skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bottom line is that much of the climate science is nothing more than conjecture and you can get as mad about it as you like, and call it "misinformation" all you like. There is no evidence. Several million years ago we can tell that ppm levels of CO2 were over 1,000 and could climb higher than that. Today, we are way lower in comparison, and we face more pollution than anything. I find often times that people like to argue and conflate pollution with global warming. We have evidence of pollution. We don't have evidence that the poles shifting and climate shifting is actually man made, or that it WILL factually be detrimental. The planet is still here and spinning although it's seen CO2 atmospheric levels over 1200 ppm/ppb in past centuries, prior to industrialization. So much drama is involved in these tightly held opinions based in conjecture.
There's still a lot of rf noise that can penetrate that far. ~3,400km of solid rock is a much better attenuator.
Better teaching is dubious to me. First, it’s not a given that instructors from Harvard or Stanford are necessarily better teachers. They are hired and promoted in large part due to their research agenda and history of funding projects with large grants. You can be the worst teacher ever, but if you are pulling in millions in grant funding (of which the University gets a significant percentage) then you are likely to get tenure at many top academic institutions.

But let’s just say the best lecturers really are at these places and you can watch their lectures via a MOOC. Remember the M stands for “Massive”. How much time do you think the average student gets to spend 1:1 with the instructor? The best students that graduate from from my department are those who seek me individually for 1:1 help, who put in extra effort over summers and the semester to join my or other research projects, and who stand out by becoming involved with department activities. They tend to get glowing recommendations, and connections to startups and industry partners with which t he faculty member has contacts.

There are a number of projects being worked on in my department with inroads to Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc. When I pass a recommendation over for a student I know well, they get seriously considered. Is there an equivalent benefit for a MOOC?
When I arrived as a foreign-exchange student in Dijon, France, I was bombarded with war stories about run-ins with the infamous French bureaucracy. I got my first taste of it standing in line to enroll in my classes. You stand in line for three hours to see somebody at a desk tucked away in a narrow corridor just off the large entrance hall. You finally get to the front only to be told that this is the line for non-EU students, and that the much-shorter line for European "Erasmus" students is adjacent. Of course, both desks are hidden since the corridor is filled with people, so you cannot see the purpose of each line until you are at the front. Once you are there, you must present a number of documents, proofs of identity, and a photocopy of an EU Health Insurance Card (which was not on the list of required documents you were sent and which you must show even if you have on your possession the physical card). The point of all of this is to fill in a form at the desk and make an appointment for one week later, when you will bring in all of the documents that have just been checked so that they can be checked again. Officially. [1]

[1] - https://worldcrunch.com/rue-amelot/david-foster-wallace-find...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY
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Yes that's exactly how I understood it. Otherwise anyone who has taken a picture of the night sky probably beat this image.
"You would never matrix multiply an image onto another vector."
Do you mean fglrx?

Regardless, the problem is nobody wants to spend development time supporting 10+ year old cards when there isn't enough time to support all the features on newer cards.
I think this is mostly a response to David Cicilline's comment that Apple's 30% is "highway robbery" [1]. It compares it to other marketplace take rates showing that Apple's 30% isn't "highway robbery", but also that Apple does much more to earn their 30% than say GrubHub given that iOS apps rely heavily on Apple tools and technologies to create and distribute apps.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-...
Get people's first impression on what you have built
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Looks like Nostromo: big, old, dark, messy spaceship.
I look at freecell as more about finding the solution (including undos) rather than about winning in an absolute sense.

Similar to how every (properly designed) sudoku is solvable without guessing, the fun isn't in having solved it, its figuring out how to solve it.
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Remote Meetings Are Broken
In person classes are not worth the cost of full tuition.
Right, but is Apple going to believe me when I say that I didn't? They could just revoke my access anyways. (I'm being honest here, this isn't a question of "can I trick Apple into thinking I didn't do this on the SRD".)
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we just went through one and it was one of the security as a service. It was around $18k.

So expect to pay around that and a lot more for how in depth you want them to go.
I think you're interpreting "trust" mostly in terms of "this person will tell me true things", but telling you the truth is pretty far down the list of what therapists do. "Truth" is often not even well-defined when it comes to your internal mental state.

Most of the truths that you hear in a good therapy session will come out of your own mouth. You just didn't know they were in there until the therapist guided you to them.

Try to think of "trust" more in terms of safety. With a good therapist, you can trust that if you share your truth with them, with all it's ugly dark aspects, that they will not use that knowledge to harm you.
I figured the card removal service was just to remove the obviously bad cards that debuff you.
Hey i am wondering if someone within knowledge of EU competition law can give their analysis on this.

The thing that stands out to me is that this is a private competition law action - it is not a government agency/commission taking action. This indicates that the government agencies in the jurisdiction don't currently see this as a priority. Many of the prominent anti trust actions in tech have been taken by regulators (eg EU commission vs Google).

From my brief understanding of competition law barriers to entry and consumer detriment are issues the court considers. As others have stated, Microsoft is far less dominant with cloud office products than they were with windows pcs in the 90s. They are also not the incumbent in the chat market trying to block competition out.
> ... digital ID. However, that is seriously actually dystopian and would brutally murder all of the privacy people have

Do you really need exactly the same level of privacy for all the cases though? How about having a corner of the internet which is an ultimate walled garden - with access restricted to someone with validated government IDs and everyone's activity tracked and transparent to everyone else? This will work great for many cases - kids can have access to only this corner, plain vanilla entertainment[1] like Netflix or Disney or Sports, money related stuff[2] like banking / money transfer / shopping, etc etc. We can do those activities with relative peace of mind because everyone accessing this corner would be physically trackable and hence nefarious actors will have the risk of instant exposure. In that sense, it will be very similar to the physical world (or even stricter because of enhanced security).

For a lot of other legit reasons like fighting oppressive governments or hacking things to push boundaries or uncensored forums, we can of course have rest of the internet.

There will be some nuances just like we do in real world, like:

[1] different ratings for entertainment, like R-rated vs PG vs G-rated

[2] protecting sensitive info like bank account details or tax returns
This is about YC as an investor. If you've got a profitable startup in you, they want you to start it. Lowering the risk gets them more founders and makes them more money.
Well, for that phenomena the opposite could happen just as well. Exploring and picking apart a game to find out that it actually is handcrafted and made with care and precision with some unique techniques used to mask the possible issues would likely result in a higher appreciation for the technical aspects of the game. Now, would that make a person love a game they'd otherwise dislike? (For plot, mechanics or other reasons) No, they'd still dislike it but they'd certainly admire the craftsmanship.

For the case presented in the article, I'd actually feel much less compelled to play StS if I knew there were genuinely unwinnable seeds. It takes away the player's agency to a higher degree than it should and having a run where nothing you do will get you a win means you can't learn from your mistakes or enjoy a win - two of the main purposes. As for having fun with a run, well, being on a doomed ride isn't that fun either, at least compared to a regular StS run.
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I am not exactly comparing myself to tech billionaires, but more tech millionaires. Bezos was mentioned just because of the absurdity of his wealth, but I don't want to be that rich. More like, I wouldn't mind finding a way to part Bezos and about $5m of his money.

I have done projects of passion. Last one was completed in February and the business opened in March. For five days. Being a new business, it isn't even eligible for any kind of assistance, so what I did there was to sink a bunch of money and sign a lease so that I have the privilege of adding an extra $1200 a month to my expense list. Decreasing expenses is absolutely something I've been working on, but investing my wages will take decades to build enough wealth to be meaningful.
True but this happens already, so each of the candidate's election teams or people on the ground in that area are already getting a rough of estimate of how many votes their candidate is getting and if they have resources they can bring in more people to vote for their candidate, this is especially true for poorer countries where people sell their votes for money.
Also do you think this is a big enough problem that someone is changing who to vote for at the end if they are only being influenced by their own mind and not external factors? After all it is their right who to vote for.
I don't care to weigh in on any questions about how it's built. I also didn't experience any stability problems, but this was admittedly a while ago now, and the product may have subsequently taken a turn for the worse.

As far as the user experience goes, though, I would say that Adobe Connect makes it possible to create an online classroom in a way that just isn't possible in Zoom.

Which is in no way contradictory to the idea that Zoom is stable and intuitive for adult learning. "Adult learning" is a wide net that covers a lot of learning situations that do not necessarily involve or benefit from a classroom environment. YouTube and printed books are also stable and intuitive for adult learning.

But, for educators who are scrambling to adapt their pre-existing curricula to distance learning, I would argue that preserving as many elements as possible from the working environment that they're used to is pretty key to giving them the best chance possible at a successful transition.
"fNIRS Compared with other neuroimaging techniques"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_near-infrared_spect...

> When comparing and contrasting these devices it is important to look at the temporal resolution, spatial resolution, and the degree of immobility.
Is this solving unfair competition? My point was not to ban free stuff, it is to acknowledge that nothing is free and then prevent a big company to use money from market A to destroy competitors in market B - this would mean Google,Aplle,Microsoft needs to be split (this would maximize competition but it will not be popular in the short term even with the extreme free market evangelists)
I understand what you say and I assume you have more experience than me in this field.

But even if you fail, that's experience too. If you have a dream, I strongly encourage you to pursue it. It is usually more painful to look back in hindsight and one day wake up to a reality where you never even tried.

To whoever is reading this: Try. Then try again. Then try another. And don't forget to look after yourself and your loved ones.
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"this was the sam altman effect.

pg kept the entire system small and personal on purpose.

but sam wants trillion dollar funds. sam approaches everything from "how can sam altman own the entire galaxy?"

now YC is an endless low effort 90s-era "groupware for groupware nerds" fund" ---
https://twitter.com/mattsta/status/1285988679958138881 this retweet is also true
You're taking this question the wrong way: my scenario isn't "I want to trick Apple", it's "will Apple believe me even if I am being honest" and "even if Apple thinks I am being honest will they hold it over my head anyways as a way to control what I disclose".
how about you don't abandon everyone around you and be happy with what you have.

i've said this before on HN.

i chased that BS idea of being rich would make me happy and in the process, got a divorce, lost my pom, became an alcoholic and lost my career. i was making a very decent living, was married to the love of my life and had an absolute jerk for a dog... what more should a man want in his life.

life isn't about what you can get, it's about what you can keep. if you can keep a marriage for 50 years, you are richer than jeff bezos.

i really hope you take a step back, realize that no amount of money in the world is going to make you happy, start being thankful for what you have and enjoy your life. years comes quick and there is no reason wasting them.

a wise man once said that no amount of money can buy you happiness... well it can buy you a pomeranian so i guess it can buy you some sort happiness LOL.
I suppose the FB job board is the place to start. Did you check there?
your S3 bucket permissions are clearly worthy of periodic review.

better tooling makes this easier to do.

And you should have this done by somebody who knows it well, or who learns it well in the process.

No one knows S3 better than the AWS S3 team.

It took us half a day to get the bucket locked down to where only the root AWS IAM user—secured by physical 2fac—was permitted to change the SDK

Or a small feature team could spend a month or two improving the user experience so that literally every S3 customer doesn't have to have the technical acumen, knowledge of risks, and time to get this right. 0.5 days * a million users (to be conservative) is 500,000 days.
It is weird how the size of a plane screws with how our brains interpret the speed.
Apologies, I (unconsciously, I guess) weighted by advertising revenue in my head.

I should probably stop doing that.
> If you use the SRD to find, test, validate, verify, or confirm a vulnerability, you must promptly report it to Apple and, if the bug is in third-party code, to the appropriate third party. If you didn’t use the SRD for any aspect of your work with a vulnerability, Apple strongly encourages (and rewards, through the Apple Security Bounty) that you report the vulnerability, but you are not required to do so.

So vulnerabilities found through this program are not eligible for any reward. Then what would be the incentive to enroll (and accepting liabilities like losing the device, Apple suspecting you of breach of contract etc)? Just bragging rights?
I would add ethics to that list also.
I really like wxWidgets. It is very convenient to add the wxWidgets repo as a git submodule and add it to your cmake build as a subdirectory. The licensing is also great. I highly recommend it! A fantastic project
Toy guns of any form were banned in my house growing up and I just made them out of Lego.
So I have a real issue with not just telling the patient flat out that their test results indicate a high risk of having cancer and they need to be tested again.

As a society, we're just getting too used to accommodating people's ignorance about statistics and science. Where does it end?

Do we have to really have to give up promising therapeutics and diagnostic tests because we're afraid people's feelings will be hurt?
> The main issue is that it does require good, empathetic management, long-term retention of experienced, capable people, and an "apprenticeship" model.

To me this sounds like an idealistic environment. I doubt this environment could fail with any sort of process (or lack thereof).

Documents don't have to be "incredibly detailed, formal, approved-by-everyone-including-the-mens-room-attendant". Those are probably the worst kind. I do think that OP's/Googles design docs does seem to lean towards that, unfortunately. I wonder if that's how it is in practice? Especially given the length -- 10 to 20 pages sounds like it's too detailed for me. Though I suppose on bigger projects the sum of all the implementations of the moving parts can get quite large.

One criticism I especially have of OP's "Review" section is they mention opening it up to a large audience. I am skeptical whether that is how it actually goes down. In my experience, opening something up to review by many people just ends up being a too-many-cooks situation. Pretty much what you're afraid of with "approved-by-everyone-including-the-mens-room-attendant". Those situations just turn into bikeshedding. In reality, I bet it gets opened up to everyone but only a couple people are actually expected to be the ones who give feedback on it.

I still think I'd take the over-formalized process over tribal knowledge. What you don't see behind the scenes of tribal knowledge are people with a lot of it who constantly get interrupted to answer those questions. It ends up being very inefficient at scale. Not to mention the overhead that comes with the person trying to answer the question -- like finding old breadcrumbs about the problem like code or emails. Along with the worst enemy of work for a developer: context switching. I've been the person with tribal knowledge and it basically becomes your full time job. It was great for job security but I lament the amount of time I lost because I wasn't more proactive about writing documentation.
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Each of these services are highly different concerns and don’t belong together, and are honestly not _that_ hard to orchestrate together with the liberal application of Terraform.

If you’ve got one team managing your logging who don’t talk to whatever team who manages your s3/cloudfront setup, then that’s your problem.
I think that is supposed to be read as "you must report any vulnerabilities, which will be treated as any vulnerability you chose to voluntarily submit".
This.

A lot of countries have immigration policies that still require degrees for visas. Given how global the world is becoming, it's important to have the option to be geographically flexible.
That's fair. I haven't used it in that context.
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Yes, but most exploits are deployed in secret by malicious groups trying to hack your shit and steal your money/identity/whatever, not publicized on consumer-facing websites with your name attached.
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I still can't figure out any legitimate reason why the Times thought it was a good idea to try and use his real name in an article about the site.

I mean, if someone goes by a certain identity online when running a blog or working on something, what's wrong with just using that name in an article or video about them? Whenever I interview a game developer that uses a pseudonym, or a YouTuber/Twitch streamer/blogger in the same situation, that's the name I use in the article. I might ask them for a bit of background info at one point sure, but I won't push for it, nor will I go around trying to dox them to get said information.

Is there any real reason that 'Scott Alexander [last name]' would be used rather than just 'Scott Alexander'?

Still, it's nice to see the blog's back up, and I hope people learn from this debacle in some way or another.
2020 and 3 of top 5 economies in the world are Asian and you are still saying developed vs undeveloped countries. Update your biases please.
From my time observing volunteer groups, it's also about leverage and force multipliers.

I can go door to door asking people to change something, and dozens of my volunteers will feel useful but overwhelmed by how much work there is to do in a city of a million people. Or I can go to city council meetings, and get more leverage there. Or if I can convince one high profile citizen to participate, others will follow. Or I can get into contact with the mayor, state congressional members, the governor, federal congressional members.

It's possible that if I convince the correct five people that they will take half of this burden off of my hands. You'd be crazy not to reach for a lever like that. They are a juicy target, and not just from a punitive standpoint. Of course when you are rebuffed repeatedly by a potential ally, then it's a very human (if questionable) response to seek out some sort of punishment.
I don’t see how that is more interesting when the data in the report is accurate. So I don’t think they made stuff up in the report. The data is pretty much public.
Really fun game, finally finished it.
That's the second third and fourth accelerators fault. If this is their third accelerator app and they haven't done anything useful with the money they were given initially, then YC should reject them. They shouldn't make it harder for everyone else so they can accommodate investments into zombie companies on their third round through the accelerator circuit.
Is the Earth that much of a hassle if we built on the near side instead of the far side?

Perhaps for radio astronomy?

Or build it on the far side, near the poles, with a solar array just across the pole -- perhaps that way you could have solar power all year long.
I didn't state it strongly enough. Startups are for the rich and privileged, by the very nature of their mechanism of success. Lottery tickets, playing blackjack, rolling dice, are things which should only be done with what you have in excess. I don't think it's YC's responsibility to even societal odds. They are downstream from that position and simply consume and profit off those who have more than they need.

YC is a business entity not a non-profit organization dedicated to wealth distribution. You're asking it to do a job outside its core responsibility (profit, survival). If you want to make the argument that YC should up it's funding, that argument has to establish itself as being strongly in the interest of YC, otherwise it doesn't make much sense.
Alexa supports deeper integration with iOS and Android apps
Quoting the very first sentence: “DIY” CS degree: take the same courses you would at your own school
In my experience, correctly identifying the culprit is the most difficult, but during an incident, mitigation is the most important. Most incidents I ran into happened after a job rollout, in order to find and mitigate an issue, a distributed system needs monitoring, replicated drainable services, rollout canary/rollback. With these, an SRE oncaller doesn't need as much knowledge of the system as the devs in order to handle an incident.
I see, when I read:
>API also comes with separate endpoints for single currency conversion and Time-Series data.

I thought it meant literally converting, not calculating.