skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, so the people that buy in first (the top) then begin to shill it so that other people buy in (the bottom) so the price goes up. Once it hits max hype, then the top people should exit and thus get the real value out (USD fiat to buy stuff with)... thus leaving the people who bought in at 20k or whatever with losses.
Still, better than going to the SEC.
Evolution has occurred over the past 3.5 billion years, and, relatively speaking, our common ancestor isn't all that distant. There could also be some convergent evolution. We're very different from elephants, but our brains are also similar in a lot of ways. There's "something it's like to be an elephant" that we can never know, but which might not be so drastically different from our own experiences that we couldn't ever envision it.

That feeling we experience when we socialize with each other might very well be close to the feeling they experience, too. It may generate the same neurotransmitter activity, the same subjective emotions, maybe the same feeling of empathy. Perhaps not, but it's certainly very plausible, especially if you observe them for a long period of time. Who knows, maybe it's even near-identical in some regards.
There's a difference between supporting nazism and choosing to honor a nazi, sure, but we shouldn't do either.
Why do you trust the FDA?
Please cite some examples from "heavily regulated industries".
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> Solutions to this problem are unlikely to come from technology.

I'd say from technology alone. It is clearly also a collective and societal problem. But a big part of the problem is that much of the things we do are mal-adapted to that reality, and need to be changed - and this will, of course, include a lot of new technology.
>1978

Fun fact: Radio Shack sold computer tape cassettes until the late 1980s for its TRS line. Incredible how they had decade old obsolete technology on the shelves.
Ahhh but hate speech and nazis something something
There's not that much that keeps you as a startup from thriving in a regulation heavy environment. In fact, most regulators aren't there to kill you. They just want to know you have a plan that builds towards compliance over time.

There is admittedly a difference in the stakes and severity of enforcement in different verticals; but it's more than possible to comply. In fact, zealous compliance can actually get regulations rewritten and unmask systemic fraud/non-compliance in established actors if you do it right. Everyone should be meeting the same goals, but if you have one company struggling to honestly do so, it's a sign to look into tge mechanisms other actors have in place and whether they actually do what is on the tin. EPA learned that indirectly the hard way with Dieselgate.
The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant [1] is located on an island off the west coast of Finland. A problem was identified during an inspection on Dec 10th:

> When the pump of the cooling system was stopped, one of the valves was broken. For this reason, the repair work took longer than planned, about two hours. During the prolonged repair work, hot process water was able to enter backwards longer than planned into the filters of the cleaning system of the reactor due to a difference in pressure.

> the heated up water dissolved substances from the filter into the reactor water. The substances were activated as they passed through the reactor core. Consequently, the activity levels (radiation levels) of the steam moving through the main steam lines momentarily rose to about 3 to 4 times higher compared with the normal activity level.

Elevated radiation levels require an explanation and this clear and timely communication fits the bill. Three Mile Island [2] has taught us that the pipes, pumps, valves, and gauges making up the mundane plumbing in the system can fail and have cascading effects. Kudos to the operator for their transparency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
maybe her departure affects their promo cycles
At my parents house, we set up a whole-house water filtration system by repurposing water softeners. empty the guts of one, refill with aquarium supply activated carbon, then adjust the electronics to your liking and you're good to go. Those systems are designed to run 24/7 and soften/filter all the water going into your house.
Most of them are full time researchers publishing papers. For example someone might do a study on facial recognition accuracy on different ethnic groups and how that impacts user experience or other disparate impact of automated systems.
"Daisy" as a demonstration of the audio capabilities of computers dates back to 1961:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell#Computing_and_techn...
SEC doesn't work on behalf of consumers, it works on behalf of the federal government. Robinhood customers are still free to bring lawsuits against the company and those would be heard in courts.
It does not surprise me that this approach has failed.

Folks don't mask up and, also, do not keep the distance as required. Visit a supermarket, metro or restaurants (yes, restaurants are open!) and you won't see anyone using masks or distancing.

Anecdotally my wifes work place only started WFH recommendations once 6 people got infected. On industries such as software almost everyone I know has been WFH since February but many folks insist in going to the office.

On the beginning of the pandemic retirement homes were badly hit which would lead you to think the government would learn something. It did not happen and lots of places are being reinfected.

Recent news headlines to keep in mind:

-Gov is thinking in requesting private practice nurses to help with the load on public hospitals

-Talk of neighboring countries "sharing the burden"

-Elder care not well equipped to deal with this wave

-ICU occupancy reaching 99% in Stockholm
In resort/vaction areas, there were (and still are) cartel like systems in place. There are also restrictions on true "BnB" or "Inns" in that they were regulated like hotels are. You are definitely on to something in that the concept of a "short term rental" market has been sort of born out of AirBnB's existence but that segment is just a cross section of a larger market that has always existed, its just mostly been serviced by larger real estate developers, boutique hoteliers, hospitality management professionals, etc.
Their customer base is still worth a lot--think of all the odd-ball crypto derivatives Robinhood can pitch them. The $65MM may turn out to be a small cost of doing business.
The dielectrics that you unavoidably will embed your wire mesh in will slightly change its reflective properties but yes, this should work.
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GNU argues that you should not use MIT or LGPLv3 for your library, because then the library will be used in proprietary software to oppress and tyrant people, possibly including yourself.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
Sure, lots of places had rules about operating a business in your home and regulations about operating a hotel.
Courts don't do much good here either. Realistically, the US does not have a way to hold powerful entities to account for every day americans.
There are multiple ways to achieve the same effective outcome.

In Finland person living alone gets 502.21 EUR per month of "basic income support" (rent is paid using different support system). The sum is calculated using imputed costs where phone, internet and daily newspaper are 20% of the monthly expenses (100 EUR per month)

If person can't manage his income (alcoholic, drug addict, mental problems) social services might pay some of those directly.
>Would you mind sharing your rating and what time controls you play?

I have never held a rating, recently played against an NM and got completely crushed. Rapid most of the time. Though I prefer increment and something like 5+5 is fun.

>I am 1930 on lichess blitz (so probably ~1700 FIDE). If I guide the game into lines I know well, I can get both a positional and time advantage since my opponent has to think longer.

Early on with chess I memorized a couple openings. I knew all sidelines of Ruy Lopez, queens gambit, and sicilian. My problem was that when my memory fails me or right about the time I land outside this memorization. That's when I fell apart.

I switched it up and I played only fischer random for quite some time, the goal was to have to figure it out. I became much more principled. So I obey opening principles 90% of the time but the goal is to be constantly adding pressure as opposed to 'if he plays X I have to play Y'

This way I don't have to remember anything. It's ideal.
These are all really cool - walking through Audience must be a wild experience.

One of my favorite examples of this is https://www.mokafolio.de/works/Weird-Faces-Vending-Machine - a vending machine that prints out randomly generated faces.
>taking money from bad people isn't ipso facto a bad or dangerous thing

What makes a 'bad person', in your view?
Corner reflectors are crazy effective for such application, as referenced in another comment thread here.
I mean laws that existed at the time AirBnB was started, which you seem to imply in your comment. I still think it's strange that the government can tell you how long of a duration you have to rent your property for, but it definitely is the law now.
Doing it yourself is certainly very important to be sure you get at least some understanding of what's going on, and often you are doing things nobody else knows how to do anyway.

But it sure would have been nice to have some professional support programmer around for advice on design and help out with the gnarlier bits.
Dollar or devices?
Sure, if you think that individual right to hoard and safeguard value is better than top down tools to help the economic activity of the country as a whole.

To be honest, I would say a good balance of those is right. If a central bank does a good job, then some devaluing of currency is not a problem.
Steroids, no.

Amphetamines (or as I like to call them, brain roids), maybe.
I've read the same thing, that if you put a heavy duty filter on your furnace you put a heavier strain on the motor and risk burning it out. I'm not an HVAC professional so research this yourself.
We went from basically free to 10k per month. Just switched over to Apple Maps, but that hit its limit last night, so we had to switch back.
Why cant Robinhood cover those costs as well?
>choosing to honor a nazi

Not even that, using that name, doesn't necessarily mean to honor nazi.
I think this is the difference between cs and software engineering. Two people can look at a problem (build secure programs). The cs person sees static analysis, model checking, and other mathematically principled approaches as the solution. The engineer sees a suite of human approaches (code review, testing, fuzzing, audits, etc). I think the pure cs vision is narrow and limits our ability to choose the best method to solve a problem for the minimal price. Formal methods should be like unit tests, a component of the software engineering process. But it should also be acceptable to acknowledge its role and limits, just like how we don’t rely exclusively on unit testing to deploy correct programs.
IMHO it is an ad hominem attack. Assuming we want to hear correct arguments, "We won't listen because you're icky" is ad hominem.
> The problem is not updating your images. Running old libs on bare metal has exactly the same problem.

Updating libs on bare metal has maintainers and distributions, though. And doesn't force you to roll your own security infra within containers.
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Let’s be honest, the arts and culture division is really just a part of marketing. Maybe not in name, or even on the org chart, but in practice.
Yeah, same thought. Something like the Coway air filter ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxiDrEnjYEo ) regularly sells for under $200, and it is going to be much quieter than this option. It also has been tested fairly extensively from what I've seen, it's EnergyStar approved, etc, and it has a built in sensor. It doesn't look too bad either.

But I understand the point, especially in times when you can't find a purifier.

Also, good video on all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
That’s mostly because Congress writes the budget, and the President “spends” what is allocated to the SEC on the SEC (no surprise). So the SEC (and IRS) is/are kneecapped because Congress doesn’t give them enough money (either because they don’t want to, or the President doesn’t ask for enough).

The cynical take is that Congress profits from insider trading, tax evasion, etc. and want to prevent themselves from being investigated. Whether that’s true or not would be hard to prove.
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In my experience, a surprising proportion of people who get involved in these "ethics" initiatives are mostly there to force their own personal ethics onto the machine, even if it means training the machine to ignore reality and skew it in some direction.

These people are not interested in meta-ethics or any critical examination of their own chosen beliefs. They just want things to be the way they want them to be, and manipulating the AI is a means to that end.

I have no view on whether that is happening at Google. Just a general observation.
Great idea! You could look for desmog.co.uk, and also for the technical aspects of the work of Carole Cadwalladr (see Guadian / Observer) and James Patrick (https://twitter.com/search?q=%40agoodfireburns%20misinformat... ) who researched a lot about on-line disinformation.
Reading the SEC order it anticipates that Robinhood will be sued by clients (I think this is already happening, which may explain why there is no disgorgment ordered here).

Disappointing since they were already fined by FINRA for Best Ex. this time last year although on further reading this seems to relate to the same time period.

Interesting that Massachusettis also announced an enforcement action against them this week.
you mean you wouldn't read good research or watch good art because the creator does something bad in his private life?
The GP poster is actually correct; I work with RF engineers. Yes, Faraday cages work but, having tried it, my colleagues have attested that it's much harder to homebrew a fully effective Faraday cage than the average HNer would think, at least in the frequency range we work in.

The types of mitigations described by the GP poster are also correct: see, for example, the description of issues for EMI shielding at https://celectronics.com/training/learning/basics/Noise-Prop...

> "These imperfections are:

(1) openings

(2) conductors going in or out and

(3) finite thickness of the shield"
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>Google wanted her to reference their efforts to mitigate those things in addition to repeating yet again that they can happen. Self-serving? Sure, but not really censorship.

You have a really funny world-view where compelled speech doesn't fall in the censorship bucket.
Big in home decoration fashion next year, upside down pyramids hanging from the ceiling. (edit: my bad, a corner reflector would have 3 corners at the base, not 4 as a pyramid would)
Presumably there are laws or regulations that dictate how much they can be fined for given behaviors by the SEC, and those laws and regulations do not cover the distribution of monies to injured parties.
But who would bring the suit to the courts? Just some random law firm starting a class action? We all know how that turns out (in terms of retribution[a]). There has to be a better way.

[a]: Because class actions technically aren’t about retribution, but discouragement
The SEC has regulatory capture issues. Way too close of ties with the people it is supposed to be regulating.

Take the example of this SEC investigator [0] whose boss got a call from one of those Wall Street hedge funds under investigation and suddenly he's fired! Mysteriously, that boss gets a job with the same firm a few months later. Oh, the kicker? The person who made that call from the hedge fund? Appointed to be the SEC chair in 2013 (she rejoined the hedge fund's counsel at the end of Obama's term in 2016).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_J._Aguirre

e: for those downvoting, I'd love to hear your thoughts - I think it is an interesting issue.
> everyone because left to their own most people choose to "postpone" them indefinitely for fear of breaking things

It sure would be helpful if the updates didn't actually break things. It's usually not the security fixes that do that—stuff rarely breaks on LTSC, or in Debian point releases—it's all the other changes that get rolled in.

There's just too much churn across the industry. Even if the changes are good, too little thought is given to the cost of change itself.
I'm not sure why there's an expectation that the consumer VR market is going to grow by orders of magnitude. I think the market is basically what it's going to be.

It's a great demo but not something I want to spend much time in.
> What was the failure? This isn't a retrospective that makes any sense.

People didn't buy it. Simple as that.

Doesn't matter how much better people think the consumer experience is if nobody's buying it.
There are known defects in civil engineering projects all the time. We design with tolerances to defects such that the entire system stands up. Real software is the same. Very very very few programs have ever been shipped without any defects.
I’d recommend “OP” and “GP” as they are pretty common acronyms on the internet
ahh cool thanks.
I heard it will damage the microwave. My current one detects the situation and refuses to start actually. And my old one would glitch the wifi with or without food lol.
Not a bad thing at all if everybody is playing willingly. I've been pondering it a lot lately... because I missed out in the beginning. I think it'll just keep increasing in value until the "first derivative of hype" goes towards zero. Then it'll level out and people will exit, and rocket back to earth.

There's def a lot more hype to go though, imo.
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Haha...I think that varies a lot with the circumstance and my emotional state! For the sake of the argument, it would more precisely be "taking money from anyone you or others might label a bad person". We don't need an objective standard, it can be conditional on a time and person.
You should be able to run Linux GUI apps via WSL2 on a preview build soon.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-...
Is diffing images really necessary? I've done multi step builds in the past for a Java app and I didn't find it especially hard to only include what was required. E.g. the final resultant image would exclude maven, which would be used in the first stage of the build.
The article itself says "some" buildings.

Can anyone tell me if 9.65 GHz waves can penetrate concrete / wood homes?

If commercial satellites have reached this capability, military ones are definitely far ahead.
Increasing friction is increasing friction. The GP wants to reduce friction, and your proposal likely doesn’t do that for the majority of potential customers.

That said, too many people (myself included) are so used to being courted as a customer (or really, user to try and upsell to or datamine from) that we’ve forgotten that not everyone wants our business and custom.

Splashing some cold water on your face and reminding yourself that you’re not the centre of the universe from time to time isn’t a bad habit to reduce behaving like entitled children. I still struggle with this, but baby steps... (pun not intended)
>Her work must be truly extraordinary

I'm pretty sure her work as an ethicist can be summarized as "Any application of AI/ML must be stopped until it is absolutely GUARANTEED that there won't be anything that could be deemed discriminatory by proponents of critical race/gender theory." Which is obviously an untenable position for a tech company.

I think she will be happy when we develop natural language understanding to the degree where we could implement an automatic critical theory censor, that would check for undesirable biases.
Really amazing thing and at the same time shame for not embracing this in open source way.
Is this something case by case, or something recent?

I know two Googlers who were aqui-hired, and they did not go through any (technical/leetcode) interviews.
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Goes for most mystery unfortunately, especially episodic formats where its possible to release content before the creators know how things end.
>Find solid dependencies, don't use too many of them, make sure you update them, use static analysis tools and dependency scanners, etc. Same drill as for anything.

That's hilarious simply because most heavy Docker users I've interacted with basically use it as a way to build houses of cards which glue-sticked piles and piles of dependencies together rapidly.

This is largely because application complexity in some domains and expectations of development pace have ballooned to insanity but there are plenty of heavy Docker users that do this even when these sort of pressures don't exist.

I think as software progresses and more development techniques become easier to leverage and automated (correctly and incorrectly), we're getting to a point advanced statistical software packages have been at for quite some time: no matter what data you throw at the software for analysis and what analysis you choose, the software has so much experience baked into it that you'll get some result that makes assumptions what you're doing is valid that may look like reasonable outputs even if they aren't. If you do need to do some preprocessing, much of that is even automated so it's incredibly easy to do something very wrong if you dont know what you're doing but not realize it. Automation has made it much easier to fail late instead of fail early.
These high standards aren't unique to NASA. These few days I've been taking a micro-soldering course taught by Hakko. They are teaching standards IEC61191/JISC61191 (Japan Welding Society standard) and a lot of details are similar.
Laws on short-term rentals, hotel zoning, etc. were all in existence long before AirBnB.

Many AirBnB listings were violating laws from the very start. The platform didn't invent a new type of violation, it just made them a lot more common.
> The question as to whether these demands are ethical is not clear at all to me.

You left out some vital pieces of context from the same article[0]:

> The note centers on the departure of Google AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru, which set off protests inside the company. Citing that situation, the employees called for a company vice president, Megan Kacholia, to no longer be part of their reporting chain. “We have lost trust in her as a leader,” the researchers wrote, according to a copy of the later obtained by Bloomberg.

> “Google’s short-sighted decision to fire and retaliate against a core member of the Ethical AI team makes it clear that we need swift and structural changes if this work is to continue, and if the legitimacy of the field as a whole is to persevere,” the letter reads.

> “This research must be able to contest the company’s short-term interests and immediate revenue agendas, as well as to investigate AI that is deployed by Google’s competitors with similar ethical motives,” the researchers added.

As I understand it, the demands themselves are not directly ethical, but in order to do their job (dealing with ethics), they need the VP to stop blocking them in order to make money. As for Gebru receiving a higher position, my take is that, as is with most companies, being a higher-level in the hierarchy allows one to affect more change within the company (or, perhaps in this case, even just to get the job done?).

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-12-16/googl...