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> Years aren't consistent both because the number of rotations
> don't evenly go into a single revolution, but also because
> Earth's rotation time is variable.

Lots of civilizations have found novel solutions to the fact that the number of days in a year is not an integer. Adding an occasional leap month (Hebrew calendar) or leap day (Gregorian calendar), or just letting the calendar get out of sync with the seasons (Islamic calendar).

However, it should be noted that although the Earth's rotation time is measurably variable, such measurements require precision instruments that have only been available for a bit over a century. Human senses could not notice such small changes over the course of a lifetime or even over the lifespan of an empire.
> How many western passengers want to fly in a Chinese plane?

How many currently know what plan they fly in?
We see that in another clickbait article today on "brutal" Amazon:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27370589

I'm getting more and more skeptical of the news I read.
Git + Ledger (or other plaintext accounting tools) actually works pretty well. I did that for several years, though the habit/routine broke for me last year. It let me keep the files in sync between my phone and my computer(s).

I'm not sure it's worth a writeup as anything special, git is (for programmers especially) a conventional way of keeping things synchronized between devices. I also used Dropbox for a time, but I specifically wanted versioning to help keep track of edits and reorgs of my files so I switched to git.
> we (as in Europe as a whole) took too many immigrants without any consideration of how to manage them

So in Germany, we are actually quite successful in managing the million that came in 2015. Most got a job and pay taxes. Actually quite awesome, fiveteen years ago everyone in Germany was afraid we'll run out of young workers.

> it should be stated that this is a failure born from rigid top-down management structure of the EU

As far as I remember, the problem was that it was actually not possible to do a top-down decision, because each national government did whatever they wanted to do? I guess the only thing we did end up doing on a EU-wide level was border protection. Not sure though.

> Same reason why the joint debt mechanism being forced on the excuse of COVID is a horrible idea and will end in tears for many.

Funny, I strongly believe its the reason the EU will not just survive but strive. Finally, the excuse of "all the money we have to give to the EU" is gone. Soon, the EU will have some taxes that only make sense on the EU level (financial transactions, or a tax on digital goods) and we're good. Besides, no national government would get the low interest rates when taking up debt that the EU combined will get, right?
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> You seem to be confused about the significant amounts of homeless people[0] having been dumped into the state by various others

It's true that other states have given homeless people in their state one-way bus tickets to San Francisco, but it's a relatively small fraction of the homeless population in California. Something like 92% of the homeless in San Francisco had housing in California before they ended up on the streets.

See page 18: https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep...
> What I'm getting at is that degeneracy leads to many things one of which is drug use, thus reflecting a deeper problem that legalization/decriminalization will not address but only obfuscate.

Ignoring your utterly repellent[0] word choice, you could not be more wrong. Policy changes in Portugal, Switzerland, or Oregon show that decriminalisation, by avoiding the, well, criminalisation of an often symptomatic behaviour, allows addicts to more reliably look for and get help and stability.

Can't really try to find a job or get help from social services when going there might land you in a jail because there was a cop trolling for easy busts and pissing hot will blacklist you anyway.

Criminalising drugs actively dysfunctionalizes addiction, and breaks addicts away from society and support.

[0] and genuinely dangerous
`perlcc` works basically the same way if I understand correctly
License servers taught me the lesson of open source software.
Oregon also has a big homeless problem.
Usually you have a declarative package/system config file that is seldom changes and you point it to a nixpkgs repository, which has definitions for other packages. So an update is as easy as changing that repo to a newer/modified branch. Of course you can even depend on multiple such repos, or override them in any way so you can use a specific lib with an older shared library while use everything else with the latest.

As for versioning, it is hash-based. Packages specify a source (eg github repo and a specific commit) and the hash of the downloaded source files, and build instructions inside the nixpkgs repo. The resulting program will depend on each listed property. And since they are referenced by hash, a program can use any possible version of another program. Hope it answers your questions!
Should of course be nuclear.
Decline in being an inclusive community where a wide range of people contribute rather than a semi-professionell league of gate-keeping white old men.

The internet just leads to new monopolies of the mind where "The winner takes it all". Wikipedia would deserve a competitor but there is 0% chance for one any time soon.

Same holds for SO.
>... a deeper problem that legalization/decriminalization will not address but only obfuscate.

Not really. The idea is to stop arresting people for it and shift the focus to treating addiction/drug abuse which, to your point, starts addressing some of that "degeneracy", which is a terrible word to describe root causes for drug abuse. You don't get people to be open to treating their abuse issues by calling them "degenerates".
> Not enough customers demanding their product be made in USA is the very definition of a demand problem.

The context was Teslas. The parent comment suggested that Teslas can be manufactured in volume because there is sufficient demand. While true, the demand for Teslas is not due to the fact that they are manufactured in the US. Tesla buyers mostly don't care where they are manufactured; they just want a fast and stylish electric car. The demand is not for US-manufactured Teslas. It's just for Teslas.

I agree with you that demand specifically for domestic products does not exist, but this is obvious. Demand for domestic products is not really a thing in the first place because the place of manufacture is not a product differentiator for most consumers. There are very few ways to realistically control direct demand for domestic products; laws that force the government to buy domestic are about it. You have to create demand for domestic products indirectly by making them cheaper than the alternative because that's all that consumers really care about.

This is why it's pointless to talk about "customers demanding their product be made in USA". It's not a question of demand because the vast majority of consumers do not and will never care where a product is manufactured.
Time to ban bitcoin.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162589/ban-bitcoin-cryptocur...
Their app is 2x slower than their mobile site and their new mobile site is 4x slower than their old site. Why do these brands feel the need to make everything a fucking SPA.
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I have to wonder:

Are there CTOs or IT heads going into board meetings or other meetings, and telling people that these systems are secure? Because if so, they need to be tried for fraud.

If it's on the internet, it is not secure.
That sounds fascinating. When talking about something as complex and interconnected as a human neocortex, what does "only 6 layers deep" mean?
I would go further and say that none of the addiction is related to psychedelics - AFAIK you can't get addicted to then.

As with alcohol etc you can do stupid and dangerous things while on then, and you can have a very unpleasant experience but they are otherwise harmless.
So.... don't buy those devices? I have a pinephone myself, I don't really use GPGPU, and all the farmers I know buy tractors from other companies.
Ah, so your freelancing is essentially working full time for a single customer for 3-6 months. As if you were changing (salaried) jobs this often. Thanks for the explanation.

A question: doesn't the tax authority complain about the lack of multiple customers?
China is not communist, nor do I trust the US more than them. Both countries are countries I have no respect for.
Year boy killed, two men arrested in connection with Amherst County shooting
I heard that the deal got closed by the mods
> In the case of SPACs, who are the children being led into the dark cave, never to be seen again?

Anyone who isn’t the sponsor, bankers, PIPE or pre-IPO investors (the ones who get a warrant and stock for $10).
It's interesting, I'm on Hacker News almost every day and have benefited enormously from Stack Overflow yet I have no idea what you're talking about or who Monica Cellio is. My guess is that the vast majority of their users haven't either.

I only mention this because seemingly major events in online communities don't always have the impact that people involved or following closely think they do.
I haven't used Ruby, but Python also was a huge pain and there were many attempts at fixing it, but all had some issues for me. That is until I found poetry2nix.
details:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20140705203439/http://www.slate....

* https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/199353/did-the-stac...
No not really. This sounds a lot like a Fox News sound bite to rile people up who don't live in CA to get out and vote republican.

Besides, decriminalization has been proven everywhere it has been implemented to decrease addiction and crime rates while helping to prevent the total dehumanization of members of society who happen to be addicts.
> Then sybil or bot attack becomes impossible, because there is a limit to how many trucks or bicycles any one user can recognize per day.

• But there isn't really a limit on how many trucks or bicycles my neural net can recognise per day.

• Nor is there much of a limit on how many people I can pay pennies to solve CAPTCHAs for me.
> Since social media is sorta supplanting traditional news I wonder if that's level of inaccuracy is actually that surprising. How many potential articles come across an editors desk - or as pushed out by a company's PR department - that are just BS?

You make a fair point; a lot of news is either poorly researched or biased. That being said, at least MOST news outlets are trying to get to the truth. They may be lazy, uninformed, or incapable of viewing the world objectively instead of through a specific ideological lens, but they are trying. Truth seeking is not the goal for many people posting to social media. You call the content "editorialized" but it's more like fiction and deliberate disinformation.
At every factory or warehouse I've worked in, the cause of almost every injury/accident was an employee not following the rules when it came to safety.
Come on, the Purism people have put up a huge effort. You can't just casually the product "massively underwhelming" without stating your reasons for doing so.
I would just add that more often than not it is as easy as changing the version string in the somePackage/default.nix file and changing the corresponding hash of the source. Of course if the build changes in the new version or it depends on some new lib it can become a bit more difficult, but with a bit of experience it is not that hard to solve.
...drugs, but not unions...interesting what they support
I live in Southern California and I pay via QR codes printed on the receipt at some restaurants.

It is very convenient.
Looks like it was an ISP usenet service service at the time:

https://groups.google.com/g/van.general/c/jV637wlw7_E/m/UjNe...

The post is present in this 1995 digest:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/17/31#subj6.2
The legal system will always trail behind the reality on the societal ground out there - that's almost by definition, and you actually kinda want them to be quite cautious and thorough before they make decisions.

But you also need to watch for outliers - laws that are WAY past their prime, and should have been put to pasture long ago.

Basically, the legal system needs a garbage collection mechanism.
In general it might be there to ensure no fraud is happening - when my account was flagged for being under 18 (at the time), they held my money for the 180 days before letting me take it out. I imagine they do (or used to) experience fraud from people signing up for accounts using the identities of children.
Great, the hacker news psychedelic circlejerk is back in force. Dang, can we please ban these articles? There's zero point in even discussing them, because the mentality is completely one sided. There's no "curiosity" in drug legalization here, because its obvious everyone thinks its a 100% good unless its a low status drug like alcohol or meth.
The US is the one with widely documented concentration camps on the border.

And last year showed us just how much due process is ignored and political prisoners persecuted, if previous history wasn’t enough.
That answer would be Korea.
Except safety improvements actually reduced automobile fatalities dramatically over time.

There are occasional edge cases, but safety equipment and procedures have made a huge difference over time. Just look at say the number of deaths from construction accidents over time. Five people died constructing the Empire State Building for example that wasn’t even a terrible record for the time period. At the extreme 30,609 people died building the Panama Canal.
I think about this a lot when I see cannabis dispensaries popping up all over the place in my hometown while I've also seen an acquaintance's life completely ruined (hard prison time and property seizure) due to growing a small number of plants on his property. There's a pretty extreme impedance mismatch regarding how these issues are handled, and it's anything but just.
I think more often it is the rest of executives demanding CTOs and IT heads prove to them in absolute terms that more security is needed when nothing bad has happened yet.
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So criminalizing and imprisoning a person for drug addiction increases their chances of being re-integrated into society in a productive fashion? I thought a criminal record made it more difficult to land a job? Can you elaborate?
Woh, how did this lead to his demise?
Information, entertainment, work.
My guess is that was a VTOL with efficient aerodynamics or jet drone to loiter and power for racing-class activities. If it flies, something like https://fusionflight.com/jetquad/ could pull it off.

Possibilities:

0. Rich, drone expert prankster, or startup showing-off to their buddies/customers "getting away with something" highly-illegal.

1. State actor demonstrating strength, vulnerabilities, and/or doing low-level recon.

2. Terrorists scouting targets and/or probing vulnerabilities.

3. Military demonstrating vulnerabilities for civilian awareness and corrective purposes.*

4. Military seeking budget for anti-drone.*

5. Military-Industrial Complex drumming-up business for anti-drone.*

* Conspiracy theory-ish
How exactly are the ransoms even paid out? I would assume cryptocurrencies, but before those existed how did they pay out?

I'm not sure what it would be called, but has there been any investigation in a sort of "transparent by default" database system? Ideally if this were possible people wouldn't need to care about data being stolen (though in this case it's unclear what the attack did, but many times it's more like we'll reveal/block your data unless you pay up)
Git is the poster child for this. Ignore any accepted answer to a Git question on Stack Overflow if it is older than two years old.

This may also be a testament to Git's terrific development, or to Git's obtuse early versions.
Another interesting story is that in the 50s and 60s, light aircraft shared a lot of accessory parts with cars of the era.

Cessna used the same voltage regulator as Ford. Ford accepted statistical process inspection for their parts. Cessna required 100% parts inspection for the exact same part.

Solution: run the assembly line for the voltage regulators normally, do the greater of the number of inspections required by Ford or the volume required by Cessna. Ink all the inspected parts with an inspection stamp. Now, Ford can use any of the voltage regulators. Cessna can use any of the stamped regulators. Both companies get parts more cheaply than if the lines were separated.
Wikipedia is usually much more presentable, in my experience.
SPACs are not such a bad idea as it is made out to be, especially at a time like this. Post covid, we are going to see the rise of new winners and segments.

They offer an operating point between VC money and IPO in terms of price vs risk.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that lobbying money could be put to better use on other topics?
I think the previous poster is being a bit heavy handed about the analytic tradition being the jumping off point. You'll get some mileage with some of Bertrand Russell's non-technical stuff, but there are lots of conversations going on that have to do with historical ideas.

Typically the direction starts with Descartes, then Hume, then Kant, and after that, there is a real break between continental and analytic traditions. So, jumping into Wittgenstein might be a really bad idea for someone without a background, but who knows. The Philosophical Investigations is a fairly approachable book.
Seems like there's a lot of potential in code-based games, not just for learning but for a creative outlet. Wish the contrast was a bit higher on this one though!
So this means he thought The Force Awakens wasn't mediocre and schlocky? I think we need to appeal that decision! Unless just being redundant and derivative is a different case.
If you re-read my posts, you'll note several things I point out or at least allude to, beyond the oversimplified characterization of "not subjective":

(1) We have an objective science that disambiguates and understands differences that are subjective versus universal preferences in speakers (to some reasonable threshold of population universality; e.g. maybe you find some 0.0000001% population that prefers horrible screeching noises added to any audio content, but arguing for this as an important dimension of subjective variability that we need to incorporate into hardware is I hope clearly absurd).

(2) The vast majority of subjective variability relates to differences in frequency response, which are extremely easy and cheap to adjust in software -- no need to cycle through many multi-thousand dollar headphones or speakers just in hopes of finding one that suits your preferred frequency response target.

(3) Almost every kind of imperfection that can't be corrected via frequency response tuning (e.g. undistorted SPL capability, THD, IMD, off-axis smoothness and similarity to on-axis for speakers, power handling and dynamic compression, etc.) turns out to be almost universally disliked versus when that imperfection does not exist.

(4) Once frequency response balance is factored out either via custom EQ or a "mass market" target curve (which for headphones is indeed more of a compromise, but for speakers is not even remotely a subjective matter, since there are mountains of scientific evidence over decades proving over and over again that the preferred anechoic frequency response for speakers is flat, i.e. the mathematically perfect identity function), which naturally yields a preferred in-room target curve of a smoothly declining slope -- very little (if any) subjective variability remains (e.g. bass boost or treble tilt to taste is one such example).

(5) To be clear, some subjective variability does remain, but it mostly relates to head fit and comfort (for headphones), and for speakers is much more nuanced and tends to relate to beam width and height differences. In both cases, the science is capable of examining these precisely, not in some kind of vague or hand-wavy woo woo sense. Lastly, there is always some need to make some coarse adjustments to bass and treble when listening to older recordings or recordings which were mastered to a non-neutral reference curve (as they should be, else it's impossible to ever reconstruct what was intended) -- but this is not so much a matter of listener preference as it is correcting for mixing/mastering errors in older or lower quality tracks.
You should not, as a rule, believe the hype.
It's debatable whether they achieved it, but at one time Stack Overflow explicitly stated that their goal was to be a middle ground between a transient Q&A site and a wiki. That philosophy is why they allow everyone (even those without an account) to edit posts and why they close duplicate questions.
Agree. I'd just finished editing my comment to say as much before you responded...
I like to use nix-env (or more often, now, `nix profile`) for a persistence level in between nix-shell and really adding something to my home-manager or NixOS config. I let my profile build up 10-20 things installed, then every few weeks I decide what belongs in my declared config and uninstall everything in the profile.

Imo entirely removing imperative package management would be a mistake, although imperatively managing a file that gets sourced in your declarative config (a bit like /var/dpkg/selections on ol' Debian) instead of putting the whole profile manifest in the Nix store and leaving it at that would be better.
It’s a retaliatory tit-for-tat move.

> "Due to the reciprocal practice, the federal aviation authority also did not issue any further permits for flights operated by Russian airlines as long as authorizations are pending on the Russian side," the German Transport Ministry told AFP news agency.
Yea actually, prior to reading this article I always thought of the atmosphere as a mostly static shell that just sorta floats around planets - it's interesting to consider how, when the wind pushes on a mountain the mountain pushes back (not literally of course) and that can cause subtle variations in day cycle on earth that could be influenced by spikes in externally acquired heat in differing parts of the atmosphere - but it's crazy to think how much more dramatic the effect is on Venus.