skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The opponents of gay marriage will tell you that the consequences of gay marriage is adoption

No, while the opponents of same-sex marriage also oppose adoption by same-sex couples, by far the vast majority of them will argue that the primary basis for opposition is either that marriage is intended to produce offspring and same-sex marriage is defective in that regard or that marriage is a divine institution instituted for heterosexuality and that extending it same-sex couples defies the divine plan, improperly endorses homosexuality, and pollutes society with sin independently of whether or not this is further compounded by allowing such couples to adopt.
I don't believe I could provide any response that would persuade you.
Scale often represented something else, for example how important someone was.
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NREC is part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on commercialization of robotic technologies, and employs over 150 people in their off-campus facility. An NREC developer can go from developing mapping for a mining robot operating in extreme environments (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/mining/profiler.html) to developing hardware and controls for unique research vehicles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URxpqi0oAU) or on perception (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_43JcqAvB4). Another may go from developing training products for humanitarian workers (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/defense/other-projects...) on to assistive technologies that make work easier for farmers around the world (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/agriculture/other-agri...).

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I want it has to do with .at's automatic renewals? https://help.opensrs.com/hc/en-us/articles/203858976--AT-Dom...

> .AT domains renew automatically. A domain must be cancelled 3 days before the expiry date to avoid renewal. ... If the reseller cannot reach the registrant, or if the registrant refuses to pay, refuses to sign the form, or claims not to have heard of the reseller, a Domain Withdrawal can be processed. To process this withdrawal, the reseller will have to contact OpenSRS support. They can state "I can not reach the registrant, please give the domain back to the registry". Once OpenSRS support processes the withdrawal the registry will no longer point the domain at OpenSRS. The registry will take over and contact the registrant. If the registrant is still unresponsive, the domain is deleted by the registry.
My hot, highly uneducated scoop on nuclear: we're too late to put a lot of effort into fission from an environmental perspective. If we had continued on investing and deploying as per pre-chernobyl, we might have significantly reduced emissions and been in a better place today. However, we didn't do it, and renewables are now better and more importantly cheaper in every respect. The time window for fission to make an impact for climate has passed.

This is only from an environmental perspective. The technology might still be impactful and interesting where fission makes sense.
Yeah a complete guess on my part. Classic minis really are tiny though
> It’s a trade off Chinese businessmen have to live with in China

Agree this isn’t news to anyone familiar with China. What led Ma to make the alleged comments is beyond me.

That doesn’t invalidate discussing its effects.
It's not quite so black-and-white. Most of our historical sources are people who definitely want to play up the human sacrifice aspect. The Europeans would do so in order to justify the genocide they would commit; the Aztecs themselves to demonstrate their legitimacy to power. So the extent to which Aztecs did human sacrifice is probably exaggerated, although most historians would agree that Aztecs were the most prolific practitioners we know of nonetheless.

A more important thing to consider is the actual context of sacrifice in Aztec religion. Their mythology held that the gods literally sacrificed themselves to bring the (current) world into existence, and they recreated these sacrifices both as a means of honoring their gods as well as ensuring the continuation of the effects of that sacrifice. This isn't actually all that far off from Christianity, which recreates the sacrifice of Jesus in the form of the Eucharist, which can (and historically was!) be seen as a form of human sacrifice. Indeed, in broader theological terms, Aztecs need to undergo personal sacrifice of their own flesh and blood, while Christians make do with merely sacrificing personal possessions or (more commonly) abstract desires.
Shouldn't it be "Aleph.ts"?
Looks like I'll need to do some research on the city government. Thanks!
Pre-owned electric 2017 Fiat 500e with 20k miles: $7,000.00 on eBay
Info for SanDisk Sansa models: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk_Sansa
EV West in California does great work on classic kits.

https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&pro...
Ask HN: How many people, time and budget did you need to build your backend?
Hey there! I'm interested in understanding what is the typical investment (in terms of people, salary, and time) to develop a backend solution (leaving maintenance aside). I'd also be nice if you can roughly explain the scale and complexity of the backend solution you built.
For example, I worked on a knowledge-graph backend solution consisting of an API and N workers consuming tasks from a queue that took ~2 years to develop, 3-4 full-time backend engineers and a total investment of around 300k USD.
I wish there was a drop-in kit that could turn any car into a micro-hybrid by running all electric loads off a li-ion until dead, then switching to the lead-acid system.

Electric loads are like 10% of a car’s use, and here I am burning gas extremely inefficiently to kill my alternator to generate it.

And more stuff is becoming electric instead of belt drive (e.g. cooling pumps and power steering pump).

If my average trip is 50 miles, being able to shunt all electric loads to a supplemental li-ion battery does just as much good as having a hybrid plug-in drivetrain that can do 5 miles engine-off.

Not quite, but I think we’re missing a huge opportunity to turn entire fleets into 5%-10% electrics.

Would be cool if my alternator could be used for some regen, (new automatics are doing engine-braking!) but that’s probably outside of the scope of a drop-in kit.
Suddenly a Model 3 doesn't look so outrageous.
Climate Change May Have Been a Major Driver of Ancient Hominin Extinctions
I built FriendlyCaptcha [1], it's a proof of work based alternative to reCaptcha that is accessible.

While it's not the perfect captcha either (which I think is impossible), it makes a better tradeoff in terms of UX, price and privacy.

[1]: https://friendlycaptcha.com
Calls in cars are a nuisance. They are extremely loud for some reason in a way that music rarely is, piercing through a car's exterior.
The single best thing you can do is pick a neighborhood - not the whole city - and invest deeply.

Get to know everyone in the neighborhood and understand what they want and need, then try to find ways to bring that.

When you have a strong network of neighbors and a little bit of cash, you can ramp up investment by cleaning up dirty corners and getting the basic services that a neighborhood is missing.

Here’s an example of how folks in Memphis, TN did this Over time: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/21/this-is-what-w...

If you’re interested in connecting with people who already have this mindset, there are a lot of them in Strong Towns, and there may even be a group in your area.
The catch is you have to spend an entire book trying to get a liter of "gas" and you can only drive the vehicle on the moon.
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Besides standardising NVME storage for games to rely on, I'm the most excited about SONY's HRTF [1] implementation for the PS5 [2]. It's something I've been waiting for years for someone to implement for computer games, and it could be a game changer for audio. Listen to this [3] with good headphones to see (well, hear) what I'm talking about, better with higher volume.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function

[2] https://youtu.be/sSmWIR-D6ro?t=2526

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYdIidUIbAs
How about a tool which output nicely formatted JSON with every line annotated with a jq expression to access that value.

But then I squint a little bit at the default gron (not ungron) output, and that's actually what I see.
Gold is actually great in the zombie apocalypse.

It’s portable and you can trade it without infrastructure. Unlike Bitcoin.

It’s value during a collapse is based on the idea that there will be a future recovery of some kind, but we don’t have to recover very far before gold is good, whereas we need to get back to the level of silicon fabs before Bitcoin can be useful again.

If it’s really an ‘apocalypse’ that we can’t recover from, then you only need one bullet.
In addition to being a quality human in these ways, I'd recommend googling "tactical urbanism." That means: do quick, low-cost interventions in your neighbourhood, like painting a mural on the street, building flower boxes, or creating a pocket park. (Should probably get permission, but for some things, just do it). This all helps attract people to the street and builds a sense of ownership, which encourages folks to make more improvements, creating self-reinforcing momentum. All this reduces local crime, both because of eyes-on-the-street and because it creates a feeling that people are paying attention and care about the place.

If you have abandoned commercial spaces, put art up in the empty windows to reduce the feeling that a place has been abandoned. If your streets feel dangerous because of traffic, work with local leaders to get approval for making low-cost changes to make it safer. For example, you can create sidewalk bumpouts using simple flower boxes. Talk to local lenders about what they can do to help local businesses get off the ground.

Be warned that if all this is successful, it risks leading to a big jump in housing prices, i.e., gentrification. Keep in mind that "gentrification" also tends to make local residents wealthier — it's not as simple as the usual picture in which locals are simply pushed out. However, it is important to start thinking now about solutions, because this will lead to some push-back. Ideally, the city or nonprofits should buy land now while property values are cheap to create housing trusts for low-income residents. This will always be a tough issue though.

There is a lot of small actions you can take locally to shift the momentum of your community. Lots of people have done it — you can do it.

Source: I'm an urban planner.
If you have the means to do so and live in the right climate — winter is approaching — plant a garden. It doesn't have to be anything large, I personally keep about 20-30 potted plants outside my door during the spring and summer.

This will do two things:
A) Get you out on the block as you tend to your plants, where you can now serve as eyes on the street.
B) Serve as a visual testament to people passing through your neighborhood that this is a place where people care about.
You are totally correct of course, a Tesla is the more practical and economical choice. But fun is the key word i think...

I suspect for many people that price is already considered well into luxury car territory (I've never bought a car >£5k, the used car market is large in the UK and the most common way people acquire cars)... Anyway my point is, 40k for most people is not an economical purchase, it's for fun - and even though I think Teslas are kinda cool - I find the idea of a raw EV powertrain in a classic like the mini quite appealing over all the distracting gismos and fairly normal looking modern car you get from a Tesla.

- takes cover, behind old mini -
> Apparently You cannot discover information on websites with a search engine these days, unless it’s news Or Wikipedia entries.

Certainly not if it's any search term that can be "monetized" with an automated scraping script. Web search seems like an extremely adversarial problem with people constantly hacking your search algorithm instantly as you change it. One would hope that the benefit a giant firm can provide is the amount of R&D they could afford to devote to countering this. But perhaps when they're paying for ads they don't seem so adversarial to google.
I'd second that, Elixir does away with the sometimes vexing comma and dot syntax used for scoping. Also, it does have mutable variables.

You do have to get to grips with pattern matching and processes as objects being such core concepts, but I found that once I got it, it is wonderful.
Oh give me a break with this fell to earth nonsense. The IPO isnt cancelled and its not lile Ant Group has somehow become a weak business. Eventually they will get to the IPO stage and I suppose the markets will reward or punish them for theit financials.
Elect socially liberal, fiscally conservative leadership.
> magically

laws

> wave a wand

the guns that enforce the laws
Even if critical thinking is taught in school this problem wouldn't be solved. These videos pass by in feeds and people think "that looks cool" or "aww cute" and keep going. They don't open up photoshop and analyze the parallax and object seams. People do not have time nor cause to investigate every video or news item that comes up. Even the investors of Nikola didn't have time to do a full due diligence before investing! Most of this fake-content is largely banal (cakes, speed records) as for the non-banal, platforms need to step up and hinder or stop its spread.
I don't text and drive because I prefer texting on a physical keyboard (# = Google Voice) and my text conversations tend to be long.

How does he know they're txt'ng? About the only time I look at my phone in the car is to next-track VLC.
Two choices really:

Either you put in your own effort as an organizer/leader/etc...

Or you put in effort to make money and donate it to the causes.
I meant renting virtual shops - i.e. being the platform. This was a riff off a popular saying that during the gold rush, it's not the people who went looking for gold that got rich, but those selling shovels and pickaxes.
What about architects,

managers: line, program, project, infra, HR,

Et al ?
I moved to Finland, and then had a child. He's now nearing four years old and he's very bilingual - to the extent that he translates for me at times.

Children learn the local language, partly because of immersion, but also because they're corrected nearly constantly when they begin to speak. We forget that when they're capable of "good" communication.

I'm seeing interesting things here, I speak to the child exclusively in English and as far as he's concerned I speak/understand zero Finnish. I'm hoping I can start speaking more Finnish in the near future, he should be able to understand I'm "mostly English".

One obvious thing that really drives the language home is the notion of pronouns. Finnish has no gendered ones, so when he speaks English to me he'll be "Mummy is asleep, he will wake up soon?". I have to keep saying "Mummy is a girl, we say she". I've been doing that for 8+ months, and he still doesn't get it right. That's the level of repetition that's involved in learning a new language.. and even now it hasn't "stuck".
There will likely still be significant military & other 'off-grid' demand for liquid fuels into the indefinite future.
Well luckily the party itself isn’t so innovative
Avoid lying and unsubstantiated hype: don't say you can do something you can't. Some people are tempted to do that with investors, hiring, PR. It's a short-term optimization and no good will come out of it in the long run, even from a purely amoral standpoint.

In my experience, the conversations we had with our clients, advisors, investors are really good because even when they make a mistake assuming something, we correct it on the spot: "No. We are not able to do that right now because we have B issue and we're working to solve it given we do not have expertise on this. It will take some time. For now, we're doing Y instead because of X. We don't have Z capability".

The trust that grows from having these conversations is invaluable. You can't build it back when it's gone. Even if you're not in a managerial or executive position and your manager makes the mistake of wrongly claiming something, you pull them aside and correct them. They most likely thought what they said was correct, and will follow up on that and send an erratum/clarification.
When the first study started for this in February I was always optimistic this would both work and be cheap and easy to mass produce - it was the method I was hoping for and betting on. I've been disappointed to not see more news about this, I wonder what happened.
I have a strong recollection of the first episode, where he just walks you through the first few days / weeks of a technological breakdown. At one point, you fled the city to a farm, you are looking for food - would you kill the owners to take over the farm? Would you be able to? If you killed them, would you know how to milk a cow? How to run an actual farm? If you look at the barn, there will be machines that need electric power and gas, what do you do if you run out of gas? Does the farm still have old equipment from the 19th century that doesn't need gas? Does the farm still have animals to pull that euqipment? Do you know how to sow? When to sow? Where to get seeds? Even if you managed to do all that, at one point other people will come by, who might also try to take over the farm, or even just steal from you. Would you be able to defend yourself?

As a viewer, you quickly get the impression that you would most likely be dead after 2-3 months.
I find it unfortunate that augeas is so magical. Or rather, the design of its interface is very surprising

What's up with requiring "--noautoload"? What does "-r ." do? and the transform invocation starts with the seemingly magical "Json.lns" (where does it come from?) and appears to refer to a file at the root of the filesystem hierarchy?

I'd probably use augtool more often myself, but its UI is seriously inscrutable.
The data will be apples and oranges. It won't tell you anything.

A typical CRUD back-end can be built in a day or two by a single dev, especially if s/he is not worrying about writing DRY, elegant code that is easy to maintain.

A serious back-end solving novel problems, dealing with high demand, or incorporating many asynchronous processes could easily take 5 devs a full 6 months to build.

You have to be much, much more specific.
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Epictetus often reads as quite an unfeeling teacher (he's reported to never have laughed), and often lacks nuance. Especially with regards to all the grey areas of what is in our control. Seeking out paths to make change through all known and potential paths of influence is certainly within a reasonable interpretation of Stoicism.

Epictetus's Stoicism was but one of dozens of varieties in its 2500 year history. That is to say there are no perfect models, and all require some reform in personal application. Or, you do you, as the kids say!
> why would I be an innovator in this system

For the same reasons people build better lives for themselves in places even less hospitable to their personal aims. Lack of resources, family, lack of practical freedom... the list goes on. Hell, some people actually are patriotic.

But frankly, I do think this matters much less than people are making this out to be. Larger-than-life superhero CEOs are bullshit. I do not believe you needed Musk or Kalanick to get things that look like their companies. US culture just desperately wants to believe in their homemade gods, so you get conversations like this.
> Graphical improvement over the PS4 doesn't have the "wow factor" you migth expect.

In the machine's defence, I imagine game-engines will evolve to make much better use of the available hardware, especially regarding raytracing. In previous generations, games released late in a console's lifecycle are often visually significantly better than games released early in the lifecycle.
The networking side of things still isn't mature.

A couple of years ago, I tried to write a parallel download app as my first Crystal app. It ended up as slow as the Ruby version. After some digging, I found out it was because the DNS resolver wasn't multithreaded.

Years later, the issue is still open.

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/2829

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/4236

It's still a good fit for CPU-bound workloads, and efficient background jobs and where I wouldn't want to install Ruby. Also seems be a good fit for AWS Lambda.
Usually no as it does not scale. They usually use several (third party) "debt collection" services which operate in a questionable way (I'd call it mafia-style). Examples of what they would usually do:

- Call you 100 times per day.

- Call you family and your friends and your colleague daily (via contact data collected by their apps)

- Threaten (but not actually do unless you owe them a lot) to sue you, in a way maximizing your stress.

- Visit your family in person and "politely" ask if they know you are in debt.

Google "花呗 催收" or "借呗 催收" then use Google Translate if you want to dig into this.
I think you will be forever able to buy petrol, but at some stupid price. But enthusiasts are known to pay premium for their hobbies. Recently I watched a video about someone driving one of the original Benz "cars" in Germany, really, a 100 years old carriage with a single-piston engine - which is all fine, except that the engine runs on Ether Petroleum, which is only still produced for medical reasons.....so any time they want to pull it out of storage, they literally just buy several bottles out of a pharmacy.

Hell, as I mentioned in another comment - if you live in UK and are willing pay premium(like £5/litre) for it, you can still purchase leaded petrol for your classic vehicle which you stubbornly refuse to convert to regular unleaded because "collector value" is a thing.
>> The audit system for many industries are not mature as well.

So bribery? Is that what you mean?
It is _A Fire Upon the Deep_ and the interplanetary Usenet is a core plot point, IMHO.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who don't like this new "stream textures as it becomes required" instead of loading screens. It's very disruptive to the illusion of video games when textures change on the fly as you interact with the game. I just wish it could be configurable instead of assuming it's always best to stream textures from disk on the fly, instead of upfront loading of them.