skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big difference between a representative democratic government and a private company, I'd say.
Smallpox seems to be about as contagious as Covid as measured by R0.
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Apple’s iCloud, Health, and AI teams reportedly seeing departures
Probably blocked by your DNS server, someone in this thread said it's blocked on Quad9.
This comment pointed out a misconception I didn’t even know I had. I imagined the wings hanging off the plane like cantilevers. But the wings are the ones where the lift is. Logically the middle is the thing hanging off the wings when in flight.

Neat to find a cognitive error like that that I didn’t even know I had. Thanks.
Are you 100x more productive than an average dev? Is that what _”100x dev”_ means?
Germany was a reasonable country that took a turn at the top toward extreme unreasonableness. When the Allies kicked out the Nazis Germany was able to go back to reasonableness because that was normal for Germany. It just needed some support from the Allies to keep things from falling apart so that it could transition back to reasonableness.

Afghanistan was pretty much always a poorly governed country rife with corruption. The US went in to stop it being taken over by something even worse. Stopping the Taliban didn't do anything about a corrupt government that does a poor job of governing. It would either eventually end up a dictatorship from someone within the government seizing permanent power, or someone would topple the government because the government is too corrupt and ineffective to organize a good defense.

Really all the US could hope for as long as that government remained in control was to delay the Taliban long enough for it to be someone else who toppled the government and then hope that the new government was sufficiently more competent to handle holding off the Taliban.

To really address the Afghanistan problem probably requires someone to go in, smash the Taliban and kick out the current government (as of last night--haven't seen the news today so am not if they are still current), then oversee something like a constitutional convention for all Afghanis to develop a new more democratic government with sufficient safeguards to keep the corruption down somewhat.

That's hard to do while trying to stay on the right side of the line between empire building and truly helping a people develop a good stable non-corrupt independent representative government.
So that's a 'yes' then.
How well do any of these alternatives work for doing an automatic "More like this" list? I implemented this in Elasticsearch for a client (although it's been so long that I don't recall the specifics of how it works) and as much as I'd like to move away from Java stuff if possible, it'd be a non-starter if I can't replicate that in the new system.
There are enough instances of webpacker in this thread (instead of webpack) making me think it's something different.
Yeah, Elixir is great, but zealots keep acting like it's happening, and it is totally not happening.
Perhaps the wings are simpler because they don't have the engine pylon structures and the associated wiring/hoses for the engines, not because of the weight of the engines as the article states.
We seem to have forgotten victories like GDPR, CCPA, and the Microsoft anti-trust case.

The Microsoft anti-trust case took the wind out of Microsoft's sails and kept the web free just long enough for new giants to emerge. (And Microsoft remains a 1T+ company. If anything, it made them stronger because they had to diversify and fight harder.)

If we (or Europe) try it again, we might see more wealth in more companies. More experiments. More innovation. Less moat defending, taxation, walled gardens, and comprehensive surveillance dragnets.

Having Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon own everything makes them all complacent iterators, data hoarders, tax collectors, and small business/innovation cripplers.

The anti-trust hammer is a powerful tool. It elevated our entire industry. We (through our elected officials) should wield it.
Optimism is essentially the religion of Capitalism. This is because Capitalism is perpetually in debt to tomorrow. Every start up being discussed on HN, every fund people pump their 401k into, every new oil well being dug up, all of these require believing in the future.

The problem is that everything we have today depends on everything being better tomorrow. Optimism isn't just a nice feeling it's a core ideology that is necessary to keep the whole machine moving forward. If people en masse started to believe tomorrow might not be better than today, and that in the day after tomorrow might be even worse... the faith in our entire system starts to collapse.

People here talk about pessimism as if it's some rampant belief in society and the few optimists there are fighting against the hordes of the non-believer. But true pessimism remains a radical belief, outside of internet forums I have only occasionally met anyone who exhibits even the most mild form of pessimism. Even in academia the core works of most German philosophical pessimists remain untranslated!

Optimists also believe that someone questioning optimism it itself dangerous (which should be the first clue that something is not quite right with the dominant optimist world view). Whereas in practice it is optimism that allows us to perpetuate horrors on every scale without question because "tomorrow it will be better!". Ecological disaster is permitted because we will solve this tomorrow and everything will be okay. Sweatshops, child labor and modern slavery are all permitted because this is just a step in peoples inevitable rises to a better life. The murder of countless civilians around the globe are all justifiable because tomorrow we will have a better world economy, and democracy will spread through the region, making everything better.

Under optimism the shock from any horror is neutered and any atrocity can be trivially excused because the future is bright and we are heading in the right direction. We continue to burn every more fossil fuels because we are going to be fine, we'll figure it out, no reason for despair.

As the final insult to injury, questioning that future becomes heresy and so you cannot even voice your anguish as the world around you starts to collapse.
I have a repo and raise a jira for each script and record any history or background. Then mark the git history against the jira.
> can the US create new agricultural fields in other states

Even California could. California could have much more irrigated agricultural land, if they completed Stage II of the original 1957 California Water Plan.

I guess before 1970s, there was not much political controversy in building reservoirs and harnessing rivers and directing the water flow though agriculture. Then in the 1970s and after, some people started to see intrinsic value in rivers in their natural state, and opposing further water projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project...
What happens if only the UK says this but the US allows it?
> That seems more or less false. False advertising is explicitly against the law.

That’s not the point that was argued, though. An advertisement doesn’t oblige the advertise to engage in a specific transaction with a customer.

This isn’t uncommon. If you see a house advertised for sale at $500,000, the owners aren’t obligated to sell you the house for $500,000 or even to sell the house at any price. An advertisement alone isn’t a legally binding offer to complete a transaction.

False advertising also requires an intent to deceive or mislead, or at least evidence that the advertiser behaved recklessly in the advertisement. The advertisement is obviously a joke and they wouldn’t be able to find anyone to testify that that PepsiCo actually thought they would be selling a Harrier jet, so proving intent to mislead or reckless behavior would be nearly impossible when the entire premise was a joke.

Regardless, I’m inclined to believe the judge who presided over this case and did the work of reading through all of the legal precedent.
Fun fact ad 3 - in some countries (Poland) there is a concept in law of a public promise. If a corporation publicly promises something (a competition usually), they are obliged to act upon it, even if there were no signatures on the other side.
It's more like "doctors making sure there are not too many doctors", which in some countries they actually do (by having a say, via professional organizations/unions, how many student spots are there in medical schools).
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> I believe I heard of one retired military pilot buying one.

That would probably be this guy:

https://brobible.com/culture/article/badass-pilot-series-art...
I doubt this myself, but here you go: https://www.t4.ai/industry/server-operating-system-market-sh...

TL;DC; 2018: 48% Windows 34% Red Hat 18% rest.

Again, servers are probably largely irrelevant for dist upgrade. On desktop the prevalence is clear.
A little misleading there. The demand was to turn bin Laden over, not let him escape.
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If "that's fair enough" is dismissive to you, I hope I never end up having to break up with you!

You're not the person I was replying to, I don't have to justify myself to you. If you want me to be graceful, you can come watch me at the rink instead.
Additional questions:

- Was there another way to satisfy customer demand without balancing a rock on a hill?

- Must the rock balance on the hill, or just a hill? Must it be the rock or just a rock?

- What level of modifications would cause the hill to no longer count as the hill? What attributes would need to be transferred from the hill to another hill to make another hill count as the hill?

- Does the rock have to be made of this material? Does it have to be this shape?

- If the rock tumbles when no-one is looking, did it really tumble?

- What regulatory bodies are concerned with this rock balancing act? What are their opinions on our performance?

- Are records kept of our performance? Does it vary or is it constant? Is it acceptable? If not, why not? Who is responsible for this judgment, and who is responsible for ensuring our performance? What tools do they lack?

- What are the operating procedures of the balancing team? Are they followed? Why not? Does circumstances require not following procedures?

- Are people getting tired balancing? Why? Are there sufficient breaks? Why not? Do people need nutritious meals and are they getting it?

- Who is responsible for updating operating procedures based on operational experience? Are workers' opinions on improvements taken seriously?

- Are new people receiving sufficient training? Why not? Who is responsible for training? What qualified them for that?

- Does the culture value successful rock balancing? Does management? Is the motivation there? What are the levels of absenteeism? Why not? Why?

- Does communication between workers happen? Do they have a shared language? Are misunderstandings common? Why?

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There's just so many things that can (and do) go wrong, and so much that needs to be clarified in regards to how the system works that blindly strolling down a single "causal chain" is bordering on malpractice.
Sea freight can go nuclear. Terrestrial power generation can also be nuclear.
Nice! You saw it the way I wish I would have. The slower pace of the script after season one drives me crazy. Reportedly the change was because everyone but Alec Baldwin had trouble memorizing and filming that much. The show remained clever but season one is special.
Good point. Indeed, for DB-only workloads the Xeon appears to be better: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-xe...

Still, this doesn’t mean Epyc is only good for HPC, e.g. this is some enterprise Java-based benchmark where it’s substantially faster: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16594/intel-3rd-gen-xeon-scal...

BTW, on my job I don’t do databases, but I do quite a lot of HPC stuff.
I read it the same !
They're even lower now. A few months ago, the federal gov't cut off a lot of farmers in S. Oregon from water that they use for crops. To save fish.

> Amid historic, climate change-driven drought, the federal government in May shut down the water supply from the Upper Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border to protect native fish species on the verge of extinction. As a result, Hill and other farmers like her in the region have been cut off from water they have used for decades.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/us/klamath-oregon-drought-wat...

People go to bed with water and wake up to dry wells. Since the farmers can't use the traditional water source in the area, they are digging their wells deeper and deeper in order to water their crops. Something a lot of regular people can't afford to do, so as the farmers drop the water table searching and searching for that continually drying up water, others are going without.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/07/29/southern-oregon-wells...

Bad things seem to be coming.
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Yes, definitely. The government can put you in jail or shoot you, while Facebook can sell your data to advertisers.
It's like a grownup version of Looney Tunes. This is basically video game pacing.
Back in 2015, another drought year, the head of the water board gave a really interesting talk to the MIT Bay Area club: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/mitcnc/videos/31839-califo...

In it she said that California didn’t have as much a water problem as a water capture and storage problem. All of the capture and storage was built during wet years and if we could capture storm runoff even in places like LA we’d be in a far better situation. It was a really interesting talk I recommend to anyone living in CA.
Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water
Don't force IPv6. Make IPv4 illegal. Now they can't half-ass the IPv6 support.
On the other hand, if we change the word from 'weight' to 'thrust' it becomes an accurate-ish statement.
They'd probably annex it and then install re-education facilites to show everyone on how awesome socialism with mainland Chinese characteristics are.
-Thank- you. I scrolled through all the replies until I saw this one, because it seemed like such an obvious reason for why there would be a correlation. The first is "someone had an idea", and the latter is "someone had an idea that outsiders vetted and decided to put money towards". Of course the latter would be more likely to succeed. That doesn't mean the latter would not have succeeded had they foregone investing, nor that the former would have succeeded had they only been able to raise funds.
At one time Pepsi actually owned several USSR military vessels

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...
Debug info size depends on the language and the compiler. Binary packages installed via package managers are also typically stripped. There are too many confounding variables, simply running `strip foo` before comparing evens the playing field.
With an increase of working from home for white-collar jobs, this means that those who drive the most will have their fuel costs increased. They'll typically be commuters and delivery vehicles (e.g. trucks, retail). While some of those may make a comfortable income for their locale, a sizeable portion likely don't. A tax like this is then borne largely by the economically disadvantaged.

I'd support a tax like this if there were greener options with similar or cheaper cost to use for the riders (e.g. rail, busses). Unfortunately, the infrastructure just isn't there yet for a vast majority of the US.
Thre's a little bit of psychological esoterism too, fp is very minimal, OOP gives people some new mystery rope to hang themselves with. verbose syntax, procedures to follow, it's probably psychologically a better impedance matching than 'a -> 'a -> b -> ('a -> 'b) where people have to hold very very evanescent ideas floating in the air without as much ways to play with them.
I don't see optimism towards technology being a "taboo" at all. I see a lot of people wanting questions answered before world-changing stuff is put into place.

"Ready, aim, fire" is in that order for a reason, yeah?
From the end of the article:

> In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful. The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless—whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone—or actually counterproductive. Of the three studies that provided statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis that was not contradicted within the same study, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than hand hygiene alone, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than nothing, and one found that cloth masks were less effective than surgical masks.
So I have a to contest that a bit. It parallels the DOM in structure entirely. You can see how this is the truth when you want to have components outside of a parent-child hierarchy belong to the same ‘component’, you have to use this very abstract concept of a Portal, as in, nothing is natural once you start thinking out of the tree structure.

Certainly you can map this api to a variety of other APis, which I’m sure is what they did with React Native, but it was built with the DOM tree structure in mind.

I think it’s one of the most brilliant things frontend has ever created along with Jquery, but they are both slaves to the DOM.
Look at the site logo, the name is a reference to matryoshka dolls.
AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second
TL;DR: No, masks don't work.
I didn't say I had solutions to propose. Lots of other people have though, I can do some googling for you if you like. What problems trouble you most?
that's a nice idea.
> you can't make tradeoffs when EVERYTHING is an emergency.

I agree. You can only have one #1 priority, by definition, but it is possible to address multiple emergencies.

The problem is "clog the channels with shit" people like Bannon obscure the true emergencies. He does it intentionally. I agree there are lots of people out there with lots of valid complaints, but I don't think they are all done intentionally to numb people to real emergencies like Bannon.

> Not to mention the long and sordid history of pervasive racist violence from Reconstruction onward

Sure. Please, please look at in context. Don't you think a few years before the civil war no one probably expected a civil war? To claim that things were worse in the past is to, frankly, be glib because you are ignoring the trajectory where things were headed. That is quite alarmingly similar: congress splitting irreconcilably.

In fact, your claim is almost a tautology: It isn't as bad because it isn't as bad. But once it IS as bad, then you've got a new datapoint to use in the future to say "things aren't so bad". It is circular logic.

IMHO: I think white supremacists storming the capital is a big red flag. If you think I'm being too extreme by calling them white supremacists and saying this is a dire situation, then I'm unreachable. It's a hard limit for me. A huge crowd of Trump supporters stormed the capital to overturn an election with the backing of half of congress. Yet you have Fox News, OANN and Newsmax trying to make Cancel Culture a bigger deal. I can't. I just can't. If in the OP's eyes I'm the problem because I put this in the top-10 emergencies, then I guess we have a insurmountable disconnect in this country.

I won't even argue about whether Tucker Carlson is valid to claim Cancel Culture a valid #1 emergency compared to my list, because they just aren't even on the same page, and if you can't see that, refer to my earlier point: insurmountable disconnect.

Perhaps that is how new countries & societies are formed: when one group wants to be Christian Theocracy with Biblical Law, and the other wants to strive be a liberal, flexible, socially just society. Those two viewpoints cannot by definition be reconciled, and one side is armed to the teeth and taking half of the political system with it, so what do you do?
That would be an interesting turn of events. China currently has a goal of being carbon neutral by 2060. Going full nuclear would accelerate progress on that goal.

However, even with that commitment, China is bringing more fossil fuel energy online, instead of taking it offline [1].

What information do you have that indicates China will pursue faster climate change mitigation?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/china-...
Modern are only passive safe in the sort term, these designs still need active cooling in the long term. So if humans disappeared tomorrow these reactors would eventually release a great deal of radioactivity into the environment. It’s not a serious concern outside of wide scale natural disasters, but over hyping modern designs isn’t a good idea as it eventually harms perceptions of the industry.
Yeah, exactly.

I left Software Architect / UI position at big corp when management had ordered to use then-hot Angular on large web app. Without investigation, acceptance testing, etc. Just unconditional directive.

I had Sciter[1] prototype at that moment - used as self-teaching tool to understand how browsers work.

Since then I am almost solo (one or two contractors sometimes) on the project. ~10 years of non-disturbed (literally) flight.

[1] https://sciter.com
I assume think they start with the "signal" and "noise" as separate audio files, and then they play them together in order to create a synthetic noisy input. Then they can train the output against only the signal so that it will learn to filter out the noise.
That's why Clojure was developed. The creator of Clojure wanted to use lisp in cooperate environment. The good thing about Clojure it runs on jvm and has access to its ecosystem.

Check out https://nubank.com.br/ they use clojure
Spain launches inquiry after dams drained for profit during drought
Interoception: The sense that shapes well-being
I had only one FP experience with scala. I actually liked that it was statically typed. I have nothing to compare it to though.

But, higher order functions and type parameters are still a bit mind bending for me. I didn't have to write much code for those, but when I did it was really hard. I'm sure I'd need at least couple days of reading and playing around to somewhat grasp how to implement them again.
California's population would be shrinking (due to inter-state emigration), if not for international immigration: https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/californias-stalled-...

Securing the southern border and deporting all irregular migrants should also be a priority from an environmental standpoint.
It does not show up in 32-bit mode. It does not show up on Macs. Therefore, it should probably be fixed.
The point about gaming addiction in kids is fair. But it's also off-topic. The discussion isn't about whether gatcha should be allowed. It's about the gatcha supposedly ruining the game's quality or enjoyment thereof, which is a completely different topic.

Also, not only kids play games.