skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why weren't they both punished evenly? Seems like a biased decision. Is it because Lori is a "celebrity"?
"Hi, quick question"
I don't get it. How can a public University even pay ransoms in practice? What do the statutory auditor say? What does the IRS say?
I totally agree with the sentiment represented here but thinking linking someone to this is a bad way to handle the situation with others. I think it’s best handled by asking them after they make one of these requests and they get their answer. Linking to external sites feels passive aggressive to most people who are just trying to be nice.
It just seems passive aggressive, not necessarily rude, per se. You could pull it off if you're a Guilfoyle type. But it definitely does not make you look approachable.

It does give me a good chuckle to think how annoyed someone must have been to have made this site in the first place :)
You hope someone lost their livelihood due to the perception that they did not write down a piece of trivia in an article? Geez. I get the magnitude of 9/11, but the hyperbole seems misplaced here.
The difference I've noticed between American corruption and Eastern European corruption, is that you need to spend a lot more money to be corrupt in the US.

To get basic things done in Russia, like official paperwork, basic government services, or dealing with cops, it always helped to grease the wheels in some way. None of that really works in the US, you need to spend a lot more to be involved in corruption, and even then, it's often uncertain.
The plane is the attacker, unless someone invaded their home and put SAM sites everywhere while they were out.
Currently, in the examples given (brick and mortar stores, city infrastructure) analytics are heavily used without any consent. The common sense and law now is that there is little privacy on a public property (eg. you go outside, others have the right to film you), and websites are also "public" properties (the big difference is that you access them from the privacy on your own home). You think that the law should be changed? But again, where do we draw the line. Should a criminal give consent for his murder to be included in the "yearly homicides" statistic?
Google has a whole list of these (ActionableIM, OnlyHello, ContextPlz); I'm into FastHello

1. Open the chat window, and type your question with no "hello". Do not press enter.
2. Instead, press Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-X to cut your question out of the chat window and into your clipboard.
3. type and send "hello"
4. Pause 2-5 seconds
5. Ctrl-P and enter to send your full question.
Wonder whether these can explain many characteristics and issues of both democracy and court as well as totalitarian process. Real life it is always a mix. USA version has a total open public bus, (congress senate and court) but closed one (3 letters). China mostly closed but on its own way open (with heavy sanction). Just wonder.
Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home
Also the Shonan Monorail, from Ofuna to Shonan-Enoshima to the south west from Tokyo.

Full ride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQbFTxpnGZY

Ride & walk through Enoshima:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLpEvRvjZc

We rode it back in 2017 and it's really an interesting experience & as far as I can tell the only top rail monorail with tunnels. :)

Also as mentioned already, this is not a tourist gimmick - while Enoshima is indeed very nice and a popular tourist destination - it is evident most of the people on board are locals using it for commuting and generally moving around.
And it seems to be very good at it, running over an often steep ridge & over roads, it provides fast and convenient transportation without wasting space.

Also due to using rubber wheels instead of the steel wheels the Schwebebahn uses it can (and does!) negotiate much steeper gradient present on the route.

A+++, would ride again. ;-)
I have no idea. I honestly don't remember what things were like 6-8 years ago.
You can sideload on Android - why is Google charging 30%? You have a choice of three consoles - why aren’t developers side loading there? Where are the successful third party app stores for Android? Why did Epic decide to relent and make their game available on Google Play?
It doesn't seem to work. I just get a Heroku get started page.
Put a smilely emoji in there or something and you're good
The American tradition is fundamentally skeptical towards governmental power.

This is a disposition and ideal.

Clearly we can violate that ideal at any point.

But it's like saying that dieting is useless cause you can gorge on food whenever you want to.
My impression from the layoffs thread from a couple weeks ago is that the Foundation does not employ engineers working on Firefox.
Even if true (which it is not), the mac app store sales are negligible compared to the mobile platform in terms of volume.
Years ago I worked with several people from UK. No subject matter will be broached until pleasantries have been exchanged. After a period of time they will ask to proceed. Then, only after a definitive "yes, go ahead" and a "no, this is not too much trouble", will they finally make their request. I found it both charming and terribly inefficient.
IANAL and I haven’t read Epic’s motion (#), but reading that, I can’t see any other outcome of this first round than “There’s no urgency to make any statement about the actual case, so Epic’s motion asking for one is dismissed” (in a text that’s quite a bit longer because it has to address the points made by either side that are relevant to the decision on urgency)

#) that’s a weak point, but http://www.fosspatents.com/2020/08/epic-games-asks-district-... agrees with what I say above.
Aren't they all locked down a bunch, or does this apply to say the latest Paperwhite?
Something simpler for me: most chat clients have a key combo to make newlines when pressing enter, like shift-enter or opt/alt-enter.

Type hello, shift-enter-shift-enter, type your message, enter.
Those who destroy history are the worst.
>They plied him with gifts such as a bottle of cognac and the Russian military uniform.

> he traveled to Russia one last time in 2010, emphasizing to his handlers that he wanted to pursue business there but that his handlers encouraged him to get a job with the American government.

Not much incentive for risking life and liberty here. And a bad advertisement for any would-be spys.
That's almost exactly the path I've gone down, and svelte is something I've been seriously researching for a couple months now.

I have a nagging problem that keeps coming back to me though. The declarative state model is the holy grail for UI design, but if you try to mix in any form of imperative logic, it all falls apart. All of a sudden you need to understand and plug into poorly documented and opaque component lifecycle APIs in order to insert your imperative code and have it work correctly. And that really messes up the nice clean solution, making it look more like a chimera of two state models.

Some of that is fixed by libraries that create components native to your framework of choice, implementing the appropriate lifecycle hooks as necessary. But now you're relying on a library that adapts one library to another library, and now you've got a dependency sync problem on top of it all.

It wouldn't be such a problem if there weren't so many extremely useful libraries that depend on imperative code. Personally, I've run into massive problems trying to use D3, Leaflet, and Bootstrap, as well as a handful of others. I'm sure there are thousands more.

Not trying to take away from your point. When these declarative state models work well, it's a beautiful thing to behold. But there's always some point where the abstraction leaks.

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/onmount

https://reactjs.org/docs/state-and-lifecycle.html

https://blog.logrocket.com/introduction-to-vue-lifecycle-hoo...

https://mithril.js.org/lifecycle-methods.html
He’s an investor in it. Is he also a founder?
No mic so it’s sort of half baked.
Aside from the lens, sensor size, and the huge amount of power to run a consumer camera compared to a webcam on your laptop, are there major differences in the output format or video processing? Turning one into the other always seems like such a big deal/problem.
The jist of this is you should still be polite and say Hi or Hello in your message, but include the question in the message.

You'll get a response much faster.

I'll often do something like

Hi <name>, <insert question>
I don't get how someone can get so annoyed at what is just basic politeness. Clearly, computers are making some folks insane
I don't know how F is implemented but in a lot of stack languages printing to the terminal isn't really a side effect. Every function takes the state of the entire world as it's one and only parameter and returns a new world.
It seems like there can be some advantages to using the traditional structure. The fsm might be implemented in an object that receives input each time it's called, and is itself embedded in a larger loop. In that case, a goto doesn't make much sense, and storing the state of the machine in anticipation of the next call is what is needed.

The loop based implementation also seems more similar to how one would implement an fsm in a hardware description language. A loop that is visited once per clock cycle seems easier to understand and debug.
But your comparison (and fear) only holds if you believe that in 2020 we could see alchemy exist without being outright debunked. This is what I'm saying is different in the world of 2020 vs even just 110 years ago (phrenology).

Gender studies aren't new either, sure they've been a resurgence but we're talking about decades by now. If it truly doesn't hold a single ounce of useful meaning as a field in a world of constant worldwide scrutiny that, even limited to the "scientists" of yore, has probably not doubled but gone beyond tenfold, where's the evidence to raze it all?

We're fearing what we don't understand because it shatters our perceptions, but we're in the best of times to be facing new things with open arms in order to apply the full brunt of scientific techniques to it and sift through what will stand the test of time.
> However, only about 250 million people are active console users who regularly buy new games for them. Although they represent only 8% of the total number of gamers, this is the group with the highest revenue per person.

Why is there an "although" at the beginning of that sentence? Why wouldn't they be generating the highest revenue person?
I always assume its because the person wants to make sure you are there before they bother to type the question. If not they will work it out themselves.

Never respond to hi. :)
All about Roundabouts
~3% or less.
I would suspect that that's due to there being no point in the past of engineering aircraft that can do acceleration that would kill the pilot inside.

Now that no pilot is necessarily needed, different choices can be made.
> most reasonable people have no accepted expectation of their activity being monitored

In the case of stores, they still need analytics in order to know the volume of each type of products sold in order to restock efficiently and bring in enough for everyone, right?

Do you think it's unethical for them to rearrange the products such that you find easier something that you might like? What about rearranging them to make you walk more in order to get what you want, so that you see more products overall?
Not likely, I tried that route about 2 years ago... they started calling and leaving threatening messages every day until I paid up. Not sure what would have happened if I kept ignoring them.
A perfect graduate level class would be "here's a box full of computer parts, at the end of the semester I'll give you the grade you display on a web page served by the computer you build and compile from scratch".

I actually had a class not too different in spirit from that once, but it wasn't even close to graduate level. It was a class I took at Brunswick Community College while working on an A.S. degree in Computer Programming.

Here's how it went: I had been at BCC before, when I got an Associate in General Education degree. I had taken a few computer related classes, and had gotten to know the main instructor who taught most of the computer programming stuff. Maybe it helped that we were both named "Phil" but we struck up a mild acquaintanceship if not an outright friendship.

Fast forward a few years, after I had transfered to UNC-W, then dropped out, then returned to BCC to get another associate degree. I signed up for a class titled "Operating Systems", which turned out to be more of a "Survey of Operating Systems" not any kind of "OS internals" (keep in mind, we were at a community college here). Anyway, I walk into class the first day and my old friend Phil is the instructor. He looks at me, smiles, and says "I have a deal for you."

I don't know what the rest of the class did all semester, but he pointed me to a room off to the side of the main room we were in, that held:

1. An ancient IBM AS/400 minicomputer

2. The biggest stack of those big-ass reel tapes I've ever seen

3. A ginormous stack of manuals

The deal he offers me? Get an operating system installed on this machine, get it booting (except they don't call it "boot" in AS/400 land, they call it "IPL" for Initial Program Load or something to that effect), put it on the Internet, and be able to log into it remotely. If I do that, no matter how long it takes, I get an "A" for the class, and don't have to do any of the other work the others are doing.

Apparently this monstrosity had been donated to the college by a local company that decommissioned it. And I guess the college had nobody on staff (besides instructor Phil) who knew anything about the things. Not sure how long it had been sitting there before the job fell into my lap, but I digress...

As it were, it took a little while (at the time I'd never touched an AS/400 before), but I managed to get it going. Then I spent the rest of the semester coming in and just playing around on that thing. I got my "A" and even more, Phil helped me land my first real IT job as an AS/400 operator. Which all led, indirectly, through fits and starts, to where I am today.

I don't work specifically with AS/400 (iSeries now, I think) machines any more, but I have a sort of sentimental attachment to them I guess. Not so much for RPG/IV and SEU though.
>> If you don't know what you're doing you will shoot yourself in the foot.

Can confirm. My team of mostly fullstack devs that prefer backend ran into lots of issues with too much freedom in Mithril.
I'm not sure if Americans are better off, but the sale is certainly for political reasons. It's inherently about a fear of the Chinese government data-mining with millions of American citizens; if an American entity is doing it, they probably wouldn't care nearly as much.
Oh really? And how would one access the fair market value of an admission to Harvard?
To whomever went to the trouble of writing this up, then giving it a dedicated domain -- thank you, you're making the world a better place.
Beyond that, most game devs today use established engines like Unity or Unreal, which typically have one-click build buttons for all major platforms. The level of abstraction has been raised, which affects not only game logic but even things like graphics APIs (DirectX vs Vulkan vs Metal) and packaging (installer, icons, etc). The bar has never been lower to throw in Linux support, even if you don't expect a huge market.
Why would I print my chat window
"Hello" <Control Enter> Type your question. Your welcome.
It's a plea deal, he plead guilty to more crimes.

>Loughlin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, and Giannulli pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/22/us/lori-loughlin-guilty-p...
Of course they are.

CFIUS is the governing body who decides which foreign investments are a threat to the U.S., not the president, and they have been investigating TikTok for two years without finding anything despite the recent executive order. It makes the executive order look more like political headline bait than having actual teeth, especially considering IEEPA prohibits executive power from being used to block speech or media.
People who just say "Hi" to me often don't get an answer at all.

I don't want to risk someone interrupting my chain of thought with some request that I can't / don't want to act on.

But if I respond to a "Hi" and then decide that I don't want to deal with the actual question, that's perceived as rude.

If you ask the question straight out, then I can decide to respond or not.
I am arguing that you have had some extra help in your life. You got the benefit of many programs in place to benefit you because of the demographic of your parents. Someone else may get some extra help because the demographic of their parent.

Both those cases come at potential expense of others.

I'm sorry you are upset that you weren't qualified for this extra help too, but sometimes being qualified for one form of help doesn't qualify you for other forms of help. This is because there are a million reasons two people can be non-equal.

Look at how upset you are that you didn't get special consideration because you aren't a person of color. That you had someone make a decision about you based on that. Now imagine getting through all those years of college while experiencing that on a regular basis... seems like it might be hard, no?

I would strongly consider the "extra melanin" as a giant bonus for candidates, they have shown they can put up with some pretty challenging stuff without quitting school over it. People that can handle challenges are the people I want on my team, not people who abandon goals the first time they encounter something that's personally difficult.

As the random non-sequitor into education policy:

* home schooling and private schools and religious schools have existed as alternatives to government run public schools forever. There is no monopoly.

* Perhaps we could consider paying the teachers a decent wage instead of demonizing those who try to get them a decent wage? Do you think FAANG would stay at the top if they paid engineers shit, if not why would teaching be different?

* What does this have to do with helping people get to an equitable place?
In general there is nothing wrong with marketing an interior product. It may be cheaper or more promising than the market leader but the customer is still able to decide for themselves. That said, it gets bad as soon as you market something your product doesn't offer (e.g. lie)
Maybe when the new SE came out?
That’s actually a great point I was on “vacation” last week and got messaged every single day despite my palm tree emoji.
It just takes some practice.
Why so many steps when you could just ask the question?
I submitted this a while back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplo...

Plenty of weird stories, like Montenegro being at war with Japan from 1904 to 2006.
> Android is also kinda a walled garden

You can send an .apk to any android user and they will be able to install it. That's the opposite of a walled garden.

> At least in this context play store terms is not more developer friendly than app store in ios.

You don't have to pay Google $100 every year.

Your app is published within 30 mins.

You can deploy pretty much any app that runs on Android (other browsers, other stores, etc).

You can sell stuff on your app or even put a button to your website to buy stuff.

Etc.
It's the same with those ponderous extended variants on "can I just jump in here. Would you mind if I asked a question? Because I'm curious to know..." - seem to be to be used by people from all over.
> Anyone can start a private chat encrypted end-to-end, those messages only stay on the device, and you can set them to auto-delete from BOTH user devices in 3 seconds, 5, 10, 30 second, 1min, 1 hour, 1 day.

Sure they can encrypt E2E but they don't.
Most chats on Telegram are unencrypted. Huge channels like the one mentioned above are full of agents and nothing prevents them from taking screenshots.

Don't spread false security.
It's a plea deal, he plead guilty to more crimes. It is likely they discussed it.

>Loughlin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, and Giannulli pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/22/us/lori-loughlin-guilty-p...
Part of the 'hello' problem is to get around the lack of context about what the other person is doing - particularly about who else might see their screen at that time. I still prefer just asking the question but that was the reason some others gave when I asked why they did the 'hello's.
Three other things:

- Use spacing to make your message easy to parse.

- Have clear questions that are easy to jump back and respond to. Have them separated out by spacing, and preferably numbered.

- If there's something I need to copy paste, an email address, a specific id, a phone number, then put it on it's own line. Then I can double click and get the whole thing rather then dragging the cursor to do it.
Doh! I missed the edit deadline...

But here it is:
http://smiiles.com/anthony
No Hello: Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
I agree. Zuckerberg's greed has no limits. He can rationalize anything as long as he wins.
> Would you think it was rude if you saw this link as somebody’s status message?

Absolutely not; clearly communicating expectations makes life easier for everyone, which is (much of) what politeness is supposed to be about in the first place. The only possible suggestion I have is inlining a 1-sentence summary.
PCs are more expensive than consoles, so one might be led to think that PC gamers have more money than console gamers and thus spend more on games than their console brethrens.
This is good advice, for the people who tends to ask to ask, or surround their questions with bunch of fluff.

On the other hand, is you, the question-receiver. The example starts with "CO-WORKER WAITS WHILE YOU PHRASE YOUR QUESTION" but that's not how I usually deal with these types of conversations.

If someone just writes "Hi" to me without something else and I'm busy, I won't reply until there is more messages, and instead continue with my work.

Although, ideally there would be no "Hi" messages. But, not everything goes as we want it to.
I've found that one a lot more common than the "Hello" thing, but I'm sure it varies by the team.
It's like using Reddit upvotes for a measure of American politics.

They have a massive audience but Ron Paul and Bernie still weren't anywhere near the presidency.
Trouble is it is impoliteness.

Q: Are you listening?
A: Yes
Q:
A: ?
Q: [typing]

Politeness would be preparing what you're going to ask me before requesting my attention.
The other thing that gets my goat is the person that sends every line. I guess it’s hard not to do in slack since “enter” sends, but I really wish slack would debounce messages notifications from the same person.
A few hundred dollars? What does that buy you?
I don't have slack notifications on at all. I just check it 2-3 times a day when I am between jobs.
> Yeah, it feels more like they're getting punished for getting a discount and not giving the universities the bribe directly.

What do you think the word "bribe" means? Paying money for a service (admission to a university) is not a bribe. Exchanging money for services is literally how the entire economy works.

Paying an agent of an organization money to subvert their organization's processes and steal from their employer, on the other hand, is actual bribery.
If we have a hanging chads style dispute Facebook plans to side with Biden and shutdown Trump’s ability to make his case to the public.
If college admission slots are going to be up for sale, colleges need to be honest about it and post the prices. We have no way of knowing if the rich kid is displacing someone more deserving or not.