skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Needle exchanges aren't willingly run by heroin manufacturers. It's impossible to believe in harm reduction when it comes from the harm producer.

I'd be much more willing to accept this as harm reduction if Facebook outsourced the task to an independent non-profit... but even that arrangement comes with pro-Facebook biases.
The diff from the last Internet Archive version (May 2nd) to this new version is illegibly massive, basically a complete rewrite even though many of the section headers made it through roughly intact. A lot of references to specific localities and technologies have been stricken. If this is a crisis response, it seems like they rushed out a major new version of the agreement instead of making surgical revisions. ("CM" can mean "crisis management", btw, so may be redundant in the string.)
Perception of time is relative. Not the universe's fault we live like mayflies.
I didn't say it wasn't a problem, but 2010 is always chosen specifically because of Madoff. Madoff also shows why that burglary comparison is meaningless. There is a long tail to civil forfeitures. You can have forfeitures measured in 9 figures and Madoff's is not the only example of this. There are almost never any burglaries of that value. Also burglaries are basically never justified, but sometimes civil forfeitures are justified. Therefore the total money taken is a worthless metric to compare between burglaries and civil forfeitures.

And to reiterate, I agree with you that there needs to be changes to civil forfeiture. I just think we should be honest about the numbers and reasoning we use in that debate.
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I've taken to putting something similar in job postings that require careful attention to detail (right after the section that talks about said need) - 'If you want to get considered, make sure to put the name of a mammal that flies in your subject line. Otherwise I will throw your application in the trash'.

So far? About 1 in 10 to 1 in 15 does it. Tends to be pretty effective actually, helps a lot with weeding out the spam too. Most lead with the 'I would love the opportunity to work with your company' which is clearly just generic spam and they probably didn't even look at the job posting.
That's true i haven't seen him give credit to anyone but himself. We can agree here that he's a master of self promotion.
I don't think it would be that difficult for an Italian speaker to get furniture delivered anywhere in the US.
That is a false choice. It is both.[1]

>Carl J. Shapiro and various related people and entities have agreed to forfeit $625 million to the United States, all of which will be made available to the victims of the fraudulent investment advisory business which was owned and operated by Bernard L. Madoff

[1] - https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newyork/press-releases/201...
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Great interview of an important design thinker!
I mean spellcheck might actually make a lot of sense (if the hooks were appropriate). The interface is mostly set, but the word list and how you figure out if words in the document are correct have a lot of potential variation. Selling the product seems like a lot of work though. Maybe if you could add spell check in a language not included in the box, that would have at least a chance regionally.

But things that are maybe even more potentially useful like math formula editors get really hairy if you want to share documents. Then people viewing the customer's documents might need a special viewer or a licensed copy of the editor if they want to adjust things. It's a big mess.
A few I'm aware of:

https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow $6000/month

https://www.patreon.com/SelkieMyth $6500/month

https://www.patreon.com/Magic_Smithing $10,000/month

https://www.patreon.com/Shirtaloon $17,000/month

https://www.patreon.com/pirateaba 4300 patrons with no $ listed but I've heard it's well over $10,000/month
Incredible. Do you publish under a ghost name?
I said I wanted civil forfeiture reform. However being morally right doesn't justify fudging the numbers. If the number is 50% or 90% lower and that weakens our point, so be it.
I dunno, "we are special and unique" doesn't sound like the simplest possible explanation.
I don't think that's a huge difference. It will still cost you money to get your Word doc into publishable shape (cover and interior design, editing, etc.) And you're still unlikely to make a significant profit on that upfront cost as a self-published author of PoD or eBooks.

As to whether either form of self-publishing 'scam' or not, that depends on the expectations of the author. I think it's always been common to publish just to be published with no expectation of making money, hence the 'vanity'. But I have no data to back that up.
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No such thing as a fish either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwcEvMJz1Y
> A lot of teams still get their points inside the perimeter. Look at Zion Williamson for example.

Yes, but by "inside the perimeter", you mean up-close to the basket. Zion is a great example. Take a look at his shot chart [0]. He doesn't even think about shooting more than a few feet away from the rim.

As I said, at this point, basketball has coalesced around offenses entirely focusing on shots at the rim, or beyond the 3-point line. Anything between there is a wasteland where teams don't even bother shooting anymore, despite Hall of Fame players like Michael Jordan and Karl Malone making those areas of the court a huge part of their game in the 90s. And this doesn't seem like much of a fad. Its a trend that has been becoming increasingly entrenched for nearly 2 decades at this point. The charts on this 538 article are all you need to see why this isn't simply a matter of what's fashionable, and is a simple mathematical reality under the current rules [1].

But I definitely agree with your last point. Basketball has numerous issues currently, of which unequal shot efficiency is only a part.

[0] https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/zion-williamson-shot-chart

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-mapping-shots-in-th...
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Well, he did a decent job ending Wheel of Time which had that problem but much worse, since it was edited by the guy's wife. Unlike RJ, Sanderson actually knows where he's going and tries to get there on schedule.

It was only decent though. I thought he made some very artificial uses of the magic system that didn't seem to fit in the world but just let him keep the series on track. Also, RJ wasn't the best at writing women but Sanderson is a total square and so the romantic/personal relationships were not really there.

Interestingly, the part of his books I liked the most was entirely original (Aviendha's future vision), and the one I thought was the worst written (Tower of Ghenjei) was an attempt to keep an RJ alpha plot that RJ probably would've abandoned.
So both Microsoft and Apple, steamrolled the project with the money they were making by keeping users hostage.
Personally think we were more situationally aware pre mass ownership of smart/feature-rich phones.
The technical term is flocculation, but yes it's ultimately the same process. Cacti just happen to be a very cheap, commercially available source of large amounts of mucilage.
I don't know, I like to gently brush them into a dustpan and dump them back into their anthill.

I can't explain why, but ants are some of my favourite animals.
Not just a specific game, but gaming culture in general, especially for the Gen-Z market, is steeped in microtransactions. I don't have specific citations but Adam Alter's book _Irresistible_ dives into this and other topics related:

https://adamalterauthor.com/irresistible
> In fact, money was widespread and used on a daily basis at all levels of the population.

I don’t know how they came to that conclusion. Cutting scrap in equal weight pieces pointing to use can be argued about. But how does daily use follow from that?
I don't think that's what he's saying. Of course, Joe Small Business Owner is going to care more about new features in Outlook or Excel than about new features in AWS. But I don't think _developers, specifically_ are looking out for the new office extension APIs in the same way they're looking for e.g. improvements to EKS.
From what I read in the proposal the core idea of it is solid. DNS is a vital piece of infrastructure, and we should take steps to ensure it keeps working. Putting together task forces to make sure it is secure therefore sounds like a very good idea.

Root servers might be out of scope to some degree for this however. Interestingly enough the root servers also aren't mentioned in the proposal itself, nor in the annex listing essential services. They're only mentioned in the lead up, which is the argument for why it's needed. It somewhat feels like they left it in accidentally, especially with the parliament immediately amending to scrap it from the lead up as well.
I've had some realizations recently around this. The quality of the software is in my opinion not a huge factor for the success of the company. Look at car companies like Ford, Toyota, VW. Compared to a Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley they are crap, but yet they are still relatively successful companies in their space. Software is sold to managers. How they make their purchasing decisions is the biggest factor, which comes down to how good the salesperson they interact with is, and their decision making framework. Even if you could make a better platform than service now, you still probably couldn't convince the decision maker to use your software instead. Things like how much they trust the company will be around long term, the support offered, the list of "features", personal relationships are usually more important. A company is more than just the overall relative quality of the product.
Brand affinity. Think about how many millennials feel about AOL Instant Messenger.
The expensive lenses are usually big and heavy. If you don't need that degree of sharpness, then it's potentially a worse tool than a lighter (and cheaper) lens.

>So why wouldn't they be called "hobbyist photographers" like the rest of us?

I feel like I explained my thoughts on that in my previous comment. Basically if you're in it for the love of the gear rather than to make photographs that's fine, but your hobby is collecting rather than photography. Or, to put it another way, photography gear rather than photo-making.

>why does it have any importance whatsoever?

Sometimes the photo-makers get annoyed at being lumped in with the gear collectors. And a fair number of people get taken in reading the gearhead commentary and end up buying expensive lenses that won't actually help that person take better photos.
> And the fact that the evidence doesn't exist is being cited as an argument that it must exist because of asserted suppression.

No, its not "the fact that it doesn't exist" that lends credence to existence. The incentives involved for everyone who ostensibly would look for its existence align to have them look the other way. Given other circumstantial evidence, that is suspicious!

> Seriously: it doesn't surprise you that the same folks that were so into Q a few months back are suddenly all aflutter with this omg-Fauci-created-covid nonsense?

As near as I can tell, your argument here is: create a crazy conspiracy theory, attribute it to Rogin, point to the conspiracy theory as proof that Rogin is crazy. No one in this thread nor Rogin have claimed that Fauci literally created the corona virus. The claims are 1. Fuaci is a proponent of research that Obama shut down because its of little value and dangerous, 2. a lab in china with shit opsec was doing the same research on corona viruses which happened to be where the outbreak started, 3. Fauci re-instituted the research program under Trump without input from the Trump administration.
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Much more enforceable than you'd think, since trade treaties don't allow countries to widely violate licenses. Not to mention that products can't be shipped from rogue countries to the rest of the world with such software, say an embedded OS. What doesn't have a chip in it, now?
That happens on /r/books too. They're also obsessed with Stephen King, so I've just assumed Sanderson is also an airport novel writer.
Self storage is used for swapping drug shipments as well. The proprietors know what is going on.
Unlike movies/TV shows, books tend to 'age' relatively slowly. Many books that were written 30 years ago are still immensely enjoyable today. Not only that, but there are a literal ton of books out there that have been read by hundreds of thousands of people and reviewed extensively.

I have found my personal enjoyment of a book to be loosely correlated with the goodreads / B&N scores. This gives me at least some signal with which to choose a new book. So why should I, as a reader, try out a new author / book that hasn't been read by anyone else? I'm sure there are a few jewels out there, but I'm sure there are even more duds. Reading a book takes time, and I don't want to waste my time / money on random selections of books.
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Arguably, not allowing children to use Facebook products is easier than keeping keeping heroin addicts from consuming heroin. Also, I doubt needle exchanges actually motivate anyone to start taking heroin whereas getting children to use Facebook products is obviously Facebook's aim here.
First of all, I praise the initiative and the explanation. But not everybody tweets. Is there an email address to send that message to?
It’s easy to forget this if you work in tech, but there are many, many enterprises still stuck with spreadsheets and legacy software even worse than ServiceNow.

Think about regional banks, governments, utilities, oil & gas, manufacturers, field engineering services, healthcare systems, ... These aren’t exactly customers who can just use Slack instead.
It's possible that both of these are true.

To be clear, when I say quality, I don't just mean this in the narrow sense of following the rules that writing teachers say you should. Harry Potter and Twilight both became popular because of some essence that they had---in my opinion, probably related to the world building and a certain difficult-to-describe experience of reading. Both of those books had "flaws" that were widely criticized. But they really hit home with their respective audiences.

Why did the first Harry Potter succeed, before J.K. Rowling had made a name for herself? In my opinion, it's because readers loved it so much that they went out and told their friends to read it. That's what I'm talking about when I mean quality---the irresistible quality that makes me fall in love with everything the author is doing.

Most books I see, even traditionally published ones, just don't have that.
In practice they are quite similar in errors reported. There are differences that pop up but most of the time either it is bug to report or one has implemented a certain pep faster than another. A few rare things are extra type checking support entirely like pyright supports recursive types but mypy does not (or pyre has best tensor related support but those are future peps). Mypy's biggest unique thing is plugin support and some very dynamic libraries use plugins for better coverage. The differences should become peps if important enough and then eventually be supported by all 4.

I think for most people any of the 4 big ones is fine. Most of the common type errors will look identical regardless of which you pick. Configuring multiple in CI is pretty straightforward if you want to go full. My current codebase has mypy + pyright configured. Pyright was a mix of fast response time on github issues + I use vscode and was the one that added type checks to CI.

If you want a deep dive pycon is this week I think and there's a day for type checking related talks including one talk comparing the 4. I think type checking day is thursday.
Cycling will be rate limited by the speed of the polymerase involved in the reaction. Short sequences are usually fairly quick regardless, but the extension period is still measured in seconds per kilobase.

Also, some primers really do not cooperate at fast cycle speeds. PCR is really quirky even in optimized conditions.
It's kind of insane how many documents the armed forces put out like this. Hundreds upon hundreds of pages dedicated to one topic or another. Everything broken down into a template or series of steps, often with little mnemonic devices to help you remember things. Everything standardized and given official nomenclature.

Want to know what an infantry platoon and squad does? Here's 826 pages: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ATP%203... .

What about an infantry company? Here's 618 pages: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN8519... .

And those just cover the basics of organization, movement, attack, and defense. Want to know how to call in artillery support? Here's 256 pages: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN2193... .

92 pages on military deception: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN15310-FM_3-1... .

192 pages on recognizing aircraft by sight: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3274... .

146 pages on "Army Ceremonial Music Performance":https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3102... .

There's just a ton out there if you want to dig around: https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/TC.aspx .
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Seriously, whatever happened to being an expert on a certain domain of knowledge? This sounds like a disgusting startup-esque approach to writing a book.
You're right, from everything I've read, but there are two other interesting data points:

(1) The idea of the "midlist novel" or "paperback original" basically disappeared for a couple decades -- these are the old mass market paperbacks that you used to see all the time, about 4.25" by 7", that you almost never see anymore. (So, there was a kind of discounting: softcover books were a lot cheaper, even when adjusted for inflation.) There were authors who made a good living pumping out these midlist books at the rate of one or even two a year. The self-publishing boom has brought this back to a degree as ebook originals, although I've talked to more than a few ebook-first indie authors who insist they need to get out four or more books a year to make a living, so it's arguably harder for most. And of course that "most" is "most of those who manage to make a living that way," which is, well, not actually most!

(2) Short story rates used to be much, much higher than they are now when adjusted for inflation, to the point where there were people who made a successful living selling primarily -- or even exclusively! -- short fiction. I've never been able to get a good read, pun intended, on what happened here, other than a nebulous sense that readers' tastes just changed over the years (the "fewer other demands on attention" you mention was likely a big part of that), and those markets became less viable.
Bonus points for telling a male child that males are inherently untrustworthy.
Seems right for a used Civic in good working condition. And it will get you wherever the beautiful shots are without giving trouble.
At least Robert Jordan could write dialogue and inter-personal relationships that don't stink of middle school.
See also: history, evolution of the state. The system we live in has self-preservation as it's main interest and it's absolutely terrified of dying.
Okay, that happened when the flashbang fell inside the baby's crib. Yes, dramatic. Bad. Ugly. Horrible. Waco fires could also have been started by flashbangs because of the plentiful carpets. But these devices provide a buffer for reaction times.

If all else fails, the officer has to explain in detail why he shot an unarmed man holding his eyes in pain, "in the heat of the moment".
But if you're already growing enough to survive on, the marginal effort to grow a whole lot more than that is not so big. And you probably already grow more than you need anyway, so that you don't starve in bad years. Seems to be that even subsistence agriculture will inevitably provoke some sort of economy, as long as other people are around.
That would be a privacy violation under GDPR :)
> I'm guessing they sell the data also.

This doesn't seem like a good thing, sorry, especially if they aren't upfront about it.

Also, isn't there a solid chance this is against the TOS of at least some of these platforms? (Not that that is in itself a reason this shouldn't be allowed, but users ought to know if giving somebody else access is going to run them a risk of getting banned.)
I am a parent. I am also a technologist. I agree with that the landscape of the technology has changed drastically since I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

I don’t think I can convey to my kids the wonder of the 80s and 90s, when people were able to get a personal, general purpose computing. It was not just that every month, something new came along. There was a wide diversity of software, even among the same kind of software. People tried to write their own. Although more difficult to use, users also had a lot more power over their computing environment.

The computing landscape we have now:

- we deliberately created computing appliances in which the design of the app are driven by A/B testing, growth hacks, and dark patterns

- being able to talk with your affinity group used to mean not feeling as alone. Now, it means those are the only viewpoints you see, with algorithms feeding your view point back to you. The ancient Greek had a cautionary tale about that, called Narcissus and Echo.

- My wife is a beneficiary of online “mom” groups, and it was through there, we learned about current toys and interactions on developmental psychology. We got a Lovevry subscription, and learned about the “mental leaps”. Yet, those very things show how kids learn through interacting with objects, building neural connections in 3-d, learning through touch, smell, taste, kinesthetic and not just through sight and sound. The Montesorri method of education lets the kids choose what they are interested, but the environment is thoughtfully curated and constructed, and there is direct attention from an adult.

Algorithms are no substitute for parenting.

I first heard that from Neal Stephenson’s _Diamond Age_, but seeing how the tech landscape is now, and having a kid, that is more incisive than it had been when I first read it.
Yes, several. Each pen name has their own "personality" and focuses on different aspects.
Most of computing’s carbon emissions are coming from manufacturing and infra