skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been hitting up friends/co-workers/family members and doing Zoom/Google Meet/Microsoft Teams/Discord hang out sessions. Basically anything I would do with those friends in person we just try to get in online. The game Jackbox party can work over Discord if your people have 2 devices. I also have joined a local online baking club, once a month we cook bread/cakes/treats for each other and take slices and drop them off at people mailboxes the day or two before the online meetup, and then the day of the online meetup we all eat our bread/cakes/treats and just shoot the breeze and compare baked goods.

Its definitely much harder to socialize while under physical distancing conditions, but it is possible, it just takes considerably more effort and imagination to come up with fun things to do.
Yep. I am writing code professionally for long time, so that pride and sense of accomplishment is hard to come by. But fixing anything, even small, gives me that satisfaction every time I use it.
I didn't know! Thanks! But is permanent blindness actually a moral hazard if you're using that blindness to create an immediate opportunity to shoot the subject? I'm not a soldier so I might be way off but I'm assuming being totally blind for even a few seconds is a massive handicap in an engagement.
> > Transporting Bitcoin can also be free, depending on what you mean by transporting.

> On-chain?

Nope.

> I'm not going to read his article

Which makes you willfully unqualified to hold an opinion on his article.
Socialism doesn't work. It has been proven multiple times.
Though they try to hide it it does seem that ideology is driving this at Google - not practicality.

I mean, Google code banning AGPL kind of gives the game away. That, and him saying that Apache (most liberal) is really his favorite license. Oh and "we never really wanted any of the AGPL code it's all crap anyway".

None of those things are about rigor in compliance. Those are about a corporation stamping its feet.
"Airbus has an "innovation" (R&D) department"

They have pretty deep partnerships with European state schools etc. which is highly rational, at the same time, it puts issues of 'government subsidy' on the table re: trade agreements. Nobody makes such complicated things 'alone', at that level it's going to be a broad mix of national integration efforts. It makes it hard to do trade because everyone else is pointing out everyone else's non-market subsidisations.
I think you're going to have legal risks with a project like this. At some point a celebrity is going to sue and we'll find out what the law decides.
I would have assumed the opposite. For delivery vehicles and buses, there is a much larger payload, so there is a higher burden in maintaining the same volume of engine. For a personal vehicle, there is little excuse for having a loud engine. Then again, my apartment is adjacent to a busy 4-lane road, and so my opinions may be colored by the motorcycles and sports cars that drive along it every Friday night.
Any number of dimensions actually :)

For that example it suffices to show it in 3D since any euclidean embedding of n+1 points can be isometrically embedded in an n-dimensional space, so if a 3D embedding with error E doesn't exist then neither does an ND embedding for any N>3.

Finding the minimum error requires a tad more effort, but it's not too bad to show that no embedding has 0 error:

Take a cycle a->b->c->d->a where every edge has length 1. Suppose a 0-error embedding exists. Points (a), (b), and (c) must be embedded colinearly, and then the only possible location for point (d) satisfying the distance requirements |a-d|=|c-d|=1 is precisely wherever we placed point (b), but then point (d) can't possibly have distance 2 from point (b).

By itself that doesn't show that infinitely small errors are impossible, but that assertion is also true in practice.
I don't remember the video, but Destin talked about how this stuff is clearly propaganda related but he'd have no chance to do the videos otherwise. I think it was the rocket factory one.

I like Destin a lot, but he's no journalist holding feet to fire and I think he's clear enough about that. He's more 'pop-sci' YouTube like Veritasium or Tom Scott.

That said, yeah, the angle is pro US and very empathizing with people/warfighters. He's also very pro Alabama. State pride, I guess.

I'm glad I don't have to walk the line that he is and I am grateful for the look he gives. But as always, you'll need more info than just Destin to make informed decisions.
> Of course in an ideal world no one wants to reward criminals, but just to give an extreme example, if someone kidnapped one of your children and held them hostage, you'd probably pay anything to get them back, and that's not far off from the situation some ransomware-affected companies end up in.

That's an appeal to emotion though while a company can do a cost-benefit analysis.
Also, if you pay for your children that means you signal that the kidnapping business model is viable and thus endanger more children. If the government keeps you at gunpoint from paying for your children then yes, in the worst case a bunch of children might die, but the business model would die with them.
This isn't really a function of remote work though... it's a function of everything being closed b/c of COVID.
Then your view(s) is solely fixed on those who benefit from this exclusionary Monetary System, go ask people who don't have access to bank accounts or are undocumented how horribly they are treated and marginalized then come back and see what is and isn't a ponzi scheme. See how many people are unfairly targeted by the State(s) with policies like Operation Chokepoint in the US, though similar laws exists in other places as well, while at the same those very same Governments bail out Banks and Corporations found guilty in money laundering for Drug Cartels or other illicit crimes and while telling the People they're not doing enough to keep up with the ever-increasing costs of living due to these policies and inflated asset bubbles.

Go look up what System D is, and see what worker movements it could help benefit, because just from that statement alone you show just horribly informed you are and how narrow and ignorant your view of the World really is.
You want to know if Garmin pushed malware/ransomware via its app onto 1 million smartphones? The apps seem to have been last updated July 21, and Garmin's systems were locked July 23, so.... ?
This is so glaringly apparent as a user. I think Google makes some fantastic products, but the number of "This has to be so exceedingly easy to fix, but Google just doesn't give a damn" issues I've hit is crazy.

Here's one simple one: the number of volume steps in Android is only 16: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37035441 . This means that the difference between off and the lowest level volume can be pretty big if you're trying to be quiet, e.g. avoid waking someone in the same room. I almost wish they would just close issues with a "We don't give a shit" resolution status.
And that we don't have AI that can handle these relatively easy scenarios is soft proof that we are nowhere near the hard scenarios of fully antonymous driving.
> Is there any reasonable term that's not likely to eventually end un in some personal, irrelevant conversation?

"Anti-trust", I'll even give you " competition", but "big picture" seems overly broad
I thought he went back to grad school?
As someone doing lots of merges in a big and active project, git rerere has saved me hours whenever I need to redo a complicated merge.

It's not at all new according to a quick grep of RelNotes, but I only recently discovered it, so it is new to me.
...or spend $2/mo and get way more storage without the hassle. This fits into the same category as "you can get as much free catsup as you want from fast food restaurants" - not a really useful life hack.
It's moot. Childcare is no longer a real option from the epidemiological standpoint. It's one thing when your kid brings back a cold or a flu from their preschool. It's another when they bring back coronavirus.

Besides, I don't believe anyone other than parents are "the best" to raise children, on average. That's because I have children of my own and I know that childcare and primary education is basically a game of roulette wrt whether you get lucky and get a teacher who's any good. We should just make it socially unacceptable to abdicate parental responsibility at this point, IMO. It's absolutely nuts that 6 months old children end up in daycare.
Yes, this is common in database engines. Doing so allows you to optimize the file system along a very different set of performance tradeoffs and assumptions than a typical generic file system. Beyond that, it also gives you direct control of file system behavior, the lack of which is a source of code complexity and edge cases. This is not transparent to the database, something like PostgreSQL would need to have its storage layer redesigned to explicitly take advantage of the guarantees.

It isn't just about performance gains, which are substantial, it also greatly simplifies the design and code by eliminating edge cases, undesirable behaviors, and variability in behavior across different deployment environments.
> Until recently, it was "extremely far-fetched" that copyright law prevents you from independently reimplementing an API.

No, it really wasn't far-fetched; quite the opposite.

Don't confuse legal opinions with advocacy. Unless you're paying someone, what you read and hear online is advocacy. Attorneys in the FOSS community are no less guilty of pretending that their advocacy is the letter of the law than anti-FOSS attorneys.

I believe celebrity FOSS legal scholar, Lawrence Lessig, for example, has lost on the merits every major copyright case (as listed on Wikipedia) he got behind. (And other ones, too, like the two major election law cases mentioned there.) But all his books and articles preceding those cases, and sometimes even afterwards, made his position sound like a simple application of well established law. It was a simple application of law, alright, but of the law he and many others desired, not the law as it existed or was likely to exist when subject to the scrutiny of the court system.

While U.S. courts seem to have begun more rigorously scrutinizing pro-patent holder arguments, the opposite is true when it comes to copyright. U.S. courts are increasingly kinder to a very broad and strict (i.e. fewer defenses) application of copyright law. It's a real shame, and we could lament all day how they're "getting the law wrong", but people should set their expectations accordingly. For example, don't expect SCOTUS to overturn Oracle v. Google, at least not to the extent that it supports Google's original defense that APIs aren't copyrightable. There's a reason the judge's original opinion siding with Google was so exceptionally long and detailed--he was trying to bend the law in a different direction than it's most recent trajectory. He did an admirable job, but his interpretation was sadly but firmly in the minority.
In the bad old days we stored data on spinning-rust harddrives. In order to find the data you wanted you had to position the reader head. This took several milliseconds. You could read a lot of data in that time. So basically if you took the trouble to seek somewhere you better read a bunch of data to make it worthwhile.

People would even run defragmenters, that would rearrange file blocks so they were stored continously and the whole file could be read without seeeking.
They provide the matlab code and source inputs for their experiments, you could attempt to verify their results if you don't believe the video.
That's how it's often taught, which is a real shame. Paul Lockhart wrote an elegant piece about this, titled A Mathematician's Lament [0]:

> Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depend heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

> ...

> This is why it is so heartbreaking to see what is being done to mathematics in school. This rich and fascinating adventure of the imagination has been reduced to a sterile set of “facts” to be memorized and procedures to be followed. In place of a simple and natural question about shapes, and a creative and rewarding process of invention and discovery, students are treated to this: Triangle Area Formula - A = 1/2 b h

> “The area of a triangle is equal to one-half its base times its height.” Students are asked to memorize this formula and then “apply” it over and over in the “exercises.” Gone is the thrill, the joy, even the pain and frustration of the creative act. There is not even a problem anymore. The question has been asked and answered at the same time — there is nothing left for the student to do.

[0]: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
Well, you can try and then you'll appreciate the difference, I am sure. Even if implemented in computer hardware, operating with Roman numerals would either be slow or take many more transistors (or both). As to why in a philosophical sense, it is because the positional system was invented specifically as a computational device, which only happened many years after people learned how write numbers down. Optimization effort takes time, and a random solution is not guaranteed to be optimally suited for a particular application (such as performing calculations).
Those guys are all using aftermarket exhausts which are not street legal, and sold as such. Why do they get away with it? Cops have a hard time catching them; there's a big subculture within motorcyclists of guys having loud pipes, doing stunts, not having license plates on, etc., and then running away when the cops come. Bikes are hard to catch and chasing them often gets banned by the cities because it often leads to bystanders getting injured.

They also generally don't have catalytic converters so running those exhaust systems is just a dick move all around.

Actually some of the aftermarket exhausts also come with db killers included to reduce sound levels, but those can be removed. So basically it's just back to assholes and lack of enforcement.

Some stock bikes are a bit loud, but not that much louder than cars. With the exception of supersports, which only make significant power at 12-16k RPM near the top of the rev range, but even then you have a stock exhaust and won't be running the engine that hard on local streets. Unless you're an asshole.
What really hasn't gotten the same level of attention is the fact that Googlers will be able to work from anywhere in the country their main office is located in. I predict there will be some exodus of Googlers from places like NYC, SF/Bay, LA and Seattle for places like Austin, Colorado and Florida.

Edit. I have two small kids and child care has been the bane of my existence since March. This (and flex time) has definitely helped my families situation. I'm grateful for the luxury and I'm deeply concerned for everyone who is in this situation without this flexibility (friends and family included).

/Googler living in a middle state, thoughts my own.
[2018] please
> Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of the gradual discovery of a perfect notation.

Great quote. I wonder if this process will continue with adoption of duodecimal numbers.
Not necessarily. There was a time there were few players in the SaaS office collaboration suites, so the default was google apps. Now that other alternatives exist people might be asking for some of the features offered by others.
Oh, De bussy! I love de bussy!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UKO-ebWS4Ko
(Family Guy - Peter finishes on the Bach not on the Debussy)
They might have paid one of those ransomware subcontractors who claim to solve the problem on a technical level while they actually just pass on the money they are paid after taking a cut. This could have happened both knowingly (on Garmin's side) and not.
There is a difference between a company going bankrupt and not able to meet pension obligations and deciding not to fund a pension necessary to meet defined benefits.

If PBGC allowed this then companies could abuse it by promising 200% pensions and then only contributing $1 and defaulting.

Funding defined benefit pensions is very expensive, USPS wants to save money by not funding it in order to pay benefits. I’m not sure their argument other than “we don’t have that much money.” It seems they need to reduce pensions or live with sinking tons into it. Not paying pensions shouldn’t be an option, I think.
Reasons I would want to:

1. To eliminate a layer of application/server/network management (especially if you have complex infra).

2. To get “free” application high availability.

3. To integrate with other stuff on the edge (auth/identity).

4. To serve as a central query aggregator from multiple sources.
I upvoted your child comment re: propaganda and I agree with it. I just also want to say to folks who might be turned off by that, his channel is super interesting!

Laminar flow, the physics of weed whackers and lawn mowers, rocket-powered golf clubs, eliminating poop splash, VR gloves and treadmills, touring a rocket factory and seeing a launch...he’s got a lot for geeks to like in there!

I’m not helping my case here, but he also has a good talk about being a science guy who is also a Christian in a field where that’s often dismissed reflexively as irrational. Probably only worth watching after you explore the channel and wonder about the Bible reference displayed briefly at the end of them.

https://youtu.be/WDu2ldAxHyc
One emotion I don't understand is "shame." You made a mistake, just like everyone else on the planet. Get over it. You obviously have a good moral and ethical fabric, so at the end of the day that is all that matters. "Shame" is just a disgusting wet blanket that coats everything, and it stinks.
Our solution is to clone docs which we plan to share externally. Then, at least, it's a doc that has already been shared out, instead of docs that you continue to update.
But the vastly many more users don't need that compiler right? If you merely write a program to render SVG you don't care, your program just got safer "magically" ? If you run such a program you aren't even aware anything happened, the updated version is apparently safer.
git switch/git switch -c so much better than git checkout and the confusing switches.
Romans essentially used the same binary arithmetic computers use today for multiplication; doubling and halving.

http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/roman.htm
Hey man, if you want a friend to talk to, happy to do that!
The analogy sucks because there's a huge disconnect between how you portray cancelling and what happens in reality.
You can't induce emergencies in actual passenger aircraft for the purpose of training. So your only option is a good simulator.
I would mainly say less standardized and less regulated. Big vessels already require pilots in and out of ports because the crew isn't trusted. Then essentially every single ship is a custom build with all the years of problems to iron out that comes with.

With less regulated you don't have a required AIS on every canoe or vessel, meaning you need to react on visual and radar input according to the colregs. In the US every aircraft flying already have ADS-B.

So with some worldwide regulation and a modular system able to interface and work with different equipment and sizes to create the economics of scale you have something working in the not too far future.

Though, this still requires the bridge and interfacing systems and sensors to be stable enough. Meaning no vessel today is good enough.

Compared to aviation it is much more hands on based on tribal knowledge. Like on a ship I work on "the remote for the autopilot tends to quit working every 3 months, just reset the whole autopilot, by pulling the breaker, if it does." This information stays on the boat and never reaches the manufacturer, instead of fixing what is probably some overflow happening. And the fix would be replacing the unit instead of deeper troubleshooting. Seen it happen many times.
Is IBM's trademark department cool with this?
I'm guessing they're not as good at picking winners as the professionals are.
It doesn't matter in Arizona as long as the water is caught before it hits the ground, it's OK.
I'm a dancer as well and this is spot on. Thanks for putting it into words! Even if you do it competitively, though, the analogy still holds. But then it becomes both that and a sport!
Secure it on a piece of paper in a locked box.

Back it up on a second piece of paper in a second locked box, kept in a second location.

Put both locked boxes in your will.

In response to the tornado link you've been spamming: obviously there are limitations to any security system. None of your proposed security systems particularly secure you against government agents beating you with a rubber hose until you hand over your wallet password, but I think we can agree that a reasonable level of security doesn't have to worry about that or two simultaneous tornadoes at different locations.
AFAIK they are already decomissioning nuclear plants. And replacing it with coal or gas. [1]

[1] https://cna.ca/news/germany-replaces-nuclear-coal-ghgs-skyro...
Well, thanks for repeating what Wikipedia says, down to the same example.
The following seems perfectly plausible:

> > who fancies coming to the pub tonight

> I need to be home soon. My so won his school competition today so want to take him out for ice cream

I’ve got a doctors appointment, sorry
Are the people that answering questions on that support forum actually google employees? I got this impression that google employees never post on that forum and the people that answer are just unpaid forum members which somehow take it upon themselves to post answers.
That depend on the industry they are in and how much of an monopoly position they got.

Ask what would happen if a email project at google that was estimated to be released this year got delayed an additional year. How much would that impact their revenue and stock values, or even the general market share of gmail?

Then take a an high competition area where multiple companies are in heavy competition. How much of developers focus can you shift away from the main product in order to re-implement code that is already written and could be used today?

Companies in a low competition market that are large enough to already be in a dominant position can just re-implementing AGPL code. Being risk averse might also be an effective strategy, and having higher costs and slow development won't cause any direct harm to the core part of the company. In worst case they will just scrap the project and cut their losses.

In a high competition industries you can not afford that. Every single advantage that can give you an edge will be used unless it goes against the core business model. Unsurprising this is also the places where I personally have seen the least amount of license purity. The most extreme examples are from the game industry which tend to use what ever software they can get their hand on in their games and support systems as long it does not prevent the core business model.
https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3 (Edit: in case it's not clear, I suspect if you give an honest perusal of that page, and the pages it links, and the pages they link, you'll come away with a different opinion.)