skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cats spend a significant portion of their day grooming themselves, a kind of bathing, that keeps their fur smooth.

A strong reason to bathe is acceptance by others. One of the first things we do for a newborn or someone injured after getting first aid is to clean them up. We want people to respond positively to us, and being clean is a part of that.

I doubt you'll see a dirty newscaster.

ISTR that the Aboriginals in Australia didn't bathe. But what if they encountered a river? Did they wash and then immediately roll in dirt to ward off mosquitos?
I wasn't trying to rebut the parent's argument (assuming the parent wasn't trying to be ironic or so).

Denser cities make it easier to leave them for a short stint, too, because there's less sprawl.

Yes, it's probably a good idea to live outside a city for a while in your life. Though that's up to individual preferences.

I'm not quite sure whether it makes much sense one way or another to say that the US is 'still not very dense'.

In some literal sense, that is obviously true. In another sense, just because eg Russia has huge empty lands in Siberia bringing down the average density on a federal level, doesn't really make a difference to someone living in the suburbs of Moscow.

Similarly, if Russia lost Siberia tomorrow, the person in the Moscow suburb wouldn't experience density any different either.

I only chose Russia as an extreme case example. You can replace Siberia with Alaska or the flyover states, and Moscow and its suburbs with eg San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

After spending years in quite a few different places around the globe, I'm quite happy to live in Singapore these days, one of the premier global cities.

In the US it is sad that because of building restrictions so many people are excluded from its most productive cities; unnecessarily setting back the economy and thus the prosperity of the people. Including even of those people who wouldn't want to live in those most productive places.
I think the same basically goes for any of those books. One could easily port the code to Racket, for example.
This is mostly true of social conservatism. No one is getting canceled for saying we should reduce taxes and spend less in government.
I don’t think this is an Indian thing, western dentists recommend brushing teeth after each meal.
US library defunded after refusing to censor authors
I guess I'll get a 70/30 chub for the next time I make burgers, because I can never get the malliard reaction on 80/20 and up patties.
> It's current status as illegal is not a counterargument.

It's like when vegans try to stop you in the grocery store for eating meat, which they say is murder.

It's actually not murder. That's just an emotional value they choose to assign, and I'm not going to jail for my hamburger.

They might tell me that "it's legal isn't a counterargument," but actually, it is.

The comment made claims that something that's illegal should be legal because some people using it understand things through it.

That doesn't really make sense to me. Pick any gross crime, then claim the criminal is using that crime to understand things. It's pretty easy to do this through burglary stories about assembling evidence, or vigilantism stories.

Should that suddenly be legal, due to their motivation? I don't think so, personally.

The law also doesn't.

Nobody looking at this situation has even started from first principles and said "why is unregulated gambling illegal?"

It's actually not very hard to answer that, and the rest falls neatly into place from there.
I work in the music industry.

The clearest sign that something is suspect is constantly trending celebrity names when they have no new/real news involved.

The other indicator is accounts that have over 10k followers on them, nut every tweet they make has only 10 or less likes on it. They cover that activity up by retweeting others/old posts that have multiple likes on them.

I won't mention names, but just the other day I made a tweet about a news outlet reporting on a terrible homicide and the news outlet was using a celebrity's photo rather than a photo of a victim in the incident or no photo at all, and suddenly the celebrity artist's name started trending with tons of old posts retweeted and obviously simple (bot-like) posts were made tagging the artist's name to bury my comment out of view... It happened twice that day.

I am used to the dysfunction and subtle marketing tactics used on the site, not really anything worth protesting against any more.
The Full Self-Driving package on Teslas gives you access to a number of features including autopark, auto lane change, navigate on autopilot, green light chime, traffic light and stop sign control, summon, smart summon, an update to the latest car computer, as well as the city streets Beta. Just not true to say they received no functionality. I paid $7,000 for it on my last car and it's incredible. It can often do entire drives with no human input. And not just simple drives, but some pretty complex scenarios too.
Once upon a time I was making a documentary about people trying to sort out Artificial General Intelligence (never released! but probably some gems in the footage) and I met Mr. Goertzel, who is a brilliant and fascinating character.

What keeps coming up in the question of AI sentience seems to be not whether we're on the brink of true AGI but more whether we can be fooled into thinking robots are "friends."

And what is mysterious to me is that we have constructed a world in which we have absolutely no shortage of humans with which to connect, but we're slowly losing the social skills to make those connections work, and the ability to connect and collaborate is pretty much our main competitive advantage as humans.
> I read the CFTC revocation letter, they do not justify anything unless you have a very loose definition of justify

The CFTC letter says "we made an agreement eight years ago and you never honored it."

If you want the justification, read the original agreement, not the "you broke your promise, no more special privileges for you" notice.

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> their letter says "we had X exceptions, we say you failed" That is not justification

That's correct. You looked in the wrong place. Punishment for failing to honor an agreement is not, generally, where people explain the purpose of the agreement.

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> Nothing in the 2 page note provides any actual justification.

That's correct. You looked in the wrong place.
You don’t even have to do a poll, there’s enough YouTube videos with the driver napping behind the wheel on a highway to prove that Tesla’s advertising is misleading
She mentions Aleppo soap in the piece, and cites the influence of a first century AD physician as being meaningful through the medieval period - so a charitable reader might assume that she's talking about widespread use rather than knowledge of the existence of a thing. In place of a charitable reader, this comment seems to be trying to say that "medieval invention" and "adopted technology" are mutually exclusive.

She has a doctorate in medieval history, and I've read her work. It's rather interesting to consider a Google Books link more authoritative.
Check out what people are using for Ludum Dare compo.
I don't think it's a one-dimensional line with pro/anti modification. For example, if you were against people integrating weapons into their bodies or upward-facing eyes into their feet for looking up skirts, that wouldn't make you anti-transhuman.
I feel very grateful for reddit.com/r/askhistorians. I feel like they are the only source I can trust on figuring out the best truth we know about history.
Unfortunately in the android world pixel isn't the top of the line. Samsung is. And they come with so many terrible apps.
Agreed, I made something similar to live patch services w/o downtime and despite being cool I'm not sure I'd recommend it vs. just putting replicated containers behind a load balancer.
ThinkPads are the only good thing Lenovo ever put out, and they just bought them off IBM. I would never recommend the brand (or almost any brand) as a whole.
Kanye West's Stem Player – An engineering disaster
>Portable water was not an issue, because industrialization did not yet happen and most water sources (and hundreds of wells dug around the country) would have clean, drinking water. Did you think a thousand years ago, people used water filters?

Potable water hasn't been an issue strictly introduced by industrialization, it was exacerbated by increased population density in areas where water sources were more likely to be contaminated. There are plenty of nasty biological contaminates out there that make water non-potable: various bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc. as well as inorganics like lead leaching that led to bad water sources (not to mention droughts). Potable water has always been an issue (to this day), industrialization agreeably added new issues although it also introduced water processing science to make non-potable waters potable in many places.

We should celebrate modern industrialized water processing, not shun it.
> Soap was likely "invented" and even forgotten over and over again by whoever needed and stopped needing it

At least with the Sapindus family, and probably a few other plants (like lepisanthes) that produce naturally surfactant properties, nature itself provides something akin to "soap", and has been used in bathing for long enough that we're not even sure when it even began.
> I fervently believe that there's no practical way for government to regulate speech so they shouldn't try.

> I don't mean to imply he shouldn't be penalized in this case.

Those two statements would seem to contradict each other. How can you believe that the government should not try to regulate speech, yet it should still be able to penalize someone for their speech?
That reminds me of a thread here from a few weeks ago about how somebody was training an ML model to add noise to video, so that the noise-free version of the video can be compressed better but then the noise can be added at playback to maintain the authentic feel of old video.
> It's disappointing to me that Logo died out and didn't remain around or evolve

But it did remain around and evolve.

See, e. g.:

StarLogo Nova: https://www.slnova.org/

NetLogo: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
I do understand that they need pay for their running cost, but to be completely honest, I don't think that they're running the business in a smart way.

When GitHub took off, they were not offering private repository at all. Instead, they added it in slowly when they can afford to do so. This is one of the reason why GitHub has now become the #1 platform for open source projects around the world.

GitLab is trying a different approach by focusing on offering repository hosting as service, but as time progresses and GitHub grows, this business model became less and less attractive. As a result of it, now days GitLab mainly attracts people who thinks GitHub isn't the right option for them, and that's not a big market. No matter how many cost they cut, if this remain unchanged, GitLab is already on it's dead bed (by that, I mean stop growing, not close for business).

GitHub is smart because at very beginning (before allowing private repositories), they knew that if they want to attract good programmers and projects, they must also accept and respect garbage, because that's what it takes to build their trust.

Deleting user data however, always destroy trust. If storing those repositories creates unbearable cost for GitLab, then maybe introduce a reasonable cap and then rejects new commits once the cap is exceeded (while asking user to buy more spaces). Making the entire repository just disappear is too much.

I'm glad that they did not end up choosing that route, but at the same time, not choosing that route should be the default, not something you just realized after it went to the media.
I get your frustration at the popular misconceptions around sound quality, but see no need to evangelize this issue. If people enjoy spending money on records, good for them, and good for the industry.
>So forget about running a router inside a VM

How does VyOS do it?

https://docs.vyos.io/en/equuleus/installation/cloud/azure.ht...
> The number of logical fallacies at play are impressive

Stephen Bond says it better than I can: https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/bdksucks.html

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> Seems like you have a rather rose colored view

Sorry, no, the law isn't my "view," it's just the law.

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> and fall into a Fallacy Of Expertise to believe that because the law was "crafted" over many years by "professionals" that is somehow makes it infallible

I didn't say anything like this. I'm not sure why you think I did.

What I actually said was "people with no legal education who didn't even look up the original design aren't likely to understand things well enough to improve it."

People with actual legal educations who understand the design, of course, can. We make improvements every day.

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> I find it concerning that one would have such reverence for a clearly flawed, abusive, and often unethical institution such as "the law"

I don't have any such reverence. You're criticizing things I never said and which do not correctly model my viewpoint.

I said "you guys didn't even read what this is about, why do you think you're improving it" and somehow from that you heard "the people who wrote this are perfect and flawless."

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> there is nothing more unjust than the laws the come from "do-gooders" steeped false philanthropy

(blinks)

What?

These laws don't come from philanthropy. They mostly come from punishing casinos for cheating people.

Nobody said anything about noble do-gooders or philanthropy.

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> It is authoritarian that one would need to seek permission from the government to run a website like PredictIT in the first place.

Well, no, that's ... that's just what government does, is make rules.
An free online collaborating code editor
No, the burden is not on Musk to prove anything. He waived all rights to due diligence. There is nothing to prove or disprove.
Leet and work on your English skills. That’s all there is really.
Generally convents and monasteries that produce things like beer and cheese and chocolate do so quite specifically for the money. They're not doing it because it's a quaint tradition.

It may be a thought-stopping cliche, but it also gets at the central point of why the work was done in the first place.
But you see the issue with this right? Taking this example. Osama Bin Laden should not have been pursued by the US for 9/11 for years. He did not physically fly an airplane into the twin towers, he just told another group of guys to do it.

Another extreme example. Hitler did not personally gas all the people at Auschwitz, his speech did convince others to do it. If Hitler had survived and was on trail at the Nuremberg trails, should he be found guilty or responsible for the murders at Auschwitz?

Taking less extreme example. A mob bosses doesn't performs hits himself, he tells underlings to do those things.

When your speech is direction in advocating, inciting, or ordering violence and someone does it, the most dangerous part is not the person who carried out the violence, it is the person who could manipulate the other person to do the terrible thing. Jim Jones probably rings a bell here. He didn't after all physically force the poisoned koolaid down the throats of people, but he was able to manipulate lots of people drink it and to poison it.

Now granted, these are all examples of criminal cases, not civil like this one. But the point comes across. There obviously are some forms of speech that should tie responsibility back to a person. In the case of a mob boss who orders a hit. The standard for these are high, which is good, it usually has to be direct with knowing that people will carry it out. So there is a difference where blindingly screaming into the wind to kill the president, that probably isn't going to stick. But when you know you are speaking to people who will carry out your will, then it does.
In my city, there is an island a ferry ride away. So for less than $20 for two, on any given weather-permitting weekend, you might find me and my partner somewhere along the beach or around one of its ponds or other features. Other times, we walk our dogs to one of the many local parks, or the ravine. Sometimes we spend the weekend doing housework (how glamourous!). And a lot of the time, we just hang around and appreciate the fact that it is weekend and time to unwind. Last weekend we made hot sauce.

What we don't do is anything that resembles our professional work, or involves anyone who is connected to our professional work. To do so is a guaranteed way to eventually burn out.

Ironically I can tell some people in my industry are bored on weekends, and wile away the time troll bating on Twitter. That's not my style (the one activity I'm perfectly happy saying "I'm too old for that" about), and I always think they need to find their version of a weekend island haunt, too. They are clearly in the early grips of burnout.

Relax. Unwind. If people are telling you they did "nothing" for the weekend, they may have done exactly that. Or they may have done something like a trek to the island, but don't care to mix that experience with work.
There wasn't a Greece back then to call these wars "Greco".
It's a matter of public record that MUSK ELON REEVE sold precisely $8,517,410,779 worth of Tesla stock between April 26th and April 28th [1].

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/insider-transactions?p=...
It could be this one. I remember the yellow highlights.

It was many years ago and definitely not a cloud service so not Distill Web Monitor. It didn't let me define fields to monitor, so not PageProbe.

I wouldn't have used a cloud service. What's the point? My browser already have everything it takes to download pages and diff them. I understand that if the computer is off the browser won't monitor the page but it was ok with my use case: if it's off I won't be able to react to the CVE.

And for other use cases, it's no business of anyone else but me to know what I'm monitoring.
I still do. Generally data structures and flow more than actual code these days, but sometimes I'll also sketch out an API or something by hand. I find it tremendously helpful for cultivating understanding, designing systems, and solving problems!
Not sure what numbers you used. For comparison, here's a worked example:

Singapore has a size of 728.6 km2, and a population of 5.7 million people. For a density of 8,400 people per km2. (That includes water reservoirs, military bases, an international airport, areas for heavy industry, nature reserves, garbage dumps, power stations, 1.5% of the world's crude oil refining capacity, a few semiconductor fabs, etc.)

There are 7.96 billion people on the planet. That means if you scale up Singapore at the same density, you'd need 952,000 km2 to fit everyone.

Texas has a size of 696,000 km2. So our mega-Singapore would need about 1.37 Texases of area.

That's pretty close to your number.

Wikipedia gives New York City's population density as 11,313.68/km2, but the borders for that calculation will by necessity be drawn a bit arbitrarily. And I assume that doesn't include as much of the support infrastructure as Singapore does.
Most projects can reasonably and usefully stick with central ID allocation forever.

And even if you want to decentralise ID allocation, so long as you still have control over the nodes, you can still use roughly sequential identifiers if you choose, by multiplying by some standard value and offsetting the sequence by a node ID. You could reserve ten least significant bits for a node ID, for example, allowing up to 1024 nodes to generate IDs. So node 0 would allocate IDs {0, 1024, 2048, …}, node 1 {1, 1025, 2049, …}, &c. This requires more planning and possibly more maintenance, but will have the advantage of producing shorter IDs which can be highly desirable.

Random IDs do have a place, but they’re massively overrated. The length required to control the collision risk is very significant.
I can just imagine the reaction of a stone-ager being berated because they hadn't come up with "literally just a fatty acid salt with some phytochemicals that have antimicrobial properties".
I suspect you could pick just about any tech invented in the last decade and describe it as "literally just a pick-your-adjective noun with some other random nouns that have something-or-another properties"...

Explain again why anyone would stop needing soap? (other than having departed this world...)
New Cars in Europe Can Now Call the Police Themselves (2018)
I am not talking about exchanges, which are not cryptocurrency. I am talking about on-chain finance, which in theory, can supersede the entire financial system, negating the need to interface with off-chain entities like exchanges.

Yes, this is all speculated/unrealized potential at the moment, but the potential is there nonetheless.
Depends on what you mean by poverty. I mean, how does one even measure it a 1000 years ago.

I am suspicious of these reports.

Every country has a history of good times and bad times. However, the culture of India is unique in the sense that the most strongest unit was the collective society and cultural practices (food donation being held as the highest ideal, practical prohibition of sale of food, a multitude of rituals for householders wherein donation of money, clothes, grain, etc was part of the ritual, societal support for disabled persons, etc). This led to a fairly decent life and times.

Were there not people in extreme poverty, sure. Was the whole country in poverty, surely not.
The argument that there is 'insufficient housing' in the area is a bit rubbish.

There will never be 'sufficient housing' as there will always be demand to live there, until it's a a terrible place to live ... after which demand will drop and it will be 'cheap to live'.

There will always be 'high demand places to live' and the reality is no everyone can afford to live there, too bad, that's not how it works. There's plenty of wonderful places to live in the US.

The use of the term 'NIBYISM' is wrong, people have a right to control how their communities are developed.

If someone buys a home on a big acre because they really hate traffic, noise etc. then that's the whole point. Collectively, it's their choice - not ours.

The logic of 'Build Everything Until it's Manhattan' because you or I want to afford to live there is a bit absurd in a country with vast and open spaces, especially when 'Building Like Manhatten' often doesn't seem to solve the problem anyhow. NY, the 'densest' place, is one of the most expensive.

If people believe there's a housing expense problem in the area ... then:

How many Googlers does it take to 'Screw In A Lightbulb' and by that I mean 'Build a High Speed Commuting Train' ? - that connects Santa Rosa, to Pleasonton, to Morgan Hill and further? There's a lot of space. Connect it better. WTF are all the geniuses doing that CalTrain is so slow, doesn't loop around the Bay? SF Bay is not 'terrible' but it's nothing compared to good cities for transportation. That's something that needs to be invested in.

Get rid of the very bad idea of 'Everything Being in One Place'. Literally get some of these companies out of the Valley. Take 5 companies and set up shop in Portland, or Petaluma, or Sacramento - and spread it all out further across the US. Stop bringing everyone there, making everything there. Yes, there are some advantages, but there's also advantages in creating other centres.

All of that said: Andreesen's use of 'all caps' is a bit ridiculous, seriously, I don't ever write in 'all caps' it feels a bit childish. I can just see him huffing red, slamming his fists on the table. My god, is this what happens to us when we get a bit of money and turn 55?