skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd hazard a guess that the four years of similar violence from antifa blackshirts also had such metadata available to law enforcement. If FAANG and their downstream media pawns had painted that violence as an insurrection, as was its clear intent, we might have been hearing this more in 2018. The capital riots, though, look very much more like a protest gone wrong due to a few idiots, but we've all been assigned the opinion that it was something else. So, go off, kings.
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I would suspect that it is mostly politically motivated by people who are convinced that a Conservative government can never do anything right.
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I’m not here to disagree with all of your comments, but I’m pretty sure the proposed mechanism for acceleration is a solar sail.
As far as I'm aware no-one has claimed to have found them so they might be still there, but I'd have thought it would be more likely that someone has found them but kept it quiet.
I have also had these same thoughts, and in some ways the USA is today where South Africa was in the late 80's. Time will tell how the USA handles its domestic crisis.
Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period
An SLA for starters
You really should though. I would say it‘s only a safe bet if you worked the same job for the entire year, got no bonuses and had no other income at all (even from the state).

Otherwise you either have to do it or you are missing out on credits.

It‘s pretty straightforward too. If you want you can only file your basic personal data and bank account and have the information already submitted by the employer electronically picked up. That way you can get any obvious credits for e.g. uneven earnings.
You can do both.

I let people know "ask me before you schedule over a meeting".
They'll do it anyway, but this allows me to decline a meeting with an excuse if I don't need to be there. If it's important: they're not likely to explain their justification for me (in doing so providing me with more context on their problem).

If by luck 4/5 days stay unbooked you have 16 focus hours of work.
I use 2 hour blocks 5 days a week
.eu is not a country. .co.uk holders were unaffected by Brexit. meanwhile .org had price caps removed and was nearly sold off to private capital on the promise of "we promise that for the first decade we will only raise prices by 10%/yr". I'm not so sure that a legacy TLD is a better bet than a ccTLD with a similar record of stability when we get into these long term long tail events.

Also .org falls under US influence, which may not have worked out so well had you been making this decision in Ukraine a decade ago
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Renewables are now EU's main source of electricity
> .io isn't a gTLD at all, it's a ccTLD belonging to British Indian Ocean Territory (which I find to be bullshit, since those islands have no permanent inhabitants).

That's not strictly true - British Indian Ocean Territory has permanent inhabitants, just not any native ones (never had had them, really - it was uninhabited until 1793). US military Diego Garcia base is there...

It's bullshit for other reasons, and expulsion of Chagossians to build the base is a tragedy - but not due it being empty territory (it's not).
Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years:

1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; then

2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; next

3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then

4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally

5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop.

It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account. But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?" (It's been years since I've cared to log into Facebook. Feels more like trudging through spam in an old e-mail inbox, now, than anything compelling.)
This is not really correct. CI means we are 95% sure that the true result falls somewhere within the range of -50 to 60. What this really means is that the study lacks statistical power to say anything interesting at all about vaccine effectiveness.
Still works on Big Sur and M1 Macs.
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Last week the Spanish side of Vice published a post that literally said in the title "Most famous Harvard astronomer said aliens tried to contact us".

I think that beats everything else I've read so far regarding this issue.
Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time or longterm. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.

https://ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000156459021004599/ts...
Surely the creator of a video game that's sold tens of millions of copies, who also has an on-going business relationship with your company passes the bar?
Number one step to leaving google: get your own email service. One that you pay for, from a company whose primary business is email. Then gradually move your important accounts off.

This doesn't help much if you have to publish things on the play store. But you can distribute android apps directly.
You’re right, semantics are everything. I left implicit the “in this study” part. As always, failing to reject the null doesn’t mean the null is true :)
It's the same in France and I think most of EU as the highest french court ruled that forced arbitration was against EU law.
I've not gone as far as delete my account, it's still got the network effect for some friends and family but I have deleted it from my phone and now soley use it in a facebook container in firefox.
I find it's actually improved my attention and quality of engaement and I'm more focussed. Plus now I don't check my phone every 10 minutes for a dopamine hit.
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Here's the ML stack I have been using for my last project:

- Doing NLP with spaCy (https://spacy.io/) as I consider it to be the most production ready framework for NLP

- Annotating datasets with Prodigy (https://prodi.gy/), a paid tool made by the spaCy team

- Deploying the trained spaCy models onto NLP Cloud (https://nlpcloud.io), a service I helped creating

- Use the models through the NLP Cloud API in production and enrich my Django application out of it
Tesla buys $1.5B U.S. in Bitcoin according to SEC filing
or generate an address that is reserved for computers sold to the NSA (:

#
# 00-20-91 (hex) J125, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
# 002091 (base 16) J125, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
#
$> NSA_MAC=$(echo "00:20:91:"`openssl rand -hex 3 \
| sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'`)
$> sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether $NSA_MAC

But actually do people still bother with mac-spoofing in 2020? It's from a security/nw-admin pov next to useless (whitelist/filtering nor does it boost privacy of end-users). IMHO it gives people false sense of security and as a "practice" seems like a relic from the 90ies.
> ...if money is allowed to pool like this, devils grow in it. If you don't fucking govern, if you don't moat these things in a circle of salt, they will invariably become something uncontainable - something too big to fail, part of the walls. It needs to be made absolutely plain that the people have something in this sheath. Something sharp. And that means killing the occasional dragon.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2020/10/21/goog
It requires node. I’d rather have no dependencies.
This isnt criminal law. This is the right a private property owner (say the owner of a bar) has to kick you out. There are some limits on that (e.g. a restaurant can't kick black people out) but for the most part a business that doesnt want your business doesnt have to serve you, right or wrong.
My application[1] with similar rpm as OP received 503 status last month for about an hour first time in 1.5 years, I assumed it to be an one-off issue at CF end. It happened while I was using it and so I'm now concerned if it's a regular affair for my users, most of whom are not from my geographical location(data-center).

I'm a free plan user because my application is not monetized and obviously would switch to paid plan once it starts generating money. CF free plan has been indispensable for many such free projects.

UptimeRobot(Free) doesn't show anything fishy, except for CF error 521 occasionally. Again UptimeRobot requires paid version to check for HTTP status message, guess I'll have to do it or setup a self hosted(recommendations?) solution to monitor HTTP status of CF Free application.

If CF does perform rate limiting for such low rpm, I would prefer to be intimated as even third rate shared hosting providers do it and I hope CF wouldn't put their reputation on the line for something like this.

[1]https://needgap.com
Binary Eye can also be found on the Play store - I personally check to see if apps are on both to add a bit of confidence, its not a negative if they're not but a positive +1 if they are co-listed when I'm deciding which widget to use.
I’m sure it’s usually just a case of “thinking while typing”, but I find it surprising how often articles about Docker stuff get some basic details a bit wrong. In the very first code example there is a RUN instruction where the author probably meant to have a CMD instruction, and they talk about BuildKit and build cache optimisation even though that was always something to think about, way before BuildKit was a thing.

I’m not trying to say I know everything or that the article is wrong or bad, but it’s an observation I’ve made.
If anyone else was curious about the vaccines purchased by major countries/blocs, I found this graphic which provides a good visualization of it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/canada-and-uk-...

(Scroll down past the first few paragraphs)
There is a difference between vulgarisation of science, and making money out of sensational unproven claims pretending it’s science. This is my moral compass in that matter.
I think we give up on that when we agree to the rule

Google has the right to suspend, remove your account without prior notice

I'm sure there should be a clause like that in their TOS
I agree [1], just nitpicking:

> Even if it acted under its own power,

He doesn't claim it's self powered. He claims that it may have the form of a sheet instead of the form of the cigar. This shape is similar to a solar sail[2], and the shape cause a small acceleration by the solar light.

[1] Every time this is repost, I'd like to repost an angry rant about pushing the "alien" solution for a problem where we clearly have not enough data.

[2] That is casually his research field.
Very few, we're a regional level startup, the CF map doesn't show it well because it's per state and not per pop on the free account, but basically all hits in logs are marked MXP or FCO
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Surface conditions is not the geometry: Oumuamua has spent thousands to millions of years nowhere near the heat of a star, in the interstellar medium. So unlike cyclic comets in orbit around Sol, having an unusual surface chemistry would be expected since it's not being evaporated every few hundred years by close encounters.

The point is, pleading about potentially naturally occurring conditions we've never seen before occurring in an object we've never seen before isn't much of an argument when you have no evidence to actually exclude them (and the observation timeline was in a phase where it was already faint).
Right. I phrased it a bit differently below. By “we can’t say” I meant that the study/researchers aren’t able to claim that the vaccine has non-zero effectiveness, i.e., they haven’t rejected the null.
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I imagine if that happen in real courts. And You got jail without any info on why on how to evade - or You will behave properly on not go in jail
I just can't imagine that this has happened completely "without reason" as he states. The reason might be silly, erroneous (whether human or AI), or dumb, but it exists.
If Google has no procedure in place to investigate these bans on request, then Google is evil. But by the sound of this I get the feeling that this guy is leaving out some facts.
Communication is one thing, but not having any appeals process other than hoping a social media post goes viral enough for Google to take action is ridiculous.
Yea, that was impressively sneaky. Surprised they didn't get called out on it.
Another similar project is MellowPlayer [0] which has pretty much the same featureset, but written in Qt/C++ instead of Vala.

[0] https://colinduquesnoy.gitlab.io/MellowPlayer/
What? Many of these domains date back to when there were like 10 gTLDs and adding a new one was a rare event.
So if he gave the book away for free it would be fine, all things being equal?
I did the same a year ago. I wasnt really engaged with it though.
I think this is the money quote from that filing:

"Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt."
Isn't that "socialism" and therefore harder to implement in the US than a gun ban?
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Just delete cold turkey and realize in a few days it is not missed. Not really. Do you really care about that inane chatter?
You don't, but your monitors will show the 503 happening, how often, on which endpoint operation and in which regions; that will give you a pretty good picture of whether is actually your CDN layer or something else triggering the 503
What app are you talking about specifically?
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I develop a super fast JSON library ( https://github.com/goccy/go-json ) .
It is drop-in replacement of encoding/json.

This library is available by simply replacing the import statement.
It's more compatible and much faster than json-iterator/go.

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My cost benefit analysis is that the Cloudflare free plan is a bargain. At any time I can instantly turn on the protection I might need because I have already integrated Cloudflare into my infrastructure.

I am careful about what technologies I add to my stack because I am a sole developer, but Digital Ocean and Cloudflare have been big wins for me.
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No need in charges.
Strong person identification via Passport or Bank. Limit those request per identified person or throttle them.
Yes, that is what I was asserting. I chose Spinks because he defeated Ali in a split decision in the biggest upset of the sport. However, their overall careers were so different. Ali is considered to be the greatest of all time by many.

When Spinks beat Ali, he was the quickest to win the title in history. He also was the only man to take a title from Ali. He was younger, faster, in better shape and had a longer reach than Ali.

However, despite the physical attributes favoring Spinks in every way, and the previous victory, in the rematch Spinks was completely destroyed by Ali, who trained hard for the fight this time.

These two are perfect examples of elite athletes with excellent physical similarities that put their careers on similar trajectories when you compare their early careers. However, Ali's mental talents and training skill so far surpassed Spinks that Ali only lost 5 times and won the title 3 times, while Spinks lost 17 and only held the title once.

Physical prowess matters, but not as much as training at the elite level.
Were Python calls uncached before this month? That seems extraordinary and the world's lowest hanging fruit and I'm amazed nobody ever picked it. Dropbox had a whole team working on a Python JIT and didn't try that first?
I got a dog recently, and read lots of things online about 'crate training', and had lots of people advising me it was the way to go, so I got a 'crate' and tried it.

What a load of shit lol, it's a cage. They should call the process 'cage conditioning', the dog was fully aware he was locked in a cage and didn't like it.

Abandoned it very quickly, had a lot more success with just patience and positive reinforcement.
Interesting! But what holds these blocks at the separation once the foam is no longer load bearing ? Some external bracing ?
You don't have to tell them how you detected them but you can tell them what they did wrong. A lot of times when these cases come up there is nothing in the reason you got banned that would help you avoid the ban. It's purely to avoid any kind of accountability (if they say you got banned for a reason that is plainly not true because their algorithms suck)
First step in the move to bitcoin being the new global currency.
> decision makers who are now making snap anti-Russian decisions on the basis of prior articles.

This is how you get the public to support hostile actions later, including even armed conflict. We all know the only reason for the relative peace between the West and Russia has been nukes... But Russia is still seen as the enemy and anything criticizing them can go almost completely unchallenged in popular media.

China is also on the same boat. Not that they do not deserve criticism, they certainly do... but when people don't need any fact checking at all to believe whatever allegations come to light (as you mention, examples of fake allegations going unchallenged are endless) you do need to start worrying that the rethoric can go too far and cause undue harm, eventually.
I love the freemium model for SaaS because it's an easy way to start and test a SaaS before buying into it. Also, when you start small, you don't have that much money at hand. It feels fair to pay once you have established your business at a larger scale.
Doing a rewrite.

I hit a wall where, in order to go further, I had to do a major redesign. This redesign could have come in the form of incremental refactoring or a total rewrite. I sought discussion on rewrites vs refactors to help me decide which path to take, and initially went with the veterans' advice to do an incremental refactor.

I started out with the refactor, but since the project was relatively small, not in production, and developed solely by me, I figured screw it - maybe a rewrite will be faster.

But this rewrite caused me so many problems. The veterans were right - there's so much knowledge and already-accounted-for edge-cases & bug-fixes in that old code. Bugs and cases that I'd apparently forgotten about. Maybe better documentation would have helped the rewrite, but I still think an incremental refactor would have been more productive.

The rewrite took way longer than anticipated and the redesign, although better, wasn't worth the time, and it was incredibly inefficient re-discovering all the little problems that the old code accounted for.
> Plus now I don't check my phone every 10 minutes for a dopamine hit.

And here we're, on HNs :)

/s
My point is that literally millions of people could be considered "high profile". Does (the recently deceased) Leon Spinks pass the bar? I could go on naming semi-famous people indefinitely, they all ought to pass this bar.
the legal system deals with a finite number of people; the internet enables that finite number of people to act as a potentially infinite number of entities, without a great way of disaggregating them into people.

E.g. if a spammer can pretend they're 10 million different people, and each of those "people" requests an explanation, the whole system grinds to a halt.

This is the reason behind a push for more KYC-like verification on these platforms (e.g. asking for IDs). But this comes at a huge privacy cost for legitimate users. So one way or another people who are real, legitimate and with good intentions somehow pay the cost of the harm that is being done on the internet. This is a hard problem.

Source: am thinking/working on this sort of stuff; not representing my employer, my opinions are my own etc. etc.
The New Zealand government doesn't learn "all your whereabouts" by default. The app is storing locally what it has learned about places you visited by scanning QR codes, and comparing that to information it is being sent over the Network (by the government) to discern if you went anywhere that the government says warrants special action - if so you get notified.

For most Kiwis this means a bunch of QR code data is stored on their phone and, months or years from now when the emergency is over (depending on how incompetent other countries are) that data is deleted. There is no NZ department of health MySQL database full of geo data of every New Zealand citizen and never will be.

If you're a case (remembering that New Zealand has elimination, so rather than cases being millions of people as in the US for example, they're very rare) then you can choose to help the contact tracers by giving them your data and in that case they do get all the data because you gave it to them. Because New Zealand has elimination contact tracing is something done by a handful of experts.

I would guess that like most countries New Zealand's contact tracing experts worked previously with sexually transmitted infections - so they already understand the sensitivity of this work. COVID-19 is actually less awkward, because at least you don't have to admit to fucking somebody you claim you're not sexually attracted to, just that you were in the same room as them for a period of time.

But of course none of what I wrote above matters much because those are merely facts, and for so many Americans mere facts can't oppose a Truth they have become certain of despite all evidence to the contrary. Not that Mother Nature gives a damn whether you believe her.
The generic gotv efforts were in geographic locations strongly favoring democrats. Zuck wasn’t helping to get out the vote in rural Wisconsin.
If someone can post a script or something that lets you extract all of your friends' birthdays into a Google calendar, it would go a long way towards making deletion more palatable
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Wow, I completely disagree. What I've read of hers the writing has been great. Tight. No waste. But still very evocative.
> How many authenticator apps do you have to use in parallel to mitigate this risk of a single point of failure?

Just one, together with alternative forms of 2 factor auth, such as a Yubikey (U2F token) or printed backup codes.
I love Total Commander on windows as well - one of the first things I install.

Graphically, have you tried Double Commander? It's multi-platform Qt app; while I don't know how well is behaves on Mac OS, it's fantastic in Linux.
It depends on what the service costs to run. I really don't like a model where one customer pays for the other but promoting a new service is getting more expensive every year. It might be worth the insanity of large numbers of low tier customers.

One thing is for sure, no one likes a service that changes prices with free > paid being the least likable. (paid > free as the nr 2?)

I think you can get away by describing the situation properly in advance. i.e. what might happen with the free service in the future. Something like: Guaranteed to be free for 6 months (12 months if you register now). If we fail to reach an audience by offering a free plan it will be x dollar per month/year/query. We will contact you 3 months in advance.

It seems the free pony! era has to end. Downtime from cleaning up after a vanishing free service is to annoying.