skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be careful connecting anything from Genesis 1 to elements from Genesis 2-4. They're different and unrelated stories written at very different times. Reading too much into these sort of connections could easily lead you to completely different conclusions than what the authors intended.

Although it's certainly true that Genesis 3 suggests thorns, thistles and other nastier parts of nature weren't around at first, which again fits the "man came first" aspect of the Genesis 2 creation story.
Sure he can be "odd", but I find him entertaining all the same. And as with all things "internet" don't rely on the word of one person.

I'll address your price of whisky comment in reverse:

> then another that supermarkets are lowballing the price and ruining its prestige.

From my interpretation, he's arguing that product dumped into the supermarkets, duty free etc is generic and unexciting (even if it is consistent). It's cheapo Scotch produced on an industrial scale that's heavily processed, and he's mostly right about that. Because this stuff is "cheap" it detracts from the attention that better whiskies should maybe get.

> He'll argue about the price of whisky being too high one day

I think he's talking about a couple of things here. One is industrial scale producers passing off certain whiskies as if they're smaller batch and playing to the myth and mystery of Scotch to the less well informed and charging a premium for what is just a higher strength version of their supermarket lines. We've seen this happen with the craft beer scene along with deceptive marketing.

Secondly a good chunk of decent whisky ends up in collections for investment purposes and pushes up the price of what is available to purchase and be able to actually drink.
BeyondCorp, NoVPN, EndToEndSec, something like that
I am a Japanese resident. I am not sure how the local people will react to it commercially. So much of the homestyled food goes with traditional cookware. People always are curious to try out things like this - but fall back to age-old practices. I won't be surprised if people continue using their wooden or ceramic chopsticks and this thing becomes a novelty item in upscale department stores.

Consider smoked and deep fried food items. Universally, we have evidence they are connected to cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Or that raw uncooked meat could be risky. Yet, the sashimi, basashi, tempura, and various grilled item food industry is going strong. Educated Japanese understand the risks but it is their way of life - and healthcare has presumably evolved to take care of the sporadic incidents well enough. This country does emphasize on good health and longevity. Such risks from sodium get downplayed easily.

Japan has a high inertia for sometimes good and sometimes not-so-good. But leaving aside this new invention, there is much scope to have even healthier food and lifestyles.
Do we really need to steal music from artists? Spotify and Apple Music is already cheap enough. Not to mention the convenience of not wasting my time managing illegally downloaded music. People really have time for this in 2022?
This makes me wonder why not just use a one-time second price auction? In that case everyone just needs to huddle up with their family once, submit their maximum price for the house, and know that they won't have a risk of over-paying relative to everyone else's valuation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
FALSE! COVID is almost impossible to spread through touch (fomites).

Here's a CDC brief from about a year after the WHO tweet you shared: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r.... Important: "each contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection"
Never seen a fitness tracker?
Maybe it’s different in Canada, but in the US (or at least in Massachusetts and New Hampshire) the agent merely must disclose to whom they owe allegiance. In both of my purchase transactions, the agent I worked most consistently with was legally working for the seller. (I was comfortable with that and acted accordingly, having “my” agent submit bids that I was comfortable with, but not treating/trusting them as if they were my lawyer).

You can have an agent working on behalf of the buyer, but my experience is that’s a minority rather than majority arrangement.
That’s what hurts the most about aging, to me. The loss of obsession. Obsession is the sole reason I’ve ever been good at anything, and I’m scared that I’ve entered into a permanent stage of my life where I’ll no longer feel overcome by curiosity or passion.
It's not that simple though, If you fired a a few Javelins against an Abrams with a Trophy system you'd still be at risk from one of the multiple shots over time. And even if the rounds don't cook off, if the EFP goes through the crew compartment, everyone is toast from blast wounds.

I think the main gun on an MBT will be replaced by rocket systems on smaller lighter, faster vehicles like the Boxer CRV family.

Edit just to add,

The secrets out that the idea behind Javelin and NLAW is sound. Expect there to be a proliferation of reasonably cheap weapons in this category being developed and built by everyone.
I live in Toronto as well. We make a good income, have large savings for a down payment, and recently thought about buying a house. It's depressing.

So, I decided to look at the City Plan -- to see what the actual plan is for addressing the housing cost crisis in Toronto.

Not surprisingly, the real problem became very clear to me, almost immediately.

The problem is not blind bidding.

The problem is not foreign buyers.

The problem is not low interest rates.

The problem is the official city plan is 100% a NIMBY plan.

From the plan itself:

> While communities experience constant social and demographic change,
the general physical character of Toronto’s residential Neighbourhoods
endures.

In other words, let's not change our back yards.

> Physical changes to our established Neighbourhoods must
be sensitive, gradual and “fit” the existing physical character.

Again -- this means that the large inner-city neighborhoods full of mansions (such as Rosedale and Forest Hill), have to stay full of mansions.

Just to spell it out:

> If, for example, an existing zoning by-law permits only single detached houses in a particular geographic neighbourhood and the prevailing building type in that neighbourhood is single detached dwellings, then the Plan’s policies are to be interpreted to allow only single detached dwellings in order to respect and reinforce the established physical character of the neighbourhood

You see this reflected in the development that does happen. Yonge & Eglinton just gets more dense -- because that's the "character" of the neighborhood. Meanwhile, in "fancy" neighborhoods, housing often gets less dense, because that conforms to the "prevailing" characteristic of the neighborhood.

With the current plan, the city is going to be a city with super high density combined with ultra low density and very little in-between. In other words, it will be full of wonderful enclaves for the wealthy, and sardine-can housing for everyone else.

This, of course, leads to issues such as the lack of schools available in the Yonge & Eglinton area, anod overcrowded transit, not to mention the lack of quality housing for families with two kids. (Try finding a decently sized 3 bedroom unit near playgrounds and schools. Yikes.)

The solution, would be to allow more medium and low rise development throughout neighborhoods. The "character" of the existing neighbourhoods should be allowed to change.

I don't blame Toronto though, this is a problem that is happening in most wealthy cities in North America. Doesn't mean we can't do better. We should.

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/97dd-cp-of...
The quote in question provides no sources beyond that Chomsky said it (no direct sources or anything). So the question of Chomsky's credibility is important, and well, Chomsky's own record in the Balkans and earlier in Cambodia speaks for itself.

>I think parent is referring to this piece of legislation

I believe you are right, but the particular issue parent's objecting to is not new at all [EDIT: Note that parent clarified his position in a later comment].
To clarify, those figure are after bonding right? I understand that means it must be heated and compressed between conductors to reach those values.
Yea, I understood the number mapping was a stretch... just a fun memory.

Thanks for laying out a very plausible case for how this match could occur without actually listening to the ambient conversation.

I also run a pi-hole at home and almost never visit social media. Frankly I am surprised it took this long for people to understand how giving up their privacy had a cost, I was hoping the backlash against Facebook et al was going to start a decade ago.
This doesn't make sense. What is your point?
There are plenty of independent folks doing great work analyzing (and in many cases geolocating) photos of equipment losses. Oryx is great: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

Basically yes: this war has been a disaster for Russian armor.
<armchair_opinion meta="some non-combat reserve experience">

I think we will see the tanks in future battlefields still but rather than cannons they will be using more electronic warfare and will be providing indirect fire with "smart" weapons. Essentially they will be multi role armoured vehicles with high manoeuvrability e.g. (British Ajax Scout Vehicle)

Or my sci-fi'ish theory of a "drone tank"

Why?

* Governments have high demands from defence and at the same time want low costs.

* Military doesn't want an infantryman any more; they want a soldier who can perform several other roles. Same goes for vehicles.

* The concept of modular vehicles with the same chassis is becoming popular.

* Everyone who was taught or believed cold war military tactics is retiring or will be soon. So new doctrines will emerge.

<armchair_opinion/>
Is there any chance for another a16z Crypto Startup school? Their videos[0] from the last one(mid-2020) are still one of the best crypto/web3 resources.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wxtiNgXBaU&list=PLM4u6XbiXf...
I find this interesting: https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-gpg-tui
If nothing else, this goes to show that headlines are meant only to catch your eye and not be a primary source of info in and of themselves. It's an issue in general, where people think headlines are meant to condense the article as a one-line summary, that's simply not true. I think the use of synecdoche here is reasonable. The publication matters, too. If the researchers were in England, the title would certainly be different. If the researchers were in Brazil, it would likely be similar.
> You can't chalk up a problem of this scale to a matter of education.

Why can't I do that? It seems to me that if different countries have much better generalised psychotherapy results, I can absolutely ascribe that difference to education.
I tried sleeping a solid 8 hours. Didn’t work. Weirdly enough, if I only get 4 hours of sleep, I’m wired for the entire day and I feel great. But it’s not sustainable.
It’s still quite possible to stretch yourself. Variable mortgages are common and interest rates are going up at a rapid clip. It’s possible for them to rise further than the stress test numbers. Refinancing in five years may be painful if you got a mortgage at 1.5%, stress tested for 3.5% and refinanced at 5%.
One of our major advantages against other animals are versatile hands with opposable thumbs.

I wonder what corvids could do if they had hands and not just beaks. They are fairly smart, I would expect them at least to build some more complex structures. Which would trigger a self-reinforcing cycle between improving tools and improving brains.

Now it dawns on me that it might be possible in the future to give them the necessary genes to grow hands ... wild.
Ah! Didn’t realize the ASD supported DSC. Ty!
Getting rid of blind bidding doesn't mean it's replaced with a live real-time auction.
Christmas is a major part of economics.
No need for heavy weapons, a pistol or a rifle and a picked time will still get you a decent shot at anyone in government. It's almost as if they're not actually scared of the population they live with. Its not like the President / etc are actually all that important. The Government is more than them, and will live on and continue doing the objectionable stuff regardless.
I have found straight up bidding to be a much slower process. You don't have to immediately respond, if an estate agent is applying pressure you should just ignore them and respond with your bid when you're ready.

On the other side if the sellers aren't happy with the highest bid they can just keep waiting for more people to turn up.
> Very recently as in 'in the UN assembly resolution authorizing the creation of Israel' (1947) or the 1985 basic law etc.

You are correct. I'm sorry. I was misremembering the news from when "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People" [1] was passed in 2018. My bad, I can no longer edit my post though. So apparently "Jewish ethnic homeland in Palestine", "Jewish state" and "Jewish nation-state" mean different things and have different connotations. The latter being the recent and most controversial one.

for people that want to check the resolution referenced is UNGA181.[2]

Turns out the Palestinian opposition to the term is because they see it as giving up on their right of return (given to them by UNGA194 [3] )

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Natio...

[2] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/res181.asp
> If one of them was not correct nobody would have put them in the same bible.

Focusing on "correct" is the wrong approach to reading these old mythological parts of the Bible. People put these stories in the Bible because of their story and meaning, not because of any kind of historical correctness. (Because how could they know?)
No. You're thinking of the study described here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LETXrTsGAqJrcik3T/fnord and those 90% aren't what you think. You might say the key quote is this: «Of course this example is me just making up numbers to show how counter-intuitive results can be from this kind of model.»

If you say 50% instead of 90% then you describe the study fairly (and a little incompletely).
Wouldn’t people set a maximum ceiling beyond which they would not go? Like you make your initial bid, which would not be the maximum and you go up till you win or you hit your max.

If you bade your maximum already then obviously you’re out of contention.
Scraping is legal, but the legal framework requires scraping to abide by three rules:

1. The page is not behind a login. If you have to create an account to access the content, then you have to agree to abide by the terms of service which may ban scraping.

2. What you scrape is still protected by copyright. If you scrape a clip from Star Wars from a web page, you still can't redistribute it without a license.

3. Your activity may not impede access to the site in anyway i.e. no DDOSing. If there is a robots.txt file, you are supposed to abide by it but the courts do not literally say that. Must rate meter your requests, scrape at night, so on. Gray area if the robots.txt bans every page and you end up having to ignore it.
The sports bit might be the key. I think I need to start exercising daily - currently I only do once per week.
Easy. You can have vim bindings in both, while still retaining modern tooling integrated within.
Yep and useless in the north, where the actual closest borders with Russia are.
You're right. I mean, my intent wasn't to attack -- which is recognizable by the fact that I started with a big compliment and I called them a creative genius (which I still think is true). But I have to admit that what I said still teeters into promoting a toxic environment, not to mention isn't backed up by evidence and could have been very hurtful.

This is the most valuable place on the internet for insightful, meaningful discussion, and it seems as if you (among others?) are responsible for that. So I want to say your work is deeply appreciated, and I'm so sorry for adding to the load :)
Yeah, that seems the crux of the problem: price rising is exponential, a fixed tax can't offset it.
Seems weird to laugh at someone who pretty consistently predicts the future. Does it make sense to laugh at physicists too? Was their predictive theory only relevant in the early 1900s?
The Ferengi Rules of Aquisition have something for this one.

#218: "Sometimes what you get free costs entirely too much".
Im one of those 'greedy' old farts who owns more than one home. We have one for ourselves and 5 rentals.
Im starting to agree with those who are feeling priced out of the market. What would make me stop buying homes? A graduated tax would.

If there were no sales tax on the first two, and then 15% tax on the third, 25% tax on the 4th, and going up by 10% for each subsequent house, it would definitely make me quit buying likely by the 3rd or maybe the 4th house. Too expensive after that.

Then that money could go half to the gov, and half to subsidizing first time homeowners by giving them no interest loans for downpayments, or even grants if they qualify at a low enough income. I wouldnt object to that - real estate has been good to me, I think it would be fine if my taxes were helping others to start out.
Sorry man, I really don't think this has anything to do with the reduction of the quality of hardware.

Until Linux gets a multi billion dollar company backing it as a desktop OS and willing to pay what Microsoft is for their backing, it would make no sense for them to do otherwise.
Most of the tanks always store a dozen of rounds in the turret for faster reloads.
Different people are driven by different motivations. The people most driven by prestige also want to be highly visible because prestige is ultimately a social construct.
When it’s fun to play.
The state of web browsing on the Pinephone is awful mostly because of the UI. When using the Gnome browser all the websites I visit (which I admit are mostly lightweight like HN) are very pleasantly rendered and fast to scroll and interact with. Personally I believe that web browsing with a smartphone shouldn't really be a thing outside of basic textual content, but that's because I really can't figure how we have collectively concluded that being glued to a minuscule screen is desirable
> The inspector finds a hundred little problems with the house, and the buyer can back out of the sale for any little complaint.

But that’s a very well known risk. An agent will have a whole checklist of things to look at before putting a house on the market to minimize that risk. Also, buyers lose at least some money if they back out, there’s a nominal sum put up that you don’t get back if you decide to not buy once the process is started.
Haven't they already? As a resident of rural Canada, the price of the average home here is up over 100% since early 2020 when the people of Toronto started moving here.
Trophy and similar weapons work by sending a cloud shard of metal shards in the direction of the target. Given that a presidential convoy will often be in the presence of large amounts of civilians, using active defense system may mean shredding a couple dozen voters (possibly on live television). I can't imagine many politicians being very happy about that.

I think DIY weapons would be the more dangerous threat btw. A sharpened stick on one of those racing drones could rest on top of (say) a small shack until the target comes by, then strike extremely quickly.
So Chinese investors can buy houses in Canada but if I am not mistaken Canadians cannot buy property in China. How does that make any sense?
As a Briton, I see an awful lot more of America on TV than Japan. As a result then it's surely inherently more (likely to be) balanced/matching up with reality?

Compared to Japan; the only show I can think of that I've seen that's even sort of set there was The Man in the High Castle!
Thank you. My day to day work involves sharing screen on calls a lot. While I know it's possible to some extent with pipewire, it is still too hacky and too much effort for a simple(from an end-user standpoint) task. Afaik it still doesn't work with Zoom at all.
But I am in general excited about Wayland.
Yes I did. Who does the american left blame right now for the world's problems? Individuals evaluated by what they do, or a certain group of people?
> I'm interested to see how this plays out.

Nothing will happen. All it accomplishes is reducing competition for local investors (which is probably why this is the solution they've chosen--local investors vote, contribute to campaigns, and make up something like 2/3 of our politicians). We have more than enough local investors with enough capital and assets to sustain the high prices and continue driving absurd growth.

They've tried similar (but less extreme) solutions in places like Vancouver. Huge taxes on foreign purchasers. Property price growth slowed a couple percent... for about 6 months, by which point it was back to doing what it was before even as the tax was expanded. The only thing driving the slowdown was probably uncertainty.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_system
So for this case involving LI, I get my name and employer name isn't protected but there is a section where you describe your role. That is extremely creative, right? There are infinite ways similar work could be described. It isn't just a "fact". So they can't use that information it would seem.
Forcing everybody to use the latest versions is as anti-user as forcing them to use versions from 5 years ago.

What people want is to develop and run their applications with the least amount of friction possible.

That is the purpose of the operating system: make it easier to write and run applications. Anything that gets in the way of that is bad.

What containers and other forms of virtualization provide is enhanced ability to deploy and run applications cheaper than without it.

Linux kernel and modern networking is incredibly sophisticated and Unix design of the past can't allow people to take full advantage of it in a reasonable manner. This is why they switched to containers and virtual machines.

Because, frankly, running one Linux operating per application actually makes more sense than what people were doing before.

Package management systems, no matter how sophisticated, can't solve these problems.
Could this also be applied to politicians? (their status as a proxy)
> The problem is that we don't want to pay what it really costs to have such a great system

what does that even mean?
The country in which it was invented is relevant because it was invented to address health concerns caused by the common diet within the country.
Have you ever used Autopilot yourself?

I agree that if somebody played with their phone while on Autopilot, it would be dangerous. If you have to context-switch and put your hands and feet back into position, it might be too late.

But Autopilot is designed for you to keep your hands on the wheel at all times. I use it on a daily basis. And while I have not measured my "Autopilot disengagement reaction time", I am sure it is in the range of mere milliseconds.

If you had to react to a notice on the screen, or even just to warning sounds, it all would be horribly slow. But when you use Autopilot, it all works through tactile feedback. You feel each tiny movement the car wants to make, be it steering left or right, braking or accelerating. And while a driving instructor has to reach over to take the wheel, all movements the car makes are "piped" through your own muscles.

> The only reason I find autopilot justifiable is if it's quantitatively better than the human driver.

That's the point. And to make that happen, Tesla needs this current generation of "supervised Autopilot". Because somebody's got to train and fine-tune that neural network. You need humans to make the system super-human.