skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commenter's aim is to seek knowledge. He is putting forth a hypothesis, and is seeking alternative theories. If he gets viable ones, he'll put less faith in his hypothesis, or may abandon it altogether.

If one merely finds flaws in his hypothesis, he'll realize he's wrong, but will be no closer to the truth.

Pointing out that he hasn't backed up his theory is reasonable, but it doesn't bring him closer to his goal.

A relevant quote from Carl Sagan:

"If you’re only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crotchety misanthrope convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) Since major discoveries at the borderlines of science are rare, experience will tend to confirm your grumpiness. But every now and then a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you’re too resolutely and uncompromisingly skeptical, you’re going to miss (or resent) the transforming discoveries in science, and either way you will be obstructing understanding and progress. Mere skepticism is not enough."

He also gave some good examples from the history of science of theories that eventually turned out to be true, but were originally on shaky (or even faulty) grounds for a long period of time. A culture of skepticism would likely have killed those theories. Unfortunately, I noted only this quote and not the examples.
But who will invest in the new connector. Will they have to work with the EU first to get it approved?
Corporations can pay 0$ for a lot or very legitimate reasons. For example no sale of assets or negative profit, among other reasons.
I guess it depends on the state. I'm betting that the likelihood of Amazon being allowed to sell marijuana in my state(illinois) within the next decade is right around 0%.
Fast, Reliable Tests
This[0] is one of my favorite articles ever, about the competition between IP and ATM in the 90s and the different mindsets they had.

[0] https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/
I’m not putting a WiFi router into a phone charger (Part 3)
Any sources what the main drivers of these issues are?
I've learned bill coming out of the House means nothing nowadays. If this came out of the Senate then maybe this would be something to hype, but coming from the house where over 90% of bills have died so far this year my expectation is rather muted because of that.
Folks always call me insane for only ever playing Civ5 in strategic mode. Glad i'm not alone
Are there any other sources for this? I've tried looking for this, but have had trouble finding anything. Does anyone have a source to tell how realistic it is to expect this bill to go anywhere when countless other have flopped? Cannabis-focused news sources like this one tend to paint overly optimistic pictures.
Just to add some context to this, this expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause really began with Wickard v. Filburn (1942) [1], more often just called Filburn.

The essence of this decision was Federal policy in the Great Depression was to control wheat production to stop overproduction and the below-cost prices that resulted. The court decided that a farmer growing wheat for his own use was still within the jurisdiction of the commerce clause as that production would result in that farmer not purchasing wheat. That wheat that wasn't purchased would in turn affect interstates wheat sales and thus fell under the Commerce Clause.

To me, this is a ridiculous example of judicial overreach as it basically covers everything and in an ideal world SCOTUS would overturn that precedent.

So the Gonzalez decision just continues that earlier interpretation and gives the Federal government sweeping powers for what reasonable people might otherwise agree are state issues.

Interestingly, I just looked up the Gonzalez decision [2] and I think I've found possibly the only Thomas opinion I've ever agreed with. He dissents:

> Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for marijuana. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Somewhat surprising (at least to me), Scalia concurred with the majority opinion although wrote separate reasoning for it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I believe you, but short, intense, name-calling ("corrupt") political battle comments are flamebait. We have to go by effects rather than by intent.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Anytime, please feel free to leave issues on the repo if there are things or dm me and tell me what sucks
He has a career as a cybersecurity lawyer. This isn't some random ambulance chaser.
Actually there are plenty of reasons to doubt the veracity of the dns data this narrative is based on.

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-04/Ankura_A...
If you didn't like USA Canada wouldn't be different.
Intel just removed S3 sleep completely from the latest Tigerlake chips.

I don't think it's the OEMs / manufacturers, it's Intel.
You know the court messed up real bad when Justice Thomas is the voice of reason.

The majority opinion seems to come down to "drugs are bad, anything that stops them is good", which is not how the law is supposed to work.
And honestly - the internet has democratized content creation to such an extent that a lot of really niche interests can attract funding (just, not very much).
It happens with macbooks for me if using an sd card. It started doing it only after an update a few years back.
The thing is, there is no natural limit to this thinking.

By flossing regularly you almost certainly impact the interstate commerce in dentures (negatively). Fortunately, no one has come with the idea to limit legal flossing time to 20 seconds a day to protect the denture business. Yet. I hope the Congress does not feel inspired to do so right now.
Odd, how installing linux solves the issue...
(speaking from personal experience with 3 different XPSs)
I am not exactly knowledgeable on the topic, but I believe you might be underestimating the running costs. It's not like you can just leave a nuclear reactor unattended and hope for the best...
I use C# primarily for Unity, and the part about avoiding async void caught me off guard. So, I tested it out and found that in Unity, throwing an exception from an async void method doesn't crash the process. So, it seems that the advice about avoiding async void is specific to ASP.NET.
Isn't it a little presumptuous of you to think that you know what caused the spike when criminologists who study all kinds of crime rates for a living does not know?
Kessler syndrome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Not on brand new Intel laptops. They've now removed s3 sleep hardware support.
As a long time NYT crossword puzzle solver and subscriber, cutting off AcrossLite really pissed me off, as the interface is much superior to the online version on the Times' website.

Especially since the subscription fees have risen considerably, and now the experience is an inferior one.

More's the pity.
Money talks...
> And then, GPT-3 came along and rendered Cyc a wasted effort.

I'm yet to see GPT-3 do anything commercially important? Cyc on the other hand seems to have been used in a number of sectors. Not to downplay GPT-3 - it's cool tech that produces cool demos - Cyc just seems more like a tool rather than a toy.
> Costs cannot be controlled. That’s not how it works. That’s how you get empty shelves.

Many types of food in America are massively subsidized, including dairy[1], beef[2], and corn.

Government policies can certainly drive down prices. Direct price controls don't work, but subsidizing production most certainly works.

Though an economist would argue that a dollar saved at the market cost tax payers more than a dollar to get, due to inefficiencies, counter argument is that people who are poor pay less taxes and benefit more from reduced food prices. (At which points arguments about corn subsidizes and long term harm to the health of the citizenry are brought up.)

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings...
In none of your quotes is Stossel saying climate change was not a cause.

All of your quotes support the assertion that Stossel was claiming they aren't the main cause.

It's as though language is failing as us as a culture when public discourse is impossible due to constant strawman fallacies. The claim quoted by the fact checkers is reworded to omit "main."
Yes, because posting memes is just as easy as posting technical answers.
I appreciate the lesson, I spent my whole career as a hedge fund trader so I’m familiar.

I’m not sure what this has to do with anything? Why does it have to be at a premium? What in gods green earth are you on about? What difference does it make if you know or don’t know who the buyer is??

Those who want to sell can sell (buybacks are programmatic) and those who don’t can benefit from appreciation.
I'm just eyeballing it here, but it looks like there was a similar increase in homicides (i know there is a difference between homicide and murder) during the spanish flu pandemic from 1918-1920

https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/doc...

Also y'all should not be so confident in your diagnosis of why the murder rate spiked so much this year. Hindsight is 20/20 and this is a highly complex / multivariate problem. Simple answers are probably wrong here
Telehealth product private beta launch
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At any given year there will be N corporations whose tax bill will be zero. It's not even relevant as a policy matter that "55 corporations" are cherrypicked to have $0 tax bill for a certain year. It's not legitimate tax policy debate even, just clickbait.
they're also looking for grad students - good oppty
I'm interested as to whether the courts would consider this fact checking content as Facebook's or a third-party's. If the third party did not explicitly cause the content to be put in this specific "fact check" area, did they create it for the purpose of libel?

Going to an extreme: if Facebook pays Acme Fact check for some text that says "John is a bad lawyer" and facebook then posts that text on John's page, isnt Facebook liable whether or not they actually created the text? The text wasn't posted by Acme, it was posted by FBook.
> It should be noted that President Joe Biden remains firmly opposed to adult-use marijuana legalization

So he is not going to sign it even if it passes the Senate. Meh.
I'm not talking about zero sum to society. I mean to investors. Land isn't zero sum because you can rent it out.
I'm not saying it does; I AM saying that it's an additional public record that can be used to bolster a case in the event of unclear ownership. And even that is "maybe" useful, hence my use of that phrase.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ No hibernation, yes admin, yes elevated prompt, nada. Disabling devices has never worked for me either, again I'm legitimately surprised that these things have ever worked for anyone since it's never had any effect whenever I've tried it.
The supreme court is revisiting roe v Wade.

I'd say with a 6 to 3 conservative majority there is a solid (25-40 percent) chance the supreme court will revisit affectation doctrine they came up with in wickard. affectation doctrine-
Anything that affects interstate commerce the federal government can regulate
Visual effects in games and movies is a direct usage.

If I wanted to have a brick wall I could progressively melt with a large laser, I'd render it with an SDF. SDFs are good for anything with volume, as mesh based rendering is intrinsically 'hollow'.

It's not the only solution for things like that, there's also voxel and particle based rendering, as well as reasonable hybrids. It's just another tool in the toolbox.
One of the really bad things about two party systems is that people start to consider their voting record a part of their personal identity. That leads to massive ossification of voting patterns in individuals.

In a multiparty system, it is much more normal to be a swing voter.
"Poor people have more children" gets by without enough examination.

It's a weird, tautological statement. Only workin adults provide income to a family unit. Children and the disabled members of a household divide that income.

Given the same income, a family with more dependents is sent into poverty by the mathematics of division.
I didn't mean for society, I really meant for the investors, and investor in real estate has the option to rent it out so buyers of real estate operate a positive sum business.
Well, Microsoft spent about 20 years not tracking their users, despite having full control of and an effective monopoly on desktop and laptop operating systems.

Facebook... has never not.
So forgiveness is gone forever?
> It's too noisy.

[Citation Needed]
Or as the author would put it:
"Ye God! I like rust now."
It's like we're trapped in a year long groundhogs day loop. Once a year, every year, china bans crypto, and cracks down on miners.
This is so cool. Thank you for building this. Does anyone have insight into how the fuck he built this?
The disease seems to be contagious--socially contagious. By this I mean that once it is realized that having a child lie motionless in bed is an effective way to block deportation proceedings, thanks to the extremely accommodating Swedish immigrant/refugee medical and social support apparatus, others in similar situations try it too.

I don't want to diminish the very significant hardships many of these immigrant/refugees are under. If telling my child to just lie still in bed, when the social worker comes by, allows my family to stay in Sweden instead of being sent back to Syria, I would probably do it too. If it was a requirement for a NG feeding tube to be placed in the child, even that might be an unpleasant but ultimately worthwhile sacrifice.

Resignation Syndrome seems to reliably and rapidly abate once the threat of deportation is removed. Is that because a massive stressor is removed and mental health can be regained? Or is it because a pretense can be lifted once the threat of deportation is removed?
That's true but assumes the captured CO2 remains that, captured. The article revolves around the idea of turning CO2 into fuel. Fuel which is burned, releasing that same CO2 again while having wasted a lot of intermediate energy. At best, that energy was renewable and would've been curtailed otherwise (hence wasted). Then you didn't "use energy" but it was still an utterly useless exercise.

Now, if the carbon remains captured and the energy for capturing is renewable, we are in business. I'm not aware that is done on a meaningful scale yet though.
Figure/Ground: Alphonse Allais’ April Fools Album (1897)
Multi-site, cross continent active-active replication
While I agree that writing unit tests are a lot harder, and you develop good skills in attempting to write them, I must say that in the projects I worked on most bugs were caught by integration tests (technically not E2E tests), and not unit tests.

I've also had projects with only unit tests, and almost no bugs were found by it, and there were plenty of bugs.

Ideally, I would like both. But if I had to have only one, I'd go with tests at a coarser granularity than unit tests.
>What are you basing this on?

>There is no conspiracy that there are a bunch of people out there that want to give you a bunch of work to do just to mess with you. 100% of these people are honestly affected by the issue and would like it resolved.

I don't know if you noticed, but the wiki article appears to include instructions for 4chan users on how to use this issue to troll and rile up Linux users. If you include whoever wrote that article and whichever 4chan users have read it then it's probably a good deal less than 100%. And honestly I've seen this trolling on reddit and hacker news pop up before several times before, almost every time the file chooser gets mentioned it seems to be a result of some 4chan trolling. Of course the issue is going to get locked if it's getting brigaded by 4chan trolls. If people honestly wanted to get it resolved, they would have written a merge request for it.
Email me (its on my profile) if you want to shoot some project ideas.
> specific VPN connections to web scraping

What strange ToS clause would those fall under? Skimmed the DO ToS and found nothing, while they also have a separate page promoting the deployment of your own VPN

https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/vpn/
There are other hominids apart from homo sapiens during those periods. These will probably be Denisovans
HN's software strips leading numbers in some cases. I've put the 55 back above.
The assumption by some of the scientist is that the handprints were created in the mud and then stones formed. But others question this, could also be created after: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/art-not-ancient...

It's very common to find handprints in the Himalayas in rocks, they are everywhere.
There is (if it has not been scuppered by brexit) Icelink, a project to connect Iceland to the UK. The rationale, as usual, is mismatched supply and demand, where the supply is green geothermal power.

https://askjaenergy.com/2018/04/17/icelink-in-operation-by-2...

The idea of connecting solar farms in the Sahara to Europe under the Mediterranean is also perennially in the air, with the same rationale as Icelink.
So therefore the argument is basically that it’s illegal to not buy marijuana, because that affects interstate commerce?
Because if it was a marketing campaign, there would be other IP addresses doing a DNS lookup. Alfa bank was 77% of the DNS requests and another 20% were from Spectrum Health which is associated with the DeVos family. That doesn't sound like a marketing campaign. And the marketing company said they stopped sending emails before the DNS lookups happened. The Trump org also created a new domain and the first DNS request was Alfa bank.

>But Cendyn told CNN that its contract to provide email marketing services to the Trump Organization ended in March 2016 — weeks before the DNS lookups chronicled by the researchers started appearing. Cendyn told CNN that a different client had been communicating with Alfa Bank using Cendyn communications applications — a claim that Alfa Bank denied.

>Scrutinizing the Trump Organization’s online footprint, the researchers determined that for several months during the spring and summer of 2016, Internet servers at Alfa Bank in Russia, Spectrum Health in Michigan, and Heartland Payment Systems in New Jersey accounted for nearly all of the several thousand DNS lookups for a specific Trump Organization server (mail1.trump-email.com).

>Foer wrote that The Times hadn’t yet been in touch with the Trump campaign about the DNS data when the Trump email domain suddenly went offline. Odder still, four days later the Trump Organization created a new host — trump1.contact-client.com — and the very first DNS lookup to that new domain came from servers at Alfa Bank.
Thats right, the explanation for these handprints is that Tibetan Buddhist monks have transcended normal human abilities and made handprints in stone. This is for Vajrayana Buddhism or what westerners refer to as Tibetan Buddhism.
Had my creepiest-ever encounter with face recognition recently.

I was traveling home from our first international trip since The Before Times. The country we traveled from has a US Customs office in the airport. We walk up to the counter, look into the camera, and without having handed over my passport, the agent says my name.

I know that I've given them my photo and that the search space for my match isn't huge (people on flights leaving in the next ~2-8 hours), but it absolutely freaked me out. I can't imagine it meaningfully makes us more secure, and it feels like the kind of thing that, to this article's point, could be trivially abused.
The best thing with Dell is when you've shut it down properly, but it somehow finds a way to turn itself back on in your bag. Then when you get home your bag is 50c and battery dead.
Agreed. Simply a changing unit of measurement. Wait until this finishes out, you will see decimation of the middle class
This is perhaps a better take on the things (from https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/faq/did-you-know)

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What is the correct terminology: American Indian, Indian, Native American, or Native?

All of these terms are acceptable. The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name. In the United States, Native American has been widely used but is falling out of favor with some groups, and the terms American Indian or indigenous American are preferred by many Native people.

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This also provides a good overview through a series of personal viewpoints:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170913022941/https://indiancou...
Those aren't things you always need, though. If you commute to an office, sure, you probably take a bag with those things with you during that. But do you take that bag with you when you go out with friends? If you go to walk your dog in the park? Maybe you do, but I think most people don't.

Speaking for myself, if I'm going out without any special goal, I'll just have my phone, keys, and wallet.
Pulling it out of the air isn't feasible.

What about pulling it right where it's mostly produced (heavy polluting factories or electricity generators).
> The company isn't buying stock above market price (thus adding value to the system).

That’s not how this works. Where is this focus on “adding value”? What the hell does that even mean?

Just take this to its logical conclusion: let’s say a company buys back 100% of its shares. In this case they have returned a ton of capital to investors very tax efficiently, and price will converge on whatever price the very last seller is willing to sell at.
Implementing coroutine requires to change to the code generator, the runtime and the garbage collectors and there is no general consensus on the way to implement them efficiently => this requires a huge investment in engineering.

For Rust, one of the feature of Rust is to have a minimal runtime, so using a compiler transformation seems a good fit.

For C#, Microsoft has a limited number of people working on the runtime of DotNet. Async/await was developed at the same time DotNet was transitioning to DotNet Core which also requires massive engineering, so it was about priority. The future will tell if at some point coroutine will be added to DotNet.
Perhaps it was initially skewed above the long term average and it is expected that the short term average would approach the true value over time?
So has anyone's bag actually caught fire due to this?

If so, can we put it in a Dell commercial? Just grab any old Dell advertisement stock footage and dub it with fire alarm noises and a spouse yelling in the distance "honey, your room caught fire again!"