skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The laws around noise pollution are surprisingly pathetic here in the UK, I imagine almost all countries are too.

It's perfectly legal to deconstruct scaffolding, with power tools and chucking metal poles in the back of the van at 8am on a Sunday morning for example. Right next to multiple residential block of flats with hundreds of residents.

And the number one issue if you poll residents of almost any large town is usually noise issues.

If you want to see one of the big disconnects between government and the people, it's a big one.

Saying it's already an issue that's under legislated doesn't mean we should allow it to get worse.
We (two developers) offer chat support via Intercom. When an issue gets sufficiently complicated, we fire up a video call and screenshare. We find this works great.

Maybe there's a cultural difference in Japan, but I think this is much better than phone support. There's a much lower barrier to sending a chat message than making a phone call, plus the communication is semi-asynchronous.
A better news source is https://rense.com
That would depend on your level of scholarship. Sure, common parlance does not provide deep political analysis. But even fascism wasn't an homogeneous beast and its instances vary wherever it continues to spread, there are nonetheless a number of scholars who capture its essence and describe what its commonalities are.

Of these, the most accessible may be that of Umberto Eco. [1] While it has many points in common with other totalitarianisms by its very nature, there are traits unique to fascism that situate it as ultra-conservative, promoting imperialism based on a glorified account of the past, and using racism and mass culture as a propaganda tool; characteristics that not all totalitarian states share, and that taken together make an identifying profile.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto...
> the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.

Are you referring to some clerical error or is this assuming that candidates are only as good as they are at interview time and they're incapable of stepping up to the unexpected demands of a role?
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EU could be described as a lightweight Soviet Union. A bit less communisms, less weapons, but still many similarities. Let's see how long will it take until a complete collapse. UK is already out...
"the point being to illustrate how interconnected the EU grid is."

Which is a good thing. Very few countries are self sufficient regarding cars for example, or Kiwis. So humanity invented trading and people trade things they don't have for things they have - so good interconnection is a good thing.
Context comes from internal models of how the world works. A database doesn't know what a bike is, exactly as you say, because no matter how many tags it associates with it they have no purpose to it. To understand a bike in the way we do it would need to have kinematic models of the bike, a person, a road, physics simulations of their behaviour and models of human behaviour for the activity of riding the bike.

We do have kinematic simulations of this kind, but what we don't have is a way to map a visual image of a bike to generate an internal kinematic model, or associate them together in a useful way, and then contextualise that within operational and intensional models, then a way to relate runs of the simulation to the actual physical environment in an intensional way. I don't think there's anything impossible about any of that, but we certainly don't have this capability at the moment. There's a long, long way to go.
Escrow doesn't seem to address what happens if the seizure is needed to fund its release.
Legally for sure. But from an ecosystem perspective, it's reasonable to be concerned about people whose relationships to a commons is essentially extractive. When I use open source in commercial offerings, I see it as both morally appropriate and good business to contribute back in one way or another.
In an ideal world, police would amass evidence of wrong doing _before_ seizing property.
> They do have electric leaf blowers, but those offer minutes of runtime instead of hours

This confused me for a second, as the electric leaf blowers that came to my mind have 'infinite' runtime. I then realized you're referring to cordless electric leaf blowers.
In the conclusion the authors state: "It would be particularly interesting to see whether such a design works in NLP or other domains."

I think it's quite common to use quasi "MLP mixtures" in natural language processing (NLP), since your input layer is typically a word embedding, which itself is a shallow MLP. There are also architectures such as deep averaging networks (DAN) that are effectively MLP "all the way through", see https://people.cs.umass.edu/~miyyer/pubs/2015_acl_dan.pdf (NOTE: PDF document)
I got a shudder when you mentioned drip. Oy!
> Did I recommend returning to a regime? Not sure where you pulled that out of.

What was then the relevance of talking about abundance of food in prehistoric times?

> No. Not remotely true. Where do you pull these sweeping and bizarrely false statements from?

This has been widely known for centuries. Charles Darwin for example talks about it in “The Origin of Species”, not even as something novel, but rather as one of the basic assumptions about his theory of natural selection.

In fact, it is rather obvious. It is rather impossible to otherwise explain extremely low historical population figures, coupled with extremely high population growth rates possible. I mean, why hasn’t human population been 7 billion in 10 000 BC already? Your answer must necessarily involve “lack of ability to produce enough sustenance”. Then, why hasn’t it been even 1 billion? Or 100 million?
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This is nothing new, the South Bronx has always been a notorious crime ridden mess.

I used to hang around some trucking forums and found that in the 70's-80's into the 90's Hunts Point was legendary among truckers as a war zone. From the stories and anecdotes the route between the ports and the expressway was a gauntlet of armed highwaymen. It was so bad truckers would not stop for red lights or stop signs for fear of being hijacked in broad daylight. It was customary to lean on the horn and try to roll through. A few even admitted to illegally carrying a pistol for protection.
In an ideal world, seizures wouldn't happen and people would be prosecuted instead of the money. Moreover, government types like the FBI would be super squeaky clean types who cross every i with a dot.

They would also work to prosecute less people every year, no more than needed.

The best part is no part.
In an ideal world the government wouldn’t seize assets until there’s a conviction.
> they do not cost $50B to build, but somewhere in the ballpark of a few $B

Which reactors are those? Hinkley Point C in the UK is £22.9 billion so far and is years away from completion. Likewise, Olkiluoto Unit 3 in Finland is up to €11 billion so far and also years from completion.
You would've needed a DOS boot disk, yes; while Win98SE was fairly great for playing DOS games, 2000 was most certainly not.
> As the author mentions, Apple's internal work with A/UX and the associated Mac toolbox led to a product known as the Macintosh Application Environment, MAE

I can't find any solid info on it but have to imagine their experience reimplementing Toolbox was tied into "Star Trek" somehow as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
Maybe the parent comment meant that Chrome and Safari don't share the same JS engine. (As Safari uses JavaScriptCore aka. Nitro.)
I, for one, certainly universally hated it.
i do not understand what is the drama about 100% https adoption? if i am watching videos or reading comics or reading recipes or surfing old books and stuff, why the hell should i be concerned about "privacy" and "mitm" and "end to end" ? i would be personally happy if my payments are secure enough that i pay and the seller should acknowledge payment received. thats it. thats the whole "security" i want from the internet. Now, if there is someone who wants to impersonate my news website and supply me a falsified news article about harmless kittens, maybe i should be concerned about why i am being a target instead of protecting that i be able to securely read my harmless kittens news article?
That's... less than I expected? Certainly more expensive that a normal person could afford, but with the levels of income disparity in the US, that's frighteningly affordable for a large corporation and within reach for highly motivated rich individual. If you own a cloud (aka Amazon wants to break into your VPN), they get major discounts on time on their fleet. If, instead, it costs $0.01/hr due to using unused capacity during quiet times of day, that's works out to be like $1000 to crack it.

As to what makes it worth it. $50k is too expensive to attack all users of this particular VPN software, but there's way more than $50k worth of information companies want to keep secret (call it competitive intelligence) being protected by VPN software the world over.
All nuclear power plants in Germany are capable to be operated in load-follow mode, see:

> https://www.ktg.org/ktg-wAssets/docs/fg-bet-rph-lastfolgebet...

Also, nuclear power was never subsidized in Germany:

> https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/14/080/1408084.pdf (page 16, answer 27)
Close, but it's a little bit different than how you describe it. The router is connected between the phone and the other devices in this user's scenario. The default TTL on Linux and Android is 64. If you tether, the packet will go through your phone and have its TTL decremented to 63 (the phone is a gateway). Then when it arrives at the cell tower with a lower TTL, they know you're tethering and drop the packet.

If you set it to 65 on your host device or router, it will be decremented to 64 on the phone - and is now hard to distinguish from real traffic from the phone.
USGS does study it but NASA looks at planetary effect. And It's cyclical so there's a /high/ chance of it happening.

The question for us is /when/: during our civilization, or after?

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/summary-eruption-...
Maybe if they knew ahead of time, but they didn't, so it was just a joke, and in no conceivable way an insensitive one.
But it can't self supply with Kiwis. Whereas Isreal is self suffient on Kiwis but not on cars.
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I don't believe anyone asking this question expects the recipient to have actually passed away though
I need a rookery. Incentivising wild birds to menace and attack annoying drones seems like a lot of fun.
Nit pick, apologies up front. Two stroke motors are actually more efficient than four stroke motors, they just emit a bunch of pollution due to the oil in the gasoline, which is a much dirtier combustion than gasoline.

A two stroke motor is considerably simpler than a four stroke, they often come in at around half the weight for an equivalent power output, and have less moving parts. This is why they are the default engine of choice for hand powered tools - almost no maintenance, very little warmup cycle, high power:weight ratio. The downside is dirty exhaust.

Modern two stroke dirt bikes have actually all started moving to fuel injection to help combat this. No premixed oil/gas, oil is injected at an optimal ratio given the load of the engine. Light cruise / idling, they run at 100:1, at heavy throttle they drop down to 50:1. Much more pleasant than something set to constantly run, via premixing, at 50:1 gas:oil.

Other note: large ocean freighters are two stroke engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA9...
Why can't we read comments on other platforms like Roku? Always I see a video on my TV and then wonder what the comments are, so have to find the video on my phone or computer.
I explored storing file types like XLSX as the deconstruction of their zip file into individual XML/etc files. In my cases my focus was DOCX rather than XLSX, and I originally targeted a different VCS than git so I built it as precommit/postmerge hooks rather than git's diff hooks/attributes plugins. I got some interesting results with my tool and it wasn't a bad experience. Just not one I could suggest to novice users (fixing XML in a merge conflict is not entirely fun and very different from say Word's own review tools designed for higher level merge fixing).
It did, I was able to get sufficiently stable connections to do work calls when neither connection was reliable enough alone.
> We would likely be eating much less meat, if at all.

In the short term, we would probably end up eating a lot more meat -- most of the hundreds of millions of cows, pigs and chickens we could cull wouldn't be slaughtered at the optimal time, being too young or too old, but we'd still be insane not to preserve as much of the meat as possible.

> We won't have the option of radically reapportioning our crops on the fly...

We can't turn alfalfa into wheat or rice, nor grow rice or wheat in all places we now have pastures, but we will have the option to redirect the corn and soybeans we use for livestock feed. These feeds are produced to lower standards -- for instance, there are higher limits on residual pesticides -- but in a catastrophe it's better than nothing.
Ugh, we probably deserve to be blown up, don’t we
That's why huge insurance policies are typically syndicated across multiple insurers with reinsurance companies taking on part of the risk.
That's because those data are already available elsewhere and also well known. In addition to lack of insurance, lack of access to primary care physicians means that the first time the medical systems sees a patient is in the ER. This is staggeringly inefficient. Add to this the fact that case managers are not physicians, and you wind up in a situation where there is often no one who actually has a general understanding of a patient's overall medical situation.
Exactly. Cheap wind and solar electricity is useless if it isn’t produced on-demand.

It still blows my mind that so many have such a hard time grasping such a simple and fundamental concept.
>PDF publishing

I'm also a big fan of the HexaPDF library: https://hexapdf.gettalong.org/
None of those (GNU, Apache, rPi) ever bought anything, they get projects donated to them, but even then they lack any real resources to invest into such huge projects.
Both of you are saying the same thing. The difference is criminal vs civil forfeiture. Criminal already works as an escrow system (sort of, the feds might not have been able to find what they want to seize before the conviction). Civil doesn't in that it doesn't require a conviction.
My understanding is the "Mac" side of A/UX still had no memory protection. It still had all the stability problems plaguing System 7, unlike modern macOS / OS/X
Unscheduled one-on-one early in the day, possibly with HR present, and your manager looks incredibly nervous.

Take a deep breath, go in, say nothing, sign nothing, demand your last paycheck. The decision has been made, and anything you say only hurts your case if you sue later.
Can it paint a PDF text between 2 pints in a color gradient?
I built a tool to explore version control of files like that by decompressing their contents and version controlling those. It was an interesting experiment.
That’s only when you compare the levelized costs of electricity and ignore the huge system costs of volatile renewables.

You don’t gain anything from cheap wind power if it’s not available when you actually need it.
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Is that a hold-over from Byzantium/Eastern-Roman-Empire, kept after the Turkish conquest? They were all about elaborate hierarchies of ranks and titles, often expressed through big hats or helmets.
Yeah, I don't think it's an either or science decision any more than its likely a business-cum-political situation.
"Net exporter" doesn't really matter for the specific conversation at hand.

A better way to quantify grid health would be to identify periods of peak demand across northwestern/central Europe, and then tally who is selling power to whom at those inflated prices.

I have solar panels on my home, as do most of the homes in my neighborhood. However, we recently had to have a natural gas substation built adjacent to the community to deal with the demand surges coinciding with supply disruptions (every time it snows).
If it's a large enough amount, surely lawyers would work on contingency? Obviously that'd still miss a lot (the majority) of cases, but still.
In this specific case, in an ideal world they should not be allowed to seize anything at all.

Indeed, from the article it sounds like they seized what they found then tried to justify it a posteriori and for this guy it seems that was only "god sniffed narcotics on bills".

To me this really reads as: "You have a safe deposit box, and we found cash in it, so you're a criminal and we have seized that cash.". That's ridiculous.
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Disappointing to death.
I would advise to watch some content with Putin speaking. A hell more intelligent and constructive than most US presidents. Russia is very power fragile country. It requires a very strict setup to hold stability. Lots of western countries (specially the US) are trying to break the stability by supporting lunatics which we in the west call the opposition. Those lunatics have one single mission and that is to destabilise or sabotage the Russian society. I will never say it's right to simply murder your opponents. But currently the country is very stable, safe and economically made enormous steps last 20 years. Leadership in Russia is very strong. It has still many issues to resolve. But please can the west stop enforcing their so called 'freedom' setup in non democratic countries.
> The Unix workstation was the triumph of COTS micros over LSI or custom VLSI hardware.

Well the Sun-1 definitely started there, no question (I don’t remember the Daisy or Apollo hardware). HP definitely never did and Sun (and SGI et al) all went down the custom hardware rabbit hole.

By the time they tried to hop onto the PC hardware train it was too late. None of those companies survive in any meaningful way.

BTW if you catch this in time to edit: you might want to put a hyphen between “co” and “design” because you didn’t mean signing code.
> If you voluntarily agree to not leak secrets and do so anyway its not protected under free speech

Of course it is. Anyway, I mentioned more cases where there is no voluntarily agreement.

> You also dont get jailed for speech but for the act of breaching some agreement or other law.

You can claim that for everyone who got jailed for speech.
It was my first computer, Christmas 1982. I recall it well, and not too long ago had some old Kodak disc film sent off for development and found photos of the fully expanded setup from 1983: https://bytecellar.com/2016/07/03/33-year-old-roll-of-film-o...

I currently have a comparable TI setup (not the same unit as my first), and still enjoy typing in magazine programs on it. I had some particular fun "recently" finding a magazine I had way back when, typing in the program again, and chatting with its author: https://bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-year-o...

Lovely memories.
The etymology of Jupiter is also fascinating. https://www.etymonline.com/word/jupiter

> also Juppiter, c. 1200, "supreme deity of the ancient Romans," from Latin Iupeter, Iupiter, Iuppiter, "Jove, god of the sky and chief of the gods," from PIE dyeu-peter- "god-father" (originally vocative, "the name naturally occurring most frequently in invocations" [Tucker]), from deiw-os "god" (from root *dyeu- "to shine," in derivatives "sky, heaven, god") + peter "father" in the sense of "male head of a household" (see father (n.)).

Greek and Sanskrit also had similar deities:

> Compare Greek Zeu pater, vocative of Zeus pater "Father Zeus;" Sanskrit Dyaus pitar "heavenly father."

Basically the Greeks dropped the `-pater` bit and `Zeus` remained.

Whether or not these deities were similarly associated with the planet Jupiter is a different question though.
I've always seen this as a tacit acknowledgement of how the justice system actually works. The cops know that if you have the money for a good lawyer you have a much better chance of avoiding punishment regardless of the facts of the case. If you need to increase your conviction rate the best way is to go after people who are going to have to use a public defender even though in terms of actual damage to society the rich offenders are far worse criminals.
Does calibre not get you most of the way there?
And in no event should the seized money benefit the enforcement agency itself. What an absurd conflict of interest.
I agree with you there, I don't agree with people that are against moving at all or even making it something important. I guess I just hear a lot of people act like the transition is trivial.

Also about the energy production doubling do you have a source?
Harsher sentences can actually be detrimental. It's not so bleak that someone would be willing to spend years in prison for a $200 phone.

Similarly, I didn't actually believe it was worth more than $125 to be a few seconds earlier to work this morning, which would be a rational, economic justification for a $125 traffic ticket. Instead, I've driven some 250,000 miles in the past 10 years (thankfully done with the long highway commute that caused most of them), I'd say about half of them were at 5mph over, and I've never received a ticket. I traded a 1:100,000 chance of a ticket against keeping up with the rest of traffic who were also uniformly breaking the law; I'm pretty adept with numbers but I find it difficult to comprehend that scale.

They're trading a tiny, tiny chance of prison time against a $200 phone. The actual percentage of enforcement is irrelevant compared to the justified, reinforced belief that they won't be caught or punished. OP mentioned that as a juror they were depressed at the apparent mandate to sentence someone to years in prison for the petty theft, instead, consistent enforcement of an appropriate penalty would be far better at changing behaviors.
> In the US, an idea can't be a "terrorist organization". In Germany, it can be

This is false.
I think I've gotten more than 5mbps (or at least was for a time) - I haven't done anything, but I might be wrong about this (I don't rely on tethering most of the time so haven't noticed).

IIRC a long time ago all of Visible's data speed was capped at 5mbps and that was the 'tradeoff' of the low cost service in addition to deprioritization. They eventually dropped that cap, but it's possible it still exists for tethering.

I will plug Starlink for those that can get it though - not mobile yet, but we went from a crappy calnet connection to a stable 50+ sometimes 150+ mbps connection. When they get it working across cells (which Musk tweeted interest about) it'd be a pretty sweet option for an RV. If you're out in the boonies though and looking for stable home internet, it can't be beat (as long as you have a clear view of the sky).
Blink and V8 also use GPU and multiple threads.
I've never used Obj-C but it sounds like the Apple version of Microsoft's COM technology and VBScript.
The fixed priced negotiated for Hinkley Point C is something like 90 GBP per MWh for the next 35 years.

The market spot price in the UK is at 150-200 GBP per MWh now.
For the wireless connections listed (Telstra, Opus, and Vodaphone), I do wonder how much of this are on the same physical tower and network. Certain parts of this multi-home connection would be running off the same physical network due to how wireless providers provision out their towers. They will share physical space on a tower and even an underlying fiber run out to the local POP.

This may be a situation of someone being too clever by half.