skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Directly after Rudy told the crowd “let’s have trial by combat!”, the President told his followers to march on the capitol. Then he watched
them lay siege to the capitol on TV for hours before half-heartedly telling them to go home. To me, that’s credible incitement to violence.

Making factual statements about Islam is not incitement to violence. The woman did not want or ask those who dislike her remarks to get violent or lose self-control.
If that worked, everyone would do it, and so it would no longer work. There's something wrong with it, even if I can't identify what that something is.

Are there any mutual funds or ETFs which follow it?
So I guess what's going on in Assam with NRC is just sauce for the gander to you?
Pretty much every Islamic terror attack in Australia (which is a small sample, I know) involves domestic abuse as a pre-cursor, for example. The links between misogyny and Islamic extremist groups are pretty well-documented.

Given the degree to which research suggests that a similar current exists in right-wing extremism in the US[1], it's not a reach.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/what-motivates-the-m...
They ACLU haven't left their liberal principles by the wayside. They warned about the power of social media companies as recently as January 8, after the events at the Capitol.

https://www.newsweek.com/aclu-counsel-warns-unchecked-power-...

"ACLU Counsel Warns of 'Unchecked Power' of Twitter, Facebook After Trump Suspension"

"For months, President Trump has been using social media platforms to seed doubt about the results of the election and to undermine the will of voters. We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions – especially when political realities make those decisions easier," the statement read.

"President Trump can turn his press team or Fox News to communicate with the public, but others – like many Black, Brown, and LGTBQ activists who have been censored by social media companies – will not have that luxury. It is our hope that these companies will apply their rules transparently to everyone."
Now we just need a Sosumi Flatpak...
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They also had guns, but I notice you glossed right over that.

Also what do you think the guy brought zip ties for? There had never been an airplane hijacked by some guy with a box cutter until it actually happened.
The word is incitement.

First Rudy with his trial by combat nonsense and then Trump with his "we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give -".
You're right. In this case though, I think the cons are notable because a proper balancing wasn't the basis of the decision because the cons weren't simply acknowledged as being worth the gains: They were outright dismissed as either overblown or fear mongering. Followed by a few years where there cons might have been minimized save for administrations that appear determined to get a hard Brexit, despite claims to the contrary.
That form is more precisely called coinsurance, with the precise definition of copay being the case where you pay a fixed amount of money per occurrence.
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Yes, that's an interesting point. It seems like an individual medical provider is incentivized for repeated care where a large facility is incentivized for a fast outcome.
Can you gleen anything from how Facebook messenger does screen sharing on Android and iOS?
Interesting (and alarming).

- Founder of zappos ended up badly just recently.

- ReiserFS, Hans Reiser killed his wife.

- Security researcher (drawing a blank right now.. Kaspersky maybe?) went off the deep end as well.

I feel like a lot of really smart people around me are on the autism spectrum or are somewhat odd.

I mean, I've noticed some of the same issues as the subject of the article... social anxiety, tendency to over imbibe.

Having said all that, I wonder if there's a prevalence (or distribution?) of certain traits in a population and there are enough IT folks around now where every characteristics is represented.

Anyway, sad article. I had no idea.
Software engineering is definitely a thing. But it's hard to define because, unlike a physical thing like a building which sits on a patch of ground which won't change much and which will sit there in atmospheric conditions which are unlikely to vary outside a known range, a piece of software is extremely sensitive to its environment. Pass in a single bad input (perhaps "unexpected" would be a better term) and an otherwise perfectly functional piece of code could bring civilisation to its knees. It's hard to rigorously prove your way out of that scenario.

Nevertheless, an engineering discipline would seek to identify all sources of unpredictability and tame them.

Engineering is "the elimination of guesswork". Let's see how some typical activities might be classified under this broad definition.

- Installing a package from Npm and invoking some functions from it: Not Engineering.

- Writing a function definition with a specified contract, a test suite to verify the contract is satisfied, documentation for users of the function, a characterised performance envelope, etc. : Engineering.

- Downloading the source code for a function from Github and verifying that it satisfies the same function contract, passes the same test suite and offers satisfactory performance characteristics: Engineering.

But there's more to it than "just" this. The engineering discipline also encourages adherence to a code of ethics. Such as this one:

https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...

This code transcends managerial demands for shortcuts in the name of budget constraints or deadlines. Or it should do; professional engineers who are certified as such know that they can stand their ground and be given the full backup of a national organisation. An organisation which can fight a court case if necessary or blacklist an offending employer and cause other engineers to avoid working there. Whereas even the best software developers will be simply fired for any kind of professional pushback:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/16/google-ti...
C0v1d the Great Distractor?
How big is the Epstein case? Big enough to require a monumental distraction? Timeline fits...
Spoken by someone that is hopefully truly ignorant of child welfare.
> t is more useful to think events like the Capitol incident as causing long-lasting damage to democracy, and there is a non-negligible possibility that societal schisms will widen, as opposed to heal. What that will look like in the future is anybody's guess.

What are you willing to give up politically to heal societal schisms?
> But we've now done the experiment in a big way

But this is not the case. I am sincerely puzzled to read this by you. When did we have communication not subject to control by any central authority? Usenet?

And we’re still operating — since 1947 — under a national security regime that has practically unaccountable “agencies” that are definitively in the “information” business.

We have yet to see what unfettered communication, operating in a political environment where NO agency operates in the dark and is above the law.
Could feature extraction be helpful here?
Some tests not only don’t benefit patients when done without reason, they actually harm them. medical interventions and procedures are often invasive and not without side effects, including pain, severe disability, and death. In many cases the studies you allude to us waiting for have arrived, and they show active harm for many cases where you’d think “why not add a test, what’s the harm”. Unfortunately medicine is still way too complex to reason about without the research to back it.
Actually EDIT: the experience on the trains is similar, though the experience at the stations aren’t as good - they made them more like airports in China so there’s security checks, and boarding time at gates, so it’s somewhat less convenient; also the stations in Japan are part of the actual city while the stations in China are their own huge plazas disconnected from the actual city so the seamless transition from being in the city to getting on the train in Shinkansen is lost on Chinese rail. Nonetheless, an enjoyable system
Awesome a fellow salt. Sarcasm was definitely hard to pickup but glad you had so much fun on the boats. I picked it up later in life and would have been so nice to have done that as a kid.
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What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
It's not in the future, it's right now:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/16/18...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/facebook-fin...

Search for: "child suing parents over facebook photos" and you'll find plenty more.
Doing one yourself is fun. MicroEmacs drifted around NNTP in the 80s, and I snagged a copy and began modifying it to taste. I've been using it ever since. The latest version was ported to D:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

It's a very easy editor to understand and extend.
> However, it was absolutely an attempt

Attempt at what? Takeover of the power in the US? B-u-l-l-s-h-i-t.

> People were chanting "hang Mike Pence",

People chant a lot of shit. People were chanting "hang Trump" for four years, nobody ever called it an insurrection. Before that, they were chanting against Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. Nobody ever has been hanged. Pretending not to understand the difference between chanting slogans and actually hanging somebody is silly.

> And they did this, let's reiterate, in an attempt to overturn the election.

There's no possible way of overturning any election this way. It's like I point a finger at you and say "bang!" and you'd claim I tried to murder you with a gun. It is literally impossible to change result of the election by jumping on a desk in a Congress. It was an act of protest, that went out of the way and grew violent, but it is no more insurrection than pointing a finger is gun violence. Let's not mimic an idiot school principal that calls the police on a elementary schooler that shows the other kid a finger gun and complain about "gun violence". There were no attempt to overthrow anything because it's not possible to overthrow anything this way.

> But words have meaning, and the word "insurrection" means precisely this.

Nope, the word "insurrection" means armed violent action in order to overtake the government, and this is no more insurrection than finger gun is a mass shooting.
I mean, I think that the people to target with this would be insurance companies, public health organizations, or employers. You're generating value for them. Unfortunately, those folks aren't very easy to sell to.
It’s so embarrassing.
I was listening to NPR yesterday and they had some former general (or someone) talking about how the capitol riots are similar to Iraq. They compared the IEDs at the capitol to the IEDs that NATO troops faced in Iraq and how various right-wing groups could be considered "insurgents" not unlike the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of course, we might expect NPR and other media outlets to be sensationalist. Blah blah blah about the digital media environment and its market incentives. But otherwise intelligent people parrot this sort of thing as well, calling them terrorists and insurrectionists (and yeah, I'm sure some technical argument can be made for these things, just like critics of the BLM riots made technical arguments for why those rioters were terrorists, but questionable technicalities don't merit responses in proportion to bonafide terrorism or insurrection).

There's a lot of stuff to actually criticize here: a violent riot incited by the POTUS over false pretenses, directed at the capitol, leaving several dead. It's already bad, but we can't seem to content ourselves with reality, we have to go further. We have to compare a bunch of MAGA rioters with actual insurgents.

Man, I really don't like this sort of race-to-the-bottom-ism, where whatever reprehensible thing the other side does becomes permission for our side to lower our own moral bar ("Why are you criticizing us?! Can't you see that what they're doing is worse?!"--never mind that I'm criticizing 'them' as well, and in proportion). At some point we have to come up from our outrage binger and realize that we can't just steamroll half the country; we have to figure out how to get along (and if you find yourself about to type, "get along with literal Nazis?!", you've missed the point).
> Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over?

Why are you reading that from what I said? I wasn't responding to the superintelligence thing (as I hadn't quoted it), and that seems like the weirdest reading from what I responded to.

The claim was: "Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day?"

And I responded with proof that that is marginally possible. Probably not a single person, but a well-trained well-connected group could do it very easily.
Dean Cooper's post on the PkARC vs SEA topic is interesting. He was another person working on an archiver in the same time period. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2398
>> I don't listen to your news

>Maybe you should, then you'd know nothing happened to the democracy.

>>> because of TV picture and a bunch of talking heads on TV and Twitter that told them there was an "insurrection"

Which is it?
Well to be clear, I think a certain pattern of circumstances, while not particularly suspect on their own, may warrant followup investigation. Or put it another way, given the kind of place Parler is, the various already established links between factions of the American right wing extremes and Russia, it would not surprise me if the FBI were to open a counter-intelligence investigation into Parler. The difference here is that its not being put out on twitter for consumption, to metastasize in the wilds of our communal membranes. Sometimes twitter-ers need a good edtior that would say: "I need more before I publish this thing."
All the necessary files come from Apple's CDN (Updates),
https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap/blob/master/snap/local/...

Check if there are any restrictions in your EULA when you access Software updates from your Apple computer.
It is hate speech in Saudi Arabia by definition of law (I guess, but I didn’t look up your claim).
In Germany there is a different law for hate speech with a proper definition, made by the government chosen by the people - which may or may not have been the case in the former case. I don’t see how a law on hate speech is any different from all the other laws. Separation of powers is a thing (and it should be the highest priority of the people to keep it separate), and there are already plenty of rules controlling every aspect of our lives. How is it different in the case of hate speech?
A theoretical case of a dictator rising would mean that a) he/she changes the definition of said hate speech to be more ambiguous b) infiltrate/corrupt the juries to remove people they deem dangerous to them.

Now, if they manage to do a, they can have an easier time removing said opponents, but only with some corruption on the juries’ side. And if that happens, they could do away with the change of law, since any law can be applied to the oppnents in this case.
Good. Better a democracy than the republic, I don't care what they thought in 1790 when we knew far less political science than we do now.
$3k home learning 'pods' are causing controversy in Silicon Valley
thanks for the tedious conspiracy nonsense
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> The founding fathers(FF)

Nitpick: why define a new acronym that you only use once? Just remove the acronym definition and change the single instance to the full word.

Also, comparing BLM to QAnon is an... odd choice.
Also to consider

https://jamdocs.samuelhorn.com/

https://docsify.js.org/#/
Makes sense, you're typically not cold calling or emailing engineers which is presumably the majority of hacker news users
Wow, that's really interesting. Did UpToDate publish their entire content library as of April 2018 under an open access license?

There seems to be a ton of good data here that you could use to build some type of WebMD competitor.
I can't believe this needs to be said, but the fact it failed doesn't mean the danger wasn't real.

Some members of the mob were actively looking to kill the people who were 2nd and 3rd in line for the presidency. Let's not pretend that there was zero danger to democracy.
I had access to information about historical projects, so I compared the actual amount of time taken to the estimated time at the beginning, for every software project in the history of my organization.

I found that on average, things take twice as long as expected.

So, I was like, now I know how to estimate any project. I figure out what seems reasonable based on known factors...and double it.

A way to look at this is the "unknown unknowns" of anything empirically average to a 100% overshoot.

But this doesn't fly with the project managers I work with, because they can only see that as illegitimately padding an estimate.
I hope Apple does not give in to this PR campaign (which is what it is). If they do, Signal is next. Everything they're saying about Telegram groups (not public channels) applies pretty much equally to Signal groups.
FYI, you have a typo on the home page.

> isn’t an MRI and MRI?
You could probably use catt[0] and do `catt cast_site <the URL>`, but I haven't tested it.

[0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/
Bug-Hunters-Diary-Software-Security/

https://www.amazon.com/Bug-Hunters-Diary-Software-Security/d...

List: https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/best-cyber-security-books/
Exactly. Freedom is actually slavery because you’re at risk of the dangerous language floating around. By eliminating dangerous language we’re all safer and therefore more free.
I need to know what the stock market is going to do next week. Otherwise, how am I going to become a billionaire? My broker’s refusal to tell me literally costs much more than all the returns he’s ever generated. Who does he think he is?
lmao. keep your opinion to whatever worthless country you currently reside in. america is fine.
This is very nice, thank you! I would love to have this as a smaller/self-contained server I can launch from the cli (at least on Linux), but it's great as it is.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717361-200-antelope... (Not about grass, but an example of plants signaling other plants to take action):

“acacias nibbled by antelope produce leaf tannin in quantities lethal to the browsers, and emit ethylene into the air which can travel up to 50 yards. The ethylene warns other trees of the impending danger, which then step up their own production of leaf tannin within just five to ten minutes”
Good idea, except I'm getting shades of brown for almost all queries.
Whoever made decision to move him into the bunker doesn’t change the fact that the protesters did not go past the gates or otherwise do anything which was unusual from decades of protests – which happen all of the time in DC. You are clearly desperate to portray a false equivalence but that simply doesn’t fit the facts.
> Other first world countries don't seem to have this issue to anywhere near the same extent.

The kinds of things you listed happen all the time in marginal, developing, or failing democracies. There are a lot of people who believe that the US shares many of its attributes with ailing democracies, so this should not be too surprising.
I mostly agree, but for research, estimating the estimation is often good enough in practice.

For me it often something like this:

I don't have a clue how the hell to do what you asking for. But maybe implementing .. might help. Can't guarantee but it might. I think I can confirm or disprove that spending .. on the prototype subject to following limitations.. If then we find out it actually works for you, we'll go from there but approximately gonna take .. extra to rework the prototype into production-quality stuff. If it won't, I'll think about something else to try.
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Just want to say, if I ever get a headache, I don't try to block it with a pain pill, but do what my body's asking me to, very loudly, which is to sleep and rest.
> The scary thing is how large amounts of people are apparently willing to attack democracy

You mean, like set up an autonomous zone in a center of the city and kick the police out? Burn down a federal court? Destroy the police station? Take over capitol building and occupy it for several weeks? Attack an elected official's family at their own home because you don't like their policies?
Yeah, that happened, but not sure how immersed in QAnon belief system (whatever it is) that was. All I know the democracy survived all that.
People marched into the capitol with handguns, zip ties, and an intent to award the presidency to the loser. I'm not waiting for someone to actually succeed before I declare them insurrectionists, and I don't know why you want to minimize the threats made against Congress, which did not stop that day: https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/no-bail-for-qanon-...

If you want to compare it to something, I would recommend the fall conspiracy to capture the Michigan governor, put them on a mock trial and then publicly execute them for their "crimes": https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/fbi-plot-michigan-go...
Have you seen tantacrul's other videos? I'd say besides Dorico they are also relics of that earlier area, like Adobe.

Dorico is an interesting case. I'm curious how they were funded. The general trend with these creative fields is that the labor force is oversaturated and made more liquid with the gig economy, so better productivity is no longer economically motivated.
And also https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM (which I found by searching the OSK and finding another HN thread about from 2016, with the same conversations about legality, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12558195)
Many Americans who use expensive specialty drugs have prescription drug coverage and don’t pay the entire price of the drug. And/or they get a discount through manufacturers programs. That said, my insurance does not cover the above drug.
I suppose this is more practical than the Lightning-to-1/4" phone plug adapter I instinctively built when I noticed Apple's headphone adapter fit comfortably inside a run-of-the-mill 1/4" cable-mount jack (of the sort found on the sink end of a headphone extension cord).

I've also idly considered doing the reverse with one of my iPod shuffles, i.e., incorporating the shuffle electronics into the shell of a 1/4" connector; trouble is, the shuffle runs USB through its four-conductor headphone jack, and 1/4" TRRS connectors are thin on the ground (AFAIK the 1/4"-ish TRRS aviation jack is physically incompatible with ordinary headphone plugs).
> I'm not sure which models you are talking about - but models such as Modern Portfolio Theory, or Black Scholes, while inherently flawed have been massively useful in the real world.

Many finance professors strike me as the kind of people who critique the design of a hammer without having ever built anything themselves. Every tool has perks and limitations, and the challenge of using that tool is to figure out what those things are and get them to bend to your favor. BSM is the lingua franca of the options market and can be tweaked in practice to accommodate many limitations (skew, event volatility, etc).

The point is to make money. If the tool helps you do that, then it's a good tool.