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"Death is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not" — Epicurus
Because we don't know what happened and 'gross incompetence' is an unfair allegation.

Do you think your company could withstand an attack from a nation state with unlimited powers? Doubtful.

Even if the investors did know about the security breach, it wouldn't be illegal for them to trade on that information so long as it wasn't 'insider' aka they were made aware by the company itself.

We don't know what happened, but the issue is not with trading shenanigans, the issue is the materiality of the security breach and who did it, how and why etc..
The zstd tool defaults to one thread for IO and one for compression. You can change the number of compression threads with the parameter -T (e.g. -T0 to use all physical cores).
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We should establish a global "lights out" night and shut these damn lights off for a few hours every now and then.

Too unsafe unfortunately. From traffic accidents to burglaries, shutting lights off has many negative side effects.

Looking at the map and recalling the places from which I've seen the Milky Way, it should be possible to already see something in light blue areas.
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Again, I'm not really trying to defend Google one way or the other. At the end of the day it seemed like Gebru published a paper that was quite critical of how Google intends to make a sizable portion of their revenue, and anyone should understand that when you do that in a large company, it's going to get extra scrutiny. And it could very well be that the whole purpose of Google's "ethical AI" team in the first place is to just provide a "veneer of morality" over what are some fairly unnerving practices and consequences of AI. But regardless, the honorable thing then for anyone on that team is to simply resign, say that "I don't agree with Google's values", and find someplace else to do your work (it's not like these people couldn't get highly paid jobs elsewhere). Instead they're throwing tantrums.
"In emergency preparedness actions at a nuclear power plant, the worst end result is always prepared for until proven otherwise." Yet they don't mention why they didn't notify the local and national authorities immediately when they noticed the disturbance, which delayed the authorities' preparedness. Do we have a culture where the plant operator tries to hide some things from the authorities in case "it was nothing"?

I can't find a good reference in English, but here (towards the end) they mention how it took several hours before the local authorities were informed: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/1...

Some more details of the physics and chemistry in the disturbance can be found in this memo of the authorities (in Finnish): https://www.stuk.fi/documents/12547/1285302/Esittelymuistio_...
The only evidence of toxicity was an email she sent after being forced to retract a paper that she wouldn't have to retract under proper academic circumstances, based on feedback they weren't even going to provide to her.

That's not toxic, that's anger. One angry incident, justified or not, does not make the case for firing a "toxic" employee.
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The bit about a gradual migration towards English-style quotes due to the gentle but inexorable pressure of keyboards and software lacking the proper native equivalent is interesting and a bit depressing. I wonder if over time there will be a drift away from diacritics and non-English characters (like ß) for the same reason.
A flawed comparison; the ethical issues discussed in that thread and the things the AI group is complaining about are non-overlapping.
It isn't just finance startups. With one exception, every startup I've worked for has done something I considered at least sketchy. The difference is most of them didn't have a federal agency with teeth paying attention.

It is, honestly, something I struggle with a bit. I don't like it, but it seems like the state of play is that "a little bit" of cheating is expected, and those who don't are at least operating at a handicap. Exactly how wide that gray area is depends on who is advising you, and sometimes results in shops like early-Uber.

One of my least-favorite aspects of SV.
Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World is another
Covid dynamics in red and blue states are different, see eg https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Brill-10_20-2... [1]

Blue states were hit early on. Case numbers in red states caught up at the beginning of Aug, hospitalization numbers at the beginning of Oct.

I'd be interested in the cumulated death rate as of today (but not so much so to calculated it myself...)

[1] https://www.aei.org/economics/impact-of-the-coronavirus-pand...
Have you never wondered why there is a metal mesh across the glass in your microwave? The microwave's faraday cage is visible.
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I wish some branch of government would hold Facebook accountable with similar demeanor.
It doesn't have to be a CRT. An LCD with analog connection works too.
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Sure, but the one who donates is expecting something from God in return, right?
> 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).

Right, so, with a lot of extra hoop jumping GitHub have been able to special case HTTPS authentication for their site so that if you use these tokens it's only somewhat worse than what you get out of the box with SSH.
I'm curious about the source here. I've always been taught (mid 40s, UK) to use "" not '', well before US English became readily accessible on the Internet.
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"No one told me that I was fired."

"Thanks for making your conditions clear. We cannot agree to #1 and #2 as you are requesting. We respect your decision to leave Google as a result, and we are accepting your resignation."

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364734418726912
No one got anywhere near $125; they prorated it by the number of checks requested.

I’m not sure they even paid out the prorated amount.
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395#issuecomment-535...

If anyone from Facebook is reading, please look at making zstd seekable. There is already experimental support but it needs to be standardized. This could open up really interesting new use-cases [see my comment linked above], where currently we have to use much slower xz/lzma instead.
Ethics is a large subject, people can be interested in certain branches and not others.

I guess the 'bias and inequality in AI' is less striking a cord for the HN crowd than 'fair business practices'
Of course, you can already run X11 apps. Run a Windows-based X11 server and connect to it from the app.
You can use it on a POWER9 box today. ;-)
Pocket is easy to dislike before you start using it -- it's just UI bloat, as you point out.

But the feedback from people who do use it is overwhelmingly positive. A lot of people love Pocket. It's enormously popular, despite the impression you would get if you exclusively went by HN comments.

Personally, I've just recently started to try using it. It hasn't really captured my enthusiasm yet, despite addressing one of my larger pain points with a browser. I still think I'd prefer management capabilities that felt more built into the standard (well, Tree-Style Tabs) tabs/history experience. But it's early days, I'll have to see how my Pocket experiment goes.

They're certainly good at surfacing appealing-looking content that isn't vapid when I try reading it. That's worth something.
The 'seals' section in this article suggests that wankels need separate apex and side seals:

http://what-when-how.com/automobile/wankel-engines-automobil...

See also Pengaru's comment about problems with side seals, specifically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25451923
How is a discount brokerage a tech company? They’re .. a brokerage, just like Schwab or E*Trade.
We had a board where somehow the footprint of an 8 pin SOIC got flipped in the layout. One engineer was able to desolder it, flip it, and solder it on using wires so that it floated about 1-2 cm above the board upside down. I was impressed ;-)
I for one am glad that pharma companies aren't allowed to peddle prescription meds that don't actually work. If there's some other use case for that drug (your "off label" application) then it will pass through the approval process with efficacy proven for that.

I think it's more of a dilemma that off label scrips aren't used more often. Since there's zero monetary incentive to prove efficacy for a second application and doctors generally prefer officially sanctioned uses, lots of patients miss out on helpful treatment.
Basically, if you want to buy AAPL at $100 and as your broker, I take that info and share it with someone else, such as an HFT, they will quickly (milliseconds/nanoseconds) buy AAPL and sell you at a higher price. So, while you expected to pay $100, you ended up paying $100.10.

Now that doesn't seem a lot to you but times the difference (10 cents) by volume and number of Robinhood customers placing orders and it can add up to be a lot.
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>> the vast majority of cars today simply don't work for a family of five

My wife and I had the minivan discussion. They are amazingly practical when you need to carry vast amounts of crap. Neither of us was particularly interested in driving around in one though, so we optimized by carrying less crap around.

I'd say about 99% of our usage of our 4 door sedan or small SUV requires no additional cargo capacity for our family. For the other 1% of the time, we're able to optimize by carrying less stuff. I think there has been 1 or 2 times in 13 years where cargo capacity was insufficient. For us, it was a tradeoff worth making.

We totally respect those who make different choices, though. Everyone has their own preferences and needs.
> The satellite beams down a powerful 9.65 GHz radio signal toward its target, and then collects and interprets the signal as it bounces back up into orbit.

Years ago there were lots of articles about X-ray backscatter vans, owned by NYPD but probably also other jurisdictions. One of the concerns was you'd never know when they were scanning you and looking inside your car. But of course, though these active systems are invisible to human eyes, they do have to send out pretty strong signals. So I wonder if a kind of sousveillance is possible. Can we have devices that detect the signal being directed at the target, and alarm and publish that info? Both individuals could know if/when they are being imaged, and the public could see some patterns in who they look at. Anyone aware of how hard a detector would be to build?
I personally cannot thank enough GNU project for standing software freedom.

We are living in a world where corporations control nearly everything by building proprietary systems. They have more than resources to buy, lobby, manipulate, seem "attractive".

We need more of this kind of organization, free society cannot exist without free software.
What was she blowing the whistle on specifically? Carbon emissions from a company that's been "carbon neutral" on paper for a decade?
Looking at air pollution maps of big US cities after reading this article is quite scary. Many are at double the amount as London's worst reading and some even three times as high:

https://waqi.info/

https://breezometer.com/air-quality-map/air-quality
I worked several years as a feelance audio engineer. When I started out I remember beeing concerned that I didn't have enough productive working hours. I found it hard to have more than 5 hours productive work done during an 8 hour work day. Also, since I was invoicing for the hours worked I felt that I should be far more efficient. After discussing this with other freelancers I found this to be quite common. Now, many years later, I consider 6 productive hours to be a really good day, and I will invoice it as 8 hours.

Today I manage a team of developers, and my experience is that the quality of the output is much better if they are focused and well rested, and that the amount of hours worked does not directly translate to better work. So if someone on the team is tired because of their kids not sleeping or something similar, I actually tell them sleep a few more hours. It seems counterintuitive, but I find it to work better for everyone on the team.
Its a great philosophy!

Compare and contrast with using a service like google. Not only do you have 0 idea about the algorithm they use, your data is extracted for their benefit. You don't even know what data they have on you, and how this is used!

I know you can takeout info from them about your profile, but let's be honest, what use is that to you then?
OP is not really wrong.. half of what ends up on the front of tiktok is girls literally advertising themselves to get your attention so you visit their profile to find their instagram and then to get the onlyfans link.

So I would agree it's "deception" in terms of they are pretending to post actual content, but it's 100% meant to be an advertisement for financial gain.

And hey whatever they can do as they please.. but it really does fall under a similar category.
Small fines will continue to encourage this behavior. Robinhood was clearly and consistently not acting in the best interests of its clients and misrepresented pricing. Now it’s worth billions.
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Fascinating!

Is there a video somewhere showing the air flow of all the cycles? Thought I saw something in one video that showed the inside of the rotor being used for something.
Are you certain you cannot downgrade? gnome-firmware seems to allow it. I have to admit, I'm just on 1.4.0 though, and haven't tried to upgrade yet. Does it somehow block downgrading?
Really interesting how Turkish and English are the only major languages that predominantly use "" as opposed to anything else (well, UK uses '' too though). I wonder how that cultural interaction happened or whether it's coincidental. Turkish alphabet is mostly based on German and French alphabets (with a certain dose of creativity) and Turkish language was heavily influenced by French in 19th century. So it's interesting that they don't use ,,'' or <<>>
I've toyed with Ebiten. It's wonderful. Here are some pain points:

- I've had trouble with sub-texture bleeding requiring me to add paddings between my texture atlas. This could probably also be resolved by not having my own texture atlas and loading each texture separatedly but I like my atlas.

- If you like class inheritance to compose hierarchy of objects, Go isn't well suited. This can be good or bad depending on how you like to architecture.

What I love about Ebiten and Go is the fast compilation times which makes the edit-compile-run feedback loop short and sweet.

The author is friendly, accessible and responsive on slack.

Join here https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ then head to #ebiten here https://gophers.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=ebiten
Excellent! Have you been able to transmit anything at all without connecting a wire over the outputs?

Or are there are popular configurations where people have something plugged in and then unwitting be open to an exfiltration attack?
I'm not sure what your experience with the books are but, as someone who's read a _ton_ on fantasy novels GoT is pretty boring and mundane. I can see where people do get excited about it but I can find a good 10 or 20 high fantasy novels that do everything that GoT does.

GRRM has style, and seems super original if you haven't read a ton of the genre.
The 'genius' of Dumb and Dumber is also that it is unrelenting, there is no happy ending... 'the town is THAT WAY' :)
One of many good reasons to worry about the composition of the SCOTUS - important cases effecting this very right are headed there, and this is the most "business-friendly" (as the euphemism goes) court in quite some time.

Too bad it is probably too late on these issues; we're approaching a situation where an increasing amount of "little people" law will be handled in arbitration.

Justice in the US has always provided the best justice money can buy. They're just starting to implement a sort of buyers-club.
Right? What absolute beginners will learn about C from GObject? I bet most of them will learn that C is a weird language, and they also will learn that it is better not to learn about C again.
I think this is a balance. Being the only house in the area that can't be seen into might get you more attention someone being able to see you in your underwear at a 50cm x 50cm resolution.
they have agreed to bring in an "independent third party" although I have no idea how they can really remain independent when they're ultimately collecting a check from RH.
Life comes at you fast, so articles from 2.5 months ago, as the Spectator article is, aren't much more helpful than articles from 6.5 months ago, as the Spiked article is.

To the point in the Spectator piece, though, it could easily be argued that the US is similarly incapable of imposing real lockdowns, for both legal and cultural reasons.
My term for this is "Karen's twin", i.e. generally you think of a "Karen" as some right wing, extremely disagreeable, potentially semi (or very) racist individual making outrageous demands. Here you just have some left wing, extremely disagreeable people making outrageous demands while wrapping themselves in the cloak of moral superiority.
I noticed the chin is a good give away.

PS: Don't tell the bots please.
People certainly could just quit when they feel their company is not doing the right thing. But people who care about their mission and the company might stay and do something like this because they genuinely want to improve things.

Maybe if more employees used their leverage to improve companies from within we could see real progress in work environments and corporate ethics without having to wait on legislation or lawsuits to force companies to change.
9.65GHz would be outside the range of most common SDRs, but other than that it would be like detecting any other radio transmission. You would need a sample to know it's the satellite in question and not some other noise on that band, and it would be vulnerable to false positives unless the sample is unique.
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100GHz is really popular with DoD. I wonder what those SAR images look like.
It’s an arbitrary investment vehicle. It’s unlikely it will be anything more due to its volatility relative to currencies actual people use.
The article states that RH cost its consumers more in bad trade execution than it saved them in commissions. How are you sure this didn't happen to you?
Being told "you're multiple years behind the state of the art on this, please reference it" is a reasonable ask.
Everything in a movie is a lie. All of it. The sound the music the writing. It is all a lie. Someone made it up and a group of people made it 'real'. But it is not real. The one thing that really nailed that home to me was the movie cobra. In the middle of a big fight he stops and drinks a coors beer. They had to stage it, film it, edit and foley it. There is a fractionally small amount of things we see on TV or movies that is real. Even what we watch on the news is an edited show done for effect. Once you know how the sausage is made the 'magic' is gone.

My biggest gripe with many movies is pacing. It is hard to get just right. You either move to fast and everything is a blur, or too slow and it is 'boring'. That is just me though. I enjoyed GI Joe but it is not something I am going to go back and re-watch anytime soon. Something like John Wick I have watched it a few times since it came out. It is full to the brim with tropes. But they are done very well.
As Moore's law slows down, this time for real, there have been a few unorthodox ideas lately. 3DIC, or Cerebras' whole-wafer CPU. This looks like a thing worthy pursuing. With free money and big corps racing for a market first (disruptors trying not to be disrupted), who knows.

I wonder how much in terms of power-performance-area can be gained from going asynchronous.
>The only evidence of toxicity was an email she sent after being forced to retract a paper that she wouldn't have to retract under proper academic circumstances, based on feedback they weren't even going to provide to her.

What about the paper trail she left on Twitter?
Yeah. Damn. I hope nobody at NASA looks at some of the repairs I've had to make on my riding mower. I blame the work angles of some of those jobs...
Outside Europe I rarely see <<>>, in fact I never saw <<>> on the internet even on European sites, truth be told I rarely read any websites from Europe that are not in English so my opinion might be biased
NASA and aviation in general are later adopters of lead-free. It definitely wouldn't have been reflected in older standards.
That's not true. A $100 buy order will only ever execute at $100.
If I had to ask for a feature, it would be to make this "layouts for the browser" instead of/in addition to "in the browser". Where the output would be html/css to do the masking so you could assign an image to each panel.
Exactly.

Employee: "If you don't fire my manager and give me a $1M bonus, I'm resigning, date to be confirmed."

Company: "Ummmm, no. Thanks for resigning, let's make that date today."
IIRC, the conclusion at the time was that that particular image was taken by an NRO KH-11 satellite - roughly equivalent to a Hubble Space Telescope pointed at earth and definitely not SAR.
I also hate it when apps/services move backward in terms of features. I'll still give them credit when they start to move in the correct direction again, even if they would have been better off not screwing things up in the first place.
Interesting, just competition for netlify, vercel etc I guess.

Weird use of capitalized JAM... it's been accepted for a good portion of the year to now be Jamstack I thought.
Yes, completely sure. Corner reflectors are used to calibrate SARs by providing fixed bright ground points. I've also seen SAR imagery where unintentional corner reflectors (in this case, a building) completely washed out the image at that location.

It's true that the SAR antenna has moved a little bit by the time the transmitted signal is received. However, the signal is moving significantly faster than the satellite - with a 600km orbit, velocity is ~8km/s - so the roundtrip time is maybe 0.04s, meaning the satellite has moved 320m. That's about 0.2 degrees from the point of view of the reflector.

The synthetic aperture is not just the distance covered in the round trip of a single chirp, but the distance covered during the imaging process. A SAR typically produces chirps constantly (in the tens to hundreds of Hz) and digitises the responses. All of the energy of all those responses can then be combined to form the image.

If the corner reflector is in a fixed location, every chirp will have a spike in the response corresponding to that location.
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The "right wing racist" bit is very new. It primarily represents the stereotype of an overly entitled, highly strung soccer mom insisting on talking to managers when she doesn't get her way with front-line employees at retail stores.
Docker security is notoriously hard to set up and understand