skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In short, Conservapedia does what Wikipedia does but replaces the 'progressive' bias with a 'conservative' one.

Conservapedia calls e=mc2 "liberal claptrap".[1] The article on Oppenheimer has "Like other liberals, Oppenheimer was not as smart as he wanted to be" right in the lead and the article itself mostly seems to be about Oppenheimer's communist links more than anything else. Articles like Homosexual Agenda[3] contain so much retarded bullshit I don't even know what bit to quote.

What I'm trying to say is "it's the same as Wikipedia, with with Conservative bias" completely and utter bollocks. Conservapedia is a fringe website that's not conservative, but just crazy. Anyone claiming anything else is deeply misinformed.

[1]: https://www.conservapedia.com/E%3Dmc2

[2]: https://www.conservapedia.com/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

[3]: https://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexual_Agenda
> Can't you sign power of attorney papers, explicitly list people in a will, and name guardians for children? It sounds like it's just not implicit or automatic. Is that correct or am I off base?

There are some things that aren't replicable easily, some things that are more difficult to deal with because institutions are more used to dealing with marriage, there are recognition issues and anticipation issues because both the things covered and the legal forms necessary to acheive them differ by jurisdiction, and may not have the degree of mutual recognition marriage does, and there are innmost jurisdictions a very large number of things that this applies to so it complex, potentially costly, and leave lots of room for error to get everything yoj can do by contract.

And there are things you still can't duplicate at all because they are, e.g., benefits conditioned directly on marriage by the state or a third party, so contract between the parties outside of marriage has no effect on them.
Actually it was the Internet. I still believe my Commodore is harmless.
Lyft, Uber to leave Minneapolis after city council forces higher driver pay
I think there is a gap in awareness of this depending on where people live. My rural hometown has frequent power outages, so many people have backup generators to at least keep the furnace running.

The town got popular with city people going remote during the pandemic, many of whom bought houses. I was visiting my parents a couple of years ago when the power went out for 18 hours or so during a deep cold snap. I was shocked that none of the new neighbors–who had recently completed huge costly renovation projects–had bothered to install an automatic generator.
The distinction between 1) and 2) is very helpful, thanks for that.

I really wonder whether we know all the costs associated with storing co2 underground, for geological timescales....

> energy from a nuclear power plant to make jet fuel.

I mean, yeah, it would be cool if an aircraft carrier could just make its own jet fuel, but the energy books have got to balance; taking CO2 out of the air and turning it into jet fuel has to take at least as much energy as burning the jet fuel and putting the CO2 into the air in the first place. Otherwise, you could just have free power by burning the jet fuel and converting it back, over and over...

> article is [about] building a coal burning power plant that captures CO2

Yeah, but really, solar and wind are already cheaper than coal--and that's when you just vent the CO2 into the air. So we're not talking about building new sequestering power plants....at best we're talking about retro-fitting already existing ones....is every one of them going to have the geology which can store CO2 for geological timescales??

Maybe I'm still missing something, but I just don't see it. I mean, if I had a bunch of coal I wanted to sell, certainly it would be handy to be able to whip this paper out and shove it in the face of one of those annoying green-type protesters. It would knock them back on their heels--until they had a chance to read it. But that's all i see it being useful for.
Got it too. Strikes me as extremely disingenuous. I feel like they shouldn't even be allowed to represent this as a decision they made out of the goodness of their hearts. Makes me hate them even more, which is pretty amazing because I had thought we already bottomed out.
Of course not. Congress and SCOTUS are all paid for.
Probably poor spacial reasoning skills. Didn’t spend enough time playing with Lego or sticking wood blocks through shaped holes.
I just got an email saying my provider is bumping my fiber upload from 200 to 400.

Seemed crazy to me, but I guess they are just staying well ahead of the crappy competition.
There are a number of beer themed books, but none of them even close to 3.5 beer. Perhaps you can post the Polish title.
>I'm not sure what you have to fear with the TV analogy.

It's a tangential discussion that doesn't have to do with blocking content.

As it is these days, TV's are a device that with no control of my own chooses to send telemetry data back home in order to sell my data to 3rd parties for ads. This subsidizes "smart" TV's, but given that there are no more mid-high end "dumb" TV's, this feels less like a choice than a mandate of the industry.

On top of all this, there has been murmur of dark patterns related to making sure your TV is internet-connected, which includes trying to connect to an open network after you opt out of a network connection, and having unlisted 4/5G modems built into the tv that are unusable by the consumer but otherwise made to send data out, even if the consumer does not connect to a network. I'm honestly sort of surprised GDPR hasn't come down on this yet.

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So the header check you describe with computer devices aren't necessarily a concern by itself. But it's a slippery slope one that has been exploited by so many companies so consistently when it comes to matters like this. The world over still hasn't properly litigated to make sure that companies can't simply grab whatever data they want and sell it, so we're in a game of cat and mouse until then. And as a mouse I simply see this piece of cheese with a looming shadow above it.
Read this https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-th...

It might shape your view a bit
Thank you for this. A good read and useful information.
> If H1B's were legitimately about labor shortages, it would be required that all companies fire/layoff their H1B's first.

Not necessarily. If I knew the chances of me being able to stay in the US we're that much lower because of that law, I'd be far less likely to apply in the first place, hence worsening the labor shortage.
But most of your generation did not.
Companion nytimes article for anyone interested: https://archive.ph/MVmoX
Underrated trick for ikea furniture. Do not use the ikea nails, they are junk … use staples.

Much stronger, easier to remove and you can remove them without damaging the part like the back of PAX
Yeah, but look at any thread where patents are an issue, any plaintiff that isn't a big tech company gets called a troll. Also, Liebowitz had no fear of going to court, he'd sue before he'd send letters. Liebowitz was disbarred because he repeatedly lied. The issue with him not producing licenses is because they didn't support the damages award he wanted, not because he just didn't want to deal with judges or being in court. Like I said, the article is very poorly written.
who is left on your list?
Technically yes, but even those workarounds are hard-won rights and not always honored: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Guardianship_of_Kowalski
I read it as they are continually generating so much telemetry data that they’re saturating the link to the storage layer.
I've moved countries three times and that's been my experience each time.

What's more, actually selling stuff is often such a time consuming hassle (posting, dealing with replies, scheduling pick ups, dealing with flakes) that in a lot of cases you're better off just paying trash hauling service to just come pick it all up in a single go.
It would be interesting to see the baseline nutritional content of aspergillus oryzae, so we know what must be added.
I won 50k after spending only 10k, I would have quit, but maybe that's not the point. If one person wins the jackpot and posts here, I wonder if people go "well it could have been me" just as we do when someone from our local area, or even state, wins.
It might sound trite, but then don't consider it to "have it" if it's gated from general use on the basis that it doesn't work properly yet. After all, they released EyeSight and Personas as marquee features even though they don't work properly either.

But the situation with WebXR as a pure software development component is a bit simpler. Obviously Apple has the resources to fully develop and release WebXR if it was a priority. My guess is, they are playing their cards close to their chest on how open to make Vision Pro. They won't release WebXR until they've determined it's not a threat to their ambitions. That could be because they scale down their ambitions so it doesn't matter much any more, or alternatively, they successfully establish a fully closed / locked down ecosystem and aren't worried that WebXR could pose a threat.
I dream of an inflatable couch. Bear with me. It could be well designed and high quality. And with a nice slipcover.

There is somebody who makes them but for the life of me I can't recall who.

They come with a built-in compressor.
> It's all going over the same wire

Yes and no. Even if it's going over the same wire, there are different data flows. Voice uses predictable amounts of bandwidth per phone number.
> I’m curious how long other comparable batteries would last if you were only drawing 100 microwatts from them.

The article claims they have about 10 times the energy density of Li-Ion batteries. So assuming their numbers are correct, maybe 5 years.

Purely in terms of energy density, these are cool but they're quite a long way from "phone that never needs to be charged" territory. Maybe a phone would need to be charged every few weeks instead of every couple days...except these can't be recharged at all.
No, because we already have a machine API. If you want to write an application, you need to write something a computer can understand. So a computer-usable API is always created. It takes additional effort to hide that functionality behind a interface. The process we have now is: machine → GUI → image processing → generative AI. The interface we could have is: machine → machine. It would take no extra effort to do this. It would just need some slight changes in organisation. In fact it is easier at every level. If you separate logic from interface, you end up with an architecture that is a set of functions (a library) into which you can interface programmatically, or with a GUI, or by any other means. Separating code like this (MVC) is good practice and allows for a range of different interfaces to be created to the same functionality. It is also easier for an engineering perspective and produces a better product. Think of git. There are hundreds of different interfaces created to the functionality git provides. All software should be structured like this (though perhaps by means of a library rather than a shell interface).

I should add that this is a particularly grim prospect from a software engineering perspective. It makes me imagine a future where no one bothers exposing a stable API to anything, so the only way to interact with other people's code is using an AI middle-man.
Memorable quote a while back by an SDNY judge about Liebowitz:

> In his relatively short career litigating in this District, Richard Liebowitz has earned the dubious distinction of being a regular target of sanctions-related motions and orders. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that there is a growing body of law in this District devoted to the question of whether and when to impose sanctions on Mr. Liebowitz alone. See, e.g., ... This Opinion is the latest contribution to that body of law. For the reasons stated below, the Court concludes that sanctions should indeed be imposed on Mr. Liebowitz for his repeated failure to comply with this Court’s orders, failures that imposed considerable and unwarranted costs on the Court, its staff, and Defendant NBCUniversal Media, LLC.

https://www.abajournal.com/images/main_images/Lebowitz.pdf
Rise in Legionnaires' disease incidence correlates with declining sulfur dioxide
They're also using sticker pricing, which as we know is likely far from what they actually paid.

(And the rest of the argument sounds a lot like our former employer with their...choice of document DB :) which I'll defend too!)
God forbid you wish to start a family in Seattle without your partner making bank
> The Starship program so far has soaked up as much money as SLS, and hasn't even left orbit

There's a bit of nuance to what you are claiming here.

SLS cost $11B to develop, which is estimated to be in the neighborhood of what Starship will cost when development is complete. We don't know how much has been spent so far.

A huge difference is that producing and launching an SLS rocket costs over $2B, while SpaceX is estimating $10M for Starship. Now, I don't trust that $10M number, that's what they aspire for it to cost. To do it they need to be able to reuse the stages dozens of times. It could take a long time to achieve that or they might not make it at all. However, $2B+ per launch is a whole 'nother level of expense.
I actually just changed my modem today because I was using Comcast's modem/router combo and wanted to use my own... I'm still at about 50-60mbps. I guess I will contact them again.

I talked to them and they say I am still on the 50/20 plan... they replied saying I would need to pay more to get 100mpbs. I don't need it, so I won't.
I feel like this does more to affirm the "been proven a lie" statement than refute it.

20 Mbps, while still suffocation, provides a massive amount of breathing room from 6.
Yes, I've been out there.

I absolutely agree it's amazing.
I'm referring to people who can simultaneously exist in the present while envisioning the future. They can see a clear pathway to transition from the current state to the desired future state. Furthermore, these individuals possess all the necessary talent, skill, and expertise to make that envisioned future a reality.

The only thing you'll learn at a big tech company today is how to navigate corporate politics and finding ever-more creative ways to avoid paper work and meetings the 10 layers of management above you require to move an icon 1 pixel. Now, people will try to justify that it's because of the scale of big tech, but that doesn't really change the day to day experience. It's really not any different than making washing machine software for GE. The pay and benefits might be better at big tech, but you're not going to be doing anything impressive.

If you go on teamblind.com you'll see Google employees are primarily interested in an innovation they call "rest and vest." I believe it's this innovation that allows their generative AI products to create racially diverse images of National Socialists.

The people that made Google a success have been gone for a long time. Some retired, but most scattered across the country. Many are discovering how different SV is compared to small town USA. These Xooglers are first learning of long standing problems outside of the tech bubble, and they have the creativity and skills to solve those problems. There are many industries that have been is dire need for software excellence, and it's finally happening.

This is good for everyone with the possible exception of the morally bankrupt tech elite in Silicon Valley.
I'm considering doing exactly this kind of surgery on my couch, how hard was it to put the fabric cover back together?
Ah, I was thinking about Starship. I forgot that the booster attempted simulated landing was going on at the same time.
Disbarring is not enough. Prison time for racketeering is proper.
> Apple has been using the public as their QA team for last many releases.

Are you referring to the Apple Beta Software Program? Would you rather them _not_ allow people to test their beta software so more bugs make it into the public release?
A Code Review of My Earliest Projects
There's no guarantee anyone would bring the car to the manufacturer for service though.
Time to pop it in a data usage heavy device for free data.

The bbc or someone has had at least one article about a bird tracking device that operated via cellular and a sim that expected 5k or less data a month suddenly started charging gigs a month in their home continent just after the last natural looking flight of the bird ended, the ornithological society involved had a few shock bills.
Luxury implies comfort or quality.
It is so enraging. Not only did they have zero consequences compared to what they should have received, they're still somehow the lone report I have to thaw for every single loan and line of credit.

I'd like to see a HIPAA for regular data.
I would like to point out that’s way better than what most people did over the course of human history, certainly including a lot of those Native Americans themselves.
IIRC the fishing link used for the hack pointed to a mainstream URL shortener; and the account that owned that shortened URL used in the fishing op was associated with other URLs dating years back used for fishing campaigns against russian journalists and dissidents.

Hence, pretty strong reasons to suspect Russian state involvment.
> "you have a 15 body problem simply to have anything..."

I like that!
Although...Physics [so gpu] is enough to do it, when supplied with an optimized way to "know" momentary_[intent/\status] as a reduced ongoing string of equations.
I think you meant inelastic demand. Housing would fall under that category where supply does not impact price, which is my point.
I wouldn't call it bar. It's more like a pub or an inn.
>The respondent’s statement in his January 13, 2018 letter that the defendant “had yet to respond to the complaint” was false and misleading, and the respondent knew that it was false and misleading when he made it. The January 13, 2018 letter failed to advise the court of the months-long history of communication between the parties, beginning in July 2017, as mentioned above.

How is that not outright fraud?
> commuting there is bad enough

I never once heard that about Amsterdam. The YouTube channel NotJustBikes goes on and on about how amazing is the bicycle infra in Amsterdam (and other cities in the Netherlands). Can you be more specific?
“All performance benefits go out the window the moment you have to do any computation in a goroutine” probably.

Go is the one language that should never have to suffer the pain of sync/async splits. Why would you want to opt into that?
I didn't say that asymmetric upload speeds being required was a lie, but until today Xfinity wouldn't allow me to pay for >6 Mbps upload without going up to some sort of business-tier package. Now, the day that the FCC sets 20 Mbps up as the minimum, I magically get that exact number for free.
What about North Korea?
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Yeah, countries could create extra mechanism to try to minimize discrimination in immigration, taxes, decisions in hospitals, renting/buying a place to live, inheritance, and many other issues that could not come to mind.

Or you could solve it by allowing same sex marriage. That sounds so much easier.

This is strictly my personal opinion, but I would be perfectly fine with renaming marriage to civil union as a whole in terms of law and giving the same rights to all couples independent of sex, leaving the term marriage for other uses outside of law.

However I understand the reasons why people would want to have same sex marriage named as so, I would also be perfectly fine with that.
Well, I, for one, am Taiwanese and happy to see it happen. We also did legalize gay marriage (albeit unfortunately through a special law instead of fixing the civil laws).
This thread is pretty complete.
I personally have some doubts about Elagabalus, the accounts sound like a hatchet job, it’s much closer in time to the actual ban. But, sometimes people are just nuts so we should expect some historical leaders to do some really strange things. The Nero account is both more neutral and the described wedding a public spectacle so it seems unlikely for someone to just make it up whole cloth. Though it’s also been debated extensively, we simply don’t have concrete proof either way.

In terms of legality of marriage in Rome, I mostly agree. Arguably male adoption of other adult men could be largely equivalent to heterosexual marriage as far as the state were concerned. Ie name change, social rank, and property as there’s no kids and no wife possibly leaving her father’s control depending on the type of marriage. To be clear it was often a political tool, but that doesn’t mean it was always a political tool. Just something to think about.
> might makes right

That's how it works, sadly. Everywhere, not just here. The part you're missing is that "we" – the people living in Canada today – did not steal anyone's land. Certainly neither myself nor my ancestors. The original British settlers who stole the land are not us, they are long dead.

You can always look into the past to find injustices to use as an excuse to perpetuate horrible things in the present. Look at just about any conflict, modern or historical, the aggression today is always justified by something in the past. That doesn't mean that this is the right thing to do.

The right thing to do, is to lift up the people disadvantaged by past injustices, without resorting to race based division, e.g. target support by economic status instead of race. Sadly that's the opposite of what we're seeing in Canada nowadays.
Guess we live in different worlds. Pretty much everyone around me, friend, family, coworker, or neighbor is fully aware and expecting any and all devices around them to be spying. Not all care or think it's nefarious though.
Consider these two scenarios:

1. I choose to buy Apple products because I enjoy the security and features of them, and can leave the ecosystem anytime I choose to.

2. I'm indentured to Apple, Tim Cook owns my soul and the souls of my children, and we can never escape.
Such a huge percentage of people these days live in urban sprawl with so much light pollution they can barely see any stars at all, so it makes sense there isn’t much backlash.

Taking people who’ve spent their entire lives in populated areas into the backcountry and spending a couple of hours with them just staring up at the sky as their eyes adjust and the shapes and colors of the Milky Way appear is kind of a mystical experience.
Seems pretty reasonable. Since bikes don't cause as much damage/injury as motorized vehicles, it makes sense to have a lower classification and lower fines as well --while keeping them responsible.
How much do they actually get for this per vehicle?

I feel like the answer to the that would explain a lot.
> The other entity is a pathological liar led by a queen on Google's leash for controlled opposition purposes

Oh come on, Baker was around since the Netscape days. You just don't like her cause she was a Suit, and that's fine. But except for a bunch of engineers Netscape had a bunch of Suits. It's not some conspiracy that a Suit is still running things.
Enterprise API management.
The progress Dark Sky International (and friends) has made is very encouraging.

I have been extremely pessimistic about the dark sky movement making progress at all given how desperately fearful of any darkness the areas around me seem to be (daylight-bright streetlights, storefront signs to rival Vegas, etc.)

Truly dark skies are magical. I'm so glad they'll be around at least a bit longer.
Oodles of noodles: how a global favourite became an economic red flag
Good luck debugging any errors
Except it only shows up in Czek!