skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a lot of people don't understand is that these are freedom of speech concerns, not second amendment concerns.

As an aside, it is already legal in the US to manufacture your own gun at home. There are countless sources of information in printed form that show you how to do that -- gun manufacture for personal use is 100% unregulated by any existing federal law and, as of 2018, in states other than California (Updated - see https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/homemade-gun....). It is the sale and distribution of guns that is regulated at the Federal level, and in states other than California.

The issue here is whether the state department can take down websites that show instructions for gun manufacturing, whereas no one is arguing that printed books with the same information would be subject to similar bans. But something about the internet makes a lot of regulatory bodies think that freedom of publication and prohibitions on prior restraint just don't apply there, and this ruling is one small step to setting that straight.
Why not? Couldn't the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights be a "rhetorical trick"?
For me, this really calls into question the efficacy numbers published for the Gamaleya vaccine. e.g.: The Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have reported that the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine showed a 97.6% efficacy. [0]

[0]: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/russia-sputni...
A child born on December 17th, 1903- the day the Wright's flew a plane just under a quarter mile at Kittyhawk- would have turned 65 the day before Apollo 8 took off to take the first humans to Lunar orbit.
Yeah, I don't know... at the same time he was well in the "first crew on the moon" club, without just as much of the constant, unwavering, overwhelming attention that Neil Armstrong must have gotten.
Can I be friends with them too? I've lost contact with some folks who had the best heirloom apples on their property. The trees were likely over 40 years old. No particular variety that my friends knew of. They came with the property along with some historic trees that date back to the Christian missions in the area.

Well, I haven't lost contact. Just left on pretty neutral terms, but if I get back to talking with them I'm going to end up throwing hay bales for them and that's miserable work I don't have the spare time for anymore.
It doesn't appear to be stress testing anything, it's
[edit: removed calculating] estimating where a structure or material is stressed. Stress testing is a physical process, and the article gives no indication that stress testing could or would be replaced but this.

Edit: Further elaboration from the article: product designers, for example, could test the viability of their ideas before passing the project along to an engineering team

This would seem to clearly indicate that the intended application is faster iteration in design, not a replacement for a rigorous engineering process that would include appropriate testing.
They gave them a debit card that covers $1.75k in expenses (groceries, meals, exercise equipment, etc...) every 3 months. Or at least that's what I heard from my brother who works at Dropbox.
It was obvious to me from the very start. I hope one day it will be a crime and those "miners" would get what they deserve: the prison.
I used to wonder about something like Lil Bubba bringing in and compressing dirt to make agriculture borders/fences/windbreaks about 3-4' high. Imagine a grape harvester that straddles rows, bringing in dirt like a zipper. Of course, wouldn't be useful in all cases or maybe any, but running post and wire fencing for hundreds of kilometres in the outback must be brutal.
At $100 million/year of almost pure profit it is almost a business unit of Apple in and of itself.
ELI5 what is webpack?
Ask HN: Any Golang devs want (close to) free ADA?
Finally got my ADA pool live:

https://pooltool.io/pool/7743f16b02aad5c841e0c416775812a2862b90ac48e921961928646f/epochs

The best guide ever https://www.coincashew.com/coins/overview-ada/guide-how-to-build-a-haskell-stakepool-node

Working on some open source go-lang code https://github.com/andrewarrow/wolfservers/ to make creating these ADA pools at any cloud provider easier. i.e. that guide above but make it all wizard style easier to get up and running faster. Any golang devs interested?

I say close to free in title because you do have to get about 500 ADA which is around $500 USD.

But will price of ADA rise and rise over next year? Yes.
Dapper Labs Reveals Plans for Next NFT Marketplace After NBA Top Shot
For sure, the site worked differently prior to 2014. I'm talking about how we've operated since then. 7 years is an internet eternity! Though I suppose I should be thankful that people are still talking about things that happened in 2013 because it means they still care.

HN was moderated differently in the early years because pg was running it in whatever hours he could eke out between running YC and having small children. That was a totally different situation than now. It's a miracle the site stayed up at all.

It's not clear why that account was banned, unless it was related to other accounts that did bad things? (You don't have to answer that.) In any case, I've unbanned it now and restored the affected posts, in case that's helpful.
Thanks. If there is any presentation, whitepaper, strategy or other document describing this new direction of STEP I would be very interested.
You’d have a traditional deposit account at the Fed. You might even have different types of dollars in your account, one traditional, one “helicoptered” from the Fed they inject, ad hoc or on a cadence, with an expiration date (“use it or lose it”).

https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/document/central-bankin...
I'd argue its the opposite: If you do something really really well then the money follows. Apple products come at a premium, but you can't deny the fact they also offer substantially more in many ways than their counterparts.
> which is suspected to be affiliated with Russian intelligence - possibly unwillingly

I have yet to see actually compelling evidence that this is the case.
Do you even know what a patent troll is? Edison actually invented many items that he patented and defended against infringers (and he trod on a few others patents).
Usually a patent troll has never registered a patent. He buys patent rights to any and all things he can get very cheaply, He then has all the claims assessed to see if there is a fragment that applies to any company that uses that technology - and writes a demand letter for infringement fees. They often ask for $10,000 to $25,000 and many companies who are faced with hiring lawyers and spending $500,000 in even a winning defence - choose to pay it. The trolls live on these fees. I could live well on one letter a month. The troll has low costs, a copy of Word on a computer abd a printer + postage and often send hundreds of letters a day.
Read this.

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=newegg
Literally all China and Russia have to do is get a bot that acts like you and all discourse gets screwed. We're idiots but it's like clockwork and we always fall for it. The IRC is dumbest but most effective organization in the history of state craft.
I am of 2 minds on the SD card reader thing.

1. Lot of use cases for SD cards besides cameras. Audio recorders, notably.

2. A fair number of high-end cameras are no longer using SD cards, or at least, not exclusively; lot of CFexpress for the big boy cameras out there now. (I mean, they used to use CompactFlash cards, but it’s not like they’re gonna jam a CF card reader in there.)
Although in an odd twist Google catering charged teams $40+/head for a so-so buffet dinner. I assume the ordinary culinary is much more cost effective.
I'm sure there's a lot of sales travel at places like G but I feel like G in particular doesn't have a lot of sales travel. A lot of the travel is just employees working together for whatever internal tasks.
this is just a joke. stop wasting your time even reacting to it in the comments
The judge wrote an explanation but hasn't released it yet, because it's under seal.

>ORDERS the parties to meet and confer and to file a joint report by May 6, 2021, informing the Court whether they object to any portion of the Memorandum Opinion being unsealed. ...
> Here's an example design I made last year that features UML diagrams that I think are useful: http://flutter.dev/go/multiple-engines

I had a look at this, but I'm having a pretty hard time telling if these diagrams actually make things more straightforward. My guess is that quite a few people would find a pseudocode listing more readable, but I'm open to alternative takes.
> There's still a lot of ways the ATF can show up and shoot your dog

Don't forget your teenage son! Or your wife while she nurses her newborn!
A lot of companies in that domain also prefer hiring them over CS people, it's a culture thing.

Many of them hired EEs in the 70s/80s (and earlier) who became managers. At the time it made more sense (fewer CS folks) but it established a culture of preferring engineers to computer scientists/programmers/(these days)software engineers. I even left a job because they straight up told me no non-EE would ever become a lead (over a 99% software activity). I appreciated their honesty and found the exit.

The usual justification for perpetuating it has to do with the 1% of the job that touches hardware, but IME it's usually either truly specialized and most of the EEs couldn't do it either, or trivial (following directions from the electrical engineering team that actually designed the hardware).
Flagged for no good reason, so I will post it again, because I think it deserves a reply:

You are endorsing human rights abuses by oppressive governments like the Khmer Rouge because that government didn't extend the right to freedom from persecution to their subjects. You are suggesting that it was the Cambodian people's fault for not having a better government that granted them more rights.
I have one of those washing machines! It’s so pleased with itself when it finishes and is an amusing contrast to the Miele dishwasher’s 4 stern German beeps
It’s interesting that iPads are up. I wonder if people wanted tablets due to corona
Me too. I was thinking about buying stock, but I didn't get around to actually doing it.
The question, though, wasn’t whether ATF agents might interpret the regulations one way or another, but what the regulations are. Millions of people purchase legal and freely available components for their legal firearm with a serial number, and do not run afoul of the law. As soon as we are talking about components or firearms requiring a NFA tax stamp we’re in a different category though.
Exactly. "Ghost gun" is a political term used for political purposes. Making guns at home is legal in the US. It just has to be detectable in a metal detector according to federal law.
It's open source if you git clone the adaptive part and put it on Github. There's just a bunch of IP restrictions on your own genes because plutocracy. Apache license then?

I lost the compiler though, so it might as well be a binary amoebic blob, but I hear you can throw mRNA at the API to teach it new tricks.
False economy.
Was some of the saving from not having to run the Google Tech shuttles?

https://www.protocol.com/silicon-valley-tech-shuttles
RCS, CVS, or UUCP?
The CDC did study defensive gun use in the 1990s.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/04/30/that-time-...

The TL;DR is that we don't have reliable data.
Is that still the case? I have not been aware of a hosting outage...
What does “essential” mean? I don’t think anyone viewed travel as essential — they just viewed it as “worth it” to facilitate collaboration/communication, build relationships, etc. This is still easier in person.
There are _plenty_ of people that would modify the 2nd to make it more expansive, not less. I'd count myself as one of them.
<plug> You might want to check out Reviewable (https://reviewable.io) if you haven't yet. It addresses your complaints about comments on GitHub and many more besides, while remaining as integrated with GitHub as feasible. Some pretty large open source organizations are using it, e.g. CockroachDB. </plug>
How far off do you think we are from simulating an entire human on a protein level in accelerated time?

Imagine a world where a drug concept could be simulated on an entire human model in parallel cradle to grave 1000x faster than normal. What level of compute is necessary to pull that off?
>calculating

Estimating
100% this. There are some loud people trying to say the opposite, but a lot of places have had productivity tank.

I was talking to someone at a large financial company (think 10s of thousands of employees). Their workplace productivity went through the floor when things went work from home. They were willing to allow work from home for now to keep people safe, but will not be continuing in the future due to the efficiency loss.

A lot of people don't want to hear this, but it's the truth.

Work from home where I work has been kind of awful from a communication and camaraderie standpoint, even though the company was already rather heavily invested in remote work, Google chat, etc.
The part of the firearm that is considered the gun, legally speaking, is the lower receiver. And a lower receiver can be used in a functioning firearm. In Europe, they don't regulate lower receivers but the parts of the weapon which bear pressure.

However, it is possible to manufacture these parts yourself - look up the FGC-9.
Lancet seems to be a respected journal and it confirms those numbers.
No one wanted iMessage when it came out. Making it opt out on iPhones and defaulting made people try it and they started to prefer it when they realized. The opt out was Apple's key to success. Google should have done the same on Android.
Let's not forget all of the endogenous retroviruses (ERVs).

Turing*?

Does it have capitalization and punctuation though?
It might be. Worth checking into their TOS to see if your customers must comply. I'd say, "probably."
Live in an area with a better commute. Mine is 8 minutes.
I pondered to my wife "I wonder if we'll return to the moon before all those who have been have passed away?" Phrased another way: "Will there ever be a day (since the first landing) on which no living human has left the Earth?"

Here's the list. In this context, I use "leave the Earth" mean to mean having left the planet's gravity well, not the atmosphere only. And asterisk implies walked on the moon. The number in brackets is the Apollo Mission no.

Frank Borman [8]
Jim Lovell [8,13]
Bill Anders [8]
Tom Stafford [10]
Fred Haise [13]
Buzz Aldrin* [11]
David Scott* [15]
Charlie Duke* [16]
Ken Mattingly [16]
Harrison Schmitt* [17]
"Sorry about the broken skyscraper, a few workers through Mechanical Turk tagged polystyrene as indestructible"
On of the main differences is that until things get to the point of being a running system, software is relatively easy to change. It's also a lot easier to test than than, say, airplanes, and the consequences of a mistake are often, but not always, less.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute (it's a complicated issue, and people are still arguing over the circumstances when this can apply). (It was narrowed quite a lot in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiobel_v._Royal_Dutch_Petroleu...)
This just seems to exemplify the purely-rhetorical aspect of the whole conversation about "natural rights."

"The government didn't extend the right to freedom from persecution" could be worded in any number of ways, such as "the government infringed on the inalienable rights of the people" but the fact that such an atrocity was committed says, to me, that claiming such rights are inherent, natural, or inalienable is rather useless. They clearly can be very easily violated. God or nature is not going to stop the violators, at least not during this life. So what good to the victims is a claim that the rights are inherent and a natural result of being born as a human?
Yeah I agree with you. Clearly something was wrong with UML. I didn't mean something was lost with the abandonment of UML in particular. Just that nothing has come up to replace it and people just write the same code over and over again, poorly. And that there is no real "software engineering" discipline in the same way that civil engineering or electrical engineering exist. I guess it's still just too early in the history of software to really break it down into a discipline.
agreed. in situations where you have pictures to analyze but no structure or greatly damaged structure, it makes sense.

It might even be good to analyze inspection photos for regular inspections to draw attention to situations where there might be more strain than anticipated and a human could be flagged to inspect more closely.
It's basically all the future events that happen inside the black hole isn't it? At least that's what I meant.
Lol, after your CIA comment I thought you would try to hide your Russki loyalty. You go all in.
I really don't see 3D-printed firearms as a threat. It requires expensive, specialized equipment and days of patience to produce a product that is almost universally inferior to a length of pipe, a block of wood, and a nail. Everything one needs to create an improvised firearm is available cheaper and with less scrutiny at the hardware store.

Despite all the fight over distributing models for this junk, Defense Distributed also currently sells a genuinely dangerous CNC product[0] that is designed to automatically mill out so-called 80% receivers.

If you're not familiar with U.S. firearm law, the part of a gun that's legally considered a "firearm" is the frame or "receiver" that houses the other components. If you sell or produce one of these frames, you are selling or producing a firearm, whether it's made of plastic or metal. Companies get around this by selling incomplete receivers that still require machining, and Defense Distributed sells everything you need to finish the receiver and commit the felony yourself.

I don't actually know if there's actually any evidence of crimes (beyond production) committed with completed receivers but what I do know is that it has much more potential to create an actually reliable and dangerous firearm than 3D printing.

[0]: https://ghostgunner.net/
She did it in one sprint without agile development tools or user feedback.
The bubbles are such a stupid status symbol.

I hate the conspiracy theory that Apple did it intentionally to make iPhone users hate Android. The original iPhone had all green bubbles. The blue was only to differentiate.
Chang'e 5 was more like a modern day Luna 16 than an Apollo mission.
Wow, talking of rhetorical tricks. In this case, a textbook false dilemma.

The right to bear arms does not negate whatever right to safety you think you have. There are 300 million privately owned firearms in the US. Yet the odds of dying from a firearm homicide are quite small.
In the case of code that needs to be transpiled, like Typescript, yes.
Neither schools nor any other public institution nor even private entities (like corporations) should have any authority over people’s private speech made outside of their roles as students or employees or whatever. Otherwise what we have is a society where we don’t really enjoy the right to free speech but instead have to restrict our speech based on the rules set by these institutions’ leaders.
In the US it isn't a crime to manufacture a firearm lower for personal use.
“Essential” means your boss expects you to.
I think the difference is actually because Tim Cook doesn't care about design.

I can't find the link, but I heard when they launched the new Mac Pro, Ives tried to show Tim Cook what it looked like, but Tim responded with "I get it... its a computer", and didn't see the design until the public launch event.
> and noted that the weapons have been linked to several mass shootings.

Um what? A plastic 3D printed gun has been used in a mass shooting? When?
I don’t give a rat’s behind about free food and entertainment. It’s nice, but being able to avoid the chaos of an open office and a long commute is nicer.
I think having a new production quality C-inspired language is just not practical anymore. There was a thread about improving C language with the auto keyword with a long and well thought out standardization process. After adding some of these features that are clearly missing, there won't be too much improvement possibility compared to C while keeping a C-like type system to warrant the huge amount of work to create a new language.
You just admitted that it was an atrocity however. That implies the people who were killed had their rights violated. Your concept of rights granted by the government to the people is not self-consistent.
And the fun trick here is that "quite small" is meaningless, you would need to compare those odds against those in different countries with different laws...
There is no basis for this assumption. Under your model there is no way for a company to overachieve and continue doing right by their customers. A bit pessimistic.
I was able to change it pretty dramatically when I played with it.

Opening a time machine portal from whatever medieval kingdom I was in to teleport to San Francisco and going to the Open AI office, running into Eliezer Yudkowsky and interviewing Sam Altman about Open AI, etc.

It was pretty easy to shift gears - you could force actions.

"Ask the receptionist if Sam is in"

"She says he is not"

I input: "Sam comes out of his office and walks down the hall"

"Look at the receptionist and say, he's right there."

"She stares at you blankly"

You could input story and then use the story lines that you had written in to advance things.

I eventually got tired with it because it was too free form so there wasn't much to it beyond messing around.
It's not really binary though. I can be somewhat more or less effective depending on my work environment.

It's also possible that wfh was beneficial in the short term, with projects already mostly planned and the benefits of in-person collaboration continuing via inertia, but will be detrimental long term. Maybe. I don't know.

And that is the big kicker to me: too many unknowns to definitively say one way or the other.
What constitutes an excellent tech culture in your view? Just curious
I already pay enough in terms of time, productivity and sanity.
Refraining from packing the court is one of the very last truces still in place just barely holding the country together by a thread.

I truly wonder what you suppose the marginal odds are that you or someone you love is killed in an event that your proposed action would prevent, vs the marginal odds that you or someone you love is killed as a somewhere-down-the-line butterfly effect of your trying to take that action?
No that the developer is now privy to what is being paid top dollar for in his industry can now go solve that problem via a start up and get acquired by legacy enterprise companies and make a modest exit instead of being exploited by a middleman consulting gig company.

I have seen or heard of lesser known multimillion dollar exits for small features you take for granted, but were learned from old enterprise companies that didn’t know what features would be valuable to develop e.g. fintech startup was just a developer at old banking company, invented ‘locking’ a credit card by knowing how their system is coded, got acquired by said banking company for the technology and never has to work again.

Make them pay for your talent if you can learn to sell and solve business problems for clients.
Anyone know if sleep deprivation from sleep apnea causes global, temporary loss of sensation or (permanent) neuropathy?

I lost a large fraction of sensation everywhere. I'm tired af, don't sleep very well or very long, and feel like s#!7.

(Been tested for lupus like 10x.)
Scale does crazy things. If Google switched to a slightly cheaper salt packet they’d probably save $100M/year.