skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may be playing semantics games, here?

Mechanisms that optimize for increased engagement via dynamic suggestions for a user's feed or ~related content are not moderation (unless, perhaps, the algorithmic petting zoo is the only way to use the service).

This is exactly why I'm drawing a distinction.

Many of a platform's legal and civil liabilities for user-submitted content are poorly correlated with how many people see it and whether it is promoted by The Algorithm (though the chance it gets noticed probably correlates). This is ~compliance work.

Their reputational liabilities are a little more correlated with whether or not anyone is actually encountering the content (and more about how the content is affecting people, than its legality). This is ~PR work.
Some of this is by design, food insecurity is one of the largest driver of unrest. Those in the power seats and politicians have a vested interest in taking an active part in the management of agricultural production.

I grew up on a small citrus farm, I saw NAFTA and the migrant worker bills ravage the small farmers first hand. The way it was done was unfair and amounted to a transfer of wealth to these entities but with that being said, I know why they did it. They need economies of scale, as well as the ability to offset risk, the easiest way to do that is to conglomerate the land together so that if there is a loss of production in one area output can be raised in another. This is hard to do with a co-op of independent farmers.

Starving people are dangerous to stability it really is as simple as that, and that is why you see these entities involved in farmlands.
There's a Python library:

https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/

And script:

https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/cli.ht...

Which really helps you automate stuff.

https://pypi.org/project/internetarchive/

It turns your script into:

for i in $(seq 1 221)
do
ia download Dungeon_Magazine_$(printf "%03d" $i) --glob='*.pdf'
done

Try 'ia help download' for more information.
If they're using a dynamically typed language to do monetary calculations, it's not going to be ideal.

Researchers do not need to have deep programming experience, but they have to be comfortable enough to use an environment that can lend itself itself to the problem at hand. On the quant side, unlike on the data science side, the barrier of entry on the programming side is a bit higher. To solve this problem many firms have their own internal programming language.
My assumption was that European devs are underpaid wrt USA and that their wages will go up as shortage of devs in USA forces them to pay up for European devs.
Not ePaper but cool and recent https://github.com/FASTSHIFT/WatchX ... unfortunately not designed with KiCad.
It also shut down the account of the Russian-made vaccine Sputnik V today. Seems like they are taking too much upon themselves lately, aren't they?

UPD: Access has been restored.
Why would Twitter request a court to issue an injunction to remove him from the platform that they own and control? They're fully able to do some without an injunction so I'm not sure any court would even deal with the case. IANAL
Similarly, there's been an increase in helicopter traffic in Western New York. But, we do know why. It's Canadian snowbirds trying to skip the border shutdown to head to Florida https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/canadians-buzz-throu...
All Anti-Virus Failed
They also force all 17-year-olds to go live with and as ‘the English’ for two years and then decide whether they want to go back, and what things should be brought back with them.
I'd be happy to just have 10 acres for my wife and I :(
If you took a photo of one of the chairs and looked at it at home you'd be just fine though. You're mixing up theft and copyright infringement.
Nah, whole area of NYC would be in the right ballpark, but is still less.
I doubt there's a notion of "better" here and I doubt this land represents a meaningful chunk of his wealth. It's more about diversification on one hand and perhaps a good opportunity to buy this land on the other.
On the contrary, we ship Alpine with iSH because it’s so small by default. This keeps our app size down to just a few MB-which is not bad, IMO, for something that gives you most of POSIX on your iPhone :)
Gates is famous for rejecting intergenerational wealth transfer.

Well, $10m is definitely wealth to you or me, but not to Bill Gates.

https://www.bankrate.com/financing/wealth/what-will-gates-ch...
A search engine company without their own search engine is not very promising. I'm assuming/hoping they have plans to serve most queries themselves in the future.
Parler/fab were made to serve fascist rejects from those main social networks. Those discussion make a small segment of facebook’s overall discussions.
They own the highest value of farmland of any private individuals--which is leagues different than the most acreage.
Ironically, Europe has a higher concentration of Elixirists given Erlang was invented there. My hiring attitude is that paying for senior developers is cheaper in the long run given their ability to make better decisions.

> I wonder if what your team of 3 people is building couldn't have been built with just one engineer and ruby on rails at the expense of paying for two more servers.

Emphatically no. Having more servers costs more than just hosting, there's maintenance, orchestration, and communications complexity.

While other package ecosystems certainly have _more_ packages, the question is: how many of those will you actually use?
It is a decent place to park money. Cash has inflation effects. Land is a lot less susceptible to that.
This is somewhat true but not absolute truth tho’. But if I don’t want to get into the weeds to nit pick on details, I would say that you are right.

Having said that, it is because of economics. Small farm environmental sustainability is not feasible due to $$. The solution for this small acreage automation(what I am working on) systems and protocols.

Small acreage automation is important because globally, food comes from small acreages and it is becoming increasingly difficult for many small and poorer nations to feed their people. Not all countries have rich people owning very large acreages in cultivation.

American farms also produce little food and more fodder/fiber/fuel. We import most of our nutritious food like produce.

For food security, there needs to be more small acreage automation and more small farmers. We educate everyone these days and they need to be employed. They are not going to manually pick weeds if they run a sustainable farm. The only reason California has $45+ billion in ag revenue is because of the poorly paid undocumented immigrant labour force. And massive entitlements that big farmers(most of them as corporates own between 20k-100k acres of land) earn mostly through our complicated water agreements that the tax payers bear most of the cost indirectly.
Yes, though that's a different requirement -- most trunk "buttons" are electronically, not mechanically, connected to the latch, aren't they?
Emergency medical technicians lied to to force vaccine use
If a city seceding was viable, then New York City would have done it. Upstate New York might have gone along, though not the politicians. Upstate and the city are wildly different in culture, political beliefs, tolerance levels, and more. Many upstaters also hate that many assume the city when someone says 'I'm from New York'.

Both have amazingly nice people in places, and bad ones in others.

But if secession hasn't happened there, I don't see it happening with any city (which is good in my opinion).

Also, I used to live in upstate NY.
I agree with this article. Instead of trying super hard to prioritize groups and not moving on to other people when those first groups show up slowly or in small numbers, make room for others that want it.

There has to be a way to have appointments and first come first serve for essential people or whatever and then allow places to just fill up the open spots when they exist.

I feel like a lot of state governments have tried to create some orderly, specific process that probably assumed everyone would leap up to get vaccinated. But the process can be complicated to get signed up (at least here in AZ), people need to find time with work and childcare, and of course there are the anti-vax types who will avoid it out of fear.

So, yeah, open it up a a bit.
absolute snowflakes.....
I don't see the value or point of these articles. They always seem like point scoring exercises or agenda-driven based on personal opinions and subjective assessments. In this case it's not even clear who the author is...

China (and they are not alone) has done relatively well against the virus, so far certainly better than the West in general. It's just intellectual honesty to recognise this whatever we might think of the Chinese government.

Can we trust all the Chinese government reports? No. But when they lift most restrictions and life is mostly back to normal this is not fake. They cannot hide serious outbreaks. Case in point they still enforce local lockdowns here and there as cases arise.

I think there are two main aspects in what they are doing:

1. Strict lockdowns, strictly enforced but with people also complying by themselves.

2. Comprehensive monitoring, and track and trace systems in place after lockdowns.
Wouldn't they have a vested interest in that narrative? I'd trust some transparent research by an objective third party, I suppose.
56.8% google

38.6% direct

1.44% bing

0.34% startpage

0.3% ecosia

0.27% DDG

But I feel like non-google users are more likely to block GA, so these stats are probably skewed.
Let's talk about the purpose of these things, chairs & papaers.

The purpose of a chair is to enhance the space it resides in by enabling folks to rest/sit in the chair.

The purpose of a paper is to document science, such that others can see that science, replicate it, learn from it, extend it; the purpose of a paper is to present science such that we can all beget yet more science to happen.
Does anyone know if the data they used for this report is available online? It would be cool to see a breakdown greater than by state (the image shown in the article).
I'm not very familiar with Sci-Hub, but I doubt they were uploading pirated content to be hosted on Twitter, so what would their violation be? Incitement to commit copyright violation?
To be clear, there is no serious interpretation of the US Constitution required here: Twitter absolutely has the right to determine what shows up on their website. For the government to require Twitter to publish the opinions of the president would be a very clear violation of Twitter’s own first amendment rights.

There could be more nuance involved if, for example, there were a credible claim of racial discrimination involved, but that’s obviously not the case here.
I don't think this applies to remote positions. Local labor market restrictions + taxes create ample room for a win-win between remote employee and employer. So there's a strong incentive to hire from abroad.
Most people with exposure to any physics learn some basics about electrons, light and quantum mechanics, but I think it is tough to put these different ideas together. The hard part about quantum mechanics for physicists is not the rules for quantum mechanics but how that manifests itself in the real world. This is how I have understand it.

I'll talk about electrons first. An electron is a point particle. The position of the electron is governed by a wave (wave function). The wave is not made out of "electron". It is made out of something else, kind of like "probability". The wave tells you where you find the electron. But when you do find the electron, it is always a point particle. You will never detect the electron smeared out over space. (As an aside, for those who think about field theory, I still see the electron as point in field theory, though some might see it differently.)

Light is a field/wave made of the electric field. And it has a wave function too. The wave function again is made of probability. But it is probability for different electric field configurations, rather than photon locations, so it might be harder to picture.

Why does a light behave like a particle at all? Though the light has spatial extent it does come in discrete chunks, specific quanta of energy. When light is absorbed it can only be absorbed in these discrete quanta. In most detectors (like photographic paper) the light is absorbed by an electron. Since the electron is a point particle, the photon absorption happens at a single point. This might make it look as if a "particle" of light hit the detector.
In a just world, any organization which tries to prevent the free exchange of scientific information would be dismantled.
I am not from US, but would like to point you are wrong about that.

He can call a conference, but the press is not obliged to show up.

https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cnn-white-house-press-confe...

And since that in 2017, when they figured they could skip his press conferences, it has becoming more and more normal, if I remember correctly he announced a press conference only some days ago and it was ignored by almost all major media corporations with a few exceptions (Fox for example aired him).
My experience is the same, I eventually just switched my default search to Startpage
> _just_ a Texas-sized solar farm

Have you seen Texas? Boy howdy. That's 23,155 Noor Power Stations[0]. Scaling costs linearly, that's $58 trillion[1].

[0] 268597 (tx) / 11.6 (noor) square miles

[1] $2.5b * 23,155
Amazon reveals violent content, death threats that led to Parler's suspension
When you run an ad for weapons next to articles inciting retaliation against the government, it does become the same as supporting or fostering an insurrection.

Now, sure, it can happen because you unleashed an algorithm on the world and don't know what it does, but you're still responsible for it.
Not to mention:

Your password manager

Your 2FA authenticator

Your notes manager

Your domain name provider

Your cloud provider

Your browser

Your operating system

Your smart home

Your phone number

Your mobile ISP

Your analytics provider
People keep saying this, but how would that work? We've seen major broadcasting networks refuse to air his press conferences before. Aren't most big platforms with the ability to reach "every American" private companies that can do the same?

This is a genuine question - I do not watch a lot of news. Is there a government owned platform that I don't know about? I just looked into CSPAN a bit and it is a private organization, so couldn't they also just decide to not air things?

edit: I am referring to the claim that "He can call a press conference and communicate with every American within minutes." How?
Absolutely misleading. They were warned many times and took no action.
Personally, here is what I do: if access control is part of the business model, then I put it in the context and, almost always, I raise. Otherwise, continue doing it in plugs. That's it!

For web apps, you should almost never be triggering these invalid access control state, because it means the UI is allowing users to do something they are not really supposed to do. If the user cannot delete a resource, then the button most likely shouldn't show up (or it should be disabled with a comment) etc.

Raising actually helps us find these bad UI paths too because I get an error I can act on.

Now let's say you do want to handle some of these errors. You have three options:

1. Continue raising and rescue in the controller (meh)

2. Continue raising and implement Plug.Exception for said exception so you control how they are shown to the user (great if they are still general exceptions)

3. Return {:ok, _} | {:error, ...} and handle it in the controller (or in the FallbackController for APIs)
My guess would be people who Facebook has identified as similar to you clicked on the ads. It's like those "people also bought..." recommendations on Amazon: the algorithm doesn't understand causation, only correlation.
The pinned tweet explains the service. Auto-translation is a bit broken, but should translate roughly to this:

"I'm starting a service called 'rental person who does nothing'. [For example] for stores where entering alone is difficult[0], for matching the number of players in a game, to hold a hanami[1] spot. Please only use it for cases where one person is needed. I charge 10,000 yen, plus transportation fare from Kokubunji station, and food and drink (if applicable). I won't do anything other than very simple responses."

So it's not strictly a listening service per se.

[0] in Japan, there are food stores that are geared towards couples

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami (the context here is holding a picnic spot)
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Where are the graphs? Where is the data to back up those claims? Does "concentrated" mean 20% or 90%? Which economists said that and why did they say it? How many job cuts did the leasure and hospitality sector see? Without any summarized data to back up the claims, they amount to little more than unsourced opinions. I am asking for the opposite of a headline. I want a well source, data backed economic analysis for people who are interested in the deals but who are not economists, updated weekly or monthly in a consistent format.
When I ran the numbers, it looked like farm land yields + crop prices + land prices made for a bad long-term investment relative to stocks.

Assuming there isn't some ideological reason the Gates are buying farmland, it's probably better viewed as a hedge/diversification -- it may not be a very good investment, yield-wise, but it is decoupled from a lot of other investments.
That depends entirely on the area, the soil, the water rights etc.

Here in Indiana an acre of farmland will average somewhere in the $7000 per acre range for 'average' soil.

See this report from Purdue https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/home/wp-content/uploads/2...
Irrelevant, but is "Gateses" really the correct way to pluralize the name?
> It's a shame subclass numbers do change from version to version, so there is no "one-size-catch-all" injection string.

Yeah going through subclasses is not trivial, but that's the way exploits work really. And usually once you find a target the version is going to be reliable.

An other big injection sources in Python is when modules are available in the evaluation context, that's way more risky than exposing classes, functions, and objects due to Python's transitive import nature: anything you import becomes an attribute of your module, meaning if your module is visible so are its module. And very often there's a point at which `sys` is imported somewhere within transitive reach. Once `sys` is available they're out of the interpreter.
I have a Fitbit and I love this acquisition. I want to be able to put my fitness data in the rest of the Google ecosystem. The more data Google has on me, the more use I get out of Google's tools.

I really don't care that it has tons of data on me, Google has been super responsible of my data and its uses. The risk/reward is 100% worth.
This reminds me of one of the most insightful quotes about loneliness and grief I read in one of the most insightful essays on loss and grief:

I was reminded of our friend Liz’s insight after she lost her husband to melanoma. She told me she had plenty of people to do things with, but nobody to do nothing with.

From "The Day I Started Lying to Ruth" by Peter B. Bach, https://nymag.com/news/features/cancer-peter-bach-2014-5/
The site https://www.sofmag.com/ currently shows advertising for gun accessories next to mostly political news and opinion pieces. Does the legality of this advertising depend on whether a person or an algorithm selected the advertising?

Questions like these are probably why the bill Josh Hawley wrote is clearly targeted at Facebook and Google, what with the $1.5bil revenue number: https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=...

(huh, is that a click tracker? URL from https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-introduces-bill...)
Who cares? Seriously.
iOS 14.4 Will Introduce Warning on iPhones with Non-Genuine Cameras
Sounds about the size of Greater London.
Microsoft: Open Source Lessons for 2021
The is a "Janis Joplin and the sexual revolution" course, interesting...
It's Twitter's own servers and they can choose who can use them or not. Permitted speech on the legal scope does not matter when talking about businesses.
But it’s almost all “bad” real people.
The farm business is brutal. I think the dream of people moving to the country, owning some land, and living off of it comfortably is long gone and never coming back.

At least with big money owning the farms and absorbing the risk people can work in the ag industry for a salary without loosing their life savings.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-toughest-industri...

[2] https://time.com/5736789/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-...
Anyone know what happened to the Drummond family? Up until 3-4 years ago, they were ~23 on the Land Report list. Since then, they haven't been on the list at all (top 100). My suspicion is they re-structured and it's either hidden by trusts or it's been split among a half dozen family members and none of them are individually on the list.
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You mean, sharing is illegal unless done in a controlled way?
Black helicopters? Conspiracy? There's even a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter

Now, just like every other conspiracy nut, I'd like to state upfront that I'm no conspiracy theorist. However, over the years "seeing black helicopters" has been an insult used by some. Yet I used to see them parked out in the open at the National Guard base along I-70 in eastern Indiana like 25-30 years ago. And here we have photos published by not-disreputable source. Make of it what you will.
A lot of "family farms" in the US these days are essentially a tax dodge.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/112844547165831987...

Basically, there's a lot of tax breaks available if you designate your land a "farm", even if you don't grow anything. About 22% of farms in the US produce 0 output.
I get reminded that I wasn't using Google in the rare case where I can't find what I'm looking for and !g or need to use a device I don't own and it shows how bad it's gotten (in particular hard to distinguish the ads - and the sheer amount of ads)
I guess she'd have fit right in with all of the MAGA chuds who brought guns and zip ties to murder congress people.

The horseshoe effect in the US is so real you can't tell the difference between a far-left Senate bomber and a Proud Boy with a Trump flag tied around his neck.
You might enjoy invidious. It's a frontend for youtube that cuts 99% of the bloat and show videos directly in your html5 player. It even supports subscriptions without a google account!
I considered going to China, but decided against because of my reliance on Google services.
The article says it takes 300ms to update the position of the HUD to match your gaze, not 300ms to update what's displayed on the HUD.