skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 6) Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired.

So I've never worked at a company over 150 people. Is this... a normal thing for an email? Maybe I'm just one of those softies but an email with that line would throw me off my day and cause a serious hit to my morale and confidence of working there.
It's much easier to mount a "resistance" with a few unregistered and unregulated guns in every household than not.

The US military is very good at wreaking havoc in places where you can just crusie-missle a square kilometer and not have any problems. That becomes difficult domestically: you can't just arbitrarily wipe your own cities off the map cause, you know, those cities are the ones who generate you income/GDP and have your actual population in them. There's no point in being a dictator of a wasteland.
The article's phrasing of "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history" is accurate.

I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Practically no one knows about these massacres. People think the sum total of racial violence after the war is what they've seen in the media: some civil rights protests, and a couple of lynchings by the KKK.

Acknowledging a thing, and then rejecting its significance is called lip-service. In America, we give a lot of lip-service to history, but we don't really accept it, or confront it.
I think that's generous. Yesterday several people were fervently arguing that discriminating in job advertisements against protected classes should be fine because it may be "more efficient". Talk about unintended consequences...
I would define "heretical" as "risky to talk about" - as in people will target you; Things that people simply dislike talking about are more "unpopular" or "perverse".
Oh, you're going to love this[1]:

> "Ladran, luego cabalgamos" ("They bark, therefore we ride") or "Ladran, Sancho, señal que cabalgamos" ("They bark, Sancho, sign that we ride") is also atributed to the book but it actually comes from Goethe's 1808 poem Kläffer ("Barker"; obviously, without the interjection of "Sancho": :But their strident barking / is only a sign that we ride"). In its stock phrase version, it's used to say that an attack from one's enemies over a recently taken action is a sign that you are doing the right thing. There is an even more insulting version, "Ladran, señal que son perros" ("They bark, sign they are dogs").

[1]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/DonQuixote
Why is alibaba not in there?
You can get much cheaper plans in the U.S.

Mint [1], is $20/mo for unlimited data (throttled after 8GB), using the T-Mobile network. You get a discount for committing to a time period such as 1 year.

Visible [2] is $40/mo for "unlimited everything" (data, calls, text). This is Verizon's low-cost product on their own network.

Simple [3] is $40/mo for 15 GB, also using T-Mobile. You're throttled to 2G after that, though.

These are MVNOs, which are resellers that don't own their own networks. Traffic is deprioritized compared to the parent network's "native" customers. In practice, you might not notice at all, depending on how you use it. Deprioritization really only happens during congestion. During rush hour on the NYC subway might be a time you'd be affected, for example.

[1] https://www.mintmobile.com

[2] https://www.visible.com

[3] https://www.simplemobile.com
The suggestion that this has anything to do with tyranny or dictators is ridiculous as well. The US has a long and consistent record of supporting hideously repressive Islamist monarchies like Saudi Arabia, and it is clear that they do not actually care about democracy or freedom in practice.
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This article is written as if we don't already know if Alexa (and its competitors) are the next big computing platform. We already know it isn't.

Alexa first came out in 2014. If it was the world changing product that people said it was going to be it would have spawned multiple billion dollar companies by now. Much like smartphones led to Uber.

Amazon can keep pooping out Alexa into 15 new products every year. Google will copy them because they don't actually know what a good product is but they're the internet company version of Samsung, a fast follower, so they'll do it because they're competitor focused and just in case it takes off.

None of that will change that this product category isn't going anywhere.
Even ethno-nationalism isn't quite right. After all, my country split off along ethnic and linguistic lines, based on explicit justifications that the land belongs to our 'kin'. But all without any appeals to supremacy, national or ethnic (at least, such appeals didn't have much traction), and other ethnic groups living here were granted citizenship just like everyone else, and even special representation by guaranteed seats for minority groups in parliament.

What you're describing could maybe be called ethnic hate/supremacism?
Remember the Boston Massacre:

> The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most significant events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British Parliamentary authority. John Adams wrote that the "foundation of American independence was laid" on March 5, 1770, and Samuel Adams and other Patriots used annual commemorations (Massacre Day) to encourage public sentiment toward independence. Christopher Monk was the boy who was wounded in the attack and died in 1780, and his memory was honored as a reminder of British hostility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre#Contribution_t...
Well, with this topic I am getting far from Stallman, who if we assume is on the autistic spectrum is quite a bit different from my experiences with delusional people or psychotic disorders.

But if you've ever argued with a delusional person, they don't give up their beliefs easily. Frequently what happens is they'll turn it on you. So if I say, "you're making those women uncomfortable", he'll argue and say there is a problem with me, that I am too prudish or jealous of his romantic success. And they get very angry and obsessive about being confronted.

I don't know what it'd be like for 20 or 50 people to question these beliefs, but 10 definitely won't convince him. And with the nature of this complaint, a lot of time people are either too polite or too scared to tell him. It seems to me though, the best way to get it to sink in for him is an atypical antipsychotic.
Deplatforming will only work in the short term. Eventually you deplatfom large enough populations that they either create their own platforms or someone sees a business opportunity in providing one for them. Except now on the platforms designed to cater just to them, your voice will be censored just as you gleefully censored their voice. Unless you want to go full authoritarian the trend of deplatforming anything you disapprove of will eventually lead to worse outcomes.
Am worried about China imploding(relatively soon) due to their totalitarian system deleting feedback loops and accelerating negative ones.
Similarly, I usually install ExtraPutty, because I need xmodem support.

Still grateful for Simon Tatham's work. Did you know he also made a great collection of puzzles?
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Army Active Duty 472,047

Army National Guard 345,153

Army Reserve 219,054

I believe a significant number of soldiers also only do 4 or 8 years and then return to civilian life, they aren’t a permanent military class like the Roman legions or whatever. As you mention a lot depends on what you consider a “citizen soldier” though.
Look up "donglegate".
'Yarvin's opinions have been described as racist, with his writings interpreted as supportive of slavery, including the belief that whites have higher IQs than blacks for genetic reasons... [He] has argued that some races are more suited to slavery than others. "It should be obvious that, although I am not a white nationalist, I am not exactly allergic to the stuff," Yarvin wrote.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Yeesh.
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Happy Hacktoberfest-2019
> They intend to realize George Orwell's 1984.

With advancements in technology (particularly machine learning), I'd say more like a cross between 1984 and Minority Report. E.g. https://mashable.com/2017/07/24/china-ai-crime-minority-repo...

It doesn't get much worse than thought-pre-crime.
I called it years ago: Medium is a magazine with unpaid writers and editors. It was a roach motel to bait everyone into putting their content there with a pretty UI and then paywall it.
That's kinda like saying being orphaned isn't disruptive because orphans exist, though.

Brexit's more akin to what would happen if Quebec seceded.
Ah yes, the great music towers of 2020. What a time to be alive.
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They didn't say it mattered, they said they were curious.
How do services talk to each other without an API? Is it something like "put a non-well-documented object into a queue?"
The HTMLRewriter API Beta in Cloudflare Workers
And yet it always seems to be the stupid old ideas that crop up. Sometimes in a good disguise, sometimes in a thin disguise.

Is Milo Yiannopoulos onto this yet?
'I got the guy ' My 17-year manhunt for a $50m art criminal
It doesn't have to equal hermit-ude but it does require work to avoid it. Social media is great for making low friction contact between people.
That's not my experience (I've loved punk for decades, have played in punk bands, etc.).

There is a pretty strong reverence for the roots and evolution of punk among, at least, the musicians who make the music. I recommend reading Our Band Could Be Your Life for a really wonderful biographical snapshot of some of America's most important punk bands (it spans late 70s to early 90s, through the stories of a handful of the most influential/interesting bands), and the ties that bind them to earlier and later punks.

There may be a subset of fans that don't care about the historical context, but it's not what defines "punk". Collecting (45s, stickers, patches, zines, posters, etc.) has always a big part of punk culture.

And, the fact that punk bands can reform after a couple of decades and tour and even make new records and have some success even among younger audiences seems to indicate there's people valuing that history. e.g. The Pixies, Mission of Burma, Black Flag, The Stooges, have all had success in recent years, after being dormant for decades. Of the shows I've seen in this category, there's always a pretty good mix of old-timers like me, who are there partly out of nostalgia, and younger folks who weren't even alive when those bands were first doing their thing.
> Let's say you successfuly blind people in a nutrition study (is this possible?)

What blinding do you need for all-cause mortality? Do you think people are lying on the form where the coroner says they are dead?

> How do you ensure they're following protocol? For how long? And who is adhering? How do you know you're manipulating what you think?

Every single problem here is far, far, far worse for all those observational studies you cite.

> Observational studies aren't perfect but they do have advantages

Their only advantages are that they make it cheap and easy to get the wrong answer precisely and churn out lots of papers and meta-analyses. Fortunately, here we have the more expensive, hard, but correct results. Guess what the second set of results say?

> We have plenty of experiments in animals for example and those arent much more interpretable, at least in nutrition.

Indeed. Because most nutrition research, especially the ones based on correlational results, are wrong. That's why the randomized experiments aren't 'interpretable': because the theories are wrong. You will indeed have trouble "interpreting" the results which keep showing all the theories are wrong. This is a feature, not a bug.
Yep, I agree 100%.

It's all just tribal bs -- mostly via imprinting -- very few people actually care about genuine principles or have nuanced takes on issues.
Tell that to Syria.
Boris Johnson is like the mesothelioma of UK politics. He just looks seems like the kind of guy who buys real estate while playing online gambling on viagra. He's only interested in fast cash. He desperately needs advice but isn't going to get my free consultation. Maybe he can use a gift certificate though. Hopefully he accepts credit cards for this limited time offer. Operators are standing by.
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What's even sadder is that he cites an instance of the government murdering nonviolent protestors as a reason citizens should not have guns.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/11772741326748...
I'm usually not a huge fan of the US rolling in and stomping out governments (and installing their own, of course), but this is one faux-dictatorship where it sorely needs to happen. Some actual democracy would be amazing for these people.

With the recent "trade war" and whatnot the stage has been set pretty well for a US intervention.
Chrome UI for Deprecating Legacy TLS Versions
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296 man, it's like not even worth this reply.
Language Acquisition without Speaking and without Study (2014) [pdf]
What would make this for more useful is to have a list of even mildly _validated_ ideas, even by showing that there are existing competitors or a market for it. Or pointing to a gap where it exists.

Validation is the first step to product market fit.
CSS Turing Machine
According to the article, Nigeria has about 500 distinct ethnic groups.

And I guess the biggest problem is not so much getting samples for the DNA, but rather to link it to phenotype data. And that will be highly country-specific.
I mean, the major difference is that with the Afghanistan, the US troops just get to return back home after fighting in the disaster that Afghanistan has become. I think it would be a bit more different when you have nowhere else to come back to, other than the place you just unsuccessfully destabilized and ravaged.
Congrats on being that guy!
Being Attacked at Gunpoint Helped Me Understand Conservatives
I usually recommend Termite to people

https://www.compuphase.com/software_termite.htm
No, that's not at all what this is about. A better one-sentence summary would be "Accurate data can be very misleading if, for example, it's viewed at the wrong level of granularity."
Apple Maps is looking better than ever, but it still has a long way to go
> Agree with your post, the amount of thimerosal (Hg-based preservative) made it a non-issue in vaccine safety.

Any insights on why it has been banned from childhood vaccines since 2001? (see. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index....)
Companies will bend or break a lot of rules for unique individuals that they want/need. But that doesn't apply to the vast majority of their employees including even fairly senior technical staff. Heck, plenty of the big tech employers are still generally resistant to remote work at all although they're slowly relenting in at least some cases.

I stand by my assertion that very few large employers ignore location when it comes to salary offers.
Can confirm, saying "Je suis pleine" after a meal is a rather natural (but quite informal) way of saying "I'm full". Only if there were a lot of extra context would it be interpreted as "I'm pregnant".
How about a bit of both? I definitely value my deep personal relationships, which are few, but log in to Facebook every couple of weeks or so. I also get the occasional invitation through Facebook.
Dallas jury convicts ex-police officer who fatally shot neighbor
The American Revolution wasn't a citizen uprising, it was a local-government uprising it did rely on citizen militias against professional soldiers, but those citizen militias were the regular security forces of the local governments, which also the central government relied on for local security in routine cases, not counterbalances to them. That's the model the second amendment attempted to preserve, but even with the RKBA alive that model was progressively abandoned and it's last significant remnants were retired decades ago.

And even with that, the American Revolution relied on backing from one of the top two European powers at the time to succeed.
I'm familiar with "donglegate." Care to elaborate your point?
I'm not disagreeing with you over the difference in skill/training/etc. The Viet Cong and Taliban are obviously superior than the average American citizen. But I doubt that their respective victories were because of their military prowess. They turned the battlefield into an un-winnable game by requiring the military to effectively destroy the country in order to win. By the time the superior military wins, there's very little value left. War isn't just a game of who has the bigger guns and better soldiers.

If we descend to such a state where an American president is (a) willing to completely annihilate the population, (b) can either bypass congress or get their approval to do so, and (c) can mobilize our military to perform the annihilation, then perhaps your point is correct.

I wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that.
My understanding is the lions share of data science work is integration and cleaning the data, both of which are unbounded UI problems.
I highly recommend the Bitvise SSH Client[0] for anyone looking for more features and (I believe) a better interface.

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Mobatek's MobaXterm is a truly superior product:

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Ensuring all citizens got a great education would do so much more than guns to prevent tyranny. Especially since most forms of power and dominance are subtle and maintained through law, propaganda, systems of communication, and with economic power.
> “heretical” by modern left wing “cancel culture” standards.

So it will be the usual modern alt-right people pushing the same bad old ideas in new disguises then.
Everyone has ideas, but not everyone has good ones.
Precisely my thought process when giving up FB. Sure I'll miss the timeliness, but when I hear the great news or even bad news, I can be there with my friends to celebrate or empathize in person. Quality over quantity.