jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Propaganda doesn't work like you are implying it does.

It's part "bullshit asymmetry principle", but it's mostly repetition of the same talking points.

I.e. find something true but inconsequential (Dominic Dwyer said that they weren't necessarily given enough to do all of the analises that they would do), and that's then blown out of proportion:

- what are the actual facts? What was Dwyer's role? Was he working with the same people that Daszak and Fischer worked (i.e. their chinese counterparts)? Why don't we hear testimony from their side?

- one scientist became several members of their team

- one statement became just part of a narrative (repeated headlines) about Chinese negligence in sharing information

- the supposed neglicence then justified "deep concern" from the WH

That works thanks to the fact that, even if people read the articles, and realize that there's no smoking gun..
All they remember is the newspaper headline, and people will uncritically trust authorities like NYT or Reuters... So even when there's no smoking gun, them referring to each others as source is enough to make their narrative seem legitimate
Bonuses, seasonal differentials, benefits, vacation time, excellent managers who don't micromanage might all be reasons people stay there. I don't work there, but I've worked for less than I'm "worth" before because of reasons like those.

10% pay cut, but 5wks vacation instead of 2? Sign me up. I really landed an offer like that once, I felt so lucky.

It all just depends. It could just be bad statistics or something like that too, it's all quite hard to actually quantify when there's so many non-numerical factors (insurance, commute, social, etc)
Those are just contingencies if the acquirer doesn't want to sell the product anymore. Basically it's a guarantee that, even if they get acquired, their customers won't be punished.

That scenario won't hurt companies that are being acquired with the intent of keeping the product running, for obvious reasons. It also shouldn't hurt acqui-hire scenarios.

The only time it might hurt is when the acquirer wants to use the technology internally, but not offer it to anyone else. That's fairly rare, and the downside (potentially scaring away that tiny fraction of acquirers) is much smaller than the upside (making potential customers feel safe).
Especially when you consider that most of the German Luftwaffe were jacked up on "pilot's salt" (meth) [0]. Makes sense that the US AirForce now has a widely known Modafinil kick ;)

0 - https://worldwarwings.com/the-hidden-risk-faced-by-german-pi...
During my day job, my mind wanders constantly. I work in construction and I'm highly intelligent, which means I rarely have to concentrate hard like others do. So I spend a lot of my time thinking up story and plot details, which actually makes me quite happy.

Although I think having a dozen different characters living in my head probably exempts me from inclusion in a study on happiness.
Ease of adoption is also being overlooked here.

The average person doesn't want the hassle of self-hosting their own social media server. Not when they can join Twitter and be tweeting at the world within seconds without ever worrying about the technicals.

That means the kind of people you'll be talking to on these platforms will most be techno-libertarian types. A plus for some, a strong negative for others.
> in uncensored, insufficiently moderated communities

> if so, why doesn't the prohibition of apps for child pornography

Forgive me, I was obviously mistaken to bring up freedom of speech or to claim that you were conflating apps/sites that allow freedom of speech with those that allow child pornography.

/s

Edit: fixed my egregious typos.
What does 'evidence' mean in the question?

There is certainly something going on in the UK and Ireland, but it's not a randomized controlled study designed to measure the infectiousness of the variants that have recently been sampled there.

(because it's exponential, higher infectiousness can be quite a lot worse than higher lethality)
There is https://staffeng.com/ but I don't know if there is a community portion.
>>I wonder - will any sane person vote R for the next decade?

I actually wonder what Rs are doing...chasing the 'base' has literally destroyed their brand. And the 'base' isn't big enough to win national elections... So what is their logic ??
> Her tweets are stupid

Amazing how lightly you brush off spreading a baseless conspiracy as long as it's your side doing it.
They were wrist restraints. Used for restraining prisoners or having kinky sex, which is also not appropriate in congress.

They were not mere zip ties like they were going to tidy up the cables behind peoples desks.

Why are you being misleading?
There weren’t pipe bombs in the Capitol. Stop spreading misinformation.
In Denmark you get a full licence the first time you pass. But in practical terms, authorities (and insurance and car rental companies) look 'harsher' on newer drivers. But legally there is no temporary licence (except the licence you get the day you pass, which is just temporary until your actual licence is delivered in the mail).

I know tunnels was required in 2011, but the teacher also seemed to indicate that it was a recent change.

I never used a simulator, night driving meant driving at night. Taking a bus driving licence was mostly the same ordeal, although there is some extra focus in the theory about how a bus works and what requirements it has.

When I took my B-category driving licence, it cost about 6500 DKK (about 880 euros). But that was a big driving school, I also see prices at 8000 DKK (about 1075 euros). Fortunately, my bus driving licence was subsidised (so I only paid 3600 DKK (480 euros)), otherwise it would have cost 31000 DKK (4180 euros).

But I hear Finland is unbelievable expensive.
awesome stuff!
you say that you are no longer working on adDetector "due to potential conflicts with my full-time job". I see you work for Google. Can you elaborate on why the conflict?
And they finally made a small reversible connector.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8518/hands-on-with-usb-type-c-...
That's interesting, and at the same time perplexing. This seems to be a market that is opening up, with multiple options for drivers. If it's truly the case that a significant number of Uber drivers are struggling to make ends meet when working full-time, sure this should lead to an exodus? This is suggested right at the end of the article:

> There's no way you will stay with Uber if you want to make ends meet. So either Uber will fix things, or drivers will leave."

I don't know what contractual obligations are forced onto drivers so maybe they're tied up for a certain period of time. The following quote from the article though suggests that it shouldn't be the case:

> Uber is not obligated to pay its drivers minimum wage; the drivers aren't employees, they're independent contractors.

Neither do I know if there is a "non-compete" clause of some sort that prevents them from working for Lyft, Sidecar, or even reverting back to traditional taxi services. The article suggests that at present this is not the case:

> "Right now, the TLC is open, so you can work with multiple bases," Diallo tells us. "

All in all, I find the business case for Uber intriguing because I don't fully understand the fuss. Admittedly, this is likely to my lack of understanding of the powerplay behind all of this, but I struggle to understand how drivers have gone from the "no-Uber world" to the "I-rely-on-Uber-and-can't-get-away-and-can't-make-ends-meet-world".
I'm a native English speaker, but have no experience with rendering or this topic.

To my ears, "Physically Based Rendering" does sound a little stilted. I don't immediately have an intuitive grasp of what it means based on words alone.

It doesn't sound like it means "physics based rendering", which would mean "a rendering process that uses physics at its core."

Rather, the attachment I have to the word "physically" is more along the lines of "metaphorical vs. physical" (i.e. "concrete", "real", "observable"). So along those lines, my natural understanding of "Physically based" rendering would be a process not based on abstract mathematical principles, but one that tries to take the physical properties of objects into account. So, maybe to render a rock you'd think about what it's made of, if moss grows on it, etc.

(I don't know if that's actually what PBR means, just that's what it sounds like to me as a native speaker.)
Ruby for Rails by David A. Black.

The publisher is Manning, from which I'm currently reading another book (iPhone and iPad in Action) and it's pretty awesome too.
Thanks for the warning, doesn't sound too promising! May go back to drawing board on this one.

> less ergonomic ... fixed numpad
I was aware of these and was willing to reach further for the mouse in exchange for aesthetics, build quality, and one less dongle on a 2-port (!) MacBook Air.

> major connection issues with dropped and stuck keys ... Bluetooth didn't work during Linux bootup
Are these two related? I've had dodgy experiences with Bluetooth on Linux in the past, but no issues on Mac.

> worse keys with worse typing
Can you expand on this a bit? From what I've heard and from the look of it, it looks to be an improved typing experience, especially coming from the awful F-keys of the sculpt.
That's a very good point that people often fail to consider!

I'm far from expert in this, but I'll reply with what my wife would say. She's in a completely unrelated, non-technical field and has a pretty good online following. In short: post things people are interested in, follow up with the ones who respond or ask questions and be genuinely interested in the people who follow you. Don't be fake.

The theory is simple, putting it into practice for your particular field is the hard part :-)
One huge factor that affects the environment is land use footprint. Nuclear has the smallest, by far.
"Perhaps a more fitting real-life analogy to the Trolley Problem would be as follows."

A non-trivial part of why the trolley problem bothers so many people is that it can't be salvaged because it is intrinsically not anything like real life. In real life you are never presented with such a binary problem. Everything is a mix of arbitrarily unbounded priorities, predictive ambiguity, and even ambiguity in the outcome.

My personal "resolution" to the problem is, yes, obviously, you save as many lives as possible even if that means actively changing the outcome... but that's essentially irrelevant, because you will never in your life be faced with such a stark, mathematically-rigid choice. There's always other options... not always relevant ones or desirable ones, but always something.

Even when you construct the problem as close to a real life one as possible, you end up with something more like "You just realized you're driving on ice and going way too fast. In front of you are two pedestrians crossing in front of you, one on each side of the road. You have about .3 seconds to consider this problem. Your System 1 instincts think you might be able to weave between them but there's a chance you'll start spinning and hit both. You could also try to jank to the right and go up on the curb, but you might crash yourself into that tree pretty hard and still hit one of the pedestrians. Regardless of what you choose System 2's gonna be second guessing you pretty hard for the rest of your life." You don't get "Choose A and this will happen, choose B and this will happen", it's a big mess. It's always a big mess.

Even if you literally encountered the trolley problem in real life, one must consider whether your understanding is accurate, or if the person who has explained it to you is lying or has ulterior motives, and so on. (And that's ignoring "this is clearly the trolley problem and I must be on TV or in a psychology experiment"; let's pretend it's in a world that isn't obsessed with this particular problem.)

Now, that is arguably the point of the trolley problem, to get down to that level and ask ethics problems. But it's dozens of layers of abstraction away from anything relevant to the real world. It's a mistake to think otherwise and stress about it as much as the gestalt seems to.
PoS isn't as secure as PoW, though. I'd imagine the majority of BTC nodes would reject updating to a fork that removed PoW.
Cobalt is also thousands of times of abundant than gold...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...
No, the energy usage is proportional to its economic value. If energy prices go up or down while nothing else changes, bitcoin's energy usage will go inversely. If bitcoin's value goes up or down while nothing else changes, energy usage will go the same.
Any plans to support movable keycaps? I'd love to actually have the physical keys match my Colemak layout
Even with an iPhone, you have the right to flash whatever firmware you feel like. This has been upheld in US Supreme Court cases. Apple simply is under no obligation for it to be easy for you to do so. Jailbroken iPhones aren't illegal. Apple treats them as a security risk, since mechanisms for jailbreaking iPhones exploit security flaws in order to get root-level code execution. I can't say they're wrong to do so! It's no secret that they do. Or that Apple doesn't ship anything but iOS to an iPhone, or that you won't be able to install apps from outside the App Store. These are marketed as features.

Most people are interested in solving a task, and their device helps them with this. They are uninterested in general-purpose computers. And there's no shortage of them for the rest of us! Android devices are the obvious choice here, with their user-exposed flashable ROMs. (Not just the OS, but every ROM is exposed through fastboot) Or PinePhone. Or whatever Firefox is doing. You've got choices for tinkerers and general-purpose computation, it just doesn't live in a device with an apple logo.
And if they were planning on selling it they might have used another term other then "Sunset"... possibly "Greener Pastures"
But how is this particular guy in the wrong?

This exploit is something that needs to be specifically installed by someone - it's not something you'd use to exploit the masses, it's something you'd use to monitor a target further once you already had (perhaps temporary) root access.

In that sense, it's basically just bread-and-butter spy work. It's hard to accept that the government has any reason to monitor the population to the extent that the NSA does - but it would be conversely completely foolish to say that they have no business developing attacks for computers - it would be like saying they have no business developing lock pick tools or electronic bugs.

History has shown that a strong nation has at least some need for intelligence and counter-intelligence, and the US has historically had incredibly poor capabilities for both, which has lead to the deaths of thousands (thinking about Vietnam intelligence specifically).

It thus seems at least foolish to criticise what's clearly an impressive targeted exploit - which to some extent demonstrates the US' dominance in the field.

This isn't something that the public has any business knowing - this is just plain espionage.
> I almost certainly couldn't buy a Toyota ever again knowing this.

What makes you think any other car company is different/better?
If you check-in or pick a team, you are given the option to connect to Facebook. It will then give you a preview of the cross post once you're all connected.

Let me know if that seems confusing (it definitely might be). Great feedback!
...or just ask del.icio.us who sold for like a few million to Yahoo? :)
That's true Micah, we're actually actively on our way to getting a .com for our next big launch. Thanks for the feedback!
I don't think the head of state can be someone in politics because the opposing power wouldn't want to make him/her the next president.

But I don't think we need a head of state. It's a waste of time to have the president go to events that are often empty photo opportunities.
Right. But this could have happened at any point once Android became a legitimate competing platform, and that's where the argument loses steam for me.
I'm not claiming that it is what's happening in teaching right now, mind you. I'm just claiming that it's certainly possible. I've certainly seen the idea happen elsewhere (it's how I came to realize that).

I will say that the statement relies on the assumption that honest folks cannot get a perfect score consistently. Although, even then, if one person always gets a perfect and the other person goofs up rarely and the business has to lay one of the two off, guess what usually happens?
Why do you think that is? I would suspect it's not because people are locked into huge legacy Ruby codebases.

If Ruby devs are paid more, it's probably because they're more productive. Now, I'm not a Ruby fanboy, and people can be very productive in many other languages. I think in general paying someone far less to write a codebase in PHP may be penny-wise but pound-foolish.

PHP is, in my opinion and that of many others, a very poor language that encourages poor coding practices. It's possible to write good code in PHP and poor code using Django/Rails but I think there's a strong correlation between the tools used and results produced.
hah, good catch!

we went with copying what works rather than spending too much time trying to re-invent a good homepage. we launched pretty quick, so we tried to focus as much on the core features first as possible.
It makes sense, too.

I'm not sure it entirely does. In a "perfect" world, maybe. But Apples is a platform (hardware/OS) company and not really a software company (in the same way).
You are correct, networking is most always the best course of action. Nothing beats sitting face-to-face with someone.
But are prisons primarily for rehabilitation or deterrence?

If someone were to hurt or kill someone close to me, I would want him to go to prison for punishment, if we couldn't just kill him and be done with it.

When I think about this hypothetical person getting, say, programming lessons with my tax dollars, that only makes me angry.

I assume prisons are how they are in part because my attitude is fairly common.

None of the above diminishes the problems of wrongful convictions, cruel and unusual punishments, prison rape, victimless crimes, and so on.
That's a very good question, since I've been running a TrueCrypted dropbox for quite a while now, with no problems.
I am a user of MyVidoop and Delicious. Both were very good concepts. By the way Vidoop has been acquired by Confident Technologies, Inc.
The solution to cut up the $100 bills is quite smart, although I'm shocked that the user did not care to mention that it's illegal to intentionally damage money in that way. I'm sure you could play the "I didn't know" card once or twice, but if this were to become a larger practice by lots of people, you'd quickly see some kind of policing/seizing/etc take place.
As far as I understand (not being a mathematician/physicist), it's a unification framework rather than one theory. As a framework, it's not right or wrong, but can be fertile or infertile (akin to what philosophy is to logic, string theory would be to physics). If a (the?) TOE is found among string theories, the approach would have been fertile.

String theories are not quite like religion in that they are falsifiable, just usually not falsifiable within current technical possibilities. This experiment in the OP falsified one of the lower energy possibilities.

With this in mind, though, it may be more useful to support research closer to applied fields. That is, if public money is supporting the string theory industry, a cut in that direction would be appropriate.
You appear to be using "sane person" to mean "person who shares my values and goals".
Because the article wasn't about the media at all, that angle was merely a sensational (and false) hook to get people riled up and reading the article.

(Yes, I know I'm answering your rhetorical question).
I really get a kick out of Google satellite images of China. There are a lot of oddities, such as that 1/3rd scale replica of a mountain region (assumed to be Tibetan?) with a facility nearby full of tanks/cars/etc.
I don't know - the most recent "Year's best science fiction" was a bit of a letdown (And if the editor, Gardner Dozois is reading this, please don't take it personally). I'f that's the best out there (I trust the editor) then, well, maybe we could do a bit better, yeah?
Well maybe the downvotes are for ignoring 2500 years of philosophical tradition - some ethical behaviour is universal
Again though, the theory doesn’t say “always maintain a deficit of X amount”. By no means is it implied that deficits are required.

In fact, as long as we are at full employment deficits should be stabilized or cut.

In the end, it’s advocating utilizing the economic resources you ah e at your disposal, rather than letting them languish.

Also, note that the us is hovering at around 120% debt/gdp, a number that has declined since Q2 of 2020.
Well, the easiest way to comply is to simply not serve EU folks. Chances are finding new advertising partners and changing up all their software is much harder, especially for what looks like a relatively local newspaper.
Piracy is a case where you can't afford to give up your privacy for convenience, and common in the US, so probably yes. It is different in other countries. Lots of countries don't care about digital piracy enough to enforce restrictions. Pornography, access to uncensored social media, or just being able to email people outside of your firewall become the major use cases. It is still fairly rare to find people who are prepared to pay the costs for privacy just because they want privacy. I think that would change if the friction was reduced, such as Apple, Google or Microsoft including free VPN services built into their products.
Everything on one Yubikey? What if you lose it?
Heads up, the Index controllers can't be easily made to work with Oculus headsets. They can easily be added to Vive or Pimax headsets though.
Let me add to the chorus of praise for Algo. As a journalist working around the Middle East it at least gets me out of the local censored internets and isn't blocked like all of the popular VPN services.

It seems like the thing that someone could roll into an iOS or android app for even easier deployment.
Is there any particular reason why functions and blocks had arity restrictions until now?
Hmm, we can call it Shamir's Secret Blockchain.
I thought satellite orbits were totally predictable?
Yes, all these 4 statements would fall under hate speech laws in France.

And yes, people have tried to turn these prejudice into eloquent pages with precise terminology or into stand up comedy and have been shut down for it.

Shockingly, France is not a den of conformism yet. It is in the US that Charlie Hebdo covers are censored and where people "agree to disagree" instead of exploring their disagreements.
What a designer is needs to be better defined. I went to school to get an MFA in Design and I'm still uncertain of exactly where the boundaries of "Designer" are.
If you need a lot of memory or disk space dedicated servers are not any cheaper, and often more expensive than cloud solutions. Hivelocity seems to be the only one with reasonably priced large memory dedicated servers, but they have a single facility in Tampa Florida as far as I'm aware which might be a problem for some businesses. If you need a lot of memory and disk space colocation usually has the best bang for the buck but you are also losing the ability to have new servers brought on quickly which can be a huge issue if you have a failure.
Sweet, just submitted my side project:

https://microsoft.promo.eprize.com/ie9app/gallery?id=216

Can't hurt... :)

It was only submission #3 under Music, and there are only 2 categories, that and Games. Any other HTML5 music apps out there?

You'd think there'd be categories for other things too, like video for starters...
I liked this! Would be cool if you could show the viewers (at least the #) :)