skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
911 also was used as pretext to attack Muslims/MidEasterners in America, yet discussing Afghanistan/Saudi/Al-Qaeda/Islamic extremism origins of the attack didn't get branded as racist.

The firm association in the public mind between the attacks and origins, as your comment for example demonstrates, is the part of that great PR success by China.
Here's to hoping you're awarded damages for pain and suffering, or at least get a nice settlement.
> Surely you don't expect people using keyboards without dedicated function keys (or number rows) are aiming to never need to use those keys?

I could imagine that some people never use the function keys. Or never use the numpad keys. To some people they might be completely useless... Which would make a smaller keyboard understandable.

Now, people who do need all those keys and yet still go for a smaller keyboard is harder for me to understand. :)

> The trade-off from fewer keys is reduced hand movement (& a smaller keyboard, cheaper to buy switches for, etc.), at the cost of additional complexity of use, & it not really being easy for anyone else to use your keyboard.

The trade-offs seem a bit one-sided. Hand movements are not a big deal unless you are going constantly back and forth between the main part and the nav cluster or the numpad. And all of these custom keyboards with their 60%, 67.5%, etc. sizes are already so… boutique and expensive that I don’t think that people are forfeiting a dozen or so keys in order to save some money.
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> I don't believe that anybody has ever alleged that SAT scores are a proxy for intelligence

MENSA accepts it for admission to their high IQ club.
At the top of your MacBook Pro, yes. They added a notch to those too, in the most recent iteration. It has not gone entirely without entirely predictable controversy.
This is called "teenage rebelion".

It's a real psychological thing.

Some say it's an evolutionary feature to prevent societal ossification.
That's exactly why we need governments to keep companies in check.
Why would an individual have to defend themselves against disasters when they are so simple to mitigate against collectively?
Essentially Plato is saying there is a concept of a "Noble Lie" that while untrue, could be told to society that results in a net improvement. His example is telling society that each person is imbued with the talent of Gold, Silver, and Bronze. The lie is that if people don't have the proper talent (soul) in each position, then their society will be overthrown. (eventually true but not as direct as told) So Silver people will be ensured their Gold children will do important Gold positions, and Gold people will be ensured their Bronze children will need to do manual labor, etc.

Yes there are, usually in the shorter plays. The Republic is famously dense and takes effort to read.

Here is a good overview of Plato's writings and which are recommended: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/a-platonic-r...

Also if it's highly rated on Goodreads, it probably has popular appeal translating to ease of reading: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/879.Plato

Stanford's philosophy library will help with explanations: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics-shorter/#11

TL;DR:

Apology

Symposium

Phaedo
I agree that you were wronged by these so-called ‘researchers’, but it’s also tragic that our legal systems are so bad that everyone fears them. The legal system should be a low-stress, reliable, and predictable way to avoid or reduce conflict, instead of a weapon of terror.
I'm not surprised they made an exception. Something cute and cheerful like this might go a little way toward improving people's notch-related dispositions, and in any case it is cute and cheerful so why not?
Other than those pesky maintenance issues for older plants, and their proven inability to build new ones at a reasonable price?
Anyone who thinks they (and all the rest) don't has Gell-Mann amnesia.
Only for hundreds of thousands of messages per day, that's way too big of a server. But if you look on the rest of the thread, it doesn't do only that.

Anyway, for a server that only does pub/sub with ACID guarantees, those specs are so large that there is certainly a bottleneck before they matter. So it wouldn't be strange if somebody gets one that can't even handle that, it just would mean that there is some issue somewhere we don't see.
I know just getting rid of facebook doesn't solve this issue as youtube, etc also suffer from it - but it is a good start.
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> whether the car is at a complete stop or driving freely down the highway.

I’ve seen the police on off ramps looking for people texting or whatever while they are stopped to give them tickets.

Not that it matters in the context of TFA but in certain (most?) jurisdictions it isn’t legal at all.
Sounds a lot like how many western military companies have turned to basically siphoning tax money without providing much value. Then they have the extra resistance of sanctions.

Without an environment were credible competitors could emerge I would imagine being an engineer within the Russian space program is not so much fun anymore.

It sucks to put your heart into something only to see it being messed up by management, no matter if management is in the US and blinded by VC-money and status, or through embezzlement in Russia.
Harassment on US soil, sure. That's under US perview and should be addressed by relevant US instruments. But freedom from consequences in a foreign jurisdiction? Besides being legally wrong, that's peak American exceptionalism. CCP is allowed to take anti-freespeech position on PRC soil, even triggered by incidents on foreign soil, that's PRC law (and HK NSL). They're not bound by US free speech, by design. PRC cancel culture involves flesh search and generating enough attention to warrant government action. Fixating on US definitions doesn't magically absolve the fact that there are consequences occurring on PRC soil according to PRC rules outside of US/host country purview.
And what is "the orthodoxy" in say Dallas, or Cheyenne?
Hm. I'm not sure that is actually really measuring supply so much as liquidity.
>As Facebook's services are increasingly the only way to interact with modern society,

Seriously? I use Facebook now and then but "only way to interact with modern society"? I don't know a single service I need that requires Facebook. One can think Facebook has too much power without making it out to be this all powerful overlord. I'd probably tend to lose contact with a few folks if I dropped Facebook but it's hardly essential.
And they have the (supposedly former) colonies providing nuclear fuel at the cost of protecting their environment and population. And abundant rivers with to cool down the reactors and destroy their local ecosystems. And very collaborative national media outlets who mostly don't cover the nuclear scandals due to being owned by Bouygues (french multinational well-known for telecoms but who also does a fair share of public construction including on the famous EPR) or by the french State.

Cozy situation!
> reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code

So I looked this up and it really exists.

I wonder if an account holder of a Facebook or Google account can use this law to get actual customer service.
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Don't think of it as a copy but a continuation of you. And why do you think I can't continue to live in a new body, brain included, cloned from my proprietary genome, with a digitally transmitted cache of my proprietary self which is electromechanically diagrammed from how my self has extended into my personal body over time?

And by the way, your judgment of permanent death is ignorant of the ancient Hellenic state of mind which actually germinated the European Scientific Revolution which your scientific thoughts are predicated upon. They didn't believe in death; indeed the Christian religious concept of the resurrection is paragonal to enlightenment scientific pursuits; in that the titans of Europe believed Heaven is justified. The "random-walk" experience of human cellular life which you are inferring is actually a century's old aberration in this great ascension of man towards everlasting life.
> Being poor in and of itself isn’t a globally accurate predictor of crime rate.

If you look at income inequality (with a few exception), it is not the sole predictor, but it gets you pretty damn close. Of course there are many other factors, but there is still an extremely strong correlation. After all, if the poor are not extremely disconnected from wealth, there is less incentive to resort to crime.

Income inequality is a much better measure of inequality than wealth inequality. Just like how a cash flow statement is much better at describing the health of a business than their balance sheet. If you don't have the cash to pay the bills, you're screwed. I have explicitly said that countries with authoritarian governments are an exception to the correlation and factored in how massive social programs (like the ones in Sweden) decrease inequality. And you would see those decreases if you looked at income inequality, where the US is 2-3x as unequal as Sweden by almost every measure.

> If “gross economic disparity” were as predictive of crime as you claim, surely China and Sweden would have comparable crime rates to the US, irrespective of social programs.

Why would it be irrespective of social programs when social programs (largely supported by the "far left") reduce inequality? That doesn't make any sense.

You are straw-manning my argument to that of "wealth inequality is the sole determining factor of crime". This is something that I have explicitly not said and given you multiple reasons why. It's an extremely weak and disingenuous way to have a discussion, and frankly makes this entire exchange pointless. Try to actually engage with the people your speaking to in the future and you'll have more meaningful interactions.
>> The first question in everybody's head when reading this article is, "Were the vaccine trials legitimate or not?"

You are writing complete rubbish. BMJ does not question the legitimacy of the vaccine trials. With this sentence you are making very serious accusations to healthcare professionals. Most likely you don't even understand how clinical trials work or terminology used in the original article. If BMJ were not a serious journal, nothing in medicine would be serious including those trials.

BMJ is questioning some irregularities brought to the light by a whistle-blower. It shows some evidence confirming issues about one particular clinical research organization and lack of reaction from the FDA. These issues should be addressed and resolved to remove doubts that the data from vaccine trials can be sufficiently trusted.

Also FDA memorandum does not confirm that the FDA has investigated the sites. You probably don't even understand what the quoted professor meant by “oversight”. It definitely is not just checking and fully trusting the submitted paperwork.
different is that the drubs came down the legal perscription svenue.

they had rules and regulations to follow.
The Babylon Bee is like the Onion and is at least as well known.

While I agree that there are people who take ridiculous stuff seriously, they're beyond what a fact checker--or anyone else--can help.
I sorry to disturb you. It was not my intent. I just disagree about the seriousness of the ads displayed in your example. An ad for Whisky and/or Walgreens(a pharmacy) don't seem too bad compared to other ads I have seen.

Snopes probably gets a lot of bandwidth (and probably attacks) just due to them being very mainstream.
Technically you are squatting.

You have 3 options:
1. Give them the domain
2. Negotiate with them on the sale of the domain verbally. When they agree, then get it in writing.
3. Create a legitimate separate company that is in a different category (which no longer violates trademark)

I would first do a search and make sure they actually have a trademark and not a pending one.

Also - don’t ask for legal advice on HN. Consult a lawyer.

I’ve been on both sides. Once I gave away the domain and another the registrar itself released the domain.

Good luck!
Don't use Digital Ocean (DO) for production
TLDR; account locked out suddenly without any follow-up to my inquiries from customer service over 48+ hours. Sadly, I used to love DO for their balanced pricing, range of services, docs, online written material. I thought they were among the best of the best.

Long story short, I've had an account with them for roughly 5+ years as I recall, good credit card on file, monthly bill around $20-50, US address. I use a few droplets to run dokku/docker containers for dev and 1 private Google Outline VPN endpoint, only for me. I only ssh into these from non-root and root should be turned off completely (but I'm only a hacker and not a F/T systems person).

Not sure if it matters but I don't do anything nefarious on these droplets-- no webscraping, no botnet creation, no crypto mining. I don't know what else would be considered verboten!?!

Try to log in with github, won't work and asks for email login. Try to login from there, and it asks for credit card info for "authorization" although the card is the one on file and being charged for so many years.

No recourse, and what a crappy way to treat clients even if they are small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully I am building a new MVP all on AWS and have my company prod there too running for 5 years. So I don't have to put up with unprofessional dealings and major risks of service interruption.

Assume through no fault of your own that you could be shut out of everything. You have been warned.
> Their range is 1460-1580 with a mean of 1520

I wonder what this will do to the mean once it becomes optional. It seems mostly people with very high scores would be the ones to bother submitting them because otherwise it could hurt the applicant.
If you're big enough to worry about the scalability of Postgres, you're big enough to experience this failure fairly often IMO.
There is some truth to the argument that standardized tests are a flawed proxy for the combination of intelligence and motivation to learn that one wants in a student, and that the test may be biased towards some cultures that have a tradition of preparing their children for those standardized tests, whether directly or indirectly. Despite the relative low cost of practice, it is not free. Also, each attempt of the test has a cost.

Still, I'm a fan of standardized tests. If there's a problem, we should try to improve the tests rather than doing away with them.
This reads like a lot of mental gymnastics attempting to excuse the inexcusable.

You argue that blocking debate is a righteous act because the theory's "very existence harms public health". I'd counter that the gagging of a concerned public breeds distrust that is vastly more harmful than allowing debate would have been.
It proves again, that in 90% of the cases Postgres is totally enough. If you don’t expect a high load (and most applications don’t), then just go with Postgres, simplicity wins!
Those temps for the freezing point will be for pressures above the triple point of ammonia, or pressures you’d find on earth.

The pressure on mars is too low for liquid ammonia to exist and the freezing/sublimation temperature is more like 180K or -100C

And to exist underground in large amounts for millions or billions of years it’s not good enough for temperatures to occasionally be low enough to freeze ammonia, when it was warmer the ammonia would turn into gas and blow away so unless there is a significant local source of ammonia it is highly doubtful that is where the hydrogen comes from.
I would echo this sentiment. Did this video not confirm exactly what Veritasium claimed (the small but noticeable "instantaneous" i.e. 1/c current)?
You want lifelong warrantless total surveillance for people you force citizenship upon because their family's political affiliation, which is something they don't choose? I'm sorry but how is it any better than CCP?
> As Facebook's services are increasingly the only way to interact with modern society

Wait what? I haven't used my Facebook account in years, what am I missing?

But I just had a thought : If Facebook is really that essential for interacting with society as you claim, shouldn't it be regulated as a public utility?
That's a fair point. The text of the CCPA is very clear that it doesn't apply to my hobby website (see https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa for a nice FAQ), but I wasn't thrilled about the idea of having to explain that to a jury.
The history of transatlantic cable-laying is extraordinary (and didn't work for several attempts because the theory of the field around the cable wasn't properly understood).
I suppose in a homebrew situation, but not if age is root-installed, correct? It seems like that's a hard boundary.
Good point. There have been attempts by PC manufacturers to make VR headsets. We need a Windows like OS to make this possible I suppose.
Exactly. If you do want something very scalable that fixes these problems but shares a lot of architectural similarity with Kafka then you should check out Apache Pulsar.
So what happens to the people who don't have property? Do they lose the right to exist in every particular place? Do they, then, lose the right to life itself? Or, if they sleep somewhere forbidden, does society grant a positive right to freedom from the nuisances of theft, vagrancy, and public defecation -- protections provided by public funds through police and prisons?
I'm not a lawyer, clearly, but I'd say so. Some people are replying to him on Twitter saying that they've spent money here and asking who to send the invoice to.
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> meaningful amount of money

Depends on how much money is meaningful to you. Time has its own costs, especially since an older teenager can work as an alternative.
Most of the time flops have had too much material cut out to hit runtime requirements ("nobody will watch a 3 hour movie!"). Kingdom of Heaven, Batman v Superman, Watchmen, Alien3 all get better with restored material.

Blade Runner is interesting as there are 3 different versions, all about the same length but with some very different scenes. Theatrical also has a terrible voice over which was later removed.

The Shining is one that gets better when shortened - most feel that the 119 minute European version is better than the 144 minute US cut.

Apocalypse Now is interesting - Redux (193 minute) is a slog compared to theatrical (147); but Final (182) is probably the best version and a great example of the balance needed.

There's also the video 'How Star Wars was saved in the edit' which has a lot of good information on what editing can do. The video has kindof been co-opted by the internet as definitive proof that George Lucas is a talentless hack, but it's really not that much different than what happens on every other film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEHRNS-Scrs
Aaaand despite costing a small fortune and being sturdy….it has to have a ‘Windows’ key. It baffles me how that persists.
The official study website is here: https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/

Interestingly a FAQ was just added so presumably the researcher is aware of the negative responses but unapologetic.
If there's a settlement, I hope it's in the form of a nice bottle of scotch, and a letter from Princeton apologizing and swearing not to do it again. I'm not out money; I'm out peace of mind.
The docs for setState say that if passed an object it will merge the current state and the object. So just do:

setState({ a: 4 })

https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html#setstate
I remember finding it in early 10's and posting link on a local forum - people organized and started writing crazy and fun things here, like a minimap or a two-page-ASCII-tank.

It was one of my first realtime collaborative experiences in the internet and it was magical at the time, i still believe that services like Miro grew out of World of Text.

Edit: couldn't find the forum post but found the tweet, wow, it was more than a decade ago https://twitter.com/anVlad11/status/23055592331 . Were old pages wiped?
Yes, thanks for the clarification. I was trying to make my comment specifically about secession - debunking the notion that Hong Kong is not part of China. The HK Basic Law, the same document that guarantees the "One country, two systems" approach, starts with the sentence "The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China."

I agree that the mainland government acted rashly. The forced implementation of the national security law definitely violates the spirit, if not the law here, and understandably a lot of people were alienated by this move. That said, the Basic Law does provide a provision for the implementation of such a law (Article 23), and there's ample wiggle room for the governments involved to argue that they haven't yet demolished the "one country, two systems" approach as yet.
Revitalizing an old Harvard tradition, I see. Of course, back then it was Jews they excluded...
Almost certainly. The law seems pretty clear that they'd have to completely delete all information about if you ask them to.
While it's true that one can improve their standardized test scores by studying or taking a course, and the ability to do those things is correlated to a student's socio-economic situation; if you label standardized tests as subjective, then for me it follows that there is no objective measure of a student period.

Which begs the question, who exactly do you admit to your school, and why?
Julian Assange's Postgres contributions in 1996
What you're describing is an equal opportunity society. That's a worthy goal, but trying to redefine "meritocracy" to also mean that results in confusion at best.

Without a common language communication becomes impossible.

The normal definition of the word is that those who are best at a task should perform it. The most competent applicant should be hired for a job. If a billionaire's kid happen to be best, because of all the private tutoring they got, that's not really relevant for a meritocratic decision.
Scalability was the second of two concerns I listed. The first was additional application complexity that real message queues hide from you by virtue of being a system built for that usage pattern.

>you're big enough to experience this failure fairly often IMO

Please explain how? You would either have to suffer from frequent network connectivity issues that affects only your db and not your queue, or your process must be mysteriously dying in the microseconds between those 2 operations. Either of those cases are not something I would consider things that happen "fairly often," even if you were processing trillions of messages per day.

In my experience, the vast majority of message processing failures happen at the worker level.
Here is a simple example from an old SAT (1970s):

Runner is to Marathon as XXXXXXXX is to Regatta

If you grew up on the coast in a wealthy family, you have a much higher chance of knowing what a Regatta is and that it involves boat races.
I think a good point of comparison would be phabricator. It meets much of the same criteria (although much is subjective of course). Look where phabricator is now.
> With postgres, they’ve got an MVP in a day, and shipped within a week.

And the next week they realize they want reader processes to block until there is work to do. Oops that's not supported. Now you have to code that feature yourself... and soon you're reinventing Kafka.
Not for a Mac yet, but I just got a phone with a notch for the first time a few months ago, and I actually find myself frequently using VLC's option to expand the video into the notch area. That near the edge of most frames, there's rarely anything of import to risk concealing, and there's something enjoyably Star Trek about watching a video on a round-cornered handheld display.