skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only protects you from tweakers armed with cutters. Industrious tweakers with better tools at their disposal might be able to crush it or melt it.
The CCP would state literally the exact same argument to justify their actions : "It's very disingenuous to imply that these people are being arrested for purely political reasons, they are causing social unrest and preventing harmony. They are not being targeted because of their identity, but because of their actions".

And it's just as bullshit when China says it and when the Feds say it. There is no justification for black-bagging people. When that happens, it is almost always for political reasons. If it wasn't, then they could use normal legal channels instead of violating the law.

By the way, civil disobedience is always illegal. That's what the "disobediance" means.
> On the other hand, capitalism can only really function in a world where all transactions are bilaterally voluntary

That condition has not been true at any time in the history of Capitalism. Since that's only possible if the two parties are perfectly equal, which obviously is almost never the case, and certainly not a state of affairs that the proponents of Capitalism wants or have ever wanted.

In reality, unless born into property/wealth, one is not a voluntary party of such a transaction, and its voluntariness decreases in proportion to the socioeconomical situation of the party at that time.
What a gaudy abomination! A big part of it's functionality appears to be distracting the driver --- and impressing the boomers next door.

Take most of the screen away, leave the bare essentials needed to successfully and safely operate the vehicle --- and then if you have additional pertinent info for the driver, convey it audibly or verbally.

Just my opinion.
This reminds me of a story..

A friend of mine was putting in a subdial and phoned up some gov department to find out the lat and long for his property.. after being put through about 5 different departments the last guy he got said "where do you want it?" And he repeated his address, the guy rhen said " no I mean where in your back garden? Go out side and stand where you are going to install it and i will give you the exact lat and long" yes this guy was watching him live! this was back when the first home phone detatchable handsets were out.. a long time ago. He never did find out who he ended up talking to..
> Meaning that you can't use the trick that non-epaper screens typically use where each "pixel" is actually a tightly packed cluster of individual red, green and blue sources that are individually controlled

If there was a way to mix the inks and have them 100% separate by the grid on demand, it could be possible.
Tests impose a maintenance burden like any other lines of code. Just making it harder to navigate to relevant code (including useful tests) is a significant cost.
I think there's a bit of a mixup here. CHAZ/CHOP was in Seattle, not Portland. The "CH" stands for Capitol Hill, a neighborhood in Seattle.
There is never, ever, ever any possible excuse for kidnapping people without due process. Ever, ever. Because there's no way to prove that they were violent rioters. They just as well could have been total innocents, and you'd have no way to know.
I understand what “weakly held” means, but what does the “strong opinions” part mean? I couldn’t get this from the post.

What would be an example of a weak opinion and a related strong opinion? Is this just the difference between “the 49ers will win most of their games this year” and “the 49ers will win the Super Bowl this year”?

If so, why is the latter preferred?

Edit: thanks for the downvote, perhaps you can help me understand what is meant by the term, or why you found my comment to be inappropriate?
No you can't. It's linked to the firm that pays for the subscription. Your bloomberg chat and models can have proprietary info that isn't brought to the new firm and your new ID.
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Nassim Taleb talks about this revolving door between government and business.

After a powerful regulator leaves government, they can often get high paying jobs in the industry they just regulated as a reward for good behavior and to interpret the complicated regulations.
I've seen just about all of the above, and a few more:

* Cheap out on just about anything that you need a lot of (knobs, drawer pulls, light switches)

* Cut tile or flooring at unusual angles to avoid having to do more complex cuts

* Use the cheapest lighting and plumbing fixtures possible

I've actually had friends buying new construction homes tell me that they've told the builder NOT to install certain things because they didn't want to be saddled with whatever "builder grade" materials the contractor was going to use. Imagine that! Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new house, but you already don't trust the builder not to cut corners! Where's the craftsmanship?
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Thank you for the sanity check. It looks like the web site has a bug!
People who like embarrassing or angering others find social media more addictive
The first time I saw this phrase was in some sort of "qualities of an effective leader" type article, but targeted at techies.

Don't know if that's the real origin though.

Edit: I should've read the article first. The actual original is much less tiresome.
They also want to do that so they know if the vaccinated people that got the virus have statistically milder outcomes than non-vaccinated people.
I apologize. I did not see your comment before posting my reference to Oblique Strategies.
There are some books out there that cover the very little that we do know (I've read a bunch of them) but the big takeaway is that we don't know a lot. The reason is that you can't create great studies with babies.

The good news is that you don't need to "fix" or "maintain" a baby. They need their basic needs met, they need to feel safe and they need love. Do that for a year and then you get a toddler.
> demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt [...] those people shouldn't have been in prison for the crimes in question.

That's basically the opposite of how it's meant to work.
https://j-entranslations.com/two-japanese-jabberwocky-poems/
This viewpoint leads to blog posts like "Why you MUST do X to be a good engineer (2015)", and then "Why I was wrong to say you MUST do X to be a good engineer (2019)"
Porous Aluminum eh? Wonder how well it stands up to gallium, or acetylene, or MAP gas, or a grind wheel instead of a cutoff wheel.
The Google doc is really hard to skim, did that happen in Phase 3? Severe side effects are more common in Phase 1 trial, this is phase 3.
This non-cuttable metal material sounds extremely useful:

> "Security applications such as doors or barriers (as protection from forcible entry attacks) are obvious ones. However, our material technology could also be useful for enhancing the cutting resistance of shoe soles or protective clothing. Workers could benefit from non-cuttable elbow pads or forearm guards in environments with industrial tools."

As someone who cares so much about digital security, physical security feels good.
So how do you shape/use it during manufacturing?
I have seen "I don't know. And I am pretty sure you don't either," effectively used to end pro-creationism arguments.
>I'd rather let someone else be the first person who has purple tentacles grow from their nipples

Hey, some people are into that.
> It literally has zero access to the far-enough past.

> GPT is completely memoryless: it has access to the past 1024 symbols

This is the critique I have of that.

This model is so huge, the "memory" is encoded in the trained model parameters. Since there is so much repetition and structure in comments in the corpus, I believe we are seeing a large scale social memory compressed in this {model parameters x symbol memory} structure. That space is gigantic.

> If you scale it up to more symbols that effect will go away.

This though still remains to be proven. Does any significant further correlation of note happen when you have {175B model parameters x 1M symbol memory} structure? No one knows quite yet. But we do for sure know that humans can learn things with an extraordinarily smaller "training" set.
Re: #3 Doubtful IMO. I personally believe that ISINs are the most viable alternative (and far less expensive to license). The issue is that you will have to get the industry (or perhaps just JPM/BOA/CITI in the US) to stop quoting and executing everything with CUSIPS... I think the best fix here is a legislative one personally. CUSIPS along with all corresponding identifying data on a security should be public domain in my opinion.

#5 I probably shouldn’t have said that, at this point my anecdotal observation on it is too dated. At the time I worked in banking and evaluated it for our team it did a lot but not enough, was pretty but challenging to figure out and everything was being “worked on”. Everyone I knew either had BBG or FactSet.
Things that improve HFT sadden me because I don't really see the net benefit to mankind. I see someone else's share of the pie getting smaller, someone's gets bigger and the rest of us remain starving.
Advice on how to scale a startup during Covid_19
We created a platform that simplifies the design process for the FMCGs industry (focused on Pharma and Food). It eliminates errors and help remote teams by doing the job at a much faster pace.

It's targeted to a "niche" of consuming foods producers (more than 400 k across the globe) and know just a few other companies have created something similar across the world. So we believe we will face a big opportunity in the next year or so.

The issue we're facing is that with the pandemic almost all companies have gone remote and we are struggling to get early adopters outside our country of origin. We've offered free demos, however still is difficult to get to our target market.

Anyone faced a similar situation that perhaps could share their experience?

Thanks!
> ... hardness may not be a fundamental property of a material but rather a composite one including yield strength, work hardening, true tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and micro properties such as strength of atomic bonds.

Now that is pretty interesting.

It seems they tuned the material to resist the angle grinder, drill and water jet but it would be interesting to see its ballistic resistance.
My solution is using audible, and listen through the book during whatever time that I can just do passive listening.

Just finished the power broker, with 50 hours+ time.

I think audible is particularly good for light content, novels, biography, etc.

Audible for things with dense content, like historical studies are not working well. I listened 20+ hours of the fall and decline of Rome, and I cannot even remember the names of the Rome emperors mentioned so far.
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Four rotors. Now that would tire out your fingers.

The limitation on the number of rotors is key pressure. A 3-rotor Enigma has a huge key travel and you have to push hard. (I've had the opportunity.) The friction between the contacts is high. That's why these machines were not built with enough rotors to be really secure.

The next step up was the Lorenz 10-rotor machine, but that had to be motorized. But the crypto design of that was botched, and it's easy to crack. A real 10-rotor alphabetical Enigma-like machine without a "reflector" would have been secure against any attacks of the period.
There is a very clear difference between "Arrested for disagreeing with Donald Trump" and "Arrested for participation in an illegal act". You know what the difference is. Everyone knows China's crackdown on dissidents is entirely different from people participating in the riot getting arrested by Federal agents in unmarked cars.
I can understand that argument, but some people do essentially use whataboutism as a tu quoque to completely dismiss an argument and treat it as obsolete. Obviously this is very rarely the case.
This seems like total magic. How on earth is that implemented?
Look at the bottom attribution... zoom in enough and it’ll switch to a big data provider with stale maps.
i'm not fan of blackbagging people to terrorize them, but the ccp's regard for human rights is in a completely different universe. these people are getting arrested in a frightening and disorienting way, then charged (or not) and released. for a ccp response to rioting, please see the current situation in xinjiang -- evictions of entire communities via demolition of neighborhoods, indefinite detention of extended families, forced sterilization, etc.
I have lately had a converse experience, where my superiors expect me to have strong opinions about things that are not even half-baked. Or rather, they ask me about it and even if I hedge and say "I'm not sure but..." they interpret it as gospel and move forward with laden expectations.
My wife's parents built a house out in the country when she was ~10. They put in a functional wood fireplace and used it as their primary heat source for a couple years. Her main memory of it was that the living room where the fireplace was would be really nice. Her parents bedroom up in a loft above the living room would be too hot. And her bedroom would be super cold because the furnace never kicked on and the heat from the fireplace never quite made it over to her room.

But then again, it probably wouldn't win any "new old home" or other design awards.

Once they stopped homeschooling, the desire to heat the house with wood dried up pretty quickly. These days I think they have a fire maybe a couple times a month on Winter evenings.

One great thing her family introduced me to though: The in home sauna. They are Finnish by way of Northern Minnesota. I dream of one day having a sauna in my own home.
Python is not comparable.

Rust is a natively-compiled systems language that supports the C language ABI.

Python, Perl, Java, Lua, Ruby, Scheme, and other such things are expected to bring along some extra gunk. I'm not saying that this is good, but at least it is unsurprising.

Rust needs to fit in with C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Pascal, and all the other natively-compiled systems languages. Using generic system-provided tools isn't just for C. You'd likely use a Makefile to compile Fortran.

The idea is that the languages are interchangable parts with compatibility. You can create a project that uses a different systems language for each source file, run "make", and it all builds. There is no glue code, no interface definition language, no wrapper, no thunk, or anything of the sort.

The expectation is just different. Nobody expects Python to cooperate with Lua or Ruby or Perl, with source files in different languages freely calling into each other. That is the expectation for natively-compiled systems languages.
> Now demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt, with vast supporting evidence, that most of those people shouldn't have been in prison for the crimes in question.

"Shouldn't have been" is a value judgment; by my values, anyone in prison for a non-violent drug "offense" should not be there.

Just did a quick search, and for federal crimes, looks like the drug-related prison population is a whopping 46% of the total, at just under 70k inmates. Not sure what the violent vs. non-violent breakdown is, but even if the violent ones are 75% of those, 17k people () is still a lot. If we assume that the federal prison population is composed similarly to all the state prisons, that's 250k inmates for non-violent drug crimes.

Yes, I know I made some guesses and assumptions around those numbers, and if anyone has some better figures, I'd be happy to correct myself, but there's 250k people should not be in prison in the US, based on my values.
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I think it's difficult to approach a problem with a Depth-first Search mentality without using "Strong Opinions, Weakly Held". If one goes in with "weak opinions" it's easy to find oneself constantly backtracking and checking the other nodes early on in the chain of assumptions and doing a mental Breadth-first Search instead.

That's not to say that it's the right approach for every situation, but for problems that will have a lot of dependent unresolved assumptions "Strong Opinions, Weakly Held" is sometimes necessary to maintain focus to break through the problem.
My first thought was "New bike lock material"

My second was:

"New non-cuttable bike lock defeated by ______"

{freezing, shock, heat, _ }
How do you know that they were participating in a riot?

By the way, in Oregon, Federal agents are not allowed to carry out such actions without registering beforehand with the State. So this was literally an illegal arrest made by agents of a completely unrelated agency being used in order to do what Donald Trump wants instead of following the process of the law.

China's crackdown on dissidents is very similar, they also use the tactic where they push peaceful protests into riots and then use that as an excuse to arrest everyone.
It's terrible as a meme, and terrible as a culture guidepost for a big group.

It is only effective in the context of a closed small trusting group making decisions.

One needs to make decisions, often with laughably insufficient information. So make one and watch carefully and be able to reverse if evidence tells you differently. Only works if you already have a strong trust culture and relatively equal power.

Using that policy as a leader of a larger group with a necessarily weaker trust culture and unequal power fails terribly because it comes across as capricious, and irresponsible.
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I had a boss like this as well. It was at the first place I worked for after moving to the Bay Area.

We were a very small company, so it wasn't hard to be nimble, but it was exhausting to keep changing features or products we were working on, or never having the opportunity to satisfyingly complete anything we worked on. It was all the typical "lean startup" phrasing, disrupt, move fast and break things, "pivot", the things you'd see as jokes in that tv show Silicon Valley. Our CEO literally ended every single slide presentation with "We're going to change the world."

I don't remember how many times we "pivoted" over my five months there, but every single time it was just a new feature, we weren't actually changing anything fundamental about the business proposal, the product, or the customers. We also did not have solid metrics or any way of measuring the success of new features, nor did we have any information that proved, for example, existing customers wanted the new features (most obvious one was a "like" button). The overall feeling was our CEO was just floundering, he didn't have any coherent strategy.

Funny thing was, none of this made me leave. I finally decided to quit when he hired someone who started scheduling meetings at 9am and nagging me to be in at 9am despite performing well and having explicitly agreed to a much looser schedule when I started.

Oddly, we also went to Google once for a hackathon. IMO our CEO fucking RUINED that trip. The hackathon was supposed to be focused on using Google Play Store in some capacity, I honestly can't remember it all because this was nearly a decade ago. Our CEO was with us and insisted our team make a Google Play app for 404 pages (we were supposed to change our 404 page during that sprint, separate from the hackathon). And if that sounds dumb and incoherent, that's because it was. I didn't even know what we were building, and I'm pretty sure we left early to go work on our 404 page or some stupid shit like that. I'm not joking, and I remember the blank stares of others in the room when our CEO was trying to explain the idea of what we were going to build, nobody got it. We didn't get it either.

Sorry, really meandering comment here but I completely forgot about that experience until I started thinking about how that CEO didn't really know how to focus or communicate a strategy.
Honestly the investors are morons. Who doesn't do due diligence before investing?

This communication says that the CEO only produced the false bank statements when he was pressed about it. Seems like somebody snapped out of it, did the due diligence that should have done in the first place before signing a check, and realized that this was all smoke and mirrors.
So... why can't we educate and employ Americans in high-skill fields?
Like, say, a Hytek 6000W fiber laser cutter?
We? No. You don't understand. That's fine. You can learn.

https://stpauls.vxcommunity.com/Issue/Us-Experiment-On-Infan...

You ignored the Q you responded to. "Which professional published best case death estimate did the US not beat?"
They also get charged in China and if not released. It's just that when Law Enforcement and Justice doesn't care much about the law, you can almost always arrange things to suit what you want. Much the same way that the Trump administration went against the law, due to their control of Law Enforcement and more generally of the monopoly of violence, in order to unlawfully detain people and build a database of people that have been targeted beforehand, including biometrics.
"kidnapping"
How about a plasma cutter? I know a plasma cutter will cut through normal silica. (I cut through some steel plate laying right on top of large gravel.) Silicon dioxides melting point is 1700 C, and aluminum oxide is 2100 C, a little higher.
It was my honor to read your argument. Thank you. Please feel free to not respond.

I suggest the only justified criterion of authority and rule of law emerges from a high-performance liquid democracy built on infrastructures owned by the people. Those in power have little egoistic reason to enable that thing to evolve. Spontaneous mass cooperation that radically leverages webs of epistemic trust toward maximizing the utility of the those at the bottom appears to be our only hope; I do not predict it.
Yeah, contractor is a bad metaphor. I started with Home Depot, but that didn't really fit either. It's more that you bought a ramp that's designed to fit over a two step rise. Was it advertised as accessible in your state/county (which will likely have specific gradient and handrail rules? If not, you should have looked. If the salesperson assured you it was, well that sucks, but I'm not sure you'll get more than your money back.

> The last thing we need is to hand out more excuses to evade accountability and responsibility for making the world worse.

I'm definitely not advocating that. I'm more advocating that you can't leave all this to someone else entirely. Even if you pay someone for a turn-key custom website and make sure it's accessible, there's no guarantee it still meets standards a year from now, just as if you pay a contractor to build a ramp for you that perfectly meets standards. Things change, and people need to pay attention to the things that matter to them to make sure they follow the law. Whether that's occasionally checking it yourself or paying someone else to do so (and thus ensuring it happens), it still needs to happen.
"Turns out over half the Internet has a single point of failure called BGP."