skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is clear that a person appointed by a red governor cannot represent the blue governor who administers the purple state for several years starting six months later.

The purpose of the Senate isn't to represent the existing representatives in a state, it's to represent the interests of the state in the abstract. Having a red US Senator in a state with a blue Governor is no more a problem than having a red state legislature in a state with a blue Governor.

> But since American separation of powers prefers to give legislative power to the executive, it's less obvious that making governors members of the Senate is repugnant.

This is largely only true at the federal level and for a very specific reason. The federal government was not structured for the level of responsibility it has taken on as a result of the direct election of Senators removing the state veto on increasing federal scope.

In state governments you have an elected governor and legislature, but also elected school boards, treasurers, sheriffs etc. There are no elected positions in the Federal Department of Education, nor the Federal Reserve, nor the FBI. The constitution didn't contemplate that the federal government would grow to cover so many things, so they all fall under executive control. But the source of the problem isn't pushing too many things to the executive, it's pushing too many things to the federal government to begin with.
I'm in a fortunate position that I make 5-10x my living expenses (living in EE while either taking six figure US remote jobs or local top-end jobs). So, savings are not an object, and the main problem with quitting is the worry that I won't be able to get as lucrative job next time... Usually, I have to be pretty beaten up mentally to quit and take that risk. Current strategy is to make the job I'm in last one and just go FIRE in a year or two.
Note that the best contemporary example of a functioning federal democracy with state-appointed federal legislators is Germany. There, the state premiers and some members of cabinet are members of the Bundesrat, the upper house of federal parliament.

As an empirical matter, it certainly seems as if their interest is in increasing federal power, since that gives them more power against their own state legislature. If they want a bill passed, they can use their federal power to create an obligation on their state parliament to pass a bill.

Consequently, the very clear direction of power shift in Germany has been - much more so than in the English speaking federations - an increase in federal power. (Also, a more recent prohibition on state deficits even accelerated that trend. State governments became enthusiastic about trading a little power for some extra money.)

When, as in the US, state lines run through the middle of metropolitan areas, cities and even small towns, and generally serve more to divide than to unite, it is not at all obvious that an increase of federal power compared to state power is such a bad thing. I think it would be better to redraw the map and then for the states to have powers that make sense. But I think that is about as likely as a Democrat and a Republican to agree on the color of the sky on a clear day.
His blood alcohol was 0.015%. That's less than a single beer for an adult male.
I am getting impression that you are implying that living in Serbia is terrible, or at least worse than living in Romania.

I live in Belgrade and I like it here. I visited Bucharest 2 years ago for EuroBSDcon and I liked it as well. Belgrade hosted EuroBSDcon 2 years earlier. I haven't noticed much difference between developed and historical parts of Belgrade and Bucharest. I noticed Bucharest's decayed parts are in much worse state than Belgrade's.
It's common in societies to ban substances and practices which are toxic and/or harmful to people and those around them.

This includes hard drugs (smoking and alcohol get a pass primarily due to a pre-existing legacy userbase and industry, but they wouldn't even sort of get that today, anywhere, in a fresh slate, especially nicotine), unsafe practices on the road (such as not wearing a seat belt), and indeed porn where consent is not explicit and informed (revenge porn and child abuse).

And you'll note a lot of economic practices are banned in the Land Of The Free(tm), Ponzi schemes being a good example. Is this unreasonable? If you're a libertarian you might argue it is, but most people think it's a perfectly fine thing to ban.

Not saying you're wrong (although I personally would like to see some of the more exploitative practices in the games industry banned), but you are way off.
I suspect DRM was necessary to get publishers on board in the beginning when digital distribution/stores wasn't really a thing. Steam might never have taken off without it and the big publishers would've just rolled their own clients with DRM earlier.
Yes, I would actually argue that developers earn more than they would in Germany, Belgium or France.
> At a high-level, we like to say that states would make the right decisions, but would they?

What magic method does the Federal government have to only make the right decision? The Federal government is just as likely to make the wrong decision as a given State. Probably more so, if a big government makes a mistake it is harder to correct than when a small government makes the mistake. And the effects are more far-reaching.
> The only way to stop our neverending war on drugs is a Constitutional amendment that guarantees every American the right to consume anything they want for any reason.

I disagree; whilst decriminalization is the way forward for the harmless / "soft" drugs, the hard drugs (e.g. heroin) are dangerous and destroy people and should not be freely accessible to anyone, anywhere.

What some countries do instead is provide heroin (or methadone) to people but only in specific locations, where they're provided with a safe and clean environment and equipment to do their thing, and where they can get help with their addiction if they want.

What I'm saying is that a lot of drugs are genuinely dangerous and should not become generally available.
Yes it's far from perfect, my point is that is was still better than pay2win.

Whether free2play is more or less discriminating than DRM AAA titles with price starting at 12x the price of an optional pass is a whole other real question.

Regulation of virtual goods economics market will be an important debate. But most people don't even know about these huge markets, let alone politicians.

One key point is that current copyright laws are totally inadequate to latest technologies. Company can build empire based on copyrighted material in a heartbeat while decades are needed before anything enter to the public domain. So much energy is wasted fighting legal roadblock instead of innovating on previous concepts...
Is it possible to save it locally and work on that?
Nice. FreeCAD is a little buggy, but it's the best open source CAD tool out there. I can't wait to try this workbench.
Yes. Otherwise everything will be lost when you close the browser.
Chinese officials warn of 'unknown pneumonia' in Kazakhstan
I think their core problem is that they moved so fast and they don't have defensible and unique product. They grabbed people off the street and attempted to turn them into coders. That can't work! Engineers are not made in the classrooms(diligent message) but people with great ability and curiosity. This kind of mentality cannot be developed when they package IT and DevOp as shortest cut to enormous wealth.

I would not blame Andela for everything happening out there. Most of the developers have never worked with US based companies before. They don't understand the rigor, efficiency, and cold blooded capitalism of such enterprises. Capitalism hears one message, and that message is profit and value creation for shareholders.

I see opportunities for the continent if they try to develop locally and solve local problems.

Why can't Andela pivot to consultancy and compete with the likes of Wipro and Tata?

Disclaimer: I am African(live there) and I have no relationship with Andela.
2 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213326/https://blog.pinb...

3 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20120713030912/http://blog.pinbo...

4 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/07/pinboard_is_four_years_old/

5 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/

6--7 and 10 are valid.

Nine is apparently Right Out.
The drug regulation question isn't theoretical. There's currently a difference of opinion between more than half of the states, compared to the Federal government, on whether or not to consider cannabis a illicit substance with no legitimate use.

I don't know that an end to regulation of all drugs is in order, but if a majority of states (which make up the Federal government) believe cannabis has legitimate use, why then, is it still Federally illegal?
If you like keyboard shortcuts you might like to give Lunar[1] a try. It also has shortcuts for changing contrast and volume of the monitor as well as do that automatically for you based on the builtin monitor brightness or the sun elevation in your location.

[1] https://lunar.fyi
I'm pretty sure you missed the unwritten /s in the previous post.
To answer the headline, the main thing I’m looking for in a github page is “can the applicant code”

So what I want to see is a project repo that the applicant has made in a language that I can read. That’s pretty unfair, as github decides which repos are listed on top, so they might be forks or similar stuff that is not helpful in evaluating an applicant.
It's how China works as far as I know. It's a pretty good system; it makes housing cheap (one of the worst problems in the US) and it's good for farmers because if you go bust, you can return the land to the village who owns it anyway.
> it's more than a little silly to blame it on the Turks.

Not somebody who would be ready to unconditionally defend Bulgarians, but here I don't agree at all.

The "Turks" weren't there "500 years ago" they were there for more than 500 years and were there even 200 years ago, and during these centuries all the "non-Turks" lived in the constant very strong discrimination, across the huge empire that included a big part of Mediterranean:

https://cdn.britannica.com/89/4789-050-B6176F52/Expansion-Ot...

It's not an excuse but a fact. I know it's today fashionable to ignore centuries lasting discrimination of huge swaths of population, but it's wrong.
Long post of someone making an ass of themselves because they demand every cost be knowable up front.
Job Postings API: Stable Release
Every time I read comments about Gentoo it's either about systems unexpectedly getting broken after an update, which supposedly requires considerable amount of effort to fix, or I read about how extremely stable Gentoo systems are and require almost no maintenance.

It seems like there's some dissonance here and I'm not sure where this comes from.
There's a difference in that now major crimes between tribe members have to be tried in federal rather than state court. Minor ones would be tried by tribal courts, which already exist.
Actually the US Air Force has had a period where NOE was used after rivals had operational high-altitude SAMs.

The current doctrine is to spend billions for radar-absorbing aircraft.
Show HN: An interactive artwork that lets you make a wish and send it off
What is it like to be an electron? An interview with Galen Strawson
> OpenJDK isn't the end-all be-all excellent-at-everything pinnacle here.

Indeed, that is why since around 2000 there are multiple JVM implementations, including plenty of them with AOT and JIT cache capabilities.

The now gone WebSphere Realtime JVM already supported importing profiles for their AOT/JIT compilers.

And in what concerns phone devices, Microsoft did it first with their Cloud compiler for MSIL on Windows Store, first with MDIL/Bartok taken from Singularity for Windows Phone 8.x, followed up by the .NET Native toolchain on Windows 10.

Google's marketing is good, but not very influential for those that actually know the Java eco-system and the offerings available across all major vendors.

Also here is the confirmation that they will carry on cherry picking OpenJDK features instead of full compatibility.

" u/dessert_maker: We pick additional OpenJDK APIs for each Android release based on inputs from our developers. Android 11 will support additional APIs from OpenJDK 9. Everyone that is developing in Java and Kotlin should be able to take advantage of these newer additions.

In addition, we have added library desugaring to the build toolchain in Android Studio to make a wide variety of APIs across OpenJDK 8, 9, 10, and 11 available regardless of what version of Android your app runs on.

We expect to add support to the platform for more modern APIs (11,13,14) based on the level of adoption we see from our broader developer community in future versions. As mentioned in last year's AMA, making the overall runtime updatable is something we are thinking about as part of Project Mainline."

-- https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/hk3hrq/were_on_...

So thank you Google for Android Java and like J++, forcing Java library authors to code specifically for Android, or just ignore it and focus on the myriad of JVM compatible implementations instead.
Comparing Bulgarians 200 years ago to african slaves in Usa is quite weird. Blaming Ottomans for the todays Bulgaria's all problems is beyond ridiculous, and maybe the sign of the real problem.
Live Link Face iOS app available for realtime facial capture with Unreal Engine
Dngngen: A Dungeon Generator for Mörk Borg
I have experience with using PHP on a Windows server, both with Apache and IIS.

With Apache, it's an unstable mess. IIS on the other hand works extremely well with PHP, we've had virtually 0 issues in more than 10 years using it for many different projects.
You could try Lunar[1] for that issue. It supports any number of monitors and contains a workaround that seems to also work with multiple identical monitors that can't be uniquely identified through their EDID data.

There are still some issues with some multiple port docks but so far that only turned out to be hardware related.

I'm the developer of Lunar so feel free to ask any questions about it.

[1] https://lunar.fyi
China's Kazakhstan embassy warns citizens of pneumonia deadlier than Covid-19
That doesn't solve interagency problems. What do you do when someone is drugrunning on two sides of a border? Just run two completely independent investigations and hope that California agents aren't worried about Oklahoma agents getting the credit?
You definitely should, your experience would be valuable to learn from and interesting to read.
Keeping costs of living low (see my comment above) is a very reliable, if long-winded, path to freedom. The fact, that, via LCOL, you don't depend on "them" as much, also helps mentally.
New weapons in common quality usually popped for everyone very quickly. And were you really unlucky it's was a matter of seconds to find a trade by crafting some metal out of unwanted items.

Was kind of a meta-game, but yes definitively paved the way for virtual goods stock market. Some social science researcher should totally investigate that (if not already done).

Example of an exchange:
https://backpack.tf/

Edit: Lot apparently they also suffer from economic crash sometimes like with bitcoin
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-07-26-team-fortress-...
Well, one senator can hold up the nation easily enough with the filibuster or denying unanimous consent. Senators are very powerful and the Senate is explicitly designed to stop anything from happening. Most other countries have less powerful upper houses.
Design GitHub profile using README.md (secret feature)
Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months
I hear you.

However, there's also a class of users that _do not look at the keyboard_ (if only, for very specific complex actions which only require lookup and execution, not reflexion).

For this class of people at least, the _visual_ touch bar introduces an uncontrolled* modal change to the keyboard which is a true nature change of the role and expectations one can have of the keyboard.

That, in turn, may be a good enough reason to be very frustratred with it, and not use it at all.

As for me, I'm happy for, although I don't understand, people that appreciate the touch bar. And I don't use it. And I expect to get my next laptop without one.

* uncontrolled, because not triggered by the user.
why i still see jpeg in 2020 ?
the royal marechaussee aren't border patrol. They fall under the military and only get involved in serious crime. Your average smuggler would get handled by the police.
You could try Lunar[1] for that. It syncs your builtin monitor brightness to all your external monitors. As long as you have adaptive brightness enabled on your Macbook, the external monitors will also be adaptive.

[1] https://lunar.fyi
With humans, we can ask what went wrong and fix the problem.

With black box algorithms, we throw in some new training data and just hope it's enough.
Looking at the Concorde's fuel usage taxing is only part of the picture. All turbine engines are very inefficient at low power outputs due to the need to use energy to create sufficient compression for them to function. On top of this the Olympus engines generated a lot of thrust at idle, so much so that only two were used for taxing and it was still apparently tricky to control.

While cruising at supersonic speeds the engines were actually the most efficient machines of their time achieving 43% thermal efficiency [0]. Despite being very efficient they still had high fuel consumption rates as the total amount of energy required to sustain those speeds is a lot higher than subsonic.

Modern jet are in the 50%s thermally efficient [1] but despite airframe improvements there has been no way to improve fundamental aerodynamics so that supersonic energy costs aren't high.

The Concorde did use reheat to take off and break the supersonic barrier which is very fuel inefficient.

Using a modern airframes and engines that also don't need reheat will reduce fuel consumption but not to a level anywhere similar to a modern jetliner.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Snecma_Olympus_593

[1] https://www.nap.edu/read/23490/chapter/6#38
Funny thing about corruption...It's very hard to quantify and as someone who spent couple of years living in China I would say there is no link between corruption and economic growth.
I don't see any problem with criticising racism either, I just object to the attempts to paint them as violent while in the next breath pretending the Floyd riots were peaceful.
Yes they’re terrible for gaming. I’d buy an Xbox instead.
Swedish startup Mentimeter spends €500k euros relocating its office for a month
My nephews who are _barely_ into double digits in age spend more on Fortnite than I spend in an average year on games games themselves. I'm a gamer on PC and several consoles.

A lot of that is driven by "default" culture. They joke about it between themselves and use the terms to call each other names jokingly, who knows what they're calling others online.

As a and parent in my 30s I despise Fornite as a game and the culture it's creating with young children and the money it has them spending on a cosmetic candy cane or whatever it is this week.
I think the key to the whole thing might be buried towards the end of the article: "Students began to go without hats as a sign of status".

Is it not likely that as car-owners began to shirk hats - and presumably they would have been more affluent - hats were increasingly worn predominantly by poorer people? Not unlike a tan was originally considered unfashionable as it meant you had been working in the sun?

I bet you could find other examples that confirmed that this was a fashion driven by lifestyle changes amongst the upper-middle class.
Linux was heavily inspired by Unix but it's not Unix in any sense.

Rest of Unix certified implementations are however not widely deployed. I don't see many AIX, Solaris production machines anywhere since everyone often deploys Linux instead.

Same story applies to *BSD family.

The only thing that keeps the Unix identity on those system is the Posix interface which is also extremely outdated on modern systems and it's kept around as a legacy.
Probably not after boot, but during active use.
In other big cities, cops are kept on a very tight leash during protests and need permission from leadership to intervene.
I mainly write nodejs code, and now that it supports threads I've been hammering my CPU with all kinds of parallel tasks. One common thing I do is crunch a few thousand 16MB+ JSON files in parallel. Multiple cores saves quite a bit of time parsing huge JSON payloads. Sure, people may crap on me for using Javascript, whatever... It's what I prefer to use, and 64 cores would only help do all sorts of things in parallel, saving me time.

There's all kinds of other things I do that utilize multiple cores.

I also run a lot of VMs.
What's wrong with JPEG?
I'm a bit confused by the question. Why should people buying home security products see a close relationship with law enforcement as a negative?
No, it's essential to what's being communicated.

> Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/; Chinese: 白左 báizuǒ, literally White Left) is a derogatory Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white people.
Nothing. The tribe members lost that land with the Dawes Act before Oklahoma was a state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act
Select the address bar, and start typing. At the bottom of the search results it will say “on this page”
All those articles of kafka vs pulsar are always biased (this one is from a company selling pulsar). There are so many of them that I can't get an opinion on which one is good for what.
This is a false analogy because unlike money (representation of value), land is not consumed and disappear.

A better analogy would be: your grandparent barged in to a persons house at gun point, demanded him to hand over his house. The owner obviously resist, and your grandpa tells the original owner that he will be given his house back in a couple of years(legally signed) to ease the resistance. This paper was also signed "with the current owner of the house", in mind(in case grandpa dies).

Now the original owner lives on the street, his grandchilden the same. Each generation have always asked "when would you live up to your promise?" to the descendant of your grandpa (current owner of the house) each year.

Now you can of course discuss if you should give additional compensation for their suffering, but the original contract still stands, and you've always been obliged to follow it. It's not about blame.

disclaimer: I'm in general in agreement with you that I don't think a child should be blamed for their ancestors sins.
Yeah! If they were to have a Touch Bar, put it at the bottom of the screen. You are already looking at the screen. Keyboard is for keying, screen is for looking. It would have been cheaper to make, instead of having two screens. They were really proud that they could angle the pixels on the Touch Bar to face the user. THE SCREEN IS ALREADY FACING THE USER!!! Anyway, I still wouldn’t use it :)