skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, had more problems in EU than in US
Association with racism I guess
It is bullshit all the way down to such details.
> It is primarily used by people with mental disorders.

You've been on HN for a decade. Repealing Section 230 would kill it just as dead as the other social media platforms.
Bitcoin is often referred-to as pristine collateral. It's highly liquid, and its presence can be verified easily on the public blockchain without resorting to experts, such as auditors.

I don't think "depositing into a smart contract" is any more necessary than someone moving out of their house when that's used as collateral.

Conceivably one could simply pledge a set of UTXOs as collateral, and the moment any of them move, which is easily monitored, THAT potentially triggers action on the loan.
I don't know anything about this project, but it's okay to criticize large dependency trees and complexity. It sounds like you're looking for suggestions on how to fix that or the other. Neither of those things is trivially fixable, they're pretty fundamental problems. Sometimes a rewrite can do it.
Land can't be copied. Land is rivalrous. Digital art is not, in any meaningful way.
It goes both ways. With companies increasingly willing to lay off or fire employees at the drop of a dime while investing little in developing internal talent why should I be invested in the success of my employer? They will not have my back if/when shit hits the fan, so why should I have theirs?

Let's not pretend that employees woke up one day and decided to be more self-interested. Employers have been working on eroding job security and employee rights for years.
Not following the news, what's happening there?
Revolution OS: Documentary on the history of GNU, Linux and free software (2001)
> Yes

You can sue anyone for anything... the question is what are you suing the company for? Providing a product in a way you disagree with?
There is still a hard limit to hydrogen energy density that is likely to never be crossed. And safe consumer-friendly handling of pure hydrogen is much more expensive than electricity, that also stems from physical limitations. These limitations are being hit now. On the other side, batteries and chargers did not hit their hard physical limitations yet. Supercapacitors exchanging many megawatts of energy over superconductive wires are feasible.
If you can come up with a function that can determine whether or not someone's behaviour is "reasonable" or not, you might be on to something.

Oh yeah, that someone might be a person, a corporation, or a government, and the standard of reasonableness will depend on what exactly it is they're doing.
I think SpaceX would sell them launches.

First of all, why wouldn't they? They are confident that their satellite tech is superior.

And second, SpaceX is dominating the commercial launch market to such a degree that they would run into antitrust issues if they were to use their launch dominance for antocompetitive behaviour.

But Bezos would probably be too proud to launch on SpaceX...
Spaceship Earth has terrible steering, which in the very long term will be a problem as the Sun starts becoming a red giant. But over time I can imagine steering becoming possible: https://dwheeler.com/essays/move-spaceship-earth.html
You can use it as a bathroom tissues in an emergency
Free disk space
On the subject of ethics - proportionate response, narrow targeting, and trying not to kill civilians are good things.

This topic is too political to have a nuanced internet discussion and quickly dissolved into weird anti-semitism most of the time.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/why-dont-i-criticize-israel/
pretty sure that Ursula was the villain, not some secret feminism hero. Frankly everything she says is bad advice so what exactly is the message? I am getting lost with the new narrative these days. The advice was be yourself not sell some preconceived notion....yet Ursula was all that and more bad traits. she was the epitome of falsehood. she was not true in anyway and used deception to get her aims....what is the message exactly?
Turning one satellite into a cloud of debris would suffice, Kessler syndrome would do the rest.
People want to possess physical objects or digital tokens or digital representations of physical objects so they can buy stuff or not have to worry about buying stuff in the future. What’s so complicated?
In my experience, as others pointed out, its a one way street. If we work 6 hours a day instead of 8, we will get fired. But if they make us work 15 hours a day, nothing happens to them.

I am a salaried/exempt employee working for a client. My employer charges the client per hour, and theoretically, I am allowed to get paid for the extra hours I work. But my immediate manager won't allow it because the budget is allocated for the year, and if I bill extra hours, there will be a shortage of budget (or at least that's what he tells me). The client manager pushes so much work on to us, entire team is fed up. Last week, we were asked to work from 7 am to 11:30 pm, pretty much non stop. After lunch at 12:30 pm, the only time I got to eat was at 11:30 pm, nearly 11 hours later. From 5 pm, I didn't even get a chance to get up from my seat. I am pretty sure slaves were given breaks to have food. They treat us lower than slaves. Note that this is in addition to the 8-10 hours I have been working for the last 2 weeks (not counting lunch or other breaks).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg - him releasing the video of his multi-hour long guest lecture.

He's working on publishing a paper version soon to hash out all the math for people.

As far as I know predictions wise, all of the math equations fit within his foundation, allowing a connection between string theory and relatively - which AFAIK didn't previously have math that allowed them to interconnect/co-exist.

He's been trying for 15 years to get people in physics interested in it - and realized he has run into what he calls DISC and GIN, as mechanisms that keep outsiders ideas out and status quo narratives perpetuated. And so he's built an audience to educate, to share interviews/talks with high level conversation with a wide range of people, and build momentum/attention for his Geometric Unity theory because the existing institutions seem so indoctrinated into the last 50 years that they aren't looking into other ideas (yet); and an example of this is right here on HN, the previous commenter who called him a charlatan - with what experience are they themselves basing that off of, or who did they hear that narrative from, and how much time did that person invest investigating [interesting how invest is in the word investigating, it takes time which is an investment] and did they actually engage with Eric to see if they perhaps weren't understanding themselves and so then Eric could help them understand, etc.
Tech companies do have a bonus system, not just in literal bonuses but also in stock grants that depend on your performance. Coupled with an engineering promotion ladder that tops out at the equivalent of a VP (or even SVP?) role, it seems like there are financial incentives to go "above and beyond".

Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean working longer hours! Out of the people I've worked with, the overlap between working extra hours and having outsize positive impact is smaller than you might expect. Incentivizing extra hours for their own sake would be actively counterproductive.

I'd also say that people generally overestimate the effect of formal financial incentives and underestimate informal social incentives. Company and team culture can have a much larger effect than compensation, especially when everyone is being paid a lot in absolute terms.
> you dont have 9 hours of productive work in you a day.

> Nobody does.

You are making an overgeneralisation, or assuming a context. For lots of jobs productivity is fairly linear with time - some of those jobs work on piece rates or hourly wages.

Some people are productive for 9 hours in professional jobs, and they are billed accordingly, although maybe the marginal productivity per hour falls.

Not everyone is “wasting time, busy working, and showing off” to paraphrase you.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' Pregnancy Likely to Delay Trial Six Weeks
but it's not simply a "phone" anymore... it's a super computer that happens to make phone calls.

And what about making phone calls from computers now? I guess we shouldn't call THAT a computer anymore because it's used to make phone calls? It's a desk-phone?
I've been torrenting plenty of... perfectly legal data over my Starlink connection, I have yet to hear anything from Elon's folks.
I was just a bit too young to hear him in action a lot but boy, did I hear his voice often in F1 1997 on PS one. Afterwards while watching various reruns of 90’s F1 races his voice often lit up the scenery. So enthusiastic, brilliant.

Anything can happen in Formula One, and it usually does... Sadly here the inevitable also happened.

Thanks for the legendary game voice samples and a lot more. You were part of my F1 childhood as much as Schumacher was, alongside Martin Brundle.
What seems more likely, that the identity-focused themes in The Little Mermaid are somehow genuinely subversive and were slipped past the suits at Disney, or that Disney has learned how to incorporate certain themes to apply a patina of subversiveness to its otherwise straightforwardly propagandistic movies?

> While teaching young Ariel how to “get your man,” Ursula applies makeup, exaggerates her hips and shoulders, and accessorizes (her eel companions, Flotsam and Jetsam, are gender neutral)—all standard tropes of drag. “And don’t underestimate the importance of body language!,” sings Ursula with delicious sarcasm. The overall lesson: Being a woman in a man’s world is all about putting on a show. You are in control; you control the show. Sells added, “Ariel learns gender, not as a natural category, but as a performed construct.” It’s a powerful message for young girls, one deeply threatening to the King Tritons (and Ronald Reagans) of the world.

Ah yes, teaching young girls to wear makeup and accessorize, truly a crushing blow to the patriarchy.
Any major space power (Russia, China, India) will be able to dictate the conditions of Starlink operations.

Basically: dear SpaceX, please switch off your sats over our territory, or we will do it for you.
tguvot,

Some very interesting anecdote points - I'll say my personal references are an old boss, who is close to Israeli politics in the US, and Israeli emmigrants. (Main complaint was they liked forests and green more than the desert.)

I appreciate your context; and I did request the dataset from the risk-index organization, and will update here if I receive it.
I haven't read the article but in my experience FORTRAN is used because a lot of really complex numerical routines were written years ago by really smart people in FORTRAN and nobody really wants to rewrite them. There are exceptions - the basic LAPACK stuff has modern alternatives (e.g. Eigen for C++, nalgebra for Rust).

But there are a ton of more specialist libraries, e.g. ARPACK that people probably aren't going to rewrite.

That said, there's a FORTRAN to C transpiler that works pretty well. I used it when I needed ARPACK and didn't want to deal with FORTRAN.
Yes. Again, "If the automated control system behaves consistently and reliably for prolonged periods, the user of that system can become complacent about its operation and may not respond appropriately when a situation requires him or her to act." That's what led to the accidents where a Tesla plowed into a freeway divide barrier (California), a street sweeper (China), a parked van (Germany), a fire truck (California), a semitrailer (Florida), an overturned truck (Taiwan) ...

There's a certain similarity to Tesla autopilot crashes. Everything was going just great until Tesla's automated system failed to detect a big solid obstacle. Tesla drivers need to be very aware of that failure mode.

It's amazing that Tesla is allowed to ship that. It's Musk's "we don't need LIDAR, we'll just kill people instead".
Few terms in the trig expression of the horizontal coords of vertex 6 of Sxx
So... it’s a massive problem that there is no storage for nuclear waste (mostly agree) but not even worth mentioning there is no energy storage for renewables?

Coming from a cold, dark country with long and cloudy winters and no oceanic coast, it drives me mad when people point at the Med or California and say “look how cheap solar and wind is”.
Also Atari 800XL bill-of-materials (BOM) https://ezcontents.org/atari-800xl-bill-materials-bom

Mirror here : https://web.archive.org/web/20201122190319/https://ezcontent...
> "...move to a company that appreciates such work and rewards it appropriately."

Which takes 1-2 years of very hard work to discover, by which time the employee has invested a huge amount of effort for 10-30% more salary and 1-20% more equity than a new hire who has contributed nothing.

And this employee has to wonder why they're contributing so much more when other people are doing almost nothing and getting nearly the same reward. Which leads to the best people quitting and the worst people staying.

Most startups treat "The Senior Leadership Team" like unique people who matter and have to be compensated like they're hard to replace. They get employment contracts, large bonuses of equity/cash, and special treatment. Everyone else gets lip service and the treatment of replaceable cogs in the chain.

For example, the 10x programmer typically gets 10-20% of what an incompetent VP will earn in total comp. Because they're treated like two different classes of employee.

And this fact hurts most companies deeply in ways they'll never understand. It shows up in project delays and huge problems, which ultimately cost far, far more than it would've cost to keep the best contributors.
I'm not sure what your point is. As the situation of the person asking the original question demonstrates, sometimes a salaried position will both pay less and take up more of one's time than an hourly one. So of course people will prefer the hourly position in those cases, that's basic economics. The point of the article is that one shouldn't accept a salaried position just because it's nominally a promotion.
Concerns like this are why I think he considered taking it private again. He can personally not give a fuck and decide to pull out of China anytime, but being a public company and “acting in shareholder’s interests” might get in the way of ethics...
this applies to everyone but only the rich has the money. the technology almost didn't change since von Braun in 1940, go have a look at a V2 turbopump and compare with the latest Barber-Nichols models. sure metal alloys changed a bit, ball bearings are better, etc... "Rocket Science" is still the same as 80 years ago: fine engineering and a lot of testing.

there are a lot of useful satellites: for instance for Earth monitoring, it happens we are on a climate transient, those are very relevant. not saying that ppl in rural areas do not deserve internet, but Musk was clear that Starlink was more to finance his mars dream first and foremost.

the problem is pollution and deregulation. and kessler syndrome that might knock out essential satellites in the long run.
This could be the suspected mechanism

Adenovirus-induced thrombocytopenia: the role of von Willebrand factor and P-selectin in mediating accelerated platelet clearance

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712...

You can see the number of reported cases across Europe in the EUDRA Vigilance database, 29 reported pulmonary embolisms + 20 immune thrombocytopenias, so it happens very rarely, probably something like 1 in 100.000

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-devel...
False.

The wipers engage automatically by default. If you disable that, you can push the button at the end of the stalk to wipe once, or adjust via voice commands. But yes, you can also use the touchscreen.
Originally - diagram was found in the paper [1].

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[1] The Edge Geometry of Regular Polygons -- Part 1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06800
To add some nuance, the boundary between science and philosophy is always changing as we get more information about how the world works. Philosophical truths help us make better decisions about the future.

DNA and quantum mechanics are 2 areas where the boundary between philosophy and science has shifted over time. All the modern talk about multiverses, universe simulations, and AGI seem philosophical, but might become scientific in the future. But people who believe in these concepts will take different actions than people who don’t, so you can’t say it just doesn’t matter because we can’t prove it yet.

I wasn’t trying to lump math and science together and agree they’re very different, although both based on core propositional truths that are taken on faith.
The natural conclusion of the black/whitelist argument is renaming the colors.
This isn't something new, Bitcoin went through this in 2017 (relevant keywords: UASF, segwit, BCH).

You don't need a miner majority to do fork the chain, both versions (with and without fork) will exist and whichever is most valued by users/the market tends to "win" and bring miners back in because they like money.

Unlike your voting on a bill analogy, the reality of blockchains is that both universes can co-exist.
> WhatsApp (Facebook) holds the key for this, but not the data, and law enforcement would need the cooperation of Facebook and Google/Apple to access the messages.

It is a plaintext backup to Google Drive, whatsapp does not encrypt it before uploading it to Drive or iCloud.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26458102

> But that is all completely opt-in

You cannot control your contacts backup settings. Every contact I have (100+) has enabled the backup option, meaning all my 'e2ee' chats are uploaded in plaintext to Google servers.

With Telegram, I can be sure e2ee/secret chats with my contacts are not going anywhere other than the device they were delivered to.
And what of liking things?
I'm trying to explain that no matter of your handguns, tanks are an anti-infantry platform created with the explicit goal of killing people with handguns. The difference of putting a thousand and a hundred thousand people in front of a tank is how many times the machine guns will have to be reloaded.

You imagine that a totalitarian regime will be hesitant to use excessive force against its own population. A corrupt and decaying regime might be, like the russian military coup 1990. Compare it to China 1989 or if you want to be more recent to the arab spring civil wars and you will realize that handguns matter only if the military decides to not intervene. Tunis - the president fled. Libya - the rebels were cornered until someone sent the heavy guns. Egypt - the military changed the president twice. Syria - it is a mess, but those with the heavy guns will write the history. That's why gun ownership is a fetish that gives people the illusion of having control over much more complex reality. A single person can't stop a militarized regime. A million single persons can't do it either. Only if united in a coordinated and resourceful structures, they can oppose another organized and resourceful structure.
In a way Yes, my actual work hour is way less than half of fulltime but yet get paid fulltime salary.
There is no “airspace” controlled by countries in space, and the satellites are not geostationary, so they would have to shoot down everyone’s fleet.
Is this the I, Cringley documentary?
As long as the laws were carefully written, and it doesn't become a barrier to anyone any more than driver's ed is a barrier to driving, I wouldn't mind requiring people to take a short basic class on gun ownership and use in order to purchase or obtain:

These are the four basic rules of firearm safety, this is how you wear PPE, this is how you remove ammo from a gun, this is how you load a gun, and this is how you shoot, then shoot a few rounds so people can experience the noise and kick. Shouldn't be more than a 2 hour class and cost more than $50 ammo included.

(I'm an American gun owner and enjoy using the range every now and then.)
"Luck" is a way of coping with the fact that someone else did the work required to choose wisely and you didn't. It is especially insidious because it ensures poverty in direct proportion to the extent you rely upon it to guide your actions.
Should You Use SRGB in Photography? (Vs RGB and Adobe RGB)
No it's people not needing to pander to the mood and whims of the crowd or the majority for every single thing they say , but being paid directly by their niche audience. I believe onlyfans is already too restrictive for them but it shows how it's done; we ll probably need something more anonymous
> As a salaried worker you are expected to do a job, if that job takes you 20 hours this week and 45 next week that's fine as long as the job is done.

I suspect the problem is with measuring what "job is done" means exactly when it comes to intellectual work in a team, so companies use a simplistic "X hours worked" as a proxy.
The terms "whitelist/blacklist" are no less precise than stack, heap, queue, memory, signal, object, class, instance, process, and so on. They acquired precise meaning not by etymology but by usage. It's silly to argue "Oh you didn't want these terms anyway: they're not precise enough."

Well, the whole discussion is made of silly hills not worth dying on, so to speak, so maybe it's par for the course ...
So do I, but I wouldn't care enough to start a debate about it.
Give me some examples of things that are being blocked that ought not to be? Lay of the generalities unless you feel up to defending the kind of material being banned.

I don't think Facebook ought to be required to provide a platform for people it doesn't want to. It is an absolute violation of their rights to force them to use their private property to promote beliefs they find abhorrent.

For example I don't think neo nazis, anti vaxxers, or election truthers need to have a more efficient way to spread their poisonous lies. I don't think Facebook ought to be limited to throwing up their hands and suggesting individual communities that don't want to hear about the next final solution simply don't attend to their hate.

The solution to undesirable speech isn't merely more speech when the undesirable speech is being used to plan the overthrow of democracy and the murder of their enemies because eventually you wont have the privilege of speaking against them.
This isn’t true, suicide isn’t zero sum. If you remove easy ways of committing suicide, that method drops substantially, but overall suicides ALSO drop.

“ In the early 1960s, asphyxiation with domestic gas accounted for nearly half of suicides in England and Wales.3 The conversion of the British gas supply to North Sea gas, which was free of carbon monoxide, essentially eliminated domestic gas suicides in England and Wales and, moreover, was accompanied by a steep decline in the overall suicide rate (a 30% decline in England and Wales between 1960 and 1971, and a smaller decrease in Scotland), driven by the fall in gas suicides.”

Additionally, in the case specifically of guns, they’re more impactful for suicides BECAUSE they’re so effective. In the US they account for 1% of suicide attempts, but 50% of suicide deaths.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30572-1/pdf