skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it definitely feels like a bad (possibly financial) sign when it is about laying off some percent of workforce vs closing down a division...
The article cites "at least 7,000" actually.
If the wavelength of the laser is a known 1550nm, maybe the companies like Lee, Tiffen, etc can come out with a filter to protect against this. Street photographers will be susceptible to driverless cars without warning. It would be a niche market for sure, but if I was doing street work where it was known to have driverless cars, it would be worth ~$100 filter to protect my >$2500 camera body.
It's worth noting that the Blackmore system is continuous wave and much lower power than AEye and Luminar, so idk if the same thing would happen to cameras
I know this doesn't promise anything but... the idea of a RISC-V raspberry pi! That has to be the fastest way to push Linux into the RISC-V world.
Yeah, yeah.

So many on HN has this mindset. Criminals just whip up credit cards like it's nothing. They don't. It's noisy to use some grandma's credit card to buy a cert for buttsnstuff.ca when she donates to her local church five times a month. Almost all criminals are fucking dumb or even if they're smart they fuck up before they're good and land themselves in jail. Like at least 98% of them.

HTTPS is a tire fire. Root certs by hostiles. Near-trivial PDAs. Termination at network edge. OS installed certs. Even when it "works" 95% of the packets are on shitty, broken ciphers with no forward secrecy. And that last 5% is built on PKI which we know quantum is breaking pretty fucking soon. Almost nobody rotates access tokens. Almost nobody layers encryption. Almost nobody safeguards certs by locking down permissions. Almost nobody pins them. Almost nobody uses HSTS.

Everything is shabby and shitty and breakable. Let's Encrypt is the wrong solution. It helps irrelevant hobby websites and increases risk for medium sized companies that tried to do the right thing.
Registration is for tracking ownership, paperwork that is filed up to a month after ownership changes. It doesn't create ownership.
Some think you should do this annually. "Back when he was running GE, Jack Welch famously argued that leaders should fire the bottom 10 percent of their workforce each year, as part of an orderly continuous improvement process."
https://www.inc.com/paul-b-brown/should-you-fire-10-of-your-...
Which plugin are you using? Looking at https://langserver.org/#implementations-client there are at least four of them, and IIRC the neovim folks are also working on a native implementation.
I also love my Synology DS-218+. I'm hosting my own Spotify (Airsonic [1]); music tagged to perfection with Beets [2]), an IRC bouncer because Matrix is still not ready, my own Netflix (Synology's Video Station [3]), and my own mailserver (Synology's MailPlus Server [4]). I've been giving out access to this pod to close friends. It's empowering and community-building. This is the kind of social network I desire: close-knit around the warm glow of a server.

It's really self-host heaven. I don't pay for Fastmail, Spotify, or video streaming anymore.

[1] https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-airsonic

[2] https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-beets

[3] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/video_station

[4] https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/mailplus
I tried to schedule Chariot last year to Foster City from SF. They said they don't do FC. Sucks for them.
Downloading so you don't have to use cell data?
It's probably thermal damage
Abandoned property of California is found in a place where the owner intended to leave it. However, the condition of the property is such that it is unlikely that the owner intends to reclaim it. California abandoned property belongs to the finder.

IOW, unless it is in bad/inoperable condition, you are not likely to get away with attempting to take one from the sidewalk. Just wait for the auction. For further info, contact the CA State Controller's Office, they handle abandoned property issues.
Interesting. That's not directly relevant to me but I was considering Patreon for a project, so this is at least good to know. Thanks for the explanation.
An ActivityPub Philosophy
I feel the same way as you but I don’t have the same baggage. I also am quite confused by the sitauation, being anxious and nervous all the time. I equate it to having a lot to lose; marriage, kids, house, career. When I was single it was just me and I had none of those things to worry about.
Would the Packers ever move the team? Perhaps it buys the fans at least that much.
The internet is already decentralized. Some billionaire can't do anything to fix the situation, at least not directly, because our draconian copyright and network access laws are the only reason that walled gardens are able to exist.

The internet doesn't really tolerate serious technical barriers stopping someone from automatically multiplexing the content from various social networks into a single read-write stream, for example. The issue is that when someone attempts to do that kind of thing, they get sued and they end up owing BigTechCo millions of dollars. [0]

An open internet is _not_ a technical issue. It's a legal one.

[0] https://www.eff.org/cases/facebook-v-power-ventures
Close, but not quite. Call centers are designed to make the general support (tier 1) agents effectively flesh and blood robots. These are jobs that might start at $10 an hour if you’re lucky, have little training, and typically very high turnover rates. Even if you get a competent/experienced agent who has literally seen your problem a thousand times and knows that step 3 of the script will always fix it, they will be penalized if they skip the first two steps. Likewise, they will be penalized if they transfer you to tier 2 until they get to the step in the script that says, “transfer to tier 2.” It doesn’t matter if you’ve had this exact problem 5 times before and every instance required tier 2. Doesn’t matter if you were just talking to another agent who ran the whole script and screwed up your transfer. The only way you might get lucky is if you’re lucky enough to have some kind of open case or note on the account that instructs them to transfer you directly.
Intel Looking to Add SYCL Programming Support to LLVM/Clang
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The garage stage is usually the seed round, just like YC helps make it a formal process. Get a working provable prototype up and iterate quickly on your idea to something that works and can turn a profit. Then off you go to find customers till you show demand. That's when you evaluate whether a VC fund makes sense for your business.

Even back when SJ and Woz were in "the garage" stage building Apple 1s, they were seeded by their previous Blue Box profits and then after clear demand was proven they had Mike Markkula fund them to get Apple 2s built.

Companies will always have been and always will be capital intensive, nothing has changed there. Insurance, employees, real-estate, legal, just basic company things have always required significant capital.
Sorry for the people that are affected. Space X has achieved some incredible things. Redundancy can give you the freedom to try something new.
Is sandstorm still around? I was a big fan of the idea and mission, but then I thought kentonv kind of wound it down when he joined Cloudflare.
> As discussed elsewhere, that case is not applicable. Bird has left their former property on the public right of way intending to others to use it.

Intending to rent it to others for use, yes.

> If they are not locally permitted to do so, then this act constitutes abandonment

No, it doesn't. It may constitute violation of whatever ordinance does not permit it, but the Lavan v. LA case is directly on point, that whatever regulatory powers local jurisdiction has, a property owner not intending to entirely relinquish control has not abandoned (and the state cannot without violating the due process clause of the 14th amendment treat them as having abandoned) property merely because it is unattended on a public way in violation of some local control. (They may have the right to take the property with due process from the person who remains, until that process has been given, the owner, but that's a remedy against the owner, not abandonment by the owner.)
Ah the glory of the stack ranking. Microsoft did this as well, and it was much celebrated when they stopped, as the stack ranking had a lot of effects that had nothing to do with performance (like coworkers stonewalling each other, or infighting, and what do you do with an org of rockstars).
OK, so nobody said decentralization is easier. There's been plenty of academic papers saying pretty much the same as you do. But we have to, not for technical reasons, but for ethical and social ones. So, we're starting to tackle it head on.

Your TV Guide is a good example of things that aren't hard. They don't change very quickly, so you can just use a cache. That's easy.

Finding the number of RTs, that's also easy, apart from it being an open world of course. When they RT, they notify you. And you want to display those RTs with your tweet? Just cache those who notified you.

Stable data access standard? That is Solid itself. And the data model, that's RDF.

There are ways that you can go about doing this stuff.

Finally, we're also getting some traction around this in academia, they've been hung up in stuff that isn't helpful for too long.
I use the Express in wired only mode and it’s the best solution that I have found so far for an easy $25 (aggressive negotiation on Craigslist :)
Asset taxes is effectively that. But assets are a lot easier to hide than income, and there's nothing stopping wealthy people from moving somewhere else. France's asset tax is estimated to have caused large amounts of capital to leave the country.
That's more of that dishonest narrative/tarring. The man's not even white, IIRC. He's part middle eastern in descent. "Xenophobic" is the label used by the far left to tar anyone who believes in stricter border policies. He's also highly critical of all groups he perceives as using Identity Politics, which in present day includes both the far left and far right of the political spectrum. Both the far left and the far right target him, the far left doing it by using the "Alt-Right" mislabeling, with the far right going along with it for trolling purposes.

So there is a real, if perhaps exquisitely fine, distinction there.

In 2018, this is called an "exquisitely fine, distinction" where in years past, he would just have been called center-left.
In the absence of strong evidence to the contrary, strong claims are de facto woo, except when presented as highly tenuous hypotheses or theories. The default is skepticism, although economists seem to get a pass.
SCOTUS Says Suit Over Fiat-Chrysler Hack Can Move Forward
Armstrong's PhD thesis from 2003 Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (295 pages!) has the whole Erlang story, including an Erlang tutorial, large parts of which are identical to a Prolog tutorial (or virtually, just substituting -> for Prolog's :-, and ; for . etc), I would have had no idea how huge the similarities are, had I not become familiar with Prolog first.

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

Also, in the 17 page paper, he firstly makes a meta-interpreter, which I've since noticed is pretty standard in Prolog books, e.g. The Art of Prolog, The Craft of Prolog.
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No country is truly run by a democracy. They're run by a combination of a dictatorship, an oligarchy, and a democracy all fighting for power.

Dictatorial power has been flatly nessecary since the invention of nuclear weapons because if the Americans launch nukes at you then you can't call a meeting about it. You need a single executive decision makers.

Oligarchies are inevitable in democratic systems and are most visible in "democratically elected" political parties massively controlled by a few stakeholders promoting their own interests and trying to maintain their own power. Quite simply making every decision a government makes through decentralized direct democracy is impossible and some top down bureaucracy is needed. Even something as small scale as hackee news has an oligarchy of moderators.

What makes what we call "democracy" the best political system however is that it uses a popular vote as a check on power for the other two elements and to allow for peaceful stable transistions of power. The further one gets from democracy the more the people are nothing but slaves to entrenched interests who will inevitably abuse their power for their own benefit. Also democracy can sometime benefit from the wisdom of the crowd which can occasionally be more useful than the wisdom of individuals.

Systems like technocracy sound good at first glance. After all why not have smart people run society instead of voters with an average IQ of 100? However they severely lack long term sustainability as there is no way to enforce that leadership stays merit based. In a true technocracy the leadership would change constantly to account for changes in merit but people will strive to maintain their own power. People will stonewall others and impede progress to force them to do favors for them that can maintain their own power.
Gradually skill at trading favors and getting people to go along with you becomes a more important factor in determining power and effectiveness. Eventually you end up with a corrupted oligarchy headed by politicians rather than by experts.
Why is there need for software to accept bitcoin donations? Can't one just put the bitcoin address on the website?
Agreed, Inbox is the latest one (being shutdown in March) that has me hugely disappointed. I’m a paying customer too with multiple G Suite accounts for my company.
Not to mention that eventually you end up firing some really smart people and find worse replacements (not in the least due to shitty reputation - but also because of regression to the mean and because people are biased towards hiring worse than themselves in this regime). Definitely so at 10% p.a. if you're in a remotely niche industry.
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Look at where GE is now. Yes, Welch is gone now but the effects of his leadership are there.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Recently I brought up an emulated PPC running Mac OS 9. The included copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer couldn't connect to any site that used https -- and virtually everybody uses https these days.
They've proven that they can make reusable rocket. In the early days they had around 6 launches per year requiring six separate rockets. Now they're hitting 20-25 launches per year and can carry an even larger payload on each launch. But they claim to be able to fly each rocket ten times before needing to make a new one. So you're going from 6 new rockets per year to 2 new rockets per year. Also rockets are not like your software programs that get rewritten every time a manager feels like it. You stick with what works. I think this is entirely expected.
Thanks. I was traying to find an example of a program in the site, but I couldn't. Your second link was very useful.
Nothing justifies ethnic cleansing and mass murder. Abkhazia was not a state before USSR. They were not in a position to bargain with anyone about joining the Soviet Russia (USSR was created later). They were forcibly annexed like all other parts of the former Russian Empire whom the Bolsheviks managed to capture in a civil war.
It's a big fraction but it's not necessarily unheard of. For example Autodesk laid off about 13% of its workforce at the end of 2017. Additionally, in California you've got to give plenty of advance notice and as a result the state tracks mass layoffs[1].

1: https://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WAR...
The formal approach to quantitative causal inference in epidemiology: misguided or misrepresented?

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/45/6/1817/2960059

There are other comments, and the authors’ reply:

https://academic.oup.com/ije/issue/45/6
I think being an RPG really subverts the sense of terror delivered in Halo. You know every enemy will become a pushover when you come back to this content later when you're over-levelled.
Sorry for "line noise" in that one written too quick on mobile.
You're right, there are a lot of academics that like the idea of a semantic web, it rings true to a lot of scientific principles. There are also a lot of ideas and far fewer day-to-day applications. Science ticks a long a lot slower than startup culture, however, so it's not suprising that a) understanding of the issues comes slower, but also b) some "experiments" that would utilize semantic data have not yet been fully tested. Read a list of points that address "why the semantic web is dead", many of those points are precisely what science seeks, i.e. principles that promote a slow, and deep understanding of a domain of knowledge.

With open-science mandates coming from governments around the world researchers are looking for ways to share their data in meaningful ways. I can think of a significant amount of research that regularly consumes RDF, particularly in the fields of medical biology and genomics where it's used to annotate data. This is where I'd guess you'll see it take a foothold, for example medical diagnosis codes are notoriously disparate and there is a strong appreciation for what semantics could address. Unify, exchange, and consume medical diagnoses ... proffit.

Links etc. off the top of my head-

* GO - The gene ontology, used in hundreds of thousands of genomic anotations https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944782/
* UBERON - https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...
* The second year of US2TS - http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/registration.html
* OBO foundry - https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io
In 2012 there was a significant increase in income and sales taxes which were phased in over several years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_California_Proposition_...
I think we've seen Peak Apple and we're past it now.
I guess you could file a claim for injunctive relief in anticipation of a suit, but that sounds like a waste of time and attorney's fees IMO. Also, you can't counterclaim unless you are a defendant, and you don't need to counterclaim to have such a claim tossed anyway. All the defendant would have to do is file a 12(b)(6) motion (failure to state a claim) in response to the original pleading.
A boatboat!

https://xkcd.com/2043/
Not that this necessarily disputes what you're alluding to, but this is not unusual for Elon: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-to-layoff-up-to-9-of-i...
No litigation has taken place yet.
Thank you. I've looked for this sort of explanation.
While everything you say is true they are also building the BFR. Maybe that's different staff though?
By "solve" I mean come up with another similar asymmetry which doesn't depend on your physical location being constant.
I can relate. This extends to any technology they offer. Like Go... interesting on paper, but I just won't invest my personal time in it.
At the end of the readme I point out the boards I use, namely the adafruit Lora feather which was the best bang for buck Arduino compatible board, and the Lora/GPS header for raspi which I would not necessarily recommend anymore, but that I can say works with this code.
As I learned on a trip to Denmark years ago, BETA remains relevant because of the students who worked on it[1], many of whom have gone on to do important work in languages and virtual machines. Don't be surprised to see some of their nostalgia should they happen to spot this thread!

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2012/10/08/a-systems-software-do...
>So you're going from 6 new rockets per year to 2 new rockets per year. Also rockets are not like your software programs that get rewritten every time a manager feels like it. You stick with what works.

Last year, SpaceX had big plans for new rocket designs, a satellite constellation, and more. Unlike a ravioli canning plant, SpaceX has an option other than cutting down to maintnence staff once cash flow positive. If the worst possible interpretation of this news turns out to be true, they will end up managed like a ravioli canning plant and the hockey stick growth projections will go out the window.
Proton, which comes cheap with their encrypted email, also recommend. The setup couldn't be easier and it's very flexible.

You can choose what country you want to come through each time you connect and change it with a click. They also offer to route all connections through Switzerland with its strict privacy laws before connecting through your country of choice.
BTCPay has more "merchant" oriented features, like generating a new address for each transaction and keeping track of them so that, for example, you can see who has paid and who hasn't. The obvious application for this is a web store, where you need to wait for payment before shipping a product; but, it could also be used in patronage scenarios where paying patrons get access to exclusive content.
It updates all prices every four hours.
Oh, the LA Times seem to finally have taken down their GDPR wall. This is the first article on their domain that I’m able to read since last May, from Europe.
> Raising minimum wage increases unemployment because you are raising the cost of labor.

You have no evidence of this.

And, even if true, it would only be true if the cost of labor was a significant input to cost of production.

In fact, most of the minimum wage increases in the US are currently resulting in "effect, if any, is so small as to be unmeasurable."

Obviously, you can raise the minimum wage to the point where it is 99% of the cost of production and that would be severely detrimental. However, given the stagnation of the minimum wage over the last decades in the US, apparently the minimum wage has quite a bit of room to increase before its contribution to the cost of production becomes an issue.
Right off the bat I imagine that there is a more reliable income stream with some of the patronage sites that exist, whereas with a Bitcoin address in the footer, you are only relying on a single one-time donation.
About a year ago I tried getting Google Fi. Ordered a phone online, paid about $300. Then it never arrived.

When I talked to support, first they made me wait for about a week to confirm on their end that the phone was lost. Then their only solution was to process a refund (which took them another week to do), after which I would've had to purchase the same phone again.

Talked to a bunch of their support staff to no avail. They just would not send another phone. Seems like completely the opposite of what Amazon would have done (and probably the main reason why I'm a happy Amazon customer after over a decade, whereas I never looked back after the bad experience with Google Fi).
Literally from the article:

> The company employed at least 7,000 people in late 2017 when COO Gwynne Shotwell last gave a number — which means around 700 will lose their jobs.
Yeah unfortunately it's basically on life support now. For the first year after the company folded, I was still hacking on it frequently on weekends, but these days I mostly only push the monthly release to update dependencies. It's just that Cloudflare Workers is, well, successful, and it's... more fulfilling... to work on a successful project. :/
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Orca – A live programming environment
Man raises privacy concerns after car dealership employee turns off his dashcams