skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original letter [1] explains it. In short, ICANN is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. At least in theory, there was a possibility that for ICANN to approve the sale would violate the public benefit obligations set out in its bylaws, and the state Attorney General has the power to investigate that.

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/becerra...
exactly viewers and engagement are the true metric of any social media/youtube. anyone can buy subs/followers
I think uranium at that concentration would qualify your lot as a Superfund site. It's a toxic heavy metal and that's a lot. Your numbers might be off by a zero or two.
lol all of you that believe this
Something about the portability of the home directory (putting it on a USB stick etc) must be missing from the article. It does not explain how that is not possible today. Must be something about user ids, right?
Recall Gavin Newsom
Not sure if it's only me. But there's some funky funky things happening on that frontend. There's a white modal that covers that whole screen that pops out at every page load.
I'm not American and to me, this kind of response, that I've seen a lot over the last month, is almost like a sort of turnkey censorship by the means of uncritical faith into the first amendment and myth.

The entire piece mostly consists of personal attacks. On elites who are allegedly all corrupt and untrustworthy. On journalists who don't really know anything, and it conjures up an image of all elites only holding the positions they hold because they think of everyone else as if they were unwashed masses.

It's hard to have a serious discussion when that's the premise that the argument is built on. There is no serious discussion on the dangers of false information, what merit there may be to delegating decision making to experts in particular in a crisis like this (I for once have more trust in Fauci than Trump to be honest, and I think many people would agree).

It's almost comical in a way that a piece that asks for more free speech so vehemently attacks people who exercise their free speech to question something that really matters, whether the foundations that the United States are built on are correct. We can and should have free speech about absolutely everything, except of course the merits of free speech and the American constitution, which is timeless, self-evident, and made by god.
https://www.change.org/p/recall-california-governor-gavin-ne...
He rarely, if ever, is. It’s his biggest flaw, IMO: in spite of the fact that he’s extremely smart and very articulate, he quickly escalated his rhetoric and takes extreme positions based on his gut.
If you're going to make people remember and type a cryptographic value, you've missed the whole reason DNS came to be: to provide memorable names.

I'd argue that building a system that a computer illiterate person can use is a technical challenge. it's a constraint on the design and architecture of the system.
It works a lot better in a proper Lisp, where the REPL and debugger are first-class citizens. In Javascript, you can do it, but it's a dancing bear at best; as you note, the observability is poor to nil without heroic effort, and scalability's a problem too.
This is no more a lisp discussion than a Johnny Cash discussion. You can ignore the top post if it doesn’t interest you.

As an aside, obesity is a disease that hormonally and mentally encourages self deception. The point of writing everything down and (most importantly) translating this list into objective calorie counts (usually looked up from a third party reference) is to remove this self deception. It is one of the most effective ways to leverage logic and willpower over habits and hormones. There are other ways of course.
Not a lawyer and not in California.

As others have pointed out, most companies don't care about misdemeanors. And, technically you were arrested when you turned yourself in - at that moment you were not "free to walk away" even if you weren't physically taken into custody.

The company I work for (multi-state) does national criminal background checks on every employee. It's been my experience that if you have a record it'll probably come up (sealed or not). The reliable background check companies have multiple sources and odds are probably pretty good your history will be in some database. I would assume whatever you did is going to show up, at least partially.

If they ask, be honest. If they don't ask, don't tell. At larger companies the recruiters will know very well what they can and can't ask (asking the wrong questions can result in an expensive lawsuit), so they will be very careful about that.

At my company lying about a criminal background is not automatic grounds to dismiss a candidate (we will still take into consideration the circumstances, nature of the crime, and length of time since release from supervision), but it will not impress the hiring manager if you are caught lying.
> The relational null represents the absence of a value in a field of a record; whereas the programming language null represents one of the possible values of a variable.

This sounds like splitting hairs, especially as they never seem to explicitly define what "value" means. How is it not a value? It sure looks like a "value" to me.

It's not just the occasional textbook that uses this nomenclature. In SQL itself, you type "INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (NULL);" to insert a NULL. Did the designers of SQL not understand what "value" means?

They also claim that databases are special in that they use "three-valued logic" -- which would seem to imply that NULL is a third value. Does "value" have different meanings in different contexts? For the word whose precise definition is central to their thesis, it has some remarkable linguistic flexibility.

> Here is a partial list of the reasons why NULL can occur. 1. The field has a value but it isn't known... 2. The field has no value because it isn't applicable...

These are all reasons I've seen people use null in programming languages, too.

> The field is not allowed to have a value. For example, the root node of a tree has no parent node. The fact that the field is NULL in this case is not due to missing information.

Are they really trying to claim this is somehow unique to relational databases? Trees work exactly the same way in programming languages.
Yes, that is the nature of turbo. If the CPUs could sustain operating at those speeds, it would be the base speed, not the turbo. Turbo is for really short burst. After that the system ends up being restrained by the available cooling and will go at lower speed (but usually still higher than base).
I made this for Jira. It just ingests all the issues in the project, and displays them in a big list, sorted by a variety of factors (is it assigned to me? Is it in progress?). It generally allows me to just go down the list of issues until there’s nothing left unfinished.

At some point I realized that there’s just no stopping enterprise from going to use Jira, so it’s better to work around it.
> But the difference between the stupidities cherished by the Idiocracy set ingesting fish cleaner

Id highly recommend googling for the follow up to this story for the curious out there.
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FUCK CALIFORNIA LIBERALS!
Aluminum is 1000 times more abundant in seawater than (edit)uranium. Lithium is about 60 times as abundant. With uranium at $32/lb, aluminum at $0.75/lb and lithium at $6/lb it seems that aluminum and lithium would reach commercial viability first.

Magnesium has already made it with significant production coming from seawater.
Oh yeah, balkanized local government has worked so well for the bay area.
It would take a complete rewrite. Urbit is written entirely in an idiosyncratic programming language stack that compiles to an idiosyncratic combinator language.
Official tissot support was dropped this month. No more security updates. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82234015&pos...
Exactly. That's also a big part of why Mao and Stalin had such high body counts--position maintenance.

Even Hitler was not immune. There's a story in Speer's biography where he was lecturing the gauleiters for wasting materials and skilled laborers on their McCastles when the military was in dire need. After the lecture, Speer was warned by Hitler to never do this again. Speer noted that this was the first and only time he had ever seen Hitler visibly afraid and shaken. No one is indispensable.

Similar issues arose in ancien régime Europe for the same reasons (nobles of the robe).

Of course, if we bomb, starve, or plague ourselves back into the stone age, that would definitely flatten the org chart, and forms of government would regain their distinctions.

I think Yarvin's only beef is the same one held by most of our malcontents. They aren't upset because our system is evil (it is). They are upset because they aren't at the top of it.

edit: Will also add that China is perfect example of this. In the first generation, Mao starved the peasants and executed his enemies. Once the patriarch was pushed aside,
the system scaled-up and took control, and now we have a nation which is regularly held up as an example (or even a necessity!) by our own Western elites.
A16Z is from the US. They don't have the freedom to do that.
I've attempted to push change at a local level (team + department) in various forms with limited success.

Generally, I get a lot of positive feedback and "we should do that!" responses without any follow through.

At one point some of my pushing lead to a significant departmental change. However, within a short time frame, just as everyone was starting to buy in, something new came down the pipe from on-high and became "the thing".

More recently my approach has been to bypass any sort of organizational hierarchy. Instead I've identified a handful of peers who seem interested in these things and figuring out how we can make our lives easier even if no one else wants to get on board. But this only works for things that are not mandated by the company.
> If it's a bad bet for the bank, it must be far worse of a bet for young adults

Contrary to popular perception, there's no robust private investor market for student loans. US Treasury is the predominant buyer.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2020...
Thanks for sharing, looks promising.
Well, the Aspen Institute is a think tank funded by donations from billionaires and their foundations. They apparently try to be non-partisan. They claim to "drive change", but I cynically suspect that they don't make much of a difference on anything, ever.

Couple that with the "self-styled intellectual elites" comment, and I think the idea is that of a group of self-anointed bright people who are out to change the world by sitting around and talking on other peoples' dime, and feeling smug in the process, while actually doing nothing that matters.

But I'm not the author, and I'm just looking stuff up about the Aspen Institute, so this is just (slightly informed) guesswork.
Fortunately it's also what allows you to move somewhere else where it works much better.

Having different problems in different places is actually preferable to having the same problems everywhere, because different problems affect different people differently. It gives people choice. If you don't like San Francisco, move to Austin, or New York, or Miami. Whereas if a central authority makes a rule you can't live under there is nowhere to hide.

And even if you stay where you are, it gives you more of a voice, because you aren't being diluted by a constituency so large you can never be heard.
Those only look cheap if unfunded pension obligations are kept off-balance.
Thread hijacking is an easy way to get downvotes. Expect downvotes if you do this again.

About the other submission, some submissions are lucky and some unlucky. Keep trying. (I took a look, it looks too complicated. Do they have a working prototype?)

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I watched the video. It shows a device to produce plasma. Fluorescent lamps also use plasma, so I'm not impressed.

It is not a working prototype, it is just an experiment. They should show a device that can create a self sustainable reaction without being plugged in, and release energy. Specially because it is a low energy nuclear reaction (aka cold fusion) that is an area with a very shady history.

The video has some claims like "Energy density analogous to the Sun" but note that the outer layers of the Sun have a very low density.

The main result is that the device gets hot (113°C = 235.4°F), but it is only the temperature of a single spot in a big device running for a long time. Why don't they keep the temperature stable for a while?

They reuse the Hydrogen? All of them or a part is lost in fusion?

I also read the link in Science and Technology > Theory and is has a huge disclaimer and then three theories that are unrelated to how the device work and that have no experimental support and have very little support in the community.
> It seems like most people familiar with it have internalized its conventions to such a degree, that they can only describe it in the most broad and unspecific of strokes.

Let's see if I got the Urbit sales script down:

The internet and conventional computing are broken. The only way for people to regain control over their digital lives is to completely reinvent them. Urbit is that reinvention, a distributed platform that gives you a personal cloud that's as easy to manage as your smartphone.
Problem is lately many banking app required you to use non-root phone, at least in my country. There used to be workaround, but it is not work anymore.

I have Redmi phone and I hates it as soon as I found that there is ads in their rom. It's so disappointing. I mean, other Chinese brand have their own crapware yes, but ads?

I then flash my phone to pure Pixel rom and never been happier, until the bank app incident happened. So I have to use their original rom for now until I get a new phone.

No matter how rave the Mi phone review be, or how it is great 'bang for the bucks' brand, I will never touch their phone again.
The post is a topic that discusses tech. The commenter discussed eating advice to “avoid getting fat” that is plainly unbelievable to people who experience weight gain following said advice and who don’t benefit from being told to starve themselves more or be more hyper aware of the fact that it doesn’t matter how little they eat they gain weight. The post had nothing to do with getting fat.

Of course I’m welcome to ignore everything that makes me feel bad for gaining weight but it’s shitty to be gaining weight and told it’s my fault for eating too much when I barely eat.
Angular hasn't gone anywhere. AngularJS did.
Where exactly are you getting “keeping people impoverished” from? Is the assumption they will try and fail? What is forcing them to fail and therefor stay impoverished? The entire point is to move from having nothing to having something. Either you’re born into it, or someone who’s already earned it gives it to you.

I’m not going to bother with the other part of your comment as your clearly biased but I’ll assume you’re not insinuating that things magically happen without hard work, that just sounds silly.
Related, I noticed what looked like coronavirus censorship, from Google, when I tried to search for any constitutional analysis of the shelter at home orders back in March. I was curious and just wanted to know. I assumed I would find posts from UCLA, Harvard, anything, but there was almost nothing. Bing/DuckDuckGo gave a full page of results, the top few being reputable sources.

Searching now, everything looks normal.

I assume it was the result of an automated filter seeing a bunch of bad actors posting about the topic, rather than a conscious action, but it was interesting seeing how inaccessible the information became, at the time.
> In general this is against our principles. We prefer to teach people how to use powerful tools rather than make less powerful tools that are easier to use.

I agree deeply with the ethos this statement represents. It's hard for me to formulate at the moment what I think this "ethos" is exactly, but I think it's really important. I'll try to explain by example. I think we should favor manpages over Stack Overflow, documentation over Google, composable CLI tools over monolithic IDEs, etc. I think that every engineer on a team should have read the most popular O'Reilly book (or some equivalent) for each of the tools the team works with. Of course, these "rules" are not commandments and we should always strive to be prudent.

Sometimes I'm accused of being cranky for these sorts of opinions, and I guess I might be, but I also see so much time and money wasted because nobody in an organization understands basic tools like SSH or how to use systemd.

The other day there was a developer tool on the front page of hacker news that lets you "run apps in the cloud from the comfort of your own editor". This is in my opinion a sign of the techpocalypse.

Edit: s/UPPERCASE/italics/
This looks great! Any plans for Gitlab integration?
By Bayesian methods I mean methods which also describe everything with statistical distributions including hyperparameters, and which solve for a distribution (or some hard-to-get feature of it like its mean or confidence intervals), instead of just a maximum probability estimate where you can make shortcuts.

For example Ridge regression where you put a gaussian prior on the predictor then guess at its variance as a hyperparameter for a quadratic penalty (with cross validation or something) is MAP but not actually "Bayesian". Bayesians also put a prior distribution on the hyperparameter itself making life extra difficult.

I agree it's an awkward definition but it does differentiate between the easy tricks and the tough approaches Bayesian researchers actually work on.

Even in deep learning it's simple to put a penalty term on the loss or weights for that matter, so you could call it a MAP estimate. That's implemented everywhere. For that matter you can claim any neural net classifier with a sigmoid or softmax at the final layer is doing logistic regression. With multilayer networks just adding a representation learning stage to it.

As I said cheers to statistics, just that stopping at MAP estimates will cover most everything. If one goes looking for a Bayesian methods text or review article it will be well beyond that.

By scaling problems I basically the fact that monte carlo doesn't work in large numbers of dimensions, where the parameters of the joint distribution of everything are vast.
Omg, my eyes hurt. Do you use it? If yes, mind giving a use case where its useful?
If the pre-mixed powder goes stale, is that also a problem for the other spices you'd use to make it 'fresh'? Just wondering because I don't see how that fixes the problem, unless there's some interaction between the ingredients.

I guess one benefit is you can put more of a particular spice in if it lost its zing.

I'm speaking from someone who uses ground spices in jars/bags, I typically don't use fresh (apart from nutmeg).
I had the opposite experience. One of the many good practices unit testing encourages is encapsulation. With encapsulation and mocking during testing, there is very little chance of a cascade affect when changing a method or doing some refactoring.
The first three letters of "FOOD" are "FOO", so it's related to Lisp, because "FOO" is a meta-syntactic variable commonly used in Lisp expressions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
We knew this for about two months, and now they are posting it on April 29.
These PCR tests are overly precise and pick up dead bodies of RNA chains of length 600. The whole chain is 32K. But when cut into pieces by the immune reaction it's still being picked up and falsely flagged as active. So people were falsely worried that they could get reinfected and infect others. Those claims constantly showed up on fake national news.
You don't understand how shadow banning works. "Seem to be"? Yeah, those are the uncertain words of someone claiming knowledge they do not have, but falsely pretend to represent.

If you knew for certain, it would not "seem", but rather, you would present the facts with concrete certainty.

My account is getting replies and upvoted on various threads.

I am sorry that you are so weak in resolve that a person's criticism, opinion, or disagreement irks you.

You must be one of those bay area snow flakes.
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Wow, according to the shouselaw link (and I’m paraphrasing a lot here) you’ll still need to go through the criminal record wringer if you want to be:

- a teacher (or work with children);

- a court worker or police officer; or

- a farm laborer.

I wonder what the story is with that last one? Did a bunch of farmers pay for that to be included in the list, or (less likely) is it there for some reason to protect the laborers?
Would you agree that their college education was a waste of time and money?
If students were able to escape the debt by bankruptcy, the Treasury might not be allowed to buy the loans. Don't they have to invest in safe stuff?
> I see that you have not read either GPL. 3: ”... nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License." And 2: "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works".

Neither of those state that it is not a contract.

> I see that you also do not understand revocation. Your license rights under the GPL are, indeed, revoked if you violate it. GPL 3 spells out both temporary and permanent revocations.

Sorry, I was unclear. When I wrote "A non-exclusive license is revocable in the absence of consideration" I should have been more specific. It should have read "A non-exclusive license is revocable at will by the licensor in the absence of consideration".

> I see that you do not understand mutuality. There is no mutuality, in contract terms, if I or my agent have not communicated with you or your agent

A contract can be formed with one way communication. See, for example, shrink wrap software licenses where there is communication from the licensor via the text of the offered license, but no communication back from the licensee. ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996) was the major case in this area.
Looking at popular SQL databases (you know who you are!), NULL == '' seems pretty awkward to me, too!
Ah, yes, some stuff is cached :) but it doesn't do much, we kind of cache it on principle. An example that makes more of a difference is the git SSH pipeline.
To take the counter point, it’s almost unacceptable to be a conservative in today’s world when those in academia, journalism, and politics label anyone with a ‘right of center’ stance as a nazi. Most colleges have become eco chambers of today’s youth too scared to entertain or even hear a viewpoint that differs from theirs.

Opening the door to major platforms (billion plus DAU) determining when media Is spreading false information will do more harm than good.
Sadly only sometimes.
The other public health crisis
What you've described is exactly what I like about it! Just nice visible text, interactive elements are very evident, your eye goes in the right direction, and there's "nothing special" about it.

The tips you've provided are how not to screw up an excellent design. Not how to get an excellent design to begin with.
You can now buy 8 empty airline seats for social distancing
I don't think your first sentence says what you think it does...
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They don’t ask you for a list of accounts, typically. They would check a report from one of the major credit reporting agencies, so, if it doesn’t show up there, they’d probably never see it.