skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to TFA, it's the "most direct and strongest evidence for the accelerating universe" that's now possibly an artifact. As I understand it, "dark energy" is fundamentally just another way to say "accelerating expansion".
Khosla put them in jail?

I assume you mean the police did?
> Not only is it not grasping

Absolutely it is. I guarantee that was not on Khosla's radar as a defense against public access when he acquired the property. And given that almost all of his other arguments were swept away, it's only in that his law firm went for an outlier. "Oh hey, there is a land deed that predates California as a state. We can use that to argue that we're exempt".

Because by no means was this his first rebuttal. It only came out after many other attempts. I'm sure the paralegal who thought of it got a bonus that year.
I have heard (but don't have personal experience of etc) that there is a similar tactic for “negative SEO”. Often people try to spam links to their own site to boost PageRank, leading to Google etc picking up on this and ranking websites worse for it, leading to people spamming links to competitors' sites so Google will penalise them.
Probably because it's a movie everyone wants to forget.
I wasn’t alive when the work week was shortened to 5 days from 6 but it is my understanding that the conversation this sort of a proposal Sparks is the exact same as that proposal back then did. It’s kind of amusing.
History says otherwise. China and India dominated europe economically. That was one of the reasons for the european conquest of india and china.

China, Rus, Persia, Arabia, etc dominated the mongols economically. The mongols conquered them all.

The roman empire economically dominated the germanic north. The barbarians sacked and eventually conquered rome.

It's nice to have an economic edge, but it's also important to maintain a military edge.
Completely agree with these anecdotes, and this is where the potential power of the campaign extended far beyond ads to Facebook groups, and Twitter / Instagram follower networks. Within those spheres you have free reign to curate audiences based on profiles, feed this type of blatantly false information to trigger people, and optimize from there. I went into greater detail in another comment in this thread, but I would suggest reading the Senate intelligence report from October to learn more – if you care about this topic it's riveting and frightening.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
"The figure includes mammals, birds and reptiles and does not include insects, bats or frogs."

I wonder what the figure for just mammals would be.
Only for the initiating party, and only up to a certain monetary threshold. If you're being sued, or someone's screwed you out of $50k, not so much.
Stated another way, every company has discovered 'rent-seeking' in a relatively short period of time and they all think it's neat.

Consumers haven't pushed back enough to stop this from happening.
The right to repair is one thing, the other thing is, from where will you get this this special print card, the special chip, the special sensor, if they use it like this just for ex. just one year in production. So after 10 years, there are 10 different version, different protocols etc. You still will throw away sooner or later the whole tractor (or whatever) because you can't find an special electronic part.
As a pretty good estimate, roughly zero?

Do you have any proposed mechanism for how Australia’s coal production would lead to increased property losses, aside from the very marginal effect of Australia’s coal production on global warming multiplied by the very marginal effect of global warming on bushfires?
The lowest age range YouTube Ads lets you target is 18-24.
>prey on his peers with unboxing videos

What exactly is predatory about it?
Ah, interesting...

I've looked a bit at CRM integrations and they all do things slightly differently in ways that make it hard to factor out common pieces. Glad to hear that isn't the case in the event data space.
I've heard similar things. I don't think mechanization is at fault. I'd bet it's more the capitalism part forcing min maxing.
Exactly what kind of regulation are you looking for if this is not enough?
It looks like you are citing the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/LCWK1_2015.pdf) study. They define poisoning (including by alcohol) as an unintentional injury. So that 88 thousand is included in the 170 thousand that you are comparing it to.
In a similar vein, if it's illegal to do enough tracking on a 12 year old to identify them as a 12 year old, and 12 year olds exist, then it's illegal to do any tracking, right?
I can completely understand your confusion. Your example is a bit extreme. To give you more specific examples of "things that interest me, but do not (directly) benefit the company":

* The company uses SVN, while I'm interested in learning Git.

* The company uses JQuery and PHP, I'm interested in learning React / Vue / Angular.

* The company is interested in hosting websites on VM's - I'm interested in learning about containers (Docker).

A better example: Let's say you're a bakery.

You want to bake cookies: I want to (on a random, slow, friday afternoon) learn how to bake elephant ears.

You want to produce bread: I want to produce cheesecake.

Your example of bread to woodworking would be more akin to a Web developer working on embedded systems engineering or something way different. Of course that makes sense to do during your off time only.

My examples above are things that could be used by the company I currently work for (git / docker / Angular), but the company chooses not to use these technologies due to various reasons (political, economic, expense, etc). As a result, I can't put that on my "Competency plan" because it does not directly or immediately benefit the company.

Now good managers will allow this. They see the benefit in trying new technologies even if there's no immediate need. But those managers are far and few between. Personally I would love to work with folks who just want to try some cool shit on a boring, slow Friday afternoon.
Not so fast. See [1] and [2] for an explanation. There are good reasons to suspect that there are errors made in this analysis.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02191

[2]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/no-dark-energy-no-chance-cosm...
Implant Helps the Paralyzed Walk Again [video]
In doubt it. Most jobs are operations or a function that is mostly hours applied to complete tasks, not product development.

Reducing working hours would likely improve output and employment.
Well COPPA (the bill that caused this) is targeting companies that are creating content targeted at children, not targeting the children themselves. And it is the content the bill is interested in.

The observable (and controversial) effect of this is an outcry by content creators, I suspect the measures they take around accounts identified as children are much less obvious and entirely orthogonal.
> Not sure about the US, but I get the impression that like Australia and unlike UK, Russia, etc. it more acceptable to not drink.

Very acceptable in the US, members of multiple prominent religious groups in the US don't drink.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/world/americas/youtube-pe...

and related.
> Is there something I'm missing here?

Yes. If Ring had even the barest shred of ethics, they would client-side encrypt the videos stored in their cloud. It would use no extra space. The user would have to explicitly approve the decryption and sharing of videos.

But they don't, because being able to access and datamine those videos is a huge money-maker for them.

Ring is terrible, but their engineers willing to implement this corporate surveillance state? They're the worst. They wield their software skills as a mercenary would a weapon against innocents. I seriously cannot even comprehend how they sleep at night and look at themselves in the mirror in the morning.

At least folks over at Apple are sane and are making sure that HomeKit surveillance videos are client-side encrypted.
> prey on his peers with unboxing videos

How is an unboxing video predatory?
AMD is on a tear, now only if they could translate this to their GPUs.
I don't think it is obvious that he is wrong. Previously the property had a parking lot, where people could pay to park and then go to the beach. This parking lot was not profitable, so he decided to close it down. There is still public beach access, just not through that parking lot.

I think there is a reasonable argument to be made that he should provide access through the road to the parking lot, and just disallow parking, but it doesn't seem obvious to me. The previous owner did not allow free access (there was a gate), so I think it is OK for the new owner to forbid access entirely.
Not the State of California's property rights, the public rights.

https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/A154022.PDF
I suspect Google doesn't want to tip their hand and show just how unreliable their demographic data is. There's a perception among the public that these companies siphoning up so much data must be able to know everything about individual users, and in fact Google's largest revenue stream relies on this perception. If I'm right, then when the house of cards falls on this Big Data Bubble it will be painful for a lot of tech companies, Facebook and Google especially.
And laptop manufacturers will now proceed to stuffing these into bargain bin laptops with shitty 1080 displays. To this day desktop/workstation Ryzen CPUs are not treated as a premium product in spite of their superior performance.

I wish Apple would adopt this at least for some products. It'd give AMD more credibility, and Apple would be able to negotiate pricing more easily with Intel.
> Nothing stopping people from doing that.

So... human nature. Human nature is stopping people from doing that.
The Senate intelligence committee report from October is the most detailed look into their operation. In sum, you're looking at an operation across platforms (FB, Twitter, etc.), with the manpower to generate endless content and avatar accounts, with this type of data in addition to what the political campaigns already had.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
On an “etch a sketch” you go up one dial then down a half then right half a dial then down half a dial then right half a dial and then right half a dial and then left half a dial and up one dial and then right half a dial and then down half a dial and then...bugger stuck
Honestly the sunlight issue has been variable for me. Velodyne processing seems to deal with that better than robosense.
Uber, Hyundai Motor team up to develop electric air taxi
LG Partners with Canadian AI Company 'Element AI'
> Sure, they still should have called it the Ryzen 3000.

Why? It's just a name. It's not the same as a 3700X, it's been modified, tweaked and revised to meet a different application. It's a new version.
You could just turn the negative-detection into positive detection: sell hardware that you have to be 18 to buy, and then provide your service only through that hardware.
Sure. I thought a bit more about app stores and came up with the idea that Microsoft Store should be not that bad, because they probably have money to hire a lot of moderators. But search for "torrent" on microsoft.com recommends programs I haven't heard of, and search results for "qbittorrent" and "transmission" are outright fishy.
lol, they should have accepted the purchase offer from Apple

they knew what they were doing was illegal, they missed a good opportunity to become millionaire
on the other hand, it gives motivated people enough free time to tackle difficult problems that they're interested in.
Dependent Types at Work by Ana Bove and Peter Dybjer (2009) [pdf]
I don't think you're making the case for the safety of consuming alcohol. One could argue you were actually making the opposite case.
Usually it's represented in different Videos. If they offer all videos, the different language versions should be available.
Maybe this is intended to prevent "YouTube babysitting" aka "make a long playlist, park kid in front of youtube, go and do something else"? Without the ability to schedule up hours of content, one is forced to look after the child regularly, even if it's just to start the next dull bit of entertainment.

Though if that was the motivation I'd expect them to also disable auto-play of next video for content targeted at kids.
Some people believe that we'd be more efficient if we work 30 hours a week instead of 40+.
Most people probably aren’t willing to sacrifice themselves for the possible slight advancement of mankind. Especially laborers who are the ones most affected by work time limits.
Lenovo makes a T450 (or something, I forget) that's a really good workstation laptop. They also have an AMD SKU of this laptop with everything except the upgraded screens.

Part of the reason the X1 Carbon is great is because 14" screen @ 1440p. Now give me an AMD version and I would be all over it.
>reputation suicide for any legitimate VC.

A huge chunk of this fund is money from Saudi Arabia. You think reputation matters, or that startup founders are going to turn away their money?
They are literally video-length advertisements
Google seems to opt for the nuke it from space option as a 1st response. Let god or whatever sort it out.
Getting a public defender is not the same as getting a dedicated legal team- not even close. Some public defenders have over a hundred active cases, so they clearly aren't focusing on each individual, and when working those cases they have an incredibly small budget. Getting a lawyer and getting an actual defense are different things.
Literal 'baby steps', hah. The fact that they disable 'save' features might be because they don't want it to mess with their statistics, I guess? Like, they want to see how many people are leaving stuff to watch/rewatch later or something like that. Do they track that?

The rest makes a lot of sense and I'm glad that something is being done.
I think perhaps you're reading too much into what was a non-sarcastic comment? I genuinely mean I haven't come across a widespread (or existent) official 6-hour working day in Scandinavia.

In Norway at least, it's true that lots of people finish work relatively early - but only because they start work really early (6-7am)!
We understand the strong force well enough to dismiss such possibilities. It has a range of about 1 femtometer. You're not going to be building anything using that except nuclei, and that's not going to give anything like that.

I wonder sometimes if this suspension of critical thinking about what physics will be able to give us is due to science fiction. SF from the beginning has been promising far more than science could ever deliver. We're now at the point in history all those fantasies have to be put down.
Ugh, I was planning to learn zig at one point but things like this mean I'm going to pass. This doesn't even seem to be in the documentation that I could find.

Throw in their plans to add a package manager and it's own make system and it seems to be getting further and further from the C replacement I was interested in.
Portability is always an illusion once you have any type of scale. Everyone who has ever done any type of large implementation or migration knows that.

Even if you did everything in a “cloud agnostic” way, once you have even a couple of dozen VMs, your networking infrastructure and security rules, your user permissions, your DNS entries, your site to site VPNs, your client to site VPNs, all your data in databases, security and compliance audits etc. migrating your infrastructure is going to be a months long process, involving project plans, regression tests, and still have little to show for it.

I was involved in a much smaller migration as a dev lead when all we had to do was migrate to WorkDay for HR, payroll, and time tracking. That involved tons of integration work and hiring Workday consultants. Not to mention consolidating all of the other SAAS solutions that we had to integrate when we merged with another company.
> Without the ability to schedule up hours of content, one is forced to

watch hours of YouTube recommended up-next videos!
What is a "user"? Is it the owner of the account? Or is it the person using the account at the moment? When I'm signed into the YouTube app on my smart TV, and anyone who sits in front of the TV can use the app to play content, then who is the "user" of the app? Can you detect that my child is currently the one sitting there flipping through videos?
I don't have evidence for Brexit, but I did personally witness a similar operation in a 2014 Senate race where the data made clear that this wasn't something organic, or small scale (think orders of magnitude). While I can't tie direct to CA if they were leaders in the space there's no reason to believe they weren't using the same playbook, and more.
How about just no ads on children's content...at all?
Do I understand correctly that this is actually saying that accelerating expansion of the universe may be in error? That there is, instead, no accelerating at all, but merely constant expansion?

Or can there still be acceleration without dark energy? I'm unclear if they are essentially the same hypothesis or if there are more complicated subtleties I'm missing.
Fair, Google may not trust their inferences to the point of them becoming a legal liability.
Depends on the work.

Based on experience I would rather have a happy, well-rested developer working for me who is aching to get to work in the morning and who has the brains to leave for home as soon as he or she feels tired or unfocused. If that happens at 2pm or 4pm, I don't actually care. If people are still at the office at 6pm, or if I see people are tired, unfocused or are only goofing off, I ask them to go home.

To the degree that I care about the hours they work I only care if they spend too long doing something (they're stuck and need help perhaps?) or if they work too many hours (they'll write shit code we have to fix later so I get to pay for it 2-4 times over).
Most people in Silicon Valley working long hours are not toiling for missions remotely related to those utopian visions.
I get it, I really do, but I feel like you have unreasonably high standards here. It used to be that kids would watch TV, and about a third of the time would be real ads that also couldn't be gotten rid of.
In a Burger World, Can Sweetgreen Scale Up?
Something I think I would miss if I ever moved to the US (particularly the west coast): all of your place names sound like they were made up by property developers or estate agents. Maplewood this and Ruby Valley that. In the Old World (or at least England), every place name has a story - Cheapside, Scunthorpe, Billericay, Westward Ho! (including he exclamation mark), etc. Maybe those don't sound like places you'd want to live, but then again it doesn't make every place feel like a product in a catalogue.
Oh that's a good idea.
Are those perhaps all features that require either 1) to be logged in, or 2) to use a more complex version of the site that requires cookies?
On the other hand, it's also good to demonstrate to children that advertising is not some utterly inevitable and inescapable phenomenon, and that an experience without ads can possibly exist (and is more pleasant to boot). Don't just teach your kids to ignore ads; teach them to explicitly recognize their mentally-manipulative properties and outright oppose ads.
Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
I think it can built so the "Feed" is restricted to "Close Friends". You can still go checkout the other friend's profiles individually. I'd also like it to be set to filter out news articles and other crap like what photos they liked ...etc.
Ringing in the new year with 136 open-spec Linux SBCs under $200
I think it takes a little more time.
The avergae customers that doesn't follow the news have to get used to AMD being not the cheap stuff.
But it think it is slowly changeing with AMD being now competitive in notebook, desktop and server market.
I think Dell/Alienware just presented there new flagship gaming desktop with an AMD CPU.
In a lot of projects lately where I've seen ReCaptcha used or requested I've replaced it with YAGNI [You Aren't Going to Need It]. It's a "what's your threat model?" question for Bots.

Do you have the scale that human moderators are infeasible? (Not do you "wish to have". YAGNI suggests add it when you have that scale, not before.)

Do you need that form to be publicly accessible?

Are you requiring multi-factor authentication already? Can you or should you?

Can you use a spam filter? (Are you sure your process isn't already going through half a dozen email spam filters anyway?)

Do the simple tricks not work for your use case? (CSRF tokens, "honeypot fields", form name/ID obfuscation, dumb simple weird rotating required fields like "2 + 2 =?")
Especially if it gets in the way of the content they are looking to use/view, they are just clicking buttons to get things moving and then next thing you know your google account bought an app.
Hey, I've been in a same situation except that my problem was not alcoholism but an addiction to painkillers and then opiates. Lost pretty much everything due to the complete disaster I became. I was a security engineer back then and you can guess that my responsibilities didn't play nice with drug addiction.

The latter arose from my chronic depression and the lack of ability to create any long-term social relationships which are not based on professional interaction. I have never had friends outside of "workplace buddies" mindset for all my 33 years of life. They were lost instantly when I left the job. I've managed to find a way in remote consulting which lets me pay the bills and have some food (I quitted drugs cold turkey two years ago). But nothing hits you harder than a feeling that it's all over and you are tamed with your loneliness, the only thing that is left is your aging you don't want to face.

I can give no word of advice to you, but I want to say that I feel you. You are strong, don't let 'em get you this easy.
Do you think working more would get us to that place? Purely from an hourly perspective, we're already working 'more'. Way more than the technological progress would allow us to focus on the problems that you mentioned. The problem IMO is who benefits from the extra value produced by that work. Unfortunately it's not society.

The anti-work movement is not 'anti-work' in general. It's anti-meaningless degrading work which allows me to make ends meet while enabling a small number of people to become unbelievably rich.

This book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs outlines some of the issues you mentioned. Technological advancement allowed for a lot of jobs to disappear which should theoretically allow us to have more leisure time or time invested in other directions. However, we need to keep 'the machine' going, so..
That doesn't appear to be true.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-martins-beach-supr...

> The squabble has spurred a spate of lawsuits that now focus on whether Khosla needs state permission to gate off the road — and a string of California courts has said he does.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-martins-beach-supr...

> In a significant victory for coastal access rights in California, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Silicon Valley billionaire’s appeal to keep a beach to himself.

Wiki indicates the same; some early wins, all overturned on appeal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla#Martins_Beach_dis...
Most people don’t have any leverage for these kinds of negotiations and would fairly likely get shafted if there were no laws to protect them
Think life-threatening non-emergencies.
Huh?

We turned off 2.4 GHz in the office three years ago without notice. This was due to a huge hotel going up next door that seems to have an AP going full blast in every room making 2.4 GHz unusable.

Nobody noticed or complained. And I know we have lots of really old Androids in use by staff.