skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever had to use or administer an auto injector like an EpiPen? It's not trivial. It requires deliberate force against a skin surface. A lightweight drone simply couldn't do it. Not could any drone, on its own. It would take a dedicated system to find and latch on to the skin while the injection loaded. At that point, it would be far easier to just have drone release sarin has in a crowd. And that sort of deployment is a threat society has existed with for decades and hasn't collapsed under it's weight.
It would be nice if managers read books and cared about managing people effectively. But at nearly every software shop, it's all feel good politics. The director hires his/her bootlicker manager from the previous gig. Nobody cares.
I still don't care for their search results UI. There's a lot of wasted space on widescreens, content isn't centered, and the font blows. It really triggers me.
If we expand the ranking to native historical names, I've always found the presence of somewhat derogatory or just absurd names among ancient Chinese figures fascinating and have a hard time fathoming why a parent would gives these to a child.

Note the following are not nicknames. These are given names.

Some I can chalk up to probably being purely phonetic spellings (不寿 a.k.a. Not-Long-Lived a king of Yue 越, who doesn't seem to have lived a particularly short life, but his date of birth is unknown). Others to their names later taking on negative connotations because of their own actions (嫪毐 Lao Ai where 毐 later became used to describe immoral people, presumably because he pretended to be a eunuch, slept with the mother of Qin Shihuangdi, the first emperor of China, and then led a failed revolution against the emperor's father, the king of Qin. His whole story is insane. He's a performer who does tricks with his large penis who got used in a game of political intrigue by Lu Buwei to protect Lu Buwei from the king of Qin.).

There still others that maybe had their names invented or twisted to suit stories. See for example 牛缺(Lacking Niu), a high-ranking scholar who appears in 吕氏春秋 (Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals) who goes on a trip through the desert, has everything stolen from him, and then is later killed by his robbers for good measure.

And yet others may be a result of trying to ward off evil or encourage modesty by intentionally giving children modest or unappealing names.

However, there's some, especially from the Warring States and earlier, that just seem to be inexplicably absurd names, with a large focus on "not."

晋黑臀 (Black-Butt Jin), also known by his title Duke Cheng of Jin. Perhaps he just had very literal parents.

叔孙不敢 (Doesn't-Dare/Not-Brave Shusun), a Lu court official. Sure his father tried and failed to help Duke Zhao of Lu, but the historical account makes it sound like that probably happened after Doesn't-Dare's birth.

韩不信/韩不佞 (Not-Credible Han/Unworthy Han). Granted the latter could also mean not given to sophistry, but still why would you take that chance with a child (both meanings are attested to in fairly ancient sources)?

秦非 (Not Qin, note order is flipped compared to English names so it's literally Qin Not). A disciple of Confucius.

皇非我 (Not-Me Huang). An official of the kingdom of Song. Again maybe a result of traditions trying to protect children from evil spirits, but I still find it rather amusing.

I've never really heard a good explanation for these, other than given names didn't really matter back then, rather it was adult honorary names (e.g. Zi or 字) that mattered more, which sure I guess I can believe. On the other hand, if that was the case I'd expect a cornucopia of awful names rather than the comparatively few, but still abnormally many, that I observe now.
I was in CS seeing friends gets 10-12 job offers in the late 90s. Graduated in May of '02 and it took me a year to find an entry level software job and the pay was shit.
Race is a social construct, at least in the case of a deposition, or even otherwise I might wonder what it means to identify someone as a specific race....but know nothing but what I see.

I know some folks working in a school district grappling with racial issues. The teachers are asked to fill out endless paperwork, much of it asks them to identify the race of the student, but they are given no other reference / data and they're told not to ask the student or parents....so what do you say?
Abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym.
How is it “obviously” the right policy? If implemented, console input would presumably be part of the AWS API, guarded with IAM permissions like everything else. If you have full IAM permissions, you can already take over any instance by temporarily attaching its disk to a different instance and modifying the data from there. (That requires rebooting, but so would takeover via console input.) Indeed, I’ve had to do exactly that on multiple occasions to fix broken config files on my personal instance; it would have been much more convenient to have console input.
> Few people have the time, resources, patience, persistence, and expertise even figure out whether any single thing a single source said is true.

First, the amount of effort you invest should be proportional to the extent to which you care about whether the thing is true. If you care a lot, you should invest a lot of resources. If you don't care much, you shouldn't invest much. If you don't care at all, you should not invest any resources and you shouldn't have an opinion at all.

Second, for most things where you actually need to know what's true in order to live your everyday life, you can test things by direct experience. And for most things that you can't test by direct experience, you don't actually care about what's true; expressions of opinion one way or the other are signaling, not actual commitments to the truth of the opinion expressed. This is easy to see because most people don't actually govern their actions according to, for example, the political opinions they express.

And third, the only alternative solution to figuring it out for yourself is finding some third party that you can trust to do the work for you and truthfully convey to you the results. But then you have to decide which third parties to trust, and that just puts you right back at the same problem: few people have the time, patience, persistence, and expertise to actually evaluate the track record of truthfulness and accuracy of third parties. And every shortcut to that process can be, will be, and has been gamed.
Wonder if there will be a class action.
That does not support ignoring traffic lights during the most critical 5 seconds to look behind you. Defensive techniques like slowing down when someone tailgates you are useful, but usually looking behind before and accident doesn’t enable you to do anything useful.

Also, talking your foot off the break increased the risk in that accident. If the driver had swerved at the last second they could have sent your car into the pedestrians you where trying to protect. In a rear end collision momentum pulls your foot from the peddle. So, you want to be hard breaking at the moment of impact to minimize the distance you move post collision.

Honking may have been useful, however unless you gave then ~2+ seconds of warning it was probably futile. Walking speed may be 4.5 feet per second, but acceleration and reaction times are not instantaneous.
A single attacker can't distribute them in this way because it takes many more for that scale of resources. Absent a self-funded evil genius comic book villain, you're looking at terrorist organizations and nation states, not lone individuals.
You can spend your money on digital goods which have a very tiny environmental impact. This doesn't have the result of preventing other people from spending that money but it is at least sustainable if everyone does it.
I meant for people that bought low and then traded around the top. If you switched BTC to, say, ETH around the peak - you created taxable income. Even if you've lost almost everything since then.

A buy, full ride up and down to the same level, followed by a sell shouldn't be taxable income.
This is interesting. This not a mine per se, but rather a re-mining of the tailings from previous mining at a site in Death Valley. They were “sifting” for precious metals when they realized it had considerable lithium.
I was a junior enterprise dev at the time, and was largely shielded from any fallout. Felt lucky to have work, but safe.

Now, I’m highly exposed to startup economy, older and spend more time managing than coding, so...... feeling a little shaky right now.
It's not, but WeWork heavily implied they are and that seems to be a key part of their new strategy. Obviously many people are skeptical (including myself), but I suppose we'll find out soon enough.
Looks like depleted uranium bullets probably have similar to effects to lead bullets.

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/the-toxicit...
That's a slippery argument. At the low functioning end of the autism spectrum are behaviors like tantrums, compulsive violence towards self and others, and behaviors like fecal smearing. We also need to be careful not to ignore clearly disordered behavior. That is not compassionate towards the afflicted, either. If a disorder can't be labeled a disorder, the patient cannot be treated.
There's a yearly event in Netherlands where it's legal for anyone to have a flea market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koningsdag
Sure, but why didn't the Vision Fund deny him that level of control as a condition for providing the money, when the initial funding was taking place?
The carbon they emit was already in the system- but it is also true that they have converted carbon dioxide to methane.
> I have all exercised options, but not all vested, been here about 2 years, so half vested. Didn't pay taxes at exercise because there was no difference between exercise price and market price.

Early exercise with a 83b election?

You will be fine.

The tax problem happens like this:

1. Your option strike price is $0.01/sh

2. The current price as set by the board (or the stock market if public) is $10/sh

3. You exercise 2000000 shares

4. You write a check to your company 2000000 sh * $0.01/sh = $20000

The fair market value (as determined in step #2) is 2,000,000 sh * $10/sh = $20,000,000

The IRS says "wait a minute you only paid $20,000 for something that is worth $20,000,000".

The difference $20,000,000 - $20,000 = $19,980,000 was a 'gift' that requires taxes to be paid.

Now lets do the 83b election with early exercise. In that case the FMV == the strike price on the options. The difference is $0 You are paying FMV and there is no 'gift'.
Put up a sign to gather more interest, have the sign point to a link where they go to an auction site to bid on it as a Dutch auction style (bidding starts at $225).
This amounts to saying: we humans can't really predict the behavior of entities like governments. That just makes the problem I was pointing at worse.
I'm intrigued by the comments suggesting that rebooting a machine is a good way to fix problems. I certainly know that it can work but really it's a regrettable last resort to solve a problem.

It would be good to have an OS that brings back the idea of persistent state. Plenty of programs have to run without stopping so require thinking of long term behavior (power plants, various spacecraft, medical implants, etc). People without stopping and in fact halting them is greatly discouraged.
I switched jobs in 1998, and was at a biggish, stable company in the Atlanta area, feeling lucky as I heard about stories like this out in California.

When it happens again, I don't think it will be as bad. In addition to learning from the lessons of the past, remember that everyone had to buy hardware, servers, big-ass monitors, all that. Now personal laptops are cheaper plus everything's on AWS now, you scale up or down.
It's not colonialism if you can opt-out of it. Which, for most of the nations of the world, you can.

Don't get me wrong. We've been manipulated by advertising since the 1850s. The Hidden Persuaders, written in 1957, detailed the ways advertising can manipulate our subconscious to make us do things beyond our control. 'Big Ad' has been a core component of American radio and television since its introduction to the US. When the internet arrived in the '90s, so did a raft of businesses floated solely by ad dollars. Google improved the game with more personalized ads, but this was really just a form of direct marketing, which had existed for a half century.

But most of the things we consume, we do because we are consumers, in a consumer society. We have not been captured by a foreign power and forced to work for nearly nothing, with our lands pilfered for goods to power a foreign nation. We are not 'unsalaried slaves'. We are willfully accepting the trade of services for our attention and our dollars - the same way we did with newspapers, and radio and television programs. We have been selling our attention for cheap for a century and a half, buying whatever crap someone feels like printing.

In most nations today, we have the complete freedom to pay for and use the internet without advertising or restriction. You can pay for an internet connection, pay for e-mail, send and receive files, communicate, etc, all without ever being sold a diet pill, told to vote for a candidate, or having your data changed out to something more profitable. And you can do all of this with the security of a first-world military power.

The global internet is still the most powerful, affordable, un-controlled communications tool in the world. You can talk about empire all you want, but really the only oppressive forces are governments against their own people. Yes, many governments have chilling effects on the rights of their people to have free speech - but those are limits imposed within their borders, and not to the internet as a whole. We still have an internet of creation, and we can still use it to change the world (evidenced by how many nations are rightly afraid of its power to allow people to freely communicate!) The only thing that has left is our imagination, but luckily, no one can take that away from us.
Native Mandarin speaker here - please take this article with a grain of salt as it reeks of whitesplaining.

I know the writer spent a bunch of time in China but a bunch of the "nuance" of how the names are interpreted seem either excessive or overinterpretive.

Just-another-opinion: As a Chinese person I actually prefer direct translations such as 川普 (Trump) as the name is usually pretty distinct, and people who share the same surname can have different characters to represent them.

Off-handedly, the characters used to translate a person's name often times can convey additional info - I can't think of too many specifics by country, but it's very easy to tell who's from Japan because they just take the kanji and use the Chinese translation (which butchers the pronunciation), or Korean because certain characters are almost always used for translating certain surnames (such as 金 -> Kim).
Hypothesis: Rust is a religion. The only times I've seen this amount of proselytization have been Rust and church.
Idk I graduated into the Great Recession and ignored it at first. Undergrad just didn’t prepare me for professional planning nor woke me up to the relevant market pressures. I’d say it’s important to know what’s going on in the market to inform both things like immediate savings priorities, but also medium term choices and direction. For example, I knew my programming chops could be honed into marketable skill, but I didn’t foresee my math BS becoming as relevant to highly valuable jobs like it has.

I definitely wouldn’t have moved somewhere the economy depended so greatly on luxury goods and services, for instance. It was hit really hard by the GR.
I think it would be a difficult argument to make that someone has a fiduciary duty to sell.
Do you think that Neumann feels like he got a raw deal?
I’m clueless here, but WeWork is a private company: does Neumann have any de-jure fiduciary duty?
All of these safeguards depend on people being rational--at least rational enough to watch whether the safeguards are working. If people aren't willing to do that, the safeguards break down. For example: the US Congress has something like a 98% re-election rate for incumbents and an approval rating in the single digits. That means important safeguards are not working.
Only if they aren't at their native point size. If you're on chrome, then you're right, because chrome renders how it wants, in classic "I know better than you" style.
HiExpan: Task-Guided Taxonomy Construction by Hierarchical Tree Expansion
Synthetic cells make long-distance calls
It looks like Adam will walk out as a billionaire while all other employees will stay poor...as with almost every startup nowdays.
The fact that you are even conflating Asperger's and ADD like this betray how little you know about the disorders. It's not just unscientific, it's insensitive.

It's my own personal experience that Aspie/ADD people often can't understand how much pain they can cause other people.

You listed your father and brother as evidence. Add maybe half a dozen more and that's your entire sample pool. It's amazing that you think this enough for your generalizations to be valid enough to share with others publicly before doing real research about these disorders.
Just an aside: it was very popular for dotcom era startups to issue NQSO options instead of ISO options. NQSOs cause tax hits when the options vest, where ISOs do not. So when you read about people getting massive tax bills with options for worthless stock, they were likely NQSO options.
Because who wants to miss out on the next Facebook!! Zuckerberg holds huge control over FB and he's a visionary. This rocket ship is going to the moon, are you strapped in?!?

TL;DR: stupidity combined with the myth of the founder
My experience was very similar- I was working on my resume the morning of 9/11 at the start of my senior year. My friends and I all boasted about how we would refuse to even entertain any offers below 75k prior and several had already secured offers at the end of their summer internships.

The bottom fell out of the market, and though I had two summers an intern under my belt, there were hordes of devs with 1-2 years experience in specific stacks I was competing against. Most offers that were secured were rescinded.

I was somewhat fortunate- I did not plan on going back to the place I interned at, but facing no other prospects I reached out and they offered me a job- for literally 37k. I swallowed my pride and took it- it was a small consulting firm, close to my house, and they had just scored a new project for a major sports organization.

I kept looking on the side in hopes to get a better offer, but got literally zero bites on it. After one year there (and my boss tried to get me excited about a 3,000 but 10% raise) I got my first actual response to a submitted resume for a place that seemed terrible. The month after that I got a second call, that didn't work out. The month after that a third callback- and they made an offer on the spot- for 55k. I was over the moon- it was at least a living wage, and working in finance for a group that was working on what would later be called high frequency trading.

Things picked up from there, but I didn't hit that 75k mark for another year or so.
Spend 20+ years in Taiwan and China here: most media use 希拉里.

There might be specific conventions which compel them to print the full name (if it's a very formal thing?) but they'd do it once maybe, then revert to 希拉里.
> With so much content to consume, the desire for creation vanishes.

Those would seem to be contradictory statements. There must be desire for creation for there to so much content created.
The solution to potential threats is to surrender ourselves to actual totalitarianism. What a novel idea.
True there are niche blogs for enthusiast hobbyist interests, but sometimes I need to find a good <some household item>. Reddit’s got better info than most non-reddit google results.
Not with a planar or linear array. I'm skeptical, but prepared to learn something: what sort of array can generate a square beam?

Even lasers spread. This guy agrees with me: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-light-from-lasers-reduced-by-th...
I wish ipfs wasn't so easy to block/censor. Would be surprised if anyone behind any major corp's(non-tech) work network can access it.
But there is a cost to future generations for every newly manufactured thing consumed. Buying used can cut that cost by half or more, if well maintained.
> voters aren't rational

And if that's the case, we're screwed, because no system of government can produce good government if the people don't know it when they see it and aren't willing to vote for it or against the lack of it.
I would emphasize this: worrying about the next bubble bursting is a distraction, like following the shiny. It is good you are asking the question, but the right plan to be making- a career plan- is what is important, and whether there is a bubble or not is kind of irrelevant.

Internalizing that can be the best thing any developer does. It is way more impressive to talk about all the skills you have acquired in your career in an interview than it is to talk about how your last company crashed and burned and you rode it right into the ground.

Make your plans for how you want to advance your career, what you want to learn, what field you want to work in, the companies that are places where you could pick up relevant skills. And plan for things you could do in the down time between jobs.
I know a lot of people say that, but have you heard it from real scientists?

Here is a "debunking" I like, from someone who actually read the IPCC report:

https://reason.com/2019/08/01/despite-what-democrats-said-at...
Shift+A makes sense for the new default 3D menu though, it's Shift+A(dd)
A wardrobing approach is the next step up from that.
Good tip, Thank You. Would like order custom fit T-shirts, but guess that won’t happen for a few decades as robots are far from being able to replace the hands of cheap labor.

BTW How about animal welfare for producing Merino wool?
A vacuum is really easy to use; what's a real pain is cleaning the vacuum cleaner. When are they going to automate that?
2. So what? Offer someone a decent deal and work out an arrangement where you can borrow the car one day a month or something.
I think this is partially due to the fact that people are looking for the next Amazon; everyone wants to be a billionaire, and if that bald dude can become the richest man in the world by selling books, why can't I do it leasing office space?

That drive causes people to try a lot of ... "plans" might be a more charitable word than "schemes" ... that might otherwise have never seen the light of day.

And the media bears a lot of responsibility for this, too. WeWork is an office space rental company. It should have been trivial to figure out how much money they were taking in, and how profitable they could become - if they could become profitable at all.

Valuing them at thirty bajillion dollars was just stupid, but stupid gets eyeballs, and that's what the media thrives on. "Office space leasing company rents desk space" isn't going to make the front page of Hacker News.
Seems like a very cheap and easy way for a Japanese company to buy up a lot of real-estate. Good luck protecting your IP when Japan monitors everything you do in their workspace...

/tinfoilhat