skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's relevant because the legal constructs we derive are not as absolutist as we would imagine and, that our society, particularly our education, was never entirely secular even long after such clauses were established, and large swaths of people have no understanding of that history, or the degree to which 'The Church' etc. fundamentally underpin these institutions.

Christmas/Easter holidays, 'In God We Trust' on every dollar bill, 'National Prayer Breakfast', Army Chaplains, modern/recent US Presidents (aka Jimmy Carter) teaching Sunday School in the White House etc.. 'Separation of Church and State' is almost an academic construct in a nation or culture in which faith (or even just religion) plays a major roles in people's lives.

Specifically with respect to education, I think many people think of 'University' as a fundamentally secular institution, when really it's not.

Frankly, the general orientation of 'Let's not have a religious state, and our institutions should not be religious' is a really good idea, however, it turns into a hairy mess at the margins.

In Ontario, Canada, about 40% of the 'Public Schools' (aka fully publicly funded) are actually Catholic. They are 'open to anyone' and it's not 'Jesus Songs All Day' kind of thing, rather, they have 'Christmas Concert' where they are allowed to sing Christmas Carols, whereas the regular Public Schools have 'Seasonal Concerts' with 'Wintertime Songs' as an example of some of the 'notable differences', by that I mean, the 'Catholic Schools' are not hugely religiously infused.

I bring this up because it's one of the oddest and most paradoxical arrangements in modern secular governance with respect to education. It's only controversial in the academic sense, i.e. something for people to argue about, in practice, it's the most 'normal' thing one could imagine. If one were to suggest this arrangement for a US state, all hell would break loose. Pun intended. Of course, the US is a different place than Canada. (FYI I'm not Catholic).
I sent you an email to settle the bet a few months ago, it probably went to your spam. My email is in my profile.

I was wrong about the war, but I think my understanding of the situation has improved. My mistake was naivety. The naivety is gone now, and I think there is real chance of this war going global if the West keeps fuelling the conflict.
I think you might be focusing on the wrong thing here. There is no reason to outlaw ride shares, only ride shares that engage in illegal lobbying, labor violations, and disregarding of the law. In fact this is not specific for ride share companies, but companies in general (including traditional taxi cab companies).

People have been complaining about Uber not because it is a ride share company that undercuts the traditional taxi cab companies, but because they exploit their workers, bribe their elected officials, brake their local laws, and use VC funding to undercut their competitions. For this they should be outlawed.
I remapped caps lock to control years ago. Its easier to hit, no one uses caps lock anymore on purpose.
An open source SSD is also a lot more feasible than an open source hard drive. Even if you managed to get an open source HDD controller, you still need the precision mechanical parts that are impossible for the average person to make. With SSDs, however, it’s just a PCB with ICs.

Edit: this obviously ignores any troubles one would have sourcing the ICs (such as possible NDAs)
In 2005 my wife and I lived in a part of the USA that had no Costco within a half day's drive. We soon secured jobs in a part of the USA that had two (two!) Costcos in the same city that we would live. True story - before we even looked for housing, I went online and joined Costco. Years later my diabetic cat even had a Costco pharmacy account (best place to buy insulin by far) and received a discount for being without health insurance.
That should be the default: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5894#section-4.2
I once did a 3d-space representation with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_dodecahedron

but in the end it turned out to be easier to just supersample everything down to cube grid, then put some n-vectors on top than to explain everyone how to calculate stuff in that grid.

Still have couple dozen ~3" cardboard ones somewhere from when I tried to understand how exactly do they stack. Made a nice lamp when stuffed with LEDs.
Amazing how much China has changed over the past 60 years. From backwards and famined to a global super power.
Uber don't schedule anything in most markets, they just look for a driver a couple of minutes before.

I'd never rely on that for something important like an airport trip.
> Almost nobody doing industrial work with comparable PPE doesn't spend at least 1-2 hours of a typical workday out of the PPE.

Which leaves many thousands of hours in PPE, for many thousands of people. If the N95 masks caused health issues, we'd know. If someone can demonstrate a) a mechanism and b) any evidence for such an effect, I'm all ears.
So what? I know the numbers too, how does this make them relevant to today’s crisis? It cannot be solved by building more nuclear.
Don't take it personally. They do the same thing to locals who disagree with their opinions too.
I'd argue it looks like fear, but really it's fusion. People want to fuse all their needs together into one hive-mind reminder system so they have more time and energy to spend on work. Smartphones and management are all too happy to help.

People can't see the self-evident anymore. The Kantian and Nietzschian thing-in-itself is dead. People have to be told not to walk into boxes otherwise they will, while they dream of some heavenly work project in their mind.

How do we control it? Zero accident policies, you gotta remember not to walk into boxes and you gotta remember to slap on sunscreen, as if the material world only starts to exist again in people's minds when you mention it.
Where did we draw the line with USA?
Russia has put down multiple popular uprisings within its sphere - Belarus, Kazakhstan. Invaded Georgia, and Ukraine to effect regime change. And looks to be behind the Coup in Mali and one in Montenegro.

China has supported violent Juntas in Myanmar, and Sudan. It has essentially performed a coup in Hong Kong.
And of course it loves supplying weapons to latin countries via Norinco. And it's doing economic damage and putting more of those countries in debt, just like it took Hambantota International Port from Sri Lanka.

Both are racking up kills elsewhere in Africa too.
I like these kinds of replies that minimize the dangers China presents to the world while implying people concerned about the same are just ignorant xenophobes and racists.
That’s about insurance, while someone might care about your safety, they spend to save and reduce liability.

It varies by state as well. In New York, for example, any third-party work related fall from a height can be the company’s responsibility. You you need to have a bunch of procedures around ladders and lifts to get insurance or avoid excessive rates.

A zero accident policy means that you don’t accept employee injuries as part of the job. There’s usually a safety committee and they look at root causes for accidents, and processes to control them. From a company POV, I have no idea what your physical condition is, but when you something stupid like deadlift and transfer that 50lb piece of equipment on a ladder, I have to pay for it.

I worked at a place years ago where the procedure to decommission a hard drive was to puncture the platters with a drill press and remove the electronics with a pry bar. All good until an IT guy got metal debris in his eye, and required extensive surgery. Turns out the IT folks removed safety equipment to make the process faster, didn’t wear eye protection, and had the press improperly situated. Correcting any of those things would have prevented that accident - and they were fubar because no process existed to question it, and everyone felt comfortable doing what they were doing. It may seem like infantilism, but there’s a guy who suffered and continues to suffer from an eye injury because nobody was accountable for his safety.
Another in a line of studies that have for a few years now been supporting this conclusion.

The sad part is the hundreds of thousands of tons of waste produced due to ineffective mask materials, design, and usage.
This fact cannot be emphasized enough. The pity of it is that the jobs are not oriented towards public works.
Because they are higher trust societies with less low level corruption, allowing one to have more peace of mind in day to day life.

Simply going out in a vehicle is magnitudes riskier in the country my parents come from. My whole extended family can afford maids, cooks, and drivers, yet they all moved because they wanted a lower volatility life for their children, even if it meant doing your own laundry, cleaning, cooking, and driving.
If we banned all access to beaches, that would be helpful and "work" to reduce the number of people who get killed by sharks. If we should mandate cloth masks, then why shouldn't we do that too?
Evolutionary Tree of Life: DNA Analysis Is Showing How We Got So Much Wrong
If you look at the top of the thread, you'll see I said "when they commit crimes (which they seem to do often and while on the job) they should go to jail".

But the debate is should there be collective punishment for bad cops or should they be terminated. I favor termination.

One main reason I prefer terminating bad cops vs hitting their pensions is that bad behavior is less of a cost impact to the bad cop than losing their job. A cop does something wrong, maybe it will impact their retirement pension by a small percentage. That's not a big disincentive. Loosing their job, that's a big disincentive.

Another way to go about this is to have cops purchase mandatory insurance. Any bad behavior would be paid by their insurance and if they make too big an error, they become un-insurable and thus can no longer be law enforcement.
In blockchains, aside from the usual reasons you would store data with error-detection and correction (ordinary data resiliance in storage and transmission), Reed-Solomon is used for:

- Data Availability Proofs, which allows a node to prove it has (or had) access to all the data in a block by transmitting only a tiny subset of that data, which is derived from the RS code and a Merkle hash of the data.

- Execution Proofs, which allows a node to prove the result of an arbitrary and arbitrarily long program executed on data without the recipient having to redo the execution, by transmitting only a tiny subset of the RS code and higher-order codes of the computation's state trace.

Data Availablity Proofs are used with cryptoeconomic incentive structures to ensure that a complete set of data is being stored and periodically checked, and not just the small amount of data that is popular at any given moment. So, like BitTorrent except more reliable because it uses more than just voluntary cooperation; it incentivises keeping whole repositories of data instead of just the popular files within them at any given moment.

Execution Proofs are used with Ethereum-like blockchains to pass around compact summaries of state updates from running code in smart contracts, without all the nodes needing to store or fetch the full state of each contract's memory, or even needing to perform the execution locally to verify it. Smaller Execution Proofs are used in simpler blockchains for the state updates associated with balance transactions.

The data proofs use Reed-Solomon on reasonable sized data blocks, and the trend is towards multidimensional RS, as with other applications.

The second uses Reed-Solomon on much larger vectors than 2^20 points, for long computations, and requires the FFT approach for reasonable performance. However there is still a reasonable upper limit where it makes sense to split the trace up, and for that it's possible to make an Execution Proof of a program which verifies another Execution Proof.
Commenters excoriate the methadology. First thing I checked was for comparisons with Aleksandr Suvarov, who "never lost a single battle he commanded."¹ Glaringly absent from the exposition.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov
Yeah. Look up death totals from external conflicts from the past two decades and you’ll see one country is an absolutely colossal threat.
I thought that Uber drivers could not see your destination until they picked you up. Are drivers taking off and refusing at the moment of pickup in SF? Seems like that would be pretty easy to catch behavior.
Most of the archeological sites we have are pretty much just ancient landfills.
Enough means sufficient to mitigate the consequences of today’s gas crisis. Other people in this thread explained it well enough.
Depends on who exactly we are talking about as having the intent...

Both planned and convenient obsolescence are beneficial to device manufacturers. Without proper accountability for that, it only becomes a normal practice.
I currently use Noteself, a modification of tiddlywiki, for this kind of thing. I really like the concept you've created, but my paranoia / concern is that I can't save / copy / transport the thought-fractal I've created.

Noteself saves its status within the browsers local storage as well, but you can save it as an HTML file to make it transportable between browsers, computers, devices.

I'm constantly shifting between work and personal devices and need the seamless transition - which would imply either self-hosting or 'login required' model, which may not fit your roadmap (although you do mention 'login' above, and also you mention adding im/export). Understand it's in development, however, and respect for the stage you've gotten it to so far. Good work!
Good point. Okay, then. If you took them from me, I would covet them.
Damn. That’s gonna leave a mark.

It’s above the fold, on BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62057321
theyd probably unironically think that there were anime fandom cults that worshiped small plastic toys
> isn't the disaster many forsee

With all due respect, I think other people have a different definition of "disaster" if this suggestion

> cut down heating to only about half of buildings - 'stay with a friend' will be policy for the winter months.

isn't a disaster in one of the richest countries in the world.
Right there with you. My computers in order were:

1. Commodore 64

2. Commodore 128

3. 10 MHz 8088

After the 128 I considered a) Buying a Lt Kerrnal 20 MB hard drive b) Buying an Amiga c) Going IBM Compatible

Thank God I went with the 8088 but I probably own 15 Commodore 64s now. I taught myself component level repair on them so I buy them broken for cheap and repair them. I have a full set of 64 and 128 with matching CRT monitors and Ultimate II+ and more.
Is there anything special about making SSDs that the average person would not be able to do or is it a "if you can outsource PCB printing and maybe solder you can make one" situation?
In Sweden, I have had the opposite experience. The Uber app is never used, due to how low paid the drivers are. The taxi apps are actually decently good and pretty reliable. They are not as feature rich as the Uber app, and more expensive, but when you need a ride at three in the morning, don't expect the Uber app to get you one.
That article only mentions multiplayer and DLC to become inaccessible, while OP is about the single-player game being unplayable. Not clear if that's the only one of the 15 titles or not.

> Space Junkies is a notable outlier, as it launched three years ago. It's a multiplayer-only VR game, and for some reason, Ubisoft is still selling it (for as much as $20) without even mentioning that it will become completely unplayable in two months.

Wow.
> Depends on who exactly we are talking about as having the intent...

The manufacturer, obviously. Who else would it be?

Could be an innocent mistake or a deliberate decision. Further action should be predicated on the root cause. Which includes intent.
https://archive.ph/13pYR
You're the only one in this thread bringing that up.
I've got interested in what exactly this FUTO is and what it does and here is what I found:

FUTO is founded and owned by Yahoo Games founder and WhatsApp seed investor Eron Wolf. Presumably he is also the source of all the funding for the organization -- at least I could not find information about other funding sources.

FUTO gave $10M to minds.com, a crypto-based facebook clone, where people get cryptocurrency for interacting with site.

Currently, FUTO's job page is looking for someone to write yet another OS:

> "searching for a talented engineer to work with a team of elite Silicon Valley veterans to create a minimalist (less than 50,000 lines of code) bare metal operating system for a single board computer."

> "This position is ideal for a recent graduate looking to avoid the corporate tech world and its focus on high-level app development or an experienced engineer eager to get away from that world. The right candidate might also be an anti-establishment student looking to leave college early."
DNA Privacy
Interesting read, though I'm not sure I agree with all the slant
> What is needed is laws that classify games in situations such as this as abandonware

This will never happen as long as they can milk games and keep on making money on 40 years old games. Mario 1 is still not abandon-ware. Its Disney's Mickey Mouse all over again.
Shannon’s insight into the hyperspheres of transmission blew my mind 15 years ago, and I’m still not over it.

The idea of an ideal communication channel rivals most ideas ever had. The original paper is surprisingly accessible. Highly recommended if anyone hasn’t had a chance to give it a tour.

And here’s the book, just to not be a tease: https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2383164/component/file_2...
If only we could pay the original publisher/developer for a DRM-free version of the game, that would be revolutionary.
>Presumably, if the CCP wanted to do so, they could put an end to the groups shipping this deadly substance into the United States.

Presumably, if the United States wanted to do so, they could put an end to the groups shipping this deadly substance from the China.

Just changed the wording a little to show the bias in this sentence. Why do think China would be more successful than the U.S. in prohibiting illegal drugs?
Because presidents, congresspeople, and justices are not known for wild behavior at all.
Google Translate works offline if you download the language pair. If you block Google Translate from data then you have an offline translator.
This is a good point. Which is why I’m a big fan of general workers’ solidarity, including via unionization.

Solidarity among workers offers us a tool to combat these companies, and force them to make changes that benefit us at the cost of their shareholders. The union should be able to lobby the government to enact and enforce sufficient safety laws such that a worker will never be changing the roof over night unless adequate safety standards are met. And if a company fails, a worker has the means to refuse the work, regardless of the size of the company.

With solidarity we simply don’t have to wait for these companies to stop on their own, because we can collectively force them to stop, bottom up.
For what it's worth, I recoiled from the sentiment 'dragonwriter expressed, but I did some digging and I think they're more right than wrong about this. It's unfortunate, because creative alternative credentials and trade-focused education are interesting and valuable discussions to have. But I don't think this particular organization is likely to be operating in good faith.
So many bits, so little time.
Mulcair was anything but strong. Everyone knew going into the 2015 election that the Orange Wave would recede. Mulcair's whole mission was to salvage enough of the wreck to make it not look downright embarassing. To do this he started softcore pandering to Quebec sovereignism, culminating in an utterly humiliating moment in the debates when he arrogantly grilled Trudeau about the threshold definition for Quebec sovereignty to happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwtU4KGGYVU

Wanna know how the NDP blew the majority polls early in that election? Yep, it was Mulcair, who was anything but strong.

Politics in its modern form is often a full-time job. To climb the ladder often means one must start early, yet this job is anything but stable. Most regular families can't really afford the risk or downsides. Political dynasties have the advantage of existing connections, as well as inter-generational resources that aren't available in other families. In this video https://youtu.be/XqjQ6gqgi0w?t=41 you can see Trudeau Jr.'s behaviour was clearly groomed for attending public functions. This was a headstart that many others don't have when they go into politics well into adulthood. The same phenomenon is present in Japan, just at a much larger extent. Social connections is an asset without form, and naturally it can get passed down generations like other assets. Why abandon them when they can be used advance your career. Unless we adopt ancient Athenian procedures of ostracism, political dynasties will exist. And ostracism will not happen because it was idiotic and backfired badly.

Justin Trudeau had been a MP for 5 years when he became the Liberal leader. Their party was in crisis mode after a decade of consecutive seat losses. Trudeau was the button behind their "break in case of emergency" glass, and it worked for them because the same effect resonated with the voter base.

Modern politicians in developed elective democratic countries aren't benevolent despots, and no single person's brain has the capacity to process or react to everything going on in the world at this day and age. This means they have lots of advisors to handle most of that processing and decision suggestions. The relief of this burden means a good modern politican doesn't have to be good at policy - they become another type of influencer whose first and foremost focus is charisma. Zelensky is another example.
They’ve known since SARS… like 15 years. There’s a paper about SARS burning through an apartment complex because a breeze blew contaminated air out one window and into the open window of a neighboring building
Not much was hidden, the issue is the pantomime that it was completely reasonable to expect that a suicide of such a figure when the cameras were off and the guards weren't aware the cameras were off is a complete coincidence, and playing coy with his connections to the elite. Those facts weren't hidden but they weren't mentioned far less than they should and eventually not at all. Beyond that the media failed in their duty to confront the authorities.
150 of the exact same model, among huge piles of other models.

I don't want to argue about word choice. In the distinction I was describing, however imperfectly worded, watches like this easily go on the bulk side of the line.
This. I was surprised that the concept of punishment itself came as a surprise to most folks I had spoken to. The argument overwhelmingly was "well what is the other guy going to do?". I'd have thought fear of loss is a huge motivator on its own.
Marist High School, on the south side of Chicago, which is about as mainstream and middle-class as Chicago Catholic high schools get, is $14k/yr.
Costco blew my tiny little mind when I was fresh off the boat too!
An FPGA-based SSD will always be too expensive for people with truly large scale. The controller ASICs are a lot cheaper.