skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on how well you know yourself and your desires. We are motivated by our desires to shape our purpose and give meaning to our life.

You mentioned your lack of interest in PhD program despite already 1.5 years into it. You might want to dig deeper into yourself to understand why that is the case. When you say meaningful, do you mean something that will change the world.

If you love doing something but you don't get recognised for it, would that bother you? If you did get recognised for a work which you were not passionate about. Would you still find meaning in it.

When you get more honest with yourself, the easier it will be to find the work that is meaningful. If you are not, then it might take years and you might only to bouncing from one work to another.

After I completed by engineering, I started a company with my friends - thinking this will be meaningful experience. And it was in many ways. It helped me understand myself and the world better. But, it took many years to figure out exactly what I wanted to do and where my heart lies. Most people don't take that journey.

So, if you want to find meaningful work, you need to start on the self exploration journey. Hope that was useful.
The author's focus is pretty clearly not to get as many users as possible. What's wrong with that?
> Nobody (except many frustrated readers) is officially complaining that non-fiction writing is needlessly flowery and sprawling across many more pages than necessary.

Actually people do (I do too). I find that many of these books take one point that can be expressed succinctly in a short blog post and labour on it for an entire book. So to read it for entertainment is ok, but to read them for information is .. an utter waste of time. I've even picked up some of these reputed books from a book shelf, just read the cover notes .. and realise later on that the author really didn't have much else to say. I'm sorting of ranting here, but .. this needs to stop and I agree with the OP on this matter. My complaint is not against the authors themselves though. Its against the sheer waste of resources and mind time that such books consume.
The most important lesson in startups: sell it, then build it. Engineers have a bias for building, and tend to do it backwards.
I'll take that bet. The U.S. will not block it.
All the classic conservative writing complaining of lazy poor people would seemingly not know the difference.
Trump’s 1776 Commission Critiques Liberalism in Report Derided by Historians
No way, if I read that link suddenly I’d be culpable! Also I just lost the game.

But from my reading I think this order only applies to business regulations, so you might want to delay your next bird feather gathering party.
Unfortunately, the business folks insist on making up arbitrary dates and costs. It’s the way of the world.
it isn't, it's just that the US has basically no immune system to it. This is pretty much straight out of the active measures Soviet playbook. Hopefully the new administration pays some attention.
Census Blocks aren't just used for population, for instance in traffic modeling the number of employees in a block is often non-zero - think of commercial or industrial areas.

Back in a past lifetime I created numerous land-use models that allocated all sorts of things to "zero-pop" blocks: sewer capacity, revenue, spending, pollution generation. While allocation could use any polygon Census Blocks were convenient.
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by “inflammatory actors” a bit? Thanks.
For the expensive-to-ship items that I've specifically looked into I've generally found that Amazon's price with "free" shipping is cheaper than the price with 2 day shipping from anyone else, but more expensive than slower shipping. When I actually need something in a hurry that makes Amazon the best choice, but I've mostly stopped buying from them for recurring purchases that I can do well in advance.
Your last option is a tor hidden service which could only be shut down if the government is against you and even then it can be difficult.

I guess it does make your site inaccessible to regular users though.
Right-wing nut here.

It should only be fraud if you make false claims on the contract. False claims outside any contract shouldn't be considered fraud.

And yes, there can be limitations on freedom (including freedom of speech), but the burden of proof falls on the side arguing for the limitations. And the reason for limiting formal freedom (e.g. freedom to lie on a contract) should always be to increase "freedom" in practice (all the practical and legal arrangements that contract law makes possible).

I don't think there's a good reason for insurrectionist speech to be (legally) banned, because I don't think there's a good reason for any political speech to be banned, as horrible as it may be (nazism, keynesian economics, etc), because all political speech is ultimately violent speech. And banning one strand of political speech is morally the same thing as banning any other.
You lost me at "thought-policing of big tech".
It's interesting that to the question:

> I’m trying to figure out if anyone actually want to heal societal schisms? And the measure of that is what folks are willing to compromise on?

...you reply:

> How about that one side stops peddling conspiracy theories and following every idiot that promises them what they want to hear in terms of gun rights, abortion and immigration.

...which involves no compromise on your part.

> Compromise = fact based middle ground between reasonable people.

Let's check...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compromise

compromise - verb
compromised; compromising

1a : to come to agreement by mutual concession

b : to find or follow a way between extremes

see also: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concession

> When one side consistently treats politics like winner-takes-all and lies out of their asses to get to power and to stay in power then the burden to compromise would be on them.

Perhaps, if this was an accurate description of reality.

But for the sake of discussion, let's say that this characterization is indeed correct - if you could influence Democratic party strategy, and behavior of their followers, would your recommendation be to stick with the same general approach of the last decade, including generous deployment of misleading rhetoric like:

> How about that one side stops peddling conspiracy theories and following every idiot that promises them what they want to hear in terms of gun rights, abortion and immigration.

(Which also may run afoul of your "[fact based] middle ground between [reasonable people]" statement above.)
Yes. Starlink is a way to provide a secure, captive scaling opportunity for Musk's launch vehicles that will carry us to Mars. While it disrupts existing ISPs, it does so at the edges of broadband coverage where service is poor. Only after that it may make inroads into areas with better service and high prices.
How do you know what bands they are watermarking? And isn't it likely they use some within the normal speech band?
nothing of which has been proven so far... and if it was the case, wouldn't the "crimes" from before the order be subject to the penalties applicable then?

He's surrounded by throngs of lawyers... why do people think he'll be found guilty of anything other than process crimes? IE his charity which was fined 2m for... process crimes.

And much like crimes done by Obama, Hillary and others... why wouldn't these "crimes" end in fines and nothing more? What else are you expecting?
Can't forget Terry D.
Neither party values freedom or privacy. Who can I vote for who even pretends? I'm gay and largely agree with leftist ideals, but completely disagree with modern tactics by both parties. But the left controls technology, and so I criticize them more because there's more at stake.

So I'm an identitarian for criticizing Silicon Valley for constantly engaging in that kind of discourse? Are you identitarian for assuming I am one?

I criticize Silicon Valley because they are worthy of criticism. You say they aren't?
How would you explain these filler words if the lips don’t match?
>Why would someone with prime use prime pantry if it was free shipping anyway?

I used it because there was stuff on there that was (and is) significantly cheaper via Pantry than straight Prime.

And as long as you ordered $35+ worth of stuff from Pantry, shipping was free without that additional Pantry subscription.

Now that Pantry is gone (although they decimated the list of available products on Pantry in the months before shutting it down completely), most of the stuff I used to buy from Pantry is at least 50% more expensive with Prime.

I'm going to be using Amazon for stuff like that a lot less now, because they're no longer competitive with my local grocery store.

And don't even get me started with Amazon Fresh either. Their selection really sucks too, and while their prices are roughly competitive with the local grocery store, the lack of selection just kills it for me.

I'd also point out that FreshDirect[0] is much better than Amazon Fresh in terms of selection as well.

[0] https://www.freshdirect.com
Does it seem like the more “democracy” is threatened, the more Russia is invoked? From Snowden to now, well this.
Using a better algorithm makes sense, though a single color seems to be the point of the "product" in this case.
Private companies’ freedom to define how their platforms are used should depend on the “private company” growing out of its niche and becoming what’s basically a public utility, a railroad owning one of the very few means of information delivery. Then, I think, different regulations should apply. I don’t know how this is going to be implemented in real life though. We clearly see that Twitter and FAANG have power to shut down such attempts and even more so after entering a mutually beneficial symbiosis with certain political groups. It’s hard to see where this is going.
> "recreate" the conversation from scratch

Why not do speech to text at that point?
3 years ago a bunch of women with pink pussy hats stormed the Capitol and no one cared.

Don’t pretend people thought the democracy was going to end that day.

It is true that people are easily duped. The problem is that without democracy it is even easier, especially when media giants have similar interests and push the same narrative.
Maybe, maybe not. You can probably make statistical changes to the lowest bits in certain samples or something that would be quite difficult to detect.
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> That is not the same thing, not what we're talking about here, and it is not honest to equate them. People who disrupt rallies absolutely deserve to be removed from those rallies with appropriate force.

But saying that punching a peaceful rally attendee is "very, very appropriate" and the kind of action "we need a little bit more of" is not.

And asking police to be more violent when handling suspects is encouraging violence ("when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don’t be too nice.")

On Greg Gianforte, the Montana Governer who assaulted a reporter ("Any guy who can do a body-slam ... he’s my guy.")

Then he joked about shooting immigrants:

> In his remarks, he asked, “How do you stop these people?” A woman at the rally reportedly yelled “shoot them” in response. Trump then joked, “That’s only in the Panhandle, you can get away with that statement.”

Then there's the pattern of statements by trump that predict violence against the groups the attacks are aimed at:

- Trump calls Covid the "Chinese virus" and plays up its origin to stoke anti-Chinese sentiment. A random Asian family is attacked in a Texas Walmart because they're "infecting people with the coronavirus".

- Trump attacks "the Squad" (congresswomen AOC and co), they see an uptick in racist attacks and threats

- Trump says "Liberate Michigan" and criticizes the governor for her coronavirus lockdown. Months later, a group of militia members is uncovered with a conspiracy to kidnap and kill her.

- "You also had some very fine people on both sides."

- "Stand back and stand by"

etc.

He has a pattern of tacitly encouraging violence and then making halfhearted condemnations when the violence actually happens. It's why when so many people commit violence, they think Trump is asking them to.
The internet becomes more and more important each year. Before the internet had pictures it didn't matter if you got kicked off.

The main problem imo is that you simply can not get a website on the internet without using someone elses service, there are always more layer down that you can get kicked from until you reach the point where ISPs, and domain registers are blocking you.

The US needs to restore net neutrality to prevent these kinds of abuses from ISPs.
I think the problem is that if you have a timeline you can produce the result within time and budget, but at the expense of quality.

The time and cost estimates do not measure the amount of technical debt in the outcome. it may good great on paper but that is because of a vaguely defined specification which says nothing about the quality, including amount of te4chnical debt (meaning mostly maintainability).
They should be punished to the full extent of the law.

In the meantime, people who continuously talk about insurrection seem to be living in a fantasy land. Just as you say, without the military the "insurrection" means nothing.
Dumb question. Could one take additional measures with media to disguise watermarking (e.g. rather than uploading an image, take a crap photo of the image on a screen using a physical camera)
I always thought ignorance of the law is no excuse is something wonky the rich could avoid.
Have you tried accessing a Medium link in Incognito mode?
So I've been sober for a couple years now and I've met many others in various stages of their own recovery, and what you're describing sounds extremely familiar. Every person's addiction is unique, but self-isolation is a common trait among alcoholics (and probably people with addictions in general).

One of the best exercises we did in recovery was list out as a group what our priorities in life were. It was things like "my partner", "my career", "my health", "finances & having money to live comfortably", "having friends", etc. And when we were done and were happy with our list, the instructor went up and wrote alcohol at the very top. When you're deep in addiction, even if you know it's not rational, even if it's not what you want, the addiction is your top priority. If you have free time, that's how you spend it first; when you have money, it's the first thing you budget for; when you're doing other things, it's what you think about. And for a lot of people, self-isolation makes it that much easier to feed that addiction.
And prison costs more than college...
Really? Because the bible has all sorts of weird rules in it that seem kind of arbitrary and certainly not self-obvious.

The principle is reasonable because otherwise everyone would just claim they didn't know regardless of if they did
I am still not seeing how snapcraft.io is "explicitly for-profit". eg: https://snapcraft.io/thunderbird
The headline makes sense to me, but:

> It is no surprise that agile processes have been proven to be so successful and useful: they emphasise collective learning.

What? Every place I’ve seen “agile” practices ended up far overemphasizing short term thinking over any sort of respect for learning and the collective knowledge of the employees of the company. I’m not saying the two are necessarily at odds, but the sort of management that is attracted to agile is also the sort of management that probably doesn’t give two licks about whether you’re learning anything deep, so long as you get the story points closed.
You could always run smart steppers like Mechaduinos or the similar option from Big Tree Tech. Your firmware might not even need to be modified, though there is work being done on Klipper to run firmware directly on the steppers so each one is treated as an six board responsible for a specific function.

Nothing against your advice just providing another option that uses steppers that don’t skip an occasional step (that is to say that if you ask for more torque from a stepper than it can handle, smart or not, it will not produce more torque out of thin air).
> puerto rican nationalists stormed the capitol and shot congressmen in 1954;... we somehow managed to persist without restricting civil liberties both times.

Because Puerto Rico already had the Ley de la Mordaza since 1948. Also Pedro Albizu Campos had his pardoned revoked.
I was interested in this but my first thought was "what happens the day that dev.to gets monetized ?" and my second one was "who owns dev.to ?".

WRT the first one "Yes, you own the rights to the content you create and post on dev.to and you have the full authority to post, edit, and remove your content as you see fit." which on the surface seems a lot better than many crowd contributer situations.

WRT the second one I still don't know and if there's a wikipedia page for dev.to I can't find it.

On the whole dev.to seems better than medium, for now at least, and more approachable than using gists.
What if the government published a list of all the laws and expected every citizen to be familar with it?

Oh Wait.
Well, I'll counter that "Mens rea" is a legal traditional just as old, because lawmakers even thousands of years ago understood the injustice of punishing people for actions they could not reasonably know were crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
I recall reading somewhere in a book about the very early days of software development that that was exactly how it worked. Programmers literally came with bits and pieces of the software they had previously written that they drew on during development. The book mentioned that all the software during that time just came with the hardware you bought for hundreds of thousands of dollars. There wasn't an industry around selling software yet. Wish I could remember what book it was...
Worth mentioning is that this is not the first demo of a cubesat with electronic propulsion, among others MIT has flown an electrospray based thrusters on several cubesat missions, for example Aerocube 8 [1]. There are also larger missions planned, with claims that it should be possible to achieve roughly 1km/s of delta-V with their devices in a 3u cubesat.

[1] https://spacepropulsion.mit.edu/news/aerocube-8-cd-launch-mi...
American Nazis hosted by Communists

Welcome to 2021
And watch NY CNC and This Old Tony on youtube. Once youtube starts recommending more CNC channels on account of watching these two you will be addicted. Watching CNC cutting is probably the most relaxing way to waste time.
That particular law doesn't care how you acquired the feather or why. Mere possession is the crime. It's intended to protect native species from hunting and poaching by entirely outlawing any markets for bird parts without specific permission. Not that objectionable in my opinion, but it does sound a bit silly out of context.
An interactive review of the Oklab perceptual color space
VSCode is on its last legs!
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This does not work when even the government cannot count the number of crimes (and criminal laws), and when Governors accidentally and unknowingly admit to committing crimes:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389...

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/473659-america-...

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-questio...

https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Federal-Criminal-Illustrat...

https://twitter.com/CrimeADay

https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-gov-cuomo-ruffles-feathers-re...
Actually this https://dev.to/about describes the "leadership" although it doesn't say straight out who owns it.
In the distant future giant lunar tardigrades in the tun state fall back to earth and seed the desert wastelands, eventually evolving into giant sand worms.
Some juicy federal crimes we're all expected to know from @CrimeADay on Twitter

26 USC §5674(b) & 27 CFR §25.144(a) make it a federal crime for a brewer to remove beer from a brewery in a keg that has the name of more than one brewer on it.

21 USC §§331, 333 & 21 CFR §169.115(a) make it a federal crime to sell French dressing if less than 35% of its weight is vegetable oil.

43 USC §1733 & 43 CFR §6302.20(e) make it a federal crime to pick someone up from a federal wilderness area using a hot air balloon.

7 USC §8303, §8313 & 9 CFR §93.318(b) make it a federal crime to bring an American horse back into the United States after being in a Canadian rodeo without a health certificate.

42 USC §6928 & 40 CFR §257.3–8(b) make it a federal crime to start a dangerous garbage fire.

21 USC §331, 333, 343 & 21 CFR §155.201(a)(2)(v) make it a federal crime to sell canned "random sliced" mushrooms unless they were sliced in a random manner.
> Really? Because the bible has all sorts of weird rules in it that seem kind of arbitrary and certainly not self-obvious.

Nobody said it was perfect, as they say.

> The principle is reasonable because otherwise everyone would just claim they didn't know regardless of if they did

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25830167
You fundamentally blow off the concept of symbolism, or the fact that the attempt itself matters, not just its success.

You make light of a violent mob chanting "hang Pence" as they march toward him, and yes, in light of "not being able to overthrow the government", you fail to convince me some would not have tried to capture or kill politicians.

In short, you are waving your hand and claiming persecution as if Truth, Justice and the American Way has been defeated because Trump is off Twitter.

The sky has not fallen.
The grad students in the lab next door have to sit meticulously for hours/days with dental drills drilling out samples from rocks. I was hoping to be able to automate it with an affordable CNC machine (and an attached scanner bed) – but I seem to not be able to find any clear information about step sizes. Here it says microstepping is bad....

I also don't really need to do any milling, just adjust to the right x-y position and punch a tiny hole and collect the dust. Milling rocks in any case is a no-no from what I understand. Maybe someone could suggest some ideas for my .. unconventional requirements :)

The samples are pretty small (maybe 20cm^2 at the most) and I don't need to do it fast... And I prolly don't have a huge budget
Deeply understand your GitHub project
The US also has an apolitical civil service infrastructure, just not at the top of these agencies. And it is the leadership that people refer to when they worry about the revolving door. No one cares when some low or midlevel USPS worker goes to work for FedEx, they care when the former FCC chair Kevin Martin is tapped to head up Facebook's US Public Policy.
They also sheltered Snowden... Not sure what to think
"Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can become—or may already be—a federal criminal."

https://www.amazon.com/How-Become-Federal-Criminal-Illustrat...
The sky isn't falling, freedom of speech is not gone, and America will get along. You are being hysterical.