skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You make a good distinction there and perhaps politicians act as a bit of both. And I also think it's not scalable to vote on all issues that come up, that's why we have politicians full time. But for specific big issues direct democracy might work (thinking of Switzerland now).

Like Brexit?

Big issues tend to be complicated issues on many levels. I don't see how you can agree that full-time politicians are required because people don't have the time or expertise to be involved in every aspect of the political process, but also that for big, important issues - almost certainly requiring the most time and expertise to fully understand the arguments and ramifications of all options - suddenly the same non-expert people are suddenly better than full-time politicians.

What happens is Brexit. A ridiculously complicated process (the UK leaving the EU) that could be done in all kinds of different ways (in the single-market or instead in the EEA, in/out the customs zone, free movement or not, a Norway-style semi-in arrangement, tariffs, regulations, membership of other EU institutions and so on) each with their own trade-offs and complications, on top of the ridiculous difficulty of simply trying to predict the known unknowns arising from unpicking a 50-year political and economic union.

https://www.politico.eu/article/uks-brexit-options-explained...

Instead we got:

"Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”

[ ] Remain a member of the European Union

[ ] Leave the European Union

where option two could mean anything, and in practise it let the Euro-hardliners and UKIP types define it as the hardest of hard Brexits and fuck the consequences. When it took years for Parliament to agree on the final result for what Brexit was (and the UK's system of government makes passing legislation easy ie. the govmt. has a majority in one house and can override the other house) it just shows how the idea that direct democracy fails at a certain scale. All nuance, complexity and context are stripped away and replaced by a single sentence asking a yes or no question that only shows people's feels over reals.
> Chaillan added that DoD remains stuck in the outdated water-agile-fall acquisition processes...

Wait what?
We want to try https://www.getmyinvoices.com/en/portals which promises to auto-download invoices and finds invoices in emails. (We haven't found the time to test it yet). Our bottleneck is not paying invoices, that's usually setup via credit card or direct debit, but filing incoming invoices for our accountant.
You will be met with nothing but sorrow until you get some sort of sterile procedure in place.

Yes, there are many organisms that would overwhelm the mushrooms you "want". There are mushroom spores covering every inch of earth. Mushrooms have a very specific lifecycle and your job as the mushroom grower is to make those chance occurrences a regular thing.

The good news is its really pretty easy to do on a small scale.
movies? videos?

footage —> clip
This frames the issues in terms of rights and freedoms. Left alone the homeless tend to cause property damage, commit small crimes, and generate calls to emergency services because of their behavior. On average these emergency responses alone cost around $100k/year. Given that money matters it can make sense to give out some free benefits in order to reduce other negative impacts. This frames the situation in terms of costs and benefits for different alternatives.
Do other Chromium based browsers like Brave count? Or do they need be completely separate browser architectures like Firefox and Opera?
Except that people create music all the time despite their knowledge that they won't get paid for it.

There will also always be a paying market for composing, say, the soundtrack to a movie where it has to reflect the narrative and events in the film. For example, the Bugs Bunny cartoon music was performed while projecting the cartoon on a screen, so the musicians could match the timing. The music was very much customized to the cartoon.
> Among the USAF's sins-according-to-Chaillan? The service is still using "outdated water-agile-fall acquisition principles to procure services and talent",

Wait, what?
on reddit, numerous fast food workers have chimed in to say that it's not true, the machines are easy to clean, and it's a normal part of the job and management wouldn't let them get away with not cleaning them
It is possible to count to 54 on one hand by counting "bump - valley" and by flipping the hand, so to 108 using both.
> Living in Maryland, I've met several young people who put in a few years at the agency (including TAO) who then left for industry. Millenials don't care about a government pension, especially when you're in a windowless SCIF hacking Perl.

> The US Government as a whole has a massive talent retention problem. Only the mediocre will stay at NSA / CIA now and we'll probably see more of these leaks / hacks.

That's a verbatim comment I made on this site back in 2017 and it's still relevant. I don't mean to toot my own horn as much as to highlight the braindrain out of DoD / the alphabet soup agencies and into other sectors. It HAS and WILL CONTINUE to bite the United States in the ass.
I love that there has been renewed interest in Paul Dirac. During the days of Oppenheimer, Pauli, Fermi, Einstein, etc. Dirac was and always was a physicist's physicist. He was a brilliant mathematician and I agree that his ideas are hard to understand as they require a deep understanding of math, thanks for providing that other link for further viewing.
Apparently you can't host whatever you want. Otherwise we wouldn't be in this comment section talking about this story.
People who preordered when preorders went live are still on the list for December 2021 or Q1 2022 (mine is for Q1 but I was an hour late with my preorder and in Europe), so it's simply that those who came late will get it later.
The whole site is about punishing people and their relations on ideological grounds.
I don't know how anyone could conflate Trumpism voting disbelief with Populism. Trump literally is the quintessential elite. I would argue Trumpism is Elitism, not Populism.

Most people would probably say populism (political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite" [wiki quote]) is pretty rational given the human condition of the modern US and the influences of our elite.
I say don't change your setup for them; get a dedicated device… consider a tablet. Having two devices is a pain, but it'll improve your work-life balance when you have to actively decide to carry it. You'll also never accidentally send something personal to a coworker.

I use an older iPhone in airplane mode. I get over a week of battery life. I forward calls to my personal if I'm away from wifi and on-call, and they do not get my personal phone number.
Obviously you can't go back and ask your old self, but a question to the crowd: what is the purpose of signing something like this?
Exactly, blueprints might be OK for opening a trigger when you open a door, but there are huge chunks or game logic that needs to be written by game designers.

Magic Armour gives you +15 health and Orcs spawn in the Forest after the Spider Queen is defeated.

You don't want to have to go to the programmers when the behavior of magic amour changes or when Orcs have some other prerequisite.

Can't wait to hear more about this Verse.
Dang! I did test on iPad at one point. Thanks for the heads up.
It’s incredible how long a leash the NHTSA has given Tesla up to now. Uber had one fatality and their entire program was axed, according to this article Tesla has had 11. Compare that to Waymo whose cars have driven millions of miles and I believe only been in a few fender benders with no fatalities.
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No, my household has shifted everything to Brave or Safari with AdGuard.
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Sigh, newspeak (yeah I'm abusing the term)... You even have uptalk in text with 2 sentences ending in "?". People are going to downvote this because I'm going to sound (and be) patronising, but drop it, uptalk makes you sound not confident.

Some guy whose girlfriend I follow on Facebook posts updates with emojis next to words, something like "We went up [Mountain emoji] Mount Cook today", etc. It's excruciating, the last time I saw something like this was when I was doing fill-in-the-blanks in kindergarten, where we had to add the words next to the picture hints, so when people write like that, yeah I think they're kindergartners.
Agreed. I think it is part of a growing tend to anthropomorphize everything.

Water flowing down hill shows remarkable problem solving skills in determining paths to lower elevation. Rivers could probably outperform most college graduates in calculating the optimal path in a head to head challenge. Iterative floods communicate information across hundreds or thousands of years between events, ect.
Heelys wound up recalled and banned in schools over safety issues with the shoes themselves - as opposed to the lack of helmets.
I once applied as an external, rejected on grounds of being too experienced/senior. Then later heard they went the other way and hired someone more junior than me, by their own measure!
I always assumed this was an American thing as most Europeans seem to regard "original" fries as Belgian (or Dutch). Interesting that it's not actually about the origin but the cut.

FWIW thick cut fries are often sold as "Flamse Friets" (Flemish fries, in Dutch) or "Belgische Fritten" (Belgian fries, in German) so having "French fries" in English just felt consistently inconsistent.
Loyalty, obviously. Competition means focusing on competing with other employees and not focusing on the company's goals.
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Ok, it’s been 5 years. At this point the state should be able to point to quantitative and qualitative improvements in the homeless population. Can they? If so, where are those studies?
"...Ahhhh now I get all the 42 references"
Giving performers copyright over work could protect them from deepfakes: study
There is some activity in the donations:

https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo
As many have been saying for decades, the only way to have privacy when computing is by using publicly auditable open source software. No amount of pinky promises made by the marketing department can change that.

It doesn't matter if the end user doesn't audit everything themselves, that's impossible to do in a reasonable manner, but the constant auditing and testing by many independent entities gives, in my opinion, a better assurance of privacy than some marketing material saying they deeply care about me.

Somehow a large subset of the general public doesn't seem to understand this. And act all surprised when Apple, Google, Microsoft or whatever screws them over.
>started excluding people of a certain race or gender

Race and gender is about something you are, political opinions are not something you are.
> People will pay $$$$$ to hear the original Beatles give a live performance. They will pay $ to hear a cover band play the same music, even if the cover band is better.

The novelty of having musicians rise from the dead for a concert does help there.
Movie, etc.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie#Terminology
SSH, NFS, SMB, rsync, pretty much anything. It also has built in applications to backup to another synology or S3/glacier.
The need to earn money incentivizes people to work on things that are useful to others. If people only followed their passion, and the results of that are of no interest to others, why should others pay them to do that?
Actually the LGBT cake you have a very big misunderstanding of what that was. The person was more than willing to sell them a cake because he did not discriminate in his business on who he sold his items. What the disagreement was on is he did not want to perform the artwork on the cake. What was upheld is you cannot enforce an artist to do work for you against their own opinions.

This is a completely different thing. They were not asking GoDaddy to create their website or perform any task other than the hosting of it which is the selling of the cake. If GoDaddy chose not to create the website and instead referred them to other places for their creative work that would be the correct comparison. This is the lack of History that we seem to have in this country currently.
Needles are indeed the best solution, but many people are secretly terrified of them.
> When you are at 1.05 it is already because of group of measures are in place

Ah and here I was thinking you thought those weren't effective. Ok, sorry.
The Delta variant R0 is in the 6-7 range.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/11/1026190...

There is no plausible way to bring it below 1 for an extended period of time. The most we can do is slow it down a little.
Understandable. I suggest donating to open source options as part of your compromise. Purism, PinePhone, Ubuntu Touch....or buying something from them if it's not an option.
What is more crazy is the mcd's let it go on this long... They are the kind of whale customer you hate to get. They order tons of stuff from you but if they jump you are in a world of hurt. This should have been along the lines of the mcd's CEO calls the Taylor CEO and says 'fix it' and that is the end of the call.
It is really strange that this comment has more downvotes than the parent comment.
Hah I figured it might be. I've only read bits of it. It's on the list...

Saving it for a rainy day :)
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> Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

Whether or not piracy is in the best interest, produce better outcomes, or higher profits in the long run, of authors and creative artists is irrelevant if it's against their wishes.

Ultimately, it's their choice even if it hurts them (also supposedly according to your metric, not theirs, of harm).
Not true for companies protected under Section 230, in order to maintain their liability shield they are supposed to remain platform neutral [1].

A company should not be able to act like a publisher and determine what stays on their service and when someone sues them for libel they claim they're not a publisher and hide behind the shield.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230

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> At its core, Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
U.S. Covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge
A lawyer friend used to say his worst customers were engineers and doctors, who would want to understand the entire legal system before being being comfortable with a legal position.
Some past threads:

The Descent to C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15445059 - Oct 2017 (2 comments)

The Descent to C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8127499 - Aug 2014 (15 comments)

The descent to C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7134798 - Jan 2014 (230 comments)
Email them and say that! We need to be more vocal as customers so vendors don't waste time.
Everything that's alive should be cherished. And in the (innevitable) case of consumption of living things,it should be appreciated and never looked upon with disregard.Interestingly all the major cultures (i know) ended up doing this, and only in recent modern times we began to stop appreciating the life we consume due to the corrosion on traditions & cultures.

Veganism/other forms of prohibition of consumption is not the answer to the challenges we face about this topic.As humanity scales , we should (and are responsible) to nurture and scale all life around us.In other words it's not about us or them, but both, together.
My Model Y is generally unconcerned with out of place stuff on the road. Bicycles? Yes. People walking? Not really. “Yield in crosswalk” posts in the middle of the road? No.
> Just wait for antivaxers to hear 'DNA' and go wild.

Sure the already anti-vaccination crowd will have more reasons to be peeved and more talking points to scream about. But would it mean new people would turn against vaccines because they hear "DNA"?

It seems to me like the big divide in the general population is over people who are open to their conceptions of nature be challenged and corrected (this whole pandemic has been a mini science course for a lot of people: exponential growth, conditional probability, mRNAs, to name a few) and those who just are not. Any other pre-existing opinion/ideology ("I just don't do vaccines") is probably unaffected by technical details.
I removed the example because it was a poor analogy. Regardless, a webhost or cloud provider is within their right to turn away anyone's business, including if it violates their Terms of Service (which is open to broad interpretation by the business). Can't discriminate against a protected class of course, but that's not the case here.

The law, as it currently stands, cannot force a technology provider to provide a platform for content if they prefer not to host it.
Yes, or the franchise equipment team books lots of k̶i̶c̶k̶b̶a̶c̶k̶s̶ partner revenue and the customer satisfaction team can't or doesn't want to show that unavailable ice cream hurts sales.
I can understand this. The last time I didn't get a promotion, I saw the coworker that got it and thought, "Yeah, that makes sense, she's great for that role and more experienced than I am." I didn't feel slighted the same way I may have been if it were someone completely new.
HR are lazy. Noted.
It really sounds to me like someone is just spidering his site each night using curl and it's causing a cache refresh. He doesn't go into detail about the "547 hosts" to explain if they're all fetching the same content or if the whole site is just being fetched from a cluster of machines as the requests arrive at Cloudflare. But either way it sounds like he's misunderstanding how Cloudflare works.
Also if individuals pirate your software and learn that then that’s the preferred let’s say image/video editing software when they work the company more the likely buy legal licenses for them
If most vaccine boosters are spaced out like this, then I think we should continue doing this. Additionally, we should be factoring in previous exposure to covid before administering vaccines. Especially considering the increased risk of adverse vaccine reactions if you have already been exposed to covid19.

As stated in a previous comment, I indirectly know four healthy young, that died shortly after taking their second shots.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210903083804/https://www.latime...
Many are not-so-secretly terrified, or at least hate them with a passion.
If you move the letters G (Google) and C (Chrome) two letters down the alphabet, you get IE.
There is a large domestic market, and also a potential global market of COVAX initiative members. If it can successfully compete against the Oxford-AstraZeneca/Covishield vaccine on price, then gaining acceptance should not be a problem.

The kind of people who would balk at a DNA vaccine would probably also reject other types of vaccine, so the underlying technology is not that important to that aspect.
Your link says:

However, the act of shooting images with other visual media, such as with a digital camera, is still called "filming" and the resulting works often called "films" as interchangeable to "movies," despite not being shot on film.
Thanks for the reply! I was running Linux on MacBooks for the longest time, so I got used to the lack of dedicated PgUp/PgDn (and Home[0]/End!) keys (I believe you could use Fn+Up/Down and Fn+Left/Right, which was... okay, but not great).

But I've had a Dell XPS 13 for the past several years, and now I've gotten used to having those keys again, so if I switch, I bet I'll feel that pain again as well. But I also expect I'll get used to switching back.

[0] Then again, I am also constantly accidentally hitting the Insert key, which is next to Home, by accident, which is never what I want and ends up being more annoying than you'd expect.
And wild carrots (Queen Anne's lace) look remarkably like poison-hemlock. Some people also have a dermal reaction to wild carrot as well.
Yeah what a bad deal. What can we so about this?
I wish I could tell my past self to buy MSFT!
ha, I didn't even notice that and even reread it a couple times.

can't change it now ;)
Needles are among the things I dread most about getting older. If I could get everything orally, or using this method, I’d be much happier.
As of today, my main workstation is an "early 2008" iMac, at El Capitan and Chrome maxed out at 83.x...

In addition to Chrome, I'm using six other browsers which work well with HN, my own sites, fb, gmail, ...

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Are there many sites which don't work across 25 years or 15 years or even 5 years worth of client software? Sure, but...

There are also restaurants I don't go to, roads I don't walk down, and people I don't associate with...

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The Web is better than ever for me, thanks to this strategy. I've heard it called boundaries and self-respect.

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FWIW, legally you can force them off the streets if you offer them housing:

https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/our-programs/advocac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan_v._Carey

This is a legal judgement, not a moral one
They are a lot like dogs, and pups can bite hard also if feel treatened.