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> Filibuster rules were changed because Obama wanted the affordable care act.

This is not true. No filibuster rules were changed to accommodate the ACA. You might be confused because prt of the ACA was passed under reconciliation, a long-existing exception to the filibuster rules that allows spending and taxation laws to be passed without requiring a supermajority to invoke cloture. Reconciliation has been part of the Senate rules since 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_...
> but I can't really claim the esteemed mantle of true open source because

it's AGPLv3 isn't it? Copyleft _is_ considered to be true open source by most people AFAIK!
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I personally tried this for a few weeks: I set my clocks to GMT, and converted everyone else's silly little timezones into one unambiguous number. All I accomplished was memorizing the offset between GMT and local time and getting marginally quicker at the required arithematic to convert between them. It didn't even solve any problems, because a) nobody else was doing it, so, shrug, and b) I immediately lost all context for the earth's rotation, and that turned out to be a massive pain in the ass. I think the very least we can do, though, is get rid of DST.
Not the worst looking controller I've seen. But it makes me wonder at what point in the campaign plan they thought it was ok to go through without authorization..
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Agreed. There's just not enough scummery in open source to compete.
There was a thread somewhat related to this recently. I’m wary of having anything that’s not direct professional experience directly listed in the resume.

The consensus is just that outside rare occasion or notability in your field, no one cares about your blog/project/GH/etc.
I don't understand the hate against systemd, it literally changed my life once I embraced it.

Do people really don't like it because it has bugs, like any other software, or is it just averseness to change?
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CORBA is complex and SOAP is simple, people argue about which one is “best”

there is no new thing under the sun
hey, whaddya know, i just stumbled upon this today https://twitter.com/geofft/status/1132739184060489729
He reinvented the NPC meme.
A motto you have to explain is a bad motto.

To a police officer "Defund the police" sounds a lot like "unemployment".
> Given the competitive nature of the Olympics, people getting upset over any losses is, of course, hardly unique to China.

Gotta take this article with a big grain of salt. As the article mentioned, it's hardly unique to China. To use the most extreme and tragic example, a Colombian was killed after scoring an own goal [1] in the 1994 World Cup. A big purpose of these national competitions seems to be giving nationalists a symbolic, nonviolent way to compete with other nations. Especially when 2 countries have a history of actual warfare.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Escobar
Macaulay2 will!
https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/doc/Macaulay2-1....
Although they do contribute, believing three letter agencies wouldn't try to leave backdoors is certainly the former.
> If they fixed the reputation system so it more accurately reflected quality, it would be easier but some people have 10K+ reputation for asking a simple question that lots of people upvoted and others who have added high quality replies to more specific questions might only have a few hundred.

How exactly do you tell the difference?
I think you mean speed up.
I don't know. He's taking it to the actual people responsible, rather than taking it out on call center employees who are understaffed, overworked and powerless to change anything.

It's a brutal power move, but it targets the people actually responsible and it clearly gets results. I think this is way better for everybody involved.

Of course it does depend on the person escalating being correct about the issue, and good and reasonable about explaining it to the person in charge. And we all know that's not going to be true for your average customer. So use this power with discretion.
Those are really cool! I like that they're really detailed, usually 3D avatars are more towards the simple side..
Maybe to some it is, but to many it isn't.

The FSF guys are pissed off because this is OSS reuse at industrial scale which cuts them out of the loop.

Especially with the trend to use permissive licensing - it's becoming too frictionless for their liking.
Which is obviously worse than harassing people using company ressources. /s
I thought I was being clear I was denying that being ready to kill is a necessary part of the role of police in society in general, not trying to assert it never happens. Hence acknowledging UK firearms teams, even while saying they are a minority that most don’t want to be a part of.

Given the context, I don’t even understand why you’re bringing up the death of Rashan Charles — There’s no reason for me to believe those officers were in any sense “ready” to end his life, and some evidence to suggest they were actively trying to prevent it.
PII is not a term that is used in the GDPR. The person you're replying to is correct that your browsing data is likely to count as personal data given that it's linked to an individual.
A service does not have to be a monopoly to be classified as a utility, nor does it have to be life-threatening if inaccessible. Mobile phone in my country is provided by 4 major independent companies (and this isn't the US but a country with only a few M people, so 4 big providers is a pretty good number) and they are still required to allow free transfers of numbers to other providers.

> One cannot live without a utility...

If my water got shut off, my life would go on pretty normally - drinking water is cheap in stores, bars are required to provide it free of charge and I can shower at a friend's place or something. If I lost my email account however, I'd have months of work ahead of me just to restore my digital life to its previous state and my livelihood would be at risk. All bills go to my email so I couldn't pay for the services I and my business need, business partners wouldn't be able to reach me, neither would my customers... In fact, I can't really think of any other single thing that would cause more problems if lost than my email account(s).
I was sure it was going to be a hoverboard, too.
Funny enough, the further east you go, the better they taste.

But tbf, only for a few months when the many small farmers grow them outdoors and sell them for unbelievably cheap.

Rest of the time it's greenhouse tomatoes like everyone else.
Yes. As I said. It might not be a free society, per se.
> As long as the population increases, Malthus is right.

Wrong. As long as population growth remains positive without end in sight, Malthus right.

However, THE END OF POSITIVE POPULATION GROWTH IS IN SIGHT.

I mean, I said so in the comment you responded to, and you conveniently ignored it. Instead you went right for the Malthusian fearmongering talking points. "It's just a question of when" -- no, no it's not, not if population plateaus and then shrinks (negative population growth for a while is practically baked in now into the world's demographics).

> Plug in different growth rates and the answer could range from tens of years to hundreds of millions of years!

Why thank you. Hundreds of millions of years is more than there is time for life on this planet. Without our help, each successive glacial period was ending with CO2 lower than the end of the previous glacial period, and plants starve below certain levels (I think it's 150ppm for one kind of photosynthesis, lower for another) and was going to end up below those levels soon enough. Now, thanks to HUMANS life on Earth has millions more years in it because we've put a little bit of the Earth's sequestered carbon back into the carbon cycle.
A lot of games were struggling to run properly recently, glad to see they're finally getting it fixed.
Humans are definitely not Turing Machines. The halting problem for humans is solved. Just wait long enough and they will die.
Most places have laws requiring recognition of unions past certain sizes or following votes, even if they don't require membership of the union.

The main distinction is not whether membership of a union is required - closed shops is illegal both in the US (since the Taft-Hartley Act 1947) and in all countries bound by the European Court of Human Rights (which is basically every country eligible for Council of Europe membership apart from Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Vatican) - but whether or not non-members are required to pay dues towards a recognised union.
> The FSF said there are legal questions pertaining to Copilot [...]

There have always been lots of untested legal questions about GPL & co. Why hasn't the FSF figured out what it is they do and don't want? Shouldn't knowing what the licenses actually mean and communicating that to people be their number one job? Why else do they exist? To spread feelings and confusion?
Copilot is an autocompletion framework the way Google is an autocompletion framework.

Both are driven by vast amount of data processing that can't be done locally both because you don't have the horsepower and you don't have the bandwidth or pragmatic data access to terabytes of source code.

So instead of vacuous appeals to emotion, it's better to justify our opinions with objective reasons other than "but I want to have this". We all want things, but we're not entitled to them.

Aside from the fact Copilot literally can only be offered as a service due to its nature (unless you want to sound like one of those jokes where "you downloaded the internet to your USB stick"), everyone is free to offer a service precisely how they decide.

They're not obligated to give you anything they don't want to. They don't have to listen to you, or FSF, or anyone else about what they consider, arbitrarily, an "absolute disgrace". You use it or you don't use it. Simple as that.

P.S.: I consider it an absolute disgrace ice-cream is not free but this argument never seems to works in practice.
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There already is less deforestation. The planet has greened enormously in the past several decades, as shown by satellite imaging. Total land under cultivation has shrunk for the past several decades. In other words, we've increased consumption using less of the resources you seem to value.
Here's to secession of New Hampshire!
Wix and Shopify are both multi billion dollar companies that give casual users access to websites that would previously require dedicated devs. This is done via elaborate WYSIWYG website editing. There used to be decent business in low-end web dev, banging out high volumes of simple websites and storefronts - but that market has been in large part taken over by WYSIWYG tools.
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Whatever for? If there's no one to sell products to...
IIRC it really depends on the chosen GC. ZGC will return memory back to the OS but older GCs will just hold on to the memory forever (up until -Xmx)
Show HN: Atomd v0.1.0 – Markdown Lexer and HTML Parser (Python)
This project came to light while working on a larger one. I was looking for something that would give me easy atomic control over the HTML tags that replace the markdown syntax. After looking at a few, I decided to implement and open-source my own.

The basic idea (and the biggest difference from other markdown libraries) is splitting the functionality into a lexer and a parser, so other parsers can easily be created by simply adding a parse map and replacing the tokens from the lexer. Both the lexicon and the parse map are exposed to allow for specific modification of HTML tags.

It's in a working state at the moment, but certain things such as syntax highlighting and markdown within quote blocks will depend on how much use it gets.

Hope someone finds this useful other than myself!
There’s also a difference between how you run and adjudicate a ~100 person NRLB election and a ~150 million person country wide national election. It’s both easier to cheat in small elections, and easier to just call a redo. In the latter case calling a redo is literally impossible (and illegal), in the former it’s a pretty reasonable response.

And yes, Trump didn’t prove anything. He’s just a sore loser.
Is there a market for good tasting tomato seeds? :D

It's actually fascinating - I remember my grandmother scooping out the seeds out of vegetables and drying them, to be used next year.

The villagers also traded them as apparently they had different varieties.
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> > But the malthusians want to reduce population by 16x

> This seems pretty extreme

Well, yes, that's because it is. But some really do want that. See The Georgia Guidestones for more information.
Why is this on the front page when my submission of the same thing from 40 days ago got completely buried?

Just curious.
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If I understand the article correctly, you're talking about two different things. Something can be efficiently heated but if it cools down all of that energy is effectively lost. This device would allow you to recapture some of that energy that is lost to then reheat the water. Think of it more as active insulation than a better heating element.
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I think the mistake we've made is attempting to use facts & figures to dispel a belief ;)
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I'm not entirely sure if there is a summary of the video. The final gist is that a minimally processed plant based diet is the healthiest. This is the consensus and what the cohort studies repeatedly show. There are now doctors/scientists who can explain the biomechanics of it all, too.
The vaccines were real in this case though. The CIA used the program to gather intelligence but they weren’t distributing disease.
Negative population growth for a while is baked into the world's population pyramid now. We're going to have to learn to deal with that.
Also see this, in the same topic but not in the same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627
Nevertheless it is rather easy to tell them apart. Hard drugs quickly cause heavy addiction in almost everybody who tries them, destroy their health and can even kill them easily. Psilocybin does not, it can actually be used to improve neural health and cure addictions (just search it here on HN, there are many papers to reference).

There are things which are hard to define precisely nevertheless easy to distinguish intuitively.
I think proven cheating by the losing party shouldn’t require a re-vote, because logically the cheating didn’t change the outcome. Perhaps a fine would be sufficient, or criminal prosecution of the individuals would be enough. It’s only when the winning side cheated that the prospect of the outcome having changed appears and must be dealt with.

I’d be curious how they decide whether or not any given bad acting potentially changed the outcome. I can certainly say that firing Union activists and monitoring voting activity would have a chilling effect, but proving the magnitude of that would be hard to do.
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> ...many will take back used sodastream CO2 canisters for a discount on the replacement.

Holy shit, are you saying they're sold any other way?!? What, like people just throw them away? Holy chrome-moly, that's one I'd never imagined.
Hello. Negative population growth for a while is now baked in to the world's population pyramid. You may now have a good night's sleep. You're welcome.
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Japan, and particularly Tokyo is special. Apartments are mainly glorified cupboards so most people will prefer to print out than dedicate precious space to an only occasionally used device like a printer.
> Programming is not like baking cookies, you can't just copy a snippet and hope it'll work out OK.

Wait, why not?

Isn't the entire notion of a library or framework literally a book of common recipes? Don't most languages ship with a standard library, common classes, or a common framework?

Sure, thoughtlessly mixing mismatched patterns will get you haggis or oatmeal raisin, but that really doesn't mean the method is flawed.
Finally! Now we can have an air conditioner that does not require a pipe to blow the hot air outside. Like truly mobile unit.
Their origin story is Stallman being frustrated with a buggy printer driver that couldn't be fixed because it was proprietary.

It's told in this talk, you can search for "printer" to find it < https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt >.

They promote Free Software (and specifically copyleft over permissive licenses) because they view proprietary software as morally wrong and something that should not exist.
I knew an older guy who phrased it that his phone existed for his convenience, not for the people around him.
Haha! I have 10 fingers, 5 of them almost always near my chin as part of a misoptimized supporting structure, 4 of the rest 5 usually spend most of their time holding/transporting a mug, leaving only 1 left .... the most busy and important one of course: I use it to poke the mouse/touchpad so the screen stays on.

Only during the most rare occasion, those 10 fingers will give up their self-designated posts and come to this massive array of buttons to do their exercise of pressing stuff, something like "su apt install", "dock run", "cd.." etc.

I'd say type fast != work fast, so I don't mind if someone is a slow button presser :)
YouTube would be nice as well.
I've somehow managed to not run into SOAP despite having done backend exclusively for a while. From the perspective of someone who's totally naïve to it, the technology sounds like it introduces more friction to the developer than the common JSON over HTTP approach. I'd appreciate someone who favours SOAP explaining what the advantages are, I'm genuinely curious because I've never worked with it first hand.
Not sure I agree with the notion of this being treason, but it’s a pretty serious crime, considering that most wage-based workers (W-2, 1099 in the US) are absolutely lambasted with taxes (especially in certain states), and there is pretty much no way around it aside from hiring an accountant to come up with legal ways to help you reduce your tax liability. But for the most part, you’ll still have to pay a pretty ridiculous rate, especially as you earn higher levels of income (when things like AMT kick in). It burns me that I, a wage-based employee, am bearing a completely unfair proportion of the burden of the infrastructure costs of my country. My effective tax rate can be around 40%, yet the “rich” (whatever that actually means) can, in many cases, avoid taxes altogether by hiding assets and obfuscating their true net worth. So yeah, maybe it should be treason.
I think you’re missing that the law considers intent. If the devs of copilot were not trying to set up infringement, then their algorithm’s output is likely not considered infringement [1]. However, if you set out to “launder” copyrighted material then the law will take that into consideration and likely find that you violated copyright. This intent can be demonstrated in court either via your statements, or your actions (such as constructing a meaninglessly tiny training set).

[1]: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-101-issue-2/copyright...
> The fact that a company makes a lot of money isn’t an argument against them

I wasn't making an argument against companies making a lot of money. I was merely pointing out that the commercialization will be sinking capital investment far greater than just 2 billion, contrary to the poster's claim. I don't speak of the counterfactual, i.e., where that excess money would go otherwise, but I do share the OP's lament that we should be trying to fix problems on Earth. If Space tech can help in some way, I'm all for that.

> spending more on something that drives technological advancement is a good thing

Technologies are amoral. Whether or not the advancement or deployment of any particular technology is a 'good thing' is a matter of subjectivity.
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>Earth can only support a certain number of human beings.

Correction. Earth can only support a certain number of human beings at a given standard of life.

I have seen HN comments where some users have said that earths capacity is closer to 100 billion than 10 billion but they always ignore that the standard of living would have to be pretty terrible.
Does it mean Americans may get universal healthcare and comprehensive social security?
The Java community is going further in this direction, with the norm being empty jars to provide interfaces for libraries, with the implementation being brought by the application. Micrometer, opentracing, and Jax work this way.
I find myself puzzled by organizations like these. Let's say they do not attack infrastructure or other critical services, and only leech off huge companies.

I cannot argue against it?
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the US does the same, why nobody talk or complain about this?

this anti-china propaganda has to stop, brainwashing your people is counter productive

then you end up with anti-vax people and as a result fail to control a pandemic, in a 1st world country lol

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