skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that video has been posted to HN twice, but didn't attract any comments either time, sadly.

I don't have the energy to watch a 90 minute talk, but some skipping around finds a bit more detail about what is in the plan:

https://youtu.be/vvZA9n3e5pc?t=1299

The theme seems to be giving the operator of the computer a lot more control - eliminating opaque binary blobs, exposing the hardware more directly, etc. I can't tell if this is a particular bee in the founders' bonnets, or a real market demand, or if they know about some scary threat they can't talk about.

Whilst this is definitely cool, and something that will get a lot of people on HN super pumped, it doesn't sound like something any company i have worked at would really care about. Unless these machines also deliver significantly better performance. But then, those companies were not hyperscalers.
There's no hate on the offering itself. Hertz would be negligent if they didn't tap a source of interest free funding at the lowest position in the bankruptcy repayment. They saw the demand for their stock and took advantage.

The hate is on the "investors" yes but I don't hate them. It is just that if they really thought auto rentals were going to rebound there are plenty of other opportunities out there that are currently not bankrupt. But hey, they aren't "99% off" like Hertz is.
The Senate GOP has explicitly said that it treats qualified immunity as a poison pill. The only way legislators will legislate is if the GOP loses its Senate majority in November.

https://www.axios.com/tim-scott-police-reform-bill-qualified...
But is sexual preference a protected class?

It really boils down to whether sexual preference is viewed as "being attracted to the other or the same" or "being attracted to men or women." The former uses the sex of a person to discriminate, while the latter does not.
I think Google Meet will probably continue to gain traction and might eventually kill Zoom.

* integration with Google calendar, private Google accounts and GSuite

* no problems handling large numbers of participants
Lens (The Kubernetes IDE) v3.5
I use coturn. Find installation details here https://github.com/holtwick/briefing/blob/master/app/INSTALL...
You make valid points. But for years malicious Flash applets were one of the primary ways malware was delivered over the web. For IT departments, unless a user absolutely needed it, it was removed from their system. There was a time where it seemed like there were new critical vulnerabilities in Flash every week, and it was a nightmare to keep up with. Security, or lack thereof, contributed greatly to its demise.
If it's of such low value that it's being discontinued and all the browser vendors are blocking it; why not open source?
Thank you. I seem to keep "independently" reinventing WebMention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097466

There are probably a few pieces missing beyond WebMention to make a decentralised pseudonymous reputation/voting system, but you're right that I should follow the IndieWeb stuff more closely.
Software service providers certainly do implement features requested directly by clients.
Just be careful during the regeneration. CO2 is toxic at high concentrations.
You touch on an interesting point on the continuing amassing of power around corporations. ICE was created by people who were voted on by the populace. A corporation refusing to work with a legal entity really shows just how much power corporations now have.

Github refuses to work with ICE today and hypothetically tomorrow will only host code for Democrats? I'm certainly no fan of ICE, but I'm also not sure I like ceding even more control to corporations. Perhaps I'm naive in thinking we can still fix the US through voting.
Slippery slope is a logical “fallacy”, just like ad hominems or mistaking correlation with causation, to name two examples that, for reasons escaping me, are pointed out incessantly on HN while the former rarely is.
I wish people didn't downvote this. I've spent time in the South Dakota Reservations, and if you've seen those, you would know what I'm talking about.
I have: https://public-inbox.org/git/4c08e1a0-db64-5d7d-493f-54c68ee...
Seems rather cut-throat. If this type of thing becomes the norm, then the market will just end up with a conservative or apolitical github. Progress?
Most projectors are throwing at some angle. For example, the bottom of the image is further away than the top is. Like my projector lens is in line with the top edge of my screen, and works just fine. Most projectors have some way of compensating for this skew.

I would think if you mounted it vertically on a wall, it would be fine. You would still want it centered horizontally though.
Thank you.

I was worried it was going to be like the salmonella thing where it turned out washing a chicken* is terrible advice because it spreads it everywhere and so it turns out that every time I wash my hands after handling deliveries, I'm now covering my kitchen with Covid sauce. I'm very happy that's not the case.

* I've never washed a chicken, but I've definitely seen and heard the advice before.
Trading derivatives which are essentially a form of insurance on assets they had plenty of inside dope to know where rotten.
FDA revokes use of Hydroxychloroquine for covid19
You owe your broker if you trade on margin
There is nothing illegal about keeping your own money private, and requiring that a lawful warrant be issued for you to reveal your full financial activity. The warrant must also be issued with probable cause. It's questionable whether merely using a CoinJoin is probable cause - and given how prolific CoinJoins will be for perfectly legal uses, I can see many magistrates requiring more than just a CoinJoin to issue warrants. Different jurisdictions may have a different opinion, and will see their economies suffer as a result.

In the USA, you are protected from government overreach of your possessions by the fourth amendment. Some places have already declared bitcoin to be property.

> The rest of your post is just more nonsense. If people found they couldn't exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat, HODL would be a thing of the past, and black market uses would also drop because people don't want bitcoin for itself. BTC is dead without conversion being available.

If you have no background in Austrian economics it may sound like nonsense. Mainstream economics thinks that economies are influenced top-down. The outside perspective ignores that the majority of hodlers have a very low time preference and treat Bitcoin as a long term saving, perhaps even a pension strategy. No early adopters ever expected Bitcoin to grow as rapidly as it did, but many held on anyway. They don't intend to convert back to fiat because they have a firm belief that they won't need to - enough people will desire Bitcoin in the long run that they won't have much trouble acquiring services or goods in exchange for Bitcoin in future, and their purchasing power may be increased too. (So far, has increased beyond their wildest imagination, before governments have even decided what they want to classify it as. Regulation never had anything to do with it.)

Your belief that Bitcoiners can't wait to convert back to dollars is absurd. If you take a look at the value of a dollar relative to Bitcoin[1], then it's quite clear that HODLers aren't merely investing in bitcoin, they're divesting in dollars. Bitcoin is the escape route from a failing fiat system, and some are just ahead of the curve.

While there is a market for exchange, the market will be filled, whether it is KYC exchanges or black markets. People will mostly chose the one which is cheapest, which is currently the KYC exchanges. Increased red tape will increase the costs of exchange, and the black market will fill the gap.

[1]:https://i.imgur.com/GgPNbyx.png
You're correct regarding the law, but I wouldn't be so quick to claim it's not as bad. Suppose a business refused to serve union activists? Environmentalists? Feminists? Suppose many large businesses did so?
In principle, it is possible. A tilt-shift camera can bring any plane in focus, so running it in reverse will project the image sharply on your ceiling.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt–shift_photography for cameras. https://www.projectorcentral.com/Understanding-Lens-Offset-a... learnt me that you can buy projectors that use this method. I suspect that back-projecting televisions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-projection_television) often use it, too.
FaceTime? That's probably the closest to what you're looking for. It's end-to-end encrypted, runs on (Apple) phones and computers (which is its biggest weakness for this use-case), does not require joining a "community", and is dead-easy to use. Signal is also great and doesn't require an iPhone, although you have to convince everyone to install the app.

Everything in this space is a trade-off, unfortunately. To my knowledge, there's no open-source, end-to-end encrypted, decentralized, peer-to-peer, mobile-friendly, and easy-to-use audio/video calling platform.

Assuming that the solution is end-to-end encrypted, I'm not too worried about it being OSS or P2P. For non-technical friends and family, the mobile-friendly part is far more important. Even mobile-only is probably fine for this particular purpose.
> if I declare to a random employee that I plan on using it to do a lynching on my local colored neighbors? Yes, they will. Does that make Home Depot an immoral organization? Nope.

I'd hope (and expect!) that home depot employees would ask you to leave if you made those statements while trying to purchase rope.
Just so you know, this is part of a larger tutorial at https://osblog.stephenmarz.com where I write a RISC-V operating system using Rust.

Let me know if you have any questions!
Also, In the article I believe the reasoning is outlined that given you wouldn't fire a woman for dating a man, then firing a man for dating a man is discriminating on he basis of sex. The behavior alone isn't objectionable, it's only when sex comes into play that you start discriminating which cases are ok and which aren't.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding job-titles, but how does a 32 y.o. become the senior manager of global intelligence and moreover a 26 y.o. the company’s manager of global intelligence center. I mean the job descriptions sound like their are one level below the directors (also considering the two directors involved). Considering that the 26 y.o. was 25 last year, she would have been out of uni maybe 2 years ago? Is that normal?
Scientists Trigger Hibernation in Mice
It doesn't take a weapon to kill someone. A blow to the head can be fatal. And as we recently saw in the case of George Floyd, positional asphyxiation and/or choking can be fatal, too.

When considering whether or not the use of deadly force was justified in a given situation, the lack of a weapon isn't the trump card indicating the force was not justified that many people think it is.
Indeed, and it was always a security disaster delivered as a closed blob. More so than today because there was no sandbox.
Mapping the Growing Ecosystem of Community Tools
This is generally why shopping sales/discounts as a first-order criteria is not great for value. Find some acceptable parts first, then price hunt those parts.
However, as long as someone isn’t betting their life savings on this I don’t see or take any issue with it.

...

Thai Gaon, a 23-year-old salesman in San Francisco, bought 35,000 Hertz shares on June 4 at $1.43, spending a little over $50,000, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

“It was my entire life savings,” he said. “I decided, you know, if I’m gonna do it, I should do it big, and I’ll make a play and see what comes out of it.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-12/if-you...
GREs are accepted by some Canadian graduate admissions departments, but generally not required.
Absolutely.

And that was a bit obvious in the late 80's. Somewhat obvious in the 90's. Very obvious in the early 2000's.
"Black Ops Matter"
> I would say both parties have enough blame to go around.

There's only one party preventing discussion or a vote. This both-sides-are-the-same rhetoric is both patently false and a disservice to the American public.
Criminals are not a "minority group".

Due process is the method that a society uses to determine whether people should be punished. The concentration camps under discussion do not hold people who have been adjudicated and condemned; they hold people who have been accused.
Sure, I wouldn't want anyone denying me service because they disagree with how I dress or other actions that are otherwise harmless. That being said, there is an incredibly wide divide between "I casually disapprove of your actions, but I will serve you anyway" and "your actions serve to strategically terrorize, harm, and silence minorities and those without the ability to effectively defend or represent themselves, and I will serve you anyway despite knowing that my service will strengthen your ability to do so."
As do Intel[1] and Nvidia[2].

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...
Re: monopoly - Isn't MS Teams pretty popular?
Yeah, that's a good question. I think that's why this case upsets me. I want to live in a world where, as another commenter put it, executives will think twice before taking actions that they know their employees won't like. Because they should know that employees have power, and a voice, and must be listened to.

In this case, there's no way the executives can sanely take the requested action. It'd be terribly damaging to their business. (I may be wrong about this, but it's what I would think if I were an executive).

So now if I'm an executive, I have to roll my eyes at the protesting employees. They lose credibility. I'll know that next time I do something they ask for, they'll just ask me for something I can't do.

That's what bums be out.
I think that's rewriting history a bit. The decline certainly didn't begin with Apple's decision. Apple saw where things were headed, and jumped on (an early) bandwagon. Everyone already hated and was avoiding flash at that point. I hope in a few years people don't start saying that Apple killed Flash, as I remember specifically that was not what happened at that time.
Flash also didn't live a natural life. In an ecosystem of incresingly open web standards and interoperation, it was a closed-source single-owner multimedia time-synchronized event-driven content engine embedded in what increasingly became an ecosystem of open-source multiemdia time-synchronized event-driven content engines owned by multiple companies.

Flash ended up with a closed-source economic model of "Maintain a bunch of forks of our engine for every platform, hope people keep paying us for the dev tools" and it became a losing gamble.
> The insured has a duty to disclose everything that is or would be material to the insurer, even if that information is known only to the insured.

I wrote a super long comment below, but on a more fundamental level... how?

Especially for something like travel insurance. Anyone the average consumer gets to talk to about a travel insurance policy is going to be some call center jockey being paid on commission.

In fact, my insurance agent sold me a home insurance add-on for personal electronics. Their pricing didn't take into account the cost of the covered electronics. Replaced some very expensive hardware after (inevitable) failures. When I purchased the policy, I sent my agent and email pointing out that I has some super expensive electronics, expected short shelf life, and was pretty damn certain that the policy had positive expected value.

The agent straight up asked why I wouldn't buy the policy in that case!

That product was discontinued, of course. The insurance company tried to claw back one of their payments until I showed them my emails with their agent. But the fact that they even tried is... telling. And I'm just lucky they didn't press the issue, because I probably wouldn't have bothered going to court over a few hundred dollars in wasted payments.

There's a fundamental problem with trying to apply this sort of legal doctrine when most consumers are unsophisticated and don't have access to the same data as the insurer. The fact that we only ever get to talk to sales people compounds the problem.
That Fisher Price colored theme though...
That's not someone harnessing neutrinos for their power, that's someone harnessing technobabble for it's ability to separate rubes from their money.

If I'm reading that paper above correctly, which despite its silly premise appears to have been seriously written (by undergrads, but the numbers pass the smell test), neutrinos have ~1/70th the power flux of solar anyhow, assuming you could catch all of them, which you can't.
Most lines of this kind are drawn based on some value we agree on, not any intrinsic rule in physics. The boundary of the atmosphere, earth's crust, the extent of the solar system, etc.
> I am a Hertz Gold member

What's the program they ran that had an annual fee?

They really catered to the business traveler market and if your membership was paid for by a corporate account then their unstated, unofficial policy was that if you could return a car under its own power you'd never be charged for damage.

My wife was a consultant for a construction company many many years ago and had at least 3 cars totaled from being parked near construction sites. She once drove a car with a flat tire for nearly 20 miles to avoid missing a flight. Hertz never batted an eye.
I have many not so fond memories of hitting a specific key sequence to allow loading an hdd controller driver or something like it when installing win2k. But it was miles better than 98se. And wow the contemporaneous ME was such an enormous disaster at the time— still remember one of the other computer nerds in high school espousing the benefits of what he saw as the soon to come “made for Windows ME” games.” Thankfully my dad knew better and saw through the ME hype, sparing the expense and the terribly buggy UX.
There's a lot of 'broken' software that assumed any Windows version number with a 9 in it was made in the 90s. That doesn't mean that we can (nor should) throw out that software.
The need to shift responsibility for legislating back to the legislature is one of the conservative ideals that I strongly agree with, even though I sit on the left hand side of the spectrum.

Currently our system depends on legislating in the executive (EOs & regulatory bodies like the FDA given the power of law) and in the legislature. To my eye this has been an utter disaster; as it has both decoupled the legislating process from voting, and crippled the one deliberative body that citizens have some control over.
When I was fundraising, we talked to a few of these type of funds (IIRC, this exact fund was one of them). It just seemed like worse terms for less money. It's a valid model, but I don't understand the self-righteous marketing.
If you’re referring to the Nazi movement in general, probably the point where they openly campaign against the concept of liberal democracy or use street violence (roughing up opposing groups, smashing windows, attacking/commandeering government facilities) as a means of social protest. Those are all pretty big warning signs that were present in the Nazis long before they seized power let alone built concentration camps.
Every leader the country has had is trash. That doesn't detract from the fact that the current leadership has managed to lower and re-lower the bar. Consistently widening the window of what outrageous behavior is acceptable.
At this point the office of the president is a no holds barred free-for-all and whoever occupies it next will be doing so with a precedent no near zero actionable oversight.
> Would this be considered anti-competitive today?

I think it would have been different if they were allowing other plug-ins to work on mobile Safari. They weren't anti Adobe, they were anti plugins. Flash just happened to be the most visible one in addition to being the most egregious example of what can go wrong with plugins.
> I think hacked versions of Flash are statistically more likely to be secure than the official version, though.

I would think exactly the opposite, primarily because you have no idea who put together that hacked copy. God knows there is already enough malware that pretends to be an update to Adobe Flash.
Or when the company is sold
So is/was AGG
If you think this is crazy check out Bigfoot Project Investments.
I'll stick to cash. The result of not using is the loss of the ability to have 2 party direct money transfers.
It's not interpreting any law.

> A policeman's lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he has probable cause, and being mulcted in damages if he does. Although the matter is not entirely free from doubt, the same consideration would seem to require excusing him from liability for acting under a statute that he reasonably believed to be valid but that was later held unconstitutional, on its face or as applied.

- https://www.leagle.com/decision/1967933386us5471842

There is no law cited, it was just the justices' gut feeling. Courts since then have gradually expanded "reasonably believed to be valid" to mean there must be "precisely factually on-point caselaw" determining the actions are unconstitutional.

Edit: I encourage you to read more about the Supreme Court, it seems like you're not familiar with a lot of its history or why it exists.

> The court can only interpret law, they can't reverse a law just because a majority of people don't like it.

It absolutely can reverse a law. Striking down unconstitutional laws is one of the main reasons it exists.

> If the law hasn't changed since the last time they heard the case, there's no point in them hearing any more cases because there is nothing new to discuss from a legal standpoint.

That is a frequent excuse, but consider two unanimous decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_v._Alabama: a unanimous decision ruling that a law against interracial marriage is constitutional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia: a unanimous decision ruling that a law against interracial marriage is unconstitutional.

The 14th amendment did not change in between these two cases, and the facts of the cases were effectively the same.
This is a bizarre take. The GOP controls the Executive branch and half of the Legislative--2/3 of the lawmaking machinery of the federal government. Dems control 1/3.

The GOP isn't obstructing the Democrat agenda--the American people are.
I bought puts about a month ago, held for week, and sold for a couple hundred gain.

Not sure I'd do it again though. Depends on the timeframe.
You've avoided the question. Suppose that they'd already been on trial for it, found guilty and served their time. Do you sell them the gun, knowing that they intend to use it for violence?

If you showed Home Depot sufficient evidence that you intended to lynch someone with it, and it was Home Depot's policy that we sell rope even if it's used for murder, then yes. I think the issue in your example is that you haven't made the corporate policy clear and you haven't made it clear that the employee is convinced of what you're about to do.
Someone needs to pay out the "infinite gains", that's the option trader on the other side of the contract.