skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The researchers discovered that 61 percent of 1,285 invasive plant species remain available through the plant trade, including 50 percent of state-regulated species and 20 percent of federal noxious weeds”

What is invasive in Georgia can be well-mannered in West Texas or North Dakota. Barberry is not invasive in the high deserts, where it continues to be a valued ornamental. Russian olives can raise havoc in riparian areas, but be fine for areas where birds can’t spread the seeds to moister soils.

There is a “patchwork” of state regulations because there is a patchwork of climatic zones and ecosystems in the US. There is no mention in the article that, although nurseries sell invasives, most nurseries have policies not to ship invasives to the individual States where they are identified as such by local authorities.

Saying that, non-invasive natives are generally better, but not so much better that non-natives (that could be invasive in other climates) don’t have a role to play in landscaping and gardening. Skip the giant hogweed….
We need a progressive land tax. Meaning people with a single property receive a low tax bill and large corporations with lots of land receive a much higher tax. I personally do not think this is optimal but it's politically impossible to do the correct thing of charging everyone the fair amount.

At least this watered down version of a land value tax will hit large corporations. Property taxes apply to corporations and individuals equally, but there are more home owners so they will vote for a tax policy that benefits corporations.
When the first ICE cars arrived they had to buy fuel from pharmacies and general stores and probably had the exact same anxiety. Electricity is ubiquitous. Pretty soon charging points will be everywhere, with the added bonus that you start every morning with a full 250+ miles of range.
Ref this

> Sorry I saw this circulate a few days ago and linked the first thing I found on DDG.
> I have no reason to think it's fake news.

I think the expectation is that you should have a reason to think that it's not fake news before spreading it.
It doesn't, sure you'll get suspended alright, but you can appeal and get unlocked if you persistently tell that you don't have a cellphone.

Which in my case is true, and yes I know I sounds like that guy: https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d... ;)
I think the sandwich technique is flawed. Probably not worse than many alternatives, mind, but in my mind it only serves to highlight the criticism. When I notice it I laugh because, well, its the sandwich technique, and this person is trying to be nice when what I need is for them to be critical. I think it has its place where you are giving feedback to many people sequentially to help ensure no one is going to get accidentally picked on. Like when teaching, you don't want to have only negative things to say to the slow student (whose work in comparison will appear even worse).

The 'non violent communication' stuff feels useful as a pattern of conversation when you need to strengthen and clarify your own communication. It helps lead to statements that can't be quibbled with or creatively re-interpreted. Have you ever noticed some one making a big deal out of an offhand remark that wasn't really core to your point anyway? Sandwich technique can't help with that, but the meat of the article does.

Anyway, thanks for the spring board! Hope you enjoy the soliloquy.
Free speech is a far larger concern than what the First Amendment covers.

Platforms that have grown into de facto public squares are large enough that there is a public interest in how they regulate speech, given that the vast majority of people are on the big tech platforms while the alternatives are negligible and choked out by network effects. They are now a gray area between state and what is typically understood by private entity.

There are massive and obvious dangers in letting Google, Facebook, Twitter decree for millions/billions of people what counts as "science" or "misinformation", and they've already demonstrated getting it spectacularly wrong. It's vital to a free society to have a culture of open debate, and these platforms are now our media for such debate.

It's not clear yet what the best mechanism or remedy for this will be, but citing the First Amendment alone is not sufficient to resolve the concern. The First Amendment only applies to government, and the cultural and social issues around free speech have always been much broader than that.

There are older precedents for regulating speech on private platforms in an earlier technological period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine. Perhaps we need an updated version of that. I wouldn't be surprised if the platforms themselves were ok with it, since I don't believe they wanted to get into the truth-regulation business in the first place. They're doing it because they're subject to intense, inner and outer, political pressure.

Without getting into rightness or wrongness of views, I think it's factually the case that those pressures are coming from a fairly narrow band of political opinion which is far from being the entire spectrum and excludes many mainstream views, so in that sense what we're seeing is something analogous to "regulatory capture" of the big platforms. This gives enormous leverage to one cluster of political opinions over all the others. It's a distorting factor which I think is against the public interest (even though I personally agree with some of their views).

We need debate and persuasion, not hard use of power. This understanding was commonplace, in fact bedrock, for so long that many of us are shocked at how quickly it could be abandoned, and not just abandoned or even forgotten but replaced with a narrative in which it was never that way to begin with!
What study shows 80% or greater efficacy for primary immunity versus secondary immunity via vaccination? Do they go into detail regarding how long the immunity lasts, and whether it covers varients? Viruses that cause the flu or common cold change from season to season, so immunity (either primary or secondary) doesn't really protect against a subsequent varient.
It could be that Berlin is the "end" of a trip around Germany, but Prague is the beginning of a trip to Czechia/Slovakia/Hungary/wherever-it-ends-up.

I had a friend who took the bus from London to Poland after each term at university. It was about 20 hours to the first stop in Poland, then another 12 or so going around Poland until it got to his city. (This was decades ago.)
Well, yes. Yes, they have.
To be fair, so are the republicans.

This has been the case since like when -the 90's, when Clinton took the party rightward? That sounds correct to me.
>Where's the evidence for this? As pointed out above, we're already being tracked, and it doesn't seem to have stopped all crime, or even cut it down in a noticeable way. As for being recorded in public, that hasn't even even stopped 7-11s from being robbed, let alone preventing or resolving all crime everywhere.

All of the people in jail that were caught by surveillance that can't commit crimes is a good piece of evidence. Otherwise, it's hard to prove anything about crime because we can't do double blind experiments in the real world.

Either way, we are talking about theoretical perfect surveillance. Every crime would be caught on 4k HD and the criminals location tracked. Hard to imagine how you'd get away with a crime in that scenario.

>Do you remember how there was a time when having a scan of your naked body examined by a stranger at the airport was considered at least mildly invasive? That was just a few years ago. Now, we're used to it. That's a small example of how fast humans adapt to preserve their sense that everything is fine. The amount of surveillance we consider normal today would have seemed oppressive not long ago.

TSA seems perfectly happy to fondle your junk instead. So whatever we've lost there isn't due to technology. If anything technology helps because it gives us a choice between naked body examination and junk fondling.

>It's true that Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot did not use GPS tracking against their citizens, because (being dead) they didn't have the option to use it. But electronic surveillance has been the tool of every country's secret police dating back to the invention of the telephone, so I'm not sure what you mean.

The point is that repression and technology are orthogonal issues. You can have brutally repressive regimes with no modern technology. And, as I said before, the trend seems to be away from repressive regimes so there's little reason to think technology contributes to their existence.
This is why I am looking for a simple AR headset: so I can look at code while walking through the woods in my area. Just a simple translucent IDE is all I need.

I definitely feel that I am better at thinking when walking, but I also need to be looking at source code to get the details, otherwise I can only think about larger architecture.

When is this coming?
> I have no reason to think it's fake news.

Very sound logic (/s)! With this sort of reasoning people invaded the Capitol on January 6th, because they were certain their country was about to be taken over by a Chinese-backed coup. Guess what, they also think what they heard was legitimate, and they think their reasoning work(ed) perfectly fine.
The Telegraph is essentially the mouthpiece of the British commercial property landlord classes, who have a vested interest in getting people back into the offices and shops in their portfolios. On an average day you'll notice multiple anti-remote working articles parroted by Cabinet ministers. Why should they care how businesses conduct their business, especially if it's more convenient and can lead to a happier and more efficient workforce? Follow the money.

It used to be - many years ago - a stodgy and conservative yet reputable newspaper (they fired Boris Johnson for lying, now he moonlights as a columnist). As with other newspapers (e.g. WSJ) it went off the deep end a long time ago.
Except didn't Leela Zero (the closest thing we have to Alpha Zero anyone can actually use) beat StockFish, then StockFish was upgraded to use neural networks in a few edge cases and otherwise keep doing what it was doing and now StockFish is back on top? Seems like a Waymo-style approach is actually on top there.
>it seems that voting's becoming a decreasing relevant way of affecting changes in our society.

It does seem that way, yes. It seems that all avenues of affecting change have been diluted or cut off.
Yeah.. the electoral situation in the parliament hadn't really changed, so that was kinda stupid. Mostly it was just a way for the socialist (borderline communist) eternal support party to the social democrats to flex its muscles, for once.
You can always check overseas scientists’ recommendations as a cross check.

Looks like the UK NHS recommends the shingles vaccine for all 70-79 year olds for instance. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/shingles-vaccinat...

France recommends for ages 65 to 74 https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/french-national-h...
I am currently in a place where masks are not mandatory anymore, but I still always use one.

I noticed in the report:

"If universal mask coverage (95%) were attained in the next week, our model projects 50,000 fewer cumulative reported deaths compared to the reference scenario on December 1."

Does anybody know on what data, experiments or references are these inferences made ?
Babashka is really nice in that it has json and yaml libraries built-in, so you end up using your Clojure data structures throughout the script, and yet still consuming/emitting json/yaml if you need to.
Look where Tesla is now. At every step that have faced production consistency and reliability issues. They flat out suck at making cars and have 20 years of quality engineering learnings to catch up on.

Consumer Reports 2021 report puts Tesla in 16th place among US car brands. In JD Powers 2021 Dependability Study Tesla came in 30th, followed only by Jaguar, Alfa Romero, and Land Rover.
You mean land owners extorting the productive work out of the people that live near or on the land of that land owner? He did nothing to create the earth and he did nothing to conquer it.

He can keep the building and usage rights to the land, but he should never own the land.
The wolfram alpha founder does this with a laptop and custom harness.
Yep, I was reading the examples thinking "god, I'd really hate someone talking to me like that". It feels very "corporate training speak" or something, very smarmy and false.
This stuff is all over scotland where I am - it's like nature's barbed wire
When everyone around you is trying to get your gold, then for all practical purposes it is still a liability. If you can convert that gold into a different asset that is just as valuable but fewer people are trying to get a hold of it, then you maintain your assets without the liability.

Let's be clear. Something can both be an asset AND a liability. These are not mutually exclusive.
Brain on EPA and DHA
> After such interviews, there will be rumors about your company.

It makes no sense to bring this up in interview questions. Just about every programmer knows that IEEE 754 contains some quirks. If you want to know the boring details, just look them up in the manual.
It's a little harder on the newer models but there are tools available from some of the shadier and non-English parts of the Internet.
I have enabled 2FA on my Amazon account and also on my root AWS account. In order to log in to AWS using my root account, I must enter two 2FA responses: one for my Amazon account, the other for my AWS root account. It's weird!
I made a guide of global email rules for sending unsolicited marketing emails
Lots of writers are also runners.
But if you’re collecting walking-thinking connections I’ll add: Kahneman mentions somewhere that many of his ideas with Tversky emerged from long walks the two took together.
So we defined abs(NaN), sounds like a feature to me ;-)
It was just a question. I know that HOAs can tell people what to do with their property. However, many HOAs own substantial tracts of land in their own right. It could be that this rule OP describes pertains only to the HOA property and not to the private property of the homeowners.
Yes! Tailscale is incredibly useful and a great way to access your devices. For public linking, if you don't want any open ports, you can use Cloudflare Tunnel. Note that in this case, for your own use, you should still be accessing Nextcloud via Tailscale, as its P2P, so it'll be substantially faster than routing via a CF datacenter.
They have retired, invested (or gambled) in inflation hedges or airbnbing their property out.

No one is really dying to get back into the office in long commutes to report to unfriendly, bad management. For those that could exit, they did.
The trick I use to remember this is:

DNA: D means Disk

RNA: R means Ram
The GNU Awk manual has several practical examples in it - as manuals should. (Looking at you, nearly all man pages in linux distros.)
Common HTTP Status Codes for REST API
(This should be a submission in its own right.) Really interesting data.
Caltrain from San Jose to San Francisco? Or does that not count?
STUN isn't something that runs on your router. You can disable UPnP in your router and still use Tailscale perfectly fine.

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
> Everyone gets vaccinated at the same time [...] region by region, so there are no populations which mix vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals

This is logistically impossible and completely unrealistic. If you can find any literature or any experts suggesting that this is feasible, please share.

> and the disease goes away

Even if we did manage do achieve what you suggested, the current vaccines do not guarantee sterilizing immunity. This means that even vaccinated individuals can be infected and transmit the virus, which still gives plenty of opportunity for the virus to mutate and eventually evolve to escape the immune response in the theoretical 100% vaccinated population.

> I can't see how making vaccinations non-compulsory will do anything good

There are many viral elimination strategies that complement vaccination - for example multi-drug treatment using widely available and existing medicines [1][2][3][4][5]. The key is that using a diverse set of strategies helps reduce the possibility and risk of vaccine resistance.

> I think you gave a very strong argument FOR compulsory vaccination.

I appreciate the spirited discussion but your comment does not seem particularly well informed - it completely disregards the concerns and arguments put forth by experts in the field, which I've outlined in my previous comments.

[1] Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

[2] Clinical outcomes after early ambulatory multidrug therapy for high-risk SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection
https://rcm.imrpress.com/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?a...

[3] Early multidrug treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) and reduced mortality among nursing home (or outpatient/ambulatory) residents
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03069...

[4] Multidrug treatment for COVID-19
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ddt/advpub/0/advpub_202...

[5] Ivermectin in combination with doxycycline for treating COVID-19 symptoms: a randomized trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33983065/
> Terrified, and behind by 10 years.

Terrified? When Tesla will sell more cars maybe, they are badly lagging against virtually any other car maker, let alone all of them.
Ironically enough, the way to get rid of COBOL is more of it. Democratize it. Right now, you can "learn COBOL" but you'll never get access to a mainframe environment or the actual COBOL compiler or the obscure database used by hospitals and banks, because they're too expensive. So, make emulators so that non-COBOL programmers can play around in a COBOL world without going to work for a bank or hospital. The problem with COBOl is, it's all-or-nothing. You're either in the COBOL world or you are not. But if you add an onramp, Java/C++ programmers will maybe make COBOL versions of their libraries. There will be more people going to COBOL StackOverflow. There will be more cross-pollination between COVOl and non-COBOL devs. More people will form businesses trying to bride the gap between COBOl and Java. Right now, only COBOL devs are trying to get out of COBOL-land. And their vendors will sell them overpriced solution. The Java developers on the other shore can only watch with fascination, they can't help.
I've seen people deliberately seek to offend marginalized groups with their language, though, and then they cry out about being cancelled and how speech is no longer free when the people they provoked naturally respond to and fight back against their posts.

I don't believe that people have become less tolerant. I think that the reality of disagreement as a fact of life has just been amplified by the constant connectivity afforded to us by social media, and people (especially those who like to provoke debates) have a hard time accepting that not everyone is going to agree with them, and that there are real social costs to deliberately positioning oneself as edgy or unpopular or hateful, as there has always been.
"Owning the libs", in a way that won't actually change their minds, but will make the speaker feel smarter and righter.

In other words, nothing useful.
You made a good point. But one might argue that -nan should become nan after an abs operation. I don't know enough about this topic to determine whether such an argument has merit though.
With a population of only about 5,000, and with mountains around, it's not especially surprising.

The neighbouring settlement, Schaan, is larger, has all the industry, and has the railway and two stations.
Carbon from UK’s blue hydrogen bid still to equal 1m petrol cars
Higher rent for the newcomers, of course. And shortages, since very few new apartments get built (mostly the luxury ones). And slow degradation of existing apartments since no sane landlord would invest in any improvements if they cannot make up for the cost in increased rent.
Just a case in point, some regions only have one vaccine type avy e.g. Australia with Astra, my wife would have serious problems with Astra, fortunately we have Pfizer in NZ, there are many many examples like this.
Well, when they start finding crimes to fit the man it doesn't matter, does it? And make no mistake that's what's happening.
Am I allowed to opt-in to the timeout box if I have a knee-jerk reaction to the new title? (In which I Clone the current title so that my reference to it doesn't become invalid when someone overwrites it on a different thread: "Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones".)

At first glance I thought the title was saying that a Waymo car carrying the CEO has been lost for days because it got trapped by traffic cones.
Some Piers Anthony series? the ones about the twinned sci-fi/fantasy world?

EDIT: a quick search tells me "Apprentice Adept" is the name of the series I'm thinking of.
You mentioned one pain point of shell scripting, variability among platforms. The other pain point is that different tools have different methods to treat errors and warnings. This makes debugging shell scripts a nightmare, compare to scripting languages like python. If you need to debug your work, you need to check several levels of script vs. commands, and use different ways to check for errors depending on what is causing the problem.

If I had to decide on a tool to replace shell script I would vote for tcl, since it maintains many of the advantages of the shell but provides a better handling of the programming aspect. Unfortunately these days it seems that you either use shell or some full-scale language like python.
You can read about what happens when you try to withdraw that much cash from a bank. Not only do they not hold that much cash, there’s lots of hoops to jump through:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-i-tried-withdraw-20000-m...

https://www.cleveland.com/business/2012/04/man_who_wants_to_...

https://grantcardonetv.com/ever-withdraw-1000000-in-cash-fro...

https://finance.zacks.com/federal-banking-rules-withdrawing-...
I second this.

I do long distance cycling and always had an audiobook going. One day my battery died and I had an hour and a half of silence.

I found my thoughts were enjoyable. I now take some rides without any audio at all.
>Apple has recently announced plans to introduce a system designed to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in iCloud

And again further down

>... in iCloud
>... on iCloud accounts

This is blatently misleading and IMO it's highly unlikely that the author has misunderstood where the scanning occurs given how much discussion has taken place since the announcement.
No many people realize that jets have been slowing down since the 707/DC-8. And this has been intentional as a trade against fuel efficiency. Both the 707 and DC-8 were nearly transonic by design.
No one is talking about building houses in the middle of nowhere, where there are no jobs, and bo lack of supply.
The problem is that Apple have let the genie out of the bottle. With all the, very public, blowback and drama they have created, otherwise ignorant politicians are now aware of what is possible and could start demanding it.

Great job, Apple.
They really missed an opportunity to call it caNaNicalization