skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The frontier wars of empires are rarely about winning. Truman didn't really want to win Korea but he'd have been happy to let MacArthur win if Mac hadn't been such an arrogant son of a bitch. Johnson, McNamara, et al weren't willing to win Vietnam, as a statement of historical record. Grenada was forgettable because of its success. Clinton won Bosnia by accident via third-order effects of Richard Holbrooke's chase vehicle falling down the side of a mountain. We achieved our stated objectives in Afghanistan (take out Bin Laden) and Iraq (regime change) but successive administrations of both parties have found it advantageous to keep a presence in the region. It is worth noting that presence includes things like having Iran almost surrounded. Yes, surrounding our enemies on their own continent is the definition of the US frontier. We have agreements with many Asian countries(1) with the net effect of having pushed our "frontier" up the borders of Russia, China, and Iran.

If you think the small number of troops in some of these locations is trivial, keep in mind there were only a few thousand troops in Korea before the North crossed the 38th parallel and pummeled Seoul. The key was to have US engagement at the country level, and the death of a single US troop. That created the diplomatic opening to bring unlimited military power into South Korea.

This created a model, and this is important to Pax Americana, so pay attention: a model where any country allied with the US is relatively safe from its neighbors, as long as such neighbors are not allied with the US, and the US presents a credible ability to threaten the non-allied country. This is why Iran is not happy about US alignment with Afghanistan, and Iraq, and the Gulf states. Note the US even has deals with Turkmenistan.

And that is what makes the US non-response to drone strikes in Saudi Arabia a sensitive issue. The Iranians are trying to draw a picture where the US has lost its ability to present a credible threat. Which is bullshit, but the Iranian economy is in a bad way and getting worse and that makes for desperate politicians. (growth went from 13.4% in 2016 to a projected -4.5% this year). However, while the US has plenty of agreements with the House of Saud, no US servicemembers were harmed by overt aggression by Iranian combatants (as defined by the Geneva conventions, law of armed conflict, etc). So the US threshold for response has not been met. Not by a long way.

While I'm sure the price of gas in LA is up, it will be temporary. Those refineries were no doubt diverting processing to offline capacity even as the fires were burning.

tl;dr: arguing about whether the military is 'winning' misses the problem of empire entirely. Pax Americana is still here and you're enjoying it despite the shitshow at home.

(1) Backing out of TPP and electing Trump were terrible for our long-term strategic interests in Asia, particularly with respect to the Middle Kingdom and it's satellites. We pissed away a hell of a hand there. E.g. seeing a few Apple-related factory jobs show up in Austin will never compensate for the net weakening of our new ally in the modern version of Vietnam.
Be sure to complain when there’s no more free radio targeting your taste!
Let's assume that the 90% statistic is right. That certainly seems to lessen the burden on families of suicidal people, but at what cost? This number doesn't tell us about the reason those people never attempted again.
We all hear about the gruesomeness of deaths by suicide and the impact on relationships with family and friends. It is very likely that the toll an unsuccessful attempt takes on someone combined with observing the attempt fail makes people reconsider suicide as a solution to their problems. It is not likely that this correlates with resolving their problems in another way. If the problems are hard enough to solve or to live with, the total burden on everyone involved could be much higher after an unsuccessful attempt than after a successful one.
Suicide prevention success should not be solely measured by suicide statistics, or by the mental health of family members. I think your idea is going in the right direction, which is to avoid thinking of suicide as the worst possible outcome, to consider the impact the worst living situations have compared to the cost of escaping them, and to potentially try to minimise both.
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i will never listen to a podcast on spotify, stitcher et al for exactly this reason.
That's not how the Fixed Term Parliament Act has worked in practice, though. It let Theresa May schedule an early election because she liked the look of the polls and wanted to increase her majority just fine. What it has done is allowed the House of Commons to keep around a government which has genuinely lost the confidence of the House, to the point that they've lost every single vote since Boris took office, because kicking them out will lead to an election the government will likely win. This is not how Parliament is meant to work. The entire system is built around the idea that the government should have the confidence of the House and that the mechanism for holding them accountable is to kick them out if necessary. The FTPA wasn't meant to change this, but unfortunately I don't think anyone thought through the game-theoretical consequences of the mechanisms it created.

We've basically ended up with a situation where instead of the ruling party manipulating the timing of elections, we have a majority of MPs manipulating the timing of the next general election in order to ensure the current government - who they do not support - is at the maximum disadvantage. (As others have said, the next election will almost certainly happen long before its fixed schedule.)
How about a dossier detailing how Spiegel managed to piss on 85% of world-wide mobile users?

You cannot recover from something like that no matter how many times you rewrite your app.
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> 30 years might be enough to become a popular retreat from technology. They just need proper online marketing.

Was the contradiction between these two sentences an actually intended stylistic device ("retreat from technology" vs. "proper online marketing")?
What an ugly site.
Practically there isn't much to prepare for for the first few months. Feeding, pooping, sleeping, clothing and bathing are the main things to deal with. Make sure you are comfortable with your pediatrician, a good one will tell you to call whenever, especially during the first few weeks/months.

Saying that, its exhausting. Beware of the baby blues, in both you and your partner.

The only piece of advice that stuck with me was "be patient, laugh often". At certain difficult times that became my mantra.
at the same time, i don't know how comfortable i feel about incentivizing ad distribution companies to become more stealthy.
It is always entertaining when the 'newspaper of record' shames other publications for their mistakes and failings.
Good presentation
> That right there is a scandal

I agree with that. No government should ever give itself legal power to withhold scientific information from the public that funded it. In practice that's making life hard for journalists and other scientists and in principle it's a sign of authoritarian tendencies.
wow even a 16 year old can see that capitalism won't resolve it's own contradictions, nor will it suddenly start cleaning up after itself. Or at any rate, if it does it will likely take the form of our current recycling efforts -- being sent to China to be incinerated, fuelling an efficient market driven system of incinerator design
Why four weeks? Surely you could have reached a similar conclusion in a day, or less? Or did you learn anything in that time that couldn't have been learnt in a short burst of unprotected internet activity?
I'd always assumed publishers _were_ doing this already. If not, whence the whining and chagrin over low rent "bloggers" somehow not being comparable to deal authors and journalists?

I realize this isn't as widely held a view as it was 10-20 years ago, but bloggers used to be looked at with disdain, untrustworthy because of the lack of reputability that came with published materials.

This makes me further question whether there was much gatekeeping at all even before this fake news, post truth era.
You're conflating 'no content at all' and 'cutting 95% of the Internet'. Honestly there's so much stuff out there that you wouldn't even notice even if 99.9% of the Internet content were removed overnight. There are always people somewhere willing to create content without serving you ads. This much content, however little (in proportion to the rest) should be enough to satiate anyone's needs. Who needs the rest.
I know we don't want to see / hear ads. But at the same time, these ads on the podcast are making livelihoods/income for those content creators and If we strip that off of them, saying I don't like ads but hey I do like your content. Where do you think we can have the line?
This is a June 1999 article. Didn't realize it till I was halfway through the article.
What's your reasoning on running it on a VPS as opposed to a raspi on your local network?
Also the stochastic nature of the processes involved would seem to allow for some shortcuts in simulation.
There's a men vs women trope of trying to solve the problem vs actually listening. I suspect it actually applies a lot to these situations.

Once someone's to that point, they either don't want you to help - or don't think they want you to help. If they believed it could be fixed they wouldn't be in this situation. But no-one wants to die alone, so you can offer them someone to listen.
An emotional address by an inspiring young climate activist, to which the president of the United States of America, a man with considerable power and influence, responds: „She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”

The world is looking rather bleak today.
Is it me or is there a worryingly large amount of these kinds of posts. Where people feel tired, lost or straight out depressed.

I don't see this that often on designer or some other professional forums.

I am not complaining, I am just worried is there some underlying problem with this profession? We are worried about technical debt accumulates in our codebase, we might forget about social debt that accumulates in our life.
You're not in charge of deciding what's inappropriate or not.

Talking about dicks is inappropriate, but if you are an urologist speaking with other urolgy students, it makes perfect sense.

Stallman was writing to other students about the correct representation of the Minsky situation, because they were using Minsky's name in an inappropriate way to protest against MIT-Epstein case. (Unless you think that accusing a dead person without proof is alright)

His entire life has been devoted to finding the precise combinations of words to express what he wanted to say, in the most exact possible manner.

Can you blame him for doing what he did best, among his peers?

I blame the weapon builder who felt triggered and accused him of something he did not do.

> you can think about how women are just pieces of meat all you like

Pathetic...

Nobody ever said that.

You're embarrassing yourself.
Reading Twitter today I'm ashamed of how many people are commenting negative things about her and her work. Say what you will about the cause, but how brave do you have to be to be able to stand up and speak your heart to world leaders and to be a focal point of hate from political pundits and not back down? Certainly far more courage than I had at that age, or even have now.
I thought about it, but if I cite sources, I will be citing racist people. Not something people enjoy reading.

But you can find the same discourse in most famous racists of the world, at least currently living.

If I have to cite a source, Tommy Robinson (here comes the downvotes) constantly talks (and breaks) about the omerta surrounding the trials he reported on, which made that the rape gangs could proceed for so long with so few hindrances. Go through the list of people recently suppressed from Youtube and you’ll find the same (unadressed) logic.

Concerning root events, they are often private, so you have to know the person personally. But go ask around you when people became racist, they’ll often tell you one specific event. It’s interesting to go interviewing an enemy.
> the flying 200m speed record is 133km/h

Todd Reichert achieved over 144km/h in a Sep 2016 record (almost flat; average down-slope under 2/3 %)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22946/human-pow...
Beautiful? There's a reason why it got the name, it looks like a trashcan. And the old mac pro is filled with garbage(how fitting, right?). If it was any good then apple would have stuck to it, but it was garbage, so they didn't.

Now we have the new mac pro, and it's a big step up from the trashcan.
Not sure what kind of intellectual property is right for you?
Not sure about "mantrap", but I could imagine "stunner" and "looker" in the pages of a magazine article - A red-carpet celeb photo "Jane doe looking stunning! And with her hubbie - what a looker!".

I guess the problem with things like "microeconomist" are that other tags such as "fireman" might be valid (if a picture contained clues about vocation, for example) - furthermore, rather than condemn the label, we might instead consider not demonising a neural net, and taking its results at face value; in this case an indication that most labelled micro-economists in the dataset are suited white men.
How does it value that time as nothing?
Well, it's especially in those situations that you need institutional controls to forbid the logically correct choice.

After all, you don't really need a law telling companies they aren't allowed to hire infants as senior officers - it's already not in the company's interest to do so.

However, when there is a logically correct but politically incorrect decision that the company could make, it is now that you need laws to prevent the company from taking that choice.

Of course, as the weight of an institution's decisions goes down, so does the need to police its actions. In particular, it is rarely necessary to prevent an individual person from acting on their biases.

Applying this to your example, if we had an AI that should suggest your best route home, and it avoided a short route through a bad neighborhood, that is likely ok. However, if a municipality used the same AI to decide where to prioritize changing street lights, that should be prohibited.
I would say this is also false, having driven in India (Maharashtra). It may appear that Indian traffic is anarchy, but there are definitely unwritten rules that most people follow, and native drivers are very aware of how to drive in India. I currently live in Germany, and I follow German road rules - which also happen to be the rules enforced by the state. Just because western style road rules are not being followed, doesn't mean that the drivers are not following any rules at all. /anecdote /opinion /disclamer etc
Seemed like a reasonable period of time. I got to see what the difference was on different devices including desktop, laptop, tablet and phone.

I also got to see how they were affected for work, study and play over weekends and weekdays.

I did notice I started to wait longer for pages to load with the ad's so that I would not accidentally click on them while they loaded in. That and I got generally annoyed by the web experience in general.
No true Scotsman ever killed people!
it's about users being able to control information flow on their own devices in whatever way they want. the privacy concerns are secondary.
Ah nice. I looked at this board a couple of months ago, and all indications I could find then was that the FPGA was not directly programmable. Good to see that's not the case.
To be fair, if free software can restrict it's redistribution in closed devices, why not in cases where the use restricts user freedoms one step more indirectly?
Unfortunately it doesn’t at this point I don’t believe. But as another comment mentions, there is a nice api. Another option would be to create a bash script and create a php page with a form to add a domain to whitelist. I do something similar to whitelist ip’s for dns in iptables. Pi admin uses php so it’s already installed and working.
My favourite Estonian pun is a pink bench. Pink means bench in English :)
“But why should I object to that term sir,” she says. “See, in our century, we’ve learned not to fear words.”
Take a closer look at that feeling. If you're not comfortable with what they're trying to do, but also not comfortable with trying to mitigate it, as it'll only incentivize them to do worse - then how comfortable are you with them existing?

The problem is ad distribution companies here and now. The problem won't be gone until they're gone.
It's a cool technical achievement, sure. But as a listener of many podcasts I do not support this at all. I love that podcasters can make a living or at least a little money while I listen for free.
Quantum computing for the very curious [1] has been very useful to me, for getting at least a basic idea as to what exactly a quantum computer is, what a qubit is, and how they are manipulated.

[1] https://quantum.country/qcvc
Can I try to convert you? Great! Thanks for your implied consent. Here goes:

The "One" god of Christianity comes more from Neoplatonism than Judaism. The Neoplatonic Oneness, which was washed out in various times in Christian history, is fully commensurable with contemporary science. Oneness can be experienced as the common mystical experience of "we are all one, man!" But for Neoplatonists, it only made sense that the ineffable and impossible to fully understand "One" was the origin of the universe and the basis of divinity.

This notion of Oneness is different from typical conceptions of the one god as a person. It is not. To understand true, original Christianity, one must reject the idea of personhood -- god isn't a person (and actually, neither are we--it's just a useful illusion)

In a nutshell: in the beginning of time, there was the Oneness and the emanation from the Oneness, which was known as the Logos. It makes sense here to think big bang: the whole universe in a single point. But from there, the emanations, the logos built everything else. The emanations can return to the Oneness through the creation of new wholes and harmonies (think molecules, stars and solar systems -- onenesses made of parts). This wholeness/harmony is the source of divine goodness. Here's the Christian part: when a person believes in the Logos they have eternal life because they recognize that their life is part of the eternal Logos.

That's what Christianity was to early church fathers like Origen or Clement. I forgot to mention -- Jesus was described as the incarnation of the logos.

Fun fact: Logos is equivalent to "Dao" in Daoism.

So, How'd I do? Are you more open now to the mysteries of Christianity?
why `maybe`

XCode's codebase is a mess
The general consumer has never experienced a recumbent ride. If they had, they would find the recumbent more comfortable on longer rides.
Most languages other than English do better.

If English is not your native language "free speech" is also a confusing phrase.
What's a good way to handle ssh and tmux, if I'm already in a tmux session in my desktop?

I'm in a tmux session in my desktop. Then I ssh into a server from within tmux. I want to start tmux to be able multiplex and detach from some tasks. What do?
> There's no practical difference between the two in terms of licensing.

Isn't it the case that (a) there could be / are open source projects with extremely restrictive licensing which totally prevents all distribution. I.e. a "copyright": you can still read and run the software and modify it for yourself, as long as you don't distribute it, and (b) such a project could never be "free" sensu Stallman?
huh .. to the point of changing what groups a user is in (or corrupting the local user info).
Thanks for the comment!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnoideae [Duckweed]
Stop making Hacker News a political news website. Do not repeat Slashdot's mistake!
Netflix is basically sticking $4 billion a year in bonds at this point.

That's not necessarily a problem today. Debt is cheap. But they do have to slow that down at some point through lower spending or increased revenue, and if the cost of debt suddenly skyrocketed in the meantime, which is not impossible, that would be a big problem for them.
all fair points except that as you said the price has already been paid, cancelling now wouldn't return the time nor money spent, companies that made the move to amsterdam, paris or frankfurt won't just go back, etc.
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How brave do you have to be to be invited to a place where everybody already knows what you are going to say and they are going to ignore you anyway?

This is just the media circus of the month. Well, it's even worse because it's a repeat of the two kids from "March For Our Lives". Boring.
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I switched to Adobe Premiere under Windows 10 with NVIDA 2080 for accelerated rendering and have been very satisfied.
Due to spurious correlations, it could still be helpful for the insurance assessor so that they can use bias mitigation techniques. Otherwise, it might learn something about zip code or something else that leads to a similar outcome as having race as an input variable. Just removing a sensitive variable does not suffice for preventing unwanted bias.
she seems to be enjoying the attention (which is odd for an autistic person) , and inevitably she will receive a lot of abuse. It's not very responsible for the media to promote an underage person so much
Also nim came first, also, rust and go aren't even targeting the same use cases. Rust is for performant systems coding or webasm with far fewer footguns than c or c++. Go is for back end software with less cruft or boilerplate or latency than java but about the same throughput as java. It sounds like nim is "i just wan to get this working but I'm worried python wont run fast enough."
> trying to plan a future for podcasts wherein it will be harder/impossible to skip the ads.

Aren't most podcasts selling flat rate slots to run ads?

Example: Company A gives podcast author $X amount of dollars to run a 30-60 second ad in their 1 hour podcast.

If all 10,000 listeners don't listen to the ad then the podcast author still gets the same amount of ad revenue.

My thought process on that is, if I begin to hear an ad on a podcast and it's for something I didn't plan to buy anyways, then I will skip the ad by fast forwarding within 3 seconds. But if a solution existed where I couldn't do that then I wouldn't end up making the purchase by listening to the ad. I'd probably switch the podcast off for something else until the ad played out and that comes with the risk of me not going back to the podcast because I found something more interesting.
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>> wow even a 16 year old can see that capitalism won't resolve it's own contradictions

While this is basically true, I haven't heard of any other system of organizing a society that has.
It's the double standard hypocrisy that's troubling many. You're either a publicly funded medium that doesn't run on ads or you're not. Currently, my impression is constant corporate sponsorship designed to make said corporations look good with pauses to raise more money from the public. During the pauses the sponsorship ads don't run so you feel like you are the sponsor.