skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way are these guys different from mob guys running a protection racket? They seem to operate exactly like thugs that come to a restaurant, ask for money for "protection" and then often walk away with 10% or less of what they asked for.
Is this literally just a hit piece on spacex because they only released one official statement so far? You’d think it would be normal operations to release a statement, run an investigation, then release another statement after it concludes.
This is a fantastic demonstration of how poorly we manage our streets. There is no doubt in my mind that in the future we will look back at how we currently treat parking and wonder "What took so long?"

I wonder if anyone has ever calculated the amount of actual acreage taken up by street parking in San Francisco. Undoubtedly it's a huge amount that you would consider extremely valuable in a place like San Francisco. Yet we're letting people dump their single passenger vehicles in public and it's no big deal.
No, not something as rigid as Cyc, but more a system where you can trace the truth of a certain fact. Wikipedia requires you to reference sources. But that is just one layer. Some forms of knowledge are based on multiple layers of references. Making a statement based on a source, always involves some form of interpretation. It would be nice to know who made the statement (and who are supporting the interpretation). Of course, wikipedia keeps the full history of an article, and you could go back through all the revisions and see who edited what, but in requires a lot of work. It would be nice if Golden would at least acknowledge that traceability is an issue has some support for it.
monorepo means that the whole product is inside a single repo. Like google and fb do it.
Adhesive tape is an incredibly sophisticated and versatile product. Yes, there are silly products (emoji duct tape) but there are also an immense variety of tapes with uniquely useful properties.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/All...
Because Ecuador warned the US they would be kicking him out of the embassy, but did not warn Sweden. I don't think that is in doubt at all.

The US does not need Sweden's involvement to extradite and try Assange. The rape charges are separate and irrelevant to the charges he faces in the US, and whether the UK would even grant his extradition to the US is not a sure thing.

These two cases are unrelated, and the only reason they have been conflated is a concerted effort on the part of Assange supporters to discredit the accusations of sexual misconduct by lumping them in with his WikiLeaks activities and make up a whole lot of guff about CIA plots rather than just accept that he should face the criminal justice procedure for some shitty personal behaviour on his part.
Kreuzberg was also one of the poorest parts of West Berlin and is now home to all the hipsters (and uses East German Ampelmännchen if memory serves).
I fail to see how this is suicide. It's not export restrictions for the sake of market boosting or market isolation, it's a request for information about emerging tech.
For a small fraction of human evolution we have eaten carbohydrates. Literally only thousands of years as you put it. And you can see we have declined since then.

It was well know in Egypt that the wheat eaters (as they were known) had poor nutrition, rotten teeth etc. It was known that carb based food (normally cheap plant based food) was for slaves, like the pyramid builders.

> Peasants ate {bread,oatmeal,congee, gruel...} and not a whole lot else, for most of recorded history, and for most of recorded history, most humans were peasants.

Yes, peasants ate it, and you can see they had poor nutrition, poor teeth, and were generally poor in health compared to the rich people who ate meat with protein and fat. When times are tough, people cut out expensive meat and their health declined. So you are kind of making my point. That carbs are a bad source of energy and only used when nothing better or can't afford.

Also the term recorded history is a very short time when talking about human evolution. We evolved without carbs. Our brains increased in size due to eating protein and fats. We hunted the harder to kill but more fatty animals.

> It has to be more than just "carbs bad", because summed across population, we eat WAY LESS percentage carbs per person now than we did in 1100 AD. We eat more, period, and we exert ourselves less, and i think that's got to count for a lot.

You've got to be kidding? You think we eat way less carbs per person now then in 1100AD? We didn't have refined sugar and flour back then. Any carbs we ate were loaded with fibre and so not digestible (and doesn't count). We are talking digestible carbs because that's the only thing that matters (the rest just pass out). We are eating way more carbs then in 1100AD and then before that due to the amount of processed sugar and flour in everything.

That old tripe of we are just fat because we don't exercise is not just true. Plenty of people try and exert themselves and it just doesn't work. We aren't simple thermodynamic machines.

Again have a read up on Tim Noakes
It is an extradition case: the US have made an extradition request for conspiracy to hack (only). Assange is currently held for that as well as the Bail Act offence.
I'm a bit worried that systems like this make the continued existence of large cities dependent on the availability of power and the resilience of power grids. It all works well enough usually, but when things go wrong, systems like that can make a bad situation a lot worse.
Could we engineer viruses to inject information into our brains? if I wanted to learn a new skill like React, what if all I needed to do was infect my self with the React virus
A lot of hospitals own debt collection agencies and if that doesn’t make you angry, I don’t know what to tell you.
It's a trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeverelySpeciali...
He's arguably the most powerful and protected CEO in America. He literally cannot be ousted from FB by the board.

If one of the most powerful executives in America can't bring about wholesale change to the business and is truly helpless as you describe, who else could possibly come in and make a difference?

If the company's existence is threatened, so be it. They're in this position due to the actions they've chosen, and immortality is guaranteed for no one.
I'm not sure many folks would think of him as a martyr. A lot of the previous good will about leaking important documents seems to have been washed away by Wikileak's crafting things to form their own narratives.
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Are you kidding? Asian countries definitely have an obesity and diabetes problem.

Sugar are carbs. It's the same thing.
Obviously it was A-OK. Nothing bad seemed to happen, stocks are up from that time period.

If you can start a company that breaks the law, the only punishment is a $0 fine, your competitors don't do it, and doing it brings you large financial rewards, many would do it 10/10 times.
A lot of people here try solve problems by starting companies or creating technology. So instead of solving the "problem" of serving more ads like a lot of the best tech people do at Google and Facebook I am happy that the people here care about this very real problem and hopefully some of us will do something about it.
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Generally, yes.

Put yourself on the other side. Someone breaks into your house, steals a painting and pawns it off for $500. Unbeknownst to them, it was worth $10,000. Breaking in, they broke a window. Unbeknownst to them, you're traveling, and that leads to $50,000 in flood damage. Guess who is liable: the crook or you?

It might be unfair that they took on a $60,000 liability for $500 worth of gain, but it's far more fair than if you took on a $60,000 liability.

Base damages are usually the greater of the damages caused to the victim and the gains to the culprit. There are exceptions (treble damages, statutory damages, etc.), but that's a fine baseline.
Like investments, the implicit question of whether one can trust Facebook (etc.) going forward is actually orthogonal to their current or previous behaviour. Whilst it might inform and be predictive to a great degree, there is no way to bind "future Facebook" to any real guarantees. In Debian licensing, we call this the "tentacles of evil" test..
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I get that any perspective of a logo is highly subjective, but can you provide an example or two that you consider to be not boring?

Red Hat is a mature company selling enterprise software, so I kind of expect their logo to be what it is.
"Companies connect products to markets; vehicles for investment and profit"
Stuxnet didn't violate Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ?
And what if I wanted to add a method to a class? Or a method and a data member?
But there is only one sshd_config with the exact same manual across all the servers across all companies that use it (distro and version differences notwithstanding). If you know what the PasswordAuthentication option in sshd_config means at one company, you know what it means at any other company, unlike each one's way of maintaining the file.
Many reasons.

First, WalMart doesn't have everything. Only a few people in any city are interested in buying specialty items, it doesn't make sense to WalMart to stock that everywhere when some stores will never have a sale. A specialty store brings in customers from all over the city.

A human who knows one product well is very useful. WalMart salesmen don't know their product. Going to a specialist who knows the product well makes sense because you can get advice. Also, WalMart as limited space: the specialist shop will often have the exact thing you need, while WalMart will have at best something similar, for real niche items you can't even get a substitute.

For the above to work you need a large enough population. The small hyper-specialist shop only works when there are enough people who will buy from it. Small towns in the middle of nowhere have a specialist store selling only farm equipment, you won't find that in the middle of a big city (you will on the edge). A big city will have specialist stores to support the industry (and hobbyists) in that town.

When the item needs to be custom fit you need a store. WalMart can fit glasses, but they don't know anything about pens. I bet many of you didn't know that some pens are custom adjusted to the user - there are enough people who like expensive pens to support pen shop in some cities. Likewise golf clubs, bowling balls...
Highly efficient thermoelectric generation, but only in the cold
There’s no regulations preventing them from quoting prices to you.
Most US taxpayers can deduct medical expenses which exceed 10% of their income (subject to some limitations).
Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)
There are a lot of very talented people in places like Seattle and Boston, too, and yet the VCs and companies out in SF/SV are stuck in their little bubble.
This is the epitome of bike shedding. Every journalist thinks they know what Elon Musk should be doing.
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"what is your deployment strategy?" Puppet and chef are just tools. There are good reasons to use them and good reasons not to. Step 1: don't assume that the company didn't look at the situation and decide they do not want to use cfmgmt. (Even if, sadly, usually they just didn't think of it at all...)
yip, that and the amount of gun violence makes living in US an untenable option
US went from telecoms leader to 5G also-ran without challenger to China’s Huawei
Water tanks filled from outside and a composting toilet maybe?
Ironically, the pictures of one of the #wepark offices in the article was literally directly in front of empty commercial real estate for lease. What does this stunt prove, aside from being slightly silly? Should all the buildings be expanded by ~6',and the sidewalk moved directly adjacent to the road? Because even if personal automobiles are entirely eliminated, roads will still be necessary for access. As a tounge-in-cheek protest against high prices it works, but I think the grandparent is making a more salient point than the wepark group. If your job can be done from a temporary office environment (and many of the people interviewed already worked from their homes) then a far better solution to expensive real estate is to move, especially if you are already working remotely.

How much space can actually be reclaimed from on-street parking in a feasible manner? Likely not enough to make a significant difference in the price of real-estate.
Where is the cooperation here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case I really fail to see it.
How does the technology from Prometheus count as carbon recapture? We end up taking a (relative to the size of the problem) small amount of the 'extra' carbon out of the atmosphere... and then proceed to burn it and put it right back in. IMO carbon recapture only counts if the carbon gets removed permanently. But Prometheus's technology is problematic for other reasons.

Let's say that all of the $3/gallon which was quoted can be attributed to electricity cost and nothing else. At $0.12/kWh that would be turning 25kWh of electrical energy into ~36kWh of chemical energy (gasoline). Now it needs to be transported to the gas station, which costs something like 10% of the total energy content. So now we're back to ~32kWh of chemical energy delivered to the customer. They convert it into mechanical energy at 20% efficiency [1]. So you've converted 25kWh of electrical energy into 6.5kWh of mechanical energy at the customer's wheels. Meanwhile, we would be using a fuel that is interchangeable with carbon we dig out of the ground. What are the chances we limit ourselves to only the "green gasoline" and ignore the stuff in the ground?

Meanwhile electric vehicles convert ~60% [1] of the electrical energy used to charge them into mechanical energy. So you convert that 25kWh into 15kWh of mechanical energy. Energy can be generated in many ways, many of them not very green at all. Let's assume both the "green gasoline machine" and the EV charging box are powered by the same grid. You could go 2.3x as far with the EV for the same energy input.

Now if Prometheus is making "green jet fuel" I'd be interested because there isn't any obvious electrification solution to long distance air travel that seems close to commercialization.

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml
This again? Why doesn't anyone read the guidelines, or see the 1 million other posters who ask this same question, only to be corrected and sent a link to ... the guidelines!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Maybe I'm old and grumpy, or maybe I've been on HN too long but this comes up waay to often. /rant
But that's even worse - now the $143k bill is sent to the government which just shrugs its collective shoulders and pays it... until the money runs out.
> “A lot of the focus is on changing the way that consumer-to-consumer interaction works,” said Greg Sparrow, senior vice president and general manager at CompliancePoint, a data privacy and security consultancy. “While that is laudable and it’s great that they’re doing that, but fundamentally it doesn’t address the problem on the back-end side, which is businesses gaining access to this information and how they’re using it from a data monetization perspective.”

Bingo. Most people on Facebook are well aware of how "public" their posts are but aren't aware of how public their personal information is to advertisers. Facebook's new "privacy" focus isn't intended to solve the platform's real privacy problem, it's intended to distract from it.

Edit: Spelling
> Ecuador warned the US they would be kicking him out of the embassy, but did not warn Sweden

Ecuador hardly needed to notify Sweden. It was international news. The Guardian article from five months ago that I linked was just one of many. "No one in the Swedish government reads international news" is not a credible explanation.

I see two possible explanations:

1) Sweden doesn't place a high priority on prosecuting famous accused rapists who've escaped justice for years, or

2) Sweden doesn't consider Assange a famous accused rapist who's escaped justice for years.
Most machine learning accelerators have a few non-deterministic operations. The chances that you could run trillions of floating point operations through a GPU and get a bit-for-bit identical result is low.
How does being able to afford the fine have anything to do with it!?

The company caused 700M damage to the US tax payers (assuming the proof part), they should be on the hook to repay that, if they can't they should go bankrupt like anyone else who owes more money than they have.
Employers love it because it encourages their workers to keep their head down and work hard. Retirement is just around the corner.
The Big Lie?
No, he is evil. He called people who gave FB data "... dumb f#@$s" back when he was 19. It was just that in the beginning they weren't pushing the monetization yet. Now that is all it is about and people are starting to understand how they are being exploited. The only thing that has changed is that you are aware. HE is the FB DNA.
I'm trying to decide if this line of thinking is scary or wondrous.
Any team that spans several locations is going to have some/all of those issues anyway. Why make people suffer though living in a particular place on top of that?
I don't have anything of substance to add, so I'll just point out that it's "homing in on" not "honing". Honing is what you do to a knife blade.
I'm actively pursuing FIRE. On pace to reach it in 2023. I think every software developer who wants to write code their whole career must actively be trying to reach FIRE by age 50. Ageism is rampant in this industry.

If you want to be a manager or founder or whatever I think you can work past 50 but FIRE is still worth pursuing.

And if you love working on projects that matter to YOU there is nothing better than achieving Financial Independence.
Non-old Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw...
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Stalin

Regardless of the deaths, I understand the cultural tragedy of the destruction of Dresden is significant as it was an important intellectual center.

I had a friend who passed away recently who was a boy in the bombings and recounted with tears on multiple occasions, as a lifelong opiate addict, how he felt he had personally died at that time. I visited the city a few years ago and found the largely depressing husk of a city still under wishful reconstruction. The nominal activity of its touristic center was at direct odds to the clearly economically depressed suburbs mere moments away.
Wait what? As long as the build process is reproducible, why do you care if it's incremental or not? If you don't trust bazel, people have been using distcc+ccache since forever.
it will have to be profitable to pay back investors. for one difference.
I agree. You can complain and ascribe intent, or you can help. The people writing these controls are specifically admitting their need for assistance.

My interaction with EAR/itar has been annoying, but has not stopped me from working with foreign researchers, publishing papers, or openly discussing most of my work.
> Are the hyper-specialist shops of Berlin the future of retail?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Although in this case I would say YES, that specialist shops are needed to combat Amazon being non specialist.
>When somebody says "it's okay the be gay" they're actually saying it's not okay to be straight? This line of reasoning doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny.

If I said "it's ok to be gay" and someone RESPONDED with "it's ok to be straight", I would have little reason to believe they weren't explicitly trying to disagree with me. (As nothing I said would imply otherwise, and it goes without saying.) If they wanted to agree or elaborate, there are far better things to respond with, and it would unfair to allow them the presumption of exclusion but deny me the same assumption.

Usually in a conversation, we're not screaming slogans into a void and trying to analyze their validity while ignoring anything meaningful that happens in the world.
While one facet of politics is about control/power, another major facet of politics is just about public service and people wanting the same outcome, but disagreeing how to get there. With communication, both sides of an issue can find a solution that they both agree on to reach the same outcome.
I didn’t understand what the parent was trying to say until I read your comment.

Commomplace book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
Well that is still ethics. It largely my ethics too. Works for me. It might be different than yours but still.
In the second sentence:

> The case was picked by the international media as one of the better-documented cases of extraordinary rendition carried out in a joint operation by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) [emphasis added]

A joint operation implies there was co-operation. I'm not saying the US has never conducted extraordinary rendition without local government involvement, just that the two examples aren't like that.
how does health affect this? is it to do with healthcare
Let them stay in their bubble. Every time CA vomits out a substantial number of upper-middle/upper class people it ruins another city, sometimes a whole state.
just want to plug in Infragard here, specifically because of your comment around coorporation: https://www.infragard.org/. Lots of good information (U//FOUO) passed between various intelligence agencies and the private sector which you can access once you are a member.
Hyper-specialization is everywhere if you ever step into any Asian country.

Indians even have last names based on their hyper-specialized occupation. I was in Thailand and I saw a tiny shop whose only job was to take old torn notes and exchange it for a new one by charging a small flat fee. I had an Indian friend that told me that specializations in old cities was also geographically organized. One part of street would only sell pressure cookers while another side would sell watering cans.
Read the article. The primary point is activism. This isn't about money or saving costs at all. In fact the only mention of price was to pay the hourly parking rate, there's no mention of anyone collecting or making any other money on it. There's no formal system here, just some inspired activism to make a point about how much space is devoted to parking.
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I actually had the exact same thought on different lines. A software code of ethics will be toothless without a financial code of ethics. But a financial CoE is antithetical to finance's goals.

Edit: to be clear that doesn't mean we shouldn't have one!
The best part of co-working spaces is that the cost scales completely linearly without signing multi-year leases and deposits and all the other logistics of having an office.
This is so cool. I've never heard of that microcontroller though. It has nice features and applications. Datasheet of the microcontroller he used: https://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/sites/default/files/sma...
Doctors protect life, and lawyers keep you out of jail. I guess software engineers can take an oath not to kill people or put people in jail, but after that it's your morals vs. mine, no?

And if I work for the Department of Defense making missile guidance software, then it's OK to kill people, I suppose...
That's cool but that's not legally for cause in the US whatever the company wants to claim. I'd go even further and say they may be violating labor law but including such a provision.