skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private business owners can put whatever restrictions they want on their spaces.

Not "whatever restrictions". For example, you cannot announce "only white people". And similarly should be that you cannot announce "only vaccinated people". It is a very similar thing, rejecting group of people based on fear of interacting with them because they are different.

> In other words, how dare you tell me I can't drink poison, I'll do it because you don't have the right to tell me what to do.

And that should be the allowed and accepted thing to do. I don't want some institution to decide which substances are OK to drink and which are forbidden. In some cases, that poison may save your life. Whether a chemical is a medicine or poison often depends on details of the situation, for example health status, tolerance and dosage.

> It isn't about doing what's right, what's ethical, what's scientifically correct, what's efficient, it's about "elites can't tell me what to do!"

What's right and what is ethical and what's scientifically correct can be very different for different people. Some like you believe that is determined by authorities (medical, scientific, government) and some like me don't, we prefer to make our own minds.
I never could watch Jackass and people hurting themselves.
> where there is no chance for repentance if the err was a cultural thing outside the legal system

So, two thoughts:

- People react to bad actors exactly because there is no other corrective mechanism than shaming.

- I don't know where this notion of "forever pariah" came from. Seems to me nearly every high profile case of someone being "canceled" is actually a more of an "embarrassed pause" - they got called out for being horrible, maybe lost their job, and... are back a year or so later.

Where are the hordes of cancelled people who got a life sentence? Did we start a Misfit Island they're all banished to when I was looking?
We finally have prime since a year. I had that almost 15 years ago in the US.
Actually. We only got Amazon.nl since a year or 2. Bevroren that we had to use the German Amazon

We still don’t have HomePod, or Dutch swiping keyboards. We’re always in the late batch of iPhones
> laws that prohibit suspects from being named

The downside of these laws is, in the case of arrests, it makes disappearing people easier.
I didn't get the sense that GP was necessarily agreeing with those positions, more illustrating the high-level political hurdles (right or wrong) that legalization fundamentally faces.

It's similar in my mind to self-driving cars. The first post-large-scale-rollout deaths will likely cause a political backlash, even if statisticians and scientists are able to show that the proposed regulatory response would cause more harm than good.

I don't agree that the successful implementation of such a regulatory response is a foregone conclusion in either case, but we will need to be prepared to deal with the reality of some people dying due to self-driving software issues and/or consumption of non-FDA-approved substances.
Quick someone hold the Sun's position in the sky constant for me so my incorrect understanding of SPF holds true :)

I merely want to provide a fuller explanation of what SPF is from an authoritative source, in this case the FDA.
I'd assume a nontrivial number of customers are calling because automated methods to reschedule aren't giving them the options that they want, and they assume (probably incorrectly) that they will do better when talking to a human.

I don't know with Southwest, but I know more than one airline has a system that sends automatic "choose one of these options" emails when flights are cancelled. When all of your customers need new flights, though, the issue isn't how the rescheduling is done, it's the fact that almost nobody is going to be able to choose an option they like.
Philosophical question but why do we still use nurbs instead of, for example, subdivision surfaces? Is that mostly because users want to export to nurbs after editing?
No but I have had luck only having it on my desktop and then if I need to use the app functionability, logging in on mobile and logging straight back out.

For me it's less about what I do when I'm exhausted and how my environment is. Am I comfortable just staring into space, if not why not? Often I fall back into instagram as an avoidance thing, eg if I'm worried someone's going to try and bother me because I'm not doing anything
I was going to say the multiple failures at high profile cloud systems just in the last year is enough to prove that all the FAANG engineers in the world won’t save you.
Instead of funding they should just get out of the way
I hope there's an option to not center the taskbar icons
Or, you know, the Covington kids.
Thanks, that is certainly a plausible explanation - basically not being able to sufficiently guarantee compliance with some approved process that had a single point of failure somewhere.

I also agree that, much like when the Space Shuttle blew up, there were engineers somewhere who immediately suspected exactly how and why.
Indeed, you describe so well what I love about IRC. It's no heavier than it needs to be. It's niche enough to be free of 'influencers' with nothing to say but on-topic enough to attract real experts. I can idle on 20 networks at the same time for little to no resources on my end. And nobody needs to pay anything as its resource use is just a rounding error. It is indeed amazing.
I’ve had a lot of trouble finding org editors for my phone. Org web like it might be the favourite right now but I don’t really want to host it myself.

Can I ask what format you use for calendar files too? That’s another one I have a bit of trouble with! Everything seems to want to use the Google APIs for everything.
One of the DSM criteria is literally "There is clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with, or reduce the quality of, social, school, or work functioning." So if there isn't something being affected, you don't meet the diagnosis criteria.
> Why not sample earlier blood and see how far back COVID originated.

Because if people found out that Covid had been spreading in the US for months before the “official” starting date of March 2020, they’d come to realize that they would have never even realized there was a pandemic going on were it not for the media attention.
Absolutely agreed. The airline industry has become victim of its own success there in a way. Planes are so amazingly safe and reliable and even punctual by and large that people forget that it’s not just a bus going from A to B, and how miraculous it really is. (Some stand-up comedian had a bit about that, I thought it was George Carlin, but I don’t find it.) ETA: Louis C K, yes, thanks.
This got some discussion as the "Hipster PDA" some years back (originally 2004 from Merlin Mann), along with some low-cost options to simplify managing it - multicolor cards, bullet journal rules, cutting out card-sized pieces of plastic from a cheap folder to make a "cover" and of course various sizes of binder clips.

I found a medium to large binder clip to work better than hole punching and a ring - you can't just open it up and use it while standing, but it holds together better and easier to add/remove cards.

A big advantage of this over journals (Moleskine, Field Notes, etc) is that there's no mental block of "I don't want to write something stupid or trivial in my journal/notebook."
No it didn’t. It stayed in the US until it blew up.

They did win. Not because the lack of innovation. Because the international aspect of Facebook.

Friends from holidays, people using Facebook abroad etc.

Facebook itself is always lagging the market, and then either copy or buy the thing that’s hot at that point.
just this list is enough to question any anti-conspiracy-theory knee jerk reaction. probably corona is natural, maybe it's manmade ... are there people who would out of greed release such a virus into the world? definitely yes. and that's not tin foil hat or crazy. it's just acknowledging history.
Say what you want about the ACA, but it was the trajectory of US health expenditure (vs GDP per capita) that was the problem: increasing year by year.

So doing nothing / business as usual wasn't a fiscally sustainable choice.
> It is explicitly muting the audio as part of the reversing protocol to avoid distractions

No. It is NOT letting me turn down (or up) the radio. Meanwhile the radio plays loudly.
I've been using https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner for about a decade, everywhere I work. Just text files with simple Ascii checkboxes.
There's the stock car driver who got his ride cancelled because his father made some bad comments before he was born.
Absolutely. All that information dies when your organization migrates off of Jira years down the line and the issue ids no longer exist.
I used it for quite some time, but a couple of things have made me stop using it as of late.

Firstly, its just not very nice to look at, especially compared to something like Notion. I want something thats a joy to work in.

Secondly, the mobile experience kinda sucks. I used to use it to maintain a list of when i've taken my medication. Upon opening the app, i first have to wait to make sure my notes are fully synced from anything I changed on my laptop. Then once ive updated the note, I have to wait for the notes to be synced before i close it. If you close the app before syncing completes, it wont work.

Also all sorts of UX issues in the app, primary one I can think of is the keyboard going over the top of the text you are trying to write.

In general, a lot of the time I dont really have the need to have a see both a markdown-rendered window, and the text window. I end up closing the markdown-render window so I have more screen area to see what im writing. But then it just doesn't look good?

Im not trying to hate on Joplin, I really want to enjoy it. I even wrote a plugin for it. Does anyone have any similar thoughts?
That's the thing. Commercial services like discord want you to pay for their add-on services. So, they try to make you use it as much as they can. They try to build 'user engagement'. Attract you with notifications just to make you aware of how much you miss them, and how much 'value' they can bring to you. In my case they accomplish the exact opposite but anyway... This is how they think.

IRC doesn't need to do that. It just does what it needs to do without all the BS.
I never understood what FLoC offers to users directly (rather than to advertisers) -- FLoC requires a user to opt into it, right? Why would I do this as a user, what incentive does Google give me?
What type of curation would you like? Just say it and I'll get it done ASAP

Thanks,
Aryan :))
> This is a pretty crazy difficult CS problem!

I suspect machine learning, and specifically GPT-3 style transformers, is the perfect tool to solve this.

Especially given the fact that you can basically generate an infinite training set automatically using a parametric modeler.
Edin is changing the way we view soap bars
It took 31 years before I ever caught the real flu (influenza), and not just a cold or stomach flu. And most people in my family or my friends have never had it.
The entire Times of Israel series on binary options [1] tells a sad, sordid story. It came out slowly. At first, it just looked like a few minor scammers. But as the Times dug deeper, publishing over 50 articles, it came out that at peak, the binary options scam was 40% of the Israeli financial sector and had enough political connections to stall enforcement.

The Israeli crackdown came only after the scam was starting to hurt Israel's foreign relations.[2] Israel's "public diplomacy" minister:

“Leaving aside the profound moral questions this raises,” [referring to reports estimating that billions of dollars have been stolen from unwitting customers by fraudulent Israeli binary options firms], “I come from the field of foreign policy, protecting Israel from delegitimization and BDS [the boycott, divest and sanction movement]… These activities threaten Israel’s legitimacy. [The industry] will “contribute to those who want to delegitimize us if these charges turn out to be absolutely true. It’s very, very disturbing… horrible.”

So now there's a large community of scammers who, having been kicked out of binary options in Israel, are looking for new areas in which to operate. Forex, contracts for difference, and cryptocurrency scams have been found. DraftKings has some of the same people involved.

This is one of the worst things that can happen to a country - developing a large, successful criminal class. It's really hard to get rid of them, and they may end up running the country, as happened to Russia after the downfall of the USSR.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/binary-options/

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/michael-oren-backs-knesset-pro...
I'm not asking people to stop snooping. I'm asking for corporations to be barred from profiting off of publicly accessible information that can personally identify me without asking for permission first.

Education, journalism, research and the like fall into a different category... this also applies in the "photographs of people in public spaces" example. WiGLE would still exist in that niche.
RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)
I haven't seen the left claim that fraud doesn't happen, that is demonstrably false. There are a few convicted vote fraud cases annually. The claim is that it is insignificant.
I don't think that's the answer. People can be wrongfully convicted.
3D modelling !== solid modelling.
There is exception to that called "Furnished cage" which is allowed in EU, through some countries has banned it. Sweden is not one of them.

To copy the text from wikipedia: "A number of countries have later adopted regulations to completely ban cage farming (including the furnished cage option), for example Switzerland, Germany and the UK with a transition period to 2025. "
> Jackass hinted at the direction culture was taking with no-names getting famous over short shocking clips

That was done years earlier with America's Funniest Home Video Show
from the same clip "How quickly the world owes him something he didn't knew existed 5 minutes ago?"
Is that the only other alternative?
> "Taking these drugs will make anyone feel more focused, motivated, etc because these drugs are strong stimulants that cause euphoria, focus, and bursts of energy."

Can't speak for others but my encounter with stimulant medications (under the care of a therapist, of course) provided none of those things. It only gave me severe insomnia, which left me worse off than before.
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest continuously practiced religions, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster.

In Zoroastrianism, the purpose in life is to become an ashavan (a master of Asha, the life force) and to bring happiness into the world, which contributes to the cosmic battle against evil. Zoroastrianism's core teachings include:

Follow the Threefold Path of Asha: Humata, Huxta, Huvarshta (Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds).

Charity is a way of maintaining one's soul aligned to Asha and to spread happiness.

The spiritual equality and duty of men and women alike.

Being good for the sake of goodness and without the hope of reward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
I think the problem of a "flying car" is that it will require a pretty major redefinition of "car".

The way I see it, you have two common ways of generating lift: You either have spinning rotors on a vertical axis, like a helicopter or drone, or you have a propeller that pulls the vehicle forward, with air traveling over the wings to generate lift.

If your idea of a flying car resembles the drone or helicopter, when we already have them, they're called helicopters.

If you think of something with wings, when we already have them in the form of ultralight aircraft and small Cessnas.

Neither of which are cars, and neither would you want in your neighborhood, since they're incredibly loud.

Now, I know know Aeromobile exists and has created a plane with wings that fold and can be driven on streets, but it looks like it'd just be shitty as a car AND a plane.
> Jackass thrived in an era when TV networks had the power to decide what was cool and who was famous.

Most TV network content fails. TV networks (just like digital networks) can guarantee some level of distribution and marketing support, but they could no more guarantee the kind of virality that Jackass experienced anymore than YouTube can.
We have and are still struggling to get back to the same level of housing development we had around 2000 [1]. If we adjusted for housing starts per capita this would look even worse.

Why? I don't know, but I'll hazard two guesses:

- Financing requirements around development became much stricter after 2008.

- Housing was once seen as a risk free, stable investment.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
When I was a felon, part of my success was due to good targeting. Now that I'm a misdemeanor(er?), I'm a much more free since a misdemeanor is a lot less marketable. At the time, I had the advantage of a solid work history in comparison to that of my peers.

During my job search, I'd do my best to get the decision-maker on a call. This could be a co-founder or eng manager or an outsourced recruiter. If there was good rapport on the screener, and I felt like I could be vulnerable to them, I'd mention it like "hey by the way, I don't want to waste your time with this... I won't be able to pass a background check."

At that point they'd often be surprised and I'd just be honest with them with what happened. I only remember one time it didn't work out.

I never would bother with sending a resume to HR or an internal recruiter. They see 100s of resumes and if I were to put "hey I'm a felon so don't waste your time unless you're chill" on it, I'd get put into the pile I wouldn't want to be in.

Having an opportunity to build a relationship prior to full-disclosure always proved to go astonishingly well.

My crimes didn't change anyone's immediate future or harm any children; it was white-collar. I'm also fairly articulate. I imagine it would have been more difficult if the nature of my offenses were different, or if I wasn't as (seemingly) intelligible.
It derives from a different system of who deserves grace and forgiveness. It used to be that forgiveness was for people who are sorry, but now in some social contexts forgiveness is for people who are powerless.

This means that you cannot earn forgiveness through contrition, because contrition is no longer the qualifying factor.
>> We can't just expect systems designed to be slow and cautious to instantly flip to aggressive explorers without defining what we expect and when to do it.

This is precisely the problem. Who is "we," and how are they going to define these new protocols?

The "systems" are not (exclusively) designed. They're evolved. They're impenetrable, or at least difficult to penetrate. They're autonomous. Only insiders have the requisite knowledge to figure out what emergency mode is.

The whole point is not to wait for "orders" to drop down.
Why is us health care so expensive then? In Australia drs and hospitals are free… there is no cost. How do you subsidise more than that?

In the US I’ve used the hospital system once (minor treatment, no over night stay) my insurance paid $4000+ usd. In China I’ve used the hospital system for a fairly serious physical injury and was treated very quickly, couple hours and I paid ~$600 rmb.
You're saying that from the perspective of someone who's not currently stranded at an airport. Your points are valid, but I think the irony is your expectations aren't reasonable.

These are people stuck in strange places who are anxious and uncomfortable. Some of them are probably going to miss important things. Others have to worry about kids/pets/etc. That's not to say they shouldn't be patient (and certainly they shouldn't be taking their frustrations out on the airline staff), but you're demanding rationality from people in the exact sort of situation where it can be really, really difficult for someone to be entirely rational.

They're trying to do what they can (call customer service) and find themselves helpless - that's not a situation where they're going to reason through the economics of call center staffing.
I have wifi off on my phone with a Tasker script that turns it on whenever I'm connected to one of the cell towers that services my neighborhood. The system works well and my battery life is amazing.
Bad Grandpa was truly amazing, and I could never watch Jackass, either. Bad Grandpa is definitely low-brow humor, but it is very well done.
Immigrant Advocates Want Biden to End For-Profit Detention Centers
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My favorite jackass prank was the Valentine's day card pasted to the hotel wall. The gag was simple, but incredibly well executed. The Valentine's day card was supposed to be written to Jackass stars from someone staying in the hotel, and the hand written scrawl would get progressively smaller as the "writer" ran out of room on the card, which caused the reader to lean in closer and closer to finish reading it. Then WHAM a giant boxing glove would fly out of the card, punching the reader in the face.

Long live Johnny Knoxville, American hero.
You mean by the state?
What can you plan for exactly if you plane gets diverted to nowhere's ville?

Should you be carrying a tent and three days food and water? That would add to your carrying ons. The only thing I can think of is not making appointments on the other side where your life is screwed if your plane is diverted. But how much you can do that or need to do that varies by person.
You can be arrested for a crime that you know nothing about. Or even arrested for a thing that wasn't a crime, but the police just wanted you to have a bad day, so they charged you with something they knew couldn't stick. Yeah, that's illegal, but what's anyone going to do about it, sue?

But if you said something on twitter, or were caught on camera doing something repugnant, there's not really much plausible deniability.

When it comes to things like sexual harassment, where there's no direct proof, people generally get the benefit of the doubt a few dozen times.
In-flight weather by radio is an option but it’s a manual thing. And the airline may not be set up to use that except an emergency situation.
This looks promising! I’ve been waiting for something like this. Will give it a try.

How would you hydrate the app with data while you dev? Feels like adding some storybook like features to test components could be useful.
> HIP[A]A is a good example of how the law should work. You make what you want illegal; it has nothing to do with computers.

HIPAA has lots of rules that apply only with computers (or, specifically, a very interesting definition of “electronic transaction”), which is a big reason fax is still a thing in healthcare, because transactions conducted by fax are not considered “electronic” under HIPAA, so a variety of rules that apply when transactions are conducted electronically do not apply.
What do you think of non-history based CADs using direct constraint solving? Can they even hypothetically match history based ones on functionality?

As I understand history is a "hack" for low capabilities of 3D constraint solvers, which are limited in shapes they can express by what the solver can express.
The retail veneer is a powerful edifice. Folks that don't have any experience with building or operating or manufacturing things at scale really have no conceptual footing on just how difficult it is. As a result, at least in my opinion, there's no reservoir of empathy to tap when things don't go according to plan.
> He was completely acquitted and the case never went to trial

Doesn't acquittal require going to trial? Or do you mean the charges were dropped before trial?
As for your first point, this is a pretty clunky workaround, but at least it exists: https://github.com/SolidCode/SolidPython