skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people of UK do care actually and see many of the policies of the government as draconian and really out of touch. They do care about privacy. The UK government has been pushing with media campaigns to try to undermine the necessity of E2E encryption.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/revealed-u... (Jan 2022)

This kind narrative is being pushed by the US, UK, and Australia right now. Unfortunately for the people in Australia, some dangerous bills have already been passed.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/25/austr...
American exceptionalism at work. But we’ll try to burn enough fossil fuels to help the rest of the world catch up.
Sad, uh? Probably a common dilemma for most true geniuses.

That’s why you don’t use the same lab assistants for proofing of paper, when their name is on the header portion of your white papers, that are trailing your name.

If your name is second on the header, you send it to your peers for reviews especially if you’re paying these other names on the header.

It is also a reminder to the readers of any white papers that if all the names on the header work for the same organization, you would need to reprove their premise; different organizations, not so much.
Rip off the thick cardboard backing of a notebook and tape it under there with some pennies to form a little bit of an airgap. Boom. Free slim profile laptop stand that you can keep on all the time. Who looks at the bottom of the computer anyhow?
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Unfortunately I am not well versed in relativity, my response was completely rooted in linear algebra.

That is, any vector is going to be inherently one dimensional, regardless of its coordinates. Dimension is a property of a set of vectors, dependent upon how many are linearly independent of the rest of the vectors in the set. What I described doesn’t imply that there are infinite dimensions.

The vector [0,0,1] is traveling through three dimensions just the same as [1,1,1].
If by "Smaller Scale" you mean "17% of total land area"...
> Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.

This happened to me around 2014, mere hours before my flight. I got a call with an automated voice recording that just said "This is United. Your flight has been canceled. Goodbye." and ended. I'm not even joking: that was the message. Your flight has been canceled; goodbye. It was unbelievable. And this was United, not some shady budget carrier. This was a return flight home, having checked out of the hotel, with my bags in the rental car.
If you understand the limitations of the two types of vaccines, then these polio stories that pop up are just something that should be expected to happen.

The US vaccinates with the non-live version. This non-live version cannot mutate, but it is non-sterilizing- the vaccinated can still become infected in their gut- the vaccine prevents it from getting into their bloodstream and become poliomyelitis. We now see this outcome in some articles about Polio showing up in sewage samples in the developed world where this vaccine is given.

So polio is already spreading and the un-vaccinated population in question here is not necessarily increasing the spread of Polio. The tragedy though is that someone is now suffering paralysis from poliomyelitis which probably would not have happened if the person were vaccinated.
Aside from nimbyism, replacing natural fresh water source with energy-intense desalination isn't a solution, especially not in the short term. We're already using way too much energy, and at the current rate of decarbonization it'll be decades to a century until climate change will be getting better. Solving the problems brought about by climate change with using more energy will just set us up for a dead spiral.
Honestly you have to be willing to 'buy' yourself some. Via paying for parties, trips, going out etc.

You can never replicate the bond that comes with being in school during teenage years and fighting a common enemy (eg. math teacher, principal etc), trying all sort of stuff together for the first time ever. Most people rightfully stick with such bonds because they are very strong and genuine, while you'll always be 'somebody I know' or 'somebody from work'

You might want to target people who had such bond collapse for one reason or another and are now kinda lost.
We're having an unusually wet year about 120 miles SW of Albuquerque, with a big monsoon cycle incoming now. We're not quite out of our long-term drought, but another couple of good storms would do it.
In our water district, we're already at 8 minutes per week of irrigation. With threats of going to 0 minutes per week. Normally we're allowed 45 minutes - 15 minutes, 3x a week.

> that would give before any individual resident is meaningfully affected.

I think we're a lot closer to this than you seem to think.
The "moral degradation" argument is a tired one with a long legacy of being used to justify absolutely inane policies.

Truthfully, if medicine were preventative instead of merely reactive we wouldn't be having these kinds of health issues.

Young people aren't taking care of themselves because they don't have access to the kinds of resources which will help them to do that -- namely, affordable, regular doctor's visits.

If access to healthcare was as inexpensive as junk food and Netflix, a lot more people would be going to the doctor.

Prices reflect the values a society encourages. If there is anyone to blame, it is not the individuals, but the make-up of the system itself in terms of what it encourages via economics.
I wonder if labeling the product with a sticker saying "may temporarily sterilize men" would help or hurt sales.
Elbe is low but still looks ok, hunger stones [1] not yet visible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
America metastasized
You solve it by vaccinating for it.
A/B testing creative is pretty typical. I'm certain "flashy" ads that get your attention perform better. Of course, they change the style of your page, and if you don't like they way they make your site look, don't use them.
A lovely read full of good lessons.
On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power. Here, we must scrabble for desert power.
> For all the shit about the F-35

> The C-130, for example, is probably one of if not the greatest aircraft ever designed.

One of the benefits of not being a "sexy" project is that you don't have everyone and their mother trying to be part of the design process. You can tell the team that designed the C-130 was given two numbers: range and payload, and every other aspect of the design was determined by the engineers.
Yeah but you're not doing schoolwork for its own sake, you're doing it to develop skills useful in real world once you're adult.
Except the hosts don’t get the money until 24-hours after check-in. AirBnB got to sit on that cash for the last year.
American produce is a problem but I think only 1 percent of people know how to cook their own food. Instead they buy from restaurants and then are bewildered when their bank accounts are empty and they are fat and with bad skin.

Education in America is worse than growing up in the Bush.
Yes, that is on my mind. I was actually planning on letting the user do some queries as the form data is actually stored in a sqlite database anyways.

Can you link to your format if it's public? I'm interested.
I like getting stuff the same or next day.
While true, Erlang is a dynamic language, which has its own problems.

Go's concurrency builds on CSP and they're open about it, but it is not just about who came up with it but who made it mainstream and for that Go certainly deserves credit.
I don't think that response is accurate. I'm not old and I can say electronic privacy is something my friends and I do care about. I'm not sure why people are making these kinds of generalizations. Literary analysis of George Orwell's 1984 is part of the standard curriculum in the US for high school students.
Semi-related. I grew up in the midwest except I was in a soundproofed basement room with no windows and now I have rather severe misophonia to a lot of random sounds.
Terrorism is be definition non state activities. If a state is doing it, it can't be terrorism.
>Kinda curious how "child abuse" a remit outside the scope of GCHQ ...

I wouldn't be so sure. Their mandate includes combating organized crime. If it's a trafficking ring, there's your justification.

>Not that I wouldn't love GCHQ to tackle child abuse ...

Seconded. Add ransomware authors to that list.

I recall hearing of NSA analysts who, upon incidentally encountering terrible things, would tip off relevant law enforcement.

>... drug dealers and lots of crimes that the police seem unable or capable of dealing with to noticable effect.

Cartels? Sure. Signals intelligence capability is already deployed against them anyways. Street dealers and random crimes? That's going too far.

Of course, the crux of the debate is where do you draw the line. It admittedly gets fairly murky, and the existence of a line in the first place is worth questioning.

I think in the future there will be more technological options to hopefully satisfy both sides of the debate. People unable to do horrible shit while otherwise retaining full privacy.
> This is not obvious to you?

It is very much not obvious to me because it’s not true. Critical safety features like airbags (required by US law in 1999) and ABS (required by US law in 2000) were not standard in cars back then, which is a huge incentive to junk a car.

Since then, mandatory safety features include traction control (2011) and backup cameras (2018), and idk about you, but I’m fine driving a car without Either of those things, but not ABS or Airbags.

Honestly, if you’re going to have such strong opinions about cars, maybe do research into them.

And to your amortization point, literally amortization means “cost over useful life” so we agree?

And please look at the link on my other comment [0] because that is not how car prices are adjusted by the BLS

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/new-vehicles.pdf
Is this better or worse than the one where they are cooking corn husks to make oil to squirt into the ground?
Seems like the problem is more "we thought we could do some stuff and then stop" while meanwhile adding a ton of population AND fucking with the atmosphere.

We're gonna have to do a lot more engineering of SOME sort soon.
Is unfinished PhD worse than no PhD studies at all? On CV
I have found myself in a bit of a non-standard situation. Without going into details, is an unfinished PhD considered a "bad sign" on a CV? If having the choice between two different CVs, with literally all qualifications equal, except for an additional "unfinished PhD" line, will the CV without the unfinished PhD be seen as more favourable as the unfinished PhD signals a "failure"?
Per the USGS gauge[1], the current flows are 21.3 cubic feet per second. The historical low for July 22 is from 1980 when it was 60.0. The flows of the Rio Grande through Albuquerque is controlled by the Cochiti Dam, about 50 miles upriver. The dam is currently at 42 feet full[2], and is currently discharging about 300 cubic feet per second[3] (and appears to run continuously). So in the 50 miles between Cochiti Dam and Alb, about 280 cfs are being lost.

Maybe this is intentional diversion. But for what? I can only conceive of irrigation being the answer (but please call out other reasons). If it is just irrigation "intentionally" causing the river to run dry, that seems....really bad.

Given Cochiti Lake's low level, it won't be long before you can't irrigate those crops, so even the "use" of the water will be wasted. (Perhaps the worst outcome would be to intentionally divert the water to grow crops, but to run out of water before the crops grow fully. Then you've wasted the water and gotten nothing for it.)

[1] https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nm/nwis/uv?site_no=08330000
[2] https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nm/nwis/uv/?site_no=08317300&PARA...
[3] https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?08317400
I don’t think it’s drop-shipping, you see these brands even for stuff delivered in 2-3 days
Before roe v wade the complications of botched self-administered abortions was one of the major causes of early death and disability of women. I don’t think it’s nearly as simple as one would believe, because even the Bible doesn’t recognize a fetus as being alive until well into the second or third trimester.
He didn't travel in the last 30 days I read, and the incubation time is shorter than that. I.e. he caught it after coming home.

Vincent has been a very bad source of information for the COVID pandemic. He has famously been against vaccine boosters, and even declared he didn't think he needed one. Even now as the need for second boosters is clear (and the need for first boosters completely justified and verified) he still says they aren't necessary. This is on top of him downplaying every variant like Omicron and saying they wouldn't be a problem (and then they went on to be huge problems). He should not be platformed IMHO.
You’re the only one saying anything about taking action, so no, nobody’s interested in your shitty bait.

Here’s one study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23113481/

> From June 28, 2009, through June 27, 2010, a total of 3502 outbreak-related cases of mumps were reported in New York City, two upstate New York counties, and one New Jersey county. Of the 1648 cases for which clinical specimens were available, 50% were laboratory-confirmed. Orthodox Jewish persons accounted for 97% of case patients.
When one moves to a new, "strange", and unknown environment, separating themselves from friends and family and way of life, depression can be very real. Plains or no plains.
There is a distinct difference between wars based on territorial expansionism and civil wars. When one country invade an other for territorial gain, it is fairly easy to identify an aggressor and a defender. With a civil war you got factions within a country fighting for control.

The start of the conflict tend to be different. In an invasion you got an external force starting the war by sending in troop and initiating the conflict, and you got a clear defined border of conflict that starts out at the border and then fans out. The capital tend to be attacked at a late part of the conflict, unless it is located directly at the border.

In a civil war the war generally breaks out at multiple places from within, usually in the capital where the existing seat of power is located. The conflict border is generally unclear and fighting occur at multiple locations all over.

Invasion also tend to have a history of territorial disputes about where the border between two nations should be drawn. Civil war on the other hands tend to have a history of demographic nature, where different groups within a country are fighting for control of the country.

In terms of public support, especially since world war 2, invasions that has aim of taking territory is generally feared. If they invade Ukraine today in order for Lebensraum, then what is to say that Poland will not be next for the exact same purpose? Which country can ever feel save when a larger nearby country starts to invade others for the purpose of taking territory?

Civil wars on the other hand is a human tragedy, but the factions fighting inside Yemen doesn't have a reason to make Poland the next target. It not so much of a double standard but rather human priority of things that feel threatening to themselves.
Math is probably the furthest along this particular pathway - which is both a good sign for this being able to work, and also not generalizable.
Some people would say the US is the perfect example of capitalism. Anything for a buck, no regulation, and buyer beware.
We're going to need a lot of solar panels and an efficient way to transport power from a very sunny place to another location where the loads are.

For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie

The pacific DC intertie right now often ends up being used to transport power from hydroelectric dams in WA/OR to California. But there's nothing to say that something couldn't function the other way if there was enough willpower and budget to cover, for instance, a huge chunk of the desert near Edwards AFB in CA with hundreds of megawatts of photovoltaics.

I searched for "high voltage DC" in that article and didn't see a mention of it, or anything much else about long distance transport of power.

The technology now exists to theoretically cover many hundreds of square km of Libya in photovoltaics and take the electricty to Europe through a sub-sea cable, or series of cables. It's a matter of the political will and budget to do it.

https://powertechresearch.com/the-worlds-longest-submarine-h...
It will be interesting to see what happens to the vaccine sceptics when this comes back. And it will come back.
That article was a bit of a bait-and-switch: instead of explaining why the Chinese resellers all use similar patterns, the author just spent 30 twitter posts complaining about being undercut by cheap Chinese crap
> You'd expect, if you allowed someone to study your notes before a test, that they'd possibly end up using similar turns-of-phrase to yours on the test. You wouldn't expect that they'd end up learning to perfectly duplicate your handwriting.

Consider a foreign seller who perhaps doesn't have a great grasp of the English language or the cultural context of the US. When you add your own spin to someone else's idea you are leveraging a lot of implicit knowledge to be able to spin it in a way that makes sense. If you don't have that implicit knowledge (and are not going to be penalized for verbatim copying) why try something different from what you have seen be successful already?
In every game of Factorio I've played I didn't realize just how many solar panels I'd needed until I was hitting my power limits and in desperate need of more. The problem being that manufacturing these takes... power.
Ah yes, absolutely.

I think it's very important to remember that McNamara was one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. The "smartest guy in the room". In any room.

But the mind is just a tool. If you don't know where you're going, all it's going to do is get you lost faster.
I mean they could technically run all their chips even hotter for more performance but it’s a trade off.

Apple probably wants to make their products feel like magic, meaning no noise, fans, or heat-—like the iPad.
> What's next? Putting a chip that can monitor everyone's thoughts in real-time to prevent school shootings?

Funny, that: school shootings seems to share two traits with CSAM: they are salient (horrible, traumatic, publicised…), but they are also fairly rare. I admit that for CSAM I only suspect it, but school shooting represents a very small fraction of all gun deaths in the US. Which represent only a fraction of violent deaths. Which represent only a (small?) fraction of all deaths. Making a priority of reducing school shootings at the expense of other death reduction policies sounds… somewhere between irrational and dishonest.

It seems to me that trying to ban guns in the name of reducing school shootings is like trying to ban encryption to reduce CSAM: it's fundamental rights (self defence, privacy) vs greater good (school shootings, CSAM). And while many "greater good" people clearly mean well (heck, some even have a point), for others it really is about power and control.
Congrats to Airbnb for, a decade after they first became big, finally doing something to address the number one reason why the service leaves people with a sour taste, and at worst leaves customers in severe jeopardy

General statement, other than probably getting your money back, they do next to nothing to support customers when something goes wrong
Because their value prop is to generate synthetic fuel instead.
All of those would be better off installing LibreOffice. Which they probably would if OO ceased to exists. And definitely if OO would redirect to LO.
The impact of OO is net negative.
You'll also find the same product with same description/images listed by multiple different "companies" all with odd names like this.
> Well, I distrust Amazon for anything electrical

I learned this the hard way when I received a counterfeit playstation controller, straight from the "Sony" store. For some reason, none of my reviews, even the positive ones, have posted since that one, which included pictures of a teardown.
> American produce is a problem

Besides our insistence on having everything even if it is out of season, which isn't really a problem with the produce itself, what is America's produce problem?
Is AirBnb the altcoin of hotels?
https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/ not Libya, but Morocco.
Obviously it wasn't good for the person that went blind.

You can debate, of course, where one should draw the line in terms of a race to the bottom of the quality barrel crosses from "good" to "bad" but intentionally avoiding liability and responsibility through lies and shell companies is a pretty clear case.

There's plenty of foreign-brand stuff available for good prices at equal-to-or-higher-quality domestic US brand stuff. But then there's also complete garbage scam trash, and Amazon should absolutely deal with that.

At least the stupid-ass brand names make it easy so far to avoid this stuff.
This article seems almost written with contempt.
The existence of autistic schizophrenic people seems like a problem for the hypothesis that they're opposite ends of a continuum though?
Google map of the area: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.5700851,-106.3533147,10454m/...
I've also mulled different iterations of this idea, specifically with some kind of "on-the-ground" verification of sellers / quality. I lived and worked in China for 8 years, with a small spell of that time in manufacturing QC. I know the country well and speak fluently. Feel free to reach out, email in profile, and GP is also welcome to get in touch if you read this!
“All of America's problems I could have worked around, one way or another, but not the food.”

What? I’m not sure what you are referring to. Yes, there are lots of options in the grocery store that are horrible for you, but you don’t need to buy it. There are plenty of farmers markets around, there is good produce in many (most?) markets.

Personal choice is a huge factor in all of this. Time to prepare food is a problem for many overworked Americans, and I suspect this is the bigger issue. The choice for a quick and easy (bad for you) meal is enticing when you might be working multiple jobs.
I am perfectly happy paying for content
I am curious about your ROI for all those products you have launched.

On one hand it might devalue a lot your brand if users find the products halfbaked or somewhat bad on the other one you might capture some market and increase your revenue.

I am definitely more interested in the economics of all of this.
My guess is that it has to do with projections at an 'irrational' slope. That would prevent repetition, though I believe it would cause a dense set of points if you project the infinite lattice to a lower dimension.
It that were the case, Amazon would be setting the prices, not the contractors
> Some of those could certainly be blamed on large corporations cutting corners

I think most of them are probably caused by deferred maintenance, which may either be the result of the owner making poor decisions, or a circumstance forced on them by poverty. In cases where the car is defective as manufactured, I have no sympathy for the company that made it. If that happens, I want the car company to pay for it. Which I believe generally happens. Car airbags blow up in your face because of a detective design? The car company has to pay to fix that. So your question has a false premise; we don't ignore deaths caused by faulty manufacturing. Usually anyway, some car companies seem to get away with more than others..