skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been around that culture quite a bit, I think it's safe to say that quite a few people believe that yes, personal property has enough of a sanctity/value that it's worth capital punishment to enforce that as a societal norm.

The logical hole in this is that when one traces back "why" personal property has such a high value, the only source of its value comes back to it being thought of as an inseparable part of the life-experience of the person who owns it. To contrive an example, let's say someone's a pre-computer author (i.e. before easily duplicable backups), writing one of those life's-work novels, and they have a single copy of the manuscript of their magnum opus - to threaten to destroy the manuscript is to threaten their life's work; to threaten everything they poured their life's passion and effort into. It's conceivable that to destroy it might literally kill them by driving them to suicide.

But that's exactly the hole in the logic: at it's most extreme where property really is equatable with the value of a human life, the only thing that gives this property any absolute moral value is the value of the human life and passion that went into building it. If you've then got a conflict between "a holder of property" and "someone who wants to destroy that property", really it's just a threat on your "life".

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One is then simply asking a question of whether it's justified to take another person's life to protect your own.

Most secular ethics frameworks say no; christianity and buddhism repeatedly and explicitly say no, over and over again, including direct quotes from christ himself.
I heard those things too. This is the first time I've considered it even slightly plausible. I'd give it a 20% chance that he calls on his most fanatical base to march armed on DC if he loses the election.

Go check into the Qanon cult and similar circles. There are conservatively probably a few hundred thousand people in this country that would take up arms against the (literal) baby eating pedophile illuminati. All he has to do is say "the storm is upon us" and provide instructions. "Where we go one we go all."

Can any constitutional scholars comment on what happens then? What if he as commander in chief orders the military to stand down? Would they obey him or protect the constitution? What about the national guard? Local police? What would any of these agencies do if removing Trump required opening fire on tens of thousands of Americans?

Reagan, Clinton, and Obama were much more broadly popular than Trump, but the thought of them attempting this and having any chance of success is laughable. I don't even think Bush II could have pulled it off right after 9/11 at the peak of his popularity and with his powerful religious right base.

Trump on the other hand has a fan base unlike any I've ever seen. If you don't believe me research Qanon. There's a shockingly large group of people who worship him as something almost akin to a prophet. I'm sure there's some percentage who would die for him. It's a bit disturbing.

I agree that it's unlikely, but it is plausible.

Personally I think he will leave office, but what he has accomplished is to pave the way for an actual future dictator.

If the COVID recession plus unlimited QE results in further divergence between the real economy and the financial economy I could definitely see real fascism or totalitarian socialism winning some day. As I've been saying for a while, which one we get probably depends on which side is able to field the most compelling demagogue. I don't think people will care about left or right as long as there are pitchforks being handed out.
This feels like a bad faith argument. Farm land, ranches, the land cleared for suburban development. There are thousands of possible sites for such a place in CONUS that wouldn't pose a threat to both the humans and the native fauna.
I'm not sure what you mean. Godot has asset formats that translate from project to project.
I use Ansible for managing my infra, and the only time my playbooks look imperative is when I execute a shell script or similar, which is about 5% of total commands in my playbooks.
"Plausible" does not "indicate" "probable". It's actually a lot closer to "possible". What you've done there is textbook strawman.
You know, I am not 100% sure, the time beforehand is pretty foggy and they both have an m name it makes me question the memory... it was many years ago.
Welcome to the 21st Century: How to Plan for the Post-Covid Future
> Wonder if those Murder Hornets will make next year's list?

I was curious, so:

> Since 2001, the yearly human death toll caused by stings of bees, wasps and hornets in Japan has been ranging between 12 and 26.[26] Since this number also includes deaths caused by wasps, bees, and other hornet species, the number of deaths caused by Asian giant hornets is likely to be significantly lower.[citation needed]

from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet

[26] is a Japanese source that I cannot read.

Seems like they're not a huge threat?
You are complaining how the article doesn't mention GANs while replying to a comment about article's treatment of GANs. Revealing you are biased against even reading the biased article, or comprehending the parent comment.
Will industry incumbents control ML/RL/AI progress?
From what little I know, it seems inevitable that the tech-superpowers will control progress in this field. However these new frameworks/tools (TF, PyTorch) make this field more accessible than ever, and available computation has/is growing incredibly fast.

Will it be necessary for startups in this field to partner with bigger entities that have more resources (like openAI w/ microsoft), and find much larger investments in general? Does the 'lean/agile' methodology have any place in this category of startups?
Thank you for taking time to elaborate on the subject. This is both informative and enjoyable to read! We knew that all real numbers cannot be represented using IEEE-754. It wasn’t all clear though because toString() appears to be perfectly transitive for double 5.1 yet “sum” is non-associative.

I guess it would be more accurate to say that arithmetic is wrong at some probability value. I just feel that in this instance it is appropriate to call “wrong” what is not 100% right :)
Would love to see statistics from the other perspective: Which animals are killed most by humans? Besides insects, I would guess fish and chicken are quite high...
That's still inaccurate. Republicans in the 1930s-1960s were ideologically conservative. Southern democrats, meanwhile, were in many respects ideologically liberal, for example supporting the New Deal: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-rep....

> There were conservative tendencies in American politics before the 1930s, but the modern conservative movement was founded on opposition to the New Deal. The segregationist Democrats, on the other hand, were for the most part eager supporters of the New Deal—provided it was administered in a way that would exclude African Americans from most of its benefits. You do not have to take my word for it—consider the votes: on labor reform, on entitlements, on financial regulation, etc. If the southern Democrats were “conservatives,” then the New Deal was passed on conservative support, which is a very odd claim to make.
> OUT OF THE CUBICLES AND...gosh almost anything else.

Even cubicles would be an improvement on many "modern" office designs.
My opinion is that Kubernetes is the common integration point. Tons of stuff works with Kubernetes without having to know about each other, making deployments much much easier.
First, what is the app?

Beyond that, check out the book "Contagious: Why Things Catch On" by Jonah Berger. I found it very helpful.
I don’t think there needs to be anything deliberate about it.

My guess is that there is a huge set of people who doesn’t know the origin, and see the statement as more of a statement of fact.
Interesting, thanks!! I know Frappe, it's from the creators of ERPNext. They are more like a full-suite accounting tool, like Mint, as you mentioned. Decimals.app is a general-purpose API, it can be used for accounting and other use cases if you need to build them and can't use Mint and others.
That man bought a good in a place where there was high supply and low demand. He wanted to sell it in a place that had low supply and high demand. There were people who were desperate for hand sanitizer in coastal urban areas. They were willing to pay this man for it. Had he been left alone, at the end of the day everyone would have been better off. The people who sold him the hand sanitizer are better off (otherwise why are they selling hand sanitizer?). The people who most wanted hand sanitizer would have gotten it, and this man would have been compensated for his foresight and scrappiness. All voluntary transactions with no coercion.

Instead the local government sent men with guns to his home and "encouraged" him to "donate" his hand sanitizer. Then it sat in a church until it was eventually distributed to local firemen, policemen, and medics... in a county that (at the time) had a total of 1 confirmed case of coronavirus. Now he's poorer and potentially facing jail time. And thousands of people in places like New York and New Jersey went without hand sanitizer and were more likely to spread the disease. I'm guessing at least a few people died because of this.

My go-to story of price-gouging laws causing more problems is Michael Munger's They Clapped: Can Price-Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity?[1], which details the effect these laws had after Hurricane Fran struck Raleigh, NC. It's yet another instance of a well-intentioned law that makes people worse-off.

1. https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungergouging....
The whole point of Bousquet study was comparability, so it had to be the lowest common denominator, especially in a field that defines SotA differently year to year in each wave of research. Your objection wouldn't embarrass anyone.
Wow that's great, thank you for finding these and doing those calculations. I'm glad to read it's one of the more fuel efficient aircrafts.

Flightaware puts the actual distance at 760km, so it'd be ~844kg of CO².

I found this great guide by the David Suzuki Foundation which assesses different carbon offset vendors with a few different measures:

https://davidsuzuki.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/purchasin...

Pages 42-49 go into the different criteria, Page 50 is the table scoring them all.

I decided to go with https://carbonzero.ca, it was $19.89CAD for 0.88t. Thank you for your help :)
* commie language
* not a law

Recall Gavin Newsom! - https://recallgavin2020.com/
How does K8s know what order to do things in if there aren't steps? Because on a system, certain things obviously need to happen before other things.
I think that’s plausible, but you seem to have missed the point.

OP asked whether anyone was considering killing all mosquitos? Myself and others replied no, just this one species.

It’s indeed possible that there would be local ill effects, possibly even on other mosquitos. But I don’t see how it would affect mosquitos outside Aedes Aegypti’s habitat.

Also, the species is invasive outside of Africa. This increases the odds it could be safely eliminated in those areas.

I still agree there’s the possibility of great impacts. But I don’t think it could affect “all mosquitos”.
I don't think the OP is "promoting" this, the BioShield Key has been all over the news, and I hadn't even thought to look at the products' site till now.

No one here is going to buy this thing, the point is to foster a conversation about it. I'm not entirely convinced this isn't going to turn out to be ironic or some viral marketing tactic.
Noted, I'm working on it. Thanks!
During his 'The president has total power' gaffe he at one point said something along "I am president, the president isn't a person, but the office. I have the office now. Then the next guy will have the office..." You know, the kind of thing a dictator would say. Sometimes I feel like defending him due to people's over reactions when I wouldn't otherwise.
Out of curiosity why do you feel swarm fizzled out?

I’ve deployed swarm in a home lab and found it really simple to work with, and enjoyable to use. I haven’t tried k8, but I often see view points like yours stating that k8 is vastly superior.
I didn't say more users, I said appropriate for more users. The alternative I mentioned is Nomad and I wish more people would give it a try and decide for themselves. The momentum behind it is Hashicorp, makers of Vault, Consul, Terraform, Vagrant, all battle-proven tools. The fact that there's one big player behind it really shows in how polished the tool, UI and documentation is.

The issue that I have with managed k8s is that these products will decrease the pressure to improve k8s documentation, tooling and setup itself. And then there's folks (like me) who want or need to run something like k8s on bare metal hardware outside of a cloud where the cloud-managed solution isn't available.
In his press briefing today he talked directly about it and how he made the decision to take direct control of the situation when the 3rd precinct building was abandoned yesterday as he found that unacceptable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs4VjEsigiU
EKS, GKE and the like have a number of limitations. For example: they can be pretty far behind in the version of K8S they support (GKE is at 1.15 currently, EKS at 1.16; K8S 1.18 was released in at the end of March this year.
> People aren't rioting because they want to destroy things

Tip: don't use absolutes. Always leave some margin. As long as there is one single person alive or that has ever lived that conflicts with your statement, that will be used as a counter-example and will be nitpicked to death and people will focus on that, instead of the main point.

If you say "most people", that immediately deflects those arguments. I've learned that the hard way.
0 Traffic 1,350,000

Sort of weird to limit the Human category to, apparently, conflict, war, murders, and acts of terrorism. Also, it's horrible that conflict, war, murders, and acts of terrorism are in the same ballpark as traffic deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... (2016)
Thank you for doing this. We need more tools to make the web really accessible to everyone. Please post more about what you're going to release !
Certainly the amount of contact plays a roll. That's why dogs are so much higher than wolves for instance. But it's also true that most of the time people spend swimming around sharks, they don't get bitten. How the ratio of attacks to contacts compares between sharks and dogs or other animals I don't know; agreed that would be somewhat interesting!
7x7 isn’t 47, and 94x2 isn’t 196
They don't do loops or recursion. They don't even do iterative steps in the way that Ansible YAML has plays/tasks.

Yes, higher-level tools like Kustomize or Jsonnet or whatever else you use for templating the files are Turing-complete - but that's at the level of you on your machine generating input to Kubernetes, not at the level of Kubernetes itself. That's a valuable distinction - it means you can't have a Kubernetes manifest get halfway through and fail the way that you can have an Ansible playbook get halfway through and fail; there's no "halfway." If something fails halfway through your Jsonnet, it fails in template expansion without actually doing anything to your infrastructure.

(You can, of course, have it run out of resources or hit quota issues partway through deploying some manifest, but there's no ordering constraint - it won't refuse to run the "rest" of the "steps" because an "earlier step" failed, there's no such thing. You can address the issue, and Kubernetes will resume trying to shape reality to match your manifest just as if some hardware failed at runtime and you were recovering, or whatever.)
I'd love to live in this world, but it is not one I think anyone can afford to live in. This man is a true narcissist who has very little respect for the office, the institutions he's responsible for, or more than half the country. All sorts of things that were very far from reality are no longer.

But I would love to be able to agree with you. That would be a better world. But the world we live in is where the President says "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," a racist dog whistle to the 1960s, who "jokes" about staying past any term limits, where enablers in Congress and in the media allow him to toe the line of criminal behavior with no accountability as long as it benefits them. That's reality. I wish it were different, but I cannot take your position and reconcile it with what's in front of us today.
it is a digitalized version of a college lecture is a terrible format in the first place. instead of taking the liberty of the internet and of the online world, it just brings the old methods that don't even work offline into the online world.

we need classes that helps us learn through collaboration, memorization, and practice. and I feel the internet can give us that. but Moocs and online classes do not.
The description you wrote here is what should be on your landing page. Right now it's only a picture of a phone that doesn't really say anything at all — even if I really wanted to, I couldn't figure out what the page is about, other than it's related to phones.
Depends on what packages you install, but my VS 2019 install folder is 2.5GB.
Senior Manager of HR
How to I post jobs on here?
To quote Mike Duncan about a historical incident that ended up toppling a government: “Everyone was just feeling a little bit mutinous”.

You’re right, everyone’s on edge, which has people acting funny.
> Your argument here seems to be that human life is worth less that the value of looted goods

I do not subscribe to the notion of universal value. I do think however that for someone the value of looted goods can be greater than the random person who looted them, surely you must also agree with this.

Anyway, looting has effects in the real world too, it is not only "oh no, I lost some value", it is "they looted my shop so my family might go hungry".

> Should we stop someone looting things? Yes. Should we kill them just over the theft? No, of course not.

If we have the option to stop them (along with the rest of the looters) without killing them then sure.
I think we first need to determine what is upsetting about this, specifically.

Is it that they are flying a UAV that was originally designed for military use?

Or is it that they are flying a UAV period?

What if it was a new UAV, designed just for law enforcement? No problems then?

Presumably this UAV has no weapons on it, so I'm unsure what the problem could be unless we just flat oppose former military equipment being used?

It's safer and cheaper to fly a UAV than a manned vehicled - helicopters crash routinely and need multiple crews to keep them on station for extended duration. If it was a decommissioned military UAV that's being repurposed - then the tax payer has been saved a great deal of money as well.

So, what specifically is it that we don't like about this situation?
Trump to end Hong Kong’s special trade status
It's a prototype, but don't worry, the Kickstarter backers should have theirs within the year.
It sounds like the price mechanism had the intended effect. It encouraged more efficient use of the scarce resource and a search for substitutes.
The Chromium package on Arch Linux is around 68MB. The Electron runtime is a surprisingly reasonable size. Interestingly, the Go package is over 110MB. Rust is larger.
> A big part of the problem is Minneapolis’s moderates have turned a blind eye to the problems in their police force for years

that is a massive leap in agency that doesn't seem appropriate at all. any cities' "moderates" (??) have extremely limited agency over "the problems in the police force": if the head police officer is elected, that's one, and perhaps city council members who control budgets or other things related to police work.

since you're strongly implying that civic neglect is what caused this issue, what are the civic actions that this city's moderates should have taken in order to have prevented these problems?
Lets use Bazel, and Bazel's rules_k8s to build\containerize\test\deploy only the microservices of my monorepo that changed.

Lets use Istio's "istioctl manifest apply" to deploy a service mesh to my cluster that allows me to pull auth logic / service discovery / load balancing / tracing out of my code and let Istio handle this.

Lets configure my app's infrastructure (Kafka (Strimzi), Yugabyte/Cockroach, etc) as yaml files. Being able to describe my kafka config (foo topic has 3 partitions, etc) in yaml is priceless.

Lets move my entire application and its infrastructure to another cloud provider by running a single bazel command.

k8s is the common denominator that makes all this possible.
Yes, a political decision to manually increment a counter.
> How did the SEC feel about Elon Musk tweeting non-public information about his public company

While executives are encouraged to report market moving public information in a standard format, that's not why the SEC took issue with his tweets

His tweets about taking Tesla private at some valuation above its current stock price were completely false (eg "funding confirmed")

Once again, the requirement of truth rears its head
I only do step 1 if I actually consented to subscribe to a list.

If the sender just added me to their list without consent? Straight to spam.