skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a 50 square mile city with live traffic, pedestrians and objects is a "little more than a Jurassic Park jeep ride"?

What are you going to say when they go to SF next? Just another Jurassic Park ride?
When I read the headline I thought it was claiming that farm productivity was falling. It's a misleading headline: I was misled by it.

But people don't click on headlines telling you that things are the best they have ever been and getting even better, but are not quite as good as they could be. You've got to feed the doomscrollers.
"But Microsoft had a reputation, deserved or not, as more of an imitator than an innovator."

It seems they managed quite a decent April Fool's joke until boring old PR, sorry the entire Legal Sharks with frikkin' Lasers division dived in.

It should be possible to have a laugh locally.
That's not true. You just have to click the "with the omited results included" at the bottom of page 11, and that gives you many more pages.
You can compile! There's modern day ZILF which will take original source files and compile them into .z files that can be used with a Z-machine.

http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/ZILF
I would posit that those outcomes had more to do with scientific progress than with whether social security or the ban on leaded gasoline are implemented at the federal level versus the states.
A while ago I asked a friend who is a geologist working for a Platinum mine how come Platinum only shows up in certain places. His answer was basically along these lines.
>Do you think they just happened to be looking at their trading screens during that minute of the day?

Or they set up something like an RSS feed and had their phones ring when a keyword was mentioned. Knowing the story is coming is enough to make sure you're prepared.

Even if you did have advanced knowledge of when it was supposed to publish you would do this, so they can't betray you or nothing like a time zone mistake can ruin everything.
What exactly is insider trading?
Last year, if I remember correctly, Facebook released “Messenger Rooms” and it tanked Zoom stock quite a bit when they announced this.
If you were A Facebook engineer and loaded up on ZM puts just before the announcement, would that be an insider trading? With the right ZM puts you would be able to profit immensely.
> "People see us as good, reliable workforces, but never quite good enough to lead," Michelle Kim said.

Uh ? Did they check the top CE0s and Division leaders of Google, Microsoft and Oracle and numerous other SV companies ?
This is obviously a myth. If somebody mails a DVD of "Godzilla vs King Kong" to a government employee, it doesn't place the movie into the public domain.
It's currently being worked on [1]. It's only recently that we've managed to capture the complete nervous system connectivity of C. Elegans, one of the simplest organisms with a nervous system. [2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm

[2]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1352-7
Disclaimer, I work for GM, not on SDC; anything expressed here is solely my opinion.

I think SDCs (self driving cars) are great, and will be available in some capacity in the very near future, BUT I think we are at least one more paradigm change away from the dream of SDC.

Take for instance liability. It seems quite likely that manufacturers will want to disclaim liability for SDCs. It is easy to see the roots of that in current driver assist features. They are very careful to call out in the documentation (if not in the naming and presentation) that the human driving is responsible for safety.

If this liability was not an issue, SDCs in hands-off, eyes-off, brains-off mode would be available today, right now.

So how will the paradigm of liability change? Or will it?
Similar story around AIDS-denier Kary Mullis, who invented PCR. I think his employer sold the patent for >$1B. 1993 Nobel in chemistry.

I remember reading about him in Omni magazine.
Passive income-generating commercial real estate for $100
This has got to be a plot point from a William Gibson story.
I remember when I saw my first blue LED. It immediately felt like I was in the future, and I remember how bright it was lighting up the entire room in the dark.
What happened vs. what you expected?
> Simpler loophole: you gift it to them, then they gift it back at the end of the term.

This is a terrible "loophole"; it eats into your estate tax allowance.
Things that should be simple are surprisingly complicated in go. If you hit up DuckDuckGo, and search for “golang denounce”, the first two hits are very simple implementations of denouncing a function in go... both of which leak goroutines. I didn’t read past the first two, but I bet you have to read a ways to find one that’s actually correct.
Years ago (2008?) I was able to get PayPal's customer support to tell me my password over the phone. Try that ;)
"Dude, everyone knows it is Krypton." -- anonymous.

I read this paper and found it pretty neat. That said I wouldn't have wanted to be around at the time :-).

I have always wondered if whacking a planet hard enough would allow a large proportion of its heavier elements to congregate at the core. And if such an event was a requirement for life to arise as the magnetosphere provided by the Earth's core shields relatively delicate biology from the full blast of the solar wind.
April 1996 was a long time ago, almost the dawn of the Internet as it relates to Microsoft.

Internet Explorer only launched in 1995, and the anti-Linux Halloween Documents were 1998.
I have a page on this topic with many additional examples (most from after Joel's post): https://www.gwern.net/Complement
It's not impossible, and we completely agree that this is needed. We're building this over at masterfile.co via our OpenDRM technology.
Yes. From [Investopedia][1]:

> Insider trading involves trading in a public company's stock by someone who has non-public, material information about that stock for any reason.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/insidertrading.asp)
I tend to agree. These are words used to avoid healthy debate and pressure people to do work they disagree with.
This advice is too important to have been posted on April fool's day.
Because the symptoms are so similar, it's possible it's still spreading but to the same people getting covid and people are only being diagnosed with covid.
The Perl extensibility or that specific extension?
The FINRA database available to regulators is an amazing engineering achievement. It knows all and is how the SEC is able to “replay” the markets after the fact.

Four year old blog post, but gives a sense of scale:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/analytics-without-...
C++ has a high barrier because it exposes the inherent complexity of computing. If you've managed to fight through that you can probably pick up the simplified concepts in Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.
I still think it's fascinating that the moon doesn't have any effective rotation.

I mean NONE .. what are the odds of that?

Additionally, the fact that it's the PERFECT distance from the earth to the moon to perfectly obscure/eclipse the sun?

WTF moon!? How'd you get so awesome!?
WebSQL never reached proper standardization because there was a requirement of at least two independent implementations for that and all the available ones were based on... SQLite.
My understanding is that that would be considered insider trading. It's when you use material non-public information that has been misappropriated -- i.e. confidential information from your employer or from some other entity where you had a duty not to disclose, or such information after conveyance to another party. On the other hand, if you were able to derive such information on the basis purely of what's observable in public, then you would be in the clear. For example, if you saw a Facebook engineer wearing a "Rooms" badge or using the product in a cafe, and traded based on that, then it would be considering public information. IANAL, don't blame me if you follow this advice and go to jail.
>I'm not sure I'd describe it as fascinating, so much as abusive.

Agreed, most taxes are protection money masquerading as necessary evil that supposedly benefit the citizens.
PostmarketOS Second Beta Release: v21.03
Shouldyouhavesome.coffee
If your monthly food budget is 500 EUR, which is realistic for a family of 4 in western Europe that shops with some care and only occasionally uses Deliveroo, this could be scary until you realize it was a bad joke - so scary that you immediately acted on it, causing yourself further aggravation and expense (banks in Germany often charge for replacement cards).

So yeah, it would have enraged me, as I would have immediately canceled that card, having had a credit card number stolen and abused before and having to wait for the bank to finish investigating the fraud to get my money back.
I wish there was a way to completely prevent an app any kind of network access (Wifi/4G/Bluetooth/etc). This would immensely help: you can grab all the data you want, you won't have a way to upload it.
This article explicitly states for one case it describes that the indicted trader received the insider information from a third party, not the journalist.

So it seems the flow of information was from him to the journalist, not the other way around. The purpose would be to get the news out there fast after buying into the stock, as otherwise it may take months for it to be released the normal way or, in some cases such as mergers not yet finalized, to fall through completely.

As such, the journalist wouldn’t have done anything wrong. Receiving and publishing inside information is their job, and as long as the information is accurate it isn’t their job to make up for a lack of secrecy on the company’s part. Since the information was already circulating among unauthorized traders, making it public actually serves to level the playing field and prevent further harm.
In fairness, it was already too late when they were making the claim that "next year (or whenever) will be too late". That is, if you look at the data of the people doing the urging to "act now", the damage was already done by the time they were speaking.

There could be a case for saying "It's already going to be awful; act immediately before it's catastrophic" - but they weren't making that case. (Or, perhaps, the media wasn't reporting them as making that case.)
Hey guys! This is my latest creation. I built this questionnaire in my head over time about whether or not I should have a cup of coffee, and decided to bring it into the world to get feedback and allow others to build on it.

You can add questions or suggest modifications - your thoughts are very welcome! The project is open source, and there's a link to the repository on Github at the bottom of the website.
Similar for me, but I was always a bit morally dyslexic and decided to send “This school has been hacked” or some such. This was before computers were really used in school much other than the 1 computer room to teach touch typing and/or some basics, so our school didn’t have a proper IT team but instead used some local external support business. The school panicked and shut down every computer and printer until they could come “fix” it.. 2 days later.

I got suspended for a week and banned from the computer room for a year.
This is a fantastic (and tough) game that truly painted a mental picture through a text-only interface.
get a good co-host and good interviewing subjects, don't edit out the pauses because tone intonations would be incomprehensible if listeners want to hear the show 1.25 times the regular speed. Small electret mic could be good in an untreated room (watch out for frequency response to your voice though) those are certainly more usable on the go rather than bulky and unusable large diaphragm mics or dull sounding dynamic ones.
I think the rotation thing is explained by tidal locking.
...and has a duty to the company to keep such information secret.

If you’re an employee, you can’t trade on it. Same if you work at the accountancy that does the company’s financials.

If, however, you hear some employees talking about it in public, it’s fair game. Or if you notice Facebook hiring lots of people with expertise in live audio broadcasting.
Kaalaman Alternate Reality Game and Project Anukala
I have an impression that many developers actively avoid stored procedures, trigger or any 'complex' database features because they don't fit well into a typical CI/CD pipeline which deals only with application code.

It is quite possible to test stored procedures, it's just requires some additional work/infrastructure.
"American food" has a meaning because the term "American" typically means the US, and the US has quite a few foods popular across the country and not outside the country.

"European history" works because basically all of Europe has had widespread interaction with the rest of Europe for millennia, while thanks to mountain ranges like the Himalayas and the Zagros, and the scale of the continent, huge swathes of Asia have historically had very little interaction. No Chinese dynasties have ever conquered India, and no Caliphate has ever reached China.
Our planet ate its sibling in the stellar womb.
They stated the direction of information flow in the article:
The feds allege that Peltz used disposable “burner” phones and encrypted apps to communicate with a journalist, and that the reporter provided “material nonpublic information about forthcoming articles” which Peltz used to trade in the market “just prior to publication of an article about each company written by the reporter.” The indictment describes “numerous contacts” between Peltz and a reporter, including at least one in-person meeting
Disability-first design has a way of blending in for people who aren't yet disabled.
What? Searching for "foo" had no porn results. "German" only had two porn results out of the top 50. "Asian" was almost all porn. I did all three searches with the same logged-in user with "show NSFW" enabled in the user settings.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/bjtDEfG
There's a general exemption for personal care products. Has to be a small bottle and in a clear Ziploc bag or equivalent. (Rarely enforced, in my experience)

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/liquids-rule
That's art. Thanks for sharing.
Nice! Registered on the waiting list...
Are you going to have a free for OSS plan?
I'm deeply struck that through these crystals, we have a link to ancestors from eons ago. I can't even imagine what artifacts we leave behind that our descendants will find 105,000 years from now.
> So it seems to me that it can be successful in the case where you have a single, centralized owner.

Postgres also works great when you have a single, centralized owner
I wonder how much insider trading really happens, even somewhat innocently.
Someone who isn't me (SWIM) was once upon a time casually talking to his colleague (who has insider info) about their company stock. SWIM wanted to sell some of his shares before earning report as they often tanked. Colleague said that the numbers will be good as they want to make the new CEO to look good. SWIM kept his stock past the ER and indeed it mooned.
I think this may be insider trading, but also it may be happening all the time everywhere, most of the time unintentionally...
I graphed latency to load 4KB or somesuch across the entire disk for an enterprise disk and a consumer disk while on a bench (no vibration).

Then I did the same benchmark with the disk mounted in a 1U chassis with a bunch of those annoying 15k rpm fans.

Both showed a big difference, but the enterprise drive was 90+% of the no vibration case, the consumer drive was like 30%.
There is a courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona, USA built predominately with glass. Summer days there are in the 40s. It boggles my mind.
saw it coming, but not a bad read. the 1884 makes it even more interesting, that they were thinking of this stuff then as well
An employee can have an hour dealing with normal customers, or dealing with customers aggravated because the box they found on the shelf won't scan.

Which would you prefer?

By the way the worse option is only there for the amusement of some rich engineer you've never met and earns 10x what you do plus can afford to spend his work time making your work time more hard.

Doesn't sound as great now, does it?
Please suggest an alternative estimation technique then.

There is a certain # of calculations/s necessary to meaningfully emulate a neuron. We currently have no idea what level of fidelity is required, but we can make guesses for each of the levels of fidelity that might be required.

The estimates that assume the highest (and likely unnecessary) level of fidelity currently top out at 2100.

For the record, I never claimed that failure was impossible, I used the phrase "on track". It's totally possible that there might be some surprise quantum weirdness going on that would be intractable to emulate with classical computers, but we've found no evidence of that to date.
Oh definitely, I've been convinced sensors distributed in the environment are the only way forward for FSD with current tech since about 2017. Do a test run with a dedicated road/lane for a while, gather data, improve the system and then gradually roll it out elsewhere.

It's clearer and clearer that self contained 'autopilot' units are going to keep failing in scenarios involving unpredictable people & situations. They don't have enough data and never will (without AGI, anyway). So we need to spoon feed them that data by tagging everything & everyone around them.
The climate effects of burning coal were well known in the scientific community as early as 1856 (Eunice Foote) or 1859 (John Tyndall).

Deliberate misinformation from fossil fuel companies has been around since at least 1991 when they published a film about climate change, "A Climate of Change."
Neat! Had never heard of him, but this guy's works remind me of what an early thinker on "complexity science" might sound like, who in modern times might be someone who gravitated toward the Santa Fe Institute....

He's got another short story where he analogizes human social networks to signals travelling over telegraph, which feels like a really insightful parallel to see at the time, when no one was thinking about generalized properties of networks

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Boles%C5%82aw_Prus
CryptoKitties are a quite bad reference example to argue against NFTs - because they have been and still are highly successful and valuable, trading for thousands (some tens of tbousands) of dollars. Similar to the CryptoPunks.
I would be fine with people not caring about Asians if at the same time they didn't watch so much Asian porn.

I would also be fine if people watched a lot of Asian porn if at the same time they cared about Asian culture and history.

But the fact that people disproportionately watch Asian porn while not caring about Asian people is pretty weird and racist to me.
Zaha Hadid: even more than her buildings, it’s her mind that left its mark
> Why would you choose the snowball strategy?

I don't use the snowball strategy because it's not cash-optimal.

However I do appreciate one major advantage it has over highest-rate first: reducing the number of bills you have to pay, bill quantity being a very annoying administrative and mental load that can eat up time and attention.

Certainly nobody says "wow, I wish I had a larger number of debt-collecting agencies I had to deal with each month."

With that in mind, it can make some sense to pay off small debts even if they are lower rate simply to avoid having to deal with their owners repeatedly over time.
OK, but objectively, he's succeeding at being a better me than I am.
A joke I first saw on Twitter:

LED status key
Green - online
Red - error
Amber - busy
Blue - modern

(Source: https://twitter.com/deviantollam/status/1345143016307113985 )
This part of the FAQ is scary:

> How can I sell my shares?

> We plan to hold property forever and give all stakeholders monthly cash flow. We expect our investors to plan for the same, so we don't have plans for a market to buy and sell shares of our properties.

> We aim to refinance our properties between 2-5 years after acquiring them and increasing their value with our software competence. In this event, investors can choose to stay in or get bought out at the appraised value. The appraiser will be chosen by our bank and won't have any affiliation with Steady Capital.

> If an investor requests a buyout at any other time, for any reason, the value will be determined by 10x current trailing 12mo net operating income. This is a discounted valuation designed to keep partners in the deal unless there is a liquidity event.
And a significant amount of that progress was funded by the government, relied on discoveries funded by government, or were made by people who lived or were educated because of government funding.
In my hometown, there's been a time when religious extremism proliferated between 2010 and 2015. I've known some extremists personally, and some of them even have joined extremist groups, unfortunately. The key findings of this report are quite accurate.

Negative life events, especially disfunctional families and social isolation are indeed a big part of what makes someone prone to radicalization.

One thing not mentioned much is how can religious extremist views be changed once they are ingrained.

As put in the article, extremist beliefs reinforce in-group bias and hatred toward people outside the group. Besides, they are self-reinforcing: they anticipate, teach and debunk arguments that could challenge them to create some sort of immunity. Which makes it hard to change an extremist's mind from the outside.

What I've seen worked well to deradicalize individuals in practice -in addition to the other good points mentioned in the article- is exposure to moderate voices from the in-group. For example, religious authorities who share nearly the same ideology and views but who oppose the extreme and violent ones. Since they are not "blocked" by default, their opinions are heard and can help shift radical views.
Over 90 million people live on that insignificant river! Egypt was the center of the Mughal Sultanate that beat the Crusaders and the Mongols. They went into decline under the Ottomans and never really recovered — infamously, they faced the Ottoman guns with swords and bows in 1517 and were unceremoniously trounced.
Yup this is also the final thrashes of a dying company. Slow but surely Google will die and I can't wait to see other companies which are born. It's just evolution.
But that would shrink the empire.

The kind of people drawn to "chief" positions are not interested in shrinking their empires.
The VHS tracking is an easy trick to cover up faked footage, because it hides any details that might give away the fact that the footage is faked.
Those collect completely different pieces of data. Credit bureaus & data brokers mostly collect business and finance-related information. Social media collects information about your whereabouts and relationships. I'd argue that a leak of the latter would be much more damaging (in terms of extortion/blackmail potential) than the former.
The analogy I use with NFT art is not with physical items but with banking. The token is just another form of credit issued by the artist. The relationship to the specific work is knowingly tenuous and entails intermediaries - and in this respect, it's still a tech demo - but the financial asset itself has meaning relative to the credit of the artist, given that the wallet that minted will itself have a persistent identity.

Recognition for previous work creates expectations for new work, even if the work itself is lost. Art has always operated that way.

But there are details that need sorting out. A proprietary URL link
- or an IPFS link only hosted by one node - is too flimsy for long-term collectables. Use value is sorely needed to really flesh out the function of the tokens. Again, as it is, we have tech demos with some eyewatering valuations.