skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just went through this conflict myself; there were several great startups to choose from and yet I ultimately anchored myself to Google. A lot of my rationale is anchored in a personal desire to become financially independent and get into more of a semi-retirement lifestyle and may not be relevant, but...

* Higher total compensation (after negotiating!) - though salary + bonus were competitive the additional equity really pushed the offer up and it's less ephemeral than younger companies

* 50% 401k matching basically adds +$9k to the offer and fits right into my financial goals

* Promotion potential; growing into a senior role is (mostly) defined and commensurately compensated

There are also a few other financial perks that Google enables me to take advantage of that further sweetened the deal and were aligned with my financial goals. There were many trade-offs made, but this overall aligned best with my long-term goals.
I don't believe in moral relativism either, however, what you believe is moral and just is likely different from what I believe is moral and just. I'm sure I'm right (except where I'm wrong ;-) and I'm sure you believe you're right. If we differ, I believe one of us is wrong.

However, when we come to such an impasse, I'd prefer to acknowledge it, respect one another, and come to a common solution. What common things do opposing groups have in common and how can that be built on?

With the knowledge that I'm stepping into the deep end: many conservatives are convinced that life starts at conception and believe abortion is equivalent to murder. How would you react if your government was legally permitting selective death of a class of people who could not defend themselves?

Another group of people are convinced that separating children from families detained at the border is equivalent to putting them in concentration camps. How would you react if your government was allowing a class of people to be detained without charge?

For whatever reason, it seems many people choose to think one is OK and not the other (sure, there's nuance), but in both cases the outraged party has complete conviction that their view is correct and logical justification for why.

Calling the other group regressive, libtard, or any other demeaning name and showing disgust for them rather than understanding the perspective that their coming from makes it easier to treat the other with disrespect and dismiss their views no matter how sane or logical they may be. Both political cultures have deep contradictions. I see the current political climate as not dissimilar from Cowboys vs. Packers fans. Flip flop on issues all you want, as long as it means winning.

It may not seem like it, but there are very good and culturally healthy reasons to have conservative and progressive viewpoints. I say this outside of a political context.
They would just need to pay a fee to the copyright owner for the violations, not replace all the existing hardware.
The problem in the UK is that they build their houses to preserve heat for the cold and rain so even a mild hot day is horrible if you stay inside. The worst thing is that in Australia they copied the UK style of building in old houses, like windows that only open at the bottom or where half of it can't open at all and no balconies.
Yeah, even if agile/iterative processes tells us we can't get the requirements right the first time, that's not an excuse for not making a design.

I have seen many engineers write libraries without first having a clue how does using the library would look.
Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers
> a vehicle that spews out a constant stream of nuclear bombs

That's not how the NERVA was supposed to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
Tobacco kills 7 MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR

You confused your personal morality, which seems more based on "would this rule benefit everyone applied universally" with the question you were asked, which is of the "does this provide the greatest good to the greatest amount of people" variety.

It's _possible_ that in the end, ecigs are not a net positive for humanity. But that is a belief without firm proof. They could be twice as addictive, but if they kill only 1/3 of us that cigs did, they'll be a net benefit. And 1/3 the lethality of cigarettes seems to be a drastic overestimation of their harm from the evidence we have right now.
A lack of insight, denial of the very fact that they are ill is a prominent feature in a number of mental disorders, most notably schizophrenia. I think that what you’re saying about people getting together online to share delusions is a factor, but I don’t think it’s because they used to have a sense that they were deluded. Rather, they were isolated. Someone who thought that power lines were controlling their thoughts had very little ability to spread that belief. They could shout on a street corner, print and pass out pamphlets, and that was it. Unless you were nuts and rich, you couldn’t really spread the “word” far.

Now that has changed, and everyone, however disorganized and deprived of resources, can publish their every thought. People who think they’ve been “gang stalked” and people who think that the government is behind contrails all have a megaphone to the world. As a “bonus” they also are able to just type their delusions into Google and find sites to confirm and expand them. The same network effect that connects hobbyists and enthusiasts of rare things around the world does the same for people with delusional frameworks.

It also does the same for Holocaust deniers, and general shitheads.
The fact this thread, its topic, exists means it can't be that bad. I find your comment ironic.
This seems more like a mental health issue-- but even if it weren't -- would it really be that surprising? It seems to me like we're in a revolution or civil war, and have been for some time.
It's no secret that interviews at crazy, it's like an exam, and you should prepare accordingly. Yes, it's largely irrelevant.

But an engineer who can't reason about DAG, topological sorting, etc, could easily ruin an otherwise elegant architecture :)
The only part of "society" that the guy interacted with were people he interacted with. The person who most directly caused him to murder was the victim.

You're not going to be able to look at some abstract generality like "society" and come to some conclusion about why a specific murder happened. It makes just as much sense to blame "biology" for the crime.
Where else would you get it? Unless it's beamed in the form of light, I don't know of many options.

The challenge is to get from the Earth's surface, to orbit. Yes, there's oxygen along the way, but the speeds you have to go will wreck you if you stay in the atmosphere at all. So you get into vacuum ASAP.

Once you're in orbit, you have a lot more options. For example, you don't need a high-thrust engine—instead, high-efficiency is fine, even if it's low thrust. Etc.
I don't know. In my testing, I don't recall that I even used related Debian and Ubuntu releases. So I doubt that just updating the graphics driver would change the fingerprint.

However, I was using VirtualBox VMs, so it's possible that my results were artifacts caused by restricted choice in virtual graphics drivers. Testing that would be rather tedious, and I'd appreciate correction.
Well, it depends.

As far as I remember, the vehicle is propylene glycol. It isn't biologically inert, and I'm not sure how much work has been done to study buildup within the lungs or combustion products. Combine that with dodgy sourcing allowing metal contamination.

It seems more or less the definition of trading the devil you know for one you don't.
>The claim was that people don't report crime, and you claim to see people reporting suspicions.
> Even if it weren't just an anecdote, it isn't even addressing the point accurately.

I have addressed the suspicion thing in my second reply to derefr.
It is not just suspicion, but also a crime that is reported.

> Neither of you have actually provided anything beyond generalizations and anecdotes. Any conclusion based on what's been presented so far is incredibly premature.

I understand your point. Since I know quite well of Japanese people, I don't think it is premature. To clearly show evidences that everyone can understand is a different thing and it is also difficult in some context.

To deny the claim "So nobody bothers to even report such crimes", I have to find just one case and since I know a case I consider it false.

To prove all my claims that I have witnessed, we probably have to go to court and I consider it nonsense since it isn't realistic.

To prove a customary of Japanese people, it is very difficult and I currently have no clear evidence that I can show easily, but any Japanese people can oppose to my claims if it seem wrong.

To back up my claim using other sources, for example, I can tell you a famous date-drug rape case of Shiori Ito in Japan, which the victim reported to the police, accepted, investigated, but not prosecuted.

Here is the wiki written about her in Japanese. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊藤詩織
While that worked great to avoid the bowels of win32 functions, it didn't work for a lot of STL library calls which are very obtuse.
Tor and Tracking
It's great to be honest. You have to just suck it up and learn is complexities and give the thing 2g of ram, but in return you get such a comprehensive and customisable at of features - every language in one IDE, incremental compile, etc.
It's not trying to hide the street necessarily, it's recognizing that it can't display the street AND the business name because the text would either overlap or be too cluttered to read. Not being able to prioritize street names over place names, or not being able to switch off place names entirely would be a valid criticism, but I suspect there's an attempt to make the "default" experience the best balance without requiring that people tweak a wall of knobs and levers. It's not going to please everyone, but that may not be a realistic goal anyway
What ifyou publish your address online?
> While researching her American Studies master’s thesis, Onion noticed that at the turn of the 20th century, children were portrayed as having a particular affinity for animals and the natural world in general, whether they’re catching fireflies, climbing trees, or digging in the dirt. At other times—say, 2017—children are thought to intuitively understand very unnatural modern technology like smartphones and laptops.
“At different times in our history, people were invested in the ideas of children as being modern or as being anti-modern, which is a weird paradox I find fascinating,” Onion says.

It may be that the 'paradox' in our ideas of children being modern or anti-modern at different times is just due to to the fact that at the turn of the 20th century children were often playing outside, and now they are often playing with technology. I think generally when an academic misses something as obvious as that, it's because they're straining to fit the data into a probably not very good theory.

> “And then it came to me: Science is the link that connects man-made technology and the primitive natural world.” After all, scientists have to use microscopes to view and fully understand organic cells and microbes.

I had to laugh out loud here. Someone for whom it's a revelation that science is the link between the natural world and technology is maybe not the best person to attempt making the grand characterizations put forth in the article.

> The vast social project of science is ignored in favor of celebrity scientists mythologized as stubborn individuals—similar to cowboys on the frontier—who strike out on their own and discover unexplored territory. We see Thomas Edison as a relentless, pioneering entrepreneur and Albert Einstein as an out-of-the-box thinker. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Bill Gates were the swaggering “pirates of Silicon Valley” who created personal computing as we know it in their garages.

You could maybe say we focus on Edison, Einstein, et al over your typical scientist—but 1) It's obvious that we would do that—we admire the greats over the regulars in every field 2) The phrasing of 'We see X as Y' is implying that the attribution of Y to X is mistaken. But in all of those cases the attributes given are uncontroversially accurate. It makes more sense in the next sentence—but really, we only "see" Einstein as an "out-of-the-box thinker"?

> Upper-middle-class white Victorians started to view childhood as a sacred time instead of seeing their kids as little adults who were put to work as soon as they could walk. Wealthier adults became smitten with images of cute white kids and chubby-cheeked cherubs. Black children, meanwhile, were depicted in ads and pop culture as wild, innately criminal, and precociously sexual.

While that is very unfortunate, it also bears zero connection to the article.

It appears that the quality bar on that site is appallingly low.
How Facebook Punked and Then Gut Punched the News Biz – Talking Points Memo
The author and somebody he quotes are both awfully hung up on how "insiders call him Mr. Ding." Since that's his name, that is not remarkable whatsoever. In China the family name comes first, from Lee Jun-Fan (Bruce Lee / Mr. Lee) right on down to Chan Kong-Sang (Jackie Chan / Mr. Chan).

Imagine: "Mr. Smith -- that's what those of us in the know tend to have this wacky idiosyncratic habit of calling him -- controls all the mayonnaise distribution on the West Coast."
‘Project Orion’ is the spew out a stream of nuclear bombs propulsion technique.
Hey, the burbclaves need their 'za.
Ha! What's that from?
revive the idea of the air-augmented rocket

Does Skylon fit the bill?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

It pushes the limits of materials and design. But I think a reusable 2-stage rocket—as boring as it sounds—will end up working better in the near term. It can be done with safe margins.
Once you're back in the gmail account, just add a forwarding to another account.
And the police will confiscate it for their own use if they find you with a lot of it.
I believe the GP is referring to Project Orion[0], which did propose using repeated nuclear detonations behind a spacecraft to propel it forward.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...
and why do they have to?

in australia we have CSIRO which does some amazing research, and our military budget is basically non existent compared to the US military budget
You'd be wrong. Opiate maintenance with suboxone or methadone is often understood to be a lifelong thing.
It still isn't physically addicting as at no point does the body need it to function. Physical withdrawal symptoms don't change that, and it's unlikely that science will find new evidence changing this position.
I see a parallel between this and digital rights management. Eliminating probabilistic fingerprinting for browsers is always going to be a technical arms race.
The hacking was believable in this movie. Hollywood seems to learn and do their homework.

Some things were fiction, but one can imagine we’re probably not too far off in the future for such technologies.
> If we really get the vast majority of the world using air con

Let me guess you are not from a region where its hot and humid. That is a deadly combination, your overall efficiency drops with such a combination.
What if you click on your own ads?
GP didn't specify timezone though ;)
One of my favorite features of Google Maps is the one-finger zoom: Tap anywhere on the map and then make the scroll guesture (it feels like a double-tap, but the second tap is a swipe up or down guesture instead).

Because I usually operate my phone with one hand only the "pinch-to-zoom" guesture is just a pain (especially when you're carrying something in the other hand) and zoom buttons are easy to miss (e.g. while walking).
This guesture also works to zoom in and out in Google Chrome, yet I don't think I've seen it in the Apple world yet (except of course in products made by Google for Apple devices).
The point is not “Russia vs. USA” in an all out conventional war. It’s about spheres of influence. If I can project my will upon the (non-nuclearized) world more effectively than anyone else, my power increases substantially.

It’s why Russia is considered only a regional power, despite having a larger nuclear arsenal than the US. Their ability to perform intercontinental conventional bombing and troop deployment is non-existent. To cede this power to any other nation would be catastrophic to world peace.
how much easier it is to destroy society

Lots of modern technologies do that. Like a child growing up—at what age do you use sharp knives? a lawnmower? a car?—humanity has matured ethically alongside our technology.

I agree we have to be careful not to Great Filter ourselves.
If I had a large amount of tether, I might wonder if I could convert that to cash money. So I look at the exchange, see lots of trades being done, and conclude that when the day comes for me to cash out it will be possible. After all, look at all these other people cashing out with no difficulty. Allegedly.

Having concluded I can cash out tomorrow, I won't try to cash out today. Which would be the point.
If New Jersey were a country, its average internet speeds would be in the top 5, right after Sweden. And far ahead of comparably dense UK. https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t...
No. [The Tor people did the math on that][1]. It would probably spell the end of "unlimited home internet at X Mb/s" if it got widely used.

[1]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#SendPadding
Virtual gold is not "backed by ethereum" it is backed by gold. These are obviously the third parties I'm talking about.
I'll take you at your word (a source would be nice) but I fail to see how that is a bad thing.
The project I'm working on right now is with a FLIR tau 2 thermal camera. Our university got it donated but the only decent expansion board is 1400 euro so i figured I might use that budget to build my own. I basically just need to convert LVDS to mipi csi-2 or ethernet. You can find the LVDS spec on page 16 of this spec sheet https://www.flir.com/globalassets/imported-assets/document/f...
I need to make a board with the 50 pin hirose. Do you have any suggestions on getting started? I figured a qfp spartan 6 would be enough.
Seems odd to just blindly accept whatever numbers Apple provides about the usage of its own apps. Isn’t it going to be inherently at best a little biased? I guess there’s really no possible way to independently verify these numbers anyway.
Even so, if I was planning on starting my own country, I'd probably, like, go check it out once or twice before starting. Or ask some local experts who could tell me about it. Something, anyway.
A quantum computer is a high-tech ouija board.
RE:R&D, that's... not true. At the mega-scale, Cisco will fund regular moonshots that they'll "acquire" for ~$0.5B upon success.

In general, because most technical startups are a wreck and otherwise have technical impedance mismatch with the acquirer, acquisitions likely have integration + technical expansion periods for the first few years before thy succeed/die.

Agreed with others: Opportunities are there, more about whether individuals go for them. And if you mean it doesn't just magically happen, yep. AFAICT, even at Google/FB/etc., PMs have to fight for who they get, and they probably fight for a lot of the same people, and the rest no one really knows...
I don't disagree with your post, but you shouldn't use the Zumwalt class as an example because the US has decided to stop production of it after 3 ships. For a citation see the bottom of the section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer#Backgr...
> Kraken offer such a service...

Kraken offers an exchange between USD and USDT. When you perform an exchange, you are trading USD for another user's USDT, or potentially for USDT issued directly by Tether. The exchange is performed at market rates, which can fluctuate.

Tether claims on their web site that USDT can be redeemed, which would presumably be a process by which one USDT is destroyed and the holder receives exactly one USD in return. However, this process does not appear to actually be available to anyone.
What a ridiculous thing to say. I guess they only make for locals who know the area.
This is very interesting. The video does a good job at motivating it. I'm puzzled though that they include some demos on the page (I presume emscripten could compile it) as this figuratively begs for interactive demos.
Yes, there's some great stuff going on at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics outside Munich.

Also the groups in Innsbruck and Vienna in Austria.
I am surprised the article didn't mention the refueling possibility.

NASA source is from 2012, before BFR was fleshed out.
Someone told me a spartan 6 might be enough for what I need, will qfp make my life easier?
> Why not cache it for the user, but go ahead and retrieve it in the background?

If the JS triggers another download, and the browser requests the second resource before the initial JS is done downloading...
> Does anyone really see science or children that way?

If a rough estimate of the count of people like my Mom gives any indication: yes. Millions.

That being said, my mom is wonderful. But still a sucker for stuff like that. Little prayer sticker on the car windshield for the Patron Saint of Vehicle Safety to grant her safe travel.
The latter, many people with PTSD suffer basically flashback dreams. So they may smoke as a self medication, but the fear of an REM rebound causes physical symptoms when they don't smoke.
Popular Science, Newscientist, and their ilk generally report about research that's published elsewhere, or write about engineers and scientists. Nautilus, instead, publishes original research, written by engineers and scientists themselves. I am not trying to say that Nautilus is intentionally defrauding the public, but they are pioneering a new grey zone between journal and magazine.
He's probably implying mining or synthesizing fuel on smaller gravity wells like Mars. Being able to synthesize fuel for the return trip could massively cut back on initial launch weight. Energizing propellant with a microwave beam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam-powered_propulsion) has been hypothesized, while a solar sail is much more realistic with modern technology.
Its about spheres of influence. If I can effectively project my will upon the (non-nuclearized) world more effectively than anyone else, my power increases substantially. Its why Russia is considered only a regional power, despite having a larger nuclear arsenal than the US. Their ability to perform intercontinental conventional bombing and troop deployment is non-existent. To cede this power to any other nation would be catastrophic to world peace.

What world peace? The US has started two wars that destabilized a whole region, and it shows no sign of restoring anything like peace there. World peace from such a belligerent nation, one that drone strikes most days of the week, is a bad joke or a real example of Orwell in action. How many pointless losing wars does the US need to start, how many governments does it need to overthrow only to see them revert to something even worse before you get that you’re about world peace.

You are not “the good guys.” The US is just in it for money, and that money only for a fraction of its population. It’s just a good thing the US can’t actually win a war it starts, or they’d have taken over by now. What’s actually happened is the likes of North Korea looked at what happened to Libya and Iraq and realized that they needed nuclear weapons. What a great outcome for “world peace” right? I’m sure those nuts won’t sell the technology, and other countries won’t follow suit so as not be “projected” all over.