skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they were naively certain that increased economic liberalization and increased market economic activity in China would lead to political freedom as well.

Thatcher was a lot of things but naive certainly wasn't one of them. The Western powers simply wanted to become closer to China for economic and geopolitical reasons, but need an excuse to back away from the Red Scare. "Bringing Democracy" is the oldest page of the manufacturing consent playbook. It's honestly embarrassing of how well it works (e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya).
Would a (the) global superpower want its rivals to believe its capabilities are ahead or behind of their current state?

This leads me to believe we're never going to get an accurate picture of the state of a weapon development program through the press. Is the F-35 program in trouble, or not? If it was why would you let your adversaries know this?

It's an interesting question to consider.
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Thank you, updated.

This seems like a better place to point out (rather than editing the original to say something different) that this actually undermines the argument: stainless steel is only about 6kg CO2 per kg, and a gallon of gas burned is around 8.

That number for steel is a lot lower than I expected, but here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy#In_common_mate...
I just looked up the MSDS[0] for my can of Dust-Off (which I believe is the most popular brand?). It lists the sole ingredient as "Ethane, 1,1-difluoro-", which turns out to be a refrigerant, but not 134a.

It's HFC-152a[1]. Looks like it's a much "friendlier" refrigerant than 134 (and of course vastly better than R-12)

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C1-Difluoroethane
>of difficulty finding Indicas or Sativas at dispensaries

Finding things they call Indica or Sativa. Afaik given that there's no objective difference between the two you can call it anything you want.

I'm a relatively inexperienced smoker so take the following with grain of salt but this is what I've noticed.

Since it's a plant there's definitely differences seed to seed, soil to soil, season to season, flower to flower, etc.

Weed these days is so potent small differences in flower smoked add up to large differences in THC/CBD/etc consumed. Like you're not carefully weighing out the amount you put in a bowl. It's done by eye and by volume which both have a large margin of error.

Then there's smoking technique. How you hold the lighter, how you inhale, how much water in the bong, and so on all impact how much smoke is produced and consumed.

Then we're talking about perception. How high you are is really how high you perceive you are. And that can be affected by mood, tiredness, what activity you do after smoking, and so on.

In my experience same flower, same technique, same amount, etc can lead to wildly disparate outcomes. Most of the time it's about the same. But every so often I find myself blasted to the moon or not really feeling much.

But all that said, Sommeliers can repeatedly recognize specific vintages where I can mostly just recognize broad categories. Maybe there's weed sommeliers out there that can do the same.
If its done by the government or a government owned body it is by definition. That being said, Propublica is neither a government nor is it a government owned news agency. So its not propaganda.
Yes a propane/isobutane blend works well, it's basically a drop-in replacement for R-12 in air conditioners. Straight propane replaces R-22 in freezers.

The only drawbacks are that it's flammable, and that for the blend, if there is a a slow leak, the blend ratios change due to different partial pressures of the two gasses. So to recharge, you basically have to vacuum the system and refill with the proper blend.

Ammonia also works for industrial applications (the local ice rink uses it) but due to its toxicity it's not ideal for household applications.
I just had my air conditioner replaced last week, and I walked out to check on the tech doing the work just as he finished removing the refrigerant from the old system. By venting it to atmosphere. forehead slap. I was under the impression the EPA will go after technicians personally if they get caught doing that. R410a may not be the same ozone-depleting refrigerant as R-22, but it's still a lot worse than CO2 for greenhouse effect.

I heard they're switching next year away from R410a to something new. But... not propane?
In principle I strongly agree, but I have yet to find a single third party app that I want on my watch. And as long as the watch is still able to do notifications, pinging, podcasts and unlocking of my MacBook, I wouldn't consider this too bad. But let's see how this shakes out in practice
I think you confused whoishirig with whowantstobehired
I guess we should deprecate and remove DOSBox too, right?

DOSBox exists because DOS legacy applications still exist, and will continue to exist for a very long time. The same is true of X legacy applications.
HN titles are often edited after posting, so it's possible the original title misrepresented this.
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Some constructive feedback about your CV you might want to consider to get picked up faster (I read through a lot of resumes):

- change the order of your experience so it's reverse timeline; start with your more current experience and then go backwards in time instead of starting with the oldest experience first

- change the wording to be more concise, it takes a lot of time to read through because you include lots of details like it's a story in first-person (use the word 'I' a lot). Example:

"As part of this work, I contributed to upstream OpenCart."

Change to just a summary bullet point like:

* heavy contributed to upstream OpenCart (https://github.com/opencart/opencart) project

Otherwise, good luck!
The oligarchs sized economic power in the vacuum of dismantled central planning.
There is when the city is getting paid for the recycled material.

In fact some cities offset the price of trash service with the money from recycling. Which is part of the impetus to fine people for not separating. You’re costing the city money.
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Gitlab patches critical RCE bug in latest security release
> it just isn't happening with dorky headsets and probably won't until the tech matures enough to get there

Zuckerberg is well aware of the technical challenges of VR headsets and they're putting a lot of effort into getting the headsets where they need to be. Seems like they're helping push the technology much further than any other company right now.

Here's a 30 minute video where he and Michael Abrash go into the technical challenges, and what they've been doing to address those issues, as well as showing off prototype devices they've been working on[1].

And there's an hour long episode of Adam Savage's Tested series where they get to try the prototypes and go into even more detail[2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sThLeiw8h2Y

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc
More isn't a replacemnet for better
> In my experience, homeschooling can create well-rounded, upright people at a ratio above traditional schooling.

Sorry, you talk about your own positive experience with homeschooling (which is great!), but that’s clearly not an experience that would give insight into predicting aggregate outcomes more generally.

What experience are you referring to here? Did you end pursuing a career studying it or something?
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True, there's good money to be made off googling for people.
That’s tough . Do you live in a rural area ? I find this is a lot easier in a place like San Francisco and NYC where there are more secular homeschoolers and more techies and teachers educating their kids at home for a better education /more mastery learning . Hopefully this will change for you as the population grows.

Have you considered reaching out to SEA homeschoolers for connecting w families near you ?

https://m.facebook.com/seahomeschoolers

I know a bunch of secular homeschoolers around the world and am happy to help you forge connections if you like :)
Well, I guess this is also under the umbrella of "why I'm switching back": GUI clients are kind of a mixed bag. Mostly, their colors are oversaturated and are unmaintained:

neovide: colors oversaturated and seemingly always antialiases, even when you try and turn it off [0]. It also crashes on "set guifont=ProggySquare:h11".

goneovim: colors oversaturated

neovim-qt: colors oversaturated

gnvim: looks unmaintained, no macos package (probably easy to build, but why)

neovim-gtk: looks unmaintained

[0]: https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/1102
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Why would the someone develop anti-stealth fighter weapons when their opponents aren't flying stealth fighters? Same with carriers. Nobody else has a serious carrier fleet anymore.
Refrigerants are really interesting - we phased out a bunch of them a few decades ago because they were destroying ozone, but what we replaced them with had high Global Warming Potential (GWP.) The new thing that all of the HVAC companies are working on are finding new refrigerants that have low GWP and work well in their equipment. One of the tricky things is a lot of the low GWP refrigerants are mildly flammable, so there's some thought about trying to revise the building codes to permit their use.
But it will impact 100% of the women needlessly killed or imprisoned.
Are these certificates difficult to get? I've considered getting stuff like that when I become an owner so I can DIY stuff because AC is a necessary luxury for me and I'd rather be able to repair/replace as quickly and cheaply as possible with no salesmen and middlemen invovled.
Vaping at 170 will make you freakout where 200-210+ will make you relaxed. Controlling is possible.
It's impossible to know that without being privy to inside details. What if they had a major deal lined up that unexpectedly fell through? Things like that can change "no layoffs" to "4% layoffs" literally overnight.

Companies are pivoting quickly at this point with the shifting tides and contagion happens fast.
And yet, in two of the examples given - the one under discussion, and the NY state concealed carry law - they took away authority from congress and a state respectively.
Kind of cool to see smalltalk in use
What incentives would you put into place?
That "review" was a thinly disguised hit piece against the V language.

1) The "review" is now significantly wrong and already outdated.

Doesn't mention it is reviewing an Alpha or even the version.

Anything of substance in the review was mostly minor and has already been fixed:

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14803
https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14787
https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14786

2) The author of the "review" used a throwaway account for the apparent purposes of recommending to not use V.

The author of the "review" can run away and hide, where the creators and developers of V are accountable to the public and supporters.

This includes that the author of the review never has to update or make corrections to his hit piece, while still spreading links to it all over the internet.

3) The "review" is used as a linked reference document for further attacks by competitors and detractors. And as has already happened on various other internet sites, including here.

4) If the author of the "review" was really eager to use and fix the V language, he could have brought those issues (he has a GitHub account) to the V GitHub (https://github.com/vlang/v/issues).

Who is going to fix any issues that the author believes is a problem?

It is going to be the V developers. So if the author of the review wanted those things that he believes are a problem fixed, that's who he has to bring them to.

5) The author of the "review" starts it by linking to a number of very contentious posts from competitors and detractors of V, to include those that smear the author and language.

This turned the "review", right off the bat, into setting off drama. A smear campaign on the V language will never get any of the issues fixed on its own, just only invite more drama, smearing, and attacks. Which looks like the original intent.

6) The author of the "review" has shown no interest in working with V developers, and that's prior to publishing the review and spreading links to it.

No intent has been shown to modify his review for correctness, fairness, or language version.

7) The author's review doesn't provided the necessary context and is highly opinionated.

Without feedback or the opinions of the V developers, this is a one-sided negative review full of many debatable points, that does little to help readers outside of trying to produce a negative impression and smear the language.

If the review author is not interested in working with V developers, and rather produce and disseminate drama or facilitate smearing, then that's a reflection of their real intent.
It sounds like you got regulatory testing done. Again, regulatory testing of diesel emissions are highly lacking, and emissions testing tends to focus more on specific toxins and greenhouse gases. So, sure, maybe you passed regulatory emissions testing, but it doesn't mean you didn't create a monster.

Connect a modified diesel to a Texas emissions testing system and it'll likely pass while it's spewing soot and other garbage.
Cool! Thanks so much for sharing ! Looking forward to poring through these entries!
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This sort of bullshit is exactly what causes companies to go downhill. Strong leadership would have handled these layoffs much, much differently, to say nothing to the fact that a good CEO should have been able to avoid them entirely.

Riccitiello needs to go. As another commenter put it, Unity is too important of a product for its stewards to be languishing like this.
Interesting! I think this is a good take and one that also kind of makes sense
How dare you do regular business and try to grow your company, quality of life, and QOL of your customers?
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To get some unfair dice, Diaconis went to a loaded dice shop somewhere in Los Angeles to see about ordering a set of custom dice. (This was before you could order unfair dice over the internet.) Since an unfair die is intended to have one face come up more frequently than the others, he wanted each die to have a pip only on that side, with the rest blank. This would make it easier to record the results.

The proprietor of the shop looked and him strangely and said, "What kind of game are you running, buddy?"

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Proprietor: "Yeah. Sure."
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Yes, you understood the assignment. The public knows about US and NATO weapons what the US and NATO wants the public to know. Individuals in a position to know the truth, who violate the narrative, are dealt with harshly.

Case in point: The public had relatively little knowledge of the battlefield performance of current gen ATGM's prior to Russia's recent offensive in Ukraine. This is in spite of the fact "current gen" dates back to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq where they played a decisive role. Today, according to the press, ATGMs are the savior of Ukraine.
> OP understands neither science nor complex systems.

This seems like an uncharitable take.
I can't imagine how an alarmist approach is "100% valid" when there are not any known problems caused by this.
The article is only stating that living in urban environments is correlated with a decrease (by A Lot) in gut microbes.
Even if it is true that a significant decrease in gut microbes is a Bad Thing, the article does not argue that well.
Indeed, it seems to intend to argue that with little or no substance.

> Consider [OP's] comment as feedback from an editor to the author.

If the comments are just criticisms about the content in the article then they seem apt.
Many of the points hold up when I am critical about the article's arguments.
It's possible to argue that position and also be in favor of publishing this information.
Unfortunately, you cannot have "stability" nor "prosperity" if the only means is to suppressing people's complaints away. It would be interesting to observe how China is doing in the next decades. As a Chinese and an outsider, the suppression looks real with each passing day (HK is miles better than anywhere in mainland, let's be clear about that).
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Well the Dutch are famous for their work ethic. Seriously, an assertion like that is easy to make but it could well be that they are better about keeping statistics and are more willing to publish them transparently.
In Arabic Bahdawi means "desert dweller", while in English Bedouin refers more specifically to Arab desert dwellers.

The people you're talking about are Amazigh, also known as Berbers, and from the indigo, specifically Tuareg.

I'm sure they were referred to as "bedouin" and it isn't wrong in context.