skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's always seemed pretty cut and dry that the whole "abortion" controversy is largely a religious crusade and that anyone pretending to favor the constitution would call it mixing church and state.

But, conservative justices clearly had a bone to pick there, despite obvious conflict with the words of the constitution. For some reason.

There's a long and storied history of things being in conflict with the constitution and justices simply not caring. Slavery and Dred Scott come to mind, and although I'm sure there's plenty examples peppered in from other parts of the grand political spectrum, it's never been a well kept secret that the conservative M.O. is noticeably bolder and shameless in almost all regards, its major strength actually being in its willingness to use every tool at its disposal with minimal concern for blowback or legitimacy.

The recent state law strike down coming across as highly ironic (but probably not to conservatives since it achieves the actual goal not of ethics or consistency, but of simple victory) because so much of what conservatives got away with for decades directly defying the constitutional rights was based heavily on the concept of state's rights. Like informal slavery/servitude after the war, or keeping your elections nice and extremely predictable until that awful civil rights movement.

"Textbook" has nothing to do with this, or any of the wild departure of rulings being made in recent times. It's all very, VERY simple strategy: use what you have; dismantle what you can; build defenses where you can; you're in this for the Party.
Should you start going to business conferences again?
Totally agree; I'm against any company having a no-politics rule. Everything is political, for better or for worse, and enforcing it is really just enforcing your own political beliefs.
I'm not sure how representative it is, but there are still people making bolts with very labor-intensive, 19th century technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZYPG1ADPg

There are endless similar videos of people making simple machined, cast, or forged parts by hand like this, in horribly unsafe conditions, at least by today's workplace standards.
This is so beautiful.

Super cool not having manual thread joining code.
Can't speak to Pheonix, but Las Vegas and the surrounding counties have a history of being very good about stewardship of their water supplies. There's a ton of documentaries on the topic if you go digging around the search engines or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3z_z0Wsk-I
> This entire law is subsidizing 100 ships! Less than 100 people are getting rich off of this.

This assumes that each ship enriches only one person. How many shareholders own the companies that own the ships? And how many lobbyists are they paying to maintain the lucrative status quo? I'm sure that more than 100 people are getting rich off this, one way or another...
There is no limit to inefficiency. Maintaining entrenched corporatist monopolies via corrupt regulatory capture is long run much worse for national security.
It's Asteroid Day, an international asteroid-awareness event
Asteroid Day "is the United Nations sanctioned day of public awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts" [0] though in practice, it's a pretty fun day of learning about asteroids through local events and even 24 hours of streamed programming on Twitch and YouTube. [1]

The current incarnation of Asteroid Day seems to be a push by a group of scientists and filmmakers, among them astrophysicist Dr. Brian May, and more aimed at celebrating asteroids and their role in the solar system.

[0] https://asteroidday.org/about

[1] https://www.youtube.com/asteroidday
I'll definitely give it another try. Cheers
Doesn't help, really.
What is the max latency of these signals?
Airlines certainly don’t make more profit with reduced ticket prices. If the oligopoly wanted to force consumers to pay premiums for tickets, they could, but the industry is largely competitive. The privatized airline industry is often a money pit. Even OTAs make a small fraction of their revenue from air travel.
Finding the 0.1% of people with healthy, disease-resistant microbiomes
I always find Christies auctions amusing, take these $150k Harry Potter 1st edition collection, the first paragraph highlights spelling errors, right after authors signature. Clearly valuing that very highly:

> with the ‘wand’ error on p. 53 and the misspelling of ‘Philosopher’s’ on the lower board.

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-rowling-j-k-b-1965-6382...
yup, I'm currently taking Andrew Ng's newly redone machine learning course. the biggest change is that the language has been switched from matlab to python.
This country has stumbled through boneheaded nonsense after boneheaded nonsense ever since it was founded. What is going on now is not even remotely the worst it has ever been, and I don't think you can rationally plot any trajectory from the present to "death of democracy" unless you are discounting any datapoint more than a few years old.

> the US is far more polarized and contentious than it ever was before.

This is completely divorced from reality. Everything that has happened in the past 10 years is a mere candle to the bonfire that was the Civil War. You must be discounting datapoints you didn't live through if you really believe what you've said here. Shit man, the present state of affairs is tame even compared to the 60s and 70s.
> week in week out they are separated by less than 0,3 seconds to the finish line

I don't think that's true though, at least not this year. Separation this year has generally either been "within 1 second, or about 20" and seems to be every other race.

I think the closest gap this season has been ~.5 seconds, but many races have been somewhere between 5 and 20 seconds. And that's only considering the podium spots. Generally we see the top 1-3 teams dominate, with the feeder/mid pack teams all being 20+ seconds behind. Look at Azerbaijan, 4th place was over a _minute_ behind first place.

I love f1 but it's been many years since I've felt like the sport was truly competitive. This year is way better than previous years now that Mercedes isn't in a rocket ship, but it's still just a Ferrari Red Bull battle (with Ferrari reliability and management biting them in the ass race after race)
Then they would have to tackle financial regulation reform, and that isn't in the interests of anyone in Washington or Wall Street---and likely not within their wheelhouse of competence. The fed and various people throughout the financial industry and private citizens have been begging for specific regulations for decades now.
What does it even mean for everybody to "get it"?
Your comment was dead for some reason. I vouched for it, because I think it's interesting to discuss.

Although obviously no compiler of a Turing-complete language is going to eliminate all logic errors, the user of a language like Rust or Haskell may use the type system to prevent certain classes of logical errors (not just problems with the shape of data, or incorrect memory handling). The way you do it is with Abstract Data Types. One example of such a type in Rust is &str. If you don't use unsafe code, it should preserve the invariant that the slice holds valid UTF-8 data. Containing invalid UTF-8 data would be a logical error, not a memory error or data shape error. Similar things may be achieved in C++ and Java with the use of access-modifiers (public vs private class fields and methods). The idea is well-explained in the famous Parse, don't validate[1] article.

The flipside is that too much of it and code becomes so complicated, it's very hard to work with --- you're falling into a Turing tarpit[2]. It becomes easier to just write simple code without bugs, without using all that type system wizardry. But a judicious use of this pattern, where it's appropriate, may be very beneficial.

[1]: <https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...>

[2]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit>
Wow. All I can say is thank you. This is great.
Yep. The accurate version of that statement would say that fewer than 100 ocean-going Jones Act vessels are in operation today. The others are much more numerous -- but also much less relevant to the military rationale behind the Jones Act.
Yeah but you can be glad that you’re alive and find your life to be an experience you’re glad you’re having.
First thing when i saw this. Would these airplanes just be flying cancer sprayers? lol
I should have added that to my post - throat mikes are very uncomfortable. The band would also grab stubble so sometimes when I would turn my head I would get a nice sting as it tugged on a hair.
"fits in a backpack", with the implication that it will consume the internal volume of said backpack. That does not make it a solution for parent's "backpacking trip", unless you wish to sleep on the ground in the clothes you wore. And you ate before your left. The "heavy battery" was just icing on the cake. You know some backpackers saw the handles of their toothbrush to impress other backpackers^W^W^Wsave weight, right? :-)

That's not to say Starlink or a competitor can't get there eventually. I already have pocketable/backpackable device that can shove data up and down a satellite link (Garmin InReach), it's just dog-slow, and that's likely down to the antenna and transmitter power if I were to guess. Someone with more RF smarts than I can probably cook up a foldable antenna, perhaps boost the power a bit, I dunno. But the PoC is there, it just needs iteration.
Modern technology makes it possible to build cities in arid environments, but it doesn't make it wise.
This is partially why I think the risk of homeownership is largely being understated.

You may have entire communities that become uninsurable even long before an actual natural disaster occurs, and it becomes very difficult to cash out refinance or sell.
Gold pays for that step. No one sensible would prefer the gold UX compared to Bitcoin. It beats it in every way other than 'shiny!'
That's really cool - possible to llshow the two games that you've built already with Hathora?
U.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, and U.S.-built.

Not one ship meets this criteria for LNG
well, they were novices, they gotta learn somewhere right? while I admit git being different from Github is pretty basic knowledge and it might be expected that they know that, but this seems rather harsh considering that using git isn't a skill cs degrees cover.
Tell HN: Netlify changing Starter plan
In a nutshell..

In 30 days, our Starter plan will require that GitHub repositories connected to your Netlify account are either linked to Personal GitHub accounts or set for public visibility. If you have repositories using an Organization-owned GitHub account set to private visibility, you will need to move to the Netlify Pro plan or above.
What programs to code while learning programming?
There's much emphasis on data structures and algorithms in interviews and they're an important part when getting a formal education in computer science.

But remembering my progress when learning programming, I started practicing not just by implementing sort algorithms and binary tree searches but writing actual practical applications. Simple games in the beginning, then more diverse stuff like book keeping, graphics, CAD & simulation, client/server stuff.

So what would your list of programs to write on the path from absolute beginner to reasonably able to apply the skill in practical context? Here's mine:

1) "Snake" game ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) ).
2) Tetris game ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ).
3) (Microsoft) Paint program, excellent for OOP intro ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Paint ).
4) Ideally some sort of bookkeeping software with forms and a (relational) database behind.
In my days I actually used FoxPro, made forms definition very easy. I suppose nowadays this would be web-based?
But I'm leaving something much simpler for first web app, see #5.
5) A forum web application ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB )
6) A client/server chat program ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype).

That's a list from the top of my mind, I probably wouldn't require someone to write ALL of the stuff above before considering them a programmer. But definitely, if they DO write all this stuff by themselves then LeetCode or not, they MUST be knowing their craft.
You should read the whole law. It does limit their ability and has checks in balances of which they have over stepped. It is that simple.[0]

The court has stated if they want to extend their authority to the level they are enacting then congress must pass laws to expressly denote that intention.

States have rights in the original law. They are exercising this right and the court has agreed with them.

I think the last sentence in the original article sum's up why people are truly upset. Remember the court didn't say the EPA can't do these things in the future just that Congress would have to give it the authority.

From the original article:

"It's now clear this court will turn a sceptical eye to agency attempts to cite vague or broad laws to enact any sort of major regulatory changes. That's a significant development, given how difficult it has been for Congress to pass substantive new legislation in recent years. The time when presidents could find unilateral "work-arounds" in existing law may be coming to an end."

[0] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2013-title42/html...
Yep, that's exactly the sort of routine I have in mind.

Longer-term, I'm hoping for that favorite location to be a piece of land I actually own, in which case my goal is to setup a semi-permanent "base" with solar, Starlink, and a yurt or somesuch.
And for the stuff that matters, it is usually possible to tinker around enough to get it pretty much as good as Rust or C++.
Oh the typical techie solution to environmental problems. We can solve this with tech!

Wait until the aquifers under North America run dry. That's where most irrigation pump up their ground water from. A few dry rivers and smaller lakes are nothing compared to what's going to happen. Forget your desalination plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aquifers_in_the_United...

And it's entirely predictable. In fact, for decades already. But (almost) nobody is doing anything. Cause freedom, I guess. What's a golf course here and there in the desert, for the better off, right? Or what about an artificial lagoon? Freedom!

Edit: Oh, there is a recent John Oliver episode about this one too. Maybe finally somebody will notice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxew5XUVbQ
Great idea, thanks for this! The only thing I would change is the background color of the site. The high visibility jacket green does not contrast well with the white boxes and dark gray text. I also get a bit of afterimage, but that's probably because of me.
It sounds like you either have a head cold, or you have the microphone under a pillow.
It's not really the NIMBYs, it's the Coastal Commission which has a singular mission to protect the coasts no matter the larger big picture issues that keeps killing desal plants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Coastal_Commissio...
Well, you were wrong. Much of the area is California chaparral and woodlands, not deserts. The Mojave and Sonoran deserts are at the far South end of the state.
It depends what your criteria are, but most of the LA basin would not be considered to have a "desert" climate, instead a Mediterranean climate. A good amount is intermediate and considered "semi-arid". To get to a proper desert climate, you do have to go just outside the urban area, over the mountains into the rain shadow where you'll find the Mojave desert.

The border between "Mediterranean" and "Semi-Arid" is (according to Köppen) set by a threshold of precipitation based on potential evapotranspiration, which depends on things like average temperature. Once you have that threshold, precipitation at below 50% is considered "Desert", 50-100% is considered "Semi-Arid", and beyond would be other classifications (like Mediterranean in the LA case).

Maybe this sounds arbitrary but it shows that most of LA gets at least double the rainfall that a desert would, according to the most common climate classification scheme.
Whenever I have to start windows 10, I still see the same kind of bugs, that were present on XP. One example: They seem to be simply unable to fix the icons "near the clock", which are still shown, when some app has been killed, until you hover over them. Things like that, but of course also lots of stuff that affects people more in form of annoyances, making every action take at least twice as long as on GNU/Linux distros I run. It only takes minutes, and I am already frustrated with the system, because everything takes so long to do.
Government: plato o plomo?
Harvard and MIT have a lot of clout, and it's partly because of how incredibly massive they are. The Harvard network has more professors than some universities have pupils, (above two-thousand). Consequently just the amount of output due to a large number of people working there gets it placed high up in rating indices and such.

It's tough to say if it can keep up with its reputation. In some ways this phenomenon is comparable to gentrification: the beauty and soul of a place sometimes dies when the people who made that place what it is are displaced, like how Somerville and Berlin changed/are changing. It makes no sense for someone to remain committed in an academic career track when they're paying the kind of rent they do when around MIT/Harvard area with the income they make, so I agree with you that it's no longer attracting the kind of people that made MIT what it once was.

There are some institutions, that not many know about yet, that I'm confident in a couple of decades everyone will know about like U of Copenhagen and KIT & U of Stuttgart in Germany, and I think some in the midwest (Purdue, UMich, etc.) will one day have their day to shine too.
The neoclassical theory of (static) comparative advantage is dead and buried.

It was originally a kind of academic pretext for justifying exploitation of third world resources.

Then western economists drank their own koolaid.

They then tutted paternalistically at China in the 90s for engaging in export oriented industrialization and keeping their capital markets on a tight leash. They argued that China was shooting itself in the foot and should stick to things they were good at like making cheap tacky toys and clothes and open up their capital markets.

Those 90s New York Times op eds hailing comparative advantage and chastising China aged really badly.
I literally just sit on the floor, back resting up against my couch. I have a round coffee table where I can easily put my knees, legs under when needed.

I used to have back and wrist issues, tried standing desk, it definitely helped, but the sitting position on the floor is so much better. No back or wrist issues
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html has the documentation for the standard library.

In addition https://docs.rs contains the documentation for all publicly available Rust code.

The main tool used to generate these docs is very good and easy to use. As a result documentation is usually pretty good.
Yes, within the context of the type of sites I was discussing. You already indicated that you know that they are not actively maintained. Knowing that, it doesn't really matter if a breakage happens every year, 3 years, 5 years. There's no point at which it becomes "OK", if you believe in the long time preservation of content.

I'm not picking on maps specifically. It's a compounding effect of many individual parts slowly breaking. I would even agree that you did a reasonable job of maintaining backwards compatibility, but that doesn't matter...broken is broken. Content gone is content gone.
They* said they* were a conservative and those are all mainstream conservative opinions, don't know what more to tell you.

And I agree there's comments on both sides but you can't claim conservatives* are be forced to keep their* heads down or whatever, much as I might wish to not see them.
Well you can always for help from a co-worker more experienced with Git, or just search the internet for help. That could be a teaching moment.
Bluetooth is a good idea, but you need to be wary of the emissions you're relying on for critical comms. If you have a whole formation using a piece of the spectrum, that piece of the spectrum is now a target.
Congress gave the EPA broad powers thst the Supreme Court has now second-guessed and taken away.

Our children will remember this Supreme Court as evil incarnate
San Diego seems to be doing pretty well at water management. The naysayers weren't able to block the desalination plant and they are doing other things too.
Doing everything the majority of the economy of gold does (industrial uses can be ignored) better, except being shiny. If 'shiny' is your real argument then reconcile Pokemon Cards without ruining your argument.
how are u compiling (optimization, custom compilation flags etc.?) In my case https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer big project compile under your 4.2s so or you have like 10k+ lines of codes with macros or you just pass some debug flags to compiler :D
State authority is only truly relevant for collapsing currencies - for a functioning economy and currency, trust and availability are far more important.

Back in medieval and later times, when states were much weaker than they are today, especially economically, and especially small states, people chose which currencies they trusted, and often ignored the coins their local state was minting in favor of other, more trust-worthy coins minted in other places. Those places had no direct power over the people using their currency, and these people were not paying any taxes to them - they were simply choosing a currency they knew was likely to keep its values over the years.

This does happen occasionally in the modern day, with USD-based economies outside the USA, typically in countries with runaway hyper-inflation in their local currency.
The article currently says "Fewer than 100 Jones Act vessels are in operating today, not including barges and tugboats". I don't know why your quote omits that.
> Except for the fact that you agree with one ('cos it's "a good thing") and disagree with the other ('cos it's "a bad thing"),

Well, no... I don't give a shit if Amazon sells porn. Whether or not they do doesn't really disproportionately harm a minority group.

> what are these differences?

One actively targets a minority group.
Employee speaks out about his time at Amazon Game Studios
I've been using Mathematica since it came out in 1988, then off University of Illinois site license (it was developed there), and then keeping a personal hobbyist license live.

The hobbyist license wasn't priced by the year, just outright single charge. Is the by-the-year version you see one with continued upgrades?

[ Edit : the edit directly above answers this. thanks! ]
Thanks for the reply.

>Reuters could not independently verify the figure given by Denisova or her allegations, for which she did not provide supporting evidence.

This is the first.

Interfax article doesn't loads for me right now, but I doubt they use the term "concentration camp" (like the previous poster said they do) too.

And given how I just today read how people in Kherson are happilly take Russian passports - I have a big doubt these accusations have a valid basis.