skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adam Neuman should go to jail. The self-dealing was well publicized - certainly - and illegal. Since the securities markets were involved, the govt can step in and read him the riot act (and hopefully more)

And I think that is important. That kind of scrutiny puts a check on rampant misbehavior by investors or entrepreneurs.
No, lack of evidence is not evidence of a lack of crime.

Evidence is material. A lack of evidence by definition is not material.
Percentage of engineers, or senior engineers?

Overall, I'd guesstimate 40% make 400k or more, with most senior engineers making that much. Not at all atypical, particularly if you've been at one for a couple years.
Hmm, I guess that I should poison my Facebook account with false information?
One of the columns of sanding parameters is the sound of the sander.
I don't know what Stadia does, but it could

* downsample when connection is poor
* extrapolate future frames from past frames, either locally or by sending bonus frames from server.
Neumann deserves to have the book thrown at him for this. Although, I wish a more severe fate for Elizabeth Holmes.
Snowden demonstrated that the "technical whistleblower" channels are ineffective at ending illegal behavior by the govt.

The assertion that whistleblowers must use official channels is just a paper-thinly veiled argument for silencing all whistleblowing.
A registry key that is reset to the default every major update, no less.
casual/indie games don't require a powerful GPU in the cloud, they work on your local device.
And how do we know he was smoking weed? It's an entertainment show; when we see people drinking or shooting heroin on TV, it is pretty unlikely that they are actually doing so. He burnt some unknown substance on an a popular interview and entertainment show and puffed it a couple of times... My bet is cloves.
Avid gamers aren't always sitting in the room where their big rig is.
Yes? I was under the impression that most Android apps make money by slapping a random ad SDK and watching the money roll in. I haven't heard of SDK vendors running their own name resolution schemes in order to avoid DNS-based content blocking. DoH will give them this feature by default.
I'm not sure what to feel about this. The app seems worth than facebook to me. I've not used it myself, but from the limited information I gathered from friends, some of them would mindlessly watch it for hours and not be able to stop even if they wanted to. Some forced themselves to delete the app.

Genuine question to people who use the app: how does it add value? Or is it a even better attention grabber?
My tinnitus doesn't bother me very often, but when it does, this provides the most amazing instant relief. And the relief lasts for some time even after you stop listening to it.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera...

That site also has an extremely wide variety of background noise.
Come to Atlanta. We have A super diverse gay culture and low cost of living.
The BBC story is about ABC news suppressing the story.
Does ABC news not qualify as mainstream media?
As a vegetarian, I couldn’t agree more. All this does is make people think vegans are assholes. If you’re that concerned and strict about these things, don’t go to BK! I think it’s great that they offer a meat free alternative. As the saying goes “no good deed goes unpunished”.
No - while auto completion is also broken, I’m talking about autocorrect. It’s a very common occurrence in Turkish iOS that something that you typed in correctly gets autocorrected to something else that makes no sense.
I would imagine it's a similar number per unit of area/yield/weight to that required to feed animals.

In both instances, the crops are harvested and transported for use in very similar ways.

I don't know whether I'd include or exclude ground crops that are eaten by livestock in situ - not sure what percentage of crops they would amount to.

What was your line of thought with this comment?
We're not at terabyte yet, but 80-100gb is becoming increasingly common. Even the crash remakes are coming in at 30gb, and that wasn't that High budget a title.
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Looks like Office 365 is down too https://status.office365.com/
I don't have that. Even worse: almost three years ago I got to a point of having almost zero money, but found a job soon after.

I promised myself that this year it'll be different - we'll see.
I'm a musician, and I don't buy it. There are too many situations where it's loud without serving any musical purpose.

People listen to music with earbuds at levels that are driving them deaf, and it's not felt at all.

Jazz groups play too loud, fer cripe's sake.

Restaurants are loud. I took a sound pressure meter to an event at a restaurant, and the crowd noise was above the safe threshold before the band even started playing.

Drums are not irreducibly loud, and in any event, that doesn't explain why events with sound reinforcement are too loud. A competent drummer can play with intensity (even visually) at any volume level. Knowing how to play at an appropriate volume is part of knowing how to play.

I think that volume levels are killing live music.
Ahh, amazing work. Your original blog posts describing the workings of Mitogen and the pitfalls you've had to avoid were incredibly interesting. Thank you so much both for the project, and for the fascinating documentation of the development process.
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I know economics says "raise the price to lower demand when supply is limited", but marketing says "don't tarnish your brand by charging a high price and setting high expectations for an experimental prototype". Remember the $1200 Glass?
> Ludicrous academic requirements: You only get pay grade E13 (which is ~40k€/year) with a Diplom or a Master's Degree, so there's no way to hire motivated talent that the rest of the market is more likely to ignore

Surely 40k EUR seems very little from an American perspective, but in Germany you cannot really expect much more than maybe 50-60K straight out of uni (as a normal, average student). 40k is surely less (I think E13 is more than 40k though), but the difference isn't that huge.
There is no publicly available credible evidence that the intelligence community has any effectiveness preventing attacks.

Point of reference, TSA has a 90% failure rate on tests of their performance while consuming vast amounts of money and inconveniencing every traveler. Does the public have any good reason to believe the CIA is more effective than the TSA?

Is there any reason to believe the CIA does more good than harm?
Ayahuasca alters brain waves to produce waking dream-like state, study finds
This cancer has been finding its way into academic purchasing offices. Researchers could use procurement cards to buy what they needed with their grant money, now administrators are chipping away at this to force people to use shopping portals that directly enable this. It almost never saves money, and the extra time and delays associated with it probably cost money overall, yet its of critical importance to purchasing admins that everyone use this nonsense so they can get their kickbacks.
Same is true in the U.S. as a victim you can decide whether to “press charges” i.e. file an official crime report. However it is only the District Attorney’s office that has the power to file criminal charges.
Is this really accurate? And even if total comp is somehow $400k, how much of that is equity, and how many senior engineers are liquidating it every year to get $400k in cash? That seems wildly overblown. And that equity shouldn’t be factored into the above breakdown anyway, at least not in the taxes calculation!
That’s not true, in the U.S., the DA has complete authority to decide whether to file charges. You have no right to a trial until after you are charged.

You can file a civil suit to get a judge to make declarations of fact in some cases, but I don’t believe there is any criminal equivalent of that.
The parts of Australia with NBN (read: about 90% of houses in the country) have choice in ISP. I'm not sure of the split between all the FTTx options, so they may not all count as "high speed".
In case the commenter isn't aware, adaptive optics compensate for the shimmer of the atmosphere, not the presence of light-scattering objects between the telescope and a dim object part-way across the universe.
I worry that it doesn't take long at all to question the accuracy of information on any platform. And given that this platforms value proposition is accurate information, that proposition can be easily tarnished or diminished.
Sometimes you just need to do it that way, because the people buying do not know what machine learning is - even though they've heard about AI.

For example, I was networking for some jobs in data science - and was approached by some energy company. Struck up a conversation with the guy (older exec), and he said "so I hear you have a background from AI, correct?" to which I replied "I have a degree in Machine Learning, and have worked with etc." - he just replied "Oh, we don't really need any mechanical engineers now"

So I asked him, mechanical engineering? He pointed out that I said MACHINE, and assumed it had something to do with, you know, physical machines and stuff - so in the domain of mechanical engineering.

So, from then, I went easy on using Machine Learning unless I was fairly confident the other guy had some domain knowledge. If I talk with non-technical salespeople, or older executives, I just leave it at AI.
> Why would my employer care what health insurance I get anyways,

Two reasons.

One is that it gives people pause before leaving for another job, as they might have to figure out new healthcare providers.

Second is that it gives larger employers the benefit of paying less for insurance, especially if their employee group consists of younger healthier white collar workers. It also helps them because businesses can pay for health insurance with pre tax dollars, which helps compete against small businesses that can’t afford to pay for health insurance for employees, whose employees have to pay for their own health insurance with after tax money.
I worked at a company where the receptionist was married to one of two salesmen. She was feeding her husband leads, depriving the other guy. They were both 19 or 20, and he bought a brand-new Porsche, which maybe should have been a clue... but they were cute, naive (hah, so we thought), Mormon kids -- who would suspect them? Eventually, they got greedy and started scumming the other guy's accounts. When one of those accounts was a personal friend of the original salesman, it all blew up.

Personally, I see no reason to assume the wife didn't know. Presumption of innocence is the duty of our courts. And fwiw, I don't presume she's guilty, either.
Isn't "AI" pretty much snake oil. IIRC Artificial Intelligence used to mean a computer that could think like a person. But that just is not the case. Even with IBM ads with a computer talking to people saying it's going to fix the network and stop cyber attacks that is just complete nonsense. And it will probably always be nonsense because of course there's no way a computer can think like a person because a computer is not a person. It did not grow up and fall of it's bike and skin it's knee and take a road trip to the rock concert and meet someone and so on. AI is being used as a marketing term to compensate for the fact that sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms and the like are not particularly marketable even if they are useful.
It is hard to estimate the cost of replacing LSST with something off-planet. As it, alone, costs ~billions, putting a similar instrument in space costs far, far more.

Furthermore, dark skies are a resource for all of humanity, not just astronomers.
Is this actually even a crime?
How does this compare to harfbuzz?
It would be great if this was a bookmarklet!
In the US, yes.
Completely agree.
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One of the benefits we've found that rarely gets mentioned is that there are minimal fees. Our only outgoings are server costs and Stripe fees: no payments for Unity/Unreal, no App/Play store cuts.
Another is that depending on your game mechanics lots of existing technologies solve problems that big game engines often handle for you. Thanks to Postgres transactions we have never spent a second thinking about client/server synchronisation.

For those who saw the game on HN a few weeks back, we have turbocharged our tutorial and game information and the player base is growing. Jump on and play a round!
No it isn't the fastest high speed train in the world only averages 280km/h. Shinkasen and TGV average 260-265 on most routes.
Yes, more detailed math here: https://thestartupconference.com/2018/09/21/about-that-silic...
If the CIA has "gone rogue" what current publicly-known controls would be able to stop them from continued actions which are not in the best interest of the American public?

Congressional oversight is a mild annoyance to them at best, and the CIA has been caught lying to them before. No reason to trust they are working in our interests except "I believe the propaganda" and wishful thinking.
I found that putting ink on dead wood with a livescribe pen gave me all the advantages of paper and a lot of the advantages of a tablet. I can search through my notebooks from several years ago with the digitised copy on my phone.

The other advantage is that you don't get distracted by email and other things on it.
Uh okay, I’ll snipe your questions with an obvious one:

Lifespan/mortality In the US includes things like drug overdoses and suicides, of which many countries don’t count towards or keep bad record of.

Also cancer survival rate for the US is mostly the best in the world [0].

I’m here for more easy volleys if you want to keep this going

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2....
Yes, Sanskrit also has flexible or variable word order (but to an extent.)

http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/faculty/amba/PUBLICATIONS/papers...
We need another product that's not controlled by CCP though.
Privacy & security should be the most important topics nowadays.
We should all beware how big tech companies, especially those linked with CCP, would be using the data they collected.
And take action (quit/avoid) when / before it hurts.
The problem I see with Stadia: lack of ownership of games and bandwidth.

I guess lack of ownership of things, at least for media, is something that is just gonna happen. But, bandwidth, that is a big problem. Especially in the US, where internet is shit in most places. Can't see playing a game over the internet in most of the world.

Maybe in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, you could, but not many other places.
This could be a ground breaking change in our understanding of black holes, right?
Impressive! Which games have you played on Stadia? What input devices did you use?
So you're saying 40% of FAANG engineers (not just seniors, but all engineers) are pulling in 400k?
That's nuts... I swear the number being thrown around for FAANG was ~250k not that long ago. Next time I check one of these threads it will be 500k....
Putting a person on the moon cost a significant fraction of the US GDP.

The tax burden required to move Earth's level of free dark-sky accessibility to space (step outside at night, buy binoculars, a Celestron, or LSST, and just look up) would be crippling for any nation.
Also, even where the internet isn't shit, all the major ISPs have implemented 1 TB monthly data caps.
Yes but what you are positing as a target market already has something that does that today. Stadia has to be a value add.
I agree he’s a saint of freedom.

I also have no trouble believing the testimony that he sexually assaulted someone.

I’m not sure how those things are at odds.
Love seeing products that tackle the un-sexy (fulfillment) side of sexy industries (e-commerce). Keep it up!
Applying LTO to libc would be no worse than statistically linking it. I don't like static linking, but on Linux, we're stuck with supporting it.
Easy. Dont run your own SMTP server and instead use Mailgun or other reputable SMTP servers to send emails. they are used by all large newsletter/marketing systems. Free tier services are largely enough for personal users.
Equity is a whole lot of that. And yes, people liquidate it immediately. RSUs count as income.
I suppose with DNS level blocking of ads now impossible that means I will need to crawl my DNS blocklist and resolve those domains, then block those IP addresses at the network gateway... Even if clients punch out through a secret DoH ip those resolved advertiser domains will still be null routed.

Not as easy but just as effective.
> I get it, everyone vacations differently

> You are there to not-home

Some people take multi-month long vacations. To expect them to give up video games is a bit much.
The old Roomba I had made these really expressive chirps to communicate when it’s was starting, finished etc. If it got stuck on something it would make an apologetic “uh-oh” type of tone, and if it succeeded at something it would play a happy tone.
My newer model roomba now uses a really low quality prerecorded voice that says things like “error”. It sucks.
If nobody supports it then why did you choose it?
Friedrich Hayek’s recollection of his cousin Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016)
No, I left London for Brexit issues. I'm in the formerly-tallest one in New York.
But why won’t people just use the devices they have today to play such a game? I don’t even know how many physical CPU cores Google will give each machine, but imagine running Civ on some server grade processors with tons of cores. That could actually be a good experience but I doubt Google could make money if they were generous in this way.
Because exposing killings of innocent civilians is something people would not approve of unless it was the US government doing the killing?

I'm sure if she had leaked a google drone killing people in Zimbabwe everybody hate her. Google marketing guys would be like 'spiteful security leak, not a whistleblower.'.

Sometimes I just can't with shit like this. I have to go offline for a while.
That's kind of neat. Just four cameras near the target point, watching the spillover from each mirror of the mirror array, and adjusting each mirror.

Keeping the cameras from being blinded by direct hits during startup and adjustment might be a problem. They probably have to start with all mirrors off-target and bring them onto target one at a time.
250k is probably the average figure? Lots of L3s and L4s out there (more of them than L5 and above), who bring the average down.
I served in the Air Force and did a 9 month tour in Afghanistan preceded by 3 months of combat skills training. We were issued ear plugs and used them religiously. Turns out they were defective and now I have permanent hearing loss in my right ear and tinnitus in both ears.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/02/14/...
There are still a couple options here besides IMAP:

- Use server-local users, and have the webmail prompt for those credentials and use them to browse that user's Maildir via SFTP. "Good enough" for small-scale operations. Probably not the best choice for large-scale operations, but likely "good enough" for small-scale.

- Store the emails in a SQL database (e.g. Postgres), with row-level permissions to SQL users for each address, and have the webmail prompt for credentials for those SQL users and use those to connect to the DB and query messages. Probably the ideal choice for large-scale operations.

Both of these options seem more reasonable to me than trying to do anything with IMAP.
Latin has been the language of erudite and priests but most of middle age had different languages used as trade linguo.

The common latin root of many probably helped though.
Can't help thinking of the Showtime show Billions, especially since it's the NYAG's office.
Heck, you can do that in English sometimes if you pause correctly and don’t mind sounding Shakespearean.

> I love you.

> You, I love.

> You, love I.

> Love you, I do.

> Love I, you.
I've only tried destiny and samurai showdown so far (but bought gylt). Used kb/m for the former and an xbox elite controller for the latter.

I had my activation code, but my stadia founders kit hasn't arrived yet, so I haven't been able to try the Stadia controller, or play on a tv.
Amazing! I'm holding my vibrating iPhone to my head in a certain spot which gets the skull resonating, and it's cutting the tinnitus down by about 70%.

This is definitely doing something beyond masking the sound because when the vibration stops there is a few seconds delay before the tinnitus comes back.

Pretty exciting stuff! I really hope this leads to a reasonable cure. I'm not sure having a thing vibrating on my head would be any less distracting!
Super simple == many people-centuries sapped from funding-strapped research.

Furthermore, astronomy is just entering a paradigm where the entire sky can be imaged multiple times per night with great optical depth. Transients are going to be the next frontier, and that is precisely what these constellations will create. A few lost satellites with improperly-documented orbits can fake optical transients.

Furthermore, radio astronomers have moved to the outback of Australia to get away from rare radio transients. A zoo of satellites is precisely something they don't need.
It's the goodnewsnetwork, so it's not likely to be PR. It's just a news network that covers what the editors perceive to be good news.

I just recently happened across an investment brochure for wood pellets (produced in Germany). The projected returns are pretty good, and the brochure definitely marketed them as "green" (renewable and carbon-neutral (if you plant enough new trees), local (if you consume them locally)).

I don't read Danish, but surely the power company will at some point be able to provide information on what percentage of their fuel (in the last year) was municipal waste and what part was e.g. "biofuel". Speculating just based on the amount of waste produced in Copenhagen (or Denmark) and the power plant's capacity doesn't appear very fruitful to me, because if your plant is capable of handling municipal waste and has more capacity than available waste, you could just as well import waste from other countries and turn that into electricity. (Depending on distance, burning pellets may of course be cheaper, as they have more energy per cubic meter. But pellets cost money, and treating waste for others makes money)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_bribery

TLDR: it’s a felony in most states. There’s no federal law prohibiting it explicitly but it often falls under mail or wire fraud.
Well dang. That's what I was thinking. You said it so well. I will check out the link.
I love the idea of ActivityPub, but in practice, I think the very complex protocol, which is built on top of JSON-LD (I still don't understand why) of all things, and accepts variable structures for many, if not most fields, which makes it cumbersome to (de)serialize in languages with static typing, will hurt adoption by new projects.

My main gripe with it is that potentially writing a spec-compliant server in an enterprise-y language like Java almost feels like a fool's errand (I tried it in Dart, which is very Java-esque).

On that note, I don't even think that the main focus should be on which protocol is used, but rather the features of platforms in the "fediverse," and reasons other than the blanket term "privacy" that the average person would consider switching.
Elon has 5 kids (just saying)
>my quality of life and financial freedom is immeasurably improved. This regularly surprises my acquaintances that stayed.

The people of Austin once had traffic free commutes and the people of Denver could once easily afford housing. Then other people became aware of those things, showed up in droves and those good things went away.

If you want to keep your perks in the long term you should probably not be telling everyone how great it is.