skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah. I have no idea why Biden tried to govern as if he had a strong majority when he had a 50/50 Senate.

There's no other way to govern. You govern like you can lead and Congress either does or doesn't follow, or you are an irrelevance. Biden got more of his agenda accomplished than he would have with any less aggressive approach.

> he got shot down time after time, and wound up looking quite ineffective.

Doing nothing risky let's you look ineffective without getting shot down, but it doesn't actually make you look effective. And if you get shot down—especially on something publicly popular—that’s a campaign issue. If you don't try, it's...nothing.
> a once in a generation vote (whatever that means)

Surely it means a referendum on independence once in around 30 years. It's not difficult to parse. Once in a lifetime would be longer.

From the [Scotsman]:

> Speaking on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme yesterday, he said: “My estimation was that political constitutional referendums are once in a generation and I was making the example of 1979 and 1997 - that is why I always put it in that context every single time I said that.

Of course, he goes on to say things have changed. What are the odds he would make the same case for another referendum if he thought things were changing against his favour?

Nicola Sturgeon in interview with the [Guardian]:

> And if the result is No? "Will there be another referendum round the corner? No. We can't bind our successors, but we've made very clear our belief that constitutional referenda are once-in-a-generation events."

From Sturgeon's conference [speech]:

> Next year, we have a once in a generation opportunity

There's *lots* of examples of them saying it and reiterating in, in several forms, that all mean it wasn't going to happen often. That's what once in a lifetime means, right?

Who knew that the SNP would bring me the real second life!

> The terms of the actual agreement signed by all parties agreed legally that there was nothing in it to preclude a further referendum

Very true. I'm not even sure if it's possible under the constitution, as Sturgeon pointed out above "We can't bind our successors", but that's why pledges about the circumstances of a vote are so important.

> so even if by some chance your interpretation is what was meant then they have no actual power to enforce it.

Right. What does that have to do with my voting intention? I'm also interested in what your interpretation of "once in a lifetime" means. Are you over 30?

[Scotsman] https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/alex-salmond-once-gen...

[Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/24/nicola-stur...

[speech] http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yesscotland/pages/3159/...
It's still there on Monterey, so any removal or altering of functionality will be part of the redesign in Ventura.
And then America interfered in their elections in the 90’s and trust began to erode. We literally sent agents there to install American style politics to get Boris re-elected. It’s no wonder they don’t trust anything!
>if Bezos was 2 years late, is there any doubt there’d be a “different” one?

Bezos was 25 years late to Australia, and still nobody put together a business like his during that 2-decade gap.

Kogan had some of the successful elements, but it's nothing like Amazon US.
My issue with following a site like this would be burn out from new products. I followed TechCrunch years ago and ended up signing up for so many start up sites. I'm sure 80% of them don't even exist anymore. When I look at cleaning up my password manager it just seems so daunting. I eventually had to remove it from my RSS reader so I could wait and see what might actually hit crucial mass before jumping on board.
I did a 2 month "don't buy from Amazon" which forced me to look around a bit, but there are lots of alternatives. Amazon is amazingly convenient, but it's coming at a price which is higher prices and 1 vendor issues. You can't really say it's a marketplace with all the SEO and buying positions going on either. I still get stuff from Amazon occasionally, but I found there are plenty of alternatives out there if you can wait an extra day or two.
Not if they’re just speculating on it
I'm gonna be annoying and contrary here from a position of ignorance and for that I apologize but this is a good example to discuss something interesting and kind of what we often do around here - hopefully with some humility about it.

Was the "infants don't feel pain" thing just a rank justification to make everybody feel better about the unpleasantness of doing "the right thing." Yet another paternalistic lie "for the greater good." E.g. Here's a study, says what we need, sure we can "science" parents with that, let's not look too hard at it.

For us, now, let's go with the idea that infants /do/ feel pain and basically everyone knew it then.

A doctor has to operate on a newborn, possibly premature, deeply unwell baby. Analgesia is an additional layer of risky over and above the effing awful odds this infant is already facing to cling to life and have it become one of a reasonable quality. No anesthesia or analgesic is deeply unpleasant but it's their best damn shot. The parents are distraught of course they are. How could you not be? How to make them feel better. "Got studies babies this age don't feel pain. Science." It must have been a horrible business trying to keep babies alive and failing so often. We've come a long way.

Now what's the downside, of what for an older child and certainly for an adult would be an extremely traumatic experience, for the infant? Do we have science on that?

The infant won't remember it, that's clear. Is it doing something to the neural pathways or similar that causes lasting negative impact because analgesia and anesthesia sure can do that. Including death.

Is this horrible situation of just operating without pain relief something that the future child and adult will never know nor care about because the pain does not affect them? Is the opposite true? What evidence do we have? What does our probability distribution look like on that? I note the answer to this concern may well be well known and superbly well supported and I'm just ignorant of it.

On top of that, medical science, the real stuff, has advanced since the 40s and was significantly better in the 80s when this was written including analgesia and anesthesia understanding. The correct trade off changes over time. Then you have to dump the lie you told to justify.

Now I'm super-strong on the idea that you do not "lie for the greater good" ever. When this is done and the bill becomes due the interest rate is far too steep to justify and in ways that can't be anticipated.

I'm also deeply, deeply aware there is a full spectrum of doctors from extremely kind to actually sadistic as well as from wonderfully competent to not that in any way. Most of us have read research and shook our heads that its authors are allowed out in public with minders because they can't be competent as humans.

Anyway there it is. "AKTSHUALLY." I said. But I'm also pretty aware that these concerns might also all be nonsense with quality research, replicated successfully showing it to be so. Someone around here may know to what extent that is true.
Source for TCM playing a role in statin development? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_development_of_s...
I believe the paper the parent comment linked used 'thick skin' as a metaphor for pain resistance, not literally deeper epidermis.
I played with it for a while, I believe it could improve its user experience. The first button of the hammer to the left doesn't work. It is not clear what each icon from the left means. I did found the documentation, but it would be nice to have it more at hand, its hidden. Also couldn't draw links between the boxes, I was lazy but couldn't figure it out intuitively. I would add some buttons to the boxes to draw links between them, like Miro does. Just some observations, found it interesting though. I am curious about the stack you used to build it.
Not take but threaten. And yes, Russia wants the buffer zone.
Add it to the pile. It looks nice and clean but am I crazy in that FE is so fractured now? How can a developer choose the right direction/framework to focus on?
You can keep it up if everything can handle the current and heat.

A typical Intel chip on default behavior will go to maximum boost, limited by watts, for about half a minute. Then it will drop to a lower number of watts. Note that base clock gets ignored here; in this mode the base clock is just a minimum promise.

Many desktop motherboards easily or even automatically remove the time limit.
> most likely a false flag operation

you are deflecting from the question:

> Would you be willing to accommodate similar kind of characters in your country of origin

Khattab and his friends like Basayev and other "freedom fighters" have a long and undisputed history of butchering civilians that they were proud of. Taking a maternity ward hostage, or beheading western communication engineers, or, say, stuffing an elementary school with explosives and taking the kids hostage, and many other similar things were done in broad daylight with these lunatics officially bragging about killing civilians. But you've conveniently swept it under the rug. Well, here is the answer: if a group like that operated in the US, they would have been shot like rabid dogs at all cost, very quickly.

> Iraq war led to a sharp political change in the USA

What change? US continued to have troops on the ground in those countries for decades, culminating with the rise of ISIS in Iraq _on Obama's watch_, no less. Matter of fact, there are still several thousand US troops in Iraq _and_ Syria, doing God knows what there, on my dime.
Could we feasibly just run desalination stations from the coasts and pipe the water - like oil - to fill up these reservoirs? Setting cost aside for a second, is there any reason not to do something like this?
C2Rust Is Back
Sounds like a really unique, fingerprintable way to browse.
The yachts aren't issue, i think the issue is more the insane amount of power that kind of money gives individual people (instead of institutions , which tend to have more checks and balances)
Tanith Lee, "Wolfland" - "Little Red Riding Hood gets turned on its head. The wolf is frightening, but it's not the villian in this tale."

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Blood-Tales-Sisters-Grimmer/dp/08...
also, the really small shrimp are just cooked and eaten with the shell
This is definitely possible, and gives you a high degree of control over the visual design of visualizations.

I built an experimental system to do just that - design the layout and all data visualizations in a single Sketch/Figma document, export to SVG, then map data to the SVG elements in the browser. It's all 100% declarative.

Here's an over-the-top example: https://youtu.be/S9cmi89fvT8

There are no limits to what you can achieve with this approach, but obviously needs Sketch/Figma skills (or a colleague who does).

edit: typo
Right...use your shares in XYZ as collateral to take out a loan to buy more shares of XYZ.

That sounds like horrible financial advice.
You are right that people who take vaccines and who do not probably bifurcate along other lines as well. But you’re doing everything even more of a disservice by speculating the dimensions as if it’s established fact. Maybe the unvaccinated aren’t healthier they’re just liars? Also any self respecting study would control for the simple demographics like age so your hypothesis would be quite moot if the study was done with any rigor.
IIRC they're offering 14 weeks of severance pay. I'd rather have that than a used laptop.
Folksonomy
Which 2 consecutive years do not contain political changes?
And if you go to Taiwan and look around, empirically you can see that people try to avoid being immediately downwind of a stinky tofu cart. (It’s pretty tasty, mind you, but IMO not worth the hassle.)
On first glance it appears older methods like TensoRF and nvidias instant-nerf are far superior to this.
Setting cost aside? No. It costs a lot because it requires lots of energy which probably means lots of fossil fuels burning.
Yep. And a cursory search, because I hadn’t heard of this one, shows that BPS also has pretty significant effects on animals that are not humans. Maybe we’re special though!

I’ve read that the EU is more proactive about banning chemicals: companies there have to prove that they are safe for humans, vs the US where companies can go wild unless and until the chemicals are proven to be unsafe for humans. I don’t know if that’s true though; I haven’t looked deeply into it.
It's a larger drop than usual.

https://mead.uslakes.info/Level/
> In this case a simple "Ukraine wont be joining NATO" would have prevented this war.

Given the myriad of non-NATO excuses, including outright restoration of Russian imperial territory, that have been cited by Putin since day one, if you pay attention to anything besides the message crafted by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Western audiences (and faithfully relayed by Russia’s useful idiots in the West), and Russia pattern of aggression against it's neighbors, that doesn't really seem likely.

(It's more likely that simply letting Ukraine skip ahead straight to joining NATO would have stopped the war.)
Uploads are already slower than downloads for residential.
Eating shrimp shell-on and fried is fairly common in a lot of countries
At least this article notes that the vast majority of water usage is agriculture. This isn't something cities could or should solve by switching to (expensive) desalination to effectively subsidize agriculture. Most notably, alfalfa is mentioned here as farmers are going to have to switch to less water-intensive crops.

Decreasing alfalfa production may well impact the ability to feed cattle. In the short term, that's actually fine. It may just force more beef production, which will be good for costs (again, in the short term).

But this article makes the same mistake so many make: blaming this on climate change. It's not. It's simply usage. See Figure 2 on page 10 [1]. Additionally, water projections were made at a high point of water inflows that simply haven't been realistic since.

In short, we're using too much water and farming is going to have to take the hit.

[1]: https://www.usbr.gov/watersmart/bsp/docs/finalreport/Colorad...
Another example, I work in scientific high performance computing. The worst that can happen with my work (although people in more defense oriented research might care) is someone might see my data before I publish it...woopy doo, and I guess if they do, they'll have to spend the few hours needed to process TBs of data I make so they can what, scoop me? Oh and they have to access to the same supercomputer too... the risk I face of anything bad happening to me is minuscule. On the other hand, removing modern processor features like speculative execution and frequency scaling would mean my increase in execution time would mean going from 3 weeks or so to 4 weeks or more per simulation? No, I am NOT okay with that at fucking all, it's hard enough dealing with the multiweek delay I have before I can iterate, making that even longer for very little risk is not worth it.
Yes. Extremely high energy usage.
No problem, I was amazed at their Google-fu! :)
Why is that not what we need?
There’s other ways to mitigate that cost. Israel for instance runs many desalination plants from if I recall correctly solar power. We could do the same with solar and wind.

Never the less, yes, because I believe cost can be managed and figured out over time, where as I don’t know what other mitigating factors would be the consequence of such a choice
I was just thinking that it could be fun to turn all my old phones into kubernetes nodes
> Christ on a skateboard!?

Does it mean something specific, or is it just a variant of “Jesus Christ!”? Just curious. Tried Google, nothing turned up on the first page. Not even urban dict.
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Pope Francis praises ‘brave’ Ukraine, but war possibly ‘provoked’
One answer: anyone can start a journal, there are no laws or standards. Peer reviewers are busy and don't always have the background to criticize every aspect of a paper.

Another: not all research can or should have randomized studies (like it just wouldn't make sense if you were, say, determining the structure of a protein). So drawing the line as to what does and doesn't need a specific approach is blurry, and really, can only be enforced during the peer review process, or by the editor.

On the other hand, this kind of work can still serve as a hypothesis generator. Someone else will read this, think, "well they did this all wrong!" and perform a better study that clearly demonstrates whether it has an effect or not.
If loading == mmap(2)ing read-only, then it's not a problem. Read-only pages don't get CoW'ed.
Generally it would be cheaper to use more efficient farming methods.
My reading of this seems to be a matter of them simply reducing the chip complexity (down to 4 bit) so they can obviously have fewer components on the die. Aside from that simplification, I can't find anything actually new techniques.

It also continues to annoy me that semiconductor-on-plastic gets labelled as a plastic processor.
Getting a lease signed. For some reason, my previous apartment said I broke my lease even though I didn’t.
OK... liquidating assets is a taxable event. You aren't avoiding the taxman by borrowing money.
The answer to this problem lies here: “Entsminger pointed out that roughly 80% of the river’s flow is used for agriculture, and most of that for thirsty crops like alfalfa, which is mainly grown for cattle, both in the U.S. and overseas.”

The simple solution would be to raise prices on water such that it disincentivizes growing water hungry crops than alfalfa for example. The west’s water crisis is less about cities than agricultural choices made during the last century, which was wetter than it will be going forward. The obvious answer is to either regulate or incentivize using less water hungry crops more strongly. It would be better if this had started slowly a while ago, allowing the market to adjust and reallocate. Alas, looks like it will have to be an abrupt shift in the near future.
This comes up as excessively naive/idealistic and doesn't match up with the realities of the world.
I was expecting Claris…
That’s not an infinite money cheat when the required input is infinite wealth growth.
I am pretty sure this is literally about skin thickness. Here is the list of false beliefs polled:

Blacks age more slowly than whites; Blacks’ nerve endings are less sensitive than whites’; Black people’s blood coagulates more quickly than whites’; Whites have larger brains than blacks; Whites are less susceptible to heart disease than blacks; Blacks are less likely to contract spinal cord diseases; Whites have a better sense of hearing compared with blacks; Blacks’ skin is thicker than whites’; Blacks have denser, stronger bones than whites; Blacks have a more sensitive sense of smell than whites; Whites have a more efficient respiratory system than blacks; Black couples are significantly more fertile than white couples; Whites are less likely to have a stroke than blacks; Blacks are better at detecting movement than whites; Blacks have stronger immune systems than whites

Apparently a majority of white laypeople think that black people literally have thicker skin. Among white first-year medical students, 40% believe this, dropping to 25% of white residents.

Though in the narrow context of skin condition, it is true that people with darker skin “age more slowly”, i.e. have less age-related deterioration in skin quality because they are less susceptible to UV radiation. Minority groups in the USA are also more susceptible to cardiovascular disease, though that’s largely if not entirely attributable to environmental factors.
I had a few spots show up on my scalp and beard. I was told by a dermatologist to put cortisone cream and the bald patches have stayed away.

I agree with the sibling advice to see a doctor. Please don’t take what I’ve written as medical advice.
What is the point of that though ? They’re either too harsh or not? How do you find out in three years ?

There is also an election in three years. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s not a coincidence?
In the grim future of the strawman, many such cases abound
If it’s limited on what roads it can run on the 10 second window makes perfect sense. Just enable when you’re entering an unsupported roadway.
instant-ngp: https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp
As time goes on and the current popular media fades into obscurity, Trump will be held in higher and higher regard. His prediction about the current admin - high fuel, high inflations, crashing markets - was 100% spot on.

But he didn’t have the decorum.
Do you not see how their advice is tautological?

"never give up" coming from people who succeeded after decades of work.

It's obvious that a prerequisite for success is not giving up, but what about the people who didn't give up for decades and have nothing to show for it? I suppose they don't exist.
Bezos made a company who is really good at scaling to any scale at all functions. He created a ton of process at Amazon to facilitate this. I spent a number of years there as a senior leader. I was profoundly impressed with how his influence is pervasive in how things are done, and they’re generally insightful and work well for operating a highly scaled distributed organization that can try many risky things, fail fast, and succeed fast. He didn’t do it alone, but he did create the environment for it to happen and held pretty tight control over the tenants and way things are done. There are many humanistic ways in which Amazon is a profound failure but I think it’s naive to underestimate how much direct and indirect influence bezos had on what Amazon has achieved and become. I think if Bezos had applied some energy to creating an environment that fosters the humanity of its people it would be a much better company in most respects, but it’s undeniable to my experience that one man did instigate the changes we’ve seen Amazon bring to our world.

(N.b., I don’t say these things out of some worship for Bezos or Amazon, you can respect and appreciate something without liking it)
Corporations are made out of people. You can’t really tax corporations, maybe you can people with capital
> WhatsApp can't inspect your messages

That's what I've always believed too, signal & moxie did their encryption. How do we know that it is true? You can make a pretty strong case with reproduce-able builds, md5 sums on a published client codebase with signal, right? Is that the same for WhatsApp? Sure we might trust Moxie to a certain extent, why not? But even if that's good enough (?) how would we know if whatsapp changed things since? Everyone with commit access will be known to the CIA, NSA, Mossad, Saudi Intelligence, the GRU, MI6 and all the rest including organized crime with a view to compromising things to their advantage somehow.
Why should so few individuals have outsized social, political and economic power over the whole country? Why not tax them more and let elected officials representatives decide how best to spend the money?
I do like your nomenclature of "American Throwball", I might use that one in the future.

This is the unfortunate truth, IMO. As long as football is a distant fourth or fifth in American sports priorities, I don't see a reality where it excels. Why would it, when the athletes who could probably do amazing go to the other sports where they make 20x as much at a minimum, but more likely 200x as much?

Given the current trajectory of things, I simply don't see it changing either. Without some sort of black swan event either seriously incentivizing football or disincentivizing the other sports, there is no immediate path to the traction necessary to make football popular enough in the States for the USMNT to be a world class player in the next few decades.