skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not cherry picking, I’m telling you where “the order” was to March on the capitol. He says “we” are marching on the capitol, multiple times; too many to list here even. I include the full transcript for context.

If you wanted to cherry pick to show nonviolent intent, there is a much better passage than the one you picked (which I read as disavowing niceness, he is clearly implying that they are too nice and that’s why they are in this bind!)

He explicitly says “peacefully” when describing the marching at one point:
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

However, if I tell someone that their country is under attack, that they have been too nice about it and have to show strength, and then say to march peacefully and patriotically, does the peaceful adjective whitewash the rest of the incendiary speech? Does it change that he falsely claimed electoral victory and called on his supporters to reclaim it in a show of “strength”? I would argue no, but it’s certain to be the key passage in his defense.
I don’t disagree but sometimes single player rational behavior can be eclipsed when weighing in complicit factors.

I used to (and still do) think it would be absurd to buy a house in a neighborhood you’re not first-hand familiar with. Ideally, you’ve lived there before or rent to get a feel for it. And buying a house sight unseen - I would never!

But looking around you see how common this behavior is.

Increasingly people purchase cars without test driving as well, it seems.

When the price is right and the outcome isn’t permanent. When it’s to satisfy family or business interests.

I imagine a lot of what I’d consider financially sensible could actually lose me money if I were in a different situation. Perhaps this category of trade offs could be germane in choosing a business partner.
Can you elaborate a little bit ?
Yes. Targeted advertisement, and the resulting money, is the entire purpose of Facebook. Automation just makes the process faster. And cheaper; you know, that whole money thing.

I abhor both Parler and Facebook. In the context of these threads, I don't think either has done anything illegal, which is what passes for "ethics" in our economy. Of course IANAL.

I don't think Apple, Google and Amazon did anything illegal to Parler. And until these kinds of companies are legally and explicitly made into utilities, I don't think we can expect them to do anything except whatever they want.
> When exactly are those passions supposed to be pursued? When retiring? I'm pursuing that now. I have had 6-8weeks off in summer the last 10 years. I like to travel, etc.

This!

I'm not familiar with all European countries, and not extremely so with the US, but I think this is an important difference: Free time. 5-6 weeks paid vacation is common, and employers expect it to be used. It's often easy to get unpaid leave for whatever reason, such as studying or starting a business. Parental leave is paid and the expectation is that it will be used. Employers demanding overtime or "crunching" or whatever is generally frowned upon.

Etc. etc. My strong impression is that those "low-paid" European jobs are often a lot more balanced, with more room for life than their American counterparts.

(I do live in Scandinavia, maybe we're on the extreme end of this, but still )
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> If he is seditious you can get a court to issue an injunction very quickly

Maybe courts work differently in Germany, but one word I would absolutely never use to describe them is "quick".

Furthermore, courts in the US tend to be extremely skeptical of what is called "prior restrain". And describing what ought to be proscribed is especially complicated by Trumps use of innuendo and circumspection. He almost never says anything directly, even when it's pretty much apolitical - see for instance him explaining what Uranium is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCnKtzQpCSs
Yeah they do have their own index but the majority of results come from Bing. There are several search engines using Bing as the backbone, but Microsoft doesn’t appear to want to have any new search partners. Both the google and Bing search indexes are controlled by trillion dollar companies, so alternative search engines are operating under agreements with either company.
The Sublime Developer Efficiency of Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView
What qualifies a land as farmland ? Is there actual farming going on ? Can I meet Bill Gates in a farmers market selling his produce ?
All the apologists worrying about users losing their keys are forgetting that even Google has enabled opt-in end to end encryption on Android: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-googles-backup-encryption...
>There was positive radar and flir data

Not sufficient it could easily be a flock of birds or something mundane.
That's totally the same thing - because downloading a paper destroys the original copy.
I see we have a man of culture here.
Thanks ! Hilarious. Its true French are super judgmental about French (not Québécois so much). Amusingly African French are exactly the same or worse then Europeans.

I had a girlfriend who did exactly the same as his wife.
I see what you did there. (+1.)
I suppose they can be both. I have a ResearchGate account and they reached out to me to suggest Chinese scientists that were looking for co-authors on papers and collaboration on research.

If I were an academic and/or worked at an institution that evaluated me by papers published for "impact" it would be a credible enticement.

It has always been the case that working across borders was considered a good way to establish non-diplomatic ties between countries.

That said, if you work for the government you have rules about disclosing such work and it seems that he may have perjured himself on some of his disclosure forms. That is always a bad choice. If true, that he felt compelled to lie about his association would indicate that he also felt if he didn't lie the US Government would ask him to stop working with these folks.

That combination of things sounds like a very common rationalization that people have used forever that goes something like "I know that 'technically' this is against the rules, but what I'm doing doesn't violate the spirit of the rule and it is giving me a large benefit. Since I have decided it wouldn't be a violation, lying about it is harmless and saves a lot of paperwork explaining to people who don't understand what we're doing on why it only seems like it would violate the rule but doesn't really."

It may be survivor bias but it seems that every time someone has used this sort of logic to explain to me why they were not following some "bureaucratic rule" I knew that once it came out that they were not following the rule, they would face worse consequences.
Build your own using ProcessWire. That way you know exactly how it works, and you get exactly the features you need/want, no more, no less.
> People often land in prison before they are convicted.

Yeah, and this is seen as a huge injustice by many people. There are clear cut cases where there is a risk of flight or further harm, but in most cases, this type of discretionary pre-trial incarceration tends to impact minorities and people without means to hire lawyers or pay for bonds.

This analogy falls apart there because there are few companies that would be subject to monopoly rules that would lack the resources to defend themselves.
FB knew about BLM terrorists that caused way more violence too:

* 23 People shot dead

* 700 officers injured

* 150 Federal buildings damaged

* hundreds of small businesses destroyed

* encouraged and even fundraised by politicians including PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT KAMALA HARRIS
Posting the Mick West explanation is the go-to response for critics who have done the bare minimum research. And I have to give him credit -- his explanation of parallax as it pertains to Go-Fast is compelling and probably accurate. We don't have a whole verified narrative with multiple angles/witnesses (besides the two pilots) to enrich that incident.

I'm referring to the Nimitz incident. I don't mean to offend you, but I can say confidently there is information you have yet to consume on that incident. Taken alone and with no context, the IR video isn't convincing proof of anything, and West points that out, while ignoring that there is other information. But there is more verified info from the original NYT piece that makes this case special [0]. How do you explain the fact that passive radar from the ship was tracking this object on and off for two weeks before they finally deployed a squadron to investigate it? How do you explain the fascinating pilot testimony (they had multiple angles, by the way) of the white round object flying around erratically, then mirroring their descent, then shooting off into the sky [1]? Or the fact that their primary radars were being jammed (technically an act of war)?

Any of these pieces of information taken alone could be inconclusively explained away, but as you compound them, forcing a "normal" explanation looks more and more like the Catholic church telling Galileo that the cosmos orbit around the Earth.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ
San Francisco office market in collapse as tech workers stay home
IMO when people say "dream job", what most people really want is something that isn't minimum wage service work, hard-on-the-body blue-collar work, or "bullshit jobs"-style corporate work. It's pretty difficult to find work that isn't one of those three categories, especially one that doesn't require a bunch of credentials. I think the closest the average person can get to something like a "dream job" is some sort of compromise: teacher instead of service-work for people that like people, a lighter trade like carpentry instead of a heavy trade like HVAC, working at a corporation that does something you like instead of a bank, or the modern favorite: the side-hustle.

Maybe I'm just a jaded pessimist, though.
Sci-Hub Leaves Handshake Blockchain After 2 Days, Citing Centralization Concerns
Credit card companies managed to do just that.

There is the argument that class actions are preferable to Parliament setting laws because courts are more agile, setting precedent. So Big Money got in front of that through mandatory arbitration. Why that is constitutional I couldn't tell. Perhaps it is because Congress is corrupt.
I get 24-36 hours on my Colmi P8 (same hardware as PineTime), with step tracking and heart rate monitoring turned off.

The PineTime is a huge downgrade from pretty much everything on the market. It's only good, at least for now, as a platform to prototype on.
Yes, it does seem to be about stereotypes, not so much quirks per se.

The Japanese stereotype is that they are lonely, and it is true that in Japan various things that cater to that, such as Host Clubs, are more common place.

There was also an article about how the Netherlands supposedly pays for prostitutes for the disabled, diving into the stereotype how the Netherlands tends to sit at the vanguard of encouraging sexual nontraditionality — the reality was less interesting and could be summed up as: A) disabled persons obtain financial support from the state; B) prostitution is legal.

I also read articles about the Norwegian military having unisex showers and dorms, which also ties into stereotypical expectations, notwithstanding their existence in other places, I'm sure.
Here is another article that isn't just about farmland, but about land ownership in general: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/25/these-people...

Of note, the Gates don't even appear on this list. At first I thought it's because OP is only talking about farmland, but in the USA Today article the Simplot family apparently owns more than 400k acres for potato farming in Idaho, but doesn't even appear in the OP. I'm not sure what to make of the discrepancy.

Also for the sake of comparison, 240k acres is a good amount, but (as another commenter mentioned), it's also not. There are some cattle ranches larger than that. And for an example of non farm/ranch use, Bezos apparently owns over 400,000 acres in West Texas to be used for the Blue Origin launch facilities.
Hmmm, it looks like there are 330 million acres [516,000 square miles] of "prime" farmland in the United States.

That puts the Gates at around 0.07% of the US farmland.
Corruption has many faces, it doesn't have to pipe all the money straight to 'Ndrangheta bank accounts. Rooting for sub-optimal solutions (overpriced, subpar quality but company from given state) compared to best one is frequent. Rooting for choices that favor ie large agricultural producers say from France/Spain/Italy, or some multinational based in Netherland and forcing restrictions on all member states is common too. Hardly the best choice for regular citizens who just always foot the extra bill.

Heck, we have tons of legal lobbyists in Brusel, what do you think is their sole source of (very good) income?

On national level, the more you go to the east, the more corrupt the state themselves are, ie previous government of Slovakia stepped down exactly due to too close ties to Italian mafia (and a murder of journalist+girlfriend who investigated this). Why Italian mafia you may ask? Well to pipe all the money coming from EU dotations into 'friendly' companies that deliver little and take a lot. Classic laundering of dirty money, this time done by state itself. All eastern states within EU have some non-trivial level of this.

I wouldn't compare EU and US politics directly, both are corrupt in some aspect and not so much in others (ie US and its 'defensive' market used only very offensively, board members of those companies being former politicians and vice versa). Still better than 3rd world obviously, or places like former soviet republics (not sure if 2nd world countries is the proper term for those).
why do I need to do this

IMO this is the number one problem of our modern culture around education. Popular culture makes it popular to treat education as pointless, and this even affects students who are pursuing difficult degrees. "Why do I need to study humanities? Why should I learn to code if I think I am born to be someone else's boss?"

On the other hand, many teachers in K12 and early university have no ability to connect the "what" with the "why." "The curriculum is the curriculum. The test is the test."

If we can solve these problems, our societies will be much better off.
No. Most of that land will then be sold to the highest bidder.
Does this also mean that they're the largest private recipients of farm subsidies?
Irrespective of Dorsey and Kap (really), can we all acknowledge that “foundations” or these non-profit entities run by the wealthy and politically entangled are convenient vehicles of tax advantage, asset protection, and influence peddling? I’m not saying all are so let’s not get our knickers in a twist - there are plenty of altruistic non-profits out there, and many that only exist thanks to the wealthy.

But the default reaction to large sums of money being given to a foundation named for a wealthy, politically entangled person or family should not be, “oh, it’s a non-profit, it’s helping the children”. More than likely it’s that person’s way of putting assets they enjoy daily into a trust to shelter it from taxation or legal seizure (think tax man or divorce court), to get monetary consideration for services rendered (foundation pays high salaries to family members or self while on payroll as nominal employees), and to accept gifts to support the above under cover of a donation. Write a check for a few worthy charitable operations, do some appearances, publish a few reports, and it’s a net positive legal financial strategy.
What's farmland going for these days (dollars per acre)? I know there are large variations depending on the details (productivity, amount of water, etc), but what's the rough amount?
Elixir and the broader ecosystem have the following traits:

- It's a bit quirky, there's much else like it. Ruby is the closest.

- It's got a learning curve. It's not a particularly hard curve, but it is longer than a small language like go.

But on the other side of that curve is a very elegant, productive development experience.

No idea about the .Net ecosystem. It seems unlikely as Phoenix/LiveView is fairly self-contained.
Depends on the land and property tax assessment. I’ve been mulling buying some land since interest rates are so low now...but it’s hard to see the value of return when you factor in mortgage fees and property taxes.
Hm, isn’t the trick is to have a separated account just to boot into with a strong password and remove the primary account from a set of accounts allowed to unlock the disk? I have used that on older macos not to bother with reinstallation of os to enable password-encrypted partition.
Well our laws and legal traditions are a bit different than Germany’s Basic Law and Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch.

In our case Twitter’s private property rights trump the President’s rights. The President is the President and the President can always get a message out if he wants; Twitter on the other hand is not obligated to serve as a medium of Government communications and if they had IP banned the White House and Capitol at any point in their history, and maybe IP banned the equivalents in other countries, who would be able to say they couldn’t?
My bad, this was using non-Accelerated TensorFlow on a 2.3GHz 8-Core i9.
Brand behind 'Pomp Podcast' launched 'Bloomberg meets Morning Brew for crypto'
It's a joke, and it's funny. Lighten up.
Yes, that's a legit option. But it does not mean that what twitter has done here is not very, very wrong. So bad in fact that individual humans should reflect on it and decide if they want to continue supporting twitter themselves by using it.

This is the inevitable end of any popular centralized incorporated means of communication.
You vacuum seal the weed once or twice and you’re good, use mylar bags if you’re feeling fancy.

Most of the weed vendors aren’t shipping internationally so they don’t need to worry about dogs.
Yeah I've seen a lot of breakdown of good faith from both sides recently. I wonder if it's even fixable. It seems to be related to the modern commoditization of socialization. With a close friend, honesty is best, but with a stranger, pulling a fast one seems more attractive.
For most academic researchers, publishing is a net cost: they aren't getting royalties when people pay to read their work. "Piracy" of these documents does not deprive the creators of anything. The only entities it hurts are the organizations of questionable social value who exist by gatekeeping this information.
Trial by upvotes on /r/publicopinion!
When did Texas become small?
And if power demand increases another order of magnitude? I don’t think anyone seriously argues that 100% of power should come from solar; it’s just a demonstration of relative quantities.
> Apple does this on macOS with File Vault: "WARNING: You will need your login password or a recovery key to access your data. ... If you forget both your password and recovery key, the data will be lost."

Many people assume that that when it says "can't", it actually means "won't", and that they'll be able to beg or browbeat support into helping them.

I can also already see the argument: "but that's not my data, it's in My Documents, it's a document so it shouldn't be encrypted!"

Communicating these things to users is hard because when it comes to computers, the lexicon is often personal. What one user calls My Documents might refer to the My Documents collection in Windows, and another one might mean a random folder they created that they put documents in. It's basically impossible to get everyone on the same lexicon, although it's getting better as young kids grow up with computers.
I don't see why. The purpose of a corporation is to provide a hierarchy for organization of collective effort. In order to farm efficiently (i.e. not a small farm that mostly grows for farmer's market sales) in 2021, you can't simply have two adults and a bunch of children running around a farm. If you're going to hire anyone to help, it almost always makes sense to create at least an LLC.
Thanks! This worked like a charm for me.
The one from https://elixir-lang.org. I think I incorrectly copied it from slack.
Twitter is full of hostility, threats, doxxing, and violent comments. As well. Justice would have that banned, or nothing banned.

The call of journalists wanting to shut down, regulate and censor is deeply disturbing. One argument is that these are mainstream media outlets (NYT, WP, Fox, MSNBC, etc.) up against and wanting to use various "unassailable" arguments to shut down alternative new media.

When we call for banning things, we should not just look at how bad and awful the stuff we're asking to be banned is (even if it is absolutely terrible), but what are the long-term consequences for stuff-that-isn't-harmful but simply alternative once the precedent has been set.
It's the whole maximum paperclip problem with automation. There is a limit in how much you want to automate a task or else you end up with major unintended consequences.

You would think we would have gotten wise to this problem by now but nope.
I'm familiar with auto-currying from Haskell I've never worked seriously in a language that has it. But yes, that makes sense! I never thought about that.

I'm a bit stuck on your Clojure example still, though. If a language doesn't have auto-currying (or even currying at all in Elixir's case), why does the argument order matter? Whether it's a List or a Map, what does it matter if it's passed first instead of last?
The US economy appears to have bifurcated, which in my opinion is the root cause of a lot of our social unrest issues. The white collar/upper class is doing just fine, hasn't been laid off, and has been minimally affected by COVID. This group is also responsible for most of our economic output - which is turn driving a disconnected wallstreet.

The lower/working class has been completely obliterated. Though these people represent a larger chuck of the population their economic output is less impactful. In other words, Wallstreet is unaffected by bunch of unemployed service people. It's no wonder these people are angry and rallying behind a psudo-fascist like Trump. We need to do something about these inequality issues, otherwise we're on a slippery slope.
How do you know that apple is logging GeoIPs and performing this association with appleIDs? Or are you just saying it’s possible to do so?
'Inferno' sounds pretty aggressive for something in the corporate market.
looked it up to see if it was true. It appears true.

Susan Rosenberg was caught and convicted and sentenced to 58 years. She was pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day in office.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardon_controvers...
Even if I comment on other stuff, I'm still going to be watching this thread in case you want to talk.
In terms of land ownership, they are outdone by billionaire Stan Kroenke who owns several large ranches in Texas, including Waggoner Ranch, which is over 500,000 acres in size and surrounded by a single fence.

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