skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an European, so much of what has been described here is mind-boggling at best. WTF why does America have different sales taxes between counties? Why are "dry counties" even a thing? And why do healthcare costs differ so wildly?

As a comparison, here in Germany it's one federal level of sales tax (19% and 7% for food and a couple other exempted items), one federal level of healthcare costs (7.3% of gross wage, plus .5-2% of surcharge depending on insurance company), and legal drinking/smoking age is federal 16 (beer/wine)/18 (tobacco, other alcohols), and you can buy alcohol and tobacco products everywhere.
They need to buy better old movies.

Their catalogue of award winning, or good movies is very low.

I think the problem is the studios figured why rent them to Netflix when we can put up our own OnDemand service?

So, Netflix was at a conundrum, "How do we get material so people won't leave, and we can raise our prices?"

Overpaid Netflix MBA, "I got it! Let's throw money at directors, and writers. The directors will make make our movies because we pay well. The writers will churn out cliched filled scripts, and put every plot twist into everything they write. The average viewer isn't here to watch quality, we will give them a huge bat of lousy material. It will be like feeding the hogs with slop?"

Amazon Prime video seems to have a better library for those that appreciate good movies.

I did like The Twillight Zone, and Star Trek, when I had Netflix though.

(Years ago Netflix offered every episode of the Zone, and Trek. I got every silgle episode through the mail, and copied to dvd using---dvd something? They come in handy if xfinity goes out.

Oh yea, Xfinity was charging a family member $260 a month. I painfully got. down to 130 a month. She was loosing $1390 a year for probally a decade--with pretty much the same plan.

Xfinity should be broken up, or better regulated by authorities. I literally gave up trying to rectify the situation talking to three people who could barely speak english. The last Ecuadorean guy's english was so bad, I gave up, and just picked the cheapest plan on Comcast, and prayed the bill would go down.

A Xfinity employee told me the current business plan is just "milk" long term customers with confusing bills, and deals. They don't care about cord cutters. They know they will always have a large percent of people who will just pay because their isn't a real option in their county, and many older people are not computer savvy.

Hell I'm computer savvy, but their application interface is purposely confusing. I could sware they are randomenly switching prices over the phone, and through their application. I hope someone outs them if my hunch is right.
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It's never not time for a new job; always be looking. Job hoppers statistically make a significant amount more in total compensation than non-hoppers.
> Is the proposition that she'll have an easier time making friends in a city that's 60% Democrat as opposed to 40%?

In rural areas that distinction actually matters.

> Same thing with the dry county issue. Is an extra five minutes in the car to the next county over even noticeable?

When your county is wet, you don't need a car to get to the nearest pub or can hail an Uber for cheap to get home.
I don't think this is what they mean about "shaving face" being important in Chinese culture. :P
Well we have time! With a bit of luck we have real spaceships by the time it is done ;)
LGBTQ as a movement is seen as a western influence. It’s funny that I saw your comment, earlier today I read a machine-translated version of this article(1) that was shared by a Wechat contact. I would say this attitude is fairly common among people 40+ in China.

Warning if you don’t want to get angry: it is full of repulsive views.

(1) https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Qar43EmA7x8yhntk5OhXTw
This is not their stablecoin.
> can probably workaround this with just 5 clicks

It's actually implemented back-end, you can't cheat.
how does this not resemble a kingdom society?
Every time I took truffles I had a 'dirtier' and less predictable experience, more often than not they were negative. At the time I was very experienced with wet and dry mushrooms so maybe it was a nocebo.
Upvoted because unnecessary to downvote this comment, but calling the WaPo "far left" is ridiculous.

They are center-right editorially (in my opinion) and relatively neutral in terms of the two parties.

Both Democrats and Republicans bitch relatively equally about the "bias". Same applies to NYT and others.

"Left" publications would be ones such as Mother Jones.

"Right" would be National Review.

There are academic attempts to classify media on the left/right partisan measure such as https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444

and even a "patented" bias measurement at:

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

which is vastly amusing to review outside of the US bubble.

Calling the Economist "left" is just plain wrong. They are the original "liberal" (as in regarding economics, trade etc) newspaper.
Hmm, two incendiary articles about China on the front page. Either the CCP is truly expanding their publicly totalitarian actions, or someone else has something political to gain. I wonder which it is this time?
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Xi wants no waves for the CCP 100th Anniversary celebrations and a few other key milestones this year. That’s why even the wolf warriors are being muzzled at the moment.
And at least when I'm on it through my browser, I need to actually click on the title to see the rating, which makes it difficult to use it to filter out junk quickly.
> But as earlier post pointed out, we don't really know why they do these things, why should they be so beneficial to us?

Why does St. John’s Wort, passionflower etc have antidepressant effects? Why does penicillin mold produce an antibiotic? Why does gingerols act as anti-emetics? Why do coca leaves, coffee beans give a buzz?

There is nothing magical with an active compound to have a specific dose-response curve either.
https://twitter.com/KoroushGhazi/status/1412719410431729669?...
I assume they would have had (and maybe still have) teams of staffers answering and making calls and knocking on doors
Do you think an Emoji will break your API?
You clearly need to get to know some atheists. I recommend you do some traveling in Northern Europe. You’ll find half the population are unbelievers and yet they are all basically decent people.
This proposal is from the company that sues non-compliant companies for a living (consider donating): https://noyb.eu/en/new-browser-signal-could-make-cookie-bann.... So I am expecting this proposal to be offered to legislators if the industry pretends not to notice (but legislators in Europe usually only make ISO standards enforced, and the usual road is to prepare a spec, standardize it at a "smaller" venue, e.g. OASIS or W3C and then submit a complete document to ISO for a fast-track approval as an ISO standard). Just a few weeks ago they filed around 500 complaints with the regulators: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is.... Specific excerpt with respect to your sentiment:

"Blame it on the GDPR? Many internet users mistake this annoying situation as a direct outcome of the GDPR, when in fact companies misuse designs in violation of the law. The GDPR demands a simple “yes” or “no”, as reasonable people would expect, but companies often have the power over the design and narrative when implementing the GDPR."

Same guy who sued Facebook and won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems

Your link leads to https://mastercard.com/api/v4/card-actions/send-money?confir... ?! Edit: I guess this was by design, nice trick.
does testingbot support running tests with Detox[0]?

[0] https://github.com/wix/Detox
The value proposition of this is pretty great, actually, and the implementation of it can be rather simple even though the actual interfaces underneath are rather fucked up historically because at it's core it's merely just getting a stream of bytes in/out.
Don't come to Amsterdam and take drugs without knowing how to deal with it, please. This kind of stupidity is exactly what got psilocybin mushrooms banned here.
That's a good summary. I was trying to get a handle on what 'harmful' could mean, and why this isn't higher than 70% from recommendations. What are the other sources, search results, word-of-mouth, etc? Anyway this part cleared up the context.

> New research published today by Mozilla backs that notion up, suggesting YouTube’s AI continues to puff up piles of ‘bottom-feeding’/low grade/divisive/disinforming content — stuff that tries to grab eyeballs by [...]

It seems the best way to play this is to not interact with (downvote, comment on) content you don't want to see, and stop playing such content as soon as you know.
Assuming that failed communist states "are not communist" is is a dangerous fallacy which keeps alive the idea that "Communism works but has never been tried in real life". The CCP is a communist party in one of the end stages of the ideology just like the Soviet communist party was a communist party in one of its end stages, just like all the other failed communist states were led by communist parties in their end stages. The problem lies with the ideology, not with the implementation thereof.
They all do it, from influences, big advertisers, and cable news networks on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snap, TikTok, etc all game the recommendation algorithms of each of these platforms.

As long as the advertisers are happy paying them, they won't change. Not only these algorithms govern what is seen and unseen on those platforms, it is also a privacy issue and they operate by requiring to track the user's usage information.

The small users and 'content creators' lose either way. They work for the recommendation algorithm and it can change at anytime and they end up earning less. Or they get removed from the platform / programme because of their low number of views and that's that, whilst the big players game the system.
That seems to give a repl at a breakpoint, I was asking about getting a repl at a point of exception. That is what elisp gives.
You are looking for the person who has good prose.
This can be a limiting factor for non-standard profiles.
Because nature spends 100% of its time trying to kill and eat everything including humans. The only reason we have either the ability or the desire to romanticise nature now is that we've so effectively emancipated ourselves from it.
I agree, meditation would benefit a lot from a no-nonsense approach and wording.

Then again in my experience a lot of practitioners of meditation and related techniques use those New Age terms not for a lack of better terminology but because they actually intend to convey the New Age meaning (whatever that is exactly). So I'm not sure they would agree with you to drop those names.
You can add IMDB ratings with extensions.
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Disagree.

> Obviously the US govt takes away its citizens' rights

There is a system of laws enacted by representatives of the people and proven out in courts, for example Eminent Domain.

To your point, that "nation of laws" concept is tending toward more of a theoretical than practical thing.
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If you think this side of the worlds' Marxists don't get fully erect when reading about what happened to Jack Ma, then you don't realize how bad it really is.

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The same reason it doesn't build it's own "plane" or "ship" or "submarine" or "satellite" or "gun" or "bullet".

The DoD's job is defense, so it's about fighting wars, not about building infrastructure and supplies.

The security of the military apparatus will stay in the DoD. The implementation and operation of the security infrastructure will be delivered by government contract.
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Absolutely! Should have said interesting and valuable.
I would think my three bullet points should imply that I already know that energy is not a fungible resource. But there are still better uses than Bitcoin.

There is not a problem with shipping hydrogen from ghost cities in China. Neither is there a problem with running datacenters that we need for other purposes than Bitcoin.

We are currently failing at combating climate change; but to have a hope of avoiding the worst case scenarios, fossils need to be replaced with renewables at an unprecedented scale. Not only current electricity use, but also energy used in transportation. It's a huge undertaking, where you need to ramp as quickly as you can in every way you can.

The train is starting to finally move now, and in a few years, investment into renewables will not be the limiting factor. The limiting factor is how quickly it is possible to construct. Since the limiting factor is not investment; every kwh spent on Bitcoin is a kwh lost to combating climate change.
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No, that's true, but it's definitely possible. I know of plenty of engineering students in my home country who came here from China (and India) to do their masters, and ended up staying for work.

But yeah, it definitely requires certain circumstances, and it's not realistic for everyone.
Dry counties were thing here Finland early 00s even now counties can forbid selling beverages that contain alcohol.
or more likely the brand of vacuum cleaners :)
Private Eye does (in the UK, not China), but they have a very popular best-selling paper magazine.
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Is there any movement on providing the apis needed by osxfuse? Or just giving us fuse apis natively?
In my opinion and experience people bringing up "the master name for hard drive cable is bad" and "look, they want to change the name of an insignificant detail in computers but no black people really care" are put in the same bag and forced to tag along.
Thanks for your comment! To give a little explanations:

I thought that twitter might be a best place to promote this application reason being I honestly cannot think of any other service that might be a good fir for Twixy.

Yes, I think you are right about the fact that the engagement has been reduced over the past years but still many twitter accounts have high engagement rates. Especially, those accounts that have created their strong fan bases like cosplayer, celebrities, etc.
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Yes,, thanks! will replace them.
It's kind of intriguing to me because, as a member of a western society, I think we place largely the same expectations on people to conform, the only difference is in how the enforcement is applied.

In many countries, cities, and neighbourhoods in "the west" if you aren't white you experience exactly the kind of insecurity you describe elsewhere. There are plenty of incidents where non-white residents are arrested while working on their own car, or entering their own home because a neighbour saw them and decided they did not or could not belong. There was a rather notable protest movement just last year that had it's roots in a group of people not being allowed to freely exist in the same way as the rest of society.
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Press release:
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Summary from the above link:

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According to the text of legislation, looks like this kind of scanning was allowed until Dec 21st 2020 when it become affected by a stricter privacy directive, and this reallows such scanning.
Oh, so these politicians are all doing outreach on their phones? THAT is what you think they're distracted by? Seriously?
I just find it fascinating that a language can be fluid in the direction of reading.
For example the C++ language implicitly runs constructors, which may (or may not, it depends) cause allocation, whenever it sees fit to construct any object, even if that object is temporary and will be destroyed immediately afterwards.

Now of course you could say, "Oh I never use objects, those are awful" but then you ought to ask yourself what exactly the point was of having C++ at all. Or you could say, "We'll ban constructors from allocating" but C++ won't help you enforce that rule and the resulting code won't be idiomatic C++. Implied allocation is just normal in C++.

Also note that although Rust's full standard library won't be available in the kernel, you do get Vectors, you get Rust's reference counted "smart pointer" types, Iterators, Option and Result and so on. In Rust such things don't have implied allocation, only explicit allocation which is fine.

Rust used today in the real world does have some places with implied allocation, a notable example is String concatenation. Rust won't let you write

let hw = "Hello, " + "world";

However, the String implementation in the Rust standard library, and currently in kernel Rust, will let you write:

let h = "Hello".to_owned(); // Now it's a String
let hw = h + ", world";

But, that's one of the anticipated objections from Linus, and you'd just remove AddAssign (and possibly Add) from the Strings to cure it by forcing programmers to actually spell out what they want to happen here instead of acting as though concatenating strings is free.
We have to get from here to there somehow, and the solution will most likely require the rich to fund that work.
>Saying that they were intended for hedging sounds like a very strong proposition to me

I think most people believe this since every textbook I've seen explains them and implies that this is what they are for.
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Similar thing happened with ADVChina. He had spent years trying to portray the positive aspects of Chinese society but was increasingly targeted by police. He ended up leaving after the harassment became too much.
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> In Germany, the government does not trust parents to home-school their children

This is to protect children from their parents, this "anti-excessive-gaming" bullshit is directly attacking personal agency!
If you have the resources (time, money, teachers etc.) to get your children the same education they would get in a (german) public school you might as well found a private one. This is even incentivized by federal and local government. ("Freie Trägerschaft")

(Anecdotal warning:) Everyone I've met (about a dozen people) who wanted to home school their children did so for a specific reason. They were religious, wanted their kid to hold the same religious/esoteric views and thought their kid was their property. Most (older) kids were very happy they could visit an actual school.
From personal Perspective: ALL scam I had as a seller was with credit cards. I always ate the costs by refunding with extra fees. Over Easter I could not transfer money for 5 days!! Because holidays. Also no transfers on weekends. European and American banks refuse to open a private account for me because money laundering laws. Even thought I have an EU passport but just living in Switzerland locks me out of this. And at last the fees. A few years back I paid well over 1000 dollars in banking fees within a year, mostly because I was getting transfers in Euro or dollars and withdraw in Eur on CHF account. Or how microtransactions are essentially non existent on the internet because of fees.

Say what you want, for me personally traditional banking is more of a burden than anything.
So Medieval. The Crown accuses you of corruption/sedition/treachery, prosecutes you then confiscates your property as a fine. A bit like Henry 7th in England during his reign. Also a bit like Putin against any oligarchs who dared to oppose him. But then I suppose its a standard pattern of behaviour to give their actions the sheen of lawfulness.
The first successful quantum supremacy experiment, as accepted by the QC community in general, was proven by Google. Here's Scott Aaronson's write up on it: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372

I believe there was also a second successful, but somewhat more controversial, experiment by a Chinese team.
I think it depends on your speciality . If you're something like a web dev where there's probably 100 other people applying for the same job, then it makes it easier for other CVs to be considered over yours.

Something more specialist, they might give more time to consider your application
As a non-US folk I definitely don't understand that health insurance variance.

Presumably, as she mentioned ACA, you're getting the same level of service, so how can it vary by state? I thought ACA was federal level?
> Virtualization is indeed the last user of the x86-ring 1 that I remember.

Yes, I know, but I'm referring to hardware virtualization, essentially making "ring -1" "ring 0" and "ring 0" "ring 1".
You need this library in order for the connection to work. Then it will show up as a LAN connection.
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So if all food companies decided to slightly poison all the food that people can buy. The government should not intervene at all? After all A collection of people not providing you with food on your terms is not a violation of your rights right?
Being a mechanic is extremely repetitive. Occasionally people are faced with something odd, but it’s mostly a checklist job because identical makes and models generally run into the same issues.

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