skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blame Steve Jobs. He was the first one to successfully start locking the internet. The rest just follows. With centralization censorship is easy.
By "doesn't have a choice" I'm not sure what you mean. Certainly their lawyers could have chosen not to appeal upon reasonable grounds ("we're likely to lose, and that will cause greater fines").
The paradox of tolerance is an idea. I'm growing increasingly tired of authoritarians citing it as a fundamental law of the universe.
I would assume (like everything else) most people fall on a Bell curve, where there is higher level math that's inaccessible to most people, but the math for daily use is (almost by definition) pretty useful.

I definietly think there are better ways to approach math, some like the theoretical perspective, some prefer the engineering approach "I need to solve this problem, and these are some tools to help us do so.

I'm not "good" at math (and I could dig out old college transcripts to prove it), but I do have a math minor because I really enjoyed the experimental engineering/physics/comp sci stuff, but found math classes on their own really boring. I feel a lot of people would benefit a more holistic approach to math, starting with algebra/geometry. It's just a mess of graphs and equations, and I struggled to find a reason to care, though I was fortunate to have a brain (and the cultural conditioning) that made those abstract "puzzles" interesting.

I got a B in Linear Algebra, and I still can't describe why you'd need that in the real world, while calculus/diff eq/discrete math were clearly tied to physics/thermodynamcis/computer science problems I knew.

To bastardize a famous quote: If you wish to build mathematicians, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to graph equations. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless understanding of a problem that they find interesting.
Well, almost, the top today was 1€/KwH, the average is 0.75€.

But the consumption is only ~800KwH for August.
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It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.
Twitter is finally rolling out an edit button later this month
Why do people insist on endlessly proving that "healthy, happy people do things healthy, happy people do" and the inverse?

I agree with the idea in general I guess, but there's nothing here to convince a parent.

Just my data point, my kids are freaking crazy and are slowly becoming less suicidal as they hit elementary school.

We try to educate them about things that are legitimately unsafe, but they would need to fear consequences to actually do what they're told, and we don't really want them acting out of fear.

Who knows what the real numbers are, but I wouldn't try to claim my kids are safer.
By the time it's physical actions, it's too late. You have to stop, at the very least, calling for violence, for example.
Typically from what I’ve seen, Umbrella blocks new domains automatically, but then after a few days or weeks it’ll stop blocking it. That’s my guess, but it isn’t blocked for me
> Heavily taxing houses

Two wrongs don't make a right.
Just build more. If foreigners want to buy overseas property, then just increase the supply.

Oh, and tax the unimproved value of land and give the proceeds to the Portuguese citizens. This will dampen the effect while supply of housing matches demand.
> seriously look at which APIs are costing them so much, and just drop those

Well, that would be bing and google. And combining those results is a good part of the magic. Currently, the searches are actually paid for by subscribers, but the founder is paying everyone’s salary out of his own money, so that’s a bit of an issue ;)
right, 100%. I interviewed in July and still haven't gotten an offer, though I passed the hiring committee. Overall their interview process is maybe the worst of all time, but their interviews were the best IMO.
Going through the wikipedia article is a hoot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

I read it a few days ago while witnessing massive thunderstorms around my location.

BTW: The people maintaining blitzortung.org are awesome. I suggest monitoring https://map.blitzortung.org/ if you're in a thunderstorm. It helped me figure out when it was safe to connect expensive equipment to mains power and the house TV antenna again.
A lot of this perspective depends on what point in time you choose as the start of the process. You can start with the hypothesis, or you can start with what gave rise to the hypothesis: exploration.

But, it's a layman's mistake to confuse the two and use it as a critique of the formalized scientific method.

Science bodies (like the NIH) explicitly forbid reuse or reinterpretation of data. An individual may use exploration as inspiration for a hypothesis...but for it grow into science out of curiosity requires new data generation from a carefully considered framework for the hypothesis.
The story is the extent of personal responsibility for race baiting by the administration amounts to having to jump ship & the cost to the students for supporting the SJW kowtowing is in the 10s of millions.
I spent a couple of years at Morgan Stanley and when we cut over from SunOS to Solaris they included a rollout of AFS worldwide. It was pretty successful. It was pretty mind blowing to be able to login to a Solaris workstation while visiting the NYC office and have your [local-to-London] $HOME and CDE environment just kinda sync automatically (albeit slowly back then). The administration of AFS is ... interesting, but considering this was the mid-to-late 90s, it really was "ahead of its time". FWIW, Morgan Stanley back then had an incredible UNIX Engineering department.
Yes, it's quite possible. After Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned, the current Algerian government started working against France and the EU. Lots of French investment in Algeria, so they're basically also working against themselves, betting most if not all of their economy on oil and gas. Apart from ocasional territorial disputes, Spain and Morrocco are on okay terms and the current Spanish goverment is supporting the Moroccan plan for the autonomy of Western Sahara, which is close to their holiday islands, the Canarias. This move drew hash criticism and threats from Algeria who's establishment unconditionally supports the Polisario front. They're a nationalist movement working against Spanish colonialism and Moroccan and Mauritanian irredentism. Spain is walking on quite a thin line in Africa. I need not remind you that virtually all of their gas comes from Hassi R'Mel, Algeria.
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Wow. And you know they're probably going to charge something like a $1000 bucks a pill for that too ;-)
From a UK perspective, it is not obvious that they can keep appealing. Here there needs to be a legal basis for an appeal. I am not sure about civil cases, but the criminal case grounds for appeal appear to be:

* new evidence - but only under a set of conditions including that there was a reasonable explanation for the failure to adduce it;

* appeal against sentence.

Notably there doesn't seem to be an option for "we don't like the verdict". A judge must grant a certificate of appeal before the case can go ahead - someone can't decide unilaterally that they will appeal. Appeals are nowhere near as common here as in the USA
I was part of an urban exploring meetup. (We went to an abandoned Christian theme park). But the meetup organizer stopped, and speed dating site took it over.

If I remember correctly the members were notified the organizer stepped down and asked someone to step up.
Can I hate everybody involved in this story?

I mean she's trying to blame her husband's cancer, his lack of treatment, and subsequent death on the College. Dude could have done his chemo. Claiming that he didn't want to appear weak so he wouldn't have gotten a sympathy judgment. That just reeks of spin.
Won’t accept non-US phone numbers?
IANAL but the original plea just says sums in excess of $25k for each count [1]. It seems like the damages are set as a deterrent and not based on the actual value of the defamation [2]:

> The Gibsons note that the jury initially awarded them $11,074,500 in compensatory damages and $33,223,500 in punitive damages. They assert that the jury’s punitive damages award represents less than three percent of Oberlin’s total assets. Noting that the purpose of punitive damages is to appropriately punish and deter defendants, the Gibsons argue that a purely mathematical application of the caps thwarts those purposes. They also argue that applying the cap in their case bears no rational connection to the public welfare or a rational connection to Oberlin’s wrongful conduct. They further argue that the punitive damages cap violates their right to a trial by jury.

That makes sense to me. If Oberlin just had to pay <$1m then what's stopping them from continuing this behavior in the future.

[1] https://via.hypothes.is/https://oberlinreview.org/wp-content...

[2] https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/9/2022/2022-O...
I agree with the original critique more than this defense, but I had to upvote the perfection of the expression of the point I don't agree with.
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Are threats of violence and false, defamatory statements protected speech or not? The point is that "free speech" doesn't mean "100% of speech is protected".

Not to mention even in light of the historical context, one should strongly support the free speech rights of anti-war protestors, but inciting panic in a crowded space ('fire' in a crowded theater) isn't the correct way to go about it.
Completely irrelevant to debugging, but the "OODA loop" concept is one that's applied often in martial arts and close-quarters combat.
Browsers of today are begging so much for new clothes, they ain't browsers anymore. Gib dem Affen Zucker.
There’s more work than you might think - there’s a perpetual shortage of white collar professionals here, from doctors to accountants to insurance agents. The ones who are here are perpetually oversubscribed, and are hiring. There’s also an absolute dearth of trades - there is one electrician, two builders, two plumbers, covering a huge area, with a three year waiting list. The younger couples I mentioned who have moved here typically have one working remote, the other starting a business… and then the remote worker stopping that to work on their partner’s business which is suddenly growing out of control. That’s not even considering things like ecotourism, the europa grants available for doing pretty much anything here, and public sector jobs, which they are filling with literally anyone who applies.

There’s also the whole virtuous cycle thing - more people move here, bring more commerce, more demand, secondary and tertiary industries develop.

I hear you on lifestyle, however - this wouldn’t have been for me when I was in my 20’s, but at nearly 40, and finally wanting to start a family, it’s ideal - and many of the younger folks moving here are in the same boat.

That said, there are restaurants, some really good, and transport around here has improved such that Bragança is only 30 minutes from Vimioso now, rather than 1hr+ it was 10 years ago, and it has all the amenities of a secondary city. Oh, and we had an excellent concert a few weeks ago - after the bullfighting. But I agree, it isn’t for everyone - but it’s perhaps for more people than might realise it.
My experience with this as been more that they will silently drop email if you haven't been sending enough legitimate email for them to classify you as non-spammy. How do you bootstrap that? I have no idea.
Ironically, many Portuguese have moved to Angola since the Great Recession.
Natural gas in the US is still measured and billed in (MCF) mille cubic feet.
There are industries that use real robust tooling to run banks, build databases, control surgical robots. They don't choose Javascript, it has all the robustness of a wet noodle.

Desktop and Mobile application are reasonably robust, have very complex software and could do everything Facebook does trivially. All this 'robust tooling' has evolved because we are trying to shove an application into a browser, and despite decades of effort. it still kinda sucks.

If Apple, Microsoft and various distributions of Linux pulled the finger out of their collective asses and agreed on a half-decent, cross-platform GUI software package in 2005, none of this JS madness would exist.
I like Arthur Brooks. He seems to be a voice of reason in this crazy world.

Having just read his recent book and both the books he mentions in the article, I actually started to understand what is being said here.

On the first page of the Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation), it talks about the true source of understanding is darkness.

> Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

> Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

> Yet mystery and manifestations

> arise from the same source.

> This source is called darkness.

> Darkness within darkness.

> The gateway to all understanding.

We can't teach kids nor ourselves to fear the world. We have to step into the darkness to gain clarity of who we are and what we are here to do. That's the only way to learn. This somewhat adds onto Scott Barry Kaufman's new ideas of self-actualization.

Kaufman uses a sailboat as a metaphor in which the hull is security and the sail is growth.

https://scottbarrykaufman.com/sailboat-metaphor/

Which reminds me of the famous quote:

> A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67896.Tao_Te_Ching

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49625550-transcend
I do think that twitter and the other walled gardens are public fora and people should have some free speech rights there. That are different from whatever Twitter decides at their discretion.
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At those prices I'd definitely be doing it myself with 'direct labour'. It's amazing no company has come in with installs for 20k, there would be loads of profit still, and they would get many more customers.

It's interesting the rebat is a % and not a per Kwp amount. Because 26% of 70k is 17k, which as a fixed amount is actually enough to cover the full install (at non rip of prices). So the govt could fund solar install up to (say) 10kwp fully, regulate the price to 17k, and the homeowners pay 0. Solar would be everywhere. It seems wasteful to spend the money and get less back for it, which is what is happening now.
Interesting result. I assumed that more people pretended to espouse left-wing beliefs, but secretly harbored conservative beliefs. It's interesting to see evidence that it's the reverse.
Why not take a cynical approach? If free expression is useful, then countries cracking down on it are shooting themselves in the foot. If they want to do it, why stop them? They are delisting themselves from the global competition: set up attractive immigration programs to pick out their most talented population and let the rest sink to Russia/N. Korea level.
I think all the innovation moved to the creator/professional stuff. You can buy amazing sound gear that interfaces with the computer, controls stuff in Ableton, etc. For me at least, I've chosen to go with studio monitor type speakers from the professional audio world rather than home hi fi stuff. I suspect others are similar, a small 4 channel mixer with dac and other cool interface stuff is common.
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Level 2 makes sense outside of the US as the easy decentralized default. In the US the cost differences between installing "a regular plug" and "a dryer plug" are just substantial enough that it moves it over the hump of "easy cheap electric project" to "who's going to pay for this?" The idea of normalizing Level 1 is not to add new circuits in many cases, just add additional boring "regular" outlets to existing circuits (like all the phone chargers we see), in many cases just opening up existing outlets already on the outside of buildings for convenience charging. As soon as people hit that "who's going to pay for this?" it stops being a hospitality project and starts to balloon in people's minds towards "well, we'll need to meter this and charge people's credit cards and…" I think Level 1 as hospitality is worth normalizing and is much easier to decentralize.
That is a huge part, another large part is the world is now more global and the prudishness of America has become part of other cultures.

My father is from an Eastern European country so I traveled there as a kid. The cultures were very different. You saw bare breasts at pools, in tv commercials, etc. Few people owned cars, no one wore deodorant, all of the food was local style, ie people didn't even eat pasta. It was truly like stepping into a different world.

Now with the internet it is basically like the US with a different language. Being nude is frowned upon in the US and it is now frowned upon there. No one is going topless to the pool anymore and you can find pasta everywhere.
> coming from the fear mongering media

I checked, and it looks like it’s coming from “Arthur C. Brooks”, a 58 year old Harvard professor from Spokane, Washington, who has a spouse and three kids. He’s a real person, with a real life.
> Interpol had issued a red notice on Özer in April 2021, which basically means every police force in the world was asked to locate and arrest him.

Yikes. That's like 4 stars of wanted level.
I'm not sure it makes sense to judge homo sapiens as corrupt, given that they lived much differently the past 10,000 years than their first 300,000 years. I can easily imagine social groups were more egalitarian and less corrupt for most of human prehistory.
They've got death robots that can fly now.

Why is nobody impressed by the future?
Germany is GREEN on that map?! (Was this map commissioned by Germans?)

To be fair I can't tell if large German corporations and politicians are corrupt or instead lack direction, are criminal, or incompetent and are funded by mandatory spending by the government. See Brandenburg, Dieselgate, Gazprom Germania for the tip of the iceberg.
I think my solution is more parsimonious, and obviously, if the dean doesn't respond you just move on to the police.
> Just make something that works with with HTML and CSS alone, and enhance it with JS. You don't need to be clever about it, especially if the level of interactivity on your website amounts to basically a form.

A big problem with this is that html is extraordinarily limited as a widget framework. You only have a handful of widgets available, and many of them offer very little (if any) customizability from CSS.

For example, say you wanted a checkbox, but you wanted to use a custom shape (Edit: shape - color is more easily controlled today) instead of the browser default. Well, tough luck. From HTML you'll have to put the checkbox inside a label, add an empty span next to it, and from CSS make the checkbox invisible and then get creative with drawing some boxes that look like a checkbox [0] (or, more realistically, load some custom graphics). So, if you're doing all of this effort anyway, why go through the effort of using the HTML input checkbox at all?

I always find it fascinating just how barebones and bad HTML+CSS is as a GUI framework. I really don't understand why people insist it's in any way superior to using a JS toolkit for anything requiring more than the simplest interaction (say, more than a newspaper article).

[0] https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_custom_checkbox.as...
No action you can take against meetup at this point. Meetup owns the subscriber list and account and can do with it what they like.
Talking politics is an immediate way to turn the conversation sour in today's climate unless you already know they'll agree with you.
Interesting decision to shut the software down before the replacement is available to be downloaded.
the article is an example of orientalism, presenting the case as if there is no urgency on the matter in the Western world.

Cancel culture, de-platforming, algorithmic dampening, account mislabelling, brigading on-platform, account suspension and deletion - all of these things are happening in the Western world, on US platforms. I used to have sympathy with the the argument that 'private company's can do what they like', especially when they banned people I don't like but I have come to realise that this can be understood as the outsourcing of the suppression of free expression to the private sector. The fight for freedom of expression is here, not Myanmar
I got stuck on this roadblock, couldn’t get CUDA to work on my Mac, was very confusing
> Since he took office in 2000, Putin has been eroding the space for public debate in Russia. He moved from dismantling independent media

Right, Russia bans independent media, while those in the free EU can go read https://www.rt.com ... oh yaa, the EU blocks that web site.
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