skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but they should never be able to compel me to open the door for them.

If they have a warrant and don’t open the door, they will break it down with a sledge hammer.
Gross. Keep the Ferengi off humanity's ship.
I am thinking you've drastically missed the point of the comment you're replying to.
Non-paywalled version: http://archive.is/IMn90
I have no strong opinions on whether life begins at birth or conception, but I highly doubt this "electrical flickering" argument is going to be very persuasive amongst the general public. It seems quite transparent that they're just trying to dehumanize the fetus in order to help their political agenda.

When pregnant women go in for ultrasounds from now on, is the doctor going to start calling it "electrical flickering?" My guess is not because it is a heartbeat for all intents and purposes except legalizing abortion.
What else would it be? Some in house software, mysql based currency system?

What is it about cryptocurrency that people still don't get?
I agree with all your points, especially (8) and (9). I think people who answer "no" to these questions because they lack self-awareness or because they are giving "right" answers instead of honest ones will far outnumber the people who have managed to completely eradicate their insecurity.
Depends on which jail ;)
The term "engineer" is definitely protected in Texas, and I think some other states.
Given that ISS belongs to multiple countries (US / Russia / Japan / Canada / UE), is NASA allowed to sell tickets to travel there and get keep the benefits of the sell for itself ?
Show HN: Brickception A fun breakout game with Popup Windows
You could use Guix or Nix to get a newer version.
Consider adding a /social/ hobby. The ones I've found have very friendly people are improv and jiu jitsu.
Legal yes, right no.

In many situations you cannot be forced to provide evidence that would be used against you or information which would lead to such evidence. I would go further and say that in all cases you shouldn't be required to provide such information.

It should be recognized as a basic right that you do not have to aid those who are trying to convict you of a crime. Our system of justice is adversarial for good reason and it is explicit in forcing those with the most power to limit the use of that power for the benefit of the accused. Without those checks and balances (and frequently even with them) abuse of that power, under the auspices of a greater good, would be common.
You and I read the same article and yet reached vastly different conclusions. Is the passcode speech? Is the passcode protected under the 5th amendment. Because they can't compel you to testify.

Remember, it's up to the prosecutor to build on the evidence they have. If they don't have your phone they don't have much evidence. And it is my belief your passcode is your thoughts.

What if he gave them the codes? They would have noodled around his phone until they found something else. That traffic stop could have become felony possession and that felony possession could have been upgraded to felony distribution if someone had sent him a message to pick up something on the way back.
Like most people I also dislike being wrong. I’m also game for disagreements, which means I’m wrong a lot, easily the most on my team at work. I’d hesitate to say that makes me more “enjoyable” to my teammates.

More likely people find me difficult to take seriously because I’ll passionately argue for something I don’t necessarily have the best evidence for and then immediately give up and say I’m wrong when someone gives me the evidence I’m looking for.
>Innocent life must be protected.

I think this is the commonly attacked premise for abortion, roughly along utilitarian lines.
It allows for a tiered system. Average users will use the token entirely within the Facebook ecosystem. Advanced users will have the ability to withdraw their tokens from Facebook's system and utilize them on other platforms.

Look at Paypal USD Balance. It's really just a "token" issued by PayPal, an IOU where 1 PaypalUSD = 1 USD Debt from Paypal. But PayPalUSD can only be used within Paypal.com. The only way to bring PayPalUSD outside of Paypal is to call in your debt to PayPal and withdraw the money to your bank.

PayPal has always said that their success relies on people holding PayPalUSD. People who keep their money in PayPalUSD are the ones making PayPal bank. First of all, it costs Paypal next to nothing if that user sends their PayPalUSD to another user. Yet they collect transaction fees. Furthermore, PayPal can throw this money into low-risk investments and earn 3-4% on it.

Facebook tokens are PayPalUSD 2.0. They can be used within the Facebook.com ecosystem. But on top of that, people can withdraw them and use them outside of Facebook.com. Basically, any website can start integrating these FacebookCoin. It means less people will need to cash out, and will instead keep their money in FacebookCoins.
An important distinction is that companies like Google and Facebook have dual class structures for shares: The founders still hold all the power in any shareholder vote.

Case in point, 68% of Facebook shareholders voted to remove Mark Zuckerberg, but since Zuckerberg's shares are a lot more powerful, it's completely irrelevant: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-68-percent-of-facebook-in...
I don’t think this will be particularly successful. We already have a variety of ways to send money. Yes Facebook is big, but so is, say, Apple and it’s Apple Pay functionality.

I don’t know what use case this solves that isn’t fairly competitive already although it will probably have a bitcoin style valuation bubble. It’s also sort of capped in its utility. If it overshadows national government currencies... the governments will be incentivized to block it. That was true of Bitcoin but it’s doubly true of Facebook. And Facebook has to abide by laws so it can’t just quietly work regardless of regulations like other crypto.

And what can I buy with this? If I need to convert to dollars, is an easy facecoin swap plus a facecoin to dollars swap really be more convenient?

Edit: on Apple Pay, I’m pretty sure you can send cash. But I don’t know, because I haven’t ever had the need to do this... which is I suppose my point.
This is hardly a legitimate measure of power compared to actually having a worker with a seat at the table.
Many of the "disable your ad blocker" dialogs are implemented in JavaScript, which is why this happens. Silly, but that's where we are.
The service is entirely free, in game and out of game. Fuel Rat 'rescuers' (or just 'fuel rats,' there might be a better term they use) do it for the fun of it. It's an amazing example of emergent gameplay.

I've been saved once or twice by fuel rats. The process is fantastic and seeing the dispatchers in action is fascinating. After they refuel you, they give you a little talk and help you avoid running out of fuel again.
The article mentioned that Russia has already done so, so I would say yes.

It also appears the vast majority of the expense (99%) will be in the ferrying fees paid to SpaceX or Boeing.
The structure of the arab funds are quite opaque. The distinction between single and multiple funds isn’t meaningful for them.
So the crystal doesn't melt at two temperatures as per the headline. Instead, it has two stable isomer ratios, which is pretty interesting - generally compounds are stable as one isomer, or the other, correct? Or is that not the case?

Also, aren't E configurations generally more stable, and therefore should have a higher melting point?

It's been years since organic chemistry so perhaps I'm way off here.
This is probably his most well-known work among metal fans:

https://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/theodor-severin-kittelse...
It's great to see this recent marketing initiative from Mozilla to frame themselves as a privacy-first company. Mozilla has always been considered by the community as an organisation that should respect the privacy of their users, but there hasn't until now been such direct public statements to that effect to point to.

Mainly I hope this can now be pointed to by Mozilla/Firefox users as a set of standards that should be followed when Mozilla devs put in place measures that infringe users' privacy or don't do enough to protect it.

Right now, https://mozilla.org/ sets 15 Google cookies and 12 Google localStorage tracking values when you visit it. Mozilla's previous statements[0] justifying this have been fairly weak. I really hope this new PR initiative gives some extra leverage to those asking for change.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/9IQ...
I see this all the time too, but it's people of all skin colors. Basically, anyone walking up to the door of some houses for any reason gets reported and accused. I'd be interested to see the data that supports the "but his skin tone is wrong" part of your statement, because it doesn't seem to be applicable or relevant in my experience with the app. (Although, I'm sure if anyone could manufacture that data, it would be Vice.)
It would be an overwhelmingly better idea for these islands to make ammonia, and release that into the sea. That would enable surface algae to bloom over a widely dispersed area, far from land, which would absorb huge amounts of carbon and reduce acidity. They might need to introduce small amounts of iron and other minerals along with the ammonia.

They could also gather carbon -- ideally from up-current water -- for (un-)natural gas, but it is clear which contribution would have the larger effect, on atmospheric CO2, per joule of solar energy.
Authors and their characters don't believe the same things.
country debt is a non-issue. It's private debt that you have to worry about.
>If you can sign a video then you can sign a doctored video.

I don't understand your point, you wouldn't sign a doctored video unless you wanted to do so. It's entirely possible to apply the principles of PGP to video.

>If it's only your camera that can sign the video, not you directly, don't be fooled that it will be possible to protect the private keys in the camera from extraction.

I doubt this would be the solution on which the world settles.
> code can be much more precise and clear than English. [my emphasis.]

As a common feature of most higher-level languages is that they co-opt natural language terms (and also mathematical notation, which is an option in commenting) with the intent to increase clarity, can you show us an example where code is more clear than natural language in explaining both what it is doing and why?

If you are working in something like APL, I can see there might be a case...

I am not so much interested in the precision issue, as both code and language can be very precisely wrong or right.
The warrant that required his passcode seems like a clear Fifth Amendment violation.
Use the sledgehammer on the phone then. I'm sure shattered glass and bits of silicon will give them all the evidence they need.
... that was a much more calm and complimentary response than i've grown to expect from linus.
I didn't realize you could bring a counter on flight. I am going to have to buy me one of those. For science.

My favorite muons on international flights story: LBNL guys used to have film badges. One of them took a long international flight to go to some conference. He may have stashed his badge in his luggage where it was X-rayed as well. It was reported at a "head of DoE" level as a terrible human radiation incident. Nope, just the normal thing from flying (plus maybe some extra). There were still some old timers around with film badges, so everyone got to hear about the story so they don't do it again.

Anyway, while I don't want to be around too much ionizing radiation, I'd much rather avoid the numerous insane chemicals we put into the environment. Ukraine/Belarus food isn't as saturated in that sort of thing: they can't afford the costs.
The ICML 2019 Code-at-Submit-Time Experiment
Your 20 seconds of googling got an article that talks about "may get" and doesn't really explain how that would apply to this situation.

Just being protected and getting the wrong food at a restaurant doesn't necessarily follow that you've got legal recourse to do anything.
I watched episode 1 out of curiosity. The first minutes tapped into my half life nostalgia so I was happy. But then I couldn't bear the fact that this is no novel, people did have to deal with these events for real.
i think you are severely underestimating the advertising "craft". it's insidious in ways exactly like this.
Paywalled, non-paywall link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cities-strain-to-fight-hack...

https://archive.fo/AXk1l
I'm grateful you mentioned the "sales is part of the value I'm providing" aspect - totally agree.

To add to it, we now know that "build it and they'll come" is a fallacy and we have to "make people something want". Yet, "make something people want" is not enough. We have to first make it, ensure it's something they want, and find a way to _bring_ it to people.

And that bringing to people is part of the package. Can be done through sales, or digital marketing, or outsourced through affiliates, or it can rely on advertising. Or a combo.

I feel that the proof is in the pudding, and without people actually "buying" our products, we haven't proved that they want it, not at the price we're selling it at.
Nasa Went to the Stock Exchange to Try to Sell the ISS
This is the same reason why cryptocurrencies haven’t seen general adoption: none of that has any inherent value to someone who isn’t already a convert.

Things which would matter are “can transfer real money to a friend with less markup than Apple/Google/PayPal”, “can sell things online at better terms than PayPal”, “can make transactions at a low enough rate that a business model requiring micro-payments is viable”, etc.

Facebook has a few wrinkles where that could be interesting - micropayments for games and content in particular - but it’s unclear what a blockchain adds to that since you’re already centralized on a single massive company which negotiates on take-it-or-leave-it terms.
What are you talking about? It comes out like often in my world?
As I recall my days in the oil industry, "engineer" was one of the most overused titles. We used to joke about "mud engineers" (reps of the companies that sold the ingredients that made up drilling mud) being, in fact, "mud salesmen." (If you were being generous, they were technicians but they did mostly make recommendations and sell you stuff.)
>> $35,000 (£27,500) per night.

That is cheaper than the multi-room suites on board the A380. It's cheaper than renting many boats.

Or maybe this is a trick. How long is a "night" on space station? Only an hour or so iirc. Maybe they get back to earth and get a surprise Expedia bill on their cc.
And then there's the 50,000 delegates from 192 countries who attended the Paris Climate Conference, evidently quite unconcerned by their carbon footprint (video conferencing - oh no!). Ordinary Joe & Jane Doe trying to meet their massively increased energy bill might be forgiven for wondering if those delegates really believed what they so passionately proclaimed.
You can see it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

To be truthful, most of them are leaving the villages because they see better career and living opportunities in the cities which is why they are adopting mainstream values.
"any organization that is not tech first"

Then why do all the tech first companies keep getting hacked too?
Maybe. But even with the old code base for reference, it's easy to not see that those weird lines right there are written the way they are to handle two different corner cases (and of course there's no helpful comments to explain it). This is especially true if you're rewriting from $MORE_OPAQUE_LANGUAGE to $CLEARER_LANGUAGE. There can be a lot of not obvious things going on in the opaque stuff, and you can drop things you need in the rewrite unless you are very careful.

As carlmr points out, tests can help a lot... if you've got tests for those corner cases. They can be new tests, created as part of the rewrite - if anyone remembers that they are needed, or if anyone can see the corner cases either in the problem space or in the code. (This argues for doing the rewrite while the original authors are still around, preferably with them as part of the rewrite team.)
>If others similarly situated could prevail on similar theories, TV shows like "COPS" and the like wouldn't be possible. The fact that they've been successfully running for over 20 years suggests that this is not the case.

I haven't seen an episode of COPS in almost two decades, when I was a kid, but if I recall correctly, a lot of suspects faces on the show were blurred out so that they wouldn't be identified. I don't know if that is because they didn't sign a consent form from the show (or if the show even needed that), or what, but a lot of faces we're definitely censored.
I think that is a good point. However, when I skimmed the article my thoughts were of the opposite people: the people who brag about their skills but then end up having very few skills in that area.
Burger King must be known for screwing up:

https://youtu.be/-PgfLysQua0

“I know what you’re the king of - getting my fucking order wrong.”
It doesn't pump blood. It's not a heart.
A rational person would observe that something with no intrinsic value could very well be overpriced far longer than you can afford to short.
Are you familiar with Hannah Arendt's book, Eichmann in Jerusalem? The narrative is that the Nazi regime was comprised of completely normal people. She then examines what the implications are in a world where perfectly normal people perpetrate the Holocaust.

One addendum, it's worth keeping in mind the base rate for these awful gov't incidents you mention. If you only see the bad things, you have subconscious blinders (Kahneman's "What You See Is All There Is"). Try thinking about MKULTRA or Cuba or Tuskegee in relation to (much larger quantity and impact from) positive things the government does, like international aid, or emergency services provided by the Coast Guard. Responses to earthquakes in poor countries, our military is there. Vaccinations, food drops, all kinds of things that the gov't does that are good.

You have to consider these things holistically to get a good picture, otherwise I agree it's very easy to rabbit hole down a conspiracy path. And it's attractive -- it means "you get it" while other people dont -- but it's not an accurate representation of the whole, which makes it a bad model to allow to fester in your mind.
I think you'd have to hit an edge case like a repo-man who the ring owner has falsely identified as someone trying to steal their car.
Yes, but won’t it costs millions to get there?
Oh god, here we go. So now there's yet another way for multiple Python installs to clash.
Uh, the code does matter in almost all circumstances. That's because in most cases you're not so much solving something unsolved as providing a lower cost solution via software. The cost of the software (both in terms of initial development and ongoing maintenance) is a factor.

If your problem domain is totally mapped out, maybe any solution that is quick to implement will work. If your problem domain is in any way nebulous or changing, well architected software will save you a lot of money responding to changes, and ongoing maintenance will obviously be cheaper if it's easily testable and robust.
This would have major consequences, and some not good possible outcomes for the companies.

The concept of a salaried workforce is embedded in our society at a fairly deep level, and upending that to prevent workforce representation might not be that easy.
You still served them?!

That kind of language and treatment of staff should result in ejection from the premises and a permanent ban, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Not indulgence!
Similarly I think it's misleading to imply Apple ever really encouraged the use of Python given they never shipped with 3. Those minor version upgrades are the bare minimum requirement to produce a stable product.

And I'm not saying those Linux distros are any better, although at least they typically have officially supported Python 3 packages, even if they are not installed in a stock installation.
this newspaper speaks to its own readers, it doesn't intend to attract outsiders in.

It's very middle class Labour voting chattering classes in its political point of view. Generally it's of good quality.

I think it's doing a regular politically correct exercise here. They should be honest about that at least.
I use Facebook. Is there any way they can harm me as a result apart from maybe trying to show adverts which I don't see. (I use uBlock and fbpurity).
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Vice youtube video from 3 years ago on Mosuo women, a bit out-dated but good explanation of their lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc
Correct, for example, many, many plants can't reproduce at all without certain insects to pollinate them - the survival of their species depends on an organism they share no 'blood' with.
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This is a rewriting of history. Social democracy used to be really big on nationalizing whole industry sectors, to the point of being little different even from self-described "democratic socialists". This changed starting from the 1980s as it became clear that nationalized enterprises are almost always severely dysfunctional.

Today, social democracy mostly agrees with social liberals and neoliberals that nationalization should be used very rarely and sparingly - mostly wrt. inherently-monopolistic "platform"-like businesses such as railways, power grids or telco infrastructure. And even then, these "platforms" should be open for multiple private competitors to operate on, as opposed to providing monopolistic services of their own via vertical integration.
> This project and stablecoins in general have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.

I would disagree, using a central authority to sign transactions and exchange crypto back to fiat is fine, but the real power of a cryptocurrency is the ability to generate wallets and create transactions without having to register a profile with a central authority. Whether facebook allows that or not would really determine whether they are a cryptocurrency or just a normal bank.
Perhaps they target sleepwalkers?
I work in Ad Tech. This is on target.

The user was lumped into a poorly-constructed lookalike audience because of some stretched interest similarities.

What you're experiencing is the confluence of two distinct issues:

1. The CTRs on digital advertising are dropping YoY. People DO NOT click on ads, even if they are saliently targeted. There are enough trash ads out there, there's so much malware and malfeasance in the ecosystem, that it's worthwhile for users to at best _ignore_ and at worst (for advertisers) _to block ads totally_.

2. The desire to target people that match specific criteria is rising because of misguided notions throughout the advertising and marketing industry. This has driven the entire industry to push machine learned modeling to find each and every set of eyeballs out there to try and justify spend, instead of offering worthwhile and valuable offers that compel consumers to interact. You have entire systems constructed on the notion that the more people you get an ad in front of, the more valuable it is, and agencies and trading desk operators that are looking at this as the sole KPI to focus on, to the detriment of everyone involved.
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