skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And even if this were the only way anyone had worded the claim, it still merits a "partially true" or "mostly true".

How so? At best, only 2 of the last 6 Presidents were actually called for impeachment by the Democratic party and, at worst, it was 3 if you count Nixon which was bi-partisan. How does that make the claim, in any way, "mostly true" or even "partially true"?
You don't hear about the people who don't get fired though.

All this depends on the experience level of the boss you work for. There are lot of oversensitive influencial customers out there, not just the Chinese Govt.
> Perhaps you would like to advance an actual argument

> insofar as abusing access to portable computing devices

> to virtually riffle through an individuals entire life

> without benefit of court or even articulable suspicion?

You seem to think that I support a side I don't. Cases like this don't survive motions for summary judgement if the one side is completely implausible. This case either survived a motion for summary judgement, or the "obvious" side didn't make such a motion.

So if you think it is completely obvious, you should take it up with either the judge that denied the motion, or the lawyer who neglected to bring it.

> Lest we forgot Texas had to have the supreme court tell them that they couldn't outlaw gay sex not that long ago.

Any law that forbid it was unjust, and it should have been fixed long, long before Obergefell. But just because a law is unjust, doesn't mean that it is unconstitutional on its face, (cf, civil asset forfeiture--manifestly unjust and currently legal in many circumstances) This is a mistake many court-watchers make.

It is a very safe bet that a 1950's court would have gone the other way on Obergefell, so on a plain language standard kind of fails. At some point, society gained a better understanding of what justice is and is not--and that is a great thing. But if the plain language didn't change, then the appeal to plain language isn't what gets us there. Rather, our understanding of justice did.
2/3rds of the electricity produced in the US is lost in transmission: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained//us-energy-facts/

EDIT: this is actually wrong, I misinterpreted the diagram, see the comment below.
The other big issue I see in government projects is that government and other public sector organizations have a mandate to serve all citizens, even the expensive ones. Startups can choose to ignore the 20% of their potential market that is expensive to serve.
How do you stop the bots from upvoting? If you make people fill out a recaptcha every time to upvote they just won't bother.
You’re right on both. Just as an added plus Tesla will have better tariffs to other countries while taking advantage of each of its hosting jurisdiction’s bilateral deals, so the impact is larger.
> solar panels don't last "a few years more" [than turbines]

This is not a point against solar, but the "lifetime" of wind turbine installations is misrepresented in the article. It states "the life expectancy of a wind turbine may be less than 15 years." and it links one 7 year old article to support that idea, which is known to be false except in the sly sense that for sure a windturbine may need repairs at any time.

Modern windfarms are commonly financed to be built and make a profit from investment by selling electricity for 15 years. After that contract is up, however much they require new blades and/or refurbished or modernized generators - extending their life is due to be much cheaper than putting entirely new ones in their foundations. The relatively short supply contracts are very desirable to investors, not a sign of unreliability.[1]

[1] https://www.intechopen.com/books/stability-control-and-relia...
> So where do we get energy from in case we get a windless week in winter, if not fossil fuels or nuclear?

It isn't actually unreasonable to just say fossil fuels here. If we had to burn natural gas for a week every two years it would still represent a 99% reduction in carbon emissions.

And on top of that, suppose we keep a week's supply of biofuels. They're not cost-competitive on a normal day, but you're not using them on a normal day.
The dept of HHS requires any organization with HIPAA business associate status to regularly undergo audits.

Can you fly under the radar and potentially get away with not doing it? Of course, anything is possible. Could a multibillion dollar internet organization beholden to shareholders and under public scrutiny get away with it? Not likely.
Recently I switched from Chrome and Google search to Firefox with Duck Duck Go and found it refreshing actually.
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That’s the wrong question: who are you to be able to stop it?

Is it ok to let people crank out as many babies as they want, destabilizing things further for the species?

Can you more concretely define “in some years”? Before or after I am dead?

This is the ultimate point I am trying to make: how much plastic and how many phones we make today impact the necessity of that future dialog.

Do something about the activity today to avoid the conversation from having value rather than emotionally spinning in circles over a hypothetical.

Who is this blogger to think we owe their position much thought?

Cleanup the planet to keep it from being a problem then.
I don’t think you caught my claim exactly. Let’s say Sentry is being honest when they say they have to do this else they wouldn’t be able to make enough money to survive. In that case, it’s good for competition.

A better analogy: T-Mobile will go out of business because they set poor terms on franchisees that let them exploit and take business from T-Mobile. Now T-Mobile is days away from folding. Here’s two scenarios:

1. They fail, both T-Mobile and franchisees go under.

2. They change the terms, killing the franchise model. Only T-Mobile survives.

In this case I see number 2 as better for the market. Better to have one bigger competitor in a nearly monopolized market than have none - it’s more competitive and you’d see lower prices for end users than if they failed. Same goes for Segment.
Some of the Bill of Rights are fundamental human rights, like right to free speach and right to bear arms.

Others are not, like the Tenth Amendment.

The 4th Amendment is probably closer to the first category rather than the second.
They actually will. People have tested it many times, but the post office will deliver a coconut if it has the correct postage. I’m sure you could go to a USPS postage kiosk and put a brick on it and it would work.
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I'm afraid you're right, but I'm also afraid that no one has the necessary combination of money, technological skill and military might to undertake that kind of geoengineering unilaterally.
I respectfully disagree that internet humans are a representative sample of humans or that HN humans represent a sample of internet humans. In both cases the sample isn't random.

Perhaps overly optimistically I believe both samples are on average better than the overall population. People that have access to an internet connection have on average a better chance of also having access to an education. People that read hacker news are on average more likely to be the type who have the desire to read and comprehend a topic more so than the average person who often desires no more than a shallow understanding of what they believe will directly effect themselves and their fortunes.

I do think we often speak more frankly OF people than TO them even when being civil. I can think of a fair number of people where honest dialogue regarding them or their ideas would be at best insulting no matter how neutrally one proposed to conduct one self. Wherein these people literally promote evil not speaking plainly is a greater ill than being unkind.

Article's written by such folks are literally all over the net but rarely if ever appear on the main page for Hacker News. You have I'm sure more insight than I about whether they are submitted in the first place. I guess you can say its practicable to be decent to one another in an environment composed by a great than average concentration of decent people wherein all the really indecent people are either discouraged from entering in the first place or excluded thereafter.
It is harder because of both, and the fact that so much of the more content is lower quality. In the past it was not just that you could build up an understanding of a subject but often that understanding came from high quality experts on the subject. Nowadays the understanding of a subject you can build up often comes from a content mill or something providing a lower quality overview of the subject.

Searches you do now on basically any subject you are not an expert in already give you the same subject matter level of expertise you can expect from a 5 minute segment on the nightly news, whereas before you could expect at least the quality of a 30 minute show hosted by James Burke.
Tangential, but does anyone know of good hardware to function as a standalone HDMI output video server? I've been wanting to play with making a 'plug and play' box that I could give to kids/grandparents in my life who don't have the technical skills to pirate for themselves, preloaded with content I think is good and they'd enjoy.

What is the cheapest hardware that can output arbitrary 1080p video over HDMI at a good frame-rate? Bonus points for having a good chunk of integrated storage and/or bundled with remote control. I bought one of those cheap tiny PCs but the video card wasn't up to the task.
Yes, my expectation is that we will build habitats which withstand sea level rise and temperature fluctuations, and abandon habitats which cannot be retrofitted to withstand present conditions.
What is it about Americans that cause them to be so belligerent in the face of basic, clear, undeniable evidence?

A lot of countries have universal healthcare and, shock, horror, it is cheaper per capita.

A lot of countries have strict gun laws and, shock, horror, they don't have mass killings.

But no, you're American, of course you're way is right because, um? You say so! You've have some compelling "arguments", despite all the evidence.

It would be funny if it wasn't causing so many preventable deaths, both from a lack of affordable healthcare, and mass murder sprees.
> AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Included Services each available for each AWS region with a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.99%, in each case during any monthly billing cycle....

So to achieve 99.99% within a region, every component should have at least 3 nodes and to better it deployment should go multi-region which will escalate the costs quickly.

Most application in reality don't even need four 9s so this works b beautifully for everyone. I work in outsourcing industry and in bad old days we had huge penalties and many rounds of explanations even for applications with no redundancy requirements ;).

But it's just Amazon credit nowadays and no one blinks and eye so it's win win the all.
Exactly. And there was originally no specific day mentioned, because the original claim was made on and about day one, which at the time, was the only day.
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Different standards were not applied. Where are you getting that from?

Forum users posted the article from BB asking for it to be debunked. They haven't posted a request for articles from the Onion and that's likely because the Onion is well-known enough for people to know it's satire.

You guys are reaching so hard here.
Others have mentioned generation and speed, but there's a much more important piece, IMO:

Maintainability. With declarative text-based diagramming, you can check these in as text files, and when the system evolves or the diagram has a need to change, it's easy to make a change and re-generate the image.
I meant Tempelhof :D
I never created one and yet I'm sure they are still tracking me and my relationships. I suspect I have no right to not be their product.
He got hammered by us but unfortunately nothing from him referencing Israel. I don’t blame him, no one can filter all these tweets.
Was annoyed to see SESTA-FOSTA grouped in with the other laws and presented as though it is not a core demand of sex worker organizers to overturn as it shatters their means of protecting each other and screening clients online.
Hardly a role model for any state.
Such an outrageously good poet. My favorites of hers are some of my favorites of all time:

"Sestina"
https://staff.washington.edu/rmcnamar/383/bishop.html

"Visits to St. Elizabeth's"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53008/visits-to-st-el...

"The Armadillo"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57076/the-armadillo
Pretty sure many apps don't even allow you to save pictures at all. Maybe Facebook is one of them, not sure. That + the button to save pictures not being at the same place on all apps makes screenshots easier and reliable. They simply work.
same, though if my participation is desired/required i’ve found people tend to reach me anyhow
I can build a flowchart out of this article, but realized it has no end: it's an infinite loop. There has to be a point where you give up after get-user-feedback-tweak-and-try-again happens too many times. It's almost like a genetic algorithm where somebody forgot to put an upper limit on the regeneration loop count.

Sure, tweak-and-try-again can keep going on until you eventually stumble on the right formula, since you'll eventually exhaust all possible related ideas, but it may be 2 years or 2 centuries until you hit it.

Somebody may have to put a time limit on how long they'll try. For example, "I'll try for 4 years, and if nothing looks viable after 4 years, I'll get a real job or go to grad school."
The main difference seem to be that Facebook's moderation is done after the fact, while these sites place content in a moderation queue before making them visible. I do like the idea, but it might not fly well with the typical Facebook user, who is accustomed to the instant gratification of seeing his/her post on the feed, followed by likes and comments.
I’m sure the people didn’t get together in a referendum and decide to be not-allowed to criticize the government. That’s not a matter of not agreeing, it’s a matter of being told
You really think turning a popular public park (or if you mean the buildings, a publicly owned/used building with preservation status) in a central-ish location in the city, with worse freight transport connections than the airport, into a factory is a sensible or politically viable solution?
I can’t even copy text on Facebook.com with iOS Safari.
Piracy isn't stealing, that's intellectual property lobbyist propaganda.

I would happily download a car: zero cost reproduction of useful things makes society as a whole richer. The content industry needs to figure out a new business model to adapt to the information age, and the longer people pay for digital content the more funds these outdated relics will have for legislating a moat around their "property". I'd much prefer a kickstarter or patreon-like model where superfans could fund and watch and participate in development.
NUCLEAR REACTORS will be needed soon to desalinate water. May as well learn to build them safely! Especially don’t make them giant targets for terrorists and hackers.

BUT ALSO we need to end factory farming and transition the vast majority of cars to electric. The main reason they are still locked exclusively into hydrocarbons is the massive subsidies the US government has given to fossil fuels. Otherwise we could have had great battery tech 30 years ago after Suez Crisis and OPEC would jolt markets awake and people would clamor for alternatives.
Of course it will provide some output. The issue here is that if you want the diminished power output in winter to cover the energy use in winter, you need to either store the summer energy in some way, or overbuild by adding additional generation capacity, so that in summer you have some good multiple generating capacity of what you actually need, especially if you account for transmission losses, which are 2/3rds of current electricity generation. The result is that the spot price of energy in summer will be extremely low, and so the capital costs of building solar panels will have to be recovered by selling winter energy, precisely when solar panels generate least power. This will push the cost of electricity from renewables through the roof: right now they are quite competitive, because they can sell it for good price in summer.
Aside from all the arguments brought up so far, there's that word "unreasonable" which the courts have historically interpreted with an "expectation of privacy" standard. You have a high expectation of privacy when you're in your house, somewhat less when you're in a car, and much less when you're entering an airport or crossing a border.

In the old days, it was routine for customs officers to search ships coming in to harbor, including the effects of their passengers, to enforce importation laws. If customs couldn't do this, then importation laws would have no teeth, which is clearly not the intention of the constitution, which gives Congress the explicit power to enact and enforce them.

CBP argues that their smartphone and laptop searches were just an extension of that old custom, the court disagreed, ruling that a smartphone or laptop is fundamentally different from a ship's log or traveler's trunk, such that a higher expectation of privacy exists.
Many apps seem to fail (rather, they insist you regrant the lost perms) if you manually remove the permissions, does this also happen with Bouncer?
> Which of these do you prefer

Neither. You, like the author of these articles, left out the third choice:

- Continue to improve technology so it can continue to supply increasing real wealth with a smaller ecological footprint.

This has already been happening for pretty much the entire history of technology. The computers we are using to have this conversation consume orders of magnitude less power for orders of magnitude more computing operations than the ones people used to have similar conversations a couple of decades ago. The cars we drive are much more efficient and emit much less. The widespread availability of telecommunications and the Internet reduces the need for people to physically go somewhere in order to get something done.

People can adapt to change if they are given the tools.
From the basic installation page:

https://docs.projectquay.io/deploy_quay.html

"For a Project Quay Registry installation (appropriate for non-production purposes), you need one system (physical or virtual machine) that has the following attributes:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): Obtain the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux server media from the Downloads page and follow instructions from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Installation Guide.

Valid Red Hat Subscription: Obtain a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux server subscription.

"

So, is it truly tied to RHEL and a subscription, or is that page just making me FEEL that way?

Annoying either way. :/
You can also use your own modem and WiFi access point, save monthly rental fees, and get better throughout.
That’s an excellent point. I see zero reason to believe this story is true. Sounds more like urban legend.
It wouldn't be impossible to do faster moderation in these cases. People usually take a bit of time between completion of a post and submission, where you could run basic moderation checks.
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That book can claim what it wants. I am waiting for the science to back up those claims.

Physical evidence of CO2 causing global warming has been presented for over 120 years. Arrhenius was the first to propose that such a mechanism can cause global warming [1]. Please wake up to the 20th century. Snooze, and wake up to the 21st. Global warming due to CO2 increases in the atmosphere is real.

If you have any peer-reviewed science contradicting my claims, please present them.

[1] http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
It's stated in the article that YT/FB/whatever woudln't be able to grow as much as it did.
It is "obvious" only if you ignore centuries of customs practice and the word "reasonable" in the text. The 4th amendment protection from searches is not absolute.
You can't live on hbo alone. I spent a summer and went through everything I could find. I have no desire to go back for 10 years. They have some great shows but are not creating enough to make netflix output.
We use our own product https://PI.EXCHANGE

We deploy the models as HTTP endpoints and consume them in R/Python/Excel.

We also have advanced functionality available to enterprise clients that are exposed as APIs with a customised JSON format to trigger various agents.
I was about to set up my own domain with a paid email account too. My reason was privacy. But then I was wondering even if I have my own encrypted email service, does it defeat the purpose if the sender is using Gmail? Since Google would still scan that email and figure out things about me. Any advice? Thanks.
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If it hasn't changed, it will right quick when they start getting nastygrams from all the people having to log in over and over again on TV apps.
I dont accept this line of thinking, we cant hand wave away hard problems just because we've solved hard problems in a pinch before.

This sounds like a tautology, but we solved hard problems by solving them, not by believing we'd solve them.
Running it by a human moderator wouldn't likely be possible in that time, but the false positive rate is probably low enough, that you could fall back to delaying the posting in those cases.
An anonymous, decentralized reputation system which any service could hook into.
I think you are a little too confident in IBM's management.
HFTs scale their operation across a huge population of securities. These Ukranians apparently targeted just a handful.
Tech brands have grown dramatically since 2001 (motion graphic)
I was about to quote this exact passage. I flagged the article because its central argument is so specious. The writer gestures in the direction of scale:

It is true that a site like Facebook wouldn’t be able to reach a billion users, or provide those users with the same experience, if it adopted the same content moderation model as a site like xHamster

But the writer doesn't follow up on the scale of Facebook vs the scale of the comparison sites.

To have an opinion on the Internet, all you need is a computer and an Internet connection.
It seems like you may be misinterpreting what "family planning" means.

"Family planning", as it's commonly understood, is an umbrella term for how normal, everyday people avoid having children when they don't want to have them.

When toxik responded to your question "Who will decide who lives? Or who has kids and a family?" with "Probably just family planning. Nobody needs to die to save the earth", they are suggesting that humans will continue to practice (as we have for millennia) techniques that reduce the number of unplanned children we have.
What if you offer the option of a lump sum payment upon death to anybody who is faced with a disease that will most likely end in imminent death? So, if it costs $250k for treatment of a cancer where the patient is going to die in, at most, a few years, then offer them $125k payable heirs upon their death (where it would then go to heirs). In return, they elect to have only end-of-life care performed.

I bet there's a lot of people who would take this. And it would both save money and make a pretty big difference in the lives of people who still have a lot of life left to live.
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Oi, I live in spandau. It's very green...