skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be good advice today, but will it hold five years from now? Ten years from now? Eventually, the delta in death rates per mile traveled will be indistinguishable from zero - either because safety improvements will no longer be significant, or because we have gotten the death rate so low that the difference between it and zero will be negligible.

We're currently at a point where 15-year old vehicles have ~144 deaths per million registered vehicles [1], and 5-year old vehicles have ~40 deaths per million registered vehicles [2]. Sure, you may be willing to pay a premium to get 40 down to 10, but are you willing to pay as much of a premium to get that 10 down to 2.5? 2.5 down to 0.6?

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... (~2004 - 14.4 occupant deaths per 100,000 vehicles)

[2] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-... (~2016 - 14 to 64 driver deaths per 1,000,000 vehicles)
school busses, which leads to the question of how well armed are they allowed to be? Normal small arms might not cut it here.
I found this list of 40+. The second one seems to fit your criteria https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/do-face-masks-work-her...
I did not expect that this would happen back then, but it has happened now. I was wrong.

(I also thought they were saying the foundation was exerting control over the language, which is incorrect, strictly speaking. The foundation has no formal powers over the language itself.)
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Super neat site, but be aware that content disappears from there constantly. I discovered a great Jet Set Radio x Justice mashup on the site a few months ago, and it appears to be completely gone now. Make backups!
Why is there a driver shortage?
Thanks for the tips! Yes, would you perhaps be up to grab a cup of coffee and have a chat about ontologies? :)
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If you can't figure out what to be outraged about, maybe don't be outraged?
I wasn't aware Christians had their own math, history or literature. I've been made sadly aware that some Christians have their own read on science (evolution, geology, apparently virology and epidemiology). So I guess my question would be, what is "faith based education"?

I suppose as long as it's not causing you to abuse your children and you aren't getting public funding, I don't really care.

But I will say, any "God's instruction" that can be undone by secular exposure for 7 hours a day, 180 days/year seems to be extreme enough that I worry it veers into the "bad for the child" zone.
hm. kay. I've not had any reason to use my plug kit myself so far, but the 2 times I had a slow leak, on front tire they just had me turn it at a nice sharp turn for good access, and on the rear one, they jacked it up nice and high without removing it.
Dems shout while talking cash from the rich, look at the relationship Clinton had with Goldman Sachs.

It will keep working as long as Democrats voters are dumb enough to fall for their "we're for the working man!" schtick.
If you want a good video that shows the entrenched problem with the fossil fuel industry that has the Australian political class captured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8 (Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage)
And even if you are monopoly it will always be seen as something to disrupt. Take 30%, someone calculating that hey we might do same for 20% and they might manage for a while. And this could keep happening...
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There is still a risk that someone is running a MITM attack. The initial conversation would be authentic, but the key belongs to someone else who is just forwarding the messages. Your communications would no longer be private and they could switch from passive eavesdropping to impersonation at any point without changing the key.
We get all our beef from a farm nearby, grass fed & finished for this exact reason. Industrial feed lots are really, really bad.
I completed CCNA years ago. It wasn't very hard but my one is long out of date.
Years of yet more unread email sounds like the stuff of nightmares.
No futuristic films have come true when they try to predict society changing - ideas and beliefs are passed on from generation to generation. Food is much more sticky since meat-eating humans are likely to feed their children meat. When they come of age to understand things like veganism (beyond "vegans choose not to eat meat"), the fact that they've been eating meat for years will play a large part in whether or not they even consider taking on those new morals.
Seriously, top athletes live on another planet in University. I remember working at the UT-Austin textbook store in my 20s and while everyone else had to find what they needed on their own, the football team had special permits they could bring you to not only get their books for free but you had to go get them for them
What problem do NFTs really solve here? They just make sure that a ledger (in this case, of rights) is immutable but...is anyone worried that record companies are mutating the rights to begin with?

It seems like what would really help would be to make rights public and easily accessible. However, making the rights platform into an NFT platform specifically wouldn't really help.
So what is this? In this thread and previous threads I read many comments about people being hit by intel dropping the shoe on products that are actually great. Why don’t they capitalise on these great products and actually diversify?
This is just not true, or at least extremely US-centric. In large parts of the world most meat consumed by the public still comes from small to medium farms and family agriculture. The globalized neoliberal agro-industrial complex has been whittling away at that, but it's still true in a lot of places, and it could be made true again in the US; the population density of the US is pretty low, there's a lot of land on which family farmers could produce meat humanely and sustainably. The only reason it doesn't happen is because agro-industry doesn't allow it, and they have captured the regulatory framework in their favor.

If you changed the regulatory framework in a way that penalizes (or downright prohibits) a lot of these horrendous industrial practices sufficiently, then sustainable and human agriculture absolutely could fill the demand even of the very carnivorous American public (at somewhat higher prices, but not more than say double the price.) I'm not saying we shouldn't reduce mean consumption, just that the argument that sustainable and humane methods couldn't meet the demand are BS.
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In this case BMG might have a claim to ownership over the recording in question for the next 3 months... in the US.

In the US, sound recordings used to be handled under state copyright law. That's a phrase which should give any lawyer younger than 60 an aneurysm, as there is no such thing today - sound recording rights were brought into federal law in the 1970s, and preemption[0][1] means that states can't extend copyright law at all anymore. However, the actual recordings weren't properly grandfathered into federal law until 2018 with the passage of the MMA[2], which includes concepts from the CLASSICS Act[3].

Under the MMA, pre-federal sound recordings get a new copyright term on a sliding scale, with the lowest term length being 3 years for recordings made before 1923. Since the MMA was passed in 2018, those new terms expire... this January.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/301

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLASSICS_Act
Madoff got 150 years once he was convicted, though you are correct, I probably should have stated that the system is very good at punishing rich people that are CAUGHT swindling other rich people.
This question seems to be becoming more popular lately. My own understanding is that most people are apprehensive about killing because it involves denying another being self-actualisation and/or causing its suffering, both of which by our current understanding seem to require a central nervous system.

I would also add though that if you want to minimize plant death, the best course of action is to stop eating meat and animal products and aim for a plant-based diet, since (by thermodynamics!) the number of plants needed to feed these animals vastly outstrips what would deliver the same amount of nutrients to a human eating them directly.
I wouldn't downvote you for that opinion, however I am curious to hear your elaboration on what you mean.

I'm not vegan and never will be. I don't think veganism is a crazy idea, I think it's great if that's what a person likes. And I don't see how this story, the context of it, adds substantial merit to veganism.
Some people do have two inner monologues
That would be very simplistic. It means that all resources you need must be inlined in the initial download. This makes it hard to balance reasonable update time and log caching, especially if you have a slowly-updating ffmpeg.wasm and a more frequently updated UI.

Maybe it could add the CSP at some point after everything is loaded and then the badge appears? Of course you still want updates, how do you ensure that updates can occur without sneaking out information? Wiping all site data before downloading the new version would work but having local persistent data would be useful. Maybe all local data would be unavailable from the start of the new version fetch to until the no-network policy is applied?
We've tried many times to make in labs and factories foods that are "better" than what Nature provides, however we've failed every single time, though we have created a number of large agribusinesses and marketing conglomerates that are really skilled at manipulating people and the political process into believing that unhealthy diets are healthy.

If you're right, that would maybe be cool (but then we'd have to consider the inputs to the factories, which'd probably be GMO soybeans and corn, which means we're harming other animals in the process of producing them), but I believe your statement is full of hubris.
my first linux distro (TAMU) included X11, g++, and emacs all on 4 floppies. Era: 1994-95
Third Grade, First Grade, and Pre-Kindergarden. I really shared your concerns about academic performance as the course material gets harder, but what we have settled on is a co-op program that teaches the fundamentals of learning in the early years ( K - 6 ) and then progressively pushes the students towards independent study in the more advanced years, with a very extensive curriculum.

Honestly the foundational work is just as vital to the parents as it is to the kids as we will be simply guiding them through a high school curriculum that is much more advanced that anything we ever experienced. This is the program we are using, but we have two more years before we begin.

https://www.classicalconversations.com/challenge/
Note that moderation is not part of the business plan. FB was pretty much dragged kicking and screaming into that function.
Bullying is different on social media
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Yeah. I hate cloudflare, captchas. Why can't these companies accept that our scrapers are valid user agents? Only Google is allowed to do it, nobody else.
Can you please make your affiliation with Fundación PostgreSQL clear in both your bio and a disclaimer in the comments you write here? Thanks.
No, the Founder's are the Founding members (5).

In any case, read the will: Article's 3 and 4. Do you disagree with them? Do you think they are bad for Postgres, or good?

Do you support that will?

Because if so, this will is a powerful asset of this NPO, as it cannot be (significantly) changed. However, Core's will, as well as PEU and PAC's will, could be changed in a way that would go against Postgres.
Bogus diagnoses allow for high rates of drugging in nursing homes
It would be more useful if one could either follow a link to the replies, or read the full tweet text of the corresponding node by clicking on it.

Also the node div should have a background color, for when an image doesn't load.

As an aside, even though @paulgb says he's not bothered with the use of his library that way, it's so similar that I think common OSS etiquette would've been to acknowledge the original project more prominently.
I have been a PostgreSQL hacker since 2008 and a PostgreSQL user for many years before that. The first mention of my name in the PostgreSQL commit log is in 2003, and the first version of PostgreSQL that I used was 7.something; it couldn't drop columns yet.

Now that doesn't mean that I know every person who does good work on behalf of PostgreSQL, but it does mean that I expect to recognize the names of most people who have been involved in the project to a significant degree. And the only one of those names I recognize is yours.

I tried a quick Google search of each name with "site:postgresql.org" and the only one of those names that gets any hits is, again, yours. That means that, as far as Google knows, not a single one of those people has posted even a single message to any PostgreSQL mailing list ever. Needless to say, that's not close to true for any current member of the PostgreSQL core team, or a vast number of people who are not on the core team but who are involved in the project to greater or lesser extents.

It is true that the PostgreSQL community is distributed, and not everything happens or is required to happen on postgresql.org. But I think it is nevertheless extremely difficult to argue that a group of people who have never posted there even once are a more legitimate group to be in charge of PostgreSQL's trademarks than the PostgreSQL core team.
When you start talking about "legally binding" then the "decentralized" part doesn't apply anymore. You're relying on government enforcement for the "legally binding" part; whether the system is centralized or decentralized is a moot point.
The issue is that you’d have to figure out who has the right to create a NFT. The NFT solves none of the problems, rights attribution, and it creates a bunch of places for grifters and scam artists to make money doing nothing. It’s worse than our current solution.
Pakistan had 22 families --- my mom's school was ruined by nationalization but what alternatives did you have in mind for breaking their power?
I think I left your previous work place a few month ago. It’s just too similar.
Each point.
It's not unreasonable, but I think we'll have to wait to see if it's necessary.

It seems to me that he has tried to make a point in private, but it got dismissed.

It's very common to see power structures evolve into an unbalanced state, even with everybody trying to do the best thing.

Hopefully some spotlights are enough to get to a workable balance.
Even if it was, it's really not Facebooks job to rework the social structure.
I think a better analogy would be the resistance to teaching intelligent design. Why make space in the curriculum for faith-based, clumsy, ad-hoc ideas?
This sort of thing is good in direct proportion to the quality of the documentation and support. If you don't know what you're doing, the fact that it works feels overwhelmingly important, but conceals the fundamental insecurity. If you do know what you're doing, do you agree with all the policy decisions being made here?

Good documentation and community can bring you out of darkness. I'm not sure this is doing that job as well as OpenWRT or a good distro's user mailing list.
> All data is offered for non-commercial use. With speedy APIs, all data can be served by just a couple of virtual machines for less than a coffee a day.

Very impressive! What does your backend stack look like? Are you using any caching or does every API call hit the binary file?

> The project went live 2 weeks ago and is slowly being used.

What kind of traffic are you getting?

Looking forward to future updates!
I'm at a loss as to how NFTs would help in this situation in any way.
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Depends on the narrative or how it's classified legally. Cops kill hundreds per year, often needlessly and sometimes with malicious and/or ideologically driven intent. None of these are considered acts of terrorism while there are experts who say some incidents should be. Conversely, there are people who have been charged with domestic terrorism for comparatively harmless acts of sabotage against construction of pipelines or felling of trees.
Fruit is generally evolved to be eaten as a seed-dispersal and -fertilization technique. Not sure about other parts of the plant.
Vegan here. Not sure if this is exactly what you are hinting at, but I do perceive a significant bias against veganism that is, to my perspective, usually just not based on a solid rational basis.
The lifecycle of an organism includes reproduction and propagation.

Many plants have evolved specifically around being eaten by other animals.
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> Civilization 1, 2, and 3 had "stacks", but if you kill one unit in the stack, you kill ALL units in the stack. As such, "death balls" were incredibly fragile, one well placed attack kills the whole stack.

That's not how I remember things TBH. Only something like a nuke would kill all units on the same tile.
> Wasn't the grenade infranry pretty good against tanks in C&C?

Nominally, it was rockets were the anti-tank infantry. But both grenades and rockets get squished with alt-move. Tanks are faster than infantry, so the tanks get the squish rather easily.

The infantry player can defend against the squish by spamming "X" (which scatters your units in random directions). But given that tanks are threatening a one-squish kill + have faster movement, grenades are a rather poor choice to "death ball spam".

Furthermore: a dead grenadier explodes, causing damage to all other nearby grenadiers (causing __cascading__ explosions), often times wiping out your own "death ball". That is to say: a "death ball" made out of grenadiers end up killing themselves more often than not.

Grenades are primarily anti-infantry and anti-building units in C&C. They serve the job well in that regards. But its incredibly dangerous to spam these units in C&C.

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"Death Balls" existed in C&C, but you had to use far more expensive tanks to be able to get there. The cheaper units (rockets, grenadiers) were simply ineffective.

Nod arguably had a good death-ball strategy with bikes, but bikes were weak vs infantry (though they outran infantry pretty severely). Light Tanks was a more reliable Nod-based death-ball IMO.

> Also, in StarCraft you could save groups, with 1-5 you had 60 units.

Not like Starcraft 2, where you can save a singular group of 400 zerglings with Ctrl-1.

Even then, Starcraft 2 has Psi Storm and area-of-effect damage (banelings, colossus). So its not quite as easy to construct an appropriate "death ball", unless you've scouted out your opponent's build. So its not a "Braindead" kind of death ball, but... still a death ball at the end of the day.

> I remember building masses of the same unit in these games.

Nothing quite like Advance Wars mechanized infantry (aka: rockets). That was truly a single-unit deathball game, lol.
Tesla did not design its brakes those are from a third party.
People of color experience more discrimination and a greater chance of negative outcomes in the U.S. healthcare industry. This is well known among affected communities, and there is a large body of knowledge around the subject. It stands to reason that a more diverse workforce in said industry would mitigate that, at least partially.

So, I encourage you to at least entertain the notion before you cover your ears. The macro view of general outcomes in a system is different than an individual micro-level choice. Of course any individual hire for a skilled role should be merit-based first and foremost. That being true doesn't invalidate the entire discussion around the importance of diversity in organizations, but you'd very much like it to, I can tell.
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I don't get a reply link for rglullis so will reply here.

I am the crazy bold one of the group and the canary in the coal mine. You won't see any of my friends interacting on this or any other social site. I on the other hand email and make phone calls to everyone at every level of government, C-levels in corporations, investors, military leaders, scientists, influencers, etc...
Sure. Fundación PostgreSQL co-founder and current President.
> ...but that does not bear on events or existence of named individuals.

Right, the logic of my post wasn't clear. I wasn't addressing whether there was evidence for the existence of Luke, but addressing the theory that "people stories" were made up in some exotic locale.

> That its authors were familiar with geographical Palestine is evident,

So what you're saying is that members of this cult from Rome:

1. Determined that their nice theory needed "people stories" (why?)

2. Determined that they needed to be placed in an exotic locale

3. Actually travelled and to Palestine and bummed around there long enough to be familiar with the geography -- and not just Jerusalem and some of the surrounding villages, but Galilee way up in the north, the Samaritan region in between, and so on.

It had been awhile since I watched that video; after posting it I watched it again, and it turns out these authors also bummed around long enough that the made-up names in these made-up stories just accidentally match up well statistically with the names that were common in Palestine at the alleged time of the events.

> It all comes down to faith, the which historians are obliged to work without.

This is just propaganda. I've listened to a number of audio books of history in the last few years, including a biography of Catherine Howard (5th wife of Henry VIII), the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and a history of Pompeii. All of them seem perfectly comfortable discussing a number of possible reconstructions given the facts at hand and giving a judgement of the plausibility of any of them.

"We don't have any evidence that a person named Luke existed" doesn't sound like the kind of thing those authors would say. It's not that huge of a deal theologically whether Luke existed or not; but my understanding is that there's no particular reason to doubt that he did.

So consider two hypotheses:

A. "There were guys named Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John who collected and wrote down reports collected from people who actually met some a Palestinian preacher named Joshua"

B. "People from some theology-heavy cult based in Rome lived in Palestine for a decade drinking in the culture so that their made-up stores would be more realistic."

Any neutral judge -- i.e., one who isn't starting out with the assumption that the events in the gospels are complete fabrications -- would say A is a lot more likely scenario than B. And if B really is the best alternate explanation people have been able to come up with, that lends an awful lot of credence to A, in my mind.