skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most powerful thing civilians could do, but it would require nearly 100% participation, is just stop working. Everyone, everywhere. It would be painful, but nothing strong comes without pain.
Hey @zumachase - was hoping to get in touch but the contact email on your homepage is bouncing. (hello@zumaltd.com)
Why would an organization as powerful as the government fear one person like Epstein so much that they’d do something like that? I think it’s fair to speculate that he was murdered, but a coordinated escape is such a fantasy.

Maybe he had a dead man’s switch? Ok, the US government is the greatest military power in history with advanced technology, that wouldn’t be an obstacle for them. Why couldn’t the DOJ coerce the prosecutor into assigning charges that don’t get him convicted?

There are just so many more plausible ways it could’ve been done. And when you dig into the details of executing such a plan to perfection while covering a ton of people across the government to do it and nobody leaks it to the press, it completely fails basic logic. It just does.

Insinuating that I’m “sleeping” is also a complete cop-out. You still haven’t explained how an institution with infinite power is so afraid of one guy that they’d go to these extraordinary links to save his life by faking his death instead of just killing him.
That is absolutely bonkers I love it. I'm not sure I have the staying power to implement it but I'd like to.
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I like very much the approach the author took to writing this piece. He does a great job of putting the situation in context (ie: his "the optimists and the pessimists" positioning).
would need to consider the lag in time between them making the trade for themselves and the them disclosing it. I expect that would probably wipe out most of the alpha.
Police are some of the highly-paid government employees out there. And that's not counting overtime.
sounds like you're experiencing technophobia
Are you looking for a smalltalk job? :-)
I support ad-free journalism, such as Democracy Now or journalism organizations like the Freedom of the Press Foundation. I haven't actually done all the homework I'd like to do in order to identify an ideal list of all the journalism (particularly local!) that is at least as good as I can find.

I didn't mean to suggest that we should insist on ad-free before donating at all, but it's a concern. I'm more inclined to donate when there's no ads, and when there are ads, I'm extra hesitant.

I also don't like paywalls. So, really, I'm thinking about how to highlight and support the free-to-all work that is also uncompromised by ads. That's what most deserves and needs support.
Can't trust Dyson with batteries, my worst experience ever. Ended my problems by ordering via AliExpress from China at one-tenth the price bought from Dyson.
Just earlier this month, protestors a stat over adorned rifles and threatened the governor. This time, the police are ready to teargas and beat anyone for any reason. The response doesn't seem the same. They've turned protests into riots.
Cost of living in these locations is incredibly high. I think as an employee it is easier to negotiate a salary as a multiple of fixed costs of living (rent, food, transport, entertainment).
I get that. I have plenty of time where I zone out of Squawk. But there are definitely projects/periods where I need to constantly be checking in with a dozen people and various subsets of that dozen.

If that's not a problem you face, then Squawk is definitely the wrong tool for you.
Fighting words only apply to face-to-face speech and even then it's somewhat doubtful. If you want further analysis, look at some of Ken White's writings on it on Popehat. Incitement as defined by the Brandenburg test is more likely to apply.
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> No private company would be able to negotiate with that many land owners to build out fiber on a large scale.

Before the government stepped in to anoint winners and losers in the phone business, companies sprang up everywhere and strung their own wires.
Compare prices between Boots in the UK and Walgreens in the US. They're the same company, Walgreens Boots Alliance. Many items come from the same sources. But the price difference is huge.
In some ways this seems endemic to all organizations with >1000 or so people. It's crazy the extent that white nationalist orgs have infiltrated Law Enforcement/US military.

That being said, in many ways companies/organizations are simply biased samples of the cultural milieu, so I'm not sure there is an easy company-level policy for changing this. Given the Banjo/Clearview.ai KKK/alt-right stuff, the fear of radicalized tech employees is definitely a matter of real concern, but it's definitely a hard problem.
Almost all her stock holdings are of RealNetworks, a company she worked for in the 90s and that has been on the decline since the Dotcom bust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell
I agree it probably wouldn't result in a lower repair bill, but that's only one cost of appliance repair. The other major one, which isn't a big issue at the moment, but usually is... you have to be home when they come to service it.

Not everyone can work from home, so the shorter the visit the better. If the diagnostics are done remotely, they can arrive with the right parts and do the job more quickly since they already have a headstart from the diagnostics. Additionally, they should be able to complete the job in only one visit since they should already have the parts they need and not have to order them.

LG has a similar system too, and it makes sense for everyone. They save money on warranty repairs since their labor should be lower. Consumers save time on repairs for the same reason. They also get to drive repair work to the service company of their choice, which has benefits for them and has some pros and cons for the consumer.
I think this is a very important point to understand: regardless of if you believe particular geoengineering approaches are too dangerous or too little understood to apply, at some point when the threat & the damage from global warming is no longer possible to ignore, it will not be surprising if a single actor begins unilaterally executing a relatively cheap & feasible geoengineering project:

> Solar geoengineering isn’t only technically feasible, it’s a bargain. Next to the trillions in costs from unmitigated climate change, and even the expense of cutting CO₂, solar geoengineering costs practically nothing. If anything, it’s too cheap. A program that releases SO₂ to decrease average temperatures by about 0.1C would cost less than $5 billion per year. This should prompt the world to prepare for its inevitability. Dozens of countries have both the capacity and possible motivation. The operative word is “when,” not “if.”

Ignoring the unwanted environmental side effects of pumping SO2 into the atmosphere, one thing this article does not mention is that the results of geo engineering will be non uniform. Just like global warming will causes non uniform temperature & climate change over the globe, similarly geoengineering approaches will have non uniform results -- some regions will be relative winners and some regions will be relative losers -- getting a larger share of the unwanted consequences of geo engineering with few or no corresponding benefits.
Yes please! Would love to use my X-T30 as a webcam on my mac.
This is a tough one. In Seattle police are directed to not use their body cams unless they are doing crime investigation stuff. The policy is designed to protect the privacy of people not under investigation or otherwise not involved in crime.

In pre-body cam days Seattle PD got caught video taping protests or demonstrations. The current policy prevents that.

Thus, Seattle cops generally have their cams turned off while dealing with demonstrations or protests.
IIRC the so-called "blue dog" Democrats in the House were the main obstacle preventing Obamacare from being more progressive. Unfortunately, they were right to be afraid...many of those Democrats lost their seats in the following years.

In retrospect the Democrats' window of complete control of the federal government was going to close no matter what they did (due to the GOP's obstructionism and unity in hating anything Dems did), and perhaps they should have passed more ambitious reforms while they had the chance.
For some things, absolutely, but for the times when you need to interact with things on the screen that are more complicated than simple volume, a knob is still a pretty great option to have.
> only

I didn't say "only".
> Sunlight that hits the planet(and isn't reflected back out) is a different variable than solar heat that stays in the atmosphere

Solar heat that stays in the atmosphere originates from the sunlight that hits the planet and does get reflected.
Is there any required credentialing for for garbage collectors? Teachers need to have a bachelors degree and a teaching credential, in most cases.
I posted this mostly in case anyone could corroborate it! Either the report that cameras on the bridge are being disabled, or that phone manufacturers have actually implemented a technology like this.
Are networks of social connections a characteristic that can be fingerprinted just like many other identifying traits (gait detection, location and movement fingerprinting, keystroke forencics, stylometry and linguistic fingerprinting, patterns of timestamps, et cetera)?
Anything in high dose can be dangerous. So that's not helpful.

Anything. For instance, water.
Tax cuts at any cost. Since they can't make small cuts to the large programs (military, SS, Medicare) they make thousands of large cuts to the not so well known programs, CDC, forestry, NEA. Then they go back to their constituents about how many millions and billions in programs they've cut.
The easiest way is to just show you.
I'm mostly a manager unit these days so I have something similar to the following:

/Team 1 #a team I manage
/Program A #Some program for a customer
/Project 1 #individual project for that program, might be a tool, a document, etc.
/subfolder #various things organized as makes sense for the project
/subfolder
/Project 2
/subfolder
/Program B
/FY<previous year> #each Fiscal Years, I move everything
/Project 1
/subfolder
/Project 2
/subfolder
/subfolder
/Project 1
/Project 2
/subfolder
/subfolder
/Team 2 #some older team I used to manage or belong to
/<similar to Team 1 as makes sense>
/Team 3
/<similar to other teams>
/R&D #various research programs
/FY<fiscal year of R&D>
/Project 1
/subfolder
/Project 2
/subfolder
/subfolder
/FY<more fiscal years with similar structures>
/Business Development #gotta get new customers!
/Customer 1
/Contract Effort 1
/Customer 2
/Contract Effort 1
/Contract Effort 2
/<and so on>
/Staff # any documents I need to produce for my staff
/Staff 1
/Staff 2
/<etc.>
/PreviousStaff # any staff who are no longer under me
/Staff 1
/Staff 2
/Library # I point ubooquity at this
/<subfolders by topic>
/Personal # person employment documents
/Corporate # corporate issued materials
/Security
/Policies
/<etc.>

This works for me as I can usually find something within a few seconds because it all has some semantic meaning to me that works with how my memory works, and I have about half a dozen years of intense work plowed into this structure. That being said, more and more of my work is ending up in various enterprise Office things like Sharepoint, Teams, etc. Code, other documents for sharing and such stay in their appropriate Gitlab repos, Confluence/Wiki pages.

tbh, this makes it significantly harder for me to find old documents than with my system -- raw search just isn't good enough.
What should count as "the headline" for a link? The contents of the <title> element in the <head>? The contents of the first <h1> in the <body>? I asked this once [1].

Part of dang's response:

> What the rule means by "original title" can be any one of the candidate titles that an article itself provides. That can be the main heading on the page, but often that is misleading or baity, especially with media sites. The HTML doc title, as you point out, is often a good alternative. Often a subtitle is better than the main title. Other good places to look are the URL, photo captions, and the opening paragraph.

After you figure out which of those should be "the headline", then you've got to deal with the possibility that it is too long. Try to shorten it? Try one of the alternative sources dang lists?

It also might not be plain text. The .innerText of the element you choose will usually be what you want, but I'm not sure that always will be right.

What might be reasonable would be to for the HN submission page to extract several candidate titles from the page and ask the submitter to choose one one of them, with an option to enter a headline manually if the submitter doesn't think any of those work as is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931845
Personally I find boots in the UK to be an absolute scam anyway. Their prices on everything are almost always more expensive than supermarkets - not just by a few pennies but often in the 25+% range.

I think they survive solely on makeup sales, and small stores in airports and stations where there is a captive audience? No one can seriously shop there for everyday stuff.
SF should have a good view of the satellites tomorrow night if the launch happens at the scheduled time: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink

Although I guess it's after curfew...
Congrats on the launch!

I work on possibly similar tooling.

The Emitter website is light on details. Is it for receiving connections or making them?
Devil's advocate on antacids, I knowingly and willingly pay a premium for Tums Extra Strength Smoothie Flavor.
You are confusing impact with quality. They are not the same thing.
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Tone is hard to communicate over the internet. I wasn't attacking him, apologies, my comment was purely critiquing the statement itself.
Commercial for profit prisons are a huge problem. Huge. There is a whole lot of sentencing and prison reform that needs to be taking place, particularly for non-violent crimes.
It would be nice if the details table below the graph updated automatically to filter for a Senator selected in the graph.
Depends what kind of programming job. A manufacturing setup which hires a lot of trade-school labor, sure. A startup, less so.

Also, learning the local language helps integrating once you arrive.
(is there a typo? What does: "protestors a stat over adorned rifles" mean)
Don't have a choice, my MBP only has two ports on the left side.
You're underestimating the intelligence and experience of "old people." They've been through eras like this before, they know what protest looks like. And they already know that the looting (and much of the protest too) is pre-coordinated and planned by outsiders, primarily via social media.
What? Who's giving out free pills?

Anyhoo, is it fair to charge me $10 and you $200 for the exact same burger? I thought there were rules against this. Why don't the laws prohibiting price discrimination apply to pills?

https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/price-discrimination/

I really want to know.

Further, upthread someone said something about prices doctors charge.

I have no problem with that. Of course different doctors have different prices. Rent, servicing debt, skill/merit.

But I have a problem with that doctor (or more likely her hospital or managed healthcare org) charging different prices to different patients.

I know there's some history here (in the USA), and path dependence. But it is conceptually so simple to make the system transparent, fair, accountable.
A free pass on what exactly? This has gotten so crazy, I can’t believe people are protesting Facebook for not censoring a politician.

Here’s an idea... if you don’t like what somebody writes online, don’t read it.

Do people really think that censoring, or even annotating, the President’s words will change how people feel about them? Like someone is going to read Trump’s message, think “oh right, mail-in ballots could lead to voter fraud,” then read an annotation from CNN and conclude “oh never mind, Trump lied.” On the contrary, it will lead to further entrenchment of division as they retreat to the comfort of their pre-existing views.

Are people serious about this?? It seems obvious that the most likely outcome of censorship or editorializing is more entrenchment of views and pre-existing beliefs, not less. Nobody who is already listening to Trump is going to suddenly stop because Twitter or Facebook shows them a CNN article next to a “fact check” label.

It’s just so ridiculous, I can’t believe we are actually having this conversation. What happened to teaching people critical thinking and not to believe everything they read on the internet? And what the heck is “violent speech?” Just close the page if you don’t like it. My goodness.
I was so close trying myself and I am glad I did not based on the details you provided.

I would consider doing write up. Another less skilled person may have tried doing the same.
Wooden table.
Because the amount you pay into social security and Medicare are quite large in terms of percent of income, if you make less than $100k. Of course, you later get paid SS or receive Medicare services, which makes it less clear that these items should be considered taxes.
So you are taking responsibility for your country's wrongdoings?

I am from Rome, a place with quite the history, it's not that bad either.

Hironically the best Major that my city remembers (regardless of the political ideology) is Luigi Petroselli, elected in 1979, in office until the day of his death and a member of the Italian communist party since 1950, when he was 18...
While I understand the sentiment, my understanding was that there is no evidence that body and actually improve outcomes even when they are actually used.
It could be argued CSV and the like are taking advantage of uninformed people or charging more for people who need medicine now, perhaps because they didn't build a good medicine cabinet. The same medicines can be bought on Amazon or at CostCo for 10x cheaper than the generics at CSV or Walgreen, but you need to know about that option and plan for it.

Some price comparison:

- 30 400mg guaifenesin tablets cost $10.50 ($0.35 each) at a Walgreens in San Francisco

- 200 400mg guaifenesin tablets cost $8.50 ($0.04 each) on Amazon (CostCo Kirkland brand)
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In that case.. it's difficult for anyone. It's still not any better for a state actor versus anyone else -- you've just upped the difficulty so high that it even includes state actors.

That is, (I believe) it is not possible to construct a nefarious deed that is harder for a state actor than an individual to execute. It is only possible to construct scenarios that are hard enough that both state actors and individuals cannot execute it.

A state can do anything a group can do, and a group can do anything an individual can do. They're supersets of one-another, in terms of capability and resource.

There is no "sounds perfect for a state-sponsored" anything -- everything is perfect for a state-sponsored entity, unless it cannot be done at all (because who has greater capability than a state? Other than a coalition of states, or even further, galactic nation-states)

>not true. in a truly organic network, where you actually know the graph back to you, it is very difficult for a state actor.

An entity with sufficient resources & time can probably defeat this -- the main thing is to generate more "accounts" or whatever;

need proof of id? Sufficiently good counterfeits.

need DNA proof? rob of a morgue.

users police themselves? make sufficiently "attractive"/fake accounts and add randomly until you get added by enough people, and then their friends, and then spam until you get blocked and do it again);

and hide them sufficiently well, faster than the governing entity(ies) can identify and remove them.

Sounds perfect for my galactic nation-state.
The hard truth is that (1) people are not stupid and are usually keenly aware of the issues but (2a) many are just warming seats and don't care or (2b) lost the will to fight the company's culture but are unwilling to leave the cosy job.
They tend to be unenforceable in California, they certainly aren't unenforceable in other states.
I'd be careful about that PTSD statement. If the officer really has it from a duty related incident, then it would be best to retire. They could be a danger in that profession if they are "jumpy".

On a side note, the retirement requirements for non-medical retirement should be more stringent.
US DoJ initiative to extradite Chinese nationals month before her arrest.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-jeff-ses...

There's a reason some US analysts compared her arrest and escalation reminiscent of coldwar kidnapping. It's easy to engineer legal rationales to justify any action, that's why IR operates more on norms than rule of law. Pair this with China being the first "great power competitor that is not Caucasian" and it's not hard to see why other banks just get fines. Hint: same reason some group get fines for drug violations while other goto jail.
Side note, years ago I organized decades of hard drives, this found clips of my baby siblings playing with microphones and old video games.

I went through literally every folder. Took probably 20 hours.

Wondering if I could simplify this with python. Eliminating generic program files, but keeping all user data. The goal wouldn't be perfection but to take that 20 hours and turn it into 5 hours.

Does this exist in any capacity right now?
C is already the undisputed king of running everything and on everything, no one who writes C needs to seek validation like this.
My first thought was cooking. It's far easier to make a great meal once than repeatably in a restaurant on an assembly line.
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Discounting a known price is very different from just making up prices on the spot.
I think the movie is Snowpiercer? Great movie by the way.
>A car needs to be able to run safely without faults for 8 hours a day 365 days a year whereas Dyson vacuum cleaners tend to have a lot of reliability problems even when using for an hour each week.

To be fair, we're talking about a British car here. The bar is lower.
Thank you! Hopefully I'll be able to property quote and cite next time now that I know.
See also Zello.

It doesn't have the e2e stuff afaik, but works on all major platforms, including mobile. They also have a native desktop app (not Electron). As far as I know, it's used a lot, mostly by drivers for Uber or similar services. I haven't used it for a couple of years now, but it's worth giving it a go.
Not sure about cross-platform, but for macOS I started this plugin by creating a minimal virtual camera:
https://github.com/johnboiles/coremediaio-dal-minimal-exampl...

@seanchas116 made a Swift port of my minimal example
https://github.com/seanchas116/SimpleDALPlugin

Overall it _was_ very difficult! Apple's documentation and sample code for CoreMediaIO DAL (virtual camera) plugins are terrible. I just brute forced it for hours trying all sorts of different combinations of things before I got something to work.
You didn't call the government "a tool" used to suppress competition, you called it "the tool" used to suppress competition.
Floating point NaN is pretty close to what you're describing for floats only.

Really we need some kind of NaN value for all java objects.
Wealth of Nations is such a good book, I implore everyone to read it. I think a lot of people misunderstand what Adam Smith was about, and it's good to go back to the early ideas of what capitalism was meant to be, and how far we have diverged from it.