skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find myself wondering if those risks couldn't be managed by modern technology. Check the water surface and adjust.

Also, I believe altitude above the ground depends on the size of the wings, so with much larger wings, they might be able to fly high enough to clear more obstacles.
I don't mean to offend but this is ridiculous and I say this as a woman. Just leave the damn seat the way you used it, if it's inconsiderate for you not to leave it lowered for me, it's inconsiderate of me not to leave it up for you. Turns out able adults are perfectly capable of operating a toilet.
>Is requiring certified electrical wiring that much different from a “walled garden”?

Yes it is very different, because those certifications are limited to basic safety whereas Apple's restrictions are a wild mix of security protections, paternalism (e.g the porn ban), protecting their business model, and staying in the good graces of authoritarian regimes.

If Apple really cares about security they should not blur the lines between security and unrelated issues.
> instead of anti-piracy techniques

Or you could simply focus on the legit PC market instead of worrying about people who will likely never be your customers.
It's supposed to be less complicated than bringing in lawyers but you still need to file everything, show up in a suit, and be prepared to argue your case. It isn't like you can just fill out a brief online form and get a refund. It's an all-day affair. Also most courts are only open during working hours, so you'll have to take time off, but there are exceptions to this.

I'm not sure how to respond to your second point about discrimiation, it becomes public record and "suing someone" isn't a protected class. Here's something I found after a brief google: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/17917/can-companies-...
Not really open source, though, is it?
For what it's worth, I've been using Mercurial + hg-git to interact with git repos since 2010 and I still do with all my git and github using colleagues.
My suspicion is that this system is a cop-out, like when Google blames their screw-ups on "the algorithm".

There probably has been a recent surge of right-wing users and, the Matrix administrators, which probably lean left-wing, have seen that surge as a problem and have created the reputation system as a way to get rid of those users or, at least, to give them the hypothetical yellow badge. And if someone says "censorship", they will blame it on the "downvotes" those users got.
Rendering the federal government impotent by ensuring that 10% of rurals owned it but 90% of populous states were subject to it wouldn't discourage people from getting their policy goals done at the federal level it would insure that there wouldn't BE a federal level in 10 years.
Property rights are the answer.

And not property rights the way water rights sometimes works, where a group of people all have the right to take all they can.

If the same people owned an aquifer but all had to pay for what they used, the water would be more properly priced.

With water, as with fish, people often pay the cost of taking the resource and not a price that reflects the value of the resource.

The value is actually more like the future cost of replacing the resource. Once your aquifer is empty, you must ship water in. Or desalinate. That's more like the real cost.

With a species of fish, the replacement is incalculable. But one thing is clear. The price should increase rapidly as it becomes scarcer, preserving the incentive to keep the population viable.

That can't happen if people just pay the cost of going out there and getting the fish. The price has to reflect the value of the fish too.

If the right too harvest a population were a piece of property that could be bought and sold, the incentive to preserve the population would be stronger.

You might even see technologies that avoid taken pregnant females and that count how many males there are so you have enough of those too.
On the eighth day, God came down with his bag of tricks and offered to both Adam and Eve some goodies.

Heard from the heavens: First In The Bag, Pee Standing Up

Adam immediately gets excited. "Oh, that would be so useful as I'm in the fields toiling all day. I wish for that ability to be bestowed upon myself". And so it was, that Adam could now pee standing up.

Heard from the heavens: Second In The Bag, Multiple Orgams
The UK doesn't have national identification. The government tried to bring it in a decade or more ago but it was shot down by the successful no2id campaign. The UK also doesn't have a significant problem with electoral fraud: like the US it has robust processes in place to ensure that its (admittedly less than perfect) electoral system is implemented fairly[0], correctly, and with integrity. This doesn't depend on national identification so I'm not sure why you're implying it should be a prerequisite for holding elections.

[0] Fairly within the constraints of its framework: you can obviously argue about first past the post versus alternative vote versus proportional representation versus a collegiate system as being the fairest system, but that's a separate question.
What is the consensus on using/extending GPL licensed code in the web backend?
I copied it from a previous site that had some weird scrolling requirements, so the top HTML element had width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow-y: hidden; on it, while the body element had overflow-x: hidden; width: 100%; height: 100%; on it. Getting rid of that fixed the issues (unsurprisingly!).

I can't imagine many other sites made this mistake!
Aside from possibly having the program you want precompiled, it's a pretty good terminal–we know of users who SSH into localhost to use it as their terminal app of choice.
Let's continue over voice/video if you prefer.

Speaking of socialists in NSDAP, Goebbels was sympathetic to socialism early in his career. That didn't last though.
First, the trend has been towards dense cities, not rural living/suburbs for centuries, as they can provide so many benefits (jobs, retail, culture, leisure, community, etc) efficiently.

> Parking lots would not be nearly as large (wasteful) in cities expected to be built around the concept of a 100 mile radius [scattered] metropolitan area.

And where exactly would all those VTOLs land and park?
I believe the technical term for this, is triggers broom.
That's not the type of problem that usually happens with postal voting. Intercepting votes like that on a large scale would be indeed hard.

But what people do get caught doing quite regularly and not just in the USA are things like:

1. Going door to door and giving people blank ballots, pressuring people to fill them in, right in front of them. As a 'helpful service'.

2. Dominant members of the families taking the ballots from family members and filling them all in themselves. This gets reported a lot in various ethnic minority areas in the UK, for example, where the father is traditionally dominant.

3. Ballots being destroyed or not delivered in swing areas where certain sub-regions are known to be strongly pro one candidate or another.

It's good to hear that some places let you check if your ballot was received, but almost by definition, for that to work you need a lot of people to do that kind of check and then publicly broadcast their findings. In an environment where social media is suppressing discussion of the possibility of voter fraud and the media is polarised, it's not so clear how people would do that reliably, even if enough checked in the first place. And a lot of places you can't easily check - I know I can't in my elections!

As for Trump accusing others of cheating, conservatives in multiple countries have been talking about the problems of postal vote fraud for a long time. This is not new, they care because when it is uncovered it always seems to be tipping the vote for the left. Trump in particular shouldn't be under suspicion here because he has been strongly encouraging his supporters to vote in person, where fraud is much harder to pull off: it's his opponents that strongly encouraged postal voting despite knowing that postal voting is less confidence-inspiring than the ballot box.
Good attitude in spirit, but bad professional attitude

If F500 companies are asking for you to do work propose a support/sponsoring deal, not complain on a Github issue
Why should all states have an equal say in how the president is elected? Why should the desires of half a million in the lowest state be worth as much as the 40 million in the most populous state. In this context either the 40 million have to give the half a million gifts of tax dollars and policy goals that the minority could never dream of achieving in an actual democracy or they have to give them bullets. Which do you think it would be long term?

Can you name another functional democracy of any variety who gives arbitrarily constructed territories of wildly disparate population sizes "equal" say in the running of things?
Balance.

I was a college football player, 60 lbs. heavier than now. When I met my current martial arts teacher he told me flat out, "it's going to take me 20 years to fix what you did to your body." He was right. I'm still fighting to heal tha damage that intense weightlifting over many years did to my body.

Strength is nothing without balance, relaxation, and control.
Weight lifting is generally about isolating the muscles, when you should be working on integrating them.
Basically all your arguments have been proved false in a short amount of time. Agencies could not name a single case where mass surveillance helped. And don't kid yourself, if you have a master key to encryption, it is mass surveillance you try to implement and it will be used as such.

We had security agencies that had the info but didn't act in case of Vienna. Encryption wasn't the issue here, this is an incontinent case of saving face at best, a deliberate attack against civil rights at worst.

> These were never designed to be secure in the sense we're talking here

Encryption today is a protection against access for a limited amount of time. It is an intrinsic rule about every encryption algorithm. It is fundamental property and widely known.
I am honestly surprised at the amount of people here trying to say that open sourcing your work and making money out of it is incompatible. While the OP may have plenty of reasons and be totally entitled to make this decision, I do not thing their case can be directly compared to all the different open source projects out there.

Being myself a full-time open source developer, I have seen several cases in which businesses are built around free software, either because multi-billion companies hire third party teams to build software for them under the conditions (imposed by the hired team) of open sourcing what is built, or by developing free software while offering high-end paid support for it, or even by wrapping the open source software in commercial enterprise-level, services-oriented applications.

So no, I do not think that it is reasonable to paint open sourcing is an equivalent to being stolen by big tech companies. It is just a particular way of doing things, originally based on certain principles and which sometimes succeeds as a business strategy and some other times does not, just like any other business strategy out there!

Having said that, I wish the best of luck to Marak and I hope they figure out the way to remake their life after what happened and continue to push on their awesome work on open source software while managing to make a living out it!
The obvious downside is that anyone who cares about privacy will write their own client, governments will regulate against unofficial clients, platforms will comply with the regulation and lock everything down, and the end result will be users unable to exercise any control over what's installed on their devices.
Do you have too many spreadsheets?
Indeed.

Cal Newport is a classic example of modern "authors" who take 20 of their most popular blogposts and combine them into a barely-coherent rambling mess and publish it. Then they appear on Joe Rogan, Rich Roll, Tim Ferriss and every other podcast they can manage, and talk at length about 'paradigm-shifts' and other nonsense. On their website, they beg you to subscribe to their newsletter. They might start their _own_ shitty podcast. Through it all, very little in the way of insight is provided, and the little that exists is padded to within an inch of its life in the name of weekly 'content'.

Ryan Holiday, Seth Godin, Mark Manson, Tim Ferriss himself are other perpetrators of this stuff and I fucking hate all of it. The internet is shittier because of this trend, and has caused me to largely forego reading things on it.

To the OP, if you want a good book on attention, Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows' is my recommendation. It is written with clarity and vision. He gets to the heart of the matter by focussing on two things: neuroplasticity and 'how the medium is the message'. His argument is presented logically, cogently and convincingly.
> little assurance that the government will not start abusing this power.

My hope is that if millions of people started seeing these messages next to their conversations with their lovers, the people would vote for a different government.

There's a big difference between knowing big brother is scanning for criminals, to seeing big brother has right now looked at my private message.
Actual MPs disagree with you about that:

https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/there-is-wides...

"I believe the overwhelming majority of my constituents would be shocked if they knew the extent of corrupt election practices and voter fraud which happen each time there is an election. I want open and lawful elections, upholding the principle that every entitled voter should have one vote, and cast it freely."

The system is wide open to abuse. The article goes into a large variety of schemes. There's a risk that in future the UK may face a similar outcome as the USA. The only way to really fix this is to reign in postal voting significantly to only those who strictly need it - and I say that as someone who votes by post (because I live abroad).
"We the People of the United States, ..."

The United States is not a union of separate republics. The method of electing the president is supposed to reflect the sovereignty of the people, with most of the electoral votes being apportioned according to population. The Great Compromise did give the small states disproportionate representation (an extra two electors, independent of population), but most electors are still tied to population.

The Electoral College is an anachronism. The US is far more unified now than it was in the 1780s. People move between states, and believe much more strongly in democracy than they did 240 years ago (e.g., state legislatures appointing Senators would be unthinkable now, as would denying the vote to any adult citizen). If anything, arbitrary state boundaries should play no role in how much of an impact a person's vote has.
Maybe should downgrade the android version.

https://5droid.com/fl-studio-mobile/
It’s an employee typing “npm install faker.js”, and genuinely never thinking about it.

That's the problem.
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> Why isn't this middle ground being discussed?

Why should it? What problem does it solve? Certainly not the problem of terror in Vienna.
Looking at trends, which is easy to do on real clear politics, you could have seen the Senate was going to be extremely close, and the presidency, while not the blowout everyone expected thanks to 538, would still favor Biden. Here's one forecast that was arguably closer than 538: https://www.270towin.com/

The polls did tighten at the end, but you can't just look at a snapshot (even near the end) to account for the trend. In all of these states the polls narrowed in some, but the final results were within MoE:

FL: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/fl/f...

PA: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/pa/p...

NV: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nv/n...

AZ: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/az/a...

GA: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ga/g...

NC: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nc/n...

In Iowa the Des Moines Register poll had Trump at +7, which is within MoE, the rest were garbage:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/i...

In Ohio, none of polls were within MoE, so all of the polls there were garbage:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/oh/o...

For the Senate I think North Carolina was wrong everywhere I looked, but 75/25 for Democratic control at 538 was the most wrong I think:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-2020-senate-forec...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/2020_el...
https://www.270towin.com/2020-senate-election/consensus-2020...

You can go state by state[1] to see which polls were more/less accurate within MoE compared to the final result and the trends in each state. 538 had a better chance of Biden winning by 400+! EVs [2], than the 306 he's likely to win with. It's this distribution that could have been better at accounting for severe polling errors in some states.

538 did do CYA posts[3], but here while bringing forward the error from 2016 in Ohio seems right, it still projects a win of 335+ EVs. Optimistic for Biden is the kind way of saying what the final 538 projection were, severely more wrong than individual polls is more accurate. If their distribution in [2] was better, I would be more willing to give them a pass.

[1] click on the state: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020...

[2] "Every outcome in our simulations" https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

[3] "What if polls are as wrong as 2016? Biden still wins" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-can-still-win-but... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/im-here-to-remind-you-t...
> Nobody was alarmed at Chinese corps holding so much data.

People did get alarmed after the Galwan valley incident. Banning Chinese apps might be a "shitty" thing but I would rather not have CCP easy access to the personal data of millions of Indians when the possibility of a war is very real.
They are either stupid or they don't care about terrorism. It's very easy to develop simple encryption scheme. It could be implemented by any half-competent developer. And I'm sure that global terrorists have enough money and people to make it happen. So terrorists won't care about this law. They'll switch from Telegram to Terrorgram and that's about it. But global spying over citizens will be achieved. I'm sure that politicians are just envy over China and want to replicate their measures. Many countries already replicate Great Firewall to some extent. Now they want to implement a global surveillance to strengthen their powers and prevent any kind of riots. That's terrorists they care about.
Can't tell if you are serious. What is the point of spying then?
well, that's why I only eat meat :)
Writing clauses in a license is one thing, I suspect enforcing them through ultra complex international corporate structures is quite another.

Edit: Sadly, I think these kinds of battles are rather one sided.
> The UI actively discourages reporters from filling in the description field But promotes a million other fields

that screen should be customisable
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I agree with the sentiment, but the responsibility is as much as (if not more) from consumers as from companies.

If consumers only look at sticker price of every product and ignore all externalities, then companies will work to give them that. It is up for consumers to refuse software that takes their freedoms, locks them up in golden cages, makes their lives super convenient at the expense of underpaid/exploited labor, etc.
I already realized that during the first .com wave, it is naive to think otherwise, rainbows and happy songs can only last so long.

It is easy to be idealistic when the source of income is not selling software.
Wow, a self-burn. Those are rare.
The problem is that if you don't count iphones and tablets then computer usage is going down. So progress is now going backwards, fewer and fewer kids have access to a real computer. All that is left is to launch a similarly locked down laptop to eliminate almost all computer usage for the coming generations. Google already started it with Chromebook (which is super popular in schools, guess why...) but I bet apple (and microsoft?) will do something similar pretty soon.
> This is madness

It is by definition. Their ambitions haven't changed the last 30 years.
They wouldn't, it's just deliberate confusion. If an arm of the government knows someone is there illegally they're meant to report them for deportation or other handling, not offer them infrastructure and rights, but in the USA the problem of illegal immigration has reached such scales that a large part of the left basically advocates for giving up on border enforcement of any kind. They don't really campaign directly to abolish borders because it would raise obvious and difficult questions, instead they campaign against enforcement: arguing for a world in which immigration rules exist but anyone who follows them is effectively playing a mug's game.
Farbfeld lossless image format: easy to parse, pipe, compress
What's the point you're making? There's a lot of proprietary software that's

- high usage
- high protection
- high profit

What's the argument that OSS software (which you could use for free indefinitely until you gain profitability) is somehow not capable of the same?
Sorry, can you define each word you've used in your post?
It would give special interest groups a lot of power. A lot of people are against subsidies in general but for most of them it is not a core issue. Now suppose there were three issues you had to vote for; subsidies to group A, subsidies to group B, and subsidies to group C. Most people won't care and won't show up for these votes (no one except for politicians have time to vote on hundreds of issues every year). However, a large number of people in group A will vote for subsidies for them, as will people in group B and C.
When I was a kid (35+ years ago) we used to buy tomatoes from a greenhouse locally. They had some boxes on the back with second sorting greens and a box for money. We grabbed 3-4 bags full of tomatoes, left the money and by the time we were home there was only two bags left. They were so good, I haven't seen anything remotely similar to that in the store. I wish I knew the name of those tomatoes, I would love to grow them myself.

Similar with strawberries, I was asking what sort they had but don't remember any more. He told us he selects them for taste, not optimizing for scale. But the plants are slightly harder to take care of and sometimes the harvest fails. But the taste is worth all the hazzle.
Someone must have gotten the a hold of the credentials of the device, where I put my brain dumps and made it into a blog post.

I wish more people did approach web development in this kind of minimalist most accessible and responsive way, that does not require me to trust all their scripts and simply lets me access a hypertext document to get the information I seek.