skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's based on an affirmative declaration - every property gets a letter sent to its owner or listed representative annually, containing the declaration. You return the declaration (or submit it on the British Columbia website) before the deadline affirmatively declaring that the property isn't empty.

If you (or no one else) don't make the declaration, the property is taxed. If the province and/or city can't find you, a lien is put on the property (which can eventually be used to force a sale).

If you falsify the declaration, this is legally equivalent to a false affidavit, and you can be prosecuted. The tax is fairly small, to encourage compliance.
Related article on the bad side effects of Japanese cedar planting monoculture: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/17/science/japan-s-cedar-for...
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It's not "panic shopping" if overnight I transition from eating half my meals at work to eating all my meals at home.
Surely you can’t stipulate just anything in a contract and have that upheld as binding by a court, even in the US?
If sound source and sensor were at a fixed distance from each other then no.
People weren't walking around with cameras all the time 10-15 years ago and the world functioned still.
Canadian military wants to establish new organization to use propaganda
Pollen, I believe, is that they're referring to.
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Iran uses its own observation-based solar calendar (which means it follows the seasons exactly every year), but it also reports the Gregorian date on the nightly news. People in Iran are generally aware of the Gregorian month and year they are in, if not the exact date.
Stopped reading when less than 10 seconds in a sign up pop up covered the article.
Burying newly-grown wood seems like a difficult thing to achieve economically. Surely it's almost as good to build that wood into long-lasting structures where it is equally protected from rot, and then when demolition does occur, ensure that the rubble is buried underground?
Yes, and we also have off site replication using ZFS send/recv. Which would let us restore everything in a few hours in case of major disaster.
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I had a Trinitron CRT with a flat screen...
Since "conscious" is an aggressively undefined term, you can say anything about it that feels good. I say "aggressively" because any attempt at a precise operational definition brings random testy objections out of the woodwork, typically invoking varying degrees of woo.

Ultimately, nobody has determined a practical need for a definition, or really for the word, outside of discussion of people in comas, so reasonable people let it go.
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True. I've already noticed people who aren't cynical, become cynical after seeing some deepfake videos. This, coupled with confirmation bias will not help real victims who are regular citizens.
> there top 1% percent are taking an increasing share of that wealth.

Here's where framing comes into play. Let's reframe your statement as:

"there top 1% percent are creating an increasing percentage of that wealth."

"taking" implies some pie someone is taking a bigger slice of that they had no hand in creating.
I can't find a pricing chart for IAM, which is the cited example.
I think you've missed the word "anciently" in that sentence. He's talking about pre-modern English.
Interesting read. The cost in New York of $1.5 – $2.5B per mile is just amazing. They ask "What Can Be Done to Manage Underground Construction Cost?" and list a bunch of recommendations. The conclusion?

"If these recommendations are implemented, would the U.S. costs match the European tunneling project costs? Unlikely."

The reasons make sense, at least to me, someone who knows very little of this subject.
We don't use AWS.
It's a bazaar, there's no central authority :-)

Probably good if you chose a project you personally/professiobally use and thus know it from an end user perspective, eat your own dog food etc. Good also if you're been interested in the area longer so you're sure you want to work with it long term.
I did say, "If this is a real DMCA takedown...".

You are legally correct that GitHub in isn't obligated to take down a work if they receive a DMCA notice. But that would be very bad advice to take. GitHub handles millions of repos. GitHub could take a huge gamble by keeping the material posted after a DMCA request, or just take it down, wait for the DMCA counterclaim, and put it up after the counterclaim was filed. A CEO could easily get fired for risking the entire company when there was a no-risk alternative with the same result. The legal penalties are so stiff, and so easily avoided, that it would be improbable for a company to do anything else. This apparently isn't a DMCA takedown anyway, but I thought I should comment on your response.

Anyway, I'll repeat myself yet again: They need a lawyer.
yeah the author isn't very credible but the data is sourced and the point seems to stand as far as I can tell. The sources do not seem to be contested as far as I can tell.
I probably need to add more context to the page, but I want to specify that my intention with this tool wasn't that long sentence == bad. I was inspired by this image:

https://twitter.com/misscrisp/status/1202792895448662016

It's really interesting how different authors play with the rhythm of their sentences - one of the best ones on here is The Raven, with very short sentences interspersed with longer ones.
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Yes, good point. The traditional dairy businesses that drove corn and hay production are mostly dead/dying as that business consolidates and declines.
Will Covid-19 Turn Las Vegas into Reno or Virginia City?
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I believe Canon has special cameras that the police uses. It’s been a while but they use some encoding scheme I think.
There are easier libraries, but turtle [0] and tkinter (tcl/tk) are both included in the standard library that could be used for graphics. Turtle especially is geared towards beginners its similar to LOGO.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
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Planting trees can help to regrow a forest naturally.

For example planted trees can provide shade for seedlings.

This is what I like about the Groasis projects. They create special planters so they can plant trees in deserts. Most of the time they choose very hard trees but with the intention to make it possible for other trees to grow.

https//www.groasis.com

https://www.youtube.com/c/Groasis
My objection is to popular legal theft. The folks I'm calling out want those nice things you describe but not on the terms Google is (evidently) willing to offer them for and are therefore calling for laws to take them by force.

In other words, what I hear you saying is that their excuse for (what I'm calling) theft is that the thing they're stealing is really good.
Who was Lou Chang? I didn't recognize who that was a deepfake of.
Do you have any examples?

I haven't seen newspaper articles, magazine articles, online articles, nor television reports of this quality. Most of these generate revenue through ads, but some are behind a paywall or require purchase.
I suspect that that is straight-up illegal in two different directions: it is unlikely that the credit card company would be pleased to find out that these folks are trying to use a credit card signature for something else, and I'm pretty sure any lawyer could get such a contract thrown out with exactly zero effort, if it truly is framed as just being the receipt that you use to pay (a contract has to be intentionally signed by person who intended to agree to it in order to count for anything)

(IANAL, could be wrong)
Actually, trees can help clean smog.

https://www.lifegate.com/city-trees-smog-pollution
They're "highlighting" it AFTER you "agreed". Not before you agree to it. What kind of ethics is that? "I'll screw you over but I'll admit to it afterwards"?
PPT or PDF, with a second copy in a Prezi-specific format that preserves any nonstandard stuff?

There's a lot of options of varying difficulty. But they already have code to produce PDF, and dumping some proprietary lossless representation of their internal format doesn't seem unreasonably difficult. If they're shy about their secret sauce, fine, encrypt that second copy. It's only for the case that this user wants to come back to the service later on.

I can imagine plenty of business reasons not to do this, but very few technical ones.
Would've been funnier if it was Biden having the stroke. Much more believable. But a week before the election I guess only Trump is an acceptable target. Notice Biden didn't get mentioned a single time.. even when making fun of Trump's son-in-law, surely there's a better joke there about the picture of Hunter Biden with a crack pipe in his mouth that's more relevant to the topic. Or I guess, Matt and Trey know that's real ;)

I give it a 4/10 for effort. The first half was pretty funny. After that, it's just Orange Man Bad. Comedy is always so boring when there's a Republican in the White House.. usually Matt and Trey are an exception but you can't win them all.
This "your salary = your value add" meme has never made any sense to me. In a fair world that should be the case, but it never has been and never will be. Proof: offshore outsourcing.
Cool, this is the stuff that interests me. Comparing the nominal cost of hardware with the nominal AWS costs is boring.
Why don't they just ask for money? "Please cancel for $50" ;D
Some time ago I blocked third-party cookies in the Firefox settings. I was surprised it did not broke anything that I could notice. I wonder if this is still a meaningful way to prevent tracking?
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Aside from aesthetics, more plants (trees especially) within cities can reduce the local temperatures, along with providing habitat (food and shelter) for a number of animals.
> However, unless there is opportunity for the people who used to perform the obviated tasks to produce something others will value, then all of the wealth that was added will only show up in the profits of Google and other capital owners who benefit from decreased labor costs.

An effective search allows all kinds of businesses to exist that couldn't have before.

It's similar to while cars replaced horses and the horse industry, it created far more industry that couldn't have existed before.
why is one different than the other? aren't humans part of nature?
Loved that. Thank you
I'm ignorant about speed tests. Given that distance is constant, wouldn't two synchronized timers be simpler than using GPS? And potentially more accurate?
"Flatscreen" as a right-wing racist dogwhistle term https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/jjlvz0...
And the "unlikely" is followed up with a couple sentences that are basically a polite way of saying "even if we do everything else right the cost of NYC union labor is just too damn high".
That's very different then the implication of a SWAT team busting in your door and carting you off to prison for some unspecified amount of time on account of copyright infringement.
I don't follow why South Korea is lumped in with Southeast Asia repeatedly in this piece.
Maybe he's referring to pollen? IDK, just guessing. I assume even if he's partially right that some species of trees are better than others.
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So, you think ARM has its own version of IME/PSP?
Think about scalability. We need a solution for more than just one person. We need a solution for 1,000 kids in my town, 5,000 in surrounding districts, and I have no idea how many state-wide. How many such laptops can you find? How much effort will it take to source a dozen here, and dozen there, from hundreds of different sources? Repurposing old hardware only works at a small scale. If there were 50 kids in the school district, the district could put out calls to other families who might have old hardware. That doesn't scale to thousands of students.

These are resources restricted households as well: $200-$250 represents a significant increase over $100.
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> Understanding the extreme tunnel costs in New York compared with other places in the United States is an enigma that is difficult to comprehend and cannot be controlled without major industry and government practice changes.

Is this their way of saying corruption is an X factor they didn't account for?
All of the Einsteins, male and female, lived in a sexist society, as did the majority of major scientists across human history, because the majority of societies have been varying degrees of patriarchal and have had limited roles for women. So, no, this doesn’t seem particularly strange to me.
Some Cloudflare users are experiencing outages
Really that would be a good thing for "character actors" as it goes less on image and more on as what they need to contribute is creative to be a collaborator instead of a "living prop".

What would be interesting would be the techniques used. Are they like animators or roleplayers focused on a single character to give them emotional touches in added details, quirks, and improved line changes or "greenscreened" such that what they actually look like is utterly irrelevant to their job?
They get to do more than a state machine, because they can do analog computation.

You can simulate that with a state machine, but only with one that is much more complicated. Nature doesn't exactly prefer simplicity, but it's very bad at discovering solutions that need a big jump in complexity compared to a previous generation.
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No mention of all the bedrock underneath Manhattan? Really?

EDIT: specifically metamorphic bedrock
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I carefully wrote "free market". Government can (and does) set all sorts of conditions that impede the free market from operating.
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huh, TIL email addresses can be case sensitive.
One point (I'm a dual citizen BTW).

Europe has pretty strict environment rules, but they are not normally abused to stop a project by just delaying and litigating it forever.

In the US, the actual care for environment is lower I think BUT you can just drag out a project forever on enviro issues.

SF bike path was sued for not doing enough of an enviro study, took another $1M, maybe 1-2 years to get it going again.

This is one (small) factor.

Another - in the EU most folks are part of unions, but the unions are not such a political machine. So in the US you can get total nonsense in staffing, no show / low work jobs - the EU puts up with a lot less of that from casual observation (at least germany, maybe Italy / Greece have more of an issue here). Unions seems reasonably productive in Germany - does someone have more data here? I don't know the details, just my impression.
>In developed nations, I think families in poverty usually have a TV.

That was a fair assertion 1997. Nowadays you will easily find a bunch of computers too.

>The brilliance here is that a kid in a poor family can get started with just a single piece of hardware that's available cheaply.

$100 isn't cheap when you're poor.

A poor family that has any sense certainly won't buy brand-new hardware.

When you have to save money, you buy second-hand, which will allow you to buy a fairly modern PC with a magnitude more power than that raspberry PI at half the price.

For instance I could pick this computer up for 1 euro simply because someone wants to get rid of it:

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/pc-computer-acer...

You can find tons of offers like these if you'd browse your local ebay/craigslist/whatever listings.

Why would someone spend 100 bucks on a new machine?