skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"His employer of the time" is doing a lot of work for voluntarily joining the Nazi party, later misrepresenting that fact, voluntarily joining the SS, getting promoted a bunch of times, and regularly wearing his SS uniform to work.

Lots of terrible people have accomplished great and useful things. Good for them! I'm not taking that away from them. Just leave them & their names in the past where they belong. This is standard practice in medicine, a field with its own share of past nazis.
but the file was stuff generated with abbyy, even if you give it to someone else.
Well part of the topic in this long post and threads is trust in health authorities. I think it's rational and not unreasonable to criticize decisions that permanently damaged the trust.

Stuff was confusing as it was in April. I argued with people about masks then. Normal, rational people, who didn't see this update and sudden change of tune. The information noise level was high in those days, which didn't help.
It's not substantially better. It's only a good upgrade if the screen resolution bothers you.
It's not illegal because they're the ones that write the laws. There's nobody to go after these companies anymore. Too much money to go around. Patman was the unsung hero for a half a century in US politics
When has it ever been any different?
Too long to read the whole thing, but the first section is one of the most amazingly accurate insights I've seen in a long time.
Fwiw I didn’t type all of it on my phone, I copypasta’ed from a draft blog post then manually indented lol. The approach you’re showing makes sense and it’s not unlike how I’d approach a one off/internal project where I know the routes are all defined in a predictable structure. The benefit of the pseudo types I shared is that the only predetermined structure is the route factory call. It only needs to know input output and serialization types. It can be extended to use TS 4.1 template literal types to validate path parameters. But it’s application agnostic.
Suit filed by the same Texas AG who recently asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the election results of four other states. Same standard of evidence?
Is there an easy way to play with different configurations? I rely heavily on Spacemacs, but being able to play with custom minimal configs quickly would be awesome.
Helmets work but after working in automotive safety, motorcycles are death traps.

I can't emphasize this enough.

They are no automobile, and are not comparable.
How does one individual remedy this for themselves?
>who want enterprise-style lifetimes but don't actually want support

But lifetimes are support. Support isn't just, or even primarily, about making a phone call and saying "Help, it's broken." After all, there's nothing keeping someone from taking a snapshot of a codebase and running it unchanged for 10 years. Probably not a good idea if you're connected to the network, but certainly possible.
I use a Quest 2 and I can vouch for it as a fitness machine.

You can even use it on a stationary bike if you get a $20 cadence sensor

https://www.virzoom.com/
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
> A proper VR rig is likely going to cost you >$2000, and it's going to need a dedicated room of your house. It's really inaccessible.

Oculus Quest 2 is $299. If you have a 1m x 1m space you can play a majority of games.
I'm glad Google is being investigated, and I am even more glad AMP could be going away. It completely ruins mobile experiences because it blocks preferred apps from opening their respective URLs.
Even single player VR games can be fun in a party setting. In our group we sometimes let one person play VR and mirror it on a TV. The rest of us continue talking while casually watching and taking turns.

The player is not isolated because they know they are being watched. Works good with BeatSaber, SuperHot, etc.

It's basically the same as a group taking turns at an arcade machine — not solitary.
Yep, and even then they don't get paid super well.
A typical "small" NSF grant is for $500K over 3 years, and the university takes 45-65% of that, so with one award a PI has ~$83K to spread on their annual summer salary and ~2 PhD students at a stipend of around $30K per year each (with the remainder on conferences, publication fees, equipment, etc.).
Come on, it's true that sender, recepient, and time is valuable metadata that you may wish to obscure depending on one's security context, but if you are leaking sensitive information in the subject line of your pgp-encrypted emails that's on you... Why not just encrypt the subject?
You're lucky, my best moments were in my 20s, my best paid were 30s, and now its just downhill everywhere. :)
> states are whatever

Not sure if this is sarcasm. The article is about a suit, brought by state attorneys general, seeking to break up these companies. That’s plenty toothsome.
“And so, yes, to promote and one day reach gender equality, we must pick up the pace and ensure that more women are appointed than men.”

I take huge issue with this sort of logic. It’s like turning the thermostat way up in an attempt to heat up the room faster.
Uncool when I was 15 and 16.

At 17 we'd have parking lot parties in my minivan.
> Why are patents and not considered anticompetitive practices?

Because they are state sanctioned activities, by Congress in reference to an article of the Constitution.

> What constitutes anticompetitive practices and why are they illegal?

Good question and because the state says so. There are a few, but obviously the incentives for quarterly results are more consequential and lucrative.
Unless it becomes illegal to post "false information", and the fact checkers get to decide what is false and what is not.
Is wall street angry that pesky human traders are disrupting their automated high-speed trading constructs?
About 20 years ago. My university gym had a bike with a screen. You would paddle in a virtual 3D world terrain. It wasn't that immersive, kind of blocky.
But I used to have a 100 inch projector in my home theater, and a recumbent exercise bike. Totally immersive, and awesome playing games and working out in such a setup.
iOS 14, Big Sur and DNS over HTTPS/TLS
I used to get motion sickness with previous gen VR headsets. Not so much with the higher resolution models with better lenses. There's also feet based movement that help

https://store.steampowered.com/app/798810/Natural_Locomotion...
Audio shows Assange asked State Dept to help contain damage from 2011 leak
I read what I could and didn't find it overly persuasive. Obviously there must be evidence underlying these claims, but in the absence of that evidence a lot of it reads like one of those LSAT questions where you are supposed to spot the faulty logic. For example it just asserts that Google made it so everyone had to use their exchange and service, in almost those exact words ("had to") but there's nothing prior to that in the filing that supports this statement.
Maybe you should rather contemplate why the corrupt California and other Democratic socialist states are MIA
If you can be trusted to do the right thing — that is, report a positive result to relevant health authorities so they can do contact tracing, and self-quarantine for the duration of your illness — then having it automatically reported for you is a useful convenience.

If you can't be trusted to do the right thing — that is, if you're not going to report your positive test result — then automatic reporting is useful for society to handle that case, too.

I'm generally against mass data collection, especially from the government. But not in this case. Hiding a positive result is ethically indefensible. Even if you're feeling fine, interacting with you while you're positive may be a death sentence for others.
It isn't sarcasm, good luck to those states. They are trying to act as a parallel union of states because the national government does not serve their interests and as individual states they are completely ignorable.
https://twitter.com/TXAG/status/1339283520099856384?

"Texas takes the lead once more!"

I can never understand why do they have to do that. Creating us vs them mentality for everything.
Well now I really want to know the internal codename.
Brand: Houston Diamond District 16“ Gold Chain
Please point me to where the US government ordered Google to inject a one second delay into ad auctions for everyone except Facebook, in order to prevent Russia from abusing online advertising.
Fiat is an hamster wheel that continually runs faster over time, Bitcoin is an offramp to stable value.
I can’t understand why a company that already controls everything would risk this legal action for such a short term gain.

Could it be a particular leader, like a VP, acting on personal incentives against the overall good of the company?
Twitter to remove “false” claims about seriousness of Covid-19
It's a PaaS service like Heroku and others. However it's the new generation of "serverless" billing models where you don't worry about instances/nodes/servers at all and pay in much finer-grained increments.

Basically node-js servers running your code with an integrated CDN, but they also support Go, Python and Ruby for running server-side logic.
Having listened to a few women going through theirs: kids.

Either not having them, the kids not meeting their mothers expectations or the kids never wanting to see their mothers again once they grow up.
To be clear, my point here is that just because something is handed off, does not mean it's existence is reset or something.
> Barely? Barely?!

The fact that you're linking to news coverage featuring numbers in the... dozens makes it seem like "barely" is justifiable in the context of populations of millions.

(It's certainly arguable that outside distanced activities shouldn't be the front lines of enforcement, but once you're infected you really are a risk to not even just any individual you happen by but anyone down the chain of infection.)

> Trillions of dollars of economic damages.

And if you assume that the damages came primarily from civil actions, then I guess that'd make sense.

The reality is that there was never an option to avoid economic damages once the epidemic was uncontained. The bulk of the impacts come from the threat of the illness itself. Where most people are avoiding economic and social activities, it's not because they're forced into it, it's because they regard the personal or social risk to be significant. Lift all restrictions and only some margin of people will dive back in and even many of those will do so selectively. The major thing that civil actions do is coordinate the possibility of effective healthy mitigations.

> Millions of lives will be lost due to the prioritization of the COVID over all else.

Probably not from economic impacts:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090928172530.h...

https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-economy-life-e...

It is true that severe covid cases take up a lot of resources in the medical system and that could cost lives, but that's an argument for mitigating measures.

> My children can’t go to school.

I might be persuaded based on enough further commentary that it's crucial that your children get influences forming their critical thinking skills from outside the home, but I certainly wouldn't assume it on the basis of a single comment.
> zero attention to his ideals and life legacy.

the one's ideals and legacy are worth less than nothing if it is built, with the one's full awareness and willful participation, by concentration camp slaves dying in droves from malnutrition, physical abuse and the hard labor while building those ideals and legacy.

> employer of the time

that defense line of "i was just carrying out the orders" was explicitly addressed at the Nuremberg trials.
This is what I did as well.
Because the customer for Peloton has very little overlap with the customer for indoor cycling trainer.

There are tens of millions of people in USA alone with zero desire to bike outside, who nonetheless desire some exercise experience that requires minimal knowledge or planning outside of class time.
Chromium University Fall 2020
>Free to consumers is generally a net good, since it gives them access to things they wouldn't otherwise have.

Unless "access to things they wouldn't otherwise have" is free and fair market competition.

There's a very good reason that anti-dumping laws exist in almost every nation in the context of international trade, and the one and only reason reason a company dumps a product (selling it below 'normal' price) is to kill any local competition that might arise.

YouTube, as far as I'm aware, is offered at a price that doesn't meet its full cost of production, and as such should constitute illegal dumping in any country that has or wants to have a tech industry of its own.

The laws of trade just haven't caught up to this yet; of course, there's nothing stopping countries from updating their laws and banning YouTube and similar sites- unfortunately for them, banning services "sold" in this way would end up causing massive civil unrest, since its citizens now have a bunch of time to deal with the government who took their primary source of entertainment away and aren't as concerned about what the local tech industry might look like in 10 years without unfair competitive practices. Also, the US would take a very dim view of countries that modernize their trade law in a way that restricts how its most valuable companies make their money.
Data brokers most definitely exist. They've been around since the 70's. They maintain a lower profile precisely because of the intrusive nature of their business. One I know of was tracking menstrual cycles for optimal ad targeting back in the 90's. Google is the new kid on the block.
Reading and reviewing code: getting a feel for performance, appropriate use of data structures, implementation strategies, etc. As you get more senior, you spend more of your time reading code and are expected to offer insight and mentoring.

And, there is always pride of workmanship. There is a lot of beauty and elegance in computer science, appreciation of these things can have positive effects on morale, implementation quality, maintenance, and performance, and teamwork.
Another classic Winston/CC mess-around.
I actually did something similar with a really cheap micro-controller+Arduino with an OLED screen and an Echelon Fit stationary bike. It connects via Bluetooth and displays Peleton compatible stats. https://github.com/snowzach/echbt
The problem with Wii Sports is that you couldn't make it a high intensity workout. High intensity workouts are a reality in VR. This is just one example out of many

https://www.getsupernatural.com

Even boxing is amazing and tiring

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3008315795852749
Really appreciate the feedback. We’ll try this!
I'm probably a niche user, but better crypto and web3 support (still cannot make firefox recognize my hardware wallet on Linux). That's the singular most important reason I switched, after many years.

... It'll raise trust if they follow through their promises. Open source Pocket, yet?
Fiat cars are pretty cheap.

Sometimes a Fiat is the only reasonable option. That was the case when I bought my smallest car. Despite the small exterior size, the 500L is really roomy on the inside. It works for a person who is 6'10" (208 cm) tall, leaving enough room to sit up straight and wear a hat. None of the normal large cars (SUV, minivan, pickup, etc.) were as good. With the short length and small turn radius, parking is very easy.
Thanks for elaborating.

> If things go wrong and you somehow allow a MITM attack to occur

I get the point, though perhaps the phrasing could do with a little less victim-shaming. How many of the times you were MITMed did you allow that to happen? Now count cases about which you still don’t know.

> Your authentication credentials literally can't be stolen from GitHub because they don't have them, so you don't need to care about how well they try to protect them.

To me, secret management on the side of an unsophisticated user is arguably of more worry than someone breaking into GitHub and stealing PATs.

Consider if a user is casually contributing to documentation on GitHub using some Git client which forces them to supply an SSH key for authentication. Now there is more than one way things could go wrong, for example:

1) They use a key without a passphrase, and it is stored somewhere on their filesystem (perhaps under ~/.ssh, where ssh-keygen wants to place it by default) where any app with disk access can read it. Voila, a third party gets full access to their GitHub repositories.

2) They use a weak passphrase, reuse an old password for passphrase, or store the passphrase in plain text. Similar liability.

Meanwhile, PAT is: long, auto-generated by GitHub (so one can’t reuse a password), shown only once, doesn’t make sense for the user to save, and the client can make sure to store it using a sound mechanism (e.g., Keychain on macOS).

That said, a well-behaved user-friendly Git client could neutralize some of the downsides by taking care of generating a completely new, passphrase-protected SSH keypair under the hood, storing the passphrase and the private part reliably, and asking the user to add the public part to their GitHub account, each time it is set up on a new machine. I wonder how many clients go to such lengths.
I guess that depends on your point of view.

If the cultural/economical environment present in California is what allows those businesses to exist/be as successful as they are in the first place then in some sense it's reasonable to see California as holding some stake in that success.

Income/Business taxes don't really capture that type of value add. Especially in tech where it's much easier to relocate your business/employees.

The alternative point of view is that California isn't special at all, and they should be grateful to have the valley ecosystem. In which case they should reduce the tax burden and focus on reducing cost of living.

I don't know which it is for California, but I do think that society would benefit from a system that provides strong incentives for companies to stay rooted/contribute back to the societies that they benefit from before they're established enough to leverage national/international labour.
Doh! Authoritarian got autocorrected to authorization.
Could've bought the real deal if they weren't an Apple drone.
The problem is more and more companies will not let you have a chance to do any of the above without first jumping through the fiery blazing hoops that comprise of solving the "toy problems" of a typical leetcode technical interview.
Sorry for posting a second comment, but this just occurred to me:

Mapbox serves all of its customers’ vector tiles through AWS CloudFront.

Is this a possible case of Amazon seeing Mapbox’s traffic numbers, being able to estimate revenue based on pricing/the number of average tiles loaded per map session, and deciding that it was worth to take a plunge?

(There might have been other factors too but — was this /not/ a factor?)

To be very (... paranoid doesn’t feel like the right word), wouldn’t Amazon also have info in the same way on Mapbox’s largest customers and know who to pursue/target first for their new service?
I'm regularly shocked by the air quality outside of my apartment ever since I bought a few high quality air filters. As soon as I step outside I can easily smell the difference in air quality, even when websites report that the air quality should be fine.

I've been taking sulforaphane supplements to help protect myself from air pollution as well. Here's a reference [0] to support the claim that sulforaphane helps protect against air pollution:

> Sulforaphane optimizes glutathione, serving as a nutritional "seatbelt"

> But consumption of this non-nutrient appears to be important – even essential – for optimal health. Sulforaphane promotes the production of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that facilitates the body's excretion of a wide range of toxic substances, including pesticides, aflatoxin, and air pollutants. Glutathione binds with many of these toxins and forms mercapturic acids, which can be excreted and measured in urine.

> Robust clinical evidence has demonstrated that sulforaphane is beneficial for people who live in areas where air quality is poor due to pollution levels. An intervention study in Qidong, China, an area known for its high levels of air pollution, found that sulforaphane markedly increased the production of mercapturic acid metabolites of benzene and acrolein, known carcinogens present in air pollution. These effects manifested within 24 hours of sulforaphane administration in a dose-dependent manner.

> More importantly, however, these effects were sustained – even after several months – demonstrating that sulforaphane did not exhaust the body's capacity to protect itself from environmental threats and suggesting that regular consumption of sulforaphane in foods or dietary supplements provides a kind of nutritional "seatbelt" that protects against future toxic exposures. These findings have relevance for people living in the western part of the United States, where forest fires, which are sources of many airborne pollutants, are common.

[0] https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/jed-fahey-q-a
Exaggeration? There are 2 million Peloton users.
That's why I think capitalism needs a mechanism to prevent a scenario of "too big to fail". Companies like Facebook should never be allowed to have their Whatsaps, Instagrams and Apple should be split from Apple Store, Google Search from Ad Sense and Ad Words and Gmail and so on to ensure that there can be competition and a free market on a micro scale. For example a search engine over a certain size should be selling access to an API for displaying ads on the same terms as they would sell it to Ad Sense, so competing advertisers could also use the platform. These companies wouldn't have access to Gmail data as that would be a completely separate company and by law prohibited from sharing any personal data. I also think in general ad targeting beyond certain threshold should be illegal as it is not used for marketing, but to manipulate people into buying products they don't need or want. Ok, enough waffling...
That's kind of the point though?

It's nuts, but you can still manage to do it. Maybe a handful of people would ever actually need to do it, so why would it be a default, or even an option people might accidently set?
>The is a lot we know about the world, from history, from our experience, that we are not able to express with enough rigor to include them in a scientific model.

Of course, gut feeling and "pontification-based" methods still have to prove themselves effective. You would need to have one group pontificate about the future using your meta-level thinking, and another group just focus on the concrete-level, and demonstrate that the proposed meta-model would improve the situation. A system to figure out what scientific discoveries were going to be made before they are made would be nice, but you can't just pick an oracle and say you've found it.
Whoa! This is awesome!!! I know what I am doing for my holiday hack :) Added it into my post!
Every day for the past 12 years and frequently even before then. I've found it astonishing how much I learn about myself by reading past entries. It's also surprising how much I would have forgotten without it.
> considering Docker's use of a VM behind the scenes in some situations (in which case the "host running the container" is technically the VM, not the user's PC).

That is exactly the point. If you want to run Linux binaries you need a Linux container. On windows or macOS that means a Linux vm.

If you want to run windows binaries you need a windows container.

Conversely if you had a macOS container you’d only be able to run macOS binaries.

This is my point. It’s not a hard concept to understand. I’m not asking people to learn about cgroups or Chroots or network namespaces or any of that.
Why I Prefer Running Nginx on My Docker Host Instead of in a Container