skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First it’s not an invasion, it’s an incursion.

This is a really weird hair to try to split, given that the two words are essentially synonymous.

> When an army crosses a border into another country for battle, they are making an incursion into enemy territory. An incursion is an invasion as well as an attack.[0]

> [An incursion is] An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion[1]

> Invasion is a synonym for incursion in attack topic.[2]

...and so forth.

[0] https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/incursion

[1] https://wikidiff.com/invasion/incursion

[2] https://thesaurus.plus/related/incursion/invasion
> The CCP subsidizing a social media platform hurts no one.

It hurts everybody (especially children) influenced by the censoring peddled by the CCP.
Instagram was small app for hipsters, and everyone thought Facebook was crazy to pay $1B for it.

They weren’t a competition by any means, and would (speculation) most likely die if they didn’t tap into Facebook resources.

WhatsApp was only real big competition Facebook bought so far.
It's one of those annoying internetisms that people often pick one part of a post or idea, take it out of context, and respond to that misrepresentation.

It's a bit like a straw man fallacy.

It happens a lot less often on HN though in my experience.

Right after the bit you quoted I noted that WB buying an expensive car doesn't even things out.

The idea of sales tax as a replacement for income tax isn't new or lacking rigor. Over the years it's had a lot of support from both economists and politicians. The math, at least on the surface, does work.

Personally, I haven't spent enough time looking at it to have a lot of conviction one way or the other about it's viability.

But it's an interesting idea that isn't invalidated by comparing cars.
Thousands?

This is 2019
> This is surprising to me. I imagine they read some news/propaganda about the events, rather than reading the NYTimes, WAPO, or BBC news directly. Can you comment on that?

Their history lessons certainly have a different emphasis than American history lessons. They emphasize things like slavery in the US and the CIA's interventions in Latin America in service of US businesses, but from all my conversations with students none of them had learned anything that was actually incorrect. They get their news mainly from government run newspapers, but also word of mouth spreads news pretty quickly.

> Did you have to get special approval?

It had been long enough since my time in service that non of my clearances were still valid, and so there was no special risk of me disclosing anything. I just contacted the American embassy in China and informed them of my plans.
While there are many benefits to nuclear power, this quote is at odds with your comment. Nuclear power suffers a low Carnot efficiency (around 30-40%), as it has an even lower operating temperature than the criticised old CSP design. While nuclear reactors can get arbitrarily hot, practical and safety considerations limit current designs to relatively low (and thus inefficient) temperatures.

Nuclear is also less practical for direct industrial use or distributed deployment because of safety concerns, with only a few exceptional cases like military marine propulsion.
I feel for these kids and want to hear their story, but could the NYT people consider simply displaying the article, rather than giving me a blister rolling the mousewheel trying to conjure it? Yes, I want to see pictures, but I'm used to reading articles, not hopelessly trying to conjure them.
So few people self pay that hospitals just aren't set up to make the experience make sense. All of their resources are devoted to dealing with insurers and the government.
Only if it gets too popular, apparently.
Indeed, I am patronizing the indie cinema much more these days. Mainly, because they have actually interesting movies, unlike the bland drivel that being spooned out of Hollywood.
> Is there are second example?

Captain Marvel ends with a fight, but the entire point of the movie is that the people we are taught to fear as an insidious infiltration into our society are, in fact, only trying to make a home for themselves, and lash out only when terrorized by an imperial power. The hero of that story is a soldier who realizes she has been used as a weapon against innocents, and who then sets out to make amends.

Thor is about someone with the powers of a god and the simplistic morality of a child, and his entire first movie is about learning restraint and the importance of peace.

Iron Man is about an arms dealer who realizes, quote, that he has more to offer the world than things that blow up. This isn't the best example, because he's still better known for making things blow up, but he also becomes the world leader in clean energy. Iron Man also creates a rampant AI and learns that even though he's a genius, he can't build a suit of armor around the world, especially without the world's permission.

Black Panther has some reasonably complicated things to say about imperialism and the White Man's Burden. And, I guess, the stupidity of placing the world's most advanced technology and weaponry into the hands of a man who can win a fistfight about it.
According to https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey, just over 1% of Steam users have VR headsets, and that is trending downward.

Anecdotally it feels like VR never really took off? From casual perusals of the steam store at https://store.steampowered.com/vr/, there are very few VR games and the ones that do exist are fairly mediocre looking - things you've never heard of from indie developers self-publishing to steam.

Seems like an odd move from Valve - I don't suspect that this on its own will be enough of a draw to lure people to purchase a VR headset for. Especially since this started out as an "exploration of VR" ... I am left wondering if this is basically going to end up being some glorified DLC or mod that adds a couple of levels with a few neat little VR-specific touches/gimmicks rather than a full-blown installment in the HL franchise?

They may well prove me wrong and trigger a renaissance in the VR gaming industry and wow us with a huge and well-executed sequel to HL2 that will lure people in, but I remain skeptical for now.
Mythbusters already tried and failed
http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_Mythbus...

Would be scarier to see a swarm of drones with crossbows
It's not a good comparison. The article says this payment widget doesn't get them any store exposure.
Kape Technologies Buys Private Internet Access, Taking It Public
That's true, you are right. I guess they're meant as a "brake" to prevent hypochondriacs from spamming doctors.
That's because it's illegal.
Soutions: a) youtubers can collectivise b) expensive law firms pick it up with the resouces to win (bob gets nothing but knows MegaCorp gets stung) c) use bad publicity - MegaCorps hate bad publicity d) rich people pretend to be bob, get sued, unleash lawyers on MegaCorp and make lots of money, so MegaCorps get very wary of the 'little' people.
Too risky. You can thank a litigious society for that one.
You're right that they don't mention computer vision. However they do say

> The breakthrough in Heliogen’s technology starts with our patented closed-loop control system that makes our field of mirrors act as a multi-acre magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight.The HelioMax system is an industry first and a critical step in harnessing the power of the sun. Our ability to concentrate and capture sunlight allows us to create carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat (HelioHeat) commercially for the first time....

They define the HelioMax system as

> HelioMax: An array of computer-controlled mirrors (heliostats) collects and concentrates sunlight.

So, obviously they are trying to not say anything useful about what their special sauce is. But they do seem to be claiming that it has something to do with how the mirrors are controlled. As you say, any modern system will use computer guidance, and the sun's trajectory is very simple and predictable, so it's hard to imagine what exactly they are doing special.

Maybe some sort of active correction for atmospheric distortion? I dunno.
Considering the context of weed being illegal according to the US federal government and the fact that we're talking about a review from a US federal government agency, yes.
I have held several security clearances of varying levels over the years. During interviews for every single one, I was asked about past drug use, in particular drug use within the past 7 years. (Note that they also ask about all psych/therapy stuff- though family, grief and combat related PTSD counseling are off-limits.) Some of those interviews took place in locations where marijuana was legal at the state level, but it is everywhere in the US illegal at the federal level so they ask.

And while it wouldn't necessarily kill your clearance, recent use was definitely a black mark that would need to be analyzed and discussed with you and slow things down. Funniest moment in all my clearances: you need to provide a neighbor to be interviewed, having just moved and not knowing anyone well I picked the only neighbor I knew the full name of; turns out he was a registered sex-offender! Didn't kill my clearance, but did slow everything down and mean I got to spend a lot more time talking to men in suits than my colleagues did. Sounds similar to what is happening here, honestly.
Agreed! ^ My entire family lives pretty far away, but I facetime with them a lot more often since I got off FB.
You cannot do any good in this industry.
China Is Number 1 in Number of SuperComputers
Before I lost interest in Marvel movies altogether, I used to get annoyed at how they would show these little glimmers of creativity, only to then crush them under the boot of The Marvel Formula.

The most interesting parts of the early Marvel movies weren't the super powers or special effects, it was the little notes they gave to their protagonists to humanize them -- Tony Stark as a selfish alcoholic, Thor as a cheerfully oblivious fish out of water, Captain America as earnest but painfully naïve. They seemed to be opening up the possibility of superhero stories that were also human stories, rather than just the kind of juvenile power fantasies Moore is decrying here. But each movie would eventually put that stuff aside and build to yet another Epic Battle as climax, which was disappointing.

In retrospect, it's pretty obvious that the stuff that I found appealing was the result of Marvel, still finding its feet, allowing its filmmakers to doodle in the margins of their studio-approved blueprint a bit. Once the movies took off and the Marvel Formula was proven, they no longer needed to allow space for such divergence from the formula. So we get movies like the Avengers entries, where the entire story is just moving chess pieces around to get them into place for the inevitable Epic Battle.

The Marvel movie I always wanted to see was one that put the Epic Battles aside completely, and focused 100% on telling a character-driven story. Something like the Matt Fraction Hawkeye comics, where the point of the story is deepening our understanding of this one character, grounding him in the context of the brownstone he lives in, the ways he interacts with his neighbors, and their common problem of potentially losing their homes to an aggressive developer. Human-scale stories about human beings.

In other words, I didn't want Avengers: Endgame, I wanted My Dinner with Ultron. But once the Marvel juggernaut picked up enough steam, that was exactly the movie I was never going to get.
Lab tests are particularly complicated to price because usually they are being processed by someone else. Usually labs won't even try to get an authorization from insurance until they get your sample and start working on it as it affects their turnaround time which is one of their main differentiators, and each insurer will have different rules about what they will pay for under what conditions (insurers also have separate deals with each individual hospital and potentially individual doctors or groups of doctors). The short answer is they can't tell you because they don't know.
>"Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma"

These read like symptoms of being a human being in the modern world...
Well, in fairness, you're not gonna be free from mass surveillance by signing up for WT social. You might not need to worry about people selling your data, provided none of your connections adds a privacy destroying app in the future?

But yeah, everyone will still be subject to the government showing up and going through your data if they deem it necessary. I'm not sure that can be helped? If there's an ironclad way to do that, I haven't seen it done.
There's a brief scene where they take away control, when you get knocked unconscious and carried to the trash compactor, but it's arguably not a cut-scene in the original sense (cutting away from the player's POV) because it stays in first person view.
Photos show evidence of life on Mars, Ohio entomologist claims
I regularly go to concerts with earplugs, often it sounds better with them in, especially if the volume is too loud or treble is too high.
> With web workers and web assembly soon we'll see AAA games running in the browser on any device.

I heard something similar to that for the past 10 years at least.

> you can progressively stream the 3d models in real time while playing

People were amazed of the speed at which models loaded using an SSD instead of a mechanical hard drive... and that was when games were in the 5 GB range. Loading time is latency too.

> I see Stadia working for casual games on smart TVs but not for any competitive gaming.

Competitive gaming go toward more expensive gear... they won't care about buying an expensive graphic card if that give them an edge, or lower latency screen.

If they are forced to play on cloud, they'll just pay for a better connection to do it. This is just like the stock market where they build datacenter just beside the exchange.

I don't know if you would call me a "casual gamer", I'm certainly not a competitive gamer, but I get quite a bit of fun playing Borderland 3 on Nvidia Geforce Now. The latency isn't that bad, nothing I can really notice at least.
It's also funny that the words crinkle and crankle derive from Old English and are obvious cognate of Dutch _kronkel_. But the Dutch engineers didn't call it a kronkelmuur?
There are sums at the type and value level. If I define Color = Red | Blue | Green, that’s not a use of a type which sums types together, but instead just is a type composed of a sum of values.

So a “sum type” can be any type which is the sum of different values. On the other hand, Either is a canonical “sum type (constructor)” which sums two types together (via the summation of their vaues).
I was deciding what engine to make a hobby game with last week and was looking at ThreeJS. I couldn’t find any projects with good higher end visuals that had acceptable performance however. I settled on Godot, but I’d love to be proven wrong about webGL
Right, it would grab you by YT and wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. Effectively it was also world's largest deanonymization effort. Must have been some hefty internal incentives program at Google, they tried as if their bonus depended on it.
"Seems like an odd move from Valve"

This is exactly the move many of us in the VR community have been expecting. It may seem like a tiny percentage (because it is) but the VR numbers themselves have been growing massively since launch of Vive/Rift.

The community is alive and vibrant, not what you'd expect of dead technology.
The hero of the movie wins against both M'Baku and Killmonger by being the most physically powerful and violent.

Strip away the civil rights veneer, and the moral lesson of the story is still that the punching-est man is the best man.
> How far do you take this delusion is what I'm curious about?

The delusion is assuming people have control over their actions. Yes it's wrong that we punish people that didn't have control over the life they were born into and what happens without any control because the universe made it so. Yes of course it applies to all actions humans are forced to do in life.
The list of hires sounds more research than production.

Bold figures, guess we'll see...in a year
I would hazard a guess that it is both. Neither party likes being reminded how little differentiates them in material terms, preferring to focus on manufactured culture wars. It would destroy the Democratic party leadership to acknowledge the center in material terms is far to the left of our left party. Neither party likes to acknowledge the cultural and ideological differences between America and the rest of the world that led (and still do) to a lack of any comprehensive social welfare and collectivized problem solving, save for problems that affect trade and the economy (the military, defense contractors, bank bailouts, border security and immigration enforcement).
Just releasing what frequency they're using would be extremely helpful.

For sea sickness some companies offer a wrist band with a pea sized piece of plastic on them to (supposedly) stimulate a nerve in your wrist. I do not think that they require regulation.

I can see a situation where these devices could be sold for sea sickness purposes with little to no regulation.

Vibrating motors are a pretty easy device to get ahold of, phones and game controllers both have them; I don't see why you couldn't build one of these devices from a kit for under $25 + battery.
Didn't such revolutions with batteries happen several times already? And aren't we already buying the results in our mobile phones and cars?
We're already China at your last sentence. I dare you to loudly say "Jew" at your office. Not as part of a sentence, not as an accusation, not like Hitler, literally just a random scat-syllable that happens to sound exactly like the J-word. There's maybe a 30% chance you'll get fired. Or, if you want to raise the percentage with a more realistic example, say "WOMEN HAVE TITS!" I'm going with 75%+ now. I have no evidence of this. But I'd be terrified of saying those things at my office. I don't particularly _need_ to say them, but as a standard male, there's just tiniest urge to say "fuck authority" and also be childish and exclaim how happy I am that, indeed, women have tits. But it wouldn't work. And then I wouldn't have a job. And then I would starve to death.

So you see, saying girls have girl parts is now punishable by death. DOES THAT SEEM SLIGHTLY WEIRD TO ANYONE??????????????????????????????

(Also, why is authority mostly concerned with disarming me of the notion that women have tits? Why do women no longer have tits? Where did they go?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dulGdlC6hs

edit: The flagger proves the point.
I know this now. The fact that this is needed just further illustrates my point. We first blast music above safe levels and then expect people to compensate for that with hearing protection. That's just insane.
It is inhumane, indeed the American so-called "justice" system is one giant human rights abuse system. its a disgrace
I think your point is valid and can even be drawn more broadly. Yes, this is horrible, but there's a way that we all share the blame for this. Society's expectations for what education should accomplish have gone through the roof, but nobody wants to commit the resources that are actually required to make it happen. Instead, what we get is more and more top-down legislation, based on questionable research, written by people who don't actually have to deal with real kids day in and day out, that dumps more and more burdens on teachers who are already at the end of their ropes and with insufficient support.
"The writer claims adults enjoy superhero films because they don't wish to leave their "relatively reassuring childhoods" behind, or move into the 21st century."

What justification does he have to make this claim? Perhaps he thinks adults are taking these movies seriously? These movies have had about as much impact on my life as some of the stains on my carpet. I watch them for the same reason I eat cotton candy when I go to the fair..

"I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying,"

Again, what impact?
In my city, the subway trains can carry ~1400 people. During peak commuting times, a train comes every 5 minutes or so. Even our largest buses only carry ~100 people. You would need a bus to stop every ~21 seconds to match that capacity. That rate probably can be achieved. Stops would have to be designed to reduce the overhead of disembarking/boarding cycles, since there would be ~14x as many as with a train.
Please, don't use HN for your propaganda
Interesting. It seems my tinnitus is around freq 8200. I'll give this tool a go when I'm in a more quiet environment.
Anyone know where I can buy one?

I've had tinnitus for as long as I remember, and it impacts my enjoyment of music and sometimes my ability to fall asleep.
It's the bit that sounds like cashhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
My guess is, the nervous system dampens the signal from the middle ear when it sees obvious noise coming in. IIRC tinnitus also gets diminished in a noisy environment.

(Afaik it's a pretty well-known feature of the nervous system, an example being how the ‘pins and needles’ fade out in a previously-sleeping limb.)
Deleted my FitBit account when I read the news.
Oh, you're preaching to the choir, but I'm not optimistic about our country's chances of doing the right thing. If we're not going to follow the successful examples we've been presented with (because it's socialism! /s), and we're going to have capitalism, then we should have capitalism and engage in transactions where both parties have complete knowledge.
And real, no hassle, threaded discussion!

I have similar thoughts. Perhaps solving that problem would still count.
Observations are being ruined now. Those cheap space telescopes will be available when ecactly?
Is there even any project in the works besides JWT?
Projects like these take a lot of time.
I think you need to read my last line a little more carefully. I did not say the US is less free - I said that ruined lives are still ruined.

That one would personally prefer to have the freedoms of the privileged class of the US is not in question. But the US ruins lives at a 3x higher rate in prisons than China does. And it's not organ harvesting, but is cruelty that is personal, financial, and petty. Medical care is routinely denied, long term imprisonment in solitary conditions is considered torture in other nations, and is common in the US. And undeniably, prison is applied more frequently and for longer terms to a minority set of races in the US akin to how China persecutes minorities. (again I agree the degree is different but point out the rate is higher in the US, and ruined lives are still ruined). Those affected in that system really don't have the freedom to opt out of it.

Edit: The robber barons cruelly end lives too...

https://twitter.com/AllOnMedicare/status/1184644551987777537
Is it illegal to write “we will bill your insurance for procedure codes x y z for your visit”?

They don’t need to tell you the cost, but they know what they’re going to charge you beforehand. They should be able to tell you the codes so you can give it t your insurance company to find out how much it will cost.

The reason healthcare providers don’t give out codes for known predictable procedures is it would enable customers to shop around. Instead, they want you to sign a paper saying you’re liable for whatever they claim you’re liable for.