skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The face recognition vans were standing on busy streets and sidewalks, scanning everyone, not just match attendees.
> I mean... maybe? What's your suggestion here? NASA and ESA should put all interplanetary work on hold, in case Musk delivers on time and on budget for once?

No. I'd prefer ESA to be building reusable rockets of their own, which offer the prospect of orders of magnitudes greater potential for exploration.

I just find it amusing to imagine the Earth-based geologists poring over their few crumbs whilst actual geologists stomp about on Mars with hammers chipping away to their hearts' content, likely also deploying fleets of rovers etc. and thereby gathering terabytes of data, and it could be the case that these two things are happening very close together in time. Surely you'd agree that's a poignant juxtaposition.
>Seems highly probable HR knew what was going on and was okay with it. Child died recently. Only one driving father to chemo appointments. Etc. not the kind of thing they would give any other employees a heads up on.

Is this based on direct knowledge or are you just listing possible examples? Because these examples are very different from what the ex-yahoo person mentioned in a follow-up comment: stuff like personal hobbies.
Nope. The whole point of developing the Raptor Engine was (A) to be able to reuse it and (B) to refuel on mars (using the Sabatier reaction with atmospheric CO2) for a return mission.
I'd rather have my data used by an "autocracy" on the other side of the ocean that can't reach me, then by a "democracy" that can get me and make mu life hell. If that foreign "autocracy" is an enemy of the "democracy", even better, since they are then less likely to ever share my data.
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It's been a while since they had one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
Tiktok is the way forward for social media IMO. The only thing I don’t like is how the demographics skew younger at the moment, but everything else feels like a true next-gen social experience. I’d put the valuation maybe at 100B.
The article mentions that because this is an inhaled vaccine, antibodies would be found mostly in the airways and lungs rather than the blood. Measuring them requires a biopsy, which these volunteers might not want to sign up for.
It’s been reported Facebook has been offering exclusivity contracts to some of TikTok’s most followed personalities for its new competitor, Reels. It reminds me of Microsoft’s streaming platform giving millions to Ninja and Shroud only to close it down months later.

TikTok has been very good at focusing on new content discovery first when you open the app, making you swipe left to see the people you follow second—this is the opposite of Instagram. If Facebook does manage to pull people like Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae to Reels and makes them more prominent, it would really be interesting to see two different philosophies compete against each other.
Some people (a) have a sufficient exercise setup inside the house, (b) can get everything they need mail-delivered, and (c) do not enjoy going outdoors. I am such a person, and I've left the property just once since ... probably sometime in March. Edit: More relevantly, I've only left the house when necessary, which has been about four times.
George has also survived cancer and at least one heart attack. His mortality risk is probably on the high end compared to the average 65 year old, though he isn't obese.
Also I believe 7.6 updated error reporting to native PPC codes so that a lot of the time an application could just crash on its own without crashing the whole system. Not always, but yeah even without protected memory.
This is one trial looking at both, and it didn't find any effect:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2019014?query=fe...

I'm pretty sure there are more.
Ordiner is what a bishop does. Actually, in a Larousse from the 50's, ordinateur was another waybto call a bishop (the one who ordinates).

Story time. During the 80's I was part of a jury for a competition in French for young foreigners. Their mother tongue cold not be French, and neither could the language of the country.

The theme of the dissertation was more or less "how are computers ("ordinateurs") changing contemporary life"

A Polish girl had an old dictionary where ordinateur = bishop.

She wrote a masterpiece on current religion affairs and got an extra price for the tough balancing on the "politics vd life vs religion" rope.
You had me with you until the last paragraph. I appreciate my ARM device. In my case an iphone. Out of all if the other ‘brands’ Apple comparatively has my best interests (privacy and security) in mind.

With some of the mentioned trade-offs of course.
It has already been posted by jeffschofield, but the original is here[1], along with a brief article breaking down the effect[2].

The one you posted is in many ways nicer though due to it all being a single shader, however it has the downside of the drops not interacting with each other.

[1] https://tympanus.net/Development/RainEffect/

[2] https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
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Well put, I think this is very true.
Any chance that was recorded, and published online? Can't find anything.
I was learning C, once upon a time, and had a bug that I couldn't figure out. It worked fine on Linux/x86, but was wrong on Solaris/sparc64. Deep Google diving found a newsgroup post from 1992 or so with a very similar problem; it was an endian problem. My search-fu may have been weak, but an old newsgroup post that helped me solve my problem, not stackoverflow or any other site.
Are you sure he knows better than bloviating software developers? Seems unlikely.

/s
I nominate pound as the unit of pizza.
I don't think you know who George Church is.
I see, I misunderstood what you meant by "Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job". I now see that you probably meant it as "Would you feel confident that you still have your job". I originally thought you meant "Would you feel comfortable with a world in which people would still have their job if ...". My apologies.
> That's because the clinical trials aren't studying hydroxychloroquine in conjunction with azithromycin, which is where the effect is noticable.

Wrong. See, e.g., https://medcitynews.com/2020/07/hydroxychloroquine-flunks-ph...

“Results of the randomized, controlled, open-label Phase III trial, which took place at more than two dozen sites in Brazil, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. The study randomized 667 patients to receive hydroxychloroquine or the drug plus the antibiotic azithromycin on top of standard of care or standard of care alone. When patients were measured on the seven-point ordinal scale of improvement in disease, those in the two hydroxychloroquine groups showed no improvement compared with patients who received standard of care alone. Moreover, those receiving hydroxychloroquine more frequently experienced Qt prolongation and elevation of liver enzymes.”
At a guess - that probably falls under FCC Part 15 rules since it isn't an intentional transmitter. As long as it isn't causing interference it'd be compliant.
Here's another: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093...

> Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease. Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy.

None of your sources deal with outpatients or the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
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Yeah, some interviewers enjoy the interviewee/interviewer power imbalance and like to play with it, as in this case in a sadistic way. I think that he wanted you to guess what he had in mind but when you put him on the spot to give you his definition of architecture he didn't have a solid answer or was afraid you could easily scrutinize him.
I remember Max Headroom successfully predicting video telecommunications, but it resembled a 1980s telephone with a screen. There were even "View-Phone" booths on street corners. Also -- CRTs everywhere.

Some of this was probably deliberate; the show depicted computer consoles with ancient purely-mechanical typewriters. But still, I interpret the tagline "Twenty minutes into the future" as something of a disclaimer.
Name and shame the company. It's the best way to get them to change their behaviour.
Good comment which makes sense other than one word you used.

> toxoplasma

I don't think that word means what you think it means. It doesn't mean "toxicity" if that's what you're going for. It is a misspelling of Toxoplasmosis and refers to a specific thing that has no mapping whatsoever onto how you are using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
Random chance and quite a lot of moderator curation.
Do you enjoy living in a civilization? Then you need to take pandemics seriously.
Pipeline is pronounced the English way in France. I have never heard anyone saying "une peepeuhleen"
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Also, from the article:

"The investors’ bid values TikTok at 50 times its projected 2020 revenue of about $1 billion..."

So that's a projected revenue growth of 465%. That's still projected, but a big number.
Compress the fuel in a small area and then apply some high voltage. It’s probably not much different than a spark plug in a car.
Their podcast, "On the Metal" provides more context at the work they're aiming to accomplish.
Sure but you went through the committee once and then had as much computing resources as you needed. I don't remember it being hard and my whole team got access pretty early and quickly. Compared to the five servers we had to nurse for 2 years because that's all we'd get before then.
Happy to bet against this.
> Windows Phone just didn't have the app ecosystem

Which is also a shame cause currently we have a torrent of crap in both app stores and nobody really bothers. All WP would need today is Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Telegram and Maps to succeed.
Mac OS 8 is now an app you can download and install on macOS, Windows, and Linux
What is a Cessna 172's maximum altitude?
The history of unions, in the US and the UK have always painted a picture around this. Unions, and their rich history came about because the government couldn't, or wouldn't, create laws to protect the common worker, and even when laws were on the books, couldn't or wouldn't properly enforce said laws.

Unions started at a time when they could be crushed, workers fired, and even blackballed legally. Yet they, the organized workers, did what the government couldn't.

The power of unionization hinges on the workers themselves, they need to stand up, fully organize, and bring Amazon to the table. Amazon has too much money, too many "friends" and too much power for the government to take the lead. The attempts to protest earlier, or unionize, at amazon showed a half effort, not driven by the entire workforce, will fail.

Unlike the days of the past, workers are protected by many laws. Companies cannot hire mercenaries (in the US and other "first world" countries, at least) to brutalize workers. But they control more, across a larger area, making unionization difficult, despite the laws protecting unions. If Amazon wishes, they can easily cut off a single warehouse, if all those workers organized only in a single location, in the grand scheme.

But similar fears also exist among workers. If only a fraction of workers strike, they'll lose their jobs, deincentivizing the others. If you work in a warehouse, in the US, you're expendable. And especially in these times, people will be more likely to say "any job is a good job". And refuse to strike unless an effort appears that they see protects them, i.e. most of the workforce strikes, preventing Amazon from firing them all, or cracking down on unionization.

In my opinion, in lieu of 3/4th of all Amazon workers in a region unionization and striking together, the tech workers must unionize first, and lead any charge for change. Otherwise, again, a small minority of workers in other roles who strike will be ousted, painted as malcontents and policy violators hiding behind a fake claim of mistreatment, and fail to enact changes and possibly not be hired by other companies.

That's my two cents, as long and rambling as it may be.
Sure, I mean it's basically tautological, but the populist mob enforces the popular opinion.

I'm sure someone's gonna chew me out for this opinion, but even though i disagree with "mob justice" on principle at the same time i DO feel good when I see mob justice taken on someone who, in my gut, I feel really deserves it.

I acknowledge that feeling is the problem. I'm aware of that.

For a probably not-too-controversial example, I hate Scientology. And way back when, Anonymous/4chan took on Scientology, and maybe didn't completely take it down but certainly made a good effort. And I cheered the whole way, because I hate Scientology.

But I don't agree with mob justice.

I don't know, it's a contradiction logically but that's definitely a thing.
At the interview stage, the candidate has been looking at your use case for at most a couple of hours with very little context. Assuming you've done any work on X and that you are competent, X is probably a good choice or at least there's good reason to believe it is a good choice. It might be nice if the candidate asks why you chose X over Y, but they shouldn't seriously propose that you should switch over to Y. Best case scenario they're assuming their little glimpse gives them a deeper understanding of the problem than you, which suggests they're cocky, worst case they may be deliberately selling you on a potentially worse solution that they just happen to be more comfortable with, ie they're inflexible. A good developer should wait until they know what they are talking about before they form an opinion on what would be the right tool for the job.
Certainly true enough! I'm just saddened, I suppose-that such a feature needs to exist in the first place.
It's pretty obvious America is heading towards some sort of filthy low level civil war like 1973-1976 in Argentina[0]. For those of you unfamiliar with this period of time: this was the three years preceding Operation Condor and the Junta throwing people out of helicopters. A shitty period of chaos where opposing political groupings kidnapped, assassinated and otherwise destroyed each other in the streets.

Cancel culture is just one aspect of it. Riots, mass shootings (hey, anyone remember Stephen Paddock shooting 500 people in Vegas? kinda reminds me of the mass murder[1] of the Montoneros at the Peron rally[2] except worse, and with a media blackout), tent cities, complete distrust of the mass media, political polarization over .... covid treatment and mitigation, clownish conspiracy theories touted on the mass media, actual conspiracies (dude totally didn't kill himself) in plain sight, people baying for blood on social media, and threatening to murder their political enemies. The classical liberal ideal of a marketplace of ideas and of coexistance with political rivals is dead and gone, and the virtues needed to sustain it basically don't exist in the population under the age of 40; aka the people who fight in violent civil wars.

At some point, someone's going to go apeshit and go after the leader of the mob that canceled him. I'd say the main thing preventing it now is companies actually pay out decent settlements for firing people for political statements -leftovers from when labor unions had juice; remember labor protections, alleged lefties?

The whole thing is idiotic and sad, and America will end up the totalitarian shit hole it seems to want to be. Junta Argentina without the nice climate and good looking people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n#Third_term_(19...

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

[2]https://www.britannica.com/topic/Montonero
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> Society defined controversial, as it always has, and always will.

You honestly think there aren't powerful opinion shaping efforts underway? If so I wish I lived in your world - I cannot get away from the incessant politics on any media platform whatsoever.

> And "globalist" as opposed to what, exactly?

Are you seriously suggesting there's no alternative? And seriously questioning the legtimacy of the term globalist by putting it in double quotes? If so that's the end of the conversation from my side.
I believe those people would have accumulated enormous radiation dosages over the duration of the flight, they might not have a long life left and a return voyage would shorten that even more. Might as well stay put for the remaining time on Earth, err, Mars, stay in deep lava tubes and help build that colony.
That means your friend list includes my data. I don’t want my data shared between other companies.
At some point you don't even need to manipulate comments on news articles, you can just make GPT-3 rewrite the news-articles to fit your narrative.
Do you mean to tell me that 9 women cannot have a baby in a month?
What makes you think the products he mentions were “hacker toys”? They were consumer products just the same.
"yet even in their most recent results Intel revenue/earnings still dwarfs AMD's."

Paradoxically this is likely WHY they are getting punished so much by the market. Their current revenue/margins are too juicy to give up, despite the fact that it's causing them massive pain on the technological front.
> Hopefully that will be in a way that will lead to there being releases/hybrids/OS projects of Apple’s collections of OSes finding themselves running on boards like the RockPro64 (inside the Pinebook Pro).

I am looking forward to seeing what they do with ARM. Probably the most interesting thing will be what kinds of custom SoCs will appear.

But don't get your hopes up for any "hackintoshes." At least, not commercial ones. You will probably be able to scare up homebrew devices (like they have nowadays, with Intel), but Apple has always been rather...punitive towards corporations that produce Apple clones.
Submitting CV with a photo is actually an expectation in the German speaking countries!
I'm imagining a dozen tiger teams all with write access to all the code repos, all with potentially non-aligned goals. That sounds like chaos to me.
Thank you. I missed that, obviously.
> Even with the false positive rate, in terms of making human jobs easier, its surely a benefit to scan 2000 false positives than some large portion of 65,000 when checking for unsavoury characters.

who says it sensible to check them at all? Basic probability. Let's say the false positive rate is 1%, and there's a criminal among every thousand. That means on chance alone you'll get ten false positives for each actual hit. (the low base rate makes the false positives much worse than they sound, same reason you shouldn't panic if you get a positive test for a rare disease).

That is a ton of work for nothing, a lot of people being stopped without reason, when the saner alternative may have been to not pester anyone at all. Discovering criminality comes at a cost to people who are falsely dragged into it, and creates opportunity cost for the police.
> You need a better source. There was supervision in that case

You're being disingenuous again. Read the article. She was given the drugs by her parents, who were not authorized to prescribe them or supervise their use on their own. The outcome is not the point. The point is the lack of proper supervision. The outcome could have been different, and it would still be wrong for people to be using HCQ other than in a controlled trial ... but that's exactly what hype like yours leads to.
Facebook did not “scrape stuff for free”. People willingly gave FB their information.
Get an external webcam?
At this point, give how wrong over the past decade pundits have been about Tesla, Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Amazon (and many others), I am inclined to discount/ignore any prediction of a rapidly-growing consumer tech or app company being a bubble. These pundits have a horrible track record of predicting this sort of stuff. A common thread for why these forecasts tend to be so bad is, such pundits ignore the growth of free cash flow and operating profit margins, erroneously lumping one-time expenses as being the same as a recurring cost. Yes, they can both make a company lose money, but a company that does not incur recurring advertising and other expenses is in a much better position than a company that loses money on every sale/user-acquisition and tries to make it up on scale. This was the problem with Groupon and also Fab. They advertised heavily on Facebook in 2010-2011, paying way more in recurring costs to acquire users then they could ever hope to recoup from sales. If you are paying $1-2/click (Facebook ads are expensive, especially for US adult traffic) and given all the click fraud and fake likes, maybe only 1/50-1/100 convert, if you cannot extract at least $100 of value from each user, you die.
So like the Western version of Tencent?
That is my impression as well. It needs a lot more peer-review and reproducable results in different labs around the world by different scientists.
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The data indicates that Hydroxychloroquine doesn't work for COVID19.

That's not what the data says, and it's people who claim to be championing science but are actually regurgitating headlines that are causing this problem.

"doesn't work for COVID-19" covers a lot of ground, and only some of it has actually been studied. I believe it's now been shown that it doesn't provide significant benefit for those already suffering from severe cases.

However, I don't believe there's any real data on prophylactic use at all thus far, just some anecdotal stuff.

Science is complicated, and doing it right requires a kind of finesse that just can't be captured in headlines - or apparently at all by our current media establishment.
I can read 800 words per minute if I want to power through something that is mostly unimportant. I usually read at 400 words per minute, which is good enough for me to remember what I read and easily comprehend the meaning. I can manage perhaps 50 words per minute if I want to really understand what I am reading, picking apart the argument and revising my beliefs as I go along. All along the way, I have to constantly refocus myself and force myself to slow down, so strong is the temptation to speed ahead and let the words wash over me.

Think of the way you read something that you strongly disagree with. I would bet you check every fact and constantly evaluate the strength of the argument, and I would bet it takes you an hour to get through a single article. That is what it takes to deeply understand something. We rarely read that way.

GPT-3 can write the content-free babbling that C students use to pad papers. It can write things that appear coherent if you don't actually read them.
They used two massive Buick V8s to get the turbines started. They eventually switched to Chevy V8s. Another person commented about fuel leaking, it must have been a sight to watch one start up.

https://youtu.be/JjdyQpEUYzI
SpaceX isn’t planning to enter orbit around Mars but instead do direct entry.
I can recommend raindrop.io, too.

I tried pinboard but it wasn't very stable and full-text search didn't work for me on multiple sites (he was great about refunding me, though!). After that I researched all options I could find and raindop truly works just how I wanted on all my devices. The only time I had a minor issue with them was near the start and they fixed it in a few days.
Yes and those are wrong as well.

One can not try to peddle "non-voluntary" as something exclusively directly violently coerced and ignore all the in-direct aspects of coercion set up by the same system. This does not constitute a voluntary exchange.