skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's alive and well in San Francisco! Monkeybrains is an independent ISP that does internet via wireless microwave in SF and Oakland.
I've been able to disable NFC on all phones I've ever owned (all Android).
Slander is a reason to have slander suits, not a ban on a class of people imposed on a social network.

I'm all for the free market (i.e. users) pressuring social networks to ban certain groups, like pedophiles or neo-Nazis.

I'm deeply against a government telling a social network that any broad class of people should be banned, especially if they're mainstream enough that their leader is in office.
You are literally describing the breeding grounds of radicalizing young men on the internet. Microcommunities, if anything, have proven themselves incredibly dangerous to human life.
What inputs? You mean the fact that she follows cute dog videos? I'm sure China is going to use that against her somehow /s
> “ In general, anyone with a full time job that thinks they can out-compete full time traders that specialize in the exact instrument that you are trying to trade will have a very expensive lesson some day.”

I hear this a lot and it’s definitely something I would expect to be true. But I’ve been repeatedly surprised that it’s not.

I’ve made a lot investing on the side (usually just stock, sometimes calls - recently for peloton in January, stock for tesla in 2012 which I sold early last year before the crazy recent rise, stock for Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Facebook, AMD).

Am I stupid, lucky or both?

Yes longest bull run in history, but investing in large tech companies you think are stable long term with good CEOs when you know the field (Apple, Amazon) seems pretty easy.

When you read a lot of comments from traders on the east coast they seem like they misunderstand the companies, or are not focused on long term strategic moves.

I’m mostly positioned in total market index funds with a couple large positions in companies I think will continue to outperform long term, but it doesn’t seem that hard to do better than traders.

Plus the index funds contain a lot of companies I would never personally invest in if they weren’t in the fund, still good to hedge against my own (likely) arrogance.
Imagine inventing the wheel and expecting that in the distant future, the wheel itself would stop working because of a stupid reason like this.
Given that I've seen people like this IRL, I'm more curious how she got hired in the first place.
My other comment was about your second question (b).

About your first question (a) I think it would be a mistake to just outsource it without good oversight. An Austrian saying which IMO answers your question best comes to my mind "Wer nichts weiß, muß alles glauben!" which translated to English means "Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.". Means you want to know if good decisions are being made.
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It's easy to dunk on Cliff Stoll for this, but a lot of the stuff that he was wrong about didn't really get PROPERLY solved until almost 20 years later!

The World Wide Web as we think of it today (browsers accessing websites over HTTP) was still nascent.

SSL was only just announced 1 year earlier.

The first Kindle wouldn't show up until 12 years after.

And until the COVID pandemic most of the world still would have thought we weren't ready to effectively telecommunicate for work full time. (Arguably a lot of us still think that it's not sustainable long-term)

Meanwhile, the late 90's were full of big dreams and exceedingly high expectations about what the Internet could be capable of, and the gap between expectations and reality is what contributed to the .com crash of the early 2000's

Meanwhile, meanwhile, on a key subject which is the nature of TRUST of information on the Internet, we've come full circle as the last 4 years have shown that more access to better information does not guarantee a better informed populace if powerful forces with an interest in manipulating others have access to powerful platforms like Facebook where they can target their misinformation to the most radicalizable group.

I would bet most people on this forum would not be able to predict accurately the next 25 years of technological progress, and if we tried, most of us would look as ridiculous as Cliff Stoll. His mistake was saying everything with as much certainty as he did.
Synchronous XHR calls were not that uncommon back in the day.
What an insider is is all case law and precedent, not legislation.
With zero advertising spend I'd say that it is pretty impressive.
That was awesome. Blogs dude: blogs.
270 million doses worldwide to date, of those 100 million are in the USA. The full course is two or three doses depending on age, so that's somewhere between 90-135 million people fully covered.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/infectious-agent...

And it's not limited to women now. Different countries have it approved/covered for men of different ages. I (as a man) recently finished the full course, though I had to pay for it out of pocket.
Uh what? If he's giving them money, they can just launch more satellites or create higher bandwidth per inch satellites.

If it's a political problem blocking the launch of more satellites, well then, solve the political problem of course.
If that sounded like red flag, Indian Government had given a specific date - August 15(this year) for the launch of their vaccine from a private company, by which the labs conducting trials for their vaccine should finish all three phases of vaccine trials and give approval[0]. When did the enrollment of participants for the trial start? July 7th(this year).

Why August 15? It is independence day and PM would like to make an announcement that India created the worlds first vaccine.

[0]https://scroll.in/article/966815/with-demand-for-vaccine-by-...
> Think about the mess that would be enforcing this law. You can't objectively determine the age of a fake character, unlike a real person.

It is certainly a mess, but that doesn't stop jurisdictions outside the United States from prosecuting it.
You are likely underestimating the staying power of ByteDance. They have a portfolio of successful apps within China, such as Toutiao, and have probably overtaken Baidu to be the 3rd most important software company in China (after Alibaba and Tencent). Unlike Vine or Snap, they have a lot of e-commerce revenue and are a major sales platform.

Should they be allowed to continue expanding internationally, something like a Facebook or Amazon peer would be the more relevant comparison.
There was at least one mission to retrieve a satellite (not Soviet):

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/us/space-shuttle-poised-t...
Do you have any insight/theories into why Trump is so opposed to tiktok?

Just as a political calculation it seems curious. (Rile up young voters who tend to swing against you, eliminate a social network that from what I can see is relatively conservative-friendly.)
Starlink will only really be a solution for rural/remote areas. It won't be able to supply high bandwidth at urban densities as I understand it.
> if I operated an auto repair shop, and I wanted my shop's "ethos" to be "we do high-quality repairs on cars", one of the primary ways to do that would be to hire smart, already-experienced mechanics. And it would seem strange to me if people wrote blog posts saying that the work of those mechanics didn't count towards my "ethos" because they were already good at their jobs; that's why I hired them!

FWIW, that doesn't seem strange to me. Hiring smart, already-experienced mechanics is a input to your ethos; presumably you hope that they will make the shop's culture better-suited to doing high-quality repairs. A example of a output of that culture would be if you also hired young, inexperienced mechanics, and they learned (presumably from their aforementioned seniors) to do high-quality repairs and went on to be the next generation's smart, already-experienced mechanics.
If China demanded that its great firewall apply to Chinese citizens abroad, this would be considered a shocking authoritarian overreach by most people in the west. Yet a judge in Brazil can order that, and it's just taken at face value?

Put another way: if the BBC can identify Bolsonaro as "far-right", why not call the judge "far-left" for doing something that not even the Communist Party of China does? Or far-something, at any rate.
The most secure thing you can do with that money is buy gold/silver and pay to have it stored in a secure vault. Honestly, that is more secure than keeping dollars in a bank account or US treasuries. Also, gold/silver are appreciating.
> Or the 1000's of people who have come to name calling and threats against the President.

Interesting that you would have an issue with “name calling” and “making threats” when that is all that the current POTUS does on Twitter. That is also a person who has real power, so the threats are not idle. By your own measure, Twitter should be banned before tiktok.
Vaccine companies in general get special (lower liability) legal treatment. https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
I'm not US based, but just curious.

What happens to that capital, is it just sitting in a bank account waiting to be dispensed?

Could you invest or loan it to other companies you control at market rate for other purposes?
Skeptics always loose it's just a matter of time.
This was sweet and I enjoyed it a lot. If you liked it and are also feeling nostalgic, may I recommend:

https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933...
I don't think it should be a protocol so much as 'english-ish'. So not a framework which defines a lightbulb (and every other IOT), but a defining human/NLP readable language so a human/alexa can have a conversation with an arbitrary device[0]. Trying to be rigid in definition for the scope of all IoT is madness[1], and imo this is where the future of the NLP AI is: acting as a fuzzy intermediary between people and 'smart' devices to save users and devs both from that madness.

[0]
>send 10.10.10.143 'what are you'

>> "A light bulb serial number ######"

> 'list commands'

>> on() | off() | color(int red, int green, int blue) | strobe(frequency)

>help color

>>"""description of color function"""

etc.

Where there isn't a predefinition for say 'strobe' specced anywhere, or 'light bulb' for that matter, but a person or reasonably intelligent AI can work it out from context. There does need to be a bit of a framework and around 'what are you' and 'list commands' for this to work.

I hope I've explained this well, but it doesn't seem far off for an AI to credibly facilitate the bulk of human-smart device interaction with a little bit of help breaking the ice.

[1] As you mentioned, scoping even a light switch without feature creep is a challenge.
The FDA doesn't do clinical trials for vaccines. This is unique to vaccines in US drug regulation. Vaccine manufacturers self-certify and send a report to the FDA, who signs off on it. They can certainly choose to rush clinical trials in the current environment and probably still have their report signed off on by the FDA.
I am assuming a lot of lag between giving them money and the launch of the satellites. (And other bandwidth improvements needed.) Similarly to how buying the hot Christmas toy doesn't automatically cause the manufacturer to make more in time for Christmas.

I suppose owning the launch systems helps, but there is still going to be lag.
I’m suggesting you conduct interviews for experienced candidates like virtually every other industry and trust that if they have 10 years of verifiable employment experience as a programmer that they aren’t complete charlatans.

If 1/100 people are (and in my experience and the person I was replying to it is significantly less than that) you’ve wasted less than a half hour per candidate.

You’re not wasting 40 hours on the 99% who aren’t frauds.
My moral intuition says that when deciding a question like this, one should imagine that the valuable object belongs to society and disregard who actually gets the benefit. The benefit to society of me having a dollar more or less is zero.

So what are the costs?

The cost to society of someone picking up a dollar bill is the energy expended in the action. I'd estimate 0.2 calories,[1] and about 3/4 of a cent per calorie,[2] which means about 0.15 cents total.

The cost to society of nobody picking up a dollar bill is the cost of printing a new one, about 7.7 cents.[3]

So I guess picking it up is about 50 times better, and given the moral principle that one should do what everyone should do, or vice versa, therefore I would.

[1]Stretching is about 150 calories per half hour; sitting is about 40 calories per half hour; 110 calories per half hour is 0.2 calories over ~3 seconds. (https://www.livestrong.com/article/438404-does-stretching-bu...)

[2] Americans spend $10-20 per day on food; 2000 calories is a reasonable amount (although Americans average substantially more). (https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...)

[3]https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+printing+a+dollar+bi...
If digital currency becomes really successful then it will eventually put Visa out of business.

Money should be a public system, not a private enterprise. And the ability to transfer money without paying some gatekeeper should be a fundamental right and core function of government.

I think for government to stay relevant then it needs to start to encompass more distributed protocols. To the degree that it fails to do so then I think it loses relevance. Which may be fine, since government has historically performed fairly poorly. Maybe we can replace most of it with independent technology in a different paradigm.
Amazon closer to launching satellites, upping internet reach
Not stupid. The problem with most full sized vans is the ac compressor is run off a belt. Not totally insane would be add a second compressor and a three way valve. I've never heard of someone doing that. It's more common to use a RV rooftop AC unit.

Some newer passengers cars and maybe some vans use electric motors to drive the compressor. And EV's tend do that as well. In the EV case no mods are probably needed. Electric vans though are just becoming a thing and have low range and high price tag.
I tend to prefer solutions to social problems where no one gets shot.
Carrying doesn't prevent anyone from getting shot. And there were plenty of instances in the US where the Klan attacked blacks with few repercussions.
So much of the strife we're seeing in the world right now stems from information now, maybe for the first time ever, being truly free

What strife in particular? From a US point of view, we've had several instance of race riots in the past. And those were far worse than what we see now.

And in terms of conspiracies, those have always existed. Maybe they move faster, but think of the conspiracies around JFK's assassination. Those were broadly known long before the internet arrived.

Plus, we see a lot more thanks to the internet. A good example is holocaust denial. Those people were always around. And I haven't seen any data to suggest holocaust denial is any more prevalent than in the past, despite people having more exposure to it.

I'm not sure much has changed.
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I attempted something similar, at least on the nest side of things. I quickly realized the nest wouldn’t recognize any attached equipment unless connected to a 24vac line. I always wondered how the nest derived DC power to charge its internal battery when a common line was not used. Maybe I’ll research this some more and try again.
What about the size of the hand being used?
AREXX was around in 1987. It was amazing. Pretty much every application had an "AREXX port" to allow scripting. And I used it extensively. The closest I've seen to anything like it is OLE on Windows, but it's not very accessible or pervasive like AREXX was in every application.
A new worldwide internet provider being led by a pioneer of innovation is a major threat to comcast. Especially since Musk is known for caring about providing a valuable product at a fair price to the masses (the Model 3).

Elon Musk aside, who wouldn't drop comcast/verizon in a second if there were another viable option at a better price?
Anecdotally having used both a window unit and a dual hose unit with technically the same BTU (using the new adjusted measurements), the window unit is still night and day better. Not having massive heat radiating tubes and a large electric heater in the same room as you is still a big win.
Trump to Ban Tik Tok
"I" is something that knows its place in space and time, the here-and-now, but also has a memory of here-and-now moments of the past. As such "I" is an illusion. If a quantum clone of you is created both I's will have the same memory of the past here-and-now moments, so both will be you at the same. So probbaly something similar happens if a brain is split.
Us corps have access to Chinese market. Otherwise they wouldn't have been so courteous to Chinese pressure and sentiment. For example, Apple draw > 10% from mainland China.

There is a common misconception that corps like Google Facebook were banned without legitimate reason. The truth is that China has outrageous internet law that Google Facebook would violate their meal standard in order to operate inside China. Google claims Chinese government hacked their corporation data centers.

Nuances ate everywhere...
> Most drug companies actually view the US as the beta test country in a lot of ways.

This is mostly wrong, except maybe for vaccines. The EMA, for example, has vastly lower regulatory requirements for most drugs than the FDA. Many sources actually estimate that, on net, the FDA has killed more people than it's saved simply by excessively delaying the availability of new drugs in the US.

Vaccines go through a different process in the US than most drugs, where the vaccine manufacturers self-certify the safety of their drugs and send a report to the FDA, who either signs off on the certification or doesn't. But the FDA doesn't manage any of the trials, unlike with other drugs. Vaccine manufacturers are also more protected from liability than other kinds of drug manufacturers, via the NVICP.

If a non-vaccine drug is approved first in the US, it's almost certainly because the drug is expensive to manufacture and the only country where the manufacturer can expect to break even (at least at first) is the US.
Why do they cost so much in the US? I can buy a decent split unit for $400-$500 + around $150 for installation.

Installation will no doubt be more expensive in the US, but there is no reason for AC itself to be (if anything, most kinds of hardware seem to generally be cheaper in US than in Europe).
Tbf, that sounds like a bit of a weird spot in LAH :). But generally agree with your point!
From what I remember, this is handled in the "conversion" process mentioned. Part of that is coating the entire implant in medical grade silicone.
if you do find it please post it. that is an entirely fascinating idea.
The President does not have the power to ban an Internet service. He may order executive agencies to investigate the company and take action based on what they find. There is no (non emergency) statute that allows the President to unilaterally shut down the service.

Parents of kids do have the authority to curtail their children’s online presence. This is not limited to TikTok, it is a common theme across all social media properties.

What Egypt does should not affect what technologies are permitted in the US. China bans Google and Facebook. Should we ban it too? This line of reasoning makes no sense.
> Even with full on bi-partisan majority and popular support, unconstitutional measures cannot be executed by the Federal Government.

And the fact that the US Constitution only allows the Federal Government to regulate interstate commerce is why Wickard v. Filburn was decided for Filburn. Growing wheat to feed your own pigs is obviously not interstate commerce so the Feds can’t tell you what to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

Obviously that’s not what actually happened. Equally obviously the constitution constrains the government exactly as much as it wishes to be constrained.
Both clips are impressive.

I guess the question is: how powerful/useful are the tweening and "bones" features of synfig?

I see what look like obvious examples of those features in the demo.

The Genndy Tartakovsky style of the other demo kind of obscures whether those features are similar in blender.
You aren't going to find a technical solution to court orders.
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As do I. The fact of the matter is that the cops average 11 minutes to respond in good areas. They take longer in high crime areas. Further, we've seen that the cops are generally bad people. So leave policing to the average person.

If the Klan attacks people, they can freely be shot. If the Klan parades around in their sheets, meh.
which would you suggest between the two?
First of all, we know that deplatforming racists/fascists does actually help to stop the spread of racist/fascist ideas.

How do we know that? Has a study been done? Are there surveys that track it over time?

Racists beliefs have decreased over the past 50 years. I haven't seen any evidence it's spiked since the advent of the internet.

More visible? Sure. But more visible doesn't mean more people hold those beliefs.
Is this because you don't have anything to subscribe to or to conserve money in some way?
But do you leave up the porn?
Facebook has access to the biggest and most ubiquitous information delivery platform IN THE WORLD today.

To let them off the hook for the role they had in helping letting the idea of ABSOLUTE TRUTH degrade, as well as the role they COULD have in helping fix it, is not thinking big enough.

Facebook could choose to be an active participant in the quest to reinforce the value of reality-orientated information exchange. They choose not to because it doesn't help their metrics. That doesn't make them evil, that makes them a logical participant in capitalism. The onus is on the rest of us to make them.
I don't think those would work because the data is centralised and only has value while 'live'. Look at, say, movie torrents. Data which has had the most focused attempts made to knock it off the internet.

If a specific corporate site was coordinating the effort it would be shut down (eg, I think the Pirate Bay was knocked out of commission a few times, and blocked depending on the country). But it doesn't help because the actual data is highly distributed in a redundant fashion. Any piece of infrastructure to share torrents (DNS, websites, trackers, client software, information about where to look) can and has been targeted but it is too cheap to replace.

The key is the actual data - ie, the movie being torrented - is redundant and distributed. That property isn't present if one corporation controls all the data as is the case with Reddit, Facebook or StackExchange. It isn't technically prohibited from mirroring it all, but with bittorrent the peers provide the storage (which is the part that doesn't scale) and there is a nice cheap unit to work with - one movie is an irrelevant amount of data and static. Social data is a bit more dynamic - the attention of the speaker is important - and doesn't seem to work quite the same way.
There are many issues with the design. Why are the buttons so thin (and therefore unnecessarily hard to click)? Why is there so much space between a question title and the row of buttons for it (far more than the space between the buttons and the title of the unrelated question below)? Why can't you just click on a question's big title to visit it, and instead have to hunt for the tiny "visit question page" button?
How long ago was this? I've seen shit like this in the 90s, but I'd be surprised if businesses could tolerate waste like that right now.