skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in Bin Laden's videos, he sent them all to US news sources.

I was really disappointed when I watched them and realized that the news at the time (early 2000s) had completely cut them and never gave Americans the message at all.

The Western response is "retaliation", the Jihad response is "excision of aggressor from Muslim lands", Bin Laden exploited that with a completely decentralized, self propogating, adhoc guerrilla military force, and told us exactly what he was doing, and we walked right into it because we have an insatiable lust for blood so you get instant support from the people, and its egged on by salivating defense companies. Such a meticulous manipulation... facepalm.

and all the solutions I can think of just leave a power vacuum.

Anyway, to anyone passing by, China's financial dealings are collaborative enough, and the Uyghars are not in another country so China's safe. China was dealing with internal attacks from Uyghars on occasion, and now wants to erase the concepts that those "freedom fighters" were fighting for. Its also working.
If they are blocking it because it was "leaked" why did they not have as similar stand on Trump's taxes? That one was actually illegal to leak. They don't have a good excuse for what appears to be a wholly partisan action.
What you tend to see in India is the deliberate desecration of carvings - smashing in faces and breaking hands.

Hindu rulers tended not to do these kinds of specific acts. You could probably count on one hand the "Indic" kings documented to have specifically targeted temples or religious iconography. The most famous examples that come to mind immediately would be the razing of the temples of Pratihaspura, allegedly to smoke out a rival hiding in the ruins.
That's not a SF only problem. All major cities (NYC, Amsterdam, Paris, etc etc) suffer from reduced tourism and tax money. There's no question that a city like SF would suffer more than many other cities given high percentage of its tourism is business travel. But the city still has a lot going for it besides tech. And at least FAANG for the most part will still attract many people to the area as the majority of them are not going fully remote yet. The city can also try to attract more diverse industries such as pharma companies that still require office space. They can also increase property taxes for a few years if they need to. Yes, SF as the center of tech as we know it is probably dead, but it doesn't mean the city is dead.
Regarding the GP, attacking the WHO for changing their minds regarding human to human transmission as he found a statement dating before the one you shared. Doing that would also allow you to attack the WHO for not talking about COVID-19 before it struck, same logic and just as wrong.
tock tock tock Hacker News is crazy.
its neither a hedge nor leverage. It's a place to put your long term money to grow, probably the best place. if by 'Wallstreet' you mean financial advisors, they recommend a mix of assets, not a single asset class in stocks. most people have a mix of stocks, bonds, and real estate.

it use to be 10%, in the late 2000s it got revised to 7%, though many today think it's realistically 5%.
Well you can have as many tabs open as you want, just that beyond 2 or so tabs Edge will vacate the contents from memory and the page will reload when you go back to it. Like, it's a very basic, very cheap machine, and it works fine as long as you are reasonable.
Twitter-Alternative Sqwok.im includes a slack-like chat room on each post
And it is Twitter and Facebook’s role to censor it? I don’t remember appointing these guys are the official fact-checkers.
Well, in general you use this to write macros that don't evaluate twice.
A huge move would be to standardize on Mastodon instead of Teams, and invest in making Mastodon secure enough for FOUO work.
One of the first nasty bugs I had to work on when I first came to Silicon Valley was stack corruption from a fall through of a switch statement. After something like that, you learn pretty quick to always put break lines at the end of the switch before anything else.
> They were made public to other developers specifically so that they would write programs that used them.

Same could be applied to any public interface. Header files, system calls, standard library, hardware version, language version, network interface.

Linux and WINE replaces Windows entirely. Looks like a lot of fans wait exactly that, not ReactOS.
Different retailers get different model numbers, especially for white goods and other large purchases. The big retailers ask for this so that you can't use their fake "price match guarantees" because the model number is different between stores.

For example, the TV I bought at Fry's was the same as a model at Wal-Mart, but with one fewer HDMI input. Another TV I bought (again at Fry's) was the same as a model from another store, but with the built-in DVR disabled.

That leaves the burden on you to figure out which model was in Consumer Reports by matching up the features. It's annoying, but possible.
You can quite easily judge the quality of a workplace by how young the workforce is.
I’ve tried to follow this approach with my own app[0]. An account is optional, and a subscription plan is available to sync your data across devices.

There have definitely been some challenges with this approach, from available tech stacks to customer support, And user expectations. There were also some unexpected upsides, like requiring less server resources. All in all I think it was worth it and I hope this trend continues.

[0] https://mochi.cards/
Excellent point. A glassdoor competitor cannot use the Consumer Reports model since you can't review the working conditions of a company without being inside it.

It shouldn't take much money to set up and run a review site so monetization should be a soluble problem. On a 6 figure budget you won't be as slick as competitors but if you're competing on trustworthiness...

The biggest problem is going to be combating gamification, that'll be very hard on a 6 figure budget.

And even your non-profit suggestion is a problem because what if a company donates $1M with strings attached?

I really think the only solution is that all money has to come from consumers. Job hunting is important enough that people would be willing to shell out for it, but only once you have a sufficient pool of reviews. So a real chicken and egg problem here.
Yep. With a super savvy investor like Softbank on their side they are ready to conquer the world.
Monday morning mistake: sudo rm -rf –no-preserve-root /
What is that conf format? Looks neither YAML, nor JSON. (if your conf files are not a standard format, this project is likely not going to go anywhere IMHO).

edit: Apparently non-standard [0].

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl
In C? No, C developers should reflexively avoid switch statements, and only fight this reflex after a serious risk evaluation (and very likely, after a lot of tests are written).

Like macros, C switch is too powerful and dangerous to use on a whim.
I heard a school was maintaining 50% capacity by having A and B groups of students. Group A attends school in person Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning. Then the rest of the week is online. Group B does the opposite. This seems like a good idea, not only for safety, but for balancing in person interaction and socialization with the flexibility of remote learning. I’m unsure if the classes are taught with both the in person and remote students “together” but that would be even better. It would also allow students that need to go to school full time in person or full time remote a robust infrastructure to do so, instead of an afterthought (like remote has been up until this year, if an option at all).
Congratulations on launching.

My question is why would anyone pay for a community which they could get for free elsewhere?
My experience is very similar. And yet in every debate on this subject some people will claim that they are running Linux without experiencing any of these problems. They can't all be lying can they? So what gives?

I believe it all comes down to selecting the right hardware. The way I've been trying Linux was to install it on some machine I had lying around (mostly Acer, Asus, MacBook, no-name towers). Apparently, that's not how it works.

I remember back in 1990s and early 2000s it was hit and miss whether or not Linux would install on a particular machine. Then over time things improved and you could install it on almost any machine.

Some Linux enthusiasts celebrated this achievement by claiming loudly that Linux now "just works". They couldn't possibly have done a greater disservice to the desktop Linux movement, because that's just not true.

It doesn't just work. It just installs. And then it's crushingly disappointing on most machines.

My next Linux attempt will be on one of those known good hardware configurations. Anything else is just a waste of time.
Fair, there are groups in various languages on Openland and the group language isn't always obvious from the group name. We need to make our community recommendations more aligned with people's preferred languages.

The most useful communities on Openland are single language and well-moderated.
It is super weird to read a comment about the difference between advocates and journalists holding Matt Taibbi out as a "real journalist". Taibbi is the apotheosis of the journaladvocate you're talking about. He's also a lot of other things that you don't like about journalism; for instance, see his coverage of financial engineering topics during the "sucking blood funnel days" of the 2008 crisis, for some Crichton Amnesia Effect fodder.

As always I'll point out that the real controlling law for all this stuff --- the quality of journalism, the quality of advocacy, the quality of software engineering, law, medicine, whatever --- is Sturgeon's.
Your priors are wrong - the evidence and the people presenting it have the burden of proof not the people saying this is more bullshit from a desperate group of people who have consistently lied for years.
The best defense against corruption is good pay for rank and file employees. Government can afford to pay employees decently despite opposition from the public and business because taxation is not voluntary. It's not an ideal situation obviously, but government is in the best position to buck financial incentives for corruption because it already has tax revenue to cover costs. Private companies don't have that luxury and are more liable to be corrupted.
I don’t expect people who are lobbying on behalf of a candidate to be unbiased. They’re clearly not and they admit it.

But if an org is going to fly the flag of neutrality then they’ll get called out for crap like this.
The sane form of this advice drops the "always" and adds "over sufficiently long time horizons."
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> Solo work at home, collaborative work in "studios"

Yeah this is 100% not remote work.
So the choice is between a corporation beholden to no-one apart from the CEO, or someone you can vote out every so often?

People will always have that power, at least at a technical level, but they should be discouraged to use it.
It would be nice if chat boxes only loaded the full chat functionality once the user has interacted with it. Why do they need so load so much just to show a chat widget circle in the corner that likely won't even be clicked on the majority of the time?

170KB for the chat widget is good but when you're trying to make minimal fast loading pages, this is still feels like a lot. If you avoid JS, use minimal CSS and stick to SVG images, you can get whole landing pages to load in under 500KB.

One trick I use though is to delay loading chat widget JS for about 5 or 10 seconds after the page loads. It's not needed immediately and the delay lets the browser prioritise loading the rest of the page first.
The meta-story about how Giuliani got the emails aside, what portion of the actual story (related to Hunter's dealings) do you consider disinformation?

What do you mean by disenfranchise, while we're at it? Even if we were to stipulate it's a lie, is it your position that to lie during campaign season is literally the same as taking away the right to vote?

So far, there doesn't seem to be much that hasn't already been confirmed. One new piece of information is the email that implies a Burisma exec. was at least introduced to Joe Biden. The Biden hasn't issued a categorical denail of this, only to say that such a meeting "wasn't scheduled."

What substantive allegation against Hunter Biden are you disputing, exactly?
Weird error. Page loads, but then gets replaced by:

C(...).replace(...).replace(...).replace(...).replace(...).trimStart is not a function
Does Failure Lead to Success? I sure hope so
I wanted to share this post with the world to vent a little bit. I have tried my hand in various things, and all my startups have failed.

What do I consider failure, failed to gain any interest, failure to provide monetary compensation, failure to work on something I enjoy doing, failure in creating my own preferred lifestyle.

But why? Why do some gain massive followers and others hardly get anything? Is it truly the efforts put into the product. For this post lets define product as SaaS, e-commerce, productized product.

Does success hinge on research prior too committing to a product, niche, or service? Is that the way to success?
Does it hinge on selling something that the end user truly needs and desires? Is that the secret formula?

My experiences:
Amazon FBA - Failed after using tools 'jungle scout'. Investing into PPC and lost money.
Lesson learned, you need to be unique in what you sell, have a better spin on it, and be sure to target high margins. Result -$$$

E-com / Drop shipping * 3 - Search google trends, keywords, confirmed good search results, setup the landing page ran ads inside various platforms. Result -$

SaaS apps - failed - Shipped w/o speaking to potential customers along the way. Result -$$

Newsletter failed - not much attraction = not many subs.

All this failure is suppose to teach me something. It's suppose to propel me into the next phase but it has not.

It did cement failure sucks, it's hard to make things that people actually want and i'm not even talking about paid products. As the example, newsletter a free thing was also a dried up pond.

My question is now what? I am tired of failing but I am not tired of trying. I will make this work one way or another. The question is HOW?
How would you approach things if you were in my shoes?

I hope this honest submission of my thoughts can create meaningful discussion. Share your experiences, thoughts, emotions. How did you fail, Did you overcome it?
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Being too easy to predict may break the blackbox nature of the PRNG (you might "predict" it by accident).

For example you can increase the quality of a RNG sequence r(n) by adding a multiplicative hash, r'(n) = A r(n) for some good constant A. A consumer treating r' as a blackbox expects B r'(n) = AB r(n) to be a good random sequence, but if B is close to the inverse of A, the constant AB may no longer be "good".
This story is just absolutely ridiculous: The poster _works at Google_ and even tried to escalate internally for days, to no avail.
It's hard to see in that chart because of the big peak in the 4th quarter of 2018, but year over year growth per quarter is generally improving. The annual revenue chart shows the trend more clearly: https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/revenues_annual
That was what i've always think as well. If theres a problem with our culture, that we keep passing through generations, we could even buy more time if we escape, but the problem might go with us.

If we dont fix the problem in the core before we colonize other planets, we will become a interplanetary virus working as a parasyte and killing our host with time.
> before anyone can do anything you need a complete list

But nobody works like that. People act on moral confidence, not certainty. If we had certainty, then would we need to worry about credibility?

> That's a recipe to do nothing but argue. That's what we've been doing for 30 years.

I'm making a description and not a prescription, so if you say we've been doing something 30 years, then you already agree to the description.
Samesies. Having even close to the purported 6x speed improvement when taking low light photos would be amazing.
Are you saying publishers can’t arbitrarily decide what to publish or not? I think you will find that publishers have a lot more say so over their content than e.g. phone companies.
It might not be as hard as you might think. Doubtful the only person involved would be the "pilot". Probably some ground support. I could imagine ground support listening to ATC for the inevitable report. Similar to bank robbers. Once the call goes out, you know how long it will take for a response. However, calls to the police about a bank robbery are guaranteed to get an immediate response. Calls to the police to investigate a UFO are probably not going to see the same response. So once you hear the ATC report, you radio your buddy in the jetpack to land, pack up in an SUV, and drive away. Depending on the size of the jetpack, the pilot might even be able to climb into the back of the SUV without taking anything off. It could be feasible even if it was a call to a more motivated FBI. LA traffic sucks.
I'm not sure the recent evidence bears out this point. If you look at the strength of the dollar, it's actually UP since the ultra-low interest rates that started after the financial crises. Rampant inflation hasn't happened either.

I'm not smart enough to know if this is just a looming bow-wave or that the previous assumptions don't hold.
BMW writes code of ethics for AI in collaboration with the EU
The idea that Twitter and Facebook can do this in a “non-distortionary” way is unrealistic. Peoples’ personal biases are too strong.

The “fact check” websites used to be great. Now, they wander way over “fact checking.” The worst abuses are when they provide “context” or challenge assumptions. Conservatives and liberals are not working from the same assumptions, and have a different set of contextual facts top of mind on different issues. The fact check organizations are pretty good about checking the actual assertion, but reveal bias through what contextual facts they provide and what assumptions they do or do not challenge. Another way they cross the line is “fact checking” obvious rhetoric: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trumps-exaggerated-claims-...

> At a rally in Sanford, Florida, President Donald Trump made the exaggerated claim that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, “voted to obliterate” Puerto Rico’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.

As Biden would say, “c’mon man.” How many times has a politician said stuff like “they sent your jobs to China?” Did anyone fact check Biden’s assertion that Romney would “put [Black people] back in chains?” They explain the vote by saying things like: “at the time, eliminating the provision was seen as striking a blow against “corporate welfare.” Seen by who? They also note that the bill “also raised the minimum wage.” This isn’t “fact checking,” it’s the counter-narrative from the Biden campaign.
My main application for paper is writing notes -- I haven't found a good digital replacement yet, but I'm open to digital paper. Having one repository of all notes would be really helpful, I think, as long as it was properly indexed. But I agree that there are areas where paper will never be beat.

Plus, I've used a wacom tablet and, while I was impressed that they managed to somewhat mimic the feeling of writing with a pen, it isn't the feeling of writing with a great pen. And nowhere near the feeling of a nice mechanical pencil. There's room for improvement.
> Can you quote a single comment from this thread in which I defend Apple?

"Obviously they make their own ethical judgements when enforcing their own rules, as do we all."

- It would have been more difficult to find comments from this thread where you didn't defend Apple applying all sorts of mental gymnastics.
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You might as well delete most liberal media as well since anytime they mention a crime being committed and they omit the race of the perp you can assume they aren’t white. If they are white they will shout it from the rooftops.

I watched Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and I’d assume that for some reason these journalists thought that they can fix racism just not mentioning the race of the perpetrators.
Isn't this an air force problem? An unidentified craft in US airspace... What's the escalation point, between civilian authorities and military if/when something is in the sky that shouldn't be?
they’re scared of hack journalists blaming them if a republican ever wins again. like 2016
What is so unlikely / surprising to you about someone with apparent wealth and aviation knowledge doing something illegal / selfish?
Good explanation. Thank you. You might enjoy this:

https://blog.chartmogul.com/saas-pricing-report/

It doesn’t get really interesting until The SaaS Pricing Report.
_Desktop_ Linux is absoultely not under attack whatsoever. So no, this _IS_ security by obscurity (in an arguably somewhat different sense of the word though) at work.
Yeah, for me it's less "working was my only social interaction" and more "with covid, we can't work in person and we also can't go do our own things with friends."

Losing in-person work relationships at the same time as social relationships is rough. Luckily I get along well with the person I live with, but the lack of ad-hoc social interaction is unsettling.
Please, could we stop using analogies using Nazi terminology whenever we strongly disagree with someone? As a consequence of Hitlers actions, hundreds of millions of people died. As a consequence of Apple's actions, many people are upset. The two aren't comparable. When I hear Nazi analogies every day, these words become meaningless.
I wish Terraform still allowed destroy-time provisioners to access variables, it seems that it went away due to some refactoring, and it isn't coming back.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/23679
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One application for this data that comes to mind is computer-aided narrated navigation for the visually impaired.

A challenge of mapping indoor areas for this application (and others) is the sometimes dynamic nature of interior environments.

Using some of the listed categories as examples, furniture is moved or replaced, vegetation is changed (or changes), vending machines are added or moved, escalators are temporarily out of service, food trucks by nature may move, and so forth.
You might be interested in https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

> hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).
> the collective amount of people buying apple devices is what gives them the power to implement these rules on their own.

Generally whenever some sort of product or process gains a large level of public usage, it gets regulated. This has been true of every technology since the lightbulb. I think we as a civilization realized that just letting people at the top apply their arbitrary preferences to everyone else was hurtful and nonproductive.
I'm not sure what's going on here but when I click the link[1] I don't actually end up at techcrunch but advertising.com[2] which is blocked in my DNS.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/15/stripe-acquires-nigerias-p...

[2]: https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=#_...