skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those aren't even all separate points. At the end of the day, Facebook is beholden to republican (not really "right wing" per se) advertising dollars more than it is to spending on opposing points.

This is just for demographic reasons: Facebook has to compete hard for eyeballs among young/urban/techie/minority users. Those folks are fickle with their tastes and willing to try more platforms. And they're less sensitive to advertising in general. Facebook has lots of them, but they certainly aren't dominant in that market.

But old white folk? They're all on Facebook. Really, they're ALL on Facebook. Facebook probably has 90%+ of all social media advertising revenue in this demographic. And they skew heavily republican.

So who's interests are they going to serve? When Facebook's executives feel pressure to put their fingers on the fact check scale, in which direction are they going to tilt it?
It's kinda like hiring a security guard for insurance purposes, even though they have strict instructions to never do anything, under any circumstances, other than call emergency services.

I see you've worked in retail.
Theft requires property owners to be denied their property or the use of it.

That did not happen here. Theft is not part of the discussion.

Infringement could be, and is at least the right language for the discussion.
The RISC-V Vector ISA is credited to Cray "vector processors" [1], explicitly by the RISC-V authors.

Additionally, I believe experimenting with vector ISAs was mentioned as one of the reasons they started another RISC research project, which ended up being RISC-V.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor
That sounds like it’s more likely to raise US tax revenues tho, so I imagine there’ll be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth, and no action.
How big and far along is your company? If engineers are supposed to listen to the business stakeholders I would imagine that a lot of tech debt will build up rather quickly as the business people just want the fast thing now.
I think most likely Apple and Google will have to remove TikTok and WeChat from the app store in U.S. If you install manually on Android you would probably be able to continue to use it. The executive order only bans transactions (since that is the limit of the power granted to president by IEEPA), so the executive has no authority to "block the app at the network level" -- the IEEPA explicitly restricts the prohibition of "any postal, telegraphic, telephonic, or other personal communication, which does not involve a transfer of anything of value".

AFAIK the term "transaction" comes directly from IEEPA since that is the law that lets the president make this executive order, so if you want more details on what is included in "transaction" you can see the text at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-35
> Safety razor requires more time to shave than cartridge razor because it requires more strokes.

Not sure about that. I generally do 2 passes with both cartridge or safety razor.

I had started with safety razor, then moved to cartridges for many years, and now am back to safety razor, with a better razor.

Safety razor probably take a couple of extra minutes since I'm slightly more careful with it than am with cartridges.
> this is so silly

Why is it "silly" exactly? Are you saying that Facebook wouldn't allow itself to be used this way, that the government wouldn't try, or that it's not possible? Are you contending that the results of an election are not "black and white"?
With the increasing population, new business models will foster from africa. Althouth API marketplaces are nothing new, a niche platform curated specifically for the African startups will quickly gain traction in my opinion.
After 45 days, would anyone logging into a Wechat server in China be guilty of circumventing an embargo? Would they have to actually be sending money?
When you write an entire library just to avoid to write `let x;`
and in many cases had it up on post-its next to their monitor.

These days a post it is probably the best way to secure your password.

99.9999999% of password hacks come over the wire now, from people in other cities, states, or nations. If someone is in your building, in front of the computer, even without the post-it, you're probably toast.
maybe they didn't want yaml? /shrug
If you haven't read "Liking What You See", a short story by Ted Chiang, do yourself a favor and check it out. It is one of the most interesting works of fiction focused entirely on this subject. It is part of the book "Stories of Your Life and Others".
Beyond a fairly small scale you have to separate data migrations from schema migrations because they just take too damn long.
Hard to know...partially because I feel a bit embarrassed to admit, but I don't feel 100% confident I understand what "facile premises" means.

What do you mean by it?
but I think it's a very real possibility.

I'm classing it as a certainty. Have a read of the Wolfowitz Doctrine and work out what it necessitates, and that to be done very soon.

Even so, I believe the US has 'missed the bus'. It needed to have initiated vigorous conflict earlier this year to be sure of victory in that coming war. It can't start anything worthwhile now until at least the next Spring-Summer campaign season. By then China will have had another 12 months of growth, and the US another 12 months of decline.
Yeah, RISC should have been called CISC, Cray Instruction Set Computer.
This hurts me somewhere deep in my soul.

I wouldn't consider myself cynical but everything about this social-politics and fake-caring shenanigans deeply unsettles me. Like plastic humans.
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I don’t know, SARS-CoV-2 may be the most well adapted and widespread potentially deadly human infection in the world right now. If any possible endpoint, “suppression/eradication” seems the least likely.
Also: entirely recyclable.
was the talk recorded anywhere? I really can't follow anything just with slides.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted but it is lopsided trade.
I have used straight razors, safety razors, electric razors, and various cartridges. A
good multi-blade cartridge is vastly superior to anything the layman can do with the first three. They shave all kinds of growth in one pass, don't cut you, and get very close, without needing any foam. They really are the pinnacle of shaving technology. It's amazing how people ignore them for older tech which can only match them with a lot of extra work.
That leaves open the question of whether we can indeed count on eradication. There are reasonable arguments that we can certainly. But there are also reasonable arguments that we can't, and I've seen a concerning number of people who won't listen to that second set of arguments. I'd guess about half of my friends refuse to acknowledge the possibility of not eradicating the virus, and I feel like I sense a similar proportion in most discussion forums.
Google, Twitter and Facebook are all fully banned in China.
Given the current regime, how can you be sure?
You could look at it from the perspective of adapt or die. But you can also look at certain industries/companies like an endangered species. Once the last rhino dies, it's gone forever. Not a totally straightforward decision.
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You don’t actually need to listen to auditors.

At my company, that's a one-way ticket to the unemployment line.
While I don't know about GIS specifically, I work in a similar field where the market leaders have an enormous feature set accumulated over many decades - some from the 1960's and never stopped growing. But I squeezed in with the main basic features first then as I got customers, added what they wanted and continually grew it. My advantages are price and ease of use. Users didn't need to go on a training course without all those features to learn. Many of the features of the big boys are so niche that most customers never need them, or are obsolete but retained for legacy, or are just not really essential.
Automotive. See my other responses in this thread.
Because Facebook is not an ISP nor a FedEx. They do not provide a service that ships information.

Now, you can muddy the semantics by saying, "Isn't every website an information shipper?" and even then the answer is still no, that still does not make them a common carrier.

There are what people want Facebook to be, which is some system supporting of their own political views, but the bad faith arguments to project Facebook into being an ISP are not sound.
Would it make sense to skip those age groups? We still have social distancing in place; if we try to protect those people from sars-cov-2 they will also be protected by other milder variants we nurse in the wider population.

On a similar note: when a vaccine gets developed, does it make more sense to vaccinate those age groups (on the grounds that it will protect the most vulnerables) or to vaccinate everybody else (on the grounds that the vaccines may not be 100% safe and thus it may be safer for those age groups to benefit from the herd immunity)?
A lot more than those with XS or newer, I bet.
It isn't the country directly collecting and analyzing data. It is a company. Chinese companies are required to share data, but so are U.S. companies.

If we focus on the companies, why is okay that U.S. companies are able to collect nearly arbitrary data on all U.S. citizens and participate in propaganda?
Not sure but couldn't a fuzzer have created an input that would have timed out the fuzzer? I guess it also depends on the timeout you set when running it.
I believe there is widespread support in the US for ending tax haven loopholes.
> Every news outlet is owned by a small circle of concentrated power these days from wealthy families to corporate conglomerates that bizarrely fail to be harshly critical of things that would impact their wealth and businesses.

I smile a bit as I think about visiting the Hearst Castle in California—I wonder how news ownership has changed over the years.

Regarding the rest, I appreciate how you framed it and love that approach of various sources, plus really dig the process suggestions you put. Thank you.
I use the month and year instead
Huh? yes they did. They put it back up for a few hours after he was fired, but it was later removed again.
Imagine if scientists could one day figure out how to expand the linguistic critical period into adulthood, we could all be polygots.
My question is why censor the US President? Let people know what Trump says and make their own judgement. I hate this sort of political censorship by social media giants. At the same time, you can literally find porn and gore on these sites which aren't taken down automatically. What with advancements in AI and all it should be easy to remove right? Nope. These are the videos that linger on even after you report them. And they have ads running on them too.

If they think people are fools and won't notice it they are so wrong. It is only going to amplify voices for an alternative platform. My fear is that it will create platforms divided on political biases rather than a truly free platform where people from all sides can participate. This sort of polarization is not healthy.
How do you feel about restrictions on trade with North Korea, Syria, or Iran?
I have a Hart steel straight razor and was never able to restore the edge myself using a 4k then 8k wet stone. I always had to send it off to someone in the UK, which made the whole thing untenable; maybe I should try this polishing film?
> ...the underlying causation behind this 'fact' is that there is systemic bias against black men from law enforcement and the rest of society.

How is this rhetoric any better than Damore's? At best we can do studies that demonstrate the existence of bias, but we're nowhere near able to say that surely that bias is "the underlying cause of black people going to prison more" or that "this is why we have diversity problems". You're at least as bad as Damore. You want to believe that something is a certain way so you take inconclusive data and pretend like one hypothesis is not merely superior, but obviously, completely true.

> data which is inherently culpable to the same systemic bias...

How can data be culpable? And what data would this argument not invalidate? Has data every been collected by an fully un-biased society? Or can I, taking Damore's side, just throw out any data that shows that bias was the cause of a certain outcome and claim that, "this research is invalidated by the systemic bias in our society to attribute diversity problems to systemic bias."
The term you are looking for is modular home—a house that comes in pieces and is finished on site, though smaller modular homes can be just a single piece. The big difference between the two is modular homes are put on a foundation, whereas manufactured (previously called mobile homes) housing is built on a frame that has temporary axles. If a manufactured house is set on a foundation, it might not be considered a manufactured home anymore.

The quality of the build can be good or bad for either type, though cheaper materials tend to get used in manufactured homes since cost is usually the driver on those homes.
"Less sharp, more durable" sounds like it's pretty much all downside if you're in the business of selling razor blades.
What do you know, I looked up and you are right - they are really considered "hard". Though, as a native speaker I thought them to be "soft" all my life! I figure the rule making them "hard" is arbitrary, not the и/ы.
Afaik that stil leaves Computrace backdoor in the bios.
Do you have any good suggestions/recommendations for learning about the CIA during this period? Sounds fascinating and I'd welcome any books or long form comprehensive articles on the topic.
I highly recommend Lex Fridman's recent podcast with David Patterson [1] for anyone interested in learning about the history of RISC, computer architecture, and also interesting predictions re: Moore's Law.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naed4C4hfAg
Right, that's exactly what you might add to a diff-generated script to do the same thing.

So it doesn't inherently seem better or worse to me.
That's OK. Admittedly, if I had read that before, I may have seen his work more skeptically but I would still probably have engaged. With a lot of journalists reporting on science, if I can, I try to dig deeper into the studies they quote and go to the primary sources. Other times I probably just judge what they're saying based on my gut and intuition, trying to take shortcuts and hoping it's right :-)
In the U.S. at least, grocery stores are not monopolies. Neither is Facebook.

Both have competitors who can supply fungible services to the market, some of which are typically very close, sometimes "just a click away".
We are thinking of a number between 1 and 100k
I think not manager but peers. They are mostly over achievers and somewhat competitive.
> It's a shame, because if this guy had an emotional intelligence he could have personally driven change. Now he's a martyr at best.

That's a bit offensive to all the others who are driving positive changes without acting crazy. We only see the bad apples.
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> “they did A, B, C, etc. so we are responding with X after 10+ years“

It’s the same, reactionary logic, that fails to give first concern for the desired end state. Delaying reactionary measures is what many call patience.
It wasn't vicious or demeaning. It was rather bluntly showing that senior leadership (Joel Kaplan basically) bends the rules for their political buddies.

He wasn't fired for how he said it. The post was taken down for that.
He was fired because he demonstrated that leadership is dishonest. They rewrote norms on the fly to justify firing over normal access to non-user data.
There’s likely a lot that is not and will never be covered in the news that the NSA and CIA know. I’m sure they look at our commentary on here, with 1% of the geopolitical information, and chuckle.
It's a hard balance to keep. On the one hand you don't want to hold back features that you know people need, but on the other hand - once something is in stable rust the design is kind of locked in forever.

It's still a fairly young language - I think it's a good thing they're being conservative with not setting too much in stone prematurely, while still having stuff released as part of nightly to see relatively widespread use. As the language matures more and more you will see less and less important features that are missing from stable.
A somewhat more technical explanation: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/int...

This using a feature in AMD processors which protects one VM from another, by encrypting memory with VM-specific key. I think the idea is that even if hypervisor is compromised, there is no way to access running data of the machine.

From the practical standpoint, you still have to trust Google's infrastructure. Here is a key quote:

> all GCP workloads you run in VMs today can run as a Confidential VM. One checkbox—it’s that simple.

The video confirms it -- you click on the checkbox while creating VM, it starts as usual, you ssh into it as usual, the only sign that you are protected is a line in dmesg output.

So there is nothing "game changing" about this -- your threat model is mostly the same, but your attack surface is slightly reduced. The biggest threats (misconfigurations and network attacks on vulnerable software) are still there, and are not changed in any way at all. And you have to keep absolutely trusting your cloud provider, too.

It looks like the main point of this whole project is to satisfy government regulators, big bosses, security consultants and to check boxes on security evaluation worksheets.
Seems arbitrary and capricious to me. USA is a democracy. If foreign apps are a threat laws should be passed to protect user data privacy and maintain data sovereignty and made equally applicable to all.
Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore
If you think New Zealand's approach is infeasible, perhaps instead take inspiration from some of the countries with land borders that are doing well?
I believe you're thinking of an analog (usually quartz) watch, not a mechanical analog watch which doesn't have a battery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_watch
Fat doesn’t mean they’re healthy. People who are obese can only stop eating if they’re still getting vitamins and minerals through some other mechanism. If you just stop eating completely, you could actually kill yourself.
> I studied economics at Cambridge, a field which has become more and more mathematical since the 1970s. The goal is always to use a mathematical model to find a closed-form solution to a real-world problem. Looking back, I’m not sure why my professors were so focused on these models. I have since found that the mistake of blindly relying on models is quite widespread in both trading and investing—often with disastrous results, such as the infamous collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Years later, I discovered the teaching of Warren Buffett: it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. But our professors taught us to think of the real world as a math problem.

This stuck out to me. In my limited physics education, I was taught to question the models we used and given the tools I needed to experiment and question them. In my limited economics education, I was not taught this, and the models were treated as axiomatic with no mention of how to question these models via experimentation. It felt like the science was stripped out of the field. I wonder if this is a broader trend and, if so, what caused it.
I'm almost embarrassed to admit this but here goes. I think there is a protocol to end the pandemic [0]. I'm taking it, and I'm certain it will help me lessen my chances of getting covid-19. It's straight forward: A daily dose of zinc, vitamin D,C,A, and a zinc ionophore (in my case quercetin). Happy for someone to burst my bubble and set me straight.

[0] https://knowledgeofhealth.com/modern-medicine-knew-zinc-cure...
> They're not providing any real value, just scaring people into paying

Unfortunately there are plenty of business built exactly like that.

One anecdote: there was a group of lawyers that would hire people in wheelchairs to go into stores (e.g. local Verizon dealer) and ask to use the restroom, then once inside the restroom measure everything and take notes. Apparently businesses are not required to make their restrooms available to the public, but if they do, they need to be up to code. So these guys would target chains of businesses that normally didn't allow public into their restrooms, hence the restrooms were usually not up to code. After gathering enough data they would then sue the companies and offer to settle for an amount very close to what it would cost the company to deal with the case in court.
C19study

TDS is killing people
It's a company that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars, has a known name, known business model and has had articles written about it. Not sure how anyone can consider it "stealth".
It's a tragedy your best friend's father was a walking ball of abuse and negativity. I get your argument and it's good, but the underlying issues behind suicides are no good either.
Yeah, actually not opposed to moderation, but opposed to some forms of censorship. There's a balance to be struck, but right now, you can get kicked off Facebook for politically-incorrect memes, for instance.
I'd argue that minimally positive results in these experiments should not be taken as any indication that the same therapy will work in humans unless they can convince an _extremely_ skeptical and thorough committee of experts that this result is likely translatable. That would immediately disqualify all xenograft models, and probably most native tumor models as well. So what should we do then? If I have solved it I would be running a successful company selling that secret sauce. But if I were to bet money then I'd say the best approach would be to come up with well thought out in vitro (and some mouse model) experiments that will clearly test all the known ways this drug will interact with every system in the human body; especially the immune system if it's a monoclonal. The emphasis should be on complete declaration of bankruptcy on any hope of a model system showing therapeutic efficacy that's correlated with expected human efficacy.
> under American laws and directives

Obviously not the case - this is an out-right ban. There has been no evidence of TikTok violating any laws, and furthermore, no new laws have been issued to which TikTok could adhere to avoid a ban.

Companies operating in China can adhere to Chinese law to operate in the country, but the Trump administration hasn't even issued any laws.

This is unprecedented.