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What is “sentence flavor?” I’ve never heard the term. You seem to be using it to justify the inclusion of irrelevant details as if that makes a sentence “taste” differently. Well, irrelevant details don’t make for very interesting writing and usually people don’t scatter words over their sentences like bacon bits over a salad unless they’re writing terrible fiction.

So maybe the word is relevant. It’s not obvious to me what the relevance is, so asking seems pretty logical. Otherwise a reader is forced to conclude that it somehow has to do with white, presumably Australian stereotypes.

Likewise, if Perth is included it clues the reader into a more specific area which might tell us something or not, depending on our pre-existing knowledge of Perth. No reader is going to conclude that the detail Perth was added merely for “flavor” and has no other significance. They might not have asked even if ignorant, because they might’ve made their own assumptions (e.g. this is an area where the trees can be found), but they wouldn’t assume it was a meaningless detail.

And yes, I think I might have asked about relevance if the poster had said, “My roommates, while wearing purple t-shirts, told me...”

When you add in the baggage that comes with race and racial stereotypes are you really surprised anyone asked? You don’t even have to be offended to not understand why race was included.
I'd say the answer to that is the same reason why there was a front page article the other day about which was more important: revenue stream or culture. Comments almost made it feel like people would gladly ride a company to the grave so long as they could feel good about what they haven't accomplished (making money).
The article seems to be focused on text editors, not IDEs. I'm not sure why it completely overlooks IDEs as an alternative. Perhaps the author is mostly a web developer, which I find is the main area where text editors really match IDEs in terms of features.
Considering the amazing work they did recently, that sounds pretty awesome.
> > The current CEO is well remunerated

> Average tech CEO pay in 2018 was ...

"well" is not relative to average, it's relative to requirement.

> But if someone truly competent has an offer from the Google Chrome team and an offer from Mozilla, and Chrome can offer 10x more, well, you want to do the best you can.

"Competency" is a complex (& somewhat subjective) thing when it comes to leadership, but if that's your candidate's sole criteria for seeking the role, I wonder if that's who you want running Mozilla. You forget that this swings both directions: motivators are extremely important in leadership of any company, not least one with Mozilla's rights-based values.
The problem with Palantir is that when you combine their business model with the inherent drive of capitalism for growth at any cost (witness the ethical breaches from Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook - all already epically successful), you end up with a monster. Especially with Thiel calling the shots.
In that interview, Bezmenov downplays the idea of “espionage” and “intelligence” (at least in the sense of how we’re familiar with those ideas thanks to James Bond movies) being the key points of Soviet attempts to overthrow the United States or an accurate representation of how similar takeovers occur. Instead, he outlines the four key stages of what would later be described as the “Soviet subversion model.”

The first stage is “demoralization.” Bezmenov says this process takes 10-20 years and involves changing the mentality of a generation of young people to abandon common sense ideologies and embrace new ideas that cannot even be countered by plain facts. As an example, he references the idea of students of the ’60s growing into the leaders of America despite suffering from demoralization. He suggests that the process of demoralization has reached a point of nearly unprecedented success where Americans began applying it to other Americans without additional outside influence being required. He theorizes that most people will not be able to recognize that this process has happened until it begins to directly impact them in an overt way.
> However they're low quality 1080p jpegs

Good enough for me :) They look nice.

Thanks for the wget tip!
Note I said material goods, not material wealth. She values stability and safety, not the acquisition of stuff.
The market price is still too volatile to make such decisions. This is the problem that options trading solves, but we don't have an options market for N95 masks.

Even if we did, there would be tons of complaints about speculators turning a profit on people's health.
I'm guessing the tweets referenced in that article were based off of the original[1] (that I saw). The original tweet series did a bunch of testing with different variations of the same image to attempt to get to the bottom of why the algorithm is doing what its doing. There was also an official response from Twitter[2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528
[2]: https://twitter.com/twittercomms/status/1307739940424359936?...
More so by ocaml according to Odersky. I would argue that unhealthy obsession with bringing all of Haskell features to Scala actually hurt the language making it seem way more complicated than it actually is
From what I gather it's pretty damn far from the typical use-case of a GIS tool but still a cool experiment. I have no idea how it could be useful like this either.

If you could however do some number crunching using historical data to display things like average air traffic density and routes, it might become useful.
Don't get infuriated at someone for something they were mis-quoted at saying. See the original statement here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565071
I got a lot of mileage out of Unlimited Memory by Kevin Horsley, which includes strategies for memorizing decks of cards.

It's a fun trick and it does help strengthen your day-to-day memory. I definitely recommend learning.
I think implementing patterns that are "solved" in SAAS or FOSS is a really awesome way to learn. I grow tired, however, of convincing teammates that no, I don't want to support their homegrown HTML templating library in production, having to worry about bugs or security vulnerabilities.

Editing to really affirm that I agree especially with personal projects. I have a lot of projects where pieces I want to build approximate some percentage of something like AWS Lambda, but I want to do a custom version because it's more fun and will make the project easier, since I'm not planning for anybody else to ever maintain it.
Doujinshi is a hobby, but that doesn't make it legal, and some companies will go after hobbyists. I may be wrong but I don't expect Disney to allow porn of their characters being sold on the open market.

And BTW, while most doujinshi circles are running at a loss. Second hand shops are for-profit businesses, so there is definitely a commercial element.

As for doujinshi and porn. Last time I went to Comiket, which was quite a while ago, I'd say it was 50/50. And when I say "porn" what I mean is that it contains explicit drawings. Doujinshi is uncommon in the way that there is porn inside but it is not always the main point. In fact many mainstream anime originate from 18+ doujin visual novels with the porn stripped off. Type-moon is particularly well known for that.
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Thanks a lot!

I see many points of law on the base of which an appeal would win.

For example, forcing witnesses to say a statement, and then writing it down out of its context, sending essential (as it appears during the trial) documents to witnesses or experts in a timing such that they cannot read them, wrong characterization of medical notions with the aim to induce confusion, etc.

In total, there are easily 20 or more points which would have this trial totally moot if it was held in France for example, and I'm sure that UK's version of justice is not that different.
> Contrast in the area in question has an effect, as might the presence of text, or any blurriness present.

This is the argument made on Twitter as well; that its not intentionally trained to prefer white people due to the training data, but instead, the technique used results in a bias.

Hypothetically, say, Twitter did multi-variant testing of thumbnails to train the model based on engagement; and this resulted in prefer white faces. That's still a racially biased algorithm.

Whether or not your developers specifically set out to create a racially biased algorithm does not change that it is measurably a racially biased algorithm. Twitter's response that there is more work to be done is correct and a relief.
I feel less smart for having spent 2 minutes to read it.
Are you suggesting the reports are biased?

Craig Murray admitted that his position on the whole affair is indeed biased, but that he would try to report the facts fairly.

I think he is doing a good job of that, though of course, how can we really know?

Please name an alternate source of complete, detailed, factual reporting of this "public" hearing.

The fact that you (or anyone) probably cannot, says quite a lot in itself.
Is the bottleneck really at the production of bulk spun polypropylene textiles?

I always figured the bottleneck would be actual mask assembly -- ultrasonic welding and the like.
The second stage is “destabilization.” Bezmenov says that if demoralization is completed, this process can only take 2-5 years. It essentially involves targeting key aspects of a nation (including economy and defense) and replacing the ideology with that of the influencing party.

The third stage is “crisis.” Just as it sounds, this part of the process basically involves generating mass chaos. Bezmenov notes that the crisis process can be initiated in as little as six weeks. He referenced the then-current situations in Central America as an example of the crisis process.

The fourth and final stage is “normalization.” This is the point when the subversion model has been completed and can theoretically last indefinitely. Once normalization has occurred, the power structure remains under the control of the best liars who use a constant stream of propaganda to continue to convince everyone that they are living in a glorious age of peace and prosperity. Once this has truly taken hold, the country will then essentially become a perpetual motion machine that continues the ideas of subversion by willfully passing them on to a new generation.

The conclusion of Bezmenov’s speech warns that the only way to truly stop this process is to educate people on these methods so that they remain vigilant. Otherwise, he says that a country will soon lose its most important freedoms.
Two things can be true at once. It can be true that we should have stockpiles. It can also be true that such stockpiles are only ever going to be sufficient for relatively contained outbreaks like H1N1.
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In theory, yes. But the people he's paying for have real crimes on their records, like assault and robbery. The only thing he takes into account is race. If black or latino, he pays. If you're not, you still don't get to vote.
thanks, I thought it could have been an app to download music, like youtube-dl... (didn't mean to insult any Danes)
I wouldn't call that half-arsing, more dumb guessing.

You have no insight into the internal model, you cannot check or improve it. A single training mistake renders the whole model afoul.

Most of AI as I learned it in school needs internal verfification steps, you print out the inferred rules, so you can learn from them. The black-art model really is just black art, but how should e.g. a self-driving car be allowed to drive on the streets, when you cannot explain the most basic rules, in case this or that.
So the reason we don't have masks is because the "Free Market" was constrained by the government? You do understand that increasing the price of masks will restrict their availability right, which to some hospitals will be as good as having no masks at all right?
And yet, 200k people in the US have died already, even with fairly extreme social distancing. Acceptable risks for the individual can translate into massive human tragedy. I have no expectation that Covid would be much more of a bad flu for me, and am not particularly worried for my own health. I socially distance for others: friends, family, and even people I don't know. Society cannot run on pure self-interest alone.
I don't understand why one needs the DPA for this. Just issue a PO for a suitable value so that a vendor decides it is worth it economically. Attach the delivery schedule that is desired. If it isn't possible or it is a bad economic move for the company, then the DPA isn't going to work out well anyways. This is operations 101.

They tried to do something like this with Kodak, but the crooks at Kodak screwed it up.
The main reason I use VS Code is I tend to work on a lot of mixed-language development. I often have Python, rust, custom DSLs and C++ in the same code base with a custom build system. VScode gives me the flexibility to use all of them to their fullest potential without needing to support the build system.
That being said if were to use Java I would probably not move away from intellij. Last time I tried clion though it was a disaster.
I didn't say that, only that he doesn't limit the conversation. Of course he chooses his guests, and I choose whether to listen or not.

And in case you didn't know, Joe Rogan has been personal friends with Alex Jones since the 90s. To him, he's just another friend on the podcast.
I probably should stop commenting on these forums. I meant Aussie housemates when I wrote white housemates. I didn't have any ill-intentions while writing it. My only intention was to share the common name of the plant!
> alphabet mob

Discredits everything you have to say.
In the 102 years since the 1918 Influenza pandemic, there has been World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraqi Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq War 2.

I'd say by pragmatic measures, we're more likely to use our guns than to come across a pandemic like what we're seeing today.

And yeah, we had pandemic scares: H1N1 (aka: Spanish Flu part 2), The 1960s flu, Ebola. But none of them them really were an issue to this degree.
I see this on HN a lot. The “what the purpose of writing this project? X and Y would suit your needs just fine.” The problem is, you can’t learn unless you do. So even though X and Y may have suited their requirements, they can’t truly learn how X and Y work unless they write their own version.
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Wouldn't it be up to the studio to initiate such lawsuits anyway?
Right, fair point, but I mean, the "wrong side of history" narrative tends to presume that either in the long run, whatever side is right will win, or that whichever side wins will be the right one. I think that's a very dangerous assumption either way that should really not be made into the core of a moral argument. Argue from universal principles, argue from universal emotions, argue from social health, argue from self-interest. But don't argue from your eventual presumed victory as if that's a reason in itself.
> It reminded me of using VIM as an IDE - not an IDE, a big pile of stuff that isn't integrated. I started using VIM as an IDE when I started programming and I believe it cost me a year of time - I should have gone straight to a consistent integrated IDE.

You don't start using Vim as an IDE. It's a waste of time, because like you said IDEs offer a complete product right off the bat. You start using Vim as a text editor, for text editor things, and when you're familiar enough with Vim's plugin ecosystem you may start to enhance your text editing experience with IDE-like features. And you may come to realize that's all you need.

Learning Vim for the sole purpose of tuning it into an IDE is a terrible idea no matter how you slice it. I blame people who hype their Vim setup as a complete IDE even though they started learning Vim as a text editor, not an IDE.
Basically it is one big script (with globals and side effects) which generates makefiles.

(Even if it does not generate makefiles, the project model is makefiles: targets, file names, timestamps.)
> I have mixed feelings on the F-15, and think it might have turned out better if it'd been a lighter fighter, as per Col. John Boyd's specification. I think the F-4 Phantom II was a more impressive engineering achievement.

So it's curious that someone who takes Boyd's fighter prescriptions seriously is a Phantom enthusiast, but perhaps there's a reason for that. The part about the Phantom being a more impressive engineering achievement strikes me as somewhat crazy, to be honest, and I don't know what to say about it.
Snake venom is a cocktail of hundreds to thousands of different proteins, ranging widely in molecule size. It would be quite a feat to get yeast to produce all of those at once.
From https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Just the first Google hit — I didn't do any thorough vetting other than it doesn't appear to be propaganda.
Your link is labeled March 16th. We knew of COVID months before that.
But Catlab.jl is definitely a child of Haskell: the developers have said many times how much inspiration they've gotten from Haskell.
>Where is your concern for the ongoing large scale conspiracies against the People by the organizations he exposed

To be clear. This is not an objective statement. It's a subjective interpretation. The reality is that the People have decided that it is in their interest to maintain a military and an intelligence service overseen by their representatives. We live in a complicated world, and even if the program itself is bad (and it was scuttled I believe), it may have resulted from the right intention of trying to protect people's lives from terrorist attacks.

>Their crimes directly attack the values of a Free society

I don't know what you mean by 'crimes'. That's another subjective interpretation. There were no crimes. It was a legal program overseen by all three branches of government. Maybe it was a bad program and it needed a whistleblower, but again, very few people have issues with Snowden disclosing that. But he didn't have to steal the hundreds of thousands of other documents that had no public interest (that he never released publicly anyway), didn't have to take those documents to a foreign adversary. Worse there is evidence that he gave those documents (willingly or willingly) to the Russian and Chinese intelligence services. That's a major crime in any society, in every nation, throughout all of history.
I remember this article a long time ago just about it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-da...

Basically no willingness to commit to buying enough volume for it to make sense for production to ramp up.

Slap a massive tariff on any medical equipment from China and you'll get local producers that can meet the demand. Without it who is willing to chance bankruptcy for a short term "possible" boost in sales.
Great reply, thanks.

How is collecting, aggregating, redistributing PII prevented today?

I like that you distinguish voluntary sharing, eg with friends and family.

I'll ponder your point about names (identifiers). There are currently semi-legitimate uses, like political campaigns in the USA have voter files for GOTV (ballot chasing). Which is a ridiculous practice. (I've worked on many campaigns.) So instead of accommodating pathological use cases, I'd rather resolve the paradox by eliminating the practice. In the case of GOTV, compulsory voting would greatly improve voter privacy.

I've been waiting for anyone to criticize my thesis by pointing out the government already knows all. My provisional response remains: If someone's making a buck off my data, I want my cut.

In cases like the CA State's DMV reselling PII, my thesis is that treating my data as an asset, and therefore a liability, would deter that behavior. So relying on disincentives vs prohibition.
With or without the bias, this is a classic misuse of Machine Learning. I don't know a single person who likes that Twitter chooses how to crop and format images. Everyone just wants to choose the visible area themselves, and it's not hard to create a simple UX that would enable this.
> I understand it's hard to get someone "good" in as CEO of you can't offer competitive pay [..]

Q: Can you define "good"?
The best hope is that when the bundler inevitably takes their eyes off quality and features of the individual products and a new entrant can eat their lunch.
Hey thanks, I didn't see Twitter's response, I'll update the article.
In the cube solving world, movement sequences that arrange the cube in a specific way are called "algorithms". Each "algorithm" will solve part of the cube, the full solution being a sequence of "algorithms".
As much as I dislike Brendan Eich's politics, he would probably have been a better leader for Mozilla... At least, that monetization strategy makes more sense and should have been pursued by Mozilla.
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I think there's a middle point there.

For context, I'm from Spain (our society is somewhat confrontational, in the sense that people like to argue about petty things and banter, it's almost a way of making small talk here) and I've got a lot of American friends here, who in contrast tend to take the "politically correct/business nice" approach in their circles, even with friends.

There are ups and downs to each approach, and I don't think one is superior to the other, but in my personal experience my american friends tend to be a little insecure about their relationships and not bond as much, because they can never be fully sure of whether they're welcome or just tolerated - if everything's a smile, it's harder to tell a genuine gesture from an act of politeness.

I have a pet theory that introverted/asocial people tend to like the blunt approach and the politically incorrect crowd better because it's easier to tell where you stand, which might be great if you're not good at reading people and navigating social customs. Extroverted, more social people have a more developed sense to understand those subtleties and never feel as lost/insecure, so they don't see the upside of bluntness.
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And here I am, a single-by-choice hermit, with enough money to get by from a below-average-salary-for-my-position job, and no real achievements to be recognized for (which doesn't bother me, since I don't care what others think of me), and no real worries until I have something to worry about and deal with it then. And yet I feel perfectly content with my life in general, and happy 99% of the time.
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It still has some mindblowing insights to share, but the length is a little intimidating. What books would you recommend instead?