skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Biden administration is going to try to advance a Medicare for All healthcare system. If the government wants to control the skyrocketing cost of healthcare, it can do well by addressing the root causes of health problems rather than structuring creative contracts with healthcare providers and pharmaceuticals. Even something as progressive as "incentivize healthy living" is very difficult when every legislator is lobbied nonstop by a long line of vested interests. Obese Americans create billions of dollars of financial opportunity. Think about the financial losses that people would experience if the mind and habits of every American were to change today. Healthcare, pharmaceutical, insurance, finance, food, academia, government agencies and administration -- all have a stake in keeping America the way it is.

Just as America is focusing resources on a Green New Deal, so too does it need to focus on a Lean New Deal. This doesn't seem to be on the agenda for the first term, though.
> In the USA, when you receive certain vaccinations, you are given a piece of paper

I hope I get a stamp in my "Yellow Card" booklet. If it's enough for yellow fever it's probably enough for COVID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_V...
I don't want to start thinking of corporations as moral actors, like humans are. I just want them to be held legally culpable and made accountable when their behavior has negative consequences. The issue of morality is saved for humans.

Fortunately, companies can already be held accountable if their negligence exposes personal data in security breaches.

Likewise, individual members of the corporation can already be held both morally and legally responsible for their personal actions and negligence. That's enough for me, I don't need to try to shame legal constructs too.

Now, whether companies are actually held accountable in practice is a separate issue. Equifax certainly wasn't, not in any way that matters. The same could be said for morally culpable CEOs (or CISOs for that matter). But, that's a question of how the law is applied, not whether our moral stance should be changed.
This has been a while coming, there were significant issues at 14nm and some good talent left. Since then some really interesting people have come and gone, most notably of course BK finally got pushed out the door. By the point he was gone though they were truly neck deep in the mud. Having failed to get a CEO who would actually take the company on they now have Bob Swan (former CFO) which gets any Intel employees' heads twitching since the HR department spent the last decade telling anyone who would listen that BK was in charge because Intel is a manufacturing company.

Intel have now burned an enormous amount of capital through failed acquisitions (Mccafee, Altera, Nervana etc) - mainly because their attitude was "Oh we can do that too, and that's a really big market". They can't make FPGAs better than an FPGA company, they can't make security software better than a software company, they can't make AI chips better than a company that does AI.

What would make them successful again is to focus on their core business (a business they departed because the growth wasn't there). So that means spinning out fab (which let's be fair, will probably die), spinning out Networking, I was going to say spinning out FPGA but I just went and looked up the head of that group and he works at AMD now (unlucky for AMD). Spin out the data centre group. Spin out the IOTG group - who can then operate on reasonable scales rather than refusing to work on anything smaller than 100 million units. Spin out MobilEye (they fucked up the BMW project that got them acquired in the first place). Then what you're left with in Intel proper is just Martin from HR, and he was useless anyway.
Either not enough money offered or the authors knew Apple was just buying their company to shut it down.
The article says a stick punctured their radiator. So no chance to turn back. I’m guessing “stick” should be translated differently, but anyway their radiator was ruined.
My wife and I eat a dark chocolate bar by the square. A single bar can last us a month or more.
Imagine you lived in any of those countries and had politically relevant information. It's incredibly unlikely you've heard of Wikileaks, by comparison how many Chinese language newspapers can you name.

On the small chance you had, you still wouldn't give an organization with nobody that speaks your language the information as none of your neighbors have ever heard of their website. You would give it to a local journalism source.

So yes, Wikileaks does not make significant leaks from the military-industrial complexes of China or Russia. Anybody expecting them to has no clue what they are talking about.
This is the future they foretold.
Have you done hearing testing? How well did you do on the word recognition tests?
2000 km of ice covered road in one of the most remote places on Earth. People freeze to death on well traveled highways, never mind Kolyma; a place legendary for its lethality. I suppose it's fine that Google is making refinements to obscure routes, but understanding the fate of these people is better informed by Darwin's insights than anything happening at Google.
I wonder if the guys behind the previous "Bosstown Dynamics" videos will spoof this as they did with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ
Happy to see what is possibly my favourite editor on HN! I've used this little piece of software for over a decade and I don't think I can ever leave it. I used to use it for programming, but these days it's just my outliner. I much prefer it over org-mode, or all the new markdown-based ones. I wish I would see this type of folding in VS Code or any other modern editor!
That makes no sense. I would be more worried about it failing like a self driving car would. A malfunctioning robot could set your house on fire through an electrical short even if it is 100% trustworthy and harmless to humans.

Once I am scared of humans wanting to kill me why would I care if a robot with human like intelligence wants to kill me? It's the same thing at that point.
Yeah. From what I know. There's no conclusive evidence to this but, there were some , very advanced civilizations on Earth, hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago. Even more advanced then hours. Then cataclisms happened, their civilizations imploded etc. And disappeared with very few traces left.
"ZeroPi" is not just a "pi suffix". It is too similar to the name "Raspberry Pi Zero"...
A few weeks ago someone here (or was it on Reddit?) explained this: Since Google found advertising to be a huge hose where money pours out like crazy, they're trying to find another such hose.

I think that explains a lot of their behaviour and why they're even shutting down seemingly successful (from a user's view) services - because they don't earn enough money.

Another big point is that to be successful at Google, you have to create new projects. Nobody gets promoted by maintaining existing projects. Also, it seems as if there's no communication between groups. So if a group gets reassigned or key people leave, their project (e.g. the umpteenth messenger app) gets sunset, too.

I don't think this is all political, but rather they're aimlessly throwing projects at the wall to see which stick.
The American KGB is called the CIA. The FBIs purview is domestic affairs.
Yes, and if you (negligently) leave your door open and someone walks in and steals MY television, then you're liable.

The point is that a basic breach like this should be treated as negligence.
You are right, the grand parent post was not absolutely correct. I also suspect that you already know the answers to your own questions. :) But in case someone don't:

"Can solar sails be used to reduce or change orbits?"
Yes! It's a bit overkill, but yes that is something one can do.

"Magnetic fields?"
There are very promising results in that direction too. A satellite can unfurl a long thin conductive tether. The magnetic field of the planet generates a current in the tether and a net drag on the sat.(To be 100% honest I don't understand this solution enough, but "Terminator Tether" is a term one can search for more info.)

"Physical characteristics and profile of sat vs orbit?"
Maybe! On low orbits you can count on the very thin atmosphere to provide you some drag. It's a common practice for example with cube sats to not put them too high, so even if something goes wrong with their electronics they will deorbit on their own in a few months or years. You can also increase this drag by turning your sat to "face the wind" with the largest available cross-section. This trick doesn't really work on higher orbits though, and that's where "space junk" is generally a problem.

"Put in a decaying orbit that is only maintained by thrusters?"
I'm not sure what you mean. Thrusters are rockets. But yes, that absolutely works. With the usual caveats. You have to budget enough fuel for the manoeuvre, and if your ageing sat craps out you might not be able to command it anymore.
When I weigh myself daily, I realize I can fluctuate over 5kg just depending on if I've shat, been fasting for 24 hours, and/or consumed much water that day.

I wouldn't start counting score until you have a few months of data to average.

All of those "lose 10 pounds in two weeks!" magazine programs just have you emptying your poop chute where you get immediate results. Because they never try to scale to 20 pounds in four weeks or 30 pounds in six weeks.
Traction (mechanical grip) is always distributed among four tires according to physics of center of mass, velocity and angle of travel - AWD does not change that. That said, AWD will let you put power down earlier into a corner because the extra drive wheels will help you change your angular momentum without sending you straight into a slide - but you also put extra lateral load onto your tires doing this so it's best to continue to drive like you just have RWD.
Sorry, I do not believe the police in uniform are the ones who start the fight. Not in my (democratic) country, at least.

Instead, you need to announce a permit for a demonstration. If you don't have one, the police will tell you to leave the premise. If you fail to comply, you might get arrested, even if you don't use violence. But the part where protestors fail to comply with (reasonable and legal) instructions by the police is the part you omit.

Whereas I never got into trouble with the police. Partly because I got the popular skin colour, gender, etc but also because I know when to be obedient and sincere. I can only recommend the same. Pick your battles!
What are those other options? Take away the volunteer opportunity? Stop punishing people?

Just FYI, most of the non-prisoner firefighters in California are also volunteers. In my district (north Solano county), 90% of firefighters are volunteers. We don't get paid.
What do you mean "that tech has gone this way"? Since SLIME was written, in 2003?
This New Zealand study [1] attempted to look at the crime-lead relation in a place where it wasn't confounded by childhood socioeconomic status, and "failed to support a dose-response association between BLL (blood lead level) and consequential criminal offending".

I'm not trying to say the theory is wrong; just that correlations are really tricky to study, it's hard to control for all confounding variables, and it's hard to know for certain when a correlation is due to causation.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
It also spreads wealth. China lifted more people out of poverty than any nation in history, because of globalisation.

Are you saying poverty is less important than workers rights?

Economies develop. This is part of it. You’ve just had a “protectionist” President, US is worse off by almost every measure... as a counter example to your “protectionism is needed”
Interesting. GitHub recently added a "discussions" feature. I wonder if it would be more suitable for this use.
Proof of Concept, Prototype, and MVP: The Purpose, Audience and Benefits
None? Seen plenty of FWD stuck at the bottom of a hill that an AWD can climb. As you might imagine hanging out at the bottom of a hill is a great way to get hit.
New Free and Community Distribution to Replace CentOS
We force people to wear seatbelts. We don't let them buy some drugs. We can make certain food illegal.

Post stomach cancer, I can't eat sugar without becoming ill. So I stopped. Regular fruits are now very sweet, and a chocolate bar is inedible.
There are already quite a few sites which list existing class action suits and how to sign up for them. I'll check them sometimes and see something about false advertising for a granola bar I bought six months ago so I put in my info and then get a check for $0.87 in the mail a year later and have absolutely no idea why.
I "write" a lot on my phone using a simple voice recorder app. It's a great way to put together intros, conclusions, and other "explainers" (obviously not so good for technical parts with equations or code). I usually make a small point-form plan on a piece of paper, then go for a walk with the voice recorder. The act of walking seems to help a lot (see related [1] about that).

I've tried text-to-speech options, but what I find works best is to transcribe the audio myself (usually playback at 0.7x), since during the transcription process I can cleanup and improve the thoughts.

Honestly, without this trick I could have never been able to write books. The technical details and explanations are pretty standard (math books all have to cover the same topics), but the extra, intuition, context, intros, and "lead out" text in conclusion/discussion sections are super important to tie it all together, and these parts specifically come out much better when created using the spoken-then-transcribed since the tone comes out more conversational.

Try writing your next blog post through diction, you will see it's great!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543656
Don't seem to be able to buy it, it blocks being able to actively cool the cpu and no idea on fit with 3rd party cases, but it looks small enough that it wouldn't be an issue with many.

I kind of wish they'd have a new release with a form factor for those wanting to play with a pi cluster, all the i/o on one side, and PoE on board.
wow - these guys got Yahoo Japan to sponsor their manga addiction, genius!

:-)
>the query should be paused, a new plan selected, and the query continued with the new plan.

that is much more complex while in principle similar to the well known more practical approach - run a quick sampling of the related data and choose the plan according to the sampling results.
>Since the Impossible Burger is not a veggie burger, the scientists had to make the patty in the lab using neuroscience. After breaking down a beef patty molecule by molecule, they discovered that what makes meat “meat” is a molecule called Heme. Heme, an essential molecule containing iron and found in all living things, creates the burger flavor and color. Fortunately, it can also be found in plants, albeit in much lower concentrations.

So many many incorrect things in this paragraph. Wtf?

Still, good luck to Impossible Foods.
Sorry about that, just following the submission guidelines [1] but should have left an explanatory initial comment I guess ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But not as great as unhealthy food. So if you're trying to sell food next door to someone selling tastier food, you're probably not going to succeed unless you have a weird number of health conscious folks. And health conscious folks tend to cook at home anyway and not eat out anyway.
Nashville Bomber's Reported Paranoia: Between 5G Reality and Marketing
She did what you told her to do.
Unless GCP is priced lower than competitors in which case their prices may rise to match them like with hosted kubernetes.
This scene comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8_8TJC9E8
It's not a real highway anymore and there are some bridges out but the road is still used by local traffic (mainly heavy trucks and 4x4s that can more easily ford the rivers). It is more passable in winter because the rivers can be driven across and there is more ice and less swampyness.

Several people have done the road and other remote dis-used highways on motorcycle (in summer/autumn when it's more difficult but the weather is less brutal). The AVrider forum has several threads with lots of pictures.

Traveling these kinds of roads is common in this part of Russia. I would bet money that they had driven the "correct" route before and then when Google said the old road was faster they knew exactly what they were getting into and figured they'd give it a try because it might save time. Their mistake was not being prepared.
If there is funding, there is apparently a need for research.

The solution is never for the individuals to induce change. This doesn't work for consumers (i.e. you can't say "If everyone stops buying plastic bags, we do something for the environment", because well, nobody cares... You have to make selling plastic bags either illegal or add a significant surcharge that causes consumers to avoid them for reasons that actually affect them, like "too expensive")

And it doesn't work for anything else either. As long as there is funding, this will go on. The "solution" is to stop funding, but apparently since funding is still flowing, someone still values the research. So what is even the problem?

No progress has been made? Well, if funding is still there, whoever funds this seems to be beyond happy with the progress. This is a non-issue.
All looked great until this: "You can use your Mastodon account to reply to this post" and then you lost 99% of your possible commenters
Official board is horribly noisy when the fan is running.

Basically the fan's too small (despite their being room for a much larger one)

I'm hoping for a POE board for the new compute module - I want ethernet (w POE), USB and storage in a small package, something the size of original Ubiquiti Cloudkeys would be ideal.

Gumstix have a POE board for the CM4 but it comes with a Coral chip also but it's out of the price range for what I need - https://www.gumstix.com/manufacturer/raspberry-pi/cm4-poe-sm...
Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Along with Scientists, to Discuss Climate Change
This is not only the way Haskell's scheduler work but also Erlang VM's. Not completely the same because the BEAM scheduler uses reductions instead of time but both scheduling schemes can be classified as preemptive. Since fibers are cooperatively scheduled I don't believe the core developers of Ruby would just agree to switch the scheduling scheme.
Yea, I've also been thinking about this one a bit lately. Really thought it had a shot, but the runway ran out.
fatherlessness is the most common factor. yet noone wants to touch that.
How does this compare to OpenFAAS?

https://www.openfaas.com/
Remarkable 2, hands down.
I have had a terrific time with it. A pleasure to use and an impressive boost of productivity as it has the best of both worlds. Being able to handwrite and organize files in folders on a single device
Just so that we're on the same page, you're claiming that virtual slave prisoners are being lifted out of poverty through forced labor, correct?
I mean, at a minimum, their habit of using customer data from their platform businesses to inform development of their own competing products is pretty sketchy.
I'd be super curious to know how loud they are, main problem I see with drones being stealthy is they also tend to be quite noisy.
Doubtful. Like the RaspberryPi 2, it also has a quad core A7 CPU.

If you are looking for a bit more power, you need to consider something with A53.

That said, I'm surprised you are having issues, considering I have done over 200Mbps using a MT7621A with its 800MHz MIPS CPU.
Building a Scalable E-Commerce Data Model
Although some sources say the rode is in disuse, this documentary says it is an active supply route [1]. The road looks fairly maintained.

Considering both cities are some of the coldest in the world and the journey is 2000km, this really seems to be the result of poor planning. Part of the road contains driving over a frozen river, perhaps map apps should alert on crossings like this?

What's more interesting is that the vehicles that travel this road seem to not be in super great condition and for some reason I did not see any instance of chains.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzoYy-j1snY
> Today, I would argue the three pillars of its comparative advantage are Places, Street View, and 3D data.

And TRAFFIC data. The main reason I still use GMaps/Waze is because they give better arrival estimates than anyone else, because they have more traffic data, because of network effects.

I think the winner of the maps wars will be the one who gets the best traffic estimates, and I think Google/Waze are still way ahead on that front.

I just wish the GMaps UI and Waze UI would be combined. I love the cop, traffic camera, and hazard notifications of Waze, I love the lane markers in GMaps, as well as their navigating by landmark (I was once told "turn in the driveway after the Chipotle" by GMaps). I also love Apple's "turn at the second stop sign".

So if I could get a UI with all those things and Google's traffic data, that would be peachy.
I think “this is capitalism/liberalism” is a better way to call it out.

I am tired of the globalism/isolationism dichotomy that gets thrown around too, but there are good reasons to criticize attributing all of these problems to globalism. For one, “globalism” is commonly used as a racist dog whistle, and is a popular antisemitic conspiratorial buzzword. Second, calling out globalism as the root of the problem leaves out the fact that it’s capitalism that drives the need for globalism, not globalism existing just for the sake of globalism.
These creepy vaccines are far more scary than any virus that causes flu symptoms
Site is currently down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201229204523/https://www.frien...
I found it hard to believe as well, but found [1]. Not living there at this time, I lack a sense of current sentiment, but it's my understanding that so far only medical personal is being vaccinated. Allegedly there was a lack of interest of being vaccinated right now (it's Christmas season and many are on holiday there I think). That'll change in a few days.

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/zu-wenig-rueckmeldung-zu-...
What does it mean to be FCC-certified?
It's hard to believe that they were acquired for 'only' 1.1B, given the valuations we have seen of many other companies recently.
Cost is part of it, but the other big piece is logistics. As we learned early in the year, Apple is moving manufacturing outside of China, but it takes time. Something like the iPhone is made in an industrial area where many of the part manufacturers are next to each other. This lets various parts be easily sourced and delivered. So when Apple wants to move to a new country, the end goal has to be to move the entire complex, and not just a piece. That takes time.

> While I question his motives, it’s kinda weird that Trump of all people seems to be the only one who is openly critical of China.

You fell into Trumps distortion field. Many are critical of China, but the difference is what to do about it. Trumps idea was to go it alone with tariffs, rhetoric, and go after things like TikTok. IMO, that's not a plan or a real policy.