skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people on the Seattle city council who explicitly support defunding the police and they have done so in some instances. This article[1] describes a measure to cut the police budget for the third year in a row. The vote was 8-1 with the sole dissenting vote from the (self-described) socialist Kshama Sawant who wanted significantly larger cuts. In the past they've defunded specific teams and cut a former police chief's salary to the point she resigned. It's far from accurate to say that "defund the police" types aren't on the city council. In Seattle the city council is composed of nobody but "defund the police" types.

Police prevent crimes, violent and not, by two mechanisms. First, by increasing the probability that offenders will be punished. A potential offender who thinks they are going to be caught and punished will be less likely to offend - and the police are a part of that system. Second, by imprisoning people who have offended the police limit the extent to which those people can commit subsequent crimes against the general population by incarcerating the offender for a substantial length of time.

Small government may, in some cases, mean less policing. That seems like a non-sequitur though. People who think Seattle has a crime problem (I am one) aren't calling for smaller government. We are calling for law enforcement.

1 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/seattle-city-council-defunds-th...
That’s interesting, I might have to try this out! Especially since my appetite is most reasonable at breakfast time, and becomes more gluttonous as the day progresses.
Inequality is problem, but the problem sure as heck can’t be solved at the local level. Being tough on crime can help push the problem somewhere else at least: next door Bellevue will send SWAT out on anybody who so much as lays down on a bench (annoying the homeless population enough that they move on to Seattle). Being compassionate works in the opposite way: Seattle attracts people from as far away as Texas who have no chance at housing really anywhere, because they will get more support here than where they are from (recently read about some guy who decided to use their on release Texan prison open bus ticket to head to Seattle and then got caught breaking into someone’s house to sleep). Local solutions obviously have adverse impractical effects: you can push the problem to someone else or try to solve the entire country’s problem, there isn’t much middle ground to be had.

Some sort of federal solution really is needed, or our cities could be in huge trouble.
That sucks! You know, you don't have to see advertisements. And you don't have to log into google. You can subscribe to feeds with RSS.
I suppose that fact they are 90% bread only on the inside helps reduce that risk of food poisoning.
> inflation... shrinks debts

Generally interest rates negotiated between lender and borrower take expected (or even actual) inflation into account, so that only works when inflation runs well above expectations, or interest rates are artificially suppressed through subsidized lending.

> incentive not to rent seek

In the literal sense I'm not sure this is the case either. Inflation drives up the value of income-yielding assets, which is why people are scrambling to buy real estate and stocks.

> incentive not to hold money

This is also questionable, because making money a hot potato drives people into hoarding other things like gold and then bartering with them (defeating the purpose of money), and investing in highly speculative assets like, err, Evergrande.
But that's exactly the point. DDG is in no position to verify any of it. We need to learn this cycle on our own skin:
Read something, get outraged, then read a study proving it was false, learn not to get automatically outraged. Repeat.

Censoring is keeping adults in informational childhood state.
> Seattle is dead.

Would the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights?
> Audi discontinued the A1, claiming there’s just no money to be made in their lowest segment.

That's a shame. I'm driving A1 2020 model, and it really is the perfect little car even in the most basic of trims.
I would've loved to have been there for the original pitch. I bet he wore his nicest threads to garner investors. And his business plan was tight! He'd found an untapped market. The unveiling of the prototype made his partner Phillip's head turn in awe.

I read that the screw-in coffin was stripped of its patent after the USPTO found prior art. The inventor's life ended in a downward spiral.
Don't forget IKEA.

I went the other day just to look at a dining table. It was only in the 3rd or 4th showroom. Of course, to get out I had to wander through the majority of like 13 or 14 other showrooms because you pretty much can only take the linear path to get to an exit.
> just you wait until manufacturers of "internet of shit" things go really evil, and integrate low cost LTE radios into them with their own billing/centralized management/VPN system.

Why bother? They'll iust use your neighbor's wifi (at extra rf pollution cost to your house) or the surveillance system on the streetlamp outside being paid for by your tax money

or remove the opt out option from 'your' phone
I think there are browser extensions (including for iOS, since it now supports them) that will redirect all reddit links to avoid these annoying nag bars
Again, not to defend shitty drivers, but this commentary is largely impractical on the 101. Many exits on the 101 are poorly designed cloverleaf style exits and signage on that freeway is terrible.

The cloverleaf exits are very long meaning to get on the off ramp you have to merge into the right lane earlier than the signage suggests. It's easy to get trapped in the faster lanes by assholes that won't let you merge. There's many situations where you simply can't merge right early.

The 101 up the peninsula is a terrible freeway and its poor design and signage causes problems for even courteous and attentive drivers. It was interesting to drive on during the early days of the pandemic when traffic was significantly reduced. It became painfully apparent the design of the 101's exits were made for those super low traffic levels and woefully inadequate with today's levels.
I just don't see the point in this or anything at all to do with daylights savings. When has anyone ever cared about clocks and sunrise matching up? People like to say stuff like for farmers, but if the sun is important for your job you don't give a fuck what number the clock shows. If you want a different schedule, then change the schedule, not the clocks.

I don't believe adjusting clocks for any reason at any point or time in history has ever been helpful in any way.
It’s probably going to require a little more grunt, it’s also a LTC full node and must process that 70GB chain, but mw itself is very lightweight. What it enables is fungibility to the LTC token, where moving between transparent and opaque chains will Smush the coin history, balance and transaction graph. I do agree it’s a big deal, and if it works we can look at deploying it to.. other satoshi client coins. One day, mw on Bitcoin. It’s important because LTC is a deep production environment worth billions of dollars. People were afraid of segwit — people were making up lies about safety and the dudes that implemented it are true math rockstars. When it worked — of course — on a real value chain like LTC, people were more comfortable using sats on it. I hope mw gains acceptance. Truly ground breaking stuff.
It also limits how large an economy can grow and how fast it can do so - so the oligarchs more easily remain oligarchs.
> That is a delusional take on the Bolsheviks.

I don't really want to argue in detail about the character of the Bolsheviks. I agree they were extremely ruthless, and that they created a lot of the norms and institutions that Stalin later used.

Taking a bit of a step back, however, I think most of this stuff is pretty normal for the winning party in a civil war, especially a revolutionary party. It was an extremely chaotic situation, and if they were not the kind of bloody-minded, ruthless people they were, it's really unlikely they would have been successful.

If you take the Finnish civil war, for instance, there was systematic use of terrorism by both sides, and in the aftermath, the victorious whites essentially went on a political purge, imprisoned socialists en masse, etc. The 'whites' in Korea killed hundreds of thousands of 'communists' and 'suspected communist sympathizers' during the Korean war. The liberals in the French Revolution (Robespierre, etc) killed enormous numbers of people. Civil wars are like that. Revolutions are like that. As 'winners' of this kind of thing go, the Bolsheviks are really pretty mild.

Ultimately, I think the Tsar's Russia was a deeply sick system that had to go, one way or another, and if the Bolsheviks had not had Stalin, the period of violence would have turned into a normal state with a fairly normal post-revolutionary democratic deficit, that would have been resolved in a way compatible with the (actually very lofty) goals of the revolution.
"I own the house I currently live in because of a script I wrote."

Yesterday here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30617628
>also you are unconstrained by the weight of your own wisdom.

sounds like a creative way of saying that old age depletes creativity.
True, but as long as people are willing to self censor then it doesn't matter if they would be punished if they spoke out, because they won't. Perceived risk is indistinguishable from actual risk if that risk is avoided by total avoidance.

Aside from that, there are a lot of "cancellations" in the news, even if they're exceptional and only highlighted as a result of sensationalist reporting (or, more conspiratorially, behavioural control) the risk may still be actually too high. You only probably only have to be de-personed once for it to have a lifetime effect.
I read the comment that this was all we were were getting (mesh networks run by private companies that weren’t helping us), while Apple is pushing something that many find useful and they aren’t using it for other nefarious purposes (that we know of).
> Grocery stores put common items like milk way in the back, in order to have you traverse the whole store and get exposed to as many meters of shelf as possible. They generally also like to change placement of product, to make sure you don't learn the layout and get too efficient at navigating.

Wonder if the covid-catalyzed uptake on grocery pickup options will change this in any way. I certainly discovered the joys of making grocery errands much more efficient, to the point where the decided majority of my store runs are pickup-only: I don't waste time navigating the store.

(And hey, the store can show me random products based off ML analysis of my purchase history, win-win.)
I don't know or care. The article is about a change of policy.

Whether or not Facebook follows its own policies is a separate issue. This policy, if followed, is reasonable. There's no reason they need to remove calls for violence (some would say "resistance") against soldiers in order to protect Russian civilians. Facebook moderators are asked to make much more complex decisions all the time.
Interest in electric aircraft grows as NASA nears test of X-57 Maxwell
Except they're not aware of the cost to them so it's not actually consent, and I can't stop them from sending apple or google a message to help track me if i turn one of my bluetooth devices on.
> If you're a cargo delivery guy and someone decides to ship 500 airtags for fun that you walk by, are you now just screwed in over charges

No because AirTags have to be enabled and registered before they become part of the network. At shipping time their battery is not plugged in.
An interesting observation from an inside perspective. I was aware of a few physicists who had "peaked" early in their careers, Einstein was a prominent example. That poets show the same pattern is something I just learned.

About painters and other visual artists, it's true that many were still working and producing in their final years. OTOH it was often the case that in old age they worked in relative obscurity as younger artists with "modern" styles had become the ones sought after and celebrated.

I've come to understand that the merit of most contemporary visual artwork won't be decided until 50 or 100 years down the road. In his time Rembrandt was known mainly for his magnificent etchings, printmaking was his main business. Now we celebrate his paintings as much or more, but we have the luxury of centuries to have honed our esthetic metrics.

My hunch is that creativity among physicists is the product of a special kind of insight, a moment when a number of seemingly disparate (and possibly mundane) phenomena suddenly align within a brilliant mind. Maybe this is a pretty common experience, but in most instances the insight isn't about anything really important to the rest of the world. Mostly it's something that happens early in life, young adult years most likely. Careers are about working out the details and reducing it to words (and equations) others can understand, a very hard task to accomplish.

While much has been written about creativity we really know very little about what magical things make it happen in those rare and enchanted brains.
I have to say I appreciate the simplicity of most of those sandwiches. I've never been to Japan, but from the description I'm reminded of good tomato sandwich or a pimento sandwich. In both cases, I've always found the spongy (cheap) white bread to be the secret, it meshes well with mayo and lets the main ingredient stand out.
Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube
The power given to the US government is extremely limited. As far as the economy is concerned the US government is given the power to coin money(gold and silver), regulate interstate commerce and trade with foreign nations. That is it. Regulate in this context means to keep regular as in keep interstate trade moving.

There is no power to set prices of labor, give subsidies, dictate safety regulations, print money, maximize employment or maintain stable prices that is given to federal government.

Through monetary policy the federal government has breached the limits of its granted power. Physical force can be resisted. How do we resist the economic yardstick of the dollar being changed to benefit those in power?

This became more ranty than I had hoped. The bottom line is monetary policy of adjusting monetary supply to maintain prices and employment is just the other side of the price fixing coin. It's the same logic behind the reasoning and similar detrimental outcomes for the majority.
It depends. The number attached to (and reported about) inflation is dependent on the index, the products that are used to calculate the price delta. As well as the estimated share the specific products have in this virtual shopping cart.

This shopping cart doesn't necessarily represent your or mine reality.

If I compare myself now with my pre-corona self I massively reduced the need for gasoline. I work from home and don't commute > 300 kilometers per week anymore. I fill my gas tank about once every two months compared to twice per month.

So the impact of rising gasoline prices to me is way less now. While the consumer index in Germany stayed the same.

So my individually felt inflation differs massively from the average inflation that is based on a politically decided upon virtual shopping cart.

It could have something to do with my reality. Or it could not. In that regard it is an arbitrary number.

It could be higher or lower. And from experience - but that is anecdata - the more one earns the less inflation is subjectively relevant.
> Some things are worse, but at the very least I can be confident that once I do get a setup that works it'll likely stay working for years without breaking overnight because someone at

Microsoft are working on fixing this soon

Leave now before turning off secure boot is disabled
I've used IronCAD, Solidworks, pro/e and AutoDesk Inventor. If you're approaching 3D modelling as a draftsperson, IronCAD was much more productive. Want to change this part, just do it. Want to specify a relationship, you can but it's entirely optional. It's hard to describe how much faster it becomes. This was particularly noticeable in the hands of our 2D drafties who converted.

But I have also had the joy of trying to program IronCAD. The parametric solver is not as good as the other programs (who live and die by it). I suspect, though cannot prove, that the little automation system we used to create a base design would have been a lot more stable running on a different system. But it was too much work to completely re-implement (and convert all the old designs etc.). So I had the joy of fixing changes between versions by e.g. swapping the direction of a constraint, or hard-coding an initial offset so that you approach a solution from a particular direction.

Also, adding 2D annotations to create a production drawing were painfully slow and finicky in IronCAD.

I think I agree with the author that history-based editing caused the whole industry to go down a less-efficient path, but I also think it's too late to change the past now.
Sorry. This was stated in the original post text above, but clearly many people did not see it. We do warn people before they submit any information. Many apologies.
I have an 18”x24” whiteboard mounted on the wall. A cup next to it has markers. I’ve trained myself to quickly jot down things that come to me so that (1) I don’t forget them and (2) so that I don’t have to remember them. A big perk is that it’s highly visible.

It’s very satisfying to run a line through completed tasks.
None of those are so cheap, small, with such a good battery life and does not require GPS.

Please don't be so ignorant. It's been a topic several times over.
The privacy issues are horrid, the app is irritating, and the data is awful, with gas prices randomly sampled at different times and days, hardly ever accurate.

For better gas price data in a lighter faster app without the crud, see Gas Guru:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yellowpage...

FWIW, the old version had a much better UI than it does now. Wish they'd work on that.
> And if the counts get big enough, they do start paying attention.

This is a while back, now, but I vaguely remember a Reddit AMA by people working for US federal politicians where they indicated that "big enough" is often as few as two for the right type of correspondence (bespoke letters and / or letters to the editors of voter-relevant newspapers, especially if the politician get specifically called out)

Things may well have changed in the interim, but given how often engagement begins and ends at signing on to a form letter, I wouldn't be surprised if this was still the case today.
> Unlike when I trialled ddg, and found about 90% of my searches ended up being !g

How long ago did you try DDG and do you have some examples of searches that didn't work on DDG but did on Google?
I'm with you on this one. I was an architect of a quite large SVOD streaming service and this sounds like a runaway engineering division that's lost.

Sure, you can log and trace every tiny event but they've forgotten to ask whether or not they should and what are you getting out of it. It's creating a problem that doesn't exist, then solving it (by creating 2 more complex systems). 500 microservices sounds excessive but not out of the realm of belief.

I do wonder if it might relate to the way they're measuring engineering performance.
As someone with extensive UK sandwich experience, and extensive experience of being victim to sandwiches in the article, bad UK train station sandwiches win hands-down.

If you thought the bread was bad, the bread of the Lawson, 7-11, FamilyMart et al is far worse: Anemic, textureless, tasteless. I have no idea how the author could consider 'chewy' as an adjectivein describing it.

Fillings are an odd affair. Personally I prefer jam over an out of season strawberry. Fillings are also nothing as appetising as mentioned in the article. A sliver of tasteless ham, trimmed exactly to be on price target with perhaps one half leaf of iceberg lettuce. The port cutlet option nothing like mentioned, more like a few lumps of mainly breadcrumb, the off piece of meat.

Hitting a very narrow price range is what these sandwiches are all about. A very very narrow price band. This in true end to end supply chain, and is what Japanese convenience stores Excel at. No produce is on the shelves for a few hours. The microwave rice and noodle dishes are similarly precisely engineered. That there are three and three quarter mushrooms in your dish is no rounding error, that's the exact amount there's supposed to be based on all the costs and associated costs of three and three quarter mushrooms.

Saviour your decidedly mediocre UK train station sandwich. You could have far worse. You could have a Lawson or 7-11 one.
> Brave Search doesn’t use secret methods or algorithms to bias or censor results

I'm sold.

Then I open and type "rt". The autocomplete tells me this is a "state controlled Russia network", while for BBC it says "public service broadcaster". So much for "no bias" (technically all they said is the bias is not secret, but still). Not sure where they get these snippets from. Looks similar to wikipedia but it's not verbatim.
Unfortunately, history doesn't offer much comfort. The usual way that wealth is redistributed after a period of high inequality is via revolution. FDR managed to stave off disaster last time with the new deal, but congress was far less split along ideological lines then.
Beyond the bombastic (and admittedly difficult to stomach) opening, there are definitely concerns with any CBDC. However, this article doesn't discuss the more likely outcome - not a CBDC issued by the Fed directly, but rather a hybrid model where banks issue CBDCs (much like today's bank money model). This would preserve the role of banks in the new system, while opening up many of the efficiencies. It'll also limit the expansion of authoritarian power described.
An odd assertion, since that user does in fact have plenty of technical comments.
Art has the advantage of being a market. so even in old age there will always be demand for well known artists. but academia is more about quantifiable merit and results
I filled out a survey for them, and the suggested pricing scheme seems out of whack though: $120/year is going to be a complete non-starter for mass adoption.
Mine is 3 years. I just edited the offer mentally to say "410k (with mega backdoor!) but no match."
Economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine. McDonald's, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc all shut down their Russian operations.
Keep a list; a list never fails to ensure you have objectives met and crossed out. Plus, it helps with staying organized.
I think the India and Russia have historically had good relations.
> Publishers != Authors

I agree!

Perhaps you should actually read the criticism of this study, which also came from one of the authors[1][2].

So now we have Yale (the lead author's institution), the journal itself, and a co-author who all say that the conclusion in the paper is false.

What is a false statement that someone makes despite knowing that their data does not support it? It is a lie.

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/dissent-splits-autho...

2. https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/09/speculat...
You'd be a fool to keep any savings in such a currency. You'd be a fool to actually use your FedCoin to do anything other than pay your boring monthly bills and expenses. Disposable income gets converted to anything else: BTC, silver, etc.
True. But also P!=NP if N = (P-1)!
I think store documentation from the 'food store franchise' have been publicly shared in Sweden and had instructions on how you should place the milk.