skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You sure like the phrase “conspiracy theory”. You must use it a lot. Its overuse doesn’t help your argument. Writers used to get paid by the word, but they had the chance to choose their own words. Perhaps that has changed.

2. Phrases like “absurd and totally idiotic” do not help you make your argument with this audience.

3. I don’t think the phrase “massive global scale” means what you think it means in the context of a US election.

4. This audience builds global IT systems that have improved in performance by several orders of magnitude over the last few decades. Other than 0-1 technologies like the birth of human flight, no other tech evolution compares. The minds of the audience are almost immune to boggling. The black hatters especially. Suggesting your mind is so easily boggled only generates pity.

Address systematically the individual voting irregularities post-election as they arise and people will listen to you. As has been par for the course for US elections for over 250 years...
Wouldn't a cookie factory be better?
"Why should we believe our experiences in the past are at all relevant to the future?"

I can glibly say because it is utterly insane and silly to argue otherwise due to the immense success of science to explain how the world works and produce sophisticated technology.

I could also take a Bayesian probability approach and assume some arbitrary prior 0 < p < 1 for the probability that when you apply paint to a brush and place that brush in contact with a white wall and move the brush in a circle a red circle will appear with the exact same size and the circle the brush moved in. Use the Bayesian formula to update your probability and then repeat a few thousand times. The probability will approach 1.
> if a corporation is a legal person, what kind of person is it?

One idea is: corporations are real people.

In the case of Disney, all criticism should be directed to the heads of the company.

So whenever we refer to Disney we should say something like "Disney CEO Bob Chapek[1] and Executive Chairman Bob Iger[2]".

They are real people, and they are wholly responsibly for the actions of Disney and it's staff and legal team.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Chapek

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Iger
Regarding linking: you seem to be conflating concerns with libc's portability with the linking of libc. Libc is a portability concern not because of linking but because it is a worse-is-better compatibility layer. There isn't just one example of it, and it straddles the boundaries of the language ecosystem and the operating environment. If I write C targeting WASM and try to call fopen(), the build system either has to say "no" somewhere along the way, or bamboozle me with a very specific interpretation of what I mean by that, effectively turning it into an unspecified interface. When a language builds on that foundation it gains temporary convenience but misses out on being more encompassing in its approach to compatibility.

Your statement only makes sense within a "libc is just the standard" worldview, which I believe contributes to the fragility problem by offloading compatibility into a series of "good-enough" measures instead of documentable specifications.
Traditional pricing, including value-based, only works in an actual competitive market where customers have more than two realistic options. In the case of the app market, it's basically cartel pricing where both providers charge the exact same amount.
In this case, Lucas Arts is equivalent to the mob and is forcing someone to pay money for their book?

> I stopped getting paid by Microsoft when I stopped working there, even though a billion+ people are using some code that I had a hand in writing. That's the way it should be.

That's because there was nothing in your contract that you would make royalties for the code you wrote. So of course they wouldn't pay you. But what if they just stopped paying you while you were still working there?

> When a janitor finishes cleaning a room, does she get 10 cents every time someone enters that room for 80 years?

Again, no, because that's not what the contract says.

Do you have a problem with an author writing a book and then selling the book? Or is it just when an author is promised $X in royalties per sale from the company that is actually selling the books that is not ethical?
I didn't switch it, and you're right - belt armor is most likely to be hit at shallow angles, and deck armor at high angles. That being said, a point-blank shot will still treat belt armor like paper - and a max-range shot will go right through the deck. That's because both the deck armor and belt rely heavily on angling - you get a lot more effectiveness for a given thickness of armor if your opponents are courteous enough to hit it at an angle.

Which means that the belt armor is most effective at max range (though also the least likely to be hit) - shells coming in at 45° will bounce right off. And deck armor is best up close - 5° down angle is going to come up against quite a few feet of metal before managing to penetrate the handful of inches of thickness you could fit in a deck.

The trick to an immunity zone is to find the balance between the two.
That's exactly my point, I don't love and love everything about Apple's platform and I want to move away but they won't let my Android device interop with Homepod or Homekit or Apple TV.

I just realized too late, what exactly I paid them for - it wasn't the device - it was the "experience" and I regret spending every penny on this experience because it is essentially a sunk cost now.
Isn’t being on a company laptop and VPN enough to equate you being “at work”?

In healthcare, totally different but highly regulated, we can let people work from home with HIPAA protected info by securing the way they work and access the info.
I mean he’s not wrong 240k annually is enough to pay 1-2 developers after other costs. And that’s assuming 50% profit. So yes it is
Private censorship is still censorship, and when large monopolies or cartels dominate the market, it can be just as damaging.
Not at all, something as simple as having two boxes and putting an object in one of them and then checking them at regular intervals two verify that the object is always in the box you placed it in and never in the box you didn't is proof of causality.
> Do you do nothing and impose a water famine on a teeming city, or do you pull the lever and shift the onus onto much more sparsely populated rural areas?

This is bogus: do neither.

The cities should have accepted Nature's limits on the population of that land. There is only so much water and therefore there can only be so many people. To put it simply: "sorry, New York is full. We cannot issue you a building permit or allow you to make a water/sewer connection." Bolinas, CA does this.

But oh, no! We the great and mighty Cities Of Humanity know better than Nature. We must not accept her limits. And so they grow without control, and then when Fire or Cholera exposes their overleveraged water account they fall back on Too Big To Fail. Sorry farmers, we know better, your land is ours now. We're Urbanists, we know what's best for you.

If you're interested in these issues, consider reading Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. It's long and scholarly and dry (heh) but it will change your perspective on the limits of Nature. Perhaps you'll move somewhere with 100 inches of rainfall per year, like I did.
Yea completely understand that. Gotta pay the bills somehow. But just like someone else commented, posting a Github page your assuming a lot when it comes to licensing.
Did the Creative Labs NOMAD MP3 player unseat Apple?
> when core fans hear about this.

They might be banking on news not reaching core fans because of all the noise in the news. It feels like it's not the first time they are treating their creators like trash. Here's Don - the best Donald Duck comic writer of all - Rosa's story about that: https://career-end.donrosa.de/
I had my first Internet Account in the 1980's via PLATO.

When the internet first became a more widely-used thing I thought that it would be a great equalizer, giving every person in the world a voice, and it would democratize information flow and empowerment.

I thought that open debate would absolutely crush all misinformation - and I wrongly thought that nobody would see any profit in spreading it, because their reputation would be destroyed, once proven to be a liar.

Holy shit was I wrong.
The Google Nexus 6 has some fatal flaw and went into a bootloop after a year of use. As part of the class action settlement, I got most of the purchase price back. I liked that phone a lot though...
Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3
Very nice find! Thanks a ton!
I'd argue that the fight to stand out on these networks forces you, rather, into a low-level depression.
A bit of a complicated subject but the short answer is you're correct humidity does reduce the efficiency of air conditioning.

The reason why(/long answer) is that as it cools the air the humidity in the air (i.e. water vapor) will condense into liquid water. Water requires a fair amount of energy to be removed (known as latent heat) to make this change and none of that energy removed actually changes the temperature of the air (all of it goes into changing the phase of the water). Therefore a high humidity load results in a lot of the cooling potential getting "used" up removing humidity first.
sending "pics by SMS" is something people wouldn't even expect to work here in the UK in my experience (and it probably doesn't work for most of them, several networks/plans don't support them or bill them separately)

visiting the US back in the day I realised just how different the "phone culture" was, for instance there was such a thing like being charged for receiving calls (in ~2008) and drastically different coverage maps, etc - I have no idea how things are now over there
If ~200 of 35000 signed this, I think Facebook now has ~34800 content moderators
So? It’s their platform.
Phosh doesn't share a common codebase with gnome-shell, but it does build on and integrate with most of the same GNOME technologies and libraries.

Also, phoc is the compositor and window manager; phosh is the shell-equivalent.
Try quitting and applying your knowledge to a separate field with significant growth trajectory and a lot of interesting subjects to learn about, such as industrial automation. Sometimes you just need to get back in touch with the curiosity and sense of challenge and wonder that goes with being a complete newbie in a new discipline. We are lucky that having a systems perspective and algorithmic analytical capacity means we transfer well to numerous complex disciplines. Many established fabrication operations are now seeking people from a computing background to assist with systems integration, operations planning and business-level investment trajectories. Get in there, learn and be valued. Feel free to email me for some pointers.
My understanding is that the US got free unlimited texting long before Europe did -- so Europeans were still paying by the text when WhatsApp/etc arrived and they jumped on that, but since they weren't/aren't paying per text Americans were/are much less motivated to switch, so social inertia keeps MMS alive. This could be totally wrong though, my evidence is just from talking to European friends.
If we don't have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then nothing works. Putting the government (or any other third party) in charge of censorship for the sake of filtering out what's false just moves the decision elsewhere - but it's still made by some people somewhere. Whether those people are determined directly or indirectly through some democratic process, or self-appointed, the same problem applies recursively.
I think that there's some extent to which the mere fact that something is your job drains the motivation from it. In my day job, I work on some world-changing technology that will massively improve the state of security; I see applications for it everywhere. I have nearly complete control over the technical aspects of the project, from language (Rust) to framework to code style, etc. I enjoy working with my colleagues, and we all feel strong loyalty to each other. It's the best work situation I could hope for, and I plan to stay there for the foreseeable future.

And yet, I somehow find continuing to work on it to be a bit of a slog. At the end of the day, I breathe a sigh of relief and crack open my personal project, which is a point of sale system written in COBOL on an AS/400. This, somehow, sparks joy.

Yes, there are aspects that can make a day job more or less pleasant. Keeping up with the churn in faddish sectors is exhausting, and I'm glad that I've been able to avoid touching the web in my career. Unrealistic deadlines are a sure-fire trip to burnout for me. Constantly putting out fires gets demoralizing.

So, you can control how much your day job bothers you, and even like it, but it's never going to have the same joy that you feel when you're working for yourself, with nobody to answer to. I still think it's a better career track for me than any of the alternatives though.
True but i can buy more cars/parts and still save money. Also it’s only rare if you judge by status page
That is irrelevant to the claim. Facebook doesn’t share links, the users do. The allegation of bias are associated with inconsistent and/or incorrect applications of their rules.
> He went to their office to have a look at the accounting books and found out that they were making $80 million loss. So he looked down at the expense items and he noticed a big expense item of $140 million.

This is how every major film works. Sometimes that offset will be for future films, sometimes it will be a charge for "marketing and promotion" paid to a child company of the studio, but no matter what you call it you don't make a blockbuster film without this kind of funny bookkeeping.

Warner Brothers claimed a $167 million dollar loss on Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix, a film that made nearly a billion dollars in theaters.

https://www.slashfilm.com/insane-studio-accounting-warner-br...

See the incredible profit/loss sheet there.

Top talent – A-list stars – negotiate for gross points. Daniel Radcliffe likely made a percentage of 600 million. Secondary stars might've got a percentage of gross after the "distribution fee" (paid to the same studio making the movie). Everybody else got a percentage of negative one hundred sixty seven million.
An actual inline style would suffice in this case. Before v2.0, if you want anything other than `top: 0`, it was recommended you do it in the style attribute: `style="top: 20px;"`
So it might not be quite that cut and dried. A little digging shows that Alan Dean Foster was contracted to write two novels. Despite writing them, he never held the copyright on those novels.

That being said, it’s still quite likely Disney is in breach of contract. But it’s not quite as simple.
A) Because I'm not focusing on myself here, and realistically majority of people affected by these crimes live in the 1st world countries and will have access to some level of legal protection, and

B) Even though it's not viable for me to do anything to someone in Russia or China or even US for leaking my data, I see that as the only proper way to address this type of situations. If it's not possible now, then we should concentrate on fixing it and making it possible, instead of trying to lessen the impact, but at the same time helping those same blackmailers to easier hide their own steps (and a bunch of other shady characters who'd rather not be linked to their emails, from pedophiles to corrupted politicians). And also I don't see denying as a reasonable move here, as it comes down to basically lying publicly about the origin of your data and can just get you deeper in the trouble, especially if you're in any sensitive position and there're people out there actively looking to dig your dirt. AFAIK all PR handbooks on damage control say the same.
Rather than contribute heavily and then walk away for years, it would make more sense to pace yourself and do a little bit every month or so.
Oh man, can you imagine that?
two-party* shit
Yes, I experienced the throttling on the two slowest processors affected.

I did not mean to call you a liar. I'm sorry about that. However, you were wrong that anyone with experience would agree with you.
Please provide some precedents for shedding liabilities while retaining assets.
Maybe the squirrel is just there because squirrels are cool, and it’s something common to see in a tree? I’m not sure how you go from that to celebrating the marriage of King so an so. That’s like looking at a Bob Ross painting and declaring the happy little clouds are there to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s assertion to the throne. I’d love to see one of these art interpreting people go 1:1 with a living artist.
Hmmm... Good point! If you clone the repo you can definitely see "sample.html" but you are right, I should have a live demo.

I will post one shortly.
Show HN: Going Indie (Book)
You’ve learned how to do a straw man. Next, try your hand at the steel man. Feel free to look it up!
You mean the “main degree?”
> Chrome is open source, right? So can we see the bug and judge if it really does seem like an innocent bug?

Not sure what the sibling comments are talking about. The bug fix[1] links the original change that introduced the bug[2].

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/f800edb...

[2] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/21...
for some of the spontaneity, and interactive process, I feel like using a group chat (we use our own IRC server) for the bulk of technical talk works, and keeps everyone up to date, even if they aren't paying attention at any given time. Its like a big long meeting that never ends. But you can leave for 2 hrs, and come back and get all caught up in no time. Granted, my team is <10 people, so the room never gets overwhelming, and it's easy to break out sub rooms or direct chats for whatever else, or join rooms from another team for whatever reason. All that being said, in the past few months I've tried to also keep some light hearted banter going in the room too, I like to think it helps some co-workers to participate more than they otherwise would.

Or maybe I'm just a luddite that likes landlines and IRC....
The Unicorn Tapestries were also featured in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, currently on Netflix:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iR4g9cDS4Tc/VJOqRvkbCNI/AAAAAAAAAk...

Perhaps due to the tapestries’ association with the Rockefellers? Gundam writers have long played with themes of powerful families who direct world events in secret, such as through Gundam Wing’s fictional “Romefeller Foundation”:

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Romefeller_Foundation
Maybe.

But evvvveryone spies on everyone, except those who cannot muster the resources to do so. It is entirely expected, by allies and enemies alike.

Setting a moral example by Doing the Right Thing would be a ridiculously huge mistake.

Geopolitics is not for nice people.
Sociopaths aren't going to suffer like actual humans.
I think it's clear Apple intentionally* degrades software quality on older iphone/mac models in order to drive purchase of newer hardware.

I've been considering switching away from Apple hardware, not because of hardware quality, but because of software.

* By pushing software updates optimized to new hardware with obvious regressions on older models.
I was looking into this earlier today. Apparently things like https://anbox.io/ might provide a solution. I'm not sure how well they work in the absense of things like Google Play services, but that might be a solved problem with those apps being packaged for install by OSs like Lineage.

I too would love an open source smartphone, but couldn't see myself fully jumping on board without at least some pathway to support existing apps (even if they take a few extra steps to use).
There's a similar story about Star Wars not making a profit, and how that screwed over various actors on the project. Hollywood does this all the time. It's their standard dirty accounting practice.

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

> According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi, despite having earned $475 million at the box office against a budget of $32.5 million, "has never gone into profit".
I’m fascinated that corps like Disney find it worthwhile to have a legal team whose job is to screw people like ADF out of a rounding error on their balance sheet.
Thanks for AMA. My previous startup was in self-insured employer space so I only saw the issues you're describing from a distance.

> "Finally, until a business model emerges that favors open source and patient health, everyone makes more money with lock-in and so that perpetuates"

I'm curious to know if you've thought about what such a business model might look like. The closest to a viable business model I've seen gives patients control of their data & allows them to monetize it. But that feels like a pipe dream at the moment because a) EHR vendors don't have incentives to share data, and b) there is no marketplace of buyers for said data.
Thank you kind stranger. The technical machinery makes much more sense now. But the intuition still lacks.

An attempt. To map an R^2 vector into G^2 is trivial, (a,b) => a x + b y = (1, a, b, 0). The reverse is hard. s 1 + a x + b y + d xy = (s, a, b, o) => (?, ?). Or perhaps G^2 is a superstructure of R^2, and most elements of G^2 can only be projected (somehow? perhaps trivially?) to R^2, but with loss of information. Which leaves the grok question: what does a vector in G^2 actually represent? Perhaps scale + x position + y position + orientation angle, as the use of 'i' suggests? If so, then in R^3 xy, xz any yz represent rotations in the respective planes? Which leaves a bonus puzzle: what does (multiplying with) xyz represent?

FWIW, at this point it's likely I can compute the answers using the code in the OP and well crafted multivectors. Time permitting :)
Just wait until SoX compliance people find out about that.
Nope. Less than 8 months old. Battery was too degraded to run as normal, but didn't pass the threshold for replacement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25144122

But don't take my word for it. RTFA. This lawsuit was settled because of the exact scenario I described.
We didn’t want her to be like one of those people who are denied TV or candy in childhood, only to become addicts later.

Is there any hard evidence that "those people" exist? Or is this just something people say?
The other option Apple had at their disposal was basically to throttle the device literally all the time so that even when the battery was old the phone would never draw enough current to trigger a brown out condition. Instead what they did was make the most power possible available from the battery at all times, and yes that changed over time. This seems like a much better alternative. I really don’t understand the criticism.

The marketing is at issue here. If instead of calling it throttling down when the battery was old they called it boosting up when the battery was new it would have been a best in class feature instead of a $100 million dollar settlement.

And yes, at the point where the throttling was taking place, the battery wasn’t defective. That was a completely expected place along the performance curve of a consumable part. So why replace it when it’s working as designed? In my opinion this is the opposite of planned obsolescence, they took devices that would otherwise have to be replaced due to shut downs and allow them to remain in service.
If I were young and didn’t need to virtue-signal to my peer group, I’d start with art that makes your heart sing, rather than art that “challenges” or “makes you think”. I’m sure LA has a lot of the former, if you dig around. Remember, you have to live with your choices day in and day out.
How is being required to fulfill their half of the contract complicated?