skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. It really wasn't that big of a deal. They got caught and fined and that feels like an appropriate level of punishment. There are times when a prison-term against bad-actor executives is the right punishment ... this isn't it.

>If this was a couple of small, local competitors who were the only two [whatever] in the area and they did this, I guarantee you the owners would be individually indicted.

No. 100% NO. I guarantee you that the regulators wouldn't care. And if they did care, the 'local competitors' would get AT BEST a slap on the wrist like a strongly worded letter with a time-frame or MAYBE a fine (if that). There would be no indictments.

I work with regulators all the time (FDA, Health Canada), and they will work with you to get you under compliance. Consider the fact that all companies are under a large amount of legal and regulatory constraints and chances are every company is doing something against some law or some regulation (knowingly or unknowingly), and you can see that as long as what you did didn't result in undue hardship (though I'm sure you'll try to claim that this was an egregious action - I disagree) and you fix your behaviour, you'll be fine.
Tokyo 2020 medals to be made from discarded smartphones and laptops
Which might or might not involve Gilliam himself in some kind of consulting form. He's not sure yet, because they've been talking, but at the moment there's no signature.
I wonder how much small firms/startups have /benefited/ from this arrangement. By artificially reducing demand for labor, big tech firms have effectively made it more profitable for smaller firms to compete against them.
Look at my sibling comment to yours. Relativistic mass is mostly just a pedagogical fiction.
... duh? That was kind of my point.
Very similar to the Buffer story from the @reflect reply. I prefer the latter, more minimalistic approach.
> Sure, but the ones who aren't doing that are also getting paid really well.

So, don't require a 4.3 GPA from Stanford/MIT/Caltech for entry-level back-office/maintenance type developers. It seems like you're claiming that FAANGs are overpaying non-contributors, or at least those whose impact is not easily measured. So, stop paying so much and see what kind of developers you get.
> Uncertainty principle says...probably not. It's impossible to make a complete copy of the pattern.

That depends on what "the pattern" is. You can make an "exact" copy of a digital file, but that's because the semantics of digital data don't depend on the fine details of the physical representation (that's the whole point of going digital). We don't yet know what level of detail of our physical state actually matters. If you take a single atom in your brain and move it somewhere else, does that matter? Probably not. What about ten atoms? Again, probably not. But at some point as the number goes up the answer must change. We don't know where the boundary is, and we don't know how close it is to the theoretical and technological limits of copying. But I don't think we can rule out the possibility of cloning a human brain in principle based on current knowledge.
I upvoted you just yet, asking why you are downvoted is frowned upon ( see the guidelines ).
Well sure, but this time it's "Democratic Feudalism".
Safari content blocking API is abandoned since 2015 when it was introduced. It simply does not allow using advanced blocking techniques which were developed by Chrome/FF blockers during these years.

It might be enough to handle most of the ads at the moment, but it fails miserably when a website uses any adblock circumvention.
But aren't there massive gaps where an intermediate celestial body to perform this jump on will be simply too far away for traditional space travel?
Maybe that's the marketing ploy -- make anyone who learns it feel like a genius for learning it.
Writing an iOS App on Your Phone with Play.js
Don't specify that at all in the standard. Let compilers implement it as an extension, like inline asm. They'll have to make it have sane behaviour because they don't have the excuse of 'the standard says it's ub'.
You can hear this on a lot of those EOD cache disposal videos on YouTube.
You understood it correctly.

There are a great many failures of process here.
This is a powerful insight, thank you.

I am fascinated by the way "fitness landscapes" manifest in companies OUTSIDE the financial fitness of the company's trade. People often act like trade fitness is the only realm where we compete in capitalism, but there are so many more.

Moat fitness for a company doesn't benefit their trade at all. Customers don't benefit when you kill a competitor, but you do.

Similarly PowerPoint doesn't benefit the customer or the business. It's a tool for employee theater, using it makes employees appear less fit to be fired.

And I like your point that unaccountability fitness is also an existential competition for executives.

I wish there were a big list of these for me to ponder.
You have your one immutable[0] particle that is left at the tail end of the heat death of the universe. It's not going anywhere, because there is nowhere to go. It's not doing anything because there's nothing to do. It is a lone observer, with nothing to observe.

Except! There would still be virtual particles creating and annihilating. Let's assume that there is an interval between these events (e.g., they aren't constantly present).

Would Aristotle say that no time passes between events? I would tend to say that time yet passes even during the periods when nothing else exists and nothing is happening.

Let's say the second to last things in the universe were another observer with a clock who could time and observe these virtual particle events, and this observer was able to time these events at a 1 second interval between events (duration of event is irrelevant).

And then that second-to-last observer and the clock suddenly annihilate somehow so that only your immutable particle remains. And the virtual particle events still happen at the same interval period.

Would the time interval between virtual particle events somehow be different without the clock/observer as with the sole immutable particle? That doesn't make sense to me, though I will certainly admit that it could very well be!

Aristotle's idea of time is not fully satisfactory to me, though I can't of course rule it out.

[0] Important! Because if the particle is not immutable, then it is waiting for change, which requires time.
I agree with that, the US poses a much greater realistic threat with my data. However I'm also more confident in our government system to have at least some form of recourse.

However, I'll counter with the idea that while I as an individual am at minimal risk from direct legal action from China, the greater collection of data as a whole on say American's could be used maliciously. One example would be "Cambridge Analytica style" targeting of advertising, similar to the previous US election.

What I mean to say is that this data may pose a strategic advantage for China in ways other then targeting individuals. Yes the US can do this to me as well, but again I'm more confident in our system of checks/balances to at least minimize the damage.

Again, I do oppose all State surveillance, I just mean to voice my opinion the "lesser of the two evils"
Ask HN: What is your favorite web hosting provider for flask?
Buy index funds and keep them until you retire, as you age move a % equal to your age to long-term bonds. There, now taking the advice of any book, investor, or advisor will hurt your lifetime earnings potential.
Ask HN: Who uses Kotlin in the back end?
Kotlin is definitely a popular language for Android development, but what companies use it in their backend?

Will it grow as a backend language, or mainly be used for Android apps?
That’s a very one dimensional view. Bureaucracy exists to standardize control and improve consistency.

Think of a group of friends who go out for dinner. When the group grows, you generally need to set rules to avoid folks stuffing on tips or itemizing their bill to save a buck.
Locally-Sourced from the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy Papers
Breaking up Big Tech would be a big mistake
Interesting. At what point does it stop being sounds waves traveling through the ground and start becoming straight-up seismic vibrations caused by the (effective) explosions happening on the pad? Probably a bit of a spectrum, as the ground is itself acting like a giant woofer of sorts. I wonder where such a launch registers on the Richter scale...
Austria mulls user registration for online platforms
MoCo is for-profit in the legal sense, yes. But it doesn't "aim to turn a profit".
The nature of "poor people food" varies widely depending on where you are and what is cheap locally. Rural poor, for example, often have game animals and garden vegetables as a significant part of their diet, which is pretty healthy as such things go. When I lived in the Palouse, lentils and peas figured prominently because those were local crops and therefore approximately free. The diets of the urban poor are admittedly worse in my experience.
If you don't know a person, you don't know whether or not they find touch invasive. Don't touch them. You don't get to dictate boundaries for everyone else.
How did that work out with the launch delays? Did you just plan on being in the area long enough to be there for any subsequent attempts?
That's what the "Heisinberg compensators" in star trek fix. I heard this phrase in an episode once, and decided to figure out how that could even work...

What I came up with was the idea that the scanning stage doesn't need to gather exact data because it really doesn't matter. You just need to get averages, and then build up a model that matches the statistics... (you don't need to discover the exact energy and momentum of every particle, just measure the temperature)

Basically you get teleporter jpeg compression... good enough to fool you, just don't use it too many times without keeping the raw data:)
This is honestly the problem of not having subchats. Slack and Discord's previews and stuff are fine, but at their own time and place. I heavily use IRC and I do miss rich previews a lot like Discord and similar have, I really don't want to open a browser to quickly check out a video or a song, IRC forces me to do so really often - especially annoying in a phone.
It's really pervasive that the CPU in the Gameboy is a Z80. It's not. It's got a few instructions from the Z80 but it's closer to the 8080 overall.
They didn't really, that's a common misconception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
Do you realize that you are asking for mandatory proof of identity with government issued ID for every social platform?

Because that's the only way to make this happen.
Urban Dictionary but you have to pay.
Big Tech's Big Tax Ruse: Industry Splurges on Buybacks
> Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete—roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in "chunks," but rather "flows," smoothly and continuously.

The jury may still be out on that. A few of the quantum gravity theories (like loop quantum gravity, causal dynamical triangulation, or causal sets) propose a discrete spacetime as a consequence of background independence.

Edit: formatting
Correct, the CPU is not a Z80 at all. It has more in common with the 8080 but does have a few Z80 enhancements and a few original instructions.
I loved this film. Its quirky and scattered in all of the right ways.

I really admire Gilliam's persistence over the years -- and I'm thankful that he was willing to allow not one, but two documentaries to be filmed about the struggle to be made.

Critics have been a little lukewarm to the film, but everybody I know who has seen it has loved it. It has definitely lived up to the hype. Its a shame I wasn't able to catch it with a proper theatrical release. Its beautifully shot, like a lot of his films.
dead link with 4 points and no comments, dang
> Companies should make a solid effort to prevent the possibility

Isn't this what they do and then hedge the risk by covering their potential losses with insurance?

If companies are not doing a good enough job with security, why does the cyber insurance not cost more? Priced properly, companies can choose between buying more coverage versus throwing more money at the "security problem."
Are you willfully ignoring just how expensive high rises are to make your point? You can easily pay several million dollars for a coffin on the 3rd floor in new york. I don't want to live in a world like that.
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Rules sooner or later will apply!

They didn’t apply to Harvey Weinstein until they did!
Lessons learned from first year of building an enterprise SaaS startup
Thanks. I wonder if child hunger and subsequent depression are really just two symptomatic manifestations of the same underlying cause (e.g. socioeconomic issues increasing the likelihood of either) rather than being causally related.
its pretty spectacular what major insurance does not cover in the digital context.

For example, I work as an automotive engine mechanic for a small chain of midwestern shops. Recently we had a Tesla owner drive in for servicing a recalled suspension control arm. We were approved to do the work by Tesla and had the parts shipped directly from California. once the work was completed, we informed the customer in the waiting room, who immediately took it upon himself to "auto-pilot" the car out of the garage while it was still on the lift.

The car happily obliged, and backed itself off a lift six and a half feet to the ground in a pretty spectacular display. No one was hurt thankfully, however our shop insurance refused coverage for our damaged lift, and the Tesla owners auto insurance refused coverage as well because he was technically not driving the car at the time. The customer had to pay out of pocket for repairing his car, as well as our lift.
About a year ago, I decided that I'm going to learn Postscript for no other reason than to say that I know Postscript.

Coming from a functional background, the point-free nature of it wasn't too confusing, and I actually grew to really enjoy it.

I never got too far into that quest largely because I didn't have much of a practical need to be a Postscript expert, but it has since made me want to learn Forth, which I have been pushing off for months now.
Did you give away your (implicit) trademark rights to Chris?

Simply giving ownership to a GitHub repo might not be a license.
I am struggling to understand how not having enough money for food is possible in a first world country. You can feed yourself for about $1 a day per person with careful budgeting, or $30/month.

That is the equivalent of 3 hours of work at minimum wage in the UK, and if that is an amount an individual is unable to spare, then that person clearly qualifies for governmental assistance, especially one with three dependent children.

EDIT: See below comment for satisfying the calorie requirements on $1 a day, or consider that you can get 1 kg of rice for £0.45 which contains 3,650 calories.
Unfortunately I sent the whole thing back to the repair shop and I'm guessing they probably sold it. In hindsight I should have taken it out prior to sending it to them...
You fed him baby carrots and chicken nuggets for 10 years? Why would you enable that? Make him hungry and he will eat with everyone else.
See also https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XcHwQnEzg-F_JQhygQdYjyU3...
At the same time, I merely will not use a website that is so hostile nor do I regularly encounter websites like that. uBlock Origin breaks in this way as well, and the only website I can even recall with this behavior was a shady movie-streaming site I was linked to.

What do you mean by abandoned? I use it and it works for me daily.
Perhaps it's because building a giant ship that can carry countless generations of inhabitants many light years is really more of just an engineering problem. All the challenges (of which there are plenty) all have reasonably known solutions. There's not really all that much novel technology required. Just better tech than we have, and a lot of it, to be sure.

Uploading a consciousness into a computer and have it remain "you"? That's completely foreign to what we know today. I'm not saying it's categorically impossible; to your point, if a civilization has advanced to the point where the above is ship is feasible, surely they must have picked this up along the way? Maybe, but maybe not. We don't even know if it is possible. But keep a shitload of people alive in space for a long time? Sounds plausible, even if it is enormously difficult.
You don't think people were executed post-war for "just following orders" before the Nuremberg trials?

In other words, do you really think such people got off easy before the Nuremberg trials? If anything, much worse has happened to them throughout history, because the kings and dictators didn't have to put them through a judicial process.
IMO this feels like the whole point of insurance. You could restate this as "how are insurers supposed to cost and provide payouts for fires in the factory? It could be anything from a tiny, contained garbage can fire to the whole place going up in a blaze! [0]" Or chemicals in the case of TSMC [1]. Or blackouts at Samsung [2]. Any of this could have been industrial espionage on the same scale as a state-sponsored cyberattack. This is the domain of actuaries.

Of course, they're neither required nor obligated to provide such cover.

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/166775-ram-pricewatch-...

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/TSMC-takes-550m-h...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12535/power-outage-at-samsung...
The Sharp LR359021 CPU is what you're conquering which is an 8080 CPU with a few throw-ins from the Z80. There are enough tools to write a GB game but perhaps there aren't enough good samples or a library (mini engine).

But in general I agree that the biggest problem with making retro games is getting a comfortable dev environment that just works. I think this is the motivation behind some of the 'simple' NES development environments that have been coming out.

I feel like a really good IDE / debugger and well documented library for the Gameboy + samples would go a long way.
Probably not. On the timescales of millions of years, the only thing that really matter is whether it's physically possible, and it looks physically possible to colonize other galaxies.

http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/intergalactic-spr...

I'd be pretty surprised if the jump between galactic groups is much worse.
The Mayan Long Count calendar? If I remember right, it's method of counting leap years is more accurate than the modern Gregorian calendar.
Good advice, but lol.

While visiting Turkey a few years back I witnessed amazing incidents:

- The bus I was on was driving really slowly (walking would be faster), to the point the locals started getting frustrated... and told him to get off the phone: He was texting constantly.

- A driver of a 'biskilet' (an electric moped) had his phone jammed under his open face helmet so that he could talk white riding. I saw quite a few other riders with phones in their hands...

As an aside: I've also seen cops in my country (Oz) using phones while driving, despite being illegal.
Needed: PC surgeon simulator.
Fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
More like in the short term. A friend of mine just got a job at a SF startup for that. They're a consultancy which evaluates computer security for insurance companies, before they insure a business. She used to work on AI for intrusion detection, so they're hiring serious people for this.

There are specialty insurance companies which cover specific risks and know how to evaluate them. The classic is The Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company.[1] They were the first insurance company willing to insure steam boilers. About half their employees are boiler inspectors. When they started, in 1866, nobody else would touch that business.

They inspect before they insure. Typically, they send inspectors and provide the boiler owner with a to-do list. Then they come back to see if everything was fixed. Only then does HSB write a policy. Their policies give them the right to come in at any time and inspect. Which, randomly, they do.

Boring old Hartford Steam Boiler is expanding into computer systems insurance.[2] But they are not as hard-ass about inspections as they are with boilers, unfortunately. They know how to keep boilers from blowing up. Computer security isn't there yet.

[1] https://www.munichre.com/HSB/about-hsb/index.html

[2] https://www.munichre.com/HSB/cyber-insurance/index.html
Are tunable parameters necessarily better? A system with more options puts the onus on the operator to get things right, which means many JVM applications need to be individually tuned.

If an autopilot can be done well, it's much better. This article reveals a spot where Go's autopilot goes haywire, but the general typical experience is much better than this.
>You can feed yourself for about $1 a day per person with careful budgeting, or $30/month.

How?
If A and B are both located in desirable locations, and C is not, then the strangeness of there being more A->C->B jumps than A->B is only stronger.

Again, you're assuming that there only a few entirely orthogonal variables. If A and B are both located in a desirable location, the cost of moving to A or the cost of moving to B might be high enough, such that it's only justified if there is a large increase in salary. So this factor might well apply more to moving from C->A than it would A->B or B->A. The same housing expenses might also motivate other people to move from A->C. In this case, you might well see more A->C->B jumps than A->B.

However, none of these are cleanly applicable to real people in the real world. We're not dealing with particles or spherical cows here.
Interview with Sid, the Funny Guy Behind React.Games
Lost in La Mancha (2002) chronicles Gilliam's ordeal
3D printing any mildly complex tissue is a huge challenge. Let alone getting that printed tissue to function in vivo. Almost all press releases like this one will hype that things are just around the corner. The truth is that bioengineering any organ system is extraordinarily complex, but likely achievable some day in the future.

I haven't read the paper behind the press release, but I'm skeptical of claims about 3D printed tissue. The primary obstacle in the heart is having a perfusable network of vasculature that is simultaneously mechanically & electrically functional. This requires intact extracellular matrix as well as functioning cardiomyocytes & supporting cell types. Maybe that's just my bias though (I'm an author on: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115....).
I've tried the SDCC C compiler and I did have to fix a lot of code generation bugs, thank goodness it had source. It was a few years ago now so maybe it's been fixed. I didn't contribute my fixes at the time because I didn't know about how to do that. Today would be different.
Bad soldering is bad soldering. Microsoft's XBox 360 had huge issues with it.

The problem is that it works from a QA perspective: They can test the thing for hours and it'll run flawlessly. It's only when it goes through hundreds of heating/cooling cycles that it starts to break down and cause problems.

You really never know which product or vendor is going to suffer from it next. Every GPU vendor has had some issues.

I got red-ringed and I didn't swear off of buying Microsoft products forever.
"Shakti k also has primitives for blockchain operations."

That's... Interesting. I couldn't find any further mentions of "blockchain operations" in the reference. What do they mean, exactly? Since k is traditionally concerned with financial markets, I might guess that they're offering deeply-integrated ways to parse transactions, check the number of confirmations, query the current exchange rate, etc.?
Okay, I'll bite.

Please describe how a person can eat for $30/month
He's 14 - do you think you're the first person who ever suggested that?