skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can an EC-135 escape the US’s own best air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles† being launched in a single mass-bombardment toward it with full penaids, by craft running the US’s best ECCM? Because, whatever they’re nominally flying, half the point of AF1 is aerial territory denial around the principal craft, so I’d assume they’re kitted out just for that task. Pretty hard to ram.

† Presumably, doctrine for a “Looking Glass” mission would have AF1 plan flight paths that bring them near still-executive-controlled surface missile batteries. Unsure if anything before a modern 5G craft could bring those batteries directly under its targeting control, though, rather than relying on the pilot making contact with living hands on the ground.
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You kinda need to go after the drone though. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/mass-surve...

With persistent surveillance, some will be reluctant to take up arms knowing the feds could capture you later at a time of their choosing.
Putting a name on something isn't enough to make one it's inventor

Pretty sure empathetic behaviors existed before anyone identified and conceptualized them.

Roses, names and all that.
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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Good points, I have tried to cover these things as much as I could so that I can cover insurance, pension, and a co-working space. I am more looking for the nitty-gritty part of it, regarding how they organize the agreement (contractually). I think I have found another post that shed some light on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18289932

Thanks again,

Valentijn
D'oh, for some reason I thought it was more of an analog like Taiwan.

So basically, they could say "No", but really there's nothing they can do
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I'm reasonably sure that we will not find a tiny hitler inside the packets of 6 guinea worms, but if is really there, we could choose just not follow it

The "not even wrong" argument is incorrectly applied here. We are not talking of filosophy, this is biology so the idea that parasites can be useful is perfectly falsifiable. We can just do more research and find if something in this animal is useful (nothing prevent us to do this because, well... is not extinct).

We have many examples of parasites doing useful things before and the "99%" of species are still really poorly known, so that wouldn't be an impossible scenery.

Here is another humble and useless roundworm that fortunately nobody decided to extinct before 1960's:

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

From living in mudville streets to became a space survivor and genetic rockstar. Not bad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2992123.stm
yeah, similiar experience. I've got a play 3 and the think it's quite a pain. I would never buy a sonos or recommend it to anyone, it's a poorly supported walled garden which only introduces features to the newer speakers and is not even working that well.
The police in Sweden is trained to shoot to maim, but only in somewhat controlled situations, such as someone wielding a knife approaching officers from a distance. First warn verbally, then fire a warning shot, then fire at the legs.

When there is no margin left, fire to stop. (Which means in practice, often death.)

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I did it once at a startup I was working for. I used a Xilinx FPGA and did my own PCB design. I designed my own PCI state machine in VHDL.

Surely, if you look around enough you can find some kind of a development board at a reasonable cost.
Air strikes in Hong Kong? So the government would destroy the very thing they are attempting to keep from rebellion?
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Typically military people at a US base are not armed. MP's are but not regular military.
Copy-editing is just another wasteful business expense to be cut for increased profits. Journalism is profit-centric and copy-editors have been cut from the NYTimes, too.
> There's nothing a single individual can do to stop global warming. We need radical technological innovation to get out of this mess. Everyone needs to be encouraged to participate. Dividing ourselves into good and bad group over diets and lifestyles is waste of everyone's time.

I don't disagree with any of that except that encouraging diets amounts to "Dividing ourselves into good and bad group". It's also not an actual counterargument. I also happen to think economics and technology will be the drivers that push plant-based diets to the majority.

> One incorrect purchase or vacation by a vegan washes away a life time of good choices.

You're either minimizing the impact of diet or vacation like a Captain Planet villain.
> They created the market, but have been largely unable to capitalize on it.

There's a long history of this stuff happening in tech and other industries. It's often the 2nd or 3rd popular company that becomes dominant. Facebook is a classic example.

There was a great Harvard Business Review article critiquing the 'first mover advantage' which was the go-to strategy during the dotcom boom that highlighted this phenomenon. Most often the 'first mover' is just paving the way for the next guy.
This would be a perfect setup for remote work. Working from Hawaii, near people you love, overlooking some nice bay, working on independent taks. Way more attractive than working at FAANG, squeezed in noisy open-plan offices preventing one from getting those tasks done, then stuck in traffic and paying top prices for a single room with roommates.
If it was voluntary opt in then then you'd just click away once and that would be the sign that you didn't voluntarily opt in.

Voluntary opt in can work together with targeted ads:

- the customer can opt in to receive more relevant ads (hopefully). A note on the page with an explanation and a way to actively choose targeted would probably be OK with me and I guess some people would choose it.

- or the customer ignores the notice and get general or hopefully contextual ads

The current in-your-face-and-defaults-to-track-if-you-follow -the-defaults system however is not voluntary and not opt in IMO.
> They will hire him and deal with his antics for a few years, while he ruins more people's careers, then he will move on. Rinse and repeat.

He'll eventually be fired -- with a golden parachute, no doubt -- after reports of sexual harassing women emerge in the media. He'll go under the radar for a few months until the media storm and Twitter mob find something else. He'll reemerge in a new startup, promising to have changed after "much praying, reconciliation, and meditation," and move on. Rinse and repeat.
> In tests at the University of Ghent on the first prototype, our yokeless axial-flux motor reached efficiencies from 91 to 96 percent. And that was just the prototype.

Wouldn't one expect a prototype to be better than a mass produced unit? It gets individual care and can be optimized for the test.
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In Chrome, Google Assistant screen-scrapes and automates Fandango.com
Sonos sells speakers that don't have any alexa or google integration.
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Books not so much, maybe because there are many hundreds of years of output from which to choose. But, man, movies and TVs are that way for me (ignoring the obvious reboots from my childhood or teen years). A little from column A, a sprinkling of column B, and...yeah, I've seen this before, it just had a different title. What's the saying, nothing new has been written since Shakespeare?

I'll give the sites you recommend a whirl, thanks.
That doesn’t imply formal context sensitivity. Context-free grammars can easily be locally ambiguous, as in the case of a - character.
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Honestly, that's probably a hugely underappreciated factor that would make fighting a war like that even harder.

The CIA also has a document (sorry, I don't remember the name) detailing ways that civilians can sabotage efforts by doing things like holding extra meetings, etc.

I wonder if anyone would stay in the military to better thwart it.
I'm sorry, but you are absolutely delusional, or refuse to observe world events in history and going on right now. You need to stop looking at this emotionally and start using reason. Who killed more people, Stalin or all the US mass shooters combined?

Edit: He is delusional and his ideas aren't based on any understanding of current events or history.
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The US military is made up of Citizen Soldiers. Not clear that 'full dictator mode' would get anywhere.
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> it seems somewhat presumptuous to call these categorizations the "proper names" for the kinds of happiness

Maybe so, but all kinds generally fall into one or both of these kinds (there's grey area as there always is). My point though was to show that the author didn't even scratch the surface in examining what happiness is and because of that the article just seemed like filler.
The line is when you treat trans and nonbinary people differently from cis people.
"Wouldn't that literally mean that as soon as you're successful/make money you're not a punk anymore?"

That school of thought was definitely well-represented in the punk scene, although I don't subscribe to it. There was a strong streak of self-destructiveness in punk.

The money itself isn't really the point, it's more like what you do to get it. Punk was about DIY, staying raw & real. Graduating from independent labels & playing for the scene into major labels, college radio, and playing for the masses is pretty much the opposite of that. That's when Green Day moved on from their roots.

I'm not hating on them; I'd very likely have done the same thing in their shoes. It's just not punk.

OTOH, DKs, Minor Threat, Bad Religion... their members continued to make their way singing that Sinatra song (although happily not ODing on smack). They're a good example of how to do it.
This is hilarious. The first one that caught my eye was helping passengers leave and airplane.

Was this an ML project? This looks like the output of a very basic machine learning project.

The commentary here is the best part of this. As (un)valuable as this list may be, it definitely gets the wheels turning in your mind.
How about "Ricky Bobby?"[1]

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/
I'm completely sure the anti-vaxxers will find a way to scaremonger against this too. Alas, that movement is the result of ideological and sociological forces that are not going away. The only possibility is to suppress them lawfully and even that won't finish them off.
The Swedish police. They are allowed to shoot to kill, but in some circumstances (likely not a riot, but it's a case by case judgement) are instructed to aim for the legs.
Doesn’t the responsibility ultimately lay on consumer of said entertainment to ascertain this? Seems like the bigger problem we’re facing here is a mental health problem.
Throw regular parties at home with people you know outside from work. Don't talk shop.
> Most reporting is based on opinions, or is at least misleading in the sense that it tends to be reported from well defined perspective.

What do you mean by this? Most new organizations have a separate, opinion section.

Does your statement include the news department, too?
As a practical matter, of course we grant humans rights. If you're speaking philosophically, you would have to make the case that there is some morally relevant difference between humans and non-humans. I have yet to see anyone make a compelling case for that, but feel free to try.

You still haven't actually addressed anything I've said and declaring animals and plants are food is a descriptive statement, not a normative one.

And Granny was wrong.
Your first amazon link is for a product sold by Amazon.com and the second link (the hard drive itself) is being sold by a different merchant, so they are not comparable as the third party sellers have weird pricing for various reasons.
The only way this sort of training would work IMO would be with sociopaths or psychopaths who dont have the huge adrenaline jump from emotional attachment to other humans.
If there is a requirement that the head of the FSF is easily understood by ordinary people there can't be a head of the FSF. Ordinary people don't understand or care about software freedom. The acknowledgement of that was why the Open Source people split from the Free Software people back in the day. The best anyone can do is make arguments that are correct if someone takes the time to read and think through them. Stallman is that sort of person, and that is likely the sort of person who is going to be at the head of the FSF if they are effective and not just a vague cheerleader. This current 'scandal' is probably a sign that the Free Software movement will die and be subsumed into the Open Source world - anyone promoting freedom is going to be a radical.

In this case, I expect but don't have time to check that Stallman is using a very wide definition of coerced that captures most or all of whatever you are uncomfortable with and he is going to be technically correct on most if not all of his original points. That is completely in his style.

And more to the issue at hand, these are questions that are irrelevant to Stallman's position as head of the FSF or his role in MIT. He is not using his position to push pro-adultery themes. He is calling on people to think about what words mean and what the implications of those meanings are. People can't kick up a stink for something that happened 10 years ago and claim that nothing has changed. Stallman is perfectly happy to stand up and say that he's changed his mind on many points. A couple of lines on a personal website are just not that insightful into his character.

Also, whether alcohol or drugs should be available for consumption by anybody is still an open question. That is a different debate. Most of the arguments as to why a 10 year old shouldn't be drinking can actually be applied to a 40 year old. The major difference (brain development) is a big deal but there are a lot of other problems with addictive substances that are not age dependent. Why should it be acceptable for a 40 year old to drink but not a 10 year old? There are interesting aspects to consider there and to logically pin down the reasoning to a moral framework requires quite a bit of thought and probably discussion with others.
Part of it is just working the muscle. I've basically killed everything in my phone that notifies except for text messages and phone calls. And even those go quiet when I set it to Do Not Disturb.

From there it's about training. It's almost like meditation where the more you do it, the longer your stretches of focus can become and the more quickly you can click your brain into "reading more." To ease back in I found graphic novels were a great start. They accustom you to sitting still and getting absorbed into things.
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The flu vaccine is formulated each year to match the predicted strains expected to cause most human suffering that year. Influenza has a segmented RNA genome that makes it more likely to mutate and change its antigen expression. The flu vaccine saves a significant number of lives each year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Replication
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/news/flu-vaccine-saved-lives.htm

The shingles vaccine bolsters immunity towards the chicken pox virus so that even when depressed your immune system has enough T-cells against the virus that it does not reactivate. Shingrex is 97% effective at preventing shingles.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25916341
And this exchange exposes us to the fallacy of this argument in that it cannot be proved one way or another. One post says the reaction will be one way, the next asserts the opposite, and neither have relevant facts that can support their argument.
I agree we need to attack this problem, but is another proprietary service to connect via proprietary APIs to your other proprietary services really the best answer? This looks like even more complexity than before (when something breaks, who do I go to for help?), except now I'm paying yet someone else to stand between me and my data.

We didn't get where we are today, in any field, using this approach. We don't have 30 different measurement systems, and a company whose job it is to coordinate conversions between them. We don't have 30 different text file encodings (any more!), and a company whose job it is to automatically convert them as necessary. We say: here's the standard, and now you can use it or be ostracized in the market.

If writing custom adapters to interface with GitHub/GitLab/Jira/... is anything other than a temporary solution, while you work on some grand plan to get issue-trackers all on the same page, then it's just a money-grab on the road to failure. Someone will cut off API access, or drive up your costs, or refuse to offer an API, and users will be stuck with "one command center (for the 3 most popular services they use), plus 3 oddballs", and it's just not going to be worth the hassle.

It's a band-aid. Normally you stick a band-aid on something that will heal itself, and then rip it off tomorrow. This particular problem is getting worse. This is a very pretty band-aid, but you've applied it to a sucking chest wound.
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Can you hand it off to be notarized and then end that job, and have a hook to pick up when that's done?
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