jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
None of these sources seem to address the fact that this counting happened late at night/in the morning, timestamped on the video, after all the observers had been sent home. In fact, one of the sources said this:

> Media and observers left as employees packed up. But Fulton’s election director called a supervisor at State Farm a few minutes later, telling them to keep counting after the Secretary of State’s office called and said they shouldn’t stop counting for the night so early.

So the sources you listed literally confirm that they kept counting after they sent observers home. You seriously don't see that as a problem? I do. There are tons of volunteers who would gladly stay up all night to help observe. Over and over and over again, observers were sent home and counting continued.

All these articles that start with "debunked" go on to say this exact same thing happened, and then dismiss it as normal counting behavior. Do you understand why myself, and millions of Americans, have trouble with these stories? The headline frames the article, and then the article contracts the headline.

Did you ... did you actually read the stories, or just past random links based on the headlines?
For geostationary orbit, yeah it's high latency. That's like >22k miles up. Low-earth orbit is a few hundred miles. The difference in latency is huge.

The highest cost is that you will lose sync with the satellite, since they will be rotating over the horizon frequently. If you can launch enough satellites, then you can have multiple in view at any given time and thus keep a continuous link.
If you want to get more complex, you could assume that group A was a colony from group B and that they were a genetic subset of group B.

It's also possible that group A and group B were still economically linked, with frequent trade between the two but no intermarriage.

It's also possible that group A and group B were never at any time distinct groups, and the individuals who 'won' genetically were scattered through time and space among a larger population. Imagine a rare mutation that confers an immunity to a terrible disease which periodically ravages the population. It's not that the plague kills off all but 1000 people, it's that over centuries of large numbers of people being killed off, those descending from the few people with the mutation (and their mates) come to dominate the gene pool, even if there were always millions of survivors.

The reason for the nitpick is that the idea of a human population bottleneck is almost-always interpreted as "humans almost went extinct!". Maybe that happens to be the case, but it isn't necessarily so.
Stock valuations are based on what investors think the earning potential of a company is. While rocket companies are beyond cool it's a pretty difficult business in which to actually make money.
No, you're right. That's the math.
I have never read a more shocking indictment of "The war on drugs" and I can only hope that this book gets its message across to everyone willing to listen.

I can't believe I live in a country with the gall to do this. My biggest question is, how can I help change this? Can I change it?

It's just sad. I can only hope that someday, some country will create opportunities and futures like those of the United States. I hope there will be someplace for people to move where they don't have to worry about something as atrocious as this. Because this sickens me.
> "This tube crushing machine prevented any seconds from falling into dishonest hands!"

How ironic! Little did they suspect that people would be trading completely fake Sylvania (and other) "new old stock" tubes decades later.
No. WhatsApp is used by billions of people daily. SpaceX is a really good government contractor.

What % of AT&T's market cap ($175B) is its SMS business? What % of Lockheed Martin's market cap ($65B) is its space business? Think about the incumbents WhatsApp & SpaceX are trying to dislodge. Generally speaking the ones WhatsApp (now Facebook) are larger by market cap than the ones SpaceX is targeting. That reflects the fact that something everyone uses a little bit every day is generally worth more than something used by very few people, intensely.
Next step: product placement in the news.
Wow, so weird...

I'm constantly having my friends and family give me astonished looks when they see what I can do with a computer!

I get tons of recognition! I do a good amount of web work for free... for friend's bands, small businesses... for people that I know and love who don't have a lot of money...

... and they love it! They get this look in their eyes like I'm some sort of magician!

It's awesome. :)
I don't understand how the author of this article gets his numbers of 489 to 815 PPI. Can someone explain this?
tough to give feedback when the app isn't open for usage yet.

there's potential, though, clearly.
No, not really. I personally think this whole mess is because they pre-packaged NYT RSS feeds and also used that in their screenshots (don't know that last point for sure, but I think thats the case?), and then they make it a commercial app.

Is one thing for a user to add a RSS feed, its another to pre-package it in a commercial app.

Its not about 'free traffic' its about saying 'hey, thats not cool' IMHO. I would also add, until his all came up I wouldn't have guessed it was an issue until I thought about it more.

Disclaimer: I do work for NYT but have nothing to do with this whole drama. I'm just as interested as anyone here. Oh, and all this is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of blah de blah blah blah....
And what about the hypocrisy of "don't have kids" combined with his "support my growing family" footer?

Incidentally, for those interested in photography I wouldn't take this guy's photo advise either. The guy lacks depth in understanding and sometimes makes statements that are just ridiculous.
Sure. These choices are part of what separate the rich from the poor (economically).
I am not so sure: in Denmark Apple has an agreement with a reasonably good carrier but I still see a lot of Android phones around.
No, but the onus is on the new thing to prove to it is undeniably better. Before we had antibiotics there was a mountain of dubious products that could cure all manner of illnesses that did nothing.

Secondly, I’m also dubious of the claims of formula feeding as it hasn’t been conclusively shown to be better, but yet Nestle has spent millions in marketing getting much of third world hooked on formula to their own detriment.
Speech is a behavior, it could be unpleasant, it could hurt, and it is also dangerous.

The reason free speech being cherished is because limiting it brings upon cons much out weight the pros. In particular you block the escape hatch of a death spiral. I'm not super familiar with history but even I remember it's repeated many times in many places, just that this time it's global.
Please, please do not underestimate anyone. Let's remember that it is Russia who successfully puts astronauts up in space on like daily basis (to paint a picture). They are the only nation who has constant human presence in space for the last 35 or so years. To think they are not capable of maintaining their nuclear arsenal and hitting targets is very naive.
The only thing I dislike is not allowing everyone to see my preview posts. If I write something cool that remains relevant, I'd be sad to see it go. I might end up just posting in a more permanent place instead.
When you're starting out, you won't really get a lot of feedback. You first need to develop your own taste, so at least you know if you like what you wrote.

Anyway, this might help you out: https://www.benkuhn.net/outliers/

I think if you're looking for success, you just have to do a large body of work.

Ira Glass says the same thing in different words. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ira+glass+the+c...

I always say, behind every masterpiece are a thousand sketches.
Maybe because the hardware wasn't ready.

Starting fresh could easily be the reason it's failing again because much time is wasted in reinventing the wheel.

The problem is still the use case not the tooling.
I would definitely not cap the posts, nor would I limit in any way their consumption. If I have something to say, why should I not be able to? And if I am interested in what someone does, I don't want to wait for a week to read it.

That said, it is important how the posts are presented. A person who posts all the time about each plate of food... might not be as interesting as another friend who writes only once a month, but usually about really interesting things. A good UI which puts control in the hands of the consumer (but easy to use - convenience matters) is the most important thing here imho.

Best of luck!
Question: Does encouraging people to sign up with FB (bc it is faster/easier) also have the unwanted consequence of preventing them from leaving FB in the future? If they are signed up through to Slow Social via FB, can they still log in manually if their FB account has been deleted?
In particular, he compared it to Quake:

>Quake does something well instead of many things poorly...The VRML community has failed to come up with anything this compelling -- not despite the community's best intentions, but because of them.

I can definitely see parallels between the situation today, where depsite failed attempts at a rebrand of virtual worlds as the "metaverse", the closest to a success in establishing virtual worlds is kids playing in Minecraft and Fortnite.
For folks curious about the number, AddThis is a widget that publishers use in their pages. So yes, the numbers are uniques, counted as accurately as it is possible to count such things given cookie deletion rates, etc. Here for example is builtwith's view of AddThis usage on pages relative to other third party widgets, like the FB Like button, to give you a sense: http://trends.builtwith.com/widgets
Theft is the substraction of goods. What you describe may be criminal behaviour, but it's not theft, the same way it's not breaking and entering.
1. There is a difference between the unit of a dollar and a value of a dollar. I think we need to degrade the units. Re:Inflation, it would be better to control this then to just let inflation take it's course. 0% inflation is the target.

2. I agree with you, but is it a black and white distinction or a gradient of gray? The truth is some rents are good and some are bad and it is very very hard to separate them...so instead we overwhelm them from elsewhere and make them matter less.

3.Yes. And the theory relies on the long term increase in human productivity. In the event of a near extinction event you're going to have bigger problems than the economy not working. It can endure short term bumps in the road and actually has anti-fragile properties when it encounters volatility.
Huh... I'm not sure what he is having an issue with, exactly. His mention of "this" may indicate an adherence to JS OOP antipatterns... other than that, it's hard to see what the problem that he is having is.
> Your line about nuclear proliferation is a total non-sequitur. The US of 1945 is not the US of today. Our ethics and standards have risen significantly in the past 65 years. You might as well call the US hypocritical for backing UN resolutions against racism because of segregation up to the 60's.

Has it though?

Between now and WWII you've still had several -arguably illegal- wars such as Iraq and Vietnam (and not to mention the cold war with Russia and tensions with Cuba and China). You've had a president assassinated. You've had more than 2 decades of racial segregation; and yet more assassinations (this time of figureheads who campaigned for equality such as Martin Luther King). You've have gun laws that most of the rest of the developed world considers right wing. You have your own breed of religious fanatics - which is so riff that election candidates have to prove to believe in God just stand a chance at becoming president. Then there's the NSA leaks - a whole essay could be written just referencing that organisation alone. And don't get me started on the xenophobic beliefs that the likes of Fox News spreads.

From an outsiders perspective looking in, America hasn't looked too respectful to either it's own nationals nor other countries in the decades following the second world war. So it really doesn't surprise me that many outside of the west might consider the US (and Europe) as bloodthirsty.
If anyone else was really confused by the use of 'pavement' in this article it turns out that in American English pavement refers to the road surface. In English pavement refers to what Americans refer to as sidewalks.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface
Can still access GitHub from BSNL.
I switched to Google DNS and it's working just fine.
It's surprising that there doesn't seem to be supply meeting the demand for flavorful and nutritious food, or any attempt to manufacture demand. Organic food is similar, but not really the same thing, because organic generally has no discernible differences. For anyone who has been exposed to natural produce and meat, it's obvious that the grocery store varieties are inferior, yet unlike most goods, there are no companies exploiting this luxury market. Instead, you have to go to a farmer's market to get the quality goods. It's very unusual to have to go to a rural/amateur source for quality; more often, the big players in a product space have the quality and are expensive, while the amateurs are cheaper and worse.

I find it really hard to believe that there is no market for things like goat milk, goat ice cream, traditional meat breeds, even a good tomato? Everyone is aware that grocery store tomatoes are horrid, but somehow no stores stock some good cultivars alongside at double the price? How can this be an efficient market?
OK, I think I'd put that mostly under the second point -- it's a platform for content that's big, lightly moderated, and easy to use.

To look into that a bit more, I guess the "big" condition could go one of two ways:

- Bigger platforms have a proportionately greater impact than smaller platforms, and a proportionately greater responsibility to moderate content. Ideally actual factual content should be prohibited from all platforms -- Facebook, wikipedia, blogger, the internet generally. Propaganda should not be allowed to "fester" anywhere.

- Bigger platforms have a responsibility that smaller platforms simply do not. There can be places on the internet for them, but not too many under the same domain name.

I know that my characterization of neither possibility is charitable. I'd appreciate another perspective. Maybe the important point is that Facebook stores and serves the content. But DNS helps serve content, and ISPs help serve content, and software providers help serve content. Maybe storage is where your moral line is crossed? Maybe you think AWS and GCP and Azure etc have the same resposibility as Facebook (per unit of horrible content)? And the banking system probably has a moral incentive to cut off people doing questionable things? And if someone were to self-host, we'd probably need to think about who sold them their computers, electricity, bandwidth and hardware and food.
Doesn't Telegram had massive security issues in the past?
Are you sure those are the only options?
And to your point, the KPD, along with their militant wing Antifaschistische Aktion, attacked the SPD far more aggressively than they attacked the Nazis.
Many European providers are still charging for each MMS. Something like 40cent/MMS.
And yet that’s not quite what he said, is it?
>Compare that to the BLM protests on the west coast where unmarked vans of feds were literally rolling up and black bagging people off the street.

Let's not lose perspective.

In the protests outside the Portland federal courthouse building, police held out for weeks while insurrectionists threw bombs [0] and incendiary devices [1], attacked officers with hammers [2] and blinding lasers [3], and tried to breach the courthouse with crowbars and power saws [4]. Nightly arson attempts set fires at, around, and inside the courthouse [5]. The protestors' goal- as stated in their extensive graffiti [6]- was to attack police, breach the courthouse and destroy public property, much as they had done in earlier riots [7]. One stabbed a black conservative journalist in the stomach [8]. Many were arrested carrying illegal guns and ammunition [9].

In response, and after local law enforcement abandoned the courthouse by order of Portland's Mayor Wheeler, federal agents arrested suspects in accordance with the law. They read suspects their rights, treated them fairly, and in most cases- thanks to an extremely permissive District Attorney [10]- released them within 48 hours of arrest.

What happened in Portland (and Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, and other American cities) this summer was also undeniably insurrection, and undeniably much more violent. Despite this, police in Portland never shot anyone in the back, much less fatally.

Call today's insurrection what it is, but be consistent.

[0] https://twitter.com/thetypeofguy69/status/129308897288596275...

[1] https://katu.com/news/local/molotov-cocktail-rattles-portlan...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/portland-man-charged-assa...

[3] https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/federal-officers...

[4] https://twitter.com/Clypian/status/1286906816018841600

[5] https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-police-less-lethal...

[6] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/protesters-h...

[7] https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/portland-man-charged-may-...

[8] https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/man-knifed-in-back-...

[9] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/26/portla...

[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/no-charges-for-many-ar...
>public airwaves, the emergency broadcast system, the white house website

The use of all/any of these things require the cooperation of, or direct services of, private companies.

Even public legal notices, going back the full history of the country, have been published on the pages of privately owned newspapers.
Why does it matter anyway? Just compare benchmarks and power.
> while AMD offers 16

Threadripper 3 doesn't offer any 16-core offering. The smallest Threadripper 3 is 24-cores (the 3960x).
Because everyone wants to live down town in big cities. Not enough space.
The excel work I've seen finance gurus perform is absolutely programming. There's usually "that guy" who assembled it and understands how the massive 100 tab completely uncommented spaghetti mess works.
> Are there any guides for how to properly secure a home network so that I can re-enable IPv6 with a clear conscience?

ip6tables -P FORWARD REJECT
ip6tables -F FORWARD
ip6tables -A FORWARD -o wan -s 2a42:.../64 -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Literally the same as for IPv4.
> I guess apps made this even worse.

They just make obvious what otherwise we don't like to admit, like how important attraction is in the deal even though we don't have much control over it.

Usually when I see criticism of dating apps (like in this comments section), I wonder if the critic realizes that what they are complaining about is how dating already works. You are always sizing people up around you based on how attractive you find them, for example.
Everybody knows the REAL test is a FreeBSD 'make world' anyway :)
Minimalism sometimes is an economic class identifier. Maintaining a tidy and minimal living environment is much easier if you can outsource all housework, and upgrade to the absolute latest technology, and if you don't feel much need to hoard anything because you can afford to buy or rent exactly what you want precisely when you want it.
It's amazing how far a child's mind will go toward believing something they want to believe. I don't think you need a lot of help from technology in this area.

I'm living in Holland now, where "Sinterklaas" (forerunner of our Santa Claus) has already come and gone this year (Dec 5th). I was sitting on a train near a family which was clearly headed to a relative's house to celebrate the arrival of the "Sint" with gifts for all the children.

Riding along with them was a rather conspicuous bag that was, quite literally, overflowing with gifts for the kids. They just didn't see it. They did ask various logistical questions to their parents (Does his horse get tired visiting all of the children? Can he hear us if we sing to him in the train?), the answers to which they gladly accepted as fact with no follow up.

The world is pretty magical to you when you're a child... you're hard-wired to accept even the most ridiculous answers from your parents as fact (probably out of evolutionary necessity).

If your children are at the point where actual evidence is required to keep the myth running (or worse, actually trying to capture Santa), it's probably a good time to transition to the truth...
Sorry, wasn't me. I'll upvote you to equalize the downvote :)

And I agree with your reasoning - in another post that I had an Amazon affiliate code I remembered to put a disclosure, however this time I forgot.

On a reasonably related note, I found out a few days ago that StackOverflow and the StackExchange network of sites automatically insert their affiliate code into Amazon and presumably other sites links.

edit: and I just got back, so can do any edits you would suggest to the article
True. But titles do have significant influence in ranking. You may not always have flexibility to tweak your site URL, title, etc. for specific phrases but tweaking titles is a relatively easier way to hope to get ranked.
Good suggestion! I'm surprised I forgot to write CrashPlan pro. Though I did have Dropbox on there, so I suppose that counts for a bit. I added CrashPlan pro to the $25-50 section.

For me, I will use a second 1tb drive as a raid 1 drive mirrored to my main drive, to prevent against drive failure. The really important stuff on there is saved in Dropbox anyway.
We need to fix or eliminate this whole software patent thing as done by the USPTO. The whole notion of granting ownership over an idea such that it allows you to charge others rent for "using" that idea, and of granting ownership over some particular application permutation to whoever is the first one to submit a patent application on it to some particular office full of bureaucrats, is absurd. This is just the latest farce.
Great! It seems it's what I need. I should try it. Thank you very much!
UK isn't the only place with weird "cities".

Greenhorn, Oregon is designated as a city but has a 2010 census population of zero. Though now unicorporated, Tenny, Minnesota, was a city and had a peak population of 180 people in 1910 but now is down to 5 (2010 census).
I live in a place with a lot of tourists and second homes. AirBnB was beginning to reduce the lack of supply in the local hotel market, which caused the hotels to petition the city council to put an end to non-owner occupied short-term housing. This was done under the guise of improving the (admittedly) tight rental market.

The problem is, the following things happened as a result:

-- Existing short-term rental properties were grandfathered, which artificially has made those properties more valuable.

-- A lot of properties that might have previously been purchased and renovated by investors sit idle because the investors can't turn them into short-term rentals.

-- We have a lot of cottages / really small properties here, that are good short-term rentals but not great regular rentals. so basically a lot of garbage rentals came available that did nothing to actually help our rental market.

-- The hotels knew they now had a more captive market than previously.

So while I appreciate the sentiments of those who wanted to end short-terms rentals in the name of affordable housing, at least in our local market it has not been a good thing.
Http://flythrough.space

Just fixed a long-standing bug where explosions stop happening. I haven't merged that branch yet though.
EDP1815 (an MCA)? https://evelobio.com/portfolio/