skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that the facade of rationality you've wrapped your argument in is really about controlling the course of debate. No one wants to play dictator unless they're deeply broken and insecure. Good luck.
That's an excellent ruling, thank you for sharing that. Brings the internet closer to a "right" for certain, but does not require the government to provide access to the internet.

And, it may not matter: When making its case, the Justice Department will disassociate the use of encryption technology from access, arguing that limiting encryption options on consumer devices does not limit participation in an online forum.
I've heard that German luxury cars (what we consider them here in the USA) are more like what we think of Fords here; so common and normal, considered affordable. Or maybe just not "high end" due to being common? Again, though, only heard that - nothing to back it up.

It also may be that because Mercedes and BMWs are "local brand" vehicles, there are more of them, and more mechanics out there able to service them? Whereas (to them) foreign cars like American vehicles you have to take to special American automobile repair places (like we have European auto repair places here that specialize in those makes/models)?

Again - guesses...
That’s a good point. A lot of taxis in Germany are owned by individuals (so while it’s still a business, it’s often a one-person business), but I know they have workshops specifically for taxis, that are probably somewhat specialized on Mercedes. And maintenance packages that factor into the price, which Mercedes likely has if only because of their long tradition as a taxi brand, would play a role as well. Otherwise, I would still expect taxi concession owners to go with the most reliable brand, because any maintenance cost still has to be subtracted from your profit.
> I would actually buy and read a novel that had the plot you described.

Come on, write some fanfiction. ;-)
> Full-on disk encryption and end-to-end encryption make it impossible for the government to access those records even when a lawful request is made.

Is this not what courts are for? The government has plenty of tools to enforce lawful orders against companies.
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Thanks. Will be spending time on accessibility.
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When I consider my options to not sit in a company office, the cost points of what is out there very quickly indicate the buried cost of a desk, and good snacks. They are way way north of what people "think" would be reasonable.

A friend in ICT who will remain nameless has found a bookshop in a disused chapel near his home (and mine!) which holds great promise, but as a space its limited to maybe 2-5 people and would never be economically viable. But still, towers of books outside, and a congenial bookshop keeper to bum coffee off..
That proof is like disproving the conservation of energy by pointing out that the water inside a kettle boils. Or speaking about the "Toaster-Enhanced Turing Machine" (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1121). It's easy to "disprove" Turing's thesis when you misstate it.

Turing's thesis talks about some system transforming an input to an output. Clearly, a TM could simulate the actor itself in your proof. If it is not able to simulate the entire actor-collaborator system, that's only because you may have given the collaborator (whatever it is that generates the messages) super-Turing powers. You assumed that there could be something that could issue a `stop` after an arbitrary number of `go`'s, but you haven't established that such a mechanism could actually exist, and that's where the super-Turing computation actually hides: in a collaborator whose existence you have not established. As you have not established the existence of the collaborator, you have not established the existence of your actor-collaborator system. I claim that a TM cannot simulate it simply because it cannot exist (not as you describe it, at least).

So here's another "proof": The actor machine takes two messages, Q and A(Bool), and it gets them alternately, always Q followed by A. Every time it gets a Q, it increments a counter (initialized to zero) by 1 to the value N, and emits a string corresponding to the Nth Turing machine. It then gets a message A containing a value telling it whether the Nth TM terminates on an empty tape, and in response it emits A's argument back. And here you have an actor machine that decides halting!
The author worked at Google prior to founding this startup. Presumably Google Bay Area. So they founded a company where they were, and where their contacts were.

Yes, they could have moved out of the area, but that has its own costs, not just financial.
Oh yes, certainly, thought that was clear.
My personal files in my home are protected by my data on my phone is not. How convenient.
Also, shipping containers have a lot in common with soda cans: they have been engineered to have adequate physical characteristics within the very constrained parameters they are expected to operate under, and once they are outside that box, well, they're as fragile as soda cans.

For instance, if you try to stack your shipping containers any way but "directly square on top of each other, bordered by other shipping containers", you need to start over from scratch. All of those fancy stacks with one container crossing or bridging another come with lots of additional structural engineering to create the impression of whimsy. Or if you cut a big hole in one side of a shipping container to create a nice big picture window, whoops, you've destroyed the integrity of the container. Or you try to stack too much weight in the center of the top of the container, and no, that doesn't work either because the weight is supposed to be transmitted through the corners and sides.
I also planned on doing a startup for this, but didn't have enough time. Best of luck to you!
i think the obvious solution would be to have the light in series with the power to the camera, so that in order for the camera to be on, the light will also have to be on
Basically a catalyst. Someone who reduces the activation barrier.
> “not have HR”

and that’s how you get bully psychopath CEOs sexually harassing people, infusing their religious / racist biases on the hiring process, etc.

Would much rather have HR + bureaucratic tedium than to be beholden to unbridled CEO whims.
> Verizon bought Yahoo/Oath

Verizon had ATH - AOL, TechCrunch, Huffington Post, then bought and added yahoO to the group, hence the name.

Yes, that is exactly how uninspired these corporate names are.
Fair point. Yea, this is the approach I ultimately settled on, but it surprised me to find out that such a simple operation as "count" isn't supported by firebase.
Definitely a breath of fresh air that someone's still trying to do super-resolution without neural networks. This example shows that at the moment, it can still be better and MUCH faster to use classical CV techniques for certain applications.
My 2010 MB C-class feels very much like my previous car, a 1988 MB 420 SEL which I bought new in 1988 and traded in in 2013 for the C-class.
> And they can be stacked, creating multiple floors without any extra engineering.

Unless you want windows, or a staircase between your floors... Now you're cutting holes in the thing and you've lost your stackability guarantee. Better call the engineer after all.
> "cute but probably doesn't increase safety at all"

Pre-Safe occupant protection including pretensioning reduced stress to the head and neck by 30-40%: https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/The-P...

The comment is about safety, not just luxury, and Mercedes has been on the cutting edge for over a century. You can read about their list of innovations including being the first to have crumple zones, airbags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, and more: https://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/benz/safety

> "and some cars in the 90s had a feature that would put the whole seatbelt on for you"

Are you referring to the belts attached to the A-pillar that would slide up when you sit? Those didn't handle the lap portion and were proven terrible by safety testing and consumer response.
While it’s true that BMWs and Mercedes are extremely common (and by feeling also less of a “luxury brand”), at least in Munich, I’ve rarely seen a BMW taxi. They’re not all Mercedes, but I’d say that the majority easily is. So there has to be reasons for that, but the potential existence of special maintenance packages for taxis could easily be one of them.
Be careful dropping glass bottles into recycling bins too; they pose nearly the same problem - they don't usually shatter and the sound escapes the bin upwards towards you.
I ask the cashier or whoever to fill my water bottle and 99% of the time it's fine. This might not scale but eventually perhaps they'd just stick a tap outside or whatever.

Or do it in the bathroom since potable water is fairly universal in the Western world. I don't expect others to do this because it seems there are huge numbers of irrationally squeamish individuals.
This is extremely cool. Good job.
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Thatz the idea. Current focus is to get as much feedback and implement them.
Well the US is good. All other governments are suspect.
> The difference is that the wealth from cost-cutting (automation/outsourcing) isn't shared with the middle class

As an engineer with equity in the company I work for, I benefit and I'm middle class.

I think there is also a misconception about how much the capital holders actually gain. A lot of automation is deflationary in the sense that it reduces the cost of production, which in turn allows a reduction in the price a product is sold at to capture market share. This allows the firm that is automating to capture a large piece of that market, but at the cost of making that market a lot smaller unless demand is pretty much unbounded.

You have to both automate and grow the market for what you've automated to truly make it big.
I find it useful in the biotech field for putting people in touch with other people and finding people that can introduce me to interesting people. For example, a paper author that I want to speak with I'll look them up on LinkedIn, hope for a connection, then get an introduction.
Or this was implicit ageism based on the peanuts salary & meaningless options comp package.
Mr. Wilson's understanding of Tumblr is flawed [0]. There's a simple objective test (now irrelevant) to tell if a platform is largely about porn or not:

[required ingredients: 1 searchable user-content platform, 1 keyboard, 1 daughter (optional)]

0. Go to thing

1. Open search bar

2. Open your hand

3. Hit keyboard with an open flat hand

4. Enter

5. Browse results - count how many you feel comfortable with your daughter being portrayed in

6. 50% is your thresh.

Tumblr was a successful porn platform. Take that off the equation and you're left with nothing.

[0] https://avc.com/2016/07/trashing-tumblr/
It seems evident to me that @tathougies intended their statements to come with the 'when and where it makes sense to do so' aspect I mentioned earlier.

Of course there's going to be circumstances where, for whatever reason, breastfeeding isn't optimal or even an option.
Love this suggestion! We have been toying with the best way to personalize the properties shown to each individual user. Right now it's just by city, max price and property type.

We also have added things like "near nightlife", "near trendy coffee spots", "near schools" in an attempt to capture what you have suggested here - albeit in a less efficient manner.

A "stage of life" questionnaire would be a great way to encapsulate all those above and more in an easy to interface with UI for the user. Thank you!!
I’ve taken up wearing earplugs while driving.

I also work in a noisy environment, and it occurs to me that the road and engine and wind noise is probably loud enough to have a negative impact on hearing over time. Less so in newer cars, but both mine are over 10yo.

Also, in the event of a collision I’m protected.
I really like your analysis here and it made me think.

Ultimately, for control of many of these issues, a localist approach is superior..understand the local culture, etc.

Maybe a coworkery in La Jolla would have surfboard racks and a tacit understanding that surfing comes first...so allowance for wet gears (and showers) might be needed. Maybe a location in Boulder has community climbing gear and/or a bouldering wall.

So, does scale lend _any_ benefit? Certainly the "network" of locations might help...but what % of tenants are really and truely jet-setters off to many major cities, versus those that stay close to home and just need a regular space out of the house. I don't think scale is that vital in this view.

Next, deals...I suppose scale can lend itself to leasing deals with major brokers that have multi-city inventory. But that benefit is only on the supply side, and unless the _same_ landlord is involved, they won't come down in price just because.

At the end of the day, more, 'localist' coworking spaces probably wins and is a more dynamic market (and thus resilient) than some attempt at "winner-take-all" scale. Also, to reinforce that...I suspect many times a good coworking location is probably an individuals labor of love...they like their town, had access to the commercial space, and they wanted it first-and-foremost for themselves. Any subscribers are just helping to pay the bills and making new friends.
Selling things below value is pretty typical in a liquidation/bankruptcy scenario, though.
Wow. Maynard FTW yet again. A Fields medal down the track would be no surprise at this rate. He has several more years to qualify.
I'm glad to see the Freitag store mentioned - that really is quite fun:

https://www.freitag.ch/en/store/freitag-flagship-store-zueri...

https://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/attractions/freitag-tower
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I think this is a very similar strategy to what Eddie Lampert did with Sears. Through a network of companies and controlling stakes, Lampert took possession of Sears, sold its assets to his own fund, and then leased the buildings to other tenants.

It's a very interesting network of financial engineering that really is quite intricate since I imagine commercial real estate is a very supply-constrained market, which is why they can charge such high rent with seemingly not much value provided.
And experienced people will generate more value for the company than their salary. Having an inexperienced team is a great way to waste a lot of time. Having a good mix of experience levels is the best balance between wasted time and financial costs.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20696032, which was posted earlier.
Yeah, I have 15 years of C++ experience, but not since 2012. So with C++11 and C++17 (and soon C++20) my skills have not aged well, even though I can still write C++03 just fine. It's no wonder 'senior' devs prefer to use plain C, where even C11 is not that different from C99.
Code reuse on anything that is too complex will usually give you these issues as reuse doesn’t scale unless is very simple and function is super well defined and focused. Programmers will turn it into a monster as it evolves, usually
> the CEO/your direct manager has a family/children

Why would that matter?
The obvious solution is to make this a regulatory requirement.

You want to sell cameras in this country? The on indicator light must be hard wired.

With exception for some professional grade equipment, or the ability to physically cover the indicator light when the recording environment requires it, for whatever reason.
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I do have a strong culinary interest, but I'm also choosy. I try lots of things to discover what is best, and then I use what is best.

Russet potatoes are the best for stew. The others have off flavors or don't soften as nicely.

I have tried many types of cheese. I eliminated all except mozzarella and mild cheddar.

I have tried every exotic fruit in the store except durian. I ended up liking jackfruit, dragonfruit, rambutan, lychee, longan, and loquat.

The point of trying new foods is to find the best, not to pretend that they are all equally delicious.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good (affordable?) camera? I was thinking about the BlackMagic camera but I am not sure if it's worth the $2K for it's amazing video functionality since I rarely take videos. A budget intro camera would be awesome!
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Great article.

But the only reason their approach to the "11 item" edge case works is that they manage their own data. So they can monitor and might potentially cull manually if it became necessary (eg. What if the race condition caused more than 11 or a future codechange elsewhere stumbles on it).

In a non-cloud product where the cost is higher for a vendor to come verify and fix data, this wouldn't fly.
Wow. I was using fizzbuzz as stand-in for basic ability to code problems and I guess I don't really care if someone doesn't happen to know modulo, but I am surprised. I certainly would expect modulo to be more well known that left and right shift for example.
Well, that may of finally explained such musical releases such as https://g.co/kgs/2SgdjX at least for the budget car enthusiast market.
The problem is there are usually no fountains around.

It's funny, last time I went to LAX I couldn't find a single place to refill our water bottle, meanwhile IAH in Houston has them everywhere.

Also, in a lot of countries bottled water is tested and is much better than the local drinking water. It's necessary when you go to Thailand or Mexico for example. It's also necessary for some places in the US.
Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market
If you can’t afford the salary required to hire the right people, then you’re not a start-up, you’re a side project looking to rip other people off by suckering them into accepting meaningless equity.

The ageism stems from having a harder time suckering older applicants. It’s disingenuous to use language making it sounds like the older candidates’ requirements are “too high.” It’s not about that. It’s about who can this self-absorbed start-up sucker.
On the ones that survive?
>It isn't as simple or cheap as you think. You need to deal with rust, sealing floors that have chemicals, cutting out windows, etc...

And once you're done with that you run into humidity and ventilation issues. There's a reason people generally only use them for storage containers. If you want a building you can occupy there's cheaper and easier ways to do it.
This is really interesting. What are the profit margins like? Can't imagine it would be easy to substantially undercut any traditional office space.
Thanks for sharing Prim! Really interesting. Manual data entry as you know is the hard part -- any personal CRM will require some data entry. We try to make this easy with a calendar integration and Chrome extension, but it's not perfect and always a challenge.

With user data: our privacy policy is here (https://getdex.com/privacypolicy) and we chose a subscription model so your data stays yours -- and private.
> They haven't been in Romania, which is, like I said, a stone-throw away from Russia. And they started showing up after the start of the conflict in Ukraine.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/romania.htm

They have been, in fact.
Where's the data being sent to?
Is flutter actually a good choice for a production app right now? I've heard really bad things about its bugs, but I admit it does look great to use and develop with.
"archive it, and the important stuff will bubble back up"

That's a very interesting observation.

It seems I have inadvertently done pretty much that. I split my files into two categories: my /home/USER directory keeps all that ready-to-hand or important stuff which is used on a daily or weekly basis, and then there's 'archive' stuff.

The archive stuff can also be described as 'write once, store forever' or maybe more accurately 'shoved away in the basement'.

My /home directory stays at a steady 9-10 gig size which is is a size that is capable of being completely completely backed up daily.

My 'archive' now runs about 4-5 terabytes. And it can be a bit disconcerting to look into it and find files that were originally written nearly 40 years ago. But hey, they're readily to hand (and searchable) whenever I happen to need them.
The company being accused of being 'hipster' and hiring 'below market rate' is in SF.
Google Contacts are useful for email data (since folks often add to Google Contacts, which does create issues with noise...)

I'll add you can add your iCloud contacts into Dex if you're an iPhone user!
The obvious ethical territory here isn't particularly difficult: deploring both the US action (in this case political interference) and the Huawei/CCP interference (political interference via an attack on civil liberties).

Commentators who are only interested in critiquing rival states ought to be viewed as discrediting themselves.
Anything you want to run locally without being tethered to always-on connectivity, for one. Or just anything you want to run without network latency.
Backup cameras have been federally mandated since, IIRC, 2017 in all new vehicles.
It's not just FAANG paying those numbers.
Wow you are indeed correct, according to their privacy policy:

> Due to our recordkeeping and information retention requirements, we do not delete information about you upon deactivation. We will, however, disable your account and stop sending you further communications. Furthermore, except to the extent necessary for legal or regulatory recordkeeping purposes, we anonymize the data in your Member Profile two years after you deactivate your account. It may take a little more time for our automated backup systems to fully process the anonymized account, though.
Articles have been trickling out about We’s shadiness over the past year or two, so what is the average person suppose to do/think? Capitalism gonna capitalism? Don’t buy We stock? Or just watch another episode of “Startup Drama in America” play itself out?

With the turmoil of Uber/Lyft, Tesla and now We, I’m just looking for more popcorn...
Personally I find the tooling and documentation around the ecosystem to be very painful. SBT itself is also incredibly slow.
Strawberries are, despite the name, not berries, just as bananas are berries.
HR doesn't prevent any of that.
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Apache Royale is not the same thing
it allows to compile ActionScript to JavaScript and so publish for the web

Adobe AIR is a compiler and a runtime

for iOS it compile AOT, for other platforms: Android, Windows, macOS, (and Linux) it compile JIT

the runtimes share the AVM2 (ActionScript Virtual Machine) and the Flash Platform API, which allow to share a lot between platforms
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Having been bitten by this exact issue one or two times, meh. Par for the course in the life of a Javascript dev, really.

RN would definitely still be my go to tool for the majority of green-field mobile apps. If I'd already invested in learning flutter/Dart I'd probably feel the same about that, but certainly feel no urgent need to go out and learn it. As in, I don't think there's a significant difference in what I'd be able to accomplish, and my time is probably better invested elsewhere.
I use Linux for more than 15 years and it is the first time I learned that such a thing as a reflink exists.

I use DVC for about a year on relatively large datasets (my expertise in Computer Vision and images are pretty heavy). I was always curious to know what is happening under the hood of the DVC, when it deals with the data in such a way that it is fast and cache is not corrupted.