skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we all know Tesla was founded shortly before Musk invested. That doesn’t tell us anything about the design of the Roadster (or Musk’s other companies).

I’m sure millions of people had the idea of building an electric car before Eberhardt and Tarpenning, but as the quote goes “ideas without execution don't matter; execution matters.”
Exactly. After all we write programs by starting at the top of the screen and working our way down, and happily of course program execution increments in the same direction. So small addresses at the top and big addresses at the bottom is the most natural way of presenting any memory map.
Most people realize that Facebook's real value in their lives is negative or 0.

People are more than willing to pay for streaming content that they actually value, though.

If you give people the option to pay for, say, Doge memes, and they don't pay for them, that doesn't mean that they aren't willing to pay for anything, it just means that Doge memes have little to no value.
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I played Nier: Automata right after I finished Horizon Zero Dawn back in 2017. They were an interesting study in contrasts. I agree HZD is the better game, and Automata's flaws really wore on me sometimes, but I still liked it on balance. It plays around and gets weird in ways that a bigger-budget release like HZD can't risk. It probably helps that I actually did like the shooter mini-game that this article is about, musical transition and all.
It's not so much that almonds aren't water intense, as that things like beef and dairy (which are also heavily produced in California) are so much worse: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths

Yet we never see beef or dairy demonized the way almonds are.

Believe me, there are better plant milks than almond milk (pretty much any of them), but dairy has such a higher impact on the environment (as does beef), it's incredibly disingenuous and hypocritical to complain about almonds before addressing dairy and beef.
From a cost-benefit analysis that is a dirt cheap violation. I imagine someone at Honeywell made off like a bandit in a private transaction. $13 million is a drop in the bucket to Honeywell, it’s absolutely nothing to China, and the turncoat at Honeywell had a life-changing financial transaction, all on the US taxpayer’s nickel. Nice work if you can get it.
yet another comment without actually putting effort to understand spacex's reply to "polluting" night sky argument.
Would love to catchup with you offline and explore this discussion further- Can you pls share me your email/contact no or drop me a note at yasimk@gmail.com with your contact details.
Appreciate it.
> The first time I got it, a few years ago, I thought I was having a stroke.

That was my reaction as well.

It reminded me of looking through a kaleidoscope.

Luckily I’ve only had it occur a couple of times.
One could also argue that the reduction of in-person interaction is in some ways worse, if not as heinous, because of the long term harm that it will cause.
We have 3 of those in our neighborhood. And another 2 that are for sharing food.
Google Ads has indefinitely blocked my ad campaigns. I have a theory why
I've created an ad campaign that is intended to direct viewers to a blog I started about a technology consultancy I am considering starting in the Cincinnati area.

https://loticsystems.blogspot.com

My mistake may have been to start writing about some goals I have with the company. Namely standing up for progressive movements such as LGBTQ and BLM.

The ad was running fine, with a click rate of a little less than 1%. Then the other day I saw a banner across the top of the Google Ads campaign page that said the campaign was being blocked due to a "Subverting Systems policy".

I clicked the "Contact Us" link, which required me to provide contact details (including address). After I provided that information I received an email that stated that they're currently overwhelmed and that due to the COVID pandemic there's no guarantee they'll be able to respond in a timely manner.

I've been involved in technology for about 20 years professionally, so I can absolutely guarantee there is nothing fishy going on from the technical side of the equation. Unless I'm not allowed to direct an ad to my blog, but who needs personally identifiable information to rectify something like that? In the meantime it dawned on me that I really don't know the "checks and balances" that Google has in place to ensure customer privacy and/or safety. I don't know how "freely available" information within their systems is to the Google Ads team, and since they definitely appear they're going to be taking their time to actually address the issue my fear really at this point is that one day they'll just drop the case once my contact info has been distributed to whoever is trying to obtain it.

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No, but you can switch to android if you want a different store that takes a 30% cut
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You are applying your views and preconceptions to this situation without understanding the cultural context.

Privacy rights are very strong in Germany and most people hate gawkers/voyeurs that take photos in such situations. Similarly as it is an offense to name either suspect or victim of a crime in the media, while in America that is common practice.

And courts have leeway - the justice system is not perfect but if you take a film to show an officer/medical staff abusing someone no court will punish you for that.
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Granted, businesses in general (location, etc) is available to the public, but owners of companies don't typically need to reveal their identities and/or contact info or address to the general public. Me providing my contact info through this form on the Google Ads website (I would think) almost guarantees that my contact info has now been distributed to whoever setup the issue.

I'm not trying to create a FUD story, I'm really just trying to write enough of the info (and my concerns) here so that if anyone from Google happens to read this they could look into the policies and procedures on the Google Ads side in order to look into the possibility of malicious intent on the part of internal users or a statistically significant uptick in the number of cases coming through like this. Technology has obviously become quite a politicized issue these days so I personally wouldn't rule out the idea that people within these companies with differing views could potentially leverage the power wielded by Google's systems in order to "take matters into their own hands" by blocking ads that they would prefer for Google NOT to distribute to its end users.

Personal details (by default) are likely blocked from customer service reps, but I'd be interested to know if you all (Google internally) are seeing an uptrend in unexplainable reports of the type I received so that lower level employees can obtain personally identifiable information of people they disagree with, or simply to block ads indefinitely from being distributed across Google's vast advertising network?
The early 2000s were kind of a magical time for a young geek because Goodwill was still taking computers, and you could get fully kitted out for a Linux machine for about $50. Over the course of a few trips I picked up a 486, a monitor, keyboard, mouse, an external modem, speakers, a compatible sound-card, and so on. If I'd have been smarter, I could have snagged quite a few old Macs which are now hot commodities.

They seem to focus a lot more on clothes these days, and I can sympathize because people need decent clothes a lot better than I need computers and weird gadgets, but it makes going into the store less interesting. I think part of the problem is that anything actually neat or possibly valuable goes up on their website rather than the store shelves.
Shh, you'll upset the meat eaters, beef/dairy shills, and people who have been brainwashed by the almond hit pieces put out by the beef/dairy shills.
We bought one a few weeks ago and have been assembling and painting on weekends. Fun little project and looking forward to installing it. There are a few in the greater neighborhood already and they get a lot of use.
> and the sellers have a huge monetary incentive to evade detection.

Let's not forget that it is Amazon that is providing this huge monetary incentive.

As a customer, I really wouldn't care if Amazon dropped all 3rd party sellers. Most users won't. Amazon, of course, will.
The sentiment is only half right.

The important part is “and there is promising tech on the horizon”

I think trying to get a startup based on space travel at relativistic fields would be pretty difficult.

Steve Jobs was a master of this. Seeing promising tech trends that were just about ready, and putting them together at just the right time to make innovations that were world changing.
I had two family members die of COVID, moved house 3 times (including several months couch surfing) and burned out at work while having daily panic attacks due to being locked indoors and isolated for months alone.

I don't think elements of this experience were uncommon.
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It's unfortunate that a salary in that bracket can rule out some of the "right type of people" because they may have prohibitive living expenses. If you've got kids to look after or expensive medical bills suddenly that number ends up being a lot smaller, and if you're not living in the mountains your housing may eat the rest of it.

Thankfully for the Blender Foundation this is less likely to be an issue, since based on the data they appear to largely employ people in countries that have a healthy social safety net. If expenses like health care don't come directly out of the employee's pocket you can pay lower salaries no problem.

Personally as an American with health issues, I could never consider a job at that salary, no matter how much I wanted the job. Maybe if it came with a work visa so I could live in another country with functioning social and health services (but in some cases, non-citizens pay for that out of pocket).
It was more than that, and looking back, it was such a strange situation that I'm not sure I would believe it if I heard about this from someone else. From what I can tell, this person assumed the identity of someone who went to Cornell in order to get hired. Her Cornell email account had the photo of a completely different person associated with it. Her company ID and username on the internal company chat had a different chinese name than the person we hired, and when asked about this, she said she legally changed her name the week before starting her new job. While she worked for us, she said she moonlights for China United Front to fight disinformation against the Chinese government on Chinese social media. She was with us for three months before giving us four days notice that she was quitting to go full time with her social media job. We were both working as data scientists for a large US corporation, and we had access to all sorts of really sensitive internal company data.
Made in x is a fundamentally misleading metric with anything of complex supply chains and international trades. Thanks to old pissing matches there is tarrif induced inefficient stupidity of "almost finished goods" which are shipped and then "manufactured" by doing token last steps domestically just for tarrif avoidance.
I once accidentally nicked the office fridge when cleaning it and let out all of the Freon. The local recycler refused to take it because they can't accept anything with Freon in it (it didn't matter that the Freon had leaked out). Same with the county dump. On the phone, I asked the guy at the dump what I was supposed to do with it and his official recommendation was to drop it off at Goodwill.

I still feel bad about that.
Before covid kicked in on full scale I worked in a med-tech startup. We had a product that orchestrated full delivery of cancer drugs, some personalised research-type drugs produced only for a single patient, we supported 2 CRISPR researches on other drugs. First, clinics in US were closed, then transport companies (specialised drug-delivery planes with freezers), at this point we knew that cancer patients will be 3rd class patients and will eventually die without treatment, likely in pain. Patients weren't allowed in to clinics to prevent them getting covid, as they were high risk (as in health and financially, for the research).

Next week the company lost financial support, 100 devs and 70 testers were made redundant. Investors and board members handled redundancy particularly bad, burnt bridges with employees who were there for the mission. Pretty much all moved to fin-tech. No one I keep contact with is thinking about getting there back with our unique knowledge of the product and industry.
Hypercard, now that is a name I've not heard in a long time
The current implementation is written in Go largely because it was the obvious choice for integration into Dendrite, the next-generation Matrix homeserver, which is embedded into the Element P2P demos.

Pinecone currently exports a net.PacketConn, and for the sake of Matrix federation transport, we layer on uTP+TLS on top to give us encrypted stream-oriented connections for HTTP. If we are successful at achieving our goals then we will write a formal protocol specification and assist with the creation of other implementations.
Something like CardStack?

https://cardstack.com
Oh, just wait a week or so, then they'll be higher and not visible like this. Just like every other launch.

Your 'absolute travesty' is only temporary.
Or they added it because a lot of people like you have misconceptions. Either way they would be rejected applying for unemployment.

I’ve seen restaurant owners saying they can’t hire people, I haven’t seen restaurant owners saying people quit for unemployment. If it’s the case that the restaurant furloughed or laid off people I don’t see why they expect the state to intervene to help them. Socialism for me, but not for thee?
websockets

i didn't think of it so much until i saw i could use it at work but everyone told me there are too many scalability issues

then i had to build a live chat for a personal project and implemented it using websockets with action cable (rails) and it works really well

now i'm reading everything i can about websockets, especially how to scale them
You can do four things with your money.

Spend it, which creates new jobs.

Invest it, so businesses can create new jobs.

Lend it, so borrowers can spend it on your behalf.

Do nothing and let people stay unemployed.

Considering the lack of demand for credit indicated by low interest rates, lending is almost the same as doing nothing.

The last option causes deflation which requires the Fed to step in and increase the money supply until inflation hits the target inflation rate of 2%. Right now it is around 2.6% which is pretty much as perfect as it gets. Not too low, not too high.

Highly simplified: People are stealing USD and the Fed has to compensate for the loss except the Fed is distributing the new money very inefficiently which causes collateral damage in the asset markets.
I get a devastating headache every few weeks lasting a few days from the base of my skull inside, and it feels like the type of headache that you get from drinking something cold too fast, a bit milder, and lasting a few days. It seems to be triggered from sitting in front of the PC (I try to always stand), doing something dumb at the gym (benching and pushing my neck into the bench so I no longer bench), sitting awkwardly for too long (like a train seat), or looking at a slight angle down while working. It feels like nerve impingement and it travels sometimes to just one side of my face, and even hurts above my eye. Sometimes I feel nauseous too. I've had this for many years. It's more likely to happen if I've slept poorly or get stressed.

What's the difference between that and migraine? I hear people all the time saying they suffer from migraines, and I'm told it's connected to a 'quadrant' type of pain. Are people being diagnosed with migraines maybe suffering from a similar nerve issue that I have? And by the way, that I have a nerve impingement is purely my own hypothesis, and difficult to prove/disprove I think.
Good distinction. As a scientist, 'to our surprise' is exceptionally surprising!

We are already domain experts on the research edge for whatever topic, and writing to our peers. What we know is already not obvious to non-experts. For something to be surprising to the domain experts too, that's where the novelty points start, and why we are taking time to write/read. So, clever!
I work in tech, and my company has bent over backwards to help us. Dozens of extra days off I'm having a hard time even using, an extra 4 days off a year (one per quarter) where the whole company is off, constantly reminding us ourselves and our families come first, and encouraging others to be understanding that our coworkers might be working unusual schedules as they juggle remote-learning kids, childcare, elder care, and other life priorities during such a difficult period.

It's not everywhere, and maybe it's not even the norm, but surely other companies are supportive of their employees as well.
That seems vulnerable to a version of the Scientology bestseller exploit.

Let's say the seller is selling widgets. They get their phantom accounts to buy the widgets and thus run up the lifetime spend counter. Then they give the "purchased" widgets to themselves and just keep on selling them.

All they have to pay per iteration is the overhead (Amazon's take), assuming they'll manage to clear their stock later.

E.g. say a widget costs $110, of which Amazon's take is $10.
The seller uses their fake account to buy 10 widgets at a total cost of $1100. The seller both receive the widgets (shipped to the fake account's address) and the $1000 from the "sale". The total cost is thus $100 for making the fake account look like it has spent $1000.
You could become a scientific programmer.
That's an old demo from 2013.
this is made up information.

cmmc is not in effect, v1.02 is like 2 months old, and v2 is rumored to come out in a month or two.

nist 800-171, which is where the majority of cmmc comes from, didnt even require formal external attestation until like 6 months ago when dfars 252.204-7019 required posting in SPRS to continue doing business with the DoD.

ive never seen, nor heard of, anything actually marked as CUI.
Germany is not France. No German court will not punish you for filming an officer abusing a civilian/protestor/etc. But you will be punished for taking a gore video of someone dying.
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A similar change happened in Moldova (which first was Autonomous Moldovan Republic as a part of Ukraine and then Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic within USSR after WWII).

Moldovan was declared a language similar to, but different from Romanian, and was given a Cyrillic script [1]. Even though Moldovan is at most a dialect of Romanian.

The Soviet Union was very direct but also very effective in changing entire cultural substrates of millions of people over a very short period of time. Giving languages under its influence Cyrillic scripts was a part of that.

Note: it's not all bleak and bad, as many indigenous people got their alphabets for the first time in history.

[1] Wikipedia has a very detailed page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language?wprov=sfti1
Starlink is polluting the sky for people who cannot buy its services, and who don't appreciate yet another American corporation invading into their lives, this time taking the very view of the night sky.
For the record, these satellites are inserted in groups of 60 at half their orbital height. They have onboard thrusters to boost up to the final operational orbit. There is high atmospheric drag at lower altitudes, so they deploy their solar panels horizontally during this boost period, which usually lasts less than a month. These horizontal panels reflect the sun just after sunset and just before dawn. Once they are at their final height they rotate the panels so they are much less reflective. Basically, the constellation's effect on the night sky is proportional to the number of launches in the last month, not the total number in orbit.
Manufacturering defense items overseas is a mistake for a xenophobic nation.

Defense spending is largely a waste of money.
agree, I think tech employees should be weary of remote work. We'll probably see even harder interview process and less pay / benefits as a result.
This is huge for Rust. With Microsoft Windows SDK and now with this, Rust is starting to get first party support on platforms.

More so than language syntax, the driver of adoption of a language is ecosystem. Rust is rapidly building up a very impressive ecosystem around it.
From a footnote of TFA:

> You may try to fix the confusion by viewing memory with its low addresses at the top and high addresses at the bottom. While this would indeed make stack movement more natural, it would also mean that increasing some memory address would take it down in the graphical representation, which is probably even more counter-intuitive.

Ultimately, my approach is to avoid directional terms such as 'top' and 'bottom' or 'high' and 'low' in the first place; they only cause confusion. Prefer 'greater' or 'smaller' addresses.

(Similarly 'left' and 'right' when applied to bits, which gets especially confusing if endianness is involved; prefer 'more significant' and 'less significant'.)
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> At the same time, Amazon Marketplace is one of the underappreciated masterstrokes from Amazon over the last 15 years and has driven a huge increase in their retail revenue, which you can see in annual reports. So, certainly they're unwilling to take really dramatic action like dropping 3rd-party sellers entirely. But I still think they realize fixing this is pretty crucial for the long-term health of the retail business.

This is a long winded way of saying "Yeah it sucks, but we're not losing as much money as we are making because of this, so we're not as invested in fixing this problem."

I'm not doubting whether they want it fixed. I'm doubting the priority they put on it.
Fair point - thank you for the reasoned reply, esp. regarding the specifics for sections 64, 65, 70...
What approach do they use?
I've seen a lot of these pop up in various neighborhoods over the years. It's a cute concept, but most of the what I see in them are things that nobody has any interest in and would be better off just being recycled. Old manuals for MS Word 1997, crappy romance novels, water damaged cook books from the 80s, etc.
I think this actually works in Amazon's favour. It's a completely intractable problem to find the best widget from 17 pages of almost identical widgets with completely unstructured data to sift through. So what do customers do? They buy the Amazon recommended choice. It serves two purposes, it crowds out any competitive market place whilst capturing practically all of the value by determining what gets put in front of the customer first.
>that they intentionally kept an opponent around to force their continued evolution

I don't remember the details of the plot well, but from that report, it's more:

1. Assigned goal: Defeat Enemy

2. Defeats enemy, but realizes that if it's fully defeated, they can no longer fulfill their goal

3. Keeps the enemy alive, so they can have an enemy to defeat. But they're stuck with a contradiction

4. Start corrupting the network to force evolution, to find a solution

That is, keeping YoRHa alive and fighting is independent of the evolutionary task -- it's a side-goal, to fulfill their base requirement (Defeat the Enemy). Keeping YoRHa around is necessary for the android's continued existence, and really all it's for.

The evolutionary task is a search to find a way to get out of this current state (endless war; contradictory/nonsensical setup).