skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have them scattered around my place for a different reason in that I keep finding the watch itself far out lasts the cheap plastic band (especially because I use them almost primarily for swimming and other places a "disposable" watch makes more sense than wearing a smartwatch like I more regularly wear), so I keep leaving the band-less watches in interesting spots where I haven't bothered to put a clock or wouldn't otherwise need to have a clock.
For the demand of middle ages. Which wouldn't be nearly enough to even low level of industrialisation. For weapons and individual components and tools yes. But we can forget railways, ships, complex concrete structures. Basically most things large scale.
He means to get that job the number of background checks he would have to go through far exceed even that of a CCW by a large margin. So if he can't get one even being so vetted that they are intentionally not giving them to anyone but people who the sheriff favors. That's the problem, the unfairness of deciding who gets the permit being decided by a single person with no need to justify the decision to anyone else.
Neat! Love seeing more takes on this (nix-like builds)
A record 62M households watched the Queens Gambit in its first 28 days
I'm getting pretty irritated that the Web is inundated with Medium. It used to be just a nice blog host, and now I don't even know what it is. Glad Substack is picking up steam.
Many companies aren't ready to succeed at ML until they have failed at least once. Leadership doesn't understand that building a good ML models takes more time and effort. It takes a failure of an ML project (and sometimes multiple failures) to break their preconceptions free and get them to understand how much effort it really takes. In a world where writing unit tests and refactoring are skipped to speed up execution, how many companies have the patience to build good validation infrastructure for an ML project?

There are a few ways to attack this, though all are tenuous. First, the ML project must be vital to the product. If it's not vital, then as soon as it starts slipping it will get cut. Second, you need to overcommunicate the level of difficulty and the amount of infrastructure necessary to get an ML model working. Third, it's extremely useful to have some authority and experience to point to. If you can confidently say "I have done this type of work before, and this is what it takes," you'll get much more acceptance of the longer timeline.

Of course, to keep support for your project, you needed to be better plugged in to the politics at the company. You needed more 1-to-1 communication with someone higher up, and to present your work more regularly to larger groups. It's not just to show them what's going on, but also to understand the current criticisms and the overall attitude towards your project. As with anything, if you were surprised by the result, then you weren't talking to (and listening to) enough people.
People also write comments/blogs (journalism) for free.
Do you need a special paint to do it over the winter? I know some paints won't cure at low temperatures.
The goal of not caring what other people think about your physical appearance is noble but naive and I'm not even really certain it's ideal.

It's definitely something that people say in situations like this but if you'd ask literally anybody who's had a mastectomy if they could keep their breasts looking exactly the same before surgery as they did before, I guarantee that nearly all of them would want that.

I think it's much more important to help people be confident in themselves with their new appearance than it is to tell them they are just the same as they were before. I think it's misguided to try and convince people that they didn't lose something.
Not to downplay the importance of petroleum, but surely a lot of those things can be made without it as well. Aspirin for example?
and you got downvoted for pointing it out
Not everyone uses EC2 which is prone to fall over.

And the disciplined single dev documents their changes. That is why it works in a 1 man shop but not at scale, there is always someone who is unreliable once the group gets large enough.
Take theft alone:

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/abuse-by-bosses-comes...

https://images.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/ZQYbyzoDpfIv5LdWl1...
This is a wonderful ad for a Russian supply chain company that also serves as a loving homage to South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp.

This short ad gently guides the innocent viewer to the inevitable, inescapable conclusion that we are indeed on Mars, complete with the requisite zoom out effect we have come expect as the final flourish.

Highlights include a quick shot of Phobos and Deimos hanging in the twilight, a nursery for farmed, baby drones, and a nagging Russian wife who argues with her husband via a telepresence-enabled drone, decorated with polka dots.

The credits reveal a writer and director named "Sergei Vasiliev", which is likely a reference to the Soviet-era film director Sergei Vasilyev.
Stem cells choose their careers
Much as I love Star Trek etc. It does appear that space travel is inherently bad for us planet dwellers what with the havoc it wreaks on the bodies of people who spend long periods in space. I'd love it not be so, but I do wonder if one possible future is exploration by autonomous robots establishing automated mining of asteroids and distant planets.
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No? They are very smart, but human level? Not even close.

They are similar to apes in intelligence perhaps. That's not human level.
I think the difference is that water lines for irrigation are mostly aerial except for the one spot where they enter the ground water source. Further, the lines themselves don't move, the machine holding the lines moves. Finally, there is a substantial difference in 'I have a small water leak' and 'I have a small power leak'.

Maybe I'm being too closed minded, but I can't see that working long term. The stresses of being dragged around the field, or the infrastructure required to hang the power cord overhead would just be outlandish. For some reason, I can't get the picture of a powered grid of wire mesh over a field like giant bumper cars.
As land creatures, we haven't explored the underwater tech tree in much detail. If there are fishpeople with mega brains out there somewhere, they might have figured out some stuff that we haven't.
What about this scenario?: A gamer wishes to cheat. They run the game on an unmodified, tamperproof, attested computer as per your description. Then they attach the HDMI output to a video capture card on a secondary computer, run some artificial intelligence software, and send back automated commands using a USB mouse and keyboard. Given that this kind of attack/circumvention is possible, are you sure that an attestable computer is a worthwhile goal?
I don't think the fact that we don't use railguns to launch things into space is because of energy cost. It's just not technologically feasible.
V8 and SpiderMonkey use JIT compilation, not interpretation
He meant that having a CCW is necessary for the position of head of security for such an organization. The part you quoted makes no assertion that they should be expected to break the law.
On the one hand, yes it should be read as a metaphor, like “grab ‘em by the balls” not a literal statement, and the media lets people write criticisms as though it was literal all the time, which is bad.

OTOH, the metaphor means “do something excessively forward like kissing someone out of the blue” which is also pretty bad. The clarification just means he’s a chronic harasser and not a sex criminal. It’s not much better. I understand why no one wants to go to bat for the clarification—even clarified, it’s still harassment.
There is a pretty good book on this issue, which I think is something you should take seriously if you are running an organization that over optimizes:

"Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SOVC2Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Yeah, that too seems likely. I'm not going to weigh in much on that because I wasn't there and don't have an in-depth understand over everything that happened, but it does seem like there might've been a better way to handle that.

That said, the parent comment made it sound like it was unreasonable to take RMS's comments as meaning he was pro-pedophilia. And while I think I understand what he was trying to say, I can completely understand how reasonable people could interpret his words in a very bad way. That's the part I was really replying to, not how his dismissal was handled.
Yeah good job whoever submitted this - the headline makes you think Nintendo is ripping off code. "No! Not Nintendo!" And then you click and it's just one of hundreds of open-source authors who's code is used by the Nintendo Switch. Not to disparage the guy's accomplishment in getting that far though!!
There are quite a few problems with the Forbes 400 list, most notably it does not in fact capture the wealth of the 400 wealthiest people/families. A lot of old money is left off these lists because...well it's old money and they don't want the publicity.

There are a bunch of other things to consider, for instance diversification of wealth has fundamentally transformed since the early 1900's and wealth management is on a completely different level than even 20 years ago, let alone 120 years ago. Not to mention the legal innovation to protect estate value that has been going on.

I'll also point out that the people on that list are generally not using Fidelity, Vanguard, or Hancock as their wealth management services. They are using private family offices or firms like PDT Partners that are directly accountable to those families.
Again, sorry you feel that way about Homebrew’s analytics. I think we’ve learned a lot from our mistakes here. If the way the analytics notice is implemented now is still a no-go for you, I can’t blame you for moving on. MacPorts is a fine package manager, too.

One thing I still want to point out though: whatever we do, we do it in good faith and with the best of intentions for both our users and ourselves.
Anyone that's been close to the FSF knows that RMS has been burning good will for a very long time.
If you're open to making it yourself, checkout /r/cyberdeck on reddit.
Google has not driven out all competitors with GMail. They have a (very) comfortable business in GMail with a plurality not even a majority of the market.

https://techjury.net/blog/gmail-statistics/
Population then was also half of what it is today. (Imagine Thanatos snapping his fingers! Huh, I guess it wouldn't really be that bad.).

I was also conceived in 1971, so maybe it was my personal existence. Sorry to everyone affected. I'll be dead within the next 50 years most likely, so be patient.
Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
Scheme is a pretty old lisp dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language...

I give Guix folks a lot of credit for sticking with a pure language but after using Nix expressions for a bit favor how pragmatic it is for day to day stuff.

Though I should note: I trust Guix more than nix. I use nix for convenience but really admire what Guix has done in terms of taking the concept of a functional package manager to be as pure as they can. The security stuff they’ve incorporated is very admirable and a compelling reason for me to switch over https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/securing-updates/
"Should I think of Wernher Von Braun (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun) every time I see a liftoff from Cape Canaveral?"

You mean SS Sturmbahnfurher von Braun? Yes, actually. Although the von Braun building (and a very nice one it is) is on the Army part of Redstone Arsenal rather than Marshall Space Flight Center.

There's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance here in north Alabama.
Speaking of which, I just saw a spam come in from SES and it's the same spammer who I reported to them on Nov 11. Clearly they don't give a rats ass about spam.
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8 years ago I flew PMO-LIN on an (Alitalia) A320 at 6 am, only six passengers on board including me.

Just before falling asleep I managed to see the sun rising on the quietest flight I've ever taken. Just one and half an hour, but it felt like I had never slept before :D

Incidentally, that was the trip that actually started my career as a developer.
Massey Ferguson/AGCO partnered with TAFE* of The Amalgamations group. TAFE rules the region. They then became a shareholder of AGCO and is able to export equipment everywhere. These are very fruitful partnerships. While TVS group of companies had partnerships(mostly Japanese. I am slightly familiar with how these partnerships are crafted..having audited a few TVS group companies way back when I was in India) for automobiles, Amalgamations Group had a more varied interest..ranging from tractor parts to Diesel engines to manufacturing vehicle batteries.

Amalgamations is a tremendous success story. It was founded in my hometown and we are very proud of it.

It is just my bias but I find TAFE better than Mahindra. Mahindra just seems ..flimsy?

* https://www.tafe.com/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamations_Group
I think its a decent argument and I partially buy it! But i worry it falls down partially due to generalization and maybe over-inclusion.

So I'll take the opposite side. Does "acting like VCs" by "evaluating companies and making bets" make you a VC? That kinda just seems like investing though right?

Is Bill Murray in "What About Bob?" really a sailor because he was duct-taped to the mast?? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrbY4hsNh64&ab_channel=jooki...)
It is not necessarily an intentional backdoor. This simply could be an unmodified engineering sample code with no security.

It is a hard problem to solve. It is of advantage to China to flood US and European markets with cheap AND insecure hardware.
All I can say is that it seems more like a second-order consequence of supply and demand, and an unintuitive one for many people. The counter factual/subjunctive “the musicians are paid more because otherwise they would have chosen other jobs” is not the way in which people usually talk about supply and demand. You could also say that the rules that govern the supply and demand of labor are not quite the same as the rules that govern supply and demand of goods, and people’s general failure to realize this results in the Bamoult effect being surprising.
Some interesting 1971 events from Wikipedia [0]

- February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts.

- February 14 - Western oil companies sign a treaty with 6 Khalij el-Arab countries to stabilize oil prices

- February 21 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. Essentially, banning psychedelics globally.

- April 1 – The United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership

- April 20 - Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.

- May 5 – The US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark; the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading.

Not implying any correlations here. Just amazing what all was going on at the time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971
Yes. You can finish with hot. Make sure hot/cold water get all over your torso, chest and spine. You will feel really good afterwards even though the cold water isn't very pleasant.
Alternatively, in the summer, take cold showers for invigoration, especially if you feel sleepy in the morning. It is unpleasant for the moment but it makes you feel great afterwards.
I don't really like the way cybernews [0] is pushing the malicious narrative. There's a fairly large gap from "there is a security exploit being used in the wild" to "this exploit was intentional." This seems much more like the software equivalent of Chinesium.

This really reeks of corner-cutting and negligence. The only way around corner-cutting is to make it expensive and make "doing it right" the cheapest, most profitable way to build something. We can do that with hefty fines for retailers selling this garbage (I think there needs to be more onus on domestic businesses shoveling shit without smelling it first) and creating open hardware/software stacks that are easy to put in a box and sell for $20 on Amazon without hiring any software developers that could screw it up.

[0] https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-oth...
Because the amount of legacy baggage on x86-64 (naming continuing to allow x86 and even 16-bit instructions to run) is ridiculous.
Still in the UK, the moorlands you generally see were once woodlands - apparently that's why they have the distinctive terrain you now see. That's not in the era of written history mind and was for farming rather than iron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor#Pre-history
It’s extremely frustrating. I like looking at the new releases every few days, but if I wait too many days before checking, I have to go through screen after screen of scrolling and it freezes when it loads the new preview images.
Note that a supplemental option is to also delete your YouTube account.

I was worried I'd accidentally nuke my gmail account, but turns out you can delete your YouTube account + history without affecting any of your other Google services (I did it last night).
This one is tricky.

On one hand the CCW permit is for the personal benefit of the person receiving it. If the company needed armed staff, they could simply hire full-time armed guards. There is no reason head of security at Apple needs to be armed using a concealed weapon. They are not going undercover to bust smugglers or whatever.

On the other hand, the payment was to the Sherriff's office, not the sheriff himself. That makes it a lot less like bribery to me because it still benefits the government.

What makes it especially tricky is that it seems as though the Sherriff asked for the payment. If they did and provided official written documentation to Apple, that feels like a professional and real agreement to provide hardware to the government.

At the end of the day, what will make this bad for Apple's head of security is that he was personally benefiting from the Sherriff's actions by receiving favorable treatment for a CCW he didn't need, and used company hardware to get that favorable treatment.
Probably could fit. But probably impossible to evacuate within a reasonable time in case of an accident.
>> pretty much the only developed nation with it's manufacturing capability still intact
> [some minor developed nations were intact]
> [some undeveloped nations were intact]

Minor thoughts:

a) trivial quibble: Spain was not intact in 1940, I doubt they'd recovered that much by 1945?
b) I was gonna say something bout Argentina not being a developed country, but I looked it up, and TIL that Argentina used to be super developed. TIL!
c) most of those undeveloped countries had virtually no manufacturing, which is why UncleOxidant excluded them in a comment about manufacturing power

But more importantly...

The numbers I've seen bandied about (I don't have credible sources) say that the US was 50% of world GDP, and held 80% of hard currency reserves, in 1945. Supposing that's correct, even though you're technically right that the US wasn't "the only developed nation ... still intact", it's still almost-correct-in-spirit. US manufacturing capability in 1945 was way way way ahead of every other country. The point being that if the US economy experiences unusual behaviour in the period 1945 to 1971, one obvious factor is its overwhelming global supremacy in manufacturing in the immediate post-war period.
"why are they expected to give him freebies, contribute to the code or anything else? "

Because they make big money with his work and he does not.

So sure, legally they do not owe him anything, but morally a material compensation would be adequate.

If the idea spreads of freely compensating OSS, then more OSS work could be done fulltime. Money still rules the world.
It’s part of the hype cycle.
Seems to me that if you have the urge to cough, you better stay away from others anyway. So wearing a mask in that case makes no difference: nobody should be near you ;-)
I thought the Milgram experiment was problematic, science-wise.
Hydraulic hybrid conversion might make more sense.

https://www.machinedesign.com/markets/energy/article/2183194...
Basic hydrocarbons can be pretty easily synthesized, though. Refining them out of oil is cheaper, but not so much cheaper that we'd have to forego this stuff.
The study makes several references to "crowded" areas, and concludes that outdoor air is "safe" apart from these spaces. However, I was unable to find any clarification for what constitutes a "crowded" space (or not). I am not sure what the benefit of this study is supposed to be absent such a definition - am I missing something?
I think this is a cultural thing that causes people in other places to worry too much about concealed firearms. I'm from Texas, where it's generally understood that there is a very good chance that any given person is carrying. Not just Joe Tough Guy either, there are plenty of old ladies with .25 ACPs in their handbags. People don't see it as scary or abnormal the same way other places do; it's just a tool that many people carry. I've only ever seen one incident where someone got stupid with a concealed handgun, and that guy was clearly a moron and had been drinking quite a bit. "Random people" carrying isn't really an issue. And because they're not seen as an exceptional or evil scary thing, most people are less-likely to abuse them, at least from what I've seen.
That mess of laws is an inherent part of our strong foundation in federalism.
Brave instead of Firefox ruins the credibility for me.
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Because everyone wants another Amazon or Tesla.

Amazon took 20 years (mas o menos) to turn a profit. Tesla took 15ish or so?

A lot of people have clearly latched onto something Jeff Bezos said a long time ago in an interview, which was, "Get big fast." The whole goal with Uber is to utterly crush all competition until they're the only game in town. The only other explanation for Uber is that they're banking on self-driving cars and are hoovering up data from the app towards that goal.

Uber only has one way to win, no matter what, beat every other taxi company. They either do that by running every other taxi out of business, or find their Holy Grail of self-driving taxis.

Do investors have the stomach to fund Uber until either of those things happen, though?
This is awesome! It would be incredible if there were some Rich terminal UI toolkits for languages, I'd love to make tools like this.
Despite the (horrible) name computer science, informatics is not science, is math. There is a big difference: in science you observe and try to understand something that already exists, the universe.

In math (and informatics) you build your own universe with your set of rules. It means that you can and should understand everything (well, of course if you assume the hardware works perfectly as specified).
He's just surprised/happy about it and isn't demanding anything. Other people are the ones saying Nintendo should compensate him in some way, shape or form.
Wait, aren't dolphins an intelligent species? Would they have to make use of metals and fossil fuels to advance their intelligence?
Given that major strides against Gun Control were originally performed by Ronald Reagan in California ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act ), I have trouble imagining a Conservative Supreme Court will take a textualist perspective on gun control laws, despite their political leaning and assumptions here.

edit: I can't spell :/
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