps immensely with the non-violence.
I believe the issue was that, after losing both reception and battery, the car needed reception before being unlocked.
You're very welcome. I first came to appreciate Bookchin through his interviews on YouTube, but I am now reading a book of his essays called "The Next Revolution", which I can recommend!
Not just Intelligence agencies, if I remember correctly FBI used switched off phones to record mobsters. But I can't find the link now, hope it was not a hoax.
I read "Graphic Programming Black Block" and for a moment thought that the demoscene had an awesome revival!
Used to be in business development for a consulting firm. I think the situation is more nuanced than your question suggests. Large contracts ($100,000+) typically take several meetings to secure. As part building a relationship taking the prospect to lunch is sometimes an option. In my experience it depends upon the person(s) you are dealing with. Some people look forward to a business lunch, others will decline any offer.

However, these days, people seem to be too busy to indulge in a couple of hours for a fine dining lunch. From what I have heard the dynamics are different for some of South America and Europe. So there are cultural overtones to consider as well.
I suppose which pocket and the size. I've been putting into a jacket pocket.
Depends on the dose I guess. Last time I tried doing mathematics on mushrooms, I couldn't even do simple arithmetic in my head.
This seems rather silly. But I haven't looked into it. Am I missing something? What's the perspective where this makes sense?
Agreed, hardware backdoors are very possible, but software is much cheaper to mess with. The spooks have in the past shown a preference for hardware jimmying, but those have been one-off cases.

That said: monkey-patching is much more easily concealed than hardware or source-code changes, and is more in line with how US spooks have been seen to operate.
Its amazing how much we've been impoverished in America by anti-socialist sentiment.
It will be great to finally find out whether psychedelics are able to help people, and/or vause harm.
Anecdotes like 'I tripped hard and it cured my stress/depression/whatever!', while interesting, are not data points.
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San Francisco is getting more ridiculous by the second
I ate ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 2 weeks, and conclude that it does not actually taste all that good.
Here in the Netherlands, they tend to kick the mother out of hospital as soon as feasible after the birth (typically after one night, or even on the same day), but as soon as you get home, the home nurse (kraamzorg, or "cradle care") arrives. She (and, as far as I know, it's always a she) will be at your home for something like eight hours a day for the first week or so after the birth, and will teach you how to care for the baby (even if it's your second, third, fourth, ...) and will monitor its health and progress. Remarkably, in the 'downtime' (e.g., when the baby is sleeping), she'll do household chores for you (such as clothes washing, vacuuming, washing up, etc.) and maybe even entertain any older children or go grocery shopping for you. The system works really well, and I've heard it be credited for the Netherlands' low infant mortality rate.

My family back in the U.K. can hardly believe it (especially the household-chores part); there, as I understand it, the mother tends to stay in hospital a big longer (typically for a few days), but once you're home, you're on your own...
Did you mean: "San Francisco"?
It's certainly not the cure-all that the internet would have you believe, but it is another tool that can be used to try and help treat depression.
Love the sound of this. I've signed up to the beta, and wouldn't be surprised if you experience a bump in traffic - your blog post sells your product well.
There is also the Archive team: https://archiveteam.org/

It's aligned with the Internet Archive in many ways and there is cooperation. They are looking for volunteers!

Other than that, if you design/build websites you could probably make sure that they are accessible for the crawlers and that there is technological compatibility. E.g. I've seen Internet Archive have problems with SPAs.
Context of this is:

There was a visible mass shooting in Gilroy very recently, and a lot of people are upset.

The gunman used a semiautomatic rifle which is illegal in California, but was legally purchased in Nevada.

The NRA has continually fought to ensure people have access to the tools to commit these atrocities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shootin...
The title is misleading
> If you drop a normal brick on a hard floor the brick is likely to shatter.

Are they really like that nowadays?

When I was a child they were near indestructible.
I spent some years reading on the topic of psychedelics and this book would have saved me a lot of time. It's an enjoyable read, a nice story, and it covers most aspects of the topic.
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Disagreed about the ban. Since when is shitty technology (which any engineer worth their salt should’ve predicted - this is not rocket science) the fault of the customer? Unless they say in bold in their marketing statements “Only drive within cell coverage” the customer isn’t at fault for trying to use it as a normal car (in fact it’s crazy to think that parking in a place with no reception is no longer normal, at least according to ZipCar).
It seems weird to me to conflate "advocating the legal right to own technology that can be used to do X" with "doing X", even though obviously you can disagree with both.
This appreciation can be extended to the political movement they belong to.
> best plastic and tightest tolerances

What all stories people tell themselves to shell out wads of dough on bullshit no one asked for. Apple and every other luxury brand in the world makes use of this story telling subset of the population as an external evangelizing church to keep the dogma flowing.

I have a bunch of Lego from decades ago that I am slowly offloading to kids of family and friends. I never bought any of my sets with this bonus usecase in mind caring about plastic quality or lifespan . I bought them because I like building stuff.
solr, vespa, and lucene only replace the elasticsearch part of ELk. Fluentd is an obvious replacment for Logstash, but I'm not sure what a good open source alternative to Kibana is that is compatible with solr, vespa, or lucene.
Does the NRA directly attack civilians? Do they aim for political change?

My understanding is that they do not carry out attacks on civilians and they seek to maintain the status quo.

Regardless of your position on gun control (personally I'm in favour of gun control), words have meaning.

Edit: missed a 'not' above, pardon the confusion
"Politicians lie, cast-iron sinks; politicians lie in cast-iron sinks"
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If you did not read the article then yes you are missing something...
Curious non-American here. Is this really so ridiculous?
How awful of the NRA to fight for a constitutional right to bear arms.
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How does that make NRA terrorists though?

Replying to comment below: please see the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

I read the article too. The article doesn't answer the question.

- What evidence is there that the NRA exists to arm terrorists?

- Which terrorist groups are the NRA arming?

- If the NRA does exist to arm terrorist groups how does that make the NRA themselves terrorists?
I love this and wish it were a more widespread practice.

Baseline education of infant care is difficult for low income families. There's just too much to deal with.

A cardboard box will appear crude to many, especially those of higher income, but the cardboard box removes a lot of the guess work about what's allowed in while sleeping - which is essentially nothing.

Anyone who's had an infant before - there's too much conflicting information and it's downright scary because it's difficult to know what's right/wrong. I love this establishes a clear baseline.
We can legalise drugs and still regulate them. Don't expect to see ads for California Sunshine and Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets plastered on billboards as you drive down the interstate. Don't expect to head to the corner store and pick up a sheet of acid along with your morning paper and orange juice.
Yes, and also their shops are more like a DIY warehouse/hardware store, where you get inspired.

I was only about some plastic bricks, ecommerce would suffice. I really think it is the kind of fantasy/DIY/inspiration that you only get from direct experience.

LEGO is the new hardware store.
Why just southern Europe? Here in West
Europe there is still a vast majority of manual transmission.
There is no such thing as dangerously slowly - the fault lies with people that aren’t leaving enough room to take evasive action given their speed.
“The N.R.A. exists to spread pro-gun propaganda and put weapons in the hands of those who would harm and terrorize us,” Ms. Stefani said in a statement. “Nobody has done more to fan the flames of gun violence than the N.R.A.”
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Do you have a reference to an official Lego City set with semi-autos? I find that hard to believe.
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More generally, if enough people (including the author) think the content has merit, they will choose to support it (by which I mean “collectively supply all the resources it needs to continue”).

The cost of running a basic website to publish text is modest. Tools like [dat][] and [scuttlebutt][] make it completely free (once you have a computer and any internet connection) to distribute content to people who actually want it.

[dat]: https://dat.foundation/

[scuttlebutt]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

On the other hand, if you want to make a living out of producing content (rather than wanting to publish the content purely for its merit), that is harder — the content has to be that much more valuable to enough people.

As long as individuals can publish stuff, and others can see it and choose whether to support it financially (all without 3rd parties mediating/filtering), then I'm content. Our distributed tools make that possible; we just need to make them easier and more ubiquitous.
I'd love to hear more about this.

Did he mean that there is a solved and known way to get uniform national cell phone coverage without blackspots? If so, do you know more about what his solution was.
Non-american here. Can someone explain what's so shady about NRA aside from their lobbying for gun rights? Also what is NRA's rational/rebuttal for their shady behaviors?
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From personal experience in the UK, you're kicked out of hospital after a few days during which you received amateur advice from nursing assistants and a final discharge check for the baby if the doctor is available (if not then you have to go back for the discharge check). Back home there are irregular visits from a nurse who usually writes random statements in the a red log book but aside from that you're on your own. If you have time for the internet you might learn about why a baby doesn't latch and then maybe find a private lactation nurse who may or may not give you useful advice. Maybe one of them has heard of tongue tie because the NHS doesn't believe in it (and they're not allowed to support anything but breast feeding...)
You're not really allowed to post about what you worked on during the internship.

Also, you're surrounded by a bunch of other interns your age, and the whole program is structured around socializing with them. Years ago, when I interned there, pretty much every weekend there was a different company-sanctioned intern event (hike Mt. Rainier, dinner, movie, go to Woodland Park zoo, concert, etc.).
And ACLU defend's the right to do this at a military funeral: https://mpinkeyes.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/godhatesfags.j...

Doesn't mean they're terrorists for advocating for your constitutional rights.
Would this lead to legal actions?
I don’t think that’s true at all. I looked at every police set Lego is selling currently and not a single one of them included even a suggestion of a gun.

Typical police equipment are handcuffs, megaphones, walkie-talkies, traffic paddles and coffee cups. The criminals might carry gold, banknotes, dynamite or crowbars and other tools.

The most gun-like thing in current sets is the huge net shooter (larger than a minifig and not portable at all) that really isn’t very gun-like at all.

Not even the minifig prints include suggestions of guns.
Looks like it. They got a tow to somewhere with reception but the car wouldn't start. That implies they did get into it, but were still stuck due to the dead battery. So presumably the door unlock system has it's own backup battery?
> Markdown source (2001)

This looked like a peculiar anachronism, as Markdown was created in 2004. But apparently this isn't the original source, but rather a scraped HTML[1] version converted to Markdown[2] in 2013.

1: https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book/commit/b946ff...

2: https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book/commit/5e1079...
Okay, yeah, that’s fair enough.
You can go carbon-neutral yourself. It’s not cheap, but it keeps getting cheaper over time. Then eliminate meat from your diet and reduce your plastic waste.

If everyone did that, the biggest problems would be solved. So that’s a reasonable thing for you to do.

Don’t fall for the learned helplessness encouraged by fossil fuel companies.
How terrible of them to spread the insidious ideology of gun safety by training RSOs and gun safety instructors!
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Is it possible that there's a missing step where before any of this happens there's a story on google about the footballer which your wife read/saw so when someone says "buy a book about football" and that name appeared for it in the shop it was the one she picked up?
Expectations really need to be set very clearly as early on as possible by the manager. If the manager isn't good at doing this, then THEY are also underperforming at their job.
It's more complicated than that. Charity is seen as something your community and private institutions are supposed to provide out of the goodness of their heart, not something the government should 'force' onto people. There is not the same shame in getting help from your church, your neighbors or some other similar group, but being reliant on the government is by many seen as a failing.
I can confirm that my robot vacuum cleaner at least is excellent - runs every day without a problem and leaves the house noticeably cleaner. For under £200, I have almost entirely eliminated a weekly chore.

I suspect future attitudes to manual vacuum cleaning will be similar to manual clothes or dish washing.
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Well, my current "heavy data processing" is generating a 3D render from some metadata stored in the database. Postgres is amazing, but I don't think it can do that yet :)

My experience over my career has been this: there's CRUD, lots of IO, and a bunch of data processing that just needs specialized software (image, video, weather simulation, etc). I try to offload what I can to the database - and yeah, I know about window functions - but other than for the occasional report, it just doesn't move the needle.
The current interpretation is different from historical. Historically it really did apply to "well regulated militia".
There is a difference: people have been using small handheld objects to create images on flat surfaces for tens of thousands of years. Moving squares of plastic to remotely and invisibly trigger a change in the patterns of light emitted by an electronic display is somewhat different. This could explain some of the studies that have found differences in retention of typed and handwritten notes, but there are many confounding factors.
OTH the father had to until this year go back to work the next day...
Even if it is silly, the resolution has no actual effect as far as I can tell.
How would this argument not apply equally to anyone who supports the first amendment (because it can lead to hate speech that inspires atrocities)?
One big difference to the scandinavian mindset is that children are much more seen as individuals than dependents belonging to their parents. If it's unacceptable that a child is less successful because its parents did not work hard (or any other reason they aren't well off) then a lot of social welfare programs will follow naturally.

For example, having time with parents (parental leave) is a right of the child, not a luxury for the parents. In that perspective it's much harder to frame tax-financed parental leave as a handout to the parent. Without it, some children would miss out on something through no fault of their own.
Just because it's a right doesn't mean it needs an organization to advocate it.

I mean you have the right to smoke, but any organization promoting it has been squashed by legislation, banning advertisements and glorifying it. Why? Because smoking causes cancer and will kill you and your kids.

Why should that not apply to guns, which are built to kill? It's a weird double standard. Sure you have the right to have a gun, but it doesn't mean it has to be advocated by an organization.

It does make me wonder though, how come the NRA is successful where the multi-billion dollar tobacco industry failed?
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Well, for starters their service availability is... not stellar.
And yet you didn't buy a competitive building toy other than LEGO.

It's almost like consumers aren't basing their decisions on random dogma.
Yes, as I said, pre Core uArch, which launched in 2006 for laptops and 2007 for desktops.

Prior to that Intel was on the dead-end NetBurst and Athlon 64 and derivatives were the better chip when it came to performance per watt and outright computational power.
Or that they are different operating systems. Perhaps iPhones ship with shazam enabled, for example (given Apple bought them).
You come off really, really salty in that opening paragraph.

> I have a bunch of Lego from decades ago that I am slowly offloading to kids of family and friends

Surely even you have to admit that the engineering quality is what allows you to be able to hand down those bricks?
"skill" is not necessarily the same thing as "merit", but it's a lot more measurable. In general, though, the people most skilled at a given task tend to be the people who've been doing it the longest. The second tier of skill tends to be people who have been around people doing that task. That is to say, the most skilled people are generally current practitioners and their children, who grow up to be the most skilled people of the next generation.

In short, a "skillocracy" tends to look and act very, very much like an aristocracy, which is kind of the opposite of the idea I think most people try to express with the word "meritocracy".
> credited for the Netherlands' low infant mortality rate

Wasn't Netherlands birth mortality rate actually higher when compared to neighbor countries because of the tradition of giving birth at home (which is not dangerous in itself but it means that valuable time is lost in the case the mother has to go to a hospital and the doctors there have to first sync up with the pre-natal nurse)?
Industrial design is an exciting field. If you are not interested in starting your own company again then I think a degree would be great for future prospects.

I don't know which degree or which college though.
Given the time zones, I think it is unlikely anyone US based will get back to you.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat
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Wow, that is impressive. I thought I would have to spend around double or triple the amount to get started with this. Would be really interested if you could share some details on this.
Nice job. Keep at it.
Do their members? Yes.

The NRA is a lobbying organization that spends hundreds of millions [0] on advocating political change (or blocking it), so your second question is also a yes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#Lob...
The developed world could too.
> Just because it's a right doesn't mean it needs an organization to advocate it

No, but it sure makes branding a lawful organisation as terrorist a somewhat heinous. (Also, counterproductive. The NRA just got a sweet fundraising spot.)

If San Francisco can Brando the NRA as terrorist, Montgomery can do the same to the EFF. Preventing that is the point of Constitutional rights and due process.
Sounds like he was talking about something specifically to their network.

There's not some magic thing that everyone should be doing that will give 100% cell coverage.

It's a two way radio. The transmitter needs to talk to the phone. But the phone also needs to talk back.

Also carriers have different frequency spectrums allocated to them.

A carrier using 900MHz has to have fewer base stations than one operating using 1800MHz because lower frequencies transmit further.

They also are able to go underground and through walls better.
In Iceland the father has 3 months of paid paternity leave. It is required, however, that parents leave the hospital the next day if everything is normal.
> The median complexity query in my code base probably has two or three joins, two or three subqueries, and some kind of aggregation or window function.

Well, just from that description, Django ORM could do it. Can you post an example of a median query? I'm curious to see why it can't be ORM'ed.