skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giant concentrations of not reinvested money are destabilising. Especially if companies are also allowed to run political campaigns. Arguably retained profits taxation should be higher than shareholder payout taxation to encourage either reinvestment or return to shareholders.

(Note that large categories of shareholders are in pensions or other tax-sheltered vehicles that don't pay capital gains!)
You only run that when starting a new project, right? So no existing projects would break when it's actually removed, because they'd never run it again.
You might want to consider ganeti. It works great from the command-line. There is a GUI for it as a separate project, but I've never used it. I've been running ganeti in dev/stg for 6-7 years and production for around 4, and it's been extremely solid.

As far as running bash commands at first boot, in ganeti I have customized their "create" script to include a bash script that installs some packages, clones our Ansible setup, and then runs Ansible to set the machine up. We respin our entire staging cluster every other day (even machines one day, odd the next).

http://www.ganeti.org/
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Here is a paper where they had users training a bot to follow request (given in natural language) of increasing complexity to accomplish task in a simulated environement :

https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mastering...
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I didn’t know those little plastic things had such a cute name
I don't have access to the article, and there really isn't anything given in the abstract to actually link the change in body size to global warming. I hope the article does a better job than "warmer temperatures are expected to reduce bird size and here are a bunch of bird species which have gotten smaller over the last 4 decades, therefore climate change."
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Payment card-skimming malware targeting 4 sites found on Heroku cloud platform
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> Firefox is awesome.

it is doing great now, but lost a great deal of marketshare precisely because it was a slow, bloated mess

> FF dev tools are awesome.

debatable. chrome hot code replace in debug is a great asset. mounting a local workspace to synchronize changes is situational, but when you can leverage it it's great. firefox code view's "find in files" only search linked javascript, chrome search everywhere so it can catches references in inlined javascript

I work with both regularly, for personal usage I prefer firefox, for the obvious implications, but I find a lot less friction in developing using chrome.
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I suppose my feeling is that this is the same kind of reductive reasoning behind the "same thing, both sides" mentality of American politics.

Candidate A: Multiple accusations of bribery, frequently posts racist/sexist/Anti-Semitic/Islamophobic memes on his Twitter account, and sponsored multiple pieces of reprehensible legislation during his tenure in office.

Candidate B: Refuses to tip more than 10%, ever.

One seems objectively worse than the other, and yet the average voter gets to say, "Oh, well since they're both bad in some way, I can vote for Candidate A with a clear conscience because I like his views on X."
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Serious question: what else those websites are supposed to do (that AMP does not provide) with all those megabytes of scripts?

Newspapers display a text and an image and very rarely an interactive content(Election day maps and charts, mostly).

Is there a reason FROM USERS PERSPECTIVE to have different website codebase for each publisher?

For years the Web community kept creating new JavaScript libraries every day and all these web libraries were about providing a different way to do the same thing. No one ever created anything for the users, in fact, AMP is the first web technology that improves the user experience. It's loading fast and not too much stuff happens to display a text and an image.

Web people are mad at Google and I think they should be but all this happens because the web publishers refuse to compete on User Experience. They all optimize for the clickbitiest title or controversial topic and Google came and steamrolled their publishing tech.

I can't really blame Google for this one, you can check it out - I am critical of Google but I am more critical of the news business or the web tech community that optimized for very bad KPI that destroyed democracy, made web unpleasant and are now crying because of someone demolished their low-quality business.

From USERS PERSPECTIVE, AMP is a godsend. You can quickly view and skim low-quality content. The alternative is slowly viewing and skimming low-quality content.

It seems like the web technologists are unaware that they are dealing with real human beings, optimizing blindly for page views and CPMs.

AMP is Youtube for written content. A strealined conent delivery platform prioritizing UX that the publishers failed to create themselves all these years.
Actually, it was pretty nasty during periods of US prosperity.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog
Brave is a good browser too. You can run your add-ons there.
> At least they are very open about their biases: they promote a view that the solution to all ills is lower taxes and less regulation.

That's a (common) caricature of The Economist's views. Their actual policy proposals are quite a bit more nuanced than that, and often call for taxes and regulation.

As one datapoint, note that in the last four US presidential elections, they've endorsed the Democratic candidate (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance... ).
From a purely philosophical standpoint, Mozilla has always been the browser of "choice". Its humble beginnings never included "world domination"... and Firefox was an extraordinarily bold attempt to unseat IE. Chrome did a lot of good things in the beginning. It brought web standards to the forefront. The past few years though, the same old tired story has played out. Company gets too much market share, and subsequently believes they should own/police/decide the future of the web. In the case of Google, naturally, their motives for web "ownership/domination" are fiscally motivated. (I'm not saying this is wrong in regard to making money for their shareholders. I am saying that this often is not what's good for their average user) But that's the issue, they never promised they were doing this for "freedom" or any other reason.
Agreed, I particularly like the way each chapter dealt with a rank further up. Even if you have _no intention_ of going higher, seeing what they want from you and what they should be doing was immensely helpful and clarifying.
Ublock/adblock/abp/etc all still works in chrome
Multiple claims from XR and "He told me that the Guardian reporter had misunderstood him and that he had said, “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people or even half of that,” not “a billion people.”".

So XR + The Guardian. So it is very much in the article.
This website is barely usable on mobile. Slow, full of ads, and the entire page becomes dark as if a modal had been opened, yet it's nowhere to be found and closed. Won't read.
Yes but it’s missing decent graphics, sounds, animations, imagination... etc
They go to jail, unless they're rich (and haven't committed non-white-collar crimes).

For example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-revenue-kpmg-secret-...
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How about; stop putting profit over your customer's privacy?
How is it possible that people weren't held accountable for this? And how come the US government still hasn't tried to remedy the situation? Are those people going to be held in captivity with no charges until their death?
> Isn't the price like $12 a year? So prepaying 10 years would be $120? That's not an insignificant amount, but it's not like you're going to make a life-changing profit by investing it either.

For most people there aren't a lot of individual decisions that will cause you to make a life-changing profit on their own, but it's making little decisions again and again that adds up.

> Locking down [your-name].org for 10 years carries its own value proposition beyond the mere calculation of price today vs in the future.

The premise is that you're going to immediately migrate away from using the domain. Which means that any further use of the old domain just keeps you invested in it, and it's not worth a whole lot if you're not going to use it for anything.

There is also something to be said for minimizing the profits of the entity screwing you over, even if it's only by a little, because that adds up too.
Go-style methods and interfaces in a super-compact Pascal compiler
What about kubectl randomly hanging and some PLEG errors in the kubelet log?
> society hates unearned entitlements.

I'd say he spent 22 years earning it.
> A police officer can testify to statements you made or actions you took that will incriminate you. But if the defense counsel asks them to testify to similar statements or actions that will exonerate you, the prosecution will object to it as hearsay, and it will be sustained.

This sounds like an incredibly broad statement that, by its breadth alone, seems false. Do you have any/many examples of this happening? I would think this is an extremely common occurrence by your statement.
Seconded (on all counts). This is a really huge UI improvement to be able to see genre tag and quickly hear a sample. I like
eatwater123's idea of double click to expand, or perhaps just give the option to unexpand a node?
TSMC isn't a US company.
For ads at least, I'm pretty sure Google and Facebook are effectively paying 100% of that. As far as I know, their ad systems work on a bidding process and common wisdom is to bid the average profitability of a new customer * the conversion rate from those that click on your ad. Thus, as long as your bid wins out (you pay the second highest price) you will make money on each ad click.

This represents a case of perfectly elastic demand. No matter how taxes change, the price the advertiser is going to bid never changes and thus all taxes will be off burdened onto google and facebooks margin until obviously the point where the would lose money and then shut it off but that's unlikely to happen.

khan academy article on elasticity and tax revenue: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...
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How Big Pharma Is Abusing Free Speech Laws to Make Unverified Claims About Drugs
Thing is, I want a level playing field whether applying for jobs, insurance, health, you name it. A hidden bias is still a bias, and particularly hidden as so much machine processing and AI is a black box unknown even to the creators -- it just spits out (hopefully) helpful results.

I don't want a chilling effect on the next generation such that every party or moment of drunkenness can be held against them in job search. Every teen has moments of idiocy -- mine thankfully were not in the age of constant surveillance, and there wasn't a smart phone or CCTV in sight. Not much freedom to grow in a world where every worst moment goes viral, or gets you on one of the "next door" neighbourhood snooping apps. Where hanging around with friends on a street corner has old folks flagging suspicious behaviour. Give us all room to breathe. Interfere via authorities when you have genuine reason to suspect. No, I don't much like where we're headed and preferred the proposition before.

Totally agree on regulation, but it seems to be coming far too slowly -- globally.
No, we really do mean a "general anti-avoidance rule" (GAAR e.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-avoidance-gene...), because otherwise you end up in an endless loop of adjusting the rules against moving targets.

GAARs ultimately boil down to the question of "did you do this rather than a more obvious transaction structure simply to pay less tax", a sort of Occam's razor.

> dangerous the idea of somebody arbitrarily deciding what _legal_ option is okay or isn't okay on a case by case basis.

This happens all the time in precedent-based systems whenever something unclear is litigated. In some sense it's what the legal system is for, and it's the very opposite of arbitrary.
Ah, so the sandbox mode on github is what works for me. However, there is no link for it on the main page.

Regardless, I suppose I was mistaken on what the project was. I assumed it was like a WYSIWYG version of Lyx in the browser. You're still writing Latex with this.
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The reason Google has penalties for page weight and loading time is that they have extensive user research on customer behavior related to loading time. If a flat page studded with a few dozen giant PNG’s takes a minute to load, most people are going to click the back button.

It’s worth spending some time optimizing your landing page so that it loads fast and renders cleanly on mobile, if you want people to see your content. That doesn’t mean it has to use JS, or AMP.
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But these results are about in line with other CTC systems. The original Baidu paper [1] had 7.89% with original Deep Speech and 5.33% with "Deep Speech 2" where they threw more complicated networks at it and added another 11K hours of external speech traingin data.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02595v1.pdf
Agreed that it can be done but at a considerable cost. Translating every assignment into a function call is within what I didn't consider feasible from a practical point of view. The best research papers I saw on this topic proposed to pass an additional "ghost stack" as a parameters in every function call that is structured in a specific way so that roots are not "optimized away" by the compiler.
The overall trend is down but less of that is attributable to air pollution than in years past.

In the context of the story, People are living longer.
Will have a play around with this for my personal site. It will be interesting to see how easier/harder it is compared to LetsEncrypt
This audio segment from The Intercept is highly relevant and illustrative of how this all came to be.

My favorite sound bites are "In one e-mail with the subject 'Torture Update'", and "We will not be briefing the president on this".

At one point, the CIA and Senate had mutually filed criminal prosecution referrals against one another over the cover up.

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/04/george-bush-barack-obama...
looks like.
anybody knows where do they get the raw data from ? I had a brief look at Google's public APIs and the closest I could find was trends. However, they do label some charts with searches per month....
5x revenue is very good going in this sort of scenario
https://www.google.com/search?q=DMCA+1201
this seems to be just a copy-and-pasted article from the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-d...
Couldn't agree more. Read a couple of battle analysis by the USA army , which constantly compared decisions to what the decision should be accordingly to the USA army field manual to explain. You're absolutely right!
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> The whole "this is garbage and this company should make this in a way that we like" is really annoying when it is written in an authoritative tone and rallies a mob.

Don't your whole comment do the same? They are giving their opinion based on their preference. For sure it will be bias toward their goal, just like you want them to stop, so that your goal, keeping the statu quo, win.

I prefer repairability because I want to be able to repair my own things and not depends as much on others. I don't expect them to do it, but I will say it loudly so that people know that my market exist. I also consider that better for the society in general, thus I will also push the government to go toward that too, because I consider the government should work toward the society better. Does it means my position will win? No, but I still have the right to defends it, just like you have the right to defends yours.
Simply put, in America the military is a cult/religion, and almost anything done in the name of "national security" can be excused. Look no further than the Navy SEALs that had their charges dropped for war crimes - as long as they're on "our" side Americans don't really care what atrocities the military complex commits.
Interesting, this site doesn't even support TLS 1.1 and Firefox refuses to open it.
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It's already in the works. This is a post from May of this year.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-first-chrom...
How is it possible that people weren't held accountable for this?
Because they work for the government.

And how come the US government still hasn't tried to remedy the situation?
Because it's the government.

Are those people going to be held in captivity with no charges until their death?
Probably, because of the government.

Note: Nothing was done during Obama's tenure. Neither a Republican nor a Democrat government is going to do anything about this.
Recently I have been relying on two good sources for leadership:

- Book: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: I think this is an excellent book to teach the part of the brain that wants to execute to think more strategically and concentrate on the leadership side.

- Podcast: Modern CTO: This podcast has lots of interviews CTO's from all kinds of companies. It's pretty casual and entertaining but also seems to always motivate me to be a better leader.
If you have Android, deAMPify is great.

It seems to be abandoned, but still works for most sites.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.d...
This source document was linked in the above article, and I found it pretty interesting. "Interrogation of al Qaeda Operative"

It describes in some detail the apparently authorized techniques and levels of torture. There's also a section about how the Navy already has some history with using waterboarding.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/legacy/2010/...
Consumption is not buying a house, the consumption is living in it.
Edit: I'm sorry...it's time for charities to steal everything they can. I guess that's what time it is based upon all the downvoting.
NYC to ban paper receipts because of link to breast cancer and brain damage
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Shouldn't it be "diſcuſsion"? The ß character derives from ſs, after all.
Do those people travel on public roads?
The United States should be better than this, makes me sad to be American.
It is a scientific paper, not an "article". The abstract is pretty clear summarizing the findings and I'm not sure what you would otherwise expect from the abstract of a paper.

When I search for the paper's title, I found the full text on the third result https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/610329v1.full

edit: leaving as is but, "research article" or "paper", i was replying to the common usage meaning of "article". Anyway, my point about the abstract stands and the rest of the paper supports it well.
Zoneminder uses a lot of Perl still IIRC.
A monad certainly is not a container. None of the functional patterns are containers.
That's fine in theory but my aunt isn't praying to Monad or declining to get her kids vaccinated because Monad will protect them.
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I think "Team Geek" [0] is probably worth a mention in this light.

It's written in that infuriating cutesy techy-language that seems to infuse a lot of the "hipper" books of this genre but there really is some good advice in there.

FYI these are the guys that did Subversion, which was a pretty successful project for a while, back in the day. This same writing style pervades the SVN docs as well. Yeuch.

In the same vein, I also enjoyed "rework" by Jason Fried [1] though that's more about modern work, than purely management. Also kind of "hip" in style, but not so insufferable ;-)

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14514115-team-geek

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework
I don't particularly care to because I find it convenient.
?!

I'm genuinely curious why you chose this route.
What's interesting about France is the people who think they don't speak much less understand the local dialect - who think it's dead or dying - but then you actually record them talking to their children, and lo and behold, they're passing dialect on to their children.

Still, the descendants of emigrants who learnt the dialect of their parents can only understand the older generation, not their peers.
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> To be a good Philosopher is to understand the limits and dangers of language.

This is something I am keenly interested in - I'm going to dig into reification, but any other recommendations/links specifically related to the limits and dangers of language (&/or the related pitfalls inherent in human communication, and therefore perception) would be appreciated.
This is literally cut and paste plagiarized from the New York Times article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-d...
IIRC It's only 2 or 3 years ago (Not certain, but astonishingly recent) Australia was getting over 70% of power from coal, including a good proportion of lignite. Right down there with the worst, such as Poland. They've under-funded the grid for years, and belatedly rushed into solar at extreme speed.

Not surprising it brought consequences, they seem intent on approaching it really chaotically. :)
Exactly, use google amp and get higher rankings and it can increase your traffic by hundreds to thousands to millions. I hate it but its how it works
Yes, there are some simple Cyoa on Alexa.
Yep. Also, Booking.com is probably the most notable current Perl user.