skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strange, and Lovecraftian take on Bombadil. I always thought he really was just a jolly fat guy out in the woods. Kind of like a Middle Earth version of one of those potbellied rednecks you see laughing on a small fishing boat, surrounded by a pile of empty beer cans, who waves at you and asks you if you want a cold one, before turning back to the Skynnard blaring from the ancient boombox on their ice cooler.
> Where does a politicians money come from?

They have an annual salary.
The first step seems to be to not divulge your name anywhere. I read the link and several other links and still have no idea of who this person is.
An impractical and difficult to implement idea that would have terrible unintended consequences.
> STOCK act 2012. I believe it was quietly repealed.

No, it wasn't.

It was scoped back, uncontroversially, to not apply to e.g. Congressional staffers. It still applies to "the President, Vice President, Congress, or anyone running for Congress" [1]. It also, more controversially, "eliminated the requirement for the creation of searchable, sortable database of information in reports, and the requirement that reports be done in electronic format, rather than on paper."

The law and its penalties still apply to members of Congress. It just permitted them to file on paper. That leads to crap like this [2]. Still, a long shot from repeal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act#Amendment

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-congress-trading-disc...
Or backup generators for the Texas summer. Don't forget that Texas isn't prepared for warm temperatures either!

There's a whole country of options that aren't on the extremes of Texas and New York - and I'd propose that most of them are better places to locate!
Just curious: what law allows the movie crews to close off public property like streets and sidewalks?
- "For many of the animals we eat, we’d be consigning their species to oblivion if we stopped eating them."

- "[In college] I used to blow [veg and vegans'] minds with this argument—“Oh, so you say you love cows, but you also want to consign their species to oblivion?”"

First, with that level of discourse, that is one college to avoid.
But why does he keep suggesting that a species would disappear just because we stopped farming it? By his own analogy, humans would continue populating the earth if aliens chose that option. Even in the same paragraph he argues it would just mean fewer animals but then proceeds to presume their extinction.

What's wrong with only 1 billion chickens instead of 25? By his future-lives-carry-moral-weight logic we should still be vegetarian, breeding but not eating them, because 250 billion is even better.

Just dumb.
Nice, looks like very “2000” style.
I wonder how secure this is against rubber hose cryptanalysis. I mean just having this installed is a giant red flag that you have additional secrets other than the ones you were willing to disclose after "convincing".

If you are the kind of person that would actually need this, it may not be safe to use it until it becomes a standard feature.
He did what? Stood around?
Well I'm glad you said that, I was very disappointed he wasn't in the movies. My other friends seemed not to care, or they thought he would be too difficult to portray on camera.
>it is a smart choice

For the customer?
Term limits increase the power of lobbyist, according to what I’ve read. They’re not a panacea.
Most 2nd hand car sales in the US are sold "As-is", so the buyer has very little recurse after the fact. The consensus is when it comes to 2nd hand vehicle sales is buyer beware and you should be taking the vehicle to be checked over by another garage before finalising the purchase.

Last car I purchased (granted a) it was brand new b) I'm in the UK) I purchased the car using my debit card (I kept the recept for ages until it faded cause it was novel to me to have such a large card transaction on a small thermal printed receipt :-P)

So I'm just wondering why a 2nd hand vehicle sale would be a huge liability thats all.
Facebook grew for years by acquiring other companies for users, business, or talent. See FriendFeed, Instagram, and Whatsapp. Oftentimes, Facebook would help grow the resulting business enormously or deploy the technology to great effect.

But with increased antitrust scrutiny and the realization from a few founders that they could do better not selling, Facebook lost much of their potential growth. See Snapchat and TikTok. Snapchat spurned an acquisition offer.

Imagine if Facebook owned Snapchat and TikTok. They would be doing a lot better.
I am proficient in sh/bash. I just think it's a little ridiculous since the actual main logic of something like gitlab ci is still lines of shell code... I don't have an issue learning the actual syntax/logic myself but it just feels wrong.
Challenge is when you're facing a recession while also trying to control inflation. See "stagflation" [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stagflation.asp
Their users. Game engines are big and complex and the foundation of building a big and complex product. You can't have your foundation introducing fundamental changes on a regular, unpredictable basis.

Releasing big versions means your game can use version X.Y with only bugfixes to the engine added as updates and you don't have to make fundamental changes when the game engine changes.
There has also been plenty of criticism of HONY: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/humans-of-new-yo...
> Sometimes they are the result of a process operating correctly but coming to a result which someone did not enjoy

So much to unpack here but this is extremely patronizing ("we're not wrong, you just didn't like what we did). "process operating correctly" refers to holding a merchant's money with no reason communicated, and no way for them to get in touch with the company?
> Lazy yet stealing jobs. Yup that makes sense.

There are lots of people for whom logic, and logical consistency, are non-priorities. If they are anti-immigrant* and emotional, assume that they're trying to articulate their emotions - not get an 'A' on their Public Policy 401 term paper, nor favorably impress people with quite different priorities and educational backgrounds from their own.

*Of course, their anti-immigrant "beliefs" may learned from demagoguery they've been exposed to, which was a good-enough emotional match for their economic & social pain & insecurity.
Honestly, probably worth it just to not have to pay for hosting.
Senators make $174,000/yr and most are already wealthy before running for election.No one is asking them to give up all income streams outside of their jobs, just to stop trading individual stocks. Senators have a LOT of knowledge about things that will effect stock prices that is outside of the public realm. Trading on that knowledge is a clear violation of public trust.
I think a solar sail mostly works at a broad reach or a run, so it would be more of a jibe than a tack ;)
Nvidia isn’t benefiting form the chips act, so this makes no sense.
Meh, seems like arguing over the definition of waste instead of actually grappling with the real argument being made.

local state is irrelevant when performing global measurements.

the measurement is determined by election process/law and so rational local behavior can be gamed out.

> [...] If you’re in any of those groups (plus many more), you’re politically homeless.

voting is about being a making a specific choice that describes you (not acheiving an outcome)

> you will dislike both candidates 16 times, but vote for them anyway. Now that is a waste

voting is about conferring approval (not outcomes)

> shouldn’t you actually vote for what you believe in? By implying that there are only two realistic choices, you’re really implying that we don’t have free choice at all.

voting is a statement of belief (implementation is irrelevant)

> I find it hard to believe that only two can be the far-and-away best options.

(strawman: no one believes this or asserts it)

> If you’re a Democrat in Kansas, your vote will not have a chance to alter the state’s results, will not alter the electoral college, and will have no impact on the election results other than a digit in a column somewhere. Might as well vote for who you actually support, then.

(no true scottsman fallacy: what you say is waste isnt! this is real waste)

> Even if your candidate doesn’t win, a 3rd party or independent candidate gaining a lot of support can change the trajectory of a race

you cant argue for strategic aggregation behind a 3rd party but ignore strategic "2nd" party voting

> Hard to claim a mandate if you limp into office with 41% of the popular vote.

fake messaging argument about how politicians should talk instead of acknowledging the real world

> Rather than give a false endorsement to someone I don’t support, I’ll be considering my other options.

you have none. These are all really bad arguments designed to pump the intuition that a vote is locally meaningful. it isnt meaningful. voting literally is designed to wash out individual preferences.
Very interesting! But I wonder if it might be a bit of misdirection by Tolkein to say "there is no embodiment of the One.." After all he is good Catholic who believed in the Trinity.

Still it is strong evidence against == Eru unless Tolkein was playing semantic games.
Dealership economics also play a big part, at least in the US. If the dealership stocks cars in bright colors, some people will love it, and others will hate it, so selling the car will be hit or miss. If they get lucky they can use the color as a selling point, if they aren't they get stuck with a difficult to sell car at the end of the year. On they other hand, if they stock neutral colors like white, people may not love the color but they won't hate it either - it will rarely make/break a sale.

Of course customers can order customized cars, but the dealership will always prefer to sell the stock that they have on hand. So while special ordering a colorful car might be only slightly more expensive than special ordering a white car, special ordering anything for any reason will loose you all negotiating power and cost you thousands of dollars in the final price. I might want a colorful car, but I don't want to pay that much more for a colorful car, so I settle for white.
The first reason it is necessary is that the actual secret is revealed so the transaction entirely relies on trustworthy parties.
Maybe you’d get a bank account but it wouldn’t actually be theirs.
Lawyer here. I do this kind of work for a client. Good for this guy for taking the fight to the spammers. As we head into election season, a lot of us are going to get unsolicited text messages like this. You too can sue for them!

Some of what was said in the tweets regarding your rights and what you have to do to file a claim are, in my experience and opinion, not correct.

The general idea is right, but some of the asides about the law were simply incorrect.

Depending on your jurisdiction, the way you can pursue a case like this is going to vary, so I’m not going to give any hard and fast rules in this comment.

Just a heads up that if you want to try to replicate this, your steps will probably be different.

Not legal advice :)
Aren't pipelines part of the supply chain?

Simply put we were net oil exporters under Trump, all of the sudden we are back to begging the Saudis. Given the environmental retoric of this administration it isn't unreasonable to conclude that they had a hand in that.
I've been using objcopy and objdump for a _long_ time. You saved my bacon on some really obscure archs (QCOM hexagon, for instance). Thanks!
And cost more.
? Madison et al. are quite explicit that non-proportional representation in the Senate was a deeply regrettable compromise that could potentially create extraordinary difficulties down the line. The only thing keeping it from being completely unjustifiable was that the alternative was remaining under the articles of confederation, which was already in the process of breaking down (hence the need for a constitutional convention in the first place). Far from being a concession to slave states, which were growing rapidly at the time and consequently favored proportional representation, the Connecticut Compromise was a concession to small states, mostly in the North (indeed the name of the compromise is a hint here). See Federalist 62 to see just how disappointed Madison et al. were to be forced to accept this compromise by political necessity.

To be clear, slavery and its legacy has had a profoundly malign influence on American politics and its constitution, but non proportional representation in the Senate is not an example of it.
You could just use the same font as your body copy - "Atkinson Hyperligeible" with `line-height: 0.8` and `font-weight: 700` - and remove the `font-size: .8rem;` from your `body` rule.

If you want to keep a similar style: https://fonts.google.com/?category=Handwriting

Also: https://www.pagecloud.com/blog/best-google-fonts-pairings
There may have been some misconfiguration there, but it is buttery smooth on a low-end iGPU for me.
I moved job.
Why should Stripe take on the cost of investigating / handling a potential chargeback, even though it might be likely to be resolved in the business (and Stripe's) favor?

When it comes to chargebacks it's not just customer experience (reputation damage due to fraud) and liquidity risks that Stripes or other payment providers are protecting themselves against - but also the actual support cost of handling each chargeback too.
I find it hard to imagine whatever glue language you choose for an engine like Godot would really matter that much. All you’re implementing is the business logic. Even the slowest language can run through basic business logic in the blink of an eye relative to the heavy duty that the Godot systems are doing.

Eve Online runs on *python*, for instance. So does Blender. For a glue language, I am highly doubtful that the .net is that much faster than v8 or any other runtime to make a difference.
During the COVID pandemic, I saw some truly magical statistics in our government (I am French).

I tried to understand some of their data but it was beyond my capacities - despite having access to some raw data. I do not think that the general population cared (the concern was rather on how to calculate 1 km from their house) but for someone who is allergic to bad statistics creating crappy results it was torture.
This is a ridiculous sampling error. If as many people passed by your phone in your small midwestern town as do in my densely populated neighborhood, I suspect it would be stolen.

That's why we use per capita statics.
Fair enough. Also, I appreciate the balanced optimism in your last lines.
He's more the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. Who is he? Why does no one know of him?

Incongruent facts are always interesting. IMO.
How do you remove objects if you don't queue free them? Just remove them from the tree?
Or elpp: https://github.com/informatimago/elpp/blob/master/elpp.el
Macro Econ 101: Unemployment is a lagging indicator. Always has been. Always will be. It's why it was silly for them to keep touting it as a measure of the economy's health.

We could even enter a prolonged, severe recession with low unemployment. How? Labor force participation. If it is low enough, there aren't jobs to cut.

Your last point is very valid, and much is a matter of perspective.

As far as mixed data... the only data throwing a contrary signal is unemployment, previously discussed. Inflation, rising interest rates, low consumer confidence, home prices turning over (speculative market areas currently), supply chain issues, and loss of wealth effect (markets have lost approximately $30 trillion this year), are all VERY recessionary.
I still think there's a lot to like about Swift, and actually programming in some subset of Swift is some of the most fun and expressive programming I can think of, but it has undoubtedly become kind of a mess. A lot of magic happening, and not in a good way.
Rewriting definitions to fit a narrative, in my mind, is very applicable.
"It works for me" is as useless as "it blocks all non-corporate browsers".

It doesn't block all non-corporate browsers. It apparently blocks your browser, whatever that may be, running from your system, communicating from your network. I don't know what happened to make Cloudflare hate your browser, but my blanket statements are as useful as yours.

They seem to be blocking elinks from non-residential (server) networks. I don't know why so I don't know if it's warranted or not. With the amount of bots Cloudflare has to deal with and the extreme minority of elinks2 users, I can imagine blocking them is a worthwhile tradeoff.

Either way, Cloudflare only provides the defaults, the website operator is responsible for its configuration. In my opinion, a website should be allowed to inconvenience the long tail of weird visitors for any reason they want. I understand that you disagree, but you'll have to convince support@dreamwidth.org if you want to improve the situation, not me.
Since “male” and “female” are the last words of both, I’d argue that with tail-call optimization this turns into an infinite loop.
The UK is culturally isolated, geographically isolated, and politically isolated. They are about as European as Mexico is North American which is to say it's technically true, but practically false.
In Volker time, federal debt (as a fraction of the GDP) was low, he could raise rates without crippling the budget with interest payments.

With today's federal debt level the fed is screwed: it cannot raise rates even close to inflation without busting the budget and cannot lower them (to fight a recession) without spiking inflation.

My bet is on long term rates-below-inflation period to deflate debts, similar to post-war period in the 1940s. And lots ofrhetoric. But it will be a painful ride.
DeepMind research cracks structure of almost every known protein
I would prefer to live in Japan than Zimbabwe. Unfortunately Fed likes the opposite option.
M100LE: Wordle for the TRS-80 Model 100
citizens wanting to overthrow a sitting gov isnt democratic ok
I'm skeptical of your story. They kept the passengers on the plane for 10 hours overnight just for fog? That kind of event is rare and only happens when there is extreme weather/disasters AND operational issues where there are no open gates.
> If you're thinking about doing like this guy did, please don't.

idk. Obviously don't be in other people's way, don't climb fences, don't lie to security, don't "social engineer" your way in, and if someone asks you politely to leave leave. This is in fact what has happened. Once they figured out that he doesn't belong they asked him to leave and he left.

But if it is true what he writes the set was just a public street and he just walked up to them unimpeded. I don't see a problem with that. If it is a problem for the crew they should get fences and security to block people's way.
I’m not sure your mental model matches mine, but in my “real job” I deal with the shadow and virtual DOM. Maybe that’s the metaphor you’re looking for?

I’ll have to be a little practical and hope it makes sense. The tree in the editor is the same tree. Godot engine is written in Godot engine, so what is the distinction between being in the editor and being in the game?

The answer is that godot will ignore all project scripts by default while you are in the editor, but it offers mechanisms to enable them. The main way is a keyword in GDScript.

In Godot 3, you put `tool` as the first line of a script, and it will be loaded. Godot 4 has grown a pre-processy decorator syntax, so it’s the same, but `@tool`.

In your scripts, you can detect whether you are in the editor by checking `Engine.editor_hint`. You can do amazing things with this.

Then you can take it a step further, and convert your tool scripts into an addon. With an addon, which is just a directory structure for assets, your custom in-editor functionality becomes indistinguishable from native godot behavior.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/plugins/run...

PS: I created a virtual node tree a few times to wrap UI components. Much like react. But honestly, I usually find a more idiomatic pattern later.
Interesting. Granted, I never looked at the .net github itself.
> We don't term limit anyone in any other job

Moreover, lawmaker is the only job you have to re-interview for every 2-6 years.

I personally wish there was more turnover of a few long-standing incumbents who have managed to cling to power for decades, but the voters apparently don't, and adding term limits won't magically make the voters pick the people I'd rather see in those positions.
That is certainly true, but livestock is often eating row crops. A significant chunk of soybean meal and corn goes to feed livestock [1] [2]. If those row crops were consumed directly by humans instead, it would require a lot less land. [3]

[1] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_all_these_soybeans_go
[2] https://www.iowacorn.org/corn-uses/
[3] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...
That's a quite frequent trope in Russian space fiction. I guess that's a reflection of how USSR expected to go in the future but went nowhere.
Natalism versus Anti-Natalism will become a key political flashpoint in our near future. One can argue that it already has.
>high resolution 3d scans of any potential hijacker.

Hijackers will be 3d printed and their facsimiles imprisoned
This was much more interesting than I expected.

I have always been interested in how other people work, prioritize, think, their workflow and tools, and this really spoke to that interest.

Here were some surprises:

-- I was much more interested in their software than hardware.

-- I was most interested in their physical set up. This told me more about workflow than I imagined.

-- Everyone has a camera and mic these days -- table stakes -- but people had much fancier camera/mic setups than I do.

-- I also have a pad and pen. I was interested to see some people had set up a mini-teleprompter by putting their pad next to their screen.
There's a whole permitting process with the city.

In LA obviously it's a streamlined process: https://www.filmla.com/for-filmmakers/permits/
Will Carbon Kill Go's Momentum?
Creating an Intranet Like the Internet
The thing about trains is that they gain cost efficiency in exchange for a massive time penalty. In most cases, you have to truck your goods from a warehouse to a rail center, unload them from the trailer to a rail car, wait for the entire train to be loaded and prepped, wait for a slot on the rail network, travel at normally ~45mph, and then do the reverse at the destination rail center. A trucking hub can swap a trailer in maybe 10 minutes and there's no need to group shipments together - you can send a single trailer load of stuff from point A to point B with minimal interruptions just like with a normal truck today.
No, not wrong. I'm not sure whether the post is serious, or just trying too hard for an edgelord take.
Orwellian newspeak definitely expanded the dictionary in doubleplusungood ways, including redefining existing terms to mean the opposite ("WAR IS PEACE, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM" - words are violence, silence is violence, facts are misinformation, racism is only whites oppressing people of color), and by crushing any opposing wrongthink and oldspeak thoughtcrime, the Ministry could easily gather "real world examples of use" and fill petitions with doubleplusgoodspeak doublethink petitioners as desired, whether Orwell described that process or not.

But are we trending toward a Brave New World rather than Oceania?
> A report from software platform LaunchDarkly revealed that nearly 7 in 10 developers (67%) have left a job due to pressure around minimizing deployment errors or know someone who has.

[emphasis mine]

Without knowing more about the connectedness of software-developer relationships, I have no idea how widespread the problem is.