skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So why is it that there is so much support for tough-on-crime policies that decrease popular freedom in obvious ways?

A standard answer:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

~ H.L. Mencken

from

https://www.peakprosperity.com/2019-year-in-review-part-1/#c...
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If someone takes out the SIM to use it for internet that they didn't have a right/permission to use, that sounds a lot like theft of services. It's usually a criminal offense, and that could follow someone around for years to come. Plus, $2000+ in legal defense costs. I wouldn't risk it.
If by “some” you mean the government of France, then yeah.

Another little known fact: Landmark was based on the IP from Werner Erhard’s Est seminars in the 70s, which in turn incorporated specific techniques from Scientology [1]. Some of these fun Scientology influences still exist in today’s forum trainings.

1. http://www.skepdic.com/est.html
I'd argue that there are levels of security and encryption, mostly around what data is secret.

If I make an encrypted phone call to you, there are a few "levels" of information. There's the exact information exchanged on the call, the amount of information exchanged but not it's value, the identities of those in the call, the date and time and duration of the call, perhaps the hardware used to make the call, etc...

Encryption isn't an all or nothing thing, it often involves tradeoffs and giving up some security for convenience or the other way around. And in some areas there are laws about what must be kept secret and what must be visible to the government (like in anti-money laundering laws).
> Rights, in the US, are not GRANTED by government, they are RECOGNIZED by the US Constitution to exist OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT (upper case is for emphasis only). In other words, these rights don't require government in order to exist.

This is semantically vacuous verbiage. Rights have no meaning unless you have a system of human organization (e.g. a government) that allows those rights to be enforced and respected. In the absence of such an arrangement the phrase "I have the right to do X" has as much meaning and validity as Chomsky's "colorless green ideas sleep furiously". It's not a wrong statement, it's just a completely semantically empty one.
> I felt the same way about the weather in SoCal. Lived there for 6 years. ... the sun is beaming down on me. Walk out of the office for lunch, same thing. Every single day.

I moved from NYC to SoCal for 3 years. There's nothing worse than going out drinking until 4AM, waking up with a horrible hangover, and then looking outside to see a beautiful cloudless 70 degree day. I moved back to NYC and now my hangovers are greeted with freezing rain, sloppy sleet, and sub-zero temperatures. Down the Tylenol, order some Chinese food, and sit in bed: the world is at peace.
I like the collections a lot, the layout not so much (moved url to top, but it only moves it for browser page, not the collections page.
I'm about to drop a whitepaper that rap improves coding ability through surrogate flow.
it is fast becoming my favourite word to describe something that I had never been able to put my finger on..and actually identify the intention behind certain strings of words.

Thanks for making it clearer again.
> do the migrants understand why the situation became so intolerable that they felt they should move?

For California, it's mostly having a very successful economy combined with terribly stupid housing policy.

Conservative areas are 'better' on the latter on some level because they permit more sprawl, which does provide for more supply, which means lower housing prices. Car-dominant sprawl is a disaster in other ways, though: environment, pollution, health, noise, danger, cost to government, cost to user, etc.

And conservative areas are usually even worse at allowing density, despite being ostensibly free market. I have a lot of conservative FB friends, and it's always amazing how quickly they're suddenly in favor of strict government regulation when it's for keeping housing density low; when it's their favored lifestyle at risk, free market principles are apparently no longer an issue.
> Haven't we been hearing about "software that doesn't require any tech skills to build" for 25 years now? It seems like a pipe dream

Whether or not it is possible, it means nothing that it hasn't happened in 25 years.

25 years may feel like a long period of time, but it isn't when we're considering the development of technology. In historical terms, we're still in the infancy of computer technology.
It is on a relative spectrum what’s left and right in those countries . In Europe for example the U.S. left would be considered moderate or conservative and not really liberal.
Also the reason for urban areas being more liberal , is usually because closer you live to ton of people , better you need and appreciate collective/ liberal policies better
Can't locate the pilot if the drone is autonomously following GPS waypoints.
If you pick a real number at random, what's the probability it will be rational?
I remember when I was young and “diverse opinions” was a phrase as celebrated as “diverse backgrounds” is today. Why we had to lose the former while (rightfully) recognizing the value of the latter is beyond me, and without both we will surely continue to descend into continued tribalism, but of a different kind.
I would scrape this thing off and park in different lots from then on. All you need is a half of a windshield wiper blade track stuck in to break the seal, and then throw this vulture capitalism cash-grab in the trash bin.
Everything that I've heard that was changed from Python 2 to 3 are reminiscent of things that Perl5 handled while maintaining backwards compatibility.

I mean Perl5 is still mostly backwards compatible back to the original version released in 1987.
(There were a few rarely used bad features that should have never been there which have been removed.)

The way it does this is by having you specifically ask for the new features, if they would otherwise break code.
Comparing Python, Go, and C++ on the N-Queens Problem
But it's not just "code on github". It has the very professional-looking https://actix.rs/ and so on.
These aren't gas powered or industrial drones, they're used against things like the DJI Phantom. The Eagle's claws are far, far stronger then the blades and the low torq.

They can also be given titanium talons like police dogs, if it becomes necessary.
Within those countries, you're still going to see more conservatism in rural areas, and more progressiveness in urban ones.
And they are all significantly more "liberal" than the surrounding rural areas, even if in absolute terms they are not as liberal as Western cities.
I'd rather have lower cost DO than pay to subsidize people who forget to pay for over a month. If you want that, use Dropbox.
I was looking into this problem with headphones recently and it seemed the info was all over the internet. Like, it was a known issue, with a known cause. Is there something new in what he's describing that I'm missing?
There's no correlation between how easy or widespread knowledge on something is and it's illegality.

Everyone knows how to strangle someone. Every one can trivially learn what to use to poison someone. Murder is still illegal.

We outlaw things we don't want to happen.

If we don't want privacy. We should outlaw encryption. If we do want privacy, encryotion must remain legal.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius
Let's say some incredibly talented person "fairly" comes to own all the water in the world. All the rest of us would depend on this person to live, and he/she could choose which of us lives or dies simply by not selling us any water.

Would you want to live in such a world? Or do you think maybe the rest of us deserve to have some of that water, even if we're not as clever and we didn't "fairly" earn it?

Dialing back to the real world, all these billionaires and other elites are having very real outsize impacts on the lives of the less wealthy -- from whether/where/how they work, to how they and their children get educated, to what information we have access to, to who goes to jail and who goes free, who goes to war and against whom, and who lives or dies.

Incredible wealth gives people incredible power, and the concentration of this incredible power in the hands of a small minority is distorting the world in ways those not in this minority are having trouble swallowing, no matter whether this concentration of wealth and power was "fairly" arrived at or not.
I see Walmart security people beating on RVs and trucks in the morning to annoy the people in them, even though these poorly-trained rent-a-cops aren't the police. That might actually be considered a hate crime in some instances since you can't intentionally bother or harass homeless people on the street.
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> Caltrain replaced all their track about 15 years ago, going to concrete ties and welded rail.

I live there. I took it to work for 6 years. (I stopped late last year.) The ties are mostly wood. There's some concrete ones in and around some stations, but the vast majority are wood.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s9HcflA_nY — there are more than I thought there were, but definitely not all of them.
Most people for most of history were peasants. Peasant women don't just raise children - they usually contribute to almost everything else that the farming economy requires, as well. Think of old photos of peasants/poor farmers. Do the women look like they have been spending their time just raising children?
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> Instead, we are soft forcing Mothers to drop their kids in the care of poorly paid strangers at the earliest convenience, to spend their full time energy enriching faceless shareholders.

Is there any evidence indicating that this is actually true? What makes you think that the existence of out-of-home childcare is forcing mothers to work? This seems backwards; I think it's much more likely that the existence of mothers who worked would lead to alternative childcare options being offered, not vice-versa.
Ideally, you want more than two sides , there are nuances to everyone’s beliefs, forcing them to choose just red/blue is reducing choices and doesn’t reflect real preferences
The story is told well by this user agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.65

"Edg"* , like Chrome, like Safari/AppleWebKit, like KHTML, like Gecko, like Mozilla 5.0.

My lord, this ridiculous header is f'ed (and I don't mean this string, just this entire ridiculous slow-motion trainwreck that requires every browser to pretend to be every browser that ever came before).

\* presuming that spelling means 'please don't lock me out like Edge' -- modern Chromium Opera identifies as OPR, similarly
California Weighs Raising Taxes on Companies Based on Pay Gap Btwn Execs&Workers
What's the point in capping CEO pay? It won't lift anyone out of poverty.
yes DDG is a 'metacrawler' (for you old timers out there); it uses approximately 100 search sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...
Fitbits can help predict flu outbreaks
They are hosted on all three, AWS, GCP, and Azure as well as on their own Server in their own DC.
Yes, and I haven’t seen anything suggesting that it’s Prop 13 that’s responsible for majority of the premium in California’s housing costs compared to other states. It’s not nothing, but it pales in comparison to zoning regulations and requirements for environmental traffic etc impact studies that drag on and on.
Calling it now, S&P500 up 20% by year end.
Working around the house/village is still work. Male peasants for the most part don't work outside the house/village either. They usually work on fields that relatively close to where they live. And a large fraction of the women work alongside them. Older men and women - grandpas and grandmas, etc. - do a lot of the childrearing while the younger women work.
What are you missing right now? I have been very happy with Buffer and the new files system, panes for multitasking, + VNC.
> They made me seriously hypomanic, but emotionally numb.

The worst part about that is my avoidant behavior of self care in the pursuit of work that feels good. There are other issues that made it that way. It's akin to being addicted to hard drugs (not meant to be insensitive. Can't find any other analogy atm). Mind and body want different things while also being on their own in the reception/outcome. Priorities shuffle in a matter of minutes if you are not concentrating and controlling yourself. Having so much self control is exhausting when others don't have to do this and makes me wonder whether am I alive at all sometimes. Letting out anything becomes difficult and I really believe my future is gonna be full of substance abuse.

> It's just that stuff reminds us of a morass of similar past experiences. And there are associated feelings, which have been reinforced through repetition since we were very young.

I know but things went wrong my entire childhood and they still are.
While I try to avoid things that reinforces negative emotions, some of them are just unavoidable.
Eg - washroom...painful memories there.

I wish I had means to reward myself but I don't. Things that may have worked as a reward is an addictive dependency now and I truly don't care about most things including what I get to eat or whether even I get food at all.

That last part alone makes people doubt and fill in holes with their broken explanation which then I need to reassert how eating food in some situation is objectively better hence I do it but I wouldn't in lack of friction to avoid eating it therefore I don't desire the food for it's merit but external factors force me into it.

Do people enjoy things on their own merits or external factors coerces them to enjoy something?

I can't figure out the answer because I do most things for avoidance.
If you like the archetypal, tragical, allegorical narratives which derive the inspiration from ancient or religious cultures, then I advise you to watch "Teorema" by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In fact, italian art cinema school was very rich and brave in its interpretations and usage of what is considered classical in European tradition, so there are a lot of masterpieces which you might like.

I don't know if you're okay with scrolling wikipedia entries on films you haven't seen (I usually do it before I watch anything), so I won't spare the details. But there is a substantial analysis of "Teorema" structure on wiki in case you would like to get acquainted with it.
Good for him. Each to their own. That said, those hacks must be legendary for him to go to those lengths. Frankly I'm surprised xscreensaver is still around given all the various changes to window managers.

I've probably still got a few machines with a locally compiled version of xscreensaver lying around.
Actually the objective should be the greater good but nowadays who takes that into consideration?
No one lives in the overcrowded costal states anymore. They're too overcrowded.
The impression you got from the article was that author just isn't into STEM? If you want to make an argument based on women's preferences, you might consider a closer reading of what they're saying.
The biggest thing in those states' favor is easily housing policy. They tend to permit much more sprawl, so housing prices in general, and especially the cost of a detached single family home stay more reasonable. Aside from Houston, they're still not great on allowing housing density though.

Meanwhile, blue states have a "worst of both worlds" kind of policy. They don't permit much sprawl, and also don't permit much density, thereby pushing people to states where they do permit sprawl. Then they tell you that this is good for the environment, somehow.

That said, while it makes for cheap single family homes, sprawl has a LOT of negatives. Strong Towns explains how it basically functions like a Ponzi scheme in the long term, and within older cities the sprawlier parts are usually subsidized by the denser ones. There's also more cost to the environment, to health, to noise, to safety, and for transportation costs for both the government and the user. There's a reason the US has an unusually high traffic fatality rate per 100k people for a developed country, and there's an impact on our collective national waistline as well.
It still might be needed for external dependencies. the code an organization writes might be in one repo, but if you want to bring in some other library, like libssl (assuming there is no better package manager for your language) submodules are often used
Exactly or move your low wage jobs to other states.
> The federal government is much more constrained (or was intended to be), and outlawing alcohol with an act of Congress would be a violation of the 10th Amendment.

Commerce clause, among others. There are all kinds of federal regulations and bans that have been upheld as constitutional. Claiming that they aren't really is wishful, not legal, thinking.

> Interestingly, even the 1st Amendment did not originally prevent states from infringing on the freedom of speech

This isn't correct. It's the due process clause that is operative, and the supreme Court has ruled that states can't remove rights, including those technically protected only from the federal gov, without due process.
>> Rights, in the US, are not GRANTED by government, they are RECOGNIZED by the US Constitution to exist OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT

> This is semantically vacuous verbiage. Rights have no meaning unless you have a system of human organization (e.g. a government) that allows those rights to be enforced and respected.

The OP is clearly being sloppy with their word usage (and their all-caps usage), but I think what they may be trying to say is that the constitution generally prohibits the government from doing something, rather than granting an individual the right to do it.

For example, the first amendment doesn't say you have an affirmative right to free speech, just that "Congress shall make no law .. abridging the freedom of speech". Most constitutional "rights" are actually rules prohibiting the government from doing something (e.g., prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures).

On a practical level, the distinction may seem semantic, but there are important moral implications: all people inherently born free, and government/society restricts that freedom. Some of those restrictions are more acceptable than others, and that's what the constitution tries to delineate. If it was the reverse (i.e., the government granted you rights), then it would imply you were not free to do them in the first place.

Although the two approaches are similar on a practical level, the former approach emphasizes freedom to a greater degree.
Good singing is to karaoke as safety is to Rust?

I don't claim to know much about either karaoke or rust, but from what little I know of both, that seems wrong. The Rust community expects safe code, while bad singing is expected at karaoke bars.
What happens when you share Salary Details with your Peers
What causes you to say that guns make less sense today than they did when the second amendment was written? Their effectiveness in guerrilla warfare continues to be proven, and their negative impact as an instrument of homicide has trended steeply downward over the years.
> The rights which are in danger need to be bundled so that the whims of a particular time and place do not permanently sacrifice a right.

If the people who wrote the constitution had such a good grasp of what the correct fundamental rights were, why did they allow slavery to happen? Why did they only allow land-owning white males to vote? If they were not morally infallible, and we accept that their opinions on those issues were justifiably superceded by future generations, then why are we not allowed to critically examine the rights enumerated in the constitution and question which of them are no longer tenable today, instead of a priori dismissing any possible challenge to the constitution as a stupid "whim of a particular time and place".
my initial impression is that CA wants more of its people to get on to public assistance.

There will more automation and less jobs in the future. It’s better to get there quickly and simply give everyone a UBI(or services) and mostly importantly healthcare(because most people work because they need coverage)..and just be done with this pretense?

[..] One question is whether the state should make money off the tax. Lawmakers could write the bill so it rewards companies that have smaller gaps between their CEO's salary and the average pay of their workers.

As written, state officials estimate the legislation could bring in up to $4.1 billion. Skinner said it's reasonable for the state to make money off the tax because the rising income inequality means more workers are relying on public assistance.

“California's taxpayers are basically paying the cost for the services that employees then turn to because they don’t have a wage that can provide their families needs,” Skinner said.[..]
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There is almost always a comprehensive article with good overview covering "How to set up X" on their website so when I see it in the search results that's the first place I choose. Even if I don't use DO for that particular project.
Not the point of this thread, but cabal is quite good now with its Nix-style local builds. The meme of "cabal is bad" perpetuated during the rise of stack is just wrong now :)
I’d just like to echo some of the other comments; my wife is currently pregnant and it’s already clear that the burden is largely with her. I simply cannot get the vaccines and blood tests she needs, my hormones aren’t loosening all of my joints and I’m not exhausted most of the time. The challenge isn’t just who is going to look after them once they’re born.
A general reminder: the conditions of almost all meat agriculture completely unnecessarily risks evolving a worldwide pandemic pathogen. This in addition to: air, water and soil pollution, climate change and antimicrobial resistances. Throw in animal welfare, but most people don't care based on their actions.

Thousands of animals peeing, pooping and sleeping in such close proximity, combined with close proximity to people who raise them, is the biggest risk. It would be like putting every human in submarine-sized Uyghur concentration camps (or "cruise ships" if you want to call them), and then being "surprised" about pneumococcal or norovirus outbreaks.
Of course it's based on est. I first did the Forum just after the name change. And the Six Day was still 100% est.

And yes, Werner did take some stuff from Scientology. But not the bits about ghosts of aliens nuked on Earth, millions of years ago ;)

Scientology is still probably behind many attacks on Landmark. And I wouldn't be surprised if they were part of the mess in France.
I have used a similar service in Spain when my hotel was a little too distant from the train station to make and end of day return trip feasible. Worked well, good idea.
... wouldn't really run on the test hardware, would it?
Businesses/pubs/clubs where people actually seem to socialize.
Not really; I mostly know Jenkins.
The best tool really depends on your workflow, language(s), environment, etc.
Another way to destroy a program like this would be to vandalize barnacles wherever you see them. Nobody is going to report you (because everyone hates them). The car owner will be assumed responsible, and held hostage for the damage done to the barnacle.

Then sit back and watch the extortion lawsuits fly. The program won't last long.