skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does though - "rule of the majority" in the Webster definition implies one person, one vote. If you work out the mathematics starting from n=2, and then by induction it holds. If not one-person/one-vote then for every n, there exists a set of weights, for which one person can usurp the popular vote. In the US, due to the electoral college, some state resident's vote counts for more than others which is why the loser of the popular vote can be the President. Company boards are famously not one-share-one-vote as the latest Muskian opera shows.

The legal age cutoff is a red-herring - every self-proclaimed democracy has a legal voting age i.e. definition of what constitutes the one-person. As long as it is applied uniformly across genders, races and the rest then it is does not take away from the one-person/one-vote criteria. I would argue that if they can enlist you to fight (and die) for them, then you should be able to vote. However different societies might have different criteria for what constitutes the person in one-person-one-vote.

BTW, thank you for your comment, after all the sneering and name-calling it is nice to engage is reasoned discourse.
Major regions in which early humans evolved and migrated have not been subject to glaciation since those events. Africa, Mesopotamia, Egypt (part of Africa), the Mediterranian basin, the Indian subcontinent, most of China and Southeast Asia, central and Southern America, and much of North America, particularly south of, say, the modern Mason-Dixon line.

The regions heavily affected by glaciation are relatively few, relatively lately settled (for obvious reasons), and hence, less significant to overall availability of evidence of early agriculture.

Other disturbances resulting from glaciation, notably sea level rise and the innundation of previous coastal and low-lying regions may contribute somewhat more to obscured evidence.
This article is a freelance health/wellness writer dumping a spec pitch that didn’t sell on Substack to try to recoup a little of the invested work. The article was written toward an expected outcome starting from a Twitter poll, which means by the end of the lede it’s basically worthless because it exists only to confirm the author’s presupposition. That’s the polar opposite of journalism, despite what some folks would have you believe, and it’s why every editor she called presumably passed on this. Blunders throughout should surprise you next to zero because it’s basically a writer with Word open, a point to make (noticeably from a bad personal experience), and no support to keep it on track. And this is the kind of gun you want to make sure you’re aiming well. She isn’t.

Seriously, leading off with a Brandeis quote comes across as so horrifically pretentious it hurts. That the next graf is about a crisp November day almost made me close the tab immediately, and I’ve read some really bad work. The TL;DR being that long and then the article starting like that is a big, neon sign upon which is written “I badly need an editor.” And this is part 1! The horror!

Another blunder: the duplicated scripts are because lazy local producers take fully-produced packages off their network sources to fill time. I know because I’ve done it. If I’m three minutes light in my B block, I’m looking at the network’s stuff or CNN or whatever to get what I can. Something on trade relations? Cool. Throw it in! It’s already done! (Sinclair must-runs use the same mechanism and are just pushed on producers.) It’s not a local news producer watching a competitor’s air and writing it down word for word, as she seems to think it is with her “hence” behind that YouTube embed. An interesting oddity of news, but not the malevolent machine she’s implying.

(Yes, I ended up reading the whole thing. It’s an interest area; I was a local news director in TV and an assignment editor before my start in tech. The author understands next to nothing about the incentives nor economics of particularly newsgathering. I’d rebut it but I’d run out of room here. Why it’s on HN is beyond me, since not even Good Housekeeping would pick this drivel up. She’s onto something of course, and it’s a subject that deserves better study than this.)
Which UK politician are you referring to? The only one I’m aware of in high office currently who was born abroad is Boris Johnson, who was born in New York - a fact so far down the list of reasons for his unfitness for office that it does not really register.

The idea that this is the “main” problem in the UK is frankly laughable.
https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/dark-waters-chemica...

Basically, the US government allows companies to sell new chemicals they invent, completely unregulated. You could make a toxin today that kills everyone who touches it 10 years after they ingest it, and you would be free to market and sell this product. The chemical is presumed safe until evidence to the contrary comes to the knowledge of the govt.

That's how Dupont poisoned people all over the world. They sold unregulated chemicals they invented that nobody but them knew about.

One report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) found PFAS in the blood of 97% of Americans... The number of new PFAS chemicals appear to be increasing, and exposure is difficult to assess. - https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/pfc/index.cfm
Whatta question. I'm sorry. Ok, then let me reddit that for you:

May I answer it with a counter question?

How much would you need to be paid today not to ask stupid questions 24/7 forever no matter what situation?
Yeah thanks I actually played some of them. Very interesting. Also agreed Epic will never make another Unreal I, neither a remake nor a new game. If one wants one has to build one's own.
The problems I've had with them were about not feeling safe at the location, and often not getting the sense that the guys cared.

Probably exacerbated if it's a "capital-strapped hackerspace in an expensive city", as the cheaper places to rent will be far-flung.

The document has a refreshingly clear antipattern/solution structure, and it is wise in saying you need at least 4 people before starting one.
Obviously I can't speak to your specific county-level issues... I will say, if you can make a case for why something is bad, and you can get some of your neighbors on board with you, you should absolutely go to a county commissioner's meeting (or whatever type of meeting your county has) and make a case. Showing up in person and saying "I'm getting screwed by this thing you're doing" absolutely will make an impact.

On the larger scale: there are tons of examples, but here's a recent one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
I agree. The first time I wrote about this same frustration a couple years changed my whole life—it’s how I wound up at my current job and something I still believe in very deeply: https://joemorrison.medium.com/the-commercial-satellite-imag...
I read this funny article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-big-a-the-fruit-company-w...
> Could this be used for CPU (or some other truckload-of-pins chip) "reballing"?

The datasheet[1] says the minimum gap between conductors is 0.4mm, so based on that it should work for 0.5/0.65mm BGA.

Also would clearly affect the speed you can run things at due to introducing parasitics. But would certainly be fun to try.

[1]: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/66235O/3m-electrically-c...
One cool thing now is that 3M releases finite element data packages for adhesive tapes, digital prototyping!

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/bonding-and-assembly-us/resource...
Ask HN: What ToDo features feel bad?
Full disclosure - I'm making a ToDo application as a rite of passage as I approach 10 years of teaching myself to program (thanks Peter Novig).

These ToDo features make me feel bad:

1) Ever expanding lists that put me in a defeatist mindset and distract me from what's urgent and important...
2) Analysis paralysis when prioritizing.

I like to track all the things. Currently I'm using WorkFlowy to record every thought and whim worth writing down, but it's becoming unwieldy and distracts my thoughts when I start down branches to enter some new information.

When it comes to prioritizing tasks, I can never seem to feel like I'm doing the right thing at the right time and maybe that says something more about me than the application, I'm quite the idealist and more of an inductive than deductive reasoner. I have to have a "why" in all I do.

Perhaps one solution is some kind of anti ToDo application that just keeps tracks of what you did and reminds you of your moral compasses, and maybe holds you to them in some kind of peer pressure way based on your public commitments? Or maybe it's just straight social altogether? But then help vampirism...

I've seen other applications that outsource management consulting which I love, and am toying with the idea of using an AI or some kind of moral compass mechanism, but tbh that kind of scares me - like I don't want to train some soulless machine to dictate to me what I ought to be doing, morally. Maybe I'm over thinking this. Maybe I should just do some stupid MVC ToDo app and let it grow cobwebs on GitHub. Penny for your thoughts - I want to at least make something that's enjoyable.
See Surah Ar-Rum in the Quran,it foretells Roman Christian victory over the Persians.
It is full of toxic materials from agricultural runoff. If it dries out then that will become a gigantic dust cloud that will poison millions of people.
And then you get super long threads of people just sharing their opinion like it supports something. “I like Linux/Mac/Windows better”. “I don’t like my Dell”, “My Mac broke/never had an issue”. Ok what do I do with this info? Nothing, useless talk really, but we all love these threads and they always get super long
Perhaps also on stress-sensitive components such as high-stability voltage references.
I've lived in the US for the past 12 years. I never had a conversation about religion. Do you remember the context when it came up for you?
I write my representatives. The federal ones tend to be pretty worthless but the state level ones listen.
I think the point was trying to make is that having a god is ultimately irrelevant to being an evil murderer
>you've been in three of the most religious states in the U.S., and you're interacting w blue collar workers.

you're saying that like they went to Arrakis and interacted with the Fremen lol. Blue collar red state workers are what a lot of the US looks like. Two thirds of Americans do not have a university degree.
That's personal taste, if Apple cares can they care to have a real keyboard, a bit of ports, and a camera shutter?

I am super filtered by the Mac keyboard and I don't think it is intended for professional use at all.

Also "it just werks" is not true at all, Macs have a super bad reparability. If you love Macs fine, but they are not that savoir of laptops as you claim, its a brand with its own loyal fans just like there is Thinkpads with loyal fans and people who say WHY NO ONE MAKE GOOD MUSIC TODAY EXCEPT TAYLOR SWIFT?????

ONLY GOOD PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS C# TODAY WTF???
This article doesn't really point to a single concrete reason that the title might be true. Its pure navelgazing.
> I know some people don't like seeing it brought up in every thread, but if you're talking about declarative, reproducible, minimal, SBOMs, non-Dockerfile building of OCI images, I think a comparison to Nix would be useful. -- Probably a tool like this is easier to use, and surely quicker; but with this you're restricted to just bunch of existing APKs.

Very true, but their sister tool melange will address that by also creating and building new APKs to package new software. After trying out apko, I am impressed but it is obvious that both tools are still in pretty early-stage development, but apko is impressive from what I've seen so far.
Another likely difference: expectations for additional fundraising. Paul Graham has advocated for startups to be "default alive" and YC has stated that they are neutral on whether startups choose to do additional fundraising rounds. In contrast, since a16z is a VC firm that is coming down market (and based on their track record), it seems very likely that they will encourage companies to delay profitability in favor of growth and to raise additional rounds (that a16z will participate in).
The important thing to realize is that NSO doesn’t just hand over their attack tools completely. If they did, they would just get copied and they wouldn’t be able to charge for them.

NSO maintains control and is semi-actively involved in the exploitation (NSO servers are used and they control this access). This is very different from selling someone a knife that is later used in a murder.

There is a very good Darknet Diaries breakdown of what the NSO group can and cannot do - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/ - and despite their claims otherwise, the evidence strongly points to them being complicit in attacks rather than just being a vendor.
I went "screw it, let's get a local tax person".

US is a country where IRS is legally obligated to make you screw up as much as possible.
I’ve always wondered they we’ll get the cyberpunk future we envisioned when people decide physical media is the sweet spot between paper/written representation and digital media. Like old cdrom style discs that can only possibly be write-once, and the provenance of the data on it depends on the physical presence of the media itself.

Not that I’m necessarily advocating for it. Just they seems like a plausible future.
It probably is one. There’s nothing particularly special about the hole in the ground. It’s what you are trying to suck out. The oil industry has lots of knowledge about making holes, no point in reinventing the wheel.
I would imagine major US/European cities are pretty well-served in this regard by annual and semi-annual aerial surveys. But that still leaves a lot of smaller cities who aren’t pro-actively covered by Nearmap/Hexagon/etc. They are part of the long, long tail that is criminally underserved today.
Unlike the mall a website can scale up to serve more users at relatively low cost. Also those robots may bring more people to the website. Potentially a lot more even.
What do you mean by "sovereign adults"? Very few people have sovereignty in most senses, while humans of all ages have it in the consciousness sense.
50 years ago (1972) there were thousands of magazines, newspapers, and radio stations in the US -- the vast majority of which were independently owned and operated. Today the number of newspapers is down 10X what they were then, and independent newspapers are down 10X more (~1/100). The number of magazines is down 5X. If you've noticed, even the best among them are really struggling for ad dollars. (Both the Economist magazine and The NewYorker now cost $9/issue, for a WEEKLY.)

Perhaps worse is the loss of staff journalists -- the folks who give each periodical its personality and continuity. The majority of print journalists today are independent/stringers, with little prospect of sustaining that career. Outside of Oligarch-Six media, the rest of print media are struggling to survive. Hiring persistent staff has become simply unaffordable.

For example, every one of the automotive journalists I've followed for decades have all 'retired' in the past few years. Alas, just about all print journalism not owned by a megacorporation is dead or dying today.
Note majority rule isn't in the definition either, it's just strongly correlated. As the simplest example, a democracy that required 55% of the votes wouldn't stop being a democracy. For more different examples, see the lottery system I linked to, or imagine variations thereof (e.g., half the population votes one year, half the next year, etc.).

Also, I don't think the age-limit is a red herring in this case to be honest, since it's another manifestation of "who is a person". Claiming a 17yo is not a person in the US but is a person in Argentina undermines the notion that there's a universal definition of democracy (even one that has an age cutoff)... which is the premise of this entire argument! Otherwise we're acknowledging different societies can differ on whose votes they care about, and still be democracies. (Which I think is fine: we merely need a fair & just definition of democracy. It just isn't as simple as "one person, one vote", is all.)
Depends on the Vaio. The old Z series: z13, z21 etc were pinnacles of engineering. Fast as hell and light.
The last 5 to 10 years has had a succession of doom-sayers riding the Paul Ehrlich line to "we will run out" -And as Julian Simons bet [0] showed, it may be true but it's based on a false premise of supply chain logistics, mining and planning.

In absolute terms yes, there is a finite amount of lithium in the crust. Transmutation aside, What we see in real life is unequal distribution and then bad modelling on assumptions this represents all available lithium when in reality it mistakes availability for existence. There is a lot more lithium in the world. The problem is finding it, and its price in extraction complexity, density, and other "costs"

The ramp up time to replace all ICE with EV will consume a lot of Lithium. I have no doubt there will be rises and falls in costs of Lithium extraction, as a function of the investment cycle and demand. What I do doubt, is that we will "run out" for any reason other than investment in this discovery and extraction. What they're doing in the Salton Sea is sensible, and what will happen in Australia (which also has lithium rich soils) is sensible, and no, we're not entirely captive to some fantasy of "there isn't enough lithium in the world"

Aside from anything else, there are other battery chemistries out there. Lithium battery chemistry is only the one we like now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
Buddhism isn't a religion insomuch as it is a philosphy.
Great documentary on the decline of local news and battle against social media that aired on PBS about Storm Lake, Iowa: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/storm-lake...
The official Mastodon apps are missing two major features of Fediverse microblogging: the local and federated timelines. Whilst there are plenty of general-purpose instances, there are also those tailored to specific interests or communities. Many are small enough for one to be able to keep up with posts from local users (the local timeline) every day or two without missing a beat. These aren't entirely on-topic but they're usually strongly flavoured towards their focus and those I've used and perused have a strong community feel.

The federated timeline is a firehose of all of the posts on instances that the home instance talks to and whilst it has plenty of chaff can also yield some gems which are sometimes worth the pastime.

Although the use of tags in posts and profiles are the primary methods of discovery on the Fediverse, I've found both these timelines crucial in building a network and generally enjoying the platform.

Look for clients further afield if you think these would be interesting or useful for you. My personal preference on Android is Fedilab https://fedilab.app/ , a snappy, feature-rich client that does not decide what content you're permitted to consume and even has a third-party push notification system which reduces the data footprint Google collects.
I have an Asus ROG 14 2020 model with AMD Ryzen 5 that I'm very happy with - runs cool, battery life is great (easily lasts a day if I'm not gaming), has survived a few drops, and cost me half what a MacBook would have. Most of all I can easily dual boot Linux on it. The only thing missing is a webcam, but that's something I can live with as I use an external one most of the time anyway.

I would add that the quality of Asus laptops in general seems to be pretty great. I have another 9-year old Asus that was used extensively by my kid for her online classes the last couple of years. It still runs as well as it did when I bought it, and I've never had it repaired.
Corrected, thank you :)
No one claimed atheists cannot be murderers. But I have yet to learn of an atheist starting a crusade in the name of that god they don't believe in.
I’ve long been fascinated by the wild man myths that emerge in most human cultures. Sasquatch is the most prominent example in the U.S. (a subject I devoured as an adolescent)

Having travelled to many regions of the world, I’ve consistently inquired about such stories from local people. These myths are everywhere all around the world. They are typically large and dangerous, or small and mischievous (but also dangerous). Most of the people who I spoke to truly believed the described creatures were absolutely real.

So the stories related in this article are variations on the same stories I’ve listened to around the globe. I won’t personally believe in such animals unless definitive proof is offered. But most people are quite animated around this subject which makes me wonder why such stories appear to be nearly universal.
It's intentional. The whole point is to protect the jobs from competition.
God is an X.

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/everything-is-an-x-patter...
Oh trust me, I'm aware of that, but if I kicked out every component giving me trouble, I'd have no graphics drivers, or a windowing system, or a bootloader, or a package manager, and at that point I don't have a computer any more.
The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004)
We don't need leaderless digital services. We need non-capitalist digital services. Like a Facebook clone operated by NPR. One that collects enough revenue to operate, but not to pay shareholders.
Powerups are attractive bait for new players. However hanging out near a bomb is dangerous. As is being too predictable letting the enemy know where you are.

The vision powerup displays both player powerup, if used right away. But if you wait you can see the other player with out the other player seeing you.

The game is mostly about tracking, and often you can pinpoint another player without using vision, or they do something like pounce of take a power up. So it's still a test of skill.

The tiles that are permanently changed, which is a disadvantage to the person blowing the bomb, but the general idea is you only trigger the bomb when you are sure the enemy is close.
Warner Bros is owned by AT&T
Fox is owned by News Corp same as WSJ

So the only one not covered by the "big 6" of the original article is NYT
On local. However I believe taking material from a respected university (MIT/Berkeley/CMU) and work on oneself is a way better option, if you can grit through.

It's just a few courses TBH: one for programming (can skip if already know), one for comp arch, one for data structure and you are done with the basics (drop in either a discrete math course if you have no exposure to it, which I do, or a computer language theory class if you want to do compiler). You can then take advanced courses e.g. Operating system or Compiler theories.

I'm always thinking about going that route, saving some $$$ yet learn more than from mediocre local universities. Tried a few times but never get past the data structure course.

Ping me if you want to do it altogether. It's probably easier when studying in a group.

edit Just realized you are a backend developer so you are probably better than me. I mean you can probably skip more courses :)
LOL I need to look that up
It's not the technologies fault that these companies don't publish their models.
What's the most prestigious?
> Nobody is perfect - but there are people who blatantly ignore ITSEC best practices and are therefore almost unprotectable

This is tangential to this story however. Even people who follow best practices can get owned when ex-Mossad/8200 agents armed with dozens of zero days and millions of dollars come after them.