skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What exactly do you think makes the company despicable, apart from them working with some entities you don’t like?

I mean, this is certainly enough for me.

The Gotham system and who Palantir decides to provide it to borders on dystopian. [0]

>The LAPD uses Palantir’s Gotham product for Operation Laser, a program to identify and deter people likely to commit crimes. Information from rap sheets, parole reports, police interviews, and other sources is fed into the system to generate a list of people the department defines as chronic offenders, says Craig Uchida, whose consulting firm, Justice & Security Strategies Inc., designed the Laser system. The list is distributed to patrolmen, with orders to monitor and stop the pre-crime suspects as often as possible, using excuses such as jaywalking or fix-it tickets. At each contact, officers fill out a field interview card with names, addresses, vehicles, physical descriptions, any neighborhood intelligence the person offers, and the officer’s own observations on the subject.

This is terrifying.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...
>I understand this

It sounds like you glided right over the difference between asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic. This seems crucial to the whole cloud of confusion that exists and is being promoted here.

Trying to be as charitable as possible, if you were sincere in saying

>The information overload is getting extreme. So which is it?

The contradiction appears to be directly due to misunderstanding of "asymptomatic" and the follow up comment tried to explain it.

I don't doubt this misunderstanding is widespread, but I don't know how to rectify it and it often seems as though people might be deliberately obtuse.
Possibly the US too:

> POMPEO LOOKING AT TIKTOK BAN IN U.S - FOX NEWS INTERVIEW

https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1280329630918930432
I bet the people behind Peapod regret shutting down their Midwest business in February. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-peapod-closin...
It’s already calculated based on median income for the same job title in the area. What they should do is include all compensation (stock, bonus healthcare, food, etc) in the calculations. I doubt it’s been a significant depressing factor though...
Break on old sub machines is something I totally forgot about. I remember it used to halt when you plugged in the keyboard.
It works both ways: if popular devices don’t support it in decode, encoding your library in a format that is slow(er) to decode and/or more taxing on battery life isn’t a clear win.
> It is very campy

The movie satirizes wartime propaganda. The kitsch is intentional.
In my mid-40's I still get this urge to play around with "useless" things. In most cases, I don't actually act on it, and instead spend an hour or two watching videos of or reading blogs by people who actually did it.

That doesn't mean I don't spend some time on these things. I've been doing some Atari 2600 programming, and have been playing around with an emulated IBM mainframe (TK4 on Hercules). I have also been working on a new demo effect on the Atari ST.

Note how the things I actually do follow through on, they're all working on emulators. It does give me the ability to take advantage of modern technology (such as Emacs) while still exploring the limits of old systems.

I'd like to think that getting older means you can appreciate both the old and the new, and I think my hobby projects reflect that.
> We're in need of an information-theoretic definition of computation or information processing

Could you elaborate? It's not clear to me what you mean by that.

> It's clear that there is a relationship between computation and information via Landauer's principle.

Information, in the sense I'm concerned with, is an inherent part of computation. You can't have the latter without the former.

> Semantics: in short, 'meaning' is just a mapping (ie, mutual information) between language and the physical world.

That doesn't explain meaning in the case of imaginary or abstract details, or the system's conception of the meaning.

.

BTW, would I be able to get a copy of that Hopfield paper? I wasn't able to find a copy of it.
Check if your browser shows a lock symbol on any important sites you visit.

(This affects the PKI as a whole, because a single unconstrained compromised sub-CA can misissue for any domain - so if you use HTTPS, you're affected).

If your question is whether you should take action, the answer is no, unless you're in some way responsible for an intermediate CA, which is something you'd know about.
I'm sure you're of the opinion that that ban should be taken all the way. After all, people could become addicted and that's terrible.
Break on old sub machines is something I totally forgot about. I remember it used to halt when you plugged in the keyboard, which was super annoying when you had to use one.
I think the Australian government should bring in a GDPR set of laws. To me it seems that the GDPR has improved the internet globally. So many sites added in automated data export tools and ways to opt out of tracking.

Companies not following these laws should be fined or if the fine is unenforceable they should be banned from doing business in the country.
Agreed. The downvote should be used to indicate a comment is off topic or doesn’t add to the discussion, not whether it aligns with your opinion.

In this particular case, however, I’d agree it’s off topic (but I personally didn’t downvote it because it’s not that out of bounds).
There are many examples of people who have been interviewed after being scammed who did know better, but did it anyway because they were successfully convinced their situation was a special exception. Gaslighting can really distort reality for some people.

While the majority of people who fall for this are elderly and aren’t as sharp as they used to be, they aren’t the only ones who are successfully tricked.
Uber Confirms Postmates Acquisition
If you're in the mood to watch something pretty sad, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Bu034pGdc - This group goes around scam busting, in this instance they end up at the house of an old lady who has been scammed, it's pretty crazy.
Hello,

Win32 is supported with MSVC just fine.

You can also use MinGW with LLVM (not MinGW with GCC), available at: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw
Apple Silicon are not ARM processors. They have ARM compatible instruction sets. They are not based on 3rd party ARM cores.
There are many mechanisms to pursue a ban.

1) Declare TikTok a foreign media organisation, subject to controls.

2) Impose a trade duty on such apps or require some kind of minimum pricing (nobody would download it if it cost $2)

3) Declare government subsidy of Bytedance anti-competitive under trade rules and sanction the product.

4) Explore the boundaries of an Executive Order.

Etc. etc.
In general, I agree that the administration's policies have targeted blue states for punishment, the biggest example being the tax cut. But in the specific instance of the PPP loans, I'm just going to wait for the investigative reporting.

That said the POTUS quotes in the CNBC article you linked regarding funding for coronavirus relief are pretty interesting in retrospect:

“because all the states that need help — they’re run by Democrats in every case.”

“Florida is doing phenomenal, Texas is doing phenomenal, the Midwest is, you know, fantastic — very little debt,”
You’re splitting hairs. Customers, by and large, just do not care.
It's better to not think about biology as software vs hardware. Also, most diseases would be hardware defects in this metaphor, so why would fixing hardware not help? If you can treat a brainless person for the disease (we do that, e.g. if a mother is bearing a child, we might keep her alive even though she is brain dead), there shouldn't be any problem with using decephalized humans as models. Placebo effect works (e.g.) by tricking the immune system into action (doable in a decephalized human just as well), not by telling the disease to go away.
I had a protocol fail repeatedly, and expensively, because of a combination of a contaminated reagent and a tiny amount of sample. Took me ages to even approach being able to debug that one as the protocol worked for everyone else. Turned out everyone else using the same materials had so much input sample that the contamination didn't matter, or used the non-contaminated part of the output.

Almost to the day I worked out the issue, I saw an immensely more experienced lab person running an almost identical experiment to my setup. They always added another reagent "in case there's contamination".
They’re designing their own chips, including their own CPU core (which implements the ARM instruction set). TSMC actually fabs them though.
There may be some ancillary cores or blocks licensed from ARM, but nothing major.
The only reason Intel owned it in the first place was because they lost a lawsuit with DEC. Intel has repeatedly shown that it is just not that into ARM.
"The strength of CRDTs is in that they have extremely well defined behavior and aren't fundamentally reliant on a central coordinator or leader."

Very much agree with this. Coordination is a super hard problem in distributed systems, and becomes enormously more difficult if you assume adversaries actively trying to interfere with your system.

Good distributed systems engineering is heavily focused on eliminating complexity and solving for every possible error case. CRDTs have a low number of error cases and allow nodes to interact together in clean, non-complex ways.

Distributed systems engineers like reaching for CRDTs as a tool because they can take your engineering costs down by an order of magnitude.
I've worked on more than one contract supporting numerous others and I concur with OP. I guarantee you'll get the same answer from most people that have been in the contracting trenches.
It's an American company that hasn't done anything wrong and that other American companies are also doing. We're in this situation because American businesses have lobbied to kill privacy legislation and Congress let them have their way.
They can take more than usual, but even if the school's not open 100% they cannot take "an entirely online course load". Some schools have already announced all instruction will be online and a lot more are probably going to.
So just working with entities you don’t like, then?

If you think your best hope for addressing government behavior you disagree with is to try to take their tools away, you may as well stay silent completely because it isn’t going to do anything.

If your grievances are with the government, take your complaints to the government, no?
This is not really a Constitutional issue about freedom of expression.

There are any number of issues under the area of 'foreign trade' and 'foreign actors' the issue could be approached from.
> apart from them working with some entities you don’t like

In principle, isn't working with entities you don't like sufficient to call a corporation despicable? Like if you think ICE is a despicable organization, and Palantir directly enables ICE, isn't Palantir partially responsible?

I also think it's morally problematic to run a company which directly profits from government waste, especially if you're simultaneously lobbying for increased government spending in your industry. I don't know if that description fits Palantir (I don't know much about the company), but some people in this thread seem to think it's not too far off.
Oh shucks! Thank you, it gets me every time
Does the data say that? Or is this just a visual effect (certain colors are more prominent, subdivisions are larger in the south and west)
> will not generate electricity or produce carbon emissions

There is still a tonne of carbon used in creation...
What a great story. I was wondering if a story about this guy have been posted before and indeed, it was.

A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448365

The great takeaway for me from the story is his quote related to how he did all these things.

"I was not born with these skills, I developed them over time. And the original model was actually pretty crude. And I've really learned a lot over the past number of years, and that's how I've gotten to where I am at now."
The main use case or illicit drug detection that I as aware of was detecting fraudulent pharmacies selling shitloads of legal opiods. Which primarily affects rural white people - I don't think that's part of Nixon's drug war which primarily targeted inner city people. And the drug detection use case is only one example. IIRC anti-terror work was the first big use case for Palantir Gotham.

As far as whether or not it's an Orwellian tool, one thing to be aware of is that Palantir doesn't collect any data or have access to government data. The ingested data is still administered by the agency. I don't think they can even legally transfer it to 3rd parties.

Palantir builds tools to browse and make correlations with the data that government agencies already have. It's more of an investigation tool, not a surveillance tool. There's a substantial latency between something happening and being able to actually see it in Palantir - it needs to first be logged and recorded, and then go through the ingestion pipeline.

Sure, it's a valid position to be against government collection of things like pharmacy purchases and financial transactions. But that strikes me more of a moral position against government data collection rather than something specific to Palantir.
TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong
> If you didn't end up needing the loan, you're liable for paying it back.

I don't believe there is a necessity requirement on the forgiveness, only on the original funding. And the government assumes any company that received less than 2 million in funding meets this requirement.

(from the treasury FAQ)
Question: How will SBA review borrowers’ required good-faith certification concerning the necessity of their loan request?
Answer: When submitting a PPP application, all borrowers must certify in good faith that “[c]urrent economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the Applicant.” SBA, in consultation with the Department of the Treasury, has determined that the following safe harbor will apply to SBA’s review of PPP loans with respect to this issue: Any borrower that, together with its affiliates,20 received PPP loans with an original principal amount of less than $2 million will be deemed to have made the required certification concerning the necessity of the loan request in good faith.
sounds great, how do you sustain yourself, still working?
Here's a bit I wrote about drinking games.

I enjoy drinking but I hate drinking games. I mean, talk about a way to disguise your drinking problem as laughing matter, as a veritable vocation of which to be proud. If you enjoy drinking games, that’s fine in the same way that it’s fine to have a drinking problem.

As I observe it, flip cup competitors are not so much vying for victory as they are crying for help. You have to hear the irony as they encourage their fellow addicts to, and I quote, “chug, chug, chug, yeahhhh!” All I hear is, “help, help, help uuussssss!”

So let’s reach out to this community with the love and support they need. In fact, let's advertise a support line for this troubled community with posters that read:

Do You Enjoy Beer Pong,

Quarters, And the Like?

Call Anonymously: 1-800-PONG-NOMO.
Yes
https://www.shandtaylor.com.au/publications/is-truth-a-defen...

Not only does everything in your story has to be true but also you have to show every implication in your story is true as well.
No.

It's a synchronous motor which normally idles at the Mains frequency, but if the Mains frequency attempts to change, the rotor inputs massive amount of current (leading or lagging) into the mains which prevents the change.

There is no need for a drive motor.

In the industry they are known as a "Synchronous Condenser" or Syncom. They have been in use for a long time.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/04/06/long-read-b...
Right, that's ultimately what I am worried about.
It's pretty common to submit a confidential draft. This started with the JOBS Act [1], which loosened disclosure requirements generally for "Emerging Growth Companies" [2] when they are going public and introduced the notion of a confidential draft registration statement. You originally had to meet certain requirements to qualify for confidential filing, but that privilege was subsequently expanded to all companies [3].

Exactly how common it is to announce your confidential filing is harder to assess, but it's not _that_ unusual. They likely decided their filing would leak and thus it was better to get ahead of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startup...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/smallbusiness/goingpublic/EGC

[3] https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2017/07/sec-pe...
Do you have anything more substantial to add than "you are generalizing!"
It’s hard to watch the stock market right now as an underpaid employee at a pre-IPO unicorn. Who else here is desperately hoping the next S-1 post is about their company?
In your first post, you were arguing that immigration improves the place. Now you're arguing that we should allow immigration even if it doesn't.

Huh.

If the population is really sparse, immigration really does improve the society -- it allows for specialization, with supermarkets, karate studios, and the like. Then, as the population gets more dense, the marginal benefit of population growth, assuming random average people, decreases. Eventually, it goes negative. At that point, you need to raise the bar -- e.g. only admit high quality immigrants, or family reunification (which benefits citizen family members). The higher the population, the higher the bar needs to get raised.

The problem with your analysis is that it doesn't take into account the total population number. Any advocacy for immigration that doesn't differentiate between a national population of 100 million, 350 million, and 900 million, if that advocacy argues that it benefits the country, is intrinsically defective,
Certainly less than 1/100 second of daily global emissions?
The article is an interesting history lesson, but that sub-heading at the top sort of threw me for a loop, referring to Microsoft as "the first big tech company"

Microsoft was, and still is, a giant tech company starting in the 90's and on. But if one looks at the digital corporate landscape back in the 1980s, IBM was an absolute behemoth. Consider this. In 1985, IBM had a market cap of $95 billion. That was more than the next 13 largest tech companies at the time, combined! This other group includes Apple, HP, Hitachi, Intel, Motorola, Sony, AT&T, Texas Instruments, Verizon, Xerox, National Semiconductor, DEC, and Control Data.

It's hard to overstate how powerful IBM was at its zenith.

I only know this because I was curious and looked up the data the other day, and it blew me away.
Just tap/hover over each state for the state level stats.
> [the company expects] revenue to surpass $30 million this year, though the company is not yet profitable as it spends heavily to expand
Palantir confidentially files to go public
The only thing I "suggested" was $1 Trillion > $676 Billion.
Any UI, accessibility, or common sense reasons are irrelevant.

It's the UX, managers, marketing people asking for more clicks, ad impressions, user engagement... and you will make a carousel for them each time they'll request.
Gotosa
Completely wrong.

It's a synchronous rotor which is spun by the mains. When the mains frequency tries to change, the momentum of the flywheel supplies massive leading or lagging current to prevent the change.

It behaves exactly as an un-powered generator idling on the mains.

There is no DC motor.

In the industry they are known as a "Synchronous Condenser" or Syncom. They have been in use for a long time.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/04/06/long-read-b...
The not so great aspect of gas is that its a high carbon fossil fuel that causes global warming. 490 gCO2-eq/kWh is not even close to low. Low carbon sources have lifecycle emissions closer to 10.
Why go private?
The old infinite money trick, I like it!
Do you share the same feelings about Google and Facebook? The level of user tracking undertaken by the aforementioned companies is staggering. Google and Facebook know practically everything about everyone. Both Google and Facebook have federal contracts and have for years.
Steve Wozniak of Apple fame used to get sheets of $2 bills turned into pads with perforations so he could tear off the bills to use for transactions (or just spend a whole uncut sheet). Fun gag.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3akq2q/e...

https://catalog.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/
I've been using a CODE [0] with MX Clears on MacOS for a year now.

well worth it imo.

[0] https://codekeyboards.com/
Palantir, One of Silicon Valley’s Oldest Startups, Files to Go Public
It makes an acceptable pasta sauce with the right additions, but I have too much Mexican pride to disrespect salsa that way.
What weird timing but I guess they know what they’re doing?
Tools of Torture
> it pays out 100k in salary.

Then the maximum loan you would have qualified for would have been $20,833 and you'd be able to get about 80% (plus applicable utility/rent/mortgages up to potentially 100%) forgiven.

So, $16-21k of free money with currently unclear tax implications. Nothing to sneeze at but it's nothing insane either.
A few things to note, at least about the Instagram stories:

1. It's primarily mobile, by far.

2. The story is the only thing on the screen and the entire experience is focused on it.

3. You can hold down the story to prevent it from continuing onto the next one for the duration of your hold.
I had the pleasure of learning two concepts ( part of Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory) when it relates to work environments : "Hygiene factors" and "Motivators"
Figure out what the hygiene factors (typically pay, good physical working conditions etc) are and fix them first if they are lacking.
The motivators are typically industry specific and group specific. Some (in) formal surveys should help but ensure that people _know_ that their voices are being heard while you bring about the change.

Good luck!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory
Because Palantir inherently works with third-party organizations, you're able to take every conceivable response and say:

"So just working with entities you don’t like, then?"

Not really sure if this will be fruitful, honestly.
Tragic

This is the black mirror episode
Yes, but don't hold your breath for:

1. Researchers ditching papers as the primary means of exchanging ideas.

2. Researchers going back and fixing bugs, or even reviewing PRs.

None of this is going to happen.
I work with a number of contractors who say exactly the same thing as GP. There is so much cash that is just going down the drain with no accountability. That being said, venture capital is pissing away huge amounts of capital with no measurable output either. Capital allocation is bad across the board.
I don't doubt the fact that an EB-1 visa could be awarded with a person with that background. I doubt about their alleged personal relationship with an adult entertainer. That guess is based on the fact that adult entertainers worthy of an EB-1 visa are a tiny, tiny fraction of the general population.