skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I keep thinking this is how the zombie apocalypse will happen lol

Since zombies violate the laws of physics, there's no need to worry about that.
I did, it was the default coding challenge you find in other companies, with a take home project for the last project. There's 4 steps, which can be time consuming.
The Book of Lies, by Aleister Crowley.
Did you post the right url? YouTeam.com is a French website.
> unproven and completely unsubstantiated

Very little in this world is proven, but this is certainly substantiated.

First off, an on the record first person accusation from an involved party is by itself compelling evidence, secondly, the story has in fact been supported by credible journalistic outlets with multiple sources.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill. Responding to a legitimate argument with some kind of absurd accusation will always make you look like you lost the argument.
> There was one notoriously very high payed engineer behind Battle.net. (I think they payed him $500k per year)

How times have changed. When I hear about an experienced engineer at Google, Facebook, or Microsoft pulling down $500k today, I barely bat an eye.
>I'm not sure that we as a society have ever dealt with a non-state actor this powerful before.

The east India trading company and the hudson's bay company as well as I'm sure some others were as large as or larger than some state actors of their time.
> If doctors prescribe harmful drugs without evaluating their efficacy

Doctors are highly trained specialists with limited time, and no, their job isn't to evaluate drug efficacy and safety. That's the FDA's job, and yes, to some extent the FDA failed here.
Problem is they have very little IP. In their economy it's pretty much unwise to invest in IP because someone will still it so why just make a price elastic project instead of creating something new.
Great -- so now we also have a translation issue!
</sarc>

Nice that they're making a nod to avoiding language hegemony

However, the numerals used in LatLong navigation are about as universal as a language gets, requiring no translation in written communications, and are among the first words learned in second languages. In contrast, the three random words can fall subject to all kinds of translation issues whenever crossing a language barrier.

Makes me realize that we'd need not only their app, but also their official translation table; makes it seem even more like a fractally bad idea.
It was very inconsiderate to waste other readers' time with this easily checked misinformation. What was the point?
Facts getting downvoted. This place has become Reddit with even more blind arrogance.

Myth 2: The men and women who work for the CIA are spies and agents

Citizens who work for the CIA are officers – not agents or spies. All employees, from operations officers, to analysts, to librarians and public affairs, are considered CIA officers.

So, who is a CIA agent? Our operations officers recruit well-placed human assets with access to information. These spies are agents. They provide critical information about their country to help America. Operations officers are CIA employees who spot, recruit, and handle foreign agents. They are experts in understanding human nature, emotions, intentions, and motivations.

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...
I think your buddy joking-not-joking about it is slightly different than someone who has worked somewhere for 8 years straight claiming that is exactly what happened to him and two other co-workers. Keep in mind that they are killing their chances of being employed by any other union-shy workplace which is 'most of tech'. So there is significant downside to this. Also note that he refused to sign an NDA that would have prohibited him to talk about it and which would have put money in his pocket, so there is some evidence that this person - by his own claims - is rather principled.

And then there is that other article linked in this thread which provides a ton more circumstantial evidence.
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> What isn't legitimate is doctors and pharmacists prescribing the drug over and over again when there was no reason to.

I.e., "pill mills."
ok - I have thought about this post.. I would amend it to say, the bookseller did not focus only on price to the customer. Price to the customer was important, and a constant effort to get the highest sales price with the least resentment after the purchase, was part of the effort. But in the later chapters of business life, what really took off was ways to handle cash flow by borrowing; every kind of credit, credit line, floating shipments, sale-priced books in bulk, overstock, and consignment shipments, were worked and tried and repeated. After the retail stores were stable, a warehouse started, and there was a LOT of activity. This particular bookseller sold books in South Africa, while the world was waging an (ultimately successful) economic boycott against the govt and businesses there. The rebuttal was always "we believe books should be available to everyone" but you know damn well there was extra money to be made.

The character of this bookseller included real book appreciation, and collections were important for real reasons previously mentioned... It was not a generic, corporate environment, it was instead filled with people with real interests and specialties, and almost always an appreciation for broad areas of book meaning, craft and lore. There was freedom of thought and association -- it was not missing. Borders Books and Barnes & Noble of the early nineties were the nightmare to these people, and that was one step before Amazon dot com, which was (and is) held in open contempt by many that had experience with the older ways.
There was a front page article yesterday about how easy it is to spoof and/or jam GPS. These oilfields have been a prime target for attacks like this for over a decade.

I doubt this is a case of a simple hobbyist level project. The drones would have needed serious firepower combined with advanced guidance systems that could keep a target visually and/or with purely inertial sensors, and would likely have to operate entirely autonomously.
Thanks for the feedback, I am in the US west and the link seems to load faster. This latency could be geo location related.

If you don't mind can you please share the area you are located (roughly), I will bring this feedback to our infrastructure team.
Richard Stallman challenges 'misleading' coverage of his comments on Minsky
From the 80s until the 90s Microsoft never lobbied the government, and they dominated. They got hauled in front of congress and were chastised for not lobbying, then a year later were hit with their infamous antitrust suit. The government bullied Microsoft into paying them off - just like the damned Mafia, except it's legal. Now we see Microsoft begging the government to basically do this AGAIN. It's sick, corrupt and a perversion of capitalism and democracy.
What technical distinctions between Libra and cryptocurrencies running on other permissioned blockchains (like Lumens/Stellar) would prompt this type of regulatory response?
It's open source. Good luck enforcing patent claims against something that can be copied endlessly for free. Ask how that turned out against ffmpeg.
I see a hyperbole-filled abstract and a paywall.
With a16z, eBay, Mastercard, Stripe, Visa, Spotify, PayPal, Uber, and many others, this is not just about Facebook.

https://libra.org/en-US/partners/
The thing is: with most of what you're talking about: the level of risk taken was pretty high. With drones and other kinds of automated devices, the risk is going to drop near zero.

In other words, the real life will be as scary as the internet.
Other than the fact that they have some sort of block chain backend, how is Libra even different from Venmo?

Seems like they're just banning it because they don't understand it.
Would love to see a source that backs up your claim.
Iron Curtain only works for objects that are detected. If the drones are flying at 50 feet AGL, Iron Curtain isn’t going to work as they’re not going to detected by radar, and exploding an Iron Curtain interceptor 50 feet above someone’s house isn’t going to go well. Flying at 10,000 ft, how far away can an RC motor be detected and not look like a bird?

Iron Curtain currently has 10-15 batteries at four launchers per battery with 20 interceptors per launcher. So, 800-1200 interceptors.

With only 1200 interceptors, they can be overwhelmed by distributed terrorists launching simultaneously over a 1000 mile diameter.

Each interceptor is $40k. I expect a drone would be under $500, so you’ve got an 80:1 cost differential. $400M to stop 10,000 drones.

As for machine guns, let’s say the effective range is 2000 yards. You have roughly 60 seconds to engage all targets. Assume 100 rounds fired to successfully terminate a single drone, with 10,000 drones inbound, you need to fire 1M bullets in 60 seconds. Assuming a machine gun firing at 1000rds/min, that’s 1000 machine guns with perfectly coordinated fire. At $10k/machine gun (a very conservative estimate) how many buildings can you protect for $10M each? Maybe you can protect your capital building with such a lead shield. Your oil refineries.. should probably do that. And now you’ve just sprayed 1M bullets into the air above an oil refinery. Sounds like a bad idea.

And then the terrorist just need to attack with 20,000 drone swarm, and all your facilities are exposed until you double your defenses at all locations.

Financially, I don’t see a solution.
Why can't Apple match its Watch dominance with the iPhone?
Alternately, doesn't this mean Kickstarter censored satirical content due to a far-right hit piece?

Shouldn't people be decrying censorship at every turn? Because that's exactly what happened in this case when leadership decided to veto the decision and take it down.
Touché haha. The thing with wipers are they are typically not used often in most places, so you won't know they are broken until you really need them.

Brake and seatbelts typically display warning signs before failure (but not always of course).
I liked this. Reminds me of an essay I can't find at the moment from a Microsoft manager during the 80s working on their large excel development team. They studied how communication costs in large teams go up as the number of team members goes up SQUARED because of the new intercommunication that has to happen. So it makes sense that less coordination is favored by more experienced developers.
The Houthis wouldn't be so keen to wage war on a rich, large, powerful nation like KSA if the Iranians weren't commanding them to do it.

Also notice how dramatically they stepped up their campaign against KSA since Iran launched its aggressive campaign to lash out against economic sanctions.

There's no inherent reasons the Houthis should be launching sophisticated, high-impact attacks on KSA on a weekly basis. This sort of escalation makes no sense within their own geopolitical context, but makes perfect sense when you consider Iran's contexts and regional goals.

Same for Hezbollah group in Lebanon against Israel. All the recent tensions in that conflict can't be explained by the organic interests of the Lebanese nation or people. In fact, a conflict with Israel is against the Lebanese national interest and would lead to great destruction in Lebanon. However, Hezbollah is escalating and building up towards that very conflict.

The vast majority of Hezbollah's budget is contributed by Iran:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_Hezbollah#Iran

Iran can ill afford to make that investment if they don't get much out of it, and it's pretty accurate to say Hezbollah is acting according to the interest of Iran far more than any other set of interests, including the Lebanese interest.

Hezbollah owes its power and arguably its existence to Iran. It's naive to expect it to act independently of Iranian interests.
I like how the point of the article is that the lack of chinese investment weakens the US soft power but the trade war which is the US first example of using such power is heralded as bad. We haven't convinced them to become a democracy, I haven't convinced them to stop attacking other democracies (Taiwan, HK, Japan, Norway), we haven't even gotten them to agree to WTO rules they said they'd comply with.
More critical in the case of Tesla, where there are cameras mounted behind the windshield (on the rear-view mirror). This is one of the typical talking points in the LIDAR vs optical debate, because the rain makes it difficult to see with passive optical sensors.
I feel torn in so many dimensions.

On the one hand, one of the greatest games of all time gets remade. And I feel humbled that we're able to make giants over decades — Star Trek, Cobol, Warcraft have my respect.

But on the other hand, it also speaks of a dire lack of creativity as we speak, or boldness, maybe both. The general trend of remakes is also about fixing problems we too often created for ourselves in the first place..

— cough DRM — cough solo/LAN requiring online servers cough —

Ahh, why can't it simply be WC4, all new and shiny and yet with better mechanics and player/customer freedom than any previous installment? I'm a simple man, I just ask for evolution.

Still confused whether I should be thrilled or disheartened or just 'meh'.
Hopefully not the US anymore
> Transferring assets to different entities prior to impending bankruptcy is clear cut fraud.

No. The transfers were (a) personal wealth and (b) a decade ago.
Can you elaborate? I got the impression that the new system is less complicated and has fewer moving parts and points of failure.
If I exposed sources and methods i'd goto Moscow too. I'm not saying what he did was stupid, quite the opposite. To save himself from a prison cell and trial he did exactly the right thing. I'm saying lets not pretend he's anything but a defector who didn't want to risk a punishment for what he decided needed to be done.
Solenya? The pickle man who crawls out of your soup bowl and steals your dreams?
~$100/hr, definitely there were some outliers, like a $500 issue that took 30 minutes, and others that got stuck in code review for weeks and took up a disproportionate amount of time.
What do they mean to "block Libra"?
To block merchants using it?

If yes, I think it won't matter at all.
EU already have real-time electronic payments
and mostly everyone uses contactless cards
or appley/android pay.

I think the benefit of Libra, as peer-to-peer money
is valuable for countries in Africa or other parts
of the world where cash is king and unsafe (due to high crime rate).
Just to be clear, everything from Chinese origin or everything manufactured in China? Because in the case of the latter it seems that pretty much everything these days is manufactured there.
> That looks like a linear motor, which unless I'm missing something is spectacularly power hungry.

They are, by themselves, not more power hungry than the corresponding type of rotary motors.

Their biggest problem regarding power usage is that they can't use gears to gain mechanical advantage. Since electric motor losses are roughly proportional to their torque (or force, in case of linear motor), it is often the case that the linear motor will require more power.

But a quick look at some of the windshield wipers mechanisms shows that rotary motors that drive them are in a mechanically pretty disadvantageous position, with a very short lever arm compared to what a linear motor would be. So it might work well in this case.
if you ever decide to write a collection of these memories.... like a little blurb for reach story, and the things like 40 pages of 40 small stories or something. please put them on gumroad or some easy site where we can buy them . Id' gladly drop a 5$ bill to read a bunch of these on my way to work.
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>having JSON as encoding format is pretty nice, any shell script could talk with it and it's eas(ier) to inspect

Why do people say things like this? The only format unix shell can reliably understand is tab-separated value.
Is EUR a threat to souverinity of the nations then? What is the difference between libra and BTC if not the sad state of affairs wrt to btc's usefulness as an everyday currency?
If it portends civil war in SA, that'd be significant
> So we wait for all the information before making judgements.

There is absolutely zero chance that 'all the information' will ever come out. The people directly affected will have nothing to lose, the remainder will be afraid for their jobs and will not talk or will only talk off the record. The company will claim it was nothing of the sort. And yet, magically, no union will ever be formed.
Horses work too. Just saying.
Compared to labor, they are: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

But that's besides the point - regardless of how high their profits are, they try to increase them further. Unlike labor, they're not asked to justify this by showing that their board members and shareholders live in poverty.
That's a very good question i've thought about as well. I don't think the Kremlin has much use for him anymore tbh, but they aren't going to hand him over either without getting anything in return. He's too much of a PR gift.

> Because he does criticise the Russian government openly and often

He is careful in what he says, and makes sure not to question the levers of power Putin has (elections, policy state, etc.). I have no doubt he has been given clear guidelines of what to avoid saying, as he is living by the good graces of the Kremlin now.
Huh, I thought compilation was already quite parallel even on many core machines. I guess that's only true for larger software projects (or ones with many small compilation units, at least). The step that could use some TLC and increased parallelism is linking.

On the other hand, maybe this project will help improve whole-program LTO link time. I see that is mentioned as future work for this effort:

> Parallelize IPA part. This can also improve the time during LTO compilations

Big kudos to Giuliano Belinassi, who seems to be the one driving this effort.
Can someone explain how revocations work? how many there are? what the rules are - etc?
I don't think it's that easy..

There's numbers.. Systems using missiles can be zerged with disposable decoy drones until they have no ammo or tricked if using thermal tracking. Gun based ones can have a hard time tracking/predicting if the drones randomize movement around their attack vector and/or randomize speed.

The environment and the approach will matter as well. They come in low, tracing the terrain or snaking through it, will make keeping lock hard. What if it's rush hours and they come in just above car height along a crowded street.

Then, of course, you can just have them semi-adapt. If they see a bunch of explosions in the air around them maybe switch to pre-programmed mission #2?

Defending against drone swarms is going to be tricky. Here they only had a few low tech ones and had a significant impact. I wonder how one would go about designing a system that should go for a target but be in no rush to get there though..
From https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21..., stallman is quoted saying

> “I disagree with some of what the article says about Epstein. Epstein is not, apparently, a pedophile, since the people he raped seem to have all been postpuberal.” He preferred to call Epstein a “serial rapist.”

yeeeeeesh
Did any of them step forward with those claims?

Are the numbers here 'Kickstarter fired 435 people and 3 of them claimed they were trying to unionize'?
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Little Inferno HD by Experimental Gameplay Group is an iOS game with a similar concept. The developer also has a clever dystopian game based on writing assembly.
With a causal mechanism -- "labour without energy is a corpse, capital without energy is a sculpture" -- and an r value approaching or above 0.9, I suspect you're wrong.
I guess they're jumping on the nostalgia train that's been chugging along for the last few years (so many remakes!).

Perhaps they're testing the waters for a Warcraft 4? It's been since 2004 when Warcraft stopped being an RTS, yet Classic WoW made a lot of people return.

I'm slightly hopeful.
A little poison never hurt anybody
I don't think the perspectives on unionization in tech are representative of the perspectives of unionization in other industries. Unionization's primary purpose is to increase the price of labor (in the form of wages, or in the form of increased benefits) by constricting supply. The going rate for job Y is $X, but if everyone that does job Y goes on strike and demands $X + $N then they can get higher wages. In tech, though, the demand for labor is already considerably higher than the supply. In my experience, tech unions are not concerned with traditional union topics (working hours, safety, etc.) but instead fall into two camps:

* People that see the use of H1Bs as suppressing wages for American tech workers. This camp is often broadly against immigration in general, and is more closely aligned with the right. You won't encounter many of these in the Bay Area, but they do exist and are more prevalent in other parts of the country.

* People who want to make tech companies even more progressive, often wanting more aggressive diversity representation OKRs and abolishing interviews. Some good ideas are present here (like ending forced arbitration) but this camp is often adverse to meritocracy which runs contrary to the ethics of many, if not most, tech workers.

Really, software development and tech are fantastic jobs that pay well and have effectively zero risk of injury. Hours can be difficult in specific segments (e.g. Game Dev) but compensation as a function of work life balance is far better than the overwhelming majority of other industries.
I play hide and seek with my cat and he definitely loves it. He also likes to fetch the rubber balls we have around the house (some of them still hidden in places we don’t know a thing about). Playing with animals is pretty great.
Yes, somebody did. But of course nobody will come out with their name attached that still has a job to lose.
Some people are questioning:

“Facebook is the most powerful private entity on the earth right now, far more powerful than most nation states”

Op did not clarify his reasoning. Though I have thought about this and here are mine.

If strip down a “nation state” to its bare essence, it is an idea. Lines drawn on a map, and symbols(flags, anthems etc). Add in the government directing education, and we end up with masses that can be influenced to behave in specific ways. i.e socialisation and sense of identity.

Now, we know that government plays a significant part in the country and in the world.

Now let’s consider FB. FB has by far the largest network of people that are connected in one massive network. I suspect Information (memes) could spread much faster on Fb, Whatsapp and insta than they could prior to these. Even email was never as fast. Since FB has control of the network without over sight on the algorithms and filtering, they wield significant power to shape global conversations. Shaping global conversations fundamentally can lead to over throwing of leaders with out ever a bullet being shot, it could lead to genocide, nationalism etc etc.

It’s no surprise that the EU is on high alert.

Edit:
I think this requires more exploring. This is fundamentally a war against a new form of influence & control of masses of people.

See previous wars: religion vs state, state vs monarchy etc etc.

Has anyone considered this perspective before? Would appreciate any links