skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> You are seeing them in their first moments outside of the complete control of the Chinese Communist Party. Deprogramming takes time.

> You've got to be kidding me. Why can't they have a genuine opinion of their own? You may not agree with them because you have different values, but that's very different from claiming that their opinions are illegitimate and merely a result of "brainwashing".

After 10 years or so, some of my Chinese friends are a little embarrassed by some of the things they said/positions they took when they first came here as students.
The issue people have with Google is privacy - Google have pretty good security I think.
After hearing that, I really don't think I want to come to the Midwest :-P (to work, that is).
Every productive member of society is someone's kid, whether they're home grown or an immigrant.

You don't see some bad apples, declare your orchard blighted, and raze the whole thing. Not every apple is going to be perfect.
I've been encouraging my team (parents or not) to just take time off. The singles are suffering from essentially cabin fever given their typically smaller living accommodations and now missing social support. The parents are distracted, yes, but the singles/childless seem to be burning out way faster.
We had a 24 hours electricity outage last week. (Some problem with an electric wire in the whole block after a heavy rain). Should I buy an electricity generator just in case?

I expect to be able to send the kids to school, perhaps at least a few hours per day. It is impossible now.

An in case the school is not working, I can send them with one of the grandmas or the other. But we are currently in the peak of the pandemic in Buenos Aires and it is a bad idea because they are old so they are in the health risk group. I think it is even illegal here due to the quarantine, but it is a bad idea anyway.

We take turns with my wife to take care of the kids and try to organize the activities, for example to avoid having two Zoom meetings at the same time.

Luckily we can arrange some activities to do them when the kids are sleeping or at least quiet, like preparing / checking / grading midterms at weird hour like 11pm.

One of the problems is that in the middle of a Zoom meeting one of the kids may appear and say hi, or ask to change the tv channel, or perhaps some food, or just hug me for 5 minutes. Luckily in most of my meetings I don't need a 100% of concentration, so a kid going around is not so bad.
> If it costs money to develop a platform, it doesn't seem that strange to just charge that upfront when someone buys an iPhone.

Epic runs their own digital distribution platform, in which they also take a cut of the sales. Their terms are different than Apples, but they still do take a cut of sales.

Epic also takes 5% royalties for any (non-free) game built with Epic's Unreal Engine.

Epic and Apple have the same business model, however Epic's terms are not as high as Apples.

On the other hand, Epic makes a lot of money selling "cosmetics" and loot boxes. In effect, you have a company that has profited immensely from gambling, going after a company that has profited immensely due to their own closed ecosystem.

(also not to mention Epic blatantly ripped off the success of PUBG when they switched Fortnite to be a Battle Royale game)
AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study put on hold due to suspected adverse reaction
Yes, it is totally like that. It's like MLB and ESPN, or Comcast and local channels, record labels and musicians, or any other favorite platform or product where co-sellers of something have to split up the shares of revenue and costs.

Companies on one side of it will always try to frame it as a principled fight over consumer access, etc. etc. And the other company will frame it as a cost of doing business / business model. But it always boils down to dissatisfaction about the prices they're paying or receiving.

Don't buy into the claimed principles. They're just dressing on the argument that is always about the $. Both sides.
You presumably also pay federal income taxes - why can't you choose how money on soldiers gets spent?

Maybe because there's a societal benefit from people not getting a choice on how each one of their individual tax dollars gets spent... And maybe there's a societal benefit from people not being able to choose which public school they get put into. You're gonna deal with one of two evils: Tyranny of the majority or tragedy of the commons. Most places in the US seem to choose tyranny.
> Correlation of latitude with skin colour is evidence of causation.

Correlation is not causation. I'm sorry but I don't think you have any evidence at all that lighter skin was caused by a need for more vitamin D. It's just an educated guess on your part. Lighter skin could have just as easily been an adaptation related to less visibility to predators and prey in snow. Like the article I cited said "researchers are now learning that other factors must have been at play."

And with the article that started this thread we now have quite a few studies telling us that vitamin D supplementation doesn't do anything helpful. So why would humans undergo an adaptation that provides no benefit? Perhaps exposure to the sun provides health benefits? Or is it that healthy people get outside more and therefor have higher vitamin D levels? I'm happy saying "I don't know" and asking more questions. I encourage you to do the same instead of claiming causation when all you have is correlation.
The directive is an old one making all consumer business laws in the union more or less the same.

The thing that makes it a gift, is that A gift is the only allowed legal transformation that can happen. (Ownerships transfer is a transition in the legal sense). Ea. A company is required to always act lawfully and the only action open for unsolicited (=anything without a predefined base) package is to gift it.

A contract (=agreement to do something in exchange for something else, usually in paper but can be in any form even verbally) is needed before any transformation besides gifting.

This legal sense does not mean it’s still proper to send the package back if the company contacts you and pays for the shipping, but that’s not in law.

The detective I remember reading about during my ‘middle school’ studies (around 1998). I could be mistaken In it and if I am feel free to tell me. All I remember was that the directive made it so that all in the commons market must implement similar protections for Consumers regarding unsolicited mail and package by companies, not in small part to stop the extortion type of sale practice of the “free sample with overpriced subscription” (it’s why they switched to you having to request the sample)
Why are people demonizing Apple over this? Sure, they have made questionable decisions in the past but Epic clearly went into this in bad faith and absolutely deserves a slap in the face with a countersuit.
>They seem not quite the same to me

I agree.
Operating systems are not App Stores.
Analytical as you surely are, you might notice that your babies are, in fact, not babies in the sense of the word under discussion. Therefore you do not get PTO for growing them.
So this is a little indirect, but it does avoid the case where the Wayback machine goes down (or is subverted): include a HASHREF which is a hash of the state of the content when linked. Then you could find the resource using the content-addressable system of your choice. (Including, it must be said, the wayback machine itself).
The benefit to society as a whole is that human society literally continues to exist. If no one has children then society ceases to exist because there isn't a next generation. It's hard to think of anything that benefits society more than having children to comprise the next generation of society.

And you know what's really bad for corporate profitability? Not having any workers in a few decades because conditions were such that no one now can afford to have the next generation of workers. The more people there are the better as far as companies are concerned. That's more potential workers and more potential consumers.
I was expecting another article about the current crop of less than POSIX filesystems, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it was about older systems with features absent in POSIX. Very interesting stuff. Kudos. I wonder if I can find some information about MTS's filesystem, which also had some neat features especially with respect to access control (PKEYs). Might be a worthwhile addition.
What Dev resources (blogs/books/etc) could you recommend that could help better explain this mode of thinking and how to turn it into a practical and practicable methodology of working?
Of course I am not a mathematician or a historian and we digressed a lot into Indian history.

I was merely refuting the premise of this Pakistani propaganda article that Akbar was tolerant.
By contrasting between Akbar's ordering of beheading of 30k non combatants with Maha Rana Pratap returning his enemy Rahim's family back to him safely I hoped to demonstrate that Akbar wasn't tolerant even for his time. I believe you are from India so you would know both stories especially of Rahim.

On the subject of attributions you do know chain of custody for Dirac's function? Secondly if democracy can be attributed to Athens then why not Vaishali? They both are dead and harmless. Indians are not going to claims royalties from rest of the world for running democracies.
Why deny attribution where it is due and makes sense? Anyways we can keep that aside.

What if I tell you this cultural appropriation is going on as we speak. I hope you know that Yoga and Bhratnatyam are actively rebranded as Christian Yoga[1] and Christian Bhratnatyam[2]. This appropriation should be accepted just because India is not as advanced as compared to the first world countries?

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/can-yog...

[2] https://www.hinduhumanrights.info/bharatanatyam-and-the-art-...
LinkedIn Engineer Explains Ads Implementation
Google's always said e2ee is on the RCS roadmap, and evidence of it is already in some Google Messages builds. [1]

It seems they decided the main hurdle is just to get all the carriers on board, and a basic version of RCS up and running on all the Android phones, and encryption didn't make it into the MVP.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/23/21268577/google-messages-...
Hydra and Fuchsia are both operating systems that use Capability-based security. Hydra would have been one of the very earliest ones, while Fuchsia is a very new one. There have been many others in between, like KeyKOS or EROS, as well as use of capabilities in "normal" operating systems, like FreeBSD's Capsicum, or arguably even just passing file descriptors over Unix sockets with SCM_RIGHTS on any POSIX system. There have also been capability-based programming languages like E and Pony, and capability-based network protocols like CapTP or (my own) Cap'n Proto. So it's unlikely that the designers of Fuchsia directly based it on Hydra, but there was probably indirect inspiration, yes.
Extended families have been isolating together since the beginning; Never were families discourages from isolating together.

Visiting with friends (groups under 10 people) while following safe interaction guidelines was also not discouraged.

EDIT: This is from the point of view of someone in the US; international laws vary as pointed out by replies.
To be clear, I'm actually arguing for finding solutions so that we can put a stop to such things.

I have zero interest in giving government officials any excuse to do such things. Finding actual solutions that actually work is the strongest possible means to combat such an outcome.
Its only one google search away but ...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

You're welcome.
I think this kind of behavior is wide-spread - Climbing a ladder and then kicking it down once you're on the top because you don't need it anymore. Twitter is the famous example of doing that where they grew their network on the backs of third party clients, and then rate-limited them out of existence.
This was never going to be won through public opinion, Epic's pretty clear goal from the start was to win this in court.

I can't imagine how big a backlash there would have to be for Apple to give up on it's 30% cut voluntarily, and I don't imagine that Epic thought there was any chance of this happening.
I'm not entirely sure that I'm following, because my upload flow from Google Photos puts me into the "Select photos" mode where I can tap multiple photos to select them.

I'm assuming that you're been sent to a photo picker screen and can only choose one at a time. Have you tried holding a tap to enter multi-select mode?
I do not agree. I specifically chose not to have children because I knew of the burdens they would place on my career.

Those who decided to have children should not get treated any differently. They knew what they were signing up for, they do not get to have things both ways.
Bias in Algorithm's A-Level Assessments Causes Controversy
Not as long as it's understood that I feel Neustar was a poor choice given their line of business.
And only 30days/yr of this is from the employer's pocket, the rest is from the state which is also a good deal the other way around.
How do social services help? The article is about parents with jobs adjusting or continuing to adjust to working from home with kids there. Social services as you listed are primarily for people who aren’t working.
I wonder what the conversations look like inside of Epic, because it seems to me that trying to make everything in Fortnight feel the same on iOS as it does on PC or console is a huge investment for not the sorts of returns they're looking for.

If the iOS version was just an appetizer, then you wouldn't be pushing the volume of DLC that make the Apple tax so apparently onerous for them. If you switch to desktop then your purchases are pure profit for them. If not they still make a few bucks.
It’s not just the cost of childcare. Since divorce became acceptable, it became a huge liability for women to exit the workforce and permanently give up earning power to raise children. I’ve seen this first hand in my family and it’s really difficult.
It isn't a matter of belief - lithium mining hardly qualifies as mining environmentally compared to other methods including oil wells and ore mining of various methods. There is a lot of misinformation and FUD involving Lithium Mining.

It involves brine pools in salt plains. Water usage is the only real concern. Not to be ignored but it won't leave any superfund sites, cancer hotspots, turn rivers dead but colorful with tailings, or oil spills.
For what it's worth, The infection fatality rate 20-29 I have seen is about 7/100,000. I have seen many drugs with higher death rates form side-effects.
But it's no more value than they get from googles platform, or more importantly their own platform. It's "just another platform" to EPIC.
> It seems nuts that someone working 50%+ less than someone else is going to keep all the same equity, vacation, and salary. Then again it seems nuts that they don't.

Is that really true though? In my team parents are still online 40+ hours a week. Definitely if some single person (or parent) is producing double everyone else they should get bonuses or promotion over everyone else.
I wanted to do more creative work, whereas the work at Plenty was more about problem solving.
> It seems unlikely

That's fairly far from any scientific method I would have confidence in.
The vacuum problem... the issue is that it's kinda hit or miss to come up with items that are related to the vacuum and to do it over a time period.

I think if ads were smarter, you'd get ads for your vacuum's filter a few months after buying it and maybe replacement pieces just after warranty, but what do I know?
They could have driven the other way, the way they finally chose to drive, parked and started to walk to Red's Meadow and the other car. I agree they probably had reasons for the choice like not wanting to lose car 1 in the fire or get stuck up a mountain on foot without the car if the fire reached them. But they did get clear advice to go the other way early on and chose to ignore it.
No?

I mean, Epic will be able to argue that it was illegal, they were able to argue that anyways. The exact value for the cut isn't really a legal issue though, if the cut is legal in the first place then the existing contract will almost certainly hold and it will be 30%.
"Really well" is overselling it quite a bit. I can search for the exact product name as displayed on a product page and still not have it find hits. Ebay's search is quite a bit better.
Fun fact, this comment is the first result and only result containing all terms when Googling "UPU S1 standard". The closest relevant looking result I was able to find was the "UPU S10 standard", which doesn't seem relevant.
And there are usually ways you can exchange money for help with those things. Special schools and programs for those with different mental or behavioral issues (this one often doesn't even need extra money, if your school system is adequate). Temporary leave for extreme cases like hospitalization. Day care or babysitters or nannies.

Think about those first 5 years of life and summers you bring up. Obviously there are normal mechanisms that these parents used in these cases in the past. Now they're unavailable. And you have contempt for the parents because they didn't anticipate that all of these options could evaporate all at once. Please.
Also I'd use WP 6.1 for DOS in Spanish if it wasn't a "little" inconvenience: we don't use Pesetas as a currency anymore, but I think there's an Euro patch somewere.

EDIT:

On graphics, that's a solved problem. Everyone uses framebuffer today, even on obsolete chipsets it's doable. Just map VGA calls to FB and everything would be fast enough, I think.
I was completely flummoxed when I went away to college and found I was the only person in my entire dormitory with a screwdriver, pliers, or a hammer. Nobody else was able to put together the end table they'd bought, hang a picture, etc. I was mystified that anyone would go to live somewhere for a 9 month stretch, full time, and not bring a screwdriver (or a first aid kit). Likewise the many people who didn't bring curtains or even a bowl or mug (the college had sent every incoming student a list of suggested items to bring, including window measurements). Forget the people who couldn't wash their own clothes. Some people are just raised to be useless human beings.
This outlook is widely in-the-coastal-city-bubble.
would love to learn more about how you're using Freshdesk and the types of queries you're responding to! I'm building a customer support app that uses openAI's GPT3 to generate automated responses and it's been working great so far!

How can I reach you?
In trying to resolve some of their latency issues for their Linux client (on Github) I realized everything was being funneled through Neustar, which was the issue. So I questioned them about it, and they confirmed it.
This is simply par for the course business as usual. Apple can’t let Epic simply deny them revenue, and they also can’t let them do so knowingly and deliberately without punishment. It would be amazing and shocking if they didn’t do this, it’s simply, a logical consequence of their legal position.
They get the perk of more flexibility because they're providing a service to society, raising children for the next generation. You don't get this perk because you didn't have children. Your contribution is more work because you have more time to do it.
Adam curry pretty much invented the podcast/interview format. Sharp dude.
My guess? Because we've only been at this whole "civilization" thing for a few thousand years, and although that sounds like a hell of a long time when compared with the few dozen years any one of us gets, it has so far not been enough for us to work out how we can reliably generalize at large scale the same altruistic instinct that so often and so regularly leads so many of us to risk harm to ourselves in defense of people we don't even know.

It's probably not a very good guess. But what the hell, at least it's a guess that leaves room for the hope of a better future, and I like that a lot more than any of the alternatives that seem to be at hand.
They did not know for certain that the route out with the RAV4 was a dead end. And the folks who were going in the opposite direction, with arguably better local information, ended up not having to shelter in a "freaking lake".

> We then learned many of the people we passed in caravans had made it out thanks to the National Forest Service and Local Officials guiding them through the scene.

Admittedly it's easy to armchair-quarterback this in hindset, but going from the known to the unknown is generally a bad idea. And there were plenty of unknown unknowns back to the other car if you wanna pull Rumsfeld into this.
one of my favorite casual talks between people who I respect.

(in my fantasy head-cannon they replace Rupert Sheldrake with someone that brings up less WOO. Even they seemed annoyed in that video when he says things like "How do we know whether or not the Sun is alive?")
My friends voted on it and we decided that Sybil attacks are impossible. Nothing to worry about, please move along.
I would returned the car to their dealer... through the window.

Edit: Autopilot didn't engage, that's weird...
Try finding out how many people have died from vaccines that have passed phase 1 & 2 in the past few decades.

The number seems to be closer to zero than anything else.

Even one of the worst vaccine disasters, the Cutter incident in 1955, seems to have resulted in only some 10 deaths, of which 5 were indirectly caused.
Two paragraphs above the part I quoted:

What about ancient skeletons, then? Steven Pinker cites twenty-one excavations having an average murder rate of 15 percent. But, as before, Pinker's list here is a bit of a mess. Twenty of the twenty-one digs date from a time after the invention of farming, the domestication of horses, or the rise of settlements, making them altogether too recent.

Further info:

The anthropologist Douglas Fry was skeptical, however. Reviewing the original sources [of Pinker's list], he discovered that all forty-six cases of what Pinker categorized as [most violent tribe] Ache 'war mortality' actually concerned a tribe member listed as 'shot by Paraguayan.'
Yes, that's great, but I think in the long-term it would be super awesome to not have to spend so many extra hours, but to somehow get sponsored and to be able to reduce the "normal" work time for the company I'm working to for instance 60 or 70%. I guess that would be a huge win, as I also want to spend more time with my girlfriend and for other hobbies.

I'm doing it like you mentioned, that is spending at least 2 hours 4 to 5 days a week (or sometimes more if time permits) since the last 1,5 years and 5,5 years with breaks in-between. However, last year was pretty awesome, as the project now get's contributions at least weekly and I've found at least one member, who is consistently pushing the project :-)
VR Design workshop from former design engineer at HoloLens 2 and Oculus Studios
It's $100 because there's no other distribution method. If tomorrow you could use Apple's libraries and distribute the App by yourself, the cost of the Libraries wouldn't be $100. It'd be $100 and 30% of your revenue. It's not meaningful to draw out 1 bill when we all know that what's important is the total cost.