skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in a place in Ontario where the grading wasn't correct and my sump pumps were failing every 18-24 months. It would run for days after a heavy rain.
There’s just so much confirmation bias.

I guarantee you one thing - no matter the ultimate observable precursors, I bet there are thousands of buildings across the states that have the same precursors and nothing will be done.

Fundamentally maintenance is just not prioritized. This is true both in software and in general. If you want to scare yourself just Google elevator death. Elevators are a perfect example of the issue in that there are regular inspections but inspections do not imply maintenance.

I am not even sure how exactly you foster a culture of maintenance at this point.
As someone who used to be against drug (including weed) legalization, I had my opinion changed completely by this article few years ago. I shared it with a few of my right leaning friends and several of them also had their opinions changed:

Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

It's an excellent read which addresses both sides of the drug legalization debate, side effects of the legalization and how to prevent the bad side effects and presents similar actions in other countries.

A significant majority of my conservative friends are also moving in this direction. Conservative leaning Justice Clarence Thomas today said federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary: "The federal government's current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana,” the conservative Supreme Court justice wrote.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thom...

Now, I am for legalizing and pardoning (non-dealing/manufacturing) weed, cocaine and mushrooms. The only reason I am hesitant for heroine, meth and fentanyl is because if I remember right, heroine and meth get laced with fentanyl which is very easy to overdose on. But I am willing to be corrected if that's not the case.

The last month's ban on menthol cigarettes and flavoured tobacco is a step backwards unfortunately. Considering menthols are preferred by 86% blacks and 46% hispanics, it will just create a new black market and put more of them in prison.

With that said, I don't want everywhere to devolve into San Fransisco either where you see needles everywhere and addicts tweaked out everywhere. Most people who are against legalization aren't going to agree with it if they see things like how San Fran is turning out. So the legalization must be done correctly.

If they are legalized and provided via stores which check ID, that would reduce the black market, reduce cartels across the border, reduce gangs, drug dealing and reduce the prison population which had played a major role in wreaking havoc on many families. It would also reduce policing gone wrong / corruption and have less "rebellious" kids doing it.
> But we are told that we can't have "enterprise" funding which means that we need to scrap and claw money from the people that use our services just to keep them online.

I find how internal budgeting is done in many cases to be very strange. I run into this in my organization as well. Internal budget disputes can stop or start project work, so I can be sitting around idly (while getting paid) while they sort out the internal monopoly money they use.

I get why they do it as you can't just dump unlimited resources into something, but it has all manner of side effects that it generates.
> Every drug company gives away their drugs for free to people who can't afford it in the US

No, they don’t all provide their drugs for free, but most of them offer directly or fund assistance programs that provide either free or reduced cost drugs.
IIRC, because of the necessary simplicity of the Bohr Model, it would essentially be a dot -- totally empty, as the electrons exist in a probabilistic cloud. According to some theories[1], there might only be one electron total in the entire universe.

Completely entrancing.

Do you think the electrons could pass between the subatomic bonds of positrons, neutrons, etc? I've never heard an explanation of what might happen.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
My wife used Duolingo to get most of the way to A1 levels (she then did some free Deutsche Welle stuff in preparation for the exam, but that was it). And for that, it’s good: Getting the basics of a language.
I remember looking into applying to them but back in the day they claimed they only hired Phds.

Which is interesting because their app or its teaching style never turned out all that exceptional
That's an amusing reductio ad absurdum, but most people don't have that much of an objection to ad-supported media in principle, it is a time-honored business model.

But being an asshole about insisting that everyone log in so you can target them individually isn't actually a requirement for the business model to work and be profitable.

At most, you can justify being an asshole about insisting that the user not be using an ad-blocker (with the user having the option of logging in with a paid account for an ad-free experience).
Uh, how about they just don’t remove any video unless it contains pornographic or copyrighted content?

The problem isn’t who YouTube relies on for “the truth.” It’s that they’re removing “untrue” videos in the first place.
HDR in Linux: Part 2
True, mostly. People do get addicted to sugar and alcohol. Though it appears about 30% of people get addicted to MJ use [1] which makes them moody or restless. Does that really hurt others, more so than someone not getting their coffee in the morning? I get moody without my coffee. The other issues they list appear to only affect the person with the dependency.

I suppose if we go down the rabbit hole, if a person is so moody they lose their job and they have children dependent on them, that's a problem. I would put that in the same category as drinking on the job though.

[1] - https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...
They're = being leaches. Sure Windows 95 is expensive, but so were PCs. If you look at inflation adjusted OS prices, you'll see significant declines that reflect a lot of competition:

- Windows 95 was $210 in 1995: $370.94 in today's dollars.

- Windows XP was $199 in 2002: $297.78 in today's dollars.

- Windows 7 was $159.99 in 2009: $200.75 in today's dollars.
Well I think you're making an assumption that the consumer would be educated and motivated enough to buy this product and then be willing to stick a camera in their car and keep it plugged in all the time for little short term value to the user.

Plus, with something like this, there is a difference between the end user and the person purchasing the product. The purchaser might be a parent for their child but the end user is the child. I think there's a small percentage of end users who would actually use the product their loved one bought them.

So I guess overall it feels like it would be tough to gain traction and find product market fit.
So, for starters, what is described in the article (and maybe even the post your responded to) is not really a termination without cause, it is a termination for cause.

If you have a policy you require of your employees("You must take a picture of yourself"), and you terminate the employee for not doing it, that is not a without-cause termination.
That is a termination for-cause - the cause being the violation of the policy.

Termination without cause would basically be "we are downsizing, you are no longer needed".

The rules about "without-cause" are pretty consistent state to state.
However, the rules on "with cause" vary state to state. In a lot of states, you can't terminate someone for violating a policy if they didn't violate it. These policies are a form of "implied contract".

In other states, the employer can act completely and totally arbitrarily, as long as it is not acting illegally.

This is actually the minority of states.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Mine is fine. Check your browser and extensions.
I doubt either the HOA or the condo owners would have been amicable to a costly special a$$essment for restoration. Everyone is a good quarterback after the fact.
> For example, for most social mammals, being higher status protects you more from stressful life events, so that you less often invoke the standard mammal stress response. By not spending on stress, you body invests more in growth and immunity. So higher status primates are less sick, and live longer.

Does data support modern humans having lower stress levels than similar mammals? (Or, for that matter, that higher-status mammals have lower stress?)

How would the proposed adaptation not be equally beneficial to lower-status mammals?

The strongest argument for this hypothesis seems to be its explanatory power; it smells like grasping at straws
This is the first major article about covid lab release dating to Jan of 2020. It was also the first article to be censored. Doesn't mention either of those.

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/man-behind-global-coronavir...
I suppose you are correct. I do trust you - you have earned that trust, and I don't think you have edited any comments yet.
>Why are you skipping over the fact that Muslims are middle class in the US?

That makes the the likes of the San Bernardino, Orlando, and Boston Marathon attacks all the worse, because you can't cite the usual go-to excuse in Europe of "the [French|British|Belgians so badly mistreat Muslims that they cannot escape the banlieus, and thus resort to violence". The San Bernardino attack, in particular, was carried out by a middle-class US-born civil servant and his wife.

>Why ignore Sikhs in Canada in the 80s (Air India bombing, etc) which Trudeau got in hot water over when visiting India.

* The bombing was because of Sikh separatism in India. That in this case deadly consequences outside India is terrible, but it does limit the scope of the relevance to other atrocities.

* The events (outside India, at least) were several decades ago.

* Most important, the Sikhs who committed these crimes did not believe or claim that their religious belief is the only legitimate one in the world, and did not try to extend their ideology's reach across a large portion of the world, with the ultimate goal of the entire world under their control.
Thanks, I wondered that--when I first read it ("read" in the sense of sounding it out and looking for words I might know), 'duenos' reminded me of the Spanish for "owner". I was puzzled to find it translated "the good (man)" instead, but this explains it. I guess dw --> b makes some sense, too. So why did 'duo' not become bo?
You are ignorant of how the Mexican legal system works.
How to Generate High Revenue If You Own a Land in the SandBox
> In the pool equipment room, located on the south side of the underground garage, the contractor saw another problem — exposed and corroding rebar in the concrete slab overhead.

I'm curious if it was a saltwater pool.
Absolutely nothing for me, but after reading up on Aphantasia and the link it has to a lack of autobiographical memory, it makes sense. I have a condition called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (http://sdamstudy.weebly.com/what-is-sdam.html) which means I can barely remember anything from my life and what little I do remember is vague and fuzzy.

Intereesting correlation.
I also agree that governments should not infringe on liberties.
The censorship isn't limited to YouTube. Scholarly articles from large collaborations have been censored from peer-reviewed journals when they received too much public attention:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/frontiers-removes...
EDE - small and fast desktop environment
oh wow, i'm from Seattle (abroad since 2013) and didn't know that bridge closed! Such a major artery to West Seattle being shut down. Getting in and out of Alki must be annoying af.

Obviously great that they caught it and have a rapid response, but pretty crazy.
Why I’m obsessed with automating my sales job (and why you should be too)
eliminating free parking and parking minimums seems reasonable enough. people who need a car to get to the place where they make money can figure out how to pay for parking. stuff like prioritizing plowing the sidewalk over the road sounds like deliberately pissing drivers off. what it sounds like is important, and most people drive. imagine being a politician outside of maybe NYC and having that as part of your platform.

other people like me have more specific issues. I'd actually love to bike or take public transit to work, but there's no bus/train that goes anywhere near my office, it would take over an hour to bike there, and all the other software companies are also outside the city. why are there no virtually no employers in my field in a major american city? kind of a tangent, but if you don't look at things like this too, you are making my life worse without offering anything.
Congrats on launching. This is a product category that I've been wanting to tackle for quite some time, and it looks like you've done a pretty good job. I also notice that many of the comments are raising the point about how to trust you and the catch-22 of having to provide PII to protect PII. I get it. I was going to launch a product like this as a second or third product of my company so there would be enough trust and good will built up to reduce everyone's apprehension. It's tough. :-/

I see in another comment you want to add support for opting out of zoominfo. Great idea. If I may humbly share some other suggestions:

* A family plan so I can monitor/remove my wife and children's data as well. Even a way to help my parents would be great.

* Opt out of junk snail mail.

* I don't know if this can be automated, but a way to get the credit card companies to stop selling our transaction data. I can't even count how many times Chase has sent us a letter telling us that they've updated their privacy policy, and if we want to opt out of their latest data selling scheme, we need to write a letter and mail it off to some mysterious address and pray that they actually do what they say they will do.
It’s not wrong, either.
Indeed. The condo members could have easily been the ones fighting action.

My grandparents used to own a condo where the people there were unwilling to spend money on anything. What would have been a couple hundred dollar special assessment morphed into a several thousand one very quickly multiple times, as nobody was willing to spend the money fixing things.
Now these same centers of power are pushing neoracist anti-white brainworms on us and our children. Twitter, TikTok, et al are full of content leisurely calling white people colonizers, genociders, white supremacists, white skin being an inherent evil that can never be cured etc. But any earnest pushback results in account bans.

Which leads to this nasty monoculture of one-sided hatred being allowed to thrive and appear to present a consensus of this being okay.
Controversial Alzheimer’s drug could cost US $334B–nearly half of DoD budget
Commmmme on a DB without authentication or user permissions on a public network...
That's exactly what you do. Find a guide on buying LTSC through a Microsoft partner. It's expensive but you can effectively install it many times.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
Not quite, but I experience very bad logic and logical inconsistencies in dreams. For example:

- Can't even do basic math, or I solve it wrong (e.g. 2 + 3 = 7)
- Impossible (non-euclidian) spatial arrangement
- Leave out big gaps of details, which I have to fill in if I remember the dream. Not that I'm forgetting stuff, I just never thought of it in the first place
- Misremember stuff from the past
I have been reading SF for most of my entire life and I am not sure I can think of a single book that presented "de facto rule by extremely powerful corporations" as a good thing. They're pretty much always villains when they show up.
Certainly the costs in the 90s were tied directly to physical distribution and comparatively lesser market demand. Whereas nowadays digital distribution is king and market demand is ubiquitous. I'd consider those factors to be responsible for driving prices down before I'd give a multinational corporation credit for allowing me to use their product (that I paid for) in return for pervasive advertising.
I've personally found duolingo to be a poor way to learn a language. It gets none of the nuances right and is mostly just for entry level vocab.

My favorite method is this guys using anki:

http://brianjx.altervista.org/GermanC2exam.html

His stories on German and Italian are fascinating reads because he was in his later years in life when he learned it! It's just a general nod to remember, you're never too old to learn!
considering how much rosetta stone held the same position and quickly fell out of favor, I wonder how much of a selling point it is.
China’s Digital Yuan Paves the Way for Global CBDCs
Shock find brings extinct mouse back from the dead
The researchers obtained the image using a technique called electron ptychography. It involves shooting a beam of electrons, about a billion of them per second, at a target material. The beam moves infinitesimally as the electrons are fired, so they hit the sample from slightly different angles each time—sometimes they pass through cleanly,

Sounds like x-ray diffraction, but with electrons.
Late to comment, but couldn't resist the comparison with Ubik. The door that refuses to open until the protagonist deposits a coin, and threatens him when he begins to bypass it, could well be the AI toaster that berates you for not using approved bread.
Oh I see, that makes sense. Also there's a sibling reply to yours for a cool looking proposal to do just that if you haven't seen it yet.
The Ganzflicker is very cool.

I only did it for 2 minutes, and it wasn't strong or overpowering. But I saw a) a blurry checkerboard, and b) ripples coming out of the 4 corners of the screen.

It turns out, 4 ripples coming out of the screen creates a blurry checkerboard! See https://www.falstad.com/ripple/, set to "Example: Four Sources". That was exactly what I saw, but sped up, in red instead of green, and the ripples came out of the corners instead of east/north/west/south.
Not to be rude but OP this show & tell is kind of tone deaf. With your own hands you burned down the IRC community and then post nonchalantly about a related side project as if nothing happened. Good on you for your ability to tune out what you may view as noise.
I'd rather use a moderated platform with a few moderation mistakes than a completely unmoderated "anything goes" cesspool like Voat, 8Chan or Parler.
A good point.

We can tell the difference between high productivity / low wages and low productivity / low wages because the latter will tend to shed jobs on subsidy withdrawal while the former will tend to pay more.

Workers with high productivity but low wages (let's say, in an factory where the owners make a lot but the employees are easily replaceable) are still a good deal at a legislated higher price, the owners just get less of the surplus.

Another way to think about it is that while productivity doesn't set wages, it represents the ceiling of what you'd be able to pay. Those marginal, low productivity, "can't afford to pay you more" jobs are what you lose when you remove subsidies (or increase minimum wage).

Hence, subsidies targeted at low wage earners disproportionately incent low productivity labour.
Oh cool! Thanks for the pointer.
A lot of people have tried, without much luck.

Verily (part of Google/Alphabet) had a joint project with Novartis to build contact lens that sensed glucose in tears, but it didn't pan out.

An analytical chemist has assembled a compendium of approaches that haven't panned out here: http://www.mendosa.com/noninvasive_glucose.pdf
> I’ll go out on a limb and posit that there are virtually no valid uses of (implementation) inheritance.

class Iterable { ... }

class Tree extends Iterable { ... }
class SortedTree extends Tree { ... }

class Map extends Iterable { ... }
class HashMap extends Map { ... }
class InsertionMap extends Map { ... }
class BiMap extends Map { ... }

Need more examples of "valid uses of (implementation) inheritance"?

> And if you get rid of inheritance, there is very little left to distinguish OOP from procedural programming like one would do in C or Go.

No. To make OOP indistinguishable from "C or Go", you would also need to eliminate at least; encapsulation, composition, access control, and compiler provided dynamic dispatching.
Really enjoyed this perspective. It certainly culls my expectations and gives me some perspective.
“Pride Destroyed the Park”, Washington Square Park After a Parade [video]
"Promoted content" and fake "Trending" is moderation now? Sounds like "moderation" is being used as a head fake for publishing.

You are talking about how things are right now and I am talking about how things should be to make things fair. 2 very different things.

Your logic would have been used to claim slavery/segregation/Jim Crow/railroads is okay because it's the law!

Trillion dollar companies deciding what can and can't be said, promoting some view points, and suppressing others. They've gone from platforms to publishers. That's how we get the "lab leak" debacle.
Tobacco and alcohol are restricted. Almost every country has rules around how old you must be to purchase or consume them, where you can purchase them, where you can consume them, how much you can consume before driving (in the case of alcohol), etc.

There's no reason we can't apply the same reasonable controls to cannabis.
Nobody that's ripping on tether in here is going to short it lol, they're not that confident in their own words.
Yet, it probably will.
We definitely need a world government to survive
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educate me. please.
I know absolutely nothing about whistleblowing laws, but, like, shouldn’t this be driven by policy? I get that lawmakers might not have whistleblowers’ best interests in mind but this feels squarely on Congress to me. Might be an interesting space tho. What do I know.
It is also deeply tied with criminals organizations providing them a healthy revenue stream.

Look to the commercialization in US states like Colorado as a better (but not perfect) model.
Makes me wonder what affect more freely available pornography had on the world, first with VHS tapes, and later with the internet. Are people generally less frustrated and happier? Surely someone has studied this.
in what world is there a selfish financial incentive for whistleblowing?