skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though it would be difficult to prove damages, holding tech companies liable for any harm done that could have been avoided if information they suppressed were allowed to have been communicated will set off some alarms in their legal and risk departments. There is much we still do not know about COVID19, the vaccines, and alternative treatments. It is almost certain that some of what we now believe to be true will ultimately be proven to be incorrect. There are many conflicting studies going around and tech companies have decided which ones are truth and which ones are not. Since they have appointed themselves as the arbiters of truth, they should be held liable for any "truth" they get wrong. If they do not want this liability, then they must refrain from deciding what medical information is correct and what should be suppressed. No hiding behind medical authorities as there are multiple conflicting medical authorities and tech companies have decided which ones they bless as truthsayers and which ones they have derided as falsifiers. There is no way for them to avoid making choices once they get themselves involved in the business of censorship and suppression. Their choices, their consequences.

Or they can be conduits and avoid this risk entirely.
How does your system prevent the formation of a monopoly? The employee-run corporation merges with its competitors until there are none left, then charges monopoly prices to customers in order to pay above-market wages to employees. How does that solve the problem?
Look at the bright side, it will take less time to catch up than it took them to build the foundation!
Or you could pay $15 dollars for Handmade Hero and get 600+ of videos explaining the coding process with full source code.
Much like the self-driving car, the algorithms behind Google Maps were written, trained, and tested in places where the engineers work and commute. Much like facial recognition algorithms, they completely lose their minds when the reality of life doesn't match the biases of the data used for training.
Amazon has been great for the consumer, Amazon's your margin is my opportunity mantra has lowered costs for tons of things and added a ton of value to people's lives. Sure this hurts other businesses, but that's business and eventually someone will come for Amazon. Do I as a consumer care if some drop shipper camera tripod company got eaten by Amazon basic? Hell no I don't.
The Xbox operating system does base on Windows though. It's just locked down in some areas and lacks some higher level builtin programs of Windows and has a different launcher/DE. It's a half-lie at most.

Also, the parts of Windows that Xbox does ship with are the most important ones for Microsoft shareholders. Nobody would want to edit their documents from their Xbox. That would in fact be harmful because some people might not buy a proper PC then (as is observable years later with the advent of smartphones). But the Xbox uses the DirectX API as well as builds on all the Windows-isms. So if you built a game for Windows, it's not hard to port it to Xbox, and vice versa.
Does this effect things like Mint or other useful data sharing services?
Choosing not to act is choosing nonetheless. You are responsible in both situations. You didn’t set the events into motion, no — but you had full awareness of the inevitable consequences that would result from acting or not. You must make the choice, therefore, that you can live with. This is the nature of the human experience.
Employers are now responsible for ensuring the general public's health? Just for this initial stage? How frightening that is to realize. And for the rest of the population later?

A massive abdication of responsibility / competence by the government.
In this respect, Covid has been good for my family.

We wanted to try to help local restaurants, so we get take-out food 2 or 3 times a week. Since we're not eating in the restaurant, all the food stays at the house-- we get lots of leftovers!

I frequently tell the kids to order what they want, but eat all of it. (If not today, finish it tomorrow.)
Yes, but if Apple hadn't sued we wouldn't have this precedent. Hopefully this means future iOS emulators don't get handicapped with C&D orders.
> Is it object manipulation or sensing/world understanding? Maybe it can't apply the right forces to a soft thing or a flexible thing or know what it can step on vs over or what will move or stay still?

Did you notice the robot's hands? Or, you know, lack thereof?

These robots are impressive, amazing and advanced ... but they are demonstrating mobility, not utility.

If you want your robot to really replace people, it needs amazing hands. Also amazing visual processing, but there's a lot of work being done there by the autonomous vehicle people, and I'm not sure who is currently leading the pack on hands.
I think that's within the working definition of "good", but even if it isn't, I think my concerns still apply. It might on average be true in certain narrow circumstances, but there are so many exceptions it conceals at least as much as it reveals.
What happened to Assange is what happens when you take moralistic nonsense designed to control the masses and actually try to apply it to the real world. It's like when people try to apply feminist theory or diversity theory. (Some notes on diversity theory here, turn on showdead in your profile to see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25505252)

I think either Assange only realized it when he got to the point of no return... or will never realize it. But at least, it's a lesson for everyone else who is sharp enough to see it.

If you're smart enough, you can work for the elites and rise in the ranks, and get what you want.

I'm sure Snowden had time to realize it... except he had settle for working for different set of elites than what he started out doing. Overall, I think he got pretty lucky. Unfortunately for Assange, things don't look so good.
Not only do all those other companies use the same manufacturers they use literally the same manufacturer and people and facilities from this article... Lens Technology.

And yet the headline only says Apple. I asked why HN also used Apple in the headline given it is inaccurate in another comment but that was downvoted.
Someone gave a talk at my college early after the release of the original Xbox. It was definitely "Based" off of Windows 2000. So like I would call this a white-lie. Basically just the kernel and file system if I remember correctly.

Kinda like how ios version 1 was based off OSX.
Even implying that your work might have downsides could negatively affect your funding. Anything that isn't frolicking unicorns and rainbows is kind of verboten.
Is this sarcasm/irony?

Hard to tell on the internet.
You don’t need a state to enforce property rights. Humans do that all their own. Humans defend—and invade—land they wish to occupy.

If such notions as private property emerge, I reckon it’s because the benefits of the idea are greater than the blood costs of defense.

It’s wishful thinking descendants of families who died over, negotiated, settled and established a history in a particular terrain—no matter how unfairly acquired—will relinquish it without force.

What makes the family homestead valuable are the costs incurred to keep it.
The letter says that science has nothing to say about human values, wordviews, or paradigms. Whether you believe that statement is where you stand.
Mary Celeste
Git email flow vs. GitHub flow
Over time they have been systemically raising prices. I have noticed this and it has been mentioned on HN by ex-team members.
I'm not defending recent tech valuations (which I agree are ludicrous), but it's worth remembering that technological superiority != commercial value. It doesn't matter how good you are at building a technically complex product if there's no market for it.

Judging from the comments in this thread, the value proposition for BD is still very unclear. Bi/quadriped robots are - currently, at least - an expensive solution to a problem that no-one really has.

Investing in BD is a gamble that they'll be able to carve out a profitable niche some time in the future. The valuation has to reflect that uncertainty.
Sort of conflicts with the narrative that urban centers are being victimized by Dollar General and the like, contributing to ill-health for city dwellers.

IMHO, the problem is wide-spread. (No pun intended.)
This makes sense until you realize the people funding the grants are not the people approving the grants. It is really a lot easier to spend other people's money poorly than to spend your own poorly. Besides, if you want to know if a grant is worth funding who are you going to ask? Probably esteemed people in that field or something related, who all have the same poor incentives and institutional inertia to contend with.
Those who had loved ones and close relatives would beg to differ on not being victims who suffer.
Is your parent a time travel comment? Because you asked a question they specifically addressed!

Jokes aside they may have edited their comment. HN not showing 'edited' on comments except if you specifically add 'Edit' to your post is a pet peeve of mine. You replied within 9 minutes, edits are common in that time period.
Handmade Hero is a great learning resource: Casey is a an experienced guy and a good teacher. However, this course seems aimed at a different audience. Handmade hero is OpenGL, and this course specifically goes over things like CPU rasterizing, things that aren't touched when using a graphics API.
That's correct, but the pattern of 'we know you are not profitable now, but perhaps you will be sometime later, and we are long-term players' is still very prevalent, but hasn't been extended to BD as much here as some may hope.

While I can't argue they are actually worth much more, I think I do feel a bit of an 'I wish cool hardware got as much hype and attention as software' lament in general.
Perhaps, but that would be one reason why mathematics is not physics.
Pan-American Highway
The difference is getting people fired over political arguments, versus getting people fired for getting others fired over political arguments.

Is it hypocrisy to have someone arrested for kidnapping?
Hey, I worked on Runestone as a student too, with Brad! Small world :).
Contributing Without Code
> For both products, adverse events elevated in the vaccine arm of the trial included ..., lymphadenopathy, nausea, erythema, Bell’s palsy and appendicitis.

If those are the bad side effects of the two vaccines that didn’t make the cut yet, what about the two that did?
Doesn't that create an opportunity for competition?
> It can simply lift the innovations of others, and because it can undercut their prices, it can put them out of business.

I agree that what amounts to dumping (pricing products below the cost of production) should be illegal. Nor should a company be forced out of business by the effort required to prove illegal act(s) by a competitor.

But it's not like customers are getting completely screwed by a "competitor" duplicating a product (provided the pricing isn't malicious towards the original manufacturer): they're getting low prices for presumably reasonable quality goods.
I feel that, especially with video calls, it’s good to have some sort of moderator. If someone is talking too much, they can jump in and just say “xxx, what do you think?”, quite often that’s really all you need.

In video calls it’s much harder to pick up signs that someone wants to say something.
This is perfect thank you!!!
This is a totally reasonable comment and I don't understand why it's being downvoted... well I take that back, reading the other comments I certainly do understand!
In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops
Please don’t. I strongly dislike getting buzzed by drones when out in the wild or even just in a park.
No, because only a single node really matters: the next node to mine a block-- which may not even be reachable to you. Even if the attack worked just 10% of the time, that's like a free 10% rebate credit card for the attacker.

(and more generally, only a couple nodes matter at all for this purpose-- the set of nodes that could mine the next block)

Plus bch hashrate is so low the attacker can mine the next block themselves with rented hashrate, because the mining pays next to break even, renting the hashrate isn't a significant loss in the expectation.
>But look, the reality is that, again, you need to remember that this is a company that doesn't understand games, let alone consoles."

...so let’s make a game console?
No, these people should be exploring new sub-fields. When you reach the end of a vein of rich ore you don't go ask the government to pay you keep digging in that same direction. You start digging somewhere else. That is what we need string theorists to do.
Indeed! The general idea is that you will have a lunar starship variant that will live in space after initial launch and will be periodicaly refuelled and stocked with cargo in LEO by regular tanker and cargo Starships as needed.
There is a material difference between a $1K smart phone and a $100 smart phone.

There is a material difference between shoes that cost $200 and shoes that cost $20.

These things add up and acting like they don't is just silly.
I try to opt-out whenever I can but I’m pretty sure there are several other blind-spots I haven’t blocked. Pi-hole does that for both the US and worldwide. I just need to figure out how to proxy my phone web requests home through VPN or WireGuard.
I think it’s clear that we have fundamentally differing opinions on what constitutes “ethics”.

If I make something, it’s perfectly ethical for me to decide my criteria for giving it to somebody else. If the cost I impose or the restrictions I require are too onerous, nobody is going to agree to enter into a transaction with me. But if they do, they’ve agreed to pay my cost and abide by my terms.

The same is true of meals at a restaurant or sale of land or any other societal transaction. As a consumer of food, I can take as a personal stance the ideal that I’ll only eat food if I can know the recipe, but restaurants aren’t obligated to change their offering to account for me, any more than I’m obligated to eat at their establishments.
What are those proper measures, mitigations?

Which orgs are immune to ransomware?
Can you imagine building a Responsive Webpage this fast?
Try looking at astrophotography cameras. Many of them have ASCOM drivers which allow pretty much full control of everything.

https://ascom-standards.org/Downloads/CameraDrivers.htm
>Isn't it what makes game programming interesting, though?

Game programming maybe.

For game playing, I'd prefer games focused on interesting gameplay and world-building, rather than the 1000th derivative game in a 3D-graphics race...
Studies backed by the tobacco industry showed that there were no adverse effects and doctors recommended them for a long time. How is this different?

As long as there is a lot of money in video games, there will be enough scientists whose research budget will be covered by interest groups with representatives from the video game companies... and the research will largely continue to show that video games are good for people.
This is just ridiculous. Why if you were going to illegally spy on people would you use a highly visible and noisy drone when the vast majority of the population live in urban areas where CCTV cameras are common and phone lines conveniently run out to steel covers in the streets (and the entire population is carrying GPS enabled tracking devices full of security flaws?)

There's "oh no our liberties" but that train came and went and this particular device has nothing to do with it.
If you point the comments to be fetched from an instance you host, I assume you could silence/suspend users or domains on your instance and they would no longer show up in the comments (although that's probably not an ideal solution for most cases).
Probably more like a "log" (original article says "un tronco o una piedra", like 'a log or a stone').
If “tribalism and grievance politics” is what you got out of Colin’s protesting, then I’m not sure what else to say here haha :p
The argument posited here is that Amazon has reached "escape velocity" and that the sheer amount of market share and capital and control of infrastructure they have makes it unrealistic that someone will come for Amazon. That's not an argument I've heard made before, but I do find it persuasive.

They literally control large portions of the internet with AWS, are moving into air freight, ground freight and I assume sea freight is next. They control the warehouses and they control the customer experience. They have third-party sellers and then once popular they steal their ideas and drive them out of business, because they can afford to.

The bigger Amazon gets the harder it gets for someone to overtake them.

And while you may not care yet, the natural outcome is that once they are the only game in town, they will simply raise prices. On every purchase you're winning the battle while losing the war.
Indeed! And here is even a website which uses pre-made tones and generates a personal audiogram with a bookmarkable link: https://hearingtest.online/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-natural-immu...
Probably the same thing that happened ~10 years ago in a very similar situation https://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-auernheimer
Zero to ASIC: Silicon Design with Skywater-PDK
> All section 230 does is to protect companies from being sued for what their users posted on their service

It also protects other users from liability.

> It does not “give” companies the ability to not publish something, ie censor what someone posts.

It does in fact make this legally easier, because any content moderation without 230 would give the firm publisher liability (basically, presumptive liability for illegal content) rather than distributor liability (in which they are only liable for content for which they have notice of illegality). Under the plain text of 230 they are protected against publisher liability if they comply with it (and under precedent they are also protected against distributor liability.)

> FB and Twitter have the resources to fight the lawsuits

No, they don't. They are unwinnable (Was it false? Was it harmful? Was it on the platform? You lose.) FB and Twitter are just big money piñatas without 230, until they radically retool the structure of their platforms.
Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions
The original simulation ran fine on a Pentium 2, and that was a single core that also handled rendering, animation and audio.

Considering a single core can be dedicated to it these days we're approaching two orders of magnitude more performance available.

If it's become a bottleneck it's likely that there is very low hanging fruit to fix it.
The problems so far are not related to the particular vaccines, but rather the lack of planning and money for said management. 10m doses have been distributed but only 2m given so far. States are really struggling due to lack of federal assistance in $$ and planning.
That's what they said about Walmart 2 decades ago and it what they said about Sears 2 decades before that.
> What can a generalist robot do that a task specific robot can't do better, faster, and cheaper?

Nothing. And everything.

Nothing, because no matter what task the generalist robot is assigned to, it'll always be theoretically possible to design a custom-built specialist robot that's better at that one task.

Everything, because no matter how much better your sock-drawer-organizing robot is at organizing socks, it'll never be able fold my clothes or make my bed or clean my windows like the generalist robot can. I'm not going to purchase thousands of different robots for thousands of different tasks when I can just buy one that will do all of them.
Paper maps also never run out of batteries or refuse to work as expected because they can't reach a cell tower. I'm so glad my parents took me camping on the US-Canadian border as a kid and forced me to navigate for the family (with them double-checking). Teach your kids to navigate by map. When you really need it, you really need it.

Hiking in Hong Kong, Google maps disagreed with the route I was attempting to take on Sir Cecil's Ride back around the back side of the rock quarry. Google maps took us across the front face of the quarry, past the police shooting range / Explosive Ordinance Disposal Depot, and up a sheer rock face next to the quarry with the assistance of a cobbled-together rope some kind soul left for others, then through a bamboo thicket that cut my wife's legs up. My wife no longer insists on following Google maps if it disagrees with the hiking route I'm planning.
Does it include Canada?
The right to petition the government is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.
If that's true, then why don't we start outdoor music festivals back up?

A good portion of my friends all lost their jobs because they work in event production. If that data is true, then they should go back to work tomorrow.
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Card number alone doesn't get you anywhere.

An expiration date will get you a bit farther, but you really need the CVV also.
Can you maybe expand on that? Why aren’t those words true?
Easy. You are not allowed to donate to political campaigns.

In fact, I've often suggested that the real solution is this. Elections and the electoral system are in the public interest, so why not fund it 100% publicly? The FEC sets aside a budget for anyone who gets a certain number of signatures of endorsement. They can spend that, and only that. They get a set amount of time on all TV stations. Nobody is allowed to donate publicly or privately. Elections are argued on their merits not on their budgets.

If it's shown to benefit a candidate, it's a crime, and you face civil and potentially criminal penalties.
Is it just me, or is the wording hugely misleading?

> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number

What we're opting out from is the use of the data, right?

I guess the charitable interpretation is that this was written by somebody incompetent, not by someone trying to be deliberately obfuscatory...
This is the part I find especially exciting:

> What is perhaps most exciting is the potential for mRNA as a rapid and generic platform for any desired immunogen(s). As upstream computational design and downstream processing and manufacture are standardized, custom work will mostly involve optimizing specific mRNA constructs to express efficiently in cells of interest.

It's always interesting to me when we shorten feedback loops like this. For example, could this significantly improve flu vaccines by allowing them to be more up-to-date? How much more quickly can we squash the next pandemic? Could we respond rapidly enough to help with common colds?
Can be had much cheaper, especially if OK with a non-zero failure rate (and/or bit more latency). Note that my hands-on experience with this stuff is now relatively dated, from a "prior career" -- coming up on 10 years now, even. If anything though, then I'd guess that it's become cheaper over time, not more expensive.
How is it even possibly pejorative? BCH has the problem that it's read by many people as "bitch", and is even used that way by by developers (the nodes software gets called BCHN 'bitching'), and more than a few people find that offensive.

> market has spoken on this issue

I just checked a half dozen exchanges-- none call it "Bitcoin Cash" in their interfaces, BCH yes. Calling it "Bitcoin Cash" has a well understood problem of tricking people so serious businesses avoid it.

Of course, the fraud goes further than having a confusingly similar name. https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/981908565307764736