skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's exactly the other way around. Meritocracy is a racist myth which keeps in place white colonialist capitalist power structures and oppresses minorities:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/wasps-meri...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/19/the-myth-of-mer...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/14/merito...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/merito...

https://unherd.com/2018/12/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-me...
That's a big part of the problem right? We've stratified information access such that special elite groups get to decide what the lowly commoners are allowed to know. We know what's best for them.

In theory this would be fine if we had a rigorous and well tested process for managing dangerous information, but the whole classification system has just been subverted to just hide whatever embarrasses the rich and powerful. It's an illegitimate farce.
They also contributed greatly to beating the Persians at Plataea.
Well, .Net Framework is analogous to Python 2.7. It will never receive anything but compatibility, security, and bug fixes going forward according to MS.

The Future is .Net Core.
They removed the forward facing obstacle avoidance system. It might not hurt as bad when it drops on your head, but it seems a lot more likely to fly into your face with the props still spinning.
https://youtu.be/nREYBx4eZf8
Its almost emblematic of Ruby's mindset vs. Python's "there is one right way to do something" philosophy.
> It doesn't factor terrain height, so flying around mountains is impossible.

What do you mean by that? I've been flying around the Austrian alps without any problems but when I'm at home I can't go higher than xxx meters above my town because it's within the flight path of a local airport. Which seems to be a reasonable approach?
4 miles is absolutely nothing in terms of biking distance. In high school I (and a lot of the other kids in my village) used to bike 11 miles to school, and then 11 miles back again at the end of the day. Took about 45 minutes if I was hasty.
Now, if it rained or was very windy it was pretty bad, but it was very doable :)
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reminds me of

"our city is just as big when you count the suburbs!"

but by that standard you have to count the bigger city's suburbs too
Wireless transmission is perfectly feasible with current tech level and distances required. In fact, we do precisely the same thing with telecommunications.

It's just a difference in scale. To get high efficiency, low cost radio amplifiers, you need to operate at relatively low frequency (think microwave oven magnetron, but modified to follow a phase and frequency input). Rectification of this has also been done. But you're going to need an enormous aperture on both sides to make it happen. That means, to me, you need on the order of 10 Gigawatts to be feasible (rough, back-of-envelope calculations). And even then, you need an enormous plot of land, preferably in the desert. So you're basically competing with cheap solar power backed by cheap batteries. Both of those are improving in cost every year. So it's possible. Feasible, even, if we had no other options. But it's not going to be competitive from what I can tell.

So it's the same type of scaling problem as #3. Except the main issue with #3 is safety: passenger aviation is just so ridiculously safe it's extremely hard to compete with.
I came to say this. I learned Go in the early years and have come back after not touching it in years and it all still sounds eerily familiar and a lot of the basics I learned are still relevant to what I do.

Go is good at being Pythonic in some senses too. Some would say to a fault.
But who ever said it was Github that translated the official note? They just posted the request, it wouldn't be official if they made the translation.

I guess identifying yourself as a "Native speaker of Castillian Spanish" is more important to be aware of your biased opinions on this subject, than of your knowledge of the language :P
People choose a method of transportation based on personal convenience, moreso than cost, sustainability, safety, etc. Dutch citiies make parking inconvenient enough that biking wins out for short trips, and they're dense enough that many trips are short.

What's the lesson here? It seems to be saying that no amount of new infrastructure will make people ride bikes.
Sure there are some good nuggets in there but the overall article feels sloppy and without much direction.
who cares where is the mirror?
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Neither to me. Perhaps the elderly, mopeds and weekends might bring the average down, but still. We regularly go on long bicycle trips of +30km. Some of my coworkers regularly race +80km.

disclosure: Dutch myself
I'm sorry but your misreading of American history is substantial. Texas v. White in 1869 made official that which Shay's Rebellion, the annexation of the Texas Republic, and the Civil War had established by actions--that secession in the US is illegal.
It's true in New York too. Bike rides are more-often-than-not faster than the car or even the train, depending on the route.
I am really sorry. Also, I am on meds right now which make me self absorbed, so sorry if this comes off the wrong way.

You did nothing wrong. There is way too many high expectations to even get approved for SSDI, like needing to be continuously insured.

It is absolute insanity.

I know you have been doing everything you can. Unfortunately, I have been spending this year making plans for leaving the US with my extremely complicated health stuff.

The only reason why I get by is because I have an extremely supportive family.

To have to rely on the "goodwill" of strangers is a cruel existence.

I know that you are not emo. I know this country is killing people. It is believed that the third leading cause of death in the US is preventable medical errors. Plus, when healthcare costs an arm and a leg too...we really are killing people,
This is just a spit take, but American culture is a bit more independent-minded and always has been since the founder. Having your own property is part of that identity. That's why many went west rather than build up in cities.
I already monitor methane, humidity, and CO2 levels in the bathroom and log them, this looks like a great addition to my system. No doubt as always I'll be accused of criminal behavior at this point, especially with the whole "camera in the bathroom where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy" legal issue. I contend that is not an issue for "safety" monitoring such as gas levels. If I do implement an AI toilet cam, be assured it will point downwards not upwards. I agree an upwards pointing camera would be an extreme and egregious violation of privacy and rightly should be illegal and prosecutable. I contend though that photographing waste materials after they are disposed of is legal without consent or notification. And the company manufacturing the toilet cam product OP linked to obviously agrees completely with me and has a team of lawyers backing it up otherwise they wouldn't have spent a fortune developing this commercial toilet cam. (They say they are not commercializing the prototype in its current state, but they indicate the tech will be incorporated into future commercial products.) Also worth noting that my system and this system do not identify people using the toilet, unlike the legal and commercial "Therapy Bidet" which connects to the toilet user's Bluetooth to provide control at which point it obtains personally identifiable information. Amazing that that one is considered legal.
I'm not sure if the average European city, or the city/town the average European lives in, is smaller or larger than in the US (in terms of population).

I live in Berlin, with the population only slightly smaller than Los Angeles, and about 30% of the people regularly use bikes. Almost all trips I take somehow come out to about 4-6km, or 20 to 30min.

L.A. isn't even that much larger (1300km^2 to 900km^2). But anecdotally it seems to me like long commutes across metro regions are far more common?

As for blue-collar workers, I just recently saw a local plumber had switched to one of those cargo bikes. He said he had customers mostly within a 2x2km area, and was spending 20% of his days searching for parking spaces before.
Exactly. I find it rather plausible that those in power with something to lose created the circumstances (like malfunctioning cameras) and incentives (like putting him with a real bad cell"mate", with the suggestion he'd share the rest of his life with such people) to drive him into and enable his suicide instead of just whacking him outright, at least at this stage.
This is exactly the case. There's a small perimeter zone around the sensitive telescopes where unshielded/unapproved vehicles are prohibited, unless otherwise scheduled for some reason. This small area is the only place where these antique diesels are in use. They are in no way forcing the people in the nearby towns to use diesels or anything of the sort.
I think demand for these metals is relatively inelastic, so even supplying a relatively small amount may crash the market. If you double the supply of platinum per year, you will crash the market price.
IP means nothing. It's a poorly defined conglomerate of vastly different laws, like about brands, patents, models, etc.

A library is typically "protected" (that is: artificially restricted) by copyright, and the situation is then blurry but in some cases also patents (depending on the region of the world and/or good lawyers knowing the magic words to patent non-patentable things) and trade secrets.
The technical name for this problem is "blind source separation" [1] and is related to the "cocktail party effect" [2].

[1] http://www.mit.edu/~gari/teaching/6.555/LECTURE_NOTES/ch15_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

Commercial solutions are out there, but imo/e they're not always that great and the problem is of prime interest for researchers both in industry and academia.
The decision wasn't based on the word of the police.
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I've been in jail and while I fully agree about the poor quality thereof, the argument that 'jail is crap there's your answer' is woefully insufficient; in the worst case, it can be used to foreclose any inquiry in specific circumstances by a sort of reverse concern trolling.

It can be true both that the carceral system is hopelessly corrupt and should be abolished, and also that an individual death within the carceral system was avoidable and hyper-suspicious.
The key thing is that if your old employer is sending out demand letters, you have to go through expensive legal proceedings to clear the encumbrance on employing you. Your new employer has a letter stating that they have to either immediately terminate your employment or get sued - even if they will win in the eventually legal proceedings, lots of places are not willing to get sued over it. Some won't even be willing to pay a lawyer to figure out whether or not the suit has merit.
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One thing that's contrary to how XML is historically used but helps a lot.. do not use child elements where an attribute suffices:

eg, don't do this, from the article:

<Users>
<User>
<FirstName>Michael</FirstName>
<LastName>Scott</LastName>
<FavoriteMovies>
<Movie>Diehard</Movie>
<Movie>Threat Level Midnight</Movie>
</FavoriteMovies>
</User>
...
</Users>

but write it like this

<Users>
<User FirstName="Michael" LastName="Scott">
<FavoriteMovies>
<Movie Title="Diehard" />
<Movie Title="Threat Level Midnight" />
</FavoriteMovies>
</User>
...
</Users>

Much easier to query for a specific element (eg, try to XPath or CSS Selector query for all of Michael Scott's favourite movies with the first syntax), and the schema is a lot easier to write and reason about

(I don't have to wonder if multiple LastNames might be allowed, if I can set a xml:lang attribute on any of them, if the ordering of FirstName and Lastname elements is constrained, etc etc)
I never received my issues, so I disputed on PayPal. They never responded to the dispute so I won it automatically after a month or whatever it was. Then, a year later, I received some issues in the mail. Bizarre.
To be pedantic, it's 0.0000005b.

0.0005b would be 500M.

But your basic point is correct. I'm sure Zuck is quaking in his boots that he'll soon be bankrupt.
That's not even taking into account epigenetics.
Wouldn't increasing cloud cover be the same solution and just like way easier?
That's a good point. But this is not the actual court order, merely an explanatory letter from a police agency. The language is very "squishy". The preamble to the actual order, where the police explain the rationale, indeed uses the verb "retener" to mean "withhold/block". But the last sentence, if read alone, make more sense as "preserve." I believe this "squishiness" is no accident.

We really need to see the actual court order. Github has not included it in this repo.

Does anybody know how to access Spanish court orders online? Are they public?
They'll need station keeping anyways [0], but is 16 million tons actually enough to create substantial gravitational force?

Looks like the circle would be approximately 1100 kilometers in radius (per wikipedia), according to this random calculator [1] 20 million tons at 1100 km creates a force of 0.000000000001103 N/kg.

I don't think gravity is likely to be the biggest problem.

[0] Solar wind will push them, the lagrange point they would sit as is actually a "point" and anywhere nearby you slowly drift out of it

[1] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/gravitational-force
Of course the site has its normal login/password, for example nextcloud has authentication.

But you see, for what we are discussing here, you could have exploited it even without authenticating, and especially it would have been easier for scanners to find it and exploit, if it was on its own domain.

Defense in depth.

For some services, yes I do basic http auth, besides their own shitty auth.
> "addicts" (as you call them)

That’s what they are. I smoked from age 18 to 27 and I was fully aware that my physical and psychological reaction to withdrawal made me an addict.

The concept that vaping is safer is an assumption. Everyone assumed that smoking had no health risks until people started to study the effects of decades of use. The first vaporizers for nicotine arrived in 2006 so there is no possible way to know the full long-term effects of vaping. Assuming that it is safer is just as reasonable as assuming that it is less so.

> the nicotine is likely derived from tobacco

It absolutely is in 100% of vape liquids.

The delusion is palpable and the mental gymnastics that serve only the addiction are disturbing. As Dostoevsky said, ”The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him...”
Yes, this is a major flaw of HTML, it is very specific about where certain elements can and cannot be, so you can't really even design a solution like the above.
Of course its not highly mentioned, because its politics and its probably an unpopular consequence of the expansion. When Trump glorified his tax cuts, he didn't exactly shout from the rooftops that the majority of those cuts would be for the wealthy and for corporations, because that too would have been unpopular. Nobody wants to see doctors being paid less, they just want a decrease in healthcare costs. I think proponents of this plan do not to want admit that lower doctor pay would be a consequence because that would be admitting a downside, which opponents would undoubtedly latch on to (again, its politics), and with the rise of populism this could be a real threat to the success of the plan to expand the healthcare.
Probably around 4-6 hours of work all told.

We had to come up with a new name, do a find/replace, review the changes, test, fix a couple of issues because the replace wasn't perfect/complete, update the dev documentation, make a new patch release, and then create packages for the various supported platforms. Oh and looking back over it now, the filename had to be changed too, because apparently you can't use a keyword as a module name in Python either. So where the documentation linked directly to that file, that had to be updated as well.

[1] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/164

[2] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/releases/tag/v1.2.1
if it doesn't prevent you from breeding
So who’s converting this to Milkdrop?
Dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity.
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The valuation of sports teams for the big 4 (and especially big 3 in terms of big numbers) has skyrocketed. It is quite possible from here on out that no NBA or MLB team will be sold for less than $1B total valuation. And no NFL team for under $2B. It’s a lot for individuals to pay. It’s rare for teams to be owned by companies or funds like the NBA’s Toronto Raptors. But even that holding company has one guy owning a third of it. Or NFL’s Green Bay Packers being a public company.

Most leagues also have requirements for how much of the team can be paid for with debt, loans, etc. For a perspective on how crazy the skyrocketing valuations are, NBA and MLB teams outside major markets were going for under $500M and NFL teams for way under $1B. Major market teams were still going for a lot like NFL’s Washington DC Redskins went for over a billion 20 years ago, but even just five years ago the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks went for around $500M. Now that they have a new stadium, sometimes that stuff is conditional on the purchase, their value has probably doubled (along with currently being a championship contender with an MVP superstar entering his prime).

At this point, almost no individuals can take on a whole team purchase on their own. Or be able to pay up a higher price on their own. Exceptions are also people wildly richer than most owners like Steve Ballmer who’s around top 15 richest people and paid handsomely for the NBA’s LA Clippers, though he will also profit off it as well. Many, if not most, current big 3 majority owners would not be able to afford their own team if you looked at their net worth outside the team.
I'm half Italian, so I've already got my share of spaghetti code.
The IDE wrote code and kinda hid it from you in a partial class. And every once in awhile, one would have to get in there and muck around with the generated code. This had the potential to break things pretty badly.
I certainly could -- but why should I hold myself to a higher standard of evidence than do you yourself? Also, you have moved the goalposts by now singling out the U.S. government.
Nowadays a whole new trend is arising in the Netherlands. By introduction of the electric bike the cut-off for taking a bike vs. car is much less steep. Regular electric bikes (max 25km/h) make people bike to work for ranges 5-10 km single-trip now, speed pedelecs (45km/h bikes) are extending it as far as 35km single trip. Bikes are becoming more popular not only because people like to live healthy but also because our roads are clogging up (again). Combined with high-speed biking lanes being added to our infrastructure this drives adoption.

I expect these graphs to change in the coming 5 years.

P.s. Our today's issue is having speed pedelecs which are not allowed on our biking lanes in cities/suburbs/villages (big speed difference) but are just about too slow for the regular 50km/h roads :).

P.p.s. Electric bikes are around 2000€ on average. Speed pedelecs start at 3500€ but quickly go to 5000€, and 8000€+ for premium brands is not uncommon. We still love our bikes ;).
This is consistent with my use of bikes: if it requires any special equipment or preparations whatsoever, I'm not really that interested. Helmets, special clothes, water, locks, repair gear, whatever. That means short rides only. Anything beyond that transitions the use case from "average, practical users" to hobbyists.
When you factor in rush hour, it's definitely true for the Bay Area.

I live in San Jose, a morning car commute on the 101 is ~30mins, return is ~50-60mins. Riding my bike is 45mins (43-48) each way.

It's a complete wash and I get 90mins of exercise per day.

If you don't want exercise, get an e-bike and go faster for less effort!
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Which largely don't exist. With the exception of like, Phoenix and greater Los Angeles, US cities were also not designed for cars.

Even Western cities that are famous for sprawl like Denver and Houston, their streets were laid down in their modern form in the 1870s, decades before Karl Benz first had the idea of attaching a motor to a wagon.

Cars are recent invaders to our cities, and retrofits were made to accommodate them (thanks in part to massive lobbying from auto makers and hostile takeovers and subsequent shutdowns of private mass transit). There is almost no such thing as a "city designed for cars"
So why would you put him there? Continual focus on the environment takes the attention of the exceptionally unusual identity of the prisoner.
My ISP can not "be looking at your address bar", you are thinking of Google.

Downgrade attack, would not work since I use HTTPS Everywhere, and once my browser has visited the site it refused to downgrade - that header is set.
The pathologist from the article claims "Epstein suffered multiple fractures in his neck that are more consistent with strangulation than suicide by hanging". This is a forensic claim first, but one that also raises questions about the quality of the system. Mr. White's perspective is interesting, but doesn't speak to the forensics.

Mr. White might raise questions about the argument "Epstein couldn't have committed suicide because of the system", but by highlighting the incompetence in the system he lends plausibility to the idea that someone could gain access to Epstein in order to murder him.
No, if the weight of evidence was there I'd push to pivot to non-violent, or less violent games, or patch it family friendly as appropriate -- but I already think many US movies and some games are absurdly OTT with violence, to the point of spoiling them. Course if there was enough research to show harm, I would hope for regulation setting an appropriate limit so everyone is accountable to the same standard.

The TL;DR the customer is the other party to mutually benefit from our offering, not a cow to be industrially milked regardless. After 40 years I still haven't bought into "greed is good", we should aspire - and regulate - to a higher standard to everyone's benefit. :)

In a more general business context I would hope to show we a) thought about it and investigated it properly then b) took a considered view that we could stand by if it was later publicised or leaked, i.e. properly exercised our duty of care and reasonable ethics.

Knowing there's a problem and carefully keeping quiet about it, or pretending the opposite and spinning against - maybe even hiring a PR agency to sow doubt, or ignoring contaminated product -- well those all seem to tip easily into criminal negligence and should come with serious consequence for both directors and company.

As an aside, I've always found it most odd that US tv is frequently laissez-faire on violence, but will beep out or overdub minor-friendly trivial profanity or get all puritan about a hint of nipple or human relations. Mostly the opposite of the European perspective. I quite often fast forward through the boring over-long fight sequence or shoot outs in US TV and movies... If it's an 18 rated horror I've sat down to watch, sure, bring it - though I'll probably still skip the 5 minute OTT shoot out to save yawns... :)
For what it's worth, Wikipedia suggests making them shaped like a lens.