skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more you drive electric the less maintenance. The car even tracks how many miles you put on the ICE and uses that to calculate oil changes, which in practice works out to every 2 years for me (which is also the maximum between intervals anyways).

The drivetrain on the Volt is actually quite simple and elegant when compared to a typical ICE car.
> China allowing it's students 3 or 4 years! overseas unmanaged to study is insane by comparison. No idea what they are thinking.

That's because they have people on campus making sure to apply pressure even away from the mainland! [0] Or because studying is only an excuse to get a long term visa... [1]

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/19/universities-confucius-...

[1] https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2df...
sorry...I mean TSA watch list. But yes you're right haha.
Everyone knew we were leaving, Trump set the date. Why folks were still hanging around I'll never know.
This argument dissolves under even the lightest scrutiny.

Let's assume for a second that there is a dollar amount to "underwriting global free trade" (spurious to begin with). What actually is that dollar amount? Is it 3x more than what we're spending? 10x less? How could we ever know?

As it turns out, whatever we are currently spending, that's the amount required. We could double the number of aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, jet fighters, missiles, spy satellites, military bases; we could start another war, another engagement, another "peacekeeping mission," do another few "surgical strikes"... And yep, that would be exactly what's required for freedom.
Wait, so using a program like wireshark to scan a network is illegal in and of itself??

I thought you had to use the information nefariously for there to be a crime.

How can receiving broadcasts be illegal?
See and respond to my other post. It seems reasonable to assume that most of the money that was lent to us via the BOND/Treasury ultimately came from fiat money creation via the banks through the fractional reserve system.
I'd question if replacing ALB with your own load balancing is worth it. Perhaps, but that's a lot extra headache.
I’m not concerned for two reasons…

(1) Usually they think my name is the guy who had my phone number almost 10 years ago. I “correct” them to a fake name, but it shows their record keeping is not good enough to track anyone down.

(2) If they tried to follow through on the death threat, they’d have a hard time getting a visa with “need to kill citizen” as the justification.

Early on, I had a temporary bump in calls after doing this. If you stick with it for a few weeks, eventually you’ll get on enough “real” do-not-call lists that the calls fade away.
Which is honestly a joke seeing as laws are so convoluted and complicated, it's impossible to know all the laws. So every day you walk in public you risk someone being annoyed enough to try to get you arrested.
The League of Nations wasn't a trade federation, so that's kind of beside the point.

What argument am I trying to advance? That your geographic determinism is flawed. There are a few first-world landlocked countries; there are many third-world countries with ocean access. Trying to say that Afghanistan is doomed because it's landlocked is unsupported by the available evidence.

Afghanistan is doomed, but it's doomed by the culture of the people (and, as you say, by their neighbors). If you took the same people and put them in Pakistan instead, would the ocean access really improve things? Maybe, a little, but not enough to fundamentally change the situation.
> That's probably better than a 3rd RNA shot

To be clear, right now there's no scientific literature that conclusively supports your suggestion here.

A better takeaway from my comment and OP would be that there is evidence we must diversify our viral elimination strategies at a population level.

It might actually be best to for you personally to stick with the same vaccines you had previously, but I'm going to stop there because you should consult your doctor for decisions like that.
Again, provide a source for that confidence.
one should always eschew obfuscation
I gave up on Spotify because of this - and because of their hostile moves to turn podcasts into another centralized service.

Apple Music is still mostly worse without discovery, but at least lossless makes up the quality difference that use to be there.
We are in it; a cold war with China/Russia.
Afghanistan will be busy waring itself. For the past 20 years they probably recruited off the fact that dirty Americans were occupying their glorious country. Now that they're gone, it'll be a straight civil war. They'll be too busy attacking each other. Now that the US is gone, the people who blindly followed will realize that the US wasn't the one in the way of their magical muslim Utopia, and life sucks more than it did before.
moderna and pfizer are different. different enough for moderna to be more efficient with delta and pfizer more efficient with alfa
In the long run it's unlikely that the Supreme Court is a suitable institution to resolve the growing docket of institutional crises in the US.
My current daily driver is actually a G7 One from 2018 - it's still getting updates, but probably not for much longer. Sadly, it looks like any Android One phone from 2020 or 2021 would be both slower and larger than my G7 One.
Yes, that’s me. Why do you ask?
As a parent I’ve come to believe a lot of the stories about how so and so was playing golf or skiing or playing piano by 3 are very biased retrospectives. My kid was playing notes on harmonica at 18 months. Could he carry a tune? Of course not, but if one day he turned out to be a musical genius I could brag he has been playing instruments since he was an infant. See the careful embellishment?

A kid who has memorized some sight words or some books can certainly claim “reading”, with just enough truth there for the tale to take hold when they do well later in life.
If the other foot is also nailed to the ground, will that stop the circles?
I flunked kindergarten. (It hurt even at that age.)
It's unclear whether RSUs are covered by section E:

- RSUs are a type of restricted stock, which suggests that they would be covered by section E. (supporting my earlier assumption.)

- The examples in section E talk about 'purchase date' instead of 'grant date', suggesting they're talking about RSAs. (supporting your point.)

However: RSUs must be covered by that publication somehow. If they're not covered by section E, then which section covers them?
Thank you! The money printer goes brrr meme is dangerously wrong.
Here is the data I know about, I don't think it's "a populist claim without data": https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
> And in the end, california taxes overall…are pretty average.

Err, no - no they aren’t. By most accounts, it’s the highest or in the top 2-3 in the nation, and not by a little.

California has the highest income tax, the highest capital gains tax, and the highest state sales tax. The only common tax rate in CA that’s even close to average is property tax.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/highest-tax...
This was my favorite game back then! Thank you!
Rethinking CRUD for REST API Designs
It certainly does. Vietnam was the first war with embedded journalists showing the american people live footage of real combat. It was often gruesome. It lead to people protesting in the streets, burning draft cards, fleeing to Canada, and most of all made the Vietnam war into a political quagmire and put pressure on ending it. That sort of coverage of a conflict has noticeably never happened again. Anytime you see footage these days on the news it feels like B rolls or some stock footage of a couple solders walking around the desert or a truck driving along or some far off building exploding. The media hides the reality of war from the American public after seeing how the public has reacted in the past to this content. It's disingenuous, and you end up with kids joining thinking it will be like Call of Duty and coming back home with PTSD and no easy future due to their broken condition.
> Contactless is very hit-or-miss for me in the US; about 1/3 the time it just doesn't work at all

That's a shockingly high number. I'm in Canada, and I'd take a rough guess that maybe 1-2% of taps fail on first try. Most of the time it works on a second try -- and I actually think that usually happens when the POS system is slow and you tap too early.

And in cases where it really is just not working, the fallback is chip + PIN, which is 100% success rate. I'm sure there's cases where a card gets damaged and it wouldn't work, but it's not like the magnetic strip will survive that.

I don't think I've used the actual magnetic strip in at least a decade, except when I've been travelling in the US.
There is a lot of headroom until China even reaches US levels of pollution per capita though. The USA is emitting ~2.5x as much GHG per capita than China.

Also China is the workbench of the world, other nations just shift their GHG load there, first and foremost the US.
Sorry, can you explain this?

> you can request it on-phone too (plus mailbox interception!)
User23 is directly describing how the money printer's gears turn in detail, but the gears go brrrr all the same.
Please look at the context of my comment. ummonk suggested that developers should tag closed bugs with wontfix, even if they were only closed because no one cared (rather than because they don't want to fix it).
I don’t think Spotify wants you to be able to use your favorite app.

Their strategy is to take the open protocol of podcasts and pay the hosts to turn that into centralized tracks on Spotify to force you as the user to use Spotify to listen to it.

It’s about control intentionally - that’s the strategy.
Unlike 4:2:0 it works well as a packed format (e.g. Y0 Cb Y1 Cr), and unlike 4:4:4 it's a simple 2 bytes per pixel (packed 4:4:4 either uses an uneven 3 bytes per pixel or wastes 1 byte per pixel...)

Which led to a lot of simple and professional HW/SW being designed for packed 4:2:2, so codecs support 4:2:2 to fit into professional pipelines.
How about in the cases that they have personal info in sms messages or voicemail? Info got picked up from somewhere?
Just tried it with single-quotes and the output is the same.
I think you may have a typo. Should 4 be Sn+Sm=S(n+m)?
Some say, democracy is very bad, yet it is still better than any other alternative. So, for the lack of a better alternative I have only so much data points.

Yes, referendums etc.. could be a reasonable propose, things evolve so maybe one day we will have something of this sort in the US as well. Time will show!
I don't think opium has much to do with the initial invasion of Afghanistan, but I think that there's a pretty good argument that it has had a big effect on what has played out during the occupation. So I'm not fully sure of the relevance of the comment either.
Check out https://foia.state.gov/scripts/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?File=%...

Please forgive my yelling-caps here but it's from the original document and I don't feel like re-writing it all lol

"THE AEC NEEDS TO ESTABLISH HOW SOUTH AFRICA GOT ITS PRESENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY."

"HE NOTED HIS BELIEF THAT THE SUPPOSED "NUCLEAR EVENT" OF LAST SEPTEMBER WAS IN FACT A NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST BY SOUTH AFRICA. HE URGED THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO CALL FOR A COMPLETE HALT TO ALL NUCLEAR COLLABORATION WITH SOUTH AFRICA, INCLUDING THE EXPORT OF URANIUM FROM SOUTH AFRICA/NAMIBIA. HE STATED THAT THE EX-CHIEF OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR THE ISRAELI ARMY HAD VISITED SOUTH AFRICA III NOVEMBER, 1979 AND DEMANDED TO KNOW WHAT THE PURPOSE OF HIS VISIT HAD BEEN. HE CALLED THE FRG'S DISAVOWAL OF NUCLEAR COLLABORATION WITH SOUTH AFRICA "MORE FICTION THAT FACT""
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I've often heard it's not very effective for topics like math. I would love to read a write-up on how you did this - perhaps your technique is better than most people's attempts?

Also, do you continue to use it for math-like subjects?
I'm sorry to say but there's a lot of grifting going on here. A lot of people in Afg (and other developing countries) want visas for economic reasons (they actually pay thousands of dollars to be smuggled). I would be very careful with giving any of your money. There hasn't been any confirmed cases of retribution and a lot of media is exaggerating the situation.
Didnt expect to see total annihilation on hn
It is not easy to notice a change of 2% success to 4% success without a lot of samples.
Don’t they have ask to buy as a setting? You can have it ask you prior to child accounts purchasing stuff.
> I wonder if this is twitter's attempt to make decentralized platforms look unusable in order to drive people away from them.

You can thank Vitalik for saying he sees utility for social media on the blockchain in his july talk[0]…

I'd rather see indie game devs use nfts for merc/skins/etc in their applications than social media onchain.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070568
Ok so just log it and send the registered owner a bill, they can defend the action in court

Maybe Elon can add a prompt in the car: one time payment to unlock 100+ mph
I have not had to do that.
It kinda is there in iOS like it is on the Mac - you can set hardware keyboards to Dvorak - it's just the software keyboard that can't be changed.
Without even reading a single word of it, the non-irony is in your characterization. He taught himself. Ultimately we all taught ourselves and our peers and mentees. Intelligence is mostly rooted in curiosity and attention, not some innate capacity. People who are perceived to be at the lower end of that capacity often inform those who aren’t, and vice versa.
> Simply passing bills to spend money that we don’t have may get things done, but our children have to pay for it eventually.

Government debt is not that simple at all. A governments debts and budgets are no the same as a household.

This also completely ignores economic growth and how types of inflation (cost-push vs demand-pull) affect if inflation or debt is “good” or “bad”.

> So no, it’s not simply a matter of political will to spend all the money we want. There are limits.

Please explain the limits if it’s a dollar amount. Most economists agree that we actually do not know what the “limit” is and mostly we noticed very little if anything troubling caused directly by the stimulus packages. They overwhelmingly helped keep economic growth stable.
> The argument is that the effort we spent in the war on terror, per motivating death, was massively greater than the effort we've spent fighting covid.

We can't even get people to take the vaccine willingly after we made every vaccine free.

When will we learn that money doesn't solve everything? It is only a sufficiently motivating factor to greedy people. Religiously motivated people are explicitly raised to be weary of money (you cannot serve two masters: choose God or mammon, where mammon is roughly translated as money, greed, or material wealth)

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We can't spend money to grow the Afghan army, because they weren't motivated by money. We can't spend more money to fight COVID19, because the anti-vaxxers aren't motivated by money either. Our vaccines are sitting in storage and expiring.

We designed and built the vaccines in record time. I'm not entirely sure how else we could add money to this system and expect any benefits with regards to COVID19. Student nurses are regularly helping out in hospitals before they're even graduated, we're pulling retired doctors/nurses out of retirement to help fill hospitals. Etc. etc.

Money isn't the solution anymore. We've spent as much as we're able. The remaining problems that face us are entirely independent of money.

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The only consistent thing between Afghanistan and COVID19 is that Americans have overspent money hoping that overspending will fix everything.
Interesting to note that the initial emails had a timezone difference of 1 hour from Japanese time. They chalk that up to some kind of misconfigured system on Satoshi's behalf, but fail to note that the Philippines has a 1 hour time difference from Japan, and that's where Paul "Slotoshi" Le Roux was living while running his criminal empire.
To be clear, the primary suggestion put forth by my original comment is:

Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities

Put another way: vaccines are a powerful and useful tool that can help us mitigate the pandemic, but if used indiscriminately they may actually work against us, so we need to proceed with caution and also use other tools where possible.
I'm getting some star control vibes off this at first glance, definitely going to check it out
I really wish I had any positive vision for the world helping people & places build their sovereignty & power & capabilities.

I was so ashamed of my country invading Iraq, invading Afghanistan, especially with so little plan for what to do after military conquest. It seemed like a transparent neo-conservative ploy to try to exploit a land and people, to bolster American arms & might. And I wish that cynical view didn't feel so justified right now. I wish America had had a better chance to help, had vision & will to engage the real struggle to start a new legitemate, capable, helpful, & self-empowered government. As America withdraws I wish the world had some ideas, on how we might help a people & their land harness & use their land effectively, some idea how we might invest in them, give them some sovereignty & capabilities to harness their resources.

None of that seems even imaginable. The world seems mired in impossibility. Swayed & controlled by the crude & the strongmen. Genuousness is the one enduring thing ye the one element that we seem unable to select & maintain. Cruder signals & symbols radiate so much more easily, sway so much more readily. Alas.

It feels more than a little crude to be talking about natural resources & lithium &c as a land falls to theocratic totalitarianists. But at the same time, this ought have been an avenue to support & prop up self rule, a way to empower a people & a re-birthing sort-of nation. The question, of what we can do to help civilization form & support itself, natural resources or no, is a question that seems ever more hauntingly important & real, & so rarely with any answers or even hope. America's attempts have been so flawed, so tragic, but if anything, these countless failures show how necessary it is that the world at large try to get better at this, at helping give other places a change. We have our own struggles, but trying to help those truly ailing, I think, can be a rallying point, a way to understand & grapple with realer challenges than the showmanship driven political psycho-dramas that we have come to let grip us.
I think what we have here is a failure to understand population motivations. I do not want to overstate this, but it seems to be lost over the fact that it was two decades now. US was the invader here. You can train all you want, but those people are not idiots or easily swayed. They survived multiple regime changes, coups, upheavals and this is just another one of them.

As insane as it sounds, in that frame of mind, Taliban is a lesser evil here compared to a foreign adversary that walks around like they own the place.

Once you understand this, and by this I mean "the population does not want you here and sees you as the invader", none of this is a surprise.

Next up, just wait till you hear what population of Iraq wants ( but we all know US simply cannot leave Iraq -- ever ).
Paulo Freire: “One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.”
RSUs are, I imagine, not covered by this page because – unlike ISO/NSO/RSAs – RSU vesting schedules are simply a vague promise by the employer and not something legally binding or formally recognized by tax authorities.
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It is interesting how a bugfix can introduce a larger issue that it fixes.
I wrote that. The problem I was getting at is that it's fairly easy to write various types of lock-free structures in native langues, but you almost always run into the "memory reclamation" problem.

E.g., you can look up something like a lock-free linked lists, the first of which were described decades ago. They have an algorithm to delete a node from the list, but what often isn't emphasized is that you can't just free that note by calling `free()` on it, because you don't know if any other readers might happen to have a reference to that node, and thus may access the underlying memory. If you free it, they might access freed memory.

In general, this is a hard problem to solve. You can wait, but how long is long enough?

Garbage collected languages solve this more or less automatically: there is no explicit free() but instead the GC determines when there are no more live objects and frees it for you.

This isn't unsolvable in native languages, but none of the solutions are as clean and tradeoff-free as you'd find in a GC'd language.
> Act now or life is gonna be that much harder in fifty years.

We've been saying this about Global Warming for a while. (An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006)

By the time people say "we need to do something," sadly, it's already too late.

Humanity's Great Filter is ourselves.
Nothing illegal about it, Spotify has a well documented API and supports third party clients
This is the correct takeaway! Go learn and explore!
You say "not exactly," but I don't see anything that conflicts with what's described in my comment.

I do appreciate the details though, as it does help people understand the way that we have set up these institutions, which in turn points to what we might want to change to make the process better.
Greg has much more money but one of the perks of being a profesional writer or coljmnists is ppl care about your views and they have potentially some impact on society. The classics are immortalized but ray dalio a year ago wrote a book about his 'values'..it made a splash for a week and was soon forgotten, condemned to an early pulp-ing.
It wasn't the first terrorist attack on home turf and it wasn't the last. The outrage was drummed up by the media to build support for the war. Remember the Dixie Chicks getting ostracised for speaking out against the war? They were one of the most popular artists at the time and their careers were over after that in an instant due to how gung ho everyone was. I think part of the initial support was that people were envisioning another Desert Storm, less than 50 days and done thanks to superior American training technology firepower etc. When it came to not be the case that support seemed to evaporate fast and many awoke from the collective stupor enraged at the outsized response with ill defined goals, some of the more clearly defined ones being entirely false (Saddam's WMDs).
That was my very first encounter with anything hacking-related. Such a thrill. Before that the computer was a black box full of black boxes.
> As far as "belief" goes, you're the one on the side of belief here.

No.

We don't understand why COVID hits some people harder than others. We don't understand why some people end up with "long COVID" sequelae and some don't. I don't particularly want to roll those dice from immunological naivety.

The vaccines were free. The biggest risk I would have faced was myocarditis, and the risk even for that is higher from a COVID infection than from the mRNA vaccines.

Furthermore, getting vaccinated means that we all get back to a place where COVID is less of a big deal societally. While the data does show that vaccinated individuals can transmit Delta, it shows that they do so for a shorter period of time, and anything we can shave off of R0 is a good thing. Perfect, enemy of good, etc.

Getting vaccinated was close to no skin off my back. I had a sore arm for a few days. The payoff is that I reduce the (admittedly small) risk I did have, and I'm part of the herd boxing COVID in.

What's the downside?