skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems so:

> we instead use sound to replicate a fence line with a pulse used during the initial training period to help a cow understand the meaning of sound
Yeah, the focus on the specific interview in the moment has both upsides and downsides. It can be frustrating and arbitrary but it also avoids some traditional in-group shenanigans and unfairness that is common in a lot of places. "I have to study all this crap even though I've done X, Y, and Z already" on one hand; "I can study independently and prepare for this interview even though I don't currently work at Google" on the other.

That said: names still help - if someone's on the fence then saying something like "they didn't do that great but based on their projects at Google I think they probably just had a bad day" isn't uncommon - but it's far from a requirement, which is a good thing.
I use Stadia pretty regularly as my sole gaming platform, and so far its been pretty amazing for games like Assassin's Creed and even FPS games like Destiny 2. I encounter noticeable stutters a couple of times every hour or so, but for the most part its as if I'm playing on actual local hardware. Also, the loading speeds are blazing fast - its made me very optimistic about how the gaming experience can improve in the years to come due to the underlying compute being elastic instead of limited to your own box. I'm someone who held off on buying a console for years due to the cost, so for me Stadia has been an absolute blessing.
Just for note, its `gen_random_uuid ()`
Thanks for the tip.
As a nontechnical person who moved to Berlin and whose first job was at Rocket, I echo this even for non-technical people. Stuff was a mess, turnover was absurd (I lasted about 8 months), but you have a great little network from Rocket people who leave and go to other companies in the city
Now imagine that the bots can learn and can modify their behavior. And eventually through chaotic trials some of them learn that even a small gang can defeat / out-compete a large number of un-associated individuals -- and thus satisfy the greed of each individual gang member. And then they would learn that for a gang to hold its member should observe certain rules. And that those who don't must punished and/or expelled. Because otherwise the whole gang would break up.
And so on. And so forth.
That's how modern societies came to be.
Not through "intelligent design".
But though competition, trial and error, learning and adapting.
Forest management is helpful, but the task is unsurmountingly vast and yet compared to climate change, it’s dwarfed. But we have to tackle the big one because it has so many other effects that are catastrophic. Forest management is basically lost in the noise with climate change.
It takes some next level cognitive dissonance to read an article where a republican party chairman is noted as confirming the story, and then respond by saying that it's all a Democratic hoax.
Thanks :)

Point of pride for me if I can get downvoted for a thoroughly classy comment.
In most of the world working as a SWE is a middle-class job. Six figure salaries and RSUs are really only a thing in a few top US and EU cities.
what i recall was that there were many pitfalls even to do something simple, and this event suggests that even experts may find it difficult to avoid mistakes.

part of the challenge was just the inherent weirdness of the ethereum execution environment, where the functions you write can be directly called by an adversary, and they can set up their own version of the stack however they want.

it didn't seem like the language helped to mitigate the inherent difficulty however.
That's not what it's saying.
Michael Burry was way ahead on this too.

Also, fun to see the expected seething at anything related to finance here :)
The real problem with the Physical vs Digital divide these days is that a lot of content is cloud based. So even with standalone discs, there's a reliance on online services to succeed / gain content.

It's by design. MS made it clear 8 years ago that they wanted Digital and to move on from Physical media. It's an inevitability, the question is how can we migrate licenses from platforms. I like how movies are handled with MoviesAnywhere.
Hard disagree. The OSI may have "Open Source" in its name, but we decide what "open source" means. And I agree with the 'spirit' of open source, which is based in RMS' inability to replace code on his printer. The right to study the code running on your hardware, the right to make modifications to it, the right to distribute those modifications.

This "it's not open-source unless you allow Amazon to profit from your charitable work" is horse hockey. I don't care if this is how a hardliner sees it. Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive, and this is important enough that I support the migration of "open-source" to include these restrictions. Which, as they point out, affect none of the people using their code, and only the corporations (not people!) who would abuse the goodwill created by the Open Source movement.
Checklists are useful for breaking a task down and providing incremental steps to progress through.

During my PhD I would write down what specific task I was working on in a work journal every half hour or so and it would help me refine the specific problem/question I was working on. At the end of the day I would have made a steady progression through a relatively abstract problem which might not have been apparent at the beginning.

I take the same approach with working on the various projects now as a software engineer. I find the act of documenting my progress/thoughts as I go extremely calming. There’s a balance to be struck here - I only take this approach when developing something new and I have to record all the things which didn’t work.
If someone can double spend or block transactions, that's pretty much the end of the network if no-one can do anything to it.
I think you answered your own question as I am pretty sure they really do get paid that much more. The same thinking goes into starting a business or becoming self-employed. The people I have met doing those for longer than a year seem to make more than the people working full time jobs.
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Here's an instance of it: https://keno.github.io/julia-wasm/website/repl.htm

and the repo: https://github.com/Keno/julia-wasm
I think it probably comes down to a combination of Ego and/or Thrill. They think they are too smart to get caught and they get a thrill out of outsmarting people (until they're not).

Whenever I see this it makes me think that making money by breaking the law is like playing a video game on cheat mode. Nearly anybody can make money illegally, but the consequences don't usually outweigh the benefits. So, it's almost pointless. The game that is much more gratifying is making lots of money by playing the game on hard mode.
The claim here is that the device can actually induce a specific behavior in a cow. A fence can't do that.
You cannot unlock your bootloader with an APK. This is the process for unlocking the bootloader: https://www.androidjungles.com/unlock-bootloader-using-fastb...

No amount of luring is going to make somebody go through that only to have their device data completely wiped as the warning clearly says.
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I agree with the first part, however Microsoft has been competing extremely well and has released very good products through both acquisitions and internal development.
Google does the same shit. I bought Shadowrun: Dragonfall from the Play Store and it was later removed without any warning or trace. Not coincidentally, that was the last money I will ever spend on the Play Store.
I'm honestly most bothered by the fact that this is yet another slice of media that gets the "you rent it, you don't own it" treatment. I want to own my games, damn it, I don't want to rent it for a month. It's not about me feeling like I'm paying too much for games if I stay on a subscription for years just to play a game. It's about me wanting a hard (or digital) copy of a game I love because one day they might introduce an awful patch or licensing issues might push the game out of the service and, by proxy, my reach. I'm gonna keep supporting services like GOG and itchio that let me have games that I paid for because those seem optimal to me.
Remember when apps couldn't be "shut down"? At worst they wouldn't get updates, and as long as you had the installer or executable, you could still run it, even without the continuous support of a giant multinational corporation?
If a Google exec decides a new Google service is trash...
It would be interesting to live in a national with UBI. How would it change interactions with homeless on the streets?

"No, I know you make $1000 a month like we all do, I'm not giving you money."

Speaking of which, I wonder how much money people give to homeless people each year...
The killed by google site should now include every item put into the google drive trash.
"Pulse" is extremely vague. A pulse of what? Electric shock?
Embarcadero is now owned by these guys: https://www.ideracorp.com

Their primary modus operandi seems to be: buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-term licenses to enterprises.

It's no surprise that "the latest official version of Bold is is for Delphi 2006" [1] and that the goal of the opensource version is "is to encourage customers active on the library to share their more recent versions" [2]

[1] https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Bold_for_Delphi#The_legal_rig...

[2] https://blogs.embarcadero.com/bold-for-delphi-is-open-source...
Great analogy! The only thing I would add is that, if your arbitrage trade takes away too much money from an account belong the core devs (which would be like, the regulators responsible for the computer), they would retroactively undo that transaction in the computer's logic (force a hard fork).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819268
Well, the presumption is that some billionaires, in the West at least, have a minor interest in maintaining basic standards of civilization. A tall order, no doubt, but one can hope. Bezos seems content to push his biased viewpoint via WaPo, but one hopes that others are more civic-minded.
Agreed. I don't mind companies selling proprietary software. I do mind companies trying to claim that they're offering open source software when they're actually offering source-available software. With the Apache2 version, Timescale actually appears to be doing both, but I can't find a description of the differences so I can't comment very well; I assume they're doing open core. Which, again, is fine as long as you don't try and pretend that you're doing something else.
Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute
That's the core problem with such ideas: Blekko, metacafe et al have tried it. It's getting people to pay for this service that seemed an impossible hurdle to cross.
"Operation DisrupTor"

The docs are here:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/documents-related-september-22-2...

I assume there's at least something interesting in there about how they actually did the disruption. It'll be interesting to see the technical details once they come out.

Maybe a "How we disrupted tor during Operation DisrupTor" talk at defcon next year :-)
Also on Hacker News right now is Escaping the Dark Web[1], about a coordinated effort to mint & publish some blocks without front-runners stealing all the work & claiming a big contract for themselves.

Leverage, control. There's some play for what term we use to define the imbalance of these systems. But it sure seems like large, amassed forces have enormous sway over many of these systems, to the point where they can act as they want & are incentivized to do so with other large malfeasants.

[1] https://samczsun.com/escaping-the-dark-forest/
I guess the take away here is that if you have the right connections then you can bypass the system.
>The only semi-solution, in my mind, would be a radically transparent nonprofit that is held to rigorous standards and isn’t dependent on advertising for income.

Why is the only solution a centralized one, for you?
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I hate this as well. This is not just software: it's becoming increasingly difficult to acquire DRM-free digital goods (i.e. products that I can guarantee I will be able to use in 10-15 years), and in some cases, video in particular, I don't think that there has ever been a marketplace where I could legally buy DRM-free products (there are niche sites, of course, but I mean a generic store, like a bandcamp for movies). Music is an exception, fortunately. For now.

SaaS, and streaming in general, is very much anti-consumer, especially for those of us who value reliability over quantity. It's sad, but in most cases piracy really is the most pro-consumer option, even without considering the price (although in my case I usually just don't bother and go for other forms of entertainment).

The next generation of consoles already seems to include two versions, one with support for discs and another one (cheaper, of course) which is digital only. I'm tempted to rant about how this is a ploy to incentivise people to eschew physical games and go digital only, but I would be fooling myself, since physical games are also DRM-riddled and they might just stop working if some software update so decides.
What is your claim here? That Americans do not consume in absurd quantities as a way of life? Meat, sugar, oil, land, etc.? Is this even a matter of serious debate?
Dentist here.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but regenerative dentistry is still some time away.

The linked article describes that they have discovered new pathways in the development cycle of teeth.
(Akin to learning how something complex like your fingers develop from a fetal cell mass.)

This is a great start for sure and vital research.

But still some way before we are able to turn these developments into something actionable in a clinical setting.
Yes. And his point is perfectly easy to understand.
I wonder if this will hurt their bottom line (does trash count against your quota?)
This was something that always boggled my mind how inept these guys sometimes were. In this business your life literally (and I mean literally) depends on good security and they would make some really rookie mistakes.
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Our team doesn't do daily standups as everyone pretty much knows what other people are working on. There's communication on Slack. There's a list of issues and/or roadmap items that are assigned.

Then again, we have a small and high functioning team where there's no "waiting for X to finish Y" or blockers that aren't resolved immediately via communication on Slack. There's never a lack of issues to work on. Nothing assigned to you? Well, pick something from the list of issues or something on the roadmap, communicate to the team that you're working on it, communicate when you're done.

For a team of 6, 15 minutes a day is 90 minutes of productivity. That's 7.5 hours a week, pretty much almost a whole day of productivity for a person.

Whether standups are great for your team or not depends on the makeup of your team and personnel, the size of your team as well as the nature of the work and how work is divvy-ed up. I've found success on teams with and without standups, and I'll say that not having 15 minutes of the start of your day spent on being in a meeting is absolutely refreshing
> 28% of 18-24 y.o.s believe that humans originally got coronavirus from eating bats

In fact, bats are still the leading theory.

According to Wikipedia: While there is scientific consensus that bats are the ultimate source of coronaviruses, it is hypothesized that a SARS-CoV-2-like coronavirus originated in pangolins, jumped back to bats, and then jumped to humans, resulting in SARS-CoV-2. [...] Therefore, based on maximum parsimony, a specific population of bats is more likely to have directly transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to humans than a pangolin.

Though it doesn't mention "eating" specifically, I imagine that transmission could happen from butchering a bat in preparation for consumption, handling of bat remains, or being bitten by a bat.

So what's up with the New York Times[2] and that study[3]? Are they really picking bones over the word "eating"? Is there a new leading theory that no one bothered to add to Wikipedia?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/technology/young-people-m...

[3] http://www.kateto.net/covid19/COVID19%20CONSORTIUM%20REPORT%...
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> Do you think Fortnite will be available on competing stores?

The play store seems to indicate this to be the case. Epic released Fortnite on both their own store, and the play store no?
Plenty of industries manage to self-regulate to an acceptable degree.

And my idea was more: get anonymous donors to put $10 billion in an untouchable trust that funds a nonprofit news source, which is itself policed and funded by a separate anonymous trust. Full public transparency for everything. The legal mechanisms are available, even if the decency isn’t.
Never use Google! Never ever! Except for search... if you don't care about privacy. Or if you are an advertiser who'd rather pay Google and support the evil than work hard on their product or service.
I don't have an idea other than tags, I was curious if you did.

Tags seem like a good idea, the only thing that worries me is that they would be easy to abuse. That being said, I'd be willing to bet it would come out better than what we currently have.
It may sound hard to believe, but I've haven't needed to do a DB migration so far! Maybe I've just been lucky.

Had I been burned by a DB migration, this article would have been different
But you can do something against it - wait. Basically a double-spend in 2 concurrent latest blocks is doable. N blocks down significantly harder. So the more valuable the transaction, the longer you want to wait to make sure it's not going to be a double-spend.
> "goes for masks as well as ideas"

Since physical actions don't equal thoughts/opinions, well, clearly no.

> "since a lot of "social justice" is "stop telling me who I am""

Except they flipped right around and started telling other people in the center and right who they are, at full volume. Hard to blame people for not taking them seriously.
Anyone know how this infrastructure works? What are these servers running on? Java web app? Virtual machine on a single machine?
A proof of work blockchain isn't suitable, but proof of work is one of many ways to reach distributed consensus.
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I wish he'd say this for a different reason: we'll find out whether you're correct or not very quickly.

In a way, I also wish I could be this cynical, because I wouldn't have to think about the complexities of human motivation, and that would be a lot easier. But I don't think money and status is all there is. Which is exactly why these outcries are happening: people are negotiating as best they can to maximize all the things that make them happy and keep them motivated, like working in a context that keeps them right with themselves, and good for them. Until Zuckerberg actually says what you're saying, there's a chance they can be successful, so I don't blame them for trying.

But you know, if he actually came out and said this, we'd find out pretty quickly if money is all there is.
If you go to your local Scandinavian meetup after the pandemic, people may have some.

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I’m not committed to a centralized one, it just seemed like the best initial solution. Are you familiar with distributed solutions to squishy problems like journalistic truth? I don’t know any offhand.
There's lists of websites where startups are supposed to publish their launch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24566906

I subscribed to the https://betalist.com/ weekly newsletter. On their website you can search by product category.
There are so many things that are not FUN, but have to be done anyway. And more often than not the not-fun things are the direct consequence of the "FUN" projects.
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There was a North Dakota crash though...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom#/media/F...

I'm really confused about what "North Dakota crash" is supposed to be suggestive of. A UFO?
I didn't realize those people were Foundation employees. Thanks for pointing that out.

I do know of Corporation employees who said they left or were prepared to leave because Eich was promoted. They didn't want publicity though.
yeah, you might be right, I feel like Google's upto some good stuff with Stadia. Only one thing: maybe they shouldn't have launched as it's quite incomplete. Why the fuck would they want to piss off gaming community+developers.

And by the time Stadia improves in 2-3 years, there might be significant churn - both from gamers and developers. Like the experience might be good, but is it mindblowing?

And just today Amazon announced Luna: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/24/amazon-luna-brings-stadia-...

That Youtube integration which they talked about at launch will be interesting to see (when it comes...)
Trash items do count against your quota.
I do not understand your point as these contracts are settled in cash. Do you care to elaborate?
LMAO. Love the consumer friendly positioning of the group. If at least two of the founding members weren’t data over-reachers, this might be good theater. As things are, these folks cannot claim they represent my best interests.
Definitely just an "aligning reality with expectation" change. Most people probably assume their trash is occasionally cleared. It's arguably potentially problematic for them if they are keeping data around users asked them to trash.

Of course, when they first wrote this, I imagine keeping trash indefinitely had a nearly nonexistent impact on the bottom line, and now there's probably several datacenter racks worth of drives dedicated to storing and replicating trash.
For some it has been highly profitable, and many of them have strongly libertarian style personal beliefs.