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> Many prominent news organizations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and BuzzFeed News, have acknowledged plagiarism in their own pages and publicly corrected the record, as Snopes is doing now.

How does a sentence like this end up in a supposedly serious article? Bad editing? Does Buzzfeed own a piece of Snopes?
Last year we had just under 3,000 troops, which was all that was needed. Those 3,000 troops were not going to make a difference in fighting the CCP, Russia, NK, Iran. But a complete and total abandonment and defacto surrender to the Taliban will embolden America's enemies.
The Future Is Getting Minted, One NFT at a Time
Interesting article about this point yesterday:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-12/u-s-cl...
> One of the biggest issues the Afghans appear to have is a vast majority believe their own armed forces are badly corrupt.

By all accounts this is true: bribes, pedophilia, killings of citizens, using heroin, defecting to Taliban, selling arms at markets, etc.
Well, it's a good thing that's not my argument, then.
Just curious, would it be Catalyst based? https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/
Maybe the solution is to accept that living is a risky proposition and we are OK with a minimal amount of risk in exchange for everything (normal) life has to offer.
I don't necessarily mean that each individual user of the software should do this. I mean, why not just create a new layout instead of developing this? Or as a user, why not just use a layout someone else has already developed which has logical choices for the composed keys?

EDIT: Some compelling arguments in favour of the app in this thread. Thank you
Here an idea: Apple should open native Photos cloud syncing to other providers
We've been "enjoying" your high pressure system up in the Pacific Northwest. There are plenty of places at the equator that were cooler than Vancouver yesterday. You can have it back. Please.
While A+ is considered a very very basic certification, it will help get you in the door the first time around. If you've got absolutely no experience to your name in the IT field, it will be helpful. It shows you studied and have learned some things about IT, you aren't totally useless. There is a big difference between "No IT experience" and "Doesn't know USB from HDMI". A+ will help push you over that level of scary lack of knowledge.

Once you're in the field and have some experience, then it's not terribly helpful. Same is true of any basic end certificate. Though some companies do require such things for insurance or compliance reasons.
Even 10 year olds use a set of new balls per match in league plays. Not that it makes much sense, but that's how it is.
I also think the right thing to do is pull out individual claims in articles and rate the claims rather than trying to rate the article as a whole. There are a few edge cases where entirely true facts are put together in misleading ways that might get assigned higher than ideal truth ratings in this construction but I think it does far better than trying to rate articles as a whole which confuses the matter entirely and introduces a lot more subjectivity.
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You got a rude awakening. Consider yourself blessed!
Thank you news.Y Combinator.com: your site is amazingly fast and useful on 1g
Who do I have to thank for this beautiful news reader?
Okay I'm late to the party and the thing is flagged, but why does everyone assume Hyperloop == materials we don't have, magnetic hover and all that ? The hyperloop white paper have none of that and is way simpler ?
Objective economics? But there are many schools of economics and quite some overlap with politics. The expectation you have might need to change.
Also worth checking out is Ditto, clipboard history manager. Much snappier and lighter than the built-in one they eventually put into Windows. Nearly identical to KDE's Klipper, CTRL ` and your searchable clipboard history appears next to your cursor.
When people complain that nowadays new developers can't get anything right, I think we forget that when those experienced people started their careers, myself included, you just had to know one or two languages, couple of simple APIs and that would be enough to code away almost everything that you were expected to do.

Nowadays I seem to need 20 different complex technologies to be able to do even a simple service.

I can do that because I had the luxury of learning them slowly over the years as they were taking over the market.

But what about those new guys? They can't learn everything well all at the same time. So they must do shoddy work at least somewhere, the whole system is stacked against them.

Or they need to Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v most of their solution without understanding where it came from or what it does exactly.

And compromise on understanding the important parts like computer architecture, OS internals or networking protocols that they just don't have bandwidth to learn after learning all those frameworks, libraries, DSLs, tools and so on so that they can see something running.

I think it is responsibility of the senior people in the project to manage cognitive load of the rest of the team and keep it at a reasonable level. Sometimes a new tool looks shiny and fun. But is the added benefit worth the disruption to everybody? I think of ability to learn and keep things in memory as a kind of budget.

I try to make good use of it.
Thanks for the link, very useful site.
I was quite confused as well. I assumed from the beginning that this was a tool for building a whole app, and I was confused about why there was no App Store/Play Store process involved, and how any backend logic would work.

What I understand now, and where I see the value, is in this being a low-logic CMS – i.e. you can do a lot more than a flat article, but you likely wouldn't build a full app with it.

I can imagine us (as an iOS team) adding this as our Blog section in the app, and handing over responsibility for all the design, navigation, interaction, and articles, in it to our content team. They might even make our article much more interactive with this (quiz idea is great!). Currently they use a regular CMS for posts and we handle all the information hierarchy which isn't ideal.
You might be accused of a copyright violation, but not plagiarism.
Buzzfeed cites its sources for its listicles. That’s the exact opposite of plagiarism.
> Also for the record, the best mangoes are categorically Alphonso.

How do they compare with different Asimina triloba cultivars? Or just too different to even compare?
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That sounds painful, and in having my own share of dumb corporate papercuts in my environment I sympathize. I'd also point out and echo the sibling comment that the few times I've had GCM problems, the GitHub Issues have helped me debug and fix it (either having an existing Issue with enough details to correct it myself or responding quickly when I've needed to post something).
The problem with fact checkers is that they're being brought into a different problem domain than what their practice is designed to combat. Social media companies more or less deputized them to be sources of truth; which carries bigger implications (albeit not as bad as people make it out to be) than just giving your opinion about a particular bit of information.

When Snopes says "the lab leak theory isn't real", they're basing it off of scientific research carried out early in the pandemic which claimed that the virus didn't look engineered. That is, effectively, an expert opinion - something close to truth but still subject to change should new information come to light. It's entirely reasonable for a fact checker to rely on that information at that time, as well as change their opinion in response to new information.
Good spot, edited in a fix. I had ⌽ instead of ⌽∘⊢ before, which would end up rotating runs by 1 instead of reversing them (downsides of ambivalent functions).
Exclusivity is something the market maker buys from the vendor. Making such a transaction illegal does not in any fashion require the vendor to actually sell their goods on multiple markets it just requires them not to exchange money for exclusivity.

In particular I don't think it says anything at all about a situation where the vendor and market are not engaged in a relationship but rather are literally the same company. Nothing forbids a donut shop from actually baking AND selling the donuts.

I don't think a 3rd party Epic store is an example of tying either. It's not something you are being asked to purchase in order to realize the other purchase it is rather a means to actually receive the product you have purchased. You might as well say that <insert app> is tied to the purchase of an executable or disk.

Not only that but if Apple allowed sideloading they would arguably be able to trivially able to avoid even a misguided accusation of tying by providing a manually installable package file with the app store merely providing a free means to receive updates.
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i don't see why though.. once they've sold the software copy ( through the channel they want), it doesn't belong to them anymore
Sort of. In a vacuum it can certainly function that way, but people in reality don't necessarily have the time to distill pure water from poisoned wells, especially when there's a well that is reputably pure right next to it.

That being said, I think that buzzfeed news has actually earned a reputation of producing some good journalism despite it being an offshoot of Buzzfeed. Simply the irony is not lost on these people.
There's also Higgy Bears, bears with removable scoliosis braces that match the kid's. They come with xrays.

https://higgybears.com/
If you take into account that the particular humans whose time was (not) valued here were graduate students, that time may not have been so brief after all.
US coverage of the retreat from Afghanistan is an exercise in solipsism
The word "specifically" can also be used as an antonym of "generally", meaning "by most people, or to most people".[0] If a story applies to most people, but someone reading the story doesn't consider that possibility, then they have made a small error.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/generall...
I think, this is only true for sufficiently sophisticated infrastructure and tools to managed it.

VMs and containers probably won't cut it.
I've only read the marketing page, but I'm thinking of it as less of a no-code app builder, and more of a smarter-than-average CMS. If you can hand off a whole section of your app to a content or marketing team to handle that's quite a boost to velocity.
Could have left a week after we started, after the locals started killing anyone they suspected of being Al-Qaeda, and the remnants had fled to the Pakistan border and Pakistan itself.
If you are willing to create your own layout or use a third-party layout, you could forgo dead keys and instead put all your symbols on the "AltGr" layer (which I think basically works the same as the "Compose" key).
They’re certainly trying. But the video of Craig trying to use a novel definition of “law enforcement backdoor” and accusing people of being confused is contemptibly dishonest.
A lot of times the janitorial staff are FTEs of the company that employs them.

And ultimately, in the cases where the office is leased, the cleaning company might have been hired by the owner of the office park.
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Totally agree. If someone’s hell bent on seeing conspiracies they’re going to see them everywhere. Better to be transparent.

Just saying I can see how you could rationalise this decision, even if it’s a terrible idea.
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I love how ever single reply to the parent mentions Trump, as if anyone that thinks snopes is full of shit must be a Trump supporter. It's almost as if there's a group of people out there who all think exactly alike and knee jerk to defend these organizations out of some strange sense of loyalty.
How about this — we all agree that the entirety of wealth in the universe is made up of 21
Million bitcoin. Then the wealth cap is 21 million bitcoin. Of course, nobody can have it all, in fact, if they try they will only drive up the relative cost per unit.

If this seems insane to you, consider the insanity of trying to define a fixed container size with an infinite flow of water.
Generally you'll see that when an article is simply copied from AP or Reuters, it's credited that way; if it's used as a source or being rewritten, it'll be credited with a phrase something like "Wire stories from Reuters were used in this report".
I thought something had happened to www.djangoproject.com
And by extension, fallacious reasoning means that you have no good reason to take what the reasoner is arguing as true (unless they can a non-fallacious argument) – right?

The fact that an argument is fallacious doesn't necessarily mean that the conclusion is wrong, but there does (logically, by necessity) exist (at least) a non-fallacious argument for a correct conclusion.
>Insists on creating dashboards and putting them on TVs

You didn't have to call me out like that.
That's not true either. You can definitely develop type 2 diabetes without eating carbohydrates.
Tangentially related: there are no antifa burnings or endless videos of cops acting badly either. It’s not as though criminals stopped being criminals and cops stopped policing…
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Yeah, I'm one of those, though I'm not sure my belief system qualifies as spirituality. The gist in these cases is realizing that atheism is not the opposite of christianity (in the sense that there ought to be a conflict between two incompatible ideologies) and that there's quite a bit more depth and breadth to theism, moral frameworks and philosophy in general than the who-is-more-right crowd might think.
To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)
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By your line of thinking Timothy McVeigh is a murderer, but not a terrorist. Terrorism related charges changed in 2001.
The biggest source of config based outages comes from infra deployments. You can easily rollback application code, use featureFlags etc to control the blast radius. But with infra deployments, it gets very tricky very soon.

I think what the author is trying to say, albeit does a poor job of explaining it, is that we could leverage well matured Infra level tools like Envoy, Consul etc instead of executing their features at application layer. Which I completely agree. You dont have to rewrite consensus protocol or traffic routing at application layer, instead leverage the existing infra level tools to achieve it. But you still cannot get away without understanding how these tools function at core.
This is more from Schneier's book, but I would say the most import reason E2E encryption should be the default is that in the event of a data breach, nothing would be lost. If a company's servers are hacked, they'd have access to the symmetrical encryption keys, and therefore all of the data. It also ensures that the company can't be selling/sharing your data, as they don't have access to it in the first place.

Edit: I also meant iCloud backups in my original post and how Apple can decrypt your E2E encrypted iMessages with the key the backups contain. But I posted it last night and couldn't edit it once I caught the error. It would be amazing for other iCloud services to have E2E encryption so long as the implications of iCloud backups having your encryption keys is stated front and center when choosing to opt-in.
no error checking = browser with no webassembly fails silently with no error messages
>It's not anyone else's business where the money came from!

Oh yes it is - that's pretty much the definition of anti money laundering and many many people are involved in trying to figure that.
And absorbed by black hole would pretty memorable at my memorial. Its win-win.
no, Xinjiang is ethnic cleansing: it's genocide. Let's not whitewash it please.

For the curious: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
Ask HN: Easy, legal ways to angel-invest in a US-registered startup with crypto?
Hey folks,
We are setting up a startup and looking to register it in the US (We are not US citizens or residents). Have a few friends and family (again, not in the US) who are willing to invest in it. However, their funds are currently parked in cryptocurrencies (mostly, but not all btc). Are there easy, legal ways for them to invest, using these funds, in the newly registered startup? One possibility would be for the newly registered startup to set up an account on an exchange, receive these funds in tokens, transfer into dollars. Is this possible and do you know if there is a precedent? Has anyone here tried this? Thanks!
> why wouldn't we trust that these image hashes can't be reversed back into images?

You should avoid making political or moral arguments when your technical knowledge is 10 feet below your ego. An image is orders of magnitude larger than a password, meaning that many more collisions. Also, because it's a perceptual hash, even more collisions. One does not simply reverse a perceptual hash. Keep your hat on ;-)
If I may reply to the first version of your comment, I agree with you that the Taliban are guilty of similarly revolting treatment of girls and women. I sympathize with the comment at the top of the thread that the Taliban are "utterly backwards, terrible people".

So maybe I should say only that the Taliban are the "non-bacha-bazi" side.
It was common as early as Classical Greece, which went on to influence the whole Hellenic world (including what's today Afghanistan) and Ancient Rome as well. In fact, this kind of practice is even thought to be the underlying factor behind Paul of Tarsus' unreserved condemnation of Graeco-Roman sexual customs in the Christian New Testament.
the drift from purchasing a software copy to a software license to use is an interesting one from a historical POV.

I'm 100% convinced most people purchasing apps on the store don't realize the distinction until they're suddenly prevented from launching the app the way they want...
WSJ will WSJ, sowing fears about sneaky labor trying to defraud noble capital unless dragged daily into the panopticon.
The EU lets EU citizens move around freely. But if you're a non-EU citizen on say, a German work visa, that wouldn't let you work in Spain. For truly free movement they would have to replace all the country specific visas with EU wide visas, so that once a foreigner has for example an EU wide work visa, they can use it in all EU countries.
If you still read this thread.

What is the exact size of the archive? How many phone numbers does it include?

Also, please respect privacy of citizens, even those you dislike, including the emergency service callers.
First, user data is user data, no matter if it's stored by a lawbreaking, in your opinion, organization.
(Consider: google was fined for fiscal fraud - does it entitle anyone to steal google user's data?).
People complained about car signals were in their right - traffic rules forbid signalling in the city,
except to prevent accidents. And similarly for most of the cases, I think.
And your access to their data will never be rightful.
Second, exposing the people can fuel the division in the society and alienate the sides.
What was done in a moment of annoyance, after being exposed, and possibly followed in bullying or
hate campaigns, can make those exposed people scrupulously report all opposition supporters.
Neighbor against neighbor, colleague against colleague, etc.
> Much snappier and lighter than the built-in one they eventually put into Windows

Ditto also supports searching through your clipboard history. Been using Ditto for years.
This is a good point but they seem like slightly separate concerns in a sense. My limited understanding is that truck drivers tend to rest where they hit their legal limit which will often be a lay-by rather than a proper truck stop. Perhaps we could include charging points in most lay-bys to get an overlap in charging vs. rest breaks but it seems to me a shorter charging process via swapping in a truck stop would still be advantageous since the rest break and charging stop won't necessarily overlap in most cases.
The solution for now is outdoor schooling. Later: upgraded HVACs and mandatory vaccinations.
How about Wayland ? Or does it need Xwayland?
It may look like that in hindsight, and given advances in hardware, something with lots of sensors would have been built, but I’m not sure how similar it would have been.

The removal of the keyboard, in particular, was far from universally perceived as a good idea at the time.

I also think it would have been quite a while before anybody would have had the guts to not provide a slot for memory cards or to not have removable batteries.
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You’ve touched on a basic problem with claiming to be a fact checker where it intersects with science, because “fact checking” is a journalistic tool decent for checking he said/she said BS, but science is an ongoing and continuous process that has its own form of review not assisted by the fact (fact check this!) that most science reporting is crap.

That said, fact checks are typically written by journalists or institutions claiming to serve a journalist function; and so are fully governable by common journalist practices such as retractions.

Retractions are nice because they acknowledge that there was a human error somewhere in the organization’s processes, memorialize the error but then correct the record with supplementary and reviewable matter. Doing this also provides a signal to readers that even though this particular institution filled with these imperfect humans made a mistake on the record, they sufficiently value their reputation to own the mistake and correct it on the record.

Good faith and honesty can take you far.
Nobody sees your eyes when you wear a VR headset – Facebook wants to change that
Decades are a better unit, but new decades only come once every 10 years. Units less than a year are problematic because of seasons. For example, you could say that July was the hottest month on record this year, and that wouldn't really tell you anything interesting (except that maybe more humans live in the north hemisphere and we mostly take observations where humans live).
So using your logic, I'm totally free to copy-paste the entirety of a New York Times article onto my website and sell ads on that content...as long as I credit the author?

I think the lawyers of the NYT may have a different opinion about that.

The fact is, Buzzfeed was able to get away with stealing content from reddit and selling ads on it because no reddit user was ever going to hire a lawyer to sue them over it.

Also, I've certainly seen Buzzfeed content that was taken from Reddit without attribution.
Authoritarians: that's the whole point. Nazism in Germany, fascism in Italy, Franco in Spain, Soviet Russia and the list goes on.
As mask mandates started to disappear, I found myself dreading showing my whole face again. It takes considerable mental effort for me to choose the "correct" facial expression, and masks hide a conspicuous twitch in the corner of my mouth. Perhaps ironically, masks made me feel more confident in public and more willing to engage with strangers at e.g. the grocery store.
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> judge doesn't believe that the minor on the image is your child

Parents can produce, distribute and sell CSAM of their own kids. That's one of the implications they'd face in court.
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>You can, but it will then be obvious to anyone familiar with the references

The whole point of "fact checkers" is to be used by people who are not expert on the subject