skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow, I literally just had a very similar idea but what inspired me to think of it was the phenomenon of Prince Rupert's Drops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs

I commented on the quantamagazine article but it's awaiting moderator approval
Yeah, we get it. If the Roku won't work without a Roku account, then forget it, someone else can make a generic TV set top box device

My YubiKey works just fine without an RSA account, go figure
There are plenty of places with far fewer restrictions than the US. And something can be a good idea even if no one else is doing it yet.
I don’t want to re-invent the desktop. As a software engineer, I’m annoyed that I can’t do my entire job on my phone. I’d like to see dramatically better portable input interfaces.

I’d even be happy if more love was paid to “desktop light” environments. I have an iPad Pro that’s useless for software development without SSHing into a machine.
Or using the IRS to target conservative organisations. Or spying on journalists to identify leakers. Plus the attempts to further destabilise the middle east and its disastrous effects.

Plus the russian collusion investigation, which is highly problematic (spying on your political opponents in the middle of an election campaign, based on some implausible allegations).
It wasn't until I read https://thebaffler.com/salvos/hamilton-hustle-stoller that I grokked why The Federalist blog was so hard-right. Maybe your comment better helps me understand why the NYP is so hard-right also.
Sure. But every country has a process. The OP suggested opening the border as in have 0 restrictions rather than fewer.
Is greed unacceptable?
There is no such thing as a pure zero resistor in this Universe. A resistor made from a single atom it would still require energy to move the electron. It's how physics works in this Universe. Hence no, you'll never have a zero Ohm resistor.
Except the Washington Post isn't releasing possibly faked or hacked emails about Breonna Taylor being shot in her sleep three weeks before an election in a blatant attempt to manufacture an October Surprise. Don't try and create false equivalency here.
ATC warning of a jetpack reported at 14:36 here: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Final-Oct-14-20...

Edit: The incoming report from the pilot is at 7:23 of this file: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX4N-Final-North-O...
Dunno whether it does, but if it does, I bet South Africa Biltong chewers must have strong masculine square jaws fit to bite off any competition then.'

Hmmmm. Biltong.

I'm drooling.
Everywhere else should also open borders.
Is it poor social behavior to not want to sit still for hours on end doing incredibly boring things which are only being taught so that you can pass a test?

Most of school is a waste of time, and kids aren't stupid, they value their time just like adults do.
You're assuming they have the emails in the raw form. It's possible they just have PDFs and not the full content. You're also assuming Fox and NY Post have journalists on staff who know what DKIM is, let alone how to verify it's genuine. They're journalists, not CompSci majors.

The "drip drip" is an intentional strategy, of course. This smells like a setup to me. They leak the lukewarm email, get a denial from Biden, then leak a smoking gun that cannot be denied (speculation).
It makes a bit of sense... I assume they will have to close shop if that doesn't come to pass. Therefore users are expected to act.
Ding.

The first software startup I worked for absolutely did not have all of its software licenses arranged properly. Seats were passed around, and unlicensed cracked software was used to create public facing product.

Officially? None of this was recorded. Unofficially, the stance was quite clear: worrying about licensing is something companies that have more to lose than two sticks and a rock can afford to do.
Dynamicland is trying https://dynamicland.org/
Funny enough, the left also thinks twitter is biased towards them. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy...
Aurum197 - Mrs. Gregordv has been looking for this since 1999. We've been waiting for someone to make BT headsets that can be real jewelry for semiformal affairs. We figured someone would make a bluetooth version of Elektra King's ear cuff (https://ibb.co/xJbkQs8), and make an absolute mint. The market has been slow to catch on.

While I'm sure you have some good design acumen, I'm with others in making sure that the visible part is an easy-to-integrate standard so you're not a blocker on the fashion side. I'll happily pay a premium price for the BT side of it, but you're not going to be able to produce enough variety to suit everybody's tastes. If I can have my jeweler create custom fittings, then I can make them whatever I want.
I understand the moderation decisions made today, but I'm alienated by them.

A political article like this one would ordinarily get flagged off the HN front page. The subject matter of Twitter and Facebook imposing constraints on distribution is germane, but this article goes way beyond that by propagating the suspect email content.
TFA leaves out what the problem is with Cisco that wouldn’t allow him to allow his engineers to improve webex while they all worked for Cisco.

What else aren’t people at Cisco able to achieve because they are at cisco?
That's fair - however I've been hosting some of these sites since 2014 on bare metal VPS with minimal issues (the occasional upgrade breaking a theme). A lot of WP issues come down to server settings / bad plugins over WP itself. I suspect WP Engine is largely charging that much to support any WP setup no matter how insecure.
What's with the obtuse questions? It's okay and even expected to be somewhat bad, but it's still better to not be bad.
To get the best and the brightest from other lands to further enrich the US society which is much better primed to be a fully heterogeneous one than most anywhere else on the planet, and that’s just from an economic advancement point of view, not a moralistic one.

For clarity, I’m making no argument for merit based entrance. You don’t know who the best and brightest are when they’re crossing the border, and you don’t know who’s descendants are going to make the world better for you and yours.
Compared to what?

Do you have an evil twin that doesn't have bruxism?
Reasons Why People Are Leaving California by Urban Policy Expert
DTRT = do the right thing

idk the others
That is not on the slightest bit strange or unusual. It’s what every President, campaigning nominee, and various administration official have been doing with the press for centuries. Indeed if anything, this President and his campaign have been at this rather less than usual, probably because of his extremely adversarial attitude toward the press.

I’m really astonished at the reaction to it.
Or even simply that they will turn off the tool randomly in the future anyway.
> Trump, who is the President (not VP), meets regularly with all sorts of people who spend money at his resort and other businesses and no one cares about that.

I hear people (rightly) complain about this all the time.

> Can someone explain why it even matters.

I think it matters because Joe has denied any participation at all with his sons business dealings. The emails explicitly mention using influence, buying time with the VP, etc. If the emails are real, they would prove joe a liar.

You could say "but Trump is a liar" and you'd be right. You'd also be openly admitting that Joe is no better.
For those new to approachable 3D sculpting tools, they have been around for a long time on the desktop, but between the improvements of smart phones and the web there have been attempts to expand into those areas.

One of the older popular tools like this on the desktop is called ZBrush and they have a free version called ZBrushCoreMini limited to non-commercial usage scenarios: https://zbrushcore.com/mini/

Clearly one of the benefits of SculptGL despite not having every feature out there, is that it is free for commercial use. One example is Sketchfab using an older version of SculptGL here: https://labs.sketchfab.com/sculptfab/

You can download a standalone version here: https://stephaneginier.com/archive/standalone/

And his mobile app version: https://nomadsculpt.com/
Right, the Electoral College and the Senate benefitted slaveholders by granting them more political power, not the 3/5ths compromise.
I wonder if the company can sue the employee for libel in this case. Is it a warning or a threat?
Something is a bad idea because it hasn’t been done before?
Ask Twitter, they're participating in disinformation by falsely claiming - without evidence - that these emails were hacked.
It does exist, and it works! But both phones need U1 chips, meaning iPhone 11s and above.

One thing that's cool about this is that iOS must be using the slight movements of the phone in your hand to help triangulate the other phone. Ultra-wideband position finding relies on time-of-flight, so from a single reference point you only know the precise distance something is from you, and not its direction. To get around, my guess is iOS is using the accelerometers in the phone to measure slight changes a phones position, and then using multiple ultra-wideband distance measurements from those different positions to triangulate the other phone.
The article seems to be getting hugged to death, maybe try reading Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-m...

The Abstract:

Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building useful complex prediction systems quickly. This paper argues it is dangerous to think of these quick wins as coming for free. Using the software engineering framework
of technical debt, we find it is common to incur massive ongoing maintenance costs in real-world ML systems. We explore several ML-specific risk factors to account for in system design. These include boundary erosion, entanglement,
hidden feedback loops, undeclared consumers, data dependencies, configuration issues, changes in the external world, and a variety of system-level anti-patterns.
Wow this article went into zero depth about the struggles of his application process. I could've just read the titlebait. I think the title misrepresents what the article is about.

Commenting on the title -- how many extremely poor visa applications are rejected correctly though? Is the process expected to be absolutely perfect? Are 100 valid rejections and 1 invalid rejection worth not being able to reject any applicants at all?

FWIW, I'm not saying the process isn't broken. We shouldn't be consistently rejecting a brilliant application -- it hints that the process has some severe flaws. Perhaps it should be easier for the process to "forget" someone.
and never forget: the black hats will never stop trying to game any system you try to come up with. At this point in time, I think it's pretty clear they have a strong upper-hand.
I recall reading something about how Amazon threatened to block them unless CamelCamelCamel stopped crawling other retailers as well... Surprise, CCC now only does Amazon.

Can't find any info on that so may be mistaken though.
The policy that follows from that is "fix our immigration policy that more of the brightest can get in", not "open the border" (which I interpret as allowing anyone to work in the US[1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_border
I would think the financial risk for libel would be serious if it were true that the emails are fabrications and so made with intent to harm. Similarly, I would expect attorneys or all involved would be aware of this and were not sufficiently concerned.
It's a little more complicated than that, but to a first approximation, you're basically correct.

Worth noting, of course, is most Google employees actually believe in the party line. Like, it's not an act... They are at will employees working for an employer they believe in. Google doesn't tend to retain long employees who stop believing in the mission or the execution of the mission (because having Google on your resume opens a door to them basically taking any other job).
Measuring gendered correlations in pretrained NLP models
What percentage of their content do you consider award winning?
You've tried every desktop manager for Linux and spent enough time with them to be sure you didn't like them? Very impressive.

Not sure what your reliability metrics are, but I've run Linux and macOS desktops side by side for years now (decades, even), and I don't really detect much of a difference. The macOS ones do tend to have the benefit of a rigid hardware platform, which is why I suppose they do a bit less well when forced to run on an arbitrary platform (e.g. inside KVM).
Software. No “S”.
Twitch is a pretty notable counterexample to your claim.
Though it was not a port, rather a completely different game developed by a completely different team. It was a good game in its own right, but it’s not comparable to the 16 bit original.
Oh, definitely not. There have been many. It's a huge company, so it's done plenty of good and bad things. The one you're talking about is one of the more famous ones.
> Keep moving forward and don’t settle. You might be surprised at how many people follow you.

Everyone at a former startup I was also an employee at rejected working with me lol.

But yes, new people did follow my journeys after a lot of my "thought leadership" shitposting on Quora, Twitter, ghostwriting on Forbes... the usual "organic" stuff. It is still funny how that was written in the article, compared to the expressions on my former co-workers faces as they quickly tried to nicely reject me as if I had just grown two heads. This isn't a story about success or redemption or anything, its also what happened and what probably happens more commonly.
You posted someone's pretty generic tweet to HN and then your HN comment is the tweet with which you replied to the original tweet. It seems kind of weird to loop HN into a twitter conversation given there's already, I dunno, twitter.
An excellent policy if you wanted to bring about the destruction of a nation.
Google add WireGuard for Android
Lol, I’m a machine learning person and I was agreeing with it until more than halfway into it.
Compare Netflix to HBO, and you'll instantly see the difference in how they are run. Netflix prioritizes algorithmic made content, HBO artist-driven content. Not coincidentally, HBO is much better at committing to shows long term. Even with a fraction of the content, I would take HBO over Netflix any time.
The NY Post story included personally identifiable information like addresses, e-mail addresses, SSN numbers, etc. The NYTimes story did not contain any such PII. Twitter did not block discussion of the NY Post story, and did not block stories about the contents of the emails that did not contain PII.

The number of people who have completely bought the right-wing talking points around this story hook, line, and sinker - without bothering to exercise an ounce of critical thought or independently seek out any of the facts - is absolutely astonishing.
Is there a paper about how their computing paradigm works? Basically the only thing I got from that page was, "damn, I'm glad I don't need to use gluesticks when I code."
Oh..so was it a port? Hadn't the genesis been introduced by then?
I agree that TPM is partisan. So is National Review. That's why I proposed TPM as a "counterpoint".
Care to place a bet on whether anybody at tomorrow's Biden townhall on ABC will be allowed to^W^W^W ask about any of this?
Biden simply gave them the message from the Obama administration and the EU

They wanted the prosecutor fired because he was ridiculously corrupt and protecting/ not prosecuting corrupt companies including Burisima (I repeat he dropped the investigation into Burisima). All of this is old news and was reported on during the impeachment trial
But... it was accepted? This word, "unacceptable," I am not sure it means what Jack thinks it means.
I feel like the judgment is asking about antitrust in an email. Leaving a paper trail on this either way is definitely poor executive judgement.
People are just using the word "literally" ironically.
I’ve seen every episode of Seinfeld, E.R., X-Files, Gilmore Girls, and a couple other shows 10+ times. Just watch ‘em on repeat lol. Ask me anything.
Can confirm. Here in EU I have seen both the Alex Kidd model and the Sonic 1 model (the later succeeded the former as Sonic became way more popular than Alex Kidd ever was. Makes sense to me).

I have never seen one packed with Hang-On myself, but I recall seeing it was a thing in a magazine (although, over time, this magazine turned to be pretty unreliable, but I'm pretty sure a Master System bundle with a Sega arcade port and a gun game were a thing in this region)
This article raises a lot of disturbing questions:

> Under Yuan’s leadership, WebEx grew to more than 750 engineers and had an annual revenue of around $1B (and was later acquired by Cisco). Safe to say the company was doing well.

Revenue is not an eng. responsibility, it's mainly a business suite responsibility.

> The video conferencing software sucked.

So he was responsible as a long-term engineer and executive for it sucking.

> After he left, 40 of the 800 engineers he worked with immediately joined him at Zoom.

So he was an executive and did mass poaching from his former employer, Cisco.

But the real questions are:

1) how much of the Webex source code did he copy when he started Zoom?

2) the original development team was in China. To what extent is Zoom beholden to the CCP? (It's a rhetorical question, since the CCP is a totalitarian government with communist cells in each company over 50 employees, their national security law applies globally, and the CCP coerces relatives left behind on the mainland.)
what in god's name are you talking about?

Photo management? Image editing? Video editing? DAWs? Games? The browser itself? Compilers... static analysis tools ... a myriad of other native developer tools ?

I could go on, but what on earth is the "everything" that no longer matters? If you had said "everyone's gone to mobile", well, that's a claim. But "everyone's gone to saas and browsers" ... that's not even wrong.
Why didn't you just go to a different high school?
I think you might be overestimating the level of technical sophistication at play here—if you asked me “how can we verify that these emails are real,” I might’ve been able to come up with this idea, but it certainly wasn’t the first thing that jumped into my head reading the article, and I doubt NYPost has anyone on staff who thought to do this either (unless perhaps verifying leaked emails is something they do regularly?).
It is nearly impossible for a public figure to win a libel suit in the US.
The framing you have here is an attractive one, but I don't think it makes much sense in the context of reproducing molecules.

There is no reason to posit random DNA chains.

The statement that "the number of DNA chains that produce valid/useful protein in the space of all possible DNA chains is vanishingly small" seems reasonable (however I'm not sure how we would know these chains are the only ones that produce valid/useful proteins).

The idea that we need to choose randomly from the space of all possible DNA chains is not reasonable.

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Once we have a reproducing molecule, we expect to see a multitude of valid reproducing molecules as descendants of that first molecule. We expect (at least some of) these descendants to eventually be extremely different from the original molecule, and by their nature valid reproducing molecules.

Once we have a reproducing molecule (like DNA) that creates other molecules (like RNA and proteins) we can expect the same of its descendants, and the descendants' by-products.

If these molecules form an ecosystem, where the reproduction of one relies on the validity of the other, the only succesful variations within the ecosystem will be valid variations of the ecosystem.

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The space that we are choosing from is not the space of all possible DNA chains, it is the space of all DNA chains adjacent to existing valid chains (or chains in a valid ecosystem).

It's analogous to taking a valid x86 program that can reproduce, randomly adding/removing/mutating some bits on reproduction (with low frequency, very quickly, and in a ginormous space - think on the scale of molecules in the Earth's oceans), and asking if that new program is also valid. And then, after millions of years of this, asking if one of the programs is a valid mathematical function.

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There are still big questions here. Questions like "how do we get the first reproducing molecule?" and "is DNA likely to arise once you have reproducing molecules, or just one out of many options?"

None of those questions give reason to evoke the number of all possible variations of DNA as evidence that the variation we see in proteins is somehow unlikely.

Once we know that there exists one valid DNA/protein system (which we do, as it exists), and we know that variations of DNA/protein ecosystems can be functional (which we do, as we've observed it), it is reasonable to expect a multitude of valid, functional DNA chains, and the proteins produced by them.
It's a non-profit charity, right? Is any potential donor unaware of this phenomenon?
Except that dark matter is often described as exotic and actually existing but not yet discovered. And I'm not talking about the publications that platform charlatans like Michio Kaku
Did you have the Nomad "Base Station" or the new "Base Station Pro"? The pro versions looks brand new and was only recently on August 25th: https://nomadgoods.com/blogs/the-nomadic/base-station-pro
It reads like Twitter has had to justify their decision ex post facto.
I want less in the "lets make the desktop good" vein, and more in the "lets stop making the desktop crap" vein.

Things that seem to be making things worse, ironically, are all things that ostensibly are there to make them better. Web technologies, I'm mainly looking at you.
I've been waiting for another one of these!
It's not censoring viewpoints

It's refusing to spread likely BS propoganda. And he is correctly implying that many people who claim to be free speech advocates are in no way free speech advocates and merely are upset that racist and conspiratorial speech is being censored and are fine censoring viewpoints they disagree with
I can't speak for anyone else, but it's my favorite comment so far. :-)
We can be clear eyed about this. "Are the emails authentic" is exactly the question they (NYPost) should have asked and were best positioned to answer, but they did not even try.

They presented screenshots (!) uncritically, with no suggestion of doubt regarding the emails' provenance. They did not even bother asking the Biden campaign about the story prior to publication.

It's a transparent attempt to get to "just asking questions" which is where we are today.
An upvote doesn’t necessarily imply lack of knowledge of this existing.
Ice age art in Indonesia reveals how spiritual life transformed (2017)
It was a demake[1], by a different developer, with totally different levels, simplified graphics and audio, and slightly different gameplay.

1: warning, tvtropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameDemake
Apple definitely did not lead on USB-C. Premium Android and Windows laptops standardized on USB-C long before.
The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled (2017)
And music (and production, I believe?) by Yuzo Koshiro. A legend.
I think DKIM also signs the sender of the email. Does gmail enforces that only the owner of the mailbox can be the sender?