skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
apparently its an essential trace mineral. this is news to me.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolutionary-psychia...

[..]Scientists first figured out lithium could help stabilize mood in bipolar disorder in the late 1800s when the mineral salt was also used to treat gout. Lithium was the original "up" ingredient in 7-UP soda, though I'm certain it is not in the modern recipe. The first research paper on lithium didn't appear until 1949, when Australian psychiatrist John Cade made his mark on psychiatric history. However, Greek physicians thousands of years earlier were treating mental disorders with mineral water now thought to be high in lithium.[..]
Maybe they're buying time for some reason or another. The documents are witheld until this is settled.
This is nothing more the a PR misdirection to evoke anti government sympathies. EU regulator has no interest in this information, and probably has not directly requested it. The wording says that the search terms $might$ return this information. So the lawyers can always redact it if these turn out, I'm pretty sure the regulator would accept it.

Disgusting company.
Any chance you could just charge per script or byte after 30 scripts?
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, it seems their trouble began well before COVID:

> Firearms maker Rem­ing­ton Arms Co. filed for bank­ruptcy pro­tec­tion for the sec­ond time since 2018, weighed down by more debt than it can re­pay even as fear­ful Amer­i­cans buy more guns than ever.
Never owned a Remington myself, but they've not been held in high regard for a while. Some say it was linked to it's acquisition by Cerberus Capital. Ultimately, though, it seem alike the company was asking customers to pay premium prices for average guns. What justifies spending 800 - 1200 dollars on a Remington 700 as compared to $500 on a Ruger American?
The other person commented that the UI didn't suggest using folders over files. Why would it? That's up to your specific workflow, and using folders or groups is general advice for bigger organizations.

How you verify access is something else entirely, but the same advice helps in that case too.
That's interesting to hear, it definitely sounds like the system may be having unintended consequences on overall productivity.

Bulk categorizing of employees could also be emblematic of management's inability to build a stable company culture.

There doesn't seem to be a necessary reason to carry on the system as is, if access control can be dolled out sanely on project scale or a person by person basis.
Intel processor architecture is not a leading design for 2020. Intel security is a nightmare, think Meltdown and many others. The whole BIOS and ME stuff are nightmares. So every setback for Intel could be a step forward for the IT industry and for software development. Who is worried that we don't use steam engines any more and their manufacturers have disappeared from the market? Unfortunately the long-lasting close-to-monopoly of Intel has not left too much room for new winners to develop.
> You can't compete with the people who actually know how to make the things. Then you die. See Hewlett Packard.

Innovation happens on the factory floor. Pretty soon the countries we outsourced to will come up with better designs too. The U.S. thesis for outsourcing is that the manufacturing countries are filled with braindead automatons who can't compete with our "Designed in California". That may have been true in the 20th century when the U.S. brain drained all the top talent, but now other nations are in a position to pay their engineers more than U.S. companies. The "Designed in California" cope can only last so long.
The poster is not saying that they were charged after cancelling. They say they weren’t aware that it costs $3 a month, which seems pretty obvious from both the signup flow and article IMO

I’ve unsubscribed from 80 spam emails so far
never thought of this good idea, so after all the car is not necessary even for grocery, but I guess parking would be issue unless you live in house, not that big deal to find place for ebike/escooter or leave car on street, but trailer inside?
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Hugs and kisses
The GOP wants to kill anything related to the government that's functional. They want to turn it over so that private industry can have it.

Further, private carriers can search your mail. The USPS can't but FEDEX can...
Each answer is an independent generation from the model.

I have access to the API.
It's not necessary to reproduce all human abilities in recovering from emergencies because about half of crashes are caused by the human pilots in the first place. Just automating the routine things and letting it crash in exceptional cases could be safer than having a human that can save it in the exceptional cases but also mess up the routine things occasionally.
Yes he’s right. Changing your card number won’t do anything - you should ask the merchant directly to cancel
"Alexa, play Celine Dion."
My point was that it functioned in a manner vastly more similar to a conventional autopilot than what Airbus is proposing to do in this project.

MCAS was a simple algorithm that altered flight controls in a predetermined way upon a limited set of inputs. Airbus is proposing a vastly more ambitious solution that includes additional inputs from computer vision and a global view of the state of the aircraft.
> what cool things they can do than on doing rigorous science (which makes sense -- if you optimize for rigorous science, your stuff probably isn't as flashy as the stuff produced by people optimizing for flash.

Is this a new iteration on that zigzag quote?

> Zak phases of the bulk bands and the winding number associated with the bulk Hamiltonian, and verified it through four typical ribbon boundaries, i.e. zigzag, bearded zigzag, armchair, and bearded armchair.

From "The existence of topological edge states in honeycomb plasmonic lattices"

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/1...
No worries, another PE firm will come along to bail them out by issuing more debt and of course paying themselves a dividend. Rinse, repeat.
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s Former Prime Minister, Found Guilty in Graft Trial
I suspect this only works on incandescent bulbs. My house is full of Philips Hue bulbs, so suck it spies!!!
Yes. Intel's failure demonstrates that the US no longer knows how to make chips as good as those of our geopolitical rivals. We're kept safe in large part by our technological edge. If we start falling behind in technology, it's not just a bad decade for Intel, but a hole in national security.
It's a basic You Moved My Cheese situation. Change can be good, but pointless change made for no user-visible reason is not.
Oh, Keysight gear doesn't hold a candle to vintage Hewlett-Packard. However, I just wanted to argue that Keysight is closer to Bill & Dave's garage than the current HP incarnation. They have some OK gear, but too much of it seems overpriced; they are definitely letting the cheaper Chinese manufacturers catch up to them and seem to only want to rely on institutional contracts.

I personally don't know anyone in the hobbyist electronics space that owns any Keysight gear, my only exposure has been in university labs. Bit of a shame, really.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H
Explanation for why a cheap COVID-19 test is useful: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
When you complain about someone calling Google liars, the fact that Google has a long history of flagrant lying is not an ad hominem but relevant background.
Sounds eerily similar to the Harley situation. I had the displeasure of renting a Harley something - street 500 or something along those lines - just to see what all the fuss was about. Seems much ado about nothing, why would I drop 8,000$ on a slab of iron, not even made in the USA anymore, when I could get twice the bike at half the weight for the same price from Suzuki?
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>Could you point to a specific year in the 20th century after WW II that no Western government was conducting an unethical experiment?

Are you justifying unethical experiments on Uighurs by the chinese government ?
Not sure about this. It seems explicit in the signup flow that it costs $3 month and they are pretty transparent about it in media interviews.

App developers don’t really know when you uninstall on Apple because of privacy protections.

If you forgot to cancel, that’s on you, but saying you were “robbed” is a bit melodramatic
That is your retort to practical, hands-on experience?
Unlikely to ever pass - I'd assume. All those who like to go off roading would see all their tires never pass.
While 5G receivers will be on every block, nobody is going to be deploying custom code on the receivers. It's about a 10 ms round trip from there to the metro hub, where custom code will be running. (So roughly equivalent to CDN for wired/wifi connections).
That really hasn’t been my experience when working alongside sales people at the companies I’ve worked for.

I'll outweigh your anecdote with mine, because the only two companies where I had to work with sales people, in both places the sales people were exactly as the parent described.

One cheated on his bride-to-be just to make a sale.
Same thing for Gibson Guitars, bought by KKR in 2013 and BK in 2018.

Gibson Guitars was founded in 1894, but a lot of the guitars they make today don't work, and are way overpriced also.

KKR renamed them to "Gibson Brands", so I guess some MBA with a PowerPoint thought related merchandise was more important than, you know, making guitars.
You seem to be dunking on them for making a qualitative judgement, but they made a comparative one.
No they absolutely don't and every modern nation has rules against arbitrary search and seizure.

In fact, this looks pretty crazy upon first glance, these keyword searches are very arbitrary and broad, it wouldn't hold up in most other scenarios, FB is right to take this to court.
In my opinion the core idea is about the data model: Double entry accounting stores movements of money instead of accounts.

Everything else follows from that idea plus a bunch of terminology.
Interestingly enough, I forget which author, claimed Titanic even began heading for Newfoundland before stopping, after the flooding worsened (perhaps due to the movement, there are conflicting testimonies about how the early pumping performed.)

But yes, the offloading of passengers would have been extremely risky; and only recommended if the ship were—for sure—going down, without a doubt, and that passengers would need to get off.

Today, lifeboats are more-or-less little boats you see on cruise ships, and are used now and then for shuttling passengers to resorts. No biggie, in those cases.
It's going directly from the vendor to Google. How exactly would you block that traffic?
An eggcorn maybe?

The vehicle you're probably thinking of is a golf cart.

A Golf Car is a popular model of motor vehicle from Vauxhall.
Edward Bernays, father of modern advertising and public relations, Propaganda (1928):

https://archive.org/details/bernays-edward-l.-propaganda-192...
Intel is a dying company
>Are you talking about the same americans that required huge bailouts from the government the second the economy stopped because 4 out of 5 live paycheck to paycheck?

Yeah, it's their fault for not expecting and being prepared for the government banning the majority of commerce.
Emotional stress? Yes. Physical stress? Hopefully not?
Surprising, since lockdowns and "protests" have greatly increased the rate of gun purchasing. In my state, all firearms were out of stock at the local shops for months.
Wow this comment just made me fall down a rabbit hole. I've only just surfaced. The Kaitai project actually comes with some pre-defined bindings for cpio which meant I was up and running very quickly.

https://formats.kaitai.io/cpio_old_le/index.html
I wonder about the process here. If they filed for bankruptcy in 2018, and have to file again today in the middle of the hottest gun market in years... doesn't that mean they screwed up the first restructuring?

(I guess I don't know how many of the people rushing to the store are actually buying the kind of expensive guns Remington sells, though. I'd believe a story where it's few to none.)
Interesting, their is also a big difference of % premature births between rich countries up to a factor of 3: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-...
> nobody is going to be deploying custom code on the receivers

Why do you say so? There's nothing technically stopping a teleco to add extra nodes there, use 10% for themselves and rent out the remaining 90% resources.
Spot on. They are mostly a brand. None I've seen hold a candle to my 300wm Tikka t3 lite stainless I picked up for $600.
Imagine I'm consuming code written by someone else, without looking deeply into its implementation. Would I now be disadvantaged by careful and explicit typing? How much time is spent consuming code versus writing it, of course, is a bit situational.
More obvious in retrospect and with experience, perhaps.

In the 1980s or so gadfly (relative to IEEE) Irwin Feerst was sounding a fairly lone warning for US engineers: Outsource packaging, then you will outsource fab. Outsource fab, then you will outsource process engineering. Outsource those, then you will outsource design. ...

https://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/stem-shortage-real-not-rea...
Unethical part is having oems ship all their devices with proprietary apis and software that is black box.

> You can't even buy a device today that forces you to use MS

That’s only because they lost that battle.
EVERY company (either private or publicly traded) in the US that offers a pension is legally required to do one of two things:

1. Pre-fund the pensions of employees who aren't born yet

OR

2. Stop offering the pension before they hire the people who haven't been born yet

Some companies chose to do 2, but without an act of congress the USPS is locked into option #1. This is tautological for any long lived pension plan. It will eventually serve people who haven't been born yet. I don't see why people are so surprised by it.
Incidentally there are 12 inches in a foot.
Having Google put fake hotel reservation confirmation links in your calendar is a "reasonable level of intrusion?" It's amazing what we've become conditioned to.
I'm not claiming that you're wrong because I don't have any data to the contrary, but "They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work" isn't a strong argument. It's only true assuming rational actors and perfect information.

It is quite possible that the successes are more visible than the failures and thus it seems like it works. Or it "works" for the sales rep because he gets more leads and thus a bigger bonus, while hurting the company - but the company hasn't figured that out yet. Or it works in the short term but isn't worth the reputation damage in the long term.

Of course it's also possible that it just works, just pointing out that reality shows that people and companies often do things that are just stupid.
Please explain the easy method for adding, for example MCMLXVII and LXV. I mean that seriously, I'm curious what the trick is.
I'm getting tired of these stories, it's always the same set of researchers doing different variations on the same thing, and feels increasingly like pg's submarine.
They do actually teach this in business school, but not in the way you're thinking. There's a strong business option* where marketing (and thus brand) is more important than actual engineering or innovation. So under this strategy, if you are just a "premium" brand with a mostly outsourced and relatively cheap product line, that's a good thing because your margins will be high. You can actually see this happen to a lot of brands over time that were once trusted for quality and are now kind of garbage (ex. Craftsman tools). It is, of course, a short-term strategy because eventually the market figures it out and the party ends, but while it works shareholders (and executives) are quite happy.

*Note that business school teaches other options, strategies, tools, etc. as well, it's not like everyone is trained from day one to pump and dump.

Source: went to business school.
If you keep using HN for ideological flamewar, we're going to have to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Please stick to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This explanation from yesterday may also be helpful, if you want to use the site in its intended spirit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679.

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$250,000 pilot cost per year (including their benefits and training, correct me if I'm too low)
261 working days
1 long-haul flight a day
300 seats in a 777 (disregarding class)

Comes out to ~$7 cost savings for two pilots per flight. Doesn't seem that impressive for a long-haul unless I'm missing something.
From a purely personal perspective I have genuinely been less stressed recently and like the current situation. Obviously I know this pandemic is an awful event for many people and you were (I think?) being sarcastic. But I would be surprised if there wasn't at least some portion of mothers feeling similarly. Is it enough to account for the changes we're seeing? I suspect it's more than one factor.
> Successful reorgs are done in response to growth, changing markets, and new lines of business.

> This is either a desperation or punitive reorg.

One could very well characterize the reorganization of IBM in the mid nineties as a desperation reorg and a punitive one (100K employees laid off.)

It was also a very successful one.
Li-Fi projects are the best if you want people to get into information transmission. It's simple an cheap and easier to grasp than any radio based transmission. Two diodes (you could even use a LED as sender AND receiver!) and you are ready to go.
Facebook being concerned about anybody's privacy is a good thing I guess.

What they should do instead of suing the EU antitrust regulator (good luck with that) is to comply with the request and leave out or redact those things that they feel would breach employee confidentiality, and enumerate where they've done so with specific reasons as to why a particular item has been left out.

What will happen now is (1) they will lose this lawsuit; (2) will have to pay costs and (3) will still have to cough up the data. So I interpret this as a stalling action to buy time to figure out how they can not get to (3) in some way or other. Maybe they'll lose the data somehow.

As an employer I don't hold any such data on my employees, and neither should Facebook. They are right that legislators / the antitrust entity has no right to this information, but the best way to achieve that is if they didn't have it in the first place.

Facebook employees should wake up and see that it is their rights being violated by Facebook here, the anti-trust entity is not the one that is at fault.
You may not be able to block the calendar spam with current tools, but if you're in a decision-making role, you can block e-mails or blacklist the vendor so your purchasing department knows that they cannot order from them.
> China also made the life of almost a billion Chines better by a factor of 50 in 30 years time.

I agree with you. This is why populations, no matter which population it is, are more likely to accept the government who has substantially increased the quality of life of the average citizen. This is a very hard position to disagree with, I think. Many citizens in the Western world also have had stable political systems despite the massive wrongdoings of their governments because for the most part, governments have not overstepped their bounds in comparison to the stability provided.

It's like having a goodness-to-shittiness ratio that each citizen subconsciously evaluates with an accompanying flowchart. The average citizen thinks to himself or herself: Is my government doing bad things? Yes. Is my government doing good things? Yes. Is the government doing enough bad things to make me care? No. If the answer is yes, then the next question is: Do I care enough to do something about it? Most of the time, the answer is no because society pushes me to remain being a busybody (job, life responsibilities, etc.) or I just don't care.

> Could you point to a specific year in the 20th century after WW II that no Western government was conducting an unethical experiment?

I could have phrased that better: All governments are capable and have a history of some kind of unethical experiment. I think that it is rarer that it is at this level of scale and with this level of technical sophistication. My thought was that generally, a Western government would not successfully pull off this prototype with neither the degree of success or extent.

I personally do not know what is happening at the granular level and I do not pretend to know. I wish I did, and for that matter, at any point in time there will be shady things going on that we do not know. Maybe we will learn in a few decades.

For the first time, we get to see what control through the digital lens of information technology looks like when combined with the capacity to enact state-sanctioned violence. It's like the cyberpunk genre, except privately-owned corporations do not yet have a significant capacity to use violence. Maybe we'll have the honor of seeing that by the end of this century.

On that note, the closest thing the USA has done in subjugating populations of citizens in a systematic way is the internment camps of Japanese Americans for no reason. They apologized 4 decades later. What good is an apology if you've been waiting for most of the victims to die anyway? Nonetheless, it still gained notoriety (eventually), and people still fought for recognition afterward.
The Docklands Light Railway is both grade-separated (which I guess is what your parent was getting at with "closed"? hard to tell) and only GoA (Grade of Automation) 3.

There are GoA 4 systems in use in the world. The difference is that every DLR train has a trained operator onboard whereas in a GoA 4 system the nearest employees are in some distant operations centre, watching only via a CCTV connection. GoA 4 trains are entirely autonomous, if one were one day to somehow break down so badly as to be inoperable a separate team would need to go rescue it and meanwhile other trains would simply stop at a station and allow their passengers to disembark.
Came here to say this.

The past few months have been some of the most emotionally stressful in recent memory. Even work-wise -- less of a commute, sure, but unless you already had a job that was compatible with working from home, the transition by itself has been anything but easy and relaxing. Not to mention the incredibly sharp rise in unemployment, the lack of physical social interaction, the fear (or reality) that your parents/grandparents contact the virus, etc etc.

And as for physical stress, exercise is generally good, not bad for one's health, including during pregnancy. Unless your job involves doing physically taxing work, which you continue to do even while pregnant, it's a little hard to imagine how being forced to stay indoors would be particularly good for your overall physical health.
Same, as far as firearms are concerned. But I do own several other Remington products and the quality is astonishing. One of which is a pocket knife and it's staggering how well made it is. And how outrageously sharp it is for that matter. 3 days before the pandemic started I nearly cut off my left index finger with it...
I find it doubtful that the people researching this phenomenon didn't think of that, don't you?
Savage 10s haven’t helped Remington much either...