skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That a corrupt judge/government incited you to collaborate with another corrupt government's political police doesn't change the fact that this collaboration took place.

Without abiding by Godwin's law, "i was merely operating under local regulations" is a well-known defense of nazi collaborators during WWII and was considered an invalid argument then and now.

If you ever receive a court order ordering you to kill someone, will you do it without even giving it second thoughts just because it's a local law?!

See also: milgram experiment, stanford experiment, and in general social studies on the authoratitive/fascist mindset.
There's a duplicate posting, with your comment.
The Spiral Staircase Myth (2020)
> Nobody will agree with me on this

Why do you think that? I imagine a lot of people think AGI is a pipe dream for now.
As one who cares deeply about the Bible, my comment upon it is that it’s super inaccurate in style and doctrine, and very clearly draws considerably upon extrabiblical sources. As simple examples, the Old Testament section (whose faults are more obvious than the Synoptic Gospels section) talks of Jesus, who wasn’t yet born; treats “Satan” in a way that is clearly inspired by Christian writings from hundreds of years after Jesus, entirely unsupported in the Old Testament (the concept of a supernatural devil as part of their religion is largely just not found in the Old Testament, it being introduced after the exile; if you look for “satan” transliterated in the Old Testament, you tend to only find it in 1 Chronicles 21:1, Job 1–2 and Zechariah 3:1–2, and “devil” is nowhere at all in the Old Testament) and not really supported by the New Testament either; talks of the Holy Ghost and kingdom of God/heaven in a way also entirely absent in the Old Testament, but more after the style of the New Testament (true of a few more things as well); and talks of angels as mortal and capable of evil in a way entirely unsupported by both testaments, but present in various subsequent Christian teachings. It’s frankly more an imitation just of the style of formal English from a few hundred years ago, with some religiosity in its content, but not in the slightest bit plausible or coherent as far as something that would actually be in the Bible.

(It’s fun taking things seriously and seeing where it gets you.)
It'll be magic when it can minimise to system tray
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Yes, true. Jumping ship for money is a motivation to mull for sure. Sometimes you can't say no, it's just too significant in terms of finance. Sometimes it's worth considering that the extra $ will change other pressures (perhaps rent on something close to work that will give back 2 hrs a day travel time, perhaps more / better childcare, perhaps pay off short term debt and change the dynamics of your finances). But, yeah, moving for money can screw things up.

My advice (fwiw) is move for growth. Can you identify something that will change your CV for the good about the new gig. If so then the extra money is essentially paying for your next job - you will be able to find something even better (hopefully p>0.??) after, if this one doesn't work out.
It’s not that mid to senior people are rare, it’s the expectations get high enough most can’t stay in the field. Mid is generally generally viewed in term of years of experience not talent.

Someone that’s good but not great with 7+ years of experience is going to have a rough time as are any senior people that picked the wrong software stack.
Google Backup & Sync is being replaced by Google Drive for Desktop, née Google [Drive] File Stream.

Unlike Dropbox, where filenames are searchable by name on Everything, here that doesn't seem to happen -- at least the indexing takes more than 15 minutes with UI frozen.

An interesting tidbit: Google Filestream allows mounting on a folder. Google Drive for Desktop doesn't support it yet. Another interesting tidbit: the configuration settings in Google Drive for Desktop was migrated to a JSON setting stored on a registry setting (just in case you try following the settings of Google Drive Filestream).
Better use it when you time travel. Precise calculation or you’ll end up floating in space. Good thing it’s fictional.
Are you comparing Nature’s evolution marvel Vs a factory process, ensured to maximise profits?

Well you may not be far tho.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/motorbike-riders-risk-impote...
User or component safety? I think in general electronics do not require much in the way of user safety (Ofcourse I exclude power electronics and other high-energy systems) beyond how to properly use measurement devices.
Component safety, eg: the art of not killing your semiconductors is another beast entirely
Thanks for the clarification, and for making your homepage much more honest in regards to your privacy policy.

May i ask what's the difference in regards to the law between being compelled to modify your systems to record an IP address (which i heard was the fact in this case) and to backdoor OpenPGPJS? From my technical perspective it sounds exactly the same, but i'm unfamiliar with swiss law.
Could this be the first step to migrate away from the folder sync? So eventually you would have just the virtual drive approach.

Not an expert here, but I believe the folder sync is technically more difficult to get right and there’s likely lot of edge cases that give you lots of trouble.
True about uninstallable for cheap phones at least eg. Boost mobile phone <= $150 from my experience. I've seen notification I can't swipe close, the voice mail app having built in ads...
>>It is undeniable that vaccination reduces hospitalization and infection rate.

This is completely irrelevant to my argument, yet you continue to repeat this point in an exercise of bad faith sophistry.

My argument is that vaccination does not provide herd immunity, and that thus the virus will continue to propagate until every one has been exposed to COVID, irrespective of the vaccination rate.

The point I'm making is that the argument that being vaccinated protects others is unsubstantiated. If anything, not being vaccinated leads to infection happening sooner, which leads to immunity much stronger than that conferred by vaccination.
The employer pays the contracting firm based on the timesheet, then the contracting firm pays the employee based on the timesheet/pay they were forwarded.

When there's a problem with the employee not being paid, the root cause often goes back to the employer blocking the pay in the first place.
> Reflecting back on it now, I realize that no one ever asked me to work as hard as I did. No one ever explicitly told me that I wasn’t doing enough work. In fact, a few colleagues in the company actively reached out to me to tell me that they saw how hard I was working and how much I had on my plate.

This really resonated with me, and is making me evaluate to what extent it's true for myself. I've seen a lot of burnout discussion lately, and this aspect sets this piece apart.
For anyone else wondering about MMT, fascinating: https://www.investopedia.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-4588...
When everything is inflation, nothing is.

When everything conflates to inflation, it stops people from realizing the real inflation happening right under them.
I don't know about Android but my last couple of experiences with Chinese-designed gear have been along these lines.

First was a DJI drone (this was a few years ago so might be different now). In order to even boot it up you have to download and run their firmware installer on a desktop computer (requiring internet access and potentially gathering God-knows-what data) with the drone plugged in. Then to use the drone you have to install their app which demands access to all sorts of things only tangentially related to the main function of the drone.

Second was a wifi security camera. I'd expect a wifi camera setup to go "turn on, connect to camera's access point, configure via web interface, reboot camera". This one was "install app, grant app all permissions, create account on company web page, verify email address, use account to log in to app, point phone camera at QR code on security camera, app autoconfigures camera with your wifi password, all video+audio goes to their servers, you may access it via (and ONLY via) their phone app."

We did NOT keep that camera much less buy any more of them.
That basically happened with Usenet's 'Eternal September'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
> Clearly that didn’t happen.

In the basket of goods that statistics use to "prove" there is no inflation.
Mutation doesn't happen with transmission. It happens with replication of the virus, which happens continually as long as there is a host.

The mutation rate is dependent on the size of the global population of virus carriers, so one country's policies with respect to covid are highly unlikely to have a significant impact on it.

And like I said, not vaccinating low risk groups could lead to herd immunity through natural infection faster.

Overall, there is very weak justification for a policy as heavy handed as forced vaccination (via instititonalized discrimination against the unvaccinated).
> but if it weren't for nationalism, my culture wouldn't exist today

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Frequently the conqueror gets culturally influenced by the people they conquer - especially 100+ years ago where totalitarian levels of control were much harder to implement.

Also when your people repelled the Germans, it might have more to do with cultural differences than nationalism - empires who succeed in holding on to capture territory are often those that absorb and incorporate the culture of the people they conquered.
I did food distribution to students last winter and... The kids are living on pasta & rice, the cheapest one near the ground in supermarkets. They've teamed up to try and buy larger quantities/lower price. Same w/ dairy and basic staples. The kids I met there probably won't handle that increase well.

I mean the nonprofit giving them food flyers were all 'give veggies, fruits, bottled/canned sauce, they're already only eating pasta and we've got them on that.'

I was a penniless student minmaxing food price/consumption, but this is a slaughter.
Yep, they have really come into their own - so much cool stuff in the Emacs ecosystem
The original statement went for "most Christian churches", not "most Christians" (what you'd get with your "weighting"). Maybe a useless metric but the one chosen up-thread.

Going from there to implicitly weighting by membership seems rather arbitrary: I could also claim to weigh by readership (or hours of reading, or any other metric that includes actually working with the text) which might give a pretty different result, given how the idea of individually reading and interpreting the Bible is a major raison d'être of Protestantism.
I've been using insync for years now. It's an alternative google drive client that also works on Linux. It works really well.

I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer
The idea of the gradient of a function is to ask this question:

When I jiggle the input, how much does the output change?

That can depend on where you're doing it. For f(x)=x^2, jiggling x around 0 results in almost no change at all:

f(-0.1) = 0.01
f( 0.0) = 0.00
f( 0.1) = 0.01

But jiggling around a value of 10 makes a much larger difference:

f( 9.9) = 98.01
f(10.0) = 100.00
f(10.1) = 102.01

Here, around the value of x=10, jiggling x up and down by 0.1 changes the output by about 2.

Experimenting a lot, you can discover that for f(x)=x^2 you will find that when the jiggling (call it j) is small, around a value x, the amount of change is roughly (2x)(j).

So roughly:

f(x+j) ~ f(x)+2xj

Gradient is usually expressed as "Rise over Run". The "Rise" here is the change in f, so it's f(x+j)-f(x), and the "Run" is j, the amount of jiggle, and what this has shown is that for f(x)=x^2, "Rise of Run", the gradient,
is (roughly) 2x.

You can write all that in code, but those are the ideas, and I hope it answers your question.
I think you are on to something.

The real opportunity here is to start an AWS insurance business.

Where you provide accident insurance for clients by charging 10% of <some estimate of expected monthly running cost>.

And spread the cost of mishaps over the clients you charge.

The trick is to define that estimate of normal cost. And also to certify that clients meet some minimum expectation of clumsiness.
Interesting human-readable DSL for specifying a relative location of near-by things with corresponding auto-generated "text visual art" diagrams.

In general, plantuml + Org Babel can be used to create diagrams in Emacs https://plantuml.com/zh/emacs
Grades are not really a reflection of well-being though. Not saying that she is not better off with the drugs, just that you failed to show that.

You can be a horribly depressed empty shell pf a human, but still "function" in society.
> we will have to get used to the population fragmenting into different groups with different chains of trust

This is becoming harder to do with the current culture wars. If each group would have respected the other that would have been possible, but it seems each group (especially the radical left if we are being honest) wants the other to comply to a new set of rules and philosophies. In schools, in the workplace and even when privately talking to each other. This makes it very difficult.
"Shed - A protective god who guarded against personal harm from wild animals or mortal enemies"

Was really hoping that this would continue with "... and who therefore gives his name to the garden shed / man cave", but alas there is apparently no such etymology
I'm just a middling go player but I'd say yes, the two are quite comparable and rooted, at least partially, in a similar aspect: Alpha doesn't care about margin of victory, only probability of victory. This leads it to play a much more influence/position vs territory oriented style at times in go, occasionally shockingly so.
How is the ⪒ used?
If we think about amount of money circulating in just stock market. That is not in other economy. Would it not be possible for money to flow into that pool? And increase in this would lead to increased prices. That is same money is being traded around and some new money flows into that amount?

Ofc, this is somewhat linked to valuations, but market could crash and it wouldn't decrease. Unless some people take money out of this circulation.
It's just like in authoritarian politics...
I'm so pleased to see this upvoted. Michael Redmond is unspeakably wonderful. He's a top professional player, is fantastic at explaining everything to a kyu player, and prepares his videos really dilligently.
Farewell – Etaoin Shrdlu
In EU phone verification should basicaly prevent cheating as phone:person has almost 1:1 correspondence, so once you ban (or shadowban) there's not easy way to bypass.
> Are anti-squatting laws unfair?

Yes. But France doesn't have anti squatting laws (contrary to UK/Netherlands), and for good reasons. Squatting was common practice (even encouraged) after WWII ended to rebuild communities, and there's even "requisition" provisions in the law so that people don't have to squat but the mayor/préfet can seize unused dwellings to house people (although this law is rarely applied).

Now, there are laws against home theft, which is a good thing. Nobody can just come into your residence while you're away for a week and squat it; only far-right media invent (from the void) cases like this but in practice, as a squatter you have exactly 0 legal protection if you do this, and you will be evicted instantly and thrown in jail.

On the other hand, if you squat an abandoned building and make it your primary residence, you have all the "residence" protections any tenant enjoys, including the right to a "fair" (cough cough) trial to determine your fate, the right to the trêve hivernale (evictions are suspended in winter, except in special cases like home theft), as well as the right to a minimum 2-month delay before eviction to find yourself a new accomodation.

I'd be happy to continue elaborating on why your argument is misinformed (and why people usually squat in the big cities not on the countryside) but this comment would be too long. Let me know if you have questions.
Your method sounds similar to the system I used for <http://literature.conman.org/bible/>. I also correct for spelling mistakes. Right now it only returns HTML, and only has the King James version of the Bible, but it was an example I wrote over 20 years ago to see about addressing Bible verses on the web.
Exclusive, I reckon.
The burden that promiscuity-derived HIV imposes on the healthcare system is not hypothetical.

And no, laws against high-risk sexual activity have to do with discriminating against a behavior, not a protected classes. Gay men are perfectly capable of being monogamous, and avoiding high-risk sexual activity.

But yes, you are advocating that people have their rights infringed upon, when you advocate for a vaccine mandate. And worse, you're being blatantly inconsistent, based on shallow ideological considerations.

Apparently virtue signalling as a supporter of gay rights, or supporter of the obese, is more important for vaccine mandate supporters than minimizing the costs that irresponsible behavior burdens society with. Or maybe minimizing the costs of irresponsibility isn't the real motivation at all - the real motivation is persecuting anti-vaxxer MAGA types, under the pretense of holding people responsible for the costs they burden society with.
Exactly why at a list I co-maintain I strongly suggested to exclude Electron apps and have a clear direction. This move draws objection to this day. For me, there’s value in a curated selection, not a collection of essentially everything there is. Sadly, the “awesome” part of the lists all too often loses its meaning, because everyone interprets it differently. Anything that’s opinionated cannot at the same time be public without washing out.
Actually, since the discovery of the multiple Hebrew text variants (including Pre-Septuagint) found in the Dead Sea Scrolls invalidated Jerome's argument against the Deuterocanon, I have yet to see a valid reason against their inclusion stand up against inspection.

Reviewing yours:

> * They were never included as part of the Hebrew canon of books

There is no evidence that there was a closed Hebrew Canon prior to the time of Jesus.

The Hebrew scriptures were divided into three parts - The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. While it's true the Law and the Prophets had solidified by the time of Jesus, there is no evidence that the Writings were closed, and every reason to indicate that they weren't (see Rabbi Akiba and his comments regarding Sirach, Esther, and the Gospels around 100 AD).

> * There is no evidence that they were included in the original versions of the Septuagint

I'm not sure why you think that is relevant?

> * Historian Josephus made clear that those books were not part of the canon

https://youtu.be/tRmlW954PwI?t=2678

> * Not one New Testament writer quoted from the Deuterocanon

Numerous Old Testament books, like Esther, that Protestants believe to be inspired are not quoted in the New Testament - does that make them not canonical?

Numerous non-canonical works, like the Book of Enoch, are quoted in the New Testament - does that make them canonical?

And anyway, it's interesting to know that the original KJV of 1611 (which included the Deuterocanon) included 11 cross-references in the New Testament to Deuterocanonical books, where it believe New Testament authors were quoting from or alluding to parts of the Deuteronincals. [https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/6316/what-d...]

> * Early church fathers did not consider them part of the Bible canon

This is inaccurate, look at the historical record: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/80280/which...

> * John Wycliffe, a catholic who included these books in his translation, still did not consider them of the same authority as the rest

"As Jerome saith" echoed down through history. Jerome, around 400 AD, mistakenly had some doubts, and those same doubts reverbated over the next thousand years. Both of Jerome's two core reasons for his doubts are now known to be wrong.

> * Even the council of Trent did not accept all the “apocryphal” books (e.g. 1 and 2 Esdras were excluded)

Not exactly. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2020/06/1-esdras...

> * The content of the books testifies against themselves with their inaccuracies, contradictions, and other problems that are not found in the traditional Bible canon

Actually that's not the case - their "problems" are the same as those from the rest of the Protestant canon. See https://youtu.be/tRmlW954PwI?t=651
> The difference now is that there are lies and conspiracies in different directions rather than a consensus of lies and conspiracy theories.

Quite the opposite, the once-thriving ecosystem of conspiracy theories is gutted now. Social networks did to it what industrial farming did to agriculture. It's one huge monoculture spanning nations, generations, languages and cultures. Even across the professed political alignments.

When once you were able to meet a person with crackpot beliefs in one area but seemingly sane in the other, now it's a wholesale deal. Listen to them rant about a single cliche conspiracy and you very much know their whole worldview on every issue down to the minute detail.
The kubernetes feature makes this problem much worse in my experience. Do you have it disabled?
Ah, I'm enlightened on another level, having looked up the quote now. Thank you -- that's TWO things I've learned today!
This specific API doesn’t attempt to handle any of the even vaguely interesting problems like versification translation or footnotes, or even more basic things like where paragraph breaks lie. Instead, it’s just verse-per-line stuff loaded into a relational database of four tables: verse ∈ chapter ∈ book ∈ translation, all indexed by auto-generated IDs rather than anything sane, leading to a supremely awkward and remarkably inefficient ID-based REST API that’s unreliable to boot. I’m afraid the more I look at it the more I say it’s simply bad, having been implemented rather than designed, so that it’s unfortunately just about useless for any actual purpose.
Nationalism itself has a lot to do with cultural differences. Especially Czech nationalism.

> empires who succeed in holding on to capture territory are often those that absorb and incorporate the culture of the people they conquered

Well I didn't notice a lot of Germans and Austrians speaking Czech, to be honest.