skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between laws that exist but are rendered moot by a court ruling it unconstitutional, and laws that exist and are constitutional but are just never used, and laws that exist, and are probably not constitutional, but aren't used, so have never been challenged.

For all intents and purposes sodomy was made legal by the 2003 precedent; that those laws are still technically in black-and-white doesn't mean they're in force.

But there are lots of laws that are still in force but aren't actually picked up and used much. They're still there, though. For instance, hardly anyone was prosecuted for Espionage Act violations for decades, but nobody disputes that the DoJ can dust that law off and start using it again, subject to the current jurisprudence on free speech etc.
Gilbert Godfrey sounds like "Bonzi Buddy" from the old desktop widget days... Those were some crazy times

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
Allowing one type of speech over others could be attacked by enemies as being "supportive" of those viewpoints as by your own decision you find it to be "reasonable" enough to fit within the boundaries of free speech.
Eternal September is about to get turned to 11.
So falling in love with someone that lives far away just evens out
it's not just knowledge and tech, a deflationary currency multiplies existing wealth at no risk while also multiplying the value of debts.
It seems that template they use is just terrible.

It is not trivial for this service how your website looks. It should provide some confidence that you know what you are doing.
It sounds like you're free to make your own assumptions and constraints. I would create an API with a payment endpoint, validation endpoint etc. Then I would have a basic web page calling those endpoints. I would not implement security, auditing, logging etc
There won't be enough qualified pilots if most flights are autonomous.
Note that as mentioned in the article, Romans very rarely used the subtractive notation. So in general 4 was IIII and 9 was VIIII.
As obnoxious as they are, no. Leaf blowers are WAAAAY worse.

I mean I do agree that gas lawn mowers are noisy obnoxious smokey things that blow dust around. But a leaf blower's whole purpose in life is to blow dirt around - and at full blast they're way louder than the loudest lawn mower.

Plus the lawn mower takes like 10-30 minutes to mow a yard in most yards out here. Probably 15 if the person operating it is doing it quickly.

Leaf blower though? I can see those jerks using those things for a good 45 minutes or so! Ugh.
I believe that Australia has an automated freight line.

The original intent of the Black Mesa & Lake Powell (hauling coal to a power plant) was for it to be fully automated, but I don't know if it ever ran without a human in the cab.
>> Fresh water isn't unlimited...

> Yep, but we have more than enough for the time being.

Ehm. Yeah. No. Maybe start by lifting your rich-western-country view and look around a bit. Middle East and Africa have desertification happening at a shocking rate. Wars are being fought over water. The Nile is about to "run dry", it will stop actually having anything left to empty into the Mediterranian Sea. What's left is full of garbage, toxins and wells are pumping up salty water.

But don't worry, it's going to come to the U.S. sooner than you may wish. The Ogallala Aquifer is being relied on by farmers all over and is continuously used for irrigation. Just a matter of time until that runs dry.

Oh, btw, the Colorado River has "run dry" already. If people keep thinking like you, this will just get worse.
It's used not just by spammers, but by sales reps, too.

Dell recently did this to about half a dozen people on my team. 'Q2 Budget Review', which sounds official, but is really a Dell rep trying to sell you junk that magically pops up on your calendar _even if you mark their message as spam_.

Dirty way to get by executive assistants, too.
Yes, this is true, although I don’t believe these tend to be very healthy foods. Algal Omega3’s are a good source (although technically not a plant).
The alternative is for regulators to issue narrow, targeted requests for the information they need to investigate specific issues. I don't think the government should be able to tell a company "alright, hand over all your documents so we can make sure there's no evidence of wrongdoing in them".
Might be time to put down the digital assistant and look for a dating app. I'm not sure which is worse, being at home looking to electronics for companionship or dying of covid trying to find an actual relationship.
Walkthrough: Effortless AWS Lambda
Did you read the friendly article?
Low-tech Covid test costs $1 w results in 1 hour
Apple Watch Series 5 Burn-In
Even better, they make it pretty impossible to manage your online storage of photos since they split it out of drive.google.com
Right, they can send millions at very little cost... and in some places throughout the world a single successful scam could be equivalent to the average annual income.
A lot of this presumes a scenario in which Bitcoin replaces fiat and become the world's sole currency. It's hard to imagine why that would happen.

What we seem to actually be getting is multiple cryptocurrencies, in addition to fiat. Under these conditions, if the world falls into depression, where money is too scarce, then an easy solution is to launch new currencies. On blockchains that support smart contracts, this would be easy to do.

If Hayek was on the right track with his advocacy of competing currencies, this could be a more stable system than we have now. Easy deployment of local currencies could also help support local businesses over large monopolies.
Causality is not a law and an argument in favor of the existence of God
You're not totally wrong, but think of it this way. You have native support in your application stack for this static 'caching' along with one-click edge distribution. Which means you can write extremely complex, interactive markup (it's just React) on top of this very simple distribution system. And you don't have to build a whole magic caching system or deal with web servers at all.

I've worked with similar systems to the one you've laid out -- tell me you've never had to jump into the cache to clear it because a client wasn't seeing their updates. Or a page was getting improperly cached. Even if it was simple and effective, it was often a pain.

These days, there are a number of services that will store your html and other static files on their edge CDN servers (cloudflare workers, vercel, netlify, among others) leading to your users downloading the files at remarkably fast speeds. You can reach a pretty amazing TTI while maintaining nigh infinite scalability.

I will say that while I personally use next.js, I stick entirely with server-side rendering. I find it to be a better all-around user-experience for my use-case with several distinct advantages. But I only serve ~150,000 users a month, who are all relatively close to my server and I don't have much static content. A modest ec2 instance handles it with ease.

But if I was building an application that targeted many regions and needed infinite scalability, or one that heavily utilized static data, I'd definitely consider pursuing the approach laid out above.

We've gone 'full circle', sure. Because React offered a way to write web applications in a much more consistent, interactive way than anything before it. But we spent a few years growing our bundle sizes out of control, and improperly structuring our applications which led to TTI growing and everything being slow and clunky. Companies that cared and had good engineering were able to navigate these problems, but your average developer couldn't. Now with a system like this, they can not only match the performance of classic applications, but in many cases exceed it.
I'm not sure it makes sense to disable this -- I can only imagine people forgetting they disabled it, then not understanding why they're not getting a family member's folder of photos.

And you can already remove something shared with you by going in Drive to "Shared With Me" and clicking "Remove" in the context menu for the file/folder.

Otherwise, sharing something with a Google account is no different from sending an e-mail, e-mailing a Calendar invite, etc. After all, you can't turn off receiving e-mails or calendar invites.

But, like Gmail, what Drive should have is the ability to block specific sharers.

In the meantime, you can use the "Report abuse/copyright" menu item on any shared item, although I don't know if that helps. :(
It doesn't, but it is still done. A friend of mine who worked at IBM told me that they had "quarterly goals" that were stuff like "learn a new language" or "improve testing" or any other utopian idea, but their week-to-week sprint stories were completely perpendicular, so at the end of the quarter during the performance review the only people that achieved some of their goals were the ones that stayed to work on evenings and weekends (extra time) to do something related to their goals.
Thanks for sharing this list, those sound like healthy activities.

Could you share how you're doing those online signing lessons? Is there a specific website, or did you find a personal teacher and get lessons via zoom/Skype? I'd be very interested in hearing about that.
I had a really tough time with the Three Body Problem. The first chapter is so strong and then it goes downhill from there.

It straddles subgenres, like the author thinks that all science fiction needs to be Hard SF, but has never actually read hard SF. You can leave things unexplained in speculative fiction, but if you're going to explain them, at least make the explanations sound plausible to a lay-person like me.

Nevermind the fact that nothing in the story has to do with a 3-body system or the 3-body problem. It is referenced in name, but the author botches that too.

The characters are so flat, you can't even call them 2-dimensional with the exception of the cop, who btw has the magic gift of always being able to outthink a roomful of scientists. The other characters are so interchangeable I had to take notes to remember who was who.

I tell friends to avoid this book at all costs. When the big reveal came, I got so angry I threw the book on the floor, left the room and debated finishing it at all. The setup is so intriguing and the reveal is so hackneyed, unpredictable only because who would choose to write something so mundane?
Yeah you have to assume that if a user can input anything, someone will use it to spam. Text, photos, video, audio... literally any form of user input.
You probably don’t need a crew for freight only flights.
> Google arguably pioneered the model of "office will have everything you need"

No, that was company towns, which are frontier era.

'We provide everything you need' is also a good way to run a cult. The cost of leaving is that you lose everything, including friends and family.

Right now Google can't get your whole family working at the company so they don't have quite the lock on people that they could.
Just curious - what reasons do people have for not using master?
What Is Suffering?
> In the rest of the world is not as problematic, as we associate master with teacher.

Every word has more than one association. The argument is not that every association for the word is negative, but that one association is extremely negative, and we have the ability to use words that have fewer negative associations, so why shouldn't we use words with fewer negative associations?

That extremely negative association certainly isn't unique to the American past either, and if you think you are immune you are likely ignoring your own past. It's maybe being promoted by Americans because Americans see it as a more recent part of their past, still are wary of scars left behind from it. (Though even that isn't uniquely American; South African Apartheid is another easy example of recent history.)
Nope, Microsoft dominance was already well established by 1997, about 7 years with Windows and DOS.
I mean, no it isn’t.

At the same time, an operation which works like this is certainly extremely flawed. I doubt there’s one engineer working on GDrive that doesn’t think a folder size feature wouldn’t be useful and relatively simple to implement. So that’s more of an argument towards the operation going bad, instead of the engineers.

Maybe this slipped through the cracks but this thread already contains a bunch of examples of stuff like this happening.

They can be architecting Tensorflow really well and that certainly is impressive but when GMail takes 3 seconds to load the main page and downloads 10MB during that process you know something is going wrong.
Why would restoring Bretton Woods be disastrous? The late 40s through the late 60s were among the biggest economic boom years in world history and perhaps the greatest expansion of wealth and quality of living in human history.
Seems unlikely. It's probably ~all digital, so I expect the capacitors are literally only there for filtering the power supply.
> How do you secure it, back it up, and bequeath it to people on your passing?

Keep the private key, mnemonic, seed phrase, etc. only in your brain and perhaps your will, potentially split into pieces that are kept in the physical control of independent trusted entities.

> Don't those things cost time and actual money?

Time: yes. Actual money: perhaps, but that is not fundamentally required. For example, oral traditions are a time-honored means of transferring information to heirs.

Keep in mind we're talking about just 256 bits of information. You can scratch it on a rock and bury it in your back yard if you want.
Thank you! I needed this so much!

Honestly can’t believe this is not default behavior in macOS.
Tech and Pandemic Are Bringing People Together Even as We're Physically Apart
> Plants produce many protective substances to repel or injure insects and other animals that eat them. They produce their own pesticides. The oils in seeds have this function.

> I use some of these oils (walnut oil ..) for oil painting, but I am careful to wash my hands thoroughly after..

The fats in nuts are obviously there to poison those who eat it, same as sugar in fruit.

> Cancer can't occur, unless there are unsaturated oils in the diet.

There might be an interesting connection, but I wouldn't take Mr. Peat's statements at face value.
5% of them are literate. I find it exceedingly difficult to judge people in that situation, they're just trying to survive.
Well, BART had one crash because the automated control system mis-read a command and accelerated when it should have been braking. Debuggable? Perhaps. But after that, it's a tough sell to say that there shouldn't be a human in the cab to say "Wait a minute, that's not right."
> Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
> look what the world achieved after it left roman numerals behind.

Look what the world achieved after we started wearing button shirts.
If it's any help, I _think_ this is the guide I used to disable the feature: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-spam-out-of-your-google-c...

It was awhile ago, but that looks like the right link and jives with my current settings. I don't get any more spam on my calendar, but obviously need to manually respond Yes to any email invites to get them to show on the calendar.
A common human fallacy is to pick a single misstep and over-generalize it into a larger pattern of... oh God, I’m doing it now, aren’t I?
Adding a Voice Assistant to a React.js Hacker News Clone
I'm in a similar situation, while all my family is in Europe I live alone in Bogotá, Colombia which has been in varying degrees of lockdown for 18 weeks and will be for at least another month. So both my usual midweek as well as weekend activities have been impossible for the most part.

What I started doing, is to go for 1-2 hour walks every day. At first just to get some physical activity and change of what I'm looking at all day, but later friends joined for a chat and I had a bunch of dates and work related meetings this way. Although it feels a bit silly in the beginning, it definitely helped a lot with loneliness.
I think this is the guide I used awhile back to disable the feature: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-spam-out-of-your-google-c...
My adventures last week:

Question: We have a G Suite Enterprise account. We used to share documents with a contractor. They no longer contract with us. How do we remove that contractor from every shared document.

Answer 1: Run this report to get a list of every document shared with them. Manually visit each document and un-share it.

Answer 2: Our API docs are at...

FFS, Google. I really don't think this is that unusual of a request. I refuse to believe that we're the first company ever that wanted to remove people from our Google Drive. Why do you make it so difficult?
> capturing the rain that does come to the region to irrigate crops or landscape

Not sure they could if they wanted to. The downstream/aquifer water rights of the run off are already spoken for in a lot of the south-western US because there's just not enough water falling anywhere really.
Bonus points for slipping your resume past the HR filters this way.
For me it was mostly a matter of managing my anxiety, once I had a better handle on it I had way more bandwidth for being social and was able to enjoy it and be energized by it.
Cool, I might try that out tomorrow. The link https://jsonresume.org/themes/ doesn't seem to work by the way.
If you use vim, you can do this within vim:

:r !git log

find the log entry you're interested in, move the cursor over the sha1 value, type yiw to yank it into vim's " register (by default). Then open a new window by pressing ctrl-w n.

In that window run

:r !git show <ctrl-r ">

where <ctrl-r "> will retrieve the sha1 value you yanked into the " register.

It's fewer steps, doesn't require using the mouse, and allows you to see both the git log output and git show output in different adjacent windows. You can always press u to undo the change in the new window, switch windows to get back to the git log output, find another sha1 and repeat the process.
Sure. But they did those things by experience and rules of thumb. They didn't do a real stress analysis on those aqueducts, for instance.
>Because the configuration may be different from machine to machine

This is the crux of the issue. I want something to ensure turn-key configuration in a secure and cross platform way.

Maybe github/gitlab could generate something like an installer script instead of just a clone url.
Generating TypeScript Interfaces from JSON on vs Code
Has the number of "unhappy, abusive households" increased along with the rise of dual-income families? That's what you'd expect, right?
Show HN: QuickReply – simplify your copy/paste experience in Chrome
QuickReply features really simplify your life and business.

- Annoyed by copy/paste the same text from time to time?

- Tired of storing notes in files and sticky notes?

- Want to personalize messages quickly?

As a creator, I am really proud to share with you this extension.

It helped me (and I hope it will help you) to solve these issues once and for all.
Because the Moore’s law has petered out and software bloat reached unimaginable levels and is incomprehensible to its authors thus we are getting “innovations” of this sort.

Hey, did you see the new animated emoji pack the new version is shipping with? Really should check it out!
In metro systems all over France I find the screech to be almost painful. Can anyone with more experience chip in on how say Paris compares to New York in this regard?
I'm all in on GDrive - my whole world is in there. 25 years of files.

I do notice Spam occasionally in the 'shared with me' menu - but it seems to get cleaned up.

I already have all 99% notifications turned off in apps.

Sounds like the real annoying part is getting the notification with the spammy sexual titles.

If you didn't get notifications then likely the spam detection would delete before you ever noticed it in your 'Shared with Me' menu.

Android needs to default to opt-in notifications like on IOS.
> , the evidence is pretty convincing that you should be able to train and deploy it without requiring enough energy to sail a loaded container ship across the Pacific Ocean.

Yes and airplanes use much more energy to fly than a bird. What that got to do with the airline industry?
> And it's a really common pattern in neural networks' recent history: "How did they perform reasonably well on this task? We aren't sure, but the speculation is that they magically solved artificial general intelligence under the hood." Usually this is followed up by "I don't know how it works, but let's see if a bigger network can make even prettier text."

Layperson here, but my impression is that "let's see if a bigger network can make even prettier text" has _worked_ far beyond the point most people expected it would stop working.

Also my layperson impression: most "researchers" that are on the cutting edge of cool things are more interested in seeing what cool things they can do than on doing rigorous science (which makes sense -- if you optimize for rigorous science, your stuff probably isn't as flashy as the stuff produced by people optimizing for flash).
Possible ways your childhood influences your love life
These numbers are highly misleading as:

- they count biomass as renewable which is not (it is responsible for 230 g CO2 per kWh)

- these numbers are accumulated, i.e integrated values which don't help much because you buy electricity when you need it, not vice versa

- despite Germany being 50% renenwable, we still are one of the dirtiest electricity producers in Europe with 400 g CO2 per kWh on average while France has 50 g on average per kWh

- we also have the highest electricity prices in Europe and the second-highest electricity prices world-wide

> https://www.electricitymap.org/

> https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Oh, and Germany is replacing nuclear with gas and coal, which means replacing 12 g CO2 per kWh with 490 g CO2 or even 800 g CO2 per kWh:

> https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/nachfolge-fuer-gundremm...

> https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.energieversorgung-...

> https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/datteln-vier-geht...

The so-called Energiewende will have cost Germany 520 billion Euros by 2025:

> https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article158668152/Energiewende...

Yet it had hardly any impact on our emissions in the energy sector:

> https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/treibhausgas-emissionen-...

If you want to understand why the Energiewende (replacing everything with renewables) doesn't work, go to smard.de, click "Market Data Visuals" and "Actual Generation" and you will see that there are recurring points in time where the power generation of wind and solar is around just 1%.

Note: Before you suggest storage: Germany consumes 1600 GWh electricity per day. We have only 40 GWh of pump-storage capacity, so that won't work. And in case you want to suggest "Power2Gas", I suggest having a look at the caloric value of methane and calculate how much methane you will at least need to generate if you want to store 1.6 TWh of electricity.
I play village cricket, and the scoreboard has cards with numbers on, then hooks to hang them up depending on the score.

The problem is: Given the full range of possible (or at least plausible) scores, how many of the cards do we need for a full set?

So let's simplify it to just a run tally. You could be 111, so you'd need at least 3 of the 1 cards etc. Allow for scoring up to 999 (unlikely) and that's 29 cards to keep somewhere (only 2 zeros needed)

In base 3, you need 7 digits, but only 3 cards per, so we are doing better with 19 cards needed (21=3*7, but don't need all zeros, and that gets you to 1093 so for 999 you could save another)

In roman numerals, You'd need an M, a D, 3 Cs, 3 Ls, 3 Xs, 1 V and 3 Is. Total is 15 cards.

Can we do better? Good question.
I’ve migrated several repositories from mercurial, and didn’t bother to rename “default”. It works perfectly fine and no one is ever confused.