skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hong Kong's GDP per capital was about 500 USD. China's was around 90 USD.

Also, the richest man there has been for quite a while (80s): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka-shing

If you want to rewrite history, get your facts straight :-)
What exactly is happening and how can you really say that the reality is now fascist? It sounds like you've already made the both-side-ism implicitly yourself.
Not for enterprise SEO or inbound marketing it isn't - I worked for part of Reed Elsevier we found 12-15% of link to the home page went to the "wrong" page.

You can recover a lot of value from recovering old links that would take a lot of effort to replace.
Shut out of bars, Seattle trivia startup Sporcle finds success on Zoom
Yes from what I heard having metabolic issues also is correlated with less development of antibodies after immunization.
Hit the "report tweet" button, just like people have been doing to Trump's tweets.
It's true that the president's writing here is characteristically vague. But right here in this one tweet he:

1. Introduces the military

2. Says he will assume control

3. Introduces the idea of shooting looters

Given that context, it's extremely difficult to concoct an interpretation where he's not saying he'll direct the military to shoot looters.

I mean, be serious here. Is your defense really that "The president's grammar was poor, so you can't prove he meant what he seemed to say". How many times are you going to try that trick? Wasn't it played out after he vaguely suggested injecting bleach?
That is a very misleading impression of VR, especially for developers who are assessing whether or not it's all hype. It's not just hype. VR will explode in popularity in the future as the headsets become lighter, cheaper, and better with high resolution, full peripheral vision FOV, built-in wireless, micro LED, foveated rendering (for better than 2D graphics, ya seriously), innovative tracking technology, and a much bigger developer community.

It's telling that with all the limitations of first gen VR, I still sank tens of hours into Pavlov (a low res VR counterstrike) and had an absolute blast. I was also blown away by Half Life: Alyx. I would have abandoned VR if it weren't for the Vive deluxe audio kit and the wireless conversion kit, which shows that comfort alone can make all the difference.

There is a game variant in Pavlov that would not have worked very well on 2D screens. Basically most people are soldiers/police and a couple people picked at random are traitors. You have to guess who the traitors are. Since everyone has some degree of head and hand tracking, and microphones are on my default, it's a very social experience. You learn to use social cues to identify and kill the terrorists before they kill you. It's a thoroughly immersive social experience, and for a few hours the cartoon world becomes your real world, because you're playing with real people that kind of sort of look like real people. Everything else is literally out of sight and out of mind. VR's ability to teleport you anywhere with anyone will prove to be highly appealing to a great many people in the future. It will not just be a niche.
You could give uMatrix a try, I use it to block cookies, images, media and iframes. If you really want to allow a site to use all that it is a bit easier to do (I think)
Not dissimilar to someone accused of harassment at work. It’s most typical the company pays and not the offender. People go after the money.
Yeah also racist.
Wow, seeing the old MicroProse logo immediately transported me back to the late-80's/early-90's and the cool joysticks (Epyx were the best!) and all of the fun games I played on my C64 and Amiga.
> Even shooting legs is better than shooting to kill.

No it isn't. Legs are hard to hit compared to center-mass, and the only reason you should be shooting at somebody is if you need to because they are an imminent threat; therefore you should be aiming for a part of the body that you have a higher probability of hitting and that, having been hit, has a higher probability of effectively stopping the threat.
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You might want to look at Wolfpack, mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It requires multiplayer, 2-5 players control a German u-boat against Allied convoys in the Atlantic). It's an interesting combination of sim-lite (engines, battery and buoyancy are modeled relatively simplistically) and deep nerd simulation (fire control/torpedo solution) aspects.
"Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" is a VR-enabled videogame [0]

[0] https://keeptalkinggame.com/
I could also see a 404 iFrame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Talking_and_Nobody_Expl...
this can happen at small companies, too. i've heard of devs who got remote jobs at startups and basically just didn't do them.
This is why I'm glad I use an email service with a personalized spam filter. Gmail's spam filter too heavily assumes one person's spam is everyone's spam.

Whereas mine is pretty reliably never sending false positives to my spam folder. Fastmail wins again.
I joined a new team about a month before the work from home order. I was making progress at being more productive during that month and maybe 2 weeks into working from home. After that I feel I have plateaued. Two and a half months later, I might even be backsliding in terms of productivity.
Twitter has literally bend over backwards for Trump. They have said that they will not remove him not matter how much he violates their ToS. If even after that it is seen as "silencing their voice", you know it is a bad faith argument. Just the other day he retweeted something heinous about "dead Democrats" and Twitter let that tweet stand. At some point, don't you have to live up to some principles instead of always be scared of bad faith arguments ?
Don't think so. It depends on the type of contractor. If you're independent, you might (although you don't get stock and stock is a sizable portion of an FTEs total comp) but if you're actually working for Accenture/Wipro/Infosys/etc.. and they send you to Google on a contract, most definitely not.
If the lies are obvious, why do they need "fact checking"?
Then we should also add filming while latino and producing while white.
It's a metabolic disorder. I guess I don't really know the difference between metabolic disease / metabolic syndrome / metabolic disorder. All problems of the metabolism, but I'm sure there's some medical distinction between them.
I read up on it's use in 1967. ...and it didn't really add anything. Looting leads to police/national guard having to restore order through violence.

There's no hidden meaning here.
Thanks for sharing! Do you mind me asking what admin template you used for the app? I'm searching for a decent admin template right now with a similar color scheme.
Wrong wrong wrong!

Companies ~20 years ago use to hire a CW (Contract worker, Contingent worker) then see if they would fit and then eventually hire them as FTE.

Now, they hire contract workers as they are in a different tax bracked and companies do get tax breaks. Thus the company will pay the CW the lowest possible wage, while giving them NONE of the company perks with a contract that starts at 6 months/1-year and is ALWAYS extended for longer term, or the contract starts out as never ending. For example job's that should be FTE, are contracted to CW's. I.E system admin, validation etc.. Companies contact recruiters to find CW's, vs Companies hiring people directly as FTE instead of being forced to use a recruiter. I.E My job, I dont have an end date contract... its indefinite, yet my duties are exactly if not very simular to FTE's. How is that even fair?

Companies like Google, MS, Intel, HP etc etc have excessive contact worker workforce for the main purpose of making more money. Pay CW's less, they make more $$.. CW's do not get the same FTE resources like stock, access to perks on-site as FTE's, more so treated as 2nd class people.

There is a clear abuse in the industry, but none want to take it on imho. I've got stories and actual experience for daaays! I'd actually like to talk to a lawyer as I think its a complete abuse of the CW system that these big companies are getting away with. </rant>
There is no requirement under section 230 to moderate content in good faith. Selective moderation does not affect their liability. This law was passed democratically, for exactly this purpose.

>"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." This federal law preempts any state laws to the contrary: "[n]o cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section."
I thought the future was we don't have to work at all.
Which is why I wrote not as much instead of no merit. Words.
Of course. You hired those employees presumably in the interest of shareholders, not as a humanitarian deed.
In the telecom industry we had an adage, “Always cut staff before line.” Staff were overhead but line produced revenue. The same applies to teaching but it is not in the self-interest of administrators to cut staff.

They will soon find out the truth.
They don't pay out of pocket for school right now.
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When you ark it as spam it helps train google's spam fighting that mail like that is spam.

Now if it's unsolicited stuff -- SPAM -- no problem. But if it's a list you once signed up for and now no longer want, you're telling google -- for everyone -- that mail like that is spam. Even people who signed up for it (like you did) and still want it. That's unfair to the company and unfair to all those other people too.

But someone randomly blasting you with crap as is the usual case (and I includes that company you once did business with and who signed you up without your permission): that's what the spam button is for.
Seems like there's a whole lotta fascists on this internet.
It begs the question... who's in charge here? The government or the corporations?
Go can `go run script.go` without more ceremony than that. But there are other tradeoffs:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SysadminGo...
If I'm not mistaken, being commander in chief doesn't mean that you're above the law. No US law that I'm aware of allows you to threaten mass execution of US citizens.
At this scale - I’m not convinced that $5,000 worth of ASICs would have the same performance as $5,000 worth of GeForce cards - especially after factoring in lead-time to design the ASIC.

As for FPGAs - forgive my ignorance - but can they even handle that kind of load? In my head I just see them breaking-down under the sheer thermal load.
> fasting, intermittent fasting, keto, carnivore etc diets.

To preface, I'm a long-time intermittent fasting, and tend to eat fairly carnivorous (though supplement with a lot of vegetables and legumes). But none of what you've listed is a silver bullet.

The research is pretty conclusive that the proximate cause of all metabolic disease is caloric intoxication.[1] Regardless of the timing and consumption of calories, if a person continuously has an excess energy balance they're at risk of metabolic disease. In particular, the more dogmatic proponents of keto are refuted by the fact that some hunter-gatherers, like the Hazda, consume up to 50% of their calories from simple sugars. And like all hunter-gathers, they have virtually zero incidence of metabolic diseases.

That isn't to say that diet isn't important. Excess calories are the proximate cause, but the type of food being consumed ultimately influences satiety and therefore overall consumption. In particular, the highly processed, hyper-palatable, easily digestible, highly convenient, hyper-varied, calorically dense food found in the industrialized West makes it extremely easy to overeat. In some sense, we're literally getting fatter because our food is becoming more delicious. Quoting the famous Matt Crowley tweet: "We take it for granted today, but a single Dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than a peasant in the 1400s would get in his whole lifetime."

Low-carb, low-fat, intermittent fasting, six small meals a day, no eating after 6, cleanse detox, vegetarian, carnivore, keto, high-fiber, high-protein, gluten-free, etc. They all seem to work to a certain extent, even when they directly contradict one another. And that's largely because any arbitrary restriction on food consumption decreases variety (fewer options), reduces convenience (arbitrary rules makes it harder to eat take out), and lowers palatability (many recipes require substitutions or removals that ruin the taste).

The upshot is that the older and more popular a fad diet becomes the less effective it will be. When enough of the market's on a diet the food industry will figure out how to make hyper-palatable that still conform to the rules.

[1] https://www.stephanguyenet.com/why-the-carbohydrate-insulin-...
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There may already be something built in (as another commenter noted) but this is also a feature sold in soundbars, here's the page for it for sonos https://support.sonos.com/s/article/1948?language=en_US
Every company is doing this. Protect the full time employees first. Consulting and contingency companies do very well in good times but struggle in downtimes.
An alternative interpretation is that he was simply observing that violence begets violence, rather than encouraging it. My take is that he was deliberately ambiguous in order to taunt his opponents whilst also giving himself plausible deniability.
I imagine other factors have to do with the technicalities of executing on this, and the user’s visibility and “viral-ity”. On the technical, you can automate the job and have awkward success sometimes if you don’t get a human to intervene and verify what the algo’s flag as potential violation tweets. Now considering the user, the user’s number of followers, whether they are public figures (so because elected, celebrity, activist, etc. reasons) or whether the tweet has gone viral (regardless of the user’s pre-existing popularity). These kinds of things influence because someone with visibility and audience making calls to violence or some other questionable act is distinct in how actionable others around the world are to react to such a figure making questionable statements. So it’s not a matter of policing everyone, because there’s a lot of nuance and challenges. And the answer isn’t to give up because that’s just cowardice in the face of a big social challenge. We’ve got to carefully experiment and wisely assess these cases.
You are making an assumption that the interpretation is wild.
By pretty much every definition it is violence.
I'm confused about this - I don't use OSX for anything other than Logic, but there's a Docker desktop app for OSX [0] so I assumed it could run docker containers? Is that not true?

[0]: https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-...
This seems more like a problem with management only knowing if people are doing their job by noticing their presence instead of measuring their production, which is really the only way remote work can be done successfully at scale, IMO.
I felt like the article spent sufficient time on the idea that the explanation could be that healthier people simply have higher vitamin D levels, and that the vitamin D itself is not the cause. At no point did they choose a side on that part, the bias was only that they believe vitamin D is a promising avenue.

I really loved that the whole piece was informational, and not trying to convince the reader that Vitamin D is or isn't a cure or remedy for anything. It simply presented the available facts, the research, and the positives and negatives of that research. It even explained multiple aspects and positions of the debate on whether vitamin D supplementation is good or bad.
...where "fascist" is defined as: "anyone who disagrees with me".
The article is not about sound level normalisation, despite the title (which confused me), but rather about automating and/or synchronizing volume levels across speakers with presets invoked based on time of day or other conditions.

It’s also not so much about Alexa but about Node Red, I believe Alexa is just one possible source of sound in the whole system.
Been using Boostnote for the last few years. Boostnote's great, but it doesn't have note nesting / trees, so I figured I'd give Trilium a shot.

Downloaded Trilium, tried to type in a standard GFM Markdown fenced code block with a language identifier for syntax highlighting, and it kept converting it to a "Plain Text" block as soon as I typed the third backtick, making it unusable.

That's a hard blocker for me. I write Markdown all the time, and I don't want a pseudo-WYSIWYG editor mangling the Markdown I'm writing as I type it. I also need to be able to add code blocks, with highlighting, at any point in the middle of the notes I'm writing.
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An on-again-off-again Murphy's Romance kind of boy friend of my mother in the 80s was a pilot of a B-24. He flew it limping home full of bullet holes more than once. Impressive stories.
It's not whataboutery in the context of limited policing resources and public attention. Accusations of tu quoque get thrown around way too quickly on the internet.
Thanks for the point of clarification: Elected officials, which should be easy for any social media company to determine, especially since, at least on Twitter and Instagram, they have "verified" profiles.
I'm sure you didn't mean it, but inserting "will" misrepresents what I was trying to communicate. A more accurate word would be "should" or "obligated to". Saying that they will follow in taking adverse action is more prescriptive than what I meant. My fault, not yours.

There are sort of alternatives to Twitter, though you have to admit that Twitter's approach and audience size is quite different from, say, someone's forum using vBulletin. Nevertheless, there are mainstream alternatives such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and perhaps TV and radio, but that's not to say that they aren't likely to make a similar choice to Twitter, if it is generally agreed upon that Trump's message is bad and either shouldn't be seen or shouldn't be engaged with. Since they have similar financial incentives, it's not totally unreasonable to think that these mainstream platforms would follow suit if Trump decided to abandon Twitter and start posting solely on one of these alternatives. Whether or not you agree with Alex Jones, he was banned from all these platforms in coordination. It's absolutely possible that the dominoes would fall, and non-mainstream alternatives like Minds or Gab or Mastodon aren't necessarily viable alternatives if their audience is incredibly small.
People abusing their existing platforms is a huge problem; the incentives are all wrong.

This is an extremely common annoyance of mine with Kickstarter campaigns. I back a lot of projects, and it's insane how many creators abuse the "project updates" system to promote other projects, often totally unrelated and from totally different creators. They're clearly getting paid for these promotions. I can't just "unsubscribe" from the updates because I do need to be aware of "real" updates that may require my input/action.

And many apps that rely on push-notifications for their core functionality are polluting these streams with ads. Uber basically admits this: they send ride updates by sms because they know people turn off their ad-filled push notifications.

My town is also using its covid-emergency-updates sms system to advertise local composting.

This is becoming an acceptable practice, and it seems impossible to filter the cruft.
Dominic Cummings, the Nostradamus of north London, has done it again
It's really easy to make a comment and have it come off as dismissive or unsympathetic, I recognize that thousands of people put in tons of hard work on a product and tech stack that they believed in.

I keep reading my friends' goodbye messages to ML after being laid off and being amazed at how different they perceive their work than I do as a consumer. It's like the culture is closer to Jonestown than Cupertino.

I say that because I don't know how much koolaid you have to drink before the ML product that was released to consumers becomes impressive. The experiences available on their platform are not compelling. The headset is inferior and expensive.

Much of what I've seen exclaimed by ML employees as examples of their product and company's quality are things that I consider organizational bugs. Their tech stack is as deep as the Marianas Trench and they're too proud of it.

I don't think ML will be in business in 5 years unless they slim down, sell off IP, and relocate. They do have some really impressive tech and smart people, but I don't think the company as it exists today is viable.
> If Twitter is going to police people, it needs to be across the board. Otherwise it's just a weird censorship that is targeting one person and can easily be seen as political.

There is no such requirement.

Twitter is well within its rights and ethically totally clear to "police" a sentiment from the President of the United States, while letting much more severe sentiments from egg accounts go un-policed.

Moderation isn't an algorithm, a binary condition, applied perfectly to an input set to get a deterministic output. It's subjective, and that's both OK and correct.
Hey this is really well done congrats! You should totally make one about usememo, useref, usecallback etc!
I say with great confidence that Trump is too stupid to know this. Maybe Stephen Miller his far right aide did and pushed the line as a dog whistle but tbh I never heard of it either till now.
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This would be the best twitter.
Office --> Remote --> UBI

;)
It's interesting to me that it's Chinese export control laws that affect you. Normally when you hear about this kind of thing, it's the US export restrictions causing the issue. Does that not apply in this case? And wouldn't you be importing into China? (IANAL, genuinely asking)
Selective enforcement happens everywhere in the internet. For example if you go to T_D in Reddit, they will absolutely delete any anti-Trump posts. Does this mean Reddit is influencing elections ?
I've always wondered how many of these rooms exist, but also their geographic location. Are they in every state? Every major city? What about a city like Minneapolis? Or is it just the major cities with the backbone connections?

I'm also surprised I haven't seen more pictures and stories of where these rooms actually located (or maybe I just haven't been paying attention)
I have MicroProse always connected to Grand Prix 2 and my childhood. We used to play that on my friends computer 25 years ago. Turn by turn - first him, than me, and vice-versa.

This game was so much fun. And the damage model was superb. I really miss that.
Downvoting me will increase your shock after the next election.
It would be great if they could explain this decision in more detail, but I guess they are still working on to explain this better and clearer.
Contractors can sue for discrimination in some states.
Whether you agree with these actions or not - it doesn't bode well for Twitter.

Politicians and other organizations will work to offer up an alternative platform where they won't be censored.

These are literally the most powerful people in the world.
Crime dropped nationwide regardless of strategy and that they didn't show an extra drop as would be expected. That suggests it is at best useless or counterproductive.