skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Unfortunately long term this has the potential to backfire.

Yes, you get s surprise attack and cause asymmetric damage. If they continue doing this the Saudis (and any number of targets) are apt to respond overwhelmingly and decimate the source. They have the capacity to do so, it remains to be seen what they do in the face of this, if it were to continue.
>> on preventing a single entity to get in control of everything

You mean like the EU?
> What is the difference between libra and BTC

Libra is owned by a company and Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.

But I guess we now not only lost the war on the definitions of 'hacker' (media word for cracker) and 'crypto' (media word for cryptocurrency), but also cryptocurrency (media word for digitally exchangeable currency, e.g. Paypal credits / gift cards / Facebook Libra). We'll have to find a new word to distinguish Facebook-issued digital credits (Libra) from a distributed payment network running on cryptography and rough consensus (Bitcoin).
As if Area 51 is some remote desert area that takes weeks for help to arrive?

There are highways and roads, the desert itself is perfectly drivable with 4WD vehicles, you can land helicopters, planes, there are cities nearby, people have mobile phones to call for assistance easily, they would be altogether anyway, etc...
"Having someone actually pay money for something really is the acid test."

Ah, but having someone actually pay money for 0.0000001% of something really is not the acid test.

If someone pays you $1 to sit in your car for a minute, given that cars have a reasonable lifetime of around 15 years under normal conditions before being scrapped, then obviously your car is worth about 8 million dollars. Or not.
Clicking/tapping on the animation closes it.
Very well said. They know it, too, like the leaked memos show:

https://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/12/citigroup-pluton...

The greatest threat identified was "equal voting power with the rich." Actually, more given they're 99% versus 1%. The threat is so great that those with capital spend absolutely enormous amounts of money on media convincing people to vote for candidates that are great for the rich but do a tiny thing here and there for everyone else. Also, that the activities facilitating the rich will get them there, too.

It's working so far... Similar kind of crap with these "elite" schools and hiring strategies.
Irish Teenager Wins Global Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Water
That's an interesting point. I have friends in the movie makin' business and should ask how their unions work in terms of benefits, negotations, etc. The jobs all seems to be split into individual films as independent businesses so to a software contractor there would be a lot of similarities.
I don’t usually subscribe to libertarian beliefs, but I’d make an exception in this case: if grown adults are willing to risk dying of dehydration or in a hail of military billets because they fall for an Internet hoax, they should be allowed to do so. Authorities can triage children and other vulnerable people, but if they’re overwhelmed by grown adults, I wouldn’t be overly upset, assuming that those adults are competent to make their own decisions.

On the other hand if everyone who falls for this hoax is a “vulnerable person”, then hopefully the organizer, and Facebook itself, would be sued. Certainly the name of the event “storm Area 51” contains an element of violence that would seemingly violate Facebook’s terms. Does FB knowingly allow planning for riots and mob violence on their platform?
I applied at Toptal recently, but withdrew my application when I heard about how the CEO is hoarding equity that was promised to investors and the co-founder. Now they are suing the co-founder as well (and disputing that he is actually a co-founder). (He seems to be within his legal rights, but ethics is another matter entirely.) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at-booming-toptal-no...

I'd suggest looking at Facet (facetdev.com) or Arc.dev as alternatives.
I guess that's indeed how Facebook likes it.
The Day the Clown Cried
Found it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20974932
Might compare capacity?
> Right now I can't really see a killer app for AR

Something, something faster horses.

The fact that so many people don’t see any use for AR and that the people who think they do are so spectacularly wrong are what make me excited for AR.

I want to see what nobody has thought of yet and Apple is the only company that I think is capable of that.
Houthis Use Armed Drone to Target Yemeni Army Top Brass
It's true higher up the food chain as well. For some reason companies assume they can pay 20% less for a Laravel/Symfony contractor/employee than the Rails, Django or Node.js equivalent. I really don't get it.
This sounds like something one learns unexpectedly.
This sort of thing is why I refer to "the noise floor" in these sorts of discussions. It's not that it's untrue that it may save a mile of range, it's just so dominated by other factors that it doesn't matter. Your human cognitive spotlight is focusing on this one fact, and it may be "true", but that doesn't make it important. It's not worth engineering effort to save amounts of power that will be casually wiped away by any number of little things.

(Sometimes you can bind together several little things into one big one worth doing, but human intuition is still often broken by the factors of magnitude involved. 6 %.0002 things still don't add up to anything significant, for insurance, even if it may feel like six things ought to matter.)
I would rather have the same phone that I had 10 years ago if it meant that it would last 7 days with today's batteries
Deeply touching. Thank you.
Probably because it's a bit ridiculous for some random guy that set up a website to suddenly declare that he's going to solve this complex international legal issue.
I love AWS, I really do and I thought about using fargate because the promise of not managing your “cattle-like” servers is wonderful but they need to get the pricing within this stratosphere for it to not be a complete joke.

I actually really like ECS and aware of how much time it would save me (a lot) and how much terraform I could delete (a ton) and it’s still not even close to worth it.

Amazon usually nails this sort of thing, surprising that despite the operational value it provides nobody seems to be using it.
Do you need to slave the clock to anything?
I owned a Riva 128 and I can hardly name it a gaming-focused graphics card. I could play no game in hardware 3D mode with it. The only real 3D cards during the days were 3DFX Voodoo 1-2. And this was many years before WarCraft 3.
When someone is holding up their phone or actual camera to take a photo, that’s very visible and obvious to everyone in the area what they’re doing, and social feedback can be delivered if the usage is inappropriate.

That’s very different from an accessory like glasses, which are typically on somebody’s face all the time, whether or not they’re being used for photo functionality, with a hidden camera constantly pointed at whoever they’re talking to or whatever they’re looking at. You may never know that a photo or video or other recordings of you, of your property, of your company secrets, of national security, etc are imminent or already taking place.

“What’s the real difference” is kind of absurdly obvious, yes?
Hmmm.

I recently learned about c-reduce, which minimizes the size of reproducing C/C++ crash testcases by iteratively permuting the source code and invoking the compiler.

I can imagine a similar tool that takes a set of input file(s), carefully instruments the files somehow to determine the data interactions (a bit like the dataflow analysis mentioned in the sibling comment), and then iterates through different bucket-sorts (automatically invoking the compiler) until it finds some arrangement of locality-optimized input that also happens to compile the fastest.

On the one hand, this process would take hours - but on the other hand it can be lifted out of the compile/test cycle, and run eg overnight instead.

Optimizations might include tracing what you're editing right now and what that depends on, so active work can be relocated to the smallest discrete files possible. The system could just aim to minimize the size of all input files, but weighting what you're currently working on might produce additional speedups, I'm not sure.

In such a model, feeding in something like Boost would result in it eating all the templates that are never referenced.

To me, the biggest problem is that this entire infrastructure would need to understand very large parts of C/C++, and of course would also need to be faster than current infrastructure in order to actually speed anything up. I don't think there are any production-capable research analysis systems out there capable of doing this.

So, the likeliest path forward would be turning LLVM/GCC into something that can a) stay resident in memory (not fundamentally hard, just don't exit() :) ), b) be fed modified source code and accordingly traverse/update its analyses graph(s), and c) (most important) perform (b) efficiently (hah).

One major downside, apart from the total nonsemanticity of the actually-compiled output, would be the introduction of yet another hurdle to jump over to achieve reproducible builds.

I wonder if a design like this could be [part of] an intermediary first stage to getting something like incremental compilation into LLVM/GCC. Ie, it could be a (temporary) binary of its own that would allow for these features to be developed within a production-usable context that doesn't impact the behavior of the compiler itself; and then when it was properly built out, the compiler could be made to more and more progressively depend on it until either a) the compiler itself has the server-mode built in, or b) the changes are so dramatic the server-mode is not needed (unlikely).

I say all the above as a not-compiler person. I have no idea what I'm talking about.
> who place low bids just to win projects and then they mess them up.

Go to their past projects and offer a high price to fix the mess
You could argue democracy is in danger for small countries.

Large multinationals have more power than those governments. It does not matter how their electorate votes.
This is a nice companion to https://youtu.be/Tfh0ytz8S0k which deals with more technical details of the implementation of NES and C64 graphics. This document reads like requirements to that video's design.
Tech Firms Like Uber Hide Behind the ‘Platform Defense’
'Time-travel' feature added to drives to fight ransomware attacks
Oh, I know the airplane engineers are not fools :-)

The wipers are costly in terms of excrescence drag, and if there was a better way they'd do it.
No, I wanted to compare apples to apples to ensure it was a specific effect happening.
The attack on Saudi Arabia was claimed by the Houthis which are funded and trained by Iran, and they have Iranian special forces embedded in their units as well. The Houthis are basically a professional military, more than most people realize. They are fighting a proxy war for Iran. The drones that attacked the Saudi oil plants were almost certainly not consumer drones carrying hand grenades, they were actual military drones provided by Iran.

The "asymmetry" that is mentioned is a great soundbite but isn't really accurate. The Houthis either control half or all of Yemen, depending on who you talk to. They aren't exactly pushovers. Compare that to Saudi Arabia, whose military is lazy and poorly trained. They rely on the US presence for security against real threats. Without the USA, they would almost certainly lose a fight against Iran. They are rich and have cool toys but it's laughable at how bad their training is.

To expand, the Houthis likely used drones like this with 60 lbs of explosive stuffed in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Ababil. That's a far cry from the $1,000 drone that an academic from Rice University would have you believe.
link to the article: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/19/9285
I don't think so, I can't say for sure when fat is burned or anything like that. I agree that it has to be done while you are using energy during the day.

Some people seem to be thinking that I am saying "fat only gets burned during sleep" which is just absurd, and I am not suggesting that at all.

I think if I was to make a theory it would be something like "fat used up during the day produces waste that is partly stored in the body after being used, but during sleep is when this waste is collected and expelled in the urine." Maybe poorly worded but sums up my thinking right now.

This is a rough guess, but since I haven't seen anything like this reported anywhere I figured it's worth sharing the experience.
We don't know that "it works in nearly all the cases".

We know that in nearly all the cases, any issues don't rise to the level where the FDA or the public identifies them. I doubt that the system is constructed in such a way that nearly all the problems are identified.

It seems to me that because drugs are developed to meet the absolute minimum standards for proving efficacy and safety, there's inherently going to be little if any margin for error in the manufacturing process and hardly any way to analyze problems. When reporting potential side effects, most drugs are going to be just above the noise level in their principle effect, so how are you going to determine what is a random unrelated issue and what is a negative side effect, and what is the consequence of a QA or design failure?
The width is crawling upwards for the pro riders. No sub 25mm tire was used in the Tour de France the last two years, iirc.

I can't see them going over 30mm though. The article underplays aerodynamics in my opinion.
Gaming graphics indeed is by orders of magnitude more complex today. Insane numbers of polygons, huge textures, lots of effects impossible to render on a CPU. Back in the days I played everything with software (CPU, also very weak as compared to those of today) rendering (as I've never had a Voodoo) and was ok. I wish today games had graphics this simple.
Can I invest in Cocaine or LSD? What about enriched uranium?
Violent crime isn't all crime, and I think the counterexample to what you're talking about is the number of non-violent laws we make:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

We have so many laws that basically the legal system can find something wrong you've done, which makes everyone criminals. It's only a question of if they will charge you with it. You can't have a crime without a law, because a crime is when you break a law.

The war on drugs I would definitely say is crime expanding, as we are taking things that was legal, or more legal (even while dangerous or stupid) and are making them illegal. Now a substance abuse problem is also a criminal problem.

Same for three strikes, because many times you're taking a simple crime and over penalizing it. If the US's crime rate has been dropping so quickly, why do we have such a high prison population?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...

I also am not sure we're making that many new laws for violent crime. I think that is more or less well described.

And just because it's my favorite saying, "correlation is not causation!"
My Tile died but I’m waiting for Apple’s solution. Hopefully for Christmas.
Then to preserve some semblance of individual privacy that would need each individual you want to display freely opting in and out. Whenever suits them. Whatever is wrong with just asking? Start a conversation, make a friendship...
This is fantastic, thank you. In regards to the unparsable paragraph, I wouldn't use ANYTHING like that in any application/pitch deck, that was more stream of consciousness I guess.

You are correct to point out my claims as being assumptions - given long enough than two sentences, I could explain it, I have various awards, recently was in the news for bringing back a guy 45 minutes. I know how to market to my industry and the various players, the challenging part for me is to explain those complex cultural aspects.

for example, the USER of my product is say, a fire officer like a lieutenant or battalion chief, or a driver/engineer.

the BUYER of my product is the fire chief, purchasing agent, or training captain. (they approve the purchase)

another party, the Government officials like the mayor or city manager, oversee the fire chiefs, so the purchase needs to be defensible. (this is less of a concern but relevant as a /unknown/new product)

There is also a great deal of fragmentation to my industry, there are 28,000 different departments, with 28,000 different organizational hierarchies, demographics, BUDGETS. They all may have a very similar mission statement but the priorities/methods they have will vary widely. (Also think of this, no one actually knows the TAM of this industry because it is spread out among the 28k depts. As a market to analyze, I can't help think it's one of the most anachronistic, hodgepodge industries out there.

There is the culture to consider. Our airpacks were invented, more or less, in the 1940's. We didn't begin to really adopt them into the 1980's, but even in 2008, the "Charleston Nine" guys who died, some weren't using theres. That's right, I am trying to sell a new product to an industry that was too stubborn to BREATHE. (When I discovered this, I gave up hope of finding any traditional investor and realized I would have to build it first before any customers demand it)

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond! You confirmed what I suspected, that less is more. I'll go with the first, but I might want to try

VR Experiences for First Responders?

(Simulation is such a dry and boring word)
The thing about human thought is it isn't as far fetched and disconnected from reality as we may first believe, even in the realm of fiction. The means in which the fiction is achieved can sometimes be practical methods we have available to us today! Outside some hallucinogenic escapades, most scenarios any one individual can imagine eventually faces an opportunity to become a reality, at least fiction from the past has shown us numerous examples where this is the case.

The Jetsons introduced us to video phone calls in 1962, which people thought were so farfetched and deemed ridiculous. We now have Facetime, Facebook Portal, et all.

Star Trek introduced us to the universal translator. We now have Google Translate and Google Assistant Interpreter Mode, and universal translators as consumer products.

Marty McFly wore smart glasses and Doc wore a smart watch. We now have Smart Watches and Google Glass.

In 1977 Dr Who had a robotic dog, K9, who beat its master in chess, and 20 years later computers can beat the world's best chess grandmasters with ease.

I could think of some more examples, but you get the picture.
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> I thought: whatever is not explicitly banned is allowed

I can't find it anymore but I remember reading a story, either on or linked from HN (probably linked), where someone recalls a realization they had in their teen years. It went something like this:

Rules do not exist because people like making arbitrary rules for no reason. It is sometimes even okay to break rules, so long as people do not mind what you are doing. Only when you make people angry, new rules are made to stop you from doing that. You can abide by the rules or break them, but you only get in trouble if you make someone unhappy.

(The original was a lot more coherent/consistent, I'm just paraphrasing / mixing wordings that might have been in there.)

So in the legal sense, yeah, you are technically right. But if you make a country's rulers angry, they'll just decree a new law. (Which is why I never really understood trias politica, by the way: the elected rulers can just make a law for something when the court case didn't go the way they wanted, and the unelected lawyers can create case law with far-reaching changes. But that's another topic.)
My father was the owner of his company. My mother was in the union whose workers he employed. I’ve grown up around both sides and understand quite deeply that there are no absolutes in this. You can have good and bad unions just like you can have good and bad companies in the world.

I don’t have much else other than anecdotes to add about the benefits of unions for both sides. What I would like to point out is that if you flip your post and replace union with company, it still holds 100% true. Just food for thought.
I’ve always been curious - what would you say was the driver internally behind the legendary “Blizzard polish” back then? What made that happen?
I went to a desert once. I got thirsty and left. No big deal.

Very beautiful though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_National_Monument
Given the opening reference to safety, I'd assumed the problem work cardboard boxes was fire risk.
Better programmers maybe. In terms of finding someone at half the price that communicates at a high level and cares enough to investigate past what is precisely assigned and understand the business case, I am not so sure.
Sorry, I just spent 5min researching on Wikipedia on what algorithms are used for this capability and then threw it into Github search. If you wanted to piece together from open source tools, you can probably recreate the capability in OpenCV. Or search on Github.
The Executive Suite Is Changing for the Better?
Wrong thread: this is about Libra, not Bitcoin. Libra is owned by a company and Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.

It looks like we not only lost the word 'crypto' (to cryptocurrency instead of cryptography), but we'll have to find a new word to distinguish Facebook-issued digital credits (Libra) from a distributed payment network running on cryptography and rough consensus (Bitcoin).
So far Apple has shown they can make low grade camera filters with AR. What do you think gives them an advantage over players like Microsoft Hololens + Holographic in the space?
And sometimes shutting up means the unreasonable and emotional win.

This is how we end up in this mess of stupid press and politics, by killing the middle the sides get radicalized and deafened to dialogue. Shouting is not dialogue.

Someone has to try to reset this, if it takes 1000 martyrs then so be it.
When you mean that a competitor would NOT say, what do you mean? That they couldn't claim something, like Poloraid making the claim - Develops Film Instantly And Automatically?

If that's the case, I'd say something like, "Run the most challenging call of your career, before it happens"
I don’t think this will work for individuals?

From the site: “Who can apply?

- 50+ people on the company’s team;”
And while we're at it, why not have a nation wide $0.25/gal tax on auto gas that directly cross subsidizes buyers of electric cars? Kill two birds with one stone.