jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What's scary is the five people who died in the event he's lionizing as "an unequivocal vote of no confidence by the governed and a call to action". A police officer was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-officer-who-died...) - to call that a "quintessential act of American patriotism" is open advocacy for violence, and I don't think I can ethically participate in a forum which permits such a terrible thing.
> when the women’s March protestors stormed the capitol.

What the heck are you talking about?
Whitespace is a mess. Uncertain regulatory restrictions, narrow channels, lack of standardization. That said, it's got a lot of potential for specific uses, as this article shows.

The CSMA congestion problem already exists in the WISP world. Ubiquiti built their own in-house TDMA protocol to get around it. I think Alvarion and Canopy have similar, if simpler, timeslotting capabilities.

What's interesting is that the 802.11 standard actually includes a Point Coordination Function for this sort of application, but very few (if any) chipsets have ever implemented it.
The light bulb was invented? How do you know Edison didn't just dig the first one out of the ground and tell everyone he invented it? Before Edison discovered the first light bulb, would it have been impossible to build one? Were the materials simply non-existent?

It's all discovery.
If this will be your first linux setup, I'd be hard-pressed to recommend anything other than ubuntu for day-to-day use, since it really is a lot lower maintenance than most other distros... But what's the fun in just trying out one distro? :)

I suggest also checking out Linux Mint (based off ubuntu), Manndriva, Fedora, and Sabayon just to get a feel for what you like... and if you're looking for a simpler environment for like a netbook or something, be sure to check out jolicloud as well. Also, distrowatch.com is a good resource for comparing and keeping tabs on popular distros.
The free version is important as a trial: I would never have bought instapaper if it were not for it. What I think, though, is that perhaps what most paid apps need is a way to do "shareware": allow the user to try for a day or a week, and then let apple block the app from working until the user buys it. There are a lot of apps that I would buy under this model that I don't due to fear/uncertainty/doubt (and in-app purchases for features don't really work for the same reason that I never know if those features are actually worth the cash, unless it's "pay me to stop bugging you with ads", which is really annoying).
Because Heroku isn't positioned as a way to manage your EC2 instances, it's a whole hosting solution. How much more confusing would it be for customers if Heroku said that they take responsibility for downtime that's not Amazon's fault? What counts as Amazon's fault? What about customers that know only Rails and don't care about how Heroku works on the backend?
I had picked them up pretty much in the standard way as a referral from a friend to do maintenance programming on their legacy system. They had me share an office with the Big 5 consultant who was interviewing ERP vendors. I knew immediately that he had no idea what he was doing and would ultimately waste a lot of good people's time and money. I had a lot of respect and loyalty to this customer and didn't want to see them taken advantage of.

I remember sitting up all night wondering what to do. I decided to go to the CFO. I told her that her Big 5 vendor didn't know what he was doing and gave her plenty of good examples. I explained that after working with her software and her people for 3 months, I could come up with a more effective way of solving their problems in 10% of the time for 10% of the cost.

I half expected to be thrown out of her office, but instead, she got up, closed the door, and said, "Funny, I was thinking the same thing but didn't know what to do about it." Together we laid out the plan and strategy for the project.

Ever since, I have never been bashful. Even though proficiency and experience can carry you a long way, your biggest advancements often come when you go out on a limb to provide real value for a customer.

Another lesson: you never know what a gig can turn into, so just do your best and keep pushing that envelope.
It might actually make sense for cable companies to do nothing but milk existing customers for as long as possible. Sure, new technology is going to upend their rice bowl, but they don't have to speed up the process and they can make a lot of money in the interim.
Yeah. That's why we went with no fees at all for TipTheWeb.org!
Pretty surprising that it's coming with a new rendering engine given the good progress Microsoft has been making in bringing Trident in line with the competition.
This is a bad example because the value of the Hermes handbag (to buyers and therefore to Hermes) comes partly from its rarity (a positional good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good).

A better example would be a Honda car (or Ford, or whoever makes boring cars these days). Say you go to the factory, provide the raw materials and pay the workers to do one extra car which you then drive off in. And suppose otherwise you wouldn't have bothered buying a car at all.

Does Honda have something to complain about?
Zayo just sent notice that they’re cutting over to generators in the Texas area
I thought MSFT was compromised due a netlogon exploit not Solarwinds. They hacked office365 which got them into Solarwinds.
Self ownership (control over your own body) is in fact the opposite of property ownership, because property enforcement requires violently restricting the bodies of others against for consent.
What I don't get is why the EU doesn't buy the vaccine patents from e.g. Pfizer (or failing that, buy Pfizer outright - it would still only cost a fraction of what the lockdowns and aid packages have cost) and release the patents into public domain, so all companies with the capability can produce the vaccine. If it could hasten the reopenings by just one month, it would still be a terrific ROI.
Silverlight, anyone? Microsoft is excellent at leaving folks high and dry.
Yep, so it's still crappy.
In the US (and I assume also Canada) it's almost the exact opposite. Custom order cars are possible, but rare. The vast majority of new cars sold are built with a factory-chosen set of options and sold from dealer inventory. Transferring a car from another nearby dealer if needed is also fairly common, if they had the particular color or option group the buyer wanted but the local dealer didn't.
There's better ways to run an election with verification systems. Venezuela does it pretty well, probably because they know there's an invasion itchy trigger finger pointed at them.*

Poll workers for instance, get drafted from a lottery right near the election instead of a voluntary system so there's no way a team of confederates could scheme behind the scenes.

There's also multiple tabulating and verification steps. The ballots are both machine and hand counted. The people and machines are chosen at random and nobody could rig all the machines because nobody has access to all of them. Nobody can coordinate an effort for subordinates to rig them because again, the teams are formed via a random draft.

Test ballots get fed through the machines by teams of observers who get randomly assigned to polling stations for surprise inspections.

Furthermore the top 6 candidates independently verify the tally. They each get essentially an open book of the records. Statistical spot check surveys are done as a further confirmation etc. There's lots of international observers, etc

Every voter gets a copy of the ballot and a confirmation number that they can go and check the record of.

Maybe someone else can find a place where corruption in the tabulation could occur but it looks pretty airtight to me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Venezuela#Polling...

* - It's worth noting I'm not saying anything about the outcome of the elections or the politics. Voter intimidation and disinformation could still happen, lots of objectionable things. But their tabulation of votes seems to be pretty clean. Dictators, if that's your opinion here, can stay in power without lying about the vote count by, say, deciding what makes it on the ballot in the first place. For an extreme example, this election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_German_parliamentary_elec... could have been exemplary - as clean as mathematically possible, and had the same outcome.
Can binance "create new USDT" or do they need to ask Tether to create it for them, exchanging USD?
Totally agree, great point! The fear mongering is only useful for states to impose more draconian rules. Its likely if there are further lockdowns, and more livelihoods are destroyed during the Biden admin, more people will be revolting. We don't want to give them the moral authority to Tiananmen square unarmed protesters, just because they fear their own people
There have been several arrests already. Thus far it seems to be right wing extremists.

For example, the lady who was shot trying to enter the VP bunker has a social media profile with extensive Qanon related postings.

Another was a Republican member of the House of Representatives. He was caught because he livestreamed himself breaking the law, as all genius criminals do.

The story about Antifa being in the riots was made up out of whole cloth by the Washington Times. The company they cited put out a press release saying that they had done no such thing and the whole story was a fabrication.
> On Jan. 31, President Trump issued the travel restrictions from China. One day after the travel restrictions were put into place, Biden said in Iowa, “We have, right now, a crisis with the coronavirus… This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia – and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.”

> Biden added, repeating a line from his USA Today oped: “Diseases have no borders, they have no borders.”

> The same day, Biden Tweeted similarly, “A wall will not stop the coronavirus. Banning all travel from Europe — or any other part of the world — will not stop it…”

https://www.cerescourier.com/opinion/editorial/biden-flips-c...

All Biden's statements are suffused with reminders of the idiotic things Trump is associated with even when it serves no purpose in context of a pandemic. "Diseases have no borders"?

He was looking for opportunities to bring up campaign lines.

At the end of the day, the narrative switched completely where before established health knowledge recognized NPIs outside of social distancing as largely ineffective.
It might not be linear in terms of single core performance, where Apple already dominates, but it sure has a nearly linear relationship to multicore performance.
Super convenient to map it to esc. As a vim user.

Meeting while using vim? Need a second pedal!
Just an obvious point - you don’t have to “change”. You can install both and use signal as much as you can. This costs you almost nothing, maybe just a little app switching. Not much to pay for a better world.
Exactly how I felt when peasants stormed the bastille
I got the ultimate hacking keyboard [1] this year and it has helped with wrist strain immensely.

[1] https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
+1 https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated
Could you also make it to remove google amp?
2, 3, and 5 are features.
Image search in DDG still has the source images.
Coffee is sometimes that way. For more expensive beans brands’ll cut the weight and keep the price the same, shelve it right next to the other stuff. You have to check the weight to see which ones are expensive.

[edit] and of course 12oz has replaced 16oz as the “standard” size.
there's an amazon app extension that does something super similar to this. "Amazon Assistant" - https://www.amazon.com/gp/BIT
> It was more complicated than that: the Polish government in exile knew at least as early as 1940 and by at least 1942 those had been corroborated by allies and there were official reports presented to allied governments, the UN, and covered in major newspapers:

I had no idea that the "United Nations" was a thing during WWII (though it appears to be more of a synonym for the allies than the body we're familiar with today).
Though Quora can be useful requiring an account whereas the full text is freely crawled (cloaking) is against Google's guidelines[1] and as mentioned in their help page violating the guidelines is a reason for the site not to be shown. Based on that, what should definitely be banned is Pinterest which goes against half the guidelines.

[1]: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en
With the M1A2 engine governor removed, speeds of around 60 mph (97 km/h) are possible on an improved surface; however, damage to the drivetrain (especially to the tracks) and an increased risk of injuries to the crew can occur at speeds above 45 mph (72 km/h).
Trump is very bad at communicating. However, as I understood what Trump was trying to say is that the drug has already passed clinical tests by the FDA which shows it is not massively risky to take, for any reason, within proper limits. So it is FDA approved, just not for COVID-19 uses. (That is, without adding "for COVID-19", the statement "The FDA has approved it to be prescribed" is literally true.) He is contrasting this to some other drug that could potentially be used to help COVID-19 patients but has not had the same testing. This is a huge deal, because it allows the FDA to move quicker in evaluating the potential use of the drug in COVID-19 situations.
Different optimization techniques will end up approximating such formulas in the course of execution such that you may not necessarily have to code or see an explicit logarithmic formula. I'm not necessarily downplaying logarithms, only saying real-world implementations may represent more or less the same thing different ways.
Trump didn’t come up with or popularize the idea for this treatment. All he’s done is instruct the FDA to trial it, and stated exactly when a doctor can prescribe it. This is nothing more than any of the other doctors or health officials who think the treatment has potential have done. There is no possible way that any of his comments could be construed as advice to illegally acquire and self-medicate with a drug you know nothing about. All of his comments have been about have been about having the drug properly approved for use by qualified doctors. Which given the circumstances seems like exactly the sort of response you would want from the executive.
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So this isn’t a helpful tone. You are politicizing this, the FDA doesn’t just trust poorly done studies and common sense, this is why we didn’t approve Thalidomide when it was widely considered safe.

Additionally you are responding to an article about people who took the drug to treat Covid-19. Peoples lives are at stake on both sides, a politician with no medical training should know better than to run his mouth about something he knows nothing about.
My question is will this work even without a SIM card. My father recent had his iPhone stolen and within 10 minutes I had gone into iCloud and turned on remote wipe. Unfortunately the thief was smart enough to remove the sim and make sure it never saw Internet while breaking into the phone enough to the point that he got an email the next day that google had blocked someone nearby trying to log into his gmail. Who know what else was gleaned from the phone itself.

It's difficult to force a remote reset when you no longer have physical control over the device. Baseband support on a separate battery might be one of the few ways to help increase the probability of protection.
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We work with great partners and clients (like some of the top travel brands in the world.) Must have strong experience with:

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That said, capability, outputs, and results matter much more than specific experience. We'll give passionate developers that want to learn the opportunity to do so if they are a great match for the team and have a positive attitude.
Bonuses:

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The confidence intervals in the original paper [1] are surprisingly large:

>Results For Danish children born during the study period, 33% (95% CI, 0%-70%) of the increase in reported ASD prevalence could be explained by the change in diagnostic criteria alone; 42% (95% CI, 14%-69%), by the inclusion of outpatient contacts alone; and 60% (95% CI, 33%-87%), by the change in diagnostic criteria and the inclusion of outpatient contacts.

i.e., there's a 5% error probability that the "true" increase is smaller than 33% or larger than 87%. In other words, the "true" mean is somewhere in between 33% and 87%!

[1] http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=19196...
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It is actually related, this software allows you to fill out webforms automatically. Now these bans are mostly around websites that allow you to host text online and this tool helps easily getting your text on tons of websites. So I see why this is related.
I don't think many software developers or hiring mangers will be working tomorrow either.
I doubt anyone resisting Nazi invasion killed any innocent people. What would be the point? The only innocents in their country would be their own countrymen, little point in killing them. Collaborators? Not innocent.

Terrorists _target_ innocent people to gain advantage through intimidation. That's wrong, everywhere and always.
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I am not a member of this minority.

If I am hiring for a developer position, I consider at least a basic knowledge of complexity to be necessary. There are too many developers who are familiar with it for me to waste my time on ones that are not.

I am not speaking of "necessary" in a universal sense, since that would be nearly impossible to define and a useless concept even if we could. If we really get down to it, breathing isn't necessary...
Disclaimer: I am the author of the linked app and a founder of GetStrean.io (TS'15).
Okay, so we have the common trope of "Atari 2600 BASIC was horrible" (and it was), and now "meh, it wasn't that bad". But it seems the only people that actually used the cartridge for more than five minutes are the two groups writing those things. What I want is, "How I Used the Atari 2600 BASIC Cartridge to Do Something Useful". 64 bytes ought to be enough for anyone, amirite?

Seriously, did anyone who bought one do more than plug it in and become very disappointed?
If it makes you feel better, I thought it was interesting to see how thin the “evidence” is. In some cases there appears to be no evidence, just the “possibility” that there could be some and that there should be an investigation to find it.

I should point out there is a substantial amount of evidence that there is no notable voter fraud. This evidence helps justify not wasting more time and giving oxygen to this conspiracy.
>The cops have a strange affinity for certain kinds of 'protesters' too, we all know it would end differently if BLM or 'Antifa' did this.

You mean they would have let the protestors occupy several blocks of the city while declaring independence for several months until their private security forces murdered too many black teenagers?
> Further, very few information sources are truly factual, and without bias?

This statement presents a false dichotomy. I could also say that no measurement of the temperature in Phoenix, AZ is "truly" accurate. However, they are accurate enough for our purposes.

To take it a step further, we can combine sources. We can use reasoning about the sources in how we combine them. These sort of study and technique is meta-analysis.
It's quite unfair to call them terrorists when they've harmed no one and destroyed nothing. Remember, riots are the voice of the unheard!
Neither A nor C makes any sense, are not supported by evidence. There is no aspect of the mac or macOS that can be realistically described as a "walled garden". It comes with a compiler toolchain and ... well, some docs. It natively runs software compiled for a foreign architecture. You can do whatever you want with it. It's pretty open.

A "walled garden" is when there is a single source of software.
I'd love to give up WhatsApp, but network effects are key here. I tried moving my extended family off WhatsApp onto Signal a couple of years ago and it failed miserably because the app wasn't nearly as easy to use, and they had all their friends on Whatsapp. Has anyone here had any success moving a large group of people onto something like Signal or Telegram? If so, do you have any tips?
Yay! I've been trying to get friends to jump onto telegram for a while now. Hopefully this might do it!