skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the space shuttle o-ring, I at first thought this was announcing 737MAX crashes. That new Boeing design to fit the larger engines should have a new type certification, instead of software which creates a pretend appearance of older 737s.
what is so bad about workers taking a 4 day weekend?
I understand your point. The reality is that no solution will ever be perfect, be it an off the shelf SaaS or my homebrew no-code build.

There are a few things here which help us;

- Airtable has all the integrations a human being could ever need. Our stack is Airtable + Stripe + Zapier + Wordpress + ActiveCampaign.

- General awareness of the concept of UX. You need a product owner who fiercely defends the product. And .. you need a company culture which treats employee satisfaction as something that actually matters. I know that these things not common.

- I have no viable alternative. SaaS companies in the tour & activity space struggle to make money and struggle to invest in their product.

- A community of contractors. Airtable has a large community of able freelancers and contractors who can come help us out, if needed.
Florida data manager/whistleblower Rebekah Jones' claims get a boost
Ask your lawyer if it's wise to keep the letter stored in a drawer until they want to go public. There is chance that they will flop before that, but also a chance that they will be more "friendly" to make the due diligence happy.
What filesystem on Linux? Show us some benchmarks on other filesystems.
There are an infinite number of facts. There always is a decision made about which particular facts to include and how to frame them. One can’t simply “report the facts”.

That being said, with difficulty, journalists can make an effort to minimize the amount of “story-telling” that occurs in a news article. I appreciate that the AP seems to be better about this than many other sources.
Apple has Juneteenth off now, and did so before this announcement.
"Economists Have Predicted Nine Out Of The Last Five Recessions"
A tool I've experimenting with a lot recently is https://www.plasmic.app/

It outputs React code as well. But the approach is more similar to Figma. You can create components with variants etc.

It can automatically sync changes to your local repo or create a pull request on GitHub.
No it wasn't. Thomas Jefferson said he hoped the United States wouldn't be without a revolution like Shay's Rebellion every 20 years, but in the context of the letter in which he made that quote, he certainly didn't consider such an event to be legitimate. He was speaking to the spirit of revolution in the American people, not the intended design of the government.

If the American system were actually intended to operate as you describe, that intent would have been put into the Constitution.
Companies I've worked at always had a few "floating holidays". This is so that you can take these on a day they are meaningful to you.

So one way companies will not give any more time off is by just saying "feel free to use one of your floating holidays on Juneteenth".
> Why does the national conversation revolves around issues stemming from race?

Liberals had the bright idea to burn the world when out of power, as they always do.

How about we teach:

- The Marxist bioweapon which just committed one of the worse acts of mass murder in history.

- The ever doubling murder rate.

- The lawless hell hole which is now your home.

- The junkies you will be taking care of the rest of your life.

- The people who made trillions off of those awful acts, and now slam the door shut on your future.

Oh! We're talking race.

okay:

- More people live in far worst slavery today than anytime in human history. Drugs, prostitution, cheap consumer goods and electronics, all advocated on behalf by liberals and their moral relativism.

- If you are a minority in the USA today, odds are it's because of air travel and illegal immigration, which is a serious crime. It's not reciprocal. I leave home to make others rich, not myself. I'm murdered. And illegal immigration worsens awful smuggling. Immigrants had a choice to come here. The people here for whatever reason don't. Perhaps, you're the weak one from running from your problems.

- The original slave trade started in response to horrific African barbarity. There was zero influence from ancient cultures dating to Mesopotamia, the start of civilization itself which resulted in apathetic mass murder, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and torture.

- The US was and is still very much frontier. Sensationalism and yellow journalism whips people up. The world burns. Millions die. And a few people who look like you and me show their true monstrous nature. People who don't fight, yet someone tell everyone who are fighting what to do all the time. Throw the animals food far far away from you, and leave. Things like railroads, the oil industry, banks, and the electrical grid, big media and big tech. If you let yourself be grinded up for a dollar, trust me, someone is going to cash your hide in.
Don't think anyone expressed "anger" so I'm not sure why you had the knee jerk reaction to assume that.
He did. The state discouraged prescribing it.

I wasn’t seeking “drug seeking”, I was seeking the only medical intervention that I’ve found that ameliorates a diagnosed condition.

You really equate that with someone looking to get high?
Mattress sales
I didn't know all that. But it looks like it changed from a symbol of terror to a symbol of suicide in the subsequent decades. Resurrecting its old meaning still seems to be a modern invention created as a reason to be offended by dredging up the past.
They are paid more, because the US is a much more expensive place to live (at least in California).
I bought a reMarkable 2 after being on the waiting list, and returned it a couple of weeks later. I just couldn't deal with the latency.
IntelliJ lets you expand links from patterns, so if in our codebase there's a BUGREPORT-12345 link, it's blue and clickable and goes to jira.
Those other federal holidays are not in November?
Your comment is making me want to puke.
>I asked mainly because the KGB seems to have functioned a bit like a shadow government and operated with a high degree of autonomy, another commenter mentions that Putin himself is ex-KGB.

Putin is KGB, yes, but he was only able to get power after the KGB dissolved, did he not? The KGB attempted to influence Soviet policy, but they were largely unsuccessful, which is why both times they had to use force and failed. From all the declassified documents since the fall of the USSR I can't see any evidence of control of the rest of the CPSU from the KGB.

>There was an executive order signed banning political assassinations, and all evidence suggests that there were significant changes after their accountability was made clear.

Banning political assassinations is a good look, but we both know that's not going to do much at all.

>[citation needed]

>I have no particular affinity for the CIA. I am particularly disgusted by COINTELPRO, regime change efforts, and CIA’s use of torture during the Iraq war. I think it would make a lot of sense to split the covert operations and intelligence-gathering parts of the organization, but these reforms do not interest most politicians.

Well, we know that the IC still got involved into domestic politics. The FBI for example surveilled leadership of BLM in 2014 and later, and leaked documents from 2017 showed that the FBI targeted organizations based on ideology even if they were not engaging or planning to engage in anything remotely criminal, nowadays using the excuse of left-wing domestic terrorists to do so [https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/terrorism-fbi-political-...] [https://theintercept.com/2018/03/19/black-lives-matter-fbi-s...]

Many European intelligence agencies are as bad or even worse than the CIA, agreed. I was talking about the specific example of France, which still is not perfect, but is much better.
The emphasis here is on need, not that's a nice gesture
"policymakers' hearty appetite to rein in Big Tech".

Rein them in from doing what exactly? Buying companies and making people rich?
First attempt and what a big result
http://www.5z8.info/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion.doc_z6n2...
Service workers still have to work on national holidays.
If you turn "showdead" on in the user settings then you can.
SpeechBrain: A PyTorch Speech Toolkit
Falsehoods programmers believe about time: dates of birth are immutable. /s
A high fever.

The difference is quite significant and a doctor should know the difference.

I was 40 the first (and only) time I caught flu. I went to the doctor. I don't go to the doctor for a bad cold.

Maybe there are light flus. I don't know - but I don't want the real thing again.
I'm afraid that this is the same in the US.
They probably aren't in their hometown to vote if they take a 4 day weekend.
Cold with secondary bacterial infection? Or just a bad cold, potentially; there’s a lot of variation.
I would support ratifying article in the first. The only amendment of the original 12 that hasn't been ratified.

One representative for every 50k citizens. Clearly the building isnt big enough to hold all those representatives. Force them to work remote and live near their people.
But how is it unanimous? It literally is whoever was there (which is not all senators) and they did not actively approve of the motion (just didn't disapprove).

I realise this is semantics but it seemed strange to me.
Withholding the description reasonable if it is so vague as to be useless. "Black male, 18-35" is not useful or actionable information.

If it's a more detailed description, and the shooter was still at large, then I agree with you.
Why not? Slavery seems completely reasonable as a punishment. Many people choose it as an alternate to non-slave prison sentences. ("Community Service.")

It's the brutality and the length of sentence that may make it bad.
I don't think it's bad but if the purpose is to get people to vote but a lot of people are out vacationing in Yosemite then it defeats the purpose.
Taking a 4-day vacation somewhere that doesn't have polling booths.
I remember putting these on my geocities page not really knowing what they were just to look cool.
Couple makes $3k a month selling trash [video]
No. Make early voting widely available and mail ballots available to anyone who requests one. Stop thinking of elections as a single day. That’ll be much healthier for democracy.
Inspired by many of the amazing new-wave Unix tools that have come about over the past several years (fzf, ripgrep, fd, lsd, etc.), I set out to create a more modern and performant version of the classic Unix cp command. Written in Rust due to the excellent ergonomics and performance characteristics of the language, fcp copies large files and directories in a fraction of the time that cp does.

Feel free to ask me any questions about the project!
It generally doesn’t go well for anyone who tries to do something about it.
Being someone in their 40's, it's hard to watch so many people of my younger years have resulting physical injuries. Like many others my age, all those crashes and endless skating has a toll on our knees plus other joints. I hope Knoxville stays active, I've been enjoying Steve-O's short Youtube stories even if he's slowing down in terms of crazy stunts.
What's happening during Thanksgiving and Christmas? A lot of travel, which I suspect is about the only reason some stores like Costco are closed, not that they're necessarily just being nice to employees but because a lot of their employees are going to be out of town and people would definitely shop there on those days if they could.
>> Any thoughts/recommendations on how to get started in the software development side of things coming from a mechanical engineering background?

That's an interesting question. I know a guy who was (is) an ME. He worked in the auto industry calibrating ABS and traction control systems. That's an area where torques/forces/dynamics are required, but no real software background. He would either come up with new ideas, or try to track down bugs in the algorithms - he had access to the code since we were all at the same company. He moved on to fixing problems (the software team had a lot of things to do so weren't as responsive as he wanted?) and even implementing features. When I met him he was a solid embedded software engineer and I was a bit surprised to hear his path to get there.

So I guess find some niche that has overlap between what you know and what you want to do. Then gradually leverage that as you improve (and prove to others) your capability in the "other" area. How you find that overlap is up to you. For one guy it meant calibrating stability control systems was the start.

I've come to think the most flexible place to branch out from is product testing or manufacturing. You can learn a lot about a lot of different aspects of things there. Just don't let yourself stagnate.
I agree that a leaked SSID is less worrisome than leaked addresses, but the problem is that this list takes an nearly useless information and makes it a vital part which can basically locate someone down to the street address. And most people are absolutely unaware of how dangerous sharing an SSID is, assuming they try not be found (see: streamers, pop-stars or simply people which do not like to associate their actual name with their alias, unlike the two of us). For them it would feel like if I would tell you the color of my shoes and you'd find my address - it's simply not something you have in your mind.

It's not the end of the world, yes, sure. But it's not great either.

It's a sidenote, but the blow-up point of this is that it's one of the very few data privacy points for which you can directly show the impact. Usually, you have to go with abstract "if your data is leaked" or "someone at XCorp could ...", but in this case, if I can find your SSID I can send you your address, no further questions asked. And everyone knows people who know their SSID and/or can easily imagine this scenario. I'm pretty sure that's why this exact list is blowing up so much more than the far more egregious privacy violations we otherwise see.
Great, not I have an irrational fear of chairs in hallways.
Definitely, especially if the virus was a zoonotic leak and was poorly adapted to humans, perhaps with R only slightly above 1 until it adapted.
Maybe they couldn't get it ratified or just wanted to stay in politics for more than 20 years.
All lame sarcasm aside, that's a great clarification. Thanks
I wouldn’t stop him either knowing it’s possible he has a weapon.
The point of FLOC is that you are only ever part of one. There's no combining the different cohorts that a user is in to be done, because there is only ever one for each user. Now, there is some legitimate discussion on his to handle changes to cohorts, since simply changing the users cohort ID in response to a user changing their browsing interests leaves the user open to such a set intersection attack. Some people have suggested options such as freezing the ID for the lifetime of the site's state to prevent it.

FLEDGE/Turtle*/etc. is a different issue. I'm not sure it will be more private than 3rd party cookies since the spec is not very clear and it has so many moving parts. I have heard from some Chrome devs that if it doesn't end up better for privacy than 3rd party cookies, it won't get past the origin trial stage.
The current dominant mexican drug cartel (zetas) is run by former attendees of the School of the Americas.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2010/11/3/us-trained-cart...
Hmmm that's incredibly frustrating. I'm trying to reproduce this but failing. Are you able to do this every time? If so is there any chance you could take a screen recording please to help us debug it?
> I haven't seen the left claim that fraud doesn't happen

Some will claim it, or say it's a myth, and if anyone points out those few cases, they'll say it's statistically insignificant to the point of not being something we should worry about.

It is strictly incorrect, but colloquially accepted as okay to say, which is yet another thing argued about from each side.

I suspect that you thinking you haven't seen it is likely because you're interpreting their intent and not reading the words strictly, or they followed up to clarify and that's the part you remember, because it's common to see. The problem is that the other side remembers the first claim or the strict interpretation of the statement, so both come away thinking they were correct, one in that the statement was "true", the other that the person was not being "truthful".
It's not weird (and it's lightly addressed in the piece).

Bam is (apparently) struggling with substance abuse and related behavioural issues, and he was supposed to seek ongoing treatment for it as a condition of working on the film (per a signed contract).

He didn't do that, so he was fired from the film.

Johnny basically said they want him to get help and get better and did what they could.
That's an interesting idea but it would exclude many humans who can make correct predictions using their experience and intuition but can't justify them correctly. Those people are still very useful.

What you're describing is what we do at school. We can't assess understanding so we assess justification of answers as well as other things like ability to do X (we don't care if they understood or not, just be capable).
I saw one of Bam's recent videos discussing the bad blood. Seems like he has some serious alcohol/substance abuse issues, he looked to be in really rough shape.

Time has not treated him well. Hope he gets some help that takes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/li2ryb/bam_...
Yeah. Also, I've heard multiple anecdotes of people who had some nasty infection that winter and did get an antibody test that came back negative. Something else was going around.
Um, why not both?
It seems firesheep[0] is fading from the internet's institutional memory. Seeing it action was startling for most of us at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
That's just it, though. The working class doesn't get Memorial Day off. Businesses don't close for Flag Day. The people who have the hardest time voting on election day are the same people whose employers would still be open for business that day.

Things like early or mail in voting are far more effective ways to enable those people to vote.
>> Next you'll be telling us about the important work we've been doing there: something about women's rights no doubt!

>> (commence longwinded sermon about how murderous, racist and generally evil the US military is)

> I have no mental model of you.

lol, sure kid - I'm sure that is your default mode... if those last two sentences actually mean what I think. It would certainly explain a lot.
Amazon just wants a cut of Google's profits, just like Apple takes its cut for the Safari search deal. The fact that this has become public means that Google didn't foresee this.
Western cultures moved the date of Jesus's birth to late December for political reasons. So there's precedent.

Besides, I don't think MLK's birthday is that significant anyway. Nobody celebrates his birth, do they? Sure, celebrate the date of one of the Selma marches, or of the I Have A Dream speech, or the date of his death.... But in my opinion, it's sufficient to set aside a day to remember him - it doesn't have to be the one day he was statistically most likely to have eaten cake with his family.
The Carter gap is not surprising.

It's misleading to put some of those CIA actions into 1979 in the timeline, since Carter was guardedly supportive of the new governments in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and the actions against them were undertaken by the subsequent Reagan administration.
thanks for this comment - puts genuine creative collab. into perspective (authenticity rocks;)
Is there any evidence that this is a problem in comparable jurisdictions, though?
> I have always felt that Parasi and Hindu communities are exceptional example of how religious groups with opposite viewpoints can live next to each other and peacefully.

I think the primary reason for this is that neither religion has a concept of converting someone to their religion. Same is true for Judaism, and probably for most ancient religions. As no one was actively trying to convert the other person, wars were fought over territory and resources, and not over who had better gods. It is only when proselytizing became a requirement did we start seeing religious wars.
[I was going to post this independently, but as I've found your comment down the page I'll post this in reply to your comment.]

NPR is usually a more balanced news source, but that last paragraph takes a definite one-sided stance in the phrase "a historically accurate picture" in reference to critical race theory. Critical race theory is not about historic accuracy (non-normative fact), it's a very normative activist perspective.

That being said, I'm strongly against any form of the law restricting what ideas can be taught, even wildly wrong and dangerous ones.
Hasn't there been a cultural change in how people write longer texts?

Office and other WYSIWYG applications is still very popular, but many today writes in some sort of markup language and then applies different templates.

Most important part IMHO is the spell checker, MS Word's has become quite advanced with grammar support etc. If I'm ever going to write anything in Word, it would be for the spell checker. But apart from that I prefer my writing in a text editor or something akin to that.

I experimented a bit with Writemonkey (Windows only) but I think Manuscript is somewhat similar

http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
I think you can disable Cortana (and many other annoyances) by just disabling the service. But yeah, group policy is generally more capable and fine grained.

And yeah, Cortana was one of the first things I killed off after getting a windows machine again, though I don't remember for sure how. It's so bad.
really? early Longhorn builds looked waaaay different from Vista in my opinion.
The scene where he’s holding a snapping turtle and goes “I wonder why they call it a snapping turtle, let’s go in for a closer look” and it clamps down right on his nose. Pure genius.

https://youtu.be/5HQpbGq010c
Good question. I've already shut down the EC2 instance I used for testing, but I'll fire up another one later today and get back on this. Great point though, performance characteristics will almost certainly vary quite a bit between different filesystems.
Not sure Iran is the best example - it is effectively surrounded by nations who want nothing more than to topple its leadership in favor of another West-friendly regime. Look at all the confirmed CIA activities listed in OP's article that have gone on in Iran. I chalk anything they do up to existential self-defense at this point.

Turkey isn't a great example either due to its NATO membership; their geopolitical motivations aren't that easy to pin down.

And yes, China acts very territorial towards Taiwan and the regional oceans. Taiwan and the surrounding ocean is the one exception to my statement; given the opportunity they'd take it without hesitation.

But for all those countries you listed, I really believe they would remain strong regional powers and not try to dominate the world the way the US does. Shocking as it may be to some of us in the British/American sphere of influence, most countries do not have imperial ambitions, and our opinions of places like China are heavily influenced by the military-industrial-media complex seeking to gin up resentment against foreign powers who don't bow to Western economic influence. (Much criticism of China is valid; that's beside this discussion specifically about imperialism).
Upgrading a 10 yo computer (maxing RAM, swapping HD for SSD, adding a Graphics Card) is a lot cheaper than buying a basic new one and the result is a lot better.