skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, he said that it "felt like the people at the Gap knew about the school shooting that Matthew McConaughey was talking about before it even happened", comparing it to the movie _The Truman Show_. In response to Carlson's request for clarification he does say "I'm not saying that they did" but he clearly doesn't rule it out, either.

Second, it's not clear what statement by The Gap he's talking about, but my guess is that this is related to the delayed launch of his product line:

https://www.billboard.com/culture/lifestyle/kanye-west-gap-p...

The "coordinated message" here appears to be "it is bad that children were killed".
More commonly, "uhh", "ahh", and "ehh" (and their elongations) -- though I imagine their function is either fulfilled in other ways in Morse (prosigns?) or simply not needed.
But that's not guaranteed to happen and it still is a step forward.
and it's free to use, I forgot to mention.
AA Flight attendants are in a union working under a collective bargaining agreement. The employer can’t just change this unilaterally.
People care about utility, usability, and cost. Except for the 10 neckbeards in Hacker News, no one cares about privacy in the real world. People won't stop using Apple products which is built on slave labor in China but will froth in the mouth about privacy.
That's a different argument though. Punished or not, they are still citizens - so clearly whether you can or cannot vote doesn't change your citizenship.
And in Luke it says "Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry." So being fortunate in this life will put you off on a bad foot in the next?

Having a bad life is good, having a good life is bad. It's an inversion of common sense to make victimhood a virtue. Of course it plays well to commoners who see themselves as victims in societies with great inequality. It's not surprising to me that Christianity became so popular.
> Bitcoin changed from being currency to being store of value. Quite a big change.

It's never really been used as either in practice, because of its volatility. "Store of value" is a big statement for something that was once at 60kUSD and is now at 20kUSD. It's mostly used because "number goes up".

> plenty of examples

I went through your links, they don't pass the test I mentioned, namely: in practice, you're better off without a blockchain. That's why so many of these are just "ideas" and not actual businesses and never take off, even 10 years in and all the tech being there already.
> because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it

This is a common but I believe overstated, even naive, ideal. What exactly does "holding them responsible" even truly mean? If a company is greenwashing and they are still emitting carbon, what really is the difference between the company who never claimed to care at all? The carbon is emitted all the same. "Oh, the stock price would fall because investors would lose trust." But greenwashing is a dime a dozen these days and I think the investors/upper class know that greenwashing is just marketing and don’t truly expect/care about the cause.

Regarding this, how does anyone hold Parler accountable for making a platform of "free speech"? Either you sign up or you don’t. If you sign up and complain they aren’t extreme enough, they don’t care or at least they don’t have any material reason to care. If you don’t, where else are you going to go? Twitter? But the whole demographic is people who didn’t like Twitter in the first place and want to be with their kind. So how do you "hold them accountable" without say, legislation, regulation, and government oversight, something today’s "free" speech advocates are opposed to?
I've tried doing this, only the other way around — kept my provider's physical SIM and bought an eSIM for travel.

Turned off roaming on the physical SIM and made data only go through eSIM, but it still got all messed up. :(
Hmmm... Except for the fact that people who don't use Facebook are never going to get the joke...
We live in an age where we are often told to always believe those claiming victimhood.
You're entirely over estimating the capabilities of GPT and other LLMs. They aren't magic.
The doctors can easily go to Africa and study sample clitori, which are discarded during the widely prevalent clitorectomy.

Mountains of sample human flesh materials to study for many years to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_female_genital_m...
It helped a lot that I refuse to be reachable on messengers that are not XMPP compatible. Most of the people I care about actually have reachable chat addresses now. For the rest I fallback to SMS and Email.
I recently discovered `kustomize` and the `kubectl apply -k` flag (which uses `kustomize`), which makes keeping full manifests pretty straightforward. There's only one or two things I dislike about `kustomize`, but those are things that can be worked around.
Which means the unbanked cannot do business there.

How do the unbanked pay their electric bill?

1 of three ways.

1. They walk into the electric company directly and pay directly (no fees)

2. They walk into a store that "supports" said electric company and pay (with fees)

3. They find a kiosk that accepts the cash and pay (with fees).

1 implies they have access to a vehicle or that they take public transportation. The problem is that public transportation is trading their TIME for money, the other problem being, public transportation only exists in cities.

These sorts of policies have an adverse effect on the poor, making them poorer and increasing the likelihood that they cannot exist in our society.

The question is, what are the benefits of not accepting cash?

The answer is that it's cheaper for the business.

I'm ok requiring businesses to pay that expense if it means people can walk into a physical store and be guaranteed to purchase something.
> Another issue is that we have our brightest minds leaving the island because there's no fulfilling or well paying work to be done. The lack of this observatory is another reason more people will leave.

The problem with this line of logic isn't that it's wrong or even that it ignores the goal of scientific funding to produce scientific research. The primary problem with this line of argument is that it's equally good for Wyoming, West Virginia, and a dozen or more other deprived places that could all benefit substantially from the STEM-inspiration of a local megaproject.
not that I'm aware of, but I'm not a legal expert either.
A comment above refers to this happening before and transaction fees rising to tempt back miners.

This suggests that transaction fees are being subsidised at the moment. So long term what are transaction fees going to look like?
> Has anyone close to you been in a mentally ill situation? Have you ever tried to tell someone you love, someone you trusted, someone you used to look up to that their mental capabilities have declined and that you no longer trust them to watch over themselves?

I have, but it doesn't really look like that. It's a gradual assumption of responsibilities by the caregivers that roughly corresponds to the person's decline.

> do you think taking away their ability to use their bank account is the solution to that problem?

It's a solution, yes, when they could dramatically harm their situation/themselves doing things they no longer have the capacity to understand.
Clickbait means the title is more sensational than the article delivers, it doesn't mean that the article isn't worth reading (lots of unsensational things are worth reading). An article about the lethal potential of a remotely guided bomb disposal machine is entirely worth reading, but that doesn't justify describing it as a "lethal shotgun equipped robot", which is textbook equivocation--pretty bold to suggest that I'm the one equivocating.
Having been bothered by this bug for many years I can only assume they don’t care.
Shouldn't he be cracking a whip over at the 'legs in vr' division?
They are labor laws. They restrict the exchange of labor for income.
Ayn Rand is a great critic of Stalinism, which was her formative experience. The current woke culture in the West is somewhere between the Stalinist show trials and the Maoist struggle sessions. That the majority of people don't see that insanity outside of twitter and their local HR department doesn't mean it's not a problem. Especially since 10 years ago it was just something that happened in humanities departments in universities.
Parent commenter is reading too much into Kanye's first struggles to become a rapper in light of this Parler purchase. But parent commenter is right that no one saw Kanye as a rapper initially. Back then, Kanye was only known as a beatsmith and producer, not someone to actually be on the track.

Kanye has a song off his album College Graduation where he talks about his initial troubles[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbeS15sHZ0&ab_channel=Kanye...
I agree with you regarding Zuckerberg -- he's in the same camp as every politician (imho). Nevertheless, if you don't have anything substantive to say, it's always an option to just not say anything. Just saying.
> was never an effort from the mainland to introduce this into Congress seriously

Statehood and its benefits isn’t something to be unilaterally demanded. Puerto Rico should have the option to declare independence. But it’s far too corrupt for political integration.
There was an external audit in 2021 – https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/10/27/public-report-whats....
I have echoed similar concerns here before. I do think this problem is more pronounced in the web community than elsewhere. There is an unhealthy attraction towards new paradigms and tools. You need a certain amount of skepticism and cynicism to ensure bad ideas are resisted, but this community with its all embracing, unconditional positivity keeps shooting itself in the foot constantly resulting in an unstable ecosystem. The most important thing the community needs to adopt, in my opinion, is a sacrosanct approach to backwards compatibility. In the words of a very wise man, "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!"

As an example, I find the idea of deno really ludicruous. As if the ecosystem wasn't chaotic enough, now there is a new runtime, and of course it is not compatible with the current standard. While it's a pretty cool and inventive piece of work in itself, the idea of having to rewrite all of userland should frighten the community. People should challenge its need and value and push the community to find alternatives. People should respect the time and effort it takes to reach maturity. But now we now have a rewrite of node dotenv in deno dotenv, oak middleware inspired by koa, a new semver package, a new base64 package, yet another modern web framework... and what not. I predict, we will witness a race within the community to be the first to rewrite popular packages, node packages will slowly get abandoned, companies will open positions for deno developers, there will be a deno conf and new developers will be asking whether they should take the node course or the deno course.
Someone just figured out how erlang's gen_servers work and why you should use call instead of cast unless you really know what you're doing
Thanks. I actually typed it multiple times and spelled it correctly while fighting autocorrect, but it won in the end.
Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness
I cannot browse projects hosted there without registering?
I am missing so
something?
Not having access to their psych records, I think all we have to go on is what they claim.
Agit-Prop runs on "useful idiots". High profile idiots are especially useful.
You say

> The words you use highly influence your thought process[0].

Yet in the very article you link it says (emphasis mine)

> The strong version, or linguistic determinism, says that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories. This version is generally agreed to be false by modern linguists.[3]
> The weak version says that linguistic categories and usage only influence thought and decisions.[4] Research on weaker forms has produced positive empirical evidence for a relationship.[3]

Your use of 'highly' would suggest a strong relativity, but that's discredited. Signed, a disgruntled linguist who's tired of people banging on about Sapir-Whorf.
All your "free thinkers" that are browsing these posts for 5 minutes while they take a dump won't be taken in by the mere stamp of authoritativeness on the fact-check posts, right? I mean, obviously all users are able to make good judgments and competently weigh all the facts on every topic. Why are you so worried? What makes a fact check post more authoritative than NASA?

Btw I'm not advocating for active suppression of ideas. I just understand if a particular company chooses to do it on their website. I'd do the same in their place. It's not their job to give everyone a voice.
These days you don't buy snap on for the quality, but for their ability to quickly service a warranty issue. Their tools have the same problems as everyone else's these days, and long gone are the times when they handily outperformed everyone else on durability, tolerances to spec, etc.

Just another reason to cherish those old tools, they literally don't make them like they used to.
Give Hard Feedback Fast
The fact is a lot of people in this comment section will use articles like this to attack all victims which is pretty terrible. It's important to remember dark traid types are a sheer minority of people, so it is not at all likely for example your co-worker bringing up things to HR is a dark-triad person.

As usual, people should trust but verify. If some people are clamoring that today's "mob" doesn't give due process, the important thing is to actually give due process in deed, and not dismiss people's grievances out of hand.
What is the future of netlify-CMS?
See the first post of mine that you responded to:

> Real is probably the wrong term here, but certainly a citizen without the full suite of rights granted to you.

I acknowledged the thing you are objecting to before you started objecting. If you want to bikeshed a loosely used term after it's been acknowledged as being the incorrect term - have fun.
Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raises $101M
Tether claims they cut $30B in commercial paper holdings to zero without any losses, which is simply not credible during these market conditions. It's yet another fantastical claim from an organization that's been repeatedly caught lying.
The dictionary is clear (*): being clairvoyant means having the faculty. The journalist either didn't want to write that she only claimed it, or believes in it. Neither should pass fact checking.

(*) not that that should matter. If we read "It was the best-attended show in the history of that institution", should we assume it wasn't, but someone had been saying that for private reasons? Does "Born in Stockholm in 1862" mean that she might have been born in Malmö in 1920?
Similarly, the joke that the engineer’s second worst nightmare is, “it doesn’t work but it should”, while their worst nightmare is, “it works but it shouldn’t”.
And to onboard iPhone users you just need to get them frustrated with not being able to send photos and videos to Android users. Thanks Apple. Apple users get tired of sending videos to Android users and them responding "email it to me" or "let's use Signal."
Nonvictims who display victimhood are overrepresented in media, government, and the corporate world compared to actual victims, because (almost by definition) they don't face the same barriers of access that actual victims do.
> The other tech giant that can be compelled by law enforcement to hand over potentially large amounts of sensitive messaging data is Apple. iMessage, Apple’s text-message service, comes loaded on the iPhone and is used by 1.3 billion people worldwide. According to the FBI’s “Lawful Access” guide, if served with a court order or a search warrant, Apple must hand over basic subscriber information as well as 25 days’ worth of data about queries made in iMessage, such as what a targeted user looked up in iMessage and also which other people searched for that targeted user in the app. That doesn’t include actual message content or whether messages were exchanged between different users.

> But the amount of data available to law enforcement is potentially far greater — greater even than the user data provided by WhatsApp — if a targeted user backs up their iMessage activity to iCloud, Apple’s online storage platform. If that’s the case, the FBI document says, then law enforcement can request back-ups of the target’s device, including actual messages sent and received in iMessage if they’re backed up in the cloud.

> While Apple describes iCloud as an encrypted service, it comes with a giant loophole. Apple holds an encryption key that can unlock user data in iCloud, and so police departments or federal agencies can request that key with a search warrant or a customer’s consent to access certain user data. “You’re handing someone else the key to hold onto on your behalf,” says Mallory Knodel of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Apple has encrypted iCloud but they still have the keys, and as long as they have the key, the FBI can ask for it.”
You've echoed my point exactly. Different scenarios call for different approaches. Cutting costs is only one half of the equation.
Can always-failing-to-compile crates be deployed to the registry?
> can therefore prove a lot about ... questionable conduct by Tether

Shocking! The company that lied about their holdings, that lied about providing audit results, that lied about their relationship with Bitfinex?

That company is still acting questionably? I'm shocked.
It isn't? Crap, I've been investing in Lego this whole time.
I tried helmfile, but helm state weirdness became enough of an issue that I investigated `kubectl apply -k` (which uses `kustomize`), and after I got it working it felt like a significant improvement over helm+helmfile. (But I still use `helm` to generate manifests.)
It was genuine. He worked hard to get good at making beats, to the point he got signed at Roc-a-Fella Records to make beats for big artists at the time (Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, etc). He was super known for that in the industry, but Kanye insisted on one specific term of the contract - they gotta let him release his own album. Which they hesitantly allowed, because they thought he was just gonna fail and go back to what they thought he was good at, making beats for other rappers.

They didnt want him to be a rapper, but not for some malicious reason. They loved his beats, but thought no one would care for his songs that were nothing like the mainstream rap at the time, especially since none of them were about bling/drugs/gang stuff. That's just what was selling. And Roc-a-Fella Records wanted their star beatmaker actually making beats for their star rappers, not "pursue dreams". So they allowed him to make that album, thinking the sooner he is done with it, the sooner he will get back to beatmaking.

All of this is confirmed by tons of other people affiliated with Roc-a-Fella Records (like Jay-Z and others) at the time.
If a regression test fails, you alert the programmer who kicked it off and maybe roll back the checkin.

If the regression testing system has an error while running a test, you page the oncall SRE and maybe try to rerun it. You certainly don’t roll back any checkins.
Not that hard. Everyone already knows how email works: you have to get an address first, download a client and login. I then showed them where to register (https://providers.xmpp.net) and how to download Conversations. It got easier once a good chunk of my friend group was already available there.
> The current woke culture in the West is somewhere between the Stalinist show trials and the Maoist struggle sessions.

Not yet. There's not as much murder yet. There are certianly parallels though. Kafka-trapping is mainstream; if you deny a political charge brought against you, that denial is seen as further evidence of your guilt. If you deny you're an -ist, that 'proves' you're so thoroughly -ist that you can't even perceive it about yourself.

Remember, HR has never been your friend. Even in the purest form of HR uninfected with politics, HR exist to protect the company from the workers. But as you have observed, HR are now becoming political officers charged with enforcing correct political thought.
Flight attendants have a union. https://www.afacwa.org

They've recently backed strikes and raised wages https://unitedafa.org/news/2022/1/21/solidarity-works-flight...

The rest is part of the contract - https://www.afacwa.org/flight_attendants_achieve_10_hours_re...

> Washington, D.C. (October 4, 2022) — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today finalized a rule requiring 10 hours minimum, non-reducible rest for Flight Attendants between duty days – finally implementing a 2018 law that will make aviation safer for over 100,000 Flight Attendants and the passengers in our care. The rule will increase the rest period to 10 irreducible hours when scheduled for a duty period of 14 hours or less. Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, issued the following statement ...

What would one have in a contract to help this issue?
EU companies claim Google still abusing its Shopping power
Or maybe there’s an error in that calculation of 51 days. 49.7 times 1.024 is 50.8928, so there could be a 2¹⁰ = 10³ error in there.

I would hope the advisory leaves some room for error in the reboot interval, though.
Twitter Meets TensorFlow (2018)
They did once say they had an audit done, but would be unable to release it...

"because it is in Mandarin."

Like what the actual fuck.
A C-level executive at a place I worked went to another country specific to scout out talent the company could hire remotely. Given that he was obviously working there I asked how he got a permit for that. His answer was that he got a tourist visa and was on vacation, so it was obviously legal for him to work while in the country.
Not sure I want to live in a world where billions of people still believe what they see when these deepfake technologies mature.

Not sure I will care either, because by that time I will have been locked in my living room for weeks playing my customized VR role playing game where Han Solo and I wreak havoc in the Far Cry 5 universe with my Dovakin powers while being chased by a all-female bounty hunter crew commanded by a 1982 Phoebe Cates.
> This was true 3-5 years ago, but you can now buy OEM laptops with Linux preinstalled that "just work" the same as a Mac.

With the trackpad working as good as it does in Mac? And Bluetooth/WiFi? And as good of battery life due to strong hibernate/standby/sleep when you close the lid working? And equal support for external displays?

If Ubuntu is really 1:1 on par with Mac OS X in all categories, I'd be surprised.
Arecibo had an active capability: radar mapping Venus most famously, that really can't be substituted with synthetic approaches. You can use aperture synthesis (from VLBA all the way to IVS) for greater resolving power, but they don't solve the coherent output problem.
My reasoning is different.

They have repeatedly been forced to admit in court that they lied in the past. They have also had reserves invested with a fake bank whose CEO stole money from them and is now convicted in bank fraud. They claimed to be one of the largest holders of specific asset classes, but nobody trading those has any memory of trading them. And so on and so forth.

The refusing to allow a real audit is just icing on a cake consisting of a mountain of evidence of fraud.

As Matt Levine memorably said, they are "practically quilted out of red flags."
I guess my point is about the adoption of said platforms. Yes, lots exist. They're too clunky or confusing for the layperson though.