skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I got into Berkeley EECS this way back in the late 20th century. I'd guess it's legitimate load-balancing rather than an attempt to game the ratings. I assumed this meant that my application was borderline and I was grateful to be able to sneak in. The Extension program is a nice transition to college too.
>The EU has a large, highly educated population

For now. Take a look at those demographic age pyramids and sub-replacement fertility rates. What's the population of the EU going to be in 2100?
My guess is you may have misread your W2.

Health insurance (for dumb, path dependent, historical reasons) for individuals and their families are not taxable, haven't been since WW2.

What you may have seen is the AMA line item that just tells you how much your employer spent on your healthcare. This is a weird attempt to get people to realize how much their employers are paying (much more than the premiums people generally think of as covering their health insurance).

If your employer happened to pay you more than the maximum allowable cost per employee, then your employer had to pay a 40% excise tax on the amount above the limit, but even then, it wouldn't be taxable to you. The roll out of this tax was delayed several times, it may have been repealed, I wasn't paying attention during the pandemic.
Old "Dave" has something AI doesn't: artist's intuition.
> but the purpose of the police is to enforce the law, which does not ideally _have_ to involve violence or threat of violence

Literally all law is fundamentally backed up with the threat of violence, there is no way around that philosophically. That's the difference between the rules of the state (which claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence) and the rules of a private person.

Enforcing the law reduces to the (hopefully regulated) application of violence or threat of same. Otherwise you'd call your lawyer and not a guy with a badge and a gun.
When we get to the point where people are tagging and changing “All Plumbers are Bastards”, then yes, plumbers should carry when entering an unknown situation.
I know close to nothing about growing mushrooms, aside from doing those kits once or twice where they grow out of the sides of the bag. I couldn't stand the marketing vid. Looks like a scam.

"Harvest at home with zero effort" I highly doubt it's _zero_ effort

"Gives you the highest quality food without GMO, chemicals, or waste..." the _biggest_ eyeroll ever

"Just order our ready to go blocks" so much for no waste

I'll stick with the $10 bag you cut holes in the side of
I forgot to mention another weight: maintainer time. A universal 2FA mandate would drastically increase the amount of support time maintainers spend helping users recover their accounts (a perverse problem to have!).
Like you said, Laserdisc was way better than either tape format. But if you watched it on a Trinitron television, you noticed all the same artifacts you have.

The best reason for owning a Laserdisc player in 2022 has decreased somewhat with the availability of the de-specialized versions of Star Wars. For decades that format was the only way to see the first 3 films as they were originally shown in the theater. Many thanks to the talented fans for putting the de-specialized versions together.

I'm wondering with the resurgence in popularity of the LP, and with media stores re-configuring their store fixtures to sell them, if we'll get Bluray films being distributed in the large 12" size with large photos and booklets.
It happens today quite a lot actually. You only have so many police, courts, prisons and so on, so you have to focus your law enforcement resources on what matters more. If you dug into how the practice of policing actually works, especially in higher crime areas, you'd probably be fairly surprised. A lot of crimes do not have a consequence, because the police and prosecutors do triage.

Same thing happens with medical triage and prioritization.

The essential argument is: don't block a potential improvement because it doesn't perfectly fix the problem, and instead just stay in a worse situation. Because often, the practical reality is you only have imperfect solutions, and hypothetical perfect ones often do not happen. And you can still execute your perfect solution later after the imperfect one is complete.
> “[MAiD] is exclusively a financial consideration,” she told CTV News Toronto.

> After 26 months of lost income since the onset of symptoms, no foreseeable ability to work and an absence of support, Thompson said she expects to run out of money in about five months.

Everything leads back to money.

Health and happiness are the #1 most important things to have in life. And you can be rich and depressed or in poor health.

But money is necessary for many things to improve your health. Medication, fitness coaches, fun activities. And poverty forces you into situations which damage your health: pollution, stressful jobs, cheap products.

It’s not Long Covid which is causing this woman to want to kill herself, it’s Long Covid and the fact she doesn’t have enough money. We’re lucky to be in a situation where many things can be solved or at least alleviated with money and connections. But if you lack money, you’re completely screwed.
I haven't been there, hesitating mainly because of the political situation. But if you tell me it's very crowded maybe I can move from hesitating to a negative decision. I might have looked more into the mountains by bike, that did not seem crowded to me when I looked last time (probably years before Covid). But the public infrastructure for a cyclist who might want to have a rest some day and do something else did not look convincing either. And then there were some very unspecific reservations my French teacher had about the people in the mountains. No idea whether they have any foundation, but just looking at Street View did not tell me this looks all very welcoming.

Sardinia is certainly on my list. I understand they still have some intersting small railways, too.
> I mean, it's your choice to make it violent.

No, that's the lie that violent people tell.

> but violence is not the default way that someone gets taken to jail.

Most people do not go to jail willingly. It is always the threat of violence that gets them there. Let's not pretend.
> Why didn't the German government massively subsidize Green energy?

But they did? (Sorry if Iʼve misunderstood you.)

“According to a 2016 study commissioned by a neoliberal think tank, €150 billion have been spent so far, and the bill is estimated to reach half a trillion euros by 2025.”[1]

That was started by the Schröder government (1998–2005) and rather half-heartedly continued by the Merkel government (2005–2021), decreasing the subsidies.

China has even benefitted from German subsidies.

“Germany long aimed to be a front runner in the solar energy industry, but waning subsidies and rising competition from China have clouded its outlook. To add insult to injury, the Chinese boom has been generously supported by German financial aid.” … “According to KfW officials, it was precisely the subsidy policy's goal to help Chinese solar producers achieve a breakthrough, in order to promote the environmentally friendly technology internationally.”[2]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-issues-in-a-nutshell-energiewen...
[2] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-capital-error...
This doesn't even look like a prototype, it looks like a foamboard mockup
I’ve had amazing large lectures and poor small classes. It always came down to the individual professor.

I actually think that putting a bad teacher in a small class makes it worse than a large one.
I certainly hope the villain of this story suffers consequences greater than being contacted by BBC News.
That's a very misleading metric since it doesn't reflect the real-life experience of most Russians looking to exchange money. It's just a show metric the government is maintaining.
This sounds like the fallacy of youth.

I never used medical care in my 20s. In my 30s, my wife and I needed a bit. In my 40s, slightly more.

On average Americans use a lot of health care.
Something being illegal doesn't make that thing wrong.
You would have been cooked by x-rays before that happened.
He’s referring to the cosmic event horizon

“ In an expanding universe, the speed of expansion reaches — and even exceeds — the speed of light, preventing signals from traveling to some regions. A cosmic event horizon is a real event horizon because it affects all kinds of signals, including gravitational waves, which travel at the speed of light.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon
> Theoretically the EU could make clones of all international sites like China has with Baidu and Weibo, but it's hard to see how that would be good for them.

We would have real privacy protection, and presumably in the very long term we'd see the benefits of that (more creative new ideas coming out of the EU, wealthy people preferring to live in the EU...).
A lot of these types of comparisons done with distribution provided packages aren't really ever comparing what they think they are. KDE has a TON of components which can be optionally compiled/installed(like baloo or the PIM), which are not essential and offer features far beyond what a regular XFCE install will provide(and which most non-corporate users don't want). In addition there are lots of different flags and ways to compile each of these environments(and their related libraries) that can make all of them much leaner if that is the goal.

A fairer comparison would be to look at the most minimal install with similar compilation flags, or look at only what applications it would take to achieve some goal and compile and install only those parts needed to perform it using the desktop environment's applications.
I think maybe the problem is that DS9, especially the latter seasons, made much heavier use of effects, since it was entering the CGI era?
I appreciate the candor. On my initial reading, I didn't get the scope of what you were saying; I agree.
I didn't say that they don't. I'm saying among people I knew, if you got into #4 and #10, for example, you didn't pick #4 because it was higher ranked. At that point the difference came down to other things.
Caveat emptor-

This an article about logging timber, as in physical trees.

Not quite what I was expecting.

Rick-rolled on the heels of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037622
Did you play AoE2:DE? It is the classic, but with quality of life improvements and regular balance updates.
Demonstrations almost always are about sufficiency, not necessity.

If I make a machine that walks to the store, I have shown that walking is sufficient to get to the store. I have not ruled out the possibility that you bicycle to the store.

But if there has been a long running passionate debate on whether walking could ever get you to the store, showing sufficiency can settle that.
There is a lot of effort in those simple words though. Based on my experience—

1) Sterilize the substrate/polyfill. This is not trivial. I personally use a bag set in a hot water bath with a sous vide heater.

2) Use food grade buckets and make evenly spaced holes in them. Sterilize those buckets.

3) Prepare the buckets by layering substrate and then a layer of the inoculated material. This is not easy, everything needs to be sterile.

4) Manually spray them down every other day.

5) Control the light. Needs to be dark initially during propagation and then some light so the mushrooms know to grow out.

That’s a lot of work. It’s like saying anyone can just set up rsync, what’s the big deal with Dropbox.

That being said, it’s silly to buy these preseeded boxes. It’s going to be super expensive and your harvest is going to be tiny. Much cheaper to just buy the mushrooms at the store.

The only thing this makes sense for is super rare strains of mushrooms (if they can grow morels I’m sold) and of course psilocybin.
Yup I have had the same exact experience with Common Lisp and every time somebody talks about standardization being so great I think back on this.

Scheme is suffering from the same issues. Scheme is standardized, but implementations end up being incompatible with each other in subtle ways and the level of fragmentation is very painful. Scheme does get some updates unlike CL I guess, but all of the implementations either don't implement the the modern standard, don't have useful extensions for real world programming or are simply immature and don't have enough people working on them to get them into a nice state. In practice it's very difficult to use Scheme for anything non-trivial because of these issues.

I would much rather have no standard at all, and a single high quality implementation that everyone targeted instead of the current mess for both CL and Scheme. Until we get a new dialect that solves these issues Lisp is going to be more or less dead and irrelevant.
A waste dump from a reprocessing cycle would be less radioactive than the original uranium in 500-1000 years. It's the plutonium that lasts 10,000's of years and a reprocessing cycle puts the plutonium back to work as fuel for the reactors.
People can have good intentions and be completely awful, so absolutely!

I can't handle the mental burden of constant negative criticism. If I truly believed everyone was out to ruin it, I'd quit. Eventually I'd live in the forest

At most I'll scoff about the thing and try to help. It's more self preservation than anything - choosing their ignorance over malice
If you look at the different photos in that recipe, you can see that the one on the tree has several times more water than the one purchased from the store. So which '16 oz' is it even referring to?
I'm saying among people I knew, if you got into #4 and #10, for example, you didn't pick #4 because it was higher rated. At that point the difference came down to other things.

If you got into #4 and #40, then yes, you were going with #4.
No, there are definitely FOIA laws that apply to public universities. The post was calling out UIUC and this is their web page about it [1]

But I am really curious about the argument against the requested survey data. The poster linked to his web page which specifically lists UIUC as being exemplar and providing data without even the need for a formal FOIA request.

[1] https://www.uillinois.edu/erc/foia
So, I do get it, but it's also a self-fulfilling prophecy. People are chanting "all police are bastards" as a result of police carrying guns everywhere (and the downstream effects, like those guns occasionally shooting innocent people).
I feel like it's gotten too hard to judge the size of gigabytes of RAM.

I come from a game development background where traditionally the bulk of the space usage went into media content. It felt easy to justify a game of X megabytes when 90% of that was in graphics. That doesn't seem to be where the space goes for things like this though.

To put this into perspective, the calculation I make is 1920x1080x3 (an uncompressed HD screen) = 6220800. Roughly 6 megabytes. That makes a gigabyte hold 170-ish full screens of uncompressed graphics. I'm ok with something using a gig if it's throwing that much imagery around, but if not, where does all the space go?
I'm not convinced the "solution" to abuse is to remain completely anonymous online.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/05/12/ask-...
Imagine college A that 100 apply for and all 100 get in vs. college B where 10,000 people applied and only 100 got in. If both colleges are choosing students based off of some measurable criteria, let's say the SAT score. Would you expect to have higher average scores at college A or college B? Obviously college B would have students with better SAT scores simply because they are so much more selective.

Assuming that the college is selecting students for attributes that you are looking for in fellow students, then the college that denies more people will have students with more of the attributes you are wanting to be around. So it isn't just about perception. There is some math behind it as well.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_(Chernobyl)
I can go buy $10 kits (pre-innoculated block) that fruits in a few days from the local farmers market. $20 on Etsy.
Also, I do want to say it's not like I hate spending time with my kids (setting aside the usual annoyances of dealing with misbehaviors), but in terms of pure hedonism, there's plenty of things I enjoy more that I don't do as much because it would be shitty of me to never be around.
Fake Indian cricket league in a village dupes Russian gamblers
nice writing.

I think you have a good point with the "death-ball" approach. I haven't seen it put it that way.

I'm a big SC:BW fan. I haven't played in a while but I love watching it, and I feel like the competitive RTS market is something that is waiting for a hero. SC2 really isn't it, for a multitude of reasons. (balled groups of units being one of them, imo)

Frost Giant's first technical demo (presented in "the pylon show" forget which episode) was a "perfect flocking simulator" showing how the machine could multi-threaded handle 100 million units around a complex maze. I hated it.

Give me the chaos of units bumping into each other and trying to find the optimal way with other moving agents in the way. Maybe not quite as bad as Dragoons and SCVs, but similar.

There's the certain aspect of suspense and excitement that BW pro games have compared to SC2. "we all know that the unit has to move there and shoot, but will it get there in time? have they given it orders fast enough? is something going to block it?" -- it really ads to the atmosphere of excitement, knowing that the perfect play isn't going to be possible.
To me, most remarkable is how little different they are.

One is 140 hours, the other 12 hours. So, mainly this calibrates JWST as 10-20x Hubble sensitivity, with noticeably but not radically improved sharpness, but radically less noise. Presumably the actually important results will be the much longer exposures and the redder things Hubble can't see at all, or that would be obscured by noise.

JWST depends very heavily on gravitational lensing and perverse perspective (where things far enough away look bigger because the space they were in grew) to get usefully detailed images. Which is a Good Thing, because we could not have lofted a big enough mirror to get such images directly.

In The Future, when we loft hundreds of flat mirrors maintained in an array hundreds of km across, all this will seem pretty pedestrian. But those will have to be out by Neptune so the whole thing can be kept cold enough to be useful. Powering it will be a tricky affair: it will probably need beamed microwave power from a correspondingly large solar concentrator, or maybe D-3He FRC reactor if that can be got working. Then, getting the data home will be a project of its own.

In the more distant future, civilization will have shifted major operations and population out there to take advantage of access to the thermodynamically most irreducible resource, cold. That probably cannot happen until after p-11B fusion is mastered. (To be clear: people won't move out there, much; rather, population out there will outgrow Earth's.)
One is "given the same calories, you'll be full longer." The other is "given fewer calories, you'll be full for as long." Surely those aren't orthogonal?
If you were mutating a variable then you'd probably be using the same variable, but in this case you cannot do that. Not trying to be argumentative just saying when you have to store the result in a completely different variable I don't see how that could be considered to look like mutation.
I disagree. Bitcoin started the same way on the darknet. That does not mean it had no greater value, as we now see.

The actual people using Monero are unknown. That’s the point. To say it is centralized behind a group of criminals is incorrect. It has been extensively used to get money into places like Venezuela where the state is hostile, and for all kinds of positive services where people simply value privacy. See http://monerica.com

The fact that criminals also use Monero is a feature, not a bug, and proves that it works in the most hostile environments. The fact that it enforces the fourth amendment is a good thing, and it forces law enforcement to target criminals specifically rather than enabling blanket surveillance.

Anyone who wants tools to prevent the state from abusing power has ample reason to use Monero, and given the way politics has been infringing on banking rights in Canada, that is bound to be a growing number.

Regardless of what you think of the Canadian protestors, the real question is what do you think of the right to privacy and our ability to ensure our rights in the USA, given our constitution. If we do not trust people to transact privately then lets just repeal the fourth amendment and be honest about what rights we do and don’t have.

I happen to believe the right to privacy is fundamental and that to remove it is to create a panopticon. I believe law enforcement has ample means to go after crime without violating financial privacy, and believe it is equally if not more important to prevent abuse of law enforcement powers given the tendency for corruption, political use, and lack of effectiveness that has plagued all of human history.
In any other situation, testimony or evidence from such an easily impeachable witness would get laughed out of court. Why do we allow it from cops?

If a journalist or academic gets found to have knowingly fabricated even the smallest detail it immediately calls into question their entire body of work, and even colleagues they may have worked with.

These are federal agents and the best standard we can hold them to is "oh, we don't have direct evidence of other crimes so we'll just assume the first time we caught you was the first time you did it"

They sold him details of the case for bitcoin into their personal wallets. It wasn't part of a sting or intel operation. The same cops that built the case against him were themselves indicted for money laundering payments they received from Ross. Multiple independent agencies and field offices with rogue agents undermining the cases they were building in real time for personal gain that was contemporaneously worth less than a million dollars.
You're taking all the context out of the two pictures.

These pictures are not viewed in isolation. This post is full of comments of people asking questions about things like the gravitational lensing. And the picture will then end up in videos like these https://youtu.be/oAVjF_7ensg which gather millions of views and which help educate people on what the picture means and why it's significant.
Nuclear already offsets more fossil fuels than wind and solar. That could change, but for now it will take at least several years to add enough renewable capacity to offset Diablo Canyon after it closes in California.
Just noticed this again today. Spotify vs Hype Machine (browse, then "recommendations" by checking out people who also liked $song). Spotify is somehow stuck on dark, aggressive electronic music for me. It's not the only thing that I like, not even my favorite really.