skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. I appreciate the thoughts.
I try my best to be transparent and straightforward.

I actually do think it's reasonable to expect companies to re-evaluate every few years (at a minimum) because the world changes. At some point, the reasoning from X years ago will not make sense anymore.

One of the top rules of sane policy making is to write into the policy the conditions that should cause you to re-evaluate it, whether it's time, or change in evidence you relied on, or ...

You want people to understand your rationale and what might change your mind, otherwise you shouldn't expect them to go along with it.

Even though such a rationale exists in various emails, etc, I actually failed to do that in the resulting police here, unfortunately (the internal version is not any better in this respect). That one is on me and I think would be a more legitimate complaint here.

I don't think it would have changed yet (if anything, the AGPL has become more contentious as the economy has gone south), but that's just an at-a-glance view.
Feel bad for people in the US, which seems to effectively to be back to March/April.
That kind of gets into "what is it like to be a bat" territory.

The more imminent question is more of engineering than philosophy - what does it take for GPT-3 to not make the mistakes it does? This would require it to have some internal model for why humans generate text (persuasion, entertainment, etc.) as well as the social context in which that human generated the text. On a lower level it also needs to know about cognitive shortcuts that humans take for granted (object permanence, gravity)

Basically, some degree of human subjective experience must be encoded and fed to the model. That's a difficult problem, but not an intractable one.
It's the same on the Apple discussion boards. You won't ever get an official answer, only a guess of an answer from somebody with no more knowledge than yourself.

HP is the same, but occasionally you will get an employee answer, but it will be just as useless.

My assumption is all the big tech companies don't want to give support away for free when you should be paying for a support contract for it.

And yes, there is for some unknown reason, a legion of people who will give this fake support for free for internet points.
I've tried driving through Seattle (during non-pandemic) Its hell to drive because of all the cars. I don't understand people that want to increase populations in areas where there's literally no infrastructure for it.
If you can legislate data location then it's better to just legislate access and privacy rights to that data instead of the location.

Forcing data to be stored within borders just makes it harder, more expensive, and more inefficient to serve more customers for no real security benefit. And a company with illegitimate operations isn't going to be following these guidelines anyway.
What about the same for Amazon? I thought it was interesting that Warren explicitly mentioned the Amazon in his river analogy... Little did he know.
Great, thank you very much for your explanation! I now get that the sentence describes a new example predicate that is not connected to the sentence before (“S includes at least half of the elements of [n]”). This makes sense. Thank you for your thoughts.
When you WFH, no one knows you're a cat.
Power caps. They act like a shock absorber or a very short term UPS for incoming power.
So passengers have to demonstrate a successful landing in Microsoft Flight Simulator if they want to get a discount ;-)
You just mentioned one of the greatest distractions caused by WFH:

a lot of people have little kids at home, hard to get work done like that.

And then you said "WFH has nothing to do with it."
Definitely agree the rapport and 'alliance' between the two is paramount!

How it practically plays out: teen members can switch between counselors on our platform if they are not satisfied with their first match. If they don't find a match that is a fit within the first few sessions, we do offer a money back guarantee.

We do also focus in the upfront assessment on gathering the input we need from both the teen AND the parent to make the matches we select higher quality. This input includes goals, needs, specialty areas, interests and hobbies -- among other inputs.
I know exactly who you're referring to
A coin or a bank note are far from being non-technologies, and the logistics to getting them to where they are needed are underrated.

Connectivity and devices are not that big of a leap forward from there and seeing how hungry western and Asian businesses are to open new markets in underserved areas, it’s unlikely lack of connectivity itself will further inequalities. Not for long anyways.

The need for powerful computing gear could, maybe, if there is any advantage to being part of the mining network...
I have Bose NC700, the button on the headphones switches between noise cancelling level 10/5/0. 10 is max and makes people nearly impossible to hear if you have any audio playing; 5 is a great balance between cancelling background noises but letting through voices and other sounds; 0 is full transparency mode and actually amplifies the sound a bit.

In any case, ANC is best at cancelling out constant background sound, and is less effective at short bursts of noise (crashing sound, another commenter mentioned crinkling candy wrappers, etc.). At home with level 10 I can't hear anyone knocking at the door, but construction noises still get through if you don't have any audio playing. Level 5 resolves the door issue but makes the construction worse :(

The voice feedback is a different feature which activates when the mic is active, so you can hear yourself. Not sure how that compares to what the 1000XM2 does.
I don't think that would be super-helpful. Even if you work in a corporation, you occasionally need to receive a shared file from a customer, outsourced team, etc., even if you don't plan on it. Then, debugging why you're not receiving shared files will be frustrating.

The problem here isn't people sharing things with you, the problem is abusive spam. So anti-spam tech (like blocking which is the most basic) is the right approach here, I think.
I don't think it is as simple as a singular person or a single room saying "I don't give a shit". It's a matter of prioritization. (In this particular case, even from a UX perspective alone, you could argue that increasing friction in sharing could net-net hurt the average user.)

I don't think Google (if we can anthropomorphize it at all) is blind to this general phenomenon though--it's a trade-off you have to make about what company you want to be. Is it better for you to invest resources into incremental improvements to polish the final 2% or try again and maybe make a breakthrough. You have to look it from multiple angles too: are you going to attract the most talented people giving them such gruntwork or will they quit? Is there any meaningful incremental business you could get from polishing Android (remember, polished Android is more expensive and has to compete head-on with a company whose focus is to polish and is best set up to do so). It's complicated. There's a place for multiple models.
Given the high costs of Hinkley Point C, I suspect that the new reactors planned for Sizewell and Bradwell may not actually be built.

"Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget"

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49823305

French power company EDF said the new nuclear plant it is building at Hinkley Point C will cost up to £2.9bn more than thought.

It raised its estimate for the project, in Somerset, to between £21.5bn and £22.5bn, blaming "challenging ground conditions".

It also said the risk of the project being 15 months late had risen.

...

These cost overruns will not hit UK consumers. However, a new way of paying for further nuclear stations, such as Sizewell, is being considered.

Under this new model, consumers would see costs of construction added to their bills as the project went along. It means that customers could be exposed to cost overruns.

That is why today's announcement is important and why EDF will find it harder to make the argument for building Sizewell.
Can applications recover from fsync() failures?
That's a great batter's point of view. Here's a pitcher's POV [0], a poster breaking down the different pitches. ”Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.“

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/my.llfiles.com/00120380/pitch-grips...
Google products are more likely to be suddenly deprecated with no offboarding plan than to care what features an overwhelming majority of customers want.

Most Google products exist solely for the benefit of the Google engineers who use them for resume padding & career growth. They lose money for Google the company and they infuriate loyal customers up until they are capriciously surprise decommissioned.
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Many organizations work like this. People get credit for orphaned projects they no longer work on.

Then, more responsible developers have to waste their lives maintaining code that was designed to be orphaned from the start.
Until google's automated process ban all those accounts. That method is used by many pirate video sites and they'll have to constantly play cat and mouse with google. Do not try it if your account contains anything important as once you got banned there is no way to restore your account due to absolute lack of human tech supports on google side.
This may be helpful to those who want online services to do these things, but I prefer to use software on my own computer to generate UUIDs and that other stuff.

Also, I think the Content-type header of the API is set incorrectly; it is set to text/html but probably should be text/plain instead.
Exactly why there need to be regulations for tire noise.
It was a lot worse than that: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf

That paper is long, but does a great job of giving the context and going deep on the details.
If ever. Taxi ride costs $50 per hour while flight costs $50k per hour.

Getting rid of driver in a taxi saves 50%, while in plane saves 1%.

There are a lot more taxi drivers around world (although I’d guess they generate similar or just slightly higher value).
Of course we can do better. Every card that is an identical copy of another in the set loses you some flexibility in picking different sequences.

6 different cards give you

- 1 zero-card sequence
- 6 different 1-card sequences
- 30 different 2-card sequences
- 120 different 3-card sequences
- 360 different 4-card sequences
- 720 different 5-card sequences
- 720 different 6-card sequences

That’s enough to almost get you up to 2000. And I don’t think the resulting encoding is objectively weirder than Roman digits.
That's not entirely true. Cat IIIc is "zero zero" autoland capable with no decision height required.
Indeed, I do not believe binary footprint is the only difference. It's actually the least important one. The most important is availability.

As I said above, Libsodium's support of embedded targets is limited. To the point it wasn't even considered on some benchmarks, while Monocypher was. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8725488 (Note that since that benchmark, I have reduced stack usage of signature verifications by half, at no noticeable loss of performance).

Monocypher's portability comes from 3 factors beyond sticking to standard C99: the size of its binary (least important), the size of the stack (more important), and the lack of dependency (most important). Monocypher uses no system call, and does not depend on libC. That makes it usable on targets without a kernel.

The second difference is simplicity. When I wrote about Libsodium being 10 times bigger, I didn't refer to the size of the binary. I was referring to the size of the source code. And the number of exposed symbols, to a lesser extent. Such a massive difference in degree is close to a difference in kind. Audits take 10 times more time and money (where Monocypher cost $7K and 7 days, Libsodium would cost $70K and 14 weeks). Building, porting, and deploying takes 10 times more effort, and sometimes is not possible at all, when the environment is constrained enough.

Simplicity matters, even on server farms. DJB wrote TweetNaCl for this very purpose if I recall correctly. He wasn't even targetting embedded devices.

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One important thing to clarify: small-footprint embedded cryptography and server farm cryptography can be the same in the IoT world: that connected object has to connect somewhere, generally to the vendor's servers. While embedded devices are often very constrained, the servers can be a bottleneck (especially true if there's no subscription to pay for the servers). You might want to optimise for the server side, to help scaling, even if it put more strain on the embedded side.

That, and there's an advantage to using the most popular primitives: less room for new cryptanalysis, more compatibility. That's how you get Ed25519 signature verification even on tiny 16-bit embedded processors. You'd like to use an extension field to make a faster, more lightweight curve, but the literature on prime fields (and therefore Edwards25519) is more stable, making Ed25519 the safer choice.

I also acknowledge that Monocypher is not ideal for tiny embedded devices: Blake2b instead of Blake2s, 64-bit multiplication on Poly1305 and Curve25519… 64-bit multiplication is particularly problematic on 8/16-bit processors, they end up inflating the binary size to prohibitive proportions. For those tiny targets, C25519 is a much better fit. I have redirected a user to it once, though they ended up using a slightly bigger processor, and kept Monocypher because of its speed.

On small 32-bit processors however, Monocypher is king. As far as I know, only custom assembly beats it.
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I bet you're right.

Reminds me a little of the scenario where people bizarrely ask a forum if they can bring their dog to a hotel, some random person says "yes" and then you wonder if the hotel declined to accept the dog if the owner would say "well Bob off the internet said it would be fine"
ah, thanks for the clarification. regardless, thank you so much friend, I feel much lighter now.
You can't always wait for hard data.

Sometimes (especially when it comes to life-affecting questions like "will my company / job survive or not?" it's necessary to draw inferences from unstructured observation -- a.k.a. "anecdotal data".

It's a very useful cognitive skill, in fact.
I have no idea what google optimizes for but it's not time or distance. At least in my neighborhood (San Francisco) it almost alway pushes you onto "main" traffic streets over much faster and more direct routes. It's trivial to just drag the line to a better route and see the time drop by several minutes over just a few miles. And this is not a traffic thing, they are longer even late at night. Maybe some agreement with the district to prefer mandated high traffic areas?
Yeah, Id also accept all my data zeroed instead of financing hackers.

It still puzzles me greatly how this ransomware has such a huge impact. How Does it allow hacking and encrypting the db servers?
> Go to New York or Boston, and people look at you like you're a wimp if you ask why the train is screeching so loudly.

To me it feels like trains in Chicago can get to dangerously loud levels for significant portions of the route, and IIRC NYC is worse. It's unfortunate that cities don't really seem to care much about this.
Searx https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ is a (wrapper around | metasearch engine aggregating results from) >70 search services, including Bing and DDG, as well as Wikipedia, Reddit, etc. as configured by default when using one of the many public instances, but you can toggle aggregation from each one in the preferences (with or without hosting it yourself, eg. at https://searx.xyz/preferences under the Engines tab).
As many already said - get outside as much as possible/safe. Fresh air and exercise do magic.

On the human contact side, getting into massive multiplayer games might be interesting - there are a lot of interactions and cooperative play. Team sense of accomplishment and belonging do develop, which might help a bit with the sense of isolation.

Last but not least, we do video conferencing happy hours and drinks/game time with my team, which also takes the edge off.

Ultimately, this isolation has nothing to do with WFH, but rather with the pandemic.
Have fun to re-setup it again then...
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Is that really exaggerating? Those are both legitimate examples of the words they used. Working at Facebook shouldn't mean that some official in the EU gets to know what kind of insurance I opt for or how much I make, or generally dig around my personal communications without warrant based on the use of arbitrary phrases (speaking hypothetically; I don't work at facebook).
I'm not sure if you've seen this or not?

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/52093/see-all-sh...

Generally, you would disable an account to revoke sharing. Are you sharing these outside your domain? That could be part of the problem. I agree there should be an easier way to remove sharing for everything for a particular user (and there may be). Have you checked out GAM?

https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM
> Didn't Achronix have some relationship with Intel? I thought they bought them, but I guess not..

They had some manufacturing agreement with Intel, but I have no idea if anything came out of it.

Edit: https://www.eetimes.com/intel-to-fab-fpgas-for-startup-achro...
Apple forums are also like this. There are a bunch of Apple apologists full of zeal, trivializing problems and giving people false workarounds.
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> because it's cheaper than doing it themselves

Bullshit!!
Isn't that a clear example of the Tragedy of the Commons? I mean, if access to the aquifer required the replenishment of it as a barrier of entry wouldn't that in turn mitigate the issue? For example, requiring that 1:1 rainwater be recaptured, something Colorado only recently allowed, and pumped back into the aquifer? Enforceability becomes the real issue, but having lived most of my Life in CA and in CO in the US, Water wars are REAL and I only see them getting more serious unless we come up with better desalination techniques and processes in the immediate future.

My chemistry professor was saying in the mid 2000s that water had already become the new Gold.
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Yes, there would be a centralized entity printing and custodying the BTC behind the bills, but all paper money today is also controlled by centralized entities. So in this scenario, digital BTC would be "real Bitcoin" and paper BTC would be "Bitcoin light".
In the '90's I had a mission that I carried out by offering answers to questions on CompuServe fora pertaining to Windows. In 1996 Microsoft decided to embrace and extend this by offering perks to the people who were most active. That program has been revised and renamed over the years. I wouldn't say that I succeeded in my mission, but I would say I don't feel I need to do such things personally. The people you are pointing out seem to need to offer you a solution, however off-point, and need you to accept it formally if you indeed find it to be a solution, and I speculate, seem to be paid and possibly try to make a living doing it now. A possible explanation is that Microsoft doesn't want to be obligated to provide online support any more than Google does. But they want to indeed offer online support for the time being, as casually as possible, and they are regulating some people by measuring some aspects of the support activities of some people.
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>A Blinking Mesoporous TiO2−x Composed of Nanosized Anatase with Unusually Long‐Lived Trapped Charge Carriers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.2020051...
Don't worry about it. As long as you avoid obvious anglisisms, you should be fine. Considering how much Norse has affected English, it's really just going full circle. And if you're ever stuck, there's always "Det norske akademis ordbok"[1] (a Norwegian dictionary). :) It's particularly good because it includes etymology.

[1]: https://naob.no/
Standard warranty is 80% capacity after 25 years. At that rate you would have 50% capacity after 75 years.

Solar cells should last a long time. The panel itself will probably fail sooner - especially cheap ones made from plastic.
More likely scenario: the attackers demand 10 mil knowing that 10 would be an unlikely best case scenario and a more likely outcome would be something like 2 mil, passed on on exchange for the keys by a cooperating fake computer forensics firm that claims to be able to restore the data without paying the attackers. For only 3 mil, an absolute bargain. The victim would pay the 3 mil, either falling for the show or claiming to be falling for the show.
Again, I have to object to your use of “arrow/parquet”. These are not the same open source projects and while people use them together it isn’t fair to the developers of each project for you to discuss them like a single project.
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I don't think people here get this is a fundamental internet spam problem not solved with a button.

Any solution to this, should work equally well with email and vice versa.
It really is shocking. All the default subs' content on the front page these days is political or very politically-related. I don't know when it shifted, but sometime between now and 2012 when I joined.
The unofficial economy would benefit far far more from a stablecoin than deflationary BTC.
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I think the most important equation to understand about accounting is assets = liabilities + equity

ROA, ROE, etc come from the above formula.
And the guess of an answer they give is always the same:

1. A word-for-word copy of generic support steps (e.g. try restarting, try clearing your cache, log out of iCloud and back in again, etc)

2. Have you reset your PRAM?

3. Wow you have? Then you'll need to reset your NVRAM.
What do you mean by that? I'm curious because I switched to Google Drive after Dropbox discontinued any real photo support a few years back. I like Dropbox more for file syncing, but put up with Google Drive's weaknesses because I get much better photo management.
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Yes. The USAF has already tested it successfully on several aircraft.

A Starlink receiver always has the satellite(s) in fairly fast motion, and phased array antennas can "move" quite quickly, so it's possible that there's no particular challenge to an aircraft scenario. Then again, the basic rooftop unit may make some simplifying assumptions and aircraft would require better hardware and/or software, but that's not a big problem as they can handle a higher price point.
what are the legal implications surrounding this now ?
> Which makes you willfully unqualified to hold an opinion on his article.

That may be, but I bet I have better understanding of what his character is better than you as I was in Europe in that time helping understand what was occurring with the Euro crises, and if that is his premise for why Bitcoin shouldn't be used by Socialists, he is right and should stop exploring it as an avenue. I'll just point at Maduro's failed plan to show why it doesn't matter anyway.

> > Transporting Bitcoin can also be free, depending on what you mean by transporting.

> On-chain?

> Nope.

I'll indulge you, go on explain...