skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think calling it heresy is a bit of a stretch. It's pretty close to what the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome:

> but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame ...
There is no other comparable plan of this scale, so there is no meaningful way to do this analysis.

"In my 23 years in the State Capitol, three as Budget Director, Amazon was the single greatest economic development opportunity we have had...For a sense of scale, the next largest economic development project the state has completed was for approximately 1,000 jobs."
> Your silence and self-censorship won't matter in the end. <...>

> Your silence and self-censorship won't matter in the end.

Very true, but you cannot reasonably accuse me of that (read my posts carefully)! Few are as vocal and critical as I am about the subject.

In my original post I was suggesting that on SOME politically sensitive topics that it's stupid to fully speak one's mind about even though one can still do so; that is if one's views are well against the established orthodoxy. I don't have to spell out what those topics are, as everyone except those with room-temperature IQs are well aware of them.

This is not the case here about privacy and data theft by Google et al. I'm glad to say they're not off limits with governments yet (I hope not anyway—or I'm in big trouble). ;-)
>The NDA would have easily allowed Amazon to give the impression that other cities are offering more than they actually are willing to offer. This could have driven up bidding even more than if it were in the open.

Have you ever actually participated in an RFP? Its not a two way conversation. Basically (A) gives a list of requirements and then (B) and (C) submit their "bids" to (A). (A) reviews the bids and picks one.

And yes the NDA does benefit Amazon, just like any business benefits from RFP. But non-blind bidding would benefit them a lot more if their desire was to maximize incentives offered.

Blind Example:
(A) sends out a RFP for a service. (B) Bids to do the service for $5,000. (C) Bids to do the service for $6,000. Neither (B) or (C) know each others bids so they bid the lowest they can and still turn a profit.

Non-Blind Example:
(A) sends out a RFP for a service. (B) Bids to do the service for $5,000. (C) Bids to do the service for $4,000 since they can see what (B) bid. (B) then bids $3,000. Both (B) and (C) are in a worse position than if they couldn't see each others bids.

Having more information isn't always helpful. Looks at what happened when regulation made CEO compensation in publicly traded companies public knowledge. CEO compensation rose exponentially.
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I took several years of Russian in college and am now trying to pick up a little German. Word of mouth had taught me to fear the German case system but... after Russian? Hard to see what all the fuss is about.
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If you didn't do QA, can you really be sure the results were amazing?
There isn't any ballast to speak of in essentially any LED driver topology, certainly there isn't any inductive component that is used for its reactance as part of the working principle (which is what "ballast" means).

LED driver might have some kind of LC filters on its power input for EMC reasons, but these are too small to meaningfully "sing". On the other hand it may make sense to follow the driver with some kind of reconstruction filter to remove the "high frequency" flicker, but AFAIK nobody does that because it involves costly and large-ish components with significant losses for somewhat questionable benefit.
Chrome's had GPU rendering for a while now actually (as has Firefox), those slides were just explaining the basics of how that rendering works.
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Yup, sorry, I let it get away from me.
We ran our own at a significantly smaller scale, it didn't take us nearly as much time to maintain as it saved us in terms of money over cloud.
By competition do you mean other EVs? If so, I agree with your point. I’m taking “competition” to mean tradition gas powered vehicles/big car manufacturers. Imo I think Tesla is picking a fight with gas powered manufacturers since they’re offering something at the same price point (ish).
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This is great. Another handy musl-based toolchain that supports some of these targets is ellcc [1]. It's llvm+clang based. It's a little behind so I suppose it doesn't support RISCV yet. It will probably never support SH targets because those aren't in llvm and there aren't any public plans to add one AFAIK.

[1] http://ellcc.org/
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But, vice is a company that sells authenticity and a “we are one of the people” vibe. Google is already known to be vacuous.
> Does it really matter that it happened to be PG&E's equipment in this case? If not them, it would have happened anyway from another cause. It seems unfair to hold them liable...

Okay, so an arsonist sets off a massive wildfire. Should they not be found at fault? Surely the fire would've barely burned at all if it weren't for the conditions.

Nobody disputes that conditions were a contributing factor. On the contrary, that's why it was more important than usual to prevent sources of ignition as much as possible. It wasn't a lightning strike, it wasn't a hot muffler, it wasn't arson, it was PG&E's equipment that ignited the fire that destroyed an entire community, and that equipment failure was the direct result of their chronic poor maintenance.

I think the comments here are quite civilized all things considered. PG&E has a long history of poor equipment maintenance and has been the proximate cause for numerous environmental disasters. They are responsible for the deaths of over a hundred people over the last few years, the endangerment of thousands more, the displacement of tens of thousands more, and the destruction of multiple communities.

No action currently being taken against them is inappropriate under the circumstances.
It seems like that would have the classic "market for lemons" adverse selection process. People who join would likely be skewed towards those whose productive capacity (or intended future production) is lower than estimated, and it seems like you'd end up in a death spiral of free-riders pretty quickly[1].

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big supporter of UBI at the society-wide level, but these problems are substantially mitigated when participation isn't voluntary, or at least is tied to residence/citizenship.

[1] similar dynamics are in play for halfway measures in health insurance like the ACA, which is why it focused so hard on getting young people to sign up for insurance and improve the quality of the insurance pool
I talked to y'all a few years ago. Wasn't the right fit for me, but you're doing cool stuff in a great environment.

Good on ya!
>The plots are good, and stand against ST-TOS as actual science fiction, unlike many other SF shows, but the actual writing...well, yeah.

It seems like JMS never met a genre cliche or trope that he didn't like. Crusade, what there was of it, was even worse.

The worldbuilding was much better than anything in Trek until (ironically) DS9 came along.
Wait, you said "digital". That means super easy to copy. The only way Vivendi could have "lost all the digital originals" is if only one physical copy existed (no backups??) and Warner simply handed that over to them instead of making them a copy. There is absolutely no way Vivendi can be blamed for that level of WTF negligence from Warner. It would be completely reasonable for anyone at Vivendi to simply assume that any media they got from Warner was just one copy of many, and had no intrinsic value.
It's also trivial to come up with countless "80s-level" examples that never iterate more than 100 times.

Iterating over a megapixel image isn't a common scenario unless you're processing a lot of large images. Obviously you should optimize hot code paths.
This isn't going away. This is our society. So how do we deal with it? How could Brian have dealt with it?

There's probably a "right" answer. I imagine something like, "leaning into" the joke by posting a response, showing you can laugh at yourself. There are PR firms that specialize at this sort of thing.

Some would say it's a shame that middle schoolers need to develop the skills of a modern PR agency. I'd say, that's just what our society is now, and as usual, (most) kids will deal with the changes much better than adults.
I'm going to look at this more later, but my first thought is how does this compare to WAL-e
https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
Be kind to others...fast forward 10 years and imagine some authority looking into Mark's social media history. Yeah you may be a big alpha in middle school, but you'll be labeled a bully and a social pariah the rest of your life.

Heck, let's imagine advances in NLP and video processing where people automatically get labeled as bullies. Being regarded as such could be the new scarlet letter. The Internet doesn't forget.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Wait, why did Brian's follower count drop? Being the kid who fell in the puddle should be boosting his follower numbers.
Someone should really make a version of TranslationParty[1] that lets you choose/swap which translation service gets used.

[1] https://www.translationparty.com
If HN comments are any indicator, they think Facebook is being unfairly bullied for nothing more than standard industry practices.
On the other hand some services from AWS are downright bad. For instance, Elastic Beanstalk is an operational nightmare. The one selling point is that it's easy to get started with, but from there it seems they rely on ops lock-in to pay the bills for this product. It's slow, clunky, and opaque. There are much better alternatives that don't force you to tradeoff usability and lock-in for initial ease of use.
I am a newbie in this area, but could Zulip use machine learning to come up with a relevant subject or topic name? I am not sure how it would work though, since it might be required BEFORE you send messages, and you may not want to change it frequently after that, because people should not memorize the changes all the time, it would backfire I think.

But still, does it make sense in any way that I cannot think about right now?
English diminutives are very rudimentary and irregular compared to inflected languages.

In some language you can form several levels of diminutives from any noun. Even stuff that makes no sense, like "cute taxes", "cute death", "cute abstraction", "cute declension".

And you can form the opposite - take a noun and create less cute/uglier/larger version of it.

And these additional forms still obey the other rules, including declension. So there's a combinatorial explosion of versions of each word.
It was a joke when Filthy Frank said it, but someone edited that clip into a video for children. There's nothing funny about that, at all.
All browsers have had GPU-accelerated rendering in some form for years now. Mobile Safari has had a GPU-accelerated compositor since 2007.

The primary difference between Chrome and Firefox Quantum Render (WebRender) is that Chrome maintains a distinction between painting and compositing, while WebRender mostly collapses the phases into a unified rendering step (and Pathfinder even more so). Everything in Chrome other than media and WebGL goes through a vector graphics API (Skia) before being handed to a compositor that draws tiles on screen. But WebRender renders CSS content directly to the screen, like a game would.
We did recently improve how notifications are delivered on Android, about 1-2 weeks ago. Keep an eye on if you are still having issues, I hope the delay is resolved.
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Collect phones at the start of school. Like France.

> Some would say it's a shame that middle schoolers need to develop the skills of a modern PR agency.

If teachers don't care yes.
Out of your precautions, the one that interests me the most is number 1, because it acknowledges that other people's attitude determines one's privacy:

> 1. I've advised friends and my well-known contacts who have Gmail accounts that they will only get brief and or limited (and innocuous) data sans personal data and important information from me in replies to their Gmail account emails—and that this is specifically because they're using spyware Gmail! Offline, eyeball-to-eyeball, I amplify these concerns by strongly advising them that whenever they (a) send me emails, or (b) forward my emails and other details to other Gmail accounts, etc., and (c) whenever they even mention me in Gmail messages, either to me or to others, then they are violating my privacy and to do so only as a last resort. Right, I actively embarrass them for being stupid enough to let Google 'rape' them of their personal information (remember, we're in a war with Big Tech for our personal data so we can't be too nice).

What kind of reactions did you get? Do you allow the sime kind of information you post on public fora?

Seeing how trusting well-meaning people are, I'm wary of giving them any kind of sensitive information in digital form. It will inadvertently end up on Facebook, auto-backed up by Google or Apple, or in a private Dropbox share, outside of my control.

When it comes to things you might have missed, I've recently learned that US-based companies in areas which one would expect sensitive, are extremely promiscuous with personal data. The shocking example was Google plugging into payment processors streams (credit cards).
You're right, and, as a self-hating economist, I think he would agree with most of what you said.

Here are his thoughts on supply-side "trickle-down" economics:

"It's basically what happens when a college sophomore attends the first 8 weeks of an intro macro course and is like, 'ok, I've heard enough. I'm going to go write policy now'."

It makes sense in the context of basic economic theory devoid of complication introduced later, but no legitimate economists still believe in supply-side economics and very few did to begin with. The powers that be reached for, and continue to reach for, economic theory that supports their agenda; they don't look for consensus in the academic community.
>"This wasn't some "backroom deal"."

From NYC's perspective this was exactly a backroom deal, done out of sight up in Albany.

It's important to note that in order to build the LIC Amazon campus the state employed a somewhat controversial land use procedure known as a GPP - General Project Plan. This was used as a way of circumventing the city's rezoning process which would have required greater city council input.

Using a GPP ensured that the Empire State Development Corporation had final say. And locally it was seen as an end around on Queen's LIC Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and his district.

It's striking just how mismanaged the local perceptions and local politics of this whole deal were from the beginning. LIC and Queens in general is one of the most diverse places in the world. The overwhelming majority of which are people who have never heard of Hackernews or even work in tech.

Further this comes amid a time when New Yorker's have watched the fabric of the city change in rather concerning ways. The city has been blighted by a mix of both empty store fronts and endless retail bank branches on every block. Up above them a hyper construction machine builds endless glass tower "luxury condos" that are little more than safety deposit boxes for people who will not live there the majority of the year. All of this is a backdrop of great anxiety for many people. Our local governments have far more responsibilities than just generating tax revenue. These purely financial and technocrat armchair analyses never bother to take any of this into account.
I'm pretty under-educated on chemistry, but I read Asimov's _Search For The Elements_ a few years ago and loved it. It really demystified things.

In modern times it's easy for laymen to just wave our hands and say "yeah, we use fancy technology to do this stuff, which pretty much just treats it as magic. Asimov goes through the development of the periodic table and the discover of individual elements using classic technology.

Scanning tunneling microscope is still opaquely magic in my brain, but reading about discovering an element using technology I already understand makes even modern chemistry feel more in the realm of stuff I can get a solid grip on.
Why not 4? Two people can use the same bathroom at once then!
[WAL-G](https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g) is another alternative, and is sold as a successor to WAL-E, just in case if you haven't heard of it :-)
Sure, I get that. They're Veblen goods.

Rolex bums me out though because I really like a few of their watches. I just can't get over having their brand name and logo appearing so many times on the watch. It feels tacky to me.
Cyber Pearl Harbor doesn't worry me nearly as much as Cyber Gulf of Tonkin.

The article takes the Russian "attack" in 2016 as given. The evidence is shaky at best that the Russians were in any way involved in leaking emails revealing the DNC's underhanded tactics to sideline Sanders.

As such, the article plays to the Cyber Gulf of Tonkin model.
That's pretty interesting, I look forward to see what comes out of this! People often tend to conflate "computer science" with "professional software development" and I admit my first reaction was "so what? I routinely use just a small handful of data structures, do we really need something like this?" but seeing it visually laid out in an easily-digestible format is somehow inspiring. From a scientific perspective I can imagine discovering more advanced structures much like "missing" elements from the periodic table.
Fools and their money. If your only product is uploads to youtube, 8k is massive overkill. 4k is overkill. For the vast majority of content, even 1080p is overkill.

Spend that money on microphones and editing equipment.
> If the Apollo mission did not involve a command module (If the lunar lander was the craft that would come back to Earth), then all of this becomes irrelevant. You could then land at whatever latitude, and return to Earth, via a wide range of possible trajectories. (Except that, as another poster pointed out, you miss out on a part of, or all of the free-return trajectory boost, that you get from exiting the Moon's orbit in the opposite direction of its travel - which is ~1,000 m/s of delta-v saved.)

Yup. Another downside would be that the fuel needed to break lunar orbit and head back to Earth, enter Earth orbit, and then deorbit for Earth landing would have to be landed on the moon and lifted off from it again, requiring exponentially more fuel for lunar landing and liftoff.

Do you have any idea what orbit the linked story was talking about and what the launch timing of that would be?