skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is that giving convicted prisoners opportunities to work is probably a big net positive.

The fact that you used the word "opportunities" to described "forced" really demonstrates the problem with the line of reasoning used to justify forced labor.

Forced labor is wrong. Always. Period.

> I would like to hear reasons why they shouldn't be able to work in a highly controlled, safe workplace.

Sure, if someone is in prison they should be able to work. They should have the choice to work. As soon as the labor is forced, then it is unacceptable, immoral, and anyone defending it is wrong.
My issue is that I use a scaled 4k monitor, and in order to get the mouse to move at a reasonable speed I had to put some xinput commands into my autostart script. It feels hacky, and just wish it had proper support.
This looks like a fantastic tool! Great work.
China has denounced crypto currencies once or twice a year since the inception of the concept. Considering they’re at the precipices of their own cryptocurrency it’s no surprise. They’re right on schedule with their denouncement.
In my book, E2E tests should be on a couple of basic, mission critical things and integration tests should pick up the rest. It's far, far better to have 10 E2E tests and 1000 integration tests than 0 E2E tests and 1500 integration tests because it picks up failures in your infrastructure or weird stuff like middleware that are probably system wide(ish).
Why does seafood soup imply shark fin soup? Are you not concerned with the ethical concerns around sharkfin soup?
> People who use Macs have been just closing and opening their computers for about a decade and not thinking about it.

Yes and no. There have been weird issues where the machine wakes but the screen stays dark and another where externally connected monitors won’t necessarily work on wake. Possibly some of this is connected fo the hell which is the dongle lifestyle.

Apple seems to have come out the other side of these issues with recent laptops/OS releases (last 18 months).
It's not an energy source, it's a battery.
Is it a fair point if every practical application of another system also results in the same? What is the point of differentiating -isms only based on what ends up happening if they all result in the same?

At least the theory of it being different is a distinguishing feature.
Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate black people. A third of black people will be incarcerated at some point in their lives. You're six times as likely to be incarcerated if you're black than if you're white.
This is a great idea where people can submit their own web servers that have some basic functionalities and are on the side would be users who gets points/karma for exploiting them under some threshold like 3 hours. Maybe something like DevCon's Capture-the-Flag but online.
Look at the code of gamed exploit that I've uploaded to GitHub, the app is written in Swift and it calls Objective-C runtime functions from it
> reveals that the person clicking it is in that demographic.

But you don't know who that person is [ until they create an account or give you info ]
You have to compare that against what was done instead. Their solution was to employ a few engineers to create a new contract-based test framework, which will also have to be maintained. I believe that counts as "significant" investment too, but the calculus has to be whether that is less costly than improving their E2E tests.
I had to do this with my ASUS Zephyrus G14 because it's an AMD-based machine and doesn't support a true Standby mode anyway. It's not the greatest coming from the Mac ecosystem where Sleep basically just works (well, most of the time, High Sierra screwed up a lot of things around that).

To my knowledge, it hasn't woken up without my input and Hibernate doesn't eat the battery alive while it's asleep.
A smartphone as reparable and upgradable as a framework laptop would be pretty neat. I’m not sure how possible that’d be though.
Learning something is different than using a memorizing technique. The former is for understanding and the latter is for putting impractical information. However, we may utilize the techniques to speed up or enhance the learning process.
Great to see a wallet that abstracts the blockchain to make it easier for users to get into the space.
> But if one considers a fact-check as its own content, then that may become a defining point in a future ruling or examination of 230

I believe that is why they, and other platforms in a similar position, use 3rd party "fact checkers." To try to legally skirt that. "It's not our content/fact check, it's from this unbiased third party. Don't look at us." They seem to have borrowed "plausible deniability" from some 3 letter agencies since it legally works well for them.

> To fight the spread of misinformation and provide people with more reliable information, Facebook partners with independent third-party fact-checkers that are certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Since we do not believe that a private company like Facebook should be the arbiters of truth, we rely on fact-checkers to identify, review and rate potential misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Their work enables us to take action and reduce the spread of problematic content across our apps.

https://www.facebook.com/journalismproject/programs/third-pa...
I bike to work with a dell xps 9343 and don't have any more problems with it waking from sleep unexpectedly. powercfg -lastwake and powercfg -waketimers can show what is causing the computer to wake up, and you can disable some of the modern standby settings like wake words with cortana or bluetooth. The same thing can happen with any other laptop, the default intel/microsoft settings leave a lot of possibilities and I have run into a similar issue with an X1 and a t580.
> fires are not caused by climate change

Maybe it's wrong to base the entire premise exclusively on climate change. I am pretty sure we had forest fires before the current age. For example, 1920s in California were particularly bad. Sierra Nevada forests were on fire and even made it all the way down to Oakland and Berkeley resulting in hundreds of homes being lost.

Facebook's fact checkers need to be a bit more educated and exercise greater finesse regarding these types of subjects.
No, Nazi insignia buffs are far more likely to be (or sympathise with) Nazis than random people. It's a real problem anong historical reenactors (who are otherwise awesome imo, nothing cooler than living history.)
Facebook is careful about this. On the fact check in question, Facebook only says "Missing Context" and "Independent fact-checkers say this information is missing context and could mislead people." Only if you click through to the independent site do you see a specific claim labeled as misleading: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores...
Well, it's straight from a citation from Loyola Law School. Following the citation takes us to Maya Lau's article titled, "Inked with a skull in a cowboy hat, L.A. County sheriff’s deputy describes exclusive society of lawmen at California station"[0]. This article makes no mention of The Executioners or the tattoo they use. For that you need to look at another LA Times article titled "After decades of problems, new allegations surface of a secret clique within L.A. County Sheriff's Department".[1] If we find the relevant quote in that article here's what we get.

"Aldama described a tattoo on his calf as a skull with a rifle and a military-style helmet with flames surrounding it. On the helmet are the letters “C P T” for Compton."

So at some point "military-style" was switched to nazi. I don't know why, but since there's apparent conflict let's do our own research. Googling Nazi helmet gave me plenty of images, and they generally have a large flare on the back and the brim turns up. The helmets also seem to typically have badges on the side and I didn't see any that had a band on them like in the tattoo. I think these helmets look far more like the type worn by US troops in the Vietnam war.

[0](LA Times) https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-palmdale-sheriff-t...

[1](LA Times via Archive.is) https://archive.is/gNquP
Yeah the size of the boy half goes from say 5% to 95% around the circle, on both sides. In the 12 boys configuration the halves are paired correctly to add up to 100% sized boys. But in the other, there are 12 boys smaller than 100%, and then at 8 o'clock two 95% pieces appear together so we round them up to two. Neat illusion.
An mathematical perspective on this problem is if you consider the German system as a transformation from a FPTP to a Popular Vote system:

Let's say you have a FPTP system with a total of D direct seats. To evaluate how distorted the FPTP vote is, you run a PV election in parallel. Let's say a party wins 'd' out of the 'D' FPTP seats. The party is over-represented if

d/D > PV_percentage

How do you fix this? Step 1: Introduce a scale factor 's' that increases the number of seats. You choose a minimal s > 1, such that for all parties:

d/(s*D) <= PV_percentage

In particular, for the most over-represented party the less-equals will become an equals. Step 2: Award additional seats 'x' to all other parties, until the invariant becomes equal for all of them:

(d+x)/(s*D) == PV_percentage

Perfect! Now, in the German system the 's' is additive (s'+D) rather than multiplicative (s*D). But you can always transform:

s*D == ((s'/D)+1)*D == s'+D

Originally, the system set s' to a fixed s'=D (implying s=2). With the rationale that parliament ends up with half FPTP seats and half additional (list) mandates. But, of course, then you can't scale past s=2 in Step 1 and end up with "Überhangmandanten". Since 2011 the new constraint is s>=2, making the size of parliament variable.

This year, the CSU is predicted to get around 43 (out of 299) direct seats, but less then 5% of the popular vote. So:

43/(s*299) == 0.05 // s=2.88 and sizeof(parliament)=s*299=861

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Imo, the solution would be to reduce D (the number of direct seats) and increase the number of list seats (s'). For example: D=200 and s'=400 (implying s>=3), which leaves more headroom for over-represented parties. Another lever would be to change from FPTP to approval voting as froh said.
Apple is also selling app install ads in the News and Stocks apps. Tens of billions of dollars are spent on app install ads on iOS each year, so this is a very lucrative market for Apple if they can corner it (and probably necessary if they are going to achieve expected Services revenue growth in the years to come). It remains to be seen whether they’ll take another crack at the rest of the ad market, after the failure of iAd. They seem to be laying the groundwork for it.
Facebook microtargeting by German parties during elections exposed
I can echo this sentiment, I work as Senior SRE at a FAANG, I always though I wanted to work at a FAANG because it would be exciting, high pace, and use lots new technologies. Well most of the time it's incredibly boring. The only difference between where working at a FAANG and a regular old fortune 500 is that people who don't work at a FAANG think my job must be amazing.
Project Build Systems
BMW still does crash testing on finished products (end-to-end tests)... which would cover glove compartment too and how it affects overall safety... (perhaps it breaks up into pointy objects on crash, maybe it opens randomly during driving causing safety issues...)

You wouldn't build a car without doing test drives at the end... or crash testing... or certifications.
>Bitcoin people are trying to decentralize the world. Make the powerful less powerful. Free humanity from debt economies, inflation, weak fiscal policy and the slow theft of fruits of your labor.

I have looked at lots of potential money systems and I'd say most cryptocurrencies fall into the usual deflation speculation death that lots of government currencies (especially during the gold standard) have fallen victim to.

In fact, most currencies are heading down that route. The euro and yen are prime examples. It's kind of funny how people shout about inflation the most when it's been super low for a long time. They complain about inflation when their real problem is that they have no bargaining power because inflation target policies are also supposed to inflate wages. Bitcoin also doesn't solve the rentier problem with land. If your purchasing power magically increases with Bitcoin then the land owner just gets more of your money.

I am really tired of the anti debt crap. The only reason people would be against debt is that there are crazy people who are out of touch with reality who insist on permanent positive interest rates. Just think about the absurdity of hating debt when interest rates are negative. It's simply illogical.

>AntiBitcoin people are trying to centralize the world. Empower the already powerful.

Deflation is empowering the rich. That's what positive real interest rates do. If you have a lot of Bitcoin and Bitcoin goes up in value then you get more gains than a poor person with very few Bitcoin. Inflation and negative interest rates hurt those who are rich the most and hurt those who have very little the least.

>Stamp that boot onto the face of humanity forever.

Is this supposed to be some kind of joke?

>Ensure that the state can always rob its people of their savings and lifes work, and force compliance with weak fiscal policy, negative interest rates.

Savings are literally just a reduction in demand for labor. Reducing your demand for labor doesn't make anyone wealthier by itself. It's only because there are other people who want that labor that saving even earns a return. You are basically paid to reduce your demand so that other, more productive people get to have the scarce labor. If you reduce your demand for labor and nobody ends up demanding the freed up labor then you basically worked for nothing. The entire point of inflation and negative interest rates are to get this fact into your damn head. You are piling up a bunch of potatoes that spoil before you eat them. Stop that.
This works really well.

I remember winning a bet about who could retain a 30 (or 20 ?) digit number the longest - I won.

I also used this in primary school to memorize schoolwork for exams, etc.

Despite not using it actively for years I can remember the phonetic alphabet and can still "transcode" numbers to words to images and back well enough. I suspect I might be using a snatch of it here and there for a bit of a memory boost once every few months or so.

I'm the end I abandoned the technique, because it felt like I was "polluting" my memory with extraneous and distracting information.

Reading about memory palaces now make me think of trying them out again, it sounds like they bypass the noisy/distracting aspects of transcoding the information to nonsense associations to make them stand out.

I've taught the loci system to my son in the original Greek context to memorize speeches and they work well.
Yes, I believe he has a Dr. Matrix story in which Dr. Matrix attempts to do this and gets arrested.

Edit: "Sing Sing" in The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix.

> In desperation he did a foolish thing. He tried to make some twenty-dollar bills. His method was bizarre and surprising. With a paper cutter he sliced each of fourteen bills into two parts, cutting them neatly along the broken vertical lines on each of the schematic bills shown on the left side of Figure 4. [...]

> Unfortunately—or rather, fortunately—the United States
government places duplicate serial numbers at opposite
comers of every bill, and most of the numerologist's new
bills therefore bore pairs of serial numbers that did not
match. True, Dr. Matrix's method of making new bills was
not exactly counterfeiting—he merely "rearranged" the
parts of genuine bills. Nevertheless, the Treasury Department took a dim view of his work and it was not long until he found himself firmly confined within the matrix of cells at Sing Sing.

(note that although Gardner is best known as a nonfiction writer, the Dr. Matrix stories are fictional)
Those were the bad old days. There are pools now, like the old Seti@Home program. If your mining pool wins you get the percentage of the reward relative to the hashes you tried.

You can try to go it alone but your chances of finding the block reward are incomprehensibly low.
I wonder how much rep, has to do with who decides to up vote? If you see Jon Skeet answer, people will up vote him more than the average user with 5k. This is a subjective opinion of course.
Under no circumstances should you leave a laptop powered on and in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag, backpack, or in an overhead bin. The laptop will overheat as a result of that action.

IOW, all modern Dell laptops are defective by design. Crazy that they can ship something this broken and stay in business...
Feeding the algorithms should be paid.
"Modern Standby"

Good language example here: "Modern" is nearly always an advocacy word. Literally it just means "up to date", but in fact it is almost always used in the sense of "this should be the successor of what you currently have, you should feel bad about what I designate as outdated". Sometimes this is justifiable, but...
In the video, it also says "climate change is real", "climate change has made things worse", and "CA warmed up by 3 deg in the last 50 years". And they blame the CA gov for stopping controlled fires in the last couple of years for no real reason that made this huge time bomb that we've experienced. There is nothing misleading in that.
Methane is fairly short-lived in the atmosphere, at only 12 years, so it probably wouldn't be particularly effective at terraforming mars. Perfluorocarbons or sulfur hexafluoride can stick around for thousands of years, so they would probably be a better place to start.
> started turning on just because the lid was open.

Fridges have this problem too, but if you’re taking one of them on a plane it’s your own fault.
Woody.

(I just like the word. It gives me confidence. Gorn ... gorn. It's got a sort of woody quality about it. Gorn. Gorn. Much better than `newspaper' or `litterbin')
You paid for the transaction in CNY which is perfectly legal & normal (I would assume). The volume of exports from China is crazy and investigating every single transaction is not practical.
Why don't we instead give all humans full universal access to all knowledge, science and technology, instead of feeding books into black box 'AI' for 'summaries'?

Why should an 'AI' have universal access to this material, and not the working class? Especially the working class in the global south. They are so far from universal access. It's only a matter of time before the capitalist academia comes down on emancipatory initiatives/projects (yet capital disrupting), like Sci-Hub.

I write 'AI' because i see the pursuit of a general artificial intelligence in the labs of the propertied class (on their own profit-seeking, commons-hostile terms), despite the fact that there is widespread suffering caused by today's global production system, as a disgusting joke.

The supposed inevitability of today's widespread suffering across the world is a false truth pulled over our eyes by the propertied class.

World peace and full equality in this new digital age is a matter of priorities.
Building a production ready Flutter Web App
Yes. The latch might not be strong enough to handle the centrifugal force when driving hard, or vibrations, etc.

You don't need to go out to the track once per tweak of course. You could very well do a few laps to test out the whole system once in a while.
I did this accidentally with an old Latitude in a backpack, and either the laptop woke up or the fan kept blowing while Windows was asleep, and when I opened the bag it was HOT!! Freaked me out, thankfully no damage to anything, but this may have caused the hard drive issues I had if the drive was working while in transit.

These reasons are why I use hibernate or shutdown before transit, and I have my lid settings to hibernate upon closed (plugged in or battery), just to be safe.
I feel like a traditional expert system would work a lot better in Slay the Spire at this stage. The choices you make in the game are all highly interrelated so I'm not sure they can be broken down into separate agents like that.

For example, when deciding what cards to play you often need to take into account what is coming up next on the map; it is not sufficient to consider only how to win the current fight. Relics such as incense burner carry over their turn counters between fights and so it's a strong strategy to delay the end of the current fight in order to set up an optimal incense burner number for the next fight. What number that counter should be is highly dependent on which enemies/elites/bosses you'll be facing in the next fight.

An expert system would have a database of every opponent in the game and when they are likely/guaranteed to appear and then seek to optimize the various conditions at the end of the current fight so that the next fight goes as smoothly as possible. I don't see how this could be accomplished with separate agents each attempting to play a different component of the game in isolation.
So this is apparently thought to be a number station (for military cryptography).

A bit of searching leads to

[1] the guy discovering it

[2] a software that can demodulate the signal

[3] that software's manual, which says (from page 28):

> JSM refers to a rather strange signal. The consensus is that it is transmitted by the Japanese navy. When one listens to it in USB mode it normally sounds like a continuous repetitive melody.
...

> With some investigation the symbol rate was determined to be 1500.00 baud. The regular ticking sound was found to be an exactly repeating sequence of symbols. Clearly that serves as a channel probe and frame synchronization pattern.

[1] http://www.ominous-valve.com/mystery.html

[2] https://www.saharlow.com/technology/sigmira/

[3] https://www.saharlow.com/technology/sigmira/sigmira_manual.p...
You need formatters with options so you set the options to fit your preferences and then when new people come in to the project you just say 'The formatter has no opinions, it just formats'
It's a popularity contest. Heavily favored towards those who came along when it first started off.
> if they break because you transportet them in a bag while hibernating.

Power consumption during hibernation is supposed to be zero - that is the concept of hibernation. What's happening there?
The same party that calls anyone less conservative than them "socialists" and "communists" interchangeably.

"Conservative" isn't an accurate term for the American Right because in any other industrialized nation they would be considered an extremist party even by the conservatives. They are authoritarians doing their best to unravel democracy.
Reminds me of the infinite chocolate trick,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpugKVitl0
Yes and I preordered one specifically because I want a first-class linux supported laptop with repair-ability in mind.

As far as I can tell it is living up to its hype.
Until today, the only thing I could imagine under "Alaskan pipeline" was, well, Alaskan pipeline. How naive I was.
The Data Integration Arms Race – Matillion's $150M vs. Fivetran's $565M
Do Facebook pay for those “third-party” “fact-checks”?
> If shoppers can't tell the difference without this analysis, then it implies that the price differential between these two products is larger than it should be.

Or that the shopper has misplaced trust in the seller/grocery store.
What if my ISP is a "bad actor?"

Using Tor is:

1. a huge PITA
2. a red flag
3. potentially exposing me to unsavory actors
The whole page is bullshit to argue for Right to Repair, et. al. Not that Right to Repair isn't important, but being weaselly on your web page is unlikely to gain supporters. Go ahead and click that "Get the Phone" button. Haha! We really want you to sign a letter that no one will read!