skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Americans aren’t capable of dealing with a problem where their actions impact others more than themselves.

Lol, what a crock of shit. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-is-the-most-generou...

The issue is not individualism, it’s that a significant portion of the country literally thinks COVID is overblown and that we are shutting down for “a bad flu”. I’m extremely individualist but I take covid seriously and don’t spread it to others.

Individualist != selfish.
It’s not reckless. It’s criminal. And all the people that are spreading this misinformation are complicit of sedition.
I'm also noticing a massive performance drop (in comparison to Windows) on my RTX3080. Which is amplified even more by lack of DLSS option.
A water contract is worth about $5,000, a Bitcoin contract is worth about $88,000 and an S&P 500 contract is worth about $183,000.
> they didn't do it as some nefarious cost cutting measure. They did it because American and Southwest said they wanted nothing to do with a "797" and threatened to switch to Airbus.

so a nefarious moneygrabbing measure?
Same. But for me there has been one particular recurring kind of breakage. Python version upgrades (most recently 3.8 -> 3.9) invalidate all manually installed packages and virtualenvs. Mitigated by using Arch packages for Python packages instead...
I agree 45% with your take.

However, in defense of US citizens, the truth was always IMO this one: «You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else -- Winston Churchill»
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Glad you asked. It's actually quite easily defined when it comes to what amount of water a human is entitled to:

https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/human-rights/

The provider is still a debate, between letting private entities do it (which, as anyone that has seen private entities deal with such important things, know is a terrible idea), or the state. As to who is violating their rights, it depends. Are you in a fully remote place where it is almost physically impossible to get you water ? Undefined. Otherwise, the provider is expected to perform what is expected of them and bring you water, by any means necessary.
What needs to be emphasized, because most people misunderstand it (evidence: all the comments around here): The problematic thing is _false_ balance, that is, making a show of representing both sides while actually doing a crappy job for one side. _Real_ balance is something to strive for. False balance might be equally bad or worse than just representing one side. But a properly balanced article is far preferrable to both. And the right approach to fixing false balance is not to remove one viewpoint, but to add arguments, evidence and (if nothing else is available) trustworthy opinions.

Also, balance doesn't mean that a reader will go away with a feeling of "this issue is 50-50, might as well throw a coin to decide". Balance in this case should mean that the writer has put a similar amount of effort into understanding and representing both sides. And if the writer happens to lean towards one side and naturally know more about it, that means making up for that inherent bias.
IMO the sign of a true artist. She/He lives for her/his art, but does not expect from it to provide for her/him.
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It's sad how people just don't believe that markets are good at all.
I don't see this as being a solvable problem.

Having a psychographic model is dangerous to social structures, it just makes it far too easy to manipulate those who are easy to manipulate (which, given any topic, is the vast majority of people).

There are no effective defenses against this that I can see.

The trouble is the disconnect between Facebook's apparent business model and what it actually is, although I'll admit this might be conflating who is the real bad guy here.

The business of advertising is behavior manipulation, pure and simple. Nothing about that strikes me as "safe"
Even more disturbing is that people outright refuse to take a look at numbers to check what measures actually did.

Just mentioning datasources and asking people to look can attract a lot of downvotes. People just suppose the data might point into a direction they don't accept - nobody looks at the data.
I disagree. Steam officially supported only Ubuntu for the longest time. I'm not sure if they still do that, but this is a possibility.
Yes, but FB are hated by both left and right (for entirely different reasons), so this is likely to actually go ahead.

The notion that FB increase ad prices by increasing the supply of ads is completely insane though, and I hope that's a misunderstanding by the parent poster.

FB/IG have an auction-based ads system, which means that you pay what other advertisers think the user is worth, rather than what you think the user is worth. In such a system, prices increasing (along with supply) is a symptom of massive, massive demand rather than a nefarious plot on FB's part.

Don't get me wrong, FB have done a bunch of shady stuff over the years, but this lawsuit seems pretty wrongheaded to me.
Who are you referring to when you say "deny access to water"? Because if you are talking individuals, congratulations, you are actively calling for the death of individuals.

Water may be scarce, but the amount available still is much more than enough for living beings.
> With HiFi it is like with Internet. Nothing beats a good, solid cable.

Nothing stopping you from connecting the raspberry with a cable though.
Great idea. No chance my school in Australia will do this so will be upto me. That Bloomberg China supply chain compromise article. Never forget
Thats not at all correct. In the mid to long term money will move to the person allocating it most efficiently. This of course assuming a non corrupt government. And thats where I see the actual positive feedback loop: People like you want the government to have more power, with more power there is more room for corruption/lobbyism, people demand even more government power
Is this so very exclusive to the US? Trump takes the biggest spotlight, but there's plenty of trouble in South America, is there not? Europe has generally been a bit luckier, but not by a whole lot, and certainly not Italy, and they're also getting quite nervous again now. But yeah, it seems some Asian countries have done a substantially better job. Yey for South Korea.

I'm not saying the US doesn't have the worst numbers, but just that there's still a lot of mismanagement and denial in the rest of the world too.
What you say is true for most of Ireland, but there are small parts of the country where Irish is a first language – the Gaeltacht. For example, Gweedore (in Donegal) where over 70% of the population have Irish as a first language and all its local schools use Irish as the language of instruction.
The EOL yes, but not that they will do an update to lock any existing player.
I can confirm that I do care about native res as a mac user and heavy gamer (but I mostly end up gaming on windows for obvious reasons).

Scaling has never failed to look utterly terrible for me. Scaling from eg 1920x1080 -> 2880x1800 looks utterly awful, even on a 15" display. It's not so bad on 3D rendered titles for the 3D content, but for 2D elements such as the GUI it's awful.
I think what's outrageous is that the deaths per capita from COVID in that one day in US is comparable to total COVID deaths per capita in some countries.

US COVID deaths per capita ~~ytd~~ yesterday: 0.0009%

SK COVID deaths per capita: 0.001%

NZ COVID deaths per capita: 0.0005%

SG COVID deaths per capita: 0.0005%

TW COVID deaths per capita: 0.00002%
You are kindly ignoring speculation. What you presented is an efficient market hypothesis, however markets are not efficient. They invite speculation bubbles and they do crash.
Why would it accelerate problems? More likely people will have an incentive to make water sustainable.
I'm sorry. But you appear to be ignorant of the legal processes in the United States.

I suggest you educate yourself, as you keep saying things that don't comport with reality.
I don't know how long my NDA period of confidentiality with Adobe is and I'm too lazy to look up my contract; so I won't give the full details but let me just say that this perception ("Thoughts on Flash killed Flash") is, according to my recollection of events & internal information, completely unsubstantiated.

What killed Flash is much more dull and prosaic: it cost a lot to develop & maintain, and wasn't making as much money as Adobe would've liked.
Void runs equally well with glibc (e.g. on my desktop).

I wonder if switching between musl and glibc makes it change the uname output between Linux and GNU/Linux :)
1 said it is ok to use the new light bulb but 350 said no because it is under gpl 3.0

1 said the whole thing using electricity is no good to earth and start to use solar based light system instead, and his web site on how to do got 10,000 comments in HN for commenting not the light bulb, but his using python static site.
Yep, I'd also love a third person mode for this game. Not even for motion sickness, it just feels wasteful to put so much effort into character creation and then basically never see your character during gameplay.
That's a radical proposal. Instead the countries mass buying these vaccines should have a condition of annulling the patents upon purchase. The EU buys 300 million doses, they pay 300 million x unit plus a 1 time cost for the patents. As a result all the patents developed as part of the development of this vaccine are voided.

Company becomes richer than it already is, humanity gets richer with this new, public knowledge.
1 to post how the user has only themselves to blame because they didn't build the lightbulb from the instructions released today.

The same user to repeat the above every day OP responds until OP gives up.
Why does it bother you so much if somebody believes in flat earth? And why do you want to prevent them to discuss their silly theories? Are you so insecure in your own knowledge? A bunch of people believing in flat earth does not diminish our science in any way.
> Most professions would benefit from at least one a day month where you did nothing but think

Bill Gates used to do this. Called it a "think week" - "...I would literally take boxes out to a beach place and sit there for a week reading them day and night and scribbling on them to putting it entirely online"
source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/bill-gates-took-solo-think-w...
It drives engagement which likely leads to overall more add views and clicks? "Doom scrolling" and such is something that keeps people on the site for longer which is probably one of their most important metrics
No?

> BioNTech to Receive up to €375M in Funding from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to Support COVID-19 Vaccine Program BNT162

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/12930907-biontech...

> US government and Pfizer reach $1.95 billion deal to produce millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/health/pfizer-covid-19-va...
French army gets go-ahead to create ‘bionic soldiers’ to make them stronge
> Dude. People don't steal food if they're not hungry.

I take it you have never worked in the food service industry.
Maybe you just were unlucky with your teachers. I got very good grades multiple times despite disagreeing with my teacher.
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I don't really mind water futures, as long as the nation I'm in makes it easy and affordable to access clean drinking water.
If the nation becomes to much of a dystopia I will just use my most powerful vote "my feet" and take my labor to some other nation.
People throughout history have done this for millennia. Just make sure you have a exit plan and easily transferable wealth storages.
Biontech's research definitely was funded with public money, over 300€ million, in fact: https://investors.biontech.de/de/news-releases/news-release-...
Still waiting for moving salt shakers to fight the French Cybermen army, to be honest.
Another nitpick is that the sliders are all unlabelled and rely only on their colours matching the text. I found myself having to go back and forth between the text and the sliders, and I imagine it must be worse for colour blind people.
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> the house of cards that is underfunded ultra-generous defined benefit state/municipal pensions tumbles like a house of cards.

Who benefits from these exactly?

Tax revenue is up ten fold from where it was at in 2008 and yet the quality of life for most of my connections not working in tech in the bay area is much worse. Everything is more expensive, taxes are much higher, traffic is 10x as bad, homelessness is more severe... Who's this "house of cards" supporting?

The minimum wage is up, that's the only thing, but it doesn't matter. Since a couple making minimum wage could actually have an apartment in 2008, which is not the case now.
I can guarantee if there are any government funding instruments in place in the respective countries of operation, one way or another it will be gouged by the big corps.

Example from my home country: the government heavily subsidized the biggest telco’s new cyber security center a couple years back, because it was an ”technological innovation” that would ”bring jobs”. The services provided through this are of course private (as are gains.)

The talent and resources of big corp will usually outwit government policy.
But what is the advantage then? Serious question?
I think this highlights an oft-missed point. There is no such thing as a free market without government intervention. Left to their own devices, traders will always try to game the market to their own advantage.
> trading with water is... dangerous...

Do you pay a water bill where you live? If so isn't that already "trading with water"?
Yeah, there's a lot of charity in the US. Which is then often used as an argument for low taxes, so it may be a net loss. But people here do get to tout their individual donations a lot.
2 to summon a daemon in the dark.

4 to resign from their positions as leaders of the mailing list, blaming the daemon for their stress.

Half the community to insist that daemons are against their philosophy.

The other half to argue that it's an improvement on the old days when they had to bash rocks together to start a fire to have light.

One to accidentally try connecting the new lightbulb to a pipe, before realising it doesn't accept stdin.

A vocal 10% of the community to insist that dark mode is better.

A system tester to insist that the room is still light during working hours. Credit where due: https://devhumor.com/media/it-jobs-explained-with-a-broken-l...

(There's more where this is coming from. If you want to help me write a book for ages 5-7 entitled "ed and the awk", I have a first draft and would enjoy sharing it).
So, step one: Be an island.
> But at least this much is not true

Yes it is. Just because a phrase was used once or twice in some obscure post in the past, doesn't mean that someone can't come up with it independantly.

> a common term back then as well, but I can't find a reference for that now.

Because it wasn't a common term at all. If it was, you'd be able to find thousands of examples of usage, from all over the early web and (especially) Usenet. How many examples do you actually have. Two or three?
> especially if we ever get to a point where some people can 'afford' water while others can't.

We are almost there. In Bangalore, India due to hockey-stick like expansion of houses, mainly high rise gated communities, the municipality is just not able to supply tap water. They all rely on daily supply of water tankers. However, even that water isn't potable. So house holds buy bottled water or have RO machines. Bear in mind, this is the situation for middle/upper-middle-income group. Lower income groups just drink any water they can, waterborne disease is rampant.

This[1] talk from P Sainath about the water crisis in India is revealing.

I would the situation would be similar in other emerging countries. I remember that a few months ago Cape Town, SA ran out of water[2]. Water was strictly rationed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-l2LvA2dSI

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/cape-town-was-90-days...
So, tell me, you would be perfectly fine with someone putting videos on YouTube asserting that you are a pedophile and adding also your home address just for completeness’ sake?
It’s the same freedom of speech that caused a commando of terrorists to plot to kidnap and execute Michigan Governor.
Here in Belgium tipping is not really conventional, except in higher echelons of society. Some people do give tips sometimes. Usually its preagreed to pool all the tips into one pot for the shift and then divided amongst the employees. (a girl from the middle east working in the kitchen of a bar here in Belgium told me thats how they do it)
Are they patented yet? Or at least could china patent in its system like those trademark in basket thing. (Seems the approach of chinese and western is a bit different. Hence if they patent not along their approach we know.)

As said good luck to humanity.
I built a trinocular microscope mount for my DSLR camera out of a couple of small magnifying lenses. When I was trying to get it to work and improve the quality, I did a bunch of reading on optics. Building your own camera lens that works is pretty easy, but making it capture nice pictures is hard.

Having this article back then would have been a big help! The interactive widgets are great, and it looks like they're entirely home-grown. I am really impressed with the level of detail and work that went into this post.
Yea, Ruffle seems like the best option for making all the wonderful content built with Flash available.

https://developers.ibexa.co/blog/embed-flash-swf-content-wit...
Without reading the context and just looking at that quote... yeah, probably! If he's really never taken the trash out once in his life and they're married, then either they have an arrangement where she's the one taking out the trash, or they'd be totally covered in trash.

... getting in before the "maybe they've only been married a couple of days and this is the first load of trash" - then how does she know he's never taken the trash out in his life?

I call shenanigans.
I'm not sure what you're saying - is it that "banning water futures" will likely accelerate it, or that "water futures" will accelerate it?
GNU Hurd will be ready any day now
To put some numbers to this:

>The water footprint of California almonds averaged 10,240 liters per kilogram kernels (or, 12 liters per almond kernel)

[0]

The average human needs about 2.7-3.7 liters of water a day or roughly 1,000-1,350 liters per year.[1]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X1...

[1] https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2004/02/report-sets-d...
Yea I recon that matters a lot. But here, even the Lib run states generally had a decent response, with a bit of a 'fuck-off' to Morrison when he started his predictable bullshit. And as a rule, Australian's sense of civic duty carried the day, not so with Americans - as far as I can tell through the media lens anyway.
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> to Support COVID-19 Vaccine Program BNT162

Emphasis on support

That doesn't mean the sum is equivalent to the full R&D cost or that the company actually agreed to give the IP developed.

Most likely they could have developed even without public funding but not on the expedited timeline.
As I recall, Vietnam completely missed a hospital outbreak in a major tourist destination (having restarted internal tourism some time earlier) until someone who'd visited a patient at the hospital with no other plausible source of infection happened to get tested and came back positive. And then covered up that, their first detected case in a good while, for about a week whilst they searched for ways to blame it on foreigners and failed. Western countries tend to have pretty heavy testing in and around hospitals because they know how bad Covid getting in could be.
Taking the bet in isolation, it would only make economic sense to make any bet at even odds if the probability of the event occurring is > 50%. If Martin Rees was honestly asserting that the probability of a "bioterror / bioerror" event in that 4-year window was >50%, I think he was clearly wrong, and falling victim to the "availability bias" that Pinker describes.

Now, this may be a situation where the sides think they're talking about different things: Pinker may be arguing that the probability is <50%, while Rees may be arguing that the probability, while low, is non-negligible. In which case, in my opinion, they'd both be right: But Rees' bet (again in isolation as a bet) isn't rational (since the expected payoff is negative), while Pinker's is.
It shouldn’t take 4 years to learn those skills though. Just the fundamentals of identifying what the biases of the authors and institutions are is something that should be taught for a year in high school.

It’s not complex and doesn’t require 4 years of classes, but it does require practice and it’s better to start early before you develop a bunch of political views and ideological blind spots.
Isn't it possible to play under linux directly using chrome or chromium?
I find this action very alarming and ominous.
BE-4 is methalox. BE-3 and BE-7 are hydrolox.
I'm using exa, rg, fish and clang though ;)
This is why I come right to the comments. Thank you.
I am talking about individuals.

Denying access to water is what ensures that a person who needs it can keep it.
My team used typesense for a recent project. 16 million records combined with https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/what-i.... Really fast and worth the investment. It doesn't have all the enterprise features of ES or Solr but for basic search features it's great.
The whole point of my discussion doesn't have anything to do in which field the languages are popular.

Zope and AOL Server teached me that those dynamic languages are really only good for OS scripting tasks anyway, but that isn't the subject of this thread.
> It's not clear yet if it will be used in official documents after Brexit agreements will be signed, but UK was the only country who chose English as an official language.

The official languages of the EU are set by Council Regulation No 1, which declares English to be an official language. Brexit did not change that regulation in any way; it would take a unanimous vote of the Council of the European Union to amend it, and it is very unlikely that Ireland would vote to remove as an official language the first language of the vast majority of its citizens.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/1958/1(1)/2013-07-01
It's changing the focal length of the lens (roughly the distance between focus points of the lens). If you rotate the scene, you see the lens is blue. Further in the article, they mention the focal length, using the same coloring.
The problem is with the response. The way I see it, it’s a moral spectrum. You can trade the diseased blankets, be nonchalant about a spreading disease, or spend some effort reducing infection. The US is taking the middle path and its resulting in 100’s of thousands more deaths than the third path would (as observed from a country that took the third path and has nearly zero infections now, and comparable economic consequences to the US).

No it’s not the murder of Al Qaeda but I feel that it’s negligence (of leadership) that leads to death.
50 users saying the lightbulb at their house is working, so it must be a configuration error. Suggest looking at the output of lgtconfig -v to debug.
It isn't. The mainstream American media has been actively misleading the public there about how the rest of the world (including Europe) is doing and how it compares to the US for openly partisan political reasons, especially for example the New York Times.
> The Free Software Foundation claims no copyright on this joke.

Perfect! That strikes me as the real punchline ;-P