skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legitimacy of any government, monopoly on voice by any government is defended on such grounds: different varieties of social contract theorists. As one of the replies suggest, you are picking on "little", whereas the parent poster mentions "essential".
Lenin supposedly said "There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen."

I'm ostensibly in this Oregon Trail generation, though as a non-American I've never seen an Apple II in the flesh, and the first time I heard about this game was as the name of a generation. I'm some years older than my wife, and one difference between us is that I have much clearer memories of the 90's as a time of apparent progress and optimism, and just how big a change the September 11 attacks were. She remembers them of course, but not as a point of abrupt change. She did not become politically aware until some time after, when the war of terror was in full swing.

There's a bit in Coupland's Generation X where one of the main characters talks about remembering the Vietnam war being constantly in the news until one day it just disappeared, but his little not remembering it at all, to him it was just history. It feels kind of like that, in the inverse, in a way.
Regarding [1], do you know Brazilian law? I don't. In any case, the right to not incriminate yourself has been widely adopted, and in principle, could perhaps be invoked here, too.
Number of adults alive on earth who have never infringed on some statute somewhere: 0.

Especially true in nations where the legal system is captured by special interests and routinely weaponised to suppress dissent, coerce minorities, and perpetuate disparities. Which is to say, of course, every nation.

Ergo, you (we) should all be afraid.
Inserting 130M SQLite rows per minute from a scripting language
Corel was much too late in releasing their full Office suite. StarOffice was free by then. Even WordPerfect didn't have too much lead time over open source projects like AbiWord which were getting popular in the late 90s.

Looks like StarOffice for Linux didn't exist until version 3.1 was released in 1997. That's more than 2 years for someone to be running Linux (instead of Windows 95) without an office suite available. And more importantly, I didn't buy it at the time because I'd never damn well heard of it. They must have had a terrible lack of notability in the English speaking world. And in a couple more years, Sun made it free. Once open sourced, it was obviously the way to go, instead of being an also-ran.
Why Live in a Vintage 1969 RV?
> "In general just because you own land a river runs through doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want to the river."

Indeed there have been more than a few disputes, incidents, and court cases throughout history leading up to the current rules and agreements surrounding the various ways it's often handled nowadays. One must have consideration for "downstream neighbors". Easy way to spark an incident is doing something "untoward" or inconsiderate with the water upstream of a neighbor.
It’s not just banking ratios that cause this behavior, though, but rather in part the owners of commercial property, often let out for 5 year terms with 2 5-year renewal options, who don’t want to be too quick to lower their rental base for possibly 15 years for a 1-2 year recession.

Property with no bank note on it would behave the same way. (It’s just exceedingly rare, especially in an easy-borrowing, money-printing presses running environment.
I really hope this will age like the LifeLock CEO's "I can publish my social security number because LifeLock will protect me" statement, and someone will demonstrate what the CEO has to fear by installing something like the NSO spying toolkit on his devices and publishing the findings.
You're not obliged to hug a smartphone if you can. I have a smartphone, but I don't use it often. I use it for important services, like navigation, bank apps. I can read a book if I don't have nothing better to do. I can check out my messages once or twice a day if I feel like that, or I can leave my phone somewhere for a weekdays and forget about it existence if there are better things to do.

IMO smartphone is a simple solution. Smartphone is an internet-connected computer. It's as simple as it gets. Phone calls, SMS are complex beasts with archaic protocols nobody heard about, without any reliability guarantees.
That's a pretty weird approach to take imo. So you see the world through the lens of a 7 year-old? So we should not teach anyone advanced math either because a 7 year-old wouldn't understand it? Perhaps people shouldn't drive a car, because a 7 year-old wouldn't know how! Listen, I can learn and write about whatever programming languages I like, without having to once think about you or the children you teach.

You can label me elitist, you can label me however you like, but as a teacher you have a funny way to suppress people's ability to share knowledge on the basis that you or your children don't understand it. Shouldn't you as a teacher be happy that people are sharing knowledge on a wide variety of things? And yet you choose to call languages ugly, hard to read, and shame people for sharing knowledge because it isn't in your beloved programming language. And you call me elitist?
Your argument doesn't factor in that people need to eat, and they well, are making food.
Everytime I buy something (usually from Amazon US to Haiti), I had to review several products just to be sure I don't end up with a crap one. You have to buy the expensive one because of the better build quality. I have an two Sennheiser headphones that are still going strong (one is a renewed product) while my friends buying cheaper headphones have already spent more than me.
Wait until Americans find out their health insurance stops covering them after they've consented to experimental medical drug injections.
I’m curious how much retail space is integrated into neighborhoods in the United States at all as opposed to strip malls down a 6 lane highway set back in a sea of parking.

Most of the country doesn’t even have the ability to even have this problem.
Are there any groups attempting patent reform in an organized way?
Almonds use like what, 10% of CA water? How is the war on almonds going?
>>We simply don’t have a lot of records about ancient Egyptian scholarship before the Hellenistic period.

Agreed. As robbiep mentioned, this is probably because of Alexander in general.

>>The period of time where Egypt produced many scholars who we still know by name, and their works and how influential they are, was in the Hellenistic period during which they essentially were culturally Greek.

It is interesting to me, how as soon as the Greeks came on to the scene, this process of identifying thought with individuals (the Socratic method, Platonic dialogues, Pythagorean theorem etc) becomes the standard in the West. I personally believe that this is one of the great achievements of Greece, but at the same time, it has blinded us to the ways that civs tended to create and maintain knowledge in a much more communal process.

>>If you looked at really ancient Egypt you would not find much that could be extrapolated to the “Western civilization” compared to the Greeks.

I agree in general it is easier to relate to the Greeks. I suppose I tend to find very deep civilizational roots from the period 6K~ BCE to about 2k~ BCE, an era which included the rise of the first mega civs like Egypt and Sumer among others. Its the broad outlines that fascinate me; mass religions, class structures, very long distance trade, massive monuments and urban environs, etc. I suppose I tend to see much in common in the broad outlines. (and for me, broad outlines always have a greater impact than any Homerian epic)
Do you feel the ones who moved out are doing so permanently? From coworkers I know who did this, it seems they are all “city people” but are finding that they really like single family zoned neighborhoods, more space, and a slower paced environment. It seems to me like what began as an experiment is likely to be a permanent change for them. Anecdotally, my sense is that these are people that never gave living outside the city a chance, or had preconceptions about it, but with this pandemic driven experience they are figuring out their actual tastes or priorities.
SAT test prep doesn’t have to cost thousands. A prep book, a timer/clock, and time reading through the tricks and taking practice test(s) would be at least 70% there if not more.
The Public: "How do you know if I'm law abiding or not?"

NSO: "We checked, you're clean"

The Public: "I plan to speak publicly about this violation of my privacy"

Local DA: "An investigation revealed some suspicious activity in your secretly subpoenaed browser history... 6 years ago..."

The Public: "Investigation? I didn't do anything wrong! Is this because I want to voice my objection to the current privacy laws?! This sounds an awful lot like parallel construction"

Local DA: "We are not at liberty to disclose the nature of the information we have on you as it contains information involving other active cases. You are under arrest."
There seems to be something tantalizing in the relation between the EM and gravity field. Whether this is an accurate description of that remains be seen.

Some interesting potential tie-ins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham–Minkowski_controversy
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
According to at least one source in the Nixon administration, it was because it was a good filter for the kinds of people that resist capitalism (non-conforming white people and minorities). Make that illegal, and you have a pretext for throwing people in jail that might cause trouble.

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...

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In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
"

One reason it's becoming legal now is because it is ceasing to be as good of a filter.
That's not universally true though the Nile river delta and the Columbia basin have tons of agriculture and I'm not aware of water shortages, although large dams can cause issues.
Great, then there's no reason to ask the original question! Just take feedback as feedback. If your users say they're annoyed, they probably are.
Depends on how general the solution is, I guess.
I think they should be more expensive too. The government shouldn't give a monopoly for cheap. Maybe $100k fee for first 5 years, with the ability to pay something like $1m to extend another 5 years would be long enough. Maybe $10M for another 5 years, and $100M for another 5 years.
> Oculus sells their hardware at a loss, and make up for it by selling your data.

Source?
I agree with most of what you said but ...

> My 2012 Nexus 7 runs Android 7(!).

why not Android 11? The Nexus is from Google as well as Android.
So at some point they must have pushed some "useless" new
features into Android that makes it incompatible with the older
hardware. I say "useless" because besides gaming or probably
video telephony there's nothing we do today with our phones that
couldn't be done with those older devices so I don't see a reason
why they shouldn't be able to run the newest Android.

> but it’s not a conspiracy

conspiracy is probably not the right term but I also don't think
it's just a matter of circumstances. In the end they want us to
buy new hardware every few years so I claim that the situation is
brought to us intentionally.
Santa Monica has a dry-weather runoff recycling facility SMURFF, many millions of litres/day. Sells/trades it back to other LA cites, and locally for landscape irrigation and toilet flushing. They do guided tours, well worth going.
Manually rotated offline backups. Copy all your stuff to an external hard drive and stash it at your least technical friend's place. Go visit them once a week and swap the drive while you're there. You might lose up to a week's work but the bulk of your data will be safe.
Jonathan Haidt is if the same opinion
So, in theory, if you allow modification of your genes, you are allowing your gut bacteria to be controlled via that modification.

How would one know if that is good or bad?
And they can get their food grown in a region that does not have a water issue.
How was the paid STMP service you were using? Been trying to find one and most seem to be used for email marketing/spam, so it's hard to know what would work reliably for small scale personal email.
Sounds like they're in denial then.
According to which country's laws?
I expect that we will see a continuation of a stratified society. finances are being reigned in by nation states, so there will likely be a continued increase in regulations and a decrease in accessibility but also less scammers - just chartered ones allowed.

war will increase online and there will be a rise of a new terror cell likely in so called response to the increased lockdowns around the world when the world has now begun to reopen as they will now have mobility again.

this will be used for all agendas alongside the health reasons and together they will be restrictions on particular countries and more sanctions.

technology will likely continue to be improved and money will continue to flow to the the companies which invest in automation
We could see shipment of PV cells to be assembled into modules locally.

Also, don't forget the mounting hardware, which has seen surprising innovation as well. It's a significant part of the cost. Example: https://www.jurchen-technology.com/products/pv-substructures...
"One True Recovery". It's a special recovery environment that the user enters when they hold down the power button on an M1 Mac. It looks identical to a standard recovery environment, but it allows you to do things turn off secure boot.
I see. So you would say that cutting farmers off from access to water they've had access to before, as stated in the featured article, is reasonable then in the current circumstances?
Basically, from the photon's point of view, all travel is the universe distorting until origin and destination are literally the same point. Photon's don't experience movement, the universe does an instant jig around them while they sit still.
> The value of his building's keep increasing so he doesn't care.

By what metric? According to you, they're in an area where people don't want to be and there are no renters. If your description is even close to accurate, the value of the buildings is dropping.
Even “essential” liberties were infringed on from the very beginning, and maintained until now. Defamation and free speech being a common example.
Work in an exempted folder.
> I think if I had kids I wouldn’t let them on such sites until 16/17 or never

Social media is damaging, but not having social media is also damaging since you may as well be the kid coming to school in a potato sack
What is the public good here?

I'd imagine: having shops, instead of vacant properties. And extending to residential: having more housing supply.

So we want to (1) incentivize landlords to put their property to use, instead of letting it lay vacant & (2) avoid making property owning so risky that no one wants to do it.

It seems like a non-use tax + national economic hardship exception takes care of that nicely.

Taxes on your limited-supply property (e.g. city cores) increase at 30/60/90/180/360 days of vacancy. Where vacancy is defined on average across a timespan (to prevent resetting timers with faux leases). And then coupled to an external index (e.g. national occupancy rates for property type) that decreases the increased tax if there's a deteriorating economic period.

We want it to be financially painful to not have a tenant in your property. To the extent that landlords are incentivized to go to the trouble to offer their property to the public for use.
Virtual particles are basically just a mathematical trick to make doing calculations easier in perturbative quantum field theory. You shouldn't take them too seriously.

If you do the calculations in another way (e.g. by discretizing stuff on a lattice) no virtual particles appear but your calculations become a lot harder.
I think they cache everything which was recommended for some time, haven't tested the exact period.
Poetry is pretty great comparatively, since it handles both dependencies, locking and virtual environments for you, but it has slow resolution just like pip (since the new update), pyenv, pipenv, etc.
> Could someone chime in with how these farmers physically get this water?

on my grandparents ranch they dig a hole in the river from which they pump the water.

> Do they own the land the steam is on or does the government own the streams and provide permits for access? Do they own the land the steam is on or does the government own the streams and provide permits for access?

they own the land on either side of the river and have water rights to the river (or at very least they have taking water from the stream for over 100 years ... it's an old family farm). though apparently fish supersede their water rights.

> Is it generally the farmers themselves doing this or is there some middleman (public/private?) water distributor?

no middle man
I think there’s more nuance here than you realize.

Some Americans are indeed of Jewish descent and could benefit from the right to return should they wish to.

But those people of Jewish descent pale in comparison to the non-Jewish Protestant Christians who also support Israel.

It’s interesting that so many Christians support Israel because for hundreds of years that wasn’t the case. Think the crusades and bograms around the world. Many Christians formerly embraced Replacement Theology, which basically says Christians replace the Jewish people’s in God’s eyes. This lead to all sorts of appalling behavior by Christians against Jews over the last two thousand years.

Many modern Protestant Christians instead believe the Jews have a legal and valid agreement with God. And that bringing harm to a Jewish person or their ancestral lands will be punished by God.

So, this is why many red state Christians support the state of Israel and the Jewish people.
They just roll over all government requests for data, so that's a lot of APT that are neutralized.
A similar concept that works for me is to trick myself into thinking I'm only going to do a little. Once in motion, I capitalize on the sunk cost fallacy :P

Let's say if I don't want to take a walk, I'll say to myself, "let me just walk until the corner and come back". Once I get to the corner, I'll say "since I'm already here, let me keep walking until the next corner before returning home" and so on.
I dunno about all that. Everyone I’ve encountered who smoked weed back then complains about how the weed today is “too strong”.
Sure. And where food production is the policy concern, part of what you want would be incentives to produce high nutrition with water efficiency.
> Get a grip. The reasons you listed either don't really impede self-hosting, or have more benign explanations than "they're out to kill technical independence".

I don't understand the snark when we're talking about companies that quite literally forbid running your own services in their terms of service.
Border Between India and Pakistan
This seems disingenuous.

Meth is extremely unpopular in the 13-18 demographic, and in particular it’s far less popular than social media.
Sure, but it's still converting to and from the weird hive format.
Sum of 2^k
Yep. Rerunning things is how you end up with C/C++ style headers and all the (performance and otherwise) problems there in.
He didn't deny that was what he meant.

It was "called out" by Chris Bryant - a member of Labour Friends for Israel and thus very much a pretend member "of the left".

This is the same group that sent a delegation to Isaac Herzog, a party leader who is unapologetically and publicly racist to apologize for "anti-semitism" in the Labour party that barely existed.

This is, again, how racists protect each other - with false accusations of racism against anti-racists.
>cruise down the highway at 120 MPH

Your example is not one of "liberty", at most can be one of "licence", and surely not of "essential liberty".
Have California farmers expressed interest in funding such projects?
> "If we don't do it, someone else will." It can be used to justify any kind of unethical activities,

No, not really.

> Norwegian oil becomes friendly for the environment.

There is a difference between something being friendly for the environment and blindly doing changes without considering there global implication not being help full and maybe even harmful. The world is not black and white.

> magical thinking

I would call it considering the effects of you actions before acting. Instead of blindly acting based on ideology not matter if it's actually helpful or not for the end goal of the ideology.

> If I didn't steal your wallet, someone else would've done it,

Which is a good example of why you can't reason arbitrary bad things with the argument. Because most likely no on else would have stolen your wallet. There is a very big difference between creating arbitrary hypothetical situations and considering realistic very likely consequences of actions.
If I didn’t respect them I would let them do anything they wanted.

> Of course, this is all judging just by the tone of your posts

That is quite the assumption. Perhaps I communicate less delicately than you are accustomed.
NASA tends to be extremely conservative regarding booster technology -- allowing reused boosters only after commercial customers had thoroughly proved them out, for example. Which is justifiable -- most commercial launches are communications satellites for which it's possible to insure the launch for enough to buy another, while NASA's payloads are unique and far more expensive.
Not a big problem. Can be imported from non-afflicted areas. Perhaps local shortages of certain products, but I doubt anyone will starve. It's pretty bad for the farmer in question, though, who will undoubtedly lose a lot of money.
You made the strong claim that affirmative action mathematically requires lowering the proficiency bar. I responded that it depends on certain facts about the world, on which there is much disagreement (whether hiring/admissions is completely objective, whether groups have the same abilities and preferences, etc). I didn't even specify what I personally believed, but I see you dug up your talking points.

I'm responsible for hiring engineers as well, and I don't actually think discrimination plays much of a role at this point in the pipeline; I just rarely see candidates from underrepresented groups cross my desk. From here, it looks like a supply issue upstream (whether from preferences, abilities, or bias). So in this little corner of the world, I agree that affirmative action would require compromising on proficiency. Other corners may be different.