skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lazy libertarian talking point. When someone accepts come award saying he owes his success to his family/mentor/agent, it's not an IOU for some cash value.

But even if it was, how would you quantify whether a tax rate captures the full, less-tangible value of what a society provides? If through lobbying or creative accounting, a billionaire is able to reduce his yearly taxable income to $100 then he's met your definition of fully paid-up, when obviously he 'owes' (in the ethical, non-accounting sense) a lot more.

Because society provides more than just economic opportunity, taxes are just one of the things we're required to pay back. We're expected to follow the law or sometimes fight for it (giving up some of our absolute freedoms), to be helpful or follow hundreds of other social conventions. If you insist on reducing all that to a tax rate, then it's so low that it points to a welfare state for the rich.
> aren't prepared for everyone to come home at 5 and plug in their cars.

200 mile range cars and 20 mile average commutes make this not a necessity. The need to use fast charging even less, as slow charging from 5pm-5am provides more than enough miles for the average commute.

I wonder what your electrician thinks about HVAC systems? They all do turn on at roughly the same time (a top cause of brownouts in under prepared grids), don't have a slow charging equivalent (they even depend on large capacitors to start the compressors). The even worse case is a house with multiple heat pumps and auxiliary heating.

Or what does your electrician think about hot water heaters? Fast charging requires similar supply as every house coming home and taking a shower at 5pm.

Or, perhaps the most likely, every house starting the oven at 5pm, the stove, The microwave, With some hot water.

What about all of these combined?

Information; on circuit breaker size required

Low speed charger 120x15amp

Highest speed residential charger: 240x40amp

Water heater 240x30amp

Instant whole house hot water heater 240x40

HVAC 240x30

Aux heat 240x30

Stove 240x30

Oven 240x30

Microwave 120x15
I know people for whom prostitution worked out great, some of them made serious money. Why shouldn't I compare one form of expoitation to another form of exploitation?

In fact I would rather have prostitution than people working at $2/hour.

Why do you think successfull business happens in UK/US/{Insert first world country} and not in Somalia?

It's the fact that we have law & order, educated population and infrastructure. These things cost more than $2 an hour to maintain. Now if you started your own business and end up making $2 an hour, thats one thing.

But when an international corporation systematically exploits our people by underpaying them, it's destroying local businesses who can't compete and routing taxes through panama, it's stealing from all of us.
I said "which", not "and". Public opinion is inherently tied to publishing findings. Their goal is to publish their findings, which informs public opinion, which dictates policy.

You're claiming that I claimed that the authors prescribed policy, which I clearly did not.
Many do, perhaps. But I worked for years with an excellent manager who wrote very poorly.
Then don't buy any stock in any company you don't absolutely trust? Why should you be able to profit from Tesla's wrongdoings, but not suffer just punishment from them too?
That's nice, but that page doesn't say that at all nor suggest anything remotely close. The URL itself implies that it's not specific to any service. They say, quite confusingly and unaccurately, "This page is intended to be the definitive source of Cloudflare’s current IP ranges."

That page really should say what it's for.
Perhaps the ribosome would be the runtime?
Sure, but “raising a well regulated militia” involved mobilizing armed civilians. This is quite clear from the quoted portion of the federalist above—which refers to “being armed” as an advantage possessed by “Americans,” and criticizing European governments for being “afraid to trust the people with arms.” The individual right to bear arms ensures that an armed militia can be raised when needed.

A far better argument for gun control advocates, in my view, would be that (1) the Second Amendment doesn’t protect handguns, which aren’t weapons that would typically be used in war; and (2) the Second Amendment doesn’t preclude regulation that is consistent with being able to raise an armed militia from among citizens, like the Swiss have.

The problem is that a handgun ban is the least popular gun control measure, even though it would be the most effective. Only 20% of people supported a handgun ban in 2021: https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-p...
In India, an Ola Cabs developer figured out how to use phone conferencing to number mask between the driver and the passenger.
You could make the same argument about listening to music, that wandering around while listening to music will get you shot or eaten by wildlife, and yet people generally gain some benefit from listening to music.
It's a basic human drive so if you've grown up with a negative experience that you've generalised unknowingly to something that should be pleasurable, you should know that, since recognising it will hopefully lead to a fix. The reason to care is because you have to eat, so it's preferable to enjoy it rather than not.
Yeah, no. Uber/Kalanick are coming across heroic here. Forces like theirs have driven all progress in human history. Nice guys finish last and accomplish nothing.
I'm the OP. I wasn't very good at it when I started, but I persisted. And read books on writing. And was edited by a couple of very good editors.
> you can't duplicate the state but have to use it in a linear, non-branching fashion

So so you're saying bitcoin should have been made out of monads?
> with an inherited house waiting for them

Thanks for the laughs.
The TV will probably hold up just fine, other than the ads it will show if connected to the internet.

Samsung/LG appliances (washer/dryer, fridge, etc.) usually last 5 years or less. Whereas a quality appliance should last 10 years or more. My source on this is friends who work in the industry plus the experience of family members who bought LG/Samsung appliances anyway.
It's the rolling tanks into other people's countries thing.
What do you gain from that other than soothing your OCD when executing \d t (?)
We got a Lidl near us - one of the first when they were planning their US East Coast invasion. Apparently, they're scaling back new stores, and ours is one of a handful of 'large' footprint stores, and almost everything after that is (or will be) probably half the size.

We love Lidl mostly because of the price. Almost everything was/is around 20-30% less than the stores around it. Much of this is from 'store brand' items, but the price diff is lower even against other 'store brand' pricing.

When they opened, they had a wider variety of items, including a wide variety of daily baked breads. That got scaled back a lot, as apparently there's not enough support/demand in this area for fresh breads outside of 'white'.

There's a weird circle of grocery stores that have sprung up in my area. Within a 3 mile radius, there's Target, Walmart, Lidl, Aldi, Wegmans, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Publix and Lowe's (2?). It seems excessive to me, but the area is growing, and they likely wouldn't have invested in this area without a strong expectation of not losing money.

There's still a Lidl stigma around here. Many folks I talk to think of it as some 'poor person' shop.
Oof, I forgot about the kitchenettes. And most importantly, the sponge. I've never seen an office kitchen without a grotesque sponge that was about a week away from becoming sentient and attempting to make awkward small talk.
Well I thought it was going to make a more nuanced point which I semi agree with. I do think "hybrid" work is very challenging because it's half-half - an unstable tipping point. What is the point in half the people being in the office if the other half aren't? You still all end up on video calls and interacting remotely / electronically etc.

So I sort of agree but I think its going to tip the other way: companies will try to do hybrid and it will prove to be hard, annoying, expensive and generally a waste of time so it will tip back the other way to full WFH - possibly with some sort of "satellite office" or "shared office" model which is more distributed and flexible so that when people really want to meet up they have somewhere to go.
I wonder if jackass CEOs attract jackass employees, or if the employees' jackass sides come out inside organizations where they think "It's safe to be one". If we believe the reports of racism and sexism in Tesla, as well as the horrible culture in Amazon and now, Uber...
Trains are relatively long in proportion to their width. That makes the sides of the trains become relatively more important for aerodynamics than the fronts.

Possibly, making the front more aerodynamic has so many disadvantages that it’s not worth it. For example, a train with a long nose means less space for passengers in a given length of train. It also may be a bad choice aerodynamically if you want to have the ability to combine multiple railroad cars into a single train.
> but for the office, that is no more than 2 days per week.

Agreed, however the problem with this is it only works if I'm in the office the same days as everyone else, meaning we need enough desks for everyone _anyway_ otherwise I might as well just be at home.
> I think this is a big part of the argument that is not discussed, the office environment is so awful you can take my wfh from my cold dead hands, make the office environment better then we can talk.

This is where the conversation needs to go. The office could be great, if businesses invested in the best space and furniture in the most vibrant locations, with a variety of working options. Solitude at home doesn’t breed a good culture, but nor does being forced to go to a shitty building in a soulless location to be uncomfortable for 8 hours a day just because an employee needs a paycheck.
> When Facebook starts opening concentration camps, I'm likely to agree with you

I wonder. If your product is used to recruit soldiers, spread propaganda, disseminate hate speech, and organize and deploy said concentration camps or their equivalent, are you liable and culpable? If you've known for years and done next to nothing about sectarian violence and genocide, are you still blameless? When moderation could have been hired and trained for an immaterial amount of profit? SEA wages are notoriously low in dollar terms. Poorly implemented machine learning models don't suffice to halt genocide. Greed, ignorance, malevolence, sloth, arrogance. Take your pick.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/kill-facebook-fail...

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/r...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
That is not at all what I said or even implied. You're extrapolating.

My point is that studies seek to inform on their areas of focus. Particle physics spending policy does not affect social issues. Anthropology of contemporary society does.
Similar to the blank tape story, around 7 years ago at a big networking corp a big customer needed the latest product to be in their possession before some tax related date. The new product software wasn't ready at all at that point, so we shipped them unit with a place holder FW that could do only one thing: FW upgrade!
What was the situation in the 1920s?

The US created another higher education system in the postwar era to handle the demand created by the GI Bill. The number of open professor slots at these new schools could not have been filled just by the children of existing academics, so there was a window when newcomers could enter academia much more easily than what would come after, and probably even more easily than what came before.

Now we have children and grandchildren of the gigantic cohort of PhD holders from the GI Bill era competing for jobs when the student population is stagnant or declining. Given that we won't be doubling the size of higher education anytime soon, I don't foresee opportunities like what we witnessed in the 70s returning.
Terra Haute, Indiana. The greatest smell on earth.
> Only if you make them. Have been pretty simple for me. I don’t do most of the things you mention, and do not see myself wanting to.

That's not how it works. Each device and firmware has its own way of doing things. For example, I would have no idea how to build "ebook groups" on my reader, but I don't have to worry about that because Calibre knows how to do it for me. Creating those by hand would likely involve a third party tool or XML/other structured text format editing, which would be annoying.

> I don’t use different devices

That's your setup. Another person may have three readers, for whatever reason. How would you keep track of it then, and would it not be easier to just hand over things to Calibre for automatic synchronisation?
> don't believe that's how it works

It is.

> Xiaomi for example

Xiaomi was blacklisted [1]. Their CFO was arrested in Canada for fucking this up [EDIT: Nope!]. Xiaomi turned off their devices in Iran last year [2] in a bid to lift the restrictions.

> Samsung

There was a brief respite in sanctions during the nuclear deal. The pages you’re citing are from that era. Samsung withdrew from Iran [3]. Iran, for good measure, responded by banning them [4].

[1] https://www.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2021/01/xiaomi-and-cnoonc...

[2] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234058.shtml

[3] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Iran-tensions/Iran-sanctio...

[4] https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/iran-bans-goods-from-south-kor...
I honestly can’t tell if this is supposed to be sarcastic.
Further I have no doubt that now BMW are making electric cars that look like normal cars inside, are screwed together properly and support CarPlay, they too will overtake Tesla in this segment.
RFC: Sempronia Ending Relationship with the DAO
I'm prepared to say it about any tightly centrally controlled cult that uses front groups. Including Jewish ones, should I find any. (Though, Judaism has enough diversity that even if such one existed, it would not reflect on other religious Jews, let alone people who are Jews only in the culture/ethnicity sense).

It's not only about religion either. There are also political cults that employ large number of front groups, like the Danish Tvind.
US seems to have all its institutions set up in a way to increase the class divide.
but info is democratized. tractors (wheat threshers) helped create a surplus of food and there is way less backbreaking labor present today. our standard of living is better because of technology.

I'm literally writing this from a computational biology conference where researchers are presenting on how ML accelerates the development of therapeutics to reduce human suffering:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022-program/abstracts/mlcsb
> If anything, they'll have degrees from worker bee / nerd schools like CMU, Caltech, and UC Berkeley, not Ivy degrees

That's weird, because all those schools you mentioned are ivy leagues in the comparative sense.
You could also reverse that. All the people who work from home have a house with a separate room to use as homeoffice.

I live in 50 m² flat, my homeoffice is my bedroom. Tiny desk, one monitor. Here in the office I have a huge table with 2 monitors, the electronics lab and the workshop is right behind me and my team sits here.

Not all jobs are the same and not all people are the same. There is good reason to like working from the office. The fact that you prefer working from home doesn't mean that only people with private office at work want to work from the office.
I'm talking about the game codified in Europe in the late middle ages, and known as "chess" throughout the English-speaking world today.

It doesn't make sense to attribute its origins to Persia in the context of specifically distinguishing it from other shatranj/chaturanga derivatives, like shogi.
It is disturbing that many people do not see anything wrong that an elite from one country dictates to the whole world how to live (it has bigger guns/power but it is not right).
paying people less with fewer benefits is not progress.
Employers should offer incentives to work onsite: free (good) coffee and other drinks, free lunches (at least occasionally), responsive facilities management (my chair sucks/my cubicle is too noisy), shuttle buses, maybe a stipend to offset rising transportation costs.

Just demanding people come in, and suffer a decrease in quality of life, is dumb and will backfire.
The question in my mind is just: if not for higher speeds, why should you build a maglev line instead of a conventional (high speed / regular) train line? IMHO the other purported advantages are not really convincing - it may be a little bit quieter, but the "flexible track routing" sounds very unconvincing: at ground level you would have to fence off the track, so in an urban setting it would probably end up on stilts most of the time. And if you consider that, phrases like "Visually appealing track route for urban use without overhead lines" sound a bit ridiculous - is a concrete guideway on concrete stilts really more visually appealing than tram (or train) rails with overhead line? (In case anyone is wondering: Germany has the luxury problem of having all other cables - power, telecom, etc. - 99% underground, so they can debate the aesthetic impact of overhead lines of trams. Not an issue in most other countries.)
All types of wars are tied together. Military intervention can be a next step when you are not getting things done any other way.
> The film was even disqualified from the best special effects Oscar, since using computers was considered “cheating”.

Hilarious — analogism raises its ugly head.
Regardless weather this hypothesis is true or false, I think the story is that even investigating the idea is somehow VERBOTEN!
I have been using lldap for a while (paired with Authelia), and it is a real godsend.

I feel like I need a PhD to configure openldap, while this was as out of the box as it gets.

Kudos to the devs!
Hm. Interesting. Confusion means you had some expectations. Could you please share those first? What did you expect to see after reading "fractal thinking tool"?
NULL means that the value is unknown, not that the data is unknown. You indeed have no data but its value may exist. You just don’t know it yet. NULL is very powerful when you understand that.
My point is that there are much more interesting discussions to be had, like how Abe's grandfather was a class A war criminal who the US sprung from prison and spared the death penalty cos they thought he would be a good pro-US element in Japanese politics. How he then founded the party Abe is a member of. Or any of what Abe's politics are. But there is zero mention of any of it in any western press... ever... Even when very relevant events are happening. Even, for example, when China and South Korea are united in condemnation. Which is strange, because aren't South Korea and Japan supposed to be allies with the US, and all about containing China?

So I'm wondering why the "suppression" of that news is so much less interesting than the "suppression" of whatever gobbledygook Crazy McShootyFace believes?? :)
I wonder if the causation is reversed when people talk about living a shorter life with fewer social connections. If someone has mental health issues or substance abuse problems they're likely burning through their social connections and their health at the same time.
I think most Ukrainians would disagee.
If A/Cs draw the same amount electric cars do then everyone switching to electric cars could double or triple (most households have two working parents) the power draw during parts of the day (around 5 when it's the hottest and everyone is coming home from work.)

People aren't going to have the vehicles charge at 3:00 AM, they don't like managing automatons like that. I grew up in a family where our ISP did something similar and I was the only one who would schedule downloads to start at midnight (including my dad who worked as a software dev at a large tech company.) They'll just suffer whatever consequences of having the thing charge when they plug it in are.

I like electric vehicles, I'm actually in the process of upgrading my boat to use electric propulsion. I think a lot of people overlook many of the downsides though and it's a bit concerning. The battery situation is particularly bad, the used electric vehicle market is going to look very different than the used ICE vehicle market.
> I can not possibly believe that the police are an overall force for good

So you’ve made a definitive conclusion and will now approach information with this bias.

> At this point, you can turn on the news and the evidence is right there.

> If you see the abuses and think "well, they deserved it" or "ah it's a few bad apples" I'm not trying to speak to you. I don't think we'd really ever find common ground.

The media has a narrative. They push all anti-cop stories as part of their storyline.

Every single day there are cops putting their lives on the line to do good. And you will never hear a single story of their heroics. The coverage is nearly 100% negative on the national level.

I’ve personally dealt with horrible cops that should absolutely be fired and heroes that deserve community recognition for their bravery.

I agree with you on one thing: we’d likely never find common ground. I cannot respect people that fall for the news storylines hook, line and sinker.
Obviously not. And conversely, it does cover some political cults.
Might work as a joke but several of those colors will be indistinguishable to human eye, yet have completely different crowd-sourced names.

Or - could you ever tell the difference between "Amateur Rockstar Bright Pink" (#ff1aab) and "Pink Soul Of Heart" (#ff1bab) even if your life depended on it?

The fact that 24-bit RGB can represent 16 million colors does not mean our vision is capable of telling such number of colors apart from each other. Creating a coherent and concise naming system for all them could be an interesting (and perhaps quite challenging) technical task, but I don't believe crowd-sourcing those will yield any usable results. Or - how many colors with "poop" in their name do you think is acceptable? https://colornames.org/search/results/?type=partial&query=po...

And how about "asdf" (the first four letters on the home row of a QWERTY keyboard - an age-old internet troll version of "foobar")? https://colornames.org/search/results/?type=partial&query=as...
> Actual real factual prices still reduced in the last 12 month

Ahhh the bright side of housing and cost of living doubling up!
“They are without bread? Let them eat cake!”
The US for years desperately tried to convince the EU to rid themselves of Russian energy dependency. Angela Merkel, Germany, and the EU made their bed. It’s comical to now blame this situation on the US.
Almost all of their profit is from membership fees. https://investor.costco.com/node/24021/html

Sales almost equal merchandise cost plus selling expenses. Membership fees add $984 million on top of that.
Ignoring the law because you don’t like it is not a sensible strategy.
There is some small benefit to playing column tetris if you have columns with different sizes that waste space due to padding. I'm not convinced this would be worth the complexity of this feature, but in some cases reordering columns might have measurable benefits in reducing the size of the data.
I have used Fluxus years ago. Even then it was complicated to compile if I recall correctly.

We did this project with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N52hNTfbXN8
It's a 3d pointcloud visualisation, which when detects that you have jumped freezes the pointcloud and rotates it around.

I learned how to use it from one of the developers in a workshop. I'm not sure if this is the one, but looks similar enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTt8r3LhCFM&t=1s