skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Saudis are kind of like a Bishop (our chess piece) checking a Knight (Iran) from doing anything too nuts (and once upon of time, Iraq). I’d also say they act a little bit like West Germany as a forward base against the Soviet threat (kind of an old model at this point, Obama mostly wanted to steer our forces east toward China going forward). Israel got hip to this too. The alliance is really Saudi Arabia, America, Israel.

In fact, I’d say they are a check on a region that could easily fall under the influence of Iran, Russia, and China. Global oil supply being messed with in a destabilized region is a concern, and festering of Islamic terrorism (think about how Russia let’s ransomware terrorists fester).

Russia would go pretty far to destabilize oil in that region. Plus, they are for sale. If we don’t pay them, China will.

The price for all of this is the same price the devil always charges - your soul and values. Genocide in Yemen in 2020, murdering of journalists (in an embassy, goodness), all done with impunity.
> Boxing does it with weight classes, why can't we do it with everything?

I've often heard that women (in general) have ~5% more body fat percentage than males, because of how their body work. That means that if you have two 100kg people in optimal conditions, a man and a woman, the man would have on average 5kg of muscle more than the woman. This is a HUGE difference and wouldn't make for fair fights.
This doesn't seem like much of a realization where you've concluded to just restate the usual batch of Christian puritan morals and sins about sex.
I know of at least three major published studies quantifying the prey caught by domestic cats in New Zealand in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin. All found significant predation of native species by cats, and that it scaled with the population numbers of those species.

On the Dunedin study:
>"A year-long study of 208 cats in urban Dunedin showed that they kill more birds, skinks, geckos, and weta than rats and mice."

>"37 Dunedin cats that were known to be prolific hunters, [...] without collars, the cats caught 378 animals, including 82 birds"

>"There is the well-documented case of a lighthouse-keeper’s cat causing the extinction of the Ste-phens Island wren. And near Tongariro National Park, one feral cat was filmed killing 102 short-tailed bats in the Rangataua forest, on the side of Mt Ruapehu, in just seven days in 2010."

https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/sites/default/files/2018-05...

https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2486....

The success of native breeding, conservation, and re-introduction programmes has been in spite of the country's feral and domestic cats.
One has to wonder if they could then find enough people to staff such an institution.
He's seni-famous even before working at Tesla
Many drug cartels in Mexico get their training from the retired army personnel from Israel, USA. So, what can the USA/Israel do in such a case? Either ban any training given by retired folks; or give fat pensions to such people and make them sign agreements that prevent any private training whatsoever.
I'm also skeptical. There are no rock climbers on this list.

Climbing is still a relatively niche sport (though depending on where you are, it might be one of the most popular), but I'd wager participants collectively spend as much on climbing equipment as many more popular sports. The gear is quite expensive, and for safety reasons, much of it needs to be replaced with relative regularity. You'd be hard-pressed to find a sport where people who don't compete at any level spend $500-2000 per year on equipment (though skiing might give it a run for its money, especially when other expenses of skiing are taken into consideration)

As a result, 'professional' rock climbers (many of whom counterintuitively don't participate in competitive climbing), court a wide variety of sponsorships.
Because they are an invasive species and will decimate birds and other critters, messing up the ecosystem in your neighbourhood and causing a lot of animal suffering. Also they will acquire toxoplasmosis and transmit it to you and your family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
In my home school district, it took years (and many months of formal observers) to fire teachers who habitually came to work drunk or simply didn't do their job, and pre-tenure teachers would all get axed when the economy went downhill. Cop unions aren't that special.
Who is this "we" doing the judging of true and false? People of good conscience have debated weighty issues like political philosophy for thousands of years. Thinking that one half of the country is good and true and the other is hateful and evil is simplistic and wrong (I would go so far as to say that it is a form of evil.)
There are plenty of reasons to support unions, but this sort of corporate welfare could be eliminated by increasing the minimum wage.
But, their accountants and lawyers at least pretend to think they're losing something. I guess the GP seeks to inflict a psychological toll.
The overwrought language here makes the reader feel like they're being yelled at for someone else's mistake.

We get it, you're upset. "Tone of voice" on this chips away at reader sympathy.
What's in it for the Teamsters? I assume they stand to gain a lot of income if they can successfully unionize Amazon?
You're right that Borda count on its own isn't a great system. Though an RCV-style system that eliminates candidates on the basis of least-Borda count would be something else. It might be better than either normal IRV or plain Borda count on their own. (Though I still think I'd rather go with approval voting or STAR.)
That would be fine if Saudi didn't just increase production to match...
> I had far more success in online dating when I started moving towards "let's meet in person as quickly as possible"

Preach! I made the mistake initially of putting in lots of effort to woo some very introverted women with long text conversations because I fell in love with their detailed profiles. Then we meet in person and they were inevitably, if not autistic ... severely socially challenged.

In the end I married a woman with a very simple dating profile instead. We just clicked really well in person, and she's really smart, just not the kind of person to live on the internet and write really detailed profiles. Which is a good complement to me because I tend towards being that person :-p
If you go to Washington DC and go to the Watergate Hotel, right across the street and not on Embassy Row is the massive Saudi Embassy, reminding everyone who comes in over Teddy Roosevelt Bridge who runs barter town.
If they can't organize a vote campaign, do you really want them negotiating your employment terms against a company like Amazon?
Federally yes, primarily in the senate however there is one currently sitting house of reps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Greens#Current_Fede...

There are also 16 state based elected members both in the upper house and lower house

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_Greens_parl...
Great work! I'm curious about what could be achieved in this space in the future.

I'm curious about why you cannot share the GTA5 mod and collection script? I'm curious about that part too -- obtaining good data is always hard.

Cheers and all the best!
> I'm responding to users. You happen to have numerous comments here which aren't entirely accurate or fair, so I have responded to you a few times. Don't take it personal; if you publish something I feel is inaccurate, I'll post a response.

I’m not posting this in fight mode, I sincerely hope it will help: this is user hostile.

You’re responding but you’re not listening. You’re certainly not asking. How could you be sure you know what the other people you interact with think if you feel uniquely qualified to talk about users’ experience and just brush by people who don’t feel supported in their own experience?
Finding Design Patterns in Law
I was thinking the opposite - that using no code would actually be easier with GDPR.

You essentially have one sub-processor (the platform). The well-funded no code platforms have established DPAs that make compliance a bit easier, and adhere to things like the SCC to safeguard data transfers across borders.

Of course, your app’s individual privacy policy and practices will ultimately determine whether you’re compliant, but that’s the same case regardless of the approach you take…
I'm amazed that DDG/Brave don't understand that typing something immediately after a "!" on a smartphone is annoying and difficult. DDG only supports "!" after the character for a small subset of bangs. Thankfully "g!" is one of them, but it's immensely easier to type on smartphone.
> We now change jobs every few years. Or even take time off, or work remotely. We change cities all the time. Mobility and choice is where it's at now.

I think your anecdata around (presumably) tech labor is pretty wildly irrelevant for Amazon warehouse workers.
Perhaps its a bit of inflation but i think its more like my prediction that a couple of tech companies will have hegemony over everything like in Korea or Japan.
I think what you're saying here is fair. I still don't think you've addressed my other points regarding organizations using progressive language to guard themselves from criticism.

But yes, I'm probably guilty of the knee-jerk emotional reaction to words made to trigger emotion as the article of discussion mentions.
Do not want to sound discouraging but don't we already have NOAB?

BTW NOAB is available on Kindle, which is far better than any "app" IMHO.
They are just moving the ads from one place to another. Its the same thing.
Your condescension speaks volumes.
There really needs to be some back pressure mechanism for DMCA requests. Right now it feels like we are all peasants living at the whims of some medical lord issuing decrees. I am just not sure what that mechanism would look like, because it is a fine balance to strike.
It isn't a binary, the question is the right representation as much as anything else.
If this is an issue for all MTF weightlifters, would it be reasonable to disqualify someone only if they had previously competed at the same level as a male?
To be fair, enough of them have similar-enough wording that, despite coming directly from companies, I suspect there's some kind of common data scraping and/or recruiting pipeline I may have fallen into.

Either that or I just accidentally did really good at the keyword game at some point.
It really is hard to describe and, to be fair, is certainly only one symptom of ADHD and a dozen other things. This is why a diagnosis needs to come from a professional, but if someone has been struggling to put together the pieces of their own puzzle, there are likely far more behaviors that have driven them to consider this.
Brave isn't competition to google. Brave browser is just chromium under the hood, and their search is clearly just piggybacking off of google and bing results like every other third rate search engine.

The entire reason brave exists is so they can sell metrics data and push some garbage scamcoin.
Show HN: Product Studio – Product Management as a Service
It is common to hear a transwoman claim (indeed, even occasionally here on HN) that anything other than recognizing them as equal to ciswomen is an act of violence and prejudice against them, and at worst, they utter some invective about “TERFs”. So, suggesting the recognition of a new gender is unlikely to satisfy at least those strident individuals.
This chilling effect will be the downfall of western civilizations.
Induction coils I think tend to be the most expensive option and the amount of power you can transfer tends to be less than overhead lines or rails. That would be an interesting way to install them, though.
It must be everywhere. Everyone is talking about it. It's all you hear about. We must be right.

https://www.theonion.com/conservative-man-tearfully-informs-...
> You elect the candidate that the most people approve of, regardless of whether or not there are other "stronger" candidates.

It may be a strategic voting: I approve anyone who is not democrat (or republican).

> The population would be better served than if one of the "strong" left or right candidates were elected.

Not necessarily. Perhaps it is better when left/right candidates alternate (driving important changes in their area of interests), than weak candidates elected every time.
Tried OneNote?
It just doesn't feel likely that this could be successfully coordinated or occur in a decentralized way organically in a sufficiently large election.

Consider how little trust a lot of people have in polling. You would need a very high amount of trust in it if you were going to dishonesty rank your choices based on it. And if strategic voting is going to be based on polling, wouldn't we expect people then start strategically lying to pollsters?

The system has too much chaos.
Some of the comments here don't like this book for various reasons. I'm curious - is there a (or two) recommended book which serves this purpose - learning C and building a lisp (= learning how programming languages work)?
> The more votes we collect, the more accurate is the representation of the whole.

This isn't true. If voters are voting randomly (or effectively randomly) then that's just noise in the system. Worse, if voting is based on candidate exposure (i.e. voting on who had more TV ads rather than policy) then the votes are explicitly not representative of voter preference (unless the candidate that advertises the most also happens to be the true preference of voters, but we should not assume this to be true). Your statement is only true given a large amount of assumptions which typically do not hold true in practice. It holds true if voters are both informed, vote purely honestly (no strategy or no manipulation which includes through ads), and candidates are fairly representative of public opinions. I don't think anyone would argue that these three assumptions hold true in most elections. Real world doesn't have idealistic conditions.

So no, more voters does not result in better representation.
You're just describing tenure?

If your high school has a tenure system, it's not a teacher issue, it's a systemic issues.

Cop unions are incredibly special. The thing about cop unions is that they're the same everywhere, there is no city where cops are fired adequately for cause. There are plenty of cities where teachers can get fired.

There is no profession with the same universal tolerance for abuse anywhere as cops. The reason has to do with their function as cops, not their labour union.
Gitlab 14.0 released with a celebration of Gitlab 14
Two things come to mind

- Federal funds is really just debt sold to investors and passed on to the states.

- Newsom is up for recall and most of the anger towards him is how much he fumbled stimulus and the pandemic.

Pretty easy to see that he probably called in some favors at the federal level to save himself.
I don't get why people feel the need to make these unique domain names for a single blog post.

This happened with 'chrome is bad'[0] where someone anonymously registered a new domain complaining about Chrome's updater taking up CPU, but the comments later pointed out that it most likely was just a bug in activity monitor[1].

It seems the only reason for doing this instead of having a personal site with multiple blog posts is to spark debate while keeping a zero-repercussion way out in case the internet/HN determines that the situation is more nuanced than what the blog makes it out to be, or when it's outright incorrect on facts.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400618

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401681
> Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department [emphasis mine]

Likewise, the death squads trained by the School of the Americas were not there by some mistake or bureaucratic misstep -- it was known who they were working for, and their training was quite intentional.

Sure, we can argue that unapproved training will still take place, but it doesn't let us off the hook for the "counterinsurgency" training that was and is still consciously given to known repressive regimes.
I don't see how A comes to B. How does telling people that they're not as self-made as they think they are some how excaerbate social disparity?

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Fwiw, I don't believe in being self-made because everyone's idea of "a ton of bullshit" is different.

I feel like by American standards I'm "self-made". I taught myself how to program as a kid and made a career for myself that pays extremely well (I work at a "FAANG-adjacent" company, equitable pay).

My parents didn't co sign any loans, I didn't even go to college. No connections ever involved in getting a job, no friends of parents for summer jobs or anything. Just mind numbing famounts of hours spent single mindedly working on things from childhood to adulthood. Struggling to teach myself, struggling against everyone telling my I was wasting my time (in their defense, I almost didn't graduate high school over how focused I was on projects that ultimately didn't become anything), sacrificing a lot of what most people experience growing up because I was convinced this was what mattered.

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But then you have my parents. My dad grew up with a father who was a non-functioning alcoholic in a 3rd world country. He'd farm for yams to get a few cents to pay for school uniforms. He'd walk a mile out to his friend's house in the middle of the night to be able to read by a lantern because they didn't have one.

My mother's father died and a young age and she had to grow up with relatives who didn't hide their disdain for her. As I've grown older I've realized she downplays how bad her situation was growing up, but in the end she wanted to continue education and they forced her to be a seamstress, so she taught herself to type (in the days of typewriters not computers) and joined the police as a secretary in her country.

Today my dad has a PhD and my mother has her doctorate. Compared to them I might as well have been handed the world in a silver platter for the simple reason, at least I had time. I wasn't struggling to find food, I wasn't cleaning up after my father after he soiled himself in a drunken stupor. My parents might not have agreed with what I was doing, and it might have brought conflict between us, but they didn't hate me.

Of course if you look around you'll find someone who would make their story look like they got a silver platter. After all, at the very least in their poverty they still had peace. They weren't dodging bullets, they weren't in a war-torn country or something.

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That's why I have no problem with social pressure telling "modestly privileged, or even hugely privileged" people to shut up about how absolutely terrible the odds were and how they struggled. Everything is relative.

Put a prince who's never lifted a finger to even wash his face in an upper middle class life and he'll cry real tears struggling to figure out how a 9-5 works.

There's nothing wrong with giving him a shoulder to cry on, but there's nothing useful or teachable about his struggle (except maybe driving home the how deep his privilege was...) I'd much rather hear from what it took people with much less to get to where they are. There's often more to learn there.
Disc golf has a far far bigger reach than you prob realize. The biggest difference between discgolf and ballgolf is its accessibility. Almost every town has a free to play course, and you can be fully equipped to play for 40 bucks. After a couple months of playing or a trip to play-it-again, you can be as well equipped as some professionals.

The biggest difference between discgolf and other sports is that the popularity structure is inverted. Discgolf is popular as a played sport. Most other sports are popular as a watched sport. Not many people aren't taking off early on Friday to go to compete in beer league wrestling. Good luck on your local course Friday at 3pm.

It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on its watched popularity cure.
The kobo elipsa has some rudimentary version of this (it can recognise equations and calculate solutions). [1]

What people often forget is the importance of writing feel. I have a remarkable and its like night and day compared to writing on a regular tablet. Fortunately with the remarkable the kobo elipsa the onyx we are now seeing more and more devices aimed at note taking.

[1] https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hands-on-review-of-the-...
At 90% of jobs I've had, I've made and kept at least one long term friend (over 10 years).

I've shifted cities, but when I return these are people I go out of my way to meet with.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

That TheOatmeal comic always comes to mind.
I'm definitely all for punitive measures on amazon if they're found guilty there. That also works invalidate the results in my book. That's an if, though.
Disc golf tourism great as well. Very easy to throw a putter a middie and a drive in a suitcase and try a new course in a new town.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Lisp is a perfect example of an underestimated programming language.

It really is astonishing that most programmers (whom I know) consider Lisp to be this weird language with too many brackets.
Minecraft Crossbow: All You Need to Know
Response from a Flatpak package maintainer:

https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flat...
We're not talking about hiding money obtained via UBI
Modernize large-scale NFS workloads and eliminate data silos with Azure Storage
Not law enforcement. Corrections. It attracts a different type of person, and a different type of psychopathy.
I suspect a lot, but not just Microsoft, all the FAANG companies have minted a lot of millionaires. If you ever browse the /r/FatFIRE sub-reddit you'll read a lot of stories of how much some of the folks at FAANG are making and their total net worth (granted there are also some non-FAANG and non-tech folks on that sub.)
I was commenting about the Sino British Joint declaration, which is a treaty in English that I have read, not the NSL that I cannot interpret faithfully. Please carefully read the context in [1]

I argued that courts caring about foreign affiliations of media is not unique to Hong Kong. And indeed it isn't, it happened in the US just a few months ago and apparently no one cared.

If you're not disputing that FARA gives the US government the ability to oust or imprison foreign news organizations at the total discretion of the executive, I don't understand our disagreement.
I've not used tarsnap before but it doesn't seem to be worth the frustration being caused here. I think rsync works pretty well and it's end to end encrypted over SSH with multiple ways to perform compression.
D3FEND Matrix – Mitre D3FEND
What should I read to learn more about this?
> However, it presents a huge problem for women's athletics,

Trans women have been able to compete for years in Olympic level sport, and they haven't wiped the floor with cis women. I fail to see evidence of the problem - I see a lot more evidence of it being a culture war and TERF talking point.

It also doesn't really line up with the fact that we fawn over genetic quirks that let Michael Phelps dominate his sport. If we think that certain sorts of genetic quirks are unfair in women's sport, why do we allow them in men's?
The Debate over Origins of SARS-CoV-2
it would have to be a democratic country with these types of capabilities. US, is the obvious choice
flatkillsucks.com is $10/year on Namecheap.

Your move, I guess.
How much money does Google make again?