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The Economist is one of the least biased sources of news, that routinely publishes letters, opeds and articles contradicting the sated editorial agenda.
Very few other news sources actually do that.

They're not perfect, but it sure beats NYT.

If you want the optimal news coverage without needing to read a million sources - The Economist, Financial Times, WSJ and The Guardian.
just watch C-SPAN and cut out the crap; then compare coverage of the same speech or event or whatever. All of the media will pick out single words from an hours-long talk and invent their own context, ignoring the rest of the hour
> The point is there's always this scaremongering about tax rates when it comes to Europe, and most of the time the tax rates that comes up are marginal rates that are not at all representative.

As an American, I find the tax rates much less scary than the raw differences in salary. If I could keep my US salary, healthcare, tax rates, etc and move to Europe for a few years, I would do so in a heartbeat.
You know the Chinese successfully built and run 2 EPRs already, right?
In C and C++, "main" is special. Too special. For historical reasons, its argument and return types are not checked.

I once argued on the C standard forum that a C compiler should not know about "main". "#include <unix.h>" should contain the usual Unix declaration for "main", and "#include <windows.h>" should contain the Windows declaration, which at the time was, roughly:

int WINAPI wWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PWSTR pCmdLine, int nCmdShow);

It's then up to the user to define their startup function to match, with normal type checking.

This gets the compiler out of handling "main" as a special case.

This was generally considered to be the right answer, but would break too much existing code.
didn't say no bias, but rather without significant bias. instead, we have the narrative peddled about how inclusive and diverse hollywood is, when the stats speak for themselves.

this narrative is one facet of one echo chamber, tying back to the original article.
3 months, no they haven't and I've spoken to the owner of the company since then. They aren't worried about it at all as far as I can tell.
It also doesn't help that it takes forever to get it, at least in CA. There is no one you can call at the EDD, it is so ironic that the unemployment office needs to hire more in the richest state in the richest nation on earth. It took someone I knew two months to get their EDD debit card. Bills don't stop just because you lose your job.
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Wow, this is reminding me of Microsoft's videos on how to throw a launch party to celebrate a new version of Windows.

https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ
I mean I did have a good chuckle at your story but... I gotta ask, what are the actual useful applications for what you are building?

I have to step back from a ton of opportunities (Like I said, Clearview AI rang some alarm bells) because it wasn't the right thing to do. Some guy yesterday tried to rope me into one of those land banking scams and I actually sent him goatse and told him to delete my number, that's how far I want people with less than good ideas around me. Can't even pay me enough to violate my principles.
> Okay... Gmail is also the whole program?

It's hosted in a browser. It gets things like HTML rendering "for free".

> Huh? You can do that in a single page in gmail, too.

I've never seen that and just tried to figure out how to do it just to see what it did to memory use. Couldn't. Did end up sitting around 680MB of memory (spiked to 800MB) looking at the same email thread I have open in Apple Mail, which, notably, doesn't exhibit those crazy memory-use spikes every time I click on anything.

[EDIT] What I'm talking about is a fairly typical email client 3-column layout, with folders and such in one column, the current mailbox or folder loaded in another (these two columns together are like the default layout when you first load Gmail), and an email thread in the remaining column, all open at once. I've never seen that in Gmail, and with both ~1min of poking around their interface and ~1min of Googling, couldn't figure out how to get that. I can get columns 1 & 2, or 1 & 3. Not 1, 2, and 3 all at once.

> So has everything else. I used to use Chrome because it was less resource-intensive than Firefox (back in Chrome's early days, and circa Firefox 3.5)

Same. FF went way downhill in a hurry after the 2.x days.
But at a fundamental level, why do Discord and Clubhouse need to verify my identity?

I don't think the question GP is asking is whether or not Stripe is a good way to confirm someone's real-life identity, or whether it would be better for the government to do it. I think what they're asking why we're doing identity verification for chat applications. Is this a good direction overall for the Internet to be moving in?

I don't like the idea that I should have one real-life identity that every service I sign up for online knows, even trivial services like social networks. I would argue a world like that is abridging on people's Right to Hide (https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-hide)
Risk taking is only a problem if it demands resources that would starve other known-good projects.

Sometimes even that doesn't make it a problem, because the company may decided top-to-bottom that New Project X is a good idea, even when it's extremely risky.

This can create spectacular success when it works and catastrophic failure when it doesn't. Either way, this kind of strategic risk should go through the C-suite.

Smaller tactical projects are what Fridays are for. Throw some nominal resources at engineers, give them some free time, and see what happens. If they can produce a working proof of concept - not just a cloud of PowerPoint and meetings - you may have something to run with.
Why was your target so low?
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> It would be ridiculous to, for example, require that all trans people possess in-depth knowledge of TERF arguments against the validity of their identity

Is it though? If you want to convince someone of something, you have to understand the opposing viewpoints well. Many rational viewpoints labeled TERF don't "infringe on the validity of [trans people's] identity." For example, trans women competing against women in sports. You wouldn't convince anyone by straw manning one side by saying that people who oppose trans women competing against women are all simply transphobic; you would say that they believe that trans women have a physical advantage over non-trans women in sports.
kinda lame tbh
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If not further specified, the topology is induced by the metric or norm of the space to be considered.
Tempered distributions are used in Subsection 3.1, resulting from the observation that the Fourier transform of a shallow neural network involves a Dirac delta.

Some mathematical concepts are needed in order to present rigorous results. While one can argue about the necessity and relevance of these results for real-world applications, they at least explain various aspects of deep learning in restricted settings, leading to a better general understanding and intuition.
There are many. httpss://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/politics/donald-trump-economy-trade-gdp-growth-credit/index.html
Please no.

If we need to use our identity online for Age Vertification, then why doesn't the government step in with an anonymous service for that?

That - and - sites should have to get some kind of basic regulatory approval for asking for id.

And then liable if they leak the data.
More on the Energiewende fiasco: https://www.bundesrechnungshof.de/en/audit-reports/products/...
You do realize that people that manage the subscriptions aren't the same that write the content, right?
That's not my point , here my point is very clear and straightforward.

Some people at Discord now have access at the pictures of my Passport that I uploaded during the verification process because they use "Stripe Identity".

The FAQ is very clear , Stripe give you full access to those documents. It should NEVER do so.

Now the very smart people have Discord have access to my passport they can now take a 50K Loan using my documents and face-check video , social security and some fake income documents.

They can also destroy my entire life because I maintain a political blog with views they don't really like that they consider "hate speech". These are exaggerated examples , but you get the idea.

I'm concerned by this , because more and more startups are going to use it to increase the value of their userbase to reduce fraud and look more attractive for their planned exit.

In the meantime, people having access to my personal documents is going to go exponential...

Again , I'm an Architect in Banking we have 500+ Partners selling Loan for us , they have NEVER access to your documents / personal data. They can only tell if the document has been approved , income range and some basic information. You don't know what they are going to do those sensitive documents / info , even if you have contractual agreement with them.

Banking industry has had a very simple rule that everyone has been following for decade : DON'T TRUST THIRD PARTY. Stripe has decided to do otherwise I guess and I'm pretty scared about it.

Stripe Identity seems like Identity Theft as a Service.
Or just fork it. Obtuse developers getting their projects forked out of their control is a tale as old as FOSS
What do you mean "base"? Why so specifoc for only one part portion of your comp?
How would they even know to ask upstream for support, rather than the fork? If you use package bar and have a problem, you would have to do a lot of digging to even find original progject foo and ask them for help (which wouldn't even make sense since it's a separate thing)
Eh...for single-threaded processing, I'd say Moore's Law is dead and has been dead for more than a couple CPU generations now.

What we're seeing now is massive parallelism, which means if your task is embarrassingly parallel, then Moore's Law is very much alive and well. Otherwise, no.
Reminds me of that South Park episode where Cartman buys an amusement park to play in all for himself, realizes he needs to pay staff, slowly begins to bring people into the amusement park in order to pay for upkeep, and is afterwards hailed as an economic genius as though all his actions were planned.
IIRC the pagan origins of Christian holidays and symbols have their roots in making conversion more palatable for conquered Roman subjects. Christmas and Easter replace the solstice celebrations, the Christmas tree came from placing evergreen sprigs in the home during winter and the rabbit is a fertility thing.
> The idea of going public is to raise another round of financing for the company while being able to get liquidity for private shareholders. It is not necessarily to create value going forward.

Perhaps the company doesn't necessarily intend to create value going forward, but they must at least pretend to have that intention. What I meant was that the idea of the people buying public stock in a company is that the company will create value going forward.
Kids who are taught less formal maths end up doing better at questions that have extra information to throw you off.

The distance from Boston to Portland by water is 120 miles. Three steamers leave Boston, simultaneously, for Portland. One makes the trip in 10 hours, one in 12, and one in 15. How long will it be before all 3 reach Portland?

So 15 hours. People who learn more plain arithmetic maths assume that the 120 miles and the fact that all the figures divide into it exactly must be significant, and try to do calculations when none are needed.
Yes, I agree. I missed this part, thanks for pointing this out!
> at what "middle class" actually is in the US.

I think it is deeper than that, the country just has a confused relationship with the entire concept of class by both rejecting and embracing it.
True. We actually didn't thought about this, but some of our client we try to sell the dressing room ask us to make photoshoots since it's more urgent. So now we are doing that too haha. How large do you think the total addressable market is for this?
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Do I need to understand why someone supports flat earth theory to be able to argue that it's scientifically invalid? Why is it up to me to figure out how they got deluded?
While this seems like a great claim, it could be more compelling if I could read the supporting argument behind it.
Some manufacturer will try to do that once self-driving cars become a reality.

"I can take you to Wal-Mart... that's a sponsored destination. But Target will require a $2.00 fee, or you'll have to self-drive. Note: Your insurance rate will also increase."
Every election in UK the last few years labour say they will electrify the rest of our railways, the Tories say they will too.
The Tories get in and then don't do it.
Though the war ended before the Thompson was in production, this was absolutely the intended use. Similar to the BAR, it would later see service in a world war much different than the one it was designed for.
Is Product Owner a job?
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Mitt Romney shows up in all kinds of tv shows on fox news
https://klim.co.nz/about/:

> Our foundational ethos is “a thing well made”.

I see what you did there.
This is not true. Home-assistant does not pull the latest version of packages (for integrations) from pypi. They are tracked in manifest files: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/ae28e4934f6d1cdb...
> It sounds like Home Assistant by default pulls the latest version of the package from PyPI at runtime and loads it dynamically.

Package versions are recorded in component manifests so it will not default to the latest version, someone has to make a code change and PR on homeassistant to update the version. And they are collected in a requirements file for every HA release[0]. So it should not be hard to automate that if needed whenever the HA Nix package gets updated to ensure the latest used version of ambee package is included.

[0] https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/requirements...
This is upside down.

Ideas down stay consistent through the funnel - they are mixed with other ideas and formed into something else unrecognizable by the time they hit the bottom.

You just described Minecraft as being a brilliant idea, not a bad one.
Ask HN: How do I report police harassment? Going on for two years now
Here is what I have experienced for two years now.

https://pastebin.com/rw3vdD6x

Every single day they will show up to my job or drive past my home with sirens. This is a crime against humanity and I want them exposed.

This is happening in Basalt, CO. But the harassment has occurred in Aspen, CO and other locations as well.
I just lost the game.
Who is “we”? Maybe the people operating the chat app have determined that it is in their businesses’ best interest to verify identity. I can certainly see it reducing costs for the business.

I am not suggesting all businesses be required to do it. But I do not see why businesses should be prohibited from doing it. If you do not want an identity linked service, then buy a website name, and start a business and do not require people to identify.
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> The Chrome team set out to build a better browser and even open sourced the core, Chromium.

I think that rewrites history a bit. They started with a Free Software browser - Konqueror/KHTML - and were required to release changes under a compatible license.

We should be thankful that Konqueror/KHTML was released under a Free Software license, rather than a permissive open source license that would have allowed Google to deny us the rights that they had been granted by their upstream.
> Imagine saying that it's important to be able to make an impassioned argument for slavery?

But that’s a straw man. Did the virus come from a lab or not isn’t a “slavery” argument. Should taxes be lower or higher also isn’t a slavery argument. Are there election irregularities also isn’t a slavery argument.

These are all issues that, stating opposing facts or even conclusions that differ from the Facebook-Twitter “Approved Truth,” will get you banned.

Even questioning Covid vaccine safety, or even linking to mainstream news about safety concerns will get you a “missing context” label or outright banned. We aren’t allow to even hint that the vaccine could be dangerous (when compared to other vaccines.)

So yes, there are often two or more sides that have a legitimate value in being heard.

When was the last time we had mainline publications or socials or even scientific journals shutting down debate on scientific research? It’s insane. There have even been instances of papers that didn’t support the Fauci views being obfuscated or removed from search results. Or other instances of statistical election anomalies being ignored by people that would normally be very interested in such things. And none of those things are the equivalent of “the other side of the slavery argument.”

Look at how the left has treated Glen Greenwald, a journalist that has earned some credibility with his Snowden reporting. Yet, when he points out some of the nonsense parading as “fact,” he gets accused of being some kind of right wing shill. If Glen is being accused of being “right wing,” then something has gone really wrong. Even Bill Maher is speaking out about the lunacy.

Is the vaccine safe? Did Covid come from a Chinese lab funded by Fauci? Were there unexplained statistical anomalies in the election?

Those are all topics that deserve hearing “both sides.” It would seem like shutting down debate is indicative of an agenda as opposed to a commitment to truth. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
In the US most restaurants close on Christmas, with Chinese and other Asian restaurants often being the only ones open. So if you want to go out to a restaurant to celebrate there usually isn't much choice.

I'm sure if more restaurants were open people would be celebrating at all sorts of other restaurants as well.
The obstacle to that method was that someone had to go over the top, cross several yards of ground, and then look down into the next straight section of trench. If there was someone waiting with a MG or a rifle, Mr. Brave got shot and then everyone had a casualty in the open to deal with plus Jerry around the corner.
I was listening to all of The Economist's podcasts on Spotify until recently. I found their bias grew and grew over time until it was just too annoying to listen. I think they realized their target market was yuppie (lean strongly left) and made the (correct) business decision to cater to them exclusively.
The Economist doesn't hide their ideology and advocacy.

Unlike many "well renowned sources" (ahem... NYT)
They showed a man to a dolphin a recorded a sound the dolphin produced shortly after. Then they connected the recording to a high quality analog oscillator with a small water container on top and took a picture of the water surface. After some deblurring, they've got pretty accurate contour of that man.
https://archive.is/Vyhuq
> Spanish allied with the Aztecs to eliminate groups that didn’t have human sacrifice

As far as I can recall the Spanish did not ally with the Aztecs but conquered the leading faction of the Aztecs through an alliance with rival factions and effects of smallpox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Empire
ohh so random that this was you!!, i've been following the roger user for a long time
That's exactly what came to my mind too. I think the sqlite folks have similar struggles.
Here's the thread NixOS posted to the Home Assistant forums, "Consider to avoid adding library dependencies from frenck."

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi...
Of course Islamic countries can be fairly theocratic. India was liberal pre-2014. Now all parties feel compelled to sport some form of Hindutva-lite.

But you are fooling yourself if you think India is liberal or secular today. How many Muslim majority countries will you find where lynching is commonplace and a terror accused is specially picked as a candidate, because the act of terror was a blast in a mosque. Outside Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia this will be a hard sell.

The concerns around Modi or Erdogan is the change from a secular state to a. theocratic state.
If that's the case then it's no longer FOSS.
I think most of the car manufacturers are starting to roll out automatic lane centering for the highway in the most recent models of cars.

Also see Comma's Openpilot for adding automatic lane centering to a recent 3-4 year old car from Honda, Hyundai, Toyota and others.
That's speculative on his part (noone has opened any issues with him, neither coming from nixos nor from any other repackaging).

The nixos guys also offered various proposals to him to completely avoid any support burden on his part, all of which he roundly rejected.

Seems he's just being unreasonable for the sake of it tbh; I can't see any logical reasoning behind it all.
It's interesting since from https://github.com/sponsors/frenck#sponsors he pitches:

> Are you enjoying my work? And want to support me in my effort helping the world to become a better place by dedicating my time & knowledge to create & innovate open source software solutions. Allowing everybody on this earth the privilege to enjoy those things for free?
ok so this is odd...

after looking into it further, it shows up as black text on desktop but white text on mobile for some reason ?...
What would be the opposite of MSNBC? Or the NYTimes for that matter?
I’m no expert, but I’m fairly sure that Frenk’s license has to be compatible with home assistance’s license for it to be included. If home assistance has a normal OSS license, I doubt it can use a dependency with a very restrictive license. (Such as one with a list of what can use it!) In other words, I don’t think it’s possible form him to transitively make home assistant’s license more restrictive.
Interesting use of <details> to show the results of a computation. I missed the explanation in the beginning that said the results were precomputed. I thought clicking it was running. Format-wise since it's not actually running when clicked, I'm not sure hiding the result behind <details> is much clearer than just including the result as displayed by the REPL in the same snippet.
When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death
Feel free to add any type of fitness routines!
I thought Black Panther's portrayal of Wakanda was pretty accurate...
> People new to the GNOME community often have a hard time understanding how we set goals, make decisions, assume responsibility, prioritize tasks, and so on. In short: They wonder where the power is.

no they do not.. It's very clear where the power is when you open up an issue on the projects gitlab to report a bug or something that isn't working correctly and you receive a snarky response from somebody who's representing the gnome foundation project.
They're not.

To the point that they had a whole issue dedicated to the death of modern conservativism and how their editorial policy is classic liberal.