skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can chime in one as I was a systems administrator for one of those shady “Get sex tonight” dating websites.

The law of having to hold the identification of the models is pretty much the only law you need to uphold. These sites are created from shills of shells.

You have one company, from there you then have two or three other companies which create white label brands utilising one of the shell companies.

So the brand “bangshelia” would be registered with a shell company “adult dating world”. This brand would then be bought by a shill and branded as “purple dating” but registered by a company called “dating purple”.

You would then affiliate with “adult dating tonight” where they would provide the data for your brand.

To get anywhere near close to chasing the company, you need to launch a lawsuit against the active site, (the company registered to) and then the company behind that and from that the company providing the database. Which all costs money.

As my CEO did, you pack up shop on one of those brands and rebrand yourself. Claim your not associated to the previous company by registering another director.

There are no resources available to attempt to make anything secure. The website of the company I used to work for kept all passwords in plain text in a database that was accessible online publicly for other affiliates to borrow to create their own “brand”.
It has the added "benefit" of making it appear to the casual observer that Trail of Bits found the vulnerability in the first place...
But if launch costs go from $400M to $4M maybe it's ok to put stuff up with dramatically shortened mission expectations.

What really needs to happen is the ability to build mirrors in LEO so they don't have to be built to survive the launch.
Arrangements vary by event and production company but typically participant registration fees cover the management company's charges. Any additional donations from sponsors go directly to the charity, minus a small processing fee. Of course you might be able to find exceptions to that rule.
I believe that this is addressed in their "Scope 3" section that is mentioned, and they are looking to cut that figure in half by 2030, and it is included in their "net negative by 2030" considerations.
Thanks! Yes, it can track most of the other bright satellites in the sky as well, try the base page link: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/
What's often missing from these discussions is the impact on human memory.

Back when I started programming, I never used syntax highlighting. It just wasn't a thing for a large part of my early years. Text mode VisualBasic and QuickBasic didn't have it. Nor did GW-BASIC, QuickC, Pascal, I could go on...

I was at the point where I could write C code and have it compile the first time. No syntax errors, no compiler errors, full -Wall and -pedantic.

After using an IDE for awhile, I noticed my ability to get things right diminished. I gave up knowing things for relying on technology.

One area I notice this the most is spelling. I used to be able to spell. Now I critically depend on browser or editor highlighting of errors, or throwing a word into Google to see what Google tells me. And it's not just new or complex words. It's words that I used to know how to spell. If all I had were pen and paper, I would be helpless.

Some will say technology frees you to memorize other more important things. But the downside is you give up agency. And very well may just become that much more of a replaceable cog in the machine.
If you like "Dr Strangelove" and "Fail Safe" I highly recommend "The Bedford Incident".
It's a little terrifying that the article starts with a guy just waking up with a slipped disk one morning, and it seems the most effective takeaway is "learn to live with this pain".
Creating a buzz: Turkish beekeepers risk life and limb to make mad honey
Roam Research MVP Review: Pages and Bullets = Cool New Product Category
Cherenkov telescopes for neutrinos do look down for reasons of schielding. Neutrinos can pass the earth, other particles not so much.

But those are a special case, air cherenkov telescopes are looking for "less weird" particles like photons or protons. Those can only be seen looking up, since the primary particles moving down focuses the cherenkov light down in a narrow cone.
Child's pose helped me too and also helped some insomnia issues. Deep squatting (without weights) also helped me with my spine. However, yoga is not for everyone or better, yoga can be for every one but with modified poses. Beware.. Many people doing yoga hurt themselves attempting to do certain poses, even professional yogis break their backs sometimes..
Depends on the location and severity. I've found that using a foam roller before and after a workout, or even daily, has pretty much removed any back soreness I used to get.
Disclosure: I work at MSFT, but not on any campus. I do, however, live in the Seattle area.

A significant amount of employees take MSFT shuttles/busses from around the greater Redmond area, and I imagine part of their plan is going to include electrifying those vehicles:

> We will electrify our global campus operations vehicle fleet by 2030.

In addition, Sound Transit's East Link will literally have a stop on the MSFT campus, which will eventually help people from all over the area (Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond eventually) get to work in a significantly more carbon-neutral way, especially given electricity produced in the area is relatively clean.
Amazon Sought $1B in Incentives on Top of Lures for HQ2
This might give you some perspective. I befriended and later dated a Korean whose parents were both Korean but even though she was born in Japan, since her parents never became citizens, she was still considered an alien. So, even though she was raised in Japan and spoke fluent Japanese (as well as English) and was for all intents and purposes as Japanese as anyone in Japan, she had to go back to Japan every couple years to renew her... resident visa.

It might be a while until such attitudes go away. From what I can tell the feeling isn't very mutual on the Korean side, either.
They can tell their suppliers to be carbon neutral or lose contracts. But this is a free country, there isn't much they can do about the employees beyond what they're _already doing_, and have been doing for at least a decade now. I live in the area, you see MS buses all the time, and many of their employees use them.
The author seems to assume that deserts are lifeless places, which is incorrect. Converting billions of acres of desert to a monocrop forest would kill the billions of plants and animals which have become adapted to that environment, which could also negate the emissions reductions. Monocrops are also ecologically unstable and easily destroyed by disease.
I've always found the value proposition of e-ink to be completely off. Is this an actual cost of production, or does e-ink have some sort of business model or patent problem that is getting in the way?
Yes, irrelevant details that slipped your mind, and which you most certainly did not just make up to justify your bloodlust.
How was a dude who can't even afford to drink indoors able to do infrastructural damage to a parking garage? Did he bring his jackhammer?
Agreed. I bet 10 minutes of simple exercises daily would solve back problems for a lot of people.
I'd say it is a mix.

Partly reproduction, partly conquering. As usual the place is not empty.
I agree that there are non-snow replacements. For me, they are Esk8, EUC & Onewheel, as I wrote in another comment.
DARPA-backed living bricks could reproduce, self-heal, and slurp CO2
Very interesting and useful applications.

The ideal use would be in the office - I can browse HN while my manager will see the latest infrastructure project details when walking by.
Just loading data to display on the page. Thanks for all your help.

I see you write takeoff software -- that's pretty close to what we do. We do the supply for builders.
Yes, but stability against vibration and thermally induced warping is also important. So you could make the mirror thinner than on the ground, but not really thin.
Yes. But not as much and not necessarily the same work. Had I had a guaranteed income I probably would have studied for another degree and that would have made me more productive.

One of the political problems with UBI for some people is that it promises to change the power relations between employees and employers. A person whose basic needs are guaranteed to be met regardless of employment will be more able and presumably willing to say no to a job that is unpleasant or dangerous or merely inadequately paid. Perhaps then people who perform important but low status tasks will see their income increase at the expense of the rest.

I suspect that UBI could be introduced more easily in Europe than in the US for this reason because in Europe (in particular Scandinavia) we already to a large extent work in order to live rather than living merely to work. That doesn't mean people are unwilling to work. I know plenty of people in Norway who are well past retirement age who still do substantial amounts of work. But none of them need the money, they all have decent pensions, they do it because they have skills that they like to exercise. Of course the money they get is a welcome bonus.
Ask HN: What do you hate the most about technical interviews?
I got really sick of phone/whiteboard/coderpad interviews so I started to work on a project to make them suck less.

Would love to hear everyones thoughts
Well, if the charity is run for your own ego, then I would prefer the one who brings 1M.

In most realistic scenarios I would pay attention to efficiency first.
Back pain may fluctuate and spike at certain times. A person needs to find what alleviates the pain without adverse side effects. Exercise needs to be filtered for what works for the individual. Good exercises might be swimming and cross-country skiing. Always seek medical assessment and treatment, while also being willing to take responsibility for own health.
> There is no way to see Starlink at night. You can potentially see them for a short period around twilight.

The time window is limited, yes. So it is not the end of the world. It is still a problem.
Flutter is an open-source framework that targets Android, iOS, Web & Desktop. That's rather different to something that just targets Chrome. The developer experience is amazing. Personally I'm using it and not too worried about Flutter lasting. Just like I use react on the web and I'm not worried about that either.
Definitely the worst thing you can do is lay there and do nothing about it. you have to keep moving. Perhaps it has to be done in moderation if you have a lot of pain but the movement seems to be for me the best cure.

I think because of my profession sitting in front of the computer it's easy to get into certain habits that really just are not healthy and there's not enough movement. I don't really get into the hype of the standing desk either. Sure, I can stand up and work but also I just need to move a lot more and it makes things a lot better.
Injuries are a different case. I'm in the same set as you, and my father as well. As long as he and I do ~20 pushups per day and maintain a bit of focus on improving/maintaining our posture during various activities - backpain is negligible. But neither of us have ever needed to take pain medication for back pain.

A lot of the people I've known over the years who took opiate painkillers for back pain have had injuries to their spine. Some people I know with spinal injuries tried opiate painkillers, found that they were effective for the pain, but the side effects prevented them from being focused at work, so they chose to live with the pain in exchange for mental acuity. I also know others who have tried very high doses of opiates and it did not significantly reduce the pain from their back injuries.
Any instructions on how to play this? All I can do is draw a line that then disappears when the dot hits the bottom of the screen.
That's one reason I hate complexity in tests. Your tests have to be dumb enough that you are 99% sure the code under test is at fault.
There have been similar concerns about the US nuclear arsenal which are decades old and aging.
See https://michaelsamsel.com/Content/Individuals/problem-solvin...
I'm an academic researcher that studies nonprofits and trust me, you are not alone in thinking this. But the problem with charities constraining themselves to their original narrow mandate is that this leads to tiny nonprofits trying to solve the greatest challenges facing humanity (poverty, disease, etc.). Tiny nonprofits simply cannot impact the world significantly.

Sure there are examples of egregious shadiness in nonprofits, but an above comment mentioned the Red Cross basically putting 375m/500m of donations toward the programs. Honestly, if they send every dollar received straight the beneficiaries, they would have raised significantly less than 500m. Would it be better for the programs to receive 375m/500m or 25m/25m? Sure we don't know how much they would have raised without all the fundraising, but this issue is more nuanced than people think.

EDIT: I read the Red Cross article from NPR, and it appears that example falls under legitimate questioning of the use of funds. My larger point still applies in general though.
I guess the point they are trying to make is that 500km (or 300km) is essentially hugging the planet. Which means that, if it is night, they will be in the shadow for the majority of the time.

The satellites you can easily see at any time are much higher up.
If it's working by accident, it's hard to tell, isn't it?

You wouldn't necessarily think to check for something wrong if it appears to work.
Interesting to see the low opinion in which he held the movies, considering the revered place in American cinema the trilogy holds. Considering the astounding length and detail with which they were adapted, what more could he have possibly hoped for? What other adaptions have done more to hold true to such a complicated and intricate fantasy universe, especially in the early 2000's and earlier? Many adaptions since, inspired by LOTR, have failed to hold to their source material with such honor and gravity (GoT, etc.).
As was everything in Eyes Wide Shut.
Most teachers believe that education is supposed to:

1) To make good people.

2) To make good citizens.

3) To make each person his or her personal best.

But our public school system as envisioned by its creator (Alexander Inglis) in the early 20th century was to simply to reduce as many individuals as much as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry and establish fixed habits of reaction to authority.

Inglis, in his speeches, makes it perfectly clear that compulsory schooling is intended to halt a worldwide democratic movement that threatened to give the peasants and the proletarians a voice and unity. Compulsory schooling was to thwart the prospective unity of these underclasses. Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests, and by many other more subtle means to stop the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood from ever reintegrating into a dangerous whole.
Most days I can't even begin to get out of bed without child posing first. I'd rate my physical health in the top 1% of this country, but physical activity needs a similar type of movement therapy (or whatever you want to call it) that sitting around all day needs. Gravity never takes time off.
>I look in everyone's house when I walk by, and wave at everyone I see inside. I always get a wave in return. My kids count cats on sills. I spend considerable time in my in-laws' front room waving at passers-by, and we've even been known to go out and join someone on a walk.

Wait, that's acceptable? Heck yeah! I'm moving there in May (though I've been a number of times) and that's going to be super awesome and fun.

Of course, getting my wife to reciprocate and not put up a heavy front curtain will probably be impossible...
Ah, thanks for that — I’ve held that mistaken view for over a decade now. So in essence it was more of “A Bugs Life” / “Antz” situation.
Why is it clear that PR is the primary reason for doing it? A majority of Americans believe in climate change. What makes it hard to believe that an educated collection of people who make decisions at a large technology company sincerely care about doing something good about it?

"Microsoft" isn't an entity with a will, it's just a collection of people. To the extent it has a will, that will is set by people. People with the demographics of the Microsoft population.

If Microsoft wanted a pure "PR" move then climate change isn't a logical choice because it risks alienating members of one of the major domestic political parties, who have been conditioned to be hostile to the cause.
> I would like to build an app that's a series of games, that are all related

This reminds me of the Cloverfield series. It would be interesting if you didn't know the games are related at the start or if you know they're related but they're not necessarily the same format or storyline. They just happen to exist in the same world.
Can't balance budgets, control inflation or fix deficits.

Can spy on you in the dark.

Life goals.
Well .

I'm going to start reading the Silmarillion again tonight. Maybe this time I can finish it.
First, they sometimes get very little. “Just 1% of Seattle Marathon money goes to charity” [1]. You’d do better to just go door to door.

Second, often this “awareness” is completely absent, even among volunteers. I ran a race once where the primary charity was lung cancer research, and volunteers along the course were smoking.

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/just-1-of-seattle-...
The dot bounces off lines :)
I mostly meant observational possibility, not a technical one. Astronomers rarely have photons to waste.
100 km from London is not a lot cheaper, especially when you consider the cost of commuting to London if that is where your job is.
Of course we should take what people and organizations say with skepticism adequate for their record and scaled by impact. Microsoft had the reputation of "malicious monopolizer" in the 90s and had to change a lot of things to stay on top of their game. In the past years Microsoft has been rated as one of the more ethical companies out there by some organizations who monitor this sort of thing, so the carbon negative move just seems consistent.(took some willpower to not add current US leaders as counterexamples)

https://cloudscene.com/news/2017/03/ethisphere/
https://www.worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees/
Tons of New Apartments Are Being Built That Almost No One Can Afford
Also, this is a claim in the essay's introductory paragraph and the claim is supported by paragraphs and citations in the rest of the essay. This knee jerk "citation needed" on HN is getting tiresome.
Gates was a skilled poker player, which probably helped him be a shrewd business-person. When all was said and done, you would realize he walked away with all your best cards.

That doesn't happen in poker.
“It will likely affect some earthbound astronomy significantly, but much (most?) of the most important work in modern astronomy is satellite based.”

Not true at all. Ground based is much cheaper and easier to maintain and reconfigure with new and different equipment. Just look at the cost of the upcoming >30m telescopes vs the
James Webb or Hubble.
They took out bombadil.
There is also a GUI called Cutter that is powerd by radare2.

https://cutter.re
Which telescopes are observing at 6:15 pm local time?

The satellites are not in sunlight unless the sun is not that far below the horizon.
Something I've found is that sitting on a couch for anything more than a couple minutes will leave me with lower back pain for the next day or two.

Much to the dismay of all the older people in my life, we got rid of our couch and have taken to just sitting in solid chairs or on the floor.

We also sleep on a futon mattress directly on the floor. Any time we visit relatives, I wake up with back pain.

Any time the topic comes up, I seriously wonder how many people's pain / mobility problems could be solved by just getting rid of all the furniture in their lives that actively works against the body being able to support and align itself.
I for one would have liked to see Frodo & Sam's journey to mordor in the second and third movies abbreviated a bit. It was incredibly drawn out. Otherwise I love the movies and see no room for improvement.
In my experience

Phone Interviews: Where I live my cell signal sucks so you can imagine how much "could you say that again" goes on

Whiteboard interviews: Mostly just uncomfortable but necessary to get a general vibe in person I guess?
Which is why the nuclear test ban is, IMHO, a bad idea. A nuclear deterrent must be credible to be effective. If an adversary comes to believe that, say, 80% of our warheads are duds and most of theirs work, the logic of retaliation may come to favor a first strike.
The original works were as much a careful exploration of a world not our own as they were an epic tale. Large sections of the text were devoted to describing that world.

The movies gloss over all of that to focus purely on the story.
And yet, camsite models wouldn't be able to sustain themselves without these simps. It's really a two-edged blade.
> if you think a doctor is going to prescribe a drug originally approved to treat cancer because you _hypothesize_ it might have some anti-aging properties.

Of course not, but I didn't suggest that at all. In clinical practice they do this quite routinely if there is scientific evidence of efficacy; i.e. there are a number of papers and talks discussing why and how it works. There is a spectrum of course, from "huh, that's an interesting idea" to "came up in training as part of maintaining my board certification". I'm guessing most non-research clinicial staff will be well towards the later category before starting to use something off label. Many probably wait until they know other clinicians are using it - they also talk to each other a lot (hence KOL impact can be huge, here).

How do these papers come to exist? Not through FDA trials. The scientists involved aren't going to jump into a human trial based on nothing but a hunch, but if there is a reasonable hypothesis about it someone will try preclinical work etc. And if all of that looks good eventually someone will report results in humans used off label.

The point is this is a completely different pathway than an FDA clinical trial. I agree with you completely that premature clinical use of a drug would be unethical [1]. However, it is just wrong to suggest that the typical or only ethical path for this goes through an FDA PMA.

You seem to be objecting to something that is a very common part of the development of modern medicine, as if it is obviously wrong. It certainly has interesting questions around it, but seems to be a reasonable compromise between stifling innovation/development and enhanced risk to public/patients.

I'll note I don't have an opinion on whether or not any of this has been done for longevity applications to the point that a clinician could reasonably use it off label; I don't know enough about it. But it is certainly plausible that they could reach that standard at some point, without any of the vendors having it as an indication (at least initially, if it worked they would almost certainly pursue the indication in this particular case, unlike some).

[1] this use tends to be very much scaled to impact and prognosis anyway - so the longevity stuff specifically, would have a pretty high bar to meet.
I wonder in the future if browser vendors will use AI to implement content-aware filtering.
Pytorch 1.4
Paper-rich startup employees look for pre-wealth help to lock down stock options
I had the same experience. I think the slow adoption of Make's Guile extension is precisely because of its larger dependency load. If Guile had the same set of dependencies as GNU Make, I bet we'd see more distros turn it on by default.