skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It's a handout to Trump's buddy Larry Ellison, and it screws perceived political opponent Google by canceling a big existing cloud contract. Trump has to love everything about this deal. But that isn't the worst part.

The worst part is that this screws the future of the open internet by establishing precedent for segregating everything by country. The US was probably the biggest force supporting a global network without borders. Now that's all hypocrisy. The future of the internet is clear, if it wasn't before: Great Firewalls around every country. It will be really bad for Silicon Valley as a whole and that's yet another reason for Trump to love this deal. He's building a wall on the internet too.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469448
I only read the abstract, but from that I gather that the paper points out the (rather obvious) fact that the classic Drake equation ignores uncertainty, and that when you put realistic uncertainty bounds on the parameters, the total uncertainty is so large as to make the result meaningless.
sums up my opinion of the bp
"AFAIK". Your rant is wrong in so many levels it's not even funny.

Nvidia earned that hostility. It's not even worth replying when you're giving a comment in such bad faith. There's a search function with many many threads that dealt with this subject before if anyone wants a less biased view of EGLStream and Wayland.
The actual letter from EEOC https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7206573/2020-09-0...
Maybe the opposite is true? Ellison being administration-friendly acted as a stalking horse and gets the deal because it doesn't really change TikToc's business, but makes for a campaign press-release.
It still seems very ethically dubious to me to have a bunch of rich people (with absolutely massive carbon footprints) telling a bunch of poor people they need to get their birth rate down.

If you were serious about a programme like this, you should at least phrase it in terms of carrots, not sticks: if you embrace feminism, educate and empower your female citizens, we'll reward that with increased foreign direct investment.
I do not assume it would be necessary for its builders to have been sedentary.

Neolithic behaviors differing from the modern familiars are all interesting, but when we use the word "civilization", we are definitively talking about cities. Associating onset of civilization with 3-4000 BCE is a conclusion from present evidence, not a definition, and would need to be changed in the face of new evidence of cities.

Hints at civilization pre-4000 BCE typified by GT are as interesting as other neolithic phenomena. To be clear: while it is possible, in principle, that GT builders invented all their stonework methods de novo, it is clearly much more likely that they drew on a long history of gradually more sophisticated stonework not yet unearthed, possibly elsewhere. What we know about sea level changes allows that much of such evidence may now be under water, although it could also be found in the Tepes yet to be excavated.

We have absolutely no reason to believe that areas now deluged were unoccupied, or that the people who lived in those places chose to stay there and drown. They would have brought their culture uphill with them.

The entire Persian Gulf was recently dry land. Australians retain oral records of the social upheavals when people who lived in the Sahul region between present Australia and New Guinea were obliged to move uphill, to where other people already lived. Similar upheavals must have occurred on the present Indonesian islands and nearby peninsulas, absorbing influx from the hundreds of thousands of square miles of the the now deluged Sundaland.

People 6000 years ago, or 11,000 years ago, were no more clever than 20,000 years ago. What was evidently done 6000 years ago could have been done longer ago, given only population density and surplus food production. Undiscovered civilizations are certainly possible: the huge Amazon basin civilization was entirely unsuspected only decades ago.
The deal saves face for the president, and moves American business culture a step in the direction of China's.
That's not quite right. Even if there were no gravity or other forces, there would be no incentive for matter to go in one direction vs another, regardless of the distribution of matter around it. Over time you'd get a uniform-ish distribution, but that's a question of statistical mechanics, not one of pressure differences.

On earth, matter only rushes to fill vacuums because the surrounding air or water pressure pushes it in.
Thanks for the correction. I've edited my comment to remove that claim.
well tbf the earbud form factor is largely determined by the shape of your ear.

Also the product in question come in several colors, white being just one of them. It's kind of ridiculous to rule that the earbuds they make cannot come in white colors because some other brand already does?

Also judge for yourself on physical similarities: https://twitter.com/OnePlus_USA/status/1305537918891589640
It's not Trump, it's presidential powers.

Over time, the congress has 'delegated' more and more powers to the president making the US more and more a revolving dictatorship.
> You can generate a lot of revenue with workers with less experience, even factoring in mistakes, lower productivity and output, etc.

It's not at all clear that there a net gain here, so the situation is at best complex.
here is the apk, if anyone is interested:

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Propublica did some research on this a couple of years ago and posted a pretty in-depth story on it: https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a...
There are still a ton of things Android apps can use to track you without permission. [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/141...
I haven’t seen any of those in 8 years, but I’ll take you at your word...

That said: AMD GPUs have also had their share of issues on MacBooks.
Time for my $0.39 check or a year of additional credit monitoring in exchange for my credit history and personal information.
I totally, 100%, agree with you. I worked at Twitter pre-ipo. There were no “expert psychologists” anywhere in the company at that time, unlike what people below claim. Whatever features we built were mostly organic ( things like hashtags rose from the twitter community itself, not fron some internal mandate). The 140 char limit was a technical sms limit, not some feature purposely engineered to get you to engage more. Many of these things such as like button, heart button, retweet - for every “success” such as this, there were numerous failures that simply did not catch on. All in all, it was a bunch of clever hacks. The ipo happened, we sold our shares and moved on. Most of us deleted our twitter accounts shortly after. Its not like any of us were actively tweeting anyways. Many of my colleagues went to work at facebook. They have a barely functioning facebook page, which they hardly ever post on. A few of my friends work at insta. They don’t even have a profile - they said it’s mostly celebrities who post pictures about some luxury goods, not us developers who are git checking code. It has no relevance to us. Basically, a lot of us are completely bored with this social nonsense, and we’ve moved on to more important things. Social garbage is just not interesting. One of my friends works at Linkedin on something called Linkedin Stories. So I casually asked if he had ever written a linkedin story. He said you must be a bigtime loser to even think of using that garbage feature!

I guess once you know how the sausage is made, you lose the craving.
I would like to understand if Oracle gets to see the user data. If yes, that might be a good deal for them because the data, especially at such large scale, is very valuable.

In this case, they would not need TikTok's algorithms, as they can develop/train their own from TikTok's data.

If Oracle can not see the user data, then it's just a glorified hosting deal, as people mentioned.
That would be up to Softbank.
It seems reasonable to apply Bayes theorem. If the failure rate underwater after 2 years is less than normal..
Correct me if I'm wrong but on Android wouldn't an app have access to all files if storage permission is enabled?
The reason we have a replication crisis now is because people took the Stanford prison experiment as a "fact" rather than something that should've been challenged.

You can absolutely teach critically thinking skills to teens. Force-feeding facts which are often questionable at best leads to poor outcomes.
Would be good if someone adds an explanation why this new approach is better, is it that the OCaml is faster, more efficient algorithms were used, etc?
> Rust developers can fluently switch and convert between conrete `Result<T, SomeErrorEnumeration>` and `Result<T, dyn Error>`

That's something different, since both cases tell you that errors might occur.

In Java we can do the following:

public int concreteChecked() throws FileNotFound {
if (bar) throw new FileNotFound();
return 42;
}

public int polymorphicChecked() throws Exception {
if (bar) throw new FileNotFound();
return 42;
}

public Either<FileNotFound, int> concreteEither() {
return bar? new Left(new FileNotFound()) : new Right(42);
}

public Either<Exception, int> polymorphicEither() {
return bar? new Left(new FileNotFound()) : new Right(42);
}

public int unchecked() {
if (bar) throw new RuntimeException(new FileNotFound());
return 42;
}

I think your 'Result' examples are like the third and fourth examples above: using a sum type, differing by whether the error is more/less specific.

The first and second use checked exceptions, again differing in whether the error is more/less specific. Importantly: these will refuse to compile if we don't have 'throws ...' in their signature.

The last example uses an unchecked exception: if we throw 'RuntimeException' (or a subclass), we don't need to put 'throws ...' in the signature, and hence the compiler won't keep tell us to put 'catch' block anywhere.
This may not be your point, but I want to point out the VLC app on iOS provides a target for saving files, including mp3, for offline playback.

https://ytmp3.cc/ provides a general purpose online youtube to mp3/mp4 conversion service with no fee or registration.
Western US 'literally out of firefighters and equipment,' fire official says
Heck, there are fake AirPods in every store ever, go to Walmart (tall order with the pandemic) and you can see fake AirPods in the checkout shelf... lol
Why can’t we use airships to douse fires?
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We are looking for a US-based remote-only DevOps-oriented engineer to work closely with our storage and image-processing services development team. You would find ways (in hardware and software) to improve performance and reliability of those services, which manage over 10 billion images (5PB) in the cloud and in data centers around the world.

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Big plus if you've got these skills:

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TikTok makes people dance and smile.

LinkedIn... uh, LinkedIn...

Yeah, no. Not surprised.
His underlying assumption that human life is the only life that has value is staggeringly self-centered and depressing.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm not terribly educated on the state of Mastodon/similar federated social media.

Also interesting that you brought up Gmail/email. I've thought for a while (admittedly as someone far more on the "user" side than the "developer" one) about how email is an example of how things might work better. For as much as Gmail and a few others have captured the vast majority of the average userbase for personal email, it's still reasonably easy to choose a different provider (and can even roll your own if you really thought it worthwhile).

Switching email providers doesn't stop me from emailing people who use Hotmail or Gmail (ignoring for a minute any issues of overzealous filtering of uncommon mail servers). The individual services can implement their various extra features like spam blocking, auto sorting, etc. but for the most part, the common protocol means that an email from me@me.server can still be sent to a list of addresses at gmail.com, aol.com, hotmail.com, etc. If I want to send a message to people on Facebook, I need an active "valid" Facebook account that can be tied to their social graph.
Definitely used as a 'better spreadsheet' by some, but also used as a no/low code app builder by many

https://blog.airtable.com/airtable-platform-launch-automatio...
I did not know for the "BZ" expression! I like it.

Glad to find long-time power users here btw :)
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I don't understand why the Verge is framing this as likely to be approved. It seems like the Gov't. told Bytedance to divest from US Operations, Bytedance refused to divest and instead set up this trusted tech partner thing, which means that no IP will be change hands and control will still be maintained.

This deal seems not to meet the requirements set out by the US Gov't. Have the goalposts been moved or will this deal be rejected?
Some time ago I worked for a small company and one of the owners was a pretty nice guy, often talked of his mountain home and being near nature versus in the city. Then one day he mentioned that he had to change the oil in his sons ATV and always did that at the downhill slope of his properties edge. He would park the ATV over a small stream and empty the oil directly into the water.

Of course the staff were all furious at hearing this, which he seemed to enjoy. I asked the other owner if he was serious and he said he 100% was serious. So I approached the owner dumping the oil why he did this, why he didn't just empty the oil into a container, etc. Long/short he said it didn't effect him and couldn't care what any of us hippies though of the practice.

I would say that there is a fundamental difference in the way people are; they either view things in the long-term and strive to ensure the best for all of us. The other side of the coin are people that just want what's best for themselves and maybe their family. They don't care or want to believe such actions have long term effects on them directly.
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I'd agree with you, but do you think china doesn't behave this way?

an example might be https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/china-coronavirus-nation...

to an extent its a he-said/she-said, but if this were in the US, we would say "it's not a good look".
I don’t know how to respond to snark. I really want to engage in meaningful discussions. This isn’t it.
No need to invoke panspermia.
The inner planets have exchanged material such as rocks since the beginning of their existence.

I would assume it is DNA-based life. It would be a major surprise if it would be RNA-based life or something not resembling our tree of life.
I misunerstood the part I quoted, I thought it was about web pages asking you to log in via Google/Facebook. So the problem I was thinking of is more generally entering Google credentials into logins provided to us by a third party. The "don't use the link in your email to log into google, go to gmail.com instead" advice has been seriously degraded by this. It should always be that if you aren't already logged in, you have to go yourself to gmail/facebook/etc and log in there.
No, org mode is text based; however what you can do is link to an image, and then when you publish the org mode file as html, or pdf or whatever it will get interpolate and appear as though it had been pasted in.

At least that has been my experience a more seasoned orger can correct my ignorance if I do err.
I remember media singing praises for Obama campaign about how effective they were with social media. Using that to contrast him to mccain who apprently didn't know how to use email.
Samsung makes (excellent) screens for iPhones, which are huge competitors to Samsung's own flagship phones, but Samsung still seems happy to take the profits from the screen sales. If there are smaller potential competitors that Samsung won't work with it's most likely because the scale is too small to be in their economic interest, not because they're rejecting profits in order to stifle potential competitors.
It will be able to have more customization and do digital (courses, memberships etc) and physical products.

We are releasing features over the next few weeks - https://vypersoftware.com/course/hyax-features
There already is one, https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/08/21/alibaba-on-the-bleed...
Heroku is not even close to being an alternative. Their free dynos sleep after 30 mins of inactivity.
> complain about the only ways to lower them.

When you say "the only way", you are ignoring other solutions

> When one parent is in prison and the other is working nonstop

Should we be putting that parent in prison? Should we be forcing the other parent to work nonstop to provide for their family?
This is really bad news. I hope the deal somehow falls through.
That’s a cumbersome extra step for unclear benefit.

Yes, q is supposedly faster than jq. But it is exceedingly rare for me to ever have any performance problems with jq, especially since it’s essentially a one off utility I use occasionally, not as part of the hot loop of any workflow where performance matters.
The incentive structure of unregulated capitalism is "Extract maximum value with minimum expense. As much as possible externalize the costs."

The things to extract value from: employees, environment, government policy, tax code, if I was smarter I'd think of a few others.
Yep, have not set pricing yet. Still in beta :)
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FGO is astonishing in that it combines a combat system that isn't that bad, an abominable English translation, an advanced Moe character system similar to Pokemon, Neptunia, etc and (in the general 'Fate/XYZ' meta-setting) an astonishingly good pretense.

Put Moe addiction together with gatcha and you will get some Otakings to spend $70k or more on the game.
The fact that you're a fan of that site show us how you value meaningful debate.
Some of the best people I've worked with are those who've been with the company for a long time. IME, the dead weight tends to be phased out over the years, so there's a bit of survivorship bias with the remaining ones.

However, the road certainly isn't easy for them. Despite the utility of these people being totally obvious to anyone whose ever worked with them, with each change of leadership comes another fight to keep their jobs.

The one that stuck with me was when I worked for one of the biggest companies in the world, and they laid off the man who had more patents than anyone else in the company, by a good margin. He was in his late 50s, and he came onboard after getting his Ph.D, leaving once to found a startup, which was acquired by the company after a few years. He was brilliant, humble and could have absolutely been a professor at MIT or a principal at Google. But he loved working for our company.

I got the hell out of Dodge after that.
That the dots existed was public knowledge. That the NSA had the means to recover them from a document that had been scanned and faxed and reprinted was not.

The NYT is criticizing the Intercept for verifying its documents and showing them to the public. That's exactly what journalists are supposed to do, and something that the NYT regularly doesn't. Trying to justify it by raising concerns about security of the sources is bogus: the purpose of journalism is to inform the public, and sources risk everything to that end. At best, overzealously withholding information from the public is an insult to the source's sacrifice; in many cases it simply hides questionable evidence from reasonable criticism. The NYT is guilty of this in this very article.
"Consumer and Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) Office of Import Surveillance (EXIS) works closely with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to identify and examine imported shipments of consumer products."

https://www.cpsc.gov/Imports
But it says "more than a whole new pair". So not full price, more than full price. Which makes no sense whatsoever.
Really, you have to isolate the variable you care about here, which is 'how much energy is spent on cooling.'

Consider, if you can achieve a fully passive cooling solution by dropping a datacenter into a lake, you've reduced the energy consumption in service of cooling by 100%.

(In reality, water cooling isn't "free," but I'm willing to bet the amount of energy required to dump heat into surrounding water is a whole lot less than the amount of energy spent for the compression cycles and forced air of above-ground HVAC systems. Water cooling using direct application of chilled water is already a thing, using lakes or retention ponds as places to dump heat; what being at the bottom of a lake gives you is a more consistent and proximate source of cool water than you might expect from a current chilled water distribution system)
If you have Spotify, you can also do this through offline syncing, but it's annoying to figure out. Less dodgy than this solution, though.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/Listen-to-local-files...

Spotify has pretty low-level access to playing music on iPhones.
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Don't forget, even within individual atoms, the overwhelming majority of the space is a vacuum.