skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the surface, these claims are as implausible as a fifth amendment claim would be

This was also my reaction, and I'm pretty curious if/how they'll be used. I presume the reason for citing all three Amendments was just to preserve options for a subsequent defense; you can't invent a new basis for your refusal at the contempt hearing.

I see maybe two paths for the First Amendment invocation.

It could be a right to privacy argument via freedom of assembly, since NAACP v. Alabama overturned contempt for failure to provide information about members of ideological organizations. That seems coherent, but not at all likely to work; Alabama was bringing suit against the NAACP and the court held that reveal of member roles would produce clear harm to the members. Or it could be a compelled speech argument, but that would be kind of dumb since it could cover any testimony at all. Testimony isn't an expression of belief, so the closest precedent is probably compelling companies to make "purely factual" statements, which is legal. (A press-shield argument would fit nicely, except that we don't actually have that right.)

For the Fourth, I have basically nothing. Maybe some argument that demanding factual speech about a person's actions is comparable to a digital search like a wiretap? But there's a subpoena here, and subpoenas to gather current 'records' about past events work fine, so I really have no clue.

The Sixth is fascinating, and I'm guessing it hinges on the Manning's opposition to a closed hearing. It's incredibly hard to close even hearings where judgement won't be issued, rather than merely closing specific segments, and giving someone a choice between private testimony and prison looks sort of like a de facto private trial. I'm pretty sympathetic, but I can't imagine it will stick; grand jury hearings are regularly private, and if that's not enough classified information rationales usually work.

Does anyone else have a better guess at why they picked those three amendments?
At least Tesla has an actual product you can buy? Where’s Waymos product? Will they sell to consumers or the incumbent car makers?

I agree with your statement about Tesla’s marketing of self driving. My Grand Cherokee isn’t so far off their mark. It has lane assist, adaptive cruise control with stop, parallel and back in parking. I’d bet Jeep could do summon and more stuff on the highway.
Flu vaccines simply increase your immune system's reaction to particular variants of the flu virus. It doesn't mean you can't get the flu, but if you do your symptoms are likely to be milder than they otherwise would be (unless you happen to get a different variety of flu than the one the vaccine was targeted at).

Also, one single person's experiences with the flu vaccine are not much to go on when making conclusions about the effectiveness of the flu vaccine for millions or billions of people.

Just to provide a counterexample, my own experience has been that I used to never get the flu vaccine, and once got so sick with the flu that I thought I was going to die (later I learned that some people actually do die from the flu). Then I started getting the vaccine every year, and since then I mostly didn't get the flu, but in the years I did my symptoms have been relatively mild and short-lived -- it usually lasts a day, and I don't feel like I'm going to die; instead, I just get some weakness and muscle aches.

Another thing to consider is that there may be other reasons for getting sick or not, apart from your vaccination status. I used to have a poor diet and some nutrient deficiencies, but since I improved my diet and started taking supplements like vitamin D and B12, I very rarely get sick. I think my immune system is probably just generally stronger than it used to be.

So to really make solid conclusions about the effectiveness of flu vaccines, you not only have to study large groups of people, but you also have to control for all the other factors that could potentially influence how frequently and how severely people get sick from the flu.
Bertrand Russel Dialogue [video]
I don't think this accurately considers how the term "autopilot" is actually used in aviation. Autopilot can mean anything from "hold a gyro estimated heading but not pitch or speed" to "maintain airspeed and follow the localizer down a glide slope while cross checking GPS and ILS."

> if it needs you to intercede there is pretty much no emergency in which you wouldn't have a few seconds to react.

Traffic avoidance is certainly one. Airspeed dropping while the autopilot tries to maintain altitude is another. This can result in a stall and complete loss of control under the wrong circumstances.

Autopilot does not mean "read a book and let the plane fly itself." You are always cross checking instruments, visually scanning for traffic, running checklists, rehearsing your next steps, etc.
I agree. 'Science' is either based on quantitative observation, or theory, or experiment that validates theory. Microeconomics largely follows this rubric, but I would say macroeconomics largely does not. Macro and international econ suffer from the same problems that psychology and sociology do as 'sciences' -- they're studies of very complex systems that are based on too little quantifiable theory that has been rigorously tested. As such it's a stretch to call any discipline that lacks a basis in natural law a science.

(IMHO, biology, which also deals in very complex systems, gets a scientific pass because so much of it is based on well tested chemistry and its methods are heavily experimental. (Aside from evolution, that is.) Likewise, cosmology benefits from its well-grounded bases in physics and geology.)

But that doesn't mean the study of such complex systems can't or don't employ scientific methods or standards that improve their utility greatly. For example, I'm a big fan of Piaget's work, though I would hesitate to call it science. Such work offers compelling insights, though with little real hope of us seeing farther by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do. Your opinion has no right to exist on any platform. Don't like it? You can move off of it. Bring other people to a platform that goes by rules you like. I don't use Gab, I am not interested in it, but it exists and has rules you may prefer if this hypothetical situation were to occur.

I like diverse viewpoints being allowed. It is unacceptable, however, to be so entitled as to try to force companies not to censor whatever they feel like.
Look, there are core Go developers who admit that parametric polymorphism is a good idea. In fact, I'm not aware of anyone on the Go team arguing against that. Which is what you mean by "generics", right? In fact Go already has "generics" - maps, slices, channels. Are those "slow" in your opinion?

The only thing left to do is to propose a system that has reasonable trade-offs, doesn't suck, and doesn't completely break the existing language. Easy peasy!

I wonder who is doing Go more a disservice - people who hate everything about, or the blind fanatical devotees who think any criticism towards any aspect of Go is heretical.
Is there any tech company where the technical track doesn't plateau below the people-manager track?
Tesla Transforms “Full Self-Driving” and “Tesla Network” Language
Amazon Basics is a tiny part of their revenue. The conclusion that they participate in their own platform and therefore need to be broken up makes no sense.
That doesn't have anything to do with the question I asked. See also, TLS exceptions.
Chicago has Comcast, AT&T Fiber, Spectrum, and RCN.
Employers determine where people go because everyone needs a job. People may want new cities, but employers don't care: it's not their problem. So, when a new city pops up, employers don't need to move there, and therefore no one else does either. You'd need to have some kind of big tax advantages to make this happen, then employers will gladly move there.
Governments have a vested interest in keeping the numbers low. Right now people who don't want a job (e.g. stay-at-home-parents) aren't in the workforce. Also it's counting jobs vs people in the labor force. Meaning if someone has 2 jobs, there's really also an extra unemployed person. Also 1h/week counts as a job.

Without those modifications US unemployment is over 10%, EU unemployment well in the 20% even in the Netherlands.

An even fairer measure would be "active population" which is number of people working on jobs divided by the full population. Of course at that point babies and comatose patients count as unemployed, but I think it's fair because it correctly points out that the employed have to pay (in work, not money) for the entire population.

At that point US is high 30% unemployed, EU low 40% (about a 5% difference).
The Fermi Paradox requires you to assume a lot of things that we just don't know. They're all variables; you just named two of the more interesting and contentious variables out there.

Until recently, even the average number of planets around a given star was really unknown; arguably, it's still an incredibly fuzzy figure, one that changes constantly as our telescopes and observation methods improve.

There's no one "THE" problem with the Fermi Paradox.
It's been a while since I lived in TX. I just remember experiencing snow for the first time there. Looking at a climate graph, it looks like it's good 4 months out of the year there and not just 2.
> Number 1 was social.

This is what I liked while working in HP. We had a canteen where pretty much everybody went. You could buy a number of simple cheaper meals, a fancy expensive meal, or bring your own thing. Everybody could still sit together.
I propose the Morris equation for the odds of alien life finding us:

N = ( R * fp * ne * fl * fi * fc * L ) / ( AI * VR * D * S * M )

Where the Drake equation:

N = The number of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy who detect our electromagnetic emmissions

R = Average rate of formation of suitable stars (stars/year) in the Milky Way galaxy

fp = Fraction of stars that form planets

ne = Average number of habitable planets per star

fl = Fraction of habitable planets (ne) where life emerges

fi = Fraction of habitable planets with life where intelligent evolves

fc = Fraction of planets with intelligent life capable of interstellar communication

L = Years a civilization remains detectable

Is divided by the karma equation:

AI = Whether or not aliens have merged with artificial intelligence, become their own God and are no longer interested in us (tends towards 1)

VR = Whether or not aliens have virtual reality akin to the movie The Matrix and live in a hedonistic paradise indefinitely (tends towards 1)

D = Number of psychedelic drugs available to aliens that are at least as compelling as actual reality (tends towards infinity)

S = Percentage of aliens that reproduce sexually or are able to spend a lifetime living in their parents' basement pondering aliens (let's just say 50%)

M = Whether or not aliens use money so contact with extraterrestrials is considered too great a risk (somewhere between 0 and 1)

So as with all things, first contact by extraterrestrials is likely dominated by the need to procreate and money.
Is there some particular issue with enablement? At least as far as business method software patents go, enablement is often easily satisfied because they're commonly a combination of entirely well understood features.
Wasn't Verizon given billions in subsidies for FTTH (which they installed on the east and west coast, the most profitable areas) and then sold off vast areas they didn't touch to companies like Frontier?
I lost my PIN since I moved twice after freezing my credit and apparently didn't store it in my computer. I was able to temporarily lift my security freeze without it, and I found it convenient but a bit unsettling. Glad I'm not the only one.
American products get used all around the world. China’s market is hard to penetrate for US tech but on the flip side, Chinese tech doesn’t typically fare well outside China either. Maybe TikTok is the only exception. Wechat is used by overseas Chinese or people who want to talk to Chinese people.
> I can learn a new one in a couple weeks.

To play devil's (or manager's) advocate - have you ever crunched the numbers on what it takes to pay you for a couple of weeks? That's not a trivial investment, especially considering the risk that you just thought you could learn a new language in a couple of weeks but were wrong.
It's good for the LOCAL economy. Eating expensive lunch in a restaurant will increase local spending, but reduce your other consumption by the same amount. You create jobs by letting people work for you, and you get means to make them do it by working yourself. Nothing special about going out for lunch in that regard.

And if everyone chooses to eat cheap lunch, we could all just work less, and the system would be balanced again ;).
That is one of my favorites, although I often substitute 'learning' for 'science'.
Not sure about desirable. I'm not a huge fan of the company/person with the most money to donate basically dictating the direction of our country (as it is now).
Animals are no less emotional than we are
>> You get the shot after stepping on a nail. Not before it.

Or you do it twice as /when doctors recommend and don't worry about the slightest cut to kill you.

Barefooted is more than normal in a lot of places.
> we've made little advance in real productivity since the 70s but all the while churning languages and libraries and environments like fashionable clothes partly because programmers are on the average young and inexperienced.

Making a real time video chat client is now a literal programming exercise, it used to be the domain of multi-million dollar venture backed startups that were valued in the billions.

Real time chat between users is now a feature that is added to an application in a day, or even a few hours if you follow any of the myriads of tutorials available on YouTube.

Go from writing a UI in C/C++ to writing it in any of the higher level languages. Assuming you don't get caught in some design pattern trap that results in massive code bloat, it is now possible to do things in hours that used to take days to weeks.

Heck, transparency is no longer "write some ASM" routines, it is setting an opacity variable!

Some tech stacks, such as those for making basic CRUD apps, may have actually degraded a bit, but at the same time someone who is only slightly technical can now drag and drop their way to an online store front that is a fair bit more powerful that Viaweb was back in the day!

Heck, it is possible to now go from an empty folder to writing+deploy HTTPS API endpoints in under half an hour.

Edit:

More stuff!

App (not web!) updates can be deployed to users by uploading a file and having a client pull down the changes and seamlessly switch over to the new code next time the app is launched. Versus mailing out disks!

There are app stores that you upload intermediate code to and they'll compile apps to the appropriate architecture for a customer's device!

During 72 hours of coding for Ludem Dare, game developers and artists work together to create games that are as complex as a full fledged commercial game would have been 25 years ago.

And of course, many corporate software engineering efforts continue to fail or go massively over budget for largely political reasons.
Emergency contact, that's possible...

Beneficiary, certainly not, I was in college, broke as fuck, and living on student loans, didn't have any sort of assets to speak of (besides a $900 car), no retirement accounts or insurance policies (besides the minimum liability insurance required by the state).
> I thought bit rot was bits in files changing over time due to the storage medium failing

No, that's not what "bit rot" means.

"Bit rot" refers to software that stops working because of non-backward-compatible changes in the hardware/software environment.

For example, if you try to play an old Windows 95 game on Windows 10, you will probably have a bad time.
I’d say that most of the people at these events are not in tech. As far as geeks vs jocks - I’d say it’s pretty much normal people. Or perhaps what’s normal for me. Perhaps slightly more hippy / burner than the average person.
Being laid off is temporary. And it can result in a better outcome, esp. when your previous employer was dysfunctional.

Source: I was just laid off.
Isn’t the whole point of asking programmers to work out and and write code for alien dictionary from Leetcode to test their problem solving ability? There are really no easy answers to interviewing people for jobs, I guess.
UK immigration experience varies hugely by income. Some friends of mine experienced trying to move a young family from the US to the UK to be close to grandparents were separated for more than six months while the UK parent found a job and applied for the visa for their partner.
Even though it must have been very difficult, living a harder life seems to have given you a super power to transcend the silly little things that everyone else seems to care so much about.

Personally I find I get wrapped up in the little things quite often, and only after do I really understand I wasted so much effort on something meaningless. I'm not suggesting trauma tourism, but I am interested in a way to broaden my horizons and understand this mindset. Is there anything you'd suggest one can do?
There are many examples, but here's one: Logitech
Not an "intelligence officer", an E-4 specialist. Terrible journalism.
I am at lunch and on mobile so I can't get too detailed, but, with respect, I see a number of errors on your resume. You are simultaneously being too broad in your objective and too detailed in the body. It's not telling a coherent, targeted story. You can leave off "references available upon request" because that's assumed. You can just list your school instead of that you only got an associates degree. I would if I were you find a good recruiter and ask them how it reads. Make it more focused and scannable. I put a lot of work into my resume and personal branding on LinkedIn and it pays huge dividends.
> I don't think Musk 'lies' to earn more money.

Telling people that the actual physical car they are currently purchasing from his company will soon be capable of autonomous driving when, in fact, it isn't, and won't ever be, seems to be a pretty straightforward contradiction of that statement.
How much experience do you have with forensic audio analysis?
Considering that he's won 19 of these bets, he'd have to be a very, very lucky person if it was just a 50-50 bet.
Bad idea, if they can't get a loan from someone who is in the business of loans, why would you go that path? ( Most likely you'll end up in court trying to collect )
They've already gone "the Los Angeles route". Austin requires a parking spot per 275 sq ft of office space[1]. Given that most parking lots or garages take 300-350 sq ft per space, that's a bigger garage than the office. They did eliminate parking requirements in the Central Business District, though[2].

[1] http://www.gatewayplanning.com/uploads/COA_Airport_Blvd/back...
[2] https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2019/02/2019-could-be-...
The character of Austin was already changing when Dell arrived. TI, IBM, Motorola and others were already there making Austin a tech hotbed. They named 183 "Research Blvd" long before Dell arrived.
That's a much harder question and one I don't claim to have an answer to. It doesn't change the fact that I don't trust my peers. I don't trust your average American to be informed enough and educated enough to make decisions about my life. Jury of peers might as well be trial by mob.
I think this is an absolutely incredible idea if it could actually be made in a way such that the taxation and other factors could not be easily avoided. But there's one unspoken problem with taxes and particularly corporate taxes.

Large companies are perceived as being proportionally beneficial to the US economy. If you made the US a place that was meaningfully undesirable for corporations, they can leave. And even if these companies did not leave, you would strongly deter new companies. For instance imagine you were able to create your system such that it could not be simply avoided through various typical methods. So big companies really did risk losing up to 50% of their net. How long would it take before e.g. YCombinator started requiring new companies to incorporate in e.g. Hong Kong (or wherever) instead of the US? Perhaps even moving the entire operation abroad.

So even though I think this would be an absolutely incredible idea, I do not think it would work or be meaningfully considered in practice.
Could the technique be used for something more localized, like sensing keystrokes via vibration? If an attacker knew a make/model of laptop, they could make a "training set" of data to compare against for greater confidence.
that is quite conservative. i would think 3% or 45K adjusting for inflation each year is still a very safe assumption.
I wanted to like this article, but I was annoyed by the second sentence, which asserts that the tech industry is extremely white and male. The "male" part may be true, but the "white" part isn't, and that fact is well known to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the industry. The big tech companies are actually LESS white than the US as a whole; it's Asians who are vastly overrepresented. In 2017, Google's tech hires were 47.1% Asian and 42.1% white. The 2018 Facebook tech hires were 51.3% Asian and 42.7% white. This compares to the overall US population which is 72% white and only 5% Asian.

I don't want to start a flame war about diversity, I just want to get the facts straight.

https://diversity.google/annual-report/

https://www.facebook.com/careers/diversity-report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
Sounds like my story too (lost 25kg about 7yrs ago and kept it off). I generally rotate on a 1-week cycle. The only daily rules I follow are (1) never eat noodles more than once a day, and (2) eat some green vegetable/s once a day. I also never keep food in my apartment to easily avoid snacking, so some days when the weather's bad I'll only eat twice. When I go to an eatery (restaurant or canteen stall), I usually have the same meal every time, but there's about 10 different places I eat at, so I'm making the choice of what to eat when I choose which eatery to go to.
Lots of people here complaining about the traffic, but is there any major metro in the US where people don't complain about the rush-hour traffic? Off the top of my head, the people that I know in/from Boston, NYC, DC, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Nashville, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Denver, Seattle, Portland, SF, and LA all complain about rush-hour traffic, and many will insist that their city is "the worst" on some specific dimension.

My impression is that if you're living in a desirable metro area, your drive to work will be on congested roads, and there's no real way to avoid this. Your choice of location within a metro area (e.g. living close to work, on the same side of the city as your office) matters more than your choice between different metros. Some metro areas make these choices more desirable/affordable than others.
That evaluates a person on how well they solve IQ test problems.
You dont even have to go to a doctor...there are online testing services that will test vit D w/out a prescription. IO checked mine quarterly for several years.
Isn't the FCC process actually explicit about the fact that number-of-votes isn't a factor? I don't know where I read this, but I feel like I read something about the regulatory feedback process and thought to myself "this is exactly how AfD at Wikipedia work" (where voting is also useless and actually counterproductive).
Sure, but you also have to weigh that against what it takes to pay people to develop the wrong architecture at the wrong time, and the opportunity cost to the company as a whole to be saddled with those bad decisions. That's not trivial, either.

(although I agree with the sibling comment — one doesn't really learn most languages in a few weeks)