skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programmer and dad-level humor can be a pretty deadly combination.
At my wife’s office, one of the first things we did to prepare to reopen was install AirOasis units on each AC unit. It’s a UV light inside the return that is designed to kill anything in the air. The bulbs need to be changed every 2 years.

It won’t do any good in close contact, but at least as air is recirculated we can be confident that the air is being cleaned effectively.

Had them installed on my house years ago because of an air quality problem and they worked great.
I'm seeing this more often, esp like 3x cheaper it hurts my head. For 120% less I'm thinking 100/220= it uses 45% of the memory it used to.
It sounds like you're saying that Facebook has a lot to lose when employees in the US get upset enough to leave.
I don't know if this is a hard constraint, but I believe this is how AWS organise the instances - you'll be sharing hardware with other instances of the same size.
This is simply not the case. Adam lied to everyone's face for years. Read the documents and financial statements if you think this is just a little "flex" every couple of slides.
No, I would put them squarely in the Don't Care group because they cannot possibly be in a Don't Know group.
Relevant to this discussion: Compaq had to reverse-engineer the IBM PC BIOS instead of just copying it because of this decision involving... Apple Computer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....
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The only way this makes sense to me is if memory usage was reduced by a factor of 1.2, but that sounds so much more modest than "120% less" that I'm doubting myself.

On a related note, I tend to avoid expressing changes as percentages entirely, in large part because increasing by X% and then decreasing by that same X% doesn't get you back to where you started.
Take your libertarian dreams to international waters. Regulation exists to create opportunity, not destroy it. Unless you have facts to back up your claims, don't spread misinformation.
Of course media narrative matters! especially if you control what can be said and only say that one thing. And people go used to this and assume that if all official media is singing the same tune there is something fishy. I'm arguing that total deplatforming (not just effective criticism, I'm talking about total deplatforming) backfires.

Letting people talking about things even if we don't like them, doesn't mean suddenly you have to bend to their narrative and make them control all of the media. But you should return the favour and not fully control the media too.
If the market is about 10 - 20 million users, that's plenty to support developers and future development. The investors who made big bets probably aren't going to see much of a return on that money, but that's okay. VC money is probably bad for the sector in the long run anyway.

Don't forget that the current generation of VR hardware has roots back to a Kickstarter project. Billions of dollars are investment aren't needed.
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I never found a good way to semi-automatically do fillets. I did get good at many other kinds of manipulations, using the ! and % operators to help me "see what I'm doing", etc.

If you need boolean ops on cubes, cones, and spheres, OpenSCAD is great. If you need fillets on an oblique cylinder that intersects a curved surface, you're in for a much longer walk.

I have to admit that I’m not-so-secretly hoping someone will post “hey, here’s my secret to easy fillets in OpenSCAD” and I can learn a new trick.
How the Game Genie (NES) works?
The details of your post go beyond those mentioned in the article. Could you provide additional links?
I don't think every startup CEO is falsifying bank statements to show millions more in income to their own finance department and investors than they actually have.
Incentives. FB behaves like this because it's profitable for them to do so. Do you expect this sort of behavior is somehow not profitable for other companies of their scale?
The policies are harmful, and reciprocal policies are good policies. I don't think this is inconsistent. It's just like how US imposing tariffs on Canadian aluminum is harmful, but Canada reciprocating with its own tariffs is definitely good policy -- otherwise there would be no economic incentive for the US to stop its tariffs.

Canada reciprocating protects the free flow of trade by discouraging further tariffs. Similarly, here, India and the US reciprocating protects the free flow of software/information by discouraging CCP bans.
Fascinating history, reminding us once again how scary much of the tech we take for granted really is...
It seems like you are shifting the goalposts somewhat. In my comment, the claim I'm responding to is that the idea that trans-identification is a social contagion is "an entirely scientifically baseless idea". To rebut that claim I linked scientific research supporting that idea.

You, in turn, replied that the research I linked was not very good. This is shifting the goalposts from "entirely scientifically baseless" to research that satisfies some unknown and nameless criteria of yours.

You also mention that it "had to be corrected after publication and has been widely criticised for its poor methodology." That's an interesting point, but to my knowledge, the critics that drove that correction were trans activists rather than scientists. It "had to be corrected" (to the state it currently is in today where it makes the argument I reference) because of protests from these activists. The wikipedia summary of the controversy surrounding this paper says[1]:

"Criticism was voiced by transgender activists, and two weeks after publication, PLOS One responded by announcing a post-publication review of the paper. In March 2019, the journal concluded its review and republished Littman's revised and corrected version."

It's also not really a coherent criticism to say that, when I was faced with a claim that something is entirely non-scientific, I responded by citing the most frequently cited scientific paper to rebut that claim. Okay, it's a frequently cited scientific paper. That still rebuts the idea that the social contagion hypothesis is entirely non-scientific.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_onset_gender_dysphoria_c...
It's been happening since at least 2016. I remember that everything seemed to go mental amongst the US internet as of that year. Can't imagine why ;)
I'm very curious if anyone has a reading and interpretation of this case yet. It's a sad state that we have to turn to singular sources for matters of law that should be public.
There is a cap set by the EU since 2015

https://www.adyen.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu...
Yeah, it happens: https://blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-relays-may-june-2020

One reason why it's not devastating to the network as a whole is that the process for getting your relays to make up such a large fraction of the network is social. If you run a ton of capacity, especially if added all at once, people are going to notice, and reach out to find out who you are (and if they can't, expect to get removed). This means that while yes, you can do this (and as above, people have), once it's detected, all of your resources are dropped at once, and you have to start a pretty expensive and time-consuming process over again. It's also the case that adversaries generally don't collude, so e.g., the above attack was for cryptocurrency theft, and those adversaries likely aren't working with the FBI or China to deanonymize circuits. This means you only have to worry about a few of these happening at a time, which makes it easier to detect (pull on one thread, and the rest start to unravel).

That said, just based on the blog post above, it's something that TPO seems to be thinking about new ways to address, and sibyl detection has a long history of research in the academic community as well that has plenty of space left to explore. Something like Salmon[0] is in the process of being implemented by TPO for bridge distribution[1], and the constraints for this reputation problem are far less onerous than that setting.

[0] https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/popets/2016/4/arti...

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-...
Related "Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346900 from two weeks ago.
Don't be me, keep scrolling. It definitely took me a hot second to realize i should scroll down.
We had wet summer this year and many tomatoes went brown from the fungal rot. But I have treated some of them with mycorrhizal fungi[1] shortly after planting and the treated plants are remarkably better off, still green. Seems like these symbiotic fungi protected the plants against the pest. Anyone tried that with coffee?

[1]https://www.symbiom.cz/en/p-3-symbivit
I'm glad for your daughter and you. The testings to get a diagnosis can certainly be complicated and stressful for both the child and parents. However you are all through the worst of it once you get that diagnosis and your daughter is caught up or exceeded her peers. And while it is true that she will be dealing with some of the challenges associated with dyslexia her whole life, the good news is that modern society has shifted to de-emphasize some of those issues. Spellcheck, text to speech, and speech to text are near universal now and are a huge boon to the ongoing life with dyslexia.
Media laws would be progressive data protections, just evenly applied. But we know why that's not on the table. Tech transfer + JV only for countries that require it, i.e. reciprocal. Same with property, company, asset ownership which that bothers a lot of people. The point is there are reciprocal options for reciprocal advocates. But reading a lot of these reciprocal arguments, they look like a dogwhistle for containment, which is fine. Policy making circles discuss containment openly. Just be upfront about it and stop pretending it's about fairness. And try not to let reeeee China undermine longterm self-interests. Which this act seems to do.
Lets hope someone doesn't have a now unpatchable zero day or two laying around for these apps.
Being an executive at a (substantially smaller) SaaS startup I have no idea how having up to 90% of your revenue be fabricated could happen without others knowing:

- where are the contracts corresponding to revenue? Yeah they are SaaS focused on SMB but this is a financial product, there will be contracts, NDAs, etc

- if the majority of the customers are fake there is such little load on the system. How does engineering not figure that out?

- How does no one see an insanely low COGs when paying the cloud services bills, or the lack of allocated resources when looking in the management interfaces?

- Even saas Products with supposedly a no touch sales process still have sales people and sales engineers for key accounts. What are all the sales people doing if they’re not running trials?

- let’s say he hid all of this by having tens of thousands of $10 a month customers. How does your VP of sales not get totally freaked out that the overwhelming majority of revenue is coming from no touch sales? If that’s the case that radically changes your growth and go to market strategies. The entire go-to- market team should be wondering what is going on? Same with product management. Your roadmap would be completely different with a long tail of extremely low revenue customers.

- how does sales/client success not notice that no one is expanding? How they aren’t talking to small customers about expansions?

- How does no one notice a complete lack of analytics or actions being generated by all the supposed customers?

- product management is going to want to get feedback from all of these customers. They’re going to be looking in analytics tools or session replay tools like fullstory. They’re going to look at the accounts and users and do outreach to emails asking for meetings. Aren’t they going to notice all of those people are fake?

- support/client success is going to have insanely high customer to support person ratios. Where are all the support tickets for that many customers?

- Managing cash flow would be very hard. Finance is going to see all this revenue coming in and want to scale. The VCs are going to want to see money being spent on marketing activities etc. to further the growth. If there’s no corresponding revenue being spent to acquire customers but tons of revenue coming in that’s a giant red flag
I was someone at the bottom of the totem pole who tried to do my job and ask what questions I could. I certainly noticed a lack of analytics or basic traffic/revenue/customer data. Retroactively, it was obvious that this was essentially a fake job, but I couldn't piece this together and there wasn't enough company-wide transparency.

The fake financial statements were publicly released: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1317641...
I do not know why you are being downvoted (I upvoted this not because I agree with your view, but because I see your point as the one that deserves to be argued).

I agree that the ability to reach user directly is a valuable feature to a developer. And your request sounds completely fine. But it is wide open to abuse.

Now, that said, as a user I would be very unhappy if Apple started blasting my AppleID email to every app I decided to try. That would generate a ton of spam and probably make that email unusable for anything else. If a developer wants direct access to the user nothing prevents them from asking the user in an app (where the user has a chance to say "Hell, no!"). My 2c.
I took a French class last year, and the teacher spent a lot of time identifying differences between academy French and how people actually talk. Things like "Je ne sais pas" => "Chais pas," which sounded like "shay pa." It seemed like the people still had a lot to say about how French should unofficially be written and spoken, even if it couldn't be used in formal settings.
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Cool. What are you planning on exposing in the SDK? Will it simplify the process of sending data between the clients? Will you be able to get raw access to the audio and video data to create filters?

What apps are in development or available now to use?
Have they finished crushing Steam yet? How's that going?
Sad that they would engineer that awesome cooler design and not let people buy it. The launch AIB's are just giant triple slot coolers slapped on.
> It feels like Epic waived a red cloth and Apple just ran full speed into it. I see the current mess completely of Apple's own doing.

What kind of repercussions could it have? I'm sure it's not great PR, but is it really likely this damages Apple in the long run? I'd presume Epic could challenge the legality of these actions in a lawsuit but, other than that, isn't Epic totally at Apple's mercy?
OK, look at how good of a foundation it is.
This is a pretty incredible story - thanks for sharing it!
Most republics borrow most of their core concepts from monarchies that preceded them. In the early (modern) republics like the US & France, Presidents have a lot of power, especially military power.

Many later Republics (eg Ireland) inherited from monarchist systems with more of a ceremonial role for the king, and presidents tend to have more of a ceremonial role too.

Anyway, to various extents and with lots of caveats... Presidents have the power to pardon in a lot of democratic countries. In Ireland, for example, the power is constitutionally with the President, but in practice the power is with the government/parliament.

Whatever the details, pardons (and clemencies) are a necessary device. Even courts need check valves and this is a way of checking courts without harming the court as an institution. Yes, it is open to abuse, but on balance I do think it's necessary.

I agree that this sounds like an ugly politicisation... but everything about the Assange case is highly politicised. The content of the offense publishing politically damaging information about parties, politicians, defense and intelligence bodies. There have been tactical indictments in multiple countries. Secretive proceedings. Etc.

This was never a case where blind justice reigns pristine. It's an inevitably political shitshow.

For analogy, think of US impeachment. It's an obviously political, and whether or not the President has enough friends in Congress matters more than evidence. It's a whole lot better than nothing though. If you want to see what not having anything looks like, you can look at the shitshow going on in Israel currently.

Sometimes you need a way around standard rules. Standard rules exist for a reason, and bypasses aren't without a cost... but I do think they're necessary.
> This is literally the exact same thing Trump supporters say about Democrats

In the US it's generally true on both sides, because your politics are ridiculously "team" centric.

A lot of democrats can't be reasoned with, with regards to their party's policies. The major difference is that the Trump "camp" takes it to an absurd level of cognitive dissonance and at this point, either you know what I'm talking about already, or it's not worth my time and energy to explain it here (sorry).
Whenever I see timelines like this, I think it must be possible to do this in half of the time.
HN should probably be considered mainstream at this point. It's better than Reddit of course by nature of the primary demographic it caters to, but it's definitely not underground anymore.

The more popular a site is, the more enticing it becomes to those who are interested in marketing/manipulation/etc. To give credit where it's due, I think HN is far more resilient to these kinds of attacks than most other sites. But it's still important to keep in mind that these malicious actors do exist, and are attempting to influence your opinions.
“Only three years” is two doublings according to Moore’s law, and that law held fairly strongly at the time (transistor counts, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count: 8,500 (“6,813 without depletion mode pull-up transistors”) vs 29,500), so of course it was much better.
discussion of the source this article is based on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24499924
Everything that happened is a logical consequence of their decision to completely lock-down their products.

Whatever was the reason for that decision (anti-competitive exploitation, hubris of vision, etc), after it was taken (and while it's kept), there wasn't any other course of action possible.
Alright, I'll concede that point - delta to you.
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Vague on purpose. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING claiming the DNC email (and more importantly the PODESTA emails) were "hacked" can be summed up in three words.

"According to Crowdstrike..."

That's it. No one else did any investigation, just Crowdstrike. The same underhanded, dishonest company that LulzSec and Anonymous felt the needs to expose time and time again for their fraudulent ways. People who have no problem lying or framing people.
Yaah down for a while, maybe maintenance break. But it's doing good now.
At least the DNI, and usually the D/CIA as well (these positions used to be the same one, and were only separated after we invaded), attends all presidential meetings that touch national security. I'll admit, any meeting with Cheney could spontaneously whip up a war from the ether, but even in his odious presence I think we have to hold these officials responsible for using their words.

In every press conference announcing some fresh horrific stupid war, there are spooks present and they do receive direct questions. It would be better for humanity if they didn't lie when answering.

Claims that CIA aren't pro-war and must be corrupted by evil presidents are pure fantasy. CIA have fought wars, by themselves, without telling the president. [0]

[EDIT:] If you've reached the point that you're imagining that honest secret reports are overruled by the public statements and actions of dishonest elected officials, could you accept that the whole idea of government secrecy is mistaken? Why not have these conversations in the open? Surely we'd make better decisions?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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Maybe, but I have doubts. Nobody likes predatory lending, but it's still a blossoming industry. I believe that works for small things, but if the advantage is large enough, somebody will step up and do it.

And it's not like people don't like it. They "want" to be engaged, to feel anger and surprise etc, those systems work because they're catering to peoples' instincts and desires.
Have VCs started skimping on DD because problems come up so rarely? Lightspeed (who led the last round for these guys) isn't a no-name firm, they invested in Snap, GrubHub, Telegram, etc. Surely they have the experience to find out gigantic major problems like this? This feels like something that should've come up in diligence before they sent them 120 million bucks... There are so many places it could've shown up or at least been hidden in a way that should've raised some flags.
>People whose existences are deeply politicized (and they do indeed exist) are not often excited to have political conversations with people who say things like "'existence is political' thing is just a bullshit phrase."

It is a bullshit phrase though. They don't want to bring it up because any skepticism is viewed as a direct attack on their ideology, and their ideology is the core of their existence/identity, so, calling out the illogic of their ideology is a political attack on their existence.

They want to TELL you, they don't want a discussion.
Is this the lingo that statisticians/mathematicians use?

I’d just say 75% drop for 100mb to 25mb.
Nobody says they have the same resources.

But a $17B company has all the resources it needs to fight a lawsuit, bully, buy press, etc.
Everything makes sense now. 0.3% is an order of magnitude lower than the fees paid by US merchants.