skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At its origin, a settlement at Flint made absolute sense because it was at an ideal halfway point[1] between Detroit and Saginaw on the Saginaw Trail[2] in an era where traveling between the two port cities took multiple days. It also had the added bonus of being on the Flint river which made it an ideal focal point for the burgeoning logging industry. The eventual industrialization made it a good location for an automotive plant later on. However, once cars became commonplace and travel between Saginaw and Detroit only took a couple hours, Flint was no longer needed as a stopping location, and ended up primarily existing as a company town for the auto plants, which made it too dependent on the welfare of the auto industry. So once the plants shut down, so did any kind of economic draw to the city.

The lesson being that any city needs a healthy economic ecosystem representing multiple industries in order to sustainably survive, or else it will share Flint's fate.

On a more human side, I worked briefly with some of the people in Flint's startup community and was massively impressed with the optimism and attitude of the people there in the face of their economic situation. It was very inspiring, and I sincerely hope that the state of Michigan is able to manage that city better and leverage what strengths it has and will have in the future.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan
2: https://thumbwind.com/2018/12/07/saginaw-trail/
Which is a good reason to only tax natural resource wealth, rather than all assets. You can't move a private beach or a n oil reserve from one country to another. It also is a fairer way to tax, since natural resources are not wealth created.
That's trivial to get around. X can dump liabilities into the company, and Y would never reacquire it.
I doubt that any judge would allow that to even be brought up in a trial. If it were, it would probably be an appealable issue that would get the case thrown out.
Yev here -> It's less of an algorithm and more of a purchasing department with lots of spreadsheets that tie into the AFR data as a data point - but yes, it's possible we could automate it, but there's some factors that our supply-chain team would need to be involved in anyway (like vendor diversity, no large batches of single drives etc...) that make outputting that algorithm a bit harder.
I believe Peter Thiel made a similar point when he said that monopolies (or at least, profit margins beyond sustenance) give companies breathing space to fund these types of things.
The user doesn't need to justify why they want to do something with their computer.
I tried doing that just moments ago and it wouldn't let me proceed without providing a phone number.
Criminals can go to any of the commercial flight trackers and see most of this stuff, or to adsbexchange.com.
Just to be a contrarian, try telling that to the countless species we are driving to extinction today.

(Supposing they can understand us.)

For them, we are radical individualists with no regards for nothing but ourselves.
Anything stopping them including the installer with windows?
I get all my games from Codex and Fitgirl. No multiplayer, but you don't want that anyway.
> Is it also a relative improvement of the energy conversion into electricity vs. into heat?

I would think so, since the reason the efficiency was less than 100% before was that some of the electrons were being recaptured rather than emitted from the detector. On the other hand, the article didn't say anything about the amount of energy captured. It could be that more of the photon's energy is converted into heat, with the remainder being spread across more electrons.
The greatest problem of this technology is the very auto makers who is salivating at the idea of being the first one to release a fully autonomous car that would be compatible with the existing infrastructure including other manually driven cars, pressuring the engineering teams, i’m not sure the technology will be mature in the next 15 years.
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RE not found evidence: I always imagine what would have happened if we were to start with biology based tech. A few centruries, and poof, nothing left. Now, put that into a million years perspective...
I think GP is downvoted because of a misunderstanding. I think GP wanted to highlight the "dumb fucks" quote of Zuckerberg, where he refers to people uploading data to his platform with that term. That quote became public in 2010, almost half a decade before 2014. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Quotes
Did we have a big article on HN when oil futures went negative? IIRC there were something like 100,000+ retail investors who piled into those oil futures, with non-trivial amounts of cash... and the price hardly moved. Institutional investors are that powerful.

A million retail investors with stimulus checks -- which are pitifully small, IMO -- aren't going to move the needle.

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re: router config - Windows has Captive Portal support and all routers which require config will intercept dns requests to msftconnecttest.com and redirect to the local IP of the router which Windows will show in a modal window

re: corporate account - The WebBrowser component (MSTML/Trident) will never be removed because it would require replacing a huge part of the OS that handles this, in too many places, and it won't be replaced with WebView based on CrEdge because that has no support for proprietary Microsoft controls.

They will remove IE, but not Trident.
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I mean, this is really a condemnation of any data privacy practices whatsoever claimed by any company, as they may at any point in the future sell the entire company and databases with it.

unless they have clear penalties for themselves in their EULA, and no clause that says they can change anything they want at any time. So yeah I guess you're right.
> We should enable people to simply and easily save for their own retirement

Perhaps that would be reasonable if everyone were paid enough income to handle all their expenses and save for retirement. Of course, that's not the case for probably 30-40% of the population. As things stand now, it's just cruel to lecture those people that they "should have done a better job of saving" (and I hear that a lot these days).
re: router config, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203962
> Why the need for the corporation?

The corporation basically exists to make the Google Search Deal possible. And considering that the search deal pays more than donations to the Apache Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation combined, it looks like it was a smart move.

* Total yearly income for the Apache foundation according to https://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/FY2020AnnualReport.pd... was 2.2M

* Total yearly income for the Mozilla Foundation according to https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo... was $27M, about half from "program service revenue" (which means it came from the Corporation).

* According to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/ (different document, but notice that both are for year 2018), the Mozilla Corporation got $435M from royalties, subscriptions, and advertising. In other words, while the Foundation is not technically allowed to give the Corporation money, that doesn't seem to be a problem.

I wouldn't ask why the need for the corporation. I'd ask why the need for the foundation. Though I'm pretty sure I know the answer: the foundation exists to limit the exploitative behaviour of the corporation. Remember: Benefit Corporations didn't exist at the time.

To quote their original documentation at https://www-archive.mozilla.org/reorganization/#q2

> By forming a commercial subsidiary, the revenue-generating activities of the new entity can provide funds to support development, testing, and productization of the various Mozilla open source technologies. This benefits both end-users of Firefox and Thunderbird, and developers and others who want to use the Mozilla open source code in various ways. Having the Mozilla Corporation handle revenue-generating activities associated with these products also allows the Mozilla Foundation to achieve its goals while still itself remaining a tax-exempt organization.
Better send it back and ask for a refund. They intentionally broke something they advertised with.
I suppose for developers you flip it right.

"Normal SV developers spend 4 to 5 hours a night coding on personal projects"

The normal people watching their TV would think those devs spend a ridiculous amount of time coding.
Non-bad companies could set up "will not get bought by Facebook" poison pills. Say they will release all IP to the public domain when acquired by Facebook. Enforceable contract with a third party.
do you have any criticisms with actual substance? why do you consider those techniques "navel gazing"?
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Actually, you can do this. Disable System Integrity Protection, run ‘mount -uw /‘, and delete away.
I would agree.

I've worked in critical infrastructure work and retain an interest in the field. A professional software engineering license should be legally required for certain classes of risk.

Ultimately the answer to an irresponsible feature ask should be:

> I will not approve implementing this feature, because in my professional training and experience, the risk exceeds the acceptable tolerances for a (spaceflight, medical, power systems) delivery. If I implement this and a failure occurs, I will be in court and my career over: I refuse.
Fun fact: those screensaver photos are taken by Google employees!

Can't find a source for that, but have many times corroborated that through a Google search. Peter Norvig is one of them.
The ID@Xbox program is for indie developers, not multibillion-dollar corporations.
Someone like Bezos could probably take out a 100 million dollar loan at 2% interest and just pay $2 million/year in interest in perpetuity, right (via realized capital gains)? Then they'd be well under any plausible 100% tax window.
I'm pretty sure there is at least one MLM aka pyramid scheme that is bragging about being a B-Corp which they use to try and ensnare new victims. That's all you need to know to understand that the "B" in B-Corp stands for bullshit and steer well clear of any that explicitly brag about that status (if your business truly acts in a manner that makes the world better you wouldn't need to buy a bullshit certification to prove it).
It’s possible to provide WebView APIs without doing what MS did with their browser as a whole.
The first article (X Window System Basics) was written in 2013. The last article (Basic 2D Rasterization) was written in 2017. Take your pick.
"The Fortnite update with their own payment processing was a publicity stunt."

It was a legal stunt. They needed legal standing.
`tar -xfj foo.tar.bz2` would extract the file `foo.tar.bz2` from inside the archive `j`. IOW, it's providing `j` as the argument to the option `-f` that's used to specify the archive file. It should rather be `-xjf`. Also, case matters, `-J` is for .xz files, not .bz2.

`tar` has a pretty simple calling syntax, probably simpler than most utilities. I encourage people to use the manpages instead of cute but wrong or misleading mnemonics.
I'm not happy about the dependence on twitter, either, but that's the platform that people are on, so that was my priority. Eventually I would like to run a Mastodon instance or other ActivityPub system.
> after inventing personal computing

Not hardly. Gates just astutely got on the bandwagon that was already moving.
But then what's the difference between edge being installed and merely not-yet-unpacked? Like, it's still there. The installer could just create a shortcut and say that it's installed now, would that be enough? Seems silly.
That sentiment is of course not, originally, attributable to kps though.

Regarding people who ascribe benign intent to Facebook, it was first expressed by one M Zuckerberg. In 2004. And first reported by Business Insider in 2010.
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> no one was buying but no one was renting either.

As someone who was in eighth grade at the time, can you clarify what you mean by this? Every person either 1) buys property, 2) rents property, 3) goes homeless, or 4) dies. There aren't really any other choices.
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Modern business management doesn't care about the long-term. Research pays off future managers and owners in years, or decades, but increasing prices now pays off now in bonuses and dividends for current managers and owners. Behavior follows incentives.
They used to be the "RISC-V Foundation", but changed name when they moved.
OSes do well up to that point, but 5 buttons is the limit of what tends to work well without some sort of special drivers
A statistically insignificant reduction to the world population of smokers. Without laws to prevent tobacco marketing to minors, the cigarette industry could add 100x as many customers in a day.
If America is unwilling to stomach nationalizing a private company, but will stomach privatizing a previously public domain, where do you think that's going to land us?
The doc we share is pretty long, but it can be broken down into:

- Welcome Message
- Basic Information about the Family
- Details about the kids
- Health and Safety
- Au Pair's Responsibilities
- Sample Schedule
- Basic House Rules
- Pay and Vacation
- Driving
- Other Perks
- Law & Safety
- Guest Policy
- Reasons We Would Ask You to Leave

Like I said, our issues have usually revolved around trust, but we have also identified a few things that are hard rules for rematch:

- Drunk driving (we encourage them to take a cab or call us for pickup)
- Hard drugs
- Abuse of anyone, especially the kids and pets.
- Neglect
- Repeatedly not caring for the children when it’s their responsibility
- Outright lying to us.

The other rules that really matter to them are:

- No taking the car more than ~60 miles without prior approval and you pay for a service appointment.

When an au pair has free use of a car, other au pairs in the area pressure them to be the driver for weekend road trips. We had one au pair put 30,000 miles on the car in a year because of this.

- If you're going out for the evening let us know roughly where you'll be and when you'll be back, and keep your phone charged.

We had one au pair that didn't tell us anything about where she was going, only a rough estimate of when she'd be back. At one point she didn't get home until 36 hours after she told us she'd be back. We had been calling police and hospitals in the area because we were worried about her. It turned out she had gone to a club with friends, met another girl there, the other girl offered to drive her home so the friends left, then on the way home the other girl suddenly deviated and went to a house party on Treasure Island (in the middle of the San Francisco bay) and then proceeded to get completely wasted leaving our au pair without a ride. She hadn't charged her phone and it was dead, so it took her a while to be able to get home. This ended up being a big fight about how she was an adult and could make her own decisions. It abruptly ended when we pointed out we didn't care exactly where she was or what she was doing, we just needed to know which hospitals to call if she didn't ever come home. She actually radically changed her behavior after this and we didn't have any more problems.

- Don't use the phone for international calls, use Skype or Zoom, or WhatsApp.

We didn't have a problem, but we knew a family that got hit with a $5000 phone bill because their au pair was spending every minute on the phone with family in Italy.

- The au pair gets two weeks of vacation, but if we can select one of the weeks then they get an extra week.

This isn't a hard requirement, but we've never had an au pair turn it down. Our kids stay with grandparents for two weeks each summer, so the au pair gets those two weeks off and it only costs them one week of vacation.

That's the important stuff. It's always easier to make the rules looser, so we start off on what we feel is the strict side and then loosen them up over time, especially as we get to trust them more.
> They should emphasize on recovery rate and the fact that for vast majority of people it will be either asymptomatic or only mild symptoms.

The government's job is to protect the health and safety of the community, right? How does a government do this by emphasizing that what is going isn't a big deal? We're still seeing 1,000 dead per day in the US, and they definitely aren't all old.

Healthcare workers in their 20's and 30's are dying, this is definitely killing people that don't fall into your broad category of those whose lives don't matter to you. It's killing black Americans at a much, much higher rate than white Americans. Should we not care about that?

And who really should get to decide which 0.05% die in this case? Do we not have a responsibility to ensure the health and safety of everyone in the country? The reality is that some ER doctors have had to make this decision. They had to decide between giving a ventilator to a young person instead of an old person. And the fact that we're still struggling to contain this and force our healthcare professionals to have to make these kinds of decisions underscores the fundamental failure that we are seeing as a society.

A hundred people may have died in the few hours we've spent discussing this. They're dying as we type right now. Are you really suggesting that instead, we should focus on those who are living, and just forget that we're losing a 1,000 of our countrymen and women every day?
Kind of like his naming Detroit Motherboard city. Lots of people have a bad image of Detroit. The best thing I can tell you is to spend a long weekend there once this COVID-19 mess has passed, it may change your mind being on the ground.
Well. Another lost customer here.
Of course you first need to fatten an animal before you slaughter it.
Sure, you can read it that way. My point was that he isn't clear about the exact nature of his relationship with the person he helped, and those details are probably relevant to his termination.
Facebook is not GDPR compliant at all. The only reason they appear to be is that there is no enforcement of this regulation so nobody is actually looking at what they're doing.
Think there's a race condition here, I get other people's signs... Danger of using the date and time as a file path, I guess.
They don't have capital gains tax, though, IIRC. For someone interested in "nuance", it's curious that you neglected to mention that.
As an aside, the poverty line for a 1-person household is $12,700/year.
The theories we have about how life started on Earth tend to disfavor Mars as a similar starting point, based on what we currently know about Mars.

I think the author was trying to say "I mean, look, Earth and Mars are not that different, and even though we don't have any current evidence for the appropriate chemical conditions on Mars, I don't see why it couldn't have been where life started instead of Earth, because ... well, just because they're sort of similar, kind of. Oh, and next to each other."
yeah I got confused sorry

I forgot how much ram this sun ultra 10 .. maybe 256MB
The facebook not forcing you to create account does not sound that good on a day when they force Oculus users to log in with one. Unless you live totally off the grid you are forced to interact with corporations and at every turn they have more power.
> Che Guevarra’s wife, Stalin’s wife or Pablo Escobar’s wife

Comparing Che Guevarra and Pablo is totally unfair. Che was a true inspiration, born in a rich family, became a doctor and yet sacrificed his life and fought for what he thought would make the society just. On the other hand Pablo is just a gangster who did not care outside of his family.
Need to log in to Facebook to use VR.

It just doesn't even make sense.

FB is too entrenched in our lives. And for what?
Mmm... nah.

From the 2014 HN thread[0]

>Please login using your Facebook account to continue.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7469242
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You absolutely can use Apple's developer tools without a developer account, and you absolutely can build and run code on a device without a developer account. I'm not sure why Epic claimed otherwise (other than that losing their developer account makes it far more inconvenient), but it's really just fearmongering to try to get the public on their side.
Delete Slack and work email off of your phone. This is also one of the reasons I prefer working from an office. The drive home disconnects everything and I reset for not work.
Indeed, the majority of posts here live up to the aphorism of Americans seeing themselves as 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires.'
If the government/law isn’t up to the challenge, I could see that they would rather do nothing. The downside is R&D moves to other countries.
I've only completed a few projects with Steam/Open VR and the Vive, and found it a little harder to deal with. It's mostly wrapping input APIs, and different friends / invite systems.

But Vive don't have anything on the quest to the best of my knowledge. We ship a lot of stuff on Quests and dev on them is really quite nice (with Unity).

The worst part was having to make a workspace Facebook account or whatever that thing was called, right as the Quest was just coming out. All the docs were hosted behind a login. Nightmare.

I don't know if Oculus could have done it without Facebook money though. It seems to me the world at large wasn't giving VR enough attention. We're finally seeing proper B2B adoption now and shit like this with Facebook accounts is going to make things a lot harder. It's kinda tricky sometimes getting hardware into banks or the NHS or any place that has funky or strict hardware procurement. This is just another barrier for all that.

I've not read the dev emails that have come from Oculus yet. But Oculus are meant to be rolling out their new 'Business' backend for remote deployments soon. Hopefully this isn't B2B side too.
Ah, you must be talking about my beloved T65. You could commit a murder with it and nobody would notice.

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Yeh, that true. It's just hard to create a sustainable program. STS was retired. ISS will be probably be retired in 2025.

George HW Bush wanted to go Mars then scrapped it when he got the price tag.
In 04, George W Bush wanted to go to the moon by 2020.
Obama scrapped the moon 2020 plan and planned to go to Mars by 2030.
Trump is sending them back to the moon then Mars.