skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're certainly more educated on the history than I am. My main point is that the smaller states would have never agreed to a representative democracy which made their desires 100% irrelevant.

There's enough small states like that to get some leverage. WY is one example, but there's many more. And as we saw in the civil war, states and people were willing to go to war to defend their interests, whatever those interests were.

I simply can't imagine the feds trying to conquer Wyoming. There are no cities to burn. There would be a rifle behind every shrub-brush, and the casualties would be so massive, and so demoralizing, that they would be forced to allow those states to form their own federation. It would be a high-desert Vietnam situation.

edit: I'm actually so ignorant on the history that I didn't realize WY became a state in 1890. The Great Compromise was in 1787. So this matter was already long settled by the time they had a chance to become a state - this nation was clearly intended to be a federation of states with independent control.
Yes, Russian has no articles. Omitted (or incorrect) a/an/the is one of the more distinctive signs of someone whose first language is Russian.
I see others have replied to you, correctly; but, to throw in my two cents: multimember districts use some form of ranked choice or quadratic or sortition system. What you’re talking about are called “multimember at large” districts and are both illegal (falling awry of the VRA), in addition to being unconstitutional.
HN is so bland lately. It feels like most the posters are so morose. New posts are well attended, so at least there is loyalty there.
Paper's DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009212

Wayback URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20210122215919/https://journals....

Summary conclusion: "Finally, we show that combinations of hydroxychloroquine and a clinically tested TMPRSS2 inhibitor work together to effectively inhibit SARS-CoV-2 entry. Thus TMPRSS2 expression on physiologically relevant SARS-CoV-2 target cells may bypass the antiviral activities of hydroxychloroquine, and explain its lack of in vivo efficacy... "
These locations never had a widespread creditcard infrastructure. The US cc companies pretty much have a monopoly on transactions. And 3rd parties build top of that.
Meanwhile, no effort is made on either side to make progress. It is not a joke about software programmer or project manager, it is about self-centered irresponsible people.
Microsoft apparently doesn't want "log in" to be used, and favors "sign in" instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-t...
The UK has strong libel laws[1], which I can only assume act as a counter-weight, so that's a bad example really as it's more complicated than you make out.

[1] far too strong in fact as far as I understand it
The stated aim was to be inclusive and give people 'something to say "hey, we realize that you exist!"'. A way to be inclusive without coming off like you hate American culture. I don't really care if "Merry Christmas" has just one day and "Happy Hanukkah" has 8. I'm fine either way. It just seems more likely to get broader acceptance if each group is allotted equal time. A compromise of sorts.
Potent retardation
Walmart for one (the largest employer in the United States). When was the last time you heard an employee tell you Merry Christmas?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/an-unmerried-woman/

From that article, Walmart tries to play it off like they only "suggest" their employees say Happy Holidays.

But I've worked at Walmart, and if you've ever worked at a place like that, you know that people who don't follow "suggestions" are quickly fired.
> Usually the system just switches to batteries during peak.

You'd think you'd want to be using them more often - is it just that there's no grid demand for the power?

My hope is that the addition of a huge number of batteries to the grid, in the form of all these EVs, actually adds to its capacity, since most people won't be running them down to 0 and the software to optimize when to charge vs. when to power the grid seems to be evolving.

Pity it's not a nice open source standard or anything
> Citizens will require a personal licence to access the internet, and anonymous use will be illegal.

A lot of users IDs are already tied to their ISP. A simple date/timestamp and a IP address would probably identify the majority of users (in the US).
This sounds like a great way to take away what may be the only outlet to feel some sense of belonging for a gay teen in a fundamentalist religious family in a deeply conservative part of the world.

But I’m sure it’s fine. /s
People dont want distributed moderation, they just want the other side to be moderated.
> I get the same vacant expression when I talk to network engineers about IPv4 exhaustion

As long as there is a free market to buy/sell addresses, we'll never run out of them.
> the combined effect is catastrophic.

Where is the catastrophe? What I see is people arguing online. You can point to real world events but I’ll ask next what makes them out of the ordinary and of greater size or import than other years, and it’ll be hard to say they are. But the din online suggests they are. What should we expect when communication tech becomes cheaper and more widespread?

I don’t see any catastrophe though. More speech is a good thing, power to the people and all that.
Full flexibility means full responsibility. If I write sh_t, it will be sh_t and no one can stop me.(well, you have the full power of a turning complete language). Unfortunately not every team can afford it without trashing their code base eventually. (And yea, I don't even have the confidence that I won't. And even I do, what about teammates?). I always thinks having too much flexibility here is sometimes cons instead of pros.
>> I love Adam Curtis documentaries.

Me too. But I think you have to enjoy them as a performance. People looking for historical detail and justification can be frustrated by his very broad sweeps.
You can see my github at https://github.com/profullstack

upvotocracy is a reddit clone I'm worked on with another developer. We are in the process of re-designing the FE.
Why think twice? There are many many large predators in the US and we get along fine. The US outside of Alaska has thousands of wolves, 10's of thousands of mountain lions, 100's of thousands of bears, millions of crocodiles, millions of coyotes, etc... no major problems. And they're not just in the sparsely inhabited west, densely populated north-east states like NY, PA, NJ, MA, CT ,etc. have thousands of bears and coyotes (though admittedly not many wolves).
The mouth or the butt, it’s a pain reliever, not an anti-inflammatory.
> The tipping point has already been passed in Norway, where tax breaks mean electric cars are cheaper.

It's like Norway is actively trying to devalue its copious natural resources.
The problem with Privatised space industry is your country doesn't control the agenda. SpaceX is a pretty rare thing, the rest of the private space industry (Blue Origin, Virgin, Boeing) is as much of a money pit as NASA was.

Then you have rapidly progressing government run space programs like China and India. The fact that the US banned China from the ISS and banned Non-Americans from participating in what it deems as weapon systems has only driven more resolve for home grown/soveraign alternatives.
3/10. Ouch.
haha —- maybe i’ll add imo next time? good feedback though. i hadn’t considered the phrase to be taken that way
Earth Structural Layer Cake (2013)
I wonder if this is the handiwork of the Center for Countering Digital Hate crowd backed by the right wing of UK Labour.

They've already pretty much killed The Canary through their lobbying, the SWP would be a natural next target. Though gawd knows why, they're fairly harmless if a wee bit stuck in early 20th century Marxist/Leninist dogma. I've been to a few of their online meetings and I can safely say they're hardly anywhere close to being revolutionaries, and miles away from promoting propaganda by deed.

More info:

https://www.thecanary.co/investigation/2020/12/01/exclusive-...

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/anti-corbyn-blair-censorship-...
Can computers learn to lie(Different aproaches to imperfect information games)
Allah I Rahmou

Hope i can achieve contributions like his in my lifetime.
I had to add some newlines to your JS because it was borking the page layout. Sorry; it's our bug. One of these days we will fix it.
It really blows my mind to think of the things experimental physicists have accomplished and continue to accomplish. One example is molecular beam expitaxy (MBE) technology that lets researchers deposit layers of a material that are literally one atom thick. Another example is the work by the LIGO project to push mirror technology to limits that are hard to believe: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-the-perfect-mirror-ph...
In my experience, "not a good look" is definitely supposed to be a bitter indictment if whatever it is you are apparently doing.
Of course there are a lot of issues still needing solutions.

If you re-read my comment you will see that I acknowledged this won’t work for everyone. Quite far removed from how you portray my comment.

You’ve also made several poorly chosen points that are easily refuted. Perhaps if you want to engage with sincerity and read what people say, your experience here will be better.

You and I both agree a lot of improvements are needed. In the meantime watching evolutionary-paced progress crawl along can be frustrating for sure.

There’s something fascinating though about the difference between what we impatiently want to see, asap, as consumers, and how stuff actually gets done. And you touched on it with the rich people toy comment. The people who can figure out the steps to get from here to there — some of which steps take us through stages that look quite non-ideal along the way — those people really have some special insight or talent.

I find this amazing. Who would have thought that the way to get eco friendly cars to take off would have been to leverage humans’ enjoyment of endorphins? Pretty nonlinear thinking, but it’s working, in the case of Tesla.

(I say it’s working because it helped (or frankly, enabled, full stop) the company to even survive at all to this point. If they had tried to move straight to a cheap model on day 1, there would be no Tesla Inc. today. And now it’s putting pressure on other car companies to catch up. Anyone who thinks it is easy to finance a company while starting with a low priced model is free to try doing so, of course.)
This won't work if PIN to drive is enabled. Most Europeans have on enabled since sophisticated attacks like these are prevalent there.

https://www.tesla.com/support/car-safety-security-features#p...
I can't imagine how many pages of reading I have open, definitely too much. A reading service just telling you the highlights or what's worth reading would be nice....I guess in academia they call that gradstudents :-)
So no one has said this yet, but a lot of people charge their cars at work. I don't know if you're in the US but in my experience this seems like a east coast phenomenon. Lots of electric chargers in bay area, seattle and generally urban areas on the west coast.
Does anyone have a measure of the feasibility (or lack thereof) of converting ICE vehicles to electric within the next decade? Is there a potential to reduce waste here?
Jupiter Structural Layer Cake (2013)
> I don’t think it’s controversial that it’s considered rude now to wish a stranger Merry Christmas...

Strongly disagree. Also, the first sentence of the article you link kind of contradicts you here. Please consider the possibility that this is one of those ginned-up-for-clicks things.
Why is the web browser outdoors?
Looks like we at a point right now at which we can make a vacuum tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw
As a counter example, I am working for a large bank now and I am regularly interviewing candidates. We interview candidates first and then figure out if there is a role that would feel the candidate well.

I personally like it much better than having rigid positions and have to pass on a candidate just because he/she does not fit a rigid set of requirements.
Isn’t that still a very bad descriptor though, like relying only on clock speed to make a decision? Though I guess many people do; back in the day, I think AMD cpus were on par with intel CPU’s running 200MHZ faster. But all people saw was AMD 1.7Ghz and intel 1.9Ghz. The result, the AMD chips at 1.7Ghz were called Athlon 1900. Which is the same thing as the equivalent feature length for FinFet.
The people in the know should actively be discouraging reliance on single dimension (frankly misleading) terms.
As the author mentions, the most critical part of pushing yourself is setting up a lifestyle that enables you to do so.

A couple years ago I was extremely naive and prioritized my work over everything else. Exercise, nutrition, sleep, and even relationships were seen as a waste of time, and were just a barrier to achieving more.

Then, eventually I burnt out. But even then I still tried to push myself. I started having anxiety, dissociation (mainly depersonalization), and a lack of passion towards anything in my life. It was a really rough point in my life.

After a lot of work I am now at a stage in my life when I can push myself again. However my highest priority is to maintain a lifestyle that allows me to push myself in a sustainable manner. This means good nutrition, fitness, and prioritizing my own mental well being.

The effects of that burn out are unbelievable. I still live with a lot of that today, but have learned to manage it. Push yourself, but please take care.
Yep, Twitter and Facebook defeat the hypothesis that discourse is improved when people are forced to post under their real identity.

It only discourages the most sane people from participating thus it boosts the signal of the remaining crazies. Anyone who doesn't yet realize this just needs to join some local Facebook groups.
That's not Walmart being politically correct though, it's Walmart being a commercial enterprise that has 1 preference (higher revenues).

They do other dumb things, like for a long time plenty of people wouldn't buy any music there, because they censored it. Here's the New York Times making a parallel argument to yours, 25 years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/arts/wal-mart-s-cd-standa...

Of course, in that situation it's somewhat likely that Christians comprise most of the group that Walmart is trying not to bother.
It is. A few key assumptions are based into the runtime, namely that the GC is a generational GC with contiguous regions and that the GC doesn't need a read barrier, among many other things. There's a bunch of assembly in the runtime that embeds some implementation details of the GC in a way that's hard to decouple. The API came about by untangling the GC and the rest of the runtime; it took a lot of work and the resulting API probably isn't what we'd choose if we were building a GC with it in mind from day 1, but the whole scheme of sideloading a GC works pretty well.
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying it doesn't change anything with respect to operators removing content. A "website" is just what we call a node accessible via the http protocol.
Tree: Online tree-like utility for generating ASCII folder structure diagrams
Love your handle :)
In 1998 few building managers knew what you meant if you asked about fast internet access.

They'll figure it out when start losing leases.
“The dystopia is already here, just not evenly distributed.”

(with apologies to William Gibson)
They were both privately held companies, so it might never have been disclosed.

Part of the acquisition was that NeXT would license Objective-C back to Stepstone for their own products, so it was more than an outright purchase anyway.
> struggling farmers

Huh. In my country, "struggling farmers" are people who own several million dollars worth of land and typically several million more in plant.
If you want to call something self-censorship then do so, but it's not capital-C Censorship. Hopefully you understand the distinction. :P
I agree with this. Verbose code is code you can come back to an understand years down the road.

The easiest projects for me to pick back up are the ones I wrote in Objective-C, hands down.
Um, then why are there 22.5 mil sheep in the UK for just 67mil people? Contrast this to 5.2 mil sheep in the US for 330 mil people. It must be at least marginally profitable for so many sheep to be raised in the UK (or are agriculture subsidies really that large and widespread in the UK?)
The book "Exercised" by the Harvard anthropologist Daniel Lieberman mentions exactly this claim - that in hunter gatherer societies, people actually rest for most of the day. Still their average lifespan is about 70 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalia
From the community guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Yes, it seems to me that you can always count on some people to act in bad faith. If you go to that feminist tumbler blog her links within the article, you'll see great examples of it. People want to make a difference, but are not disciplined enough to do so without doing splash damage to hurt those who don't deserve it. I think the only way to combat the issue that the author discusses is for everyone to discourage bad faith discussions at all times.
We need the Google Fi equivalent of credit cards. Even with vaunted "international credit cards", there are still use cases where they do not work, which seem country-specific, and finding information about what is actually going on under the hood has been difficult for this layperson.
5/10. It's surprisingly hard...I even hesitated over Guido!
There was much more to Hank Aaron than breaking Babe Ruth's record
NASA Suggests Sending Boston Dynamics Robodog to Mars
> Those global warming enthusiasts who oppose this research seem more interested in political implications than in actually reducing warming.

There are serious and legitimate concerns about albedo modification research which have nothing to do with politics. I don’t think that anyone in the field is concerned that this small-scale experiment will lead to global catastrophe, but it’s a stepping stone to something which could lead to those bad outcomes—and it’s not clear that a small test like this would be able to answer the most important questions that we’d need answered before actually embarking on a global albedo modification programme.

Of the various issues already covered by the Daily Mail story, one thing it doesn’t really talk about is that albedo modification requires a functioning human civilisation capable of injecting aerosols to the atmosphere to exist, without ever stopping, for thousands of years. A single disruption could cause up to 0.7°C of warming in one year[0].

About the only case in which something like this makes sense is if we’ve solved the emissions problem, but a bit too late, so only need a bridge for a few decades while we are actively pulling CO2 from the atmosphere.

If you want to learn more, away from the sensationalism of the Daily Mail, the podcast Brave New Planet had an episode about this last October[1], which is where most of my current knowledge comes from.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045...

[1] https://www.bravenewplanet.org/episodes/a-radical-approach-c...
Where do you get this information from? I would love to read more about it...
Where do you draw the line between censorship (as you define it) and editorial policy?
Again:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...
Perfect example.

And now we have SIMD/AVX-512, as well as the M1 ... the compilers/runtimes need to be able to output the optimized instructions to make applications really fly.

Also, OP photoshop might be slow because it's dialing into the cloud?
I've long thought that a tendency to exaggerate is harmful and when done often enough turns into habitual deceit. I see this in that same light.
I think this is so weird. I live in a "democrat-run city" to use a phrase popularized by the weird right, and people here say Merry Christmas if someone says Merry Christmas to them or they know each other from church, and say Happy Holidays if you don't know the holiday someone celebrates and they're not wearing a Christmas tree sweater. It's a pretty easy algorithm. I don't think anyone feels like Christmas spirit is lacking.

Your last few sentences are right: the people I know who are outraged about the war on Christmas are Christians of a certain type who feel like they have not received what has been promised to them. They're well-off, have houses built for them in nice new suburban developments, have a couple cars, don't seem like they're hurting for money or jobs, but they've just really got a chip on their shoulder about other people getting what they deserve.

I'm probably re-centering a category right now :) This was a very interesting article and it's fun to try to find all the examples of this I can.
Fortunately, the CalGreen code has some charging requirements:

https://up.codes/viewer/california/ca-green-code-2016/chapte...

I think the requirements should be higher, but this is a start.
While the comments cover a lot of ground there are two things that aren't completely addressed in my opinion.

1. It's not merchant fees or inconvenience. E-wallet apps are very common in Asia and they let you load an amount once and pay multiple smaller amounts. They even auto reload.

They're, at least for the time being, cheaper then using any other payment gateway and are even free most of the time.

They're also in fact quicker and more convenient than using a credit card because your phone is more likely to be at hand and the transaction often involves just scanning a QR code and tapping confirm.

They're a very viable way to do microtransactions.

2. Culture

Microtransactions have been around for a long time in Asia so have good adoption rates. This was the result of having to pay transaction fees in USD but having a currency that's a lot weaker. Think having to pay $1 for lunch and the transaction fee being $0.50.

In the west, not so much. People aren't used to doing that because companies prefer a steady income from recurring subscriptions and the cost of transactions are proportional. Quite a few things that don't need to be subs are for some reason.

In Asia subs are a higher threshold for sales. (At least they used to be, they're much more common now.)
Sadly par for the course. Games do this to avoid bots improving against detection. Dating apps do it for safety. This is certainly more egregious because it’s about basic speech but by no means is the lack of disclosure new.
Also stuck with on-street parking. I don't need a car so I don't own one, but if I did, and got an EV, I'd charge it at the fast charger close to my apartment and go grocery shopping while I did so.

It's not like a phone or a normal gasser car, you don't and probably won't need to fill it to 100% all the time. 20%-80% doesn't take that long.
8 out of 10. Not bad, it seems you can sense logical brains versus clogged drains

They all looked like killers.
Not Qt QML…
From the community guidelines:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Among other pertinent points.
They leak 0.3 mmHg per day and are currently at 750 mmHg. An emergency is 0.5-1 mmHg per minute. They really don't have anything urgent to worry about.
The problem was not React it was .Net developers. Angular is worse in this regard because the .Net developers feel more confident and charge ahead writing terrible code that is only == to shite rather than === to good. Learn the fucking language first you ahhgsvsvsgsjdhwbdksbdvrievevdjajavsgwgdvshsvevejahahagagagagahgagagagagagagagjgjghgahhagagagahahhahaha