skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s not forget Jardine Matheson, who in 1840 persuaded the British government to start a war with the Qing Dynasty over their right to keep addicting the Chinese population to opium[1][2].

The Brits got lots of mileage out of that one - Hong Kong for starters, and HSBC, which continues its storied tradition of facilitating immorality to this very day [3][4]. JM itself diversified after the wars and the company lives on as “a multinational conglomerate... with legal domicile in Bermuda”.

Kids, if you want to make it big without actually having to challenge yourself too much, make sure you stick to large-scale, officially-sanctioned crimes against othered groups of humans. That way, you get the George W. Bush treatment instead of accountability!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jardine_Matheson_....

[2] https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Cassan.pdf

[3] HSBC money laundering report: Key findings http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18880269

[4] https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-...
JSON replaced the previous iteration XML which also had a million ways to do things, plus rarely-used schemas, and miles of abstractions between your object and the text XML representation. The standard libraries for working with XML also had extremely insecure defaults around entities that were tantamount to remote code execution.

Overall JSON simplified serialization tasks for the 80% case. The remaining 20% of special situations leads to the pain and suffering, especially in static typed languages.
Nothing will happen on big tech anti-trust. The front-runner for the head of anti-trust at the DoJ is reportedly Renata Hesse, who has a very long history of working for Google and Amazon.

Big tech is in bed with both sides of the aisle.
Perhaps never. Unless we authorize vaxrangers in helicopters to hunt and inoculate the 30% of anti-vaxxers.
I think you both can be correct

I think the stubborn minority may indeed be small, but you havent given the intolerant minority the time ineeds to grow.
Probably once the testing positivity rate is well below 1%, things may return to normal. I'll be curious what criteria are used.
his covid comments last year were beyond the pale. The low point for me was when Shannon Woodward, who played a scientist on TV and to my knowledge isn't one, had to explain to him that tests are indeed not a big pharma conspiracy

https://twitter.com/shannonwoodward/status/13275176940992757...
Years back I worked for customer service at The New York Times. I got a call. It was from a man asking if we could take down an article (short answer: no). It was a brief article from years back where, as a high-school teacher, he had been accused of an inappropriate relationship with a student.

The charges were dropped/withdrawn at some point, the article noted that in an update. Yet there was the article, with his name and easily findable. He said it had cost him jobs, relationships, and almost his engagement.

He told me charges were dropped because this person had also made false allegations against numerous others, and this was determined to be similar.

Assuming thats true, should he be able to clear this? I'm still not sure. There are a lot of reasons for/against.
Most people want there to be laws governing what can be done with aggregate personal data... whether it can be collected, whether it can be sold, what's allowed to be done with it.

A person's right to be forgotten should include their location.

Right now, the law doesn't even consider something like this as a possibility. The laws in the US governing information and what can be done with it haven't been updated for the computer age... yet another failure of our corrupted government.

People are concerned about the military and law enforcement getting the data because they're the typical "greatest threat".

If they did obey the law and not gain access to the data, people would then worry about corporations getting it and what they do with it. Priorities.
Debt to income ratio is usually calculated pre tax, no?
Have you compared it internationally? Sydneysider here, was disappointed when I visited SF.
Can't any data also be serialized as a string? Does that mean "string payload" is good enough for exchanging data between systems?
I think we could just stick with positivity rates and case numbers to figure that out, like we have been doing. Once the vaccines start working their magic, we’ll see it in those metrics.
That way we don’t have to try and guess how infectious someone can still be after they have had the vaccine
This is just a lie Facebook wants you to feel. Your sister and mom care about you, they will easily prioritize their family member over specific apps.
I bought homeless people lunches and didn’t consider it being harassed. I didn’t know anyone who had their kid stab themselves on any needle of any sort. The only people that screamed at me were blue collar workers that hated tech workers. The worst experience in SF was the human excrement in the streets and watching it happen, but as I said, it’s amazing such a wealthy area can’t even provide such a basic service as public toilets.

Edit: The tech workers that I knew very much so cared about not allowing high density housing to keep their house prices inflated.
The Nuclear Powered Flying Aircraft Attack Carrier
He's also spoken at length about deriving point clouds from images alone at the Teslas autonomy day for investors.

Can't expect a commercial company operating at the bleeding edge to host a "IP giveaway" day as researchers do.
Significantly more than half of your ride fare on Uber goes to the driver - between 70 and 130%. Human costs are vastly the most expensive part of hailing a ride, and will remain so as long as minimum wage exists.

The same argument for human drivers also applies to human dishwashers and human launderers, and yet, most of us are fine using machines for this purpose. Whether or not this will cause financial disaster for people relying on it for a source of income is irrelevant when replacing jobs with technology.
The computer revolution is more subtle than that. Just look at chess history and play. the chess abilities of humans has vastly increased and you can thank computers for 95% of that. ELO rankings is a modern invention to play highly competitive games from literally any place in the world. Chess opening theory is no longer a human endeavour, want the best practice in the opening? Ask the computer. Puzzles are being auto-generated and ranked to improve your recognition at record pace. The internet and the computers that run this world have sped up almost every conceivable industry. Computers have led to the creation of new concepts entirely. If you want best practices for your life, google it. ( no, really) Asking a search engine to point you to the person to solve your problem is the feature creep this article is about.
n be channeled for good “if consumers inform themselves about what products/services better their lives and actively choose them in the market.“

Very true. However it’s easier for motivated corporations to steer people away from such information.
Yes, means-tested welfare is different than UBI. But it's not different in a way that I see any coherent argument makes UBI more prone to being turned into a transfer from the wealthier bare-minority to the poorer bare-minority through democratic process. (Classically, that threat is an argument against democracy generally, recently it's been retooled as an argument against UBI; in both forms its a narrative appealing to the assumed ignorance and venality of the masses that doesn't seem to have much support in actual behavior of real democratic systems.)
Hopefully the decisions will be data driven like they are now. When the number of new cases, positivity rates, and deaths in a given region fall below specific thresholds, the next phase of opening up happens in that region. Then those numbers start to increase, then restrictions start going back in place. The same as it has been since the start of this pandemic.

With those that are the most vulnerable (front-line workers, elderly and health compromised), hopefully the death rate will start to fall as they are getting the vaccine first. That is what I'm looking forward to.
Interesting how everyone had a different teapot in mind :) I myself was thinking of Russell's teapot[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Can someone help me understand the difference between this and other vaccines? From what I know, the COVID-19 vaccine is only effective in reducing symptoms for those who get inoculated. Is it accurate to say this vaccine does not prevent infection or help develop an immunity? I just do not understand how vaccines work. Would love a (peer-reviewed) source or sources I could read to brush up.

This is not a political or bait post I really am looking for some signal in all the noise.

Why am I being downvoted for seeking knowledge?
I remember not getting stopped on airlines with a plastic gun in my carry on.
In my experience, adult learners strongly dislike learning without translation.

If you show an adult a picture of something and say this is a “flug”, only in the very simplest cases (where they are most likely just imagining their native word for the object) will they be satisfied. If it’s a class of objects or a more abstract idea they tend to feel very unsure until they have accessed some kind of translation, even if it is a bad or misleading one. In some ways the native word is more important than the actual meaning for these learners. No native word == no feeling of understanding.

A student who enjoys avoiding using translation tends to progress very well, but it’s difficult to tell if they are simply good at the target language already and don’t need translation, or their avoidance of translation is the key to their success. Teasing out the direction of causality isn’t easy.

I’d love to see a language textbook produced with not language. Just pictures of situations, common items and other prompts. The idea would be to take use this textbook a long with a native speaker to listen to and learn examples of all different useful parts of the language. Even then, I feel the imagine choice would probably bias certain language features more than others.
Medium density apartments are also great. In where I live, our council approves apartment buildings up to 4 storeys (including the ground floor). It creates a village-like atmosphere.
All of the systems in other vehicles have the same pitfalls as any driver-assistance system and have the same driver behavior risks as Tesla's system.
I agree. Current day La Costeña on Middlefield is nothing to write home about.
La Bamba, which had moved to Middlefield and Rengstorff, recently gave it up and went truck only. The truck parks in the O'Malley's Sports Pub lot on Old Middlefield.
That might be an interesting theoretical question, but it in no way relates to SF. 3/4s of the city is lowish density double and single story suburban style single family homes.
I only fly in aircraft built more than twenty years ago, avoiding any fly-by-wire death traps.
Fascinating. Is there nothing in the UK like the US Code?

https://www.govregs.com/uscode
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The book cites somewhere between 20 and 100 peer reviewed scientific papers, maybe those pages aren't available in the preview you were able to find.

I can't find the exact part of the book where he mentions the guy who ate 500 cal/day and didn't lose weight, but when I find it again I'll note it. This person did have serious hormonal issues, though. Most people of course, 500 cal a day and also exercise weight will come off, how permanently is another question.
PG: “Do Things that Don't Scale” – What are some examples?
The problem I'm saying exists with JAM stack is that it's great for developers but bad for non-technical people -- wordpress is the opposite, and if I could get JAM stack properties out of Wordpress, I wouldn't use JAM stack for any projects which involved having non-technical people modify the site (which is a lot of them).
He didn't create that image on his own. He had a lot of help. He had a cameo in Iron Man 2 where Iron Man treated him as a peer!

(That scene, by the way, is a perfect example of why I hate superhero movies.)
>let’s assume that 25M users (as stated in the article) actually moved to Telegram

Oh the irony of a knee jerk reaction fleeing an end-to-end encrypted messaging service to a messaging service that only offers opt-in encryption that more often than not doesn't get used. There was never any proposal to remove encryption anywhere, only add a new feature that, by the very nature of it, didn't lend itself to practical end-to-end encryption.
Correct. The future of the internet is multiple internets. For better or worse, It is not an open one.

The US govt fired the first shot with tiktok. Whatsapp / fb seems to be aloof thinking they are inmune from the fractured web
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I'm not an expert in antitrust, but I feel like this gives Facebook a stronger defense against governments trying to break up the company.

"Look at all the other messaging options out there with millions of users! If people don't like our decisions, users have shown that they can easily leave us for our competitors."
Humans drive great when they're not distracted, with just two 2d cameras. But we get distracted a lot.

So an advanced enough AI could easily be better at humans than driving w/o LIDAR, simply by driving as well as humans when not distracted, and not getting distracted.
Framebuffer UI (fbui) in-kernel Linux windowing system
More like FB will acquire Signal and integrate their ad platform.
Made an offer on a house. This was going to be my dream home. It required stretching the budget but was doable.

I had panic attacks for a week and ultimately backed out of the deal. I didn’t lose any money other than realize that I got into something without thinking it through, was paralyzed by fear and anxiety, and then had to back out. It was a GREAT deal. There’s literally nothing in the same market that even close.

This was supposed to be my first home purchase. And I got lucky at the deal I was getting, but I just couldn’t go through with it.

My spouse isn’t saying anything, but I know I’ve disappointed them. I really did want that house but I think the right decision was to hold off for another year... but then I think about it and I feel we really need the larger space and now is the right time.

I realized how indecisive and immature was on something so important. Complete lack of backbone on my part.
This makes sense.

I would even take it further and make it a law that if there is an online article about you, then you must be given a chance to attach your side of the story right at the last line, and if material developments have occurred (e.g. charges dropped) they must update the story at your request.
> "Yes, it's treating people differently based on the color of their skin again, but it's for a good reason!"

People never stopped being treated differently for the colour of their skin.

But yes, however I'd say it's an exaggeration to say "half of the political sphere" fits that straw man you've just given. Now half of twitter, maybe...
Yeah, Mark is a PhD and teaches the CFA which is obviously no-bullshit. His channel is fantastic, and half of the time it really is him talking about CFA prep.

Hard to find a purer source of financial information than analysis from someone who makes analysts. He sometimes talks about markets and how he's positioned and that's a gold mine as well.
Essentially identifying the usefulness of a layered architecture with abstractions between each layer.
Canon, and Nikon definitely have money to catch up.

What I believe made them to start to fall behind around the time of first immersion tools is unwillingness to work with academia, and general closednes.

Too much NIH in other words.

Latest litho equipment is a multidomain know how which is not humanly possible to internalise inside a single company these days.

Japanese were fine when they were able to just ride on their superior optics expertise alone, and just put more, and more monstrous optics on the tool to achieve higher resolution.

But that model definitely broke when optics alone became insufficient to achieve a shrink. Now, a node shrink is an industry-wide effort no company alone can sell as a single package.

EUV is not only about a light source:

Godly level of mechanical engineering to articulate wafer stages, and the reticle.

Work with deep vacuum systems, and materials.

New lithography chemistry, photoresists in particular.

Mirrors manufacturing.

Alignment tech.

EUV Mask tech.

EUV inspection, defectoscopy and metrology.

EDAs, and cell design.
No. Please see my other post in this thread. I'm struggling to think of a non-technical analogy, but basically what's going on here is that most data-copying tools, when used in the most common ways, are looking at CD-ROMs like they would look at the logical disk presented by a RAID5 array.

That works fine most of the time. But imagine if the computing industry had come up with a "RAID5 Mode 2" that was actually RAID0, where the parity disk was just used to store more user data instead of parity data, but most of the copying tools didn't know the difference between "RAID5" and "RAID5 mode 2", and so they just copied 2/3 of the data, on the assumption that the parity data would be recreated on the receiving end. 1/3 of the user data just went down the drain. That's basically what's happening when you try to store anything other than a 100% vanilla data CD-ROM as an ISO file instead of bin/cue.
Singapore Air. Some of the best champagne I’ve ever had.
I still don’t see where in the thread that anyone is suggesting that this is a “widespread” view. The parent notes that some people hold it, and we can imply that enough people hold it (and with enough collective influence) that businesses were coerced into changing their policies, but that doesn’t suggest any kind of majority or even a sizable minority. Indeed, the whole idea behind “tyranny of the minority” is that it takes only a very small minority to drive broad-reaching change in cases like these. I think one of us has misread the thread, but I’ve now triple checked and I don’t think the error is mine in this particular instance.
Yes, I have the same problem on my iPhone
>just as I fell asleep I started awake because I wasn't breathing.

Uncanny. Me too. Also tried every airflow device I could find (breathe right, nose baffles, chin strap, and many more) to no avail.

CPAP was a total fail because if the pressure is turned up high enough to defeat my resistance, it just fills my stomach with air (called aerophagia, a common CPAP problem). I'm starting to think the only solution is one of those implanted breathing pacemakers but that freaks me out.

Btw, I also had palpitations! I'd wake up with them really bad, probably from not breathing. Going off caffeine doesn't help though. A beta-blocker (6 years now) works wonders. HOWEVER! I just saw a study yesterday that people can have insomnia from beta blockers, and that 2.5mg melatonin helps counteract it. Round and round!
Autopilot and FSD beta are not the same. The latter is currently available to maybe a couple dozen testers that are clearly very well informed about the capabilities of the system, as well as the changes in each update. If you really don't believe it, watch their hours and hours of (frankly boring) videos of analyzing the behavior of the system in complex situations while still staying on top of safety.

It does remain to be seen how well Tesla will trust the general public with this level of improved autonomy. As you get closer and closer to the uncanny valley where things just appear to work, you get into the more tricky situations that truly befuddle humans and machines alike.

NHTSA scrutinizes crashes that involve anything close to Autopilot and FSD quite heavily. Aside from one or two incidents they've had complaints about, none of them have risen to the point where they had to put their foot down. Admittedly, Tesla were a big bunch of jerks about how they handled the situation, but still, these were isolated incidents with clear misuse from the driver's part.

I agree with you, in that Musk is overly optimistic (no shit, he's been saying this would be ready in 2018, and it's unclear if it will be in 2021). But he's also quite well informed of the facts on the ground, and is clearly aiming for the moonshot-winner-take-all prize by skipping Lidar and high-precision mapping. That might be a gamble, but need not be an inherently dangerous one, depending on how Tesla handles the super-grey areas around the uncanny valley, where the system appears to work, but really isn't worth risking your life upon. To some, it's already there, as you can see from idiots sleeping in their Teslas while on Autopilot. But again, outside of a couple of incidents over years and millions and miles, the rate of catastrophic failure (accidents) has been surprisingly low.
The proposition that is being discussed is not whether Tesla as a company will get to autonomous driving, it’s whether Tesla’s current suite of sensors and its “HW 3” inference engine will get there. Keep in mind, Tesla has taken thousands of dollars from customers with the promise that they will deliver them “full self driving” in the near future (or actually in the past, as it was promised by 2018).

If Tesla revises their Sensor package to include LIDAR, that would be a sign that the “Tesla approach” has failed.
I’ll take that bet. How much? I’m not anti-Tesla but I do see Tesla as a brand more than a technology company: good for business but not good good for breaking new ground with technology — I’d put a lot against Tesla on that bet (I don’t think it matters for the business much though).
Absolutely - and the name of the person making false charges should be known more clearly. The current risk of false charges is too low. Same thing with death penalty - if you are on death row and project innocence proves your total innocense - prosecutors should be fired.
At least it's something you can work with: write your own interface against, program an UI on top of it, or whatnot.

Now I'm stuck with whatever crappy interface the Grab and Gojek developers give me on my shitty mobile phone (imagine people wanting to use their 1920x1080 screen instead of a phone to order food...)
However, those tools are used for business purposes that create a significant amount of value for the business. And the learning curve of using them within any particular business is generally pretty high. This naturally puts software engineers in a position of high leverage, which happens to be the currency of the elite.
Elon will get into some pretty bizarre bouts on twitter. I realize this is common for celebrities, but that whole "diver is a pedophile" thing was truly wtf.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pedo-guy-doesnt-mean-p...
I'm hoping when we have the highest risk and care givers vaccinated and see the rates amongst them drop.
These classes I was referring to were often taught by a native speaker, so there was always at least one person in any class worth emulating. But that was never really my issue so I am not a good judge of how others experience that problem.

Moving backward a few years, my high school teacher (singular) was a bit odd. He sat us in the same alphabetical pattern every year. Behind me sat a girl with impeccable vocabulary but some of the worst pronunciation in the whole class. Meanwhile I had impeccable pronunciation and a respectable vocabulary.

By senior year she had still not improved, and some days it was more than I could take. It was only a few years ago that I realized that while she couldn’t see me make faces, the teacher could. And so he had to stand up front interacting with her while I was in his field of vision, trying and failing not to make pained facial expressions. I don’t know if he found that frustrating, amusing, or something else.
I've tried linking delta.chat on Facebook. It won't let you. I would love to give the people who thought that was a good idea a stern talking to