skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can argue for class representation but it doesn't need to be a component of every argument. Here, it was needlessly interjected and is distracting to the main point.

I think the class narrative is extremely pertinent to this discussion. The "meh, if you don't like it, don't work there" type of argument when applied to this article doesn't hold as much water when there aren't much better alternatives for drivers like this to make as much money.

> Yeah, this is a bit narrative-y.

This comment and others in this post that summarily dismisses an argument because it is part of a "narrative" kind of forces one to make assumptions. This shortly worded retort made me assume that you fell into the hyper capitalist/anti raising minimum wage type crowd. The only assumption I made about you was that you were currently more than likely a tech worker that was more well off than the majority of society. I argue against the tech savior complex where large tech companies can do no wrong whenever I can.

> Assuming people don't have empathy for the poor is where people get things twisted. Many people who present arguments that tow a hard-line on economics came from tough backgrounds as well. In their worldview, the world is a tough-to-survive place and that is just a fact of life to them. Upending that worldview can't be done with moralism, shame, or guilt. It must be addressed through understanding and empathy, none of which you would've communicated in your earlier response.

I disagree that my comments did not touch on empathy. My whole point was to describe the viewpoints from the various cogs in the machine with an eye towards establishing empathy for those cogs and the shitty position each of those cogs is in. I absolutely agree that high level conservative/progressive talking points that are shouted at the opposing side does nothing except to further tribalize the two opposing viewpoints. The political party abstractions used to justify policies abstract out the humans that are impacted by those policies and they make it easier for people to stay adamant that they are correct and the other side is wrong. "Moralism, shame, or guilt" have a lot of overlap with empathy. One does not have shame or guilt without empathy and if someone feels shame or guilt for a given topic, then to me that sounds like progress and compromise are attainable. The only route that I see to stopping this tribalism bullshit is with using empathy to humanize both sides in an attempt to help people realize that we are all on the same team (unless someone is some sociopath that is on their own team). I'm not sure I completely understand why my points were so offensive for you specifically. I honestly meant no offense and did not think that attempting to establish empathy would be a controversial argument path.
I guess you're right that "most" was overly strong. But reading his twitter I can't help but think of him as anything but right leaning.

Just today he's got a tweet about "Russiagate"[1], one criticizing "British centrists and liberals"[2], one with him being interviewed positively on Fox News[3], two criticizing Hunter Biden[4][5], one criticizing "House Democrats' HR-1 bill"[6], one criticizing vaccine passports[7].

[1] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378820440995549185

[2] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378817844490690562

[3] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378789892638056449

[4] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378785636325470211

[5] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378709242425831426

[6] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378714859957841928

[7] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1378714144556335107
It's difficult to know whether other animals have spiritual needs or practices, because we know so little about their languages and communications.

Similarly, it is difficult for us to decipher other human culture's spiritual beliefs and practices without knowledge of language.

Even non-spiritual behaviour is difficult to decode without language. Language transmits 80% of the intellectual content of television. Try watching the news or a drama series with the sound turned off.
Where did you get this data? I could only find Australia.txt but it was a misspelt Austria
> Google WiFi creating loops in the network when users try to do wired backhaul

That's very surprising to hear. The decades-old spanning tree protocol can prevent that. I in fact have a friend who has done the exact same thing (Google Wifi with wired backhaul) with no problems. It switches from 802.11s to STP with no problems.
It's not exactly a 1:1 with real life, but X-Plane places "realism" in it's flight models and physics engine above basically all else.

Which is a stark contrast with MSFS2020 where eye candy and visuals are the primary focus, and realism a distant afterthought.
It would be nice if it let you search partial numbers and manually scan the results.

I get so many spam calls I'm afraid to enter my number anywhere.
There's many editors with full-screen distraction-free mode. You can also flip the airplane mode. It's really easy to have environment without 20 popups.
That was my reaction; I'm not sure whether they meant to say the "21/Borisov, the interstellar comet for whom our system is the first solar system it has visited", or (as other comments suggest) "the first confirmed interstellar comment to visit our system". Obviously if something is only now noticed with modern technology, it's unlikely that interstellar comets haven't swung by our solar system many times before. We just don't have a record of it.
Are you sure it's not Lasership?

I live in Downtown Brooklyn and between here my last place in Midtown and my work's offices in Kips Bay I've never seen an individual deliver with a private vehicle in

Doesn't really make sense unless the building itself just isn't getting that many orders
Has anyone purchased or leased a Tesla lately, and could you share your decision on the FSD option?

My lease is up in a bit and I’m considering a Model Y or a Mach-e. Something could come out soon that’s a contender, but I can’t imagine what.

Can’t imagine opting in for FSD in 2021.
Unless it’s changed in the last two or three years cyber security insurance policies seem only to cover the cost of notifying customers of the breach and paying for credit monitoring for whatever period of time is required in each customer’s specific jurisdiction. (When last I looked, in most states it’s none.) Every time I looked into cyber security insurance it wasn’t worthwhile at all because it didn’t provide any meaningful coverage. Maybe for a small startup with a lot of PII it would make sense but I think most companies would probably come to the same conclusion.
My V20 died a few months back and I reluctantly switched to OnePlus. Man, I miss my V20 every single day.
In many ways, the current explosion in deep learning and its applications to different fields are similar - we don't quite have a fundamental understanding of why things work, and theory is still catching up to how it is being applied.
Hey Justin,

I see podcasts just like businesses and I am not as successful in either as you are, so you can take my advice with a grain of salt, so here are my basic 2 cents:

- You currently target a very specific target audience with your 'happiness beyond success' tagline (I personally liked the Cuban episode a lot). I suspect that the 1% of the 1% currently thinks about this important topic on a constant basis, and this may limit your 'TAM'.

- Your guests are focused on business and tech so people who don't know who Laura Wu or Emmett Shear are may not be enticed to listen to the episodes. Thus, you could expand your guests from other industries who also speak their minds about mental health, success and life beyond success (e.g. Michael Phelps in sports, Demi Lovato in music, the Kardashian family in entertainment/business).

- you can explore shorter versions for different platforms (speculative, but maybe Spotify users listen to longer pods compared to Youtubers who prefer shorter videos)
Digital Currencies $2T Market Cap as Bitcoin and Ethereum Surge
> nation states

Nation state is not a fancy infosec way of saying country
I think the lack of distractions on a dos computer may be another inadvertent advantage of using an old computer. Even more so than we non-authors may think.

Cal Newport’s blog has many interesting stories about writers retreat’s. This seems like a sanctuary, whether intentional or not.

Update: I’m writing a text book right now. I can tell you that publishers do not bend over backwards to accommodate non-standard tool choices (Dropbox Paper in our case). The more you include Microsoft word in your workflow, the easier it will be.
> I never understood why Samsung phones were constantly receiving praise by tech reviewers while LG got crapped on.

Samsung phones work well, they have one of the best cameras, the best screens, the best batteries, usually the most features. LG phones are famous for boot-looping.

> different (shitty) UI

It is a matter of opinion. I much prefer Samsung's UI over the garbage that is google's, and even slightly better than iphone.

> Samsung versions of all the core Google apps (but worse)

Every Samsung app that replaces a google app is 2x better. The browser is faster, better than chrome. The contacts app is so much better. The dialer is like 10 years ahead. Gallery is at least 10x faster and less buggier than google photos. I always try to delete as much google bloatware from my phone as possible, and use the samsung apps.

> the stupid bottom button placement

What button? There are no buttons on Samsung phones for the past 3-4 years. The navbar is fully customizable (unlike google), and hidable.

> non-remappable Bixby button

Similar to the non-remappable squeeze button on pixels and siri button on iphones?? And the bixby button is remappable with an app nowadays.

> aggressively killing apps for power management

Samsung is hardly the worst offender here. And I can't blame them for trying to fix the clusterfuck that google has created with android.

> Do people actually like all those Samsung annoyances?

I can't speak for others, but your "annoyances" are useful features for me. The alarm app turns on my bedroom lights in the morning automatically. Bixby routines automatically cranks the brightness and enables auto rotate when I play a video. Samsung health auto-tracks my sleeping schedule and tells me which apps are keeping me awake. Samsung browser blocks all ads and has an automatic dark mode for every website. Samsung pay lets me pay with my phone at any credit card terminal, not just the ones with NFC.
This is a easy way to collect phone numbers of concerned Facebook users.

Facebook then allows the person collecting phone numbers to search for the name of the user associated with a phone number (or email address).

https://mbasic.facebook.com/login/identify/?ctx=recover
Will it be purchased for its full market valuation? No...? Ahh...
You may have misinterpreted what the parent meant about a "game" vs a "simulator".

XP11 focuses on the flight models and physics of flying a plane, whereas MSFS2020 focuses on the visuals.

Neither are perfect, but for those studying or familiarizing, XP11 is a far better choice since it goes out of it's way to mimic real life. MSFS2020's basic G1000 (crammed into nearly every cockpit in the game) still has buttons that don't function, just for starters.

Different focuses, one's a "game" and the other is a "simulator".
While I can appreciate that drugs _do_ cost money to manufacture, it does not mean that people should be expected to pay hundreds or thousands for a drug that is vital to their health.
I think there is a little confusion of what kindergarteners learn. Here's some lessons from the Florida Virtual Classroom which is heavily used throughout the US since most school districts didn't have a virtual learning plan for kindergarten.

Math:
https://www.myflvs.net/course-previews/elementary/Math_Grade...

English:
https://www.myflvs.net/course-previews/elementary/Language_A...
You're making software engineers way more important than they are. They don't hold this kind of decision power except in the smallest companies. In most cases of SME and large enterprises, there is a VP, a director or sometimes a "chapter lead" pushing it (in my experience, 9/10 times they believe this push will get them a promotion, as they "helped to move the company towards an important new technology"); has nothing to do with resumes.
It's really hard to fill buses to capacity too. If you want people to be able to rely on the buses, then they have to go everywhere all the time. But if they go everywhere, there will be enough of them that are mostly empty that the average efficiency might be less than cars.

In reality, they compromise. I live in a not-very large city. I used to rent an apartment in a suburb to the southeast just a few miles out, and the bus only made one trip in the morning to the city and one trip in the afternoon back, and if you didn't work the exact hours that you could catch the bus, like my job was 9-6 or 2-11, etc., you were out of luck.

Now, I live within city limits, in the southwest, but there is no bus route going north-south to where I work (or did before covid), because most of the traffic goes east to downtown and back, so that's how all the routes go. There aren't many routes or stops to the north and west.

When I was living in an apartment in a slightly different suburb, there were more frequent buses, but they were almost empty when I rode them. You can't assume that they're saving resources in any circumstance.
What a worthless comment
Well, we have a term for people that compare trans people to criminals - or worse - like you just did: it's "transphobe." The word "bigot" works just as well, it's just not as precise.

Amazing what passes for "discourse" on this site.
Yes and? Anyone who has been paying attention would agree that CNN, NYT, and Politico are all far left or center left depending on the author of the piece in question. I’ve been watching WH press briefings since Obama and I had to stop for a few years of trump just bec of the vitriol that was hurled at the press secretary. Suddenly under Biden these same reporters have become as docile as sheep again despite the same scandals happening daily... I wonder why?
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As the arbitrator suggests, it's Uber's fault because when the complaints got to Uber, they developed a program to help drivers evade responsibility by teaching them how to more effectively deny service to the disabled; refused to remove drivers that violated their rules from their platform; and failed to abide by a previous settlement they had entered into for doing the exact same thing; and they did this to her specifically over a dozen times despite her repeatedly asking them for help and trying to work through the system.
Why only USA?
Samsung TVs with Tizen are pretty good too in my experience.
> A complementary strategy is to search for technological signals from early distant civilizations that harnessed enough energy to make them detectable across the vast cosmic scale.

> Communication signals are not expected to be detectable across the universe, because the signal travel time would require billions of years in each direction and no participant would be patient enough to engage in such a slow exchange of information.

So effectively what we could search for is energy pollution from construction and transportation operations. Although it seems obvious in retrospect, it never occurred to me that intentional communication signals would not have the appropriate characteristics to be detectable across vast distances of space and time.
Really helpful - thank you!
One thing that comes to mind is Hafnium 178m2, but (for understandable reasons) there's basically zero public information about the feasibility of charging and induced discharging of any nuclear isomer, let alone one so energy dense.
Why We Started PONS?
Robert L. Forward wrote a pair of hard sci-fi novels, 'Dragon's Egg' & 'Starquake' about a manned Earth probe that discovers sentient life that evolved in the hot plasma on the surface of a star. I prefer the second more, but both are very good.
Realistically, what happens to the IP in this case? Can the original founders (or new party) just decide to restart and roll with the same IP and find new VCs? Is the IP locked up forever in the vaults of BigCo? This pattern of "acqukilling" a company seems like smelly, sometimes malicious pattern. I know that FAANG does this to social startups all the time.
I like your word choice of “self-aware systems,” as I’m curious if there are other permutations of atoms that can give consciousness. Maybe I’m leaning too heavily into the sci-fi realm though.
Any plans to create it for the other countries? with partial search maybe?
You are talking in absolutes, there is something inbetween 0% mask use, and 100% mask use.
Batteries have to hold substantially more power now than they did 5 years ago.

EDIT: Huh, I looked it up and I'm completely wrong. Battery sizes haven't changed.
Further to the “self-riffing” section, the advice you sometimes hear to avoid repeating words in paragraphs is terrible – it takes you down a path towards over-writing. Repetition doesn’t have to be done as knowingly as in the example; if it helps connect sentences or adjacent paragraphs together it can be a thoroughly good thing, nothing to be ashamed about.
I believe this is how Qubes OS is supposed to operate.
The way Winds of Winter is progressing, I would believe if they say he is writing on stone tablets.
Now that you mention it, I could see MSFS being useful for general area familiarization.

Foreflight has 3D mode now for the same purpose. But MSFS would certainly be more fun, and an instructor could mix in other navigation skills. It would be a good exercise to drop someone into an unknown area to practice VOR navigation.

(And 100% agreed about the "VFR students" thing. Poor choice of words on my part.)
It’s also what he’s used to and the frustration of learning new tooling provides no advantage for him.

Charles Schultz did something similar with the type of pen he used.
Maybe it says something about the news and your perceptions that someone who entirely agrees with the progressive social and political agenda is so critical of what is currently passing for progressive ideas and champions these days.
There is something inbetween 0% and 100% mask use.

Other cultures and countries have adopted mask fairly common mask usage and their children are not suffering. If anything there children are scoring much better in academics then most us states. There are more nuances then that.

Mask when crammed together in public transit? Mask when walking around crowded stores?
David may very well be a trustworthy individual, but any time you voluntarily transmit your phone number online (to Facebook, or otherwise...), you are putting your own personal data security at risk.
...and reducing yields. Ultimately, it’s self-correcting.
No where in the paragraph it says stress free.

>What is in the videos on youtube is the driver needing to be hypervigilant to prevent it hitting curbs, waiting behind parked cars and driving off the road down light rail tracks

So? Its a mistake, tesla didn't promise it can cover all situation nor won't make a mistake.
When a person submits their phone number to this website, the website operator can immediately search Facebook for the user name associated with the phone number. No need to save the phone numbers. He can turn them into user names. Edit: Not suggesting the website operator is doing that, but the point is he could.

https://mbasic.facebook.com/login/identify/?ctx=recover
I think someone just needs to confiscate his other computer so he can stop getting new ideas and finish those books. Problem is possibly that the TV show finished them for him making it more difficult to get his version how he wanted it - he maybe should have stayed clear of the show when it diverted so it didn't affect his vision.
I can hit you up at your profile's gmail if it is up to date
I run two AP's hard wired to the PoE switch in my closet. These AP's being in the hallways on opposite sides of my home. I run them at lower power so I don't have an excessive amount of RF blasting into neighbor's homes, but I still get good signal quality to/from each AP. Because I now have two AP's running on different channels I've effectively doubled my network throughput overall.

One important thing to think about when planning your WiFi deployment is if you have things that have poor connectivity, everything on that channel suffers. I can have several devices running at several hundred megabits of quality, but a single device being really slow bogs down the channel and suddenly everything else starts getting lots of jitter and overall poor network performance despite most devices having good signal quality. Also, your device may show it has good signal strength but it might be poor quality (bad SNR) so in reality its a poor link speed. Having things physically closer usually results in better average SNR, meaning higher speeds for everything on the channel.

Also, as others have mentioned 5GHz might make it through a wall without a lot of stuff in it, but its not going to penetrate very well through several walls. Having my AP's in the hallways means there's usually only one wall with minimal stuff in it between a device and the AP, so each device usually reports at least several hundred megabits of throughput possible.
I understand the negative reactions, but I think the fact that new software can emulate the old would be a good reason for young people to not start retrocomputing; it’s not a good reason for an old person with years of experience to suddenly change workflows.

That would require first figuring out how to disable the modern bells and whistles, and then learning to use the new software. Faced with having those productivity interruptions vs not, I’ll probably do the same as Martin when I’m his age.
Zinc chromate comes in various shades of green and yellow.
I made a version for NL users, but based on first name/last name (returning the last three digits of their phone number): https://jstsch.com/facebook
I also made an Australian version: https://www.thenewseachday.com/facebook-phone-numbers-austra...

The data is separated by country and it seems it isn't perfectly consistent (i.e., the Australian data is one CSV file while the American data is six colon separated files), so there's effort in adding each additional country.
I honestly think it wouldn't have worked. webOS is great (Tizen is great too), but smartphone OS (unlike TV OS) needs developer adoption. webOS didn't try, but Tizen tried, pretty hard (okay, they could have done it better, but oh they tried), and completely failed.
You can heat up some rocks with carbon to get silicon and CO2, then use the Czochralski method invented in 1915 to produce a single giant crystal by essentially dipping a stick into molten silicon and slowly pulling it out. Then you can slice up that big crystal into wafers.

There’s a cool photo on Wikipedia of somebody just growing a crystal: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silicon_grown_by_C...

There’s a bit of waste, but AFAIK it’s not too bad compared to other things.