skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"As a matter of both basic agency law and federalism, the power to preempt the States’ laws must be conferred by Congress. It cannot be a mere byproduct of self-made agency policy."

I am very much not a lawyer, but I don't see why that wouldn't apply to other agencies. OTOH, I'm unsure if that's really a precedent implying anything, any more than a court ruling that Emperor Norton had no legal authority would have been - it's simply reaffirming that arbitrary declarations have no inherent legal force.
You're purposefully misrepresenting the left to stroke your ego. People were extremely critical of Obama during his terms.

Stop JAQing off and stuff your crypto-fascist views up your ass you Trump slurping gonorrhea nodule.

inb4 "Leftists can't have civil discussions"
The bias in your summarization is fairly lazy. The article discusses feminism from a high level and of course there are nuances lost in the brevity. I’m not sure what your comment serves other than to stir the pot.
There's no one in that project that is such a fanatic and well-known personality that they'd be able to lead it.

After being embraced, extended and diluted by corporations, software freedom will slide even more into irrelevance.

This also doesn't seem to be a discussion, it's a statement towards Stallman to GTFO.
Columnar File Performance Check-In for Python and R: Parquet, Feather, and FST
I think thats a big part of it. Strong Towns blog aruges that suburbs are a growth ponzi scheme.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/16/the-growth-pon...

From part 4: talking about the 70s when infrastructure maintanence and replacement bills started coming due
"The critical insight today is to understand how we reacted to the end of the first life cycle of suburban development, when those maintenance costs started to come due and cut into our growth-generated wealth. This time there was no spatial shift as seen in the other large, economic corrections. Instead, we made a choice to double down on the suburban experiment by taking on debt.

We used debt to drive additional growth and sustain the unsustainable development pattern for a while longer. A lot of this debt was public debt, but we facilitated mechanisms for increases in private debt as well (for example, Fannie and Freddie early on and then subprime mortgages and securitization later). Here is a graph showing our public and private debt levels since the beginning of the suburban experiment. I have noted roughly the first and second life cycles of those initial investments."
Perhaps that engineer had a baby on the way and was terrified of losing health coverage, or was in the United States on an H1B visa and was afraid they'd be deported...

I'd probably have made the same decision as you (I'm fortunate to have a safety net), but many people don't have that luxury.
I really hope not, mono cultures are bad for everyone.
I have no incentive to care about the grocery store I frequent, but it is still illegal for me to steal from them and I can expect to be held accountable by the government in the event that I do steal from them.

I'm very libertarian- but at the end of the day I will always support the government authority to punish theft. And a failure to pay employees the agreed upon rate is theft.
You can easily build the feature that can be misused. Think of it as a general region filter or an emoji set to increase engagement.

You want to ensure your design team and product matches the demographic you're trying to target so you can choose which ones are approved for that area. Completely reasonable, not a malicious feature to build either.

Except when it prevents you from selling your device in China.
Rofl! I needed that today. Thanks!
> “Put up your hand if you like or maybe even love your smartphone,” I asked the audience of policymakers, industrialists and students.

> Nearly every hand in the room shot up.

> “Now, please put up your hand if you trust your smartphone.”

> One young guy at the back put his hand in the air, then faltered as it became obvious he was alone. I thanked him for his honesty and paused before saying,“We love our phones, but we do not trust them. And love without trust is the definition of an abusive relationship.”

For this and other reasons, I'm switching to the Light Phone 2 [1]. I get it later this month. Devices like this don't solve all of our problems, but they certainly solve many.

[1]: http://lightphone.com
I'm surprised this hasn't come up before, isn't the US full of e.g. military installations where employees work by the hour and clock in/out, and where there's some gate check going in & out of the installation that might take a non-trivial amount of time? E.g. the CIA & NSA have such gates, and presumably the same goes for a bunch of military and security contractors.
I miss that show. So much fun.
You need natural mirrors, because as others have pointed out, they have to already be there, you can't get ahead of the light to put them there.

It has been suggested that black holes could provide this mirror, but it requires resolving not just something the size of Earth, but something much smaller, at a distance of 30 million light years +. Unfortunately you actually start hitting up against the limits of spacetime's resolution itself fairly quickly. But at least in principle, it is possible that some lucky photon has bounced off a dinosaur, and has traveled all the way out there, and all the way back to Earth, just now, that if you knew where to look in the sky, perhaps such a photon might even enter your eye now. Or perhaps there is some human out there who really has "seen" the dinosaurs. But you'd never really know.
> Why should any social and political movement remain beholden to one original star of the old guard as the world moves forward.

The real question here isn't whether GNU should be political (all institutions are political), but whether the world is really "moving forward".
I posted some stats from my recent experience being on the front page of Hackers News for a day.
This is cool. I didn't know lidar point clouds could be generated for an entire stadium.

Not clear how the impact point was detected in real time (or exit velocity, launch angle, and spray direction for that matter) without some manual intervention.

From what I have read of the Hawkeye/Smart Court systems in Tennis, there are a whole bunch of HD cameras around the stadium to detect the impact point. But that's just detecting impact(bounce) point on a standard 2D surface of known dimensions i.e. the tennis court.

Cool link. Thanks for sharing!
Even if you have full confidence in auditors and regulators (Arthur Andersen?) that only guarantees that you own the contents of the account. What about what's in those accounts? How familiar are most people with the details of the various mutual funds and/or ETFs that might be held in their accounts? How complex are the webs of obligations inside those funds? If one or more large financial institutions were to have a Lehmann Brothers situation how long might the assets in some of those funds be tied up in litigation, even if they were actually still there?

These concerns are all likely fairly low probability but there's certainly a whole range of possible scenarios between "my retirement funds are completely secure" and "I'm dead in a global thermonuclear apocalypse".
That simply won't work for half the questions at, say, the interpersonal stackexchange, the workplace one, several of the religious ones, and possibly others (there's 175 stackexchange sites now I believe?).
> HK […] Taiwan

Dear Chinese keyboard warrior, you seem to be mixing up a former British colony and a beleaguered sovereign nation in a single sentence. But your English is getting better I guess, so there is that.
Could you tell us something more about emacs? Decent caring people is not the same as decent creative people.
Zero-Trust Network with Consul Connect and Docker
"Um. I feel that the article could have done without this snipe."

I don't know if the article could've done without this, actually. The entire article seems to argue that, due to abusive interactions and power dynamics are mostly commonly dealt with in a feminist lens, the strategies of analysis of intersectional interactions under a feminist framework will provide a better context to generate workable, functioning logistics on redefining the human-phone relationship.

In that context, that gamergate's main targets of hate were women is relevant.
> in a country that must have 50 regional terms for a bread roll.

This is so controversial that some regions have propaganda music videos about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O98qd7-dAaU
> I don't show respect to people that throw their leader under the bus at the first sign of trouble.

If they had done that, Stallman would have been gone decades ago.
You don't seem to be arguing the facts; you seem to be arguing whether the facts as arrayed should be considered damaging to a person's reputation.

To give a bad analogy, you're not criticizing the claim that what he said is what he said, you're just classifying it as "locker room talk."
kinda useless
I have two functions I use to switch between color and no color. One function also fixes the terminal if I read binary by mistake. I guess I could call them color and nocolor. Edit as required. There's probably a better way to do this. Old habits and such.

function sane()
{
LANG="C";LC_ALL="C";LC_CTYPE="C";export LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE;
S_TIME_FORMAT=ISO;export S_TIME_FORMAT;
TERM=vt102;export TERM;
unset IFS;
stty sane;
tput rs1;
echo -e "\033c";
reset;
clear;
set -o posix;
}

function utf()
{
LANG="en_US.UTF-8";LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"; LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8";export LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE
TERM=xterm;export TERM
}
I'd add Downlink [1] to the Wallpaper category. No connection to the developer, just a user here.

[1] https://downlinkapp.com
As someone that lives in Cap Hill:

Yes. Houses aren't works of art. They are meant to house people.

The city isn't the same a decade ago, or a century ago or when Capital Hill was called Renton Hill.

It is depressing that only new construction/condo to purchase in Capital hill costs 450k+ (e.g. 750 on the hill as an example.) because SFH are 750k+. IF they go for sale, and then there's a race of people who actively overpay for a property.

Also, I can walk to downtown in <30 mins, taking a bus is a pain, and the Link station is kinda convenient but not so convient (e.g. nothing near Volunteer Park because everything there is $1,000,000+)

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's good and whomever owns the property should feel fit to change it from SFH to MFH and the city should encourage MFH developments otherwise you have small houses on oversized lots and a poor use of space.

Give people that want to sell and people that want to buy the ability to rezone and allow construction - and density will solve itself.

Otherwise you're going to have people in decades old apartment buildings fight to fill it in, while the owner has no real incentive to upkeep property because they believe it's valuable and know it's a rotating door.
Most American approve of THEIR congressmen by wide margins (50%+ for, 35% against, 15% no opinion)

(Scroll down)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx
Let's judge people on what they have done not on what they might do.
Yes, definitely. It's just another spin on the same idea 60 years later...a few things have changed since then, so I think there's room for another take. (And, I'm not the first to mine the territory since then.)
So according to this, as of April 2019, Walmart got in trouble in California for security screening in the sense that it was manditory and they were not paying for it. California requires breaks for workers and Walmart was effectively making workers use part of their break time to go through security screening.

https://www.plbsh.com/jury-awards-walmart-employees-6-millio...

I suppose that's not exactly the same since it only covers security time eating into break time not, after work time.
Perhaps you didn't notice the word necessarily in my sentence.
Article is dumb enough to barely qualify as clickbait.

GM (and almost everyone else) has structural overcapacity and fixed-cost issues that would be challenging to deal with, even if the market for electric cars went to zero this evening.

Losing money is losing money, and you can go bankrupt just as easily (even if you're losing less money per unit) making electric as you can making ICE vehicles.
" Simply being able to send a message to someone would be a big deal. "

The simple way would be radio morse
A modern android cell phone has a camera, screen, light, keyboard, speakers, battery, and a cpu that is many times faster than the z80 counterpart and all the software to go with it. There are also various short range communication and mesh networking abilities (NFC /Bluetooth/WIFI). Its not too difficult to create a wifi router out of a phone. You can purchase many USB to GPIO boards cheaply online (as a pepper your stock piling stuff anyway, your not going to just find a z80 laying around either, there are even adapters for ham radios you can pick up cheaply). I could easily see using a camera network from cell phone for proximity alerting, mesh networking of a few city blocks to create a communications network and basic note taking and information storage fitting into a few phones storage, in addition to having a fully functional Linux machine. I'd wager that if you take all the time it takes to create this project and compare its success to the time it takes to buy 30 GPIO adapters, download the rootkit library for android and some cables, that you'd have more success going with the phones. Also, just think about moving around... a backpack of cell phones isn't going to have the failure rate that you'll get with exposed electronics.
Bosch to produce range-boosting microchips for EVs
There is quite a lot of natural resources in the Far North--North Slope oil comes to mind. However, the environment is so inhospitable to getting resources out of the area, that it has for the most part been economically infeasible to exploit them, at least until the latter half of the 20th century.
So the law we are looking for is disclosure. I can agree with that. Do you know if such a law already exists?
It depends on the context. A simple example is that I count small numbers in German since I've been here so long, but larger numbers I still count in English. Perhaps you can identify a specific choice of language for specific use cases or topics.
And, arguably more importantly, it has a shelf life of over a year at room temp, as opposed to weeks/days even when refrigerated.
I don't know - judging by the cracked screen, missing pieces, cracked back, I am not so sure who is abusing who ...

On a more serious note - that we are overdepended on smartphones is common knowledge and not some epiphany. Ditto with them helping alienating from the others. The second part of the article is extremely cringe inducing. She is trying to cram every feminist buzzword and talking point ever.
Those fictional languages' mere existence isn't perceived as a threat by any government, though.
Oh... Tell me more why being not multithreaded is a failure for Redis?
Yeah, sure; it’s a mostly great article otherwise. But it shows that the person can’t make a point without tying it to the whole of their other personal political view. But if you want to convince people, you want to compartmentalize as much as possible. Make the case in isolation. If you tie the smartphone problem to left/right politics (whichever side you’d pick), you politicize the issue, and thereby guarantee that ~50% of the public will be against whatever point you are trying to make.
Sure, and similarly you can easily bike to the airport here in Amsterdam. But let's not jump from "in Europe" to the two cities widely recognized as having the best bicycling infrastructure on the continent. I've spotted somewhat of a trend here on HN of Europeans generalizing about the whole continent based on experiences in a relatively small part of Western Europe.
If redis isn't multi-threaded the more cores and threads you have, the less CPU usage the machine would show, even if Redis is being stressed.
How is the Model 3 a more efficient/fun commuter car? Is it just used versus new, or is the Model 3 also better than a new Model S for you?
The parent is correct. At some point we gained a fear of binary formats, but binary formats are still the only way to transfer data efficiently.

Yes, flash had other problems. No, this doesn't make their point false.
Does anyone know if it's possible to start from a pure Catalina installation of macOS and install a partition with Mojave? For the first time in forever I won't update macOS on my computer so that I can keep using a few 32-bit app, including http://www.halomd.net/.
"They." You'll have to be clearer which conspiracy you're talking about; I don't have a binding for that pronoun.
Hasn't Linus already been critizised for his behavior last year-ish, then taken a break and changed the kernel dev culture (or something like that, I'm not up-to-date on kernel internals)?
Is that really true with gzipping?
> Is the purpose of taxes to fund the government or punish the rich?

Government exists because of and for society, and the purpose of taxes is to create the greatest net benefit to society.

Taxes are not to punish anyone, they are levied to fund services for society. Determining the optimum rate is complex and open to debate. But fairness is entirely irrelevant to the question. Whether the top marginal rate is 10%, or 90%, it should be whatever maximizes the usefulness to society.

We have a capitalist economic system, and it works pretty well for us, but that doesn't mean anyone has an inherent natural right to their capital. When it comes down it, property rights are all fictitious and exist only because society says it does. It's hardly wrong for society to decide to recoup some of what it has created.
> Is a desktop screen different than a phone screen?

Hum... Yes. That's the entire point of my comment.

One is 90cm away, the other is 150cm away. An arcsecond of viewport on one is almost half of the linear size of the same viewport size on the other.
In your opinion, would there be any way of pushing back against tax cuts for wealthy without "vilify the rich minority"?
pianobar was quite receptive to my small patches. lovely software, definitely stretched the lifetime of pandora for me
I can see the tie to misogyny, sure. It was the “far-right” connection I questioned, which I feel the article absolutely could have done without.
The ability to scale vertically instead of sharding is a very nice sysadmin feature that although isn't solving "must faster than redis" is related to it due to multi-threading.
> The two articles rely on vastly different cherry-picked definitions of who counts as rich, and neither claim is even remotely true anymore if you use the other definition.

One of the most important things to understand about tax discussions is that there are two broad classes of "rich" -- high paid salaried employees vs. wealthy investors.

When you see claims like "the top 20% of people pay most of the taxes", that's mostly the high paid salaried employees. Cardiologists making six figure salaries pay high tax rates, and there are a lot of doctors and lawyers and engineers in the population, so they pay most of the taxes.

When you see claims about rich people paying low tax rates, that's corporations and wealthy investors hiring accountants to minimize their taxable income.

The distinction is really important because it means the problem isn't marginal rates, it's the complexity of the tax code which allows people with large fortunes to game the system. A simple VAT with some kind of dividend/UBI to make it more progressive would eliminate most of those games. It would also mean that individuals wouldn't have to file tax returns at all, which would save hundreds of millions of man hours every year.
"The whole point of the right/left terminology is that it’s not settled which of them is correct. If it were, we’d just call them good/bad instead of left/right."

Politics is the alternative to war.

I fully believe that there are some evil people on the far left.

I'm not sure that there are any good people on the far right.
I'd always cringe when looking at the bounce rate for my content that would get attention via social media/Reddit/whatever. I liked getting the raw numbers up and seeing people actually reading our stuff, but everything felt very fleeting when you start giving those numbers context compared to your more organic sources. This is all to say that the numbers don't seem very extraordinary in my experience, generally speaking.
Apparently, your browser hides the </sarcasm> tags.
I haven't tried this personally, but these ppl appear to be able to print anything on the keys:

https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/

Some random examples:

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/make/wasd-87...

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/make/104-key...
Ideally the foot soldiers in charge of implementing should have a background in ethics and morals; however, the change would be made by someone else.

There might have been several resignations over this change - you do not have the full picture. However, any number of resignations would not impact this directive being implemented.

The one to implement it - yes, they are anti-democratic. But we also need to acknowledge that one of the richest, most influential institutions on the planet is also anti-democratic...
Private opinions of CEOs have repercussions. But in Eich's case, it went beyond "private opinion;" he contributed $1,000 to support Proposition 8.

Eich didn't get forced out for having a "bad private opinion;" he got forced out for supporting something materially that would cause material harm to Mozilla staff, then making clear his opinion on the topic was unchanged. Staff that had a lack of confidence in his continued leadership were entirely justified.
Well, honestly, I think for that type of knowledge, Wikipedia is actually a very bad starting point. It could have become something like that, but ... I blame Deletionism, and more importantly, the general aversity to "know how" pages. Yes, you could relearn math from Wikipedia, but I'm not sure there's enough stuff in there that somebody who didn't already know how would be able to recreate half-way modern antibiotics, or an old CRT TV tube, let alone an SEM etc.
My understanding is that it's identical to plywood, just with thicker layers.
This is amazing for relaxation as well. There are some tracks in there with a lot of rain as well as stream sounds. Very soothing.
Or you manage to repair a advanced drone .. that can do scavenging in dangerous radiated areas for example (or just common drone, can scout for you). Solar panels will be valuable... But wind is easily to bild and generate as well.

In general, the scenario is, that the whole world is broken down, but full of tech.
So many machines to get back to working. Machines beat muscle on a scale
There seems to be a widespread misconception that any information covered by HIPAA is always covered, when the reality is that it's only protected health information by covered entities. There also seems to be a lot of confusion about what's a violation: as far as I know only covered entities can be liable, not people they wrongly pass information on to.

Now, if a covered medical software company accidentally let a build with accessible PHI go to Microsoft, I guess it's possible they could be HIPAA liable. But that's a pretty narrow case, and not one that's a threat to Microsoft.
I agree. We shouldn't blame the engineer but the managers asking for this in the first place and knowing they can get away with any sort of "small pressures" they put on their employees.