skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument basically boils down to "they'll do well if we just have faith in them" which is not convincing. I can see how in some instances lack of faith in public institutions compounds their failure, but it never starts with lack of faith. Nations create governments because they want them and they think they can work, if a couple generations later they no longer do, it is because the government is not functioning as intended. The incompetence precedes the pessimism, not the other way around. Negative sentiment can compound the failure, but it always begins with failure, not negative sentiment.
This problem ideally should be solved by the application creating them. So for e.g. You can use track-changes in MS Office, save work in multiple layers in Photoshop, etc.

Like the other poster I too believe that most binary files cannot be "versioned" (in that you cannot inspect their state and detect semantic changes). The only thing you can do is make a lot of copies - which makes the problem worse (IMO) because you can't diff them, or merge changes, or really do anything meaningful with them. You can do a 'human diff' by opening them side by side, but thats about it.
This is exactly right. I find this most useful for asking better questions. People in X Situation typically experience problem Y so I know that "Have you tried Z?" is likely to be a good question that either provides a solution or new information.

The most important part of using this pattern matching as a substitute for deep thought is to be cautious of over fitting or otherwise getting it wrong.

Deep thought before and after a real time engagement is optimal.
I am not saying "X country's wages > U.S. wages".

I am saying there are a dozen countries, including several that are extremely similar to the US, that not only have higher wages, and higher minimum wages, but also extensive paid family and vacation leave, universal healthcare and a wide range of quality of life metrics around or above what we see in the US.
As someone else said in a comment, while any metaphor has its limits, I feel that there are many more analogies to make with chess.

As a mediocre chess player who has played too many subpar bullet games, I've begun to recognize patterns. For instance, sometimes my opponent has a good move that they are ignoring, but then I make a bad move that naturally highlights that good move. And then my opponent makes that good move. To me, it seems there should be some good analogies to make in business, where your decision spurs your competitor to make a great decision. I just can't think of any.

Or the idea that chess is about keeping your options as wide open as possible and limiting your opponents options (i.e., to restrict the king). That's one reason you might play for the center. It is certainly why the Queen is more valuable than all the other pieces... she has more squares she can move to. Typically a knight on the edge of the board is inferior to a knight in the center because the edge reduces its 8 maximum moves. IIRC, you can compare point values assigned to each piece with the number moves a piece can make average over all position in an empty chess board and see that the proportions match up. It is also why playing positionally matters. Your opponent could be up a piece but if one of them is trapped, it is almost like they are. That is an example of a un-usable advantage.

Or take simple tactics. Forks are when you have two threats on your opponent and they can't deal with both. It is a lose-lose situation for them. Or a pin is about restricting their movement. Sometimes the pin or fork is subtle, where the fork is between checkmate and capturing a piece.

There is a lot to explore here that goes far beyond "chess requires thinking deeply, chess requires anticipating your opponents moves, etc" that requires the pattern recognition that comes from playing many games.
Not quite true: there’s the weird thing where gcc on i*86 will align the stack on entry to a function called main but not any other.

$ gcc -m32 -O2 -fno-pie -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fomit-frame-pointer -S -masm=intel -xc -o - -
int foo(void); int main(void) { return foo(); }
^D
.file "<stdin>"
.intel_syntax noprefix
.text
.section .text.startup,"ax",@progbits
.p2align 4
.globl main
.type main, @function
main:
push ebp
mov ebp, esp
and esp, -16
call foo
leave
ret
.size main, .-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 11.1.0"
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

It doesn’t do that if you set the historical stack alignment, though (-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2), or if you name the function anything else but main (it even does a tail call). Presumably it’s trying to (somewhat) recover from the time when the GCC authors accidentally the SysV i386 ABI[1,2].

[1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40838
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49397524
If anything, the Nix packaging of Home Assistant should (tm) be running on a known good working set of deps.
Your argument makes sense, but flies in the face of daily lived experience. Read the headlines: large companies are constantly using their power to screw labour. Busting unions, collusion to hold down wages, lobbying for worse worker protections, and fueling a race to the bottom in environmental protection, occupational safety and tax revenue by outsourcing.

The problem is that the companies are too big, not that there are too few big companies in some region.
"To provide access without cookies would require the site to create a new session for every page you visit, which slows the system down to an unacceptable level.", I love it
I don’t mind everything being calls, in fact I find more security in that since they are generally harder to “fake” than emails or other text-based media. i.e. A high quality call gives me higher confidence in the company than a high quality email. What I have always been frustrated by is recruiters - with no technical experience - being the gatekeepers of technical positions. I have always felt if I could just call the actual team or whoever for the position I am interested in, it would be better. I find it annoying when recruiters have just been coached on the “surface level” of a technica problem without ever having genuinely solved it or been in my shoes themselves.
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No, it doesn't work like that. Certificate Transparency Log makes this almost impossible to do this undetected.

In addition to this you have CAA records which quickly would make it evident for the entire world that said certificate is fraudulent and that the signing CA isn't to be trusted anymore.
Consider if Boston Dynamics released a video of a robot doing all three things tomorrow, and announced that they were taking orders for immediate shipment, priced at $100,000. How far away would you think the singularity would be then?

Separately, a hostile or indifferent AI could still cause a heck of a lot of trouble for human civilization without the first two things. Consider an autofactory clearing room for expansion with bulldozers, no need to navigate stairs there. Bullets or smart glide bombs don't need to understand doorknobs. Etc.
Non-Swiss here: From what I can read from swiss media, its rejection was due because the hike would have served more government jobs than it would have made any dent in the global climate: Swiss CO2 emissions are equal to 5% to those of Germany, or 0.3% of China.

As a matter of fact China increased its CO2 emissions in 2019 alone by five Switzerlands [1].

Plus it would have increased housing costs dramatically for a nation that consists largely of renters.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
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I used this for an online car rental service recently. My only main complaint was that it didn't work with FF for Android. Once I switched to Chrome, everything was great, but I'm disappointed in how often sites expect to be ran in a Chromium-based browser these days.

Still appreciate seeing Stripe's name when taking a pic of my ID rather than just the rather small startup I was using. No offense to small startups, but I might've balked at it otherwise.
> (b) they'd know you'd done it.

That depends entirely on how exactly you do it. And knowing something and being able to prove it are two very different things.
IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari
California's taxes are high, but still much lower than in most of Europe.

For example in France, to pay 100 euros in salary, the employer needs to spend about 250 euros.
No better than chance, given the limited number of trials.
Interesting!

Perhaps the difference is then explained by my choice of search term. The term I tried after upgrading must happen to appear early in the sorted corpus.

I just now tried it with a very rare term, and it does indeed take longer overall to complete the search.
Global Extinction of Languages Is Threatening a Vital Type of Human Knowledge
> Most Christmas movies don't even mention Christ.

Like "Die Hard" ;).
I have a Borg/Vorta scheduled backup setup going, I can go to point in time if needed. It’s not as good as back when I could use Dropbox versioning, but it has saved me rework a few times.
I agree Briar always has seemed even more decentralized and security conscious than Matrix. I tried to use Briar with my family for awhile and it worked well but its always on function was a bit difficult on mobile (it seems like something that would be worthwhile for some circumstances but maybe not worth the cost for just chatting about groceries).

However, in reading the article, they discussed group communication functions in Matrix, which were absent from Briar for awhile.

They also mention that Matrix is planing on introducing mesh networking, which is very similar to Briar. I found this extremely interesting. It seems like Briar and Matrix are sort of coming full circle to each other. I'd love to see either or both take off.
I’m not unfamiliar with PHP and JS. Those account for about 90% of my work, and have for over a decade.

Every language has its inconsistencies. No question PHP and JS have their faults. That’s what happens when a language gets popular (i.e. actually used rather than just argued about in programmer forums) and the deployed code base grows faster than the developers can “fix” the language. Back-compatibility then imposes real constraints. This happened with C, C++, and SQL too, and every language people actually use to write code with any value. The only joke is smug programmers not getting that we can’t go back in time and fix problems obvious in hindsight unless we’re writing class assignments or hobby projects in Haskell.

I make a good living maintaining and rewriting the first drafts of PHP and JS code written by people who let a bit too much get out of their way. Usually they run into problems of scale, security, maintainability.

If you think deploying a real app that has business value amounts to dropping some PHP files in a folder you should keep my email for when that doesn’t work out. I hope the ransomware hackers don’t find your code first.
I love the idea of this!

One issue I noticed is that adding a jacket does not seem to work. It shows me the loading circle, then goes back to the shirt / pants / no jacket image.
I think the browser HN UI is so good that it’s difficult to switch to anything else even though I appreciate the effort that goes into building something like this.
Thanks for the correction/clarification.
So centrism means everything and nothing at once.
Anecdotally my gravel bike is faster with 28 mm slick tires than with 42 mm sawtooth tires. Of course sawtooth vs slick makes a difference in friction. The hubs in the wheels could make a difference too. I use the 28 mm wheels when I go on asphalt roads in the mountains because I don't want the extra weight and friction. 42 mm for everything else.
The businesses who won't figure out how to raise wages will go out of business and be replaced by new companies who figured out how to have their employees work more efficiently.

It sounds like maybelsyrup has it right, and it's these business owners who are in for the rude awakening. There's a rootbeer stand near me that has a message on their menu saying, "if minimum wage is raised to $15, our prices will go up 10%." They charge $3.60 for a pretty good cheese burger. When I read that message, I sit there thinking that the owner is an idiot. At $4.00, the burger is still a better deal than McDonalds and $15/hr is a solid wage in this area.
If you can hijack the connection (i.e. MITM) you don’t need to control the server in order to compromise the integrity of the information.
Rabies is a lot more lethal and it’s fortunately very rare in the US. The ban makes a lot of sense to me.
This isn't about making a case, it's about giving equal credence to the narratives of a holocaust survivor and someone who denies it.
Well that is a strawman if I ever heard one. Protesting for police accountability != demonizing the police
Inflation: Nothing to See Here?
Please fix headline to $500B.
Browsers themselves configure the open-PDF feature with the OS, and this is different from a website declaring "I can open .xxx files". You can't make a webapp that opens PDFs in your custom site–it opens in an internal-to-the-browser page.
That's a silly stretch. It's vastly more likely that a website fetching copies of a passport image is leaking copies or leaving the files where it shouldn't by accident and has the data exfiltrated by third party identity thieves, compared with a bouncer having a secret scan-quality camera installed by identity thieves without the bouncer noticing.
I don't know why we don't have a permanent ban on this anyway. We don't need to be supporting overseas puppy mills.

We have more than enough dogs in the US to adopt.
I don't think Pizzagate swung the election, but it shows how Wikileaks approach to disinformation works, and illustrates that despite the fact of there being nothing of any real note in the leaked emails, the mere fact of Wikileaks posting them and posting dishonest editorializing about them did have a real impact on public opinion with Pizzagatge being evidence of that.
That would be fun, i know its hard to trust car manufacturers with software, but one can alwys wish.

I just wish if some company create an android/ios app, it would be definitely easier to create than working on some random hardware found in car infotainment for which its hard to find developers.

Now any tablet can be my infotainment. I only need navigation and music to be integrated in app. No other features what so ever.

Basically what volkswagen e-up / skoda e-citigo has done.
The NREL report and most of what you posted focuses on transmission.

What i'm referring to is the expansion capacity of distribution grids to suddenly accommodate large amounts of power from EVs.

Simply posting a lot of links isn't usually a good strategy.
Yeah by that logic here's an example of Germany being the pinnacle of worker rights [1].

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/12/covid-19-outbreaks-in-ge...
For those who are curious which countries are affected and incorrectly thought the information would be the article:

https://www.cdc.gov/importation/bringing-an-animal-into-the-...
In general, people are about as intelligent as you, and at least the same order of magnitude. People are prone to trends as much as the market is, but the market of ideas tends to be somewhat efficient (not least because all profits from financial to business to psychic stem from people and their expectations). So the conclusion that everyone is wrong requires serious burden of proof. Doesn’t mean you can’t be contradictory and correct, it just means that’s unlikely. You can beat the market, but usually you won’t without good evidence

This is less true with morals, unless you’re a relativist.
It's not always a benefit to have the biggest companies in the country. EU has a lot of stable SMEs, which helps the middle class to stay strong, thus creates a stable and safe environment for the people. In the US, there are about 50% of the workforce in SME, in the EU there are more than 66%. It's better and healthier to diversify.
I was going to comment similar as well. Anonymous leaks are typically "offical" sources releasing info as a trial balloon to test which way the political winds are blowing. This provides plausible deniablility if the winds blow in unfriendly directions.
Use of IPv6 for India
It includes India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil and Russia, or most of the world by population. The largest nation in population not included is the U.S. itself. The next largest is Mexico at #10. So 8 of the 10 most populous countries are on the list, and one isn't eligible.
Pure marketing spin. Is Gartner just a conduit for Silicon Valley VC money and influence?
Hilleberg tents do seem nice in terms of the fabrics they use and the design. However, as the long-haul cyclist community has found, the zippers give out appallingly early for such an expensive, artisanal product. (By the end of the Carretera Austral there seemed to be more Hilleberg owners with broken zippers than with working zippers.)

I owned a Hilleberg Nallo GT-class tent that did seem like the five-star hotel of tents, but when the zipper gave out after less than five months of use, I decided in future to simply go with an MSR Hubba-class tent that doesn’t feel much of a step down in comfort, and is less than half the price, so I can replace it if need be and still have spent less than I would for one Hilleberg.
>Again, I really did miss the part where saying "we don't reveal who our sources are" is the same thing as calling a dead man a criminal.

Who said they are the same thing? I repeatedly used "implied". You are framing it as if they were asked a direct question about Seth Rich and their only response was "no comment." They said stuff like this[1]:

>“Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. There is a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, who was shot in the back. Murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington,” said Julian Assange appearing on a Dutch television program called Nieuwsuur.

>Assange added, “We have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States and that our sources are, you know, our sources face serious risks that is why they come to us so we can protect their anonymity.”

He is directly implying that Rich was killed for political reasons, that he was a whisleblower, and then in the next sentence he says "our sources". Do you not see the implication in talking like that?

>To try and uncover suspected corruption and leak it if there was more to his murder than met the eye. It was reasonable to suspect something was up.

The problem, like elsewhere with Wikileaks, is the selective search to uncover corruption. I would have no complaint if Wikileaks made it standard to always offer a reward for information on the death of any political staffer. The problem is that they only offered the reward for this specific staffer already knowing that there was a conspiracy theory that he was their source. That gives them plausible deniability that they are "just seeking truth" while also reinforcing the perceived connection between Seth Rich and Wikileaks.

[1] - https://www.cbs19news.com/story/41466407/wikileaks-offers-20...
It's cool that you've built a website, now figure out who your website is supposed to be seen by (potential employers? friends? current colleagues?) and tailor it for what THEY would want to see.

It's like the difference between a diary (for yourself) or writing a book (for an audience). Don't just make it a dumping ground for random thoughts. Figure out its purpose, or if doesn't have one, just stick to Facebook.

For example, if you're doing this for career prospects, provide quick access to the most relevant things: your resume/CV, portfolio of work, link to repos/profiles, contact info, etc. Don't need the distractions like animations and overly long narratives.

Don't mean to sound harsh, but the world has largely moved on from the 90s and early 2000s when it was still cool to have a personal website or MySpace. People don't have time for that anymore; just give them what they need instead of trying to turn your website into an art project (unless you ARE an artist).
That was my instinctive reaction as well. However once I learnt that the concept of asymptomatic carriers wasn't even known at the time, and that she received negative tests for typhoid, I became less convinced that I would have behaved much differently.
That's not a rude awakening. As long as one's invested in change, that's a speed bump. Businesses can't outsource if outsourcing is severely curtailed by policy or law. Leaders, legislators, policymakers -- they have knobs and dials to turn on this thing. Indeed, leaders fiddling with knobs is what got us here in the first place. In South Korea in the 2nd half of the 20th century, not long ago, capital flight was severely restricted -- punishable by death in some cases! I'm not close to saying we do that here; I'm just saying we have tools.

Like some other commenters, and many thousands more in the broader discourse, you're speaking from a position of "this is the way things are and they can't be changed, so there".

My main point isn't to argue for this or that particular policy. My main point is that the world can be different. People motivated to change it will find a way to do so. In matters like these, arguments for economic determinism are borderline defeatist.
Compound found in human breast milk has the potential to fight cancer
The difference is you prosecute the criminal actor, you make the act of creating a scam illegal. No, I'm not against that regulation. And you might be surprised to find that that regulation already exists, if you're not surprised I don't see why you keep trying to make the same point. Yes, crime should be illegal.

That's not what you're arguing for though. You're arguing for laws against participating in risky behavior by participants, regardless whether that risky behavior is a scam or not, on the grounds that they could lose money.

We don't ban fraud because people lose money, we ban fraud because people are deliberately misled, their rights are violated and they are stolen from, deliberately.

"We should ban people from taking risks", "no, I don't think so", "oh so you think fraud should be legal?" It's exhausting honestly. You should be able to come up with a better argument than this.
> empty land

Boring through two mountain ranges, crossing many rivers (including the Mississippi). Endless bridges for ravines, creeks, and rivers. Lots of snow sheds, the longest was 29 miles, using 29,000,000 board feet of lumber.

Done with muscle.
I have always wondered why rabies vaccination is not given standard in childhood.

Rabies is incredibly scary -- you camp outside, a bat nips you in your sleep, and by the time you know anything has happened, it's too late.
Why not? I think it's exactly relevant.

Replace "hit him with this $5 wrench" with "put him in jail for contempt of court" and it amounts to the same thing.

Give us your password or we will do bad things to you.
This sums up inner Portland as well. It wasn't the case before 2020, though. I like to think it's a temporary state of affairs. The things that make the city an attractive place for families are still there, structurally. They're just covered with a lot of garbage at the moment.