skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you read it you would see that some of these controversies spanned multiple episodes, rendering your calculation moot.

This isn't a pissing contest. I believe 60 Minutes is of low journalistic/information quality (low value content/investigation, controversies in recent years, only some corrections, partial retractions, removal of content without issuing a correction/reason). It sounds like you have a different opinion - seemingly that an unknown number of episodes (14 or greater) over the course of over 2300 episodes and their actions/inactions related to them does not tarnish their reputation. And that's fine.
To put it in the context, ZX81 came with 1KB RAM. A screenful of a BASIC program could easily fill the whole available memory and the computer would hang. You had to plug a 16KB expansion RAM to make it usable.
> You end up rebuilding transactions, foreign keys, MVCC and similar features on relational db's?

Yes, because the database-level builtins are too restricted; pretty much the only behaviour you can get out of them is "reject the change and throw away the data" which is almost never what you want, and requires you to keep the data around on the client side and hope that all clients implement recovery consistently. Think about the user-facing behaviour that you want when e.g. one user tries to join a group at the same time as another user deletes the group. It ends up being easier to implement the right thing without using database-level transactions and foreign keys.
I honestly wish the US government was banned from using Gmail. It has caused more problems than any usefulness warrants. Also, NSF is a pain too.

[edit: I wonder how many of the down voters have actually sent email to a government agency using Gmail or dealt with some of NSF email issues firsthand?]
Maybe, instead of an exclusive monopoly, ownership of IP grants an inventor a share of revenue from any products using that IP for a limited time, like a royalty or a license. Then they could make money while the community innovates on their idea.
Hi Alex, I may be able to build this for you. I've built something like this before with react-view. Can include a list of the wysywygs you've reviewed?
I interpreted this as:

insert with any type of query to value.key.dnskv.com

check if key is set with A or AAAA query to key.dnskv.com

read value of key with TXT query to key.dnskv.com
I'll give an example of a Canadian vertically integrated monopoly: BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). BCE grew out of the incumbent phone company (Bell) in most of Ontario and Quebec. Over the years it has used the massive profits from telecom to extends its reach into other sectors of the economy. Over the past 10-15 years, it has made quite a few acquisition of various content producers. Most notably to me was the purchase of CTV and Discovery Channel.

Back in the 1980s, Ottawa had a local independent broadcast named CJOH. They produced their own local news at 6pm and late night. The CJOH news team was well respected and an active participant in the community. CJOH eventually got purchased by CTV and ultimately landed under the control of BCE / Bell Media. Shortly after Bell Media gained control a few years ago, they laid off longtime anchor Carol Anne Meehan. Not a good move in my view, as they brought on an entirely new and young team. Further cuts to the news staff have happened over the last few years as increasing use of technology has allowed further staff cuts -- everyone from camerapeople to editors and technical support staff. Each cut means one less means by which the news organization can learn about things that are happening in our community.

The acquisition of Discovery Channel was even worse in my opinion. From 1995 to 2018 Discovery Channel ran a show called Daily Planet, which was one of the only daily science news shows. This was a wonderful way to find out about all kinds of cool things going on in the world of science and technology. It aired on weekdays at 7pm after the 6 o'clock news. Bell Media cancelled the show on May 23, 2018.

The loss of Daily Planet is, in my opion, worse than that of a local news channel. Daily Planet was part of the reason for the existence of Discovery Channel. There are no real replacements being broadcast that I know of.

The reason I bring all this up is to show how the priorities of a monopoly impact existing services that are a public benefit. In my opinion, the BCE layoffs were not the result of the company losing money. The reasons were to free up cash flow to pay for Bell Canada's massive investments in building out its Fibre To The Home network. Bell has spent billions of dollars thus far building out FTTH across Ontario and Quebec, acquired the incumbent in Manitoba. Purchasing content producers that were once separate entities, then gutting them and using the savings to pay for FTTH construction is a brilliant strategy. Money that was previously an expense gets turned into capex that builds a new asset.

Sadly, our phone and TV bills don't go down in price despite us getting less new content. I had the chance to speak to folks at Discovery Channel at a conference back in the 1990s when I was a teenager, and their enthusiasm about bringing real science content to the public was amazing. I'm sad this has been lost at the alter of corporate greed.
Julian Jayne's Theory of the Origin of Conscious Interiority
If this does grow, it might be worth getting another domain just for email purposes such as "read-cv-email.com".
In the same manner, is me not wanted to get mugged and my wallet stolen "ideological fervor"?
Right... just as N95 masks were proven against other non-coronaviruses.

Of course n95 masks only prevent entry through the mouth and nose, and particularly at the time we had reason to think those were other points of entry. So, saying that they were "proven" to work against SARS-CoV-2 at the time was simply false.
I'm really torn over the author's website. On one hand, the design is much less ad-ridden and well-written than other SEO/affiliate link-driven websites.. but I don't see much value from it.

* the reviews for products are too short and vague

* until you actually read the top part and realize it was written by a human being, it looks exactly the same as all the other affiliate websites that get deranked (probably the reason he's getting 0 traffic)

* the "real reviews verified" badge screams SCAM to me, although I know less technical-minded people are persuaded by stuff like that
I mean no one's made an argument why it shouldn't be _optional_ if it already isn't either, as well as people are confusing the context of HR/Hiring Manager's shifting through resumes and traversing their own social graph on LinkedIn whether by search or connections list.

This site could even, when it gets up to supporting some social graph, separate the two views, HR is using bookmarks/folder organization/some other means of solving that problem anyway so "photos key to memory" is irrelevant
How close are we to DIY viruses?

If I was a teenager interested in biology, and I wanted to maybe build a "harmless" virus just to see if I could do it, how achievable might that be?

I watched computer viruses go from:

researchers -> tinkerers -> vandals -> criminals -> governments

At this point we just assume every computer is compromised, and we carve out enclaves of varying security for whatever risk level we're willing to assume.

I can imagine a future where pandemics happen at the same frequency as school shootings do today. How far away is that?
I don't see why the union would necessarily be pitted against the employer in tech. Yes their goals are not perfectly aligned, but that sort of work environment is something that both benefit from so I don't see that disappearing.

With a more centralized organization as a check on management decisions, the employer can find out earlier what the employees will tolerate by asking the union representatives (and not have the employees walk out when an unappetizing project is discovered). I expect the AWU would also fight against the reduction in transparency across the company, as that is a common concern among people I know that work there.
But, uh, Bangladesh itself has a lower rate, by far, than the U.K. While I greatly admire Dr. Paabo's work, this part seems pretty speculative.
These so called "content recommendation engines" pollute the web with low-effort, low-quality garbage writing that hooks less discriminating users while collecting reams of data to improve ad targeting. Good riddance, I say.
How would you know if your doctor wasn’t a fraud?
The argument was: they are a great firm, upstanding, going above and beyongfor the good of society. Now they are cheating, but so is everyone elaw. Which is it?
no its not. these activists are leftists, not liberals, which is what the parent was trying to point out.

liberalism is not a far left ideology, it is actually pretty centrist. "Hyper-liberal" is more synonymous to libertarian than it is to what these google activists are.

America has a stunted perception of political ideology. This is pretty apparent when you observe far right pundits and politicians refer to democrats as "far left" when the majority are actually right of center and would be considered conservative in most european countries or even by the democratic party of 20 years ago.
DoD’s Major IT Projects Are Behind Schedule, GAO Found
Except this is not just a USA story. The reality is that China is shutting down any research into the origins of the virus - at least by doctors not loyal to the government. They are arresting journalists who don’t tell the story they want to tell.

In the vacuum of information, it’s fair to point out that the market not being the source means something else was - and - there was a lab that had the closest variant to the virus within the same city.

If smallpox broke out in Atlanta, so you think anyone on earth wouldn’t immediately come to the conclusion that the CDC had a accident with their BSl? And there are 14 in the USA. Just one in China - and it’s Wuhan.

Let’s not act like this is a story about American regulation or deregulation.
I'm sure you have a good idea yourself what is going on here, given you have some good experience in online marketing etc.

Most likely, one or multiple of the algo's to determine value within results has been modified, which is a regular occurance. Has picked up the content on your site as not really beneficial / trustworthy for whatever the results are and so it has demoted your position.

Given almost every page of your site has at least 1 external referal link, its easy enough to imagine it being picked up as an auto generated site, with slapped in affiliates. Infact im surprised it hasnt happened sooner.

I'm not sure what you can do about it, other than reworking your entire site, obfuscating the referal links somehow and then hoping for the best.

Or branch out into other methods of content and earning if this is the only source of income for you, its rough, but that google algo and others are black boxes that you cant really depend on.. Eventually it will clear everyone off that's not investing in staying on top of these things.
Whatever he would do in a universe that does not exist is irrelevant. We live in this universe.
There should be restrictions on building close to now-drowned river courses where archaeological remains are most likely to be found someday.
This is definitely really cool. Replying here in case I want to look at it further.
this allows the banks to "connect to blockchains as validator nodes".

I think this is a great idea. It is clear that people want blockchains, for better or for worse. By creating centralized, government managed blockchains, we might be able to move most legitimate traffic there. And then we could ban the decentralized ones and make cryptolockers go away.
> First: that's awful because it means business don't have any flexibility to change. you're forced to work with people who don't work, because they can't get fired. The lower productivity of those workers becomes a drag on everyone else.

There are reasons why an employer may fire a worker. "Refuses to work" is one.

> Second: this is the worst. Instead of shedding the dead weight it insists on protecting the people who've been paying dues the longest, at the expense of young people.

Maybe if people did not understand "dead weight" when they read "older people" employers could be trusted to decide who to keep and who to fire.

> A just society is one where people doing more work get more pay.

That cannot be the only or even the main criterion else people who can't work starve.
You were lucky if the 16KB expansion pack stayed put. The connector was notoriously wobbly and unreliable, resulting in a crash and many more hours of copying game code from a magazine.
Modern neoliberal policies match up entirely with the ones you criticize Sim City for punishing. Go to old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal and you'll see countless posts advocating for mixed use zoning, public transit, bike lanes, etc.

edit: you might also enjoy Sim City 4 with the network addon mod installed. It allows you to customize those exact parameters, and shift the incidence of public transportation usage as well as preference for travel time and other things.
Could a word/character limit also be considered? I have seen people who write bloated almost-autobiographies wherever an online profile allows them to.
But the public signing key, that's already installed via presumably verified initial media is already there, so unless their private key is compromised, which would be a bigger deal ....
Nothing screams trust and integrity like public lashings in street, so perhaps we should start there.

I would rather not make a example of someone for PR and add an enhancement for thought crime. But then again, I have never been convinced that US belief in harsh punishments as a deterrent did anything but fill jails and cost money.
Thanks! I'm fine!

Since I started my career in SWE (at a company which went public and crashed hard in the first dot.com bust) I've always had enough so I never really worried about money. And I usually had more than my musician friends so I "felt" well off, if that makes sense. I could always buy a new guitar and they couldn't always do that. I rented the van to go on tour when they couldn't afford it because it was a bucket list thing for me and I'm glad I did it. Now I'm starting to think maybe I should have thought about it a little more. I've always been so busy working and pursuing other hobbies (guitar, then drums, now game programming (or just game playing? hard to tell) and weight lifting) that I never thought "hey, dude, sit down and plan your retirement" beyond checking a box to auto-fill the 401k. I have also worked at a lot of companies that didn't even offer a 401k so that also made a bit of a dent.

I'm definitely dreaming about finding a remote job and moving out of SF, like half the developers in the city... I could easily afford a house in any other part of the country. I could use the savings to hire a younger guy to stand in front of the web cam while I type. :)

My parents are still here in CA so I'm standing by to care for them if/when necessary. My dad is in a home already but I'll probably move back in to hang out with my mom soon. So far I've been happier maintaining my own apartment I'm sure a lot of people with mom's can understand. I spent a half hour on the phone today doing technical support. :) Another hint -- set up remote desktop!

I'm still torn between spending the rest of my career at some BigCo or taking a shot at one last startup. A lifetime of indecisiveness has led to a lot of these half-assed decisions for sure.

Since this post is about aging, one bit of advice: get your parents to sign power of attorney (medical & financial) documents long before they can't sign paperwork any more! By the time you actually have to use it for something it may be a LOT more difficult. Fortunately my parents trust me and they were happy to do it, and we're all very happy we did.
I don't think think this really solves the issue of content quality like the original comment was addressing.

However, I do think it's a step in the right direction and makes sense. After all, if your platform is promoting specific content by your own actions/volition, then it's no longer just content posted by some user, but it's now being used or reposted/linked by the company that owns the platform for monetary gain (I would guess ToS would solidify this with some boilerplate statement saying they can use your content to make money and to promote the platform etc).
I reckon it’s more about guaranteeing the integrity of packages in transit, rather than providing anonymity.
Apple M1 seems to have ECC.

> AppleFireStormErrorHandler AppleARM64ErrorHandler: will not panic on correctible ECC errors

> Firestorm are the four high-performance CPU cores in the M1.[1]

[1]- https://www.google.com/amp/s/eclecticlight.co/2020/12/09/wha...
Depending on your blog software, you might be able to automate it. ;)

Seems like something a Jekyll or Hugo plugin could do quite well.
This 'very spesific set' is like 90% of all teachers.

The argument was -you cannot get away underpaying developers, you get crap develipers and crap code. But compare teaching outcomes, and you will see that countries with better paid teachera have better outcomes in primary education, so we are suffering the consequences in both cases. Its just that we've chosen different tradeoffs
I agree with this, as bad as it is for the OP, this really should have just been a side earner.
Could you share some of these techniques? I'm in the same boat.
I have been fascinated with the effects of solitary confinement on mental health. Why the Covid pandemic has added horrors is because large parts of human populations are under virtual imprisonment, not being able to visit and touch friends and family, and not being able to travel. Anecdotal evidence strongly indicates that this had vastly detrimental effect on mental health.

(Understanding this may be also crucial for the proper design of long-duration space travel.)

Just like ordeal by fire, and ordeal by boiling oil, I wish that solitary confinement be identified as cruel and unusual punishment, used sparingly and only with the highest levels of bureaucratic clearance. Probably only against the insanely violent, rather than the mildly inconvenient.
Linked paper is focused on node classification, parent is asking for whole graph prediction.
Search engine ranking systems change from time to time.

Those whose traffic benefit from these changes attribute it to their outstanding abilities as an internet entrepreneur.

Those whose traffic suffer write blog posts like this one.

It sucks for this guy, but this is just how search engines work.
Yes, the "X is Evil and Evil do what Evil does" kind of reductive and anti-intellectual arguments here are disappointing.

I'll offer an alternative, although admittedly simplistic lens to understand the actions of the CCP:

To pull their population of 1.4 billion people out of poverty. To which political stability is essential.
Nebula Genomics: https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing/
It's to prevent catastrophic erosion to the property, at the expense of the beach. You build a house on the beach like a fool, then destroy the beach to protect your investment. Nature-loving people.
In poking around, I found this: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833

Where someone actually implements a compile-time check for prime numbers. I guess saying that it _can't_ be done is inaccurate. It's just absolutely horrendous.
Which always makes me incredulous why nobody ever breaks these down piece by piece if it's so obvious. Education is much more effective than proof by repeated assertions.
Google shifts their algorithm also in response to people gaming it. Affiliate websites (such as this one) have been gaming the SEO system with AI/India-written articles for a long time. It seems the dude is honest and writes the content himself, but it is obviously nearly impossible to tell them apart, so they all get the chop. Sucks for him, but perhaps we're all better off.
That hardware advance may be closer than expected: https://www.graphcore.ai
For everything that's wrong in the United States at least the creators of the nation believed, enough to memorialize in it's founding documents, that it is self evident that that certain freedoms should be absolute weather or not earned or deserved...
This is a curious one.. Especially seeing as the Alex info on it seems to show that it's been doing very well the last 90 days, 45 specifically. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/goodcheapandfast.com#traffics...
> My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this.

I've seen this before too. A huge problem right now is the massive tech companies want an unreasonable view into your life. They want your identity, phone number, photo id, location history, credit history, etc. before they'll treat you like a real person.

If you think I'm joking, spin up a transient environment, connect to a VPN, and try to participate online without linking all of your accounts to a piece of real world identity information that, in turn, can be linked to all the other things I listed above. You can't even get an email address without a phone number.

Part of the issue there is the huge tech companies are abusing their market positions to assign bad reputation to the IP blocks owned by everyone else. You can't use a VPS for ANYTHING but incoming connections because the IPs are flagged all by Google et al. How do you run an API server that needs to make any outbound connections if Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. all consider the IP block tainted? I guess you just need to buy your IPs from Google, right?

That's exactly the same tactic Google used with GMail. The original spam filtering was super aggressive and shitty and the solution, according to Google, was to use GMail instead of other providers. "Get a big provider" is a very poor answer to a question that has a technical solution IMO.

> My mailserver is marked as spam by gmail

Have you tried GSuite (or whatever they're calling it these days)? /s
It's probably more helpful if you can share the URLs of the articles you're citing.

Snopes.com delved into the one about lax security, and it turned out to just be something somebody shared on a social media web site. (It had the name "ResearchGate", which many wrongly assumed meant it was an actual research paper when it was just a social media post.)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/01/covid-19-bioweapon/
Haskell is really amusing functional language.
But it is hard to find companies which use Haskell to develop interesting program... Of course, there exist some companies in the world, but they are not close to me.
I wish more people to get to know that Haskell is really fun, useful and pragmatic.
lol "try reaching out to google" that was my good laugh for the day.
Author here. Just a few clarifications:

1. I have a ton of respect for people who do robotics work. I was trying to be a little humorous/cheeky in my descriptions here. Apologies if it comes across as flippant, that was not what I intended.

2. My undergrad was in EECS, so I know a little about the hardware side of the world (although, to be fair, I've never done it for work).

3. There's a bit more to the story than what I wrote about in my post. For reasons around confidentiality, etc. I had to focus on the things that were safe to talk about openly, some of which I agree are kind of petty. Ditto for the reasons about leaving Stripe.
oh I got confused with another chinese CEO that died in helicopter, it really can't be brushed off as coincidence:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hna-chairmans-fa...

Chinese billionaires keep dying under mysterious circumstances.

As Guo Wengui said it "A kill is a kill".
Hthsm: A hierarchical finite state machine framework for keeping C apps tidy