skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure enough, it is too late to edit my comment but the Wikipedia page says:

> A. fischeri have been most studied as symbionts of marine animals, including squids in the genus Euprymna and Sepiola, where A. fischeri can be found in the squids' light organs.

Clicking through the genus Euprymna and Sepiola links, it looks like these are all Bobtail-Squid-like. I shouldn't have used the word "only" but that wasn't the source of my confusion. My issue was the word-picture of a school of reef squid, found in the upper water column, using bioluminescence to overcome moonlight shadows. It didn't make sense. Bobtail Squid, on the other hand, are tiny bottom feeding animals. They are not what I think of when you say "squid" without qualification.

However, the images of Bobtail Squid on Wikipedia do not make their half-your-thumb size obvious and the silhouette image [1] makes it look like an upper water column phenomena. When I first realized we were talking about Bobtail Squid, I thought of the blue lights some people put under their cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobtail_squid#/media/File:Bobt...
I think it says both, frankly.
Hmmm. Doesn't Android Doze randomly kill/pause your background execution?
When sealed to the ear-canal, the volume of air needed to be moved to make a large pressure change is very tiny.
Google campus security singled out Black, Latinx employees
Not the author, but it could be either. For donations 10-40x as large as those in the recent fraud I think you're referencing the Universities are absolutely fine letting students in.
Where do you slot device drivers in that hierarchy?
Let us say that the punishment for murder in the first degree is always a 50 year jail term. A man who is 75 years of age is charged with two murders and convicted.

1. At 75 years of age, he will not live to be 175

2. The law dictates that the punishment per murder must be 50 years

3. He's been convicted of two murders, and must have both charges applied to him unless we are not to expect punishment for one of the victims.

Ergo, he must have a term much longer than his lifespan.

There are a thousand details I just skipped over (concurrent sentances, multiple crimes commited in the same act, stacking versus non-stacking offenses, etc) but this isn't unusual and is a perfectly rational and sane outcome.
I realize this is a petty concern compared to the repeated and compounded violations of the rights of Native Americans, but I can't help wondering if the unsettled questions related to this ruling will make it impractical for Tesla to choose Tulsa as a factory site.
The first paragraph summarized 3 different ways:

We asked neurologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists about human decision making.
* The neurologists focused on stimuli and the brain.
* The psychiatrists focused on the behaviors of individuals.
* The sociologists focused on interactions between human groups.

We asked physicists, chemists, and biologists about the building blocks of the world.
* The physicists focused on forces of nature.
* The chemists focused on molecules and their chemical interactions.
* The biologists focused on cells and organisms.

We asked engineers, designers, and project managers about UX.
* The engineers focused on the interactions between the engineered bits of the UX and the users.
* The designers focused on the 2 groups that have opinions about UX design: the company and the users.
* The project managers focused on how well the UX got the project done.
But they didn't report it did they? Playing devil's advocate a bit here, but they could have reported it for a bug bounty but they instead chose to use it to create a jailbreak.
Tell HN: Markle4VP
It’s important to understand fluid mechanics in order to make sense of Covid-19
Yeah, and it makes me kind of sad. I think the idea of microblogging is really cool, and with the right user base it could be really awesome.

But, with a general audience of hundreds of millions of users, it does devolve into smug, uninteresting arguments very quickly.
The answer is another tool that reduces friction to setting up a website. I'm friends with a bunch of bands that don't have websites, but they do have facebook pages! Why? Because they're free and they do what the band needs from a website.

A restaurant doesn't need more than a page with contact info and link to a pdf menu. But even standing that up is a massive hurdle for <people who don't browse HN casually>.
For anyone that's curious, if you put enough money in to buy every single possible ticket (81B), you would get about an APY of 0.00125% per week for an annual APY of 0.06%

Not very useful but I guess if you have 81B in cash laying around, it makes sense to put your money in Yotta over some large banks! Of course that should probably not be in cash but hey, I'm not going to tell you what to do with your 81B dollars.
> The ruling voided McGirt’s sentence of 1,000 years in prison but he could face a new trial in federal court rather than state court.

LOOOOOOOOOOL

Man avoids millenium long rape conviction using obscure treaty.
The type of captcha would make a huge difference. Google captcha? It's an immediate no go. Self hosted captcha? Hm maybe OK.
Coronavirus pandemic could cause wave of brain damage, scientists warn
I weep for the state of our industry.
Same experience here, only seagate drive failures over the past 15 years of owning maybe 30 drives total. WD has never failed. Obviously anecdotal.
What is a political party if not a means of mass coordination and strategic voting?

American politics has become less about policy and more about ideology and party loyalty over time, and that ideology has become more entrenched and unwilling to compromise with opponents.
We have already generated $250,000 in revenue from our first customer, Stripe. '

See their blog post announcement: Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases
https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases

Our post: Stripe and Project Vesta, and what this means for us
https://projectvesta.org/stripe-and-project-vesta-and-what-t...

Reuters coverage of the purchase: Stripe picks $1 million in carbon-removal projects to spur industry
https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-stripe/stripe...
Might makes right. Land has no true owners, only those with the means to defend it. Florida could be part of "greater Canada" if the US government was weak and the Canadian government felt it was worth it.
It may be that the 17th Amendment changing the appointment of Senators to a popular vote from elections by state legislators was a mistake, as "anti-democratic" as that may sound, it may be a good principal in a Republic. The house weighs the popular opinion, the Senate, the will of States.
Computational Music Synthesis
On the privacy policy front, this is somewhat boilerplate language that is just there to allow us to have partnerships with other companies to attract deposits, which we haven't explored yet. But we didn't mean for it to be anything related to using information with advertisers.

On the VC side - the Premium Bond program has generated $100 billion in deposits. The UK is a fifth the size of the U.S in terms of population. Premium Bonds isn't completely apples to apples (it's run by the gov and has been around for 60 years), but if we can capture Premium Bond magic in the US, earning small interest on a massive deposit base can be a big business. We also plan to offer other revenue-generating banking services as we grow, like other neobanks have done.
I think we need to reverse the unconstitutional Reynolds v. Sims decision which forbids the states from being set up like the federal government, with one house elected in proportion to population and one house elected geographically. The decision itself was rooted in little more than pipe dreams and moonshine, and the results are, I think, responsible for more than a little of our current dysfunction (another huge problem is the weakening of the parties themselves — they used to serve as a moderating layer, but no longer do).
Watch the boeing fall from the sky. (Developer missed that particular configuration in testing)
LSD: Can psychedelics treat mental illness?
That seems like an "I would have said" based on your assumption that those "inferences" are the subtext that you believe to exist. I continue to believe that Scott did not believe any such subtext existed, so that would make no sense from his point of view.

I'm also unsure why you believe that providing the contact information of the correct person to contact given an issue with a potential article to be published by their department is a bad thing.

Are you sure you're not just starting with a belief that Scott is malicious and then reasoning backwards to find a way that his actions in this case could have been malicious? I'm quite probably missing something, but I find myself unable to follow your logic any other way.
Our system of government really, really wasn't designed to handle politically polarized parties. We've had partisanship forever but mostly it was about competing for patronage rather than ideology. Then after the Progressive reforms of the turn of the 20th century we had a long period where each party had their liberal and their conservative wings that meant low polarization.
There are lots of ways apps can run arbitrary code, so stopping them via the app store is not feasible. Myself I'm happy my phone is safer.
No source, just a feel for it as I've studied quite a few copyright cases.

I guess it's like me having an embedded video except that for the fonts Google have uploaded the media, not the public. If I watch a video on YouTube that was a copyright infringing upload, strictly (in my jurisdiction), I would have also committed infringement. But the courts are exceedingly unlikely to punish me, especially if the uploader warranted the video for my use.

Google say the fonts they have are free-libre for website use: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq.

That's an implied warranty, I should do due diligence, but if they have doubts they should temper what they say too (they probably attempt to disclaim the implied warranty in their Terms). If they're offering fonts that are not "open source" they are in the wrong; I might also be wrong but I should - when using the fonts as they direct - be able to sue them in turn if I'm sued for using the fonts they offer.

It's not joint liability, but in general the law accounts for people being deceived. It's not negligent infringement on my part, IMO, as I checked the Google info for the license terms and have no reason to suspect they're wrong.

If the BBC put on a tv show they don't have copyright permission to air, and I suggest in my magazine article that you watch the show, I've directed you towards infringing material - which may be contributory infringement (in UK) - but the BBC would be the principle offender. If the BBC make statements saying the work is free-libre, and I rely on that then to me they appear severally liable, and liable for deceiving me.
I've described it as the "disappointment of knowledge" in the past.

It's like hearing all the microservices hype, sitting down to read it and thinking that it's "just" SOA slimmed down with some of the more complex vendor offering replaces. And that both are "just" Smalltalk-style message passing that happens to occur on multiple machines. Or that Kubernetes is just a bunch of nodes running processes with Docker as a process manager (reading the paper on its predecessor, Borg, was very enlightening). That C# is "just" Java that has been cleaned up.

The disappointment is that there is all this hype that would imply the world has changed and you realize that it may be a serviceable tool, but it is "just" something you've seen before remixed a little.

It's one of the reasons that I have a hard time getting excited about learning another web framework or another C++/Java-ish programming language. I can learn by diff'ing pretty quickly, so I tend to read broadly, looking for stuff that looks like it might be highly differentiated. I tend to burrow deep onto things of either immediate use or that will provide a different world-view (for example, learning Prolog will probably teach you a different way to look at problems whereas learning, say, VUE.js after having done Angular might teach you a useful tool, but the world view is more or less the same).
Didn't they steal that land from the tribes before them?
Websites are public. The act of publishing on one is an explicit opt-in.
Everyone deserves a vigorous legal defense, even the most reprehensible. If the accused or convicted are exempt from the rule of law, so are those who are accused or convicted by mistake, corruption, or abuse of power. Competent and committed legal defense for everyone defends the rule of law as it's applied to all of us.
Correcgt! We have already generated $250,000 in revenue from our first customer, Stripe. Even though we are a non-profit focused on advancing the science, we can still generate all the revenue required, and we hope our project will be self-sustaining...

See the Stripe blog post announcing the purchase: Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases

Our post: Stripe and Project Vesta, and what this means for us https://projectvesta.org/stripe-and-project-vesta-and-what-t....

Reuters coverage of the purchase: Stripe picks $1 million in carbon-removal projects to spur industry https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-stripe/stripe....
All this has taught me is that if I find an exploit to unlock <insert DRM'd device> I need to obfuscate the heck out of it to make it as onerous as possible for low-effort bug bounty do-gooders to scoop up a reward from it.
Worthyness only matters when the matter goes up to the SC. There are many layers of courts below them.

If the SC decides the matter is not worthy, that doesn't mean that no decision is reached - it just means that the decision of the lower court is binding.
There was a leap second too, you forgot that one!
It will be difficult to tackle any of those problems if the climate causes civilization to collapse: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-ci...

It's more than a few foods disappearing or people modifying they're homes- it's entire breadbaskets of the world disappearing and entire cities needing to be abandoned.
I'm personally not terribly bullish on RISC V currently. All of the advantages have to be weighed against "it's not x86_64". ARM processors at least have tons of smartphone people working out the bugs and random weirdness. With RISC V you're the one on the bleeding edge, and will be for a long time.

Plus if you're looking at the medium-long horizon you have to consider the possibility that the chips will stagnate or die out entirely and you'll be forced to abandon them anyway.

Everybody wants to wait until there have been some people working with the technology at scale and working out he bugs, finding problems, fixing the docs, populating StackExchange, etc... In order to get people to make the leap you need to offer them something significantly better than the current offerings so they'll be willing to do the extra work. If you are offering marginal power efficiency improvements that is not going to cut it.
Every country in the world that exists today is occupied by a people who can be traced back to a conquering nation. If you think through the implications of your statement, you'd see you're talking about wiping out 10,000 years of history and forcibly moving 7 billion people somewhere else.
What are my standards? If you can list them then we can argue about them.
I'm sure they were exceedingly efficient at constructing a convoluted pseudo-logical rational at how their abusive behaviour constituted a "winning" strategy.
Ironic, given that these same tendencies were very present around the fall of the Roman republic. Rome had a similar gridlock of opposing positions of power, and similarly fell into a state where little could be accomplished due to the regular undermining and vetoing.

Edit: Since most replies are talking about the empire, I just want to reiterate that my comment was regarding the end of the Republic, which imo is a more analogous situation to modern USA. (Not to say it's identical, of course!)
Hi all — hnrss creator here. I was wondering what caused the traffic spike today :)

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> Because I'm not really interested in abandoning my fellow citizens who lack the means or the support structures to leave where they currently are to the tender mercies of people who plainly don't give a damn about them.

I'd be inclined to agree with you, expect I feel this is what got us Obamacare instead of a better system - and _even then_, there was a multitude of red states that refused to accept the Medicaid expansion, to the harm of precisely the people you speak of. Pushing societal improvements on states that don't want them feels like buying a sandwich for a homeless person and having them throw it on the ground, and I no longer feel its worth the effort.
> As someone who works at the intersection of technology and journalism, it hurts to see how many misunderstandings there are in these comments and elsewhere. The tech world (and HN in particular) deeply needs a solid explainer on how journalism works. So many misunderstandings!

Are there one or two insights you could share that would make this article seem less bad than many people here perceive it to be?

> And that is not to say that some of the more nuanced critiques on journalism or its implementation are not on point — as many journalists would agree! e.g. Jessica Lessin... and Taylor Lorenz

The criticism isn't limited purely to monetary considerations. There are prestige and partisan political issues at stake here as well. The author touches on the political lens by bringing up the red/blue/grey tribe distinction. As for the prestige, it's worth noting how many prominent figures signed that petition. Some of the public comments of these individuals give me the impression that they trust SSC more than the NYT. My perception (in my own bubble at least) is that even if NYT's subscription revenue is doing OK, the NYT's position as the "paper of record" is in jeopardy.
>Netflix delivered DVDs at a loss

source? I've never heard that one before
Yes, the Rt declines before the lockdown are curious, but I wonder if they are statistical anomalies related to initial small numbers or some other factor. It could also be that the people were independently starting to take measures, distancing, masks, etc. I know I was, and I'm not the only one.

The chart of inferred infections by date seems to show very strong correlations to the lockdown measures:
* very steep rate of rise in cases until 24-March
* a bit of reduced slope right at the date
* sudden peak/drop-off about a week later on 01-April
* steep decline, then flatter decline during lockdown
* then, a week after lockdown ends / next phase, around 25-May, the declining slope flattens

And the Rt starts to increase again in the last week of May

So, yes, the re-opening is looking very much like it's increasing re-transmission rates. Today just hit 1.01 on that chart.

Interesting times ahead. New England overall has relatively flat growth rates. Let's hope they continue measures to keep it that way!
The court is highlighting that congress needs to be consistent. Make a willing refusal to original promise, otherwise keep said promise. The courts job is not to decide on the promise but to identify the congress as responsible for consistency with promises made.
They are. If you don't get it then you're doing it wrong.
> Microsoft have really turned it around with developers, embraced open source, built great developer tools.

I'm still taking these changes with a grain of salt. If devs are still getting the same treatment in say, 5 or 10 years, I'll believe that Microsoft has changed. But to me the whole thing smells of "Use our open-source programs that just so happen to work really well with our paid-for closed-source software! Why not just switch to Windows and grab our Office 365 subscription while you're at it?"
You should look into Ernesto Miranda. He did horrible things but the Supreme Court said that he incriminated himself without knowing his rights. Because of this, his conviction was overturned and now cops have to read ‘Miranda’ rights to everyone they arrest.
"Math-hard" is not defensible in the US because the patent system has been weakened so much. VCs in the 1980s and 1990s looked for a strong patent position. VCs today look for a strong marketing position. VCs as a class made money in the 1980s and 1990s made money. That stopped working around 2000, when throwing money at something to buy market share took over.

(Yes, this will be modded down by the "IP should be free" crowd.)
If you push Rust to client-side WASM, can it still perform DOM manipulations?
Microsoft(R) Firefox Professional (2007)
But isn't this literally Justice throwing the ball back to Legislature? "We understand why you may want this to be true, but if that's the case, you need to do it specifically"
Yeah... I think explicit ethnic quotas can be really problematic. but ethnic quotas would've been better than how things worked out (i.e. genocide), though.

(I should point out that tribal membership is more complicated than just genetic background, and that it varies from tribe to tribe. Continuity from the existing tribal governments at the time until today need not have been explicitly ethnic.)
Stealing their land?
It is their principle, they just prefer to shrink the parts of government they disagree with ideologically. Which is why we have the biggest, most powerful and most expensive military in human history but our healthcare and education systems are a joke.
Well, then China is responsible for mass genocide due to Covid-19 then. After all, whether or not they knew they were transporting disease to other countries 6 months back really doesn't excuse the end result.
This is what I do but recently they changed it so the mobile browser doesn’t honor your settings. So I have to type the old.reddit url every time. I do that and don’t give in to them
I've worked at really small startups (<20 engineers) and pretty large companies (>1k engineers).

At small companies we have absolutely been able to get away with 0 unit tests while maintaining agility - being able to do major reactors quickly even when working in dynamic languages, while maintaining a high level of quality, even when operating at reasonably large scale. The key is clear, well written code and strong ownership from senior engineers who have a deep understanding of the code they own.
On the other hand, at large companies, extensive unit testing has been invaluable. Code bases are older, ownership changes hands frequently, new engineers join all the time, old ones move on to other projects, dozens of teams are calling each others code, refactoring is done by people who had no hand in writing the code in the first place, dependencies are higher and harder to track down completely, and it's not realistic to cover all important functionality with integration tests. Engineers often must rely on unit tests to prevent others from breaking their code, and to ensure that they are not breaking someone else's. Yes, unit tests can be highly problematic and costly to maintain, and they do add friction and time to initial development, but in these scenarios the benefits outweigh the costs considerably.
I think it is illustrative of how important it is to have someone who cares about you and knows you around when dealing with doctors.
Edit: Cannot change the word "females" to "women" so set it to hidden. I was given a healthy dose of advice on some other forums about this. Sorry if I hurt feelings of women on this forum as well.