skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's just the ramp up, it's predictable in advance.

Also the worst case scenario is curtailing some solar because you need to bring the gas plants online a little earlier.
You're confusing google (an advertising company) for unity (a product store).

They're not trying to acquire users for marketing, they're trying to acquire users into their ecosystem and bring more dependence on their tools, their asset store products, and make the unity ecosystem worth more.

It's a land grab. Ditto for VFX industry that they and Epic are trying to get into.
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I think most people were aware of Pando's failure going into this article... which I believe she assumed or didn't bother rehashing.
I would estimate that most Asian children do not get enough sleep.
Same, I was introduced to War Nerds through them and it was before I was used to paying for journalism. I wouldn't have thought twice about it now.
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Or just enriching the rice
There's a clear public interest in preventing standing vehicles from blocking midtown traffic. My friends have dealt with this by sheer numbers: when one friend is moving, a dozen show up to do the quick transfer from sidewalk to truck. It's still against the rules, but fast enough that you would be unlikely to be ticketed.
£100k base salary
15% bonus
£60k a year in RSUs

No CS degree, 8 years of experience. In big tech.
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I prefer to focus on the concrete actions that individuals do. In this news story, Facebook is not exerting any influence beyond what 10,000 residents of Menlo Park would have (in fact, probably far less), so there is no need to bring in extra narrative structure.

I mean, I can play this game too. When I have my bike stolen, I report it to the police and just have to buy another one. But when a few overworked HR people have their 10th bike stolen of the week, they report it to the police and in turn get smeared in hit pieces without any opportunity to defend themselves, by an media industry worth $1 trillion. Why is the little guy getting crushed by these corporate behemoths?

The point is, if you play with narrative like this, the little guy can be whoever you want it to be. That's why narratives are fundamentally dishonest.
Correction : * How would you differentiate between sales and marketing
For everyone wondering: Firefox extension Chameleon randomly spoofs your user agent. However, I would highly recommend NOT using this extension, or randomizing your user agent whatsoever - it only raises your entropy and makes you easier to track. You should be trying to make your browser look identical to everyone else's, not different.

This can by partially achieved by setting privacy.resistFingerprinting to true in Firefox's about:config. This won't stop Panopticlick from fingerprinting you. If you really want to reduce your fingerprint, try using the ghacks user.js [1]. If you want to make fingerprinting completely impossible, use the TOR browser [2].

Most users don't need to worry about this - uBlock origin blacklists most fingerprinting efforts by default.

Please read: https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#fingerprint

[1] https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js
[2] https://www.torproject.org/

More Firefox privacy extensions: https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/wiki/4.1-Exte...
You haven't given any actual reasons why someone needs a car so badly that the government ought to subsidize their ownership of one. Having small kids is not enough--and yes, I am well acquainted with the logistics of traveling with infants and toddlers. Even needing to drive for your job isn't enough: if a car is a requisite part of the job, it's the employer's responsibility to provide materials or sufficient compensation for the employee to do it. (This is where I note that ride-sharing firms are basically relying on drivers not realizing they're insufficiently compensated for the costs of actually driving).
Lots of SASS equivalents these days across the criminal spectrum.

Need to roll custom malware? DDoS as a service? They all exist!
>Men and women are not the same, we should not turn the world around to appease to non-heterosexuals, perhaps people of different races/ethnic backgrounds/religions are fundamentally different

Obviously these examples are reductive by necessity, and both constructive and insubstantive/hateful posts can be reduced in these ways. Personally, the examples of such downvoted/flagged posts I've seen have almost always betrayed the latter quite unsubtly. (Your choice of wording is also kind of unfair - you've chosen reductions that are, again in my opinion, no-brainers to say "yes" to without context and assuming good faith).
I wish there was any momentum to offer that level of privacy and security for us normal consumers.
I think it’s about perception. Broadly speaking, professions like Doctors and Lawyers are seen as prestigious and important, and so they are allowed to manage themselves.

I think software engineers tend to overestimate how prestigious and valuable people outside of tech think software engineers are.

I work in computational biology, and even in a fairly tech related field, you wouldn’t believe how many people think software engineering is just glorified IT. I’ve had a lot of conversations where the crux of it is “why should we pay them so much money, it’s the computers that are doing the work. Or, on building a distributed computation engine to run for 2 years straight without failing: “it’s all just grunt work we’ll just get an undergrad to do it”.
I wonder how many of these "secure phone" companies - if not being run by drug cartels themselves like this in this instance - are actually being run as honeypots by the FBI/DEA? Would be a great idea if they are so popular in the crime world. A bit like how Tor sites are run as honeypots too.
I would love to be able to SET multiple_planning; on a cursor to be able to say “yes I know that reversing would be UB, and I have set a limit so I don’t care if results aren’t streamed, so please just try everything you can.” In general I wish there were better ways to tell these systems you know what you’re doing.
Thanks a lot for the explanation / clarification, helps me qualitatively appreciate events.

> it is in no way some sort of novel realization that space is important for the military.

I know, and didn't mean to imply that it was; I said "used to" because my fear is long gone, and such statements now pile up, like +1's I guess. (Upvotes are currently winning by a fair margin!)

I would however suggest that having a centralized Space command is a great leap towards building presence, solving big problems. Speaking as an EU citizen; but I'd vote for that, and with my wallet too.
The problem is that it is very difficult for even a medium-sized business to make the economics work for a hardware business based on Free Software. As soon as someone releases a device that even remotely gets traction, just watch: there will seemingly overnight be a dozen knock-offs available both undercutting on price and adding features. Great as a consumer, lousy as a (medium/large) business.

As a result, no one with the resources to readily pull it off wants to do so. Eventually it will happen. Hopefully it will be Purism and/or Pine64 because I'm really fed up with the proprietary offerings.
This. I'm all for the science, but don't trust corporations further 'n I can throw them.
People in other professions have similar issues. Some 'smart' folks feel as if they should be able to understand everything. It probably often works for them, after all, how did they become 'smart'? But, it's a fine line between genuine interest and distrust per se. Try to assume good intent, consider it interest and grow your ability to explain. At some point you might have to call it as a poor use of time and move on, but if you can use the time to grow on both sides of the discussion - bonus.
TLDR; you can be tracked in almost all practical cases.

Temporal and spatial; when you’re browsing, where you’re browsing, and how you’re browsing. We can predict future non-unique (unknown) browsing behavior by training on your past unique, known, behavior. It is a common misconception, by those that are not in adtech (e.g. your typical software dev), that a fairly non-unique rating on sites like these will correlate with being difficult to track (not saying this is necessarily you).
> uh, idk, try and look for it on Craigslist, eBay, and the local flee market?

How much free time do you think these guys have? They have a full time job, you know.

My dad likes to tell this story: when he was my age, his bike would get stolen all the time, and it would always end up at the same spot in the local flea market. He'd come up and say "that's my bike!", they'd say "no it isn't", and he'd just have to buy it back.

Now suppose the police actually could have been damned to show up. Obviously, the same thing would happen. He'd say "that's my bike!", they'd say "no it isn't", they would just stare at each other for a while and the policeman would have wasted his time.

For this reason property crime has never been worth it for police to pursue unless the object is very valuable, or unique, or its ownership is easily identifiable. Yes, that correlates with being rich and powerful, but that's not the actual reason.
Rocket fuel typically uses either monomethylhydrazine (MMH) or unsymmetrical dimetehalhydrazine (UDMH - the more common of the two).

The link you're responding to is about tetrafluorohydrazine, which is some kind of hydrazine and fluoride. I think it's mentioned in Ignition! but I can't remember. I just remember John Clark (the author of Ignition!) being very very hesitant and even frightened of working with fluoride based fuels.

I'm not really sure how how it's tetrafluorohydrazine is relevant to the X37-B though.
Law enforcement is highly subjective and irregular. This is the true danger of things like facial recognition, ANPR, etc.
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So what kind of fuckup in software is going to have to happen before this is also true? My fear is that it will happen one day, if not already (see eg- 737 MAX). I'm not looking forward to that day.
Sorry, very inadequate treatment of this story. Golden rice is intellectual property, whose seeds are no longer owned by the farmer who grows them, but by whoever is selling it.

Think about it, can the root of the problem be the nutritional value of rice, when no rich country needs to license a foreign company's intellectual property to feed itself?
The waste itself is harmful, for eternity, simply by virtue of the fact that it is uranium. It's a toxic heavy metal, like lead, regardless of any radioactivity. The duration of the serious concern due to radiation is gone in roughly 10,000 years but if course the original enrichment and subsequent use of the fuel can have large impacts on this figure.

The reality is, nuclear waste should mostly be treated similarly to the toxic waste that is generates by other sectors of heavy industry.
Awesome job. This is really useful.
I love this game and play it every few years. It's available on GoG.
I don't know, but I suspect the French government isn't shutting down perfectly good, economical nuclear plants just to spite themselves.

I imagine that the nuclear plants are expensive to maintain since they're getting old. So rather than maintain them, they're probably going to just shut them down. And since new ones are so insanely expensive to build (again, don't know why), it's probably more feasible short term to invest in renewables.

But that's just my suspicion. I know nothing of French politics and very little about energy generation, but a little about finance, politics, and human psychology.

I'd love to know what it costs to maintain the nuclear plants they're shutting down, how much they're spending on renewables, and I'd love to look at it finacially. It's possible it doesn't make sense, and they just want the "green jobs". It's possible none of it makes sense! But I suspect there's some sense in this somewhere.
I'd focus on sync as your headline feature. It's technologically complex to do well and it provides real value for mobile apps that want to do a great offline experience. Our phones are offline way more than most of us realize and we don't notice it because Google / Apple have did such a great job with sync. But many 3rd party apps are not great at that and consequently have crappier user experiences due to connectivity problems.
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What tipped the scales over to Kotlin Native for your team over Rust?
Just starting to learn J, myself, and this brings to mind Aaron Hsu's "Does APL Need A Type System?" talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8MVKianh54

which argues that APL already provides the development ergonomics that are typically acribed to type systems. I.e. why type check your tacit function when it's implementation is about the same length as its type annotation?

Anyway, as someone trained in Category Theory and a huge fan of type systems, I found Hsu's argument surprisingly pursuasive.

I would love to hear any counterpoint arguments and the motivations behind attempts at giving J a type system.
It means a lot, and no it doesn’t have much at all to do with parking.

Almost all parcel deliveries are considered urgent, if not they should be using the USPS.

Being anti-parking, but wanting to assign swaths for the exclusive use of trucks seems like a schizophrenic perspective to me.
The money comes from advertisers eventually, who are funded by sales, so the question becomes -- are those sale making the purchaser happy more than making nonpurchasers unhappy?
You're perfectly free to believe in ghosts, the flat earth or DMT elves as well. People who know what they're talking about are still going to laugh at you.

Do you think clowns who publish physics papers (and yes, those guys are grade-A quacks for writing that paper with such claims) are immune to the temptations of PR balognia? Do you really think "Ultramicroscopy" is a reputable physics journal? Had someone actually done something as innovative as his claims: it would be in Science, Nature and PRL. But I guess you don't actually know anything about physics and think google substitutes for knowledge and "muh links" substitute for argument.
Give it a minute to load. Consider it a throwback to the dial-up era.
Annecdata: I ordered the laptop a couple of years ago (with qubes installed). They missed SIX month-long deadlines to ship it before I finally gave up and asked for a refund.
Wall St I know uses mainly TCS and Accenture.
How did you approach your role as PM, aware of the tech debt but also reporting to an unaware CEO? Power through with new features at half the speed, or try to convince the CEO to allow refactoring/maintenance?
Never heard of Pando, wondering why I should care, if anyone could give brief insight into why it's significant?
This is what I suspected, with my perception being tainted by the "grass is always greener".

I also can't say we aren't collectively to blame, or at least somewhat - as a bunch we can be poor at political negotiation/skill, lack of standardization, etc. I kick myself every time I miss an estimate that I've given, because I know at some level that has to erode trust. Or when my manager does press for more details as to why something should be done and I can't come up with a really strong justification at that moment, etc.
Further to this picture, in recent years the processing potential of extensive microtubule networks which feature in all cells, and can have special characteristics in nerve cells is beginning to be recognised:

> Microtubules are major architectural elements without which the neuron could not achieve or maintain its exaggerated shape. In addition to serving as structural elements, microtubules are railways along which molecular motor proteins convey cargo. Microtubule arrays in axons, dendrites, growth cones, and migratory neurons are tightly organized with respect to the intrinsic polarity of the microtubule, which is relevant to both its assembly and transport properties. Vibrant research is being conducted on the mechanisms by which microtubules are organized in different compartments of the neuron, how microtubule dynamics and stability are regulated, and the orchestration of microtubule-based transport of organelles and proteins. While all of this is surely enough to cause one to marvel, we cannot avoid pondering - what other work might microtubules do for neurons?

Microtubules as neuron information carriers:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979999/
By this line of reasoning, you would be in favor of me sending a drone to follow you around all day telling ads in your ear?
not surprising
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It's easier to piggyback on an existing behavior (keep on eating rice, but use this different kind of rice) than creating a new behavior (eat this vitamin pill).

On the consumer side, one can explain that the new golden rice is better and keeps your family healthier than regular rice. It's simple enough to be understood by people with low levels of education that the yellow one is better, and can easily be communicated to other members of the family who may not be able to read. There might be issues with counterfeit rice (dyed yellow instead of being actual golden rice), but that would be a separate problem.

In the cases where new behaviors are wanted, it helps to root them in culturally specific ways. For example, for iron supplementation, one way to increase the amount of iron consumed is to use a few drops of acid (such as citrus juice) combined with an iron ingot. This was done to alleviate iron deficiency in South East Asia.

Obviously, this was a very foreign behavior with low compliance, until they reshaped the ingots to be fish shaped, leading to the "lucky iron fish." Explaining to people that if they cook with the lucky fish in their pot, the fish will bring them good luck and health. This has led to much better compliance and outcomes.
This WUSTL anthropologist doesn't agree.

https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden...
The real benefits will appear at testing, where you can replace the actual addition with a mock object that expects parameters 1 and 1 and returns a fixed value 2, without having to do the calculation.
The easiest solution to have Julia on the background is using Revise.jl. Basically you import your program on the REPL and it will automatically track any change to the source code and precompile and update the environment as soon as you save it (and any function you run on the REPL, including slow to compile such as plotting, will be faster on the second time forward). You can combine it with other useful REPL modules such as Rebugger.jl, OhMyREPL.jl and Infiltrator.jl which you can import automatically in the startup.jl file.

The compiler team is prioritizing the compile-time latency and error messages for the 1.4 release, which if they succeed will make the language more approachable for people who use the same workflow as other dynamic languages (running the code from the shell).
This article is atrocious yellow journalism stoking fear about encryption. Yes, people that used to traffick drugs started selling phones, possibly using their old network for sales. And yes, these bad dudes sent some thugs to threaten and assault a business competitor.

But what were the capabilities of these scary, criminal kingpin, super secret, drug-trafficking phones? "[They] run software for sending encrypted emails or messages, and use their own server infrastructure for routing communications. Sometimes the devices have the microphone, camera, and GPS functionality removed. Some also have a dual-boot mode, where powering on the device as normal will show an innocuous menu screen with no sensitive information. But if certain buttons are held down when turning the phone on, it will reveal a secret file system containing the user’s encrypted text messages and other communications. With these tweaks, the ordinary methods for law enforcement to intercept messages are cut-off—police can’t simply get an ordinary phone tap or subpoena messages from a company; the texts are typically only available in a readable form on the users’ devices."

These should be the capabilities of every phone on planet earth! They used off the shelf phones, CopperheadOS, extra security configuration, data only SIMs, and a layer of anonymization since the customer didn't have their name on the SIM, and probably a custom app for the deniability mode. That's it.

The lede of the article is about a reporter's murder that could have had something to do with any of the reporter's many organized crime subjects, not just the phone company. He just happened to be hanging out with the MPC guy that night. It's not illegal to sell encryption. I don't know why the author here is trying so hard sensationalize encrypted phones as having to do with murder, fear, strip clubs, drugs, etc. -- I hope it's just clicks.
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Nice discussion going on at PTIO about delisting: https://forum.privacytools.io/t/candidate-for-delisting-disc...
Why do we need bike lanes? Why should the government subsidize them? Use public transit. Bike lanes are absolutely not subsidized by the bike riding tax base. It’s a hand out.

It’s the exact same thing.

People with cars need to park them. Many people can’t afford a garage. You don’t own the street spot and have to move it daily. Many street parkers have to walk many blocks to their cars.

Regardless of why people have cars, they do. They pay sales tax on them, registration tax, and fuel tax. Not to mention parking tickets from time to time. Why should the government only allow the wealthy to have cars?

It’s thinking like this that gave way to the ridiculous EV lanes. Let the wealthy cruise through traffic to their high paying job in their 100k Tesla. Meanwhile the person in the old fuel inefficient beater has to idle in traffic, burning fuel, as they worry about being late to their second job and get fired.

Maybe we should next ban factory farming so only the wealthy can eat meat.
Philosophically, you cannot be both. At best, you might come to accept the shortcomings of the pragmatic critique, for pragmatic reasons. This would be a very Marxian conclusion.

Marxism is a tradition of thought associated with left Hegelianism, which was an opposition to right Hegelianism. Without the latter, there might not be a basis for the former.

Right Hegelianism might be weighed as a pre-condition for Pragmatism, because it reasons that contradictions will negate themselves if sufficiently pursued, whereas Left Hegelianism reasons that the pursuit is unavoidable.
The market is a sham, with overallocation of water resources being done by the Minister responsible as favours for party sponsors.

Agribusinesses are growing rice, cotton, and almonds in the most arid farming region in the world.

The MDBA is a toothless regulator with the government deliberately reducing their budget any time policing or enforcement action is actually performed.

The MDBA could be a self-funded statutory authority if it was allowed to collect water licensing fees directly, with approvals for dams and other water works going through the MDBA instead of the various states.

Ideally there would be no scope for ministerial direction, or at least any such direction would only be through publicly visible instruments.

Also the NDBA should have the authority to demolish illegal dams and water-affecting earth works. For the moment the worst it can do is write strongly worded letters.

And in the meantime we have Queensland farmers continuing to claim that all the water falling on their land should be theirs to do with as they please.