skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That report is a bunch of horseshit. Lot of words without any substance. He even cherry-picked some data to "prove" that Tesla's sales are declining. Everyone can see the actual progress that Tesla and SpaceX has made. Their cars are winning awards and they're innovating and building new factories as fast as they can. Who cares if they miss a couple of estimates. SpaceX can deliver payload to orbit with much lower cost than competitors.

True though that those companies survived for too long.
There is an exercise in "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" where you turn a photo upside down and try to replicate it. Turning it upside down is specifically to prevent you from knowing what you "should see" so that you can better focus on what you actually see.

When I observe people who quickly paint portraits, they usually first fill the paper with big dark areas (where the major shadows will be), and only afterwards add shapes and details. So it's a bit like iteratively loading JPEG: first the entire picture in low resolution, then gradually increasing resolution.

Would you call both these approaches "learning bad habits"?
If I delete my own facebook post its not censorship for facebook to stop serving it.
Yeah I actually initially started out with a reel mower when my wife and I first bought our house, they are definitely pretty good, assuming you can work around the caveats you mentioned.

I should try doing it before a run that’s a good idea
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"Cha-ching!"

Business hasn't been about the long term for a while, especially if you're a startup. The goal is to gain recognition and sell at the first good chance you get... rinse, repeat.

You only need to look at what happened to Sears and K-Mart to know that what people look for in value of a company is what you can sell off, not how well you can compete.
Yes, land sand is no good for building directly due to grain shape, but I think it is fine as input to the glass stream. Most manufactured sand is from stone quarries today, but I think a process of making manufactured sand from recycled glass should be able to make something more consistent.
I'd be inclined to trust the degree programs, but can't speak from personal experience. There are reputable universities putting their names on the line and giving out degrees. They're also cheaper than in-person degrees but way more expensive than the specialization certificates. There is clearly effort there and I'm sure you get real TAs grading your work and giving feedback, not peers, and the classmates are people who qualified to get into a MS program, not literally anyone who clicked a sign up button. UIUC and Penn aren't going to give you a MS if you didn't earn it.
The right wing being silenced by cancel culture? Are they, though?
Is there also 'dontrelocate.me' for my next remote tech job abroad?
Emacs does those things too, these days. It's still snappier than anything else I've tried recently.
Responsiveness and low input-to-result latency was why I chose iPhone over android 10 years ago even though I prefer a more open environment like android. Sounds like things haven’t changed a whole lot on that front.

Sometimes I wonder if these increased levels of abstraction and even digitization itself (or at least the Internet-ization of things) is a mistake for human-machine interface. Watching drone racing pilots use analog controls and analog video headsets in spite of the potato resolution because WiFi/digital/etc just add too much latency is kind of eye opening and makes you sort of reconsider the last couple decades. (Improvements have been made so digital isn’t so high latency and VR has served to address a lot of these latency concerns, but it’s still kind of interesting...)
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A pretty much ubiquitous observation there, that fascim appeals to machismo and vice versa. The "female worship" sentence is surprising by the standard of today but I imagine that being "normal" until the 60s, perhaps.

Interesting that even in 1936 the distinction is French vs German; Czechoslovakia and Poland were just trophies to be acquired in the dispute between the great powers.
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Yeah. Once it's got a price and trades on markets, it ain't a joke anymore.
The reason nuclear fission is uncompetitive is its high operating costs. The cost to build the plant is a sunk cost: if the reactor is expected to be reasonably profitable to operate, you can fund building it. If the reactor is not expected to be reasonably profitable to operate... Good luck.

That's what fusion aims to solve. The fuel is plentiful and you can easily buy it; the same can't be said of uranium. It's also much safer to run than fission, and produces vastly less dangerous waste.

Perhaps your argument is that solar and wind are sufficient to power humanity's needs, without fission or fusion. That's debatable. But compared to fission, fusion is theoretically better on some pretty critical metrics — if we knew how to build a fusion reactor, which we don't yet. If you assume solar and wind won't be sufficient, fusion seems worth research.
There were pressure from parents to force schools and teachers to pass students no matter what. Remember SAT was removed as an objective measuring standard? That was not an isolated instance.
What does "trying to teach" mean in this context? Standing in front of an empty classroom and giving a monologue?
I would describe someone who has defined process, defined check-in periods, defined communication lines and is following it as a professional.

How do you work as a professional autonomously without setting rules for work and setting up process for regular progress check-in?
Yes I agree with this.
Well, I can say for sure that the classical interpretation is the official corriculum in school in germany, finland, france, england, russia , austria, switzerland, poland, slovakia and denmark. Those are all countries I know people in to discuss such matters. Since the whole population of those countries (and probably a lot more) has learned the regular meaning of the word, I'd say they are probably more than some group of scholars who really like their theory.
Non-software engineering disciplines tend to involve professional licensing that doesn't necessarily carry over automatically to other countries.
Somewhat disappointed. I was expecting them to use the well-known arbitrary code execution exploit in this game to load their own implementation of FizzBuzz, cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4

The method used by Masterjun3 is TAS-only (it involves executing the contents of the controller registers as code, which requires frame-precise inputs), but there are some other methods which are more viable for a real-time attack.
> I don't agree that it's like nicknaming Muslims "Mohammeds" or "Qurans". There already exists a short word to refer to Muslims, which is Muslims.

“Muslim” and “Islam” weren't imported from Arabic into general use in English (or most other Western European languages) until after “Mohammedan(ism)” or similar constructions had been around for a long time.

> Mormon is an effective short form of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"

It's a short alternative, but it's not really a short form as it does not derive at all from the long form. (LDS is more of a short form.)
I'm aware of all of this, but I'm really glad you posted it in case some others read it and it catches their interest.

OoT speedrunning is very unique, and since it was a game I played a lot as a kid I'm always excited to watch the ways it's beaten.

I do admit I prefer the categories that emphasize more gameplay though, even if the glitches are incredible.
There also appears to be a port of some sort for FreeBSD

https://www.freshports.org/emulators/wine-proton/
The cloud providers can afford to hire and train elite teams to handle security. I remember seeing a post about a guy trying to break out of the docker container used by Cloud SQL on GCP, and apparently the GCP admins made it known that he was being watched pretty early on. I believe the issue was patched fairly quickly too.

It's possible that <Random F500 Co> has a great security team. But it's also possible that <Other F500 Co> doesn't.
> So long as wages keep pace with inflation, which they do, this is not an issue.

Lots of workers don't get inflation adjustments to their wages. And even if they do, you'll still lose money because a larger share of your income will go to taxes unless the tax brackets are adjusted for inflation very frequently, which they're not.
That's what Coinbase does.
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Love this, there's so much personality in these. No JS cruft, no cosmetics, no filler, just cool (and in this case very weird) vibes.

How far the web strayed from this, it's a shame really. The soul has left :/
What does Electron offer in terms of portability that SDL2 doesn't have?
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A century ago, phrenology failed.

Would it fail if you added a modern AI? How about if you had an MRI that provided more-direct information for the AI model? Feeding actual brain structure data into an AI is far more sophisticated than measuring heads and feeling for lumps.
The vulnerabilities being exploited were all zero-day. Up-to-date installations were still vulnerable.
This would be so easy for shady tracking websites to circumvent
They are not in general (iirc 64b mult is down to 3 cycles now), but usually in an x86 cpu it can run microinstructions out of order enough so that the multiplication looks like it's finished in one cycle.
That’s my experience as well. Uptime is decent. Just hope an outage is widespread and not at your ground block.

Because god help you if you need to reach out. It will be frustrating and painful and there is no escalation option.

Honestly I get better results just going through the Better Business Bureau. It literally solved my last line down issue faster that way that the empty promises from their call center robots
But even without that it could be immensely useful for space travel and colonization. And also for remote environments.
> He's a good kid. He didn't deserve that. Where's the mentors? Where is the help for him?

Well obviously at the school but...

> was late or absent 272 days.

I feel like the story here isn't that the schools are failing parents, it's that parents are going to absolutely aburd lengths to try to blames schooles after the fact for their own failures.

She ignore her childs education for 3 years, and so did her kid, and suddenly at the end of it she's going "whaaat!?" when they tell her that this has consequences.
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Repreneur is a social software Crowdfunding platform using in app Virtual currency where makes can get insights and initial cash towards their product from the community.
Users earn based on engagement on the site or by buying IDF Tokens (which is the in-app currency)

We also believe in providing value so we have groups called Collaborative rooms that can either be public, private or even SECRET. Also we have developed a posting system if either posting your MVP/idea for crowdfunding or asking a Question.

We have also in built social features like;
Follow/Unfollow
Like
Comment
Groups(Collaborative rooms)
and we are working on a private chat system.
I have been beating the drum for a straightforward hardware key-based identity system for 5-50 users here for years.

And, yet, everything is still a pain in the ass.

We were looking at Auth0 precisely because Okta was doing the enterprisy thing. Sigh.
There's a similarly tragic problem with Vancouver East side.
> However, as our experience shows, many companies are not ready to disclose salary info to the public.

Depends on the demographic you are trying to attract on the platform.

I've done a little bit of tech recruiting and I can tell you this: top engineers, no matter the level, get a lot of offer. And they won't hesitate to sort by compensation (unless of course it's SpaceX).

Really, there are two kinds of businesses out there: those that try to make money playing games with compensation and CoL adjustments and those who make money building the best software out there and scaling. The later won't have any problem giving a number: they need the talent right now to scale.
The whole concept of the placement of the milk being suspicious and needing an explanation never made sense to me. Why would they or should they optimize for people who go to the supermarket just to buy milk? It makes perfect sense to me from the point of view of usually buying more than one thing per trip.

If in a "normal" grocery store trip you go through most of the store then of course you want to get refrigerated and frozen foods last, just before you go to the checkout. So they don't warm up too much.

By the way, frozen stuff is not all on the perimeter in my experience of US supermarkets. It's funny how something can be so mundane and everyday you never really look at it.
I'm not sure if this is what you want but there are devices for people with hearing disabilities that will flash a light if a phone call comes in. Versions exist for both land lines and for cell phones, for example: https://www.maxiaids.com/cell-phone-sensor
I found stylegan to be pretty plug and play for training on 10000 panels from a webcomic, here are some sample results. This was a while ago, I’m sure stylegan2 would perform even better http://hgreer.com/homestuck-gan/fakes007470.png
There were literally thousands of shitcoins at the time that can also be more abundant and easier to mine.
I think you misunderstand what "controlled for" means in this case. The way the controlled version of the test works is that two pictures are presented at the same time. Both subjects will be of the same gender, the same ethnicity, and (approximately) the same age. The goal of the test is to choose which of the subjects pictured is conservative, and which is not. There is no way to obtain greater than 50% accuracy by choosing "old white men", because both pictures will be of "old white men" (or "young black women", or whatever). Something else in the photo is being used to obtain the boost in accuracy: perhaps facial hair, perhaps obesity, perhaps apparent youthfulness, perhaps a guess at sub-ethnicity, perhaps pose---but it has to be something other than "old white man".
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> This is only true if we presume that it was equally spread across risk strata. But it's also possible that it didn't make its way from younger travelers into the higher risk stratum in sufficient measure to start causing significant mortality for weeks.

It may not have been equally spread across risk strata, but in a pre-lockdown world, even if you are in a low-risk group, you have social contact with people who are in high-risk groups, through public transit, grocery stores, services that you visit, relatives that you visit, hospital waiting rooms, urgent care waiting rooms, hospital wards where doctors don't wash their hands as frequently as they should, workplaces, and the list goes on.

Is it possible for a small group of people (low thousands) to have had the virus across the country, when the official count was in the tens and low hundreds? Absolutely! I can see this happening. It seems to fit with the pattern of infections flaring up all across the country at roughly the same time.

Was it possible for millions of people to have had the virus (which is what the sero data points to), for over two months, without getting other people sick in a manner that would show up on the statistics? That is an incredibly strong claim, with only one data point that supports it, and a lot of data points that oppose it.

With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the sero data was not a good predictor of the future in March of 2020. What has changed about it, that makes it a good predictor of the future in March of 2021?

> I can't tell you how happy I am to be in Florida (no lockdown, mortality substantially below average, risk-adjusted mortality notably and incredibly low) instead of my home state of NY (intense lockdowns and a resulting bloodbath).

If Florida had the population density of NYC, with people of all demographics sharing the same public transit infrastructure, sharing the same elevators, packing the same grocery stores, it would be a graveyard. You're ignoring all sorts of conflating factors, by pointing at two vastly different datasets, and concluding that because one had a lockdown, and the other one didn't, lockdowns don't work.

Counterpoint - Washington state has had lockdowns, and despite having a similar population density to Florida, has half the death rate of it. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, death rates are much higher in counties with lower compliance rates (Yakima versus Pierce, for example...)

Oh, and when lockdowns would get relaxed, three weeks later, like clockwork, infections and deaths would spike up.

It's an infectious airborne disease. The more people that carriers are in close quarters with, the faster it spreads. Reducing the number of people the average person is in contact with, healthy, or otherwise, reduces it's rate spread. I am not sure why this is still controversial in 2021.
They attribute the attack to a particular actor without providing any evidence to the public. A bug could exist that enables such an attack, but it's not proven any emails were ever even taken.

They did find a tool left behind it seems.

I am just increasingly skeptical of these hacking stories that have a nat sec angle on them after the previous ones have been shown to be mostly or entirely fraudulent years later.
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Exchange is often externally open in some way for OWA.

One that server is hacked, you may be wide-open internally.

I’d be at least as concerned about an Exchange vulnerability as I would be about Outlook, but probably more.
One hack happening doesn't raise awareness for the risk of different unknown vulnerabilities in different software. So the total number of institutions getting hacked would be the same.

It's not really one system. It just looks like that because it's one news story. If instead, all school districts were hacked this year and all police departments next year, how is that any better than both together? If it was one system like one network, your idea is even worse because having more different software increases the attack surface so hacking any one of those compromises the whole system.

Would you personally use uncommon software to avoid being part of a big hack like this? I don't think that's a valid way of protecting yourself.

Your idea would make sense if many of these institutions were just providing services that were redundant with each other. Then if some of them are disabled, the others can take their place. But a police department's email server can't do the job of a school district's one. And if confidential information is taken in a hack, redundancy doesn't help at all.
Just drop the 'e' from email.

/s
At Google it typically manifests itself as "Advancing our amazing bet" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792928
Really what we need is the ability to self-host reasonably secure systems without a team of experts working round the clock... but that doesn't appear to be the hand we've been dealt
Have you talked to immigrants much? I was in the English as Second Language class in my somewhat mediocre high school. Lots of immigrant children, no fancy connections and all pretty poor by US standards. And yet some of them ended up in the high quality universities, and likely got a well paying job.

Please don't say things like "US currently favor anyone who already has money", as it completely ignores the achievements of first and second generation immigrants. They had no money, only hard work, and while they are not billionaires, many of them are in the middle class, earning more than a median salary.
Haha every older man I know who does testosterone is more satisfied and overall happier. Where did you find this?
20 MB is less than 0.25% of my desktop machine's memory, and 2% of a 2010-era netbook. 20 MB, while much larger than what it has to be, is tiny even by the standards of decade-old computers.

RAM is cheap and plentiful. If you don't use it, its value is almost zero (the "almost" comes from OS-level caching of files and CPU-level cache misses of code).
I remember this kind of thing happening all the time in the 90s and part of the 00s... It's just 10 to 1000 times worse now days since EVERYTHING is online now.
> to keep up on patches, security advisories and such

Until you've personally experienced the full horror of attempting to keep on-premises Exchange patched, especially in the SME space where you may have few servers, it's hard to imagine how awful this is.

Cumulative Updates are essentially "completely uninstall Exchange" and then "reinstall Exchange again". This is not what one might call a "patch". Then you get into dependencies on .Net and suddenly you need to upgrade the OS as well while you're in the middle of completely-uninstalling-and-reinstalling-Exchange.

Last time I got sucked into this, I told my client it was nuts to run on-premises Exchange, to bin it completely and move to a cloud-hosted [Linux] IMAP mailbox system.
What makes you think you alone will find that cheap electricity, that is so much cheaper than anywhere else that it allows you to beat everyone else that is also mining?
Thankfully for my mental well being it has been 15+ years since I touched Exchange.
Being able to speak without interference from the government. I also think there is a spirit of free speech where the consequences for your speech should not exceed the speech itself, though that is obviously less precise and kinda up to individual judgement
I don't know erlang, but it looks to me like that's a difference between types. (integer vs float)

Is there a language that treats different float values of zero as unequal? That would be surprising to me. And possibly silly.
That is similar to my own attendance record for the final two years of high school, three decades ago. No-one came looking, then, either.
Google's job is to portray the World as it is, not a desired fictional version. How would people even be motivated to change the status quo if it's hidden from them?
cough vim cough

I'm just kidding. Don't want to start a fight here.
We do have a process. But it's less formal. Weekly meetings, priority lists, technical discussions, business discussions. If a problem comes up, we just talk to each other. It's easy and makes for a pleasant environment.
In one of the SPARC talk videos I think someone asked who makes the Rebco film, and the speaker said there were a handful of small companies around the world. I don't remember if he was any more specific than that, but anyways it seems it's kind of a novelty low-volume product at this point. I assume with demand picking up that manufacturing capacity is going to grow along with it.

Low temperature superconductors in general is, of course, an active area of research. There may be better alternatives to Rebco just waiting to be discovered.
> He's a kid. He made bad decisions. He needs support, role models and being gently but firmly held accountable for his decisions in a way that ramps up gradually.

This is not exclusive to failure. He failed AND he needs help.

I think the issue here is that missing 270 days of school requires some detailed explanation. There’s a reason, but having once been a teenager the most reasonable is that he skipped a lot of school.

Blaming “the system” for this level of just plain missingness is not telling the whole story.

Unless you want to go deeper in that the underlying condition that made it hard for the parent to not check grades in 4 years and the kid to skip that much school without anyone noticing.