skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”This article is more than 6 years old”

At that time Google’s motto was still “Do no evil”...
> Every country that has a constitution has a mechanism to modify it

Sure, NOW that's standard. At the time, it was not.

> the US Constitution is set up in a way that its most severe flaws can't be fixed

This isn't a flaw at all. It is meant to ensure the broad geographic consensus is required to make fundamental changes.

Reducing the political power of rural communities might be popular today among urban communities, but it is a recipe for escalating division and ultimately rebellion.

There is great value in giving out-sized political power to remote colonies and communities. Further centralizing power in the capitals is a path to fascism.
The scooter division was bikes & scooters
> Question: Assuming an electron has consciousness, what experiment would you attempt to falsify that?

This is the question that the article ends on -- the philosophers are entertaining the notion and looking for a testable hypothesis.

We're talking about a 1-qubit Turing test, essentially. I'm not about to take a position yay or nay, (I'm a mathematician, goddammit).

For an apparatus, we could capture individual electrons in a ring of magnetic bottles. Perform tests on individuals in the chambers, advance them in a "shift register" fashion, and repeat. Do any individuals show behavior that differentiates them? A clear signal of individuality would be a real shocker.

One thing we use for macroscopic beings is a "mirror test" -- can an electron recognize itself in a mirror? Again, sounds absurd, but the general question is considered an acceptable proof of consciousness.
And that wasn't even the craziest slide of the presentation.

"Information Revolution - Happiness for Everyone"

I had to wipe the coffee off my screen.
Anybody have a link?
So you're saying Uber is a luxury. So it's not essential.
Discovered Technology Before Themselves (2011)
might bring about reverse ageism and balance things a bit
Can they test every employee at the start of work and every patron of every business. Can they do that in a fashion where those awaiting results are isolated such that they can't infect others if they are sick? Are people physically distancing themselves and properly wearing masks?

If the answer is no to any of those questions then there's not enough testing to help prevent the spread of disease. Seeing there's no meaningful herd immunity to the virus and no vaccine available if there's no controls on infections the hospitalization rate of the virus will overwhelm hospitals.

The reason for shutdown orders is to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. COVID-19 is really infectious and has a high hospitalization rate. These two factors combined can very quickly cause ICU resources to hit capacity. Once that happens people die at even higher rates than otherwise. A lot of people in Italy died because ICU resources hit capacity.

You can test a million people today but unless all of those people are quarantined from the rest of the population you'll need to test them again tomorrow as they may have become infected in the meantime. Even if COVID-19's mortality and hospitalization rate was low it's still a serious illness and mass infections would still shut businesses down. A majority of causes people are down for weeks with the disease. They're not going to be able to work so if you have a cluster at a meat packing plant it'll still be effectively shut down.
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Even if a tool should not have been written, the ability to troubleshoot it is still critical to its consumers. And making hundreds of dependent teams spend a month migrating is easily more expensive than 3 headcount to maintain it.
Something similar to this is already happening. I've seen at least two restaurants in my area selling their food as groceries.
A List of Free courses on Flutter app development for beginners
> I've always mused that we could somehow recover some of the "wasted" time of sleeping. 8 hours every night - a third of a human's lifespan - is just so much time

8 hours - I wish!

Since starting freelancing full time I've been lucky enough to not need to get up at any particular time and ditched the alarm clock - but unlucky enough to find out that it takes me around 9-10 hours of sleep to wake up naturally.

Unfortunately, after getting used to it, waking to alarm now feels like torture (well, it did before too, now that I think about it).

So much time. Every day.
To be clear, by “This is hysteria” I meant the gp’s claim that every healthcare system is overwhelmed. I was not referring to the general response.

However, see Sweden for a clear counter-example to your claim that the services are holding up because of the drastic actions taken. Their services are holding up with far less drastic measures.
Read the 4th and 5th paragraphs of the article, starting with "Blame broken supply chains"
Someone made a pin-compatible Controller Pak with FRAM that doesn't require a battery. Has layout files too.

http://www.qwertymodo.com/hardware-projects/n64/nonvolatile-...
By default, similar field as screens, keyboards, and mouses. A rather advanced peripheral to some other computer.
Being that Alameda County (and neighboring Santa Clara County) have the highest number of COVID cases in the Bay Area[1], I would argue that their response was not overblown and likely had numbers to back why they were being aggressive.

[1] https://abc7news.com/bay-area-coronavirus-update-california-...
Because it is the best option? Maybe evolution?
A selling point in comparison to what? A "one evening project" installation doesn't seem to be all that amazing by any standard, in my opinion.
Every Covid-19 symptom, visualized from head to toe
Could this be forked out by LineageOS?
Design cybersecurity to wear in, not wear out
I'm not sure if this list of banned words is treated the same way as "共匪" in all cases, but "共匪" is on this list:

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2012/jun/all-blocked-keywords-...
Have you thought about giving LineageOS a spin? It has a built in terminal with sudoer rights available
It certainly does not seem to be in the interest of the current US government.

To answer your question:

Protecting a whistleblower's identity is in the interest of US society as a whole. It protects the individual somewhat from persecution which in turn encourages people to blow the whistle on illegal activities, thus benefiting society.
Surely no offers can be made during this period redundancies and consultation.
Why would anyone want a tablet if a laptop is an option?
But first we need to breed the yaks
To read that quote differently:

1981 • Jack Welch becomes CEO • $1.29
2001 • Jack Welch retires • $37.20 (down from its peak of near $60.00 in mid 2000)
2020 • Nearly 20 years post Jack Welch • $6.28.

20 years of Jack Welch - +2,800% increase
20 years after Jack Welch - -83% decrease
I wrote a 64 bit random number generator in C. I didn't think much of it, it's only pseudo random.
Reminded me of Anti-Grain [1].

[1] http://agg.sourceforge.net/antigrain.com/index.html.
The motive is there, but the evidence is not. For all we know, the mysterious device behavior could have been the NSA itself, if only trying to delete any files that were on insecure devices. It obviously could be foreign actors too, but there is nothing in the empty NSA statement to inform that possibility. The best way to view such a statement is simple misdirection / public relations.
I don't like Markdown for non-technical users.

On Reddit, I frequently see mistakes caused by Markdown behaving unexpectedly. Common problems include:

- "How old are you?" "52." gets renumbered into "How old are you?" "1.".

- People using single linebreaks for poetry and song lyrics, and being confused when they get collapsed into a single line.

GitHub Flavored Markdown _does_ fix both these problems, but for some reason, regular Markdown is a lot more common, even when targeting non-technical users.
I prefer Flask and I agree. However there is a big difference. If you learn how to turn flask into that crappy version of Django, you will thank yourself because you know what choices the Django Devs took. You will know what each section of a Django project is, and why it is that way, or how you can make it follow something nonstandard.

I have interviewed plenty of flask and Django Devs, and usually, the Django Devs reply to some of my questions is usually "that's how Django does it"

That is a poor, poor answer.
Does the Rift S send its camera feeds to the PC for controller tracking or does it do it onboard and send the tracked controller locations?

Perhaps the onboard hardware is capable of controller tracking as sold, but not powerful enough to enable Quest-style hand tracking. What if in addition to that, the camera data for one reason or another can't be piped over USB to the computer, either because it's missing the hardware that would do the encoding, or because there isn't enough bandwidth on the cable?

As I recall, the original Rift's outside-in tracking was extremely picky about having separate USB 3 ports for each of its tracking cameras, to the point where if you had a three-camera setup it didn't even want them on ports handled by the same USB controller on the motherboard.

Now we're saying "The Rift-S has five cameras and it's connected to the computer, surely it can just let the computer process that data." I doubt it's that easy.
Depends on whether you have bothered to open them up and remove the hardware-based firmware write protect. The process is highly device-dependent, and seems to be entirely undocumented for many Chromebooks and other ChromeOS devices. YMMV.
Why is impostor syndrome seemingly more common- or discussed more frequently- in software engineering compared to other STEM disciplines and other white collar professions in general?
The intermediates between the farms and the grocery stores were closed by law, for the most part
> i7-6700k because single core performance has remained relatively flat

Well, it hasn't improved tremendously, but it hasn't remained flat. You can get around 20% more in single core performance, if it's so important to you.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cinebench_r15_si...
Or we can infect humans with human coronavirus to boost immunity against covid-19.
Does anyone know if the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, combined with a 3600x, is able to power a 4k monitor at 60hz?

Note: this is NOT for gaming. Just everyday workflow and dev environments in 4k, 60hz.
The premise of 'screwing over their employer' is what is broken here. This is the narcissistic viewpoint of a small business owner who sees dollars already counted as his own going into someone else's pocket. No well managed business is running at such a tight margin that it can't afford to meet its obligations to its employees. The employer is only getting screwed in the sense that the owner can't buy a new boat this year.
I guess we're on a tangent now but maybe it's an interesting exercise.

>the parent clearly felt that the phrase being perjorative was tied to it being censored.

How do you come to this conclusion? In my view the comment is not implying anything at all, it is merely translating (not only using a direct translation but also conveying the implications of the phrase "communist bandit"). The word "pejorative" adds to the translation. There is nothing in the original comment that says anything about censorship at all.
Friday in San Francisco is Saturday in Asia which means there's probably a layoff on Monday in Asia.

However a Monday layoff in San Francisco means a Tuesday layoff in Asia which won't be separated by a weekend.
Worth pointing out that Uber is no longer a unicorn. It is a large publicly traded corporation with a market cap of $58B. I suppose you're asking your question about large tech companies generally, not so much unicorns? Most unicorns are still quite small (revenue and employee count-wise) relative to large publicly traded corporations like Uber and the FANGs.
By that argument aren't the controllers experiencing more latency on RiftS than Quest already? I realize there is more post-processing with hand tracking, but given that it already experiences the latency of having to process the control actions... not really sure how this could affect it that much.

Also, you could argue the hand tracking calculations could be done faster on a PC, so even if there is some perceived latency it could balance out or be better... would really need numbers for all of this, but it does just seem very suspect that they are trying to push more things on the Quest intentionally..
I did uberman in grad school, kept it up for a few months. It technically did give me more hours in the day, however most of that free time was spent on either making sure my schedule was arranged well enough for my sleep times, or sitting around reading a book quietly at 3am because everyone else including my roommate is asleep and all businesses are closed.

The benefits weren't really as pronounced as I was hoping for. Then if you end up missing one of your scheduled sleep times it really effects you and throws you off for a day or two.
> because it's dense with information.

It also appears to be dense with misinformation.
source https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...
> in most (not all, most) practical work, it doesn't turn out to be that important

shrug Once upon a time, when I did simulation work, chaotic effects were everywhere.

To see if perhaps my views were unusual, I did a search and found https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK305903/ - "Assessing the Use of Agent-Based Models for Tobacco Regulation", "Appendix B - Agent-Based Models for Policy Analysis"

"An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational simulation model of a many-agent system that captures the behaviors of the system’s autonomous agents and their interactions with each other. An ABM is a computational instantiation of a complex adaptive system (CAS). A CAS is a dynamic model that represents individual agents and their collective behavior"

That describes the Imperial College model.

"ABMs are nonlinear models; highly nonlinear is the usual term. Deterministic nonlinear models have three characteristics that make them difficult to use statistically:

" * Sensitive dependence on initial conditions: A map exhibits sensitive dependence on initial conditions at x0 if there is some distance d > 0 such that no matter how close to x0 another initial point x′0 is chosen, xt and x′t will eventually be at least distance d apart.

" * Complicated limit dynamics: The limit behavior of typical linear dynamic systems is simple: Either the system converges to a steady state from any initial conditions, or they blow up, diverging to infinity. Nonlinear dynamical systems have much more complicated dynamics, including stable limit cycles of various periodicities, strange attractors, and chaotic behavior.

" * Sensitive dependence on parameters: Small changes in parameter values can lead to abrupt changes in the qualitative character of system dynamics.

This is in alignment with my understanding of the issues. These are well-known, and I have difficulty understanding your background enough to not have faced them before. Perhaps since your intuition is based on experiences which are distant from this sort of modeling, you can't use your experience as a guideline?

You wrote:

> it's normal good practice in stochastic code to add a "deterministic from seed" mode

There's nothing in the bug report that you linked to which suggests that the result is not "deterministic from seed" on single-threaded code, so long as you repeat the re-run the code exactly.

The reported non-determinism was not a result of re-running the code exactly, but of running it in a slightly different state.

With this sort of model, "Small changes in parameter values can lead to abrupt changes in the qualitative character of system dynamics." Which is reasonable because in real-life we also expect that small changes in how things turn out may lead to 'abrupt changes in the qualitative character of system dynamics'.
> ... the text of the license itself ...

I'd like to refer you again to the three links I cited in my parent post.

> ... the fact that people still use MongoDB

That is no basis for legality. If we're to use popularity as a measure, I'd refer to my classic argument about the popularity of competing religions that each denounce the other.

> I think what you meant to say was ...

No. As I've been saying all along in this thread, the license is legally-unenforceable. But you seem to be insistent on this other point, so I'll take the bait, for now, and hopefully I'll do a good enough job of illustrating my point this time.

> "I cannot provide MongoDB as a service without open sourcing the rest of what I use directly to provide that service"

1. "open sourcing" != releasing under the SSPL, which is what's demanded by the SSPL. The SSPL is not an open source license.

2. "... use directly to provide that service": this falls under contract law, not copyright law. Licenses fall under copyright law, not contract law. Licenses dictating terms beyond the scope of the copyrighted work, which is what the SSPL does, is copyright abuse and legally invalid. Copyleft licenses, including the GPL family, work strictly within copyright law; the terms they dictate apply only to the copyrighted work. Yes, derivatives of copyrighted work fall under the same copyright. No, "... use directly to provide that service" does not qualify as derivative work and thus does not fall under the copyright of the original work.

> ... didn’t have a lawyer look at the license (ie write the thing).

Lawyers across the world write legal briefs, notices, claims, affidavits, contracts etc. and lose all the time. Simply being written by a lawyer does not make something valid or correct.

> If it was as horrrible and perilous as you say, they couldn’t use it because all the lawyers of all the other companies who use Mongo would get up in arms.

Most users of MongoDB do not do carry out due diligence before using it anyway, or, historically, MongoDB wouldn't have had as many users in the first place. For a neutral example: companies and institutions across the world use pirated works all the time, and not because they actively want to tempt legal trouble.

> The only “safety” you lose is that of owning the copyright to closed source software ...

This is not how open source licenses work — open source licenses do not confer ownership of copyright by mere usage — so I don't know what your point is. Perhaps you were confused by how MongoDB has in the past demanded (and probably still does) copyright transfer before accepting contributions from outside, but, I assure you, that has nothing to do with open source licensing.
Oh, they know. They have to know server utilisation to be able to bill their cloud customers and I bet they have even better data for themselves.
I think he/she is saying that announcing bad news on a Friday usually helps because it mitigates the amount of negative coverage it would receive from the media. Announcing on a Monday then seems unusual from a PR perspective.
Thought experiment: Google controls 90% of the search market, the 10% (or 1%, whatever) they don't serve being made up of people who are oppressed in some way by the 90%, deliberately or otherwise.

Google censors information relating to that 10% for everyone else. They don't care enough to switch.

Centralization is an issue _a priori_. It's giving power to a single entity that we have no reason to trust will act in everyone's best interests.
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> It tends to be a fabrication of people miscalculating

No: salaries are obviously higher.

Cost of living can be also higher and quality of life depends on that and many other things.

Incidentally, I know a number of engineers who turn down offers to move to the US.
I think the issue is that YouTube wants to be seen as the "creator" for the content they distribute, and therefore, all content must not contradict the brand image of Google.

Alternatively, YouTube needs to put more emphasis and responsibility on the reputation of content creators and make it such that their reputation gains them visibility over time. A creator with 20 years of community determined honest reporting, should be featured more prominently than a channel that is new or has a controversial history.
Not sure what country you live in, but’s it pretty hard to game this. You have a fixed number of weeks. And it’s pretty hard to fake having a baby.

People should get the same benefits even if they plan to quit after, which would address the issue of people quitting after.

If you’re against social insurance as a whole though, then opposition to maternity leave makes sense.
I did some digging and it is pretty solid to me. It's sad that Walker did not respond to this.
It seems like the author tested rote activities that were well within their comfort zone; I'd be curious to see how well they'd perform when trying to learn something new or work at something that they hadn't practiced before.
Alternatively you can install the f-droid privilege extension module in magisk.
It's "Don't be evil" and it's still in the code of conduct:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

- https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
Race, for example, is entirely defined by genetics and interpretation. The former is not mutable, and it doesn't matter that the latter is mutable.

It's like the difference between blue and green. The boundary is a social construct, but the way an object reflects light is an immutable characteristic. No matter what you classify an object as, you're making that decision based on an immutable characteristic.
>) Fixing a Windows problem can involve having to go into the registry, which can't be copy/pasted and is extremely difficult AND dangerous. (There probably IS a way to copy/paste it, but I don't know it).

You absolutely can copy/paste registry edits.

You paste the edit in a plain text .reg file and let the system patch it in for you.

[1]https://www.howtogeek.com/382727/what-is-a-reg-file-and-how-...
Texture memory (TMEM) is very special and fast, so it tends to be expensive stuff, at least back then, and it's balanced together with the rest of the architecture, like the bandwidth the RDP has, DMA copies from main mem -> TMEM, and so on. It would have changed quite a lot of the underlying architecture to increase it to 8KB, and might not have been worth it. You couldn't have increased texture resolution by simply increasing memory without changing a significant part of the architecture elsewhere (e.g. RDP fill rates). Most textures used during draws on the N64 don't even fill up the 4KB texture memory.
LMMS (https://lmms.io/) is a full blown DAW that's only 33MB as well
Sounds like Postmates.
This is one of those times I feel like the cell networks (or other network) should broadcast an accurate time without the need for an account/SIM and a cheap chip to receive it. I would say there's a lot of medical facilities that don't want to connect their equipment to the internet for time information and for good reason.
I am opposed to censorship, and I disagree with your claim. This qualifies as "hate speech". It's derogatory, its directed at a specific group of people, and it can foster animosity. That the group is a political party is not material.
Part of that is that the average age of participants on the internet has dropped very significantly since mobile applications become ubiquitous.