skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not making any assumptions.

In all 50 states, plates represent the registered owner and not the driver, because non-owners can drive cars in all 50 states.

As for safety and emissions, only a minority of states do each of these, and the majority of those denote compliance with a sticker, or have exemptions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Un...
Bluetooth audio and an aux cable

I'll take just the aux then, at least as long as I can. Aux (as in: 3.5mm jack on both ends or else on one end and the other one cinch or DIN to support even older devices) is something which has been working fairly universally to get music from any portable and even some not-so-portable players to amps in the past 30 years or so, extend to like 60 years to include anything compatible but with DIN (just a rough guess here, I still have some old Telefunken radio with an aux input via DIN and I'd estimate that is it's age; still works, moreover they really figured out nice warm bass from small speakers back then already). It's simple, it's a de facto standard, it really just works, it's a good idea (doubling as headphone out) and well-executed.

Bluetooth audio on the other hand tries to be all of that, but I never quite got the feeling it's there yet, after all those years, and I wonder it will ever be the same level of 'just works'.
This sort of thing tends to be resolved privately with the landowners involved rather than publicly.
Specialized? Obscure? It exposes a SOCKS5 proxy at localhost:9050. If you can figure out how to use a VPN, you can figure out how to use Tor. In a way it is easier than a VPN if you are just using something like Tor Browser or Orbot.
> Have you considered that maybe there is a reason that otherwise different societies have almost universally evolved to impose harsh punishments?

The linked article suggests that this sentiment actually comes and goes historically.

How do you know that in the long term, we're not evolving in the opposite direction, to not impose harsh punishments?
The author, JC Ellena is now retired and was the house perfurmer of Hermes for many years. He is definitely one of the most important perfurmers of all time having created many many problems including two of the most iconic perfumes of all time: Cartier Declaration and Terre d'Hermes.

I recommend everybody not familiar with perfumery to go to a Sephora or similar store and try these two masterpieces. They are so iconic (and popular) that you ll get memories of people wearing them in your past; the memory of smell is really strong.

This was a revelation to me when I did that before some years and made me really love perfumes after that!
It's also a terrible attitude to an engineering and operations challenge. What is this dark box of 'luck'? We know the potential concerns, and can design and act accordingly.
Are there any "Why I chose to build my startup around SBCL" stories?
These I believe are what is called fixed width files.

If you use pandas, there is a reader for those `pd.read_fwf()`

I’m sure there are many more languages that support this, it’s just the only one where I had a need.
TC66(C)USB Type-C Tester Deep Dive
I rarely use absolutes, but I don't think "tough love" is the solution to anything, if your goal is to truly help the person you are applying "tough love" to.

As long as there's a thread of trust between the caregiver and the shut-in, you have access/influence with them, and they can be rehabilitated, under the right circumstances.

A safer option might be to completely change their environment, but stay supportive, in order to break any entrained behavior connected to being a shut-in. Might be difficult to achieve this in Japan, though.

If you delete that remaining thread of trust by applying "tough love," they will be forced to face the trauma that they could not before, but without any support.

Perhaps some small fraction might "survive" that ordeal, but it's not exactly setting them up for long-term success.

I do think many parents have no idea how to handle a dependent in that situation. The worst case scenario is when parents have also "given up" on their child ever recovering/improving - those situations need intervention from an outside party.

EDIT: I'd define "tough love" as actions done with the intent of "helping" someone, but with wanton disregard to that someone's health.
The "has control flow" vs "doesn't have control flow" description is a bad one, an attempt to reduce "declarative vs imperative" down to syntax instead of semantics. The parent to my comment is still in imperative style, despite having no control flow: It's specifying what actions to take to reach the desired outcome ("eat"). Declarative is describing the desired outcome, then letting the system figure out how to get there.

When you write an SQL query, you're not describing steps to take, you're describing the outcome you want (what rows and fields from which tables and how those tables relate to each other). The query engine then takes that description and figures out how to actually do the query (what indices to use, in what order, how to actually loop/hash/map/scan the tables and indices, etc). This is what EXPLAIN shows you, the actual imperative plan the query engine came up with given the declarative query you gave it.

Another common example would be CSS: It's all about describing the desired result and spatial relationships between elements, then the CSS engine takes those rules and figures out how to actually get those elements to do what you want. Like something as seemingly simple as "float: left" - for the text to wrap around it, the engine has to deal with the image size, position, font and font size, figuring out when to wrap the text, height of the font, which line of text is greater than the image height, etc. The engine does a lot of work figuring out the steps to take to get the result you've described.
Asserting one's rights is not "attacking". Do you think that Fred Rogers, upon learning that a gang of monstrous people is saying horrific things while impersonating him, wouldn't force them to stop?
Personally I don't want to punish but rather inform: if you do this, this might/will happen. It doesn't imply that they're a bad person for doing what they did, just speaks more to the cause and effect of actions.

I think this may actually work better for kids. I think so often we praise/shame them, and they can get caught in a cycle of unpredictable self-worth. I dunno, for me, I like to let people know how I will most likely react to certain actions and tell them that even if I react that way, I will still love them. Punishing (with the intent to hurt them) often hurts me, so I'd rather not try to hurt them. That being said, I do want people to know if they punch me in the face, I may punch them back, leave the bar, or strongly distance myself from them physically. I just want people to be more aware of consequences rather than feel like they're a bad person for choosing their actions.
Not exactly. Nuclear reactors have a difficult time following the load because of Xenon poisoning. Xenon generated during the fission reactions absorbs neutrons that could have been used for fissions. Luckily, it decays away over time. If you turn down the reactor power, you have to wait hours or day for for Xenon buildup to decay so that you can turn the reactor back on. Some reactors manage to load follow more easily by adding lots of excess reactivity (more potent control rods) which is less safe overall. Smaller reactors will have the exact same issue. The amount of Xenon poisoning is proportional to the power density. NuScale reactors run at even higher power density than normal light water reactors, so they will have even worse Xenon poisoning. They won't be load following. One exception where this isn't true is micro gas-cooled reactors that have so low a power density that they have negligible xenon poisoning and can follow loads easily if necessary. Even then, it's not a great idea because of thermal cycling issues.
> Why do adults punish children?

Because it works at changing their behavior.

Now we can argue the merits of positive reinforcement vs negative reinforcement all day. But when a technique is effective at changing unwanted behavior, then it will be used.

Punishments are absolutely necessary because some kids don't know when their parents disapprove of their behavior otherwise. I'm not talking about beating kids btw, I'm talking about scolding, "go to your room", and timeouts.

I don't think corporal punishment is worthwhile. There's some studies that shows that while effective at changing behavior, it also teaches the kid that violence is sometimes necessary, a lesson that I'm not sure if we should be teaching them.

But punishments in general? You don't want to reach for them as your first tool in your parenting toolbox. But you really can't just positive-reinforcement "you're doing a good job" all day to your kids. Its disingenuous and the kids pick up on that.

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> It answers the question in the title mostly by asking what, from today’s perspective, are the rational uses of punishment?

To change a person's behavior. If someone keeps lying, cheating, and stealing in society, we want to make them to stop so that they can reintegrate and become a beneficial member of society.

Perhaps we've gone too far with jail times in the USA, but the foundational theory is quite simple and effective here. Anyone who has ever trained a dog or other animal knows how to use animal psychology / punishments / rewards to change the animal's behavior.

Human psychology is more complex than animal behavior, but it shares a lot of similarities. Positive reinforcement (aka: rewards) and negative reinforcement (aka: punishments) are both useful within the framework.
I have no idea what you think I'm trying to do, because "sharing relevant life stories" isn't something I'd expect to get this reaction.
I don't feel that I am I inconsiderate online. Just literally have contrary viewpoints that don't sit well with people.

Actually sometimes my comments are more blunt these days. But that is an adaptation from receiving disdain for years when expressing contrarian viewpoints, mostly regardless of the tone I use.
What about operational costs? Downtime?

I assumed the £20M was about R&D and production, not operation.
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If you need a Rails, why not directly use Rails? For what kind of web application Clojure is better than python or Ruby or nodejs?
The thing is that you can’t look at evolution and sexual selection from the perspective of ”this particular thing makes the most sense or seems to be the optimum, and so of course nature has made things such”.

An urge can be very strong and provide just a little benefit, and still remain. It can be weak and enormously beneficial, and still just be prevalent in a small part of the population. It can even be not beneficial at all, and just be a remnant from when it was, or even a byproduct of something else.

So you can’t discount biology, especially when looking at the wider population, just because you think that for whatever reason whatever the thing that caused the evolutional pressure for the behavior you’re observing isn’t valid anymore. And even if that’s true, you’re probably lagging a few hundred, thousand or tens of thousands of years behind.
The usb tester spam earlier reminded me of this video existing and I figured I’d share it. I found the deep dive fascinating and I ended up purchasing a TC66 myself.
Nice to see this release!

I hope the rendering pipeline is much more ergonomic -- I found doing shaders in Bevy 0.7 was incredibly painful. Most things in Bevy just "make sense", but the render internals were somehow both low-level (lots of explicit memory sizing and boilerplate) and convoluted (think FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition). It doesn't help that WGPU and WGSL have very limited resources online compared to, well, OpenGL and GLSL or anything DirectX. It almost made me just reach for good old C++, especially since the normally amazing Rust errors were absolutely terrible with anything going on in render land. Hopefully I can check out 0.8 soon and see those improvements!

I hope Bevy going forward continues to put a lot of effort into the render pipeline so it is as ergonomic and intuitive as the rest of it. I think the ECS core is absolutely brilliant -- the rest just needs to be at the same level. A challenging language plus a difficult render path and a niche library (WGPU) is a tough sell to game devs IMO.
Imagine the current cancel culture is even more widespread (it is a nightmare).

[My personal point of view is that] the society should not punish, it should try to prevent future crimes. For example, capital punishment: according to studies I've read, it is not a real deterrent, and false positives are likely (innocent people are killed) -- therefore I'm against capital punishment (if the capital punishment were effective to prevent murders, I'd reconsider it).
unless you are using onion services.
Investigating a source of an issue can be a hard task, and it is important to have a good set of Linux shell commands on your tool belt. Here is the commands that I have used to mitigate issues on production.
If companies who help create a better future has an easier time hiring than companies who help create a worse future, well, that's a direct incentive you can be a part of.

You might not care or prioritize it, but then you probably don't have the right to expect the rest of the world to do that either?

I don't know, I'm just trying to figure this out for myself...
I can give it a shot. I don't want to butcher it, but I feel like attention spans on here are pretty short for philosophy so here's the short version. Many continental philosophers appear to be skeptical of the separation of form and content necessary for logic to "work" in the context of another subject of study (Deleuze), interested in presenting tensions between ideas that do not clearly adapt themselves to exclusive truth or falsity (Derrida), or interested in presenting things that do not pretend to be particularly abstract or logical (Levinas).

On a personal note, I want to say that I drifted to continental philosophy in my undergrad after studying and appreciating formal logic. I realized that mainstream analytical philosophy had a lot less to do with logic than I had imagined (no symbolization, no commonly agreed upon rules of deduction), and at a certain point the question of "why logic" presented itself. I haven't found many opportunities in my writing to use the more technical concepts of modality or nth-orders, let alone anything from category theory.

e: Replaced induction with deduction, a typo
President Biden test positive for Corona again
It’s not hard to follow, it’s just strange to me on a couple of levels:

Approaching from a non-vegan morality perspective, but vegan for health, I don’t understand why you would opt for something so highly processed instead of having something whole and unprocessed.

From a vegan for morality sake…it’s like Westworld, but the food equivalent.
> * When we're so scared as a society of the Covid death spike that we stunt the social and educational development of children by years, which is potentially unrecoverable.

This sounds a lot like "we should ignore warnings about pollution because the cost of moving away from fossil fuels would be too expensive," actually.

Picking such an open-ended thing like this really undermines your point here. You want people's Covid-prompted behaviors (exaggerated into stuff like "two years mostly staying home, gaining 50 pounds") to be compared to "fear of nuclear meltdown." But you can't substantiate those long-term risks in anything like the same way we can those of burning coal at this point. Is Covid more "potentially unrecoverable" for kids and young adults than themselves or family members being drafted for a world war and dying en masse? Than school shootings that we tolerate for vague "protect our liberty" talk?
I need more news on things like this ..
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> The self discipline to behave in a way that enables you to live a good life?

Also, self-discipline tends to follow age. If punishing little kids helped, then why do kids often become terrors in their teens and twenties, then eventually grow up, mature, and become more responsible?

Of course some people never grow up, but many of them were smacked around as kids anyway.
> long-term storage of waste and the cost of nuclear accidents. The merchants of nuclear power plants do not list those costs on the sale price.

Actually they do. The US has been collecting money from nuclear plants for disposal for literally 50 years.

In fact, they have an absurd amount of money since this money has been collecting interest. It it political deadlock and systematic incompetence that prevents the solving of this problem.

And in addition, long term storage is an incredibly dumb solution for most of this 'waste' and is a fundamentally flawed policy that again, is simply systematic incompetence.

> I still have not met anyone who is prepared to have nuclear waste stored in their "neighborhood"

Disagree, put it in my garden. I don't care. You can leave it there for the next 100 years. Seriously, its not hard to store, it just stands there and does nothing and is 100% harmless unless you come up with some plot of Armageddon style logic.

> So it accumulates on-site, where there was no real planned long-term storage accommodation.

Its accumulates on-site because of systematic incompetence in the federal government.

> and the cost of nuclear accidents

The likely hood of such accidents is incredibly small, even if you assume 100 years of nuclear power for 100% of the population the chance of really series accidents is very low. And even lower if we consider next generation nuclear.
I've always thought about this in relation to the cost to the company rather than the consumer. I appreciate that different perspective.

Do you think there's a case where something might have an infinite cost to the consumer but a finite cost to the company? Ie a solution to some recurring problem that, without the software or service the customer would endlessly pay for, but with the software or service would not incur the recurring cost--and in that situation, do you think it would be fair for the company to charge a recurring fee given that it's not costing them to continually develop it? So the customer is saving money compared to before they had the software but it's not supplementing a cost of development?
RT isn’t banned because we don’t like what it says - it’s banned because it’s a part of information war. It’s not media - you won’t find there a single fact you wouldn’t get from western media.

Which, btw, is very obvious when you actually look at RT. It’s a (more American than Russian for some reason) right wing sewage pool in the comments and some Daily Mail level “journalism” above.
I think it comes back to failure of enforcement and size of punishment.

I think lot less people would run red lights if they were reliably punished for it and the punishment were non-trivial. This is why I support Finnish model of income based fines. You end up paying some fraction of your monthly income. So it will hurt rich and poor more equally.

The fines are often very trivial for certain fraction of population.
the numbers will change my friend, as the virus spreads. I hope your view will adjust, but I have say I am not confident that it will
Russian here. Roskomnadzor's capabilities for blocking TOR are quite sufficient to cripple TOR's capabilities to the point of making it unusable as a VPN service, unless you set up your own private TOR ramp, which in this case is essentially the same as personal VPN, but much more slow.

The algorithm is quite simple:

1. Attempt to connect to TOR

2. If it connects, blacklist the IP, goto 1.

3. TOR is unavailable

(If an anonymous TOR user can obtain bridge address, shared by any means, email, Signal, messenger pigeons or whatever, RKN operative can obtain it as well)
The only carbon tax that makes sense would be one that targets fossil fuel production. Extracting oil from the ground? Hella taxed. Extracting natural gas? Super taxed.

If people can find a good way to create fossil fuels from atmospheric CO2 then they shouldn't have any fossil fuel punishments in their way.
I'd argue the five minutes of episode when Fred soaked his feet with a black man in a kiddie pool delivered a more crushing blow to the KKK than his suit did. a lot of kids saw that, and in turn became a lot harder to indoctrinate.

bigots and racists unfortunately remembered that lesson very well. teaching lgbtq and the history of race in this country is all but forbidden in some States because it works.
cool, didn't know streamers got their own hardware now. I'll take a deeper look at that website for sure, lots of interesting stuff, but judging by what I've seen so far there's nothing that matches what I'm looking for, that is something small and thin enough to be placed on the laptop, as an extension to the keyboard.
What vegan shake you have?
And Singapore has a very punitive legal system, while featuring a recidivism rate around 20-25%.

You can't just take two cherry-picked examples and proclaim the ‶idea of punishment as [...] dead and buried″.
One point to running on the JVM is that you can leverage all of the existing Java app server infrastructure in your company for deployment.

That stuff removes 90% of the arguments against using another language in a Java shop.
This post is about a false fact pattern being amplified to support a narrative.

This false fact pattern is being amplified on both sides of the border.

My local American newspaper is trying very hard to tell horror stories about local Indian schools.
Outstanding! Instead of 300MW coal or gas-fired plants in metro areas we could have clusters of these. The shorter transmission distance will mean less line-loss, the factory-built design means economies of scale, and the passive-cooling post-scram ability means that it would be impossible to have a Fukushima type of accident due to loss of primary loop cooling. If every city acquire enough of these to cover 80% of their base load then we could cut carbon emissions so fast we it would astonish us all.
I imagine they would. That would be a good approach for data scraping, but difficult to do in a bookmarklet.
I watched Tom Hanks' portrayal on the plane a few months ago; being non-American and unfamiliar with the original programme, I was a good way in to the film before I started to suspect it was a 'docudrama' rather than the surrealist drama I'd thitherto thought!

It was an enjoyable film about an apparently almost 'too good to be true' gentleman even without the context of having grown up with The Neighbourhood.
do we know what the affect of re-infections are yet? Ever greater immunity, until entirely asymptomatic?
The company I work at currently is probably about 50/50 with the men more in tech and the women more in admin/support type roles. Leadership leans a bit female with a lady as our CEO. It feels less like a psychopathic cult than most other places I’ve worked so I’d say that’s a plus.
For a wealthy person, maintaining status/perceptions and relationships may be worth more than the value of interests gained on a small loan(relative to their wealth). Cultural mores can certainly have more influence on behavior than raw rational self-interest.
On a larger scale, greed may win out, but I can believe that in a limited scale of a particular social strata of a particular culture this can be sustainable.
web scraping is fine, but when you start to go around blocks the site owners are putting up to prevent it, it starts to get blurrier
A better example would be Jimmy Saville, Larry Nassar, and the leaders of the Catholic Church, people who intentionally worked with children to create an opportunity to rape them.