skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it something how so many people seem to think they are more 'enlightened' than actual journalists on the Wikileaks issue?

I think if you were to ask a journalist, you might get a more realistic answer, and that is they see that the institution itself is probably compromised. Leaked information can still be valid, but as an organization itself they probably don't trust it as being unbiased, or exactly what it says it is.

Integrity is a super important part of journalism, it has to be constantly earned.
No, he is talking about Russia.
Do not question! INJECT! INJECT!
Hmmm. So I estimated too much Windows in Xbox's OS. Thanks for your anecdotes.
How long ago was this, roughly?

I've heard of past concerns about some of Gandi's internal procedures and even ignoring that, they've been acquired by a venture capital firm of sorts.
> Officers saw his RV behind the house, but the vehicle was fenced off and police were unable to see inside of it, the report said.

> "They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property," Aaron said of officers' unsuccessful attempt to make contact with Warner or look inside the RV.

> Later that day, Aaron said, "the FBI reported back that they checked their holdings and found no records on Warner at all."

What was the reasonable course of action here? They didn’t see anything suspicious, no prior records. Anything more would be overstepping their authority, no?
>They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property

Weird, this hasn't stopped the police before.
Odroid Go Advance is still stuck at a RK 4.4 kernel, which is very disappointing at least for me.
I bet a lot of companies will try this kind of pay policy for a year or two, and then discontinue it.

Even Zillow is only committed to doing it until the end of 2021, according to the article. It is pretty hard to justify paying Silicon Valley or Seattle salaries to people who move away, when other remote workers will accept less. It is likely a bad business decision to do that, given how big the pay differences are.

I think remote work has been subject to a massive hype cycle lately and won't pan out the way the optimists seem to expect. Flexible working arrangements, e.g. spending a few days a week at the office and a few at home, is the most likely outcome for most workers. Living near the office will still be important.
I tried conda on a couple of occasions, but it always took an absurd amount of time for dependency resolution (upwards of a minute on average hardware and smallish projects with a few heavyweight dependencies like numpy). Is that aspect better now?
I did this for the Railroad Museum in Baltimore, years ago, where Google Maps deposited you in a very poor part of the city on the wrong side of the property. It took about two years before I got a follow-up email and the listing updated.
Wasn’t it played in a few episodes of Lost?
I think the reason for saying forced labor was to distinguish it from chattel slavery (what most people think of when they see the word slavery), not downplaying the actions of this supplier.
They are too busy chasing bad guys. /s

The policing system needs an overhaul
Being a "hackathon hacker" doesn't mean one is not a "hacking hacker" ;)
I think that's hardly the problem.

First, the highway of bones I think refers to the Stalin-era political prisoners that died building the road.

Second, Kalyma colloquially refers to an incredibly far away place. Like in English you may say "it's on the moon" to mean that something is ridiculously far, in Russian you say "to Kalyma"

Fundamentally, you don't end up anywhere near that region randomly. It's not like they were going for milk and died on the way to the store. It's hard to really understand what they were thinking - but there's no way they didn't understand that the whole area was ... challenging.
That doesn’t really scale. Minerals are where they are in the earth’s crust, and at some point we need to go to DR Congo if we want enough cobalt to go around. Especially if we want stuff like electric cars.

And that’s just one example of one mineral. There is the notion of the “resource curse” —countries rich in natural resources often stay poor because why develop a modern economy when you can just become a warlord and force children to mine diamonds or cobalt for you? The flip side of this is the part where we in the developed world don’t like to think too much about where these basic resources come from.
Your right in that there are people who have near sighted foolish thoughts like that. The truly impressive folks, if they’re around, will see past that kind of nonsense. Someone who doesn’t subscribe to another’s dogma in Steve Job’s words.
I've been concerned about NameCheap since this alleged incident occurred

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063667
Then remember the double whammy of inflation and fixed tax brackets. Tax brackets do not increase with inflation. So eventually we'll all be in the highest bracket, the change is just so slow that no one really realizes what is happening.
He had no criminal record and it appears the only complaint against him was an uncorroborated and non-specific accusation from the girlfriend that he talked about bombs a lot, and a similarly vague concern from her attorney.

The police seem to have done what they could. We don’t want to live in a country where that would be enough evidence to invade and search his property without consent.

(incidentally, I believe this is the first time I have encountered the name “Throckmorton” in real life)
These are indisputable facts, there is a lot of case law on the limits of travel restrictions in many contexts. They can’t even use regulatory powers to implement de facto restrictions on travel by common conveyance (e.g. closing all the roads or prohibiting the sale of gasoline) — that has already been decided broadly by the Supreme Court in multiple cases.

Restrictions on freedom of travel, as laid down by the Supreme Court, are similar as for freedom of speech: the state must have a reasonable belief and compelling interest that a specific individual is an imminent threat to other people. You can’t quarantine a broad class of people over wide geographies on vague grounds, it requires clearing evidentiary hurdles that a narrowly targeted group of people harbors the disease. As a concrete example, this is the legal basis for how people remove their names from the No Fly List; having terrorist sympathies does not make one an imminent threat, and so the right to travel by common conveyance is upheld. (Unfortunately, the government has been successful at removing standing from everyone that challenges the Constitutionality of the No Fly List, but USSC justices have already made public statements that they take a very dim view of the legality of the practice.)

And this is why there were no real lockdowns. The AG in every State is well-aware that broad prohibitions on travel aren’t Constitutional and would lead to an instant court injunction. It has been tried in the past on many occasions. The most they can do is strongly disincentivize travel using their regulatory power over public establishments i.e. give people no reason to leave their house.
If they execute well and diversify enough, their valuation could become warranted in some years.

However, I think it's likely that regulation will eventually prevent vendor lock-in/monopoly around charging stations.

Imagine you could only go to some subset of gas stations, depending on which manufacturer you got your car from?
This is from your source:

"The findings of the study found that adherence to mask use significantly reduced (95% CI, 0.09-0.77;P5.015)the risk for infection associated with influenza-like illness"
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

"A protective mask may reduce the likelihood of infection, but it will not eliminate the risk, particularly when a disease has more than 1 route of transmission. Thus any mask, no matter how efficient at filtration or how good the seal, will have minimal effect if it is not used in conjunction with other preventative measures, such as isolation..."

Cambridge doesn't say masks don't work. You talk as if masks are as effective as dowsing rods and mask-wearers have been duped.
We need Palantir predicting crimes /s
You can write your own std::function, too, nor is it the only STL type that can take a capturing lambda (std::packaged_task for example).

A capturing lambda is just a class with an operator(). It's complicated to do what std::function does, but fully possible.

In fact, custom std::function replacements have better lambda support than std::function itself. Such as unique_function in https://github.com/Naios/function2 which can handle non-copyable lambdas.
Hospitals lose another attempt to stave off price transparency
BitTorrent and Bitcoin both use a peer-to-peer model to distribute the data and find concensus, if they can't stop movie pirating how would they stop bitcoin? A bitcoin transaction is just data.

Yes the onramp and offramp might become illegal in some countries, I am not sure what exactly would happen to the price then but some historical examples are alcohol prohibition, the drug war, and gold in the US during the 20th century. The price might actually skyrocket if they make it illegal...
Obviously we need to have Google connect our cars to the internet so they have more data points. And we also need Google to connect our bikes to the internet, that way Google can tell the different between a bike and a car. And we need to prevent the bike from being able to be used if the Google tech isn't charged and working, because it would be dangerous for everyone else if Google thought that person was in a car and not a bike.
The initial numbers look awesome: Pfizer: 8/18,198 vaccine, 162/18,325 placebo; Moderna: 5/13,934 vaccine, 90/13,883 placebo for 7 and 14 days respectively after the second dose.
I can echo your experience. Having been forced to work remotely due to Covid, I found myself to be far more productive without the daily spontaneous interactions.

The only glaring negative was that our junior techs were far less productive without close mentorship.
Let me tell you about Concept Unification:

https://youtu.be/GXCrVNEwGxM
Cost of living in Silicon Valley is high because highly paid people are competing over a limited supply of housing. If large numbers of Silicon Valley engineers move to other places and continue to earn Silicon Valley salaries, those places will also see their costs of living increase. It has already happened in Austin to some extent, and people in Portland have been unhappy for years because Californians move in and bid up prices.
Only half of Americans have a 401k, and apparently only a little over half of that half use it. Savings accounts also give 0 interest, and most Americans aren’t dumping their earnings into equities. Most Americans can’t buy a home either, so no real estate investment. Wages are not correlating to inflation either, so that fact is particularly hilarious too.

So, case study, Uber/Lyft fucked drivers out of employee status, thus fucking the need to offer a retirement fund. Real piece of shit companies. Hopefully those people can store their money in a 0 interest rate Savings account, or get smart and dump their entire diddly squat income into AAPL for decades (you know lock up their capital and live frugally). This stuffs gonna come back on us if we’re doing this across industries.

There is no retirement, there is only social security realistically speaking for the majority.

It is what it is. Gotta love the new gig economy too, those people are truly fucked. Everyone’s going to work until they die basically. We see that current retirement age generation is fixated on social security/medicare (literal single issue voters, don’t touch their retirement cash flow), but I don’t think anyone in Gen X/Millennial/Z realizes just how much more obsessed they will all be about those two funds going forward. You’ll have three generations that will literally only care about that, just like their grandparents before them.

Oh, and it’s going to be three generations worth of old people that will need a massive fund to finance all of those social security checks because we fucked them out of realistically keeping up with inflation.
Love all trails thanks for the other tip.
Currently using Porkbun, no complaints thus far.
Is this secure at all?
What are the monetary damages, and how can you prove Google caused the damage?
Have you really thought this through?
The same happens when we follow the directions of a passenger navigating for us. My bet: part of us is concentrating on hearing instead of seeing. We've also delegated navigation to somebody else and that impairs our navigation abilities until we're back doing it ourselves.
Yeah, OWID is great, as is Hans Rosling's work (mentioned below) concerning human welfare improvement. The past definitely sucked a lot. My main concern with overpopulation is that we may have already exceeded the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet, which can have disastrous consequences for all. Soil and fresh water availability spring to mind as ever pressing issues resulting from unsustainable practices in many parts of the world. Climate change is sure to stress agriculture further. Dietary changes and technology will surely help but judging from how reactive we appear to be as species, I don't have high hopes.

https://worldpopulationhistory.org/carrying-capacity/
A lot (most?) of main street traders never even transfer their coins out of the exchange so I'm not sure if increased KYC when transferring would even make much impact.
Raspberry Pi CM4 Does 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet
I blew an engine driving in sub zero temps when the radiator died. I only drove for about 10 minutes.

Maybe this plan could work if you drove 2 minutes at a time and kept the hood up. But some of the components in the engine heat up pretty fast.
> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information

Doesn’t opting out from anonymization mean opting in for PII?
> in my mind the spike proteins that are generated by an actual infection don't typically leave the cytoplasm detached from the rest of the virus

Virus takes over the cell, makes the cell to manufacture components of the virus and to assemble viruses, until this disrupts the cell so bad that the cell dies and typically bursts. Surely at this point, not only assembled viruses, but also components at different stages of production, are released?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_viruses#Life-c...
Honestly, this can often (but not always) be true regarding social or political views, as well. Something about the ego projecting onto the external world.
Thanks for the comment.

One challenge is that the format is very different, my linkblog, which the newsletter is a roundup of, doesn’t have titles, it has a description and a link, so there is no easy way to map that to an HN post.

The next best thing was to just post a link to the edition of the newsletter, which has all the best posts from the previous week.

It would be great to find a way to share, but doing the work twice just for HN is beyond what is possible.
China was able to get a clamp down by becoming more authoritarian and literally wielding doors shut of people suspected of COVID19.

The hospital growth thing is a red herring. Gaining +2000 hospital beds (or 20% growth for a lot of areas) means jack diddly squat against a Virus that replicates into the millions.

Its far easier to stay home for Thanksgiving and cut down on the spread, rather than grow hospitals. But of course, we're growing hospitals where we can (moving Navy Hospital Ships, hiring student nurses before they graduate, etc. etc.) But the USA already had a nurse shortage BEFORE COVID19 came around.

There comes a point where there's no point building Hospital beds: we simply don't have enough nurses / doctors in this country to staff them. Even if we include student nurses / doctors.

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In either case: China has the right idea. You stop the spread before it becomes a million cases. You can't just magically grow hospitals and create expert nurses out of thin air.

Free Liberal countries like New Zealand got to stop the exponential growth because their society was more unified and rational about things. Authoritarian wasn't necessary, but its clearly a good cudgel to use in this situation.
Pull the other one - if his name sounded foreign, or if he had been black, they would have been there with a swat team, and he would have been shot on sight.

As to invade and search without consent... you just get a midnight court to rubberstamp your no-knock raid. There’s your consent.

Maybe you didn’t notice the extensive protests about bias in policing in the US this year. The police do a hell of a lot more over a hell of a lot less - it just depends on your socioeconomic background and skin colour.
Benjamin Franklin.
> It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously cool technical advancements going on lately.

It makes me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously scary technical advancements going on lately.
They did act.

> They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property

They did their due diligence and couldn’t do anything more. Are we supposed to live in such a police state where a single warning would be enough to ruin your life?
Better cut their funding, that will help them spend more time following up on uncorroborated accusations from ex-girlfriends as in this case.
Yes, and you also have no guarantee that Cloudflare is sending them back to the origin over a secure connection. 3 of the 4 SSL options they give customers would be considered insecure by browser standards.
Well sure, but when S3 costs $22 per Terabyte per month, it is easy to reduce the price
For the less visually-inclined, here's a tl;dr as well as a link to the blog post for this video[1].

tl;dr — A Rosewill 2.5 Gbps PCIe 1x card worked with the Pi Compute Module 4 + IO Board, but it required a kernel recompile to install the proper drivers for the Realtek chip (the Realtek website driver download didn't compile on the 64-bit Pi OS beta (though I didn't try _too_ hard).

Without overclock or Jumbo Frames, I got around 1.9 Gbps.

With Jumbo frames, I got 2.48 Gbps, and with normal MTU and a 2.147 GHz overclock (default clock is 1.5 GHz), I got 2.33 Gbps.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/testing-25-gbps-ether...
That's not how any of this works.
Often you get the data in aggregate, bought and sold as an “audience”. It’s a Boolean flag if a person in the audience. Basically an array of IDs for people in the audience (true).
Almost always the data seller masks the ID of people in the audience to the buyer. This then creates opportunity for third party “matching services” or “identity resolution” who can de-anonymize, link, and re-anonymize. Link audiences together, e.g. flies to Bahamas often AND lives in the US North East AND has a mortgage.
Facebook and Google’s success relies heavily on simplifying huge amounts of the programmatic advertising backend, but the audience selling is still a huge part of the industry, like Acxiom et al.

Much of this buying and selling of data within the paid advertising industry hides in plain sight because it goes by so many names - contextual targeting, relevancy data, media enrichment, lead enhancement, blah blah blah...
This is known as Domain Name Front Running and I think their evidence/excuse was that they publicize what gets searched and others buy them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
When cycles happen on decade long time scales and planning horizons outlast a ceo’s tenure assessing credit and blame becomes exponentially harder. Your right on with Balmer’s contributions.

One wonders how the future of civilization will work if the vast majority cannot even understand the true scope of the wheels they’re standing on, or turning in the background.
Making a bomb inside a police station is illegal, if it's in your backyard and there's no evidence of a crime, then it's totes okay.
Yeah, they totally are. You aren't able to, in detail, say, operate on someone while they write in pain. Or, slowly cut up someone with a swored and watch their organs fall out as you laugh and kick salt in it. You can't try and force an abortion by kicking a pregnant NPC down the stairs over and over. These are just items off the top of my head.

I am not saying I WANT or would play said game, but that level does not exist in these games.
It meets the literal definition but presumably OP doesn't want to spend several years before they are capable of producing professional quality work.

If you can't already draw, its going to take years before you produce anything that a reasonable person would want to have as a tattoo.
You programmers can't even get machine translation right. I'm not trusting you to predict my bowel movements right.
American workers have not benefitted from outsourcing. There are more important things than pure ruthless economic efficiency.
The list of things that the ATF considers to be "explosives" excludes a lot of things that are capable of going boom. Playing with explosives that you can legally make at home isn't an unheard of past time (even chemistry kits for kids used to include some crazy shit 30+ years ago. They don't any more, but I think that's more due to lawsuit aversion than legality)

If he was just mixing tannerite in a relatively safe context he wouldn't have been breaking any laws.
is this satire? this reads like a sarcastic jab at something.
One thing where I can give Microsoft credit for is that when relocating from WA to CA, they gave me a pay bump in the same amount of money that I was losing to state taxes (so that I had the same takehome pay). Considering WA doesn't have a state income tax, and CA has a high one, it was a nice gesture. Not sure if they are still doing this. But I think the future will be standard pay no matter where you work. At least, I hope so. I can't stand to go to an office that is louder and more annoying, with a network that frequently has problems and firewalls that get in the way of my work.
Apple Maps has been reliable enough where I worked that it was the default mapping app in our ambulance CAD (computer aided dispatch) system called Geosafe.
We literally drove every road in the county and Apple Maps was completely spot on.

I love it.
Um, hello, 911? I believe my neighbor vorticalbox is making a bomb. Better go have a look inside his house. I also heard he is hoarding illegal weapons and ammunition, so you should be prepared for a fight.
So if I call up the cops and claim you are doing something illegal, without evidence, they should break into your place and look?

There's a lot of risk for abuse there.
I once took a uber at night (near San Diego) and I got a really strong serial killed vibe. I kept doing small talk, while being very scared, in hope that this was not going to end up with me and my gf killed. A mindhunter’s ed kamp vibe. At the end of the ride I told that to my gf and she told me she felt the same way. We were pretty shook and we thought about alerting the FBI or smthg, but a vibe didn’t feel like a strong enough intel.
I agree RPi has the best support in all ARM boards, but, still way worse than x86 boards (I know they're more expensive).

Some example, to get decent video playback performance on RPi4(which has 4K HEVC hw dec), your only choice is LibreELEC, which is a specialized distro which I've had enough with, with x86 you just install any distro you like, and pretty much any player you'd like (mpv for me) will work out of the box.