skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warzone? No, but our homeless problem means people may choose to make use of your property in myriad ways. Anything from an open-air bathroom to a place to stash stolen goods. Ask me how I know. :-(

I have a nest camera pointing at my driveway. It's configured to use a zone that excludes the public sidewalk and street and only to alert me on seeing people. I really only expect alerts when my wife or the mailman comes and goes. The last time it alerted was actually the police walking across the property because I filled out an "alert slip" letting them know I was going to be gone for some time.

But the time prior to that was a homeless dude who ditched a bunch of stolen property in my yard and then came back to switch into his new stolen clothes. My wife went down and asked him to just go somewhere else mostly because this was the second time he'd done it and we didn't really want it to turn into a habit, much less for him to tell his buddies at the local homeless encampment "Hey, there's this great spot partially out of the public view...".

Unfortunately it turned into the guy screaming at my wife that she was a dumb bitch who couldn't tell him what to do, etc, etc. A police officer happened across all this as it was transpiring and ended up arresting the guy for trespassing. A big chunk of all this was caught on camera, including his using our driveway as a changing room the first time.

Hopefully that's the end of it and we never see this guy again, but if he comes around we have evidence of him trespassing previously and being told (on camera) to vacate the premises. It's just evidence if legal action needs to be taken.
I read an article that people are purposefully spreading ASF in China to increase the price of pork. Is there any truth to this?
No. Magnetic fields fall off as 1/d when d is small compared to the size of the magnet, progressing to 1/d^3 when d is large compared to the magnet. (E.g. weird edge case-- it's inversely proportional to distance from an infinitely long wire).

Electromagnetic radiation from point sources falls off as 1/d^2.
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the problem I see with 4 is that the best VR experience (Oculus) is pretty much closed and kept in tight grip by Facebook. So if anyone ever starts to make any progress on a Social Presence app, it's unlikely Facebook will just "let it happen" - in particular because Horizon seems to be the end-all of VR for them, so the first wave of developers that try to do any baseline experience will probably be either kicked out of the platform or never allowed in.

I imagine a "content kit" is in the works as part of Horizon, to enable developers to build their own experiences within the Facebook VR universe. That _may_ be game changing for consumers, but I wouldn't hold my breath as the potential as a developer.

Really hope I'm 100% wrong with this, though.
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Key conclusion:

> Although the causes and the implications are worth debating, I am certain of the appropriate response. No longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight. As soon as Google executives were asked by Congress about Project Dragonfly and Google’s commitment to free expression and human rights, they assured Congress that the project was exploratory and it was subsequently shut down.

I think we've reached a stage where this is true for all of tech. SV libertarians may balk at this, but this kind of regulation is the only thing that will change the incentives. It will make the financial cost of doing evil high enough that profit-driven product execs will no longer have the option to pursue these paths.

In a certain sense, that regulation actually protects the company's character, allowing the success of good ideas, penalizing the profit-at-all-costs execs.
If only one rich person does it, over time they'll be poorer than other rich people who don't do it.

It's no different than saying "Why do we need environmental laws? What, precisely, is stopping companies from not dumping industrial waste into the water?" Even if one party plays nice, they'll be outcompeted by all the others that do not.
This is a fantastic book. If anyone is interested in exploring the therapeutic uses of psilocybin in a safe, controlled setting, one of my best friends runs the Atman Retreat (recommended here by Pollan: https://michaelpollan.com/resources/psychedelics-resources/)

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Some of those are really funny, but the one by adw nailed it.

>adw on Jan 1, 2010 [-]

>Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp.

>That'll be a watershed moment: the politics of information are going to start being the kind of core liberal issue that environmental issues currently are.
I would agree, although I don't feel like SV has really tried to make it work. It's far easier to lock things down to absurd levels. One of the reasons I love Red Hat (and went to work there) was because a big part of our early history was doing the SV thing but staying committed to our values. I think it can be done, most people are just afraid (and not without cause, companies like Amazon will certainly take your work undercut your funding mechanisms. Not trying to swipe at Amazon (I like AWS a lot as a product) and I don't think the issue is black & white).
Amazon threatens to fire employees who speak out on climate change
A lot of people working during the PC revolution in the 80s that had a formal education would have worked on languages with exactly that kind of tech: various Lisp dialects, ML, Smalltalk. Same for all kinds of meta-programming, JIT or dynamic compilation, etc.
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Despite it is not related to clustering I think it is a smart idea that offers a complete different view of HN
I actually think the greatest period was under Schmidt. Back then there was a lot of freedom to choose what to work on. Google Labs and 20% projects were healty.

It felt like a place where people worked on ideas they thought were cool. Things seemed to just happen organically without a lot of bureaucracy and management structure.

I think Larry changed that with a more top down approach with what to work being decided higher up, see social. This led to less project flexibility and more hierarchy, with managers and pms becoming more important in the org.

Coupled with the growth in the number of employees, I think where the company today is just a gradual evolution of what Larry started along with the problems of growth.

That said it is still a pretty good place to work at for a number of reasons.
True, I had originally skimmed the answer; now fully reading it it makes some sense, though I still would have thought that obstructions or reflections would make signal strength quite unreliable for this use case. Maybe he got lucky, maybe I'm not a radio engineer.
I think it's still too early to tell, but it's certainly not that crazy to think that on net the world hasn't benefited from humanity being more networked than ever in history.
True but we only have a fixed land/resources in our planet and we must stay within carrying capacity.

Maybe migration is in order. But we can’t increase a nation or a people’s population to keep up with others out of some kind of racial purity goal.

Better healthcare also increases life span and population due to lower mortality rate.

More women are educated today than 100 years ago, yet population has kept increasing steadily.

World poverty has decreased and yet population has increased.
They're a party drug for sure. LSD is great for festivals, and though I've never done shrooms, I know my friends have gone to shows on them.

In fact, I'd say LSD is used more as a party drug than it is used for anything else.
https://terrastruct.com/ looks great. Do you want to submit it as https://news.ycombinator.com/show ? Basically add 'Show HN' to the title, skip the submission text and often developers add a first comment after submission that they listen to feedback.
In the UK at least it's pretty easy to get close to, if not over, 50% if you're earning Google SWE salaries. The marginal rate hits 62% at £100k, and that's not including the "stealth" payroll tax known as Employer's NIC.
He spent only 2 years as a Whig before exiting politics. He returned as a Republican until his assassination over a decade later. (Granted, by sleight of hand he did change the name of his Republican party for a year. Perhaps the trickery of his contemporary enemies here is payback for these tactics.)
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> identifying whether or not these physical assumptions covary is not that easy

But still tractable, I'd say. My core claim is that counting independently-variable assumptions will be a highly performant way to select between theories which agree with the data. Or put another way, it's the best Fermi approximation calculation for measuring "how good is your theory". How you do that for any given theory, while important to do correctly, is an implementation detail which I think is secondary to the discussion of whether doing it at all is a good idea. :) (seems like we might agree that it is?)

> We can incorporate (partial) evidence from past elections, but it's going to be very sensitive to the priors

To the extent that election forecasts are unreliable, I think that's because they are forced to involve a lot of assumptions (e.g. similarity to past elections) that turn out not to correspond well to reality. Models which make fewer such assumptions will do likely do better! (and IMO fivethirtyeight's forecasts did the best job of this out of any; most of the rest put Hillary at around 97%).

Unfortunately with elections, there is a comparatively high lower bound on the number of assumptions we must make, thanks to the complexity of their dynamics and sparsity of data/knowledge we have about each. I think this is much less the case with physics, where we are varying comparatively small physical assumptions to explain mountains of data. But in either case, I contend that the most performant models will make fewer (unmeasured) independent assumptions.

> How much evidence do we need before we can be confident the "belief levels" we're throwing around aren't that subjective anymore?

The point I'm trying to make is bigger-picture than the above level of detail: Counting independent assumptions, in the limit, matters more than the specific constants of each assumption (assuming they're not low/zero), precisely because it's so hard to come up with "accurate" numbers for each.

That is to say, the probability is not sensitive to those belief levels: We could choose widely varying distributions for the probabilities of our assumptions, including choosing probabilities very close to 1, and it will hardly ever matter to the total probability as much as the absolute number of independent assumptions we make.
What you've been reading is quite obviously BS (both your links are to Murdoch media). The greens haven't been against controlled burns for decades but even if they were against they've only got 3/135 seats giving them no power to dictate policy.

There have been less controlled burns than desired, but that's mostly because of budget cuts and a much longer fire season due to climate change.
> What you say about HR is spot on as well. It seems obvious to me, but I'm frequently surprised that it's not obvious to everybody.

Why is that? If you work at a company you enjoy and admire that treats you well and compensates you well, its quite natural for us as humans to feel invested in the thing.

You can't both try and empower employees to feel ownership while also making them feel wary. Which is exactly what Google is doing.
No, I definitely didn't. Pipelining is not supported in any browser, and I was mostly looking for the current state of what's possible.
What a fun read! The one that ended up being the most off in the thread:

> I predict (and hope for) a major turn back to simplicity in technologies. Multimillion-line software will go extinct like dinosaurs. Existing programming languages and platforms will gradually be replaced with ones so simple and elegant that one software component will be written and maintained by one to three developers and art designers and not a whole software company packed with managers and other unnecessary staff. Oh, and managers along with poeple who "understand" "software business" but not software will hopefully go extinct too.

If I can predict anything for 2030 based on this, it will be software being even more complex, with even more frameworks and abstractions.
How is this ending corrupt inefficient government?
> Hydroponic cannabis is grown in highly controlled environments and the dosage levels are tested to be within an acceptable range.

the cannabis testing industry is largely garbage.

the labs that are properly equipped to do the testing are either forbidden from doing it because they're DEA registered, or they make plenty of money without dealing with fly by night operations that can only pay in cash.
168 hours in a week;
56 hours sleeping (7 days * 8 hours/day);
112 awake hours/week;
1/3rd of 112 = 37 hours/week
Also interesting is the game 'Universe', which boasted achieving 256 colours on ECS (edit: a comment on the StackOverflow page linked below says it works on OCS as well). Some quick Googling before asking you guys about it as I was planning to turned up this:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/44/how-to...

The Amiga was such an interesting machine. It's too bad I never got into assembly programming back then.
Yes, that's my point. I have a right to do that, and so do you, and so do Amazon, Google, and the CIA.

See, that's the idea behind the word "public." Nobody has to ask user lm28469 on Hacker News for permission to take photos in public.

This is a good thing.
A lot of doom and gloom for Microsoft in that thread. But Microsoft has fared much better than anyone expected.
> Are kindles that better than standalone competitors?

No, but the nearest competitor, the Kobo Clara HD, is rather recent, is only a tad smaller for the same screen, and also requires a "login" to activate.

However the Kobo takes .epub files without further ado. I think Amazon lost the format war, not that conversion is hard (cf. Calibre-ebook)
45% of California state budget goes to public school education. A middle class family with 4 children and one earning member pays way little and gains more.

Someone making 2.5 million and paying 1.25 million in taxes supports the others with less benefits.

This is the first example that came to my mind. What are your thoughts on this?
Custom captcha is not very hard to implement. But for some reason very few sites actually use it, is it that we don't believe in the ability to write a few questions with honey pots or just overconfident that the Google service is the only one that people could use?
1. Citation needed.

2. Citation needed.

3. What is being discussed is "talking in a public forum." See the quote from the article: "The new policy requires staff members to seek permission from Amazon prior to talking in a public forum while identified as an employee.

4. Citation needed.

5. Indeed, you've brought forward a straw man.

> If these activities have nothing to do with work, then why are you bringing work into it?

That is none of your business! E.g don't shift the blame unto the victim. Neither Amazon nor any other company has any moral right to tell someone that they can't disclose that they work there while talking in a public forum.

I guess your point is that Maren Costa is lying when she claims the warning she got from HR for speaking to the Press frightened her?
This depends on multiple factors, and even when it's true I don't see the issue in trying to avoid these issues before conflicts happen.
No, it’s a dipole moment instead of a monopole like electric charge. It goes as 1/r^3 in the far field.
Yea you are right. HTTP/3 is not really yet, at least for Node.js. Maybe worth revisiting this in a year or so. I appreciate the criticism though.
Really? I'm not sure that narrow of a definition is the commonly used one.

Wikipedia has it as even broader than my use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color

I've generally heard it as either "non-white", "non-white, with emphasis on 'brown' skin tones", or "non-white and not covered by a more specific group" in common real world use, depending on the context.
IsaacL nailed it the best

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027093

And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D
May I have your entire stupid boxed set, please?
It's interesting. Many large companies routinely fire the bottom 10% of their employees every year. I wonder if they would perform better if they routinely fired the top 10% of their employees (by org chart, not by performance ratings) and let talented new blood bubble upward. The Peter Principle says that people rise to the level of their incompetence, and in general new employees enter at the bottom of the organization, so logically you would have more incompetent people at the top than at the bottom.

There're a bunch of organizational anti-patterns that could be avoided with this scheme, too. Empire building would be disincentivized because it'd always become someone else's empire after a short period of time, and organizational politics is reduced as the players keep leaving, and you'd have to think in terms of building institutional knowledge from the beginning of your tenure unless you want everything you've accomplished to be undone by the next guy.
JPEG XL reference codec includes a slower encoding mode for high density photography compression (iterating with butteraugli guidance like in guetzli). Of course there will always be some room for external optimizers, just I'd expect the gains to be smaller.
If that's how you define it, then it was never the question to begin with. Someone just asked how to move on this info, which, we now all agree, is possible. Nobody said anything about competing until it was brought up as a glib dismissal of the original question. Which, we now agree, wasn't warranted.
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Can concur with a personal anecdote. Got lost a few years ago on my motorcycle and was utterly confused when I passed the open gate into the grounds not aware that it was even a military base until I saw all the following signage.
> Something like medical marijuana, meanwhile, can kill you by heavy-metal soil toxicity; by pesticides; by coincidental allergens in non-active-ingredient plant matter; etc.

> None of these things will be checked for when you get a dose of medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana is grown in controlled environments by licensed medical growers, the products are tested for heavy metals and contaminants like mold, and are tested for levels of active ingredients.

Strains are grown for their medical benefits and standardized yield of constituent active ingredients, and for patients that need an absolutely standardized product, extracts and formulations are produced that meet those requirements.

No one is selling some crop that was grown in Mexico, someone's basement or downstream from an oil refinery.
Nobody puts anyone in diversity training to change their mind. It's a way of explaining very thoroughly how you are expected to act in the workplace, and if you choose to ignore it, there is a good foundation to let you go because you were very clearly informed of the rules.
Where is the thread for this decade?
Only part of the reserve was stolen. There is an episode of the Netflix docuseries "Dirty Money" dedicated to the theft and the Maple Syrup market.
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Oh. My. God. This is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei....

I'm going to write a movie out of this.