skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, to do any business in France, your really need to speak French. The French bureaucracy is not that bad (when you compare it to some of its neighbour) but in the same vein, it will be impossible to deal with it if you don't have a good grasp of French.

France cares a lot about French and its honestly an issue many time (and I say this as a French person). Things are changing slowly, but anybody serious about moving / opening a business in France should be serious about learning French. You would be astonished by the number of engineer, investor, and in general any business person, who have an awful level in any other language than French...
It's probably somewhere deep in the EULA/ToS and furthermore it is shown, while unlocking the bootloader. Whether this is legal or not, is surely an open question.
> On the other hand, if you let democracy

That's your problem right there. Many of these countries are either under direct occupation of the US or its allies, or having a puppet government which answers to them and not to the population in any significant sense (e.g. Jordan, Bahrain when it's not occupied by KSA). So when you write "you let", the subject is the foreign occupier.

The most important thing which should happen is for "you" not to be able to "let" or "not let" people manage their lives one way or the other.

> get a foothold in many of the muslim-majority states, the winner of a democratic process will very likely be what the west perceives as a religious fundamentalist group

On the contrary. This happens when, in that country, you have fundamentalist forces which have been trained, equipped and sometimes even ferried in by the US (e.g. via the CIA) or its allies. Examples: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya. There is also the effects of decades of trying to suppress left-wing forces in various places in the world, which leaves a vacuum which fundametalist Islamist forces may fill, as in the case of Iran.

When that's not the case, you get something like Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen in the 1960s, Egypt in the 1950s, Iraq in the 1950s, Palestine in the 1930s etc.

Bottom line: When the US (and other Imperialist powers) don't intervene and manipulate things, the results are not what you're worried about.

> every single value that the west holds dear (including democracy itself).

Assuming "The West" means the EU states and the US, then I don't see how they hold democracy dear. They routinely prefer their national ruling classes' interests over democracy. We have even seen a recent example of this within Europe itself, where nobody opposed the Spanish Monarchy's suppression of Catalonian democracy.
Absolutely, agree with you. Creating value out of abstraction is generally driven by domain/use cases. For eg. in this case if I get an email from a customer with pictures on my gmail account, post it on instagram. Now, this is an use case that this abstracted but creates value.

Simple API abstracted leads to leaky abstract you are at the developer's discretion to implement it. With a concrete use case, abstraction is bounded.
AFAIK, there are reporting systems in place at Libraries that flag your account if you check out media that is considered "not good."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Awareness_Program

I ran into this myself, in my High-school Library and I'm sure may other children may have as well.

Not per se a social credit system, but, how different is it? One org/database, interpreted by people of org and then a similar enough inquisition/questioning of "why."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v...

It's a pre-print of a study that indicates that children born during the pandemic, but not (even immediately) before, have significant cognitive deficites.

Authors attribute it to lockdowns (although they ruled out maternal stress) because pregnant mothers and newborns didn't have a postive test result or symptoms. But that might be because they were not tested at all (researchers didn't track them down to check for antibodies) and had asymptomatic infection. There's also an interesting correlation that poorer children had higher likelyhood of deficits, which might also indicate that deficits are possibly due to covid, because poorer people were more likely to get infected during the pandemic.

So this research might hint that newborns (but not few months olds) are vulnerable to covid and the result is cognitive deficit.

Which might mean that in 20 years we will have a crime wave similar than the one explained by lead hypothesis, that will last for as long as we don't feel like vaccinating newborns against covid.
I suppose you are correct in pointing to their faith not being an issue, but their allegiances are still questioned by some. Why do Malays disproportionately make up the bulk of police/SCDF during NS?

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-no-Muslims-in-some-secto...
>The ball doesn't 'flow'. It doesn't keep momentum. You apply a strong movement and it spins dead within the second.

For this issue, some people have modified their Ploopy trackballs with great success using Ball Transfer Units. Here's a long blog post about it: https://www.gbryant.co.uk/posts/2021-02-15_ploopy-trackball/...

An example video of BTUs functioning in a Kingston trackball: https://www.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/ddlovq/ladies_a...
She has changed her mind. But she will not get the vaccine after this because she will have natural immunity (her view).
There is a bit of a card trick being played with VCs and their pet unicorns.

I can register a company with just 1 share, then issue another 1 billion shares at any time. If I then sell just on e these shares for a dollar, I am a unicorn post-money.

This folk is what they are doing. Nothing more (just the numbers of shares and amounts change a bit)

The value - I guess - is to bring enough credentials and big names to this dog-and-pony show to get people to suspend disbelief long enough to offload it.

But when western governments are printing mountains of cash that would make a Zimbabwean treasury official blush, expect more of this.

What is far ticker is a billion dollars of distributable post-tax profit.
The real question is ... how robust is this with handling perms and custom business logic ... just being able to CRUD is not a starting point anymore. That can be done through scaffolding.
This is the expert consensus based on everything they know about how immunity and mRNA works.

It's kind of hard to give you one single source, simply because it's hard to demonstrate the absence of something. What usually happens instead is that somebody with specific concerns raises them and explains the plausible mechanism they see as problematic, then it's either debunked immediately as BS or if the theory has legs, it's supported by other scientists and put the test.

None of that has happened with mRNA vaccines. This is a great read about the Pfizer one : https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

I mean, you can't technically rule out somebody coming up with a revolutionary theory that changes our understanding of immunity like Einstein did for physics, but there is no sign of that, no theoretical basis for trouble, and the vaccine is saving lives in the meantime

>Also, what about people who have antibodies from prior infection with covid?

Research is moving fast on this, but AFAIK the consensus is that prior symptomatic infection gives longer lasting but also less broad (against different variants) immunity compared to an mRNA vaccine.

The best protection seems to be in people with prior infection + 1 shot of mRNA vaccine (of course, that does not imply one should try to get infected then vaccinated, because the risk of damage from that first infection vastly outweighs the benefit of a slightly better immunity if you pulled through unscathed, then got vaccinated)
The setting seems similar to Caves of Qud
It's now very fashionable to hate Elon Musk. I knew this would happen back when it was fashionable to worship him and compare him to a comic book superhero. It's the natural progression, like a cultural version of the film The Wicker Man.
> I used go mod replace to strip the stack trace collection out of pkg/errors, with a fork that does a no-op for that function call, and it was a significant improvement for our use case.

Is there a write-up or references on how one can achieve this? Sounds like a good practical use case for the replace directive.
Add airlines to it. Imagine, if every large passenger airplane carries a Starlink terminal... (of course paying the elevated fee for mobiles applications faster than 500mph)

And once it starts to get rolled out to airplanes, which airline can afford not to offer Starlink connections?
Try reading what is actually said before responding.
Ultimately, yes.
On left turns, I do a shoulder check right as the light turns green. People seem to be less inclined to wave cyclists through and less inclined to hesitate thinking the cyclist is going to dart through if the cyclist isn't looking in their direction.
Neither Hamas nor the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood are fundamentalist movements. They're conservative, but that's quite different.

Naturally, people who feed off of pro-US media may think them fundamentalist (as some commenters here seem to), but their respective electoral platforms and governmental policies do not agree with such a characterization.
Right - if you ripped the ROM chip off and replaced it with your own ROM containing your own OS and drivers for all the hardware you could make the hardware do anything it’s physically capable of accomplishing. And Apple would have no legal recourse.

The fact that that is an extremely complicated thing to do is not apple’s problem.
If only we had this same kind of rigor in our drivers tests.
I routine encounter people seemingly asking for death by their driving patterns.
I really like the phrase "quaternionic varial kickflip".
Please re-read my comment :-) Nowhere did I say:

> execution speed does not matter

What I actually said: what is the actual performance requirement?

I don’t get why this is such a hard concept for people in this thread :-) Obviously you should use the right tool for the job! If you have extreme HPC requirements, no one (except maybe Jane Street) is going to use OCaml for that. It’s a high-level GC language! When you come into a thread, have some basic context about what it’s about.
Smallest biosupercapacitor provides energy for biomedical applications
Relevant note by NatSecGeek: https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1430157667604090880
Samsung Reveals DDR5-7200 512GB RAM
He Sold His Company to Zillow for $120M and Now Raised $1.7B
The vast majority of what you experience in society has gone through human review. All laws go through human review before they are enacted. When you go to the grocery store or a restaurant, all the food there has been selected by a human for you. For some fruits or vegetables, every single item was hand-selected for sale during harvest.

When you go into a Target or a Walmart or certainly any small retail shop, everything in there was selected for inventory by a human buyer. When you read a newspaper, every single article was reviewed by a human before it was published.

Product designs are reviewed by humans for utility and safety. Drugs are reviewed by humans for efficacy and safety. Cars and trains and airplanes were human-reviewed during design and assembly, and again at regular intervals. Every scientific article is reviewed by humans before publication.

Systems that try to run at scale without human review have problems with quality. Amazon tries to run a retail platform with minimal human review; it’s choked with fakes and scams. Social media companies try to run with minimal human review; they’re full of false information and scams.
1. They will also be one 64-bit memory word.
2. So we have plenty of room.
3. So it does not hurt.
True. Same goes for the US when you exclude California.

And yes, the UK isn't part of the European Union anymore, but it's still part of Europe.
Bah! It seemed so truthy. Thanks for the clarrifications.
This looks nice. My cat is the same and I use plastic bottle with a couple of holes.
But who will be the tolerance police? If a majority votes for something that is intolerant, does that give an outside faction the right to start bombing them until they vote the right way?
> but one easy way of doing so is language, in which europe has 24 official languages, and the states has 1.

The US has no official language at the federal level, but some states have official languages other than English, e.g. Spanish, Hawaiian or some other native language (Alaska has quite a few).
> However, we were totally open source so no licensing costs.

This is not a healthy opinion to have, not for the open source community and neither for the company using open source projects. All the bugs and missing features of the open source project you use are also a part of your technical debt now, you can either donate to project to keep it healthy or hire FTE working on contributing to these projects, which is just indirect form of payment and should absolutely be a part of your budget
Pacaso is turning houses into corporations
Workshops as Code
> South Africa’s unemployment rate surged to the highest on a global list of 82 countries monitored by Bloomberg.

Big difference, I knew this was not the highest in the world, because I come from Africa too and there are worse countries than SA unemployment wise.
Replying to myself since apparently people don't like financial facts. If you read Pfizer's 10-K for 2019 (chosen for pre-pandemic numbers), the US accounted for 45% of their gross revenue compared to Western Europe's ~15%. If you discounted the US down to a similar per-person revenue level as Europe, the company would fluctuate between profitability and non-profitability quarter to quarter.

I genuinely don't know what people want here - drugs aren't magically summoned into existence for free. If you want new drugs, someone has to cover the cost and the prices that the non-US world pays aren't nearly high enough to do that. You could lower the prices for Americans, but only if you simultaneously increase the prices for everyone else, too.
Well, in terms of speed, the programming language benchmarks game indicates VW is way faster than Pharo. See https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

I'm curious about what VW does different to be so fast, given the Cog virtual machine used by Pharo and Squeak is regarded as a small work of art, and is quite fast itself (at least way faster than Python). I hope the next iteration of the VM (called Sista) finally beats VW Smalltalk.
Everyone keps saying this works out to $0.88 so I tried to figure out what is pinterest for:
https://about.pinterest.com/en

The page is free from any content? Why do people bother setting up accounts there?
> There's so much low hanging fruit that we are missing out on at the moment that if someone is talking about making sacrifices, they're probably scamming you.

That sounds like a very convenient way for us to keep complaining about the problem without ever having to do anything about it. Civilization as we know it is built on this stuff, meaning if we want any significant change in the short term we're going to have to make sacrifices. If you're unwilling to let go of out of season food shipped from half way around the world or disposable plastic trash bags or whatever, will you ever vote for someone who might ban those things? If you're unwilling to pay extra for items manufactured using green techniques, will you vote for the person who pushes regulation toward that end?

Frankly, statements like that are why I'm incredibly pessimistic about ever turning our environmental abuses around.
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I've mostly seen autoplaying ads on "blog" sites like Forbes and Huffington Post or news websites. These are known as 'content mills' because they either reprint Associated Press/Reuters coverage, or they publish articles from freelance contributors. It's a bottomless pit of generic content.

Front-load every article with an autoplaying video w/ ads, and that can make some decent revenue if your site has a lot of traffic.
the shop that services my porsche owns epe.com. they have had several offers for $1M plus, but they will not sell it.

i only take my vehicle there because they own a 3-letter domain! ;)
The answer is "no."
That's a false choice.

I was not suggesting that anyone bomb anyone else. I asked a question, which is still unanswered, about your statement which was in essence, "if a people want authoritarian rule, they should be free to chose it."
"Tommy Robinson is not allowed to open a bank account"? What? After multiple frauds and also declaring himself bankrupt he might have difficulty finding a bank willing to take him as a customer but I'm unaware of anyway of anyone banning him from opening one.
> and you are responsible for recycling the outdated hardware instead of returning it to the owner.

I grokked everything up to this comment. Apple has extensive trade-in and recycle programs [1],[2]. Or did you mean something else?

[1]:https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in

[2]:https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/
What will happend if we do the same examination of physical things?
Inventors of something like microprocessors or even carpentry tools?
We need to separate the products from the behavior of the people that was makin them.
It's like we need eternal vigilence against people like this or something. There is always someone who thinks they have a technocratic solution that optimizes for their own interests and then litigates for it and encircles us while insisting it is in ours. Nobody subject to this proposed measure desires it.

Why on earth does the IMF, an organization staffed almost exclusively by academic economists and political appointees, think they have any expertise whatsoever in consumer credit decisions? These are people whose understanding of business stops at "getting funding," from presumed and paternalistic granting agencies. The entire premise of their organization was to use lending as a globalized policy leverage tool, to issue bad loans to weak governments for political reasons, and then demand policy concessions in exchange for renegotiation terms. These have always been really bad people.

It does suggest we need better p2p lending instruments, and really, anything that these organizations think they can do, we should probably be developing alternatives that limit their influence.
Prisons in the UK are much safer than in the US, and minimum wage with the additional 40% tax would be more like £4/$5.50 an hour.

While I accept that there can be coercion here, I think we're talking about a very different scenario in the UK to the US.
> think these people should do instead.

Fly commercial instead of private plane or yacht.

I don’t think we have to switch meetings to zoom just to cut carbon emissions, but flying in a private plane has way higher carbon emissions than just taking commercial air, even first class. Private jets are 10-100x more polluting (per passenger) than commercial air. [0]

This isn’t a huge dent in climate change but it represents the kind of personal decisions we all must make. So it’s hard to try to convince me to bike or walk for short trips rather than take a car if you’re not doing the same.

Also note that the alternative isn’t do nothing and burn the planet down.

Commercial air isn’t exclusive to exclusive Google camps in Italy where the rich plan to fight climate change. We can do both, reduce personal emissions and plan large policy changes.

Unless you’re the head of state, there’s no reason to sail a yacht or fly private jets to discuss climate change. I think it’s like eating cake and caviar while planning famine relief.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/private...
That raises whole other legal questions....

One basic pillar of contract law basically everywhere is that one can not be bound by a contract that they didn't read, even if they signed it. Usually these cases involve coercion or not knowing the language. If nobody can read the EULA because it's 10 pages of densely written legalese, can they even be bound by it?

Since BigCo deliberately made their EULA harder to read than necessary, that probably counts as "acting in bad faith" which is an entirely different legal avenue for the EULA to be void.
The website extinguished tons of fires and succession/contingency plans are a success despite various sabotage attempts and people threating people with silenced guns in Brussels parking garages.
The genie is out of the bottle and the lies that have started wars are now being dismantled for peace.
> If you can afford those things more safely, you should be considered less desirable?

If you can afford to leave, then yes, you are less desirable than someone who needs to stick around. These services are priced based on the assumption of long-term engagement. If you cut that assumption short, the expected revenue is also cut short.

Finding new customers is expensive. When you leave, the provider needs to find a new customer to replace you. They are much better off keeping existing customers. The credit score gives an indication of how likely one is to remain a customer. Those who are most likely to stick around are the best kind of customer.

When you paid off your loan, you also stopped paying the associated interest. In other words, you retracted your patronage and stopped being a customer. This is not desirable for a business. The credit score was reduced to reflect that. 60 points is very little movement. It is not like they're writing you off as a compete undesirable with that, just statistically slightly less desirable than someone who continued to borrow.

Remember who pays for credit score information: Lenders, not you. They are the customer. It is there to benefit them, not you.
No, it does make total sense. Instead of repeatedly overriding .gitconfigs, I can now add this rule to ~/.gitconfig.
Ramsey Numbers: A Problem of Galactic Proportions
And deal with the physical stuff ( racking, cabling, cooling, electricity, DCs) and networking stuff ( high quality redundant networking routers, switches, firewalls, the engineers that can use them) ? It's quite possible it would cost more than $400 million / year to do all of that properly at a global scale, and a big part would be paid upfront.
As an agnostic atheist person there is one thing that freaks me out more than anything, when someone who is religious asks me, "If you don't believe in god, what stops you from just going around and killing people?"

My answer is typically, "Is your belief in god the only thing that prevents you from just murdering people? That is disturbing."
Disney is an enormous company, owning pretty much everything in the media world, dwarfing other hollywood companies.

It has a Market Cap of $320b, way bigger than Sony, Time Warner, Viacom and MGM put together.

Apple on the other hand is worth about 7 times as much as Disney.
I'm the 0.01% of people who aren't happy that it's using QMK. Previously it had it's own mouse firmware, and I wish it was still actively maintained for this and the Ploopy Nano.

Due to the new QMK firmware, the Ploopy cannot be used simultaneously with some very expensive KVMs and KMs. That's because they are all built on the assumption that they are connected to one keyboard and one mouse.

I have tons of great QMK keyboards and I can't use them with the Ploopy on these switches because of this.
An interesting factoid: though that was the original (and etymologically correct) meaning of the word "factoid," the meaning has since shifted. The word can now also mean "a briefly stated and usually trivial fact."

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid