skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can do that without an FB account, Instagram and WhatsApp certainly funnel data into a shared storage that FaceBook can read too without me specifically connecting the accounts.
How does this kind of garbage reach the top of HN?
"The real problem: solve any of these problems, make very little money" - Just curious why have you come to this conclusion ?

Object manipulation has potential products in dishwashing and vegetable chopping - sufficiently large markets, potential billion $ outcomes for a startup which takes the early mover lead. Two robotic hands that can work in co-ordination just as human hands do. Extremely difficult to solve, but money is there.
> the lesson to be learned here is that if your business depends exclusively on another company for its survival then

That's easy to say now 10 years later, when you can look back at history.

But not equally obvious in the beginning when the app stores had just appeared.
Yeah, basically all pin based locks suffer from the same problem. Once you tension the cylinder the pins don't reset anymore so just poking all pins to the correct height will open the lock. Of course there are locks with varying difficulty but the most effective locks mostly involve making it hard to put conventional lock picking tools into them.
I feel that as organization size increases, individual responsibility decreases.

At some point there’s a limit where individuals become responsible for nothing and everything is a policy or process. It would be interesting to try to study or quantify this with different orgs and roles.
Can't one apply their "argument" to other intents, for instance to prevent user choice of browser?
I don't agree. I know some people are opposed to throwing or catching errors for impossible, cannot-happen scenarios, but those scenarios crop up more often than you'd think, and it's useful to have a bizarre but easy to find error message that stands out, rather than something mundane that gets used all over the place.
They've banned US transactions with the company. This means TikTok can no longer publish to Play Store/App Store. Android users could sideload an APK but that's still a huge blow. Lastly a social media app operating in the US that can't sell ads to US marketers is pointless.

As an alternative, Trump proposed letting a US company buy TikTok to get around the ban. As you'd expect, TikTok's investors are looking for a sale so they don't lose their investment.
If i pay an external $1000 per day and that price doesn't change when they are in my office or at home, i would put them in my office for obvious security risks.

If corona means i can't get my work done, i have a new risk.

Security risk for external consultants having full access at their home vs. no one can work -> i might choose the externals giving access.

Its not imaginary.
IANAL so would definitely appreciate someone with more background correcting me - my understanding from lawyers is that the test is of disproportionality and penalty.

The example of UK bank overdraft charges in the Wikipedia article for instance can be seen as small powerless individuals vs large corporate.

In the Oculus case, a good lawyer should have been able to set out in the contract why this specific point is important to the seller (Palmer) and why significant damages are in order (damages credibility on future projects, which clearly could be multi-billion in scope).
I love the ever prevalent pessimism/cautious optimism in the field of robotics (industry and academics alike). It's a fresh breath of air from the ever over-hyping ML/AI field.

On a related note, an open problem I see in practicality is also: How do you manage an robotics company effectively? iRobot seems to be succeeding in this well, and so does some industrial robotics arm companies but the latter is more about industrial automation than the more general "robotics" company out there.

Some companies that go very broad general solution seems to be struggling, the application based robotics seems also fail more often than succeed.

There have emerged a lot of management methods and theories around software development (Agile etc), but what's the efficient management method for robotics?

Having been working at a few robotics company as a junior, It have always been either:
1. Someone with extensive research/engineering experience in a subfield of robotics in management, that can't manage the other subfields
2. Some one with too general knowledge and can't balance between each robotics-subfields needs including production & reliability + cost.

and both seems to do pretty bad, while the second one slightly favourable.
It's pretty clear the they meant "distance driven in ordinary conditions where humans normally drive cars".
Yeah furries have figured this out for decades. It’s also also extremely helpful to have an abstraction of yourself you can make edits to as experiments.
Run the typescript compiler with ESNEXT
In theory, yes, but good luck finding a human on this planet who will turn down $2 Billion.
Many localisation algorithms are probabilistic, eg. 'you are here within R of X'.
A couple of times I've had a manager who could just not accept the probabilistic nature: "It's just right there!"

So I to explain my manager that we just cannot do better and know for sure that the robot is really in position X, especially with the limited sensing the project would afford. Sure, you can do the classic AGV thing and add magnetic markers everywhere. Or use more sensors to get higher accuracy, but none of those were popular options.
Funny enough i though so as well but discovered quite quickly that without this stuff, a lot of people are doing shit.

Do i think someone needs to tell me not to put every shitty tool on my work laptop which has a corp certificate? Access to vpn and corp network? With access to HyperScalers?

No.

What do my collegues? Everything. Oh there is a nice new shiny tool and it sends metrics to an external service, lets try this out...
There's much more than IP adress that's used to track you. Companies like facebook use all the forms of browser storage, browser fingerprinting, etc.
This has really worked in Peru
A bit shocked to realise how I'd completely forgotten about robotics whereas it had seemed the grandest challenge. Is robotics itself slipping toward being marginal as physical manipulation is becoming less important over time? The sci-fi robots don't even walk these days, they're holograms etc. I'm not a software engineer so it's not just that
Thats why syncronisation/replication is NOT a Backup.
It's interesting how different solving issues in a pixel sharer is.
a.k.a. "being forced to sell" :)
Your blogpost might benefit from explaining further the following line: "Special relativity says that the rocket has a different coordinate frame than the space stations. In particular the x axis, which corresponds to all the points in space at the same rocket-time, is not the same as the x-axis for the space stations."

I'm on the lookout for an explanation of why FTL=time-travel that I'll finally understand. However in your blogpost my limited knowledge of Special relativity fails to make sense of the whole argument.
Murdoch on MySpace: 'We Screwed Up in Every Way Possible'

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/murdoch-on-myspace/
Yours is amazing! By the way it has a big problem with "/" in the default settings. I tried doing a date like "08/20/2020" since that's something I need for signing forms but the slashes mangled it. Dashes worked ok.
I can’t remember where I read this essay but it went along the lines of: no one is really interested in reducing costs, they’d much rather increase revenue, the reason being that the larger your budget the more important you are on the totem pole and reducing your (already approved) expenses doesn’t make your budget larger.
This looks promising. Thanks
It’s not about hiding, it’s about expressing. How people think of their inner selves comes to the fore. The (relative) anonymity is a helpful thing too of course, but mostly for the person to be able to let go of their normal selves.
Working fine on Firefox 68.11.0-ESR on Linux for me.
Firefox is my daily driver. I have last pass installed on it. This helps me share my passwords with other browsers. I don't share any other state between browsers.

I use Chromium when I need to use a browser without adblockers.
Pretty sure my home is more secure than your office. Literally no one wanders in here and tries to steal corporate secrets / install malware. It happens all the time in actual offices, and it's surprisingly easy to gain access to the most "secure" offices.
There are a lot of things that could cause you to not being able to enjoy the game, that you can't see in screenshots or videos. Issues with movement, room scale or motion sickness.

Compared to 2D games, it can be the case of "I can't play the game" rather than "I don't want to / don't like the game". So the refund system is especially great for VR.
TikTok should just let the US government ban them. Teenagers can figure out how to VPN to Mexico and it's better PR for TikTok. "So good the government won't let you use it" is better optics than "TikTok, now owned by some Boomer company". As a hip youngster myself, just the name Oracle makes me think of beige and grey Windows Vista era software and shitty enterprise software.
Review of the Book Natural Language Processing for Hackers
Please could you share your education, position(s) and experience? While reading your comment I am not sure whether you’re just quoting from some book, or if it is first hand insights/knowledge (it sounds like the second, so it’d be valuable to add the above if so).
Dont read this thread. The discussion here is at reddit level. Not the usual HN quality.
Think you're spot on, makes a lot of sense of this move that doesn't really make sense.
No, I don't think so, I moved on to other languages. I want to think about problems, not about tools.
"changed their mind" ... a.k.a. "broke their promise"

Details are important.

Facebook are a joke of a company.
Looking at rates that employers (and then employees pay, especially in copays) the answer would appear to be "expensively".

Look at the NHS in the UK, on average it costs £3k per person per year, outcomes are broadly similar (if not better, especially in areas like post-partum mortality) and as a % of GDP is half as expensive as US healthcare.
>>Right, because they have a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. I'd rather live in a advanced economy with a high standard of living than a developing one with a high growth rate.

Of course I would rather live in an advanced economy, but the question is, how does an economy become advanced.

The evidence strongly suggests it's most rapidly achieved through adoption of pro-market policies.

The last 30 years has seen the largest most rapid reduction in the global poverty rate in human history, and almost all the decline in poverty was due to economic development, which economists have concluded was massively facilitated by the spread of market institutions like property rights:

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-pol...

2. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-gl...

3. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/06/01/towards-the-end...

There is no reason to assume that this relationship between pro-market policies and high rates of economic growth stops existing for advanced economies.

We see indications of it manifesting across the developed world, like the superior performance of Hong Kong and Singapore relative to other developed economies, or Iceland relative to other Nordic countries, or in cross-European studies correlating low tax rates with high economic growth rates.

Economic growth is the primary source of all improvements in quality of life, so we should have policies that maximize it. It is how an advanced economy comes to be that way.

And there is no indication, or reason to believe, that economic growth's positive impact on quality of life disappears when economies become advanced. There is a strong correlation between per capita GDP and quality of life, and the reason is obvious: higher productivity gives people greater means to meet their needs.

>>They still have excellent outcomes and high rankings in the HDI and Satisfaction with Life index.

My point is that Hong Kong and Singapore did substantially better than them in improving their metrics.

Like I said, the Scandinavian countries attained the highest standard of living ranking in the 1960s, when they were still very free market oriented and had moderate tax rates, and had just had a century of the best economic growth rates in the world, again with free market economic policies.

Your analysis misattributes the cause of their high standard of living to their current social democratic policies, when all the evidence indicates that it was due to their previously more free market policies.

>>A 99% tax rate on marginal incomes above, say, $10 million, or marginal wealth above $1 billion, would probably not be disastrous, no.

This would be absolutely disastrous. Major companies, that bring in tens of billions in export revenue for the US, and produce groundbreaking innovations for the world, would have been founded and centered outside of the US, or simply never come into existence, with those kinds of disincentives for entrepreneurs and investors in place.
I can't address your specific experiences with Java, Kotlin, or Scala but even just lambdas in just Java took a ton of wind out from beneath their wings.

It just hasn't shown to be a race to feature parity in practice. Enough of the Kotlin and Scala user bases just really do want a better Java, often in just one or two ways.

Personally, and more controversially, I don't think Java getting pattern matching in switches or sealed classes is going to move the needle a ton. (Sorry, Brian!) It's going to be Loom and Records that really change things.
What Is a Mathematical Proof?
> A similar thing will happen with spacecraft. Right now, it is still expensive, but SpaceX dragged down the price enormously.

This isn't all positive, it will also increase the Kessler effect[1] whereby "the density of objects in low Earth orbit due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions. One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations."

The last 100 years have shown that while capitalism has rendered an unprecedented jump in quality of life overall for the vast majority of people, the "waste" that is inherent in this industrial jump has been ignored completely, which is what puts us in the situation we are in today, where oceans are full of plastic and the air is full of dangerous particles from fossil fuels. One could hope that we don't repeat this ignorant approach in developing space, because even if you can clean up most waste after the fact, obviously it's much more effective and economical to make sure the waste doesn't reach critical mass at all first.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
They might have been a fan of his manger's rival sports team.

Manager is a spiteful asshole and found a reason to fire them.

This also happens.

But I agree the official reason sounds like a corporate scapegoat to not get sued.
The Starlink deployment system is preatty minimalistic (just a bunch of rods holding the stack of satellites together) so maybe something similar could be done for cubesats as well, possibly by making them a bit more sturdy at some extra added weight.
Oculus has an app store, and Quest is a standalone device (mobile phone hardware on your face).

It's understandable to need an account for these things, but of course this being an FB account is creepy.
Wasabi has a minimum retention time of 3 months. So if you create a 1GB bucket and delete it 5 minutes later you still pay for it for 3 months.
Up until two or three years ago or so we used to have to pay a public TV license for the public TV and radio broadcaster in Norway if we had a TV or tuner capable of receiving TV signals. Some people just opted to not having TVs or disabling any receiver capabilities.

Then they simply moved the collection of the license to your taxes so you don't see it explicitly, and of course now it does not matter if you don't have a TV.

Everyone pays the TV tax regardless, but it is somewhat progressive with low income residents paying somewhat less than higher income ones. I don't really mind paying for the public broadcaster as they serve as a guarantee for public, independent news.

What does annoy me is that they compete for the rights to broadcast super expensive sports and culture events (olympics, various football leagues, eurovision, etc). This greatly increases their budgets while not providing essential news value to the public not equally well served by private media broadcasters. Some of their own tv-series productions are well made and would not get the green light at private broadcasters and channels, so I would rather they focus on those.
Yup. I learned a long time ago that just because its impossible now, doesn't mean there won't be a refactor or something like that and the impossible happens. I still code those checks in precisely because I know they will get thrown.
"It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980 by the British Standards Institution"

I'll take limey but colonial you can stuff up your arse 8)
I have also personally witnessed a corporation insisting that I learn exclusively management practices in a multi-session Leadership Education and 'selling' it to me as "leadership".
A little misleading since apparently the Facebook account is only acting as a replacement for an Oculus account. It's not like they're forcing Facebook logins on a device that required no logins.
This is kind of unfortunate because if they just returned a correct code (429 Too Many Requests), you could have immediately debugged the problem. (The standard suggests also including a Retry-After header, which would tell you when the rate limiting would be lifted so you could try again.)

Basically, there was a machine-readable way to tell you to go away. But instead they told your user agent that they were unable to brew coffee because they are a teapot. What a waste of everyone's time.
Yes, this was obvious next point in discussion. The trick is keep the thought going and never stop mid-step with a leg in the air thinking this intermediate position is a solid ground. As a next step, we might then ask what makes interaction with a piece of plastic worthy. For example, if you've noticed a popular discussion of a disaster that can be essentially summarized as “our favourite toy has been broken”, and the participants are actually grown up people (?) who are all about showing their investment in “serious business”, shouldn't you sprinkle it with some common sense? Is it a worthy kind of use of electronics?
They do run their own platform, the Epic Games Store, which is PC only but trying to compete with steam. Want to know how much cut they take in the Epic Games Store? For things worth £50+ rather than £0.99 in-app purchases?

It's 12%. They also allow selling games made with their competitor technologies (e.g. Unity), and the cut is still the same.
Are polygraphs still taken seriously?
Your quote and your response seem to be rather disconnected.

I guess my point is: in Europe sending money from one person to another is easy and easily done with no third parties. All I need to know is the other person's account info, access to my own account either by app or website, and done. Almost instant transfers between people.

In the US a third party is required. Be that Paypal, Apple/Google Pay (I didn't know they had launched this as a thing for person-to-person), square, facebook, etc. Not only does it require a third party it requires two people to be using the same third party.

My mother-in-law is fairly technophobic. She doesn't do online banking, doesn't use apps, etc etc. Yet despite that I can still send her money without an issue, because the infrastructure is basically universal. Unless they are doing something very strange anyone who has an account can receive money. Plumber comes over to fix a pipe, send him some money digitally, buying a car, send some money, etc etc.
I introduced phantom types to a codebase recently, although it was Scala rather than Haskell. The code was using arrays of bytes, where:

- Some contain plaintext, some contain ciphertext

- Some contain keys, some contain data

- The keys themselves exist in plaintext and ciphertext forms (data keys generated by AWS KMS)

- Some keys were used for signing/verifying, some were used for encrypting/decrypting

- Some arrays contain Base64 data (for embedding in JSON), some contain unencoded data

Using 'Array[Byte]' would work, but would be error-prone. Using distinct types or wrappers like 'Base64[Plaintext[Key[Signing]]]' would require lots of extra definitions, and wrapping/unwrapping scattered around the code. Phantom types let me use type signatures with the right amount of specificity and polymorphism as needed, whilst the code itself was the 'straightforward' version without wrapping/unwrapping.
HP Reverb G2 is coming out next month, and reviews are amazing.
The legal framework is explained in the executive order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/order-regard...

Bytedance acquired Musical.ly in 2017, and merged it into TikTok the next year. The administration is now blocking the sale of Musical.ly under Section 721 of the Defense Production Act. Section 721 "authorizes the President to suspend or prohibit a transaction, by or with any foreign person, that may result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person and that may threaten to impair national security." [1] The president used this power to block the sale of Musical.ly on national security grounds.

Congressional approval is not needed for this action. The legal framework was approved by Congress with the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007. The president has the legal authority to issue such national security orders. However, typically the president delegates the national security review to CFIUS, a government agency.

TikTok never received clearance from CFIUS when it acquired Musical.ly in 2017 [3]. This allows the US to preform a national security review now, three years later.

To answer your question, Bytedance is not legally 'forced' to divest their US operations. They are proceeding with the sale because the alternative is a death blow to their US operations.

[1] https://www.gibsondunn.com/cfius-guidance-alert/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Investment_and_Nationa...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-cfius-exclusive/ex...
Human is like your ancient software that was here since forever and somewhat worked fine. So everyone is used to it.

(the difference from an actual software is that humans are based on some crazy nanotech from the future that nobody can completely control)
Unfortunately no HDR support.
To add to that, if you have a senior IC with leadership skills and a manager without, the senior IC won't last long, either through rage quitting or slow-walking out the door by the manager who's threatened by the senior IC.
Your example forgets to acknowledge that while there may have been good reasons for people to not be allowed to work remotely, COVID is a very pressing reason to do allow it, and the benefit of allowing people to work remotely vs getting absolutely nothing done or getting fined by the government for forcing people to come in is extremely obvious. So much so that the cons of allowing this have to be put aside, or remediated differently (which in some cases can even require investment).

It's a risk assessment that suddenly tilted the other way.

I don't agree with "everybody should work from the office" sentiments, myself, but I have seen this happen very clearly in many organizations.
Microsoft's Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust
A Gervais principle man?