skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
How about https://tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4682... ?

Laymans TL;DR:

Essential mechanisms of biological cells work via EMF, in addition to what is known so far.

My question: Could it be "jammed" by external EMF?
> In reality, political debating at workplace quickly becomes just ugly.

I don't think it really has to. I debate politics with people at work enough. I won't get into specifics too much but it's not uncommon to meet someone who has a controversial opinion. You talk with someone, find out why they believe what they believe, and then question a few things (mostly asking why they believe they believe - what lead them to their beliefs). It doesn't have to get heated - it can be a boring lecture to one another about why you believe what you believe. It only gets ugly when you do things that won't lead to change like: "No - you're dumb! You should think what I think!" Which I don't think people who are emotionally and socially competent would do that often...

That said - I don't think of people at Google (or other big companies) as being particularly emotionally or socially competent because they don't hire and train for that.
> No, you let evil speech stand. And you call it out as evil, and make clear reasoned arguments why it is evil. That is the solution.

That doesn't work.

If you really think you can "convince" people to tolerate others, feel free to go to Stormfront and convince the white-nationalists to stop being racist.

Go and try it. Its not like these hateful locations are unknown, its a free and open internet. Go an talk with them for a week. You might learn how easy it is to rationalize bigotry and racism.

At some point, you gotta just shut it down, like what the world did to 8chan. And these situations aren't hypothetical at all. You literally can go test your theory at Stormfront.

> Only when that evil speech turns into action does the society step in.

We're too late for that. Christchurch shooter, and then El Paso shooter. We've got a strain of intolerant speech that are inspiring lone-wolves to go into literal suicide missions to shoot people they don't like right now.

Gun control debate is locked. Its been like 2 weeks and everyone's already forgotten about the El Paso shooter. Nothing will come about with that.

But at least we shut down 8chan, one of the hangout spots for this hateful branch of people. We should probably shutdown other hangout spots too, like Stormfront.
Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver are remarkably similar in their problems and approaches to solutions. It really feels like a PNW/BC cultural thing.
Observation to the contrary: availability of toilets does not fix "shitting on the streets" problem in SF.
So is it okay that the company does not tolerate that view, even if that view is only expressed through speech? We're not in the context of a government, only an employer. Is that fine?
https://wfmu.org/ - listener sponsored, free format radio out of Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. volunteer DJs are all amazingly informed about the music in their collections. days and days of archives to listen to, as well as online-only streams. highly recommended.
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People who think everything is political are usually authoritarians. They believe in order for progress to be made, you have to force or coerce people into doing the right thing.
Even if you have 8-9 foot ceilings, consider a low profile ceiling fan rather than the sort that hangs down a foot or more.

Sincerely,

The fingers of the next tall person to stretch his or her arms near your fan
The 2 amazon mantras that apply here are; more selection is good, customers will never complain about a lower price.

If the selection is huge then they need to make recommendations to help people find products. I don't think many users will scroll through more than a page or two of options. The integrity of reviews makes a big impact here in how you are likely to make a choice on those first few pages.

3rd party sellers increase selection and the thought is that more selection creates a fly wheel effect that drives down prices which benefits the customer. Amazon has very limited control over 3rd party sellers but they need them to increase selection.

That said, if you go to any store there are typically a few different options in a product category with different price points and quality. Buyer beware applies in a physical store as much as at Amazon. It would be interesting to see how many consumers prefer less selection.

There is nothing stopping someone from creating a curated "quality" focused frontend that makes money on showing customers only high quality products and then making money on the affiliate referrals for the curation. If this was in high demand I think you'd see these curated stores in the wild. I've not seen one though and since I can use tools like fakespot to help determine the quality of the reviews.
I fully expect future historians to call this era the Surveillance Economy.
QT these days is written in a JavaScript-esqe language and runs a modified WebKit to power the UI. It's as bad as it sounds.
That wasn't my question, though.
I dislike Bolsonaro as much as the next guy (probably more), but that's beside the point. I mean, not in terms of the motivations for his government's policy perhaps, but in terms of the bottom line: The Amazon is burning much too much this year.

Even if it had been Mr. Lula, or Ms. Rousef, and the fires had been the same, there would have been the exact same level of criticism due on the environmental issue.
Boeing uses potatoes instead of people to test wi-fi (2012)
All for it if you can sterilize it and get rid of insects etc.
If you manage to give as much money they would get using the land to produce minerals and soy beans, there is no reason they don't choose too.

The funding they provided in the past it is irrelevant compared to the sou bean production on deforested land.
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They’re adding an option, knowing full well that 95% of users will never even think to look in the menu.
Can you imagine how soulless work would be if you couldn't talk about your family and friends? These are the things that make us people. We can't just put them in a box at 9am and take them back out at 5.
Why would you think that an economic system based on minority control over (often formerly public) resources would bring about a political system based on majority entitlement?
> People don't want to be drug addicts and live a poor existence to feed a habit.

Non-addicts don't. Addicts do. Addictive people are stuck in the middle oscillating.

Free will + mind-altering drugs is a fundamentally hard problem.
Where is imgui bindings in this list?
It is a rather popular position among the American left, especially the one represented by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC.
Why don't depth cameras and SLAM techniques work?
The fact that the causes are complex and that there's a global aspect to it does not detract from the fact that it is absolutely imperative to preserve the Amazon. And - Brazil can do a much better job of it - at least as good as last year.

As for the cattle and Soy export - you're right in that they are major contributors. But again - that was true last year as well. Also, it is up to Brazil to shape its economy so that no more land is cleared. Farming can be intensified (not sure how much, for Soy, but it definitely can); and beef production should just be indirectly capped through prevention of clearing. In fact, one might argue that there should be a re-forestation effort, but I'm not sure enough about that to make the argument proper.

And - what about the importance of those exports, you might ask? Brazil's economy should evolve - if even through protectionist measures of some sort - so as to be somewhat more self-reliant in terms of production. Japan did it, China did it, so can Brazil. Also, let's look at its imports:

Mineral fuels including oil: US$26.2 billion (14.5% of total imports)
Electrical machinery, equipment: $21.8 billion (12%)
Machinery including computers: $19.1 billion (10.5%)
Vehicles: $14 billion (7.7%)
Organic chemicals: $10.6 billion (5.8%)
Ships, boats: $9.9 billion (5.4%)
Fertilizers: $8.6 billion (4.8%)
Plastics, plastic articles: $7.3 billion (4%)
Pharmaceuticals: $7.2 billion (4%)
Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $5.5 billion (3%)

What it can and should do is, therefore:

* Transition to renewable energy.

* Develop and expand industry, particularly of land and sea vehicles, machinery.

* Transition from plastic to renewable/recyclable materials which can be produced locally.

Of course this is not easy to do, but it's definitely possible.
They don't even offer free fast shipping anymore. You can get fast shipping, but only if you pay for Prime, or you can get free shipping, in which case it can take a week or longer before your order even leaves their warehouse (!). It's fast or it's free, pick one.
I agree, when I lived in Seattle it was just... normal. There are more homeless people than in most other places but by and large there were no issues I ran into. I saw needles a couple times and was harassed by someone who was almost certainly schizophrenic, but that happens in all medium-large cities.

Although I never experienced it and don't know many people who have, I will say that property crimes need to be prosecuted. The only common case I've really heard of is getting bikes stolen (which, again, happens pretty much everywhere) and I assume there is probably some shoplifting too. That's not really even that bad either, and again is par for the course in major cities, but it definitely should be prosecuted when possible.

I agree that a lot of people are simply bothered by having to walk past homeless people and don't want to see or think about them, ever. It's just not really an issue that will affect you very often, on average.
http://archive.is/tr5tY
May I ask: how much did that environment contribute to you deciding to leave in 2013?
I don't understand the problem this solves or value it brings. Morning alarms get annoying with repetition, not ringtones. I'd pivot to dynamic/generated morning alarms if I were you
A wake is essentially a ring wave which is being continuously generated by a moving point. If a ring wave can be generated off-center, the wake will also be off-center.
> Good science is repeatable. Given that Google is arguably an intellectually friendly environment, where more people than average understand how to talk in ways that get closer to truth, the inadvertent experiment conducted by Google over the past 15 years or so should hold a lot of weight.

But what conclusion should be drawn from this experiment?

During those years, Google grew into a large and profitable company, with enormous impact on the world and technical community. One could argue that the lack of a traditional corporate culture was important for attracting the employees who made this possible.

Perhaps Google eventually grew to the point where this was no longer a positive factor -- but even knowing that, should they have done things differently in the early days?
There's huge tradeoffs between cars and mass transit that you're completely failing to acknowledge. Mass transit works fine when you have a high density urban core. It doesn't work well for suburban or rural populations, which is most of the land area of the U.S. Not everyone is going to live in a dense city nor should they.
Yes, I've seen that post as well. Thanks! It's good advice.

>> If you don't know how to compile sqlite, I'd argue that you have no business trying to use it's more advanced features. How can you tune or optimize something you don't understand?

I'm not sure I agree with that, some people understand the advanced features but have a miserable time with compilers and compiling something like SQLite. There's a lot of great engineers with Python and SQL expertise that just don't know how to compile a C project. That might sound contradictory, but it's just something a lot of engineers still don't do day to day since people are using a lot of scripted languages (Node/Python/Ruby).

For example, there's probably a lot of people who want to use the JSON1 or FTS5 modules with SQLite in Python. That doesn't require advanced knowledge, but requires them to re-compile SQLite!

>> Furthermore, your library is stale. Anyone using it is dependent on you to merge in upstream changes constantly. And based on what I saw, it's already well out of date.

It is stale, I agree. But it's still a WIP. This was posted
here early. My plan is to pull in changes from the upstream sqlite module with the latest CPython 2.7 tag and latest CPython 3 tag in the source.
Makes sense. I think that individuals are much more empowered to block tracking on the web than in other places (usually). Banks and credit card companies are massive sellers of personal and behavioral data, and the FCC rolled back consumer protections which prevented ISPs from selling your data - which is much more broad than just what sites you visit (think applications, DNS, TV watching behavior). Add the pervasive CCTV, mobile phone location selling by carriers, private companies recording license plates and selling the data about your physical whereabouts and patterns, and I agree we have a problem, and it’s less about whether you clicked a call to action and more about the normalization of pervasive surveillance.

In the US we’re especially screwed because ISPs have largely blocked off competition that could offer privacy.

Most analytics tools that aren’t coupled with ad networks aren’t trying to get around ad blocking extensions, even though it’s pretty easy to do. Like, surprisingly easy. Unethical companies are doing that and more - see the aggressive stance Apple has taken with ITP. They’re not reacting to general cookie sharing, but to companies that are attacking the browser’s storage mechanisms to expose data from other sites.

Long story short, vote for privacy forward leaders if you live somewhere that allows you to.

Laws like GDPR and the CCPA are moves in the right direction. Heap is already compliant with both and I hope more protections continue to make their way to the public.

Edit: I know we are GDPR compliant and intend to be CCPA compliant but I’m not sure we are yet since it isn’t yet in effect.
As I think about this more, when I first watched the office series I related more with Jim however as I got older and kept watching it again and again I started relating more with dwight.
Article from NASA:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...

"In the Amazon region, fires are rare for much of the year because wet weather prevents them from starting and spreading. However, in July and August, activity typically increases due to the arrival of the dry season. Many people use fire to maintain farmland and pastures or to clear land for other purposes. Typically, activity peaks in early September and mostly stops by November."
The reason why I made this extension was because I was sick of the deceptiveness some channels used. Some channels don't even mention they are sponsored, but just talk as if they are recommending the product.

Yes, you could say it's obvious they are sponsored, but that is only true to a regular YouTube viewer. To many outsiders, they get tricked into thinking these are actual recommendations and not ads.

I think saying that something is sponsored, then talking about it is perfectly acceptable. Trying to dodge that you are sponsored or being supported by them is very sketchy. And I especially don't like the new common practice of making hard to distinguish segues into sponsorships.

Here is what made me make this extension: https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/ca7vub/first_de...

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Hm, I think it's the first time I see a "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" in the wild.
There is a lot going on in these comments. I feels like I've stepped back into /r/seattle (where redditors of Seattle seem to just hate all homeless people).

There is a lot going on here. First, there are a lot of homeless. Housing is sky rocketing and many people cannot afford to live anywhere close to where they can find work. The tech community there basically waves there hands and just says, "You can't afford to live here as a barista, well then you just gotta do the 1~2 hour bus/car commute in order to make me coffee. Sucks to be you."

Many of the other issues people are listing, aren't about drugs. They are about the homeless.

Second, people are talking about the other petty crime that goes with drugs: people stealing to get money for drugs. Violent crime and theft certainly don't need to be normalized. Chicago's recent DA's office has been criticized of not being hard enough on kids who commit crimes; which leads to more things like carjackings and even more violent stuff (knowing they might not face charges). That's a different issue -- although tangentially related and can't be ignored.

Portugal is a great example of a country where they try real treatment and help for people struggling with addiction. It's a better example of what happens with these policies long term. From what I've read and heard, it's mostly positive.

I personally knew people in my home town who stood in line at 5am on Mondays to get their methadone for the week. Treatment programs/rehab are for the rich -- often costing $2k ~ $5k out of pocket. Movie stars go to treatment. There need to be more treatment options that are affordable for those most in need of them. Drug treaming in America is just as shameful as the rest of our totally broken health care system.

https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-...
Yea the ubiquitous property crime, tents on public land/parks, needles on streets/greenspaces/tossed on our lawn, ... Seattle has DEFINITELY figured it out. Is this article satire? Because it seems totally disconnected from reality on the ground in Seattle. This was a beautiful city that is being ruined by progressive policy/selective law enforcement, and it is riding on the coattails of a strong local economy. Right now we are on the fast track to becoming just as trashed up as SF.
This was the reaction at my company (at the time of the memo) as well. The psychology claims were not as big a deal as much as the fact that the author alleged discriminatory hiring policies.

This led an exec to publicly state that our diversity policies "isn't code for favoring women over men" and that "being an equal opportunity employer is a commitment to following anti- discrimination laws and maintaining a workplace where everyone matters, everyone has a sense of belonging, and everyone is held to the same standards."

This was in stark contrast to our diversity hiring policies which include giving larger bonuses for hiring diverse (women and URM), giving diverse candidates two chances at passing the phone screen instead of one, setting "outcome-based goals" for hitting specific % of diverse tech employees, and even setting up a system of reservations for diverse tech workers (though this last one wasn't established until after the memo).

I guess the exec might not be lying if he is speaking from the point of view that anything less than 50/50 is discrimination and that balancing this out with discrimination in the other direction is how to create an equal hiring process.
Yeah really. I urge any city leaders who read this to spend a day walking around downtown Seattle to see what "figured it out" means.
Does Seattle / Washington not have anything? I live in one of those "poor Red states", and we absolutely do. I know a few folks who have been forcefully committed, though the common denominator seemed self-harm as opposed to harming passerby.

Seems very odd Wilson managed to dodge both mental facilities and prisons.
Many prisons in central and South America are run like this: the prisoners are thrown into a contained environment without guards otherwise, the prisoners themselves (usually visit a gangs) organize the prison economy and otherwise keep the peace (bar for some occasional riots).
The article you linked has Google stating they're planning, over the next few years, to add restrictions to the way fingerprinting is executed. Nothing mentions Google vowing to fight any sort of fingerprinting.
is there a way to actually skip the sponsorship without doing it manually or am i missing something?
I agree with you to an extent but genetically engineering life to suit us doesn’t strike me as any less cancerous.
Yea, I really like that statistic. I also put it on the stats page for individuals, so you can see how much time you have saved people with your submissions. I plan to add that statistic to the extension too so that you can see it even if you are not in the top 50.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats

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You’re only talking about the people who eat in. For the drive through the extra drink can be worth it.
My tenure overlapped ('06 - '10) and the discussions were lively. There were (and probably still are) interesting meta-terms like 'centathread' which was a topic that had received >= 100 replies (the gmail threading limit at the time).

That said, the change in policy (what is cited at least) reads a bit like "Let's create air cover for management actions to separate trouble makers from the company." Where trouble makers has enough vagueness in it to cover a wide swath of things. That allows for 'for cause' termination which is more financially advantageous to the company than simply laying someone off.

So to the extent that Google didn't want to be a 'traditional' company with all its rules and opaque policies and structures, it clearly is learning through experience the motivations that companies have for establishing those sorts of rules.

What I find disappointing is that after reproducing the experiment and getting the same results, they aren't able to come up with any other solution than the centuries old authoritarian one. I feel like they missed an opportunity here.
> Calling arguments "absurd" or "disingenuous" is itself arguing in bad faith, and respectable publications can do better.

If they are not real arguments, but false dilemma kind of arguments presented specifically to push an agenda, how do you call them? You definitely can't take them at face value and provide counter arguments, you can only call them out.
Do you think there would be fewer needles outside your apartment if we simply locked these people up? I think there would be more.

I agree that the limits of rehabilitation need to be seriously considered, and that good policy requires a mix of approaches. That said, all of your arguments could be applied to alcoholics during prohibition.

I think if we actually want a sense of community in this city, it starts by treating our neighbors as humans. These drug users are your neighbors. What are you doing to help them?
Until I read this story I didn't realize the Chikfil-A sandwich cost 50 cents less. But the two times I've tried Popeyes sandwich, it definitely felt like a superior value in terms of quality and amount. I'd argue it's even better tasting than Shake Shack's ~$7 chicken sandwich.
Me sending:
I have an owncloud server where I can release an file for a set amount of time with an password if it needs to be somewhat secure. It's not the most secure but I can just send them the link.

Me recieving:
Generally an usb stick.

Though to be honest this doesn't happen to me often so I might act different if that were the case.
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Yes, they are the worst kind of site and they represent fairly everything that I dislike about the "modern" web. Superfluous animations, not clear where to click, and with an overall design that is so standard that is not evident whether it is a parody or not [0]. I pretty much prefer clean designs with clearly visible links, like wikipedia, or hackernews, or the recently discussed today sourcehut [1]

[0] http://tiffzhang.com/startup

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/tree
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