skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Democracy" and "republic" are orthogonal.

Republic tells you who is sovereign: the people--as opposed to a monarchy.

Democracy tells you how decisions are made: by voting--as opposed to a dictatorship.

You can have a democracy that is not a republic: Great Britain.

And you can have a republic that is not a democracy: North Korea.

The U.S. is a democratic republic.
And as long as they use the company-provided NoPockets Jumpsuit, they get priority access to the Honesty Line. That could mean five more minutes with your family over dinner!
> You went in knowing the terms of the agreement

I certainly didn't. In talking with people, I find most people do not as well.

> That’s why we have judges, lawyers, etc.

Yes. The lawyer I spoke to said typical court costs are $10k per day. Family court judges rotate in from other branches and often do not know the law(statutory or case law). Vocational evaluation is $2,500+.

> pay alimony long enough for them to conceivably get on their feet.

So why not codify this in law? Why not force disclosure when obtaining a marriage license?
Building OSKit
It'd probably be treated as a kit car under the existing regulations, which I imagine means it wouldn't have a VIN assigned at time of sale.

So this probably adds exceptions specifically for battery-less EVs to still get a VIN and be sold as a complete vehicle.

Viewing this from a US perspective anyways...
Look into Salesforce. You might do well as a Salesforce administrator. You can set up your own small "org" and do their training, Trailhead, try some administrative training and see if it's up your alley.
> How do you feel about "employee parking" being an extra minute or two away?

What about arguing the converse, which is not at all hypothetical in my case (this is a change that happened to me): an employee commutes to work via public transport and the stop the employee uses is a straight-line path to the front door of the employee's work location through an open area owned by the employer.

The employer then constructs a parking lot on that open area and places a fence around it so that only people assigned to that parking area may use it.

Now, the employee--who does not drive and thus does not have access to the parking lot--is required (by the employer, who owns the property and assigns the employee to a building and does not permit the employee access to the parking lot) to walk an additional three minutes from the public transit stop to the front door of the employee's building. Employees who drive to work are now positioned closer to the front door.

Do the people who drive now take a pay cut because they spend less time getting from commute vehicle to the front door of the office building? Does the employee who uses public transport get a raise?
depends if it's the American date format or the rest-of-the-wold date format
That's clearly a joke. It also makes me think the brush was stripping the oils from the fur, which is a serious concern.
7200rpm is a bit noisy compared to 5400rpm but if 7200rpm is unacceptable, it's better to use SSD or NAS rather than 5400rpm HDD.
The SR-71 cruised on afterburners, which produce light. Not sure if it was bright enough to be seen on the ground, though.
Thanks for saying that. Yeah, it is about this time we live in. It's like the internet was supposed to make us all more open minded to new info, but instead all the unfamiliar-to-each-of-us-info made us all more hard-shelled and narrow minded. So anything not part of our worldview is a scary threat that we need to respond with hostility to.

It doesn't matter what's true. It matters what confirms existing biases. Paradoxically I think people used to be more open minded before the internet, because it was safe to be. They weren't swimming in a infinite ocean of unfamiliar new ideas, they could afford to be open without much risk of having to do the hard work of challenging their beliefs and updating their worldview at every turn.

It is totally about marketing budget as well. In this age of "outside my worldview is fearful, I must respond with hostility" a consequence is you get more group-think and safety in numbers type behavior. So it is easy with enough capital to create these tribes of zealots for particular stacks. It's not adaptive, it's not true, but that doesn't matter. It's safe and comforting.

I just don't wanna work with tools that suck, as I guess you don't too.
> Have you seen how satellites move? They traverse the sky in a perfectly straight and constant-motion fashion

Except this one didn't.
Sorry, I didn't realize there was a paywall/geo-block. It works for me in Chrome Incognito after confirming that KQED is my local affiliate, so it might just be regional.

(I do donate to KQED, partly so I can access PBS TV on Roku, but account login is just... I don't have the words... so I don't actually login on my computer, and my Roku account link invariably, mysteriously deactivates sometime between the last time I watched something and the next time I want to watch something.)
For those not in the know, what's wrong with systemd's design?
I see it as helping adoption by alleviating battery replacement anxiety.

If the vehicle doesn't even come with a battery and you're able to acquire a standard battery from any number of competing vendors, you're a whole lot less afraid of buying an EV and not being able to replace its battery in five years because it's been obsoleted by the OEM.
> Considering that the ruling party is BJP (equivalent to US Republicans)

There are many things wrong with the BJP, but they are not really equivalent to the Republican Party. This is a lazy comparison at best, disingenuous at worst. Their economic, environmental policies and even social issues are completely different than the Republicans.
I’ve been enjoying watching LockdownTV interviews: https://unherd.com/lockdown-tv/
CI/CD is mostly burstable workload. You are not going to run it 24/7, but when you need to build/test/deploy a commit, you'd prefer to do it as fast as possible.
As much as I love them, there are not a lot of Apple Stores within walking distance of housing their least-paid employees can afford.
Randomized trial.

This was not simply observational.
There will be no correlation between being given higher dose vitamin D and age in this trial, the results appear at first blush to be showing Vitamin D is working independant of age.

By the by this /exactly/ why a randomised trial has been the gold standard for medical treatment for so long. False correlations, confounding factors etc are all vastly less likely to skew the results. 2 groups chosen at random, nobody in the groups or treating them knows which is which. 1 group given treatment, 1 given a placebo. How much difference do we see in the 2 groups as a result of treatment.

It's a good question. It's always worth asking. It's always worth checking. The rabbit hole of stat analysis of treatments goes pretty deep from there. Ethical issues come in. Expense. But we all need to make the effort to understand it on some level or we're marks for snake-oil.
How to make your learn TDD for Legacy Code, and love it
'less abusable' - using the term as you did e.g. route of administration is a gross Purdue marketing lie.

Original formula oxycontin pills were insanely abusable. crushed up into ultra-fine powder very easily - like one of those sugar necklace candies. snortable and shootable. way easier to abuse than morphine which isn't super available in the US as a take home script.

also to the 'powerful,' the doses prescribed were insane compared to the baseline of what was regularly prescribed before Purdue's marketing. E.g. 5mg oxycodone + acetaminophen compared to Oxy's going commonly up to 80MG in a single pill (30's were pretty standard on the street). I think they even have a 160mg but I have never actually seen in real life. That's INSANE like 240 morphine equivalent or something and likely taken at least 2x a day.

This insane strength goes hand in hand with overzealous script writing.

All of this was caused by Purdue's tactics.

The 'OC' s (they are stamped this way) were on the market for a LONG time after Purdue was very aware of the criminal damage they were doing and the DEA and others were pushing for pill reformulation. They took forever to change to 'OP' which were less abusable at least not easily crushed and they gel up if trying to shoot (addicts will always find a way). Knowing how evil this company and family are I wouldn't be surprised if they waited a while to launch the new pill format for patent reasons but I don't know this

The cycle of 'less abusive' opiate marketing has been going on for a hundred years. They are all abusable and addictive. Even maintenance opiates like buprenorphine you would be dependent on and users will still combine for instance methadone and other pills to get high.
There are arrays, or tables, which I like to think of as being what an array of structs would be in C:

https://www.mainframestechhelp.com/tutorials/cobol/cobol-arr...

Also, cobol will probably never completely die. No enterprise is going to pay to rewrite systems that have been their backbone for decades. (Disclosure: I work in Logistics industry, and we have a lot of cobol that isn't going anywhere.)
100% sharing power would be the anarchist ideal. But promoting a member of the currently powerless 99% to a powerful position wouldn't help at all.
Grid should only be nuclear. Renewables and batteries will be major source of pollution going ahead. I am not sure why green groups are pushing those.
Chinese activist fights homophobic textbooks by pointing out typos in them
The circumstances of this case seem similar to Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk, which involved workers at an Amazon warehouse in Nevada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_Staffing_Solutions,_...
What I learned working 6 weeks on a shitty side project
What do you mean by the one-way trapdoors?
iRobot Genius makes Roomba robot vacuums a lot smarter
Yep, if people think XML has aged poorly, wait until these schema-less formats age...
To be fair, you can safely go cold-turkey with Vyvanse - but withdrawal symptoms start after 2-3 days and can last up to a week. I'd describe my withdrawal experience as feeling utterly bored and being uninterested in doing anything, even passively watching the trashiest of shows on TV. I imagine that's what clinical depression (without actually feeling sad) is like.

Weaning-off it is far more preferable.
Then they will know about radiation.
Smells so good though.
do you have a source on the first?

on the second, some studies put the rate of addiction from a prescription at 8-12%, a full 4-6% transition to heroin [1]

Sure 50% of everyone who gets an opiate script doesn't end up sooting heroin. but it's a damn high scary number.

And the main point is Purdue directly lied in their marketing about the abuse and dependence %.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdos...
I respectfully disagree with that position as a general rule. The wide variety of reasons for emails is more nuanced. Reality is more than all or nothing, 0 or 1.
SpaceX rocket to the sun.
> anyone who says pot used to be weaker back in the day is a cop.

In reference to spliffs (but not joints) then I can see them having more tobacco content in the past compared to today - and pre-ground baggies being cut with weed look-a-likes compared to buying a bag of pre-ground from a dispensary today.

And strains like "Alien Ass-hat" are definitely new - and they have really high THC/g.
Show HN: BrowserFace – Embeddable Chrome Front end. Connect to browser remotely
the indoor vs outdoor debate wrt cats is a timeless one, but I don't think the answer is so clear cut as you make it seem. in principle, I would like for our family cat to have free rein of the outdoors, but we don't quite feel it is safe for him. in addition to the local predators that actually have to work for a living, my parents live right next to a six-lane death road in the city. the speed limit is 30 mph, but people routinely drive in excess of 60 mph on the downhill side. I'm confident the cat can avoid vehicles moving at a reasonable speed, but that road is unsafe for humans, let alone cats.

there's also the issue of housecats killing a staggering number of birds each year. tbh, this is not really a factor that weighs heavily on our decision, but it's something to think about.

finally, many cats are rescues for whom living freely outdoors was never an option. imo, it's better to be an indoor cat in a loving home than a dead cat.
Just added this to my profile https://github.com/andy1729

As I was clicking on next to go to next profile, I came across a profile that didn't have the widget, so I wasn't able to move forward! Perhaps you can add logic to move only to those profiles which have widget showing!

Thank you very much for building this, gives a community like feel!
yeah, I was getting in fintech when I wrote this. A lot of banks also use Cobol to this day.
That's pretty much what this law allows now
Hmm, becoming Canadian just to enter the USA seems like a difficult and roundabout way of going about it....

I'm reading Daniel's page and it seems to me that a number of commenters here are confusing his intent, which is "visiting", not "immigration". I've noticed that in the US, people tend to use the word "immigrate" for anyone trying to get into the country, whereas the word immigrate has a much more specific meaning. Technically, to "immigrate" means to apply for permanent residency -- i.e. to stay in a country indefinitely, and to live and work here. That is decidedly NOT what he's trying to do.

(I guess it's fair since most people don't have actual experience with immigration, so the term is a little fuzzy.)

Daniel is trying to "visit" the US temporarily and leave after. The long and the short of it seems to be:

1) Daniel is citizen of Sweden.

2) Under US law, citizens of Sweden qualify for the Visa-Waiver-Program (VWP), which means they do not require a visa to visit the U.S. for tourism, business or transit.

3) A few years ago, the US (and other countries, including Canada) introduced an additional requirement as a security measure: electronic pre-authorization or ESTA in case of the US [1] (which incidentally is NOT a visa). This means citizens of countries (in the VWP) who could previously enter the US with nothing but a passport, now had to apply for an ESTA online (which takes anywhere between 3 seconds to 3 days to get approved). Again the ESTA is not a visa -- only a pre-auth. Citizens of these countries still do not require a visa to enter the U.S.

4) Daniel has applied for ESTAs many times, and was approved many times before, but the last time he applied, he was denied.

5) When a VWP citizen is denied an ESTA and still wishes to visit the US, they have the option of applying for a regular visitor visa the old-fashioned way, at a US consulate/embassy. This is a lengthier and more bureaucratic process -- which presumably involves more thorough vetting.

6) Daniel still hasn't received his visitor visa.

(Side note: the only 2 countries whose citizens have "visa-free" access to the U.S. are Canada and Bermuda [2]. Citizens of these countries do not require ESTAs).

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

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-...
Did the Defi Bubble Burts?
or are we gonna see a bounce back
Came here to link to the follow-up article. Thanks. https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...
Nothing has to move it. It’s in a pool and always there. The pool is big enough to sink all of the decay heat of the reactors it hosts, without needing a refill or heat exchange.
Anecdotally, it seems that most places in the world pay a fixed salary even to the lowest paid workers, instead of paying by the hour. Perhaps this could be a simpler solution to the problem instead of trying to reengineer cities.
For simple one-line expressions, this doesn't seem to offer much. However, looking at multiline statements with FP-style or conditional logic, this can definitely improve the flow and visual rhythm of the code.
The elephants foot was generated because of the failure to cool the core when the pumps failed. This design puts the core in thermal contact with a giant water reservoir to keep it from ever getting hot enough to melt.
Those bigger sources are created to serve the personal needs. glaring eg. Industrial animal farming
Another consequence of this age we live in, that I recently discovered is it's basically impossible to change anyone's mind on the internet. It's not just because it's strangers, or because it's text, tho that does make it harder. It's the dynamic I state above. I used to think it was worth sharing and discussing ideas because maybe I could contribute to somebody else. Now I realize that nobody can change their mind because of what I do. If they somehow did change their mind, they were simply open and ready for it from their own state, and it was accidental that I was involved, it could have been another person or idea. If I bring to them really valuable (as in really surprising) information (the highest quality ideas), the dynamic above ensures they cannot hear it and must respond with hostility. And the lowest quality ideas are ones where people agree with what I say, since those ideas are already widely known. So I have learned to let go of wanting to share my ideas with people online and discuss, or being upset about downvotes. Downvotes mostly indicate quality and entropy. Nowadays I only say what I want for myself...and don't get into discussions, because it's just people trying to prove they're right, prove someone else is wrong, protect their worldview, just pathetic stuff, and I don't want to be part of it.
Things can be both a library and a framework. You can use react like a utility and react itself can take have code injected in it.
Hi, thanks for your feedback. We will consider making sure to clarify that going forward. Free users refers to users of the free tier of GitLab.
For some reason most of my peer group think the coming age of remote work is a great excuse to concrete over the rural parts of my country.
Perhaps you are underestimating the amount of theft by employees, and the fact that hiring more security or paying for 15 mins of waiting time to each employee would cost even more.
Another part of her point is that self-administering Vitamin D is far more dangerous than people, including many MDs, often think. In an era where people are apparently seriously contemplating megadoses of hydroxychloroquine or I.V. bleach for COVID-19 prophylaxis, the caution seems warranted---even if the study results are promising.
Collecting bans isn't a good thing today with the scale of background noise malicious behavior. You will very quickly collect thousands of IP addresses doing this and need to implement ipset - an iptables plugin that allows O(log n) lookup time on a list of IP addresses.

Another issue; the overlap between SSH scanners also running HTTP/S attacks is negligible.

From experience; what makes sense is shifting your SSH port away from 22, disabling password based authentication, whitelisting your IP address from your cloud provider's firewall, and still aggressively auto-banning incorrect logins with fail2ban.

Then, for good measure, implement a WAF to protect your HTTP/S traffic as well.

Do not turn your production system into a honeypot. Only do this with a separate system that contains no valuable data.
Neither do you get there by being a bottom-feeding barrel scraper. (Well you might, but that's not how Apple did it.)

On the merits the retail employees seem obviously in the right: once you've clocked out you should be free to leave. If corporate wants to impose some extra hassle, they get to do that, but you get paid for your time.

But more importantly, the Apple retail stores are legitimately awesome. The checkout experience is amazing. The genius bars are the best tech support I've ever had. Something is working really well here! Why squeeze the golden goose?

Apple should take a cue from other beloved retailers (Costco and Trader Joe's come to mind) and make their stores coveted employers for those seeking retail work. Just fucking treat your employees well, they'll return the favor.
I think the point of this rule is that the manufacturer can't put a DRM on the car. India is trying to trying to set up electric cars like it has dealt on mobile devices - the sim is separately sold from the device and any sim from any company can be paired with any mobile phone.
Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test
I think I can see what you're trying to do but every user seems to share the same view? Or is that a bug? If it's a bug I'm sure you could fix it with something like sessions to have individual state per 'user.'

Overall: very clever
I know, russia gate was so obviously fake, it's amazing people fell for that
The demand for electronic and online voting is so high that I fear it will be implemented in a compromised way, before the problem is actually solved. As I understand it, all known descriptions of electronic voting are worse than paper ballots in terms of security and anonymity.

This is just what a former CS professor told me years ago, but it seems to be supported by what experts are saying.

Edit: clarity and addl thought
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Digital Pregnancy Test Teardown
totally, not debating that battery swap won't work for cars in the future but as of now, it probably won't.

Also, the changing business model resulting from the battery and the vehicle separation will most certainly lead to innovation in batteries. So cars can innovate on motors while battery makers can innovate on batteries and who knows a third market might emerge for those battery swapping robots.

It'll be interesting to watch out how this will plays out - Tesla as the all integrated electric vehicle (Apple) v/s the rest of the industry which might go the independent vehicle/battery/swap robot (wintel) route.
Dan, Paras from VWO here.

Congratulations for the acquisition. We've enjoyed competing with Optimizely over last the last 10 years, and certainly learned a lot in the process. Hopefully, that will continue even after the acquisition.

The way we look at things, experimentation as a market is certainly in an early phase. The more complex the world becomes, the more necessary experimentation becomes to understand what customers really want.

As an aside, it is true though that for experimentation to work, a company needs to be ready for it. Their culture needs to support being proven wrong and having patience to build momentum of wins over the long term. Any org with a short term horizon will likely see experimentation as a cost without corresponding returns. But companies that really see long term - think Amazon - ground themselves in experimentation.

Of course, not every company can be Amazon but our belief is that more companies will start realizing that there's no alternative to developing a culture of experimentation. This is why we're excited about the market. For us, at VWO, it still seems day 1 :)
Cool!
And I think at least 30 minutes of my day is now going to be spent looking this up and seeing what models etc etc.

Thank you.
Truth. God forbid though you steal from the employer. We have collectively allowed the government to approve private prisons for people heinous enough to commit crimes like that.
Wasn't Terrapower trying to develop a travelling wave reactor? Or is that a MSR design as well?