skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not immutable, but they're subject to legal constraints, and those constraints may have nothing to do with "what the public wants." Two rules apply here:

1) Supremacy Clause. Federal treaties take priority over state law. When California was ceded to the United States, the Mexican government demanded that existing property rights would be preserved. Congress created a Commission to resolve all existing Mexican property claims in 1851, and the results became binding. In the 1984 case, the Supreme Court held that this federal commitment took precedence over California's public access law. The treaty could theoretically be renegotiated, but California cannot do so unilaterally.

2) Law is subject to individual rights ("life, liberty, and property"). California cannot just pass a law giving everyone beach access. It is constrained by pre-existing rules and property rights. In the case of beach access, pre-existing rules usually gives you an avenue. Under English law, the Crown owned the beaches (up to the high tide line). When the United States became independent, the states inherited that property right. (And johnny-come-lately states like California were created under Congress's power under the Constitution to create new states, and since 1796 Congress has done so providing that the new state enters the union on "equal footing" with existing states. That has been interpreted to mean that such states similarly own their beaches to the high tide line.)

But in this specific case the rules say that California doesn't have a property right to allow people to cross Khosla's property. It cannot just make a law giving people that right, because that would infringe Khosla's property right. The only thing it can do is buy Khosla's property if it wants to dedicate it to public use.
--> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21974514
Why should we?

No, really. Rather than tell us to go read something (just a term, not even a link) that has a name that might, just possibly, be relevant to the topic at hand (or might be some obscure abstract mathematical thing, or something about painting), maybe you could tell us why you think we should read more about them, and where you recommend we go to do so.
Farming in New Zealand is not subsidized, and I believe the same is true of Australia. It's possible to compete on the open market and succeed.
Ouster CEO here.

This couldn't be further from the truth. You can design the VCSEL cavity and top and bottom mirrors for peak efficiency at any temp, including very high temps. I wonder what we did...

Compared to the side emitter diode lasers used in legacy spinning lidar, VCSELS are cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, longer life, and better quality light sources to boot.
I'm surprised it was even possible until now...
I have a friend who was gifted an Amazon Fire TV stick and uses it because she doesn't have a lot of disposable income and doesn't care much about the privacy implications.

Yet I'd argue she profits from being able to watch C3 talks (she casually cares about) via the various apps (Chaosflix) available through its store.
It is a bit more complex, old farming methods need to change as well, but not as much as Corp farming. This video explains regenerative farming which restores the soul and captures carbon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_NtNyvOyRM
>> Now give me an AMD version [of X1 Carbon] and I would be all over it.

And so would I. X1 has been my workhorse for the past 5 years or so. If the native Linux GPU drivers work well, I'd upgrade to a Radeon APU based X1 Carbon. I don't even care if it's expensive.
Highly-Anticipated New Chinatown Vegas Restaurant
It's entertainment meant for an older audience than small children, I suppose.
And they consider a playlist made by an adult that contains a few videos for kids to be data on a child?
nice thought, I had to look it up again:

The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector. The lord has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for himself. All he is doing is finding a way to make money from something that used to be free.[4]
Thanks! It’s a little disingenuous/irresponsible on part of the phys.org article to not even mention the Rubin+Heitlauf rebuttal and the ensuing discussion, even though they’re from a month ago. EDIT: No wait, this OP is about a different paper from a week later... Hmm.... interesting times.
Uber adds app features to work around California's AB5
The article is light on technical detail, but I presume this works by generating a hash value from the page of interest. Then a service such as opentimestamps (https://opentimestamps.org) gathers a bunch of these hashes together, publishing the Merkel root as data in an OP_RETURN transaction output.

If so, one should be aware of a kinda sneaky attack that might be feasible.

Let's say I want to prove my clairvoyance by predicting the winner of the 2020 presidential election. I generate a text file containing the name of my pick. Then I hash the result. Next, I publish the hash value to the block chain using an OP_RETURN output.

On November 4, 2020, I publish the transaction ID containing the hash of my predicted winner. I also publish the text file used to generate the hash value. Clearly, I must have known that hash value when the transaction was confirmed, implying that I knew the winner of the election at that time as well.

Except I cheated. Instead of making just one transaction, I made two. The second one contained an OP_RETURN output with the hash value of a document containing the name of the opponent.

On the day after Election Day, I simply publish the transaction ID I know to contain the winner, and never mention the existence of the other transaction.

Depending on how SingleFile works, it may be possible to do a similar attack.

Also, you don't exactly get a proof that pinpoints the date. Rather, you get proof that the hash value existed as of the date the Bitcoin transaction gets its first confirmation.
This is covered in the article, and he even does a benchmark of 25k iterations, and then explains why go is slower, creates a more apples to apples comparison where go is only slightly slower, and then optimizes the syscalls to create a go program many times faster than the asm.
Just did this last week with an Instagram account tied to a free email I hardly ever use.

Epic Games also doesn't verify the email address, because my email account "had" an account there too. Worse, it had a credit card saved and appeared to be ready to allow me to use the card after I did the "forgot password" and gained access to the account.

I ended-up deleting both accounts.
> To help us identify made for kids content, in November we introduced a new audience setting in YouTube Studio to help creators indicate whether or not their content is made for kids.

So, in November they asked you to say if your video was made for kids. They likely had this intention, but wanted to first collect the data they needed voluntarily. If I were a content creator that self-identified their videos as for children, I would be angry. This just goes to show the unexpected and against-your-interest things companies will do with your data.
It's not a religious argument by any means. It's a common idiom which means that "if people don't have anything to do with their time, they are more likely to get involved in trouble and criminality." (see https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/devil+finds+wo...).
Not sure how much science there is, but I suspect that a lot of drinking turns out to be self-medication for depression (and/or anxiety). If so, it's obviously not ideal, but it may be that in some cases there is no clear superior alternative.
This is another reason why adblockers are a must (while they still work anyway) if you let a child near the screen. There is pretty much no ad that is acceptable to be shown to small children.

Anyone younger than 30 y/o or whatever the age where brain development is largely complete.
There was a profile in Forbes on Khosla or something like that, and one of his employees said something along the lines of 'Khosla is pursuing this beach matter so that anyone that deals with him knows how tough and tenacious he is.' It wasn't entirely clear if this was that employee rationalising the fact his boss is a bastard, or actually the truth.

As twisted as this logic may be, I guess it is plausible some egotistical old guy would think this way.

Edit: This is the quote:

"The “beach issue,” as it is called internally at Khosla Ventures, has surprisingly not been a problem in the office. “It’s an incredible negotiating tool for me,” said Samir Kaul, another partner at Khosla Ventures.

When a company was trying to “screw” the firm, Mr. Kaul brought up news articles about the beach at a meeting. “I said: ‘My boss is going to the Supreme Court for a beach he’s never gone to. We’re not posturing here. This guy’s not going to settle,’” Mr. Kaul said. “And then I just sat there."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/vinod-khosla-b...
> teach them to explicitly recognize their mentally-manipulative properties

The most effective way to teach them that is to let them spend their own hard-saved money on stuff-they-really-want-that's-actually-garbage. To do that they need to be exposed to the minor league con artists behind so many ads. Anything short of that will be mere theoretical knowledge, inconsistently applied.
If anyone ever has the chance to explore Peru and the Sacred Valley, I highly recommend it. There are some fascinating ruins apart from Macchu Picchu like Moray which they believe was a greenhouse where each steppe is a different microclimate.

http://www.andeantravelweb.com/peru/destinations/cusco/moray...
Or alternately we could increase tariffs on coal exports. We can discourage coal use globally and have a lot of money to pump into renewable energy and it's a lot more palatable to the electorate.
That's what we are building over at https://clay.run (free preview at the moment). We built a programmable spreadsheet.
To be fair, they're the largest non-pornographic video platform. Making them an endless target for any and all abuse possible to grow channels quickly and earn ad revenue.

It's inevitable that in such an environment the system they come up with ends up making less and less sense over time. It's death by a thousand cuts, and I don't think there's a good way to really avoid it.
As a direct result, likely not very many compared to 26,000 lives saved. The lives saved figure will continue to increase considerably over time.

There are a total of ~50,000 coal mining jobs left in the US. In 2005 there were around ~75,000 coal mining jobs in the US. So a similar number of lives have been saved - by the estimate - than jobs lost (and obviously a small fraction of job losses will have led directly to opioid deaths).

Presently US wages are rising the fastest - at about 2x the rate - for the bottom half of workers versus the top; US wages are hitting new all-time adjusted highs; and the U6 unemployment rate is somewhere around a real 50-60 year low, matching the floor in year 2000. Further, there has been a massive boom in natural gas and oil in the US over that time, including in eg the Appalachian coal region (natural gas) which was hit hard in spots by the coal industry erosion.
Git can easily be replaced in my company if there was business need for it. For now it does do its job, but there is no reason we wouldn't migrate if there was a better alternative. Right now there isn't one.
Given I've regularly flown on flights where over half the plane were business/first I'm not sure that necessarily means what it seems.
Matter replicators and energy too cheap to meter would be cool too. Both unfortunately seem crucial to the Star Trek's Utopia.
So then it's the editor that's at fault. Most editors let you do a "run formatter on save", and zig has(had? at least it did last I played with it) a formatter that can do correct "indent with tabs and align with spaces" with only a minor tweak
Which features would make it for you?
If we're going to start asking non sequitur questions, I might as well join in. How many unemployed coal miners could have used unemployment insurance until they migrated to a new city to find employment in a different sector and thereby support their families?
> would I be on the hook with the FTC?

No. You should read what the FTC wrote about it, they are perfectly aware of these edge cases.
Well, looks like you don't really understand. Studies are suggesting people are more and as productive working less hours. So, in order to get to this awesome 2030 future. We need to be more efficient. It's not 'anti-work' it's anti-busy work. Sitting down in meeting that are 1+ hours and sending out redundant emails aren't productive. They're just 'boomer'ish.
Ok but the post you replied to was speculating on Google's motivations, and therefore talking about legal liability.

I guess if you are speaking of "what is best for society", ok, but that's a completely different thing. It sure seemed like you were debating the post above, but I guess not.
One of the fake reviews was by someone who had passed away with a picture obtained from their obituary. A moderator who knows an author or book has been flagged could spend a minute to find this out.

It is definitely a difficult problem - I'll agree with you there. There are some other good suggestions in the thread on making it easier to flag the false reviews/moderate reviews beyond "community standards"

I like the idea of using a captcha that prompts you to enter a random word from a random chapter in the book.

Another system could just hide reviews that are not verified - and tie into amazon purchases to verify them - I don't know why Amazon would not lean on the fact that they own Goodreads to do this... Make all the reviews visible if the user prompts to see the unverified ones, but as the default just shows the reviews for people that bought the book through Amazon.
As an outsider, it seems like regulation led them (or the airlines really) down a path of avoiding retraining at all costs, while it seems plausible that some sort of cost effective retraining for a plane that still was substantially similar to predecessors should have been possible.
It does have more oomph than most NUC's, but it's not a Canyon-something NUC; as stated in the article, the CPU model is Intel i7-6770HQ, which was released in Q1 2016 on Intel's 14nm node, so it's Skylake.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/93341/i...
> You refactor your code as you go.

That's one of my most valuable self-taught truths! I fought with management and colleagues for years until one day, after a 4-day weekend, it just struck me: nobody can tell me anything when my PR contains both the desired feature (or fix) and the refactoring that slightly improves the status quo of the code.

This was ~5 years ago. From then to today, I hear complaints about my PRs about 2 times a year.
But it needs to be followed with observing that the market doesn't give two damns about long term, because anyone optimizing for long-term profitability eventually gets outcompeted by someone optimizing for shorter-term profitability.
Are there migrating fish in the area of Central India that OP talked about?
That's true of course, and I'm not saying that more work is necessarily more desirable any more than I'm saying that less work is necessarily desirable. My point is that the premise of the article assumes that spending less time at work is automatically better, and I would challenge that premise.
The outrage machine would find something new to be upset about. Every week there'd be another channel coming out of the woodwork upset that they could not make the YouTube Kids cut.
> I used to let my kid watch YTKids while I supervised.

I think this is where you lose me - why is allowing a child access to have un-tethered access to a content portal appropriate? i.e. why is the responsibility on the content portal (YouTube) and not the parent or supervisor?

I might be a tad too much on the individual responsibility side of the spectrum here, but just like the old argument from the 90's ("The TV ain't a replacement for a babysitter...") I'm not sure the responsibility necessarily needs to be on the platform here over the parent/supervisor.

One suggestion: You can create a white-list or playlist of pre-approved content creators and/or videos, and offer access that way.
I find it ironic that in the same post the author complains about a git monopoly ("Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes") while wishing the same thing for fossil ("Fossil's world domination will not come from...").
SVN seemed irreplaceable not so long ago and CVS before that and RCS before that... When someone comes up with something demonstrably better and gets the right people to start using it, people will switch over.
One of my favorite deposition answers is "I'm not prepared to offer an opinion on that question."
Totally agree with parent on the Klaviyo integration being a miss for ecomm. That and Mailchimp would help quite a bit.

I also use Segment with multiple clients that I work with. Will check this out as there's room for alternatives.
Well, yeah, but the parent post talks about the police calling the number on the sign and using that to get a conviction, so I assumed that some sort of other crime was being committed, like maybe they steal the caller's bank info or sign them up for some scam service.

The reason the police don't do what the parent says is not because of difficulties with attribution of the act, it's because they care so little about the offense that they're not going to expend even the slightest effort to prosecute it. If they saw someone putting out signs, they might tell them to stop. Maybe.
>possibly feel the same disappointment with the pace of technological progress.

If anything, people should be disappointed at the technological progress that has received priority over others.

Personally I'm aghast at the pace of "technological progress" due to the direction it is going in.
This is very likely not "nonsense":
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
> So I mostly get something that reflects their image of me.

That fact is one of the main things that I value about gifts!

> You can get more than 50%, if you sell for Bitcoin etc on /r/BitMarket.

I don't want Bitcoin. I can get more than that other ways, too, but they all involve more time and effort, turning the card into a burden.

Selling the card locally for half off means that I can unload the thing quickly without any real hassle.
Good programmers copy; great programmers appropriate
7% of fossil fuel and 7% of overall emissions aren’t the same thing, though.
> They really don't have a choice at that volume.

Crazy idea - maybe no one should be operating at that volume until they can figure it out?
You're demanding... a first principles model of stock market prediction (something that obviously doesn't exist) before you'll buy an ad hoc napkin result showing that we're probably due for a correction in the relatively near term (something basically everyone agrees on)? Seriously?

I mean, this logic spins around too: if you think the market won't dip, what's your reasoning? The fact that you aren't a billionaire tells me you probably don't know any better than anyone else. At least this metric has empirical data (there's a chart right there in the article!) to back it up, and it was "developed" by a seasoned practitioner who most of us would agree is better at this stuff than randos on HN. I mean... it passes the smell test if nothing else.
Intel/AMD don't sell chips; they sell "platforms" and most vendors won't deviate too much. And 16 lanes times 4 slots does equal 64. If you want more there's always Epyc.
A mysterious virus is making China (and the rest of Asia) nervous
With Airbnb and similar “move fast and break things” scum it’s always the others that are bad, but never themselves, not even if their screwups cause people to get stranded or stuck with unlivable accommodation and no refunds.
Retool seems like what you want!

https://retool.com/
Perforce is still in use in content heavy industries because Git still struggles with large binaries. Something with git branch semantics that could handle those files would be huge.
David Foster Wallace on John McCain (2000)
Thank you for taking the time to give a detailed response here. I’ve always found it astonishing that the side-effects of ‘progress’ like diminishing nutrient content and environmental impact are so willingly ignored. Feeding more people is a positive, but it’s rather a hollow victory if their well-being and health ultimately takes a hit.
Australian example - "For more than a decade, two farmers have shown that parched landscapes can be revived. And finally Canberra [is] listening."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OBcRHX1Bc
Investor's Naked Selfies Ignite MeToo Moment: Female Founder Fights Back
I picked up a 41 inch Sceptre earlier this year and I loooove the lack of smart features. For watching TV in my office, it works amazingly well.
I remember evaluating Heap (granted, a long time ago, so I'm sure it's evolved a lot since then) and the auto-tracking capabilities and retroactive analysis sounded awesome, but in practice it wasn't as valuable or easy as I thought. I found that in general, knowing the questions you want to answer and structuring your tracking around that to be far more useful, and that actually being able to take mountains of generic behavioral data and making sense of it wasn't that easy and a ton of work in and of itself. E.g. retroactively finding clicks to a single 'signup button' is easy, but a lot harder when that button is on many different pages and you want to group them or segment them in certain ways, or the implementation changes in some places, etc. In the end, it seemed like it was doing engineering work just to parse the data back out so it seemed more sane to structure in a better way ahead of time.

I'm curious what steps have been taken in the past several years to improve on this and how Freshpaint is approaching this. I think it's a really interesting problem and if done well, could be massively valuable. Good luck!
Ouster CEO here.

We didn't claim these were auto rated parts... that being said, our temp spec is in line with the industry, and we're dead set* on reaching auto temp spec in a future iteration of the product.

Our shock, vibe and ingress specs are far better than the competition and pass most auto specs already though. Ruggedness like this was unheard of in spinning lidar even two years ago.

*I believe our internal thermal design group is "cultofthelavapeople at ouster dot io".
That's only true if you're talking about different arguments for the same issue. Here, there are multiple issues: (1) does Khosla need a permit; and (2) does the public have an easement across his land?

It's worth reading Surfrider Foundation's opposition to Khosla's Supreme Court certiorari petition: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-1198/50086/2018.... Their #1 argument was that the Supreme Court shouldn't take this case now because Khosla hasn't even applied for a permit. (He was just fighting an injunction that keeps him from closing the road until he gets a permit.)

But eventually, the State will have to deny Khosla the permit, and justify doing so. It will be very hard for the State to say "we are going to keep you from building a fence to close this road," while simultaneously acknowledging "the public doesn't actually have a right to use this road." If the State uses its permitting power to effectively give itself an easement that doesn't otherwise exist, that will tee up the takings argument that was only theoretical in the Supreme Court petition. And I like Khosla's odds on prevailing on that argument.