skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. I can't think of any significant examples here of a company owned or run by the government. I know that such things are more common elsewhere, but at least in my mind I tend to classify them as extensions of their respective governments rather than as anything like private corporations. I suppose the real question in this context is whether that government would let them be disrupted and replaced with a competitor they perhaps have less influence over.

> And also elections.

Sure, in theory. I suppose if an election actually changed things enough to be considered "disruptive" then you could consider that a form of revolution, but disruption of that sort generally has exactly the opposite effect: Everything becomes much less efficient as the new party struggles to take control, and then gradually returns to baseline as they realize that it's the masses of unelected bureaucrats that really run things on a day-to-day basis. Even if they were explicitly running on a platform of improving the efficiency of public services, it's not as if there is any actual competition in the provision of those services. People aren't choosing between two or more proven service providers; at best they have the current entrenched system with its known issues and a bunch of vague promises regarding a half-cooked proposal for a replacement which the candidate may never see implemented and which probably wouldn't work as advertised even if it were.
We Will Coup Whoever We Want
He said Google is great now, with all their maps, which were far more accurate and had better coverage than the USGS...But what happens when they get bored with map data and get rid of it?

Looks like he was a lot smarter than us.

If you would've asked me back when Google was new, and we all believed in "Don't be Evil," I would never have thought that Big Tech would end up being the Ministry of Truth and The Memory Hole.
Financial Advisors say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Centuries.
It's borderline suicidal where I live because quite a few houses have guns in them. Every house on my street does. It still happens.

I wouldn't say it's often because car break-ins and empty house burglaries are much more common, but it does happen. Attackers pushing their way in as you open the door, attackers posing as some kind of official or salesperson. When the pandemic started, we had guys going around in lab coats saying they were with the CDC.

Police response times are generally very good where I live, but guns are still very common and so is concealed carry. The thought behind it for many people is sort of the same as keeping a fire extinguisher in the kitchen. You're not the fire department, but you want to be able to control an emergency until they get there or avoid having an emergency become a catastrophe.
I took the tour 10 years ago. Obviously his objections were heard. I’m glad they listened to the guy.
It was really really really slow when I tried it. My ass end mac mini with 1.5x scaling on a 4k display on macOS is noticeably faster than Fedora on a Ryzen 7 3700X with GTX1660 which lags like hell. Not impressed.
In almost every case, I'd say "no", I wouldn't accept stock instead of cash, at least not at a one to one correspondence. The only case where I would, would be if it were a stock grant of actual shares, not options, AND if there was a real market for the shares (either the company is public, or there's an active secondary market) AND the shares don't come with some weird clause which pushes the date that they can be sold out so far that the price is likely to vary a lot between now and then.

The chances of all three of those conditions being true at the same time is approximately zero though.

Generally speaking, I treat stock options as worthless, especially if it's a company where there is no market and no known price for the shares. It's easy to wind up in a case where exercising your options would cost more than the stock is worth, by the time you're able to exercise them.

A stock grant is worth something, but those are much less common. And how to value them is, again, dependent on "is there a market?", "are there restrictions on when and how I can sell them?", etc.
I think fusion is cool, but I also think it distracts from more important and promising approaches to clean power. No one has ever demonstrated a self-sustaining, net positive fusion reaction. It will probably take >30 years to make this technology cheap , safe and reliable and another >20 years to deploy it at scale. We don't have 50 years to wait on clean energy, we need it today. We should be focusing our attention on renewables, like solar, which are rapidly dropping in cost, and good 'ol nuclear power, which is already proven to be safe and reliable, instead of crossing our fingers and waiting for some magical tech to save us. We already have the tech, we just need to get serious about deploying it. I bet a concerted roll-out of nuclear + solar could cut US emissions due to electricity generation by at least 30% over the next 20 years.

EDIT: I see this is getting some downvotes. I want to reiterate that I support fusion research, I am just saying that I don't believe fusion is the quickest or most realistic approach to reducing emissions.
Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26 percent year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Revenue was up 8 percent quarter-over-quarter primarily driven by higher Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom segment revenue.

Computing and Graphics segment revenue was $1.37 billion, up 45 percent year-over-year and down 5 percent quarter-over-quarter. Revenue was higher year-over-year driven by strong Ryzen processor sales. The quarter-over-quarter decline was due to lower graphics processor sales.

For the third quarter of 2020, AMD expects revenue to be approximately $2.55 billion, plus or minus $100 million, an increase of approximately 42 percent year-over-year and 32 percent sequentially. The year-over-year and sequential increases are expected to be primarily driven by Ryzen and EPYC processor sales and next generation semi-custom products. AMD expects non-GAAP gross margin to be approximately 44 percent in the third quarter of 2020. Gross margin is expected to increase year-over-year primarily driven by Ryzen and EPYC processor sales.
Is Iter aiming for breakeven or net plus energy?
EE used to be the top search result for a long time... Hope SO don't go out in the same way.
Big Design Changes in early versions of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask
In fact, I would add: do not trust a journalist that doesn't try to protect his/her source. Nothing personal, Cara Lombardo.
The Chinese Room argument is fairly transparently circular; if you assume understanding involves something more than applying a sufficiently complex set of deterministic rules, then a pure system of deterministic rules cannot ever achieve understanding.

Of course if you accept the required premise of the argument, you must accept that either, one, we don't live in a universe that is a pure system of deterministic rules, or, two, nothing in the universe can have true understanding.

The Chinese Room argument, scientific materialism, or the existence of true understanding—you can have at most two of those in a consistent view of the universe.
I definitely agree that it's possible that attacks have happened but weren't detected. But if attacks were widespread, I'd expect we'd hear about at least some of them. The fact that we don't hear about any suggests to me that there are some significant barriers to real attacks that the theory isn't explaining. Indeed, our own attempts to build attacks seem to suggest that building a PoC in a lab is one thing but making something that actually runs in production and exfiltrates useful data is another entirely, and ridiculously hard even when it is "theoretically" possible. Not that that stops us from wanting to throw all the defenses we can at it, of course.
It could be constructive application of the placebo effect. Try it.
The Claremont McKenna announcement says that they don't think LA County is going to let them hold in-person classes, so they didn't really have a choice. Unless they're misreading hints from officials, seems like Harvey Mudd isn't going to have in-person classes either. Less clear about dorms; those might be allowed to open for students taking online courses (the model Harvard is using).
Thank you for mentioning that, Andrew's post is really fantastic covering many things altogether: fundamentals, data structure, real world impact and examples.
The original paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6

I disagree with their approach and conclusion ("Deforestation will continue accelerating at the same rate forever! Technology will continue accelerating at the same rate forever! Population growth will continue at the same rate forever!"), which strikes me as being misguided in a classically Malthusian way. But the paper is worth taking a look at, as there is an interesting discussion of the Fermi paradox, where we lie on the Kardashev scale, and the possibility that societal collapse due to overconsumption of resources is the Great Filter[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Companies who have gatekeepers that bias toward (or away from) certain groups of people will tend to perform more poorly than peer companies that don't. They will pay more for similar performance, or fail to hire better qualified candidates. This is not perfect, and takes a lot of time to play out - but it does play out eventually.

Sometimes you have to wait for those gatekeepers to retire, so it might take a generation, but it will happen over time. Sometimes it can happen much more rapidly due to innovation and new industries replacing old very quickly.

In the meantime, focusing on acquiring useful skills as cheaply and efficiently as possible is a winning proposition. Much more likely to be winning than spending a whole bunch more money on a less valuable educational product.
> most countries don't do this kind of double taxation to begin with.

They would if they could, but they don't have ICBMs or aircraft carrier fleet to support their claims.
They may have happened in the same region, but it looks like Operation Sunrise happened in spring 1945 in the Northern Italian region. Whereas, the Free Territory of Treiste was a microstate artifact of a WWII.
Remotely Operated Robot Takes Straight Razor to Face of Brave Roboticist
It's kind of weird to get this question when you lived it and there seems to be relatively little to Google.

I mean, it was all in the news, trade magazines, business journals. Blackmailing OEM's, intentionally breaking things and making them incompatible. At least the legal battles are documented somewhere and Wikipedia has something about them, but they were just the tip of the iceberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars

There must be book somewhere.

Dan Gilmour's articles in San Jose Mercury news from 90's should be somewhere.

Basically small software startups had to have Microsoft Strategy. They had to find way to stay out of Microsoft radar or MS would steal their work, their developers or block them. You sue them like Stack did and MS just stalls few years and pays few millions in damages. It was worth of losing in court to protect monopoly.

Big OEM's like Dell had to do what MS said or MS would up their price. It was straight blackmail from monopoly position.
Clamping down on international funding of terrorism, and election integrity.
What do we say? "Do better next time."

The real question is how do repair communication in our society. The author thought it was a hoax because they didn't trust anyone saying it was real.

Part of this is lack of exposure to other cultures, to people who travel. But a gigantic part is that the people we once turned to for learning what was going on in the world, sold their trust for political advantage. Now we have a collection of echo-chambers, each one every bit as partisan as the other, making each one useless for the social grounding function they used to serve.

So we tell the author, "Do better." But blaming someone who's been misled because "the other side" is usually untrustworthy (from their perspective) doesn't solve the larger societal problem. People like the author aren't "keen to drag us down". They're doing it because the source of information they had was poisoned.

I was able to get a crystal clear picture of what was going on and how we needed respond to it because I have family in China. Worse, I had people in my household visiting China when the lock-downs began. They spent the entire trip scared and apartment-bound. When they came home in early Feb. we all self-quarantined, thinking maybe it wouldn't come here if they could just shut the flights down.

But that is because we got the knowledge directly. News media was completely unreliable.
Just because the company you work for or the country you live in wants to "win" the world economy doesn't mean that every citizen and employee can and will ascribe to that model. If people work hard because they are forced to and not because they want to, you create (as we have) a society full of burnt out employees unable to relieve the stress they get from working a job that barely pays their bills.

I don't see that as "winning" unless you're talking specifically about the billionaires and politicians who benefits from this slave labor.
There doesn't appear to be a size/population correlation.

> less successful?

That depends on what your criteria for "success" is. San Francisco has among the highest per capita GDP of any city in the Union as well as a thriving technology economy, but also has the highest rate of homelessness, as well as the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line. What does "success" mean?
Two of them.
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Completely disagree. I'm not saying the dev needs to know everything about finance, but they need to know the nuts and bolts and how things that finance people care about translate down into software. Most importantly, they need to be well versed in the language of finance so they can have intelligent conversations with the finance people.

Just sticking another "Business Analysis" person in the mix just means there are more hand-off points where things can slow down and get confused.
Chill dude, 'everyone' doesn't mean 'literally everyone on the planet', it's a figure of speech :-)
Perhaps in part, but bicycle sales are also through the roof producing significant back orders.
> I'm pretty sure they chose the i.MX8 because they couldn't source Snapdragons

I'm pretty sure that it was expressly chosen because it's reasonably documented unlike most SoC chips. Not that this solves the expense and effort with iterating hardware, of course.
One objective is a Q value of greater than 10 for a moment. And a steady Q value of 5.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Objectives
I did something similar using Github pages (no serverside stuff needed) for an e-zine I recently published. Hopefully removing the server-side component makes it easier for other creators:

The zine is here:
https://jminjie.github.io/zine/

And you can see the repo here
https://github.com/jminjie/zine
It most certainly does care, Black men get on average a 20% longer sentence for the same crime as white men.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-d...
How can you compare a PHP framework like Laravel (that sits on top of a language) with a framework (Next) that sits on top of a library (React) that sits on top of a language (JS)?

Next is not like Laravel.
Either this archive exists elsewhere, either now is not the proper time for panic -- it was when Google became sole owner of this archive.
Don't be so alarmist. We don't need it today.
Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
Let's run a poll. What kind of stuck on stupid does DJT most resemble because getting kicked off social media is a real achievement:

- Kevin Cline's Otto in "Fish Called Wanda"

- "The Zapper" from Futurama

- The Duke from Doonesbury (bonus: who's his Honey?)
I'm surprised Google doesnt get sued for copyright infringement for large snippets that they include at the top of search results...
Dang, who else was hoping for an announcement that they'd discovered a super symmetric partner particle, or something?
Is it possible to port this to iOS?
It's not about fps, though the shutter was really fast since babies move a lot. That was hard to balance with the lighting because we couldn't fire strobes since it would freak them out.

Basically we were shooting a lot of captures really fast (but not quite burst shots) to get the perfect facial expression. Medium format camera digital back files are so huge that they can't cycle that fast. As it was, the photographer's team had to set up a system that got jpegs and RAWs at the same time: the jpegs were radioed into Capture One for immediate review, while the RAWs went to card and were imported afterwards. It was amazing to watch the team work. We had 30k captures after 5 days of shooting - it was a beast to edit down to 27 final shots.
That's awesome, congrats! Thank you for sharing those details. Sounds like something I'd like to do some day.
> In essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile.

Why not just try it? This is such a simple and safe experiment. You can do it and generate your own conclusions.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microsoft.public.bas...

Not safe for work!!!
I didn't :-) not yet, anyway. Waiting for the finalized version.

The early access pdf should be pretty complete though.
The idea is to control breathe for different affects.

"We breathe how we feel we need to breathe". The key word is feel. Change your breathe change the way you feel
Not so hard, that a person can do it.
How do you sign up for new accounts given the mobile number requirement? Do you just reuse the same number?

I tried to make a Google account for work use the other day, and got stuck at that point. Given Google's history it seems silly to use my personal account for work, or to connect the two accounts in any way.
Human memory is a funny thing. Overall, people are comparatively poor at remembering words and numbers. We’re much better at remembering various other things, so people set words to music because it makes remembering them vastly easier. Spatial matters are like this too: we’re simply better at remembering spatial positions of things we’ve experienced than other linguistic references to them. If you ask me where the parable of the sheep and the goats is, I can tell you it’s at the bottom of the fourth column, and find it very rapidly, immediately framed in its context of all that Jesus was expounding in Matthew 24–25.

(That’s also why hard breaks at chapter boundaries is a horrible idea. They split stories artificially all the time. If you must do scrolling, make it infinite scrolling.)

When I have to use a different Bible from my primary one, it’s really hard finding everything I want to find, because it’s just not in the right place on the page! It’s similar for spatial memory of things relative to other books, or relative to the length of the Bible as a whole: you just get a better sense of how it all fits together. (That’s what I was going for with the parable reference last paragraph.) Accessing things only by references and searches and scrolling disembodies it and I am convinced does a great deal of harm in comprehension.

For purely reading the Bible, yes, PDF is a good solution. But that reduces it to a very poor imitation of paper, discarding almost all the potential strengths of the computer (weak search is the only one retained).

I can keep my finger in two or three places in the Bible and flip between them and other such things—it comes naturally and can genuinely be called intuitive. Unless you go skeuomorph, no interface for achieving anything similar on the computer is ever intuitive, and obtaining even halfway good ergonomics is extremely difficult. (A skeuomorph is no panacea here, but I think it can make things easier. My point is more about the conceptual advantages of the old medium, with a view to attempting to integrate its virtues rather than just discarding it because we’re on a different physical medium now.)
Hoodies and large face masks should do the trick. And mirrored contact lenses?
No idea. It is informative, though, for people to have a good idea about how long their monument will last. It's not forever!
I remember how awesome the initial version of the Google usenet archive was. It's horrifying how much they have let the UX deteriorate.
I can't believe I forgot to mention the errata! A mentor got so pissed off at Qualcomm one time that he delayed the start of his next contract by a month so he could farm a list of professional electrical engineers working for companies that use Qualcomm chips and developed a relationship with many of them just to create a secret errata sharing network of EEs that were covered under Qualcomm's NDAs. Even a few lawyers at one of the biggest companies who got wind of the idea decided it was worth the risk.

Sadly he passed away before he had the time to really get it off the ground.
Yeah, they all realized how much tracking and advert impressions you lose with RSS. It seems like that's happened with a lot of web technologies that aren't conducive to that since Google's taken the reins.
Sounds like a try at making somehow including the Milgram experiment [1] into a play. I guess we cannot learn to much, if the people in the experiment actually know it's all show.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
this is beautiful! i noticed it has k8s support and python_env, which is awesome. would it be hard to add AWS_PROFILE & AWS_REGION?
Some years ago, likely around 2010, I had the priviledge to visit Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (it was called UKAEA Culham back then). During my visit, we were shown around various experiments and after a long evening, we had the opportunity to attend a Q&A with the staff. The question everyone wanted to know the answer to was When will it be ready? The scientists and everyone else involved honestly thought 10 years would be more than enough time for the technology to mature and find its way into everyday lives.

Commercial fusion energry, always 5-10 years away.
I am going to need some help on this one as my knowledge on physics is limited: What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale? I desperately want nuclear fusion to work because nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone. It's also 500% more important that nuclear fusion works because most people around the world think that nuclear fission is scary (weaponization concerns even though fission power is different from bomb-making, radioactive waste, reactor meltdowns, etc.), even though it's the only realistic method we have today of going carbon-neutral.

However, I looked up the article on "fusion power" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power) and it says "but to date, no design has produced more fusion power output than the electrical power input, defeating the purpose."

Can anyone help explain what I am missing, or what is not explained well? My common-person impression is if a laboratory experiment cannot even produce desired outcomes, what makes people think that an engineered, faulty-prone system will? The way I see it is that researchers produce the proof-of-concept, and engineering will attempt to reproduce that at scale. Isn't this preemptive? Or, from the article, it seems that it is necessary to build this thing in order to get any conclusive research results.