skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're just playing tit-for-tat. The main benefit it extreme simplicity- in principle, one bit of memory per person, and one if-then decision. And it performs very well in iterated prisoner's games.

Yes, everyone has a complex inner history blah blah blah. There's 6 billion people, and you're not going to give equal attention to all of them, so you need different approaches.
Plus, explicitly playing tit-for-tat keeps you from being emotionally gamed as easily.
> I think you should wear a helmet AND ride safely.

There's a difference here; helmets are personal safety equipment, which is the proper approach: monitor and manage yourself, don't rely on external barriers. But did-you-know that a statistically significant proportion of drivers change their behaviour around riders wearing helmets? [1] (That's not a reason to not wear helmets, everyone should ATGATT; it's a reason to change driver behaviour through other incentives).

We cannot deny the existence of moral hazards. If you want to nullify a well-understand, thoroughly documented, and strongly correlated statistical behaviour, something has to replace it. Google would, apparently, prefer to cover a hard barrier with soft padding. That might help ... until the padding catches fire.

To your example, writing to disk until the OS reports "there are no more sectors to allocate" just means no-one was monitoring the disk consumption, which would be embarrassing, since that is systems administration 101. Or projecting demand rate for more storage, which is covered in 201, plus an elective of haggling with vendors, and teaching developers about log rotation, sharding, and tiered archive storage.

Actionable monitoring and active management of infrastructure beats automatic limits, every time, and I've always seen it as a sign of organisational maturity. It's the corporate equivalent of taking personal responsibility for your own safety.

[1] http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf
I don't think the state fell for anything here. The Governor, state Republican party and President Trump were looking for something to call a win as far as job creation at the time. They didn't really care if there was actual job creation. It just need to seem like there would be so they could reap some short term political benefit.
I don't see how free will has anything to do with this. The algorithm is clearly calling the shots. (pun intended)
Never go any Oracle
I really was boring when the floor, the desk, the cubicle, the walls, and the computer were all the same shade of aging beige. The sterile asylum days of technology industrial design.
> taking $100,000,000 dollars home

All this money allows this people to buy many things, properties, services... Do our society can afford for all that in exchange of some luck?

There are limited resources and society have decided that these people deserve a big chunk of that resources.

Weird.
What route? Describing it like that makes it sound like you rode alongside I-80 the whole way, which sounds rather unpleasant.
Garbage content is part of the plan. That is literally what makes it addictive. See ‘The Hook Model’. Basically people ‘gamble’ for good content like they do on a slot machine.
Obviously this bug really sucks and deserves remedying, but it also seems like aberrant behaviour. I'm also chiming in from the 50+ hours crowd and the only bugs I've experienced have been a bit silly, but nothing game-breaking yet. Clearly this thing needed more time in QA based on other people's experiences, but plenty of us are playing and loving the game all the way through.
It's well written == "better than Ubisoft". But the gap is smaller than it used to be, and of the gap that remains the widest is in the lore books and notes.
I'm pretty sure the heatsink is going to be aluminium. A 3d-printed heatsink would not work too well.
Page 8 of https://www.cogconsortium.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Repo... hints towards this.

The short answer is that 'The extent to which SARS-CoV-2 may evolve to escape immunity induced by infection or vaccination is not currently known'. However analysis has been carried out to work out how far from the receptor-binding site the mutations are, and how 'antibody-accessible' these are, with a few such as . No conclusions are drawn from this analysis.

Earlier on in the report (towards the end of page 1), this statement is given `One of these (the N501Y mutation) occurs in the region of the Spike protein, the receptor binding domain (RBD), that the virus uses to bind to the human ACE2 receptor. Changes in this region of the Spike protein can result in the virus changing its ACE2 binding specificity and alter antibody recognition`.

Saying all this, vaccines are designed to create a range of antibody responses, in order to stop this very fear of a single mutation rendering a whole vaccine useless. [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02544-6] I also recall reading somewhere that adapting the vaccine to account for a mutation (much like is done yearly with the flue vaccine) is relatively easy, though I haven't managed to find that article again yet.
I'm not sure that's the thing they need to do.

What i want is a post mortem. What went wrong in their organization that let it through, and what changes are they going to make to ensure it doesn't happen again?
Fortunately, the 737-MAX / 737-8 is visually distinctive from the previous generations of 737.

Or you could just avoid all 737s.
I am absolutely ectatic about getting transparent wood windows fitted in my wooden house! That would be so amazing!

... but then I remember how they don't build wooden houses in Palestine :-(
> For one thing, nobody has battery technology good enough to allow someone to walk around with a headset on for the entire day

Facebook's project Aria does this now. Apple has a set of glasses in development that are more impressive and actually has screens. Google? fuck knows.

> This claim of yours to mm accuracy needed leading to mass surveillance is a figment of an over active imagination

This is my professional area of interest. Sadly its your imagination that's letting you down. Google and Apple know where you are at all times. As does your phone service provider. An app _can_ steal your location, but that's fairly obvious, or not very accurate. This is because your phone's location is only accurate when either using GPS, or lots of post processing by your service provider. All of which sucks power.

AR _requires_ that location services fit in a budget of <250mw. You can't have AR without visual positioning. You can't have visual positioning without a database of key points.

Once you have a database of keypoints, anybody can geo locate a picture within 5 minutes, automatically. This means that even if the AR glasses app blocks out precise location, its trivial to recover afterwards. This means that any app that runs on these glasses can trivially create it's own surveillance network. That is the risk.

> Will we have other privacy invading tactics wielded against us by more unethical corporations in the meantime?

I'm specifically talking about AR, and AR only.
Actually, some specially designed SAR can see through buildings, but not the kind of SAR that’s in publicly available remote sensing data.

One example (of many): https://www.kurzweilai.net/seeing-through-walls-in-real-time
They obviously don't offer 100% protection. Though I've heard a nice analogy by Christian Drosten on the popular German coronavirus podcast:

Imagine you are standing close to someone at a party who starts talking to you. You immediately notice their bad breath (~aerosols). Now imagine they are wearing a mask, then imagine you both are. How much of the bad breath would you still notice in each case? That's the effect of masks.
Hacker News: The Post
I agree that some of the examples are a bit fluffy, but later in the article, they mention a much stronger study! They cite an example of high school students being split into a control and treatment group for tutoring students with a clearly observable output based on biological data.
It's an opinion piece by a novelist. Why are you so bothered by references to authors you're not familiar with? I just googled the ones I didn't know. And it's a bit patronising to presume that working class people don't read literature.
>> If my stated goal is to increase the tax on wealthiest folks with the intent of distributing more to the lower class and reducing wealth inequality

That's not exactly "Send the tax man to my house" now is it?

You want the government to take my money and use it for your ideological purposes that I do not believe in, to implement socialism in America, that's what I think you're saying. Am I wrong here? Sending the tax man to your house vs. doing that, those are two very different things.

We can find common ground here, send the tax man to your house, we can agree on that at least can't we? And you can do that right now, this very minute, PayPal over what you think the correct amount is.
Why does it seem that press releases and public statements like this tend to overstate things, to the point of fallacy, in order to make a definitive point?

If you took a SAR image of my home you would absolutely see how many vehicles are in my garage.

Some examples from Sandia labs SAR image gallery - https://www.sandia.gov/radar/imagery/index.html

(I believe these are aerial vs. orbital but the technology is the same)

Ku band SAR

Airport Historical Site - Can see parked vehicles right through the roof of the building on the left - https://www.sandia.gov/radar/_assets/images/gallery/ku-band-...

Ka band SAR

Golf Course - Can see right through the roof of the clubhouse and golfers (eg. human bodies) on the greens - https://www.sandia.gov/radar/_assets/images/gallery/ka-band-...
But their war reporting staff needs _something_ to do! /s
Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
> a monopoly will have a much easier time extracting value

That's my point. In the static picture it might seem so, but in the dynamic picture the extracting of the value incentivizes competitors to enter and consumers to seek substitutes.

Would you mind mentioning an example of long lasting monopoly power (which is different than just being the sole seller of something -- after all, everyone is the sole seller of something)?
It can afford the existence of a monied class which collectively commands tens of trillions of dollars in wealth, so it can probably afford it.

Whether or not we want to afford it is a different question.
The thing about this logic is it breaks down once you replace "workers" with robots (which companies of the future will).
Hopefully at worst it is just something like instead of artists working on cinematography and graphic art for Coke commercials and advertisements to give people diabetes, they will be making artwork for these people's mansions that might not be enjoyed as widely as they could be in a more rational system but that at least won't give people diabetes.
If this was a valid reason for lying, or misleading the public, why wouldn't they continue doing it with the vaccine? Why not have Fauci say, "no, the vaccine is ineffective" or "people don't need a vaccine" right now, when the vaccine is in short supply, in order to ensure all medical professionals have access to the vaccine without additional demand from the public?
I have one question: was the "algorithm" an excel scorecard? I bet it was
t4t comes from the prisoner's game, where the choices are 'cooperate' or 'fuck the other person over for your own gain', so that sets the mindset the strategy is meant for.
Andrew Yang calls for proof-of-vaccination bar codes on smartphones
I would emphasize NEWSPAPER instead of the 'the'. Not many folks reading newspapers these days.
WTF Is an Electrified Reef?
Are you planning on open sourcing parts of it?
No, it's not a map of population density. Rates are rising far faster in the South East than in other parts of England.
>Now the authorities must decide whether anyone at Vega breached market rules by joining forces to push down prices—or if they simply pulled off one of the greatest trades in history.

Couched in these terms, it's really difficult not to think of trading as a sort of game. What are these rules, why is breaking them a bad thing, who set them up, and why is foul play suspected and investigated with aplomb when relative small-timers make out like bandits but not when big establishment institutions drop the ball to the tune of "generalized economic ruin"?
At time t0, there may not be ... but the exercise of monopoly power incentivizes others to produce substitutes and consumers to seek them.

> In addition to the radio relay services, MCI soon made plans to offer voice, computer information, and data communication services for business customers unable to afford AT&T's TELPAK service

E.g. MCI vs AT&T[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Communications#Founding
Yeah, I suspect most of the benefits come from socializing with people who're nice to you, which being kind to others tends to result in, unless you're bad at avoiding abusive jerks.
You can open a fresh gallon of chlorine and prove yourself wrong.
I'm sure they're already tracking things like DAU and UAM. They are well known for experimenting to maximize engagement and growth. And we know they already do topic modeling and interest tracking, as that drives ad targeting.

So in their shoes I'd be looking at newsfeed articles about Facebook, user sentiment in the post text and the comments, and subsequent impact on UAM and DAU numbers.

In their shoes, I'd also be tracking the performative departure. I've seen a number of people post about Facebook and saying they're quitting. It wouldn't be hard to look back at what they've been reading and forward at the impact on their friends who read the post.

If I needed more data, I'd tie all this in with user surveys and user studies for deeper qualitative and quantitative data. Not sure if Facebook does those, but I know other platforms do.
Dunno, but if you look at some of the image gallery photos here, there's a very bright specular reflection from a number of vehicles. Police radar is right in this frequency range, so it would make sense of they have a retroreflective effect built into the paint on the plate.

https://www.sandia.gov/radar/imagery/index.html

Example: https://www.sandia.gov/radar/_assets/images/gallery/ka-band....
> I love that README files have become useful again, say, in the last 10 years.

They have always been extremely useful, actually. It is always the first thing you open when you download a package (well, that or INSTALL). You're right that the README's of, say, MS-Windows or such software is less useful, but I don't know that this situation has improved recently. Perhaps it's just your use of FOSS? :-)
Just in time for the mass exodus from California.
The two countries are different, that was my point.

I'm not saying the Swedish approach is the most preferable, I'm saying cherry-picking Norway on some hand-wavy "all nordic countries are entirely alike wrt pandemics and you cannot compare them to other countries" manner is not scientific. And selecting one part of that country is not going to work unless you match on all important factors.

The rigorous way to do this is: form a list of parameters that affect the pandemic, and then match on a large pool of countries to compare outcomes. Calibrate your system. You can't just cherry pick either way. I can say - well, Sweden has similar pop densities to Germany, and Stockholm is denser than Berlin so Swedish should be worse. But that's not rigorous, it's just confirmation bias at work.

In truth, we'll only know the outcomes when the pandemic is over - probably by 2022 for most countries - and then it'll be an extended argument over whether it was worth say the economic damage, mental health consequences, etc. etc. for any actual reduction in excess deaths.

It's complicated.
Can Covid-19 vaccinations be mandated? Short answer: Yes
Helping others can actually be beneficial..
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-t...
> One staff member with covid will rapidly infect a few 1000 people given how busy they are on a Saturday morning

That is an enormous over-exaggeration. It's a virus, not a magic spell. Plus, employees are not required to wear masks, but customers are.

> Time and again we see them decline scientific advice

Which scientific advice have they declined? So far as I can see, Boris is entirely under the influence of SAGE and does nothing without "scientific advice".
Not sure about other retailers, but the one I work for (300+ stores and still expanding) doesn't really allow us to enforce such mask mandates. Sure, we have a sign posted that says you need a mask, but it's an understood no-no to push any further than asking if they want one for fear of customer complaints to corporate. Because even when the customer is wrong, they're still "right" (which is utter garbage).
I vaguely recall news of rapes having occurred on the Illinois prairie path around where I grew up.

In that locale at least, the paths are some of the most isolated and wooded areas in otherwise dense suburban sprawl. Akin to a dark alley where the walls aren't even buildings containing occupants, it's trees and marshland. Prime territory to stalk a vulnerable jogger or cyclist.
Indeed, they specify that the heatsink is aluminium in one of the descriptions
Seems like another kickstarter venture that will sell 1000 units and then go bankrupt.
Na, the Lindenmayer book was much better. I own them all, and even assisted the authors at a conference where we invited all those fractal heros then. Benoit's book is the very best of these.

It inspired me to produce lots of AutoLisp for the algorithmic simplicity of city planning or architecture. Simple recursive rewriting systems. The problem starts when you need to detect 2d or 3d patterns, and expand them within the steps. This example showed that you only need 1d to create 3d and more. Simply expand the dimensions at the end.
Buying shares like crazy. I've made a killing on everything from US Silica to Stitch Fix.
No. But I have been in a great many meetings where decisions were "designed."
Those apps existed before Apple had power.

That's important because Apple couldn't have started their ruse by moving in and taking away FB's power from the start.

If FB was weaker, Apple could be moving on their turf now by requiring a cut of their money.

You're missing the bit about power and value chains here: if Apple can take all of your surpluses, they will, it has nothing to do with how much money you make.

Consider also the vast distortions happening right now: and digital player that wants to charge a fee - has to give 30% to Apple. That's huge.

The alternative is advertising - for now - Apple doesn't go after that.

Many businesses to not run on huge margins - if you could eke out a 5% margin living under Apple's 30% cut, and switch to ads (assuming same revenue/gross margins), then you'd 5x your revenue.

Of the monopolizers, Facebook is the least worst - nobody needs them, and they're not a primary source for anything.

Apple's closed system is the worst, followed by Google's incumbency of search, propped up by their control of Android, Chrome etc. Thirdly is Google's abuse of Search to screw over competitors in near fields.
I don't see how it's different from what already exists. If you're questioning them, why not Gates, Bezos, [redacted], [unknown], etc.?
Guns and ammo, just in case.
What's the cycling route through the Sierra Nevada? I've only ever done it via i80 by car, would love to do it by bicycle but definitely not on i80.
> was unstable

No, it was not unstable. It just behaved differently enough that some additional pilot training would have been needed without MCAS.

> rather than design an inherently safe

All jetliners are unstable and require active augmentation.

> they apparently were attempted

No, they were not. The procedure is:

1. trim to normal with the electric trim switches

2. turn off the stab trim switches.

That's it.

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

The LA crew never turned off the trim after trimming to normal. The EA made a different mistake - turning off the trim when it was too far from neutral.

Neither the Seattle Times nor The Guardian are reliable sources on aviation. Aviation Week is a lot better. The Times author apparently did not read the EAD he cited. I'll quote from it the relevant bit:

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

"Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved to CUTOUT."

Note that the flight data recorder showed that both crews had moved the trim back to normal with the trim switches, and neither thought to then turn it off.
I'm not sure why 100% confidence matters, but yes, many explanations are possible. Even simultaneously. E.g., the initial impetus might be higher-ups pressuring for action. But then somebody runs the numbers on what the potential long-term revenue impact is and sees the number is very large, far larger than the handful of millions they spend on their usual PR disaster cleanup.
You can be kind and not be a doormat.

This takes practice and experience but the gist of it here is that you have establish and understand boundaries.

Kindness is giving someone a helping hand when they need it, but not going overboard and letting them take advantage of you over and over again.

In my experience, the less you let vampires suck out your energy, the more you'll be able to give to people and the way to that is by saying No and hearing No.

I personally start by being kind and then await kindness back. If they reciprocate, great. If not, I politely decline their next request and change my response if they change theirs.

Great relationships are formed when there is a mutual exchange of happiness and ideas else it's basically one party taking advantage which is unhealthy.
Once the leak is out, there isn't much of a reason to keep violating terms of the dubious contracts.
I haven't written any specific integrations or scripts for translation formats because I don't have a great sense of what people would find useful. Since this is written in Python it would be pretty easy to write a script to batch process most formats. Feel free to make a GitHub issue for Qt translation files (or other formats) and I may try to add support at some point. Qt translation files would be a good one too because currently the GUI has no localization which isn't ideal for a translation application. Also if you write your own script please share there is the scripts/ directory in the code where we could put scripts others might find useful.
TBH it already works that way somewhat. I think I got rejected for a credit card application for B&H payboo card because I forgot to turn off the VPN.

A lot of stuff in the name of anti-fraud / anti-bot is also anti-privacy. Try buying or subscribing (ex: patreon) to many things online with a prepaid card of some sort, you'll find out you cannot. Try accessing etsy from a data center or VPN IP and they just serve you a blank page. Make your browser hard to fingerprint and it looks like automated chromium and you hit bot wall after bot wall.

I think a reason why it isn't like this already is because many old people just don't use the internet that much at all, so there isn't that much data to rate them with, but they are valuable customers so they keep the legacy and more private way of doing things open for them. In 20 or 30 years, that might not be available anymore as the last of the people who didn't learn how to use desktop computing in the 90s die off.
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