skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that bankruptcy is part of the strategy.

The strategy is about "how to buy a company for free, without downside liabilities." This, results in bankruptcy sometimes... significantly less than 15% of the time, I imagine.

What I am predicting is that Bain will leverage this asset to borrow, and use this money to pay themselves back whatever they put in. At this point they have no money in the deal... a free option.

This is just what a leveraged buyout is, and Bain does leveraged buyouts... one way or another.
What's impressive to me as a non-westerner about the satire media in US/Canada is the wonderful exhibition of free speech at a time when reporting factual news can get a journalist into extreme trouble, even in countries wearing 'democracy' banner.

I highly recommend Onion's new podcast - The Topical[1][2] as a detox for real news by the EOD; Ironically some times Onion's news contain more truth than real(air quotes) news!

[1] Google Podcast - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...

[2] Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-topical/id14946007...
You're absolutely right and no offense intended to a pretty remarkable team of 12 who moved from Acorn. For balance here is Mike Muller from that team who just retired as CTO of ARM last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbdhICqETE

and also Mike Muller actually presenting to Apple Computer staff in 1992!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV1NdS_w4As

Edit: added Apple presentation
Absolutely--my point is that the IMF is not generally interested in the economic welfare of poorer countries, and is abused as a tool for neocolonial interests. Their track record reflects that.
Ew, yeah, that's a pain.

FWIW, and as a workaround and not any sort of defense of FF breaking itself: You could, from an existing page, type what you want in the search box, then middle-click (or ctrl+click) the search button, which opens the result in a new tab. Again, you shouldn't have to do this, but it seems like it'd patch your workflow.
I use Android and iOS constantly (mobile dev), and iOS's multitasking on the iPhone X is as easy as Android's (swipe the bottom of the phone, same action as double tapping the app switcher icon on Android). Same with split screen, I use the all the time on iPad.
Only one answer is socially acceptable, regardless of what statistics indicate. And we are building a dangerous world by going down this unscientific path.

I am genuinely concerned that this will bleed into ML science and we may find ourselves collectively pursuing a rabbit hole of bad science in a vain attempt to reconcile empirical data with ideology.
This "7th reason" is indeed correct. Flash player enabled browsers with many features (mesh networking, hardware 3D, easy file system, tunable font antialiasing) which were subsequently stripped from browsers and forced into the paywalled garden.
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I would argue that non-white neighborhoods are policed heavier, and as a consequence they "catch more criminals" in those neighborhoods.
or crime is a function of income inequality, and ways to fight it are police (reactive) or preventative social spending (proactive.) it's like arguing over fire departments vs electrical code. neglecting the latter leads to more of the former.

Even things like urban planning, where you put your low income housing. If you build low income housing in high income areas, it prevents ghettos from forming.
> If a non-law-abiding rancher gets mad he pulls out his gun and shoots a coyote

Pretty sure it's legal to shoot a coyote on your own property, as long as you're not in a densely populated area.
Pretty much a textbook case of https://xkcd.com/882/ then?
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Has Australia not given any bailouts to the airlines yet?
I'm really torn on this issue because as a data-scientist I'm all in but knowing the potential for abuse here or just "damage" when a minority group is injured. They wouldn't have the financial resources to fight back. Further, we KNOW law enforcement uses these systems to gain access and abuse rights. K9s are a good example. The police can't search your car without a warrant but if a K9 'signals' then they can search all they want. None of the false positive hit rates of the K9s are auditable so if they're just using the K9 to search anyone's car then they've basically use a 'clever hans' to bypass the 4th amendment.
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Everyone’s product eventually mirrors their internal org structure.
> If someone comes to an online community and announces that they are cisgendered and must be referred in way X, i don't want to work with them, either.

This literally happens all of the time, though? It's the 'default'. If you called a cisgendered man 'she' or a cisgendered woman 'he', they would likely politely correct you in the same way anyone else would. The only way you'd avoid that is by collectively referring to everyone in gender neutral pronouns which is certainly possible.

> Experiencing gender dysphoria is a driving force for engaging in this kind of behavior, this is why my complaint is focused on these few trans people.

And this is objectively wrong. People experiencing gender dysphoria is not a driving force in engaging in this kind of behavior (ie what you call 'taking everything so personal') considering, again, I have friends who have dealt with such issues and do not behave in the way you claim.

It really sounds like you're stretching your argument in attempt to justify your own transphobia. At best you're unfairly stereotyping them based on your own experiences and at worst you're behaving in an irrational manner by attempting to avoid them because you seem to think of them being 'self-absorbed pricks'. You're essentially arguing that people should shut up and not mention who they are at all.
There are enough people who were PCR positive that antibody tests aren't necessary for this kind of study.
We are working to solve the Flash problem "the right way" with a WebAssembly based virtualization solution, for more info:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/running-flash-in-webassembly-...

https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...

Feel free to drop me questions:
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Only 13 percent of the population, you say?
As someone who works for Amazon, I can tell you there is plenty of impressive technology built within Amazon that is only used internally to Amazon.
Are you the type of person who thinks the world is much more violent today than it was 50 years ago?
Growth is based on productivity gains.

Productivity gains only come marginally from optimization. Most productivity gains are from bigger machines (that eat more energy than smaller ones).

80% of our energy is from carbon, we have to cut 4% of this
every year starting last year to have a chance to barely stay below 2C.

This mean cutting what's feeding our machines by ~3% per year. So productivity losses. By cutting less productive sectors first we might manage that without entering recession for a few year, but even with that, thousands of people will be left over.
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This looks perfect for my case. I think I"m going to order this, thanks!
Black people are victims of crime that is perpetrated by people who are not police officers.
No, I would and do. I have common sense. And I understand what I'm reading. Most people do. Based on your comments here, you should probably stay away from satire websites since it seems you're easily mislead, but most of the rest of us can apply some basic critical thinking skills.
You're assuming that their information is accurate which we have no real reason to do.

From the article "It’s unclear how accurate Mobilewalla’s analysis actually is"
your cell phone is your camera though, which can be a very powerful accountability tool. Is there a reason that it wouldn't be better to go into airplane mode, disable wifi and bluetooth?
> supporting immigration, both legal and illegal.

I'm not sure how to assess or interpret what you're saying. What does it mean to "support immigration"?

I'm pretty sure you're not literally suggesting that absolutely zero people be allowed to move to the U.S.

It'd be helpful if you could explain what "supporting immigration" means to you in this context.

Otherwise it's all too easy for people to make their own (usually negative, often untrue) assumptions.

For the record, I'll say that I don't think folks illegally crossing the border should be treated the way they've been - especially with regards to the inhumane and immoral, and probably illegal camps that both adults and children were (are?) put in.

Obviously that's only one part of a much broader conversation, and, I want to give you the opportunity to explain what you mean, and not jump to conclusions.

Lastly, my own belief is "the view from nowhere" is impossible. We're all biased, consciously or otherwise, and I believe it's valuable to aspire to a self-awareness of that bias as I think "removing it" is a logical impossibility.

What I think is important for news organizations which aspire to trustworthiness to do, is, provide transparency, accountability, fact-checking, and overall thoughtfulness. Obviously some of these things are not easily quantifiable.

But, the humanities have centuries of experience in assessing and analyzing texts written by people. Philosophy is an example of one humanistic field which has its own procedures for analyzing more "qualitative" works, for example.

I'm a big fan of valuing expertise. Just as you'd want an experienced software developer making decisions about application development, I think it's valuable to turn to experts in written discourse - humanists of all stripes, the oft-maligned liberal arts - for direction in how to analyze texts.

Basically what I'm saying is if we're going to do this, let's do this for real ;). Otherwise, it's not reasoned, informed discussion/debate/analysis - it's just a reactive sharing of beliefs.
I'm trying to learn more about this. What I am reading suggests this is the wrong frame. What if all the money spent over-policing these neighborhoods was instead spent on social services to support the people living there? Would that decrease the crime rate more or less than the policing?

I'm not sure, but I'm becoming more convinced by this line of argument...
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Doing so would diminish the user community's ability to self police those edits somewhat. It's important to understand that Wikipedia is a public collaboration to a much greater degree than any other large websites are-- it's more like a big open source software project.

Wikipedia's viability depends critically on hundreds of millions of dollars of year of uncompensated volunteer labor by self-selecting contributors-- and a major component of that includes anti-vandalism.

As my sibling comment laments, Wikipedians directly feel the pain of any reduction in their anti-abuse toolchest-- while the countributor's privacy is almost a pure externality.

It's trivial to create an account, so any contributor that cares can self-serve a solution-- at least if they're sophisticated enough. If they're not even that sophisticated they're not exactly likely to make a case for this kind of change.

It also provide a bit of a false sense of privacy since the information is still retained by the site and available to many-- though the same situation exists for logged in users.

I think advocating access via tor would be more important: It's unfortunate to create a situation where a user's life or freedom might be endangered due to their contributions unethical-but-lawful order (or an accidental data breach) forces Wikimedia to expose them.
Thanks for sharing! This is a really great article and I enjoyed reading it
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These guys are the real deal, everyone!
Places like Baltimore's East/West sides and South Chicago already have arial surveillance, shot spotter, street corner camera, nearly limitless police power, and CommStat operations. These things have been in place for at least a decade and don't seem to be moving the needle.Sure, they could go full PRC, but I doubt anyone has the appetite for that level of draconian surveillance.

In my experience living in one of these places, police mostly don't investigate crime even when there's clear video.
You can control your wakefulness with certain drugs that are very common on commercial fishing boats.

You can improve your odds of not being overswept by using your tethers appropriately and wearing proper protective gear which many people forego because it's less comfortable to work in.
I think you're referring to Manning and not Snowden in your first paragraph because you reference the 'Military Police', so you should s/he/she/.
Does that include overtime, holiday pay and pensions? Using only a cop's base salary is incredibly misleading.
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You can always just limit the maximum velocity of objects.
Are there any plans to move the content to a non-Flash solution?
Why can't we do both? For people who don't own homes, we need to invest in clean energy sources for the power grid. For people that can't afford EV's now, if there were actually better demand for EV's auto manufacturers could make the investments to reach the economies of scale so that more people could afford an EV, PHEV, FCEV, whatever it may be. And if there is a big shift towards clean energy that will create new jobs as well as reduce pollution that causes health problems, particularly in low income neighborhoods.

On an individual level, if someone has the means to reduce their carbon footprint, why shouldn't they? On a national level, developed nations have more capital they can spend on shifting to clean energy. Poorer countries won't be able to afford to make some of those shifts. If the nations with the means make the shifts first, they can help bring down the costs of some of those green technologies to where it's more feasible for poorer nations in the world.

We're already at the point that wind and solar power is starting to be cheaper than coal power. Continuing along that path means the developing world can continue developing and expanding their economies with clean energy instead of fossil fuels.
Worse, it means you can't pull the drive out of a dead or to-be-resold laptop to salvage or secure the data on it.
The obvious question when looking at the comparison is, what kind of jpeg did they pick, and was it fair? It turns out that mozjpeg, which is pretty much state of the art, can squeeze out an extra 5% out of shades_jpg_4x_0.807.jpg.

Your comparison would be even more impressive if you produced the best jpegs you can at those sizes.
Yes I have read an old book for historical purposes which is why I still have my K&R C book. This is like complaining that you can't get a VHS Player anymore to teach the kids MS Works with The Video Professor.
Not a single mention of police unions.
Not only will Adobe stop distributing it, it will stop working.

> Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.
> could be used to drastically undermine encryption

That doesn't mean that is what's going to happen. The potential actions to be taken would still take in recommendations from provider input as stated in the bill. All the chatter online seems to speak definitively as if is the latter.
There's a whole cottage industry of apps monetizing user location in bulk.

They mainly position themselves as local deals apps (find the best restaurant, get a coupon from nearby store) and fitness apps (rewards for walking, running, etc.)

Both use cases call for always-on location sharing.
> brew info foundry
Error: No available formula with the name "foundry"

:(
Absolutely! Being able to improve a decoder for an existing encoder (and vica versa) is a great advantage!
They also mentioned their disapproval of riots and that they were worried about 'outside agitators', so it reads very much as if they went looking for the data to support their theory. The notion of wicked 'outside agitators' has often been thrown out by politicians who don't want to engage with an issue; it's an old trope that was used to delegitimize the civil rights movement in the 1960s by blaming it on communists or the influence of Martin Luther King. He commented on the trope explicitly in one of his Letters from Birmingham Jail:

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

Most recently, this was heard in Georgia following the death of Rayshard Brooks, and a subsequent riot in which a Wendy's restaurant was burnt down. A cry went up about 'outside agitators' and suspicion fell on a woman pictured at the scene; it turned out she was the late Mr Brooks' girlfriend.
Is there an engineering blog where they describe how they manage to show the exact timeline from where I left off each time I open the app?
Thankfully not, I’m terrible with a soldering iron. 13 inch mid 2010 MBP, model number 7.1, I think.

I heard the latest MBPs have soldered ram. Horrible and one of the reasons why I’m not thinking of buying one (besides them being rather pricey!).
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Confiscation/search is still an issue.

As far as the camera, the country is awash in old cell phones. If your goal is documentation (as opposed to immediate Twitter posts), it is far better than using the one with a phone number.
livestream.com (owned by Vimeo) still requires Flash when I access it with Firefox. I occasionally used it to find obscure/minor motorsports livestreams from random parts of the world (before lockdown put an end to most of that).
I feel like a $25 digital camera would be a better bet for several reasons.
Which bit of this Guardian article do you think is bad?

They use the term "so-called cyanide bomb" because people that the story is covering have called it a bomb.

The idea that Wildlife services is secretive is covered by this quote: "Congressman Peter DeFazio of Oregon, a long-time critic of Wildlife Services, has described the agency as more secretive than the Department of Homeland Security".
Part of the difference is scope and purpose. I'm ok with Amazon using my purchase, and product viewing data, to recommend products I might like to purchase. I'm even ok with them using aggregated data to determine where to invest in white-labled products, fix UX issues, or find fraud rings.

What I'm not ok with, is them selling my data, combining it with cellphone data, netflix viewing data, creditcard data, magazine subscriptions, email subscriptions, and many others, and building personal profiles that governments, political organizations, and commercial enterprises I don't have a direct relationship with to abuse.

I don't think it is a slippery-slope from from the more narrow, single-firm use case to the broad-profile-being abused. GDPR and similar regulation is one way we can get there. We are going to need probably another generation of people and laws to figure out the right regulatory norms and frameworks, but it seems like a tractable problem.
Food for thought, more than 50% of the federal budget is already spent on social services.
I'm not sure how much you know about Barcelona but it's an ancient city who's history can be traced back through to the Neolithic period with very narrow streets designed before motor vehicles. It's not really compatible to any US city.
Discover card used to have that feature. It was also a web-based flash app. I was hoping they'd rewrite it to not use Flash and keep it but they just killed the feature off.
> Is there a reason that it wouldn't be better to go into airplane mode, disable wifi and bluetooth?

If that worked then presumably Snowden would just do that instead of turning his phone off, taking out the battery, and putting it in the refrigerator.
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I think the internal tech is definitely part of original AWS, but of course, quickly it grows beyond that, and the majority of aws has no relevance with other Amazon tech. But the statement is definitely right at the beginning.

Plus, AWS no longer use such narrative anyway.
It’s hard to write a unity game where there aren’t large frame time spikes periodically. This is even in scenes where there is almost no code running, just from turning the camera too quickly. In unreal, I haven’t encountered the same issue. So, for some scenes, the frame time averages might make unity look pretty good, but then it just has a these massive drops (sometimes over a half second), again, with almost no scripting running.

Maybe I am just being petty. I am mostly just mad about unity revoking asset store usage rights post-purchase as a cash grab (before feb your freelancers could use your assets - now you need to buy them additional licenses for each)
ThinkPads are the one thing that would survive. Our 2010 iPad still works (barely), but no longer receives updates. My 2006, 2008 ThinkPads of course still receive updates and are obviously much more productive.
More crimes are documented because of extra policing, but that is different from whether more crimes are committed. Crimes of different degrees are happening all around, but if you look particularly in one area that is where you'll see crime.
Did a couple cursory google searches. Looks like the people funding this paper (SUEZ Spain) are selling a COVID senteniel service to track covid spread through the wastewater[0]. Nothing wrong with research funded by a for profit firm. However, in light of the, well, surprising claims this article makes, and how the article suggests that wastewater surveillance could have caught it that early and doesn't seem to be discussing the limitations of this approach (such as the apparent propensity for false positives...), it's something to keep in mind.

[0]https://www.suez.es/es-es/seccion-comercial/nuestras-referen...
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Thank you both. First time hearing, will give it a run!
For Mac apps, there is no human approval process, just an automated malware scan/code signing workflow.

Frankly, I find this less troublesome than Windows Defender refusing to run apps from indie developers who don't have a good enough "reputation score".
What makes you think we don't care about both?
Honestly I kind of like the idea of (optionally) allowing the AI to use every bit of the player's silicon against them.
I appreciate his effort (having played for decades), but that aside...the difficulty is knowing what's wrong and why something is happening.

The horrid military UI is inherent to the game. Bugs that are left for months (if not years) like the inability for seiges to enter your site (hiding just offscreen, slowly killing your CPU) or the current persistent bad memories, often makes aspects of the game unplayable WITHOUT the complexity and issues with mods that are necessary. Yes you can play the game in ASCII or with chopsticks or blindfolded with someone barking at what you need to do, but complexity and difficulty is not commensurate with fun or depth. DF is not the only game to fall into this trap.

DF has depth outside of the UI/setup/bugs, but onboarding is what Tarn is addressing (partly) in the Steam release. Good.

I think the difficulty of learning the game is on point.