skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't forget that her school strike "fridays for future" sparked a whole movement of people her age (across europe) well before she got big in the media, a movement which since then produced many other people stepping in like "scientists for future" etc.

If you spark something like that and act like the symbol of the betrayed next generation, media support is the best thing you can wish for.

So rather than portraying this as something that is beeing done to her, I'd argue that she is entirely on board with the whole thing and more reflected about it than we give her credit for.
> Unfortunately, no one's been able to figure out exactly how it was made to replicate it in software.

Could that be due to something like the phosphor glow having non-linear properties or something?
Well, the first time it made a tick for me was when I realised that rotational exponentiation is what provides for perfectly smooth transitions between even and odd powers of negative numbers.
Interesting -- this likely explains why Tel Aviv has such a high concentration of vegans.
Anyone feel like doing a human readable breakdown of what the algorithm is going?

That would make me happy
You seem up to date, has anyone figured out where Epstien got all the money from yet?
The set of web safety changes for SPIR-V is kind of new and immature in my opinion. I agree that it's building on a core that is widely deployed in other contexts.
WeWork files amended IPO documents with new governance model
> The basic idea is that there is fact and there is truth.

Yes, of course. There is also untruth, and then there is another category: unknown, which often results in speculation, which is then presented as truth. Leaving aside what's the case here, are you able to acknowledge this is possible?

> There is no way to "fix" the production of news and truth.

How are you able to know what isn't possible? How many times in the past have things been declared impossible, until suddenly someone found a way?

> They are not presenting it as fact, it is clearly identified as a quote from a government official.

I have already addressed that specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955117

>> The article isn't saying that. It's in quotes becuase they are reporting the words of someone they've deemed to be a reputable source for the topic of standard administration behavior.

> Very good point. My claim: "Stating speculation as fact...." itself could be described as sloppy. To clarify: factually, Politico is printing the words of a third party - it is a fact (presumably) that this person made that statement. The statement itself is speculation stated as fact, but the speaker bears the direct guilt for that, not Politico.

> However, someone with poor reading skills might interpret it as such

You seem confident. I challenge you to address my question about how someone can speak factually about the details of something that did not (to their knowledge) actually occur. This is the third time I've pointed this out, if you're confident you are correct, there should be no need to be evasive in conversation should there?
I’d wager they’re tech companies if their business model is built on proprietary technology that allows them to take a business idea and scale it quickly.

Uber’s a tech company because their technology for taxi dispatch allows them to dispatch millions of cars without a single human manning a telephone.

Amazon is a tech company because their inventory management system (unique at the time: when they didn’t have bins of identical items in their warehouses unlike their competitors in the early 2000s.

If Amazon was just using Magento then you’d have a point - but when a company’s beating heart depends on the canny exploitation of their own technology - they’re a tech company.
He Contained Multitudes
Invention of the Microchip (2010)
You don't need to mean for something to be a dark pattern or be misleading.
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos [pdf]
Probably something like the Whole Foods algorithm. Find a wealthy area that fits your target demographics.
I’m not sure what to think about her. She has caused a much needed discussion about climate change, but there’s a lot of not so climate friendly marketing tricks involved. Like when she went to NYC on a boat to avoid taking a plane. Of course it was a one way trip, so her and her dad, 2 sailors, and 2 other people, who BTW took a flight to NYC just to organize getting the boat back to Europe, are flying back.

And that’s what miss from her and her supporters: Reasonableness, and living in the “real world”.
I've spent a couple of hours pouring over this site earlier. This is the pre-monitization-style web site I like. Back when you could spend hours on a particular site.. without paying a recurring a recurring subscription.

Another content-rich site sort of reminiscient of this one is https://americanradiohistory.com/.
It's not at all clear to me why we allow American football and universities to have such a perverse relationship, when it's plain to see that football itself has nothing to do with education, except insofar as it's an activity that many students enjoy (but there is no shortage of other non-academic activities that many students share, such as baseball...) And in cases like this, where students are leaving the game early, it's perhaps not an activity that students enjoy after all.

Why can't the American football industry run itself more like the American baseball industry? Instead of leeching off universities, particularly public universities, they could be operating minor leagues independent of any educational system.

(Defenders of the current system will often claim that football is profitable for universities and provides funding for academics, but that is only true in a very small number of schools, so I don't think that's a valid argument. It may well be the case in Alabama, but I still don't think it relevant since I take issue with the scheme as a whole, not merely on a case by case basis.)
And the crew had to be flown to New York to sail back, resulting in more emissions than if she had flown there.

People just can't stand such hypocrisy.
Congratulations ! Really motivating.
Our CI already has a bug tracker. In addition, I think making a commit every time you change bug status (priority, etc) then having to resolve bug database conflicts is less than ideal.
What's the hasty pudding trick? Is it related to the Hasty Pudding cipher?
There's certainly limits to idealism. This is currently the best we have for the listed systems, I'm afraid. Hopefully someone reading about this will take interest in trying some things like you mentioned and helping to improve the situation.

As mentioned, the systems that need this most don't have even frontlit displays, so a colorimeter would not work on them. There's also the question of what the correct contrast setting should be on the analog adjustment wheels these systems had. Ideally you'd want to capture multiple contrast settings, and then try and devise an underlying adjustment algorithm from all the data sets to approximate the full analog range of positions for it.
Google's value would take a huge hit if somebody made a search engine that is better than Google's, so it's still a tech company. It's still mainly seaech (advertising is its business model, though ad positioning is state-of-the-art).

Facebook has network effect and Über has it's driver network, which is more important than the app itself. They are all very different types of companies.

WeWork is similar to Über: it has real costs of buying atoms instead of.juat handling bits.
The 'last Botticelli'?
She would be very surprised if she see water cost of her hi-tech carbon-free yacht.
Looks great! I'm working on a project (podcast hosting) with vue as my frontend, will be keeping this in mind when I get to the uploader.
I just passed 100 consecutive days of workouts! At least a one mile run or 20 minute Peloton ride every day. Lower impact days allow for 'active rest'.

Was a tough start, too, with a calf sprain almost right away, on Day 5. Even managed to fit in workouts on international travel days!
When Biology Becomes Software
No, it's still a mystery. Right before he died, he moved it all into a trust and named Bill Gate's advisor as his executor:

https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/ex-bill-gates-adviser-shocked-...

Gates himself has a lot to answer for. The MIT emails show Epstein funneling $2M from Gates to Media Lab. He also flew on Epstein's jet to Florida and hasn't answered why.
I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time.

Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.
Sounds like we should avoid success at all costs.
"Fall" - maybe as a reliable professional in his organization. But I can't imagine a fall as "CEO of billion dollar company resigns after acting as federal informant with Russian spy mistress". Sounds like a pretty cool way to go down.
Did you seriously just try to equivocate climate change and child pornography?
Tech-Master Disaster: Evgeny Morozov on Tech and Jeffrey Epstein
Viewed from a different angle "Advertising powers every medium it ever touches."
Jeffrey Epstein's influence in the science world is a symptom of larger problems
So no, they don't have that choice.
Is hypocrisy sufficient grounds to reject a message?
In a similar vein, I use a PRNG (based on Blake2b cryptographic hash) and mask off bits for the required domain.
The importance vis-a-vis MIT is the dates. If this article is accurate Harvard stopped taking the money once he was a convicted sex offender, MIT didn't.
investors don't really care what "tech" truly means in the classical sense (using/selling computers or apps as a central part of the business). investors care about what kind of return they can expect from a certain class of company. "Tech" has come to mean a company with high revenue/user growth, low marginal cost of production, big moats, not necessarily profitable, but on track to IPO and with large institutional/public demand for investment.

WeWork is obviously not a tech company like Microsoft or Apple are tech companies and nobody is arguing or should really even care about that, investors surely don't. But it also fails to check some of the boxes of new class of "tech" companies and that is being reflected in the current valuation battle. or maybe the underwrites just really overshot the mark after SoftBank pressured them with its own high valuation estimate.
I think automating diagnosis is the least effective and highest risk approach when it comes to creating models for the clinic.

The real value for ML in the clinic is to create or refine signals for physicians from which they might better make a diagnosis. Instead of a model rolling dice and saying "I think this is a malignant nevi", it'd be far more useful for it to say something like "here are 10 other nevi in your hospital which I think are similar and share so-and-such characteristics that ultimately resulted in negative outcomes" or "here's a distribution of likely outcomes I foresee occurring, here are the aspects of the lesions that lead me to believe so".

ML in the clinic (and in most domains imho) ought to be a tool to increase consistency and efficiency of practitioners, not replace them.
>I do not understand the hate she consistently gets specifically in the anglosphere.

I'm not sure about the hate. She is a young girl who is passionate about the climate. Great!

But because she is a young person, she is being used by activists as cover and a mouthpiece for their views, because you can't criticize a 16 year old for the reason you demonstrated - you get called out for being mean to a young person.

Also, 16 year olds are not a good resource for setting complicated geo-political policies. They just aren't. They have a very shallow and superficial understanding of the issues because they have no life, professional or academic experience .. which is why they make a good vessels for dishonest activists.

For example, if carbon emissions are as terrible as IPCC report makes them out to be, nuclear energy HAS to be on the table as the primary driver for decommissioning coal and natural gas plants. But she's against it because older dishonest activists are against it and she's parroting their views that we can cut emissions without nuclear.

>She's got this highly logical, consequential way of thinking that I've only seen in much older, highly successful people before.

She's 16. Don't project things you want to be true.

>What's so terrible about that?

Nothing. But she's also not saying anything new. Everyone sees the IPCC numbers.
I've seen posts claiming that he was an intelligence asset for either the CIA or Mossad. I didn't see any proof, so take it with a grain of salt.
There is a huge difference with what Harvard did and what MIT's Media Lab did. According to the article, Harvard didn't take any money from Epstein after his conviction, while at the Media Lab they continued to take it even after MIT put Epstein on its donor blacklist, and tried to hide the source of the funds.
I think this is a great question.

I was originally interested in BugsEverywhere, but noticed that the website linked to a demo at http://bugs.bugseverywhere.org/ which was... not a demo. This gave me the impression that the project was completely dead, so I moved on.

Recently I've been looking at git-bug, which is similar, but I've been hesitant to use it because the readme talks about how it's alpha software and I'm not super excited about the demo web interface.

I'd be interested to hear what others think.
Yeah. Bloody environmentalists!

Even if they'd kill themself to safe the environment there'd be people like you, complaining that you'd done it in a much more environmental friendly way.

Say a tiny bit more about you than it says about the topic at hand. Grow up.
The Wall Street Journal is mostly paywalled. However, their editorial to support Brett Kavanaugh's nomination was deliberately not paywalled. All good propagandists know this rule.
Ditch Spotify until it ditches its latest policy
Epstein probably realized, that it is not difficult to buy influence at institutions and individuals, that are already corrupt in their core.

Whether those institutions are politicians, educational facilities or other organizations...

The litmus test keeps it real... Doesn't it?
This boss lets you play with your kids at work [video]
What'd you do? The only thing that seems to help me is hanging on a pullup bar for intervals of a minute or so. A hang a day keeps the pain away. =)
Shipping support for both a text format and a binary format directly in the browser is in some ways the worst of both worlds. If both are implemented natively, you get double the attack surface at the ingestion layer. If the text format is supported by compiling to the binary format (or vice versa) using WASM that happens to ship with the browser, it will probably be slow (whereas ingesting a text format directly seems pretty fast).
I found a job 8)
Irrational Capital
There has to be a better definition than this, that's true for any company with great economy of scale.
They are doing work that hopefully will result in manifold more benefit than boycotting a plane ride. If they don't fly they can't attend conferences, mobilise people, etc. What do you want them to do? Stop using computers and phones while they're at it?

It's the same reasoning of the classic "you defend socialism yet you buy products made under capitalism, oh my what a hypocrite".
The Hill does a decent job of reporting this without sensationalizing it. Of note: They accepted money from him, but it was all prior to his 2008 conviction in Florida. I don't fault Harvard for this, and I think this is just one of those tangential stories that pop up whenever the media sensationalizes something.

Also note that this is Harvard, which is separate from the MIT Medial Lab story (which I kind of think is being blown out of proportion). Epstein donated to both schools, and I'll bet that he donated to others which we will find out about later. But what are these schools supposed to do? Give the money back? If you can take dirty money and turn it into valuable research, isn't that a good thing?
Because we define the speed of light in terms of spatially homogeneous and isotropic inertial coordinates.

We do that because we want "the statements of the natural laws [to be] as simple as possible" (Poincaré), but it's not the only way to do it...
Many students who attend American universities aren't just buying education. They are buying a "college experience" of which sports are a major part.
‘Phyjama,’ a Physiological Sensing Pajama
> the crew had to be flown to New York to sail back

I'm pretty sure the crew decided to fly back not because of her but because they wanted.
This is the best series of articles I've seen exploring it:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epste...

CIA, Mossad and the mafia are all covered. Whitney Webb did a really amazing job researching all of this.
Sadly, that means that there's no means to convince them. If she'd done it in a rubber dingy and swam back across they would have rejected her on other grounds.
Don't go confusing the kool-aid drinking employees of WeWork with the people investing in WeWork. The 80% haircut on the IPO pricing (to date) is the institutional investor's saying "no thanks" to exactly that type of feel-good BS being spouted in the S1.
Obligatory disclaimer that much of TCM is unstudied, and that which is isn't all that promising. https://nccih.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/chinesemed.htm
This does sound awfully similar to the plot of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film) —- ancient/alien parasitic organism buried in thawing Norwegian permafrost affecting a sled dog ... also reminded me of the recent warnings of bacteria in permafrost e.g. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-74335-4_... ... of course this is an idle association and apologies to all the real dog owners whose dogs are ill from this very real disease.
Sounds like amphetamine abuse to me. Presumably de rigeur in chess.
I understand that JS is required for most of the functionality but would be nice to also support non-JS by providing a basic uploader as a fallback.

Other than that, it does look great!

Edit: Sorry for my brainfart - obviously my suggestion isn't that easy to do as commenters remind below. I forgot for a moment this was built on top of Vue.
That's fantastic! Did you have a background working with database internals before?
One day I will not be surprised at how deep the rot goes, but today is not that day.
I don't see why you'd need to generate a permutation?
And to prepare her trip 5 professional sailors needed to take trans-atlantic flights to US, in order to bring her boat back to Europe (boat belongs to Monaco monarchs) - so her "carbon-neutral" trip actually generates 5 times more CO2 than if she simply bought a plane ticket.
At their core they are probably not a “tech” company in the traditional sense (a SaaS business). However, I think you are misunderstanding what they mean by tech company. WeWork is more akin to Flexport. Their bet is that they can run their business 10x better than their competitors by vertically integrating their tech and investing heavily in sensors and efficiency technology. They don’t really intended to sell tech to people, they intend to use tech to bleed the most money they can out of their core business, short term leases.
Got promoted to Senior Engineer.

Made Support Lead of an important assignment, leading a team of 7 Engineers.

If anyone would like to advise me on how to be a good Support Lead, I am eager to hear and act.

PS - Support Lead is also Operations Lead
--- Well, MIT put Epstein on their donor blacklist, but Joi Ito specifically circumvented that and tried to hide the source of Epstein's donations in 2013. ---

Edit: I stand corrected as nullc points out below (and why no strikethroughs HN?)
> the GBA CPU for this one Japanese chess game that had an ARM CPU in it

I was curious about it, thus I wanted to read more about it and evidently, the source of Wikipedia is your website, but it seems like you took it offline and Web Archive doesn't have it either.

Are you planning to republish that article?

https://web.archive.org/web/20120307174933/http://byuu.org/a...
You can pretty much get away with just a Kerberos KDC (and optionally pam_krb5) if setting up user accounts on the servers by hand/via configuration management is a practical option. At scale, you'd want LDAP to set the user IDs and other account attributes everywhere. Managed devices are nice but not entirely necessary.

You can also use "GSSAPIKeyExchange yes" to solve the trust-on-first-use issue without resorting to DNSSEC, since the server identity gets verified via Kerberos in that case.

The main benefits of certificates I can see are the increased auth flow options and better scaling at large scales since you lose the service ticket traffic.
The desert soil that could save lives
Another heavily-funded AR headset startup is shutting down
I guess so... https://tio.run/##K0gtyjH9/z83sUAlR9tWQ9dQU0tLJV5fw1BXJV7LSF...
if it can be asserted without evidence, it can be dismissed without discussion.
Nope, they get unbolted when we start having frosts and put back in the spring. They also replace them periodically when they get ripped off by the large trucks and greyhound buses that don't fit between them perfectly... I really wish I could correlate traffic slowdown in a publishable way to provide for wrongful death suits of the ambulance occupants' families against the city, but I haven't figured out how to quantify it cheaply and publicly yet.
"chosen" as though she probably doesn't come from a position of privilege and left-leaning parents
Lots of people rambling their opinions here, but agree with this thread that having some actual information on what the consequences of such a down round would be, given the liquidity preference in their venture rounds.

Crunchbase says $12.8bn of prior investment.

Wouldn't that mean with a 1x liquidation pref that all the employees (including the CEO) would get wiped out?
Fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Come on Norway, cheer up. You're wonderful people. I don't believe you'd all go on blackjack-and-hooker downward spirals if your government gave you freedom. Throw off the yoke of state tyranny. Your countries are nice places due to the virtues of your people, not your governments. I had a Norwegian roommate for about a year, here in California. I have to admit I found it a little creepy how her government would do things like keep calling her on the phone every few weeks, to find out what she was doing, how much money she was making, etc. I also got the impression that some of the ideas she was exposed to, in her childhood environment, were going to make it much harder for her to thrive in an economic environment like California, versus an oil rich country like Norway. Very sad, almost like a limiting of potential.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wework/funding_round...
There is college baseball.

I'm firmly in the camp that sports have nothing to do with education, and there should be no association of organized sports and public educational institutions whatsoever. Gym class is one thing, but after-school sports have nothing to do with receiving a basic education.
You are blaming the players instead of the game. It's not their fault that they have to do that. If that gets them a good life. That doesn't mean there aren't people who genuinely care about their craft and want to be better architects. I used to work on the Windows kernel, my manager said "no one ends up on this team by mistake ". That's why systems (infra / embedded etc ) have a higher rate of people who truly enjoy it joining. Because if you don't it's going to be a hard time.