skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed" is how the Internet has always worked.

The dirty secret of the Internet - going back decades - is that it's concept of moderation mostly relies upon unstated or understated rules half-enforced and adjudicated by volunteers or underpaid contractors with the power of judge, jury, and executioner. This is arguably by design: the vast majority of what moderators are dealing with is spam, which has the properties of being cheap to execute and difficult to filter for. Hence, anti-spam efforts are swift and merciless. More modern efforts to deal with things like foreign election interference and fake news are arguably extensions of this same ongoing effort to summarily hang and execute spammers.

Facebook is not alone in this either: Google's done it from the very beginning and their death penalty stings far harder. There's a few exceptions to this, such as Wikipedia's ArbCom or other collaborative Free Software projects with code-of-conduct rules and moderator transparency. However, even those platforms will summarily execute spammers.
Washing your hands, wearing a mask, and not going around people because you don't know if you or whoever you around is infected is not political.
A classmate of my sister's was once denied permission to go to the bathroom. The negotiations ended with him peeing in the classroom's waste bin. That teacher didn't make the same mistake again.
I have a different explanation. Think of a material as a sponge for heat. When I squeeze the material, I raise the temperature, and that causes heat to leak out. The temperature of the material doesn't really tell me how much heat is in it, so this experiment is suggesting that it is the heat itself that prevents superconductivity.

Now a superconductor is just a conduit for electrons that doesn't generate heat. We know from Landauer's principle that heat is only generated when you destroy information. If I take a pair of entangled electrons, those electrons contain exactly one bit of information (in the von neumann sense). If I cannot add energy in excess of the energy required to disentangle them, then that bit of information is never destroyed.

Whether or not a given interaction between the electron pair and the substrate has enough energy to disentangle them is not a function of temperature, it is a function of the actual energy that may be imparted to my pair. Which is proportional to the actual heat in my material, rather than its temperature.
Google's core mission of simply indexing information was never going to be a money maker.

Now, the only way Google makes money, is when other companies/users produce something of value. Google finds what that is, and inserts themselves between the user, and the content that the user wants to get to. They setup their little toll-booth on the internet, and start collecting. It is primarily a parasitic company at this point.
It just occurred to me that sculpting should happen in voxels, not polygons. Polygons get too large or too small after sculpting, and start to self-intersect.
34 is totally fine. Read books, not just random blogs, get a GitHub account where you upload your projects, and watch your health (sitting long periods of time is not healthy)
I have owned about a dozen VR headsets at this point, including the Quest (not the Quest 2) and the Vive Index. The Index is fantastic, but it's difficult to compare to the Quest which is truly in a category of its own.

For headsets, there are several properties that segment the market:

1. Tracking: outside cameras/emitters vs inside-out tracking

2. Tethered vs wireless (including PC powered, but using wireless transmission)

3. PC powered vs standalone device

For each of these, there are multiple vendors to choose from, except for standalone devices. In this case, the Oculus Quest is unique. There's no other competition.

Moreover, the Quest is the only device that can be run without a corresponding high end PC. If you don't have a PC like that, then the cost is prohibitive. There's also the space factor. VR needs space, which is already an issue. With the PC powered headsets, you also need that PC to be close enough to your open VR space. Otherwise, you need to rearrange your living space or invest in a VR dedicated PC.

In summary, the Vive Index is fantastic and arguably the best headset in the market right now, but the Oculus Quest fills a different niche of that market.

(And as to the topic of the article: I'm done with Oculus based on Facebook's policies).
Facebook doesn't need me to be kind.
It's pretty likely. There's at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe, most of them have planets. Billion of years passed since the Big Bang. If some chemical process can create life it's very likely that somewhere it did.
I'm not working in the industry myself but rolling shifts are somewhat normal in big manufacturing companies. But if you do let your employees work for nights or weekends then they usually have to get paid premiums (simplified:25-40% more for night shifts, more for sundays and holidays).
I think that would only have worked temporarily. Over time people would grow skeptical of labels. If there's anything that's a truism about the current environment, it's an earned distrust of elite opinion and a distrust of their attempts to characterize different viewpoints as unserious. It could even backfire as people want to watch what the controversy is about.
Having built a bunch of these, the article more or less skips past the hard stuff. When you build an internal PaaS you aren't building the k8s part, you're building and prescribing the entire developer workflow to the team. If you do it well then it makes self-service super easy but the opinions on how to do everything are baked in. For example, you get opinionated versions of a build pipeline, SPA hosting, deployment models, yaml templating (or some other config language), dependency trees, monitoring and alerting systems, identity, secrets management, etc. All of those things end up being baked into the system if it's going to be successful. It's a tall order and I'd love to read more about internal PaaS failures than successes; thats where the learning is going to be.
By "direct network access" we mean between the client and the end host. The Boundary worker node (which proxies traffic) would need to be able to make a network connection to the end host, and the client in turn would need to be able to make a network connection to the worker node.

This indirection provides a way to keep your public and private (or even private and private) networks distinct to remove "being on the same network" as a sufficient credential for access. At the same time, it ensures that the traffic is only proxied if that particular session is authenticated.
I said above, "And you needn't publicly enumerate your disgust for all atrocities by all peoples in order to denounce the single action of a single people." I'm happy to criticize each other group's wrongdoings; I needn't do so in a single breath.

I object to the conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism. On a second order, I care about Zionists' crime carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Palestine.

It is an ugly perspective, to me, that we should concern ourselves with the Zionists' ethnic cleansing of Palestinians only after we have solved all other problems.

Anyway, check out the three sources. I think you have an interest in the matter.
Consider Game of Thrones. Are seasons 1-3 still worth watching even though 4-6 are mediocre and 7-8 are dumpster fires?

As someone who enjoyed the show for a long time and watched it all the way through, I'm not sure the answer to that is obvious. They wrecked it so badly in the final episodes that I don't currently see myself doing the marathon rewatching thing with it. I'm also not sure I'd recommend it to a friend who hadn't seen it, knowing it was setting them up for such a huge disappointment.
I had no idea this comment would take off. As I cross the event horizon I’d yell into the void: “Oh my god it’s full of stars!”
If they started out by misleadingly[0] describing it as "$THING is free and open source."? Yes!

Edit: 0: It's (presumably) technically not false now, but the implication is that $THING is honestly intended to be FOSS, immediately followed by admiting that their actual intent is to sabotage that embrace-extend-extinguish-style as soon as it's commercially expedient to do so.
> But he'd already used up (most of) the story he wanted to tell, because they told him he wasn't getting a season 5. So the season 5 we got ended up being a bit weak and wandering, with only the last few episodes (which were part of what would have been the ending of season 4, if he hadn't found out in time that there would be a season 5) having the same strength and memorability as the season 4 episodes.

All of season 5 was in the original plan as the side-stories for seasons 4 and 5, not written after the series was renewed. That's mainly why the filmed season 4 was so action-packed - the main plot wasn't really compressed in terms of screen time, instead there were no side plots.

Aside from that, the finale, Sleeping in Light, was filmed during season 4, that's why Claudia Christian was in it. They found out about the renewal just barely in time to use some season 5 budget to film The Deconstruction of Falling Stars, which only then became the season 4 finale. I think that was really the only thing not in the original plan.
Agree with this. They can atleast produce 2-3 episodes in a season and let the series come to conclusion. There is no need for doing 10+ episodes.
If wearing a mask stopped the government from being able to listen in on my phone calls I'd wear it in the shower. This new normal means I don't have to put on deodorant and I can get away with shaving every other day, I love it.
The blocker now is getting brain preservation equipment in every hospital; we already have techniques that will preserve brains for centuries until uploading tech is perfected.

See the BPF's article [1] or video series [2] if you prefer.

[1] https://www.brainpreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2scSuw0om8

Disclosure: I volunteer for them.
I was looking for digital sculpting apps a few months ago for my iPad and I wasn't too happy with the interfaces compared to Blender. This looks exactly like what I was looking for. Amazing work.
I've seen first hand that offering something for free for people experiencing hard times is rarely abused so long as you require someone to ask for it.

"Email me if you are unable to afford this book and would like a free copy" for example, will rarely be abused. (And if it is, it isn't a lost sale, because they wouldn't have purchased it anyway.)

I suspect it might actually increase overall conversion rate, because it may trigger many people to consider that they actually can afford the product, and it shows that the merchant has a heart.
Well, I believe the answer to your question is the edition of Algol he worked on. I personally think it’s one of the most elegant imperative language designs in history.
Tesla is far from perfect but saying that it's strength is in "an army of blind supporters" is just ridiculous. Tesla is moving and innovating very fast, not just in battery tech but also electric drive train, vehicle mass manufacturing, energy storage, etc.

Tesla/Elon hate is strong these days, probably outweighs the fanboyism.
Why would you have a database running on a machine with a public ip?
It's not a flagship though. It is missing a lot of features compared to the bigger models.
Sure, I get that, that's how 24 hour stores work as well, but they are almost nonexistent in Germany. I don't know if they are legally banned or whether it just culturally lacks a market, so I'm openly asking that question here to people who understand German labor laws.

The only overnight operations during my short time there I really saw were essential services such as in security, hospitals, and transportation industries.

Night shift workers do take a huge health hit, both physical and mental, and a social life hit, and I could see a government like Germany's putting some controls over night shifts for non-essential services, so wondering if that was the case or not.
Not sure how a closed code can satisfy a threat model depending on the encryption details. If you trust the company to implement AES-GCM in secrecy, why not also trust with the "enhanced" part?
I don't get why people dislike the end of The Diamond Age in particular.

Spoilers. Like, I mean, this isn't a plot summary, but this is in some sense what happens so look away now if you wish you didn't know:

The Primer has been calling her Princess Nell for a long time. Once you realise what's going on with the vast number of "specially adapted" Primers for the orphan girls, that Princess has got a ready made tribe with shared values in the form of the Mouse Army, waiting for her say so.

The whole book has been telling you that in this era what matters isn't control over a land mass, which is what the Fists are fighting for in the Leased Territories on behalf of Han, but a Tribe with shared values.

The Mouse Army shows up, rescues Nell and takes her to her mother. The Victorian Queen recognises Nell as the leader of a novel but important tribe.

The novel is flawed in many usual Stephenson ways (e.g. use of rape in place of actual character development) but I don't know what people expected from these endings, they seemed perfectly satisfactory to me on multiple re-readings.
It seem that it is exactly what this user is going to do (https://old.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/japo1j/faceboo...):

"No need for chargebacks, I purchased it from John Lewis in the UK so they wont have any issues refunding me. All my previous Oculus purchases on their store are now unplayable on my CV1 though so I might have to pursue a small claims court claim to get any money back on those."
Mixed Integer Programming for optimal risk mitigation strategy
I think you can use such an architecture without almost zero or minimal code change. You don't have to split the shared endpoints using some remote API calls since they are all available inside your monolith.
Also what people are missing is that current theory has us with theoretical models of what experiencing a black hole is like. And I did mention a super massive black hole so tidal forces would be minimal.
This is exactly what we do using Shifter (http://getshifter.io/).
X-No-Archive: yes was for Dejanews, and subsequently Google, and worked, at least in terms of what they publicly displayed on their site.

For about the past 20 years you don't need an archive though, with some Usenet service providers having posts going back to at least 2003 (with people talking about 2003 being a cut off for this archive, I suspect that's where much of the content is coming from).

Major Usenet providers required/had so much space for binaries they just stopped expiring text posts, which are a drop in the ocean by comparison.
> I have a rock that repels tigers. There haven't been any tiger attacks when I'm around, so it must work.

Behind the scenes, the man with the rock is using it to kill every single kitten he sees when he's alone. He can't prove how useful the rock is without admitting to all the senseless murder of innocent bystanders.
You forgot to cite and link the wikipedia page
> taste

Are you referencing look/design of Tesla's cars?
One data point: we're launching the NuCypher Ursula service on ethereum mainnet tonight at UTC midnight. So, quite far from dead in some people's minds. :-)
Interesting. I just added Keybase to my "look at this later" Firefox bookmarks. I wonder if the acquisition will harm Keybase?
Renewals are just as important to them. They are not one of those companies that relies on your apathy to keep subscribing.
I want to give a shout out to Tailscale. It relies on Wireguard and has been dead simple to setup and configure. Stability has been great as well.
Why are "crypto" people so willing to believe that "Elon Musk" is offering to double their money?
Fundamental research is of great importance. It is where the breakthroughs of practical value begin.

Our understanding of electricity did not emerge with the lithium battery, transistors, nor solar cells. It began with scientists studying static electricity, Leyden jars, and making frog-legs twitch, all without practical value.

Superconductivity in any context at room temperature is a substantial breakthrough, doubly so because the experimentalists were operating with semi-viable guidance from theory. This is physics at its best. It may well lead to higher-Tc materials.
No, but it does show how significantly unlikely things can happen given enough time and billions of moving variables.
Looks like Yahoo's Athenz
https://github.com/yahoo/athenz
My BMW had the following failures within a short time-frame. The dashboard was "lit up like a Christmas tree". (Does not including normal wear items like brakes, battery, filters)

Mechanical failures - Water pump, air condition compressor, loose seat bushings

Sensor failures (Possibly all from the same sensor supplier) - fuel level sensor (!), all oxygen sensors ($$$), passenger seat airbag sensor (!), air mass-flow sensor, engine air intake sensor, rear ABS brake sensors, coolant temperature sensor, cam position sensor

These are known problems and fixes documented on car forums, thus home garage repair was possible for everything except the AC. The price of parts and sensors is high (compared to Honda).
Ya, it's nutty making.

Post 2000, with HAVA et al, the EAC.gov has done some good recommending best practices and codifying rules. It's not nearly enough.

I'd love for USA to have a GATT style body. Then maybe some day our elections could brag about meeting the Carter Center's minimum standards for integrity and accountability.

https://electionstandards.cartercenter.org/
Do you have any feedback/results/data to share from people who've applied this knowledge? I'm thinking that would be a great way to sell the book.
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That is correct! The local proxy has a listening socket and handles all the authentication, encapsulation, and forwarding transparently.
What was published not too long ago: https://github.com/zoom/zoom-e2e-whitepaper
> PRISM data was never used to help secure a single conviction.

I think it's worth noting that this is also fairly normal for signals intelligence of all types. If you want to use intelligence as evidence in a trial then you have to make that evidence available for scrutiny by the defense which is something intelligence agencies almost never want to do.

As I understand it (obviously Im not very informed here!) you'd normally use intelligence to identify suspects, then gather further evidence with which to secure a prosecution so you don't have to rely on the original intelligence in court. I believe GCHQ in the UK have in the past gone so far as to abandon a strong cases that hinged on intelligence data so as to not reveal the source of the intelligence.
Hence:

> Do I have access to all the features of a regular Zoom meeting?

> Not right now. Enabling this version of Zoom’s E2EE in your meetings disables certain features, including join before host, cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, Breakout Rooms, polling, 1:1 private chat, and meeting reactions.

Some of those features they can bring back, some they might not be able to.
Yeah, and I generally agree with what you were saying. And I totally agree with some like 24 sigh

I think that generally US seasons are too long. However, I only realized that after watching a bunch of foreign (mostly UK) shows on Netflix. These are shows I would have never been exposed to.

I too agree that sometimes the UK ones are a bit too short. I remember wanting to watch Luther, but was thinking 5 seasons was a lot (despite loving Idris Elba). Then we got watching and one season (err, series) was 2 episodes. Five series had a total of 20 episodes. That was crazy. The same goes for Sherlock.

There's definitely a happy medium, and I feel that the 10ish episode length seems like a nice point.
well it is, but it's an accurate response to somebody already engaged in it. It is the GP who finds it "probably unlikely" without any indication of actual probabilities, chiefly rounding down from a haphazard guess, after all.
While more computer and console systems were designed with a Z80, the 6502 computers and consoles vastly outsold the Z80 systems.

The Z80 has more powerful instructions but they take longer to execute. The 6502 instructions are faster but you need more of them to do the same task.

In the end, a 1 MHz 6502 was almost equivalent to a 3 MHz Z80. The Z80 was available up to 4 MHz but often ran at 3.58 MHz) and the 6502 was mostly 1 MHz (eg. Apple II, Commodore 64) but in a few systems (eg. BBC Micro, Commodore 128) it was 2 MHz.
Like another poster already said, both lower temperatures and higher pressures confine the movements of the atoms, so either of them can cause the same phase transitions.

Besides this new example with superconductivity, there are other more familiar phase transitions with the same behavior.

For example, with most liquids, in order to solidify them you may either cool them or compress them.

The same if you want to liquefy gases, either cooling or compressing has the same effect.

Room-temperature superconductivity at very high pressures has been predicted many years ago, but it is very nice to have an experimental confirmation.
The days are gone where every Gym and Club were setting up their „website“ on FB. Setting up a website these days is a non-issue with offers from wix.com etc. And local groups are moving to WhatsApp (I know it‘s owned by FB, but it doesn‘t do harm, it‘s a good product) or to Instagram (also owned by FB). There are way too many alternatives. Many people realized that it‘s boring or harming to consume „news“ pushed to a newsfeed that is manipulated. Either they get jealous, or sick of their echo-chamber or they are overwhelmed by the amount of input that they constantly receive. FB is fighting for a very very valuable asset: Your attention.
Thank you, much!
Likewise for any monopoly. A monopoly is not all-consuming monolith (ie., a totalitarian state).

Either way, my point was precisely that there are conditions on monopolies that make them beneficial.

And hence the "in itself" condition fails.