skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an exactly the same experience with Trustpilot.

They took down my negative review of a business, asking me to change it despite it being factually correct (I was reporting fraudulent bait-and-switch tactics used by a German air travel site), while they left a bunch of clearly suspect 5-star reviews, thus skewing the overall score of what was clearly a fraud of a service.

The best part: the link that takes you from the vendor's Trustpilot page to their service is a referral link.

The whole 'independent' review service concept is inherently flawed for at least two reasons: a disproportionate number of bad reviews (people will more likely go to such a service to vent their frustration about, rather then to lavish praise on a vendor), and a dependency on advertisement revenue, often coming from the very subjects of the reviews that you are featuring.
To everyone asking if there's an alternative, it's levels.fyi (for financial info) + blind (to really see anonymously what kind of people you'd work with)
The Reddit discussion contains a few suggestions:

https://www.comparably.com/
Regarding point 5: The computer itself was turned over to the FBI under subpoena - the NYPO article has the receipts for that. The source for the story was the cloned contents of the hard drive, not the computer itself.

Regarding point 6: The defense used by the Biden campaign was very specific, to wit: we have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.*

If I were going to hold a covert meeting with foreign nationals that falls afoul of anti-corruption laws, I wouldn't be putting it on my official schedule either. This is not a defense to the accusation made.

I still want to see the raw emails. PDF screenshots aren't trustworthy, but the DKIM-signed messages with headers would confirm authenticity. Another thing that lends credence to the legitimacy of the hard drive are the photos taken from it - these too are in the NYPO article.
Not your keys ...
That's right. What you can do is use Microsoft Office formats, but Google makes that rather difficult. You have to download as Excel/Word then upload the file and delete the original Google Docs document. You can then edit the Office document in Google Docs/Sheets (with some limitations on collaboration I think).

I found it easier to move everything to Office 365. Google Takeout can export all data directly to OneDrive without having to download anything.
It also makes the big assumption of "when laser links are implemented". There is no timeframe for that, and it's possible that it's never implemented.
800m is still grossly out of class G unregulated airspace. Anyone with enough guts to fly in a jet pack has a high chance of at least having a private pilot’s license. They’d know it is against FAA policy and can result in fines or imprisonments. This in addition to local laws.
I guess once they got big enough there was no longer a point in interoperability, it seems like a pretty big phase transition got hit about a decade ago where suddenly each walled garden got big and valuable enough that isolation was a better strategy for them.

It just sucks for the internet. I don't think, if those companies ceased to exist, that they would automatically get recreated because of some inevitable niche or market law. I think that they got where they are because of a fluke of the times they were created in -- people could not grasp how they make money.
This is very interesting, we're seeing a lot of Kubernetes "flavors" coming out that remove the etcd requirement. It's no secret that etcd is a key part of why Kubernetes is complex--etcd scaling/securing/recovery is really hard.

I think Kubernetes would do well to make swapping out the storage backend possible without having all of these forks. Kubernetes is too tightly coupled to etcd, and for little benefit. I would wager a lot of customers would trade the guarantees etcd provides for a simpler deployment.
It doesn't quote enough context to even clarify if he recommended damage, or whether he was mocking the people doing the damage.

EDIT: found a larger quotation. From the context, the use of the quote in TFA looks like a misrepresentation of what Augustine said, since it doesn't sound like he was offering an opinion on whether or not it should be done.

https://books.google.com/books?id=z5ufDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=P...
Bullshit. Maybe 99.999 are successfully identified, but one is mistakenly banned/suspended for no reason and it often has significant impact on his/her business. Google automation is a broken system. A system made by people who never have to deal with the actual users.
Smart Data Visualizations: Quality Assessment Algorithm
When I've talked to google employees what I get is they think customers that have issues are trying to scam something. And that allowing a human to try and sort the problem would just enable that.

The amount of money you need to pay google a year to change that attitude runs in the six digits.
They probably do, but given the amount of time required for such regulations to be written, commented on and those comments analyzed and dealt with, and published to the FR before being effective, he would have to have the clarifying regulations ready by the end of next week in order for them to take effect before the next presidential term begins.

And then the next Congress can simply review them and overturn those changes as part of a law that the Gingrich GOP introduced to overturn Clinton's last-minute regulatory actions (see the Congressional Review Act).
Most of the samples don't show anything for me... Maybe a description of what it's supposed to be, at most. No code or files.
That is complicated. Most of the documents with the details seem to be Resticted or Classified.

There is some procedure for the ATC to request military intervention. This process at least used to be slow complciated, and requiring approvals at the highest levels. (Think office of the Secretary of Defense levels). That was pre 9/11 though. I've not come across any good information since then.

Separately, the military can act on its own initiative against potential threats. This is so much simpler that I'm pretty sure it is what gets used in practice. For example, if a plane is heading into DC now, without appropriate permission, the military will initiate the intercept on its own (this particular scenario is documented publicly, but with limited details, obviously). There is no restriction on ATC providing relevant information in such situations. It is even legal for ATC to alert the military of the situation. The alert teams used for these fall under NORAD authority.

Lastly, what happens even more often than that, is that the ATC will ask nearby military planes if it is possible for them to come and take a look at something. Depending on their mission, it is sometimes possible to the military plane to do so. This is nothing out of the ordinary, and ATC can make such requests of any plane, but most airliners are likely to be in to big a hurry for scheduling reasons.
I don't think you're right.

> Facebook's identity verification

in real life, do you need to know the real name of the cashier and see their contract so you can trust them with your payment? You don't, you use common sense.

> Google de-ranking link farms

hey, haha, and what do we get instead? Monopoly on ad-driven search engine, great, I'd rather have link farms since I can easily filter those out with little brain-power. I can't do that with paid-for-propaganda

Now imagine we'd leave the way it was, people would learn how to deal with it, the same way you learned you can't leave unlocked bicycle in a city. It's a price to pay for anonymity, and we should all have right to be anonymous on internet.
Also be careful about declaring variables within a case unless you explicitly introduce a block statement.

Honestly the potential for mistakes using a switch are so numerous that I absolutely agree with you about reflexively avoiding them and preferring the use of an if statement. The optimization benefit no longer holds on modern compilers so all you're left with is fall through to simplify some really complex branching needs.
This looks great and similar to YNAB. Do you feel you offer anything over YNAB vs just being local first.
> Sure, but there is no reward for research departments to produce high quality code. Their job is to experiment and publish, maintainable bug free(unless it effects their code) doesn't get rewarded.

This isn't completely true. I'm familiar with at least few projects which got grants specifically to build tools for other scientists and those were great for funding general software engineering jobs not tied to the usual academic publication/job cycle. That was good for supporting ongoing upgrades — nobody gets a publication for upgrading a dependency, which is how you end up with someone keeping a Windows 95 box on life support for years because they were focused on science – and also for supporting things like good documentation since that's a serious time commitment.

It'd be an idea to scale up things like that for identified high-impact projects, with the trick being finding someone capable of overseeing software engineering rather than the usual academic focus of existing grant panels. Seems like something which might be a fit under the Commerce department since there's a lot of stuff which American businesses benefit from but generally do not directly support.
Wild Chickens Rule the Streets in Some Beach Towns
I could write a similar story to one about Glassdoor on Yelp -- they banned me from leaving a review because I had professional experience in the same field. Even though I wasn't actively in the field and offered to prove through a number of pieces of documentation, they considered it to be "attacking competitors".

Per this, that means they only allow non-professional reviews on their platform. So if one professional sees flaws/someone getting duped, they're helpless to point it out.
This is an interesting development. I wonder if their offices will move further and further away from their HQ. And further away to South America or Canada
I just had that same panic realization. Turns out it is pretty easy to do manually.

From GSuite click the 9 grid dot application menu and choose Account. Go to "privacy & personalization". Find "Download or delete your data" section and click the "Download your data" link. Seems to be a comprehensive download system including everything I could imagine (including my gmail history which is probably most important).

If anyone knows how to automate this, (e.g. to my local machine using a script, or iCloud/Dropbox) I would love to hear it.
In Common Lisp, methods are the bits of code which specialize a generic function.

defgeneric most certainly defines a function. The symbol becomes fbound and can be used like function: (mapcar #'mygeneric ....) and so on.

defmethod defines specializations for it. If you write a defmethod without a matching defgeneric, then the generic function gets implicitly defined.
He chimes in on the break vs disfigure argument, but doesn't get into the why the nose would have special meaning. That's the part which is so fascinating tbh.
100%, I agree, going back to the Wild Wild West probably isn't the thing to do, but I think we can look at decentralization through the lens of modern tools for a brighter and more equitable future for the internets new and old denizens.

A couple of ideas I've had:

- Leverage PGP and trust rings for identity without a need for non-anonymity. This could be structured in a nuanced manner so that we respect pseudo-anonymity while also maintaining the integrity that real identity brings.

- A wholesale education of the populace, instead of an education by fear, of the power of anonymity and services which further anonymity.

- A move away from the advertising and services-exploitation business model. Not that we can't have service oriented businesses, but those businesses cannot be exploiting people to do labor and a bottom line price.

- A data ownership model which establishes a monetary value for different types of data. We already do data classification inside mega-corps, and we're able to establish and correlate it's sensitivity. Extrapolating this to value would not be stretch. Users consent which data they give up in exchange for services. The price for the service is adjusted based on what data they give up, and how they choose it will be used (Data for marketing may be more valuable than say data for behavior research, or even vice versa!)
Hardly at all, except from automated jobs where I want to know that something ran.
Are we anymore? I've been to an electronics store recently, most printers on display were ink tank models. Even HP ones!
The excellent novel "Snow Crash" was directly inspired by "The Origin of Consciousness":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Sentry announced Spring Boot support
I just can't understand why Google, Apple, and such companies can't share the specifics around what the violation actually was.
I remembered Splunk being a simple log parser. I didn’t remember it as a dashboard like this. It’s been many years since I looked at it though. Time to give it another look.
TBH, this is the way it should be.

Getting your account unbanned shouldn't require having an insider.

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There should be a clear reason for why an account is banned. When you're accused of a crime in a society, we don't just tell you to read abstract law. We tell you exactly what you've been accused of, such that you can defend yourself appropriately. There is this basic principle in English law that states:

- It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

What's been happening with many of these companies is that many guilty actually do escape, whilst many innocent actually still do suffer.
Then the joke is on you by failing to understand the OS concepts that are exposed there.

To proper understand a book one has to read more than just the back cover overview.
They got approved by California DMV. The procedure to get such an approval is section 227.38 of [1].

There is no audit or anything of the sort. It's just a form to fill where the company must certify that their car is good enough and they have certain processes in place to take remote control of the vehicle if needed, and to deal with an eventual accident.

> "The manufacturer certifies that the autonomous vehicles are capable of
operating without the presence of a driver inside the vehicle and that the
autonomous technology meets the description of a level 4 or level 5 automated
driving system under SAE International's Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms
Related to Driving Automation Systems for On-Road Motor Vehicles, standard
J3016 (SEP2016), which is hereby incorporated by reference."

Basically anyone can get approved, as long as they can prove they can deal with the consequences (sufficient insurance coverage etc.).

It reminds me a little bit of the FAA letting Boeing certify the 737 Max themselves.

[1]: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/uploads/2020/06/Adopted-Regula...
GTFS has a (kinda) new 'pathways.txt' extension exactly for this.
Look at the countries that were labeled Sustainable Economies in recent years (Cuba and Ecuador). Is there a way to convince people in rich countries to live with the same level of consumption as these countries do? Can you even convince these countries to stay as they are?
See also all the posts about "I had to work from home during a pandemic, with forced restrictions on other activities and social gatherings, while also home schooling my children and dealing with an inordinate amount of stress and disruption to my life, therefore I hate work from home and would never consider it given the choice."

The last 6 months isn't really representative of why we should or should not be encouraging WFH, but it at least seems to have opened more doors to accommodating it as an option in companies that would have previously been against it.
Lawd have mercy
The President was asked about Q: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNI553Np__k

Curious people can read the posts themselves: https://qanon.pub

NYT still run by the BBC's Mark Thompson....

https://imgur.com/VUdcIou

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIMxvS-WEAER49I.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CINJUoqUwAEkSip.jpg
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Suarez used to be a tech/security consultant... the title is a direct reference to system daemons :)
True, but why isn't web of trust a thing on Glassdoor? Why is reputation so broken?
100 metric tonnes.
There were, however, a bunch of Pharaohs with some Nubian roots. Notably, Amenemhat I, the founder of the 12th dynasty, probably had a Nubian mother.

They were rare, though.
In C and C++, where this void kludge from, the void type is an incomplete type which cannot be completed and contains no values.
IANL but even single opinions by Supreme Court justices are often cited in other cases, and arguments. It’s a lot more than you think, but perhaps someone who is an actual lawyer can weigh in?
I don't really know if you have a legal remedy under your state's "Unfair Trade Practices" law, but this might be one worth a complaint to your state attorney general's office or maybe a consultation with a consumer affairs attorney, if you have the money. I am pessimistic that this would go anywhere, though.
Maybe they don't need to be though. One of my greatest regrets is that I couldn't afford to purchase Photoshop and Illustrator back when that was still an option. The Adobe CS6 suite is software that is "done" as far as I'm concerned. I would gladly pay $1000 each for CS6 Photoshop and Illustrator with absolutely no future updates if I could.
And yet terraform uses the same format and is the leader in its space?
Thanks! Sort of do but unfortunately you can only subscribe to it right now by subscribing to a trial. If you email help@actualbudget.com I'll subscribe your email manually.
> I mean that's already true.

Exactly. That's why it makes a lot of sense to study/learn things outside your area of expertise, and/or if you want to lean on the more extreme side, study/learn basic survival skills (that everyone used to know before the agricultural revolution).
C is one of those languages (like JavaScript, arguably) that's stuffed full of so many foot-guns you can't possibly hope to make them all statically impossible. So strong conventions need to exist no matter what, and "don't put case statements below the first block" seems like an easy enough one to visually enforce.
One example of a bad outcome is enough for you to decide that driverless cars are unacceptably dangerous? Take a look at number of collisions per mile driven and reconsider.
I wonder what the impact of reduced car ownership is on increased mobility in the elderly population. It wouldn't surprise me if this was correlated.
"PC LOAD LETTER" was a very common message on the old HP LaserJet Series II printers. This cryptic message on the tiny LCD display was short for:

PC: "Paper Cassette"
Load: "out of paper, please load more"
Letter: "US Letter size (8.5"x11")"

In some offices you'd be equally likely to see similar codes like "PC LOAD A4" or "PC LOAD LEGAL".

The LaserJet Series II and III didn't have paper drawers, but rather paper cassettes, which you could load with a stack of paper (maybe a few hundred sheets? less than half a ream IIRC), and then swap in and out of the machine as a unit.

Some models (I think it might have been an add-on peripheral for the Series II?) had two cassette slots, so you could load two supplies of paper at the same time. Either you could load the same size twice, in which case it would perform like a backup: if you ran out of paper in the first cassette, it would switch to the second cassette automatically but start flashing a light to tell you that it was time to reload the first one. Or you could load two different sizes, and it would select the right cassette to draw from based on the size of the document being printed.

The Series II didn't have a way to measure the size of the paper, so each cassette was designed for only one paper size. There was an interface where the cassette plugged into the printer which indicated which size paper it contained.

Due to the design of the paper cassette, it was very hard to tell from the outside how much paper was left. There was a tiny window but it was nearly opaque. IIRC later versions of the cassette improved this.

So if you had a model with only one cassette (which was fairly common, I think) and you loaded a "US Letter" size cassette, and it ran out of paper, the printer would refuse to print anymore until you gave it more paper. In the meantime the tiny LCD screen would flash "PC LOAD LETTER".

The printer was a workhorse and I can testify that many offices in my area were using 1980s-era Series II printers daily in 1999, when I had a part-time IT job that among other things involved doing maintenance on said printers. Replacing the rubber paper pickup roller and clearing paper jams out of the fusing unit were probably the two most common trouble cases, IIRC.
I don't know, I mean, their rating is pretty good as an employer... https://www.glassdoor.com/glassdoor
I don't think the comparison is really what it seems. We need to remember that PCG is not cryptographic, and thus I think the comparison is not meant to be ChaCha20, but more one of the ChaCha-versions that you would use in situations where you would use PCG. If you want chacha to produce random-looking data even nearly as fast as PCG does, you will need to run a lot fewer rounds. 8 rounds is, IIRC, about what you need for it to pass statistical tests, but if I would guess chacha8 would still be a lot slower than the better versions in the PCG family. If you want comparable speeds, you would need to run even fewer rounds, making the statistical quality even worse.
Construction energy is less than half the story here. The inefficiency of energy storage and retrieval dominates the energy costs of using a battery. You lose 10:1 on construction, and at least another 10:1 on electric-to-electric efficiency for a net of 5:1.

However, with an electric-to-electric efficiency of only 40-52% compressed air has a net efficiency of ~ 0.5:1 even if construction costs suggest 200:1 that just means it stays 0.5:1.
For better and worse, sometimes it still feels too much like very little in the world of The Expanse actually happens outside of the "campaign PCs" and it makes it feel like a smaller world than it should that much doesn't actually seem to happen until just the moment when the "campaign PCs" show up. The show tries to make up for it some of the time, but that still feels like the core of things. (I have not tried reading the books yet.)
It bums me out that we live in such completely different worlds.
Already successfully tested (early September 2020).

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-space-lasers-first...