skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I no longer hold the view that our media deserves the first amendment protection that it does. Mainstream media right now has no other purpose other than being active vehicle of the powerful and billionaire oligarchs to control the narrative. When 70% of the media empire are owned by billionaires why are we pretending otherwise? How different is that than state sponsored media in North Korea?

If you take away the first amendment protection, doesn't that just mean that the government controls 100% of the media instead of 70% or whatever you think the number is?
even in US I only see 1vcore, 6gb ram option.
An 850 Pound Cannabis Brownie Just Broke the World Record
AM radio is even worse. It’s descent into fringe talk radio turned the ad side of the business into prostate pills and ads that are probably fake.

Radio used to mint money. I think what you’re seeing is the decline in the business led to consolidation, and now they are milking whatever they can get until they can sell the spectrum to someone.
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Sounds familiar...I was kinda that guy a lot. I also had a weird pride in being on HN, reading phys.org, participating in FOSS projects alongside scientific community members, meeting up with them and hosting them at my house...but also being so extra as to know even more than these scientists, in some incredible ways! I hoped someday they'd see the truth. (Sigh)

There's this power of location and meeting context in your example too. When I was young and not yet even part of leadership, we were taught to invite people to come to our favorite spiritual locations with us. Then, while there, we would gently and firmly declare our beliefs and ask the other if they could deny that they felt the truth in it...and by that point they are, even just relationally speaking, posed with one hell of a problem.

BTW organizing funerals for people you don't know very well is stressful AF.
In Europe, we don't use chargebacks in most cases. Unless the payment was truly fraudulent (i.e. you cannot get hold of someone who issued the payment or they are not in business of doing things they charged for), you have to use proper legal means of settling the dispute. As you may imagine, the life is too short for things of such kind, especially with multi-billion corps. Anyway, dug up the email:

Please note that all payments are due in full on the monthly anniversary date. Failure to remit payment for services on the monthly anniversary date will result in a $20 late fee. If full payment has not been received within five (5) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, termination of public access to Customer services and a $50 reconnect fee will be incurred. Failure to remit payment for services within seven (7) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, shall result in termination of access to the service network and all services shall be reclaimed.

And the T&Cs link: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms?id=Z126-6304... To my pleasant surprise, the T&Cs are quite a readable document. As you see, they call them fees, not fines.

The https://www.ibm.com/cloud/pricing page also says they offer loans, leasing, and other kinds of financing.
He already had a reputation for using abusive language in emails to employees, but the treatment toward his investors was yet another shock.

Abusing employees is more or less expected, out in techland.

Ruffle investors' feathers, however, and there may be consequences.
CSS - Yes. JS - Not since 2015, I'll admit that is somewhat recent. HTML IDs - IDs are only good if they're unique. Since HTML had no notion of scope, they became global. Shadow DOM is the web platform answer for modularization, however any JS framework will allow you to slice your CSS and HTML in components.
I would do that to my coworkers. Or, Xroach.
Obligatory Bryan Cantrill rant on Oracle: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s
To the first point, I think I agree, and in general, I personally would like workers to run "against the rule of law" more than they do now, where it is in their interest. I think it's plain to see that the rule of law is generally not in their interest, so I think they should do what they can, but I get that is probably an unpopular opinion here.

To the second point, I don't think we need to decide on the fineness of either, in order to understand their qualitative difference.
The sales pitch for icons is that they can be better than words for some purposes.

The play/pause icons on a miniature Japanese cassette player are a good example. No need for localization, efficient use of space, learn them in a couple of interactions. Now universal.

‘Icons are good sometimes’ is not a spit on words.

I’ll happily concede that icons are hard to look up. Tooltips are a smart mitigation for this problem, where available.
I'm a exec, I'm not that creative.

I could work real hard and try to provide more value to consumers and attract more customers, but as I said that's hard work and I'm not very creative so it may not even pan out.

I could also say, "Increase advertising by 5%!" and in the short term gain the same rewards as the other option, maybe even more. Then put that success story on my resume and move on.

At some point shareholders decided they wanted the second option. They all move on quickly as well.
But in today's reality, there is a lot of Javascript that is getting "downloaded and installed" into your browser's cache. It's all being managed for you and it mostly works.
You should try the Visual Studio debugger one day. It's kinda the yardstick for graphical debuggers.

gdb is a fine tool, but I think the VS debugger is reasonably described as "next level".

Many people don't know about Microsoft's other debugger, WinDbg. It's actually more capable than the VS debugger, but the UI is closer to that of gdb.
Huh? If it's not official software then it's not Google's problem and they don't care. If it is official software then it would still be there post-wipe and therefore it wouldn't be difficult at all to ensure that the issue has been resolved. Of course, that's all moot because wiping the device wouldn't be a step to take in the case of a driver (or other software) issue anyway.
This is a very interesting thought to explore! We have this cultural default to assume that people back then were less smart than us. But we really are exactly the same but we have a better starting point then they did to build interesting things.
Okay. So what's the actual argument? All I can pull out of it is insults and sarcasm toward the GGGP, along with an assumption about what GGGP would do in a different scenario.

What is GGP's actual argument for why GGGP is wrong?
I've had an account for a couple of years and I might have received a survey email once, but otherwise I have received only things like notifications about infrastructure changes and there haven't been many of those.
This is cool.

I'm also working on a decentralized distribution mechanism based on torrents, and while i've being working on a different architecture, the network mechanism are basically the same with a couple of differences on the network level.

In my case i'm working on a very customized version of chrome where the web api is actually available for native applications beyond Javascript.
So basically, an integer overflow causes the whole mess. I wish I could say that I was shocked, but here we are.
Google won't raise employee pay to match inflation
Did you miss the part where they tried to burn the entire computing industry to the ground so they could get a few bucks out of Google? I wouldn't touch anything related to Oracle with a fifty foot pole, that shit is radioactive.
per wikipedia (hence the interest in twistors, spin spaces and clifford algebras in physics):

Quaternions also capture the spinorial character of rotations in three dimensions. For a three-dimensional object connected to its (fixed) surroundings by slack strings or bands, the strings or bands can be untangled after two complete turns about some fixed axis from an initial untangled state. Algebraically, the quaternion describing such a rotation changes from a scalar +1 (initially), through (scalar + pseudovector) values to scalar −1 (at one full turn), through (scalar + pseudovector) values back to scalar +1 (at two full turns). This cycle repeats every 2 turns. After 2n turns (integer n > 0), without any intermediate untangling attempts, the strings/bands can be partially untangled back to the 2(n − 1) turns state with each application of the same procedure used in untangling from 2 turns to 0 turns. Applying the same procedure n times will take a 2n-tangled object back to the untangled or 0 turn state. The untangling process also removes any rotation-generated twisting about the strings/bands themselves. Simple 3D mechanical models can be used to demonstrate these facts.
Shape just means instance sizing.

I was presented two options:

1: 1vCPU 2GiB ram

2: 2vCPU 8GiB ram

(Or something, my memory is awful and it was a long time ago now. I remember a friend of mine who works at oracle was walking me through.)
Try it on a sentence where all tokens are lower/upper case. It just doesn’t really work.
Even if you're not doing OOP you're modeling your domain in one way or another. Whether those models are explicit and expressive or not, and how you define those qualities, is another question. In neither case are the arguments to a particular function typically a concept in your domain
(Oh and by the way, as I mentioned in the comment you replied to, the fifth amendment DOES NOT PROTECT SPEECH. That's the FIRST amendment. The FIFTH amendment protects AGAINST SELF-INCRIMINATION.)
the science says that one vaccination is still sufficient to prevent severe disease, and that it is uncertain that additional boosters will reduce transmission on a country wide basis- things will still spread among the unvaccinated, booster hold outs, and those whos antibody titers have gone down after 3 months. It is absolutely not scientific consensus, then, that universal boosters are necessary or would be sufficient to end the pandemic.

I absolutely would not recommend getting a vaccine booster shot every 3 months. Your plasma cells are not meant to proliferate to that extent.
Einstein is a bad example cause he was very recent also.
> their API is the same

> in fact, they are isomorphic

> The change is simple and the code remains almost the same, but the understanding grows a lot.

Does that mean you could rename 'class Quaternion' to 'class Rotor' and be done? I watched the video on rotors and some other videos on quaternions and I found them exactly as unintuitive as each other. I don't really see any advantage to using rotors and I'm quite happy to continue treating quaternions as black boxes.

The article says that rotors are better since they can be generalized to any number of dimensions, unlike quaternions which only work in 3D. But that only seems useful to one person: Marc ten Bosch, the guy who writes games in 4D.
is there a best-of format for it?
Have any of these restrictions been on people operating entirely on public property? The only ones I've ever seen typically entail trying to block access entirely, something that by definition almost requires access to private property unless you have a ton of people, which most picket lines don't.
This is a beautiful landing page for what looks like a beautiful project. Nicely done!
quite. inside docker, on a VPS with only other instances of that container running, uploading to an S3 bucket using IAM write-only privs, and the instance gets automatically cycled every hour.
Yes! Image capture is all about light!

If you want to see better, install really bright lights!

I think people put way too little light into their homes. Most homes are dark caves. You could probably add ten times as much light to an average living room and it still wouldn't be anywhere near as bright as an average day outside.

It's amazing what a difference more light makes.
I gave up on this. There was too much extraneous stuff to make it worth my continuing.
> What we consider attractive (boobs, ass etc) comes from society.

I seriously doubt it. The main things that men find attractive are genetically programmed.

It's true that secondary things come from society (ankles as you say, beauty marks, long necks (hence the need for neck rings), etc), but that doesn't mean that a blank slate man would find long necks and breasts equally attractive.
That is finally an actual argument.

The problem with treating such environmental cleanup as just another cost, is that it's just another cost. It may be economical to just do the damage, or at least to cut corners such that there's an "unreasonable" risk of doing the damage. After the fact, you can always push for low-ball cost estimates, try to cap your max payout to that level, push back on actually doing the work and paying out (though as I've said in another comment, the article does a poor job of explaining if that's really happening). It's a case where "it's easier to ask forgiveness" has huge problems.

I think tax write-offs should be for "legitimate costs of doing business". If the damage was foreseeable (which is not really dealt with in the article, except very obliquely below) and the company is not cooperative in cleanup, there's an argument that it should not be deemed a "legitimate cost of doing business", as to do so only encourages repeat events. It isn't second punishment.

> It took years for the extent of the spill to become known. Taylor disclosed almost nothing about the accident and fought public records requests. The reality unspooled thanks to the persistence of environmental groups, investigative reporting, and revelations from a dizzying array of suits and countersuits.

> According to a later review by the Coast Guard, Taylor Energy was “obstinate, difficult to deal with and verbally combative,” and preferred “to employ stall tactics over cooperation with an intention to confuse, delay or misdirect” the government.
> rebuild the licenses around it

Isn't it all GPL?
I inherited a glowforge from a failed business venture. I can't say I'd recommend that brand for serious works, among other things it requires an always on internet connection and need to re-process your files after every run.

It is very easy to use though, and aside from normal maintenance and one $1600 hardware failure that I had to pay out of pocket to fix, it's been generally rock solid and zero configuration/tinkering. Just reliable results every time.

For serious work I'm looking at an omtech laser. They're basically inexpensive chinese laser cutters that have a parts warehouse and support in north-america.

Their entry level machine is less than a grand, so I'd probably recommend one of those instead of a glowforge to start with. I only really have experience with the glowforge, but even if I wasn't price-sensitive the time it takes to process the designs and the SaaS business model would mean I probably wouldn't get another one.
And here we have the root of the disconnect between wall-clock time and stopwatch time.

In short: How long it takes to cook an egg doesn't change because someone inserted a leap second.

Of course, when people try to do the obvious thing, and measure time durations using a wall clock, that's when the fun begins. In that world, "a day from now" is not a consistent number of seconds in the future, due to the aforementioned leap seconds, daylight savings time, and, potentially, time zone shifts if the person doing the measuring is traveling, or is (or, perhaps, was) in a particularly "interesting" jurisdiction.
Congrats, you “won” on an issue that wasn’t an issue and missed the actual problem.

Since the 90s, there has always been a mainstream private option. Be it Nextel, BlackBerry PIN, prepaid phones, iMessage, FaceTime, etc. Now that’s gone, and fringe stuff like Signal isn’t a replacement.
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Use a virtual card for everything, block it if you don't like something.
During the Manning trial and sentencing, the prosecution and their witnesses finally admitted that there was no evidence that anyone was harmed from the releases.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-mannin...
Because the objective of Microsoft's recruitment was not just to acquire talent, it was to diminish their leading competitor.
Living space is just one dimension, the value of which varies for people. Other dimensions include light, noise, and proximity to amenities and jobs -- and the last factor is by the far the most important for most people.

Why is proximity to amenities and jobs so important? Many people spend hours of their lives driving themselves from home to work, the grocery store, really anywhere of interest and back. Driving is such a strong requirement we rarely revoke drivers licenses, even when drivers kill others through their negligence. Driving is expensive (costs thousands per year), dangerous (drivers kill 30,000 people a year), and leads to a sedentary lifestyle that is bad for your health. The quality of life impacts are massive.

From personal experience: living and working in San Francisco I would easily hit 10,000 steps per day just going about my daily life. When visiting the car-dependent suburb I grew up in for the holidays, that dropped to almost zero. It's no wonder obesity rates, life expectancy, and therefore quality of life is lower in these areas.

Only the wealthy with the money and time to spend on exercise (in addition to the extra transportation costs) are able to mitigate these deleterious harms. Car breakdown? You are literally unable to do anything, and incur massive costs in emergency repairs in addition to possibly losing your job. The poor are more likely to defer maintenance and buy older vehicles, so they are likely to fall into a vicious cycle of payday loans due to a something like this.
I refinanced with the at the beginning of this year. If they had a toxic internal culture they did a great job hiding it from their customers, because I had an amazing experience with incredible customer service.

I'm not saying the culture isn't toxic, I'm saying it's surprising how well they hid it.
This is the first time I've ever felt that Wayland is missing something important
Nobody is talking about "hammering a website with thousands of requests per second with the intent of taking it down." They're flooding an application process so that Kellogg HR can't find any real people in the giant pile of fake applications. Taking the website down is not a goal.
> Java was revived

Java probably should have had a DNR on file.
And to their credit they've been fantastically successful. I enjoy many things in my day-to-day life by Microsoft provided "free" of charge.

Take that for what you will.
>the fact you think insurance companies are accountable is laughable.

Accountable is obviously relative.

BigCo at least wants one thing you know about, money, and that makes them far less capricious and far easier to deal with than government where you don't know any of the incentives that the people who (with several layers of indirection) set the KPIs for the person you are actually dealing with.

As evil as they are I'll take Comcast over some random state org any day.

Having a public option as a backstop would probably be good but I don't think I want a public option that covers routine stuff, GP visits, a broken bone. Stuff with a well bounded upper limit like that tends to be handled well by private insurance so long as there's competition (see auto insurance for example).
At one point, new-on-the-scene O'Reilly Books put out a very small book of "smileys," including buttons. I want to say 1992 or 1993. I wonder if I still have it.
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> which causes the renderer to overwrite the earlier text making it invisible

No. It does not overwrite anything nor does it make anything invisible. The only thing the codepoints you're referring to can do is make things appear out of order (and that's a bug in editors for not rendering them as special characters, not a bug in Unicode). There are invisible codepoints (such as ZWSP) but they also have are also necessary and again, a failure to render them as special characters is an editor bug. And they don't make anything else invisible.

(* There have also been other editor/renderer bugs such which might result in crashes or disappearing text, but those are from failures to be compatible with Unicode, not from Unicode)

You need to go read the paper I linked (which is linked from your blog post), not a 3 paragraph blog post.

If you think that these are errors in Unicode, then I have some errors in ASCII and a text editor that treats NUL as end-of-file to sell you. Control characters have always been necessary and will always be necessary.

> eurt ton

I'm not even going to address that other than to say LOL
_But muh hashes_ is not going to help you "enforce" anything as soon as any of this enters the material world.

In the material world, all the problems of e.g. being at war are identical regardless of the medium of your claims.

Can you "enforce" the flow of Ether? Oh yes. Enjoy.
No but Handshake does use coins which I assume to be some sort of blockchain "Handshake uses a coin system for name registration"
Borland staff also disappeared because M$ made them offers that they couldn't refuse. Departing engineers were offered megabucks salaries which lasted only a year or two, but were enough to decimate the ranks of Borland's talent and wipe out the company's skillbase. Of course, Borland wasn't the only competitor to receive this kind of attention from M$.

In the 1999 federal prosecution of M$ for antitrust, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that 'Microsoft used its "market power" to unlawfully "maintain its monopoly in the operating system market," violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Microsoft, the Appeals Court found, unfairly used its monopoly power to strongarm computer manufacturers, Internet access providers, Internet content providers, independent software vendors, and companies like AOL, Apple, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.'

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/07/09/the-microsoft-...
These sorts of things are still blockable through DNS and IP filters cutting off access to the root nodes and such I would guess.

As such, what is the use case?
I remember hearing rumors that microsoft would pay some developers $1 million a year and tell them to just take a vacation instead of work at borland.
The decision to put the /nix directory in the root rather than in /usr or /usr/local seems a deliberate provocation to any self-respecting distro. Since many binaries contain hard-coded paths, this isn't a decision that a distro can easily correct either.
Interesting it is still around, I knew a couple of people during the 1990's that were deep into it.

Alongside using Enlightenment as their window manager.

It was always cool to check their desktops.
My kids (4 & 6) saw real ads on TV for the first time in their lifes’ about a week ago. Otherwise they had always just watched netflix.
They watched disney channel on TV and were mesmerized by all the ads for toys. „Oh I want this one“, „and this one“, „dad can we buy that one?“.
Was bizarre to see that for them this was somehow really special.
> I really don't understand why annoying ads have't become extinct, in accordance with the Darwin principle.

Unfortunately it's because of the Darwin principle. While I hate them to death annoying stuff is more memorable than pleasant stuff - you can sit on a beach all day and get bitten by a mosquito at one point, you're definitely going to remember the mosquito more than hours of pleasant relaxation. Annoying loud crap gets our attention, I think, in part, because things that are annoying and loud are dangerous (both in the modern and historically) so we're trained to pay more attention to them. I wish it wasn't true but Advertising gains effectiveness from obnoxiousness - like if a marketing company could make your house smell like rotten fish every time they were blasting information about their insurance you'd sure as hell remember their name.