skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had several mentors and advisors and am doing everything I can to be inclusive without giving away equity. There was a legal entity created, and I have applied for several grants. Each time, I have put together a team or had lined up collaborators who could help if the grant had been awarded.

I'm working with suppliers, and discussing the concept openly with everyone who is interested.

Most of the time however, I am working alone.

Should I pay someone to sit around and twiddle their thumbs for semantic reasons?

I believe a royal "WE" is appropriate, but I could be wrong.
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Boston Dynamics is such a hyped company, yet it constantly gets shoveled from one mega corp to another...Does it mean none of those companies see a profitable future with it?
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I had a homework assignment that was a basic gui. I ended up putting extra creative work into the assignment with color, pics and the works and I used it for submission for a tech opportunity. A classmate of mines, who is following me on Github stole my code off there and submitted my assignment as theirs. I knew about this because another classmate showed me a solution off chegg and it was mines. I brought it up to my professor and the class.

Timeline:

Nov 2x 2020 - Prior to submission, spoke and showed my work to professor about my project via email. Back and forth about his input on my work. Liked my creative expression.

Dec 2nd 2020 - Uploaded my work on Github as a public rep for decision committee of an opportunity.

Dec 9th 2020 - Got a zero and was told to re-submit without the color and all the extra stuff. I agree because the work was easy. However, I am upset because the other student was not penalized. I stated I will be going to the chair regarding this matter and the student who stole my work had the audacity to say in class "You have no proof." When in fact, I do. Mind you this is the student who was bragging all semester about his 4.0 GPA.

What is your advice regarding this matter?
A lot of people are going to fall for the con before we get to that point, unfortunately.
I don't think it's that hard if you harvest ballots from places unlikely to vote, e.g., nursing homes.

My understanding is the following two facts are true

- Georgia has a historically low mail-in ballot rejection rate

- Georgia is not allowing an independent review of the signatures on the envelopes

That alone in my mind is an extremely strong reason to be suspicious of the results.

Not to even mention the very-strange goings-on in the State Farm Arena in Atlanta...
Lawyers aren't under oath and wouldn't be jailed for perjury.

Now, they would be committing all kinds of other misconduct besides perjury, but then, Trump's (remaining) attorneys have been committing all kinds of other misconduct (that the campaign being waged requires that explains why so many have left.)
I've made this mistake, and all it took was opening a support ticket from the root (payer) account to have them update the email address for the sub-account. Did you ask them to do that?
The fantasy that capitalism would punish businesses for treating employees poorly or people would stop buying low quality products is disappearing.

Marketing tricks are the most important thing in the business world as shown by Tesla, Jeep, Apple, and Nintendo.

Not that I buy their stuff, but some people still do.
>> Musk put his entire fortune from PayPal on the line for Tesla knowing that in all probability it would fail. It turned out well for him but it was still a huge risk he took.

For sure Elon Musk is a very smart guy and he works really hard and he knows how to deliver amazing products and his PR skills are amazing... That said, we can't deny that he got a lot of support from the US government. Without US government help (e.g. subsidies, grants, carbon credits), he probably would have failed flat on his face like all other geniuses. His ability to secure government support had more to do with luck (history and social connections) than skill.

So as great as Elon Musk is, he did socialize a lot of his risk.
Robots are the goal for Tesla - no labor laws needed for them (probably not for people that build them as well)!

All jokes aside, Hyundai can probably do much more with Boston Dynamics than Tesla. Tesla has already failed to automate, using the exact same method as Ford in the 80s. Doubt that throwing more advanced tech at it solves a fundamental logistics problem.
IRC easilly slotted and controlled.
> It ultimately boils down to language. This is why a Greek doctor can't just move to Germany. Also why a Spanish lawyer can't easily move to Sweden. Language is a much bigger problem than people here seem to think.

These are all customer service positions (you get a prefix in front of your name but still).

That matters less with tech. You'll have a localized sales team/customer support sure, and that adds expenses, but it's not a huge burden.

Dealing with a huge amount of paperwork, taxes, special local laws of the N jurisdiction you're operating in, now that's a barrier to entry.
> I think it's better to have a society where property rights (which includes the right of self-ownership i.e. owning your own body) and other natural rights (speech, self defense [technically these are just derived from property rights but I digress]) cannot be infringed upon for any reason

In this YouTube situation, property rights and freedom of speech are mutually exclusive. Either the owners of YouTube have the right to censor whatever they want on their platform/property, or people have freedom of speech and YouTube can't remove speech from their platform/property. In this situation, you can't protect both property rights and freedom of speech - you can only protect one.
> How much value can Apple and Microsoft extract from you over the lifetime of a single car.

Probably less than Toyota has extracted from me in my lifetime already.

Cars are lower margin, but they are expensive in absolute dollars, and their purchase almost always involves leverage. A $35,000 car will typically earn the manufacture $3-7k in direct profits, the financing arm gets ~$1800, the dealership gets ~$600 (plus profits from extended warranties, service, etc). There's still a ton of money to be made in automobile manufacturing.

And that's for an average car (actually, below average, the median new car price is nearly $40k). Vehicles like Porsches or an F-150s have insanely high margins. Porsche has the highest margins in the industry (50% for the 911) by a comfortable amount and Ford reports the percentage of F-150s sold for over $50k in their annual reports, and have for years, because it's the most critical aspect of their bottom line.

Tech companies benefit from having really dispersed revenue streams: they make a few dollars off of billions of people while car companies make thousands of dollars off of a few million people.
> it's not really clear what the positives or negatives would be

Isn't this also true for Facebook itself as related to how dependent they are on revenue and at what cost that comes to the users who help generate it (by being presented as "eyeballs" to the advertisers)?

We used to let kids play with dry cleaning bags, until we discovered they were idiots and can suffocate on them.

The realization today is that parents were the actual idiots, not the kids.
ive been hoping tesla buys BD as well. i think tesla is the only company that will have the necessary battery tech to untether BD's products from a hard line for power
Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologizes for Timnit Gebru controversy but not firing
That's correct. It's the "Miscellaneous Order" on 12/08/20 here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/ordersofthecourt/20

Here's the direct PDF link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/120820zr_bq7...
I don't know much about them - probably "right" and possessed with the same moral hysteria as the left. I'm not a Trump supporter or voter, if that's what you're trying to goad out of me.
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Communists advocate the abolition of private property. It's right there in the name -- it's the "commune" part.

So you're wrong again.

Folks seem to be taking me seriously. I don't know if you can say the same.

Attacks on rhetoric and not substance only serve to expose your lack of a basis on which to make your claims.
There are different ways for states to generate income or save income:

- Personal income/wage tax

- Business income tax

- Capital gains taxes, Dividend taxes

- Sales tax

- Proper tax (homes, cars, etc.)

- Reducing services (e.g., worse schools, worse healthcare)

- Borrow (this can be a slippery slope)

- Create shadow liabilities that dont show up on the books (e.g., pension liabilities with poor growth assumptions)
That's not the press conference I meant - he's used this "fine people" label numerous times.
We have a loud bathroom fan (same switch as the lights) that does a pretty good job.

Separately, I'm not sure if the name is great - my instinct is to pronounce it "lewd-ee-oh," but that might just be me. (Lewd meaning "crude and offensive in a sexual way.")
I don't quite get your point regarding atoms. What I was trying to say is humans are not the only "person" before the law - corporates, trust, clubs and other bodies are also persons, and should have similar rights (including free speech).

If you can get congress/a court to designate an atom as a "person", then sure, the rights would extend to atoms too.
No, I don't think it's pure conspiracy. Hence, "some truth". I do think that

> America's goal is not to protect Americans' privacy. It is to protect its own monopoly on violations of Americans' privacy.

Is a gross overstatement, though.
Obscenity and alternative points of view are two different things. It is sad we live in a society that is unable to distinguish between the two.
> You are talking about a president that is not accepting the result of a democrating election, exactly like he announced 4 years ago, and the republicans almost fully cooperating with him in trying to destroy the democratic system. That's way past the point of platitutes like politicians and good vs bad liars. This is Weimar.

Oh, please. Following the constitutional process for disputing an election is Weimar now? Could this be more Godwin's law?
I think the business model and the software license often get conflated like this. Once you release software with an open source license, users are free to do what they wish as long as it's within the bounds of the license.

Separately comes the business model. If a business intends on selling a hosted version of their product, as most open source database companies seem to want to do, that product needs to compete on its own merits. Can the business truly offer a better hosting experience on someone else's cloud than those cloud providers themselves?

I think maybe we conflate the two because we want everything. We want to create open source products that a community contributes to and supports but that only the originating company can monetize. It just doesn't work that way.
The United States has been geopolitically blessed. No country has seriously threatened the American heartland since 1812.

Bringing up foreign interference (in elections, Covid-denial and elsewhere) upsets certain factions, but the fact is that Facebook, Twitter, various commenting platforms and YouTube have allowed the enemies of the United States a direct route into the heartland of the US. Coupled with free speech absolutism and low touch regulation, it makes a tempting vector to disrupt a previously impregnable foe.

If I were a strategist for a rival power, it would be almost criminally negligent to not exploit this conduit into the American heartland, and spread disinformation and generally sow chaos.

It looks like the geek gods have finally realized this and are pushing back. It wouldn’t surprise me if US companies started severely curtailing anonymous/unverified speech for foreign accounts at least.
This is not a typical situation. If you're a certain type of asshole very few people are going to want to do business with you, this can't be helped, but there is always someone out there willing to do the job if there's money to be made.

However, I will add that I don't disagree about your fundamental premise with respect to corporate ownership of the internet and I support the idea of publicly owned or decentralized spaces on the internet.
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> 2. You can, people do it all the time. You cannot publish it if you dont own the rights same way you cannot enter my house if you are not invited. What supposed freedom you are renouncing to?

I think you know exactly what is meant. You even say it in the second sentence of your comment.

Free speech does not allow copyright infringement. Yes, "people do it all the time". That doesn't mean it's allowed.
> let's not forget that it's possible, if hard, to have a honest business.

I'm not convinced this is true in all industries. E.g. if you're a waste management company, how are you supposed to win deals on price if you have a competitors who are illegally dumping garbage into the ocean?
> It's built to make sure you're watching more videos and making sure you stay on the site as long as possible.

> YT isn't propagating it.

You contradict yourself.

I have never once searched for conspiracy content, ever, and was fed conspiracy videos in feeds for over a decade. That is by design. I imagine many other users would report the same.

The algorithm favors conspiracy videos and youtube is responsible. They have known this forever and chose to do nothing. Hysteria and insane tin-foil hat content pays out.
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As long as you have a properly functioning government that’s resistant to bribery and corruption, these initiatives can’t hurt you. The phrase “world health oligarch” sounds scary but what that looks like is Gates paying people to research sanitation and disease prevention. It’s not like he’s taking over the NHS.
I feel like the thread of the conversation has been lost. The answer here is that "no frame" is correct. If you simply believe what is morally fashionable then you likely would have had very objectionable "far right" beliefs in the 90s. This is the premise of http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
> The rules were changed prior to the election, in a way that clearly favours the democratic party. That should raise suspicion.

Meaning voting was made easier for millions, hence they voted. Meaning Republican suppression of Democratic voters was less effective, hence more voters.

There is one of the two parties fighting for election security and it's not the republicans. Mitch McConnell has a few election security bills on his desk that were never brought to a vote.
"By all reports, there's no possible way to abuse ayahuasca."

I don't know where you heard this, but this is a highly dubious assertion.

I know people who have in fact abused ayahuasca, take it compulsively, and have had negative impacts on their life from taking it.

There's a long and sad history of various drugs being claimed to be harmless or even beneficial, only to have it revealed later that they aren't.

Cocaine was such a drug, with Freud being a huge fan of it, claiming it as a miracle cure with no potential for abuse. In fact it was used to treat morphine addiction.

Heroin was also initially used as a treatment for morphine addiction.

The methadone came around, and was used to treat heroin addiction. But, surprise! It turns out that just like heroin and cocaine, methadone itself can be addictive.

Marijuana was widely hyped as completely harmless, but it turns out that some people can get (psychologically) addicted to it, abuse it, and suffer negative effects.

Anything (whether drug, activity, object, or food) that is highly desirable can be abused.
Known backdoors? Can you back that up with a source?
Custom implementation is likely because they want to strike a balance between security and usability.
I’m not held hostage by my ISP - I choose one that doesn’t do that. Even if I didn’t trust the last mile, that’s why I can choose to implement a vpn for some or all of my devices on my network so I can bypass a hostile isp.

It might be good for the average technophobic end user to trust google instead of their ISP, but it’s not good for me to trust google over my ISP.
My thought exactly!

Having the ability to non-interactively install opaque "updates" without user scrutiny is all that the Microsoft botnet needs to remotely control the computers of Windows users, in the same way that a "malicious" botnet needs only to non-interactively install some code on a computer running Windows in order to control it remotely.
You might be interested in OtherNet (previously Outernet). You can be connection-free and still geekier than those you leave behind for that time.

https://othernet.is/products/dreamcatcher-v3-05

Some history etc. of what OtherNet is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othernet
The issue is worse with Rust, which is still a young and rapidly-changing language. Debian stable currently packages rustc 1.41.1 (February 2020), which is 11 releases behind the most recent 1.48.0 release. The older compiler's differences after 10 months include:

* doesn't have subslice patterns
* has `Error::description`, which has since been deprecated
* doesn't have x86 CPU feature detection
* lacks fix for unsound typecasts between integers and floats
* lacks fix for incomplete constant propagation
* doesn't let you use conditionals, loops, match, $$, or || in constant fns, or cast arrays to slices in constant fns
* has less-helpful error messages and backtraces
* doesn't let you implement traits on arrays with lengths >32
* has worse type inference, this (valid since 1.43.0) code doesn't compile because 0.0 and &0.0 are f64s:
let n: f32 = 0.0 + &0.0;
* requires you to import standard libraries to use predefined numeric constants (like MAXINT or NaN)
* doesn't support Control Flow Guard on Windows
* doesn't generate documentation links from classpaths (you have to write relative file paths instead)

and numerous libraries being pre-stable.

For code that you're writing yourself, not having these features is mostly just a quality-of-life issue: you'll have to do things that you wouldn't have to do if you had the latest compiler. For code that you're collaborating on, having an 10-months-older compiler can be a showstopper: the code might just not compile at all, and very likely the only fix will be to uninstall your system-packaged rustc and install the version from rustup.

Contrast this with C/C++ development, where your system's pre-packaged compilers are much more likely to be sufficiently up-to-date. These languages are more mature than Rust: they change slower, and new features are adopted by programmers more gradually. For example, the Linux kernel only requires GCC 4.9 [1], which was released in 2013. Debian stable supplies GCC 8.3, which will probably be able to compile unmodified kernel source code for many years without being updated.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/changes.html
There were many calls by Democrats for faithless electors to flip to Clinton.

See, for example, #UniteForAmerica video plea https://youtu.be/0z0iuWh3sek

They then spent the next few years making up conspiracy theories and trying to delegitimize his election. I’d gently suggest that there are no clean hands here, and what Dems did 2016-2019 was sufficiently reprehensible.
Y'all should read "Manufacturing Consent" (to me it seems like a lot of folks in this thread haven't read it):

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky arguing that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication.[1] The title refers to consent of the governed, and derives from the phrase "the manufacture of consent" used by Walter Lippmann in Public Opinion (1922).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

What we're seeing is the system reasserting itself.
Interesting. Got a link to a study?
This is a terrible argument.

There are definitely places in a theater, out of the view of spectators, but likely fire hazards, e.g. the projection room.

Most building fires cannot be seen until it is too late. Smoke is an early indicator of a fire, but it cannot be seen in a pitch dark room.

And even in perfect conditions to determine if there is a fire or not, the audience may not be capable to judge if there is one or not, e.g. children.
> CA provides sanctuary status for illegal immigrants, along with driver licenses, free healthcare and other benefits paid for by tax-paying citizens.

I see these easily debunked anti-immigration talking points regularly elsewhere on the web in right-wing circles, but I'm surprised to see it on HN.

I encourage anyone interested in the reality of immigration(including the common myths like the above) to either read Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, or watch a short talk on the subject here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6wGLhEW_uc
Covid: 19: Italy has wasted the sacrifices of the first wave, say experts
Developers revived a dead kids game via mods
Where the hell are you driving 1 hour out the bay and you're in no mask land?
Linear raises $13M in Series A funding from Sequoia Capita
The downloadable dataset was created two days ago and the queries were run on this dataset.

Data on https://gh-api.clickhouse.tech/play (for interactive queries) is updated every hour as described in the article, but downloadable datasets in .xz are not updated.
It’s a mixed bag - a lot of stuff is really great (non-competes are illegal, at will employment, etc.)

The political rhetoric of the area is hostile to technology companies and employees though. A lot of blame is put on the tech industry for whatever problem is being discussed.

For example employees and tech companies are blamed for high housing costs because new jobs lead to more people living here (rather than blaming policy that restricts supply).

AB5 is hostile to ride sharing companies and was written mostly to target them.

This kind of blame comes up for pretty much everything.
For maybe 99% of Californians the decision to move or stay is tied to two factors: increasing cost of living and decreasing quality of life. I lived in the Bay Area from 2010 to 2020 and both factors worsened considerably in that time.

While Musk’s move may be an indicator of a kind it reflects on largely different factors than those weighed by most people. Most people don’t strain against state bureaucracies to develop innovative products and services.

Regulatory burden does reach Main Street, though. Ask anyone who’s ever run a restaurant in San Francisco or needed to get a state-issued license for, e.g., working in a nail salon if they think the government made it easier or harder for them to do business. Does this make the regulations wrong? No. Could they be easier to follow? Definitely.
And as a result, Safari has some of the worst adblocking out of any of the major browsers.

Safari gets pulled out fairly often as an example of why declarative APIs are fine for adblocking, but if you actually dig into what the adblocking ecosystem around Safari looks like, it turns out it's a pretty good example of why declarative adblocking isn't good enough. There are tons of hoops to jump through, the best adblockers on Safari are running separate desktop applications to communicate with their extension and bypass some of Apple's more arduous restrictions. Talk to the Adguard devs about whether Safari's API is sufficient on its own to make an effective adblocker.

The only reason why Apple's move got less criticism than Google's is because comparatively not many people use Safari, and most of us don't really care what the extension ecosystem looks like on Safari.