skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the issues is that this is a list of "Defining Characteristics of Fascism" generalized from some famous right-wing regimes by some guy about whom I can find very little information online besides this list (and what little biographical detail I can find calls into question his credentials to make such definitive statements https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1162838581158633472: "Lawrence Britt isn't a doctor or a political scientist. He's a former Xerox executive who wrote a thriller...").

I think "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism" are terms used nowadays to generalize the bad bits of "fascism" in a way that can apply to both the left and the right.
City or state government?

My least favorite Mass. business experience this year was the complete fuckup with the Dept of Unemployment Assistance solvency fund. My DUA tax rate went from 2.5% to 7.5%. Frigging legislature and state government had no clue that this was coming, and left small businesses like mine swinging in the wind.

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2021/04/some-massachusetts...

But frankly this is nothing compared to doing business with the U.S. government through bids. Never, ever, ever attempting that again.
I'm not convinced Vitalik is a great leader. Ethereum is currently an infinite coin like Doge. The miners have taken control and blew past the original soft cap of 100M Eth of EIP 669. I'm sure he made more mistakes, but that and the ETH classic debacle makes me think he's an idol to be worshiped. Heck POS is a reaction to the original ETH being unable to scale.

Sure infinite coins can be fixed later, but the same can be said about Bitcoin. If POS works, it can be implemented on Bitcoin.
Wouldn't it make more sense to send the payload with multiple purchases to JS and show them one by one gradually and then it could show legitimate ones even after turning the internet off? Not that it's happening, but...
How to have a productive programming day
California at least has a specific license for this called the Autonomous Vehicle Operator license. It enforces some minimal amount of training beyond simply having a regular driver's license.
The bureaucracy always outlives any government or political movement. Yes, there are political appointments here and there but the rank and file is permanent.
Not to mention that there is no way to ensure immutability when passing messages in channels, and the language doesn't help you there. This is a recipe for race conditions.

Furthermore, you can easily have hierarchies of "goroutines", everything has to be painstakingly built from scratch and is very error prone.

> Another aspect of Go being a useful programming environment is having well-defined semantics for the most common programming mistakes, ... Quoting Tony Hoare

One of the most common programming mistakes of all, dubbed by Hoare himself as the "billion dollar mistake": null pointers, yet it was put into go without any consideration.
Not available at all in India. Also, other international vendors don't seem to have it too.
(submitter)

This is a follow up to Inline in Rust[0] which was submitted a couple times earlier this week.

[0] https://matklad.github.io//2021/07/09/inline-in-rust.html
I has been using Joplin for a while with OneDrive syncing. The only way I found to keep Joplin synced with OneDrive is set the folder in your computer to keep it local as possible. Right click the folder (the Joplin folder) in OneDrive and click "Always keep on this device". So this way it will be less sync issues.

With this option enabled, it kept my Joplin synced across five devices without issues and all of them have this option enabled. My Joplin have 5-seconds delay of syncing between devices. I have about 100 notes/subnotes, I'm not sure if the amount of notes is a factor of syncing issues.
>At some point the public should tangibly benefit from it.

Yes indeed. The public. Not capital, not private concerns, but the public.
> Faciliating is a downright weasel word to insinuate complicity.

That's not ruled out. Big tech employs thousands of people who may or may not be bought out to cover the tracks of authoritarians, even if we assume (absurdly) that their leadership are saints.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-...

> structurally convenient

Social media are centralized, have no direct interest in the stability of the country they operate in, are not in any control from the users of the target country, are perceived as neutral by said users, YET they are in control of the government where they operate in, and certain countries often run campaigns targetted against their own citizens. They generally don't investigate such actions until after the fact, and in fact i ve only seen facebook doing somewhat serious attempts to catch them in the act e.g. https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-coordinated-inaut...
CO2 emissions are a chemical problem. We know the answer to the chemical/physical problem: stop doing the reactions which produce CO2 gas as an output.

But what makes it so confounding is it's also a political problem: people get to decide for themselves whether to do those reactions, and they overwhelmingly choose to do them.

Their choices are informed by all kinds of social, emotional and symbolic influences - one of which is the Olympics. While the Olympics may not be a huge event relative to the entire global economy, it is pretty big relative to the entire global mindshare.
I measured 116 degrees at my house. These boysenberries are out in a field with the sun battering on them all day long. At those temps, it must've been a big shock for the plants. Most of them had significant burn damage to the leaves.
I largely enjoyed reading the article but:

> Out of the tools we possess to rid the system of crony capitalism, crypto is still our best shot.

What in the DNA of "crypto" suggests that it would ever rid us of "crony capitalism"? Did I not get the memo?
They could add the CueCat to their list. I seem to remember that Wired got all excited about it at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
It would be a glorious honor to have my 'FSD' Tesla drive into a giant concrete pillar, causing my car to explode and erupt into flames.
using your brain, don't you think vague, exaggerated and detail-free statements like "completely upending your life" are part of utterly ordinary mental resistance-patterns? In other words, actively defeating consideration of detail and alternatives
Learn some form of shorthand, and learn how to summarize on the go. Writing down word-for-word what a professor is saying is not going to work well. For that, bring a tape recorder (or an iPhone if you want to kill your battery) and retake your notes later when you can pause, rewind, etc.
Psychopathic traits linked to difficulty distinguishing smells
> <unnameable>

well now you have to tell us.
This is indeed the argument of e.g. Anarchists such as Kropotkin, or of Georgism.
To quote myself¹: Why is this a problem? Is it everyone’s duty to deny “white supremacists” in all things, to make sure you have absolutely nothing in common? If they tended to shave, would it then be the duty of every right-thinking man to grow a beard?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20139520
The dirt in my backyard has been so neglected it has turned rocky.

first and foremost, I'm covering the bare dirt from direct sunlight by covering it with a layer of cardboard (empty amazon shipment boxes).

Next is some aerated compost tea to speed up the microbial activity and loosen the dirt and start the process of turning it into soil. Add some compost along the way

I'm documenting the journey on this forum if you want to follow along: https://permies.com/t/164053/Gardening-Journey#1286751
> I noodled on this a while ago and figured it was easier to just restart the app on config changes than try to change things on the fly =D

I think this is generally the best approach, as it also applies some pressure for your application to be able to quickly shutdown and restart without affecting users - which is a desirable property to have for many other reasons too.
I wish some of the chapter-and-verse about “obviousness” that gets constantly recited with regard to the language was also applied to the tooling.
They are actually selling the toys, yes.
I'm going to posit that none of those novel skill requirements are actually requirements. You don't need to interpret a UI, or recognize intent to know that the car shouldn't turn the wrong way on a one-way street or hit a planter.

Anticipating common errors and remaining vigilant while driving is a requirement for all driving, not when dealing with FSD.

If you are capable of driving a car safely to begin with, then you're capable of recognizing then the car is going to do something wrong and turning the wheel and/or hitting the brakes.

I wouldn't personally trust a FSD beta, but only if it is properly supervised, I think it could be tested safely. But, there's the problem -- how can you really properly supervise this? How many drivers are going to try this and just let the car drive w/o paying attention? Or, using it under controlled conditions, but then giving it too much trust in more adverse conditions?
I think this list is accurate by our modern definitions of fascism.

But did actual facists define it this way?

Moreover, did the nazis actually have the same ideological\philosophical underpinnings as italian facism?

I'm not sure this is the same case. I think italian facism evolved from sydcalism and I cant find any similar root in National Socialism...

Are we just lumping mid 20th century nationalist boogeymen into a very poorly defined bucket?

I think these attributes also apply to a variety of decidedly not facist states.
If I may be so bold to ask, what kind of job pays that amount?
Grove, a new tree-planting, wellness game for iOS
I agree with your assessment of the tech but the snake oil is a real turn off. What do I do? Hard to invest money when it feels so scammy.
He has a couple projects for mushroom cultivation automation under the projects section of his website. Here is a post where he revisits a previous iteration. https://kylegabriel.com/projects/2015/04/mushroom-cultivatio...
FWIW, as of 2021, the first year’s franchise tax fee is now free: https://www.llcuniversity.com/california-llc/annual-llc-tax-...

(But I agree with you, and would file an LLC in DE or elsewhere, unless I plan on raising funding in which case it wouldn’t be an LLC but a DE C-Corp)
Why are you getting down-voted? There's literal videos depicting what you state. Is the Musk Fanboy Brigade behind this?
Show HN: A game client that allows you to earn while playing your favorite game
Like Donald Trump, but for nerds:

http://elonmusk.today/

FSD would be equivalent to the Mexican border wall, I guess?
> puts everybody and their children at risk

Oh won't somebody think of the children?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
The bureau of reclamation had much to answer for here. Why are we growing stupid things like low value alfalfa in the desert? Why are we growing rice in the desert? Because we are giving the water away for almost nothing, that's why. Large farming operations have been parasites feeding off taxpayer subsidized water, irrigation and hydro power for the last century.
The criminal record is probably more of a threat than the money in such cases.

I'm more worried that if there is no way to get caught, people won't care about the criminal penalties no matter how heavy.
Could have been equipment failure on the truck - a tie rod end failing or such will create some interesting behaviors.

> I believe the argument is the software will improve to eventually be as good or better than humans, and I have a hard time not believing that.

I find it easy to believe that software won't manage to deal well with all the weird things that reality can throw at a car, because we suck at software as humans in the general case. It's just that in most environments, those failures aren't a big deal, just retry the API call.

Humans can write very good software. The Space Shuttle engineering group wrote some damned fine software. They look literally nothing like the #YOLO coding that makes up most of Silicon Valley, and deal with a far, far more constrained environment as well than a typical public road.

Self driving cars are simply the most visible display of the standard SV arrogance - that humans are nothing but a couple crappy cameras and some neural network mush, and, besides, we know code - how hard can it be? That approach to solving reality fails quite regularly.
Self improvement requires not falling into the mindset of blame. It’s “them” destroying the planet, rather than “us” solving the hard problems together. I think only human understanding and mastery of ego will determine the fate of the planet. We can do it, if we work on ourselves first.
And the 14 people that he employs?
You could train an AI to generate these randomly, something similar to:

https://thischemicaldoesnotexist.com/

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
We invented fascism. The European fascists took notes from the united states. Pointing this out will never make you popular though.
>See I have always been the odd one, I have zero desire to work for "Big Tech", even if they offered me 2x my current salary + 100% remote i would not for for a FANG...

You aren't alone. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I watched a human driver in a BMW weave at 90 mph through traffic yesterday, swerving back and forth between lanes inches from other peoples cars. If Tesla can make a car that's even 1% less dangerous than human drivers, that could be thousands of deaths avoided every year. Humans should not be allowed to drive cars on public streets.
> those .replace() calls will allocate unnecessarily,

All the time or only in Rust or Lisp? I would guess the compiler can optimize it because it is an XValue.
> IMO we need to burn more out west.

This addresses only a symptom (more extreme wildfires) and not the root issue: persistent drought / aridification amplified by climate change. To be resilient to the latter, we need to become dramatically more efficient in how we use water resources, especially in the food production pipeline.
The article you're linking to explicitly talks about cash being preserved:

> The proposal is for a central bank to divide the monetary base into two separate local currencies—cash and electronic money (e-money). E-money would be issued only electronically and would pay the policy rate of interest, and cash would have an exchange rate—the conversion rate—against e-money. This conversion rate is key to the proposal.

So considering they're going to all the trouble of defining an exchange rate, what I think is implied about the continuing existence of physical cash is... that it will continue to exist.

The goal here is very explicitly about making negative interest rates workable, not eliminating cash.
The argument is that Humanity's past knowledge and labour is a common heritage of everyone. Anybody that benefits from it must, at least in part, pay back "the commons" for that benefit.
Just bought a house surrounded by mostly lawn. I’m starting by sheet mulching my lawn with cardboard covered by a thick layer of wood chips. Hopefully the underlayer will be ready for planting next spring. Going to fill in between the food plants with clover, sweet peas, and lupine for nitrogen fixing. I’m looking forward to the transformation.
I think my best guess is that this is actually meant to produce broken code, so that Microsoft can sell you additional services (cloud fuzzing?) to find and fix the bugs.
The grants were to various academic researchers who researched, published, and did not commercialize their discoveries.

The money will be made by private companies that have no connection to the researchers who received the grants, but simply use the published research in something they build.

It's hard to see a good way to build a system to make the private companies pay back the grants. It would be an accounting and tracking nightmare to try to figure out how much money is actually being made from the research that any given grant paid for.
IANAL but I mean if they say the way to notify them is to call them, and they don't respond to that call, the onus is on them, no?

I would think that you did your due diligence by calling and that it's their fault at that point.

Also, calling should never be a requirement. What if someone is deaf? Requiring someone to call without an online alternative should 100% be an ADA violation.
[Edit: I've heard CA is similar, but don't have personal experience there.]

Have personal experience with CA. It's not at all the same. NYC is a nightmare to work with, but CA agencies are quite easy to work with. The only other jurisdiction as bad as NYC is the state of Hawaii.

Other than during the tax filing season I can reach a live human at a CA agency (except the DMV) within a few minutes just by calling. Representatives are very helpful over the phone, and I've resolved many issues for clients and my employer (now that I'm in-house) just by calling.

CA's bureaucracy looks complex, but it's actually very easy to navigate, and if you need help, there are a great many government employees who would be happy to help.
One of the questions I've repeatedly had regarding FSD (and Tesla's approach in particular) is the notion of memory. While a lot of these scenarios are disturbing, I've seen people wavering on lanes, exits and attempting to turn the wrong way onto one-way streets. People have memory, however. If we go through the same confusing intersection a few times, we'll learn how to deal with that specific intersection. It seems like a connected group of FSD cars could perform that learning even faster since it could report that interaction with any car rather than driver-by-driver. Are any of the FSD implementations taking this into account?
Yep, that's basically the same with me and as far as I can tell pretty much everyone else who's had to lose a lot of weight. The only thing I've ever found that allowed me to not feel hungry was amphetamines. Until that brief period where I was on them I'd never before had the experience of forgetting to eat that people sometimes talk about. Unfortunately, amphetamines bring a lot of undesirable effects with them too.

I eagerly await the day science figures out how to stop my food cravings and delivers it in a form I can obtain easily.
Upvoted. Still, one major difference: US always left.

Taiwan can forget about their freedom forever if China occupies it. Eastern Europe only got out because USSR collapsed.
> I feel like Amazon realized that they didn't need the screen or the character movement to accomplish 95% of what consumers were interested in

Or did they?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/amazons-new-echo-show-10-f...
No, it’s just unsafe (and presumably illegal in most places) to operate a motor vehicle without maintaining constant awareness of the road and control of the vehicle. There’s no additional training or license that permits you to stop maintaining that awareness and control, just like there’s no additional training that permits you to drive under the influence of alcohol.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer-fourth-edition

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seasoned-schemer-second-editi...
Ok. I was thinking of things like biodiesel. My understanding is that involves an esterfication process but I read about it 10 years ago and never took orgo. I accept esters are not alkanes my ignorance shows...thanks for correcting the record for other readers.

I was using Li as shorthand for Litium Ion batteries which I assume contain salts or oxides or hydrides of lithium. I know it is not elemental lithium. My point was that H-C bonds contain more energy than whatever is in Li batteries in the charged state per mol.
I agree as well, we're creating a literal powder keg of a situation with the amount of dry brush that is left lying in unmanaged areas. I get that we have to protect the towns and cities, but we can't just keep pushing this situation out into the future. But I can also see that the larger and more mismanaged the eventual fire is, the more changes you can dictate to combat climate change, so I'm not sure if the wildfire problem is politically tenable.
Out of all the times to mock someone saying that, I don't think "self-driving-but-not-really-car nearly crashes into things and puts the occupants and bystanders at risk for serious bodily harm as evident by the videos posted above" is one of those times.
Thanks for the great explanation! I haven't messed with Heroku myself. Might be a sign I'm getting old...
USG? I'm not sure what that means, i did a google search and i assume it's not "United States Gypsum" or the University System or Georgia...?
Do you actually, though? I don't type out much HTML these days.
> You know, just in case you lose the sense of thirst for some bizarre reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipsia
read the FOIA documents - it is pretty clear he misled the employee
> All the person you replied to said was that they live in a region without sun, you are the one that took this into the territory of shipping molten salt for some reason.

Because it is an option, just like it is an option for those to place a bunch of PV down and not bother with storage costs for that. Some options will work for some and not for others.

And electricity needs to come from some source, ideally one that can provide more than +4hs and affordably.

> A copper cable carries electricity indefinitely.

All fields fall with distance from the source… shipping a source (like LNG, CL, and perhaps MS in the future) around to local nodes where it can be delivered with copper cables (after burning and combustion) is not beyond current logistics (and nor is factoring evaporation losses with LNG now).

> There are plenty of places that don't have much sun that are already connected to places that do. They are are connected by copper wires.

Right, tell that to every country that still imports hydrocarbons to burn for electricity/heat…

> There is no universe where trying to ship molten salt and keep it hot so it can turn water into steam is viable. Oil doesn't rely on heat gradients and doesn't lose its energy when put in a tank for a week.

I'm pretty sure that it will eventually be possible to have vacuum storage to keep it hot for longer than 17.5 hours with enough delta_k above freezing to provide a predictable amount of energy, so saying "There is no universe" would only apply to those like yourself who deem it beyond the realm of reason (which many things in this world tend to be for those who have walked it, thankfully progress isn't limited by such people in the long run).

Interesting that the notion of a multiverse you appeal to with "There is no universe" seems more realistic than the above…

> Solar generation is not shipping from one place to another far away, it is offsetting power to somewhere in between.

Solar collection is when you need to think about the infrastructure and the surface area needed if you want to do it on a large scale; perhaps beyond realm possibility of what some deem needed for any place in particular…
Psychopathy is clearly ill defined . Kinda hard to find a link to such a vague category.
But that surely is the description of 1% of the drivers. It should be better than the 1% worst drivers. It should be demonstrably safer than humans on average with a good margin.
> Humans should not be allowed to drive cars on public streets.

Because the alternative right now is... this abomination that doesn't even grasp what a concrete pillar is?