skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Constitution doesn't say anything about "separation of church and state." The Establishment Clause says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

This is one of those funny areas where liberals get originalist and turn to the writings of Thomas Jefferson. The "separation of church and state" view derives from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802. Of course, TJ wasn't even in the United States at the time the Constitution was written, and he was a bit of a kook even in his day. The thing you have to remember is that "establishment" had a specific meaning back then--several states had "established" churches: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/801/established.... Given that, the most sensible reading is that the Establishment Clause prohibits Congress from regulating those established churches: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl....

The "separation of church and state" view is odd because several states had official established churches until long after the Constitution was adopted: "New Hampshire kept its establishment until 1817; Connecticut kept its establishment until 1818; and Massachusetts did not abandon its state support for Congregationalism until 1833."

You're incorrect to characterize Engel v. Vitale as saying schools "cannot force children to participate in a prayer." That would be a straightforward violation of the first amendment Free Exercise Clause. The New York law in that case was voluntary--it encouraged but did not require students to participate in prayer. The case banned prayer in schools with any sort of official sanction.

Engel is odd even leaving aside the original meaning of the Establishment Clause. Public support for religion is the norm, and sometimes even a constitutional right, throughout Europe. Several European countries, such as the Germany, Italy, and Spain, guarantee that parents can access religious education in public schools. The U.K. goes further and mandates daily school prayer "of a broadly Christian character." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_worship_in_schools. (Funnily enough, Spain has a constitutional provision that says "no religion shall have a state character." Nobody reads that to preclude teaching religion in public schools.)
Plus, biggest problem with feedback: users don't know what they want.
To add with common law systems, we also can completely ignore the law. The state can as well just because there are so many laws. So stupid laws like "you can't chain a donkey to a tree with a wheelbarrow" are often ignore because the culture has just changed significantly.
It solves the problem of having to use multiple languages across front/back-end by using Javascript/JSON for everything. It may seem as ridiculous as using Javascript to write back-end server-side and desktop software, yet along came Node and industry hype and here we are today doing exactly that.
People also can and do read the same description of events and come to wildly different conclusions.
You have affordable healthcare if your making tech money in the USA too, and sadly, if things really go bad you can always move back.

Also by making more money, you can retire early and then work on whatever hobby project you'd like. I know in europe with generous social programs you kind of can do that already to a certain extent, but with money you can actually do that for a long time.
This is the video he posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wibk3QsT7-M
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mind+map+book+s...

I would also suggest mind maps channels on youtube. I was attempting to read more, but the condensed versions firstly allow me to understand if I want to read the book, secondly prep my brain with a basic understanding of the book ( I am a horrible reader with little retention ). Thirdly, it gives me a lot of the core concepts of the books.

It also free up my time which also allows me to spend time on things I actually need to read rather than just reading the current hype.
Were all the engine outages planned?
Of course they were not confident. Do you recall all the actions taken by Republicans to try to suppress votes? A lot of work had to be done by Democrats and some Republicans to make sure there was no vote suppression.

Lindsey Graham said out loud and clear on Fox News that Republicans must do something about votes by mail otherwise they will never be able to elect another Republican. He doesn’t seem to believe they can win without suppressing votes.
>Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live.

It's odd because I grew up in a major metro, and going to college I found people in college to be very strict and severe about enforcing their morals on people. You had to use specific language, be nice and more forgiving and understanding to the right groups of people, and you were not supposed to disagree on specific subjects of discussion or you'd be a pariah.

The idea that this is "live and let live" is silly. It seems that way to you because your morals align very closely with the morals of people in a college setting. If they didn't, you'd notice the similarities to an orthodox religious community immediately.
There were a lot more concerns than just that. I refer you to:

https://lwn.net/Articles/200422/
I suppose the question then becomes "should the things that FB did with WhatsApp and Instagram since acquiring them be considered a crime"?

I could see eyebrows being raised around interop work, but I'm not sure about the rest.
> ... we're hiring software engineers over here ...

...provided they are US citizens.
Weather Service runs out of Internet bandwidth, proposes limiting key data
I laughed loudly at that ending. The explosion seems so comical.

The test was great, it proved the concepts in principle do work in practice, and proved that the design fundamentally works. Launch, high altitude, belly flop and flip and burn landing. I'm excited to see the coming tests, design improvements, and to watch the thing land without blowing up.
Yes. The whole office broke what they were doing and watched that launch and landing together, on one of our big displays. A cheer went up when they landed, side by side--a moment I'll remember for the rest of my life. Goosebumps then, and goosebumps now. Felt like the most significant thing for manned space since maybe Apollo (well, definitely since early days of the Shuttle!)
I can't help but step back and look at the trade wars between the US and China. China is gaining ground fast. US on the otherhand is turning to infighting by suing FB, Google and Amazon.

Countries win through innovation. It's hard to innovate with such distractions. China must be happy cheering on its tech companies while the US is on the sidelines. Go figure...
I'm a library fanatic, so I usually end up browsing at the local library until I find one or two books that look interesting. My local library actually has an "Undiscovered Gems" section that has lead me to some interesting reads from authors I'm not familiar with. I also keep a running list of interesting titles on my library account, putting holds on them as I finish books.

I'm like you, I usually bounce around between fiction and non-fiction to keep my reading balanced. For me, half the fun of reading is simply exploring and discovering new books/authors/series!
Keep pushing for Electron apps and then don't cry wolf.
You are making assumptions about what I am arguing. You're shifting the debate in a completely repulsive manner.

Here is the video you asked for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wibk3QsT7-M
My public U.S. high school history classes all included conflicting accounts from contemporary sources. Additionally we were several times asked to write position papers from an arbitrarily assigned side, regardless of our own opinions or those of the teacher, using those contemporary sources as a model for the arguments.

I would assume that that level of discourse in a history class is not the most common, but the opposing viewpoints were expressed directly in the textbooks as a standard appendix to each chapter, which were adopted district wide and probably statewide in Texas. This was not a special curriculum that our teachers designed, although they probably expanded on the concept more than most, given that it was a magnet high school.
Yes, Elon Musk explained what happened.

The pressure of the fuel was too low during landing, which had 2 effects:

1. the exhaust gases contained mostly oxygen, which burned the copper linings, giving a green flame

2. the decceleration was insufficient, causing the impact with the ground which resulted in an explosion
Use a VPN then.
> There is no pandemic exception to basic civil rights.

This actually highlights a fundamental question which is at the heart of most disagreements on this issue. As a non-US-ian, looking at the US Constitution there does not seem to be an equivalent of Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." In the UDoHR the right to life and the right to liberty are equated, so how do we manage situations where we have to trade off one or the other (as is the case here)? I recall the old saying, "your right to swing your fists, ends where my nose begins".

Therefore a blanket statement that there is no pandemic exception to civil rights, specifically, the right to free assembly and freedom of movement, elevates those rights above a right to "life" (which presumably provides a limit on others' behaviours that risk life).

Personally, I can't see that being viable, based on the "common sense" aphorism mentioned earlier. Therefore, there must be some balance. Clearly, achieving that balance is a politically quixotic exercise in the sense that you'll be pissing off one group or another. Consensus is probably key here. Good luck achieving that in the US.

EDITED: grammar. Seriously, I should learn to re-read before hitting submit.
We currently do dynamically link to glibc. But we could in theory support musl, which would remove our dependance on the glibc dynamic link.
Half of Americans own stocks at all, and the rich don't have all their money in hedge funds.
Perhaps, but that doesn't mean it would be better.

Look at how many over-engineered platforms/frameworks Microsoft made, and it just ended up being over-complicated or reached a point where it was no longer worth continuing.
Isn't there an app that lets you take/provide a photo of somebody's face and get their VK profile?
No. We keep things as simple as possible.
Had to stop reading, could the author be any more pretentious? The obvious flaw in the reasoning is step 3, having more capital results in you making worse decisions. Uhm, no, having more capital can also give you more options, allowing you to make potentially better decisions sooner.
As someone very familiar with the original tgif, I still can't see the leap from having leadership acknowledge the majority of their employees feeling apprehensive about the election results, and being worried about the potential for their products to be used for what amounts to psy ops, to talking about google somehow manipulating elections.
I've experienced cheap delivered food done well when in Bejing, and it's definitely a real thing. However if you tag a $10+ service/delivery/tip onto the bill, it kind of negates the "cheap" part of the experience.
This is such a healthy perspective in a world where it has become fashionable to hate on wealth creation.
Russian space program is in a pretty low state these days. It will take significant changes in Russia to come back to space exploration comparable to peers.
Currently it's 30-45Mb depending on the OS. We're working on providing a "lite" version of the runtime, that doesn't include tools like formatter or linter. Preliminary works show that we should be able to trim executables down to about 20Mb.
The land is very expensive, shouldn't that be good enough of a reason to build high rises? It works in NYC and most of Europe, the only reason there are few high rises in SF is because of the government that prefers artificial scarcity.
I believe some were. The plan was to switch over to two engines on ascent, and use two engines during the rapid deceleration. The full shut down was intentional. It looks like they might have briefly went to one engine during ascent but it wasn't entirely clear. The flame out of the first shut off was probably not intentional as well. It's really hard to tell.

None of that information was official though so take it with a grain of salt, it's all come from personal knowledge and analysis by some people watching.
i haven't followed all of the lawsuits but my understanding is that most of the dismissals were over issues of standing and happened far before any evidence could be presented one way or the other.
imo it's possible to acknowledge that most of these lawsuits were hastily and thus poorly constructed mostly based on the strategic constraint of trying to turn intrastate procedural minutae into a federal issue while still remaining agnostic towards the question of fraud.
Ah yeah, lots of confusion re: TEB in other comments. Seems like a lot of people have the Raptor and Merlin mixed up so at least in this context probably have to be explicit.
How does the claim that thins are very similar to 2016 work together with the claim that the 2020 was the most secure election in history?

An election is either more secure, less secure or equally secure. It can't be all three at the same time.

Personally I suspect this elect was very similar to 2016, and unless it too was the most secure election in history then we got a small problem.
Arguably by breaking up big tech companies, there will be more space for innovation, especially for startups.
> I find it mind boggling that people can still believe so deeply that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet.

I find it mind boggling that people still can't believe infinite growth is possible when all it takes is combinatorial explosion from the outputs becoming inputs in new products (CPU -> computers -> AWS -> SAAS -> some app, etc)

> We'll be having trouble producing enough food to feed people.

The 1970s called and they want the Club of Rome limit to growth/Malthusianism back
Don’t put words in my mouth. I’m not saying this one instance proves the whole election is fraud.

I am saying the that this (actually pretty significant) correction to the results being ignored proves that the media has no interest in being honest.
These seem to be the most up to date numbers.
"Rejected absentee/mail-in ballots as a percentage of total absentee/mail-in ballots returned, 2016-2020"

Georgia 2016 6.42%

Georgia 2020 .60%

Source
https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_...

Which cites the official Georgia election website as source of the raw data.
I genuinely think someone from the 2.x days could read a "how to migrate to Rails 3" guide, skim some release notes for each of the subsequent major releases, and be generally up to speed. I've been working with Rails almost continuously since the 3.x days, and if you ignore some of the more library-like additions like ActiveStorage or Credentials, things are structurally extremely similar between 3.2 and 6.0. The biggest differences to a casual reader would probably be Ruby syntax itself developing from Ruby 1.9 forwards to this point. Things were quite different in the 1.8.x days.

Models live in the same spot. Controllers live in the same spot. Your classes generally still inherit from the same stuff, albeit with some additions to the tree like for ApplicationRecord in places where you might previously have inherited directly from ActiveRecord::Base.

The stability is one of my favorite parts of Rails. Its still modern and very usable, but I don't need to relearn it all the time.
I'm not "avoiding" it -- it doesn't matter. What you're asking for is analogous to how to handle NTFS performance issues on a MacOS application.
Dealing with Date Serialization and Deserialization in JavaScript
Yeah, I mean I don't actually think it's fake. I just see why someone might think it was from the Official Live Stream™
Yep, I used the wrong term there. s/etching/lithography/
Complaining about the media failing to cover something moments after it happened, while simultaneously describing it inaccurately, is bullshit. States filing amicus briefs do not constitute a plea. And the suit in question is not about electoral fraud.

News stories about this development have appeared by the time of writing this comment. This twitter poster, and you, seem to have forgotten that it takes time to write a story.
Signal is incredibly easy to use and many people use it. It’s easy to limit sensitive things to a medium like that. It’s also easy to create profiles that are some degree of “anonymous” that you can use for semi-sensitive data.

You don’t have to resort to never using the Internet as you imply. The vast majority of things people do online are perfectly safe for you to do, even if you are a potential target of a government.
Yeah - it was a weird situation. My wife - who was pregnant- received a phone call that a close relative had died.

The guy had been a living off the grid. A nice guy who was into green living, etc. He was retired with a good pension and savings, so decided to build his “eco cabin” in the middle of nowhere and he self reliant via renewables.

Sadly, living in the middle of nowhere means a reduction in time to arrival for emergency medical support.

He had a stroke.

The details were a bit gruesome: walking for miles seeking help before freezing to death. Scavengers arrived quickly.

My wife got the phone call. The cousin she spoke with emphasized the gory details.

My wife responded loudly and with emotion.Screaming, wailing, crying, etc.

She wanted to go the impromptu funeral they were having. Apparently he’d wanted to be buried at his cabin. No service, just have his friends dig a hole and throw him in.

Perfectly legal in that state, as long as death was reported.

She’s need the car - which means I would have to walk to work. In the winter. With images of a man I knew dying from hypothermia fresh in my head.

I said no, unless she can find her own transportation.

Buses don’t go to the middle of nowhere.

We had a bit of a shouting match.

Anyway she said she’s going to the funeral and basically stormed out the door. She didn’t take the car.

Apparently neighbors overheard. They heard my wife’s blood curtling scream, and also heard about our plan to “bury a body in the middle of nowhere.”

My wife was pregnant, which substantially increases a woman’s risk of being murdered by the father.

And she was gone.

I wasn’t certain what state the uncle’s cabin was in, much less county or municipality.

I wasn’t certain how my wife planned getting there.

My wife had a smartphone but didn’t take it with her (not as odd back then).

There were other incriminating things- bloody clothes, lots of used menstrual pads (wife is pregnant - does he have a mistress?), there had been several shootings in my apartment building. Etc.

The police arrived in a very agitated state. They were certain I killed my wife. They asked questions I probably shouldn’t have answered:

“Where is your wife? Where’s the body?”

“I don’t know where she is, but the body’s in the middle of woods somewhere”.

“Your wife is in the middle of the woods?”

“Not yet, but she will be.”

You get the drift.

I was arrested and sent to the police station to be interrogated.

I spent a lot of time waiting around, and very little time being interrogated.

I got be treated like a murderer for the length of time it took my wife to borrow a car and drive 400 miles - when she checked in with family.

Not a fun 12 hours.

It’s worth pointing out we were broke and living in a high crime neighborhood. There had been three shootings in that apartment complex that year.
>Repeat a lie often enough and it become true

And "often enough" here is drastically less, or fewer, than people appreciate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger
The funny thing about this comment is everyone whose read this but hasn't dealt with this problem is super confused that it even exists.

Immediately after reading this, a colleague asked:

"How can a balance ever be not the sum of the transactions ?"

Which elides the fact that differing transactions have different states they can be in (and different levels of immutability). But once you get in the weeds dealing with this stuff is a real pain.
Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator
Node is almost perfectly matched to the "Oops, well, too late now" design ethos of JavaScript itself. Nobody was stupid. We humans just can't really predict what will work out and what won't in the future, and this was one of those frustrating cases like carving in stone, where every mistake you make is permanent.

But a combination of various factors made the web an enormously impactful medium. It's too important to take the approach of "well, let's just add some good stuff to the bad and live with it" where we don't have to. We have to in the browser, but we don't have to on the server. I want to see the "benefit of hindsight, rebuild it better" design of TypeScript matched with a server-side equivalent, which looks like Deno.

I hope Deno succeeds.
That man is a treasure.
>But I've been complaining for years about Gore, Kerry, Clinton, and Abrams laying about stolen elections, and nobody listened.

If you said complaints about 2000 being stolen lead to skepticism about the outcome in 2004, and are part of a set of ideas that may have inflamed democratic skepticism about 2016, I would probably disagree that there is anything super concerning about that, but at least understand the thread that connects those pieces.

As it happens, I think stolen is a perfectly fair characterization of the 2000 election, even in retrospect, and would confess that that experience lead me, for a time, to incorrectly believe 2004 may have been stolen as well, which I believed for a time but no longer do. And I can see how it launched an unfortunate trend of liberals believing future elections either were or would be stolen. Greg Palast, for instance, is a celebrated journalist in some circles despite incorrectly claiming that the 2006 election would "go down in infamy" as a stolen election, and saying the same thing again in 2008. Despite being a Democrat, I find Palast's record to be deeply inaccurate and I am disappointed in the lack of critical reflection on his record by people who cite him.

But those claims come from a completely different universe than the 2020 claims, and I don't think they had anything to do with explaining the sociological forces driving election skepticism in 2020. Instead, that breed of skepticism has come from Trump and a media ecosystem that established an entirely alternate reality, with fever pitched adversarial thinking.

The content, social forces and motivations are completely independent, in their sources, in their character and in their scale and should not be equated to each other.
Very nice! I will definitely be using.

Quick question, are the recipes sorted by anything?
Full release notes can be found at https://deno.land/posts/v1.6 :-)
Likewise, there goes my reporting pipeline.
SFO flight data dashboard – interesting part is the 10 year trend
This reminds me of the Einstein quote posted on here about reading too much.

I just read what interests me and inspires creative think about a historical era.