skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She was definitely accused of being a "whore", as in a woman who is not, say, as chaste as people expect her to be. All Italian media informed us that Knox's motive was sex, whatever that is supposed to mean, because she was a maniac with a sex addiction. If I remember correctly, and I may not, the prosecur made some appalling comments about Knox's sexual promiscuity when interviewed for the Netflix documentary.

Corriere della Sera, which is probably the most prestigious Italian newspaper, published this:
https://www.corriere.it/cronache/07_novembre_25/amanda_cacci... ("Amanda just wanted sex"/Former partner Elis Prenga: «A hunter of men»./Lumumba: "She made sexual advances to customers").

This played into the Italian stereotype of American women, which are supposedly more sexually active than they are supposed to be, and so immoral but also easier to pick up than local women.
Only as a side effect of which ideals a superpower happens to be espousing at that moment.
Absolutely not. These aren't the types of associations and data points that lend themselves to quantified extrapolations.
> I guess the implication you're trying to make is that PFOF is bad by association with maddoff.

Read the full article and maybe you'll understand better? If you're lazy here ya go:

> Call it shabby if you want. Payment for order flow was legal, and Madoff fought to keep it so. Under pressure from the SEC, the NASD, the securities industry's self-regulatory body, assembled a panel to study the issue in 1990. At the time, payment for order flow was highly controversial, and opposition was intense.

I don't understand why you guys are so hand-wavy about the the idea that PFOF introduces serious conflicts of interest, when it's been debated for decades (with serious thought, not just some random internet trolls). A bunch of reddit/RH users talking about the issues with PFOF isn't new - that's my point. You seem to suggest that just because they are the ones bringing light to it that it shouldn't be taken seriously. Weird.
There seems to be a contingent of people floating around the internet with the idea that wages are "output minus," or more commonly that prices are "cost plus," and then getting all righteously indignant when they aren't.

That is now how a market economy works! I mean, you can't usually sell for less than cost or pay more than productivity over the long term, but sometimes you do (loss leaders, R&D investments), and you can definitely do the reverse.
We should start using the birthday paradox number (BPN) to express these things. That is, the smallest group of people such that the probability that at least one of them will exhibit the criteria is greater than 50%.

In this case, the BPN for working at Amazon is 107 (assuming everyone in the group is a worker).
Probably parent is writing in terms of the common line of thinking that Amazon exercises significant control over our lives by being so enormous and saying that it's not nearly so abusive a relationship as ones he's trapped in with other large institutions.

And if you have only a single citizenship, being stuck with the passport office is about as stuck as you can be.
For YEARS I bought Merrills in 13W from Dicks or REI. I made do but I hoped PayLess were still around. Shoes are really expensive, but fair point, I got big feet.
Maybe the most frustrating part of this entire discussion is how little Apple needs to do to correct it. We could be living in a golden age of digital opportunity if Apple focused on implementing open protocols instead of private ones.
blackrock manages about $7T assets, and there’re reports that investors and banks with more than $120T assets are looking to move into ESG assets

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-leading-120-trillio...
Isn’t that a pretty widely used strategy? Eg. Uber pretty much lost on initial rides (maybe even now), so it’s hardly big evil Oracle, but big evil capitalism.
> The problem, Golan explained, was that tech companies are offering wages and benefits that were too generous and, he claimed, would hurt employees in the long run.

Spoken like a multi-millionaire. Eff right off.

I had a former boss who latched onto some article about how £X was the optimal amount of money to earn for happiness and you shouldn't want more, and started loudly declaiming this amongst staff one lunchtime. Needless to say I wasn't too impressed with him either.

I don't know whether these people are tone deaf to begin with or whether something about the money makes them so but, if I ever "make it", remind me not to behave like this.
>there's no way this can devolve into a full on war

I know nothing of your particular situation, but I bet there is usually a long chain of impossibilities that occur when things really start to go bad:

- There's no way this virus will keep economies crippled and shortages going for more than a year.
- There's no way for a coup to happen
- There's no way for this to devolve into war
- There's no way they'd start arresting journalists
- There's no way they'd suspend elections
- There's no way the police will start shooting protestors
- There's no way the army will start rounding up people
- There's no way the protests will start occurring in my town
- There's no way that the violence will come to my town
- There's no way that my neighbors will turn me in
- There's no way that the outside world will turn a blind eye to the atrocities

No doubt it is still a really low probability of really bad things happening. But 1% is not never. Thinking that something could happen is one step to ensuring that it doesn't actually happen. Stay safe.
The effect is also strengthened when you're competing with your peers for grades; it's been several decades now but I still remember someone beating me by 0.7% going into the final exam, and me finishing the course 0.1% ahead of him. It's interesting I still remember the differences, but not the grade (high 90s, probably) nor the course.

(Contrary to popular western culture, there are groups who enjoy "grade-racing" --- and from first-hand experience, I can say it was very motivational as well as stressful.)
Yeah honestly I feel like it has gotten a lot worse since I was using it actively maybe 8-10 years ago. It seems to have moved towards a lot of people playing the karma game, and trying to focus on every flaw rather than trying to answer the question and give help. Nowadays, I usually try to find a community or forum directly related to the specific subject I'm working on.

However, it's hard to tell if the quality has actually changed, or whether it's just more geared towards novice programmers and I'm just not asking the type of questions that get help on the platform anymore.
>The reason developers are paid a lot is because they're worth a lot. That's it.

That is circular reasoning. The reason developers are paid a lot is because employers have bid up the compensation of developers.
Lol, no a startup can't replace Amazon without themselves having all of those rents, and insurances, and reporting accountants and lawyers. Amazon has a logistics network that rivals the U.S. military's right now. You can't just "displace & disrupt" that with a trendy San Francisco office.
Thanks, I'm cured.

Ever consider people have families? Have families they're planning on having?

Yeah, moving to central or South Jersey wouldn't work. That's why I live where I do now ...

Keep preaching from that ivory tower of yours
Full disclosure, I know the author Bernard, as an ex-colleague and a good friend.

We've been using the author's product (Gist) for about a year at my current company, mainly for marketing messages and campaigns, on iOS and Android. The support is excellent, and he's also very receptive to suggestions.
Another tick forward in fundamental physics that will pay off as some theoretical framework getting slightly more grounded and paying off in a tangential way 70 years from now.
It's kind of like nuclear warfare here on Earth. If you want to eliminate every living thing, then sure do some sort of scorched Earth type of thing. However, that leaves the planet in an un-inhabitable condition.

If you need to wipe out the inhabitants but leave everything else so you can now use it, you need to not destroy everything in the first place. Otherwise, you now have to terraform a planet that you chose because you didn't need to terraform it.
One of the most successful franchises on TV, "Law and Order," at least used to frequently advertise episodes as "ripped from the headlines."
Digital Twins, Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse
> I said a lot of bad things about the president (even called for him to resign) as well as the government he sacked, and much more.

I wouldn't worry about it much at this particular point. Said is a textbook dictator but they only have enough manpower and everyone is still everywhere when it comes to publishing stuff. Only those who are very visible will be targeted at first.

> So, on that front, I think my options are limited.

I'll start contacting embassies on Monday. Many people do this as a scam (for homosexuality) and for many of them it works. Start building a profile with these embassies.

You'll unlikely be subjected to torture (or killing) but maybe arrested for a few days or messed with lightly. Keep that as evidence for your asylum application.
As I understand it, the idea is that a path hint is a suggestion on which node to scan first, not a suggestion on how to binary search an individual node.
From the article: "The acquisition of the L452R substitution by multiple lineages across multiple continents, including the B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 lineages emerging in India, is suggestive of positive selection, which might result from the selective pressure of RBD-specific neutralizing Abs"

This is another incremental yet damning piece of evidence suggesting that vaccine induced selective pressure is enhancing the fitness of these variants of concern.

There is growing evidence throughout the peer-reviewed literature suggesting that immune escape is a valid concern [1][2][3][4].

Excerpts from [1]:

- "The spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the molecular target for many vaccines and antibody-based prophylactics aimed at bringing COVID-19 under control."

- "Such a narrow molecular focus raises the specter of viral immune evasion as a potential failure mode for these biomedical interventions. With the emergence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 with altered transmissibility and immune evasion potential, a critical question is this: how easily can the virus escape neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the spike RBD?"

- "Our modeling suggests that SARS-CoV-2 mutants with one or two mildly deleterious mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation, and consequently resistance to vaccines or other prophylactics that rely on one or two antibodies for protection can develop quickly -and repeatedly- under positive selection."

- "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

- "Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities"

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (April 2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[2] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not? (2017)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[3] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

[4] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests (2015)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
Without regulation, capital will strangle society and the future to squeeze whatever returns can be juiced from both. This is to be expected with secular stagnation [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_stagnation
The problem with Yarn 2 is that it wasn’t Yarn. You can’t change the whole thing and keep the same name. They thought people would just keep using Yarn out of inertia. That’s not how it works.
If you’re not using protocols almost everywhere though, is your code really protocol-oriented?

I don’t even want to bother with answering that question, though. Even Apple didn’t have a clear definition for it, so debating this point seems moot to me, I’m afraid.
If top universities selected only by grades, I think you would still end up with a high proportion from independent schools. It is not like a random 7% of the population attend independent schools. The top schools may be selective, only letting in students with better grades, or may have scholarships for bright (or athletic) students with lesser means which push up their averages. Those students who pay will generally have had an early childhood where they got good nutrition and plenty of attention and nurturing. If they were falling behind, their parents would more likely be better able to pay for extra tutoring. If the schools has more bright students than average, there can be positive feedback effects. There are also subjects which are taught more at independent schools like classics. It is hard for a university to find a lot of state school applicants with prior education in classics (the solution is to start with students who did well at history and give them a year of preliminary studies before moving to classics proper.)

You see the same effect with grammar schools (in the U.K.) or magnet high schools (in the Us) which feels a little more egalitarian, though of course the availability of such schools can vary a lot geographically (and a higher cost of living near good schools can push out poorer parents too.)

I don’t really know what the solution is. It seems unmeritocratic to expect universities to take only 7% independent school students (for one thing I would expect they make up slightly more than 7% of the university student body; for another this would probably have the undesired effect of having the 7% at Oxford and Cambridge mostly made up of the top public schools) but it also feels slightly unfair to only look at grades (indeed the universities do try to be more accessible and take into account the fact that some students have depressed grades due to poorer schools)
Because they participate in union busting?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/09/amazon-...
They cared about our stable single sun more than planets. We were not on the level to destroy our sun, or the planets themselves
I love this. In general, I've found you can do amazing thing to speed up common algorithms by tailoring them to your use case. It usually feels hacky, but I've found it to be very effective.
More spoilers below:

They actualy did a fair amount of geopolitical manipulations. That formed most of the plot.

In the end, it turned out to be MAD that saved us, but setting up the MAD scenario involved secrecy from them (or else they would have stopped us before we could trigger it), and from the rest of humanity (because an official plan to destroy Earth would never have been approved).
I didn't know about that, but it doesn't surprise me, given the shit show Italian courts are.

Thank you
The whole of USA the median household wage is 65k. If you can earn 100k in your first year you're upper middle at minimum.
He was at the time the CEO of a very big UK Jewelry group made a speech where he said.

"We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap."

Basically destroyed the company.
I read his articles as they came out, and did not figure out who the protected parties were. OTOH I am pretty sure I can figure at least two of them out after reading the judgement. It's possible that you could have figured out at the time if you were more familiar with the Dramatis Personae. But I do think it's plausible that he didn't think anyone would from his articles.
Amazon is Amazon because they didn't let size dull their edge.

Unfortunately, that cuts both ways. There are a lot of ways to be exploitive, to your and your customers' benefits, when you're a $113 B revenue/quarter company, that simply aren't available when you're a startup.

Hell, Walmart pioneered the "How'd you like to sell in our stores?" + "You need to reduce prices, or it'd be a shame if we, your biggest customer, had to drop you" two step. And Amazon pioneered hyperscale logistics efficiencies. Both of which only work if you're giant.

If we want a return to competition of yore, I think it's only going to happen if we (a) prevent "extra-large" companies from having in-house logistics & (b) prevent predatory contracts and pricing when a size disparity exists (e.g. Walmart/supplier).

And given both of these are pretty fundamental to the way many companies work, I'm not even sure they'd be feasible.
Framework-agnostic data table JavaScript library
I just don't see why it's a problem to add a caveat in the answer in that case.

I.e. "you can do X to achieve your goal, but you probably shouldn't because Y".

I just don't see how it's helpful or contributive to participate in the discussion if you don't actually know the answer.
Interesting. Just saw this headline in the local newspaper the other day: "New president of business operations Catie Griggs wants Mariners to be ‘most progressive team’ in MLB".

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/new-president-o...
Seeing as how can very obvious to your ISP when you use Tor, I would take this advice with caution. I agree that you should download Tor Browser and get used to using it, but also think hard about whether it would be a problem if you were found to be using it, say from home.

The Whonix wiki has lots of good tips for digital hygiene in unfriendly environments. Same with the anon guide.
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Right? I'm a web developer and work a lot with PHP.

PHP's de facto package manager is Composer and it's very simple and clear in how it works:

Your composer.json states your dependencies and their version constraints.

Your composer.lock (also a json file) states the actual versions that should be installed, based off your composer.json.

"composer install" installs the exact versions from your composer.lock file, "composer update [package]" updates the lock file based on your constraints.

With npm this doesn't seem to be as straight-forward, sometimes I run "npm install" and the package-lock.json ends up changing, I definitely don't consider npm to be safe.
I don't get how starlink can be cheaper than just putting transmitters on existing radio masts.
Law and Order would have been sued out of business. The "ripped from the headlines" mechanism is a tried and true method for TV procedurals.

You might own your likeness, but you don't own your life story.
fyi it's the font used by notion.so
Wait, so vagueness is a bad thing after all? Or only whe he does it?
More spoilers:

In the book, they were scared of humanity's technological growth rate. They were observing our technological advances and noticed that it was significantly faster than theirs. While they were, at the time, technologically superior, they were afraid that after the 250+ years it would take for them to get to Earth, humanity would have become technologically superior; too strong for them to overtake.
> burdensome and arbitrary, like rent + insurance + tax reporting + legal.

If "rent + insurance" are unnecessary overheads, you might as well say employee protections are completely useless regulations too.
Oh, I didn’t realize that, thanks for the headsup.

The sister company was named Homebell, but I don’t think they’re in business anymore.

I used in live in Berlin too, and yes, figuring these things out without knowing German is probably very difficult. Honestly, I think your best bet is probably to ask a German-speaking friend for help.
So... What exactly is this version, how is it different from yarn 2 that it warrants a major version update (not that I even know what yarn 2 was about), and how does it compare to npm?
there were recently covid19/monkeys/t-cell experiment. they depleted t-cells and infected monkeys. there wasn't much difference

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01503-21
100%. My wife works in a lab with masters level ME's that make less than half of what I do as a self taught engineer with a liberal arts BA. It's insanity. SpaceX salary data is awesome for this -- on average the SWEs are the highest compensated when the other engineers are doing actual rocket science.
All he has to do is push his Tesla to the top of the hill!
This is going to be amusing, because of Israel's internal politics. It's embarrassing for Israel. Israel has a Government department[1] which tries to stop, spin, or de-emphasize embarrassments like this. The last big embarrassment they faced was the binary options scam, which had grown at peak to be 40% of Israel's financial sector.

On this one, the meme is starting to roll.

Globes, Israel's main business newspaper, picked this up.[2] They interviewed the guy, and have more info than the Vice article. He's in San Francisco, and lives in Silicon Valley, not Israel. Which means this may attract the attention of US antitrust regulators, who are much more active now than under previous administrations. Remember the Apple-Google-Intel-Adobe-Pixar-Lucasfilm conspiracy.[3]

Complaint to Israel competition authority [4](Hebrew) [5] (translated).

Anti-Semitic rant about this.[6] That's the sort of thing that gets the ADL and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy going, because it started with something someone in Israel really did, and worse, talked about in public.

[1] https://www.gov.il/en/departments/Units/ministry_of_strategi...

[2] https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-startup-ceo-slams...

[3] https://www.inc.com/associated-press/apple-google-other-tech...

[4] https://www.geektime.co.il/competition-authority-receives-co...

[5] https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TAns&from=&to=en&a=http...

[6] https://f1bbs.com/viewtopic.php?id=8039
That was probably the plan; but the “tech-blocking particle” gets here at the speed of light, ensuring that we are still sufficiently behind, technologically, by the time their e.g. virus or radiation gizmos arrive. It “freezes” development to ensure that they still have technological superiority when the much-slower, barely-relativistic, big guns arrive.
Fritz the cat was a feature film not a TV show. Mighty Mouse was an actual kids show cancelled over a reference to a character supposedly snorting a line of something and Bakshi's reputation.

There was a bit of separation between TV cartoons and feature length ones back then. You're correct, the precedent for adult oriented animation had been set years before, but I wouldn't really compare movies like that, or even the more adult oriented anime shows and films in Japan at the time to that era of western TV cartoons.

As far as western TV cartoons went, prior to those late 80's, early 90's shows, there wasn't really any like them.
"The US has a population of 261 million and an employed non-farm workforce of 145 million, per the BLS"

Anyone know why the "non-farm workforce" is the number reported here?
Developers aren't paid a lot because they are "worth a lot." They are paid a lot because of supply and demand. That's it.