skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... cornering of the digital advertising market by the duopoly of Facebook and Google. Facebook’s threat to a free press ...

Press beholden to the interests of the advertisers is also not free. Granted, it is much less tightly controlled than when a few giant corporation funnel in most ad money, but still.

> The social media company is financially asphyxiating the news industry even as it gives oxygen to conspiracy theories and lies.

Well, the traditional press has also promoted conspiracy theory and lies: Most prominent in the last two decades, and in NYT specifically, have been Iraq's supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction and Trump's supposed collusion with Russia. The difference is that, on Facebook, there is less control of which lies and conspiracy theories get promoted and which get suppressed. It seems the author of that column takes issue with this.

Having said that - I do agree with the thesis of Facebook (and perhaps Google?) being a significant source of revenue for a media outlet meaning it has a measure of control over that outlet. Unfortunately, in Capitalism (especially less-regulated Capitalism) this tends to happen all over.

> these agreements undermine industry-wide efforts that would help the smaller, ethnic, and local news organizations that are most desperately in need of help.

Huh? The economy in general and mass media in particular have been driving smaller and local news outlets out of business for decades before Facebook was popular.

Ben Bagdikian famously wrote about the dangerous concentration of (news) media already in 1983, see coverage here:

https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0810/081003.html

Or check out the book on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/mediamonopoly00bagd
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Just throwing out ideas.

It would be easier to market your app nationwide vs just GA.

Can your therapists do group discussions if they don't call it therapy? Or could unlicensed staff do group discussions?

If your lic. therapists are in GA when they are providing the therapy does that meet the requirement to only providing mental healthcare inside Ga? The spirit of the law might be that they are licensed in Ga and they can't setup a clinic in FL with their GA lic.

Can you add therapists in other states that can practice nationwide?

Can your therapists get licensed in an adjacent state? With engineering licensing most states have a reciprocity agreement where you can get licenses in multiple states.

Do you have an existing client base locally who could use the app and leave reviews?

Could you get health departments, doctors, universities, and churches in GA to recommend your app. Provide flyers to these organizations.

Good luck growing your app.
Respectfully, not everyone here is American.

Canadaian and UK citizens reading this forum are actively paying for the CBC and BBC, respectively.
The fact they’re small means they’re more easily abandoned, though.
Of course this was communicated clearly - that the reason I would be willing to work for no pay was because my objective was to gain experience. I also mentioned that if they considered me valuable and worthwhile enough, to feel free to take me on as a "real" employee down the road.
You'll never find a job that meets these requirements, but you may find a job with good co-workers, a boss who is decent and a healthy work environment. To me, that is nirvana. Just like in a marriage, there's going to be good and bad times. It's the people that make those rough patches bearable.

Sounds to me like you just want flexibility and the opportunity to work on things you find engaging. Don't expect 100% of that all the time but I do think if you look hard enough, you'll find what you seek.
Really cool! The simulation screen is really detailed. Looking forward to playing around with it some more.
No idea why you are being downvoted but this is quite well known and acknowledged.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/27/media/bloomberg-news-wells-...
If such a well-qualified person wants to work for any wage, it will distort the market in the first place (i.e. clients will be even less willing to pay decent rates if people with his qualifications work for any amount). Why doesn't he work for open source projects on his own initiative and at his own discretion and try to finance himself via Patreon or similar? Or he could solve interesting problems for companies at his own risk, let the company check the suitability of the solution (initially as closed source), and then sell it for a fixed price "as is" (including source code). This way the company can save the specification effort, is more willing to outsource the project and the consultant can demonstrate its qualification directly with the solution and the speed with which it develops it. This has worked for me for many years, and I don't have to convince my customers with cheap rates.
The company I work for is one of the large(est) “FinTech” conglomerates. After talking to a lot of our security folks they agree about not changing passwords but are unable due to PCI and Federal standards/audits.

We have to adhere to outdated security practices simply because the auditors will flip out and the documented controls in government mandates. Section “10.12.3.4” says you must rotate passwords.
I’m guessing you’re a manager.
Blood in the Streets and Financial Sheets
Imagine if this money was put towards something useful, like basic research or the arts, instead of finding ever more ways to jam advertisements into as many sensory organs as possible as often as possible.
Is there some reason no digital platform producing company ever washes its hands of all moderation and leaves control of illegal activity to the people actually responsible for it (the FBI, NSA, local law enforcement, etc.)?

Are companies actually liable somehow if they don't take proactive steps to mitigate illegal content, which nowadays also leads into heavy-handed censorship because of what they interpret as being borderline illegal (like "hateful speech")?

In other words, is this a purely risk assessment related action, or an ideological one as someone like Alex Jones would shout into a mic?
One of the things I used to hear cited "back in the day" was that things like the SAM file from a DC took about a month to crack so you should rotate passwords on a frequency that beats that race. But it's always struck me as an awful lot of burden to put on to your users for a rather low likelihood attack surface. These days though it makes even less sense.
I'm pretty sure at least one of my employers continues to mandate passwords expiration date because of a contract, either with the government or under government regulation, and the regulations are outdated.
Sounds like the codebase would benefit from http://blog.jenkster.com/2016/06/how-elm-slays-a-ui-antipatt... which is what we use all over the place in our production Elm app and I can't praise it enough.
It is pretty standard actually even in CA. What is scary is a lot of companies are trying to use "back channels". I was shocked when some folks reached out to me asking about a scoop on former colleagues literally quoting the the "value of back channels". I never heard back when I told them politely I am happy to do so if they gave the candidate a heads up!

I noticed this was more prevalent at the unicorns (some kind of badge of honor?) Than at established big cos.
So I should have disclaimed that my information is as of 2009, which is the last time I touched this stuff, but that site said there was not successful transmission into monkeys in another experiment by the lab. I mean these experiments are extreme, high dose boluses of material straight into the brain. If at least one experiment failed to do that into monkeys that says something, even if they managed to get it in a later one, unless there was some revelation that they had done it wrong the first time.
Well, in Keynesian analysis, the private enterprises are supposed to create money. The gov't manages how much they create though reserve requirements.
React Pathfinder!
That’s correct. But “freedom of choice” looks like a luxury if run out of money.
The text says:

> This material is extremely absorbent, and takes in moisture up to three times its weight.

The image says:

> [...] and takes in moisture up to 300 times its weight.
The USDA does test a sample of cows, but prohibits companies from doing testing on their own cows probably because the tests would likely be inaccurate and provide an unwarranted impression of safety:

> NOT A FOOD SAFETY TEST

> BSE tests are not conducted on cuts of meat, but involve taking samples from the brain of a dead animal to see if the infectious agent is present. We know that the earliest point at which current tests can accurately detect BSE is 2-to-3 months before the animal begins to show symptoms. The time between initial infection and the appearance of symptoms is about 5 years. Since most cattle that go to slaughter in the United States are both young and clinically normal, testing all slaughter cattle for BSE might offer misleading assurances of safety to the public.

> ...

> Why doesn't USDA test every animal at slaughter?

> There is currently no test to detect the disease in a live animal. BSE is confirmed by taking samples from the brain of an animal and testing to see if the infectious agent - the abnormal form of the prion protein - is present. The earliest point at which current tests can accurately detect BSE is 2 to 3 months before the animal begins to show symptoms, and the time between initial infection and the appearance of symptoms is about 5 years. Therefore, there is a long period of time during which current tests would not be able to detect the disease in an infected animal.

> Since most cattle are slaughtered in the United States at a young age, they are in that period where tests would not be able to detect the disease if present. Testing all slaughter cattle for BSE could produce an exceedingly high rate of false negative test results and offer misleading assurances of the presence or absence of disease.

> Simply put, the most effective way to detect BSE is not to test all animals, which could lead to false security, but to test those animals most likely to have the disease, which is the basis of USDA's current program.

The ban might not be warranted (I don't believe it is myself), but it is important to be aware that testing for BSE may not be accurate at the time most cows are slaughtered.

https://www.usda.gov/topics/animals/bse-surveillance-informa...
Sysadmin of fake pentest company sentenced to jail after 1b dollar crime spree
It's on you to get the job to be fair. If it's not interesting work then you goofed by accepting the job

Interesting is subjective, you can't make every job interesting to every person.
I don't disagree although people may find they don't actually have the time to go out 2 nights a week.
That's a bad example, because you use exactly one hour.

If you divide the day in 10, let's call it decile, you would say see you in a decile instead of 2.43 hours.

As a side effect, 2.43h is actually 2h and less than 30 minutes and not 2h and 43 minutes (unintuitive), while 0.41 decile would probably be 41 centile, so conversion would be easier.
>> No fixed hours, I will work when I want.

>> no daily stand-ups

>> Meaningful work means work that I care about

>> This whole thing is not about money, so what the work is about comes first

There is a profound mismatch between what this person is offerring and what anyone would want from a developer, or even the core requirements for effective software development. I'll pass.
Citation badly needed.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/black-murder-victims-and-susp...

3% of the population and 13% of the murders in the UK.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41887-020-00055-y

5-6x homicide victimization rate vs whites, and 24x in males 18-24.

These multiples are fairly consistent globally.
In Julia they are not classes in the sense that the term is normally used in, for example, Python. Classes bind together data and methods, which is what leads to all the problems. In Julia functions are generic, and specialized to methods acting on arbitrary combinations of types; they are freed from the data.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-unreasonable-eff...
There's a certain brooding, existential atmosphere and mystique to anime like Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Steins;Gate that really make them stand out and stick with you.

Even if the show turned out to not be prescient at all, it would still be one of the top classics. Combined with the fact that it was, it's really something special.
I retired close to 7 years ago, and I have a similar set of guidelines for doing part time work. However I have another stipulation which is that if I don't personally know you, I'm not interested, at least for paid work. I've done some volunteer work where I've had introductions from someone I know and that's worked great. And for any given paid job the max I will work is 20 hours/month. That is I might work more than that, but I will only bill that. That allows me the flexibility to put the effort in I think is needed to do what I think is acceptable quality, without imposing my standards on someone who just wants something that will solve a problem immediately in front of them. Good luck!
The article is completely wrong about the prion mechanism.

>The prion’s structure is corruptive because it is not a copy but a mirror image of the protein, flipped in the opposite direction. In technical terms, some groups of prions have the opposite chirality—Greek for “handedness”—of their normal cousin proteins. The prion is doubly corruptive because it does not keep its inversion to itself: when it encounters its mirror image—a normal protein—it convinces that image to flip, to change chiralities and join the prion group.

The amino acids don't change their chirality, only the protein's secondary structure.
Guess when I got into a really chilling & nice job but with hostile work environment. It kind of was really bad. Although it become much much better with time. Was near quitting but didn't.
I own a Macbook and found out about this just now. It's not a heavily advertised service like Spotify. Most people don't know it exists.
I think the key to what ObserverNeutral is saying has a strong point - "People will try to sell their fake, expiring "crypto-dollars" for real money, instead of following the rules.

Even if they can't see the "crypto-dollar" for less "real dollars", they will just go through some medium of exchange. I.e. buy toilet paper for crypto dollars, and sell it at a discount.

Great point. I didn't consider it offhand.
This really fits into the "getting something up and running quick" category. Thank you!
The prosperity gospel is like something Karl Marx devised as a one-off example to illustrate his theory on the religions late stage capitalism creates.
Yes, it is digital, but it's minted by private banks, not the government. It's been a huge problem. Private banks cannot be trusted with our money supply as they have repeatedly shown.
I'm not paid at all, and I do pay for my news.
:) At first I thought it was Ronald Dahl and that sent me on a bit of a dive with him. But it turns out he was just another author in my mind at that time.

Did you watch Reading Rainbow by any chance? That was a meaningful show to me in these times. Eventually my biggest fandom went to Brain Jacques and the Redwall series.
I'm no politician but that promise to double the local workforce in Cambridge definitely caught my eye as something that would play really well in that arena. Kind of like how the Foxconn plant got built in the United States.
> Especially in the example case of music, "policing" has been a constant reality [...], yet no one complained

Ummm. Did you somehow grow to adulthood without being a teenager? Did you grow up somewhere other than the United States? The notion that nobody has ever complained about censorship in music is so hilariously wrong, it makes me want to send you CAPTCHAs to see how well the bots are doing nowadays.

Seriously, go listen to every top selling rap album from the first twenty years. The majority of them complain about censorship.
This can be seen easily via pharma adds on major news networks. It's not like anybody's ever asked their doctor after witnessing the list of side effects scroll by.

Pharma ads as the #1 advertiser on major network news channels is purely to reign in negative press.

The very idea of consuming news wherein the primary funding comes from a third party is absurd, but it's what people are used to.
Congrats to the whole Ingenuity team!

Exciting to see so many young faces and women on the team.

Also, I read up on the project lead MiMi Aung [1] - she's very insipring. I remember seeing her interview at the time when the rover was about to land, so much anticipation and hope. Now, so much excitement is truly uplifting.

Congrats!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiMi_Aung
they should, it's just a job, not their personal drama
> You don’t pay for your news (to a partisan substack doesn’t count) ... Maybe stop clicking and reacting and instead stop and reflect your role in all this?

I have - well, not now, but a long time ago - and because of that, I pay for much of my news.

However it is not true, IMO, that "we caused the problem", because disorganized news consumers have less of a pull on what happens than organized, conscious forces like large companies involved in news media (well before Facebook, see my other comment).

PS - I'm not from the US.
> as useful of a valuation metric unless the company primarily sells inventory of some sort.

quibble: replace "inventory" with "quantifiable"; you might not need to put it in dollar terms but could express "COGS" in person time, for many purposes. The conform ability of the units used in those cases is a different debate
Problems like climate change and food insecurity are not technological problems at this point. They are political problems. The job board you want is the board that organizes people to demand political change.
Yep. Every time a website asks me to rotate a password I end up using a bad password for a while and rotating it later.
Yeah, I think there's value in it, but if you don't have a way to prevent "plus one passwords", it probably isn't super effective anyways. It may be a case where frustrating the user four times a year isn't worth it... maybe just frustrating them once a year will lead people to put more effort into making their passwords suitably different.
Mining bitcoin is a terrible way to speculate on the price of Bitcoin. Why not just buy/short it directly?
The Verge regularly publishes pieces critical of apple and google? this is from less than a week ago: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22370158/google-ai-ethics...
> That's a distinction without a difference. `append` does not "explicitly reallocate", it may or may not reallocate, you've no idea. Even if the backing array is full, it might be realloc'd in-place.

Maybe to you, but to me, a pointer going from modifying the value inside of the map to no longer modifying the value inside of the map during any operation is quite a bit different than requiring a reassignment of the slice header. In other words:

x := make([]int, 5)
y := &x[0]
x[3] = 8
*y = 5
print(x[0]) // always prints 5

as compared to

x := make(map[int]int)
y = &x[0] // btw, is this even valid? let's assume it implicitly does x[0] = 0
x[3] = 8
*y = 5
print(x[0]) // maybe sometimes prints 5?

is meaningfully different. For slices, we know that x[0] will always print 5 until the value of x is reassigned in some way.

> Also technically nothing prevents a GC from reallocating the slice.

It would have the same problem the map does: you'd have to update any pointers into the slice to point to the new slice, otherwise the semantics of the program changes. That is not something the GC currently does, and would require an awful lot of metadata and scanning.

> I've never heard of a hashmap implementation which would do otherwise.

I'm not sure what this is referring to. I agree every map implementation has to reallocate the backing store of values periodically. I was trying to say that keeping the flexibility to reallocate the backing store of the map during GC means that you cannot choose the "writes through pointer are observed in the map" option (at least without a lot of complication around updating pointers) because as a programmer, you would not be able to know if it would do that or not, which is a fairly useless primitive.
Lain catches a lot of flak in anime circles for being "edgy" or "deep for the sake of being deep" in that it tries too hard to be something thought provoking, but lacks any real substance. People still assign what they think the show is trying to say, but because the show is so abstract anything sticks.

I tend to agree with the above point, but it has been quite some time since I watched it. I wonder if a new personal perspective and rapidly changing tech landscape would change how I feel about it today.
I think that doesn't reduce complexity it just pushes it to the users and the software they create. So now you potentially have orders of magnitude more complexity than if you had dealt with it in the appropriate place.
> This seems prefaced on the idea that the cultural homogeneity is a desired state.

Cultural homogeneity has upsides and downsides. Some of the most successful countries in the world (Japan, the Scandinavian countries, etc., are culturally homogenous). For example, Tokyo wouldn’t work if it was culturally heterogenous. Culturally heterogenous cities all end up kind of looking like Toronto, London, New York, etc. Interesting and vibrant, but not exactly orderly and organized.

> Your example doesn't strike me as one which I recognise as a problem. Even if neither your dad nor your wife are willing to give an inch in accepting the other may have a point, is this not better than neither of them having been exposed to that point in the first place?

Except at the end of the day they both vote and have to live under the kinds of governments picked by the other. For example during COVID, my dad was completely unable to relate to why some people had civil liberties objections to lockdown orders. (Not just concluding, on the balance, that lockdowns outweighed the impact on civil liberties, but completely unable to understand there was even a balancing process at issue.) He welcomes the centralization of power in DC, the idea that a well-credentialed bureaucracy will tell the backwaters of the country what to do. (One of the things we forget is that elite immigrants are often elite in their home countries. My family is from the same educated, ideologically forward thinking tiny minority of people who decided it would be tenable to impose secularism in the 1972 Bangladesh constitution, on a country that’s overwhelmingly Muslim.) Of course this drives my wife nuts—her family kept moving west to get as far away from the government as physically possible.

Now to some extent this parallels cultural conflicts that already exist in America. But large scale immigration certainly changes the balance. When I was growing up, Northern Virginia was what I’d call “traditional American elitist.” Where there is an elite, but being elite is considered somewhat unseemly, so even the elites pay homage to the “common man.” With the large scale Asian immigration to Northern Virginia over the last 30 years, the culture has changed quite dramatically. What used to be an “under the breath” hostility to the “rest of Virginia” has become an open one.

We can debate about the merits of these views—but that’s not my point here. My point is that this cultural disconnect exists even with educated, high-income immigrants. And it’s entirely reasonable for folks who are already in the US to see that as a reason to oppose large scale immigration. Certainly, if the shoe were in the other foot, and Americans were streaming into Dhaka bringing with them their hedonistic individualism, there would be outrage among Bangladeshis.