skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authoritative sources 'debunked' it? In which alternate reality did that happen.

They started with 'Iraq has mass wmds and is a danger to civilized world', with CNN even upping the ante most by putting in talking heads who claimed that Saddam 'had intercontinental missiles which could hit US eastern seaboard and he is planning "something"'.

The scarce 'contrary' article in NYT would start with "Are we being too hasty", then would conclude by saying "but the risk of not taking action is too great". That was the breadth of 'contrary'.

Even 1-2 years after the invasion when the smell started they tried selling 'Iraq had SOME wmds'. When people didnt buy it, they started to defer blame by whitewashing the 'intelligence community' by blaming 'false reports by Iraqi contractors'. Then when it didnt work they started claiming that 3 letter agencies 'misinterpreted' evidence. When that also didnt sell, they just stopped talking about it.

What part of that is 'debunking'.

They didnt debunk anything. They SOLD it, just like how they sold the original Iraq War lie.

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

I bet you didnt even have the slightest idea about the above until now. You probably never heard about it. That's how it works.

Original iraq war lie. Second iraq war lie. Syrian govt. used chemical weapons lie. Islamist terrorists in Syria are actually freedom fighters lie. China has concentration camps lie. and now China is doing genocide lie.

They JUST keep selling lies over and over and over and people like you SO easily trust them. That's what enables this entire setup to keep going on.

No. I dont need any of those 'authoritative' sources. Nobody does.
I forked Redis to create Thredis almost 9 years ago. Some notes on how it was implemented:

https://github.com/grisha/thredis/blob/master/README-THREDIS

Then I added SQLite to it, more details here:

http://thredis.org

This was all done mostly for fun, though I did use it in a an actual project for a while.
I love that B&H closes their website for sabbath.
> Readers of this post have pointed out that it contains some inaccuracies, including that Maslow did not himself depict his Hierarchy of Needs as a pyramid (but that this was later done by writers of management textbooks). I’m working on some revisions or a follow-up post to acknowledge and speak to some of these inaccuracies.

Looks like the author is the one who got it wrong.
> Much of the corporate and public media.

You are just making things up.
I'm not onboard with this price-point either. If it's pointed at shitty chromebooks users, I get the price point even less.

Nvidia GeForce NOW (Cloud Gaming Steaming) is $10 a month and gives you access to top of the line enterprise GPU/CPU/RAM hardware and nearly your entire Steam, Unreal, Ubi, etc libraries. I can play Cyberpunk 2077 with fully maxed out graphics settings with no perceptible latency.

https://play.geforcenow.com (There's a free tier, that gives you access to 1 hour a day of gameplay.)
I very carefully chose the phrasing of:

>The author doesn't appear to want to make the claim that Mr. Pretty raped her

That is quite different from the question of whether what happened was rape. (EDIT: To make it clear, if it did happen as the author writes, then I totally agree that it was rape. This is completely distinct from the question of the author's intent to make the claim that she was raped. The word does not occur in her piece.)
yes. it works great for us. everything is a 1
oh that's great.
I can't help but think of the famous humpty dumpty quote

> When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

The fact is that pixels don't have a well defined meaning. Some people use them as squares, some people use them as samples. Then you get into subpixel font rendering, where you quite explicitly acknowledge the screen as master, and you design your image for a desired result.

So yeah it's an ecosystem of people doing different things with different interpretations, and trying to mostly play nice with each other.
not when accounting for a higher level of crime. In fact, whites are more than half of police victims, while causing way less than half of violent crimes.

There are 32 million traffic stops each year. In 2019 the police shot 14 unarmed black Americans. I think every death is unforgivable, but let's not pretend that going to work and back as a black person you're putting your life at risk when meeting the police.

There is a bias, sure, but it's just that, a bias. I fail to see the evidence for widespread discrimination.

Police should do more stops and preventive interventions, look at Baltimore https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2015

Look at pre-2015 and post-2015. The homicides increased from 200s to 300s. All because of a police crime and BLM protests in 2015. Now you have 100 extra people each year losing their lives. US needs more police, not less.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/12/baltim...

I'm deviating, but my point is that police is not a suppressor for the black community, but a helper and an enabler for the honest working people. It can be intimidating and demeaning interacting with the police, but it's still 100x better than interacting with the gangs of Baltimore.
The moon has the perfect size already. We just need to nudge it around a little bit to provide some local shade. Solar eclipse on demand, how hard can it be?
Can't wait to see all the security problems by logging into your bank account from "somewhere" in the cloud. I think the idea is wrong, not everything has to be a subscription, especially not a web browser.
That's not insisting, that's asking, or suggesting.

The construction used by the author indicates that it happened. That's how the term is used.
She talks like a doll lacking any kind of autonomy. It is not "we had sex", but "he had sex with me".

I don't know any woman who does not want to have unprotected sex, but just let it happen like that. Then come back for seconds, even though she is not in the mood.

Are there naive young women who lack self-authority and self-esteem to say no, to an older man who needs those women to get their fix and wants to make up for their unpopular youth? Yes. And that awkward dance of nature takes two to tango. Panicking and crying during or after sex does not a "rape" make (but the definition depends on jurisdiction anyway, and we haven't even let a court in the right jurisdiction look if it qualifies, so I'd like to avoid that term).

Unless you want to claim openly that a named person is now a serial rapist. I'd like to think it takes more than a Medium post for you to do that.
>left as an exercise for the reader

so do we start with markov chain generators or jump straight to gpt-3?
a) jurisdiction dependent, it's a bigger company than the US.

b) if they issue RSU's at $Y, then buyback stock to drive the price up to $Z, the employee's take $Y as ordinary income, and $Z-$Y as cap gains, which is usually taxed more favourably
That's my flow actually. I look up books on Goodreads or Amazon but buy them from Kobo. There are the additional steps of downloading, removing the DRM and uploading it to my Kindle but I think it's worth it.
This is not an education or even an inherently sexual issue.

In case you didn't notice, there is a pattern, very often, the aggressor is in a relative position of power.

People with power feel free to abuse people with less power, simply because they've learned that most of the time they can get away with it.
heh the one thing that needs to go away is me from this conversation. have a good one.
Well, if your portable rack happens to be way deeper than most audio racks…
I've joked once or twice before (over the past few years) that we're coming back, full-circle, to mainframe-style infrastructure with dumb terminals.

Subscription services (even for software on previously steady release cycles), serverless infra, cloud computing, etc... the overall business model is shifting back to buying compute time to perform a certain task, or these startups essentially re-selling general purpose compute time as marked-up specific purpose compute time. With some UI slathered on top to make it look sexy.
Please don't put words in other people's mouths either. I think it's clear from GP's post that that's NOT what they were implying.
> If you’re making good money, investing $1-2 dollars a day to be able to work more productively is incredible roi.

Sure, but investing $2/day pays for an M1 MacBook Air in under 2 years. That's why so many of us are struggling to understand this.

It might make sense in the context of companies with weird IT department restrictions that won't let them buy new laptops but will let them spend $50/month on a service.
I personally don't plan on buying a car in the near future, but https://youtube.com/c/ScottyKilmermechanic

has given me very strong opinions about car purchases. I think you and I share quite similar views :)
I'm fairly certain that exists, but it's actually not a requirement to never have false accusations before justice can be pursued.

In the same hypothetical where character assassinations can be organized and bring someone down with false accusations, the same can be true of defending someone as well. Multiple people coordinating by speaking in defense of someone against accusations are just as possible.

I'd even speculate and say there's more instances of coordinated defense happening more often than false accusations, as powerful people being protected from accusations is what started MeToo
The most important intuition that KSP gives you is that “go high” means “go sideways fast”.
it's not at all shocking, you're just seeing Paul G for who he is for the first time.
I think the commenter is more referring to just-in-time supply chain management where companies run on much thinner buffers of time and physical stock.
Ask HN: How do Google Ads plugins work?
I've seen quite a few PPC optimization products and other tools for Google Ads accounts. How do these apps work?

Haven't been able to find any dev resources about how to build an app that adds a feature to a Google Ads account, but have a few ideas and would love to learn more about how these work. Anybody recommend any resources to learn more?

Thanks!
Got it
Anyways thanks for this :)
What makes you think there is or should be a maximum acceptable tolerance for that sort of thing? The purpose of our legal process is FIRST to protect the innocent THEN to punish the guilty. The US legal system is not a hot dog factory where there is an acceptable concentration of rat feces levels in the food. If there is not evidence of a crime, no crime shall be punished. There are other countries where that sort of thing is tolerated.
tldr: Wokeness is NOT a problem, we just have to be better at hiding it.
On the other side of the spectrum: https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/
Not to mention that boys, small boys in particular are frequent targets of abuse. At certain ages even more than girls.

And an abused boy could well become an abuser in the future.
Sad but true
All consumer services tend toward free.

It seems to me that if this becomes a successful (consumer) product it will either become free – or be replaced by the free version. The free version would generate revenue through advertising or by data collection and user surveillance.

Since Suhail is following this thread, I'd be curious to know if he'd ever consider that route.
It is, isn't it. Many people find the UI charming, the top post actually put that into words nicely.
Ok, thank you! Much appreciated.
Feb. 24-April 20, 2021: How India missed early signals and lost valuable time
> it's criticism that fails to recognize

I really don't think that's the right interpretation. This is a direct criticism of the correct mental model for Git. In essence is says "This model, although functional, is way more complex than it needs to be. Here is a simpler model that accomplishes the same goals with less confusion for beginners and experienced users alike."

I don't see a great argument for the concept of un-committed changes existing at all, and the tool would be a lot easier if they didn't. My implementation would be for every local change to be immediately amended onto HEAD, and then `git commit` creates a new empty commit for subsequent changes to attach to. If you want to not include a file, exclude it. Or something like that, I haven't thought about it in detail really.
You can always draw by hand.
> Calibre is one of those rare examples of software where the kitchen-sink approach is absolutely warranted.

I disagree, and that's why I generally do not use Calibre, despite being an ebook aficionado. ...I already have my own ebook organization management. I'd like a good ebook reader, and I'd appreciate some of the surrounding tools, but Calibre's monolithic design isn't useful in my case.

It seems like even running the plain ebook reader takes a while because it's doing some callbacks to the larger program? Okular is a better fit for "a program that reads ebooks", but unfortunately has some really buggy handling with a number of books I've seen.
I got the opposite understanding from the article. People are willing to pay extra for immediate needs but the slots are sold ahead of time:

> For the month of May, everything on the trans-Pacific is basically sold out. We had one client who needed something loaded in May that was extremely urgent and who was ready to pay $15,000 per container. I couldn’t get it loaded
Even the very first statement is false. Actually it has the lie baked into it: "Iraq missed its chance to disarm itself OF weapons of mass destruction". It presents existence of WMDs as a truth.

It doesnt say that "These countries accuse Iraq of having WMDs". It presents the existence of WMDs as a truism.

That's 'opinion shaping'. And thats what 'authoritative sources' do all the time.
Working on multiple Figma instances while having things like Notion and Slack in the background is a real-life situation for a lot of people nowadays. Even a $3000 MacBook Pro suffers to handle it, but you could easily do it with a 2013 Macbook Air via Mighty. Think of it as renting a new computer. Also most entry-level users have to run these for work/school but can't on cheap hardware.
If quantum computing lives up to its hype the transition will be incredible.
Have you ever filed a police report regarding rape/sexual assault? It can be incredibly dehumanizing, especially when it is nearly impossible to prove that someone date-raped you when there are no witnesses.
>but “no politics” isn’t a neutral position

Yes it is, it absolutely is. You can be a big activist outside of work, no one is saying you can't be.

>It's a position to take when you’re OK with the status quo and want people to shut up and just go along, because you’re largely not affected by the things that they are.

This boils down to the "you're with me, or you're against me" mentality. You can want work to be neutral but still not be happy with the way things are. These things are not mutually exclusive.

It's like saying "if you don't believe in gun rights, it's because you hate women and want them to be defenseless." Or "if you support Planned Parenthood, you support the genocide of minority babies."

Of course those are nonsense stances.

On top of that, maybe the "status quo" is better than what you're suggesting. The tens of millions of lives that perished under Communism would be happier with the "status quo" the way it was before... Alive.

>I speak from experience - in my country our autocratic ex president also had a “no political discussions except the ones I sanction / that benefit me”, and enforced it with brute force, torture, imprisonments, even murder.

This is exactly what leftists are asking for though. The "no politics at work" literally means no left-wing or right-wing politics, just none at all.

>This was nonsense, of course - HE still got to talk politics when he wanted, and used that fact to extend his rule. Yes the analogy isn’t perfect and it’s country vs company, but it’s the same underlying logic.

Straight out of the Marxist handbook.

>But this is not as simple as oh they’re just trying to make the work culture less toxic, good for them.

I think they are, because what's considered the "status quo" is up for debate in 2021. Welcome to the post-fact world.

Politics, especially wokeism at work, has become exceedingly toxic, and counterproductive.
And all of this is to say nothing of the frankly embarrassing problems that have plagued JWT as a result of algorithm agility (alg=none). Removing agility from JWT wouldn't make it a good specification, but it would certainly make it a better specification.
Yes I would like you to render all my browsing on your servers. Yes, all of it - my emails, social media, bank account.. What is this privacy you speak of? Never heard of it. Don't need those pesky things..

On a serious nore. I run on 32+GB RAM on my primary machine, open all the tabs and IDEs I want and stay generally in the 11GB range.

My guess is, get yourself 16GB ram and you should be okay.
That's not going to help with watching YouTube videos though.
Right, a system where rape kits sit unprocessed for years
Right. I think it's reasonable to be doubtful if there is only one accuser, and the accused can provide hard evidence refuting at least some of the accuser's claims.

But when several people stand up to make accusations, and there's a bunch of corroboration, it's hard to wonder if skeptics are skeptical out of bad faith, even subconsciously. I'm not sure we've passed this threshold with Pretty, but two accusations, as well as some others corroborating parts of the stories, is starting to look pretty compelling.

I'm curious to know what Pretty's response will be, but I think he already has a steep uphill climb.
My partner and I went to an HGTV seminar that turned out to be a Get Rich Quick scheme. We left as soon as the pitch started and it became obvious nothing about the event had anything to do with what we were led to believe it would be about.

Basically they were flipping homes. They show you a catalog of houses they are bidding on, and you can join them in on ones that suit your fancy. Then they pool the money, and you would supposedly make whatever percentage they were able to profit on their flip. They would even loan you the money - but of course everybody (except maybe that particular audience) knows where that leads.

If you ever wondered how those house flipping shows work behind the scenes, I guess this is how.

It was pretty clear that they flip these houses back and forth, increasing the price every time. The profit is entirely artificial, and eventually there's no way a sale would go through at the asking prices, and you end up losing.

Basically it was a not-very-well obfuscated Ponzi scheme. We didn't even stick around for the free mp3 player.
If you wanted to remove Amazon from the equation, I recommend Kobo. Prices are similar and you can remove the DRM quite easily.
> regardless of me saying I didn’t want to

Why are you making up this story that she couldn't say no? She says she said no.
Yes, I remember using "shelves" a lot. The branch was created for a major refactor of the code base, and the team I was on moved to that branch. Not sure what happened to it. I hated that company and left after a few months.
Absolutely. We do blame wild bears for their actions (we shoot them). We should blame men for their actions (shooting them is likely considered less appropriate in most cases).
accepting everything uncritically and not recognizing when things are actually exploitative and harmful to the people that use them is not wisdom, it's naivety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
At least here in California (and presumably much of the US) the threshold isn't merely intoxication. It's intoxication to the point that someone is incapable of consent. Not impaired judgment or above the legal driving limit, but drunk to the point that they are not even capable of giving a yes/no. If two people are drunk and have sex, evidently at least one of them was capable of consent because they had the capacity to initiate sex.
Sounds a lot more like high/low dopamine to me. Idk how you're getting test levels though.
> As long as you accept it is their right to define that, and not you!

That's not how Islam works. That's how it was able to survive against the torrent of corruption that affected Christianity and Judaism. The Quran and Hadiths are preserved so that we're easily able to consult them to determine who is and isn't a Muslim. Note that this isn't gate keeping, Islam is wide open for anyone to accept. However, the tenants are strict enough to survive the passage of time.

> You can call them a bad Muslim, ignorant, misinformed, misguided etc. But they are what they believe themselves to be.

This already happens. I'm talking about the extremes that the secular West has adopted, whereby people can inherit their parents religion, even if they don't believe in it.
I’m sorry that happened to your family but what do you get out of doing all that. It can’t be more than some sort of satisfaction.
> No, it's based on studies of modern [0] and prehistoric plants. The Carboniferous period for example had CO2 levels comparable to today's and an explosion of coal forming plant growth.

So back then they were "rapidly" sequestering it out of the atmosphere rather than doing their darndest to put it back in the air?

Do we also need to resurrect all those prehistoric plants to help deal with it instead of burning and clearing the tropical rainforests we currently have?

If the Carboniferous is how nature deals with too much CO2 over millions of years, we certainly aren't letting it take the same approach this time.
new-speak
Why would I magically trust two or three randoms when I dont trust one random?
So this has what it's come to huh...
> ex-girlfriends or ex-boyfriends got together and decided to ruin your life with accusations

If all of your exes and close associates hate you enough to coordinate a life ruining operation, then it's quite probable that you were abusive in some capacity.

> Sometimes character assassination is coordinated.

Yes, you are right. But look at the other side too. How else do a group of people with no proof retaliate against an abuser but through character assassination ?
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I know a woman who now works at Google who is from Boston. I had no idea until she told me, as she had no accent at all. She laughed and said "oh only poor idiots have the Boston accent, they actually have to practice to sound like that".

She had a pretty dim view of the Boston accent, and she was from Boston.
Also, kitty, which is a very fast Linux terminal I use all the time.

(not to be confused with the terminal software of the same name that runs in Windows.)
> she is not referring to the events as "rape", so maybe you shouldn't either.

Can you point to where I used that word?
What is it you think I've misunderstood?
Key feature: Maintain browser state while switching machines

> Even if you shutdown or switch to a different computer, your browser will always be on. Exactly how you left it. That means you’ll never lose tabs that remind you of something to do or contain an article you want to read later. You can quickly jump back to work.

I haven't seen that discussed here, but it seems key.

Of course Mighty is not the only way to implement it; if Mighty takes off — or even if it ends up looking like a good idea — watch Chrome natively implement something equivalent.
Just getting a petroleum cracking plant restarted takes days and careful orchestration by an experienced Engineer. How much more complicated is our global shipping network! It seems that everybody randomly turning the dials they can reach is not a good system.