skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently visited Kennebunkport, Maine (yes, the fancy town where the Bush family lives), and they apparently had some kind of wildflower initiative that was incentivizing people to grow native wildflowers instead of the typical manicured mulched gardens I see in the northeast. Not only was it more beautiful than the usual, but it seemed to enhance the quaintness of the place (especially given how overrun by tourists it was).

People are ridiculous. So afraid of change!
I know it's not science, there's no data or anything. But, i've almost been hit as a pedestrian just under 10 times. Every single time it was by either a Mercedes or BMW sedan. My sister was hit by a BMW sedan driver, her back's been fucked ever since. Almost everyone I know that's been involved in an accident as a pedestrian has been hit by either a Mercedes or BMW sedan.

ETA: Seeing as I'm getting downvoted, might as well keep going they've also always inevitably hit and run, or been incredibly rude and scream at you as they almost kill you with their half ton of plastic and metal when they're not paying attention to the road.
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> America's trajectory is that of almost definite decline.

Well, sure, with that kind of attitude!
I haven't seen this asked on any of the threads about this yet, but what happens if we identify a few of the pics in their database of Evil Pictures, and send them (presumably from a non-Apple device) to the iPhone of anybody we don't like.

Presumably the actual data on the device is still encrypted and can't be accessed remotely, which means we need to trigger a law enforcement investigation which involves seizing the device and compelling the owner to unlock it in order to determine if they actually are a kiddie diddler or something went wrong. Gee, can't see how that could possibly go wrong. /s

Meanwhile, the actual kiddie diddlers out there have probably read the 10 million articles published about this by now and know not to use iMessage to trade their pictures, so probably not many of them would actually be caught this way.
NZ and AU are faring pretty differently. AU is wracked with crisis and NZ has been business as usual for ages. The key difference as I understand it is that NZ sacrificed easy international travel for domestic wellbeing and AU didn't.
If your threat model is “guy with guns,” they’ll just follow you and snatch it when you think you’re safe and unlock the device. If your threat model is “government at border” just mail the device or data to yourself overnight. Don’t be that guy…

I was flying into Atlanta (Intl) with “radioactive” rocks (not on purpose, just picked some up near a volcano, they looked cool) and they flipped their collective shit. I was taken to a separate area where they dumped my stuff next to another guy who got pulled into “routine” inspection. This other guy “forgot” his phone pin earlier that day… he was still there four hours later, after my four hours of reasonably straight forward BS.
Inflation will:

- Help absorb record-high PE ratios in the market

- Allow people with heavy investments in equities to continue to prosper

Will also:

- Let the government pay off massive debts with smaller dollars (later)

- Badly hurt the poor and especially those on fixed incomes

Personally, I don't like inflationary times.
I don't know. There has not been any serious effort in theoretizing the changes needed for software driver. The so-called vechle and road codesign has been mostly gimmick as far as I know.
FTA: “federal policymakers have so far failed to make any significant changes to the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) to include testing, ratings, or safety standards for people outside a vehicle, whether on foot, bike, or using assistive devices.

Read that again: we do not test for, or even consider, the impact of a new car’s design on potential collisions with human beings not in a vehicle—an action that results in a death more than 6,200 times per year and increasing almost every year.”

⇒ I don’t think what you say is true in the USA.
> But only two aren’t bogeymen.

Regardless of intent, that's an effective troll.

You could ask 10 people which are the bogeymen and you'll probably get all 6 different combinations!
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/anti-solar-cells-photovoltaic-c...

Not pavement but still
If you are so easily swayed, you would probably not be in an adversarial situation with a government anyway.

But this article is about a system for giving up passwords under duress without necessarily compromising all your security, such that your antagonist has no way of knowing or showing that there's another password concealing more important information.
github TOS do not grant you use of others code. it grants distribution. those are two very different things.
Picking a country like the UK who have stats available would be fine then, but suggesting it's a better case scenario with that comment about culture is just trying to skew the conclusion. It doesn't help that the stats show a massive difference in injuries/deaths as well. By all means, everyone should choose your favoured transport, but the video really seems like FUD.
Cell tower data is much less granular than GPS data collected by apps. Google knows that you were on the same block where a crime was committed, but mobile carriers only know you were in the city or neighborhood.
A self destruct knob? Lmao you realize that there is no single spot where all this data is stored right?
The linked Dangerous by Design 2021 report [1] shows the data on increased pedestrian deaths:

> The number of people struck and killed by drivers nationwide while walking increased by an astonishing 45 percent over the last decade (2010-2019).

[1] https://smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-design/
Just on a detail, I discovered recently that there have been various official definitions of "public school" and lists of public schools, and FWIW your school probably counts as one according to those. But I agree with your main points and your explanation.
What is life? It's just an abstraction.

Ignoring that the mechanism has been demonstrated in laboratory conditions, the argument you suggest stems from the bizarre and witless idea that evolution suggests evolution takes place over a human timescale.
One reason I've seen explained in very high detail in a reputable article I unfortunately can't recall the name of now, is that a lot of what they do that seems incredibly tedious (and well, is) somewhat acts as a type of gigantic social safety net in terms of not only income, but also socialization and for feelings of self-worth or that you're otherwise still contributing to your society (even though, as we are now discussing, it's likely holding some parts of societal advancement back).

Basically, if you for whatever reason become/are somewhat disabled, cognitively impaired, lose your family, are simply getting quite old and losing the ability to do what you used to, etc, there will always be some sort of job, often falling under the bloat of what you've listed after "on the other hand", that you'll be able to do if you want to, that will give you a stable income (even if small) and get you out of the house or whatever else and somewhere that you'll have a routine form of socialization amongst your co-workers and such.
When you want to see how bad it can get, see the Czech Republic in the top ten. We are land locked, quite high density and with a lot of neighbors with a lot of regular cross border traffic. There were lockdowns though arguably too late, chaotic and often ignored.

End result ? 30000+ dead.

Well, at least it looks like the ammount of people who got infected was quite massive as with only 50% vaccination rate right now things are not going back to hell so far, with hardly any precautions still in place.
yup, and 250W continuous

And the great bit is that if you are ignorant of these laws and get caught on an electric bike doing higher speeds then you get a penalty as if you are riding a motorbike without insurance or a license - aka penalty points on your regular driving license, plus all the other court shenanigans.
The front ~1foot of my car is 90% air, presumably to create some crumple zone. Very space-inefficient.
Actually there is a very long block of data in that sample. If your assumption of 9600 baud is correct it will equivalent to over 300kB of data - enough to send an image or part of it.
> it bristles

It seems to me that you're taking this too personally. First of all, the person you're responding to wasn't even talking to you or about you when they wrote the "Just because you don't understand..." line, so you're out here taking offense on behalf of everyone who posits the existence of unnecessary jobs. (#NotAllPeopleWhoPositUnnecessaryJobs?)

Taking "personal truth" out of the equation, as an impartial observer, reading the assertion on the part of a username on HN I don't recognize that useless jobs exist is insignificant evidence in support of that hypothesis - exactly the same as if I heard someone I don't know claiming they saw bigfoot or UFOs. To improve the situation, you could provide supporting details about the examples of useless jobs you have seen.
sound similar to free-piston vs. crank-shaft in case of ICE engines.
Something you guys are all ignoring: Taxes on primary residences. Constantly adjusting property tax has already lead to many people losing their property over the years. A better compromise might be that primary residences be either exempted from this new land value tax, or have it fixed to the time of purchase, not unlike Prop 12 used to (still does?) cover in California. The reason for this is that many people wish to settle down in one place. Some even take pride in living in the same location generation after generation. While many modern digital age people either forget, or don't understand that, variable property values could easily lose someone on fixed, little, or no income their property, livelihood, etc.

As far as commercial, corporate owned, and high density residential, along with non-homesteaded agriculture properties go, this might not be the worst idea. But at the same time it is just as likely to favor corporations and venture capital over individual owner/operators and their scrimp and save. Efficiency only matters if the rewards of said efficiency lift up the collective populace of society. If they simply consolidate an every larger slice of the pie into fewer hands, they will inevitably return us to de-facto feudalism and effective serfdom.

As a further consideration: How many of you liked those old hole in the wall comic shops, or newspaper stands, or record shops? Most of them are gone now, but there are/were a few surviving in little corners of the world, often because the store owner had been prudent enough to buy the property. Those owners could very well also find themselves priced out of their hard earned and fought properties, even if them being a cornerstone of that area or community is what was responsible for the increase in unimproved land valuation, since culture and niche businesses can have just as much effect as 'high income' businesses on an area's desirability. Consider Petaluma for an example, and while I don't have a counterexample I am sure someone here can show a region that depressed in value when iconic neighborhood commerce closed, whether due to being priced out of the area, or having eminent domain proceedings to give the property to a more worthy developer (see Jo Sun formerly down the street from the county jail in Sacramento California for an example.)
Which one of those has intelligence?

CO2 doesn’t try to stymie your mitigation plans; a virus has selective pressure but it’s stochastic rather than directed by an intelligent adversary. In contrast, the stock market has a huge number of people with massive resources who can make enormous profits when they find a way to exploit some aspect of the system.
How is hair analysis junk science? Maybe you just mean that people misuse the facts to come to incorrect conclusions?

It's only supposed to be used to include or exclude someone, and based on the numbers/probabilities it's generally only useful for excluding someone. Of course that's not how most prosecutors use it...
All software engineers should learn how to do everything: moving heavy furniture, fixing keyboards, fixing wi-fi issues, procuring requirements, writing code, deploying code, ops, customer support, market research, B.D., project management, payment integration, technical writing, securing grants, the list goes on.

Better yet, they should create a culture where knowing all these things is regarded as the baseline (as TFA says, 'table stakes') and boundaries around responsibilities are strongly discouraged. No extra compensation should be expected as one's responsibilities explode exponentially week over week.

That way, employers can really get the bang for their buck. Everyone should provide dramatically outsized value to their employer. The massive leverage of the internet and the amazing margins of SaaS are hardly enough to make ends meet.

It's the least you can do.
Australian Covid vaccine certificates can be forged within 10 minutes
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I wouldn't consider higher wage for engineers and scientists the same as bribing. I mean, one of silicone valleys key strength is the ability for companies to poach from competitors in order to catch up, this cross pollination of ideas is both beneficial to the industry AND individuals.
I agree with you on the matter of lawns, but not on street trees. Yes, they require maintenance, but they make a massive difference in the comfort of people walking, which is a big factor in people deciding to walk rather than drive, as well as increasing the general attractiveness of the area to potential residents who might otherwise live in a car dependent suburb of something. When you add up all the benefits, I'd consider street trees to be analogous to brushing your teeth-takes a bit of effort but the cost of not doing it is far greater.

This of course applies mostly to areas that are hot for a good portion of the year.

And I have the same concerns as you about the reflective pavement.
This method of targeting people you don't like was used heavily against political groups on Facebook during the 2016 US election.
This article begins with the clearly implied belief that "Science" is not political, and degenerates from this false assumption into a paroxysm of wounded cries over the renaming of buildings and other, may I say, even less weighty matters – comparing them to the gulag and mass murder.

"Science" is not a singular object, nor a single method, nor even a set of ideas; what we must concern ourselves with is Science as it is practiced in our society.

Can one do Science without funding? Certainly! Any child with a simple telescope can observe celestial bodies in motion, reason about observations, make conjectures, and test them against more data. But this is a toy example, and this young scientist's influence may extend to a handful of child peers, and perhaps an interested parent.

The "Science" that concerns us almost always includes published, peer-reviewed research. And thus, it is inherently and obviously political. First, and most obviously: how does one become recognized as a peer whose work is eligible for publication? It necessarily requires many years of study, apprenticeship, and supervised practice. Admission to these ranks requires scholastic and social preparation, and is literally subject to the vote of a committee. That we pretend this process operates entirely on "merit" is but one of the many delusions and useful fictions we tell ourselves when we speak of a "Science" that is somehow "not political."

Second, consider not the training of new scientists, but the actual conduct of research. All research must be "sponsored" by someone, in rare cases, by the wealthy scientist themself – the exception that proves the rule. The sponsoring entity always has a material interest in the science it is funding, whether it is to extend the shelf life of canned goods, to more cheaply deposit thin strips of metal onto a substrate, or to meaningfully improve the accuracy of a weapon system guidance module. It is left as an exercise to the reader to discern the various ways that this process is clearly and nakedly "political."

I feared the worst upon viewing this article's title, yet held to a slender hope that the author might address the real threats of using science to achieve political ends, such as that posed by eugenics, or by nuclear weapons research. Reader, my hope was in vain.

We appear to have here another member of our society's establishment who has become too accustomed to unquestioning deference, yelping like a hit dog because, for instance, a presumptuous collection of students and faculty has dared suggest that perhaps UC Berkeley's $70,000 annual grants from the Genealogical Eugenics Institute Fund might be not only better named but more prudently distributed.*

One wonders if there is a corollary to Godwin's Law that stipulates that the first person to draw a comparison to Stalin has already ceded the argument?

*(this happened in October of 2020, you can look up the fund by name).
Using monkey patching is an awful idea and always means your code architecture is bad. Will not be surprised if this message was the original author's intent.

Edit: it actually was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28265605
This isn't some "oopsie" oversight on the part of governments spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to market the vaccines. They want fraud to be easy and commonplace to build in the justification for putting the info in a centralized database that links to your smartphone.
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> - He said they're not very affected by the chip shortage.

You bet! TSMC/Intel/Samsung must give them for free; also give them the first of each batch they make, as samples to be analyzed.
It throws an error code, meaning you fail inspection in many states.
JSON is a terrible intermediary format since its structure is incompatible with streaming data; and demands full structure parsing before consuming the data.
Storage and transportability.

Even if end to end efficiency is between 10-20% for green hydrogen (solar/wind electricity generation -> electrolysis -> hydrogen/ammonia -> fuel cell -> electricity), it helps solve the problem around intermittency for renewables.

To power a large electricity network with just wind/solar, it will need to be over-provisioned to the point where peak production will be heavily curtailed and lost or redirected to storage. Electricity needs to be used at the time of supply for something otherwise generation is wasted.

Batteries are great if you need to redirect that power over the course of an hour or maybe a day and are highly efficient but too costly at any kind of large scale. Most solar/wind at present day are only built with battery support of about 1-2 hours worth of equivalent storage. This is a massive help to smooth output but doesn’t help any kind of long term storage.

Then there is transport. Poles and wires are expensive to build/maintain. Their highly efficient but completely inflexible.

Hydrogen can be stored at large scales as well as be transported, plus be generated from generation that would otherwise be curtailed and lost due to having nothing to use it on.

Pumped hydro needs specific geography and is also hugely damaging to river eco systems, not to mention ties up a huge amount of a valuable resource (water). Renewables also geographically dependent, some places on earth are bestowed with huge amounts of wind/solar where others are not. Some of this will be solved by building international power lines, but smaller scale will likely want something like hydrogen fuel.

I’m very cynical of old/current energy companies and they are doing everything they can to slow this transition but hydrogen will very likely be part of the mix into the future. What I’m not sure of is if it will serve a massive part like heating Europe over winter via excess generated over summer or much smaller for backup of more remote decentralised grids I don’t know but it will definitely play a part in the energy mix for generations to come.
See this sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28265245

I am contending (with citations to the law) that you simply don't need a license to execute other peoples code once you legally have a copy of it.
Consistency, makes it easier to understand. When it would automatically pick the only possible answer, you might think that you accidentally clicked on the next link already or that something else happened incorrectly. You would have to add a message stating that the system auto-selected the only possible destination.
It’s also (slightly) easier to implement.
Both not hugely problematic, but in my opinion its the correct decision for this case.
I agree it's a tall order to compete with ASML, patents notwithstanding. So yes patents are not everything, even though cross-licensing is beneficial, rather than invent it yourself.

Actually the James Webb telescope, which has a scheduled launch this year, started out in 1996.

Given the 25 years it has taken so far and a huge amount of money, then it's not too far fetched to imagine someone replicating a space telescope.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

And now it seems that the name might be changed before launch.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02010-x
Ask them about what they know they don't know and you might get a chance to understand their understanding. Different conclusions should come from differing, random selections of life experiences.

Calling a conservative a conservative would not have the same effect as with an avowed liberal, but on that point, if you can find out and point out what more commonly liberal beliefs they hold, you might chide them enough to think outside the (non-)party lines.
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> It doesn't change the fairly obvious implication of the statement.

You keep sayong it is obvious but not explaining. If it is obvious, then it should be easy to explain what you meant by it. As far as I can tell you are conflating "i support their ability to say these things without laoing their job" with "i support them saying these things".

> Really what he's saying is 'I'm not that offended, don't dump this woman because she said something really raw'.

I think that is an extremely poor paraphrasing that puts words in the author's mouth. It's clear that the Author support this woman's freedom of speech despite any offense at the comment (the level of which is not specified, but some is implied). I don't see how saying the argument isn't "intellectual" isn't just an ad hominem attack itself.

> Even if you remove the slur, the a statement such as "People think you're an idiot" is just terrible, playground rhetoric.

I don't think "idiot" is at all synonymous with "house negro", especially in that context. I can't speek for whoever wrote that tweet, but I interpret it as implying that people think the author is failing his race because due to his priveleged position he lacks a personal understanding of the challenges that most face. It also can carry the conotation that the author is not "really" black. It's a pretty offensice thing to say, even if you say it without using slurs.

> Use Orwell for where it was meant to be used.

Which is?
> Of course I answered I would just work nights

Was this intended as a joke or would you really work nights just because there was too much work?
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume 'a revolutionary solution' is not going to come from '(youtube.com)'...