skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of gaining influence, sure, maybe they're ethically on par. But saying it's reasonable they're weaponizing space because "they need to counteract US capabilities" is a flawed argument. They could counteract US capabilities by investing in the education and economic well-being of their populace, which, if enacted in 2000 when Putin came into power, would have given enormous dividends to technological and military capability by now. Instead they spend their human capital luring college graduates into troll farms in Siberia with the promise of bare minimum shelter and food.

Internally, Russia is a deeply shitty regime, run by mobsters and thugs and preying on its populace. The US has a lot of problems too (and even more so since 2017) but its fundamental framework still prioritizes individual rights and freedom of expression without fear of punishment (although, unlike its allies, it doesn't do much to provide healthcare or education). I would much rather have a world that's dominated by the US than one dominated by Russia or China.
pgp solved many use-cases.
Solaris hasn't beaten Linux in performance in the past 5 years in anything.

As a matter of fact, you can't point to a single source that proves your point.

"That which is purported without evidence can be disregarded without evidence."
It's also less likely to encounter anything online outside of your comfort zone when all the stinking algorithms are trying to find the coziest, most addictive material available to keep you around.
By that definition, so is Please Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas.
Yea i've seen this many times with price comparison engines, i even used to work for one and was head of search back then. We had to actually "tune/down-weight" phone accessories vs phones. Ppl typing in "iphones" wants "iphones". Ppl typing in iphone cases wants "iphone cases". The rudimentary problem is both of the text tokens are in the titles and are popular products. "precision vs recall vs popularity/sorting". We had a similar but lesser problem with books (the titles are so vast and ambiguous). Lol you get a book called 'iphone'. The leading ecomm platform in my country (s.a) has this book problem in search results and mm-tokens still. Looking at you T..A..L ;).

End of the day, search is hard and personal.
>I don't really think the name matters; Jesus wasn't speaking English.

Diction mattered a great deal to Christ. Gehanna (Hebrew: Valley of Hinnom; גיא בן הינום) was a location in Christ's time, that was likely associated with burning, destruction and loss - things that one might be expected to feel in the absence of the Creator.

Hades was where all dead went and remained until the day of judgment. Christ's reference to it as Paradise implies it isn't a place of suffering. Catholicism's Limbo implies it is a place of waiting.

The modern notion of Hell as a location dedicated to the eternal suffering of man, is quite different from either of those places.
Probably something like, “oh, we have to go to this no name university next“, “what do we have?”, “well, we can bring these pizzas...”, “yeah okay, let’s put them in the car and get this over with quick”.
Appointment platform for supermarkets, gyms, restaurants, salons, doctors, banks
An easy to setup appointment platform to help retail businesses get back on their feet during COVID-19 pandemic
The audits check that controls are in place, not that the controls are technically bulletproof or people-proof.

Source: Worked at AWS for several years including working on systems that had audit requirements for [secret project where I could not know the name of the customer because I don't have TOP SECRET security clearance].
Given that the whole world is geared towards extroverts, I'm happily drinking their uncomfortable tears for the time being.
This just varies from person to person and workplace to workplace. Many people are fine without in-person interactions. Others go insane without them.
It's easy to replace Slack the tech, it's hard to replace Slack the app that people are used to when they say they want a chat app for their company.

It's like saying Windows is not difficult to replace. Technicaly true but practically false.
I like the solutions that have extra days that don’t fit anywhere else. Those should just be legally recognized paid holidays.
Samsung phones can replace ID cards for German citizens
I miss Amazon before 2010. Or the Internet. It was so easy to find great things, real reviews, etc.
So how do you revoke sessions? There’s no way to logout or invalidate sessions? That may be okay for your use case but it means if a session token is ever leaked it can be used presumably forever. I would recommend maintaining a table of active sessions in the DB and periodically checking the client’s session token against that. That way you avoid DB queries on each request (session is verified cryptographically), but every X minutes you check that the session is still valid by asking the DB.

I’m not sure what you mean by stateless server. The server keeps state regardless of whether you use a session verified by the database or verified by encryption.
> Cancel culture has quenched political discussion.

To the extent “cancel culture” describes something new, it has not.

> It’s impossible to share views, even among coworkers you might consider friends, without serious risk to one’s employment.

It always has been, for certain views.

Which views are more safe and which are more dangerous has changed over time. People who think that it has suddenly become dangerous is people who have views that have recently become less privileged in this context.
I hope you don't mind the YouTube link which doesn't require a Spotify login: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGLOZmCj7E

Did GPT-3 also devise the melody, not just the lyrics?

... it sure sounds like a "real song"!
Exactly. That’s partly why I love living in Vietnam. The neighborhoods are so vibrant and full of life. Everyone is out on the stoop. Neighbors all know each other and buy from each other.

Of course, from my apartment I hear karaoke late at night, roosters early in the morning, and construction, always construction.

So there are drawbacks. It would be disruptive, especially in suburbia. But I would love some middle ground between crazy Saigon and cultural desert suburban Atlanta.
Rocket Internet in Germany do that too. They gas lit us about wanting to invest and then launched a competing product. I wasn't surprised.
Some group of people on the S3 team likely have root access to the machines where your objects are stored. If you don't have encryption turned on...
The title is a bit misleading..
Its interesting that that neighborhood could be defined as low density, but it's at least twice a dense as my neighborhood, and I can quickly drive to neighborhoods that are half as dense as that without even hitting millionaire neighborhoods.
Do you like this simple framework for Deno
There are many reasons besides ability why someone may not be able to graduate.
Lawmakers in charge of grilling FAAG companies own thousands of their stocks
This is a good point and a reasonable request! Here's one
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360

Note, when looking at this literature: there is a huge publication bias. Publishing a paper that fits the popular (in social sciences) narratives is easy, publishing one that goes against them (like the one I linked) is hard and may well be career suicide. Also, the bar for what constitutes good enough science in these areas is very low.
Well, in my workplace for example, there'd be spontaneous questions that would move to the whiteboard, and ideas could be fleshed out and developed there. Also, research meetings and journal clubs would be lively and full of debate. Since WFH started, none of this has been the case.

Again, i think it really depends on the people and the workplace. Some people are really content working from home, others are losing their minds.
Good idea, I like mixed zoning and supporting small local businesses rather than behemoths like Walmart.
It's only due to the local governments not requiring developers to build sidewalks. Most modern cities require any new or modifications to implement sidewalks.

The Northeast has a lot of old places that you will see small strips of sidewalk and then no sidewalk, and then sidewalk again. Because they force the new construction to have it, but the stuff that was already there won't.
I missed it on the first read too: it’s at the very top where it says

Read the journal article

Something about the format or style of that part of the page made my mind assume it was a link to a related page and my eyes just skipped right over it. I have included the link for you below.

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/abn-abn0000428.pd...
True but taking the high road has resulted in science denying idiots to come to power in the US. I am not sure taking the high road is beneficial start calling them out on there idiocy stop giving them space for spreading their idiocy.
Sure. There's an old saying, "you're entitled to the effort, but not the outcome." You can plan to do something, but you cannot ensure that the effects of your actions are limited or constrained to merely what you intended. The distance between what we expect to happen and what actually happens is therefore a measure of how well our ethical reasoning lines up with our moral compass.

But this is precisely what predictive modelling gives us; a model shows us approximately what will happen, according to some mechanism of action. If we want to see some particular change in the world, then the predictive model shows us what we should do in order to effect that change.

To be concrete and continue talking about Christianity, it is a common feature of many different Christian practices around the world to catastrophically misunderstand COVID-19 and SARS-COV-2. Church buildings offering in-person services, church leaders reusing masks in ceremonies, church leaders claiming to remove COVID-19 from communities with holy power, etc. Many of these practices seem to be based on delusional beliefs about cellular biology, combined with magical thinking about the power of prayer and baptism. While I don't doubt that these folks would like COVID-19 to go away, they are not behaving as if they want that to be the case.

A nibling comment precisely says "is-ought" as if it's a checkmate. I would reply that the entire idea of morality is contingent on who we consider to be agentive and what choices we expect them to make. Pirsig considered atoms to be moral when they obeyed the laws of chemistry; Conway considered the fact that particles are morally required to contextualize their behavior. Both of them took this stance because they realized that atoms are sometimes forced to make choices. To complete the analogy, we can use predictive modelling to perform chemical reactions and expect that the chemicals ought to react within a certain time to produce certain yield and byproducts, even though the reaction isn't obligated to do so just by thermodynamics alone.
Three of the cofounders are from Palantir. Privacy is not mentioned as a concern in the original post.

Are we expected to believe this is really a product to keep people connected, or is this another big data weapon for the corporate mass surveillance arsenal? And what's the probability that data may end up in China, like with Zoom?

> If you don't really want to talk to your team during the day, Sidekick probably isn't a great fit.

Wow, thunderstruck.
nti-social mobility, anti-equality, openly classist ideas we have in our society

But on the flip side, deciding that newcomers know better how to manage already occupied land is basically colonialism...
The discussion at hand is about the effects of “Perseverance towards life goals” when somebody has depression, anxiety, or what have you. The article mentions it is useful, and I can no doubt agree with that. It can be meditative, having a mission and all (perhaps one that you do not 100% agree with). It is satisfying, and can keep life afloat.

But this “fake mission” trick should be just that — a trick. A placeholder in life for when things get real tough. A patch on your wound that helps the wound heal. The patch isn’t healing the wound, your body is.

But people (e.g. self-help aficionados) become thoroughly entranced with this idea (among other bad ideas like growth
mindset) that they lose sight of the fact that a patch is a patch, a bandage a bandage. It has outlived its usefulness, but people keep treating it as a real solution.

Most often when people observe their mind they can dig up a lot of content. Depression, anxiety, and what have you are real things that you can explore and navigate. How to navigate and what to do with them is extremely difficult because we have never been taught how. We sort of induct what our parents and teachers do without explicitly categorizing/identifying what is going on in out minds. Most times we are running the same damn loop for the, what, millionth time in a row. The same situation, the same psychological response, the same result.

Without even going into replication crisis, there are a lot of psychological theories and therapies that are sold, to others and even to the theorizer him/herself. The mind is a value-seeking machine that will not deter itself from using fiction to understand the world and get what it wants.

Interestingly, the fiction of the mind acts as a patch itself, but it is never recognized by the self because the mind (most of the time) does it under the rug. So the patch sticks around and causes problems.

The solution is to recognize that the mind can employ fiction and slowly but surely the mind will start doing these things overtly visibly to you (simply because it doesn’t have to hide it anymore).

Stay on track with what the mind provides to you and be free about it (sometimes ignore it, hate it, listen to it, coddle it, be depressed, be anxious — to the mind emotions are generated and should be accepted without scores attached to them). Then the implicit goals will become explicit. But this hijacking of explicit goals without respecting implicit goals is pure whack.
While I cannot comment on a startup's or Amazon's perspective on this matter, I had interactions with Amazon employees that was in fact deceptive.

Short story: Amazon representative tried to trick influencer into sending their traffic without compensation.

Long story:

At the time, I commercially represented an influencer (largest in a mainstream niche with an active targeted fanbase) who had been approached by Amazon to sell access to our online course on Amazon (as in: let customers buy a coupon code for our content platform). The paperwork we received to sign did not reflect the terms we had negotiated. It included some kind of fees etc. that had never been mentioned, basically shifting percentage in favour of Amazon using fine-print. This felt dishonest.

We decided to do it anyway due to their promises of considerable sales for our program including projections. Then the representative showed us a listing of a direct competitor and told us the number of sales this competitor was able to generate. While it's nice to be on the receiving end of such information, it's unethical. Who knows how truthful the numbers were anyway.

But then the week of deals started and nothing happened. No sales.

This could have had many causes but instead of revisiting the offer or the listing or just say "bad luck", the representative kept insisting that the influencer send their traffic to Amazon which is usually a business transaction but that wasn't part of the deal. They kept insisting anyway, even a second representative.

I'm not keen on doing business with Amazon after that encounter.
Any comments from someone using this font as a daily driver?
I cant seem to move on from Source Code Pro (not that i'm looking to, just tried a couple and found myself clinging to Source Code Pro at the end of the day)
This looks nice (similar to what I thought about JetBrains Mono)
Try looking into the "silent" keyswitch variations, e.g. Cherry MX Silent Reds.

The strength of the mechanical market, the reason why it's getting bigger, is not that it's mechanical and "clicky"(that's the stereotype), but that it's customizable. All of it. Case, PCB, keyswitches, keycaps, stabilizers. If you don't like the switches stock, they can be relubricated and modded with rubber O-rings. If you want a dampened response the stabilizers and keycaps can be heavier. The hobby has developed from that over the last decade - being able to take the platform and "own" it.

Yes, you can get a low-profile scissor switch design and it'll be quiet and function for years. But it will also be unmaintainable and resist even basic cleaning.
> There is people with a high level of trust. They will believe almost anything.

The internet must be a hell of a place for these.
No, summer will be alive and well in Phoenix, AZ.
Quartz Crisis
I encountered a surprising remark recently: someone said they had no interest in Clojure because it is proprietary.

In what way is it proprietary? Do Clojure programs depend on a runtime distributed with a restrictive license?
Countries Using Hydroxychloroquine Have Lower Covid-19 Fatality Rates
My understanding is that black voters are also to the right of the median on abortion. I can't find any recent statistics - all the polls I'm seeing only break down "white" and "non-white", but black Americans trailing in support for abortion is a historically well-known phenomenon (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3852356/).

The other issues, yeah, you're right. I don't really consider taxes a social issue, but I realized I forgot about gun control.
Ehh, this could backfire if it ends up in the uncanny valley realm. Consumers prefer images of models wearing clothing, because it shows the fitment. They may flock to brands that explicitly use real models.

IMO, modeling is one of those things that will never go away because of how cheap this labor is compared to hiring someone to make a software solution. Just like how it is cheaper to stock a fast food joint with a few minimum wage people worked to the bone than a sleek robot with a pricey service contract, even if the latter is sexier.
I suppose because the author used both the word running and the emoji, the implications is that I need the emoji to understand the text.

I agree that emojis which express emotion not conveyed in text are useful. ;-)
The way I read it it was referring to the type of businesses that arise in already dying residential areas, due to the rent being cheap, etc. and individuals can start their yoga studio or karate doja and such. The businesses themselves aren't bad, but they are a symptom of a neighborhood in decline. Don't know if that is true, but that's how I understood it.
100%

if this was article about how to validate a product idea, that fb launches, than it might be helpful and poignant.

but it has no relevance for validating a start-up
If it created trails, then it would also multiply the brightness of the stars and the comet by the number of pictures (17 in this case). Each satellite appears only on one photo, while the stars and comets appear on all 17 in the exact same spot. The only way to stack them to get a normal looking stars and comet is to make an average. And since the satellites only appear on 1 out of 17 they would effectively disappear.

Unless you actually want to have the satellites there, then the stacking would just cut the region with the satellite from each photo and simply glue them together. That's how you can get this image.

I actually just tried it in Hugin. Normal stacking from 2 pictures by default made the objects that appeared only on one of the pictures semi-transparent. If I did this with more pictures, they would be so transparent that I wouldn't see them at all. But I could manually select a mask to cut out the portions that I don't want. If I select and exclude the object (satellite streak) it would disappear completely. But I could also purposefully include the streak and in that case all the satellite streaks would be included in full brightness in the result. That's most likely how this photo was made.
Why not just chat with your coworkers on Slack or whatever your company's messaging platform is? I'm still having the same conversations online that I would in person.
Reading this makes me happy! Always good to see people taking security seriously.
Your comment misses alot of nuances about Clojure. Most Clojure devs I know were already senior devs in one or more languages, and were very capable of dealing with any missing "out of the box" functionality.

Besides, by sitting on top of the JVM you have access to alot of mature libraries, and it's extremely easy to do a wrapper in clojure.

What the spring & other frameworks have as an advantage is a predefined set of opinionated choices about logging, error handling, validation and so on that would give you a couple of weeks advantage at top. What they don't have is an expressive language as clojure.
Runaway star might explain black hole's disappearing act
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Leaving Facebook: a critique of fb's policies, priorities, and ideologies
Good question. I might guess it's as free as most things in surveillance capitalism.

Well, even if it were legal to host it yourself, most won't do it, so Google still cashs in on the surveillance side.
I see what you are saying, but I think that if things exist in the tax code that can only be taken advantage of by large companies, it is -effectively- the same thing as a big company exemption.
> In this article the rights of a photographer was successfully defended

The rights of the photographer was respected from the very beginning. The attribution was still there for anyone to see. The “problem” was that it wasn’t included in the thumbnail, because it unsurprisingly didn’t fit in.

> so the system is a least working in some cases

No, this case represents a spectacular failure to protect people’s right to privacy and fair use. Why this is the case is already explained throughout this thread, so I don’t think we need to repeat this here.
If you search online for "I am the sheepdog", you'll find plenty:
https://www.google.com/search?q=i+am+the+sheepdog&tbm=isch

(Note how much the "thin blue line" imagery is used in conjunction with this - that's how you know who's the target audience.)

It all ultimately comes from Dave Grossman, who's one of the most worshipped figures in modern American policing:
https://www.policeone.com/police-products/training-products/...

This guy now runs the "Grossman Academy", which offers police training. It's popular enough that they have train-your-entire-PD discounts.
“Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or maintaining high levels of tenacity, resilience and optimism,” she said. “Aspiring toward personal and career goals can make people feel like their lives have meaning. On the other hand, disengaging from striving toward those aims or having a cynical attitude can have high mental health costs.”

No they don't. Your findings suggest that people who have more perseverance have reduced risk of depression and anxiety later in life. Additional research would be needed to prove that "we can increase perseverance by aspiring towards goals", and that "increasing perseverance reduces that individuals risk of anxiety and depression". And I would be very surprised if both of these are true.
QAnon believers will likely outlast and outsmart Twitter’s bans