skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does the part where Hunter explained that the long-standing arrangement was for Joe to get half of the loot ring a bell?

Again, it doesn't matter? Joe ultimately decided remove the corrupt prosecutor that was helping Burisma. He fucked over Burisma, and their "investment" into Hunter.

Burisma may have tried to pull some nepotism by hiring Hunter, Joe ultimately said "no thanks, Jack", and fucked over Hunter. So the story is... Joe Biden doesn't take bribes?

Given how inconsequential, or rather how the whole story paints Joe in a good light, the media suppression probably has to do more with the fact that the contents of Hunter's laptop were so obviously hacked and Giuliani painted an incredibly elaborate story to try and prove how he "legitimately" got these documents.
haha agreed, sounds like things have changed
Scroll down on their website https://telegram.org to the bottom half.

In the first row of the "Why telegram?" section, right in the middle, it says:

> Private

> Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct
I wonder if there was a gold rush when bootcamps started because there was a pool of motivated people with potential who needed training and help getting into the industry. Once that pool was gone, the only new people entering it are basically high school graduates, so in order to keep operating, bootcamps had to get scammier and lower their standards.

I have no evidence of this, but it seems plausible.
I bet it's not even close.

The Roberts court loves free speech even in far more harmful forms - see Citizens United. They will be very wary of implications of "liberal" companies governing speech outside of work too.

This was a huge over reach by the school and now they're gonna lose big time.
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You say that like ridding the continent of malaria was a bad thing. Lots of people owe their lives to DDT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_words_used_in_English#...
I appreciate this. I think often we will frame things in a negating way, which doesn't end up working that well. I find "don't be political" as telling me to not touch something...I end up wanting to touch it. Whereas "keep channels civil and focused on work" tells me what the goal is and helps me recenter on that when I stray. Because I think the goal is not to be "not political" but really to "be civil and focused" as you mentioned.

Thank you!
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Same, except it's the other way around - my wifi interferes with all audio bluetooth devices I've tested. It causes a stutter about once every five seconds that goes away as soon as I disable the wifi.

Fortunately, it only happens when I'm connected to a 2.4ghz network so I was able to fix it by switching to 5ghz - but even with the modem in the hall outside my office, I'm at the extreme limit of 5ghz reception. It really does not travel far.
Somehow, the red/green edge example makes it easier for me to realize and not drop one of the cases.
At least those phishing exercises are done with the informed consent of the organization.

If they go too far and impact day-to-day work, or if people complain, the executives understand what is going on and who they can talk to about improving the process.

And if it feels lacking in empathy, consider that the company's management needs to sign off on any (legal) phishing tests that their employees are subjected to.
Thanks, guessing if you work on this stuff everyone knows. SaaS and this range of stuff isn't really my domain :)
Ask HN: What are your favorite rising YouTube channels?
I asked this a while back [1] and I thought it was about time to ask again and see what everyone around here has been watching.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21429068
It is true. Here's a map of what Germany is called by other countries in Europe: https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/germany-e...

Interesting that Finland/Estonia call them, essentially, Saxony.

The Latvian/Lithunian name for Germany is the only one I don't understand. Does anyone know?
Can someone explain the significance of this, for those who don't know how Uber Eats works?
You do lose the stow-and-go middle-row seats in the plug-in pacifica; the battery is in the hole they normally go in. You still get the rear ones though.
Yes, but this often occurs a few months or years into production, way too late to throw it away.

I've never written a prototype, nor seen one written, in actual businesses. I've never had an employer with the patience to let me play with a prototype either.
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by "no one's talking about" static site generators, you mean everybody and their grandma?

;-D

there are what? dozens of SSGs?

maybe you mean they/we are not talking about them anymore?

in any case, do any of the godaddies of the world offer a SSG?
One thing to note is that mRNA therapeutics are a really tough area in part because:

1.) RNA and the lipids used to get it inside a cell are inherently pretty immunogenic (a huge plus for a vaccine). If you think about it, you basically never see free mRNA/DNA in the blood stream other than if something has gone wrong (usually a virus), so the immunogenicity here is pretty ancient.

2.) RNA gets shunted to the liver and chopped up. Hence most RNA based therapeutics target the liver.

Vaccines are a really great use case, not just a, "we could help out here too," side-case. They're delivered intra-muscularly so there's less "go to the liver!", and the immunogenicity is a feature not a bug.

Lots of this comes from siRNA therapeutic research that is older than mRNA work, but the principles are very similar. Some older articles that touch on some of these issues:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378126/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269031/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016836591...
I am not sure what penalties are for such negligence, but in any case such fraud happens and a burden to correct or monitor is on the consumer.
It's a lot easier to swap out contains() for startsWith() at code review time than investigate some obscure bug that only affects a handful of requests 3 years later.
That seems... questionable. Some leave them open to signify that it's ok to go through them. Some leave them open because they don't want to have to reopen them when they come back on the tractor.

You can either choose to assume other people did what they did on purpose, or assume that you always know better. This is espousing the former.
Definitely agree that important problems like this require diverse opinions and meaningful dialogue, but I don't feel that pointing out the failures of human institutions is an attempt to shut down discussion.

Rather, I think the point being made was that we need to reframe the problem at hand; instead of trying to "control misinformation" maybe we need to work on ways to _amplify_ true information in ways that render misinformation powerless.
Saying he's confident about each beta iteration, and the FSD beta is currently level two, is not the same as saying Tesla will hit level five by the end of the year.
Same here. As I learn more and find better ways to do things, I simply spend a few minutes refactoring the code to improve it. I also program to interfaces so that subsystems can be completely rewritten/refactored with only local impact.
I think Mercedes even offload some engineering work to the real (non-British) Mercedes too - that's simply not possible for a team like Haas
Sounds like a good reason to dump LIDAR. if vision is good enough to always defer to, why bother with something contradicting?
UVC also generates ozone as a byproduct but it's toxic and it damages the lungs.

https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...

Do read the warning from the EPA.
> It’s going to compact the soil, get stuck, and waste fuel driving around looking for weeds.

This true of any modern farming equipment, which is why planting strategy is so critical--I kept messing up in my first year as I was going way too fast instead of taking my time and my planted rows were never straight, it was in a green house and we had an old diesel tractor so my lungs were hurting after the first hour and I just compromised on that aspect.

But then when I had to go back and weed, maintain and eventually harvest the oddly planted fields of salads and potatoes I made sure to follow the natural ebb and flow of the soil compaction, which was there even after it was tilled.

What I'm saying is that the compacted soil can help you in later seasons to maintain the direction of growth so it's not entirely a bad thing to have. And unless you farmed the same fields for several seasons/years you would overlook this as a net benefit. Eventually seasoned farm hands can do it while drinking and smoking and just listening to how the engine is struggling without even touching the steering wheel, they can even get out of the tractor and walk ahead of it as it's crawling forward to check if everything is fine. Where as for apprentices like myself who had no real experience in Ag it was a remarkable discovery that one shouldn't overlook.

Also, drones are already widely in use; they monitor temperature and moisture in real time and a offer other services right now [0]. Their is a company that I found that posted here on YC a few years ago that offers this as a service [1].

I was actually going to get my commercial drone's license a couple month's before I retired as a farm manager in Hawaii due to extensive injuries, but my fintech startup required saving and scraping all my pennies to afford getting it off the ground. I might consider getting it again as things start to be more widely deployed and the costs keep coming down and I still would like to be involved in some capacity in Ag.

0:https://uavcoach.com/agricultural-drones/

1:https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/terravion
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-crom...
If Multics was the second what was the first?
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It’s almost like we need ID check kiosks around the country that generate 1time passwords for providers that have no branch offices
Their credit score is a racket ...my two other scores from other agencies are higher and very, very close to each other.

Experian offers a boost product where you authorize them to monitor your electric bills, etc ..once I did ... gave them permission to do so my Experian credit rating went up to the same number (a point or two off) then the other two. What a racket!!!
> At best, I think, we decrease emissions associated with them.

You are saying at best make them less bad, but used just as often? Forget other universe, what about the other countries that successfully do what I speak of?
I think you're thinking of a pixel on a display? Because arguably that's just a rendering of a data set. The pixels the article are referring to are the data set, a set of point samples. In which case it has no shape - since it's a point - and the r, g and b components are just different samples at the same point
You say that like socialized industries haven't had just as large of disasters, or that on net DDT has been bad for the US/world. Everything is a tradeoff - how many kids with malaria is a bald eagle worth?
I prototype in C++ all the time. And then refactor it to production code if it makes sense. Switching between languages seems like a waste of time to me.
I find this fascinating, if a bit incomprehensible, but what might an intended use case be?
> This demonstrates that an electric vehicle can be a category leader and outsell its gas-powered counterparts.

ICE is currently 97% of the automobile market. A BEV taking the lead in any vehicle segment is a major milestone. Nothing is misleading about that.
Sports once filled that roll. It was acceptable and with enough tribalism to make it interesting. Sadly, they are not a safe conversation anymore.
This is where I take issue with the paper. The sub blobs are really important because different displays/focal plane arrays have different pixel arrangements that can be dramatically different. You can't assume it'll be a collection of three sub-elements (often there will be different ratios in a complex arrangement) or that the pixel is even being displayed as RGB (CMY?).

You have to know some things about your pixel arrangements in order to properly anti-alias, font render, or display camera images, otherwise the result can be pretty ugly.
Eh, feels pretty different.

HN’s ban was intentionally a short term reboot/cooldown, during a particularly hot time - not a broad and indefinite ban.

Society is hard. I think it’s good to experiment, and when you’re explicit about a timeline, it seems like the stakes are reasonable.
Let me rephrase it as "Premium sedan segment would be in free fall if not for Tesla Model 3, a car that didn't exist 4 years ago". People flock to Model 3 despite it being in a less trending segment. They could have got a SUV instead, but they didn't. Sound impressive to me.
Well, Basecamp is their company, isn’t it? If they don’t have the right to make those changes... who has?
In some countries, absolutely.

In countries with consumer law, no. For example, where I live (Australia), it's absolutely unambiguously illegal to mislead the consumer. It's pretty obvious to everyone that putting "BUY!" in 72pt font and then a tiny "...a limited-time license" somewhere else on the page is misleading, as the word humans use for that is "rent", and therefore it would be false advertising.
Since Lidar doesn't use moving parts I imagine it should be easy to make it last longer than the life of the vehicle.
If you are interested in working in ocean research to explore, understand, and protect the ocean, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is hiring. https://careers.whoi.edu

We built and operate the ROV Jason and AUV Sentry, which were previously used to map these dumpsites[1]. We are always working on innovative vehicle capabilities and are currently looking for data scientists, software/mechanical/electrical engineers, machine learning specialists, etc. to help us. It's also a great opportunity to take a sabbatical by the beach :)

1: http://4dgeo.whoi.edu/geo-bin/GB_cmd?cmd=SlideShow&Match=201...
Presumably you would be able to leverage a lot of that effort and expand into autonomous driving for other scenarios, right?
Sure you can. The issues with the Anglo way is that they've gone all the way to the other end with flat, wide buildings. Increasing verticality is a simple way to get more density without sacrificing area. At some point, yes, you'll just have to shrink down to get further density, but the low hanging fruit haven't been picked yet.
What is (mostly) unique about Roku, and one of the main reasons I went with a Roku is that it isn't made by the same company as one of the big streaming services, and is therefore less likely to privlege that service. If they start giving special privileges to youtube, then Roku just becomes a third party Android TV device.
Credit cards in the USA are backed by very strong consumer protection laws. That is why you can mindlessly give one to wait staff at a restaurant who will disappear with it for an extended amount of time, while in any other country that would be unimaginable. I have also never once cared about credit card skimmers at gas stations or anything of the sort. It's the bank's responsibility to protect the card, not my own.

Consumer culture in general means that it is very profitable for banks and payment processors to hand out credit cards like candy (with huge spending incentives), despite knowing that a ton of people are going to rack up debt that they will never be able to pay.

The overall credit system is also a lot larger than just credit cards. The country runs on cheap debt. Everything from houses, education, cars all the way to TVs and dresses is financed with long-term payments and low single digit interest rates. Most of what people earn goes towards paying for stuff they bought in the past rather than saving for something they might buy later.
> At best, I think, we decrease emissions associated with them.

Amen to that. It just shows how crappy our economy is that we don't have trains, pneumatic tubes, and other old school technology that hasn't been beat everywhere.
For that, they could reward med companies with awards in trade for being able to license and produce the medication or tech. Ie 5 billion for a new drug, company can still produce and sell it, the state can produce and deliver it to citizens/medical providers without further restrictions from the company.
That's not what I asked about in my initial post.

Who are you trying to fool?
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> An absolutely horrible idea

It's not a horrible idea, it's the simplest and easiest way to solve simple problems. Bringing in rails and all it's abstractions for something you can do in a single php (or ruby BTW) file is insane.
True but in each satellite it has to be processed, integrity checked routed and queued to the next hop. That kind of stuff takes much longer than any differences in light speeds.
Is this not outdated?

It uses examples of how pixels on scanners, printers, and CRT monitors are not squares. Fair enough. Back when this was written, one could very reasonably argue that pixels were intended to be point samples with a convolution.

But modern pixels on most LCD screens certainly are exceedingly crisp squares (with subpixels), and processing RAW camera sensor data, antialiasing techniques, and image resampling seems to "mostly" assume that pixels do represent the average color over a square rather than a point sample. Not perfectly, but as a reasonable first-order approximation.

I understand that 25 years ago it might have been reasonable to argue that pixels aren't squares.

But today... aren't they, at least as a first-order approximation? (With some further adjustments to avoid antialiasing artifacts, desired sharpness, and so forth.)

The idea that pixels are primarily point samples seems far more misleading -- as if they were analagous to audio samples which are point samples as a first-order approximation, but pixels are nothing like audio samples.
Yeah I agree that I should have chosen my words more carefully. It wasn't isolation that prevented people from getting medical treatment (you definitely could, and people did), but many related reasons: fear of contagion, a desire not to burden the front line people, lack of access (public transport restrictions), procedural changes (not allowed to have someone with you), etc.

So I don't think the current situation is a result of iso but rather a result of Covid, and the fact that we are no longer fearful of it.
Yep. I do wonder if we've lost the ability to talk and recognize common experiences versus politics and people are looking to go full jerk.
Apple TV isn't made by a big streaming service either.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RateMyTakeaway
Good point, once they have enough that could work.
The watch will only unlock your phone when you're wearing a mask. If FaceID doesn't see a mask it will ignore the Apple Watch.
My company has mandated that 40% of our recruiting contacts for engineers are women. We have spent weeks talking about bias in our interview process and despite having no metrics showing bias is a problem we have made changes to combat it (i.e. no video on the call) that have led to worse experiences for our candidates. Suffice to say we have had a lot of trouble hiring engineers.

> Why wouldn't you want to bring them up at work?

Imho companies that try to tackle the woke political issues are going to end up worse off and never make those few employees that keep bringing them up happy.
My understanding is that by paying $10/month for Eats Pass, you get free delivery on orders of $15 or more. What this is showing is that if order total == $15.00, then Eats will subtract a penny from the total, forcing you to get another item in order to get the free delivery.
Still waiting on the Hacker News Karmacoin
Read this re full self driving: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26519357

I've never seen a more blatant example of securities fraud than that. And yet he gets away with it over and over. Year after year.

Where's my full-self-driving taxi? I want to buy one and rent it out and get rich! /s

And for comic relief, see the true state of FSD "beta". Be sure to watch the videos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26519244
> Unhappy user right here.

I'm more pissed off that my user agent (firefox) even allows this sort of control by third parties.
> The prototype software is write-once, read-maybe.

"aaaand, I'm going to need to pull you off of this xyzzy, and put you on this high-priority-showstopper-stop the presses project ..."

and then 10 years later you're writing this blog article where you explain where someone else shipped unfinished code and ...
Examples would bolster your argument.
He is explicitly asked by the person feeding him question why he is confident that they will reach level five this year. He is confirming that he is confident they will reach level five this year. Not confident that they will improve, confident they will reach level five.
Quote: "Recipe for success: under-promise and over-deliver."

I beg to differ. All I have to do is look at any, I mean ANY, country regardless of east/west culture/region and see that the politicians are always over-promise and under-deliver. You want a recipe for success? Become a politician, if you have the stomach for it (I, for one, don't).
>Dropping O2 from 30% to 29%

Dry air is ~21% oxygen by volume.
They have 38% market share on new TV’s sold, and that’s not including the standalone players.

Also, they just announced a YoY doubling of advertising revenue.

Their low end device is $30, and provides a best of class (but HD) experience. I don’t really see how they can realistically be undercut on price, unless competitors started paying people to use their devices. Do you want to deal with a janky streaming device for the next 5 years, or just shell out the cost of a pizza and six pack?

If anything, they’ll be attacked from the high end. Are you willing to pay an extra $100-200 for a non-ad-subsidized streaming device?
Remember the dixie chicks!?! talk about cancel culture ffs
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From Wikipedia:

"Some uses of DDT continued under the public health exemption. For example, in June 1979, the California Department of Health Services was permitted to use DDT to suppress flea vectors of bubonic plague.[52] DDT continued to be produced in the United States for foreign markets until 1985, when over 300 tons were exported"

The above CDC and EPA citations were clearly over-generalizations, disregarding the public health exemption, since DDT was used legally in the US in 1979.

I'm not sure how late it was specifically used in the US for mosquito control vs. flea control, but as far as I know, the public health exemption still exists (though, I suspect it's nearly impossible to get an EPA permit today). I could very well be wrong, and the public health exemption may no longer exist.

In any case, the claim that it must not have been manufactured legally in the US after 1972 is false. The 1972 ban is less comprehensive than commonly believed.
I'm referring to my initial post in this thread.

But yeah, we can have both.

Those were his words in that situation, and he was called out for it. In this situation, the media is delivering dishonest commentary, and trying to call him out for their commentary.
Consumerism. You wouldn't believe the crap, and the volume of the crap, that Americans buy. Saying that completely red-handedly.
I always withdraw cash money using the debit card when I'm abroad. It has acceptable exchange rates(always better than the money exchange rates at the destination country) and much lower fees(mostly just a fixed amount of €) than the credit card (quite high percentage + fixed fee).