skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The assertion comes from the religious.

Yes, religion does assert this, but that is also the defacto resting state for mankind. Allow me to explain:

For nearly all of human history, certainly all of recorded human history, there has been a strong belief in a God or Gods. It's a relatively recent concept that there might not be a God.

It is indisputable fact, that even today, in 2020, you are among the extreme minority of living people that do not believe in a God or Gods[1].

Therefore, being the newcomer, sporting a new assertion that there is no God, you must provide evidence to support this contentious claim. Since you cannot provide any evidence, and since no evidence currently exists to support this contentious claim, all you have left is a contradictory belief.

> Atheism isn't the belief that there is no God. It's the lack of belief in any God.

It is true one definition of Atheism is the absence of belief in a God. It becomes a belief when an assertion is made such as "God does not exist", because of the lack of evidence to support this claim[2]. That is the belief there is no God, because you have no empirical evidence to support your belief.

Belief means "confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof"[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/belief
I started down the path of building a simple version of this at one point. One thing I discovered is the necessity of marking some time as busy within the window for an event. If I have a 2 hour block free for a 1 hour lunch, someone could still schedule a meeting which makes my lunch impossible, like a hour meeting starting 30 minutes in. That would leave two 30 minute chunks on either side, and I can no longer have my 1 hour lunch.

The solution is to preemptively block key times which guarantee you can still schedule your flexible task. In this case, you need to block 30 minutes (or whatever your smallest schedulable unit of time is) in the middle of the 2 hour window, either right before or right after the midpoint. This will leave the maximal amount of schedulable time while still guaranteeing no single event can wreck your lunch.

Just an observation in case it's useful to the founders here.
Nice, this is much cleaner
I wish there was a hardwired led indicator, one for mic and one for camera.

When not in use neither the mic nor the camera would get power and the leds tied to the same power connection. If they're on, you know they're on.

Yeah for "ok google" or whatever service it would be on all the time, but you'd know.

A physical switch to cut power would be nice too.

I know there are likely some software complications such as checking 'hey does the camera work / is it there' but maybe that's more of a symptom of a problem.
Setting Up a Home On-Tap Carbonation System
If NSA Can Hack WiFi 8 Miles Out – Implications for Commercial Use
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/12/the-nsa-has-a-device-that-supposed-can-hack-your-wifi-from-8-miles-away/

Assume that the NSA, as they claim, can hack wifi 8 mile out. Then it must be possible for a network of enhanced wifi routers to act as a wide-area network similar to now-defunct Metricom's Ricochet system except far more robust, distributed and less costly. Such a network, by reducing the role of local ISPs, could reduce unwanted monitoring (by NSA and others).

I am asking for suggestions about software/hardware enhanced stacks for such a "New and Freer Internet"?
The developed countries send their plastic to developing countries to be "recycled" and then it ends up in the ocean. So ultimately, a ban in a foreign land actually can help. See Plastic China.
If a site is granted access to the camera, and the OS lets other camera apps continue while locked, it makes sense for the browser to at least provide the option of keeping the camera on while locked. Otherwise it just hinders sites from providing live streaming/backup services entirely through the browser without installing yet another app.
We should be allowed to own our things again. Software locks that you are not allowed to bypass proves that most of the important items in our lives are not ours. The future might be a world where only multi billion dollar corporations own property
Program Synthesis is Possible (2018)
Who says plastic grocery bags are single-use, though?

Many people re-use them for dog/cat waste disposal, as laundry bags when traveling, packing material, soiled diaper disposal, for coating meat prior to cooking, etc.

Now those people have to buy more plastic for these things, instead of re-using what they received while shopping.
They also said that non-white races look too alike for facial recognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462568
I interpreted the inclusion of party affiliation in parentheses as indicating this has bipartisan interest
> There is also rampant illegitimate reprinting of independent book publishers.

And rampant fraud enabled by "comingling" in the rest of their market.
I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist
What changes might be coming to new Mac hardware?
> Yes you can buy thicker re-usable bags (sometimes made out of textiles or a mixture of textiles and plastic) but by far many people bring their own bags

This has been my experience shopping in Austin, but it may vary based on neighborhood. The vast majority bring their own reusable bags. Those that forget to bring bags buy the plastic reusable bags (unless the store also offers free paper bags).
Mirror: https://archive.is/c2Yb0
Don't be ridiculous. Performance on IQ tests is highly heritable and is also severely affected by metabolic disorders, childhood iodine deficiency, and sleep deprivation. That's biological.
Terrible user experience. I helped someone with exactly this problem a few days ago because they couldn't access any of their chats anymore, weren't sure what's going on and whether it was a legit dialog.
> Is using petroleum intrinsically bad?

Yes. It should be phased out of all use cases, as quickly as possible. We have proven ourselves incapable of being responsible stewards of the resource.
This is quite a bit of alarmism without acknowledging somewhat recent facts. Python's parser is being updated to allow for richer grammars, the community has embraced gradual typing, and the project hasn't been very conservative for years now. The withdrawal of Guido as BDFL is quite a step in that direction.

Beyond the GIL and the lack of multi-line lambdas, Python is still a pleasant language to start new projects in.
Yes, the political signaling is one thing. I am trying to objectively understand:

What is the return of investment (funds?) for being a member of this organization? I presume they're doing more than just handling Coronavirus.

So, I found the official data [1].

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Correct source, US (gov) contributes about 16 % of the total budget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#Fina...

What does the US get in return? There is also soft power and other influence that US expects to gain from it besides the raw ROI. The initial assessment is impossible unless we understand the benefit of the membership.

[1] https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/as...

[2] https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/AC...

[3] https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/20...
Agree. I loved the theoretical side of CompSci (automata, programming language at the meta level, algorithms). Practical was boring to me and I lost interest in the day to day (7 hours of typing in an IDE!? joy). The problems of the practical are a let down if you start theoretical.

Can you handle 1M concurrent in Go to replace a java load distributor? Sure! Crud apps..... oh brain hurts will never finish.
Indeed, I bring this up elsewhere, but there's been a lot of overlap of the medical and the social throughout history. That's changed recently. I don't see how that makes things "ridiculous" to quote GP.
This is one of the big things that I think causes people to be really resistive to BLM: They've actually exposed a problem that impacts ALL PEOPLE. Whites, asians, mexicans, and blacks are all impacted by police violence.

IMO, They could get a lot more people looking at the issue if they talked about this more.
This is untrue when applied to social/cultural political issues. For example, the prevailing view during the Democratic primaries that undocumented immigrants should get universal healthcare coverage is to the left of nearly every EU country. Trump’s order required enhanced scrutiny of immigrants from certain Muslim countries is tame compared to Macron’s plans to essentially nationalize Islam. (And Macron is the left candidate—his far-right opponent is now receiving 45% of the support in polls.) Canada’s point-based immigration system, supported by the left and the right there, which heavily weighs English language fluency, would be denounced as irredeemably racist by the mainstream left in the US. What we are seeing in the media now, with attacks on the country’s founding documents and historical figures, would be utterly condemned in say France.

On social issues, our left is as far left as anywhere else in the developed world.
Pretty sure this won't work if the script is called via $PATH
I wonder, can a single man do war?
I just tried it and seem very good. I encountered an issue because of YAML frontmater invalid (I will creat an issue about it) but I will keep an eye ob this project.

Also, did you plan to publish it on F-Droid ?
It seems many people praising golang's error handling have yet to use it in large production projects. It's absolutely horrid dealing with it.
It doesn’t seem rational, the only way to make sense of it is if the dominating class accessorizes the pursuit of the goal (regardless of its merits) as a form of aggrandizement in their own meta social stratosphere.

Questionable motives, but hey if it moves the agenda, take whatever help you can get. It’s already an up-hill battle.
From my reading of the data, I feel that banning plastic bags (for example) would do more harm than good (in 1st world countries).
The alternatives require more reuse than actually occurs in order to be environmentally viable [0], waste management makes sure that no garbage gets into the ocean and is either kept in a landfill or incinerated responsibility.
And "dumping plastic overseas" is a non issue: Its at most 10% of the exporting country's plastic waste.

It's not that plastic doesn't cause expenditure of resources but rather that life requiees that anyway and in most use cases plastic may be the most enviormently friendly way to answer a need such as a carrying vessel for forgetful people (again, in 1st world countries with excellent waste management)

[0] https://www2.mst.dk/udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...
How in the world can you really say or think that? This was the WHO's official stance in January 2020: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan"

If that isn't clear evidence that they are beyond useless, then I don't know what is.
> what's there to pay to be a member?

The U.S. was paying about $400-500 million / year, not an insignificant amount of tax dollars to go to an organization that chose to help China at the U.S.' expense by lying and covering up necessary information.
I see this as primarily avoiding garbage in the environment.

A paper bag or cotton swab with wooden stick just dissolves if it ends up in nature. Plastic versions are around for a long time.
Did you see the justifications? For example,

> Not only does [INTERN] cons, it either creates a permanent symbol that won't be collected or gives access to internal symbols. This creates opportunities for memory leaks, denial of service attacks, unauthorized access to internals, clashes with other symbols.

It even has some advice on using wrappers for INTERN if you really need it.

The document has provisions for exceptions to the rules. There's discussion about using EVAL despite the fact the rule says you must not use it.

Also, "should avoid" means that you need a good reason, addressed in a comment and code review. Many examples you're probably thinking about are easily containers of elements of like type anyway (allowing mild cases of sum types and such). Though things tend to be more robust with intentionally created data types, I find.
I would say increased but at a lower rate than apple or google.
The outrage was a lot more than that. She was following and liking people who were spreading hate against trans women.

https://medium.com/@Phaylen/jk-rowling-confirms-stance-again...

This was before she wrote that ridiculous essay (did you read it?)

> So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.

Your proof is right there. She doesn’t want trans women in her bathroom because she believes it makes women less safe. Because she doesn’t believe trans women are real women, because they’re just men in dresses coming in to assault her.

It’s right there in her essay, and she tries her best (she is a good writer) to disguise it as sympathy for the vulnerability of trans people.

The completely stupid part of this argument is that nothing actually stops a man from entering a women’s bathroom. And nothing stops a woman from assaulting another woman in a bathroom.

In fact, there are plenty of unisex bathrooms and changing rooms in the world and nothing bad seems to happen en-masse.

It’s just TERF nonsense. And even if I’m totally wrong and it’s not, billionaire author JK Rowling doesn’t need to be defended. She lives a public life and if people don’t like her, that’s her problem. I’m sure she’s got plenty of friends to spend the summer with on her yacht.
I paid for Audi connect - total waste of money. Mercedes me connect - total waste of money. Mercedes recently changed to a subscription model but I honestly would not pay for nice to have features. Must have features? maybe.
They are adding new syntax and keywords, things that you can't really do with a library.

The analog in the JS ecosystem would be typescript. Why isn't it just a library, because they wanted to be able to introduce new syntax and new constructs.

The little editor on the homepage shows the "compile to Python" step if you click the little checkbox. It will list the python that the coconut code gets transformed into. The code is relatively readable (for short snippets) and this is the same approach that typescript took for adding new functionality on top of an existing language.
Flu deaths are counted as the number of people who die because of the flu - that is, they represent people who wouldn't have died if they didn't catch the flu. This is of course an estimate, and there are some pretty fundamental reasons why it has to be such as the fact that flu causes heart attacks and strokes but also just happens to be present in patients who have one for unrelated reasons, but it should be a pretty robust one because flu is an old and well researched disease and we have a vey good idea of how it behaves at a population level.
Apart from the "spicy" case identified elsewhere in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23760678, it looks like all of this is litigation against the neighboring states about boundary determinations, all of which Iowa lost.

It looks like the reason Iowa got involved in so much boundary litigation is that its western boundary is determined by the Missouri River (and its tributary, the Big Sioux River), while its eastern boundary is determined by the Mississippi River. Both of these rivers move around quite a bit and also are big rivers with complex courses that are hard to survey, especially with 1800s technology. So it seems like the Iowa government felt that the surveyors and Special Masters appointed to interpret the boundary had gotten it wrong with respect to the river courses, and wanted to challenge those determinations repeatedly, but never successfully.
Have you also looked at Tildes.net?
I think you are talking about two different environmental issues.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the Paris Agreement covers climate change, carbon emissions, energy production, etc.

The topic of single-use plastics, while related to sustainability, covers an entirely different emerging issue, namely: the infiltration of micro-plastics into our environment.

Besides the environmental effects that microplastics already seem to have, such as hindering plant growth [1], microplastics are also entering the food chain, and making their way back to us. The long-term affects are as far as I know, quite unknown.

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01339
Yes this is ad network fingerpriting using navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices(). [1] When called without permission it would return something like

> videoinput: id = csO9c0YpAf274OuCPUA53CNE0YHlIr2yXCi+SqfBZZ8=

> audioinput: id = RKxXByjnabbADGQNNZqLVLdmXlS0YkETYCIbg+XxnvM=

> audioinput: id = r2/xw1xUPIyZunfV1lGrKOma5wTOvCkWfZ368XCndm0=

and if the user has allowed access to the camera/mic

> videoinput: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) id=csO9c0YpAf274OuCPUA53CNE0YHlIr2yXCi+SqfBZZ8=

> audioinput: default (Built-in Microphone) id=RKxXByjnabbADGQNNZqLVLdmXlS0YkETYCIbg+XxnvM=

> audioinput: Built-in Microphone id=r2/xw1xUPIyZunfV1lGrKOma5wTOvCkWfZ368XCndm0=

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...
Thanks! These products are great (I can see myself using a couple of them). I think when we look across all industries that use spreadsheets, we'll find a market that's so big that any player can find their own profitable niche. I hope to find mine.
> What does the US get in return?

"The WHO has played a leading role in several public health achievements, most notably the eradication of smallpox, the near-eradication of polio, and the development of an Ebola vaccine."

A tiny drop in the bucket of the US budget to keep polio from resurging in the developing world sounds like a decent investment.

(Those numbers don't appear to be correct, either; the US contributes about 16%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#Fina...)
The usual rule of thumb is that if the professor can do the test in 20 minutes, it is probably appropriate for an hour for the kids.

As a graduate student I found that to be true.
Congratulations Unstoppabledomains!
This is a great feature!
Decentralised web & chat moving a lightning speed.
One obvious lesson is that you shouldn't try to parse arbitrary, non-trivial HTML with regular expressions.
> That's up to the society, hence their definitions as social constructs.

So, if someone identifies as as man, but society disagrees, is that person a man? What reasons would a society have to change their criteria to include this person in the category of "man"?
It doesn't matter. Null votes don't count. They should have voted for the other guy if they didn't like Bolsonaro.

Mandatory voting is just another useless attempt to mask the fact that today's politicians are not actual leaders but rather worthless reality TV personas. Like in Ukraine where people picked an actual actor in an attempt to mock the worthless political class. It's typical Eastern European absurd humour. Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation documentary explains it quite well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
I think the sibling comments are going a bit more "big picture" than GP and GGP are referring to, which has nothing to do with ability to learn skills, just time involved.

The pipeline problem has nothing to do with ability, it's all about the hiring pool and the time it takes to change the hiring pool. Companies can't hire people that don't exist, so focusing solely on hiring practices won't get the desired outcome at anywhere near the speed the activists want (if at all). The activists are focused on completely the wrong area; it's going to take years-to-decades fixing problems much earlier in life before companies would even be able to do such hiring.
As far as I can find, they're not deleting flat earth videos. Closest thing I could find was them saying that they were deprioritizing them in recommendations:

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-t...
That's not the same as "no strategy", because this level of decentralization is how nation-states work today.

It's also, incidentally, how the EU works. There are open borders between member states — and while some member states "closed" their borders, this has been largely unenforceable in land crossings because there are no border patrol agents between every single land crossing between EU member states. Border enforcements have only been enforced at airports.

In the US, nationwide air travel came to a near complete stand-still during the outset of the pandemic, so inter-state travel was already at the same levels you had in the EU.

The US's strategy has been the same as the EU's, and it has been to let the member States define the strategy.

As of right now, 36 out of 50 US states have a lower per capita death rate[1] than France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Ireland[2]. 15 States have a lower per capita death rate than Germany and Denmark, who have seen the best COVID outcomes in the EU.

The US, to date, has administered more tests per capita than Belgium, Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Norway, and Sweden (to name a handful). This is not because the US has a nationwide testing regime, rather it's because testing systems have been administered at the State level, with varying strategies (some focusing on nursing homes, some focusing on drive-thru testing etc).

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Nice, good luck! There can never be enough todo list apps on the market haha. Hopefully it goes well, maybe we can chat and learn business tips from each other as well.
There will be tons of exceptions. AFAIK this mainly targets plastic items for food (plates, cutlery, cups, straws, styrofoam packaging for takeaway food).