skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to have heard an interview with one of the sailors who was on the ship with her in the radio. He said that they took her there and they would have also done it with out her. He additionally added: Greta is not responsible for anything we do outside of taking her across the Atlantic.

The whole discussion is – frankly – quite ridiculous. Anybody who likes to lead it should really sit down, pause and really ask themselves what they are doing and why.

There is really only one compelling reason that comes to my mind why one would find the motivation to critizise environmentalists online for not beeing environmentalistic enough: their actions make you feel bad for some reason. You want the bad feeling to go away, so you find a explaination why they are bad. But it turns out the world still thinks they are good. Now you are in a bit of a problem. So you go online and try to change the world.

Only: it might be better for you and everybody around you if you instead went and tried to change yourself. This is of course much much harder, but lying to yourself about your own motivations has also it's costs..
>"Morning weight" == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.

I was tracking weight loss over time, so it's not just water loss. I tracked weight multiple times a day to see when weight loss actually happens.

If it was simple dehydration then sleeping would be irrelevant, but sleep is when something is processed, an action occurs that expels the waste/water.
They actually did play a role in his non-donation activities. Multiple professors at both schools are credibly accused of participating in Epstein's child sex trafficking. MIT allowed Epstein to bring girls to the campus (Harvard hasn't released enough info to know if he did that there as well). MIT _sent Epstein a Disobedience Prize orb_. MIT leadership worked to actively conceal the donations.

There was a lot of very questionable things going on. They didn't just get a check and call it a day.
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> Some of the contaminated valsartan contains as much as 17 micrograms of NDMA in a single pill. That’s equivalent to eating 48 pounds of bacon. The FDA estimates that for every 8,000 people who took the highest dose of contaminated valsartan daily for four years, there would be one additional occurrence of cancer.

Given the relatively small significance and the fact that this article was published in an issue with the blurb "Can You Trust Generics?" on the cover, I'm gonna say this is just more FUD from Bloomberg.
Iran.

Iran has physical presence in Syria (Besides the Hezbullah proxy in Syria).

Gaza is an autonomous neighbor ruled by an Islamic terror organization being a country or not does not change the fact that missles are being launched at Israeli civilians every week.

There is still ISIS in Sinai. (And although the Islamic brotherhood lost control of the country, they are not gone)

yes. Jordan is quiet.

"True on that but without Israel there Hezbollah would have little reason to oppose the US."
-You really have no idea how religious extremist work. Hezbullah has something against all non-(their kind of)-muslim

"the reality is that Syria is militarly over"
-not really. ISIS is pretty much gone there but there is still a lot of fighting and it's not like the winners are the nice guys
That doesn't really fit my experience. Both my parents were working hard hours when I was in highschool and my participation in after-school sports meant that I was occupied until they finished out their work day (which ends in the evening, contrasting with the schoolday which ended in the early afternoon.) Practice before school was convenient for the same reason; my dad had to leave for work at 4:30am, and my practice started at 5am, so that worked out well.
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>It's not at all clear to me why we allow American football and universities to have such a perverse relationship,

Money, lots and lots of money.
Guess it was important enough to sidestep the general stance of :

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
You're thinking of gossip.

Anyone quoting sources and showing their work (published data) is reporting.

Even if you disagree with the interpretation, conclusions. Especially if you disagree.

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Sadly, I continue to be embarrassed, surprised when geeks proclaim it's all just opinion. This anti-intellectualism is how cults and hoaxes fester and grow.

It's not helping.

Is it too much to ask that the primary beneficiaries of our modern, technical, scientifically advanced society also defend the foundations of our society?

How about just part time? A few hours per week. Take a breather from the cynicism. Just pretend the world is knowable and that we can work to improve stuff. Think of it as a new hobby.
This reminds me of this passing from thhgtth:

"Some may be extremely rich, but that’s nothing to be ashamed of, because nobody is really poor – at least nobody worth speaking of."
It is broken everywhere...
>Today it's difficult to imagine sentient animals being separated from their families and taken to be slaughtered. There really is no excuse for this cruelty.

What is your opinion about predators in the wild, murdering and eating sentient animals?
It's the impetus for the domestication of apes, who later go on to rise against us, but I'm not sure I'd elevate it to being the cause of the uprising.
I don't remember the exact phrasing I ended up using, but I think I remember finding through DDG a StackOverflow question that was essentially "how to make an interpreter for a statically typed language" and it did not appear on Google.

To answer your exact question: I don't know, perhaps not.
Flight shaming is great, and we should all feel guilty when we fly, but that doesn't mean we stop tomorrow.
So are you arguing that disease isn't a risk, or just that there is never a need to have border control to deal with it?

It is a risk, one that we can and do take into consideration. Anyone seeking to be a permanent resident in the U.S. is required to have certain vaccinations. That requires a certain level of border and immigration control to enforce.

Having a well-functioning medical system is good, but won't help much if your dealing with the spread of disease that isn't easily treatable. Or rather, quarantine is part of a well-functioning medical system. And yes, shutting down travel to/from certain countries experiencing a serious epidemic has been a real consideration in the past.

Look, I'm not saying "shut down the borders". All I'm saying is that completely open borders are impractical and ignores real risks.
That sounds like a very simple algorithm. Get census data, sort by zip code median income, and filter results to above a minimum dollar amount. Doesn't make it any less of an algorithm.
R.I.P. Aaron Swartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
The decline in child mortality explains why anti-vaxxers are getting footing. They’ve never had to watch a child die from something that was readily preventable with cheap, nearly risk-free medicine.
"Wealth" comes in many forms. Widows of civil war veterans received benefits. Some young women married old civil war veterans as a result.

Maudie Hopkins died in 2008, perhaps the last living widow of a Civil War veteran - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudie_Hopkins

> "It was not especially uncommon for young women in Arkansas to marry Confederate pensioners; in 1937 the state passed a law stating that women who married Civil War veterans would not be eligible for a widow's pension. The law was later changed in 1939 to state that widows born after 1870 were not eligible for pensions."

Or Alberta Martin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Martin

> On December 10, 1927, the then-21-year-old Stewart married the 81-year-old Martin, primarily to get help raising her son and because his $50 per month Confederate pension check guaranteed her a degree of financial security.
In my opinion Kria's best work is on Pullhair Rubeye, the album she did together with Dave. Unfortunately they chose to release the album completely reversed, so you'll have to find a fixed version on YouTube.
Thanks!

Honestly, I just realized that life is short and most people go to their death beds without realizing their full potential because they are occupied with social concerns. Many people drop the quality of their life by living an unhealthy lifestyle that is disconnected from nature.

This all really set in for me after my grandmother, who I was very close to, passed away in December after having a stroke in November. I helped take care of her because she took care of me when I was a boy. Also, my 43-year-old cousin passed away from ovarian cancer in July. Got news of a kid I met only once being murdered during a robbery, he was only 24.

These realizations are put into practice with each breath, thought, word, and deed with the Eightfold Path that Buddha laid out 2,500 years ago. It's as relevant today as it was back then.
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The notion that there's anything inherently wrong with walking is really bizarre.
Totally this. I kid you not, I fasted the entire day and somehow weighted the same, and when I slept for three to four hours I literally woke up 2 lbs. less. It almost defies reason the importance of sleep in weight loss.

Probably gives new hypothesis of “dad weight”, you gain weight because you don’t get good sleep after having a kid.
Makes me think of this quote:

I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

-- Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
I hate it too, but its clearly profitable - people want to watch football and spend money on tickets and merchandise, and universities ended up being a good vehicle to drive fanbases. Its not realistic to ask people to not want to be football fans and not spend money on that interest, and not realistic to ask universities to not take that money.

The most realistic potential improvement I can see is requiring public universities to reinvest some percentage of sports program profits (mostly coming from football/basketball in the US) back into academic programs and tuition assistance for non-athletes. Currently many unversities have academics and sports existing in separate financial universes.

Edit: The same universities do reinvest football/basketball profits back into other sports programs, which is great. Athleticism in general is IMO an essential part of education. But universities need to remember their core mission is education, and everything that a university does needs to feed that mission somehow.
That's how it worked in the Yellow Pages. "AAA Plumbing" and such.
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Cool project! I have a couple of questions:

1. Do you do your production in Linux? If so what hardware interfaces and DAW are you finding works for you?

2. Did you have audio programming experience before starting this project? I really want to learn more about audio signal processing but am not sure where to start.

Thanks!
I just read the article, while NoScript was blocking both the NYT's JS and the google tag manager JS (I set this one in NoScript to "block everywhere, always").

No problems reading the article. What issues did you see?
Humans and dogs do not share many diseases. Flu are too different in both species. All the cases would be spatially related in this case. With most cases in a small area instead some animals falling ill here and there.
You don't buy it? But here we are... two total strangers with (presumably) no relationship to the University of Alabama, discussing the University of Alabama because of their football program that got their university into the New York Times and onto the homepage of Hacker News.

I guess we can debate whether "positive" equals "positive sentiment" or "positive success in generating brand awareness." However, the fact that this article exists underscores the positive publicity value of the Alabama football program regardless of whether this specific article is good or bad publicity.

In other words, the NYT never writes this article for Sheboygan State University's football program because not enough people care about it (note: it doesn't exist... nor does Sheboygan State... it's just a generic example so I wouldn't offend anyone with the name of a real university).

In contrast, people care about the University of Alabama's football program, which results in people caring about the University of Alabama.
You sound like someone who's never been on a hike, especially on a rock scramble. Try driving any wheeled vehicle over terrain that's filled with rocks and boulders; it can't be done. But I can easily walk over it, climb through fissures, etc.
Good insight. See also: David Hogg.
I honestly don't understand, can someone explain?

She's literally a child lecturing the grownups. It fits that "emperor has no clothes"/out of the mouths of babes trope.

The people who back her want to hold her up as someone wise beyond her years. The entire thing is primarily an appeal to emotion.

Greta is the face of the idea that there is a simple and obvious answer that could be readily implemented, if only us sinners would get up off our slothful, gluttonous sorry asses and Do The Right Thing.

Real and viable solutions tend to be more nuanced than that and allow for the complexity of the real world. But arguing against this essentially cute little tribble of a media sensation makes you "obviously stupid" plus a monstrous asshole who clearly kicks puppies as one of your hobbies.

That rankles people who recognize the attempt to win by manipulative social bullshit and thereby simply shut down substantive discussion of a genuine and serious problem that, no, is not going to be resolved by telling 7 billion people to Just Behave!

It doesn't help that the Pope blessed her work, basically. That just doubles down on all the high handed, moralizing preachy nonsense that swirls around her.
There is a difference between collaborating with the government and being coerced by the government.
The best client I have used is lftp. [1] It support chroot sftp, can spawn multiple threads per job and even per file. I can max out any internet link with it. It is super easy to write automation with it.

[1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/836103/replace-scp-with-sf...
Sure, but I found something more specific.

I tracked weight loss for a month. Eating only one meal a day. I recorded multiple times a day my weight. Only in the morning did I actually record any "loss".

So, I did some tests for this. I stayed up all night to see if I lost weight in the morning like every other day, but I didn't.

I slept, woke up in the afternoon, and I had lost .5 pounds from the previous day.

Something special happens during sleep that is unrelated to a general concept of metabolism, but instead a specific process. It's like some kind of processing the bodies does that is related to weight loss/waste management that does not occur at all (or maybe only a little?) when you are awake. (my amateur assessment)
Athletic departments don't necessarily have a need to be profitable, and most are not. Clemson averages ~$77 million in revenue over the last few years, mostly from valuable TV rights and ticket sales.
>I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep.

You may just not notice it until you wake up, but you can certainly lose weight during the day if you aren't eating and you are exerting yourself physically.
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> I've been in a union and it was super helpful.

Another anecdote: I’ve been in an unions and it did nothing for us. We were still working minimum wage.
Yes I'm sure there's a lot of consumers that want to calculate large amounts of digits of Pi in their browser..
I think it is fair to see both sides of technological advancement. For every positive use of technology there is often some negative use. I think of nuclear power vs. nuclear weapons. No one thinks we should stop investigating chemicals and diseases just because someone could use the information to create chemical weapons or biological weapons. However, we do have social and political tools to attempt to deal with these negatives, whether they be conventions or treaties. As a more recent data-point look at all of the hubbub caused by social networks and their use by opposing countries to destabilize political process. We are going to make real changes to technology to attempt to mitigate those issues.

We need to think about the negative consequences of gene editing, robotics, super powerful AI, etc. not to overshadow the positive benefits but to help remind us to create the tools necessary to mitigate those negatives. If the only possible ramifications were good then we wouldn't need to be having this conversation.

It reminds me of interviews with Steven Pinker and his opinion on potential negative outfall from AI research. He claims that engineers are generally good-willed and they try to do the best they can, e.g. they don't design bridges that will fall. Yet bridges fall down sometimes, occasionally quite soon after they are built. I'm glad there is some external oversight on issues that are potentially world-changing, just to have a sober second opinion.
The course website from last semester (when I took this course!) has just about everything except for lecture recordings and starter code for the project, and it’s still up: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs164/sp19/
Ha, Twitter is a paywall publication! You're privacy is the payment!!!
Wait till you hear what happens to these same animals in the woods!

I don't mean to be dismissive, and I do believe that there are legitimate ethical and environmental (and maybe even health-related) motivations for being a vegetarian.

However, I don't see a problem with the slaughter itself, especially as practiced in modern societies. It is significantly more humane than most ways a lot of animals die in the wild, killed in a desparte struggle, or eaten away by disease.

The much bigger ethical problem is the way we force most of these animals to live in industrial settings, cooped up, filthy, unmoving. This is the true ethical dilemma of industrial farming.

Hopefully, if we stopped eating and throwing away the vast quantities of meat we do today, we could get back to more sustainable and more humane animal husbandry, while still being able to occasionally enjoy meat - to boot, it will even be much better tasting, if the animals are allowed to roam and eat grass.
Magic Leap next?
Can these keys be revoked?
Pre-registration is becoming more popular, and I think it will have a massive positive effect w.r.t. abuse of low-grade statistical tests and thresholds.
Anecdotally, I don't believe that for half a second.
Is a good candidate. In this case some people should be falling ill also. I don't know if the same strands of Salmonella in dogs can affect people, but I assume that could happen.

Update: In other source says that Salmonella has been ruled out.
Can you elaborate how you think that applies to this discussion? Seems like you are arguing semantics to me.

The Church of Scientology is a considered a non-profit institution in the U.S. as well. Do you believe that The Church of Scientology is a benevolent actor? I don't. I believe their primary purpose is profit and they are taking advantage of their followers and the U.S. taxpayer in the same way these universities are.

The university in this article is "non-profit" as well, but they just granted a $70+ million contract to their football coach. I don't see how you can argue that this is appropriate for a non-profit institution whose priority is education when they are charging their 30,000+ undergraduates six figures to complete a four-year degree at the same time.
TLDR:

> Aroundhome.de claims to be a "search portal" that helps its consumers find "qualified service providers". It is not searching on the net, but only on the list of their partners. The search results are only offered when the consumer leaves his contact information and confirms his existence by telephone (which some people can not, due to their disability). The partners, then are notified, that a potential customer in their area is looking for a service and are offered to purchase their data for significant money (varies by industry, from 50 to 500 euros). For the consumer, a very stressful situation arises. At first, they don't know, that their data is being bought by the servicing companies
They probably won't find good contractors (because reputable companies do not fall for such offers). And of course, the data is not exclusive, meaning that it is negotiated several times at several contractors, which then harass consumers's phone
And this is the unsung hero of Apple's new Apple Arcade subscription -- 100 games, no loot boxes, pay to win crap. You can safely pay $4.99 and the entire family can have access to the games without having to worry about this crap or advertising.

It's a win for everyone.

Publishers are reportedly getting paid up front so they don't have to worry about not making their money back on their investments.

Consumers avoid the above mention pitfalls of modern mobile gaming.

Apple is "commoditizing its complements" and making iOS/MacOS/iPadOS/tvOS a more attractive platform for casual gaming.

EDIT: Corrected the price is $4.99 not $5.99.
Tuition rates for Harvard and Princeton in particular are deceptive since if you earnestly cannot afford that tuition, they don't ask you to pay it. Those schools are often actually cheaper than public schools for people without much money.

Other expensive private-nonprofit schools may be another matter entirely. But those two are bad examples to use.
They are not in the Customs Union.
there is nothing wrong with paying for information.
there is nothing wrong with paying for the requests of someone else's labors / effort.
It this article seriously trying to pass off "quantum encryption will be part of 5G networks" with a straight face?

I haven't seen _any_ quantum communications hardware on the market. Of any kind. For any industry. And despite that, it's ready for mass adoption in cell phones? I don't think so.
Since we're on the topic of making things up not described in the article, I think it's secret gastric bypass surgeries the competitors are undergoing, not amphetamines.
Ha, that's fake news right there.