skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consensus? Has someone done an actual survey or a study?

Oh god no, there are no studies as far as I know. But what I refer to consensus is the general feeling one gets by browsing martial arts forums. There used to be a great forum on this very subject - bullshido. For years and years folks have discussed these exact questions of effectiveness of deadly martial art techniques.

> Avoidance & evasion are the most useful "martial arts".
Goes without saying!
Specifically, those with preclinical Alzheimer's tended to drive more slowly, make abrupt changes, travel less at night, and logged fewer miles overall, for example. They also visited a smaller variety of destinations when driving, sticking to slightly more confined routes.

Isn’t this pretty much everyone as they get older? Who hasn’t seem these traits in older relatives?

Everyone I know who gets older tends to drive less at night because as you get old your eyesight gets worse —- particularly if you’ve had cataract surgery, which are people who are in the study / risk group.

Unless I missed a more nuanced point this article reads like “old age is a good predictor of Alzheimer’s.”
This last year is way off the charts.
What you're asking about is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

In general the question of collision risk and debris is something evaluated for every launch/constellation. Starlink, for example, mostly avoids it being an issue by flying so low that debris quickly falls to earth and burns up in the atmosphere (they also design their satellites to fully burn up in the atmosphere). On the flip sides Starlink is planning on an order of magnitude more satellites than this.

Even the worst case though doesn't really impact humans ability to fly to the moon/mars. You can make low earth orbit relatively unusable because there is a high collision risk if you hang out there for a year, but you should basically always be able to fly through low earth orbit to a higher orbit with negligible collision risk.
> They may not admit it, but they’re not looking for a stronger relationship as equals

Your parents will never be your equals. Have you considered that your expectations of equality are themselves a misaligned cultural values?

My goodness, my mother was deferential to my grandmother up until the day she died.
A good rule of thumb (in general aviation at least) is that anything aviation grade is about 10x the "normal" price, or more.
To be fair, there was a strong bull case to be made for India till the early 2010s, especially in how well it recovered from the financial crisis.

The problem is that Modi has brought an insane blend of pre liberalization economic policy, centralized authoritarian control, and british inspired religion based divide and conquer policies that have set India back a couple of generations at least, possibly permanently if he remains in power and continues down this path.
>What type of strings though?

The good one!

UTf-8, NOT null terminated, pascal like.

ie: what rust have:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html

REPEAT the mistakes of C (and considering the security angle! in a browser!) must be a big no.
A (skeuomorphic) circular knob that needed your mouse to drag and rotate around is one.
I really dislike the term "adult children". Check out the google ngram:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22adult+child...

The peak in 1992 is especially intriguing.

How would the Victorians have expressed the same relationship?
"you can do this thing in a completely different way than the native OS trains you to expect to do it, actually this is even better!"
I think it's hilarious. I grew up with Republicans and neoliberals using this argument as the basis for anti-LGBT discrimination, but now it's problematic? I have some genuine concerns about what people are calling censorship and cancel culture, but I'm not saying anything for at least a few more years.
>How about just avoiding wars?

that's a silly remark. are you suggesting that countries can simply avoid wars and accept the consequences just because some credit cards will stop working ?

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> I’m not going to live in your unscientific epistemology about nation states being worse than corporations; both enabled by humans. It’s all just humans.

There is an honest distinction you’re missing with your reductive view of States and corporations: States have the power to detain, arrest, try, judge, imprison and kill you.
A long time ago I managed FB's udb backups, the central MySQL schema around which all other services were strung. Even from the beginning FB never stored plaintext passwords. Can't say there weren't log excursions or the like, but when found these would have been critical bugs and fixed immediately.
I would love a citation on where you are getting "above 99%" for the US.

What I managed to find easily just now in https://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2012/12... page 9 has: "Of the 87,709 defendants terminated during Fiscal Year 2012, 80,963, or 93 percent, either pled guilty or were found guilty."

So quite high, but not anything like over 99%.

This is federal cases, though, so maybe state cases have higher enough volume and conviction rates to make the overall number over 99%? Again, I would love to see hard data.
Online racists to be banned from football matches, vows Boris Johnson
1. So remember that bitcoin has had its 51% event - in 2014, when GHash went over 51%, and promptly split into smaller pools, so as not to spook the suckers. Nobody talks about that now.

But from 2014 on, bitcoin mining was indisputably centralised - it's only ever been decentralised in the sense of "can't sue me bro", not in operational practice. In 2015, the men controlling 80% of bitcoin mining stood on stage together at a conference. Three or four entities have run bitcoin mining since then - assuming they don't share ownership behind the scenes.

The only thing preventing miner misbehaviour is wanting to avoid spooking the suckers. That's the game theory here.

The miners would love to increase the reward. The trouble will be selling it to the subculture. They'd need to make a convincing case that it was necessary to number going up.

2. You're correct: no money comes out of bitcoin that didn't go in. So for everyone who got rich, there's a pile of suckers who got poor. Everyone who talks about bitcoin as an great investment does so with massive survivorship bias.

A securities issuance is supposed to (this is the brochure version) fund investment in a productive enterprise. You get a pile of capital together, you invest it in an enterprise, it generates wealth.

A pile of bitcoins can't do that. It's just a pile of a commodity, that doesn't do anything else. All you can do is buy, hold or sell it.

Early bitcoin buyers are only ever paid with actual dollars from later bitcoin buyers. This is technically not a Ponzi, because nobody is running it, but it works very like one. Holders are incentivised to promote the scheme so as to help grow the supply of later bitcoin buyers to offload their bags onto, so they can cash out at all.
Yeah San Diego is a weird example - most of our coastal property is relatively high up.

A quick Google of "king tides flooding San Diego" shows a couple news articles mentioning National City and Imperial Beach, so your suspicions are probably correct - it's the flatter places down south that everyone forgets exist.
This distinction is meaningful, but not as persuasive as you might think. If you're, say, a journalist with unpopular opinions that are typically censored on social media, you arguably do need to support those venues. Consider the fact that corporate power now extends beyond national borders, so in some very real senses, some corporations are more powerful than many governments.
Discussion from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27659105
The 1% definitely skim more, but the entire American economy benefits from China trade.

Every single item stamped "Made in China" gets more expensive if the scale of embargo or sanctions were attempted that would have political impact on China. It's easier to count the shelves in Walmart that aren't full of those products than the shelves that are. Wall street would feel it, but the impact on "main street" would also be immediate and painful.

And it's not hard for a politician to sell "Every week just got more expensive for you" as ammunition against their opponent. It's a consistent talking point regarding gas prices, and gas prices fluctuate for reasons well outside the control of any single politician. When the price spikes actually are directly the result of political policy? Easy sell to replace those politicians.
It doesn't go from 120 to 800V, it gets reduced from a higher voltage to 800.
Inflation does decrease the value of debts. That only matters if the borrower has a non-inflated asset to pay off their debt. Most people earn in dollars which will decrease in value at the same rate as their debt. Earning the same amount of dollars with inflation means more of earnings go to paying for life and less to go towards debts.

Now, lets say you have a gold bracelet and inflation only cuts the value of the dollar in half one time. The gold bracelet can be sold for twice as many dollars that can be used to pay off debt.

One halving is a mild inflation scenario. Romania in the 90s went through 14 halvings.
Agreed. When you are trying to communicate in an empathic/emotional way and the other party does not understand how to do this and defends themselves in an intellectual/unemotional way, your emotional need is profoundly unmet. This falls short of intentional gaslighting, but to critique the party seeking empathy as childish misses the point.
It is only outrageous if you don't understand why we spend the energy on security. Decentralization is an expensive endeavor. Centralized solutions are generally cheaper in every way.
Bitcoiners believe that energy is essential for the security of the chain, to ensure it is decentralized and censorship resistant.

When and if you come to understand this, you see growing energy usage as a good thing, infact, the best thing. It is too simple to think of it as 'energy per tx', this is a bad metric, and illogical. One must consider the energy being used to secure every block and transaction that came before it in an externally observable fashion.
There is one reason Twitter is not doing this, and one reason the governments can do this in the first place, and that is money. Twitter makes money off of users in other countries (its stock performance is tied to % increase of DAU). Twitter knows its service is pretty easy to replicate and is thus willing to play by these government's rules. If Twitter doesn't play by the rules, there are plenty of local players who would be very happy about that.
Examples of average person as per Cambridge dictionary.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/average-per...

Apparently they exist.
How about making it a Firefox configuration setting?
Countries rarely go to war with countries that they don't share borders with. For India, that's China, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Making sure that MasterCard does not store their transaction data in any of those countries should be sufficient.
1. The government demanding that messages of private citizens be removed is a violation of their First Amendment Rights.

2. Twitter deleting content, banning users, etc, is entirely within their rights and is in no way a violation of anyone's First Amendment Rights.

Twitter is not a government entity. Full stop.

I'm currently sitting on some downvotes, which I find kind of unusual for a topic like this. Here's the text of the first amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Which part, specifically, has Twitter violated?
> The explicit accusation, AFAICT, is that eInk holds certain patent(s) which cannot be avoided if you want to produce an electrophoretic-technology display panel yourself

They don't hold such a patent, at least as far as I know. Which is presumably how their competitors like ClearInk, Reinkstone are able to be in business.

> so people believe eInk are, through these patents, “strangling the market for innovation.”

I don't understand why someone would believe that, especially people who aren't involved in the industry. As I mentioned, it would be the equivalent of me believing that Google was strangling the market of innovation in search engines and that Microsoft is strangling the market for innovation in operating systems. Although now that I think deeper about the line about Microsoft, maybe Microsoft is doing that? Is that why desktop Linux has not progressed at all and remains unusable?

> People would intuit that if display manufacturers could “get away from eInk” and “produce their own electrophoretic panels”, the “low energy use, readable-in-daylight panel” market would “heat up.”

Eink is considered a niche player in my industry. It would be the equivalent of perhaps a ultralowpower CPU manufacturer in the CPU industry. In my opinion, the “low energy use, readable-in-daylight panel” is not going to happen using electrophoretics because the physics of the problem is too challenging. In my opinion, the main reason why nothing is really happening there is because doing fundamental research on display technologies is expensive. Bezos spent hundreds of millions on Liquavista before he killed it, I'm pretty sure Qualcomm spent a lot on Mirasol. The problem is VCs don't want to invest in hard problems. They can get a quicker return from yet another internet service, AI/ML, another airbnb, another uber, another payment gateway and so on.
Joel Spolsky said something similar. Paraphrasing: You find motivation by just committing a little bit every day: 10 minutes, 30 minutes. Once you get into it, you'll most likely do more.
"a society that prides itself on honor"

Are there any society that does not? This seems a meaningless, often parotted phrase about Japanese culture by people who do not understand it.

That exact same sentence could be applied to the treatment of black and brown people in the United States. Do you remember stop-and-frisk in New York City? What percentage was black and brown people? It was an appalling programme and gross miscarriage of justice. And that happened (figuratively) in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.
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> They overwhelmingly have views that are aligned directly with the far left

Your president repeatedly advocated for having journalists with opposing views shot.
US having access to indian date has limited impact on india while Indian govt having same data have major impact on india
Depends on the state. You definitely shouldn't use work computers or do it on work time.
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Depends on your specific contract. Mine just bans me from machine learning related work.
> I suppose the infamous Equifax breach was due to a secret fiber optic cable running out of their datacenter?

No, of course not. But when you're dealing with physical infrastructure you can actually touch, it's much clearer and more certain what you're dealing with.
"Those that have gotten rich - where did the money come from?"

People who bought in later than they did.

The reason I find Bitcoin speculation so distasteful is that the only way to make money from it is to wait for more people to be convinced to buy in, so you can sell your Bitcoin at a higher price then you bought it.

The reason this differs from the stock market is that stocks are attached to companies which have an inherent value and, through dividends, share that value with the holders of the stock. Sure, there's a lot of speculation, but there's also genuinely useful economic activity happening, generating real value.
Definitely not in Germany. There are lots of medium to large cities without an airport, but every one has a large-ish train station with decent connections.
Just Google his name. You are using polite words, but not engaging in good faith. It’s not worth wasting my time further with you. I guess I should have checked your history to see that you’re a dedicated vaccine denialist.
Depends on jurisdiction. In places with reasonable copyright laws, you'd have to do weird things to end up in the “employer takes rights” situation in the first place.
Yes, discrete space coordinate. Something like this with a visual grid, https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gam....
Google Meets is not as good as Zoom for our major use case: multiple couples of family or friends, each with a laptop.

If you try this with Google, at least when we used it, it didn't have multi-display: You could only see the "main group" talking, which might be someone laughing or ruffling a bag of crisps. Furthermore, the sound quality was straight up worse than Zoom, borderline inaudible with the same equipment Zoom gets.
They're at 100x higher altitude relative to the sea level but nearly the same altitude relative to the Earth's center which is what matters here.
A few different things drove up the circuit count:

(1) It is a large house ( over 10,000 sq ft ).
(2) There are two power paths throughout the entire house - generator and non generator, and most panel locations have two panels for that reason.
(3) There are two incoming services from the power company - A standard 400 amp service, and a second 200 amp TOU (Time of use) circuit that is primary used for EV charging. And there are 4 EV chargers, two in the upper garage and two in the lower garage.
(4) There is a 16kVa UPS and circuits behind that UPS that go to a few places in the house including the server room.

Lots of cool pictures and info here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/jeffs-mountain-s...
Lol, this is so fucking funny. Distro a day, NSA stays away! Amazing.
> Honestly, there's probably a deeper cultural change that's driving both: ever increasing individualism and increasing unwillingness to sacrifice the expression of that individualism for anything.

2020 with the US election and the spectrum of response to COVID has thrown this into stark relief. As someone in their late 40s, I have been shocked by the selfishness of my fellow citizens.
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Indeed. Everyone I know who is estranged from their parents is because they "came out" and the parents failed to cope.
Perhaps the problem with social media is that it’s not social. It’s actually oratorical media. In a physically social setting, people do the thing the article quotes: they recognize that interaction with diametrically opposing viewpoints is possible if they exercise tact to eschew controversy until having built common ground.

That isn’t possible at scale because there is no common ground at scale. And online, everything is at scale. You are definitely talking to everyone.
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You see, it's an issue only when the "filthy Indians" do it. It's perfectly fine when EU or the US do it. /s
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These days, many companies are cool with it as long as you use your personal machine, on your own time, avoid using any work resources, etc. Usually it's baked into your employment contract.
Yep, exactly. I counted it up one time and I get 75 days off, not counting weekends. Plus 10 sick days and 2 personal days. It's really hard to beat that. And, being in one of the better paid districts in a low CoL area, well it isn't really all that bad (the culture around education is awful, but that's partially the result of admin and I think it can be changed slowly but surely).

Find something I can do remotely part-time throughout the year and I'd honestly be set. Plus student loan forgiveness means I might actually get to own a house by the time I'm 35ish.
That is effective, though I found that ramping up the amount of work being done is even more effective, provided that it can be sustained.
While you are at it, have a look at Power Query as well, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/
The social structures are slowly disintagrating because their foundations were weak anyways. Religion and culture only masked it for a while.

Everything is temporary in life and being a parent is a temporary role. A parent's job is to initiate the child to the world, teach them how to navigate it and how to be a functional member of society. In short, the parent's job is to help the child be as independant of them as possible.

When the child is an adult, the relationship must evolve. A lot of people fail to understand that, because being a parent is part of their identity. If you take that away from them, they have nothing left because they haven't cultivated anything else. This is a mistake.

It is good to see people seek counceling on these issues. It show they have the intention to recognize something is wrong and are willing to put the effort to find resolution.
This definitely depends on the employer and your geographical location; for example, in California, clauses like this are not legal except under certain conditions: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
In the original definition, a "gaslighter" would have to know and agree on the same facts as the victim, and then intentionally lie about them to sew doubt in the victim's mind. In your scenario, the "jerk" (for lack of a better term here, since he is not a classical gaslighter) honestly believes that the victim is incorrect, and is arguing from good faith. Good faith arguments can certainly be wrong, and can certainly be awful.

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I suppose I take such a hard line on this because it's childish to think that people will always empathize with you, and agree with your take on things. Quite often, the opposite will happen. This is a regular occurrence, and does not constitute abuse. Sometimes when no one agrees with you, it means you're in the wrong and you need to rethink your take on the situation. Other times, an individual can be in the right while others are wrong. This sort of conflict will be a normal part of someone's life. Further, some situations do not have a strictly "wrong" or "right," and simply constitute competing values and perspectives.
Love this web...
20 minutes a day is over 100 hours a year. 0 minutes a day is 0 hours a year.
Hmm, where do you need two clicks to change the volume by scrolling? I can just click on the volume icon (or any of the three icons there, since they're all a big button), mouse over the volume slider, and scroll to change it. I think this is essentially the same flow as before.
Very cool! I have a simple terminal graph tool that I can pipe the ascii graphs into svgbob and it converts pretty well to an svg graphic.

Termgraph: https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph
And newspapers also, long before Walmart was choosing which books or magazines or music to stock. But Walmart has never had direct control over the public square at the incredibly grand scale that Twitter, Facebook and Youtube do, that's the point.