skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I would want to hold the CEO's passport and bank account credentials because they seem like a flight risk.

(Something similar happened to a friend of mine who lost a $300k final payment because their friend/roommate took it and fled the country.)
Mid 2008 or so I think was when rowhammer-prone DRAM started appearing, so consider the density of that DRAM compared to today.
> But, then I look at my neighborhood and the 1,000 small-business WordPress sites, with blogs that have been abandoned in 2015,...etc

That's not a failing of WordPress. That's:

1. A failure of how the business owner just couldn't be bothered. Wordpress, Wix, Squarespace, there's a fairly good chance they'd fail at all of these. They won't pay for the design, marketing etc etc, and the reason why?

2. their business doesn't need a website e.g. local plumber or the only game in town for a specific vertical.

3. They're on their local Facebook groups and don't need anything more.

These folks also abandoned Yellow pages, Thomsons etc years ago but yet they survive through word of mouth. The internet and these other marketing services can't compete with that (especially outside certain confined bubbles). The local plumbing and heating guy in my area gets on fine without all the paraphernalia of "being on the web", as do all other trades.

Not everyone needs a "website", especially if they've a well developed funnel of incoming business that, by now in 2021, they still get on ok without needing to be internetized.

What does get these folks business without websites is other folks recommending them "on the internet", via local Facebook groups or whatever. Why would you waste time having a website when FB funnels the business to you, it's already job done.
Awesome. How does it affect water resistance?
As others have mentioned, ECC is nothing more than a bandaid for what is ultimately a defective product.
Its unlikely to evolve an infection mechanism besides the spike protein. There will be plenty of mutant evolutionary deadends that live and die in a few days.
Apple’s Auto Layout for JavaScript
observers moving relative to each other agree on what “the speed of light” is, but disagree about what “2 x the speed of light” is. Specifically, they disagree about which superluminal trajectories are forward in time vs backwards in time. Therefore, if you have a device that accelerates you to 2x the speed of light, it must accelerate you to 2x the speed of light in your own reference frame. As a result, you can accelerate to .99 c relative to earth using conventional means, activate the device, and then be travelling at 2x the speed of light in the .99c frame, which is backwards in time in the earth frame. You could then stop, turn around, and repeat the procedure to arrive at earth before you left.

The Alcubierre solution avoids this by being symmetrical, so that observers don’t have to agree on which direction is the destination and which is the origin
My favorite response to “How are you?” comes from a Russian former coworker: “Average. Worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow”.
Everything will work when /if server meshing works
Totally—but I think that's actually what leads to the dumbest requirements people are complaining about. "Don't allow autofill." "Don't allow pasting passwords." "All passwords must contain at least five special characters and your first born son." Those are boxes that can only be checked one way.

I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this. Something about, maybe things are broken because they don't fit in the insurance company model, and someone needs to solve for that before anything gets better.
Everything will work when or rather if server meshing works
The WebKit commit is over 8 months old already: "Enable WebGL2 by default", Sep 14, 2020 – from https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/267027/webkit

CanIUse reports that it's only available in Safari Technology Preview for now, which is a macOS program: https://www.caniuse.com/webgl2

With WWDC 2021 only ~9 days away, one can hope that they'll announce its support on all platforms in the next major release. If it was already "good enough" last September…
He lives! And hasn't yet been struck by any outdoor natural fireworks or rapid, falling condensation in ATX. :D
They would expect you to pay yourself a competitive but not luxurious wage, so, closer to $125K or so than $10K in the Bay Area. If it were $10K they'd be afraid you were too distracted trying to scrounge a living; it would a horrible use of their funds.
You'd probably also find some who's early demise would be considered socially beneficial. However, I think it would be hard to know good or bad impacts without extreme and obvious examples. We've also had heroes who looked to be doing a lot of good throughout their life, only to turn out to be monsters behind closed doors.

Also something like GDP is very macro, and not all GDP activity is socially beneficial, so GDP contribution would be a flawed way to make such an assessment. For example, someone scamming seniors out of their retirement money through shady business tactics wouldn't be a net positive to society, but could contribute millions to GDP.
> founder stock should vest!

That's not obviously true.

An example when it doesn't make sense is if you already spent a significant amount of time, or got results.

From an investor standpoint, they like founder vesting because they're essentially wiping out (zero-timing) whatever initial ownership you had, and getting cheap employees (founders) on an employment contract. Investors get a significant power advantage at founder expense.

But hey, if you don't know any better, sign on the dotted line.

For those who aren't sophisticated with business contracts, there's no such thing as a "standard contract." You can find out if the other party is flexible or not by saying, "I'll redline this and get back to you." If they refuse, then you know where you stand.
I’ve been through YC twice now and have had this happen to me before in different ways and heard many stories firsthand. Some people just seem to drop whatever mask they had as soon as they see one ounce of success.

There is even one case of a yc company where the cofounder went off and made a complete clone of the company a year later. Then an intern of that new company went off and made a third clone within a year. I just checked and all 3 are dominating the market and still running.

For my own story, I partly blame myself as the signs of this type of person are pretty obvious in retrospect. I was able to do much more with another company 6 years later while my cofounder ran an mvp I built with 10 customers I got with millions of funding right into the ground.

Good for this guy on finding out and acting quickly. It would have been so much worse with millions of dollars on the line. He has a good attitude, I hope he realizes he could start a similar company if need be or approach a competitor.
You are correct, it requires “no preferred frame of reference”.
Andreas doesn’t prefer using debuggers. He’s actually touched on the subject a few times in his videos.
Probably not much practical use, but that's not really the point. Some may learn from it, some will draw inspiration from it, some just want to support the author and some probably just think the world is a better place with projects like this in it. Think of it as the technical version of supporting the arts.
I am from the south. Last weekend I was at bar, talking to someone from Miami, just generally shooting shit. A little later 2 men, who put bluntly but accurately looked redneck, asked me what I was drinking and my accent and diction suddenly shifted for a second. This sort of thing happens often, I’ll find myself speaking differently for different Uber drivers, etc. the accent also comes out while trying to portray certain emotions or when I’m particularly tired, which I wish I could suppress.
What hypothesis would you test?
This doesn’t work as well as it should - companies that are understaffed can’t do much with more feedback.

Also, I don’t like sharing my dirty laundry with the whole world just to get a bug fixed.
Gosh, where to begin.

This was written in 2020, a time in which a conservative US President was planning to unleash the military on protestors, had installed a friendly DOJ head who was actively undermining an investigation of the POTUS, and who would later whip up his cronies and followers to attack the US legislature the following year....

...but the real problem is that young people believe that the world should be a fairer place? That people might be upset because police feel they have a right to kill others in the street? That protestors might think that one should be judged on one's actions rather than an unchangeable quality within themselves such as their skin colour, parentage or sexual preference?
Because sign languages are languages. Sign languages were not designed by anyone; they develop and evolve organically like any other language. (With the notable exception that we’ve seen totally new sign languages come into existence in isolated deaf communities, but we’ve never seen this for spoken languages.) Deaf communities in France, Britain, Russia, China, Taiwan, Martha’s Vineyard, Nunavut, Bali, Adamorobe and other places have all developed sign languages independently, and there’s no particular reason why one of these should become international at the expense of the others. It’s like asking why the whole world hasn’t been forced to speak English yet — because they happen to like speaking French, Hebrew, Swahili, Korean, Yolŋu or whatever language they speak.

By the way, it may interest you to know that there actually is something called International Sign. But it’s probably not what you’re looking for, since it’s basically just an unstandardised pidgin.
If every overly optimistic founder with unrealistic goals was written off as a "blatant scam" then YC would invest in...exactly no one. The one serious charge in the article (that they got in to YC through nepotism) is more of a "I heard from someone who heard from someone", and has zero detail.
The encryption key for “Messages in iCloud” (a cross-device sync service) gets backed up in the iCloud Backup (which is, as discussed, not e2e and thus readable by Apple), however, backdooring the e2e nature of Messages in iCloud by escrowing the key to Apple in the backup.

If MIC is enabled, iCloud Backup backs up the key, breaking the e2e. If MIC is disabled, iCloud Backup backs up the plaintext message history, breaking the e2e. This is well documented in the Apple KB article 202303 on the topic.

It’s no longer an accident at this point.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

> Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.

It’s written in a misleading style, but if you read it carefully it is apparent what is happening.

Turning off iCloud Backup is insufficient, as each conversation is backed up twice: once from each side. Your conversation partners’ devices default iCloud Backup to on.

Apple has the ability to read almost every single iMessage sent or received, on a 12-24 hour lag (iCloud Backups happen overnight), from data already on their servers, without ever touching a customer phone. All of the encryption is a handwavey distraction.
Never attribute to malice what you could attribute to a desire for profit.
It is called response lag and is a well studied phenomenon.

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/ecajt/inflation%20lags%20m...

Yes, distribution matters. Us common folk got a taste, with stimulus checks, of what has been happening for nearly a century at the top.
Still got W2k running in the lab on bare metal, now cloned onto a 2014 Win8 PC.
"normalyok" and more informally "zayebis"
We Brits either ignore t’s or actually pronounce them as tee, whereas for Yankees it comes out as a dee for some reason.

I did actually read somewhere that linguists think the British/American accent before America was a separate colony was most likely more similar to an American accent, so actually it was the Brits who diverged their accent.
That would be interesting to see. I for one have no real idea what the result would be.

My $0.02 based on nothing more than personal experience is that it seems to be a net negative in practice. I'm sure that some degree of overwork in certain industries has raised GDP, but there are also notorious examples of systemic overwork reducing productivity, like medical providers (mistakes) and Japan (Parkinson's Law), which seem to resonate more with my experience.

Who knows, though? It could easily be the opposite, for all I know. It would be interesting if someone was able to do this analysis.
“Red Guards of 1968 often came from privileged backgrounds. The first groups emerged from the elite high schools and universities in Beijing (…)
The Red Guards thus went out, seeking to root out imaginary class enemies from within.”

History rhymes indeed
Somewhat offtop, but I wanted to ask: how much universal intelligibility there is in sign languages? I understand that sign languages are, well, languages, and thus not readily inter-intelligible. But so are, perhaps, our native languages, yet here we are speaking English. And not just because this is a somewhat SV forum: english is just internationally popular right now. Of course, most people I meet don't really speak english, and lingua franca will change based on the region (at many places most people will know nothing but local language), but learning english is still way more practical worldwide (outside of USA and UK) than learning estonian, and speaking english I have good chances to be understood in most big cities in Europe and worldwide.

Also, I understand that it's hard to compare, because most people don't speak any sign languages, but is there something similar with sign languages?

Honestly, I feel weird desire to learn some sign language, but there's absolutely zero practical reasons for me to do so, and I wonder if learning, say, ASL, could help me interact with deaf people in my country or somewhere else. Sure, I won't understand them when they speak their local dialect, but is there something common that most deaf people would probably understand?
https://grumpygamer.com
Putting a "misleading" label and a source explaining why that is instead of removing or hiding the entry would be a good middle ground.

More importantly, those explanations and labels should change if the concensus changes.
LIKE THIS: we use Upserve for our restaurant POS’s. We have had a new support lead every few months since the original team and CEO, Angus, left. Since then, the product has been sold several times and the product hasn’t changed, and more and more standard functions fail. Then you get on support and wait 90 min and the queue shuts down when everyone goes to line. It’s shameful. We’ll be leaving for another provider soon - just need to confirm credit card pre authorizations.
> I don't agree with that. I definitely think the super rich should have a huge portion of their wealth redistributed, but giving it directly to people is a bad use.

Why? It was working people who created that wealth.
Blame ex-US companies and ex-US tax policy for ex-US brain drain. The US isn't forcing people to come here in the same way that China / Singapore / India / Vietnam aren't forcing US corps to shift production there; people follow incentives.
It’s a long list, the major one is state income taxes, also charitable deductions can cover charities you create which can be a big deal if something you’re doing anyway could qualify.

However, some oddities like theft of investments such as gold or artwork and even some fines can be deductible. So sure on it’s own the mortgage tax deduction isn’t always huge, but it’s rarely the only deduction someone could take.
This is a major understatement.

My hobby channels have completely dominated every other form of content in my life at this point.
>sifting through the trash cans outside Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village apartment

i think it's a good metaphor for "art-history" studies. I could never understand people writing about art, analyzing some painting texture, style of brush strokes, author intent, historical context or whatnot, or digging into artist biography or their development; not in order to learn how to make art, mastering the craft, but for the sole sake of analysis, critique or "art appreciation".

Art is just there, a thing in itself, you either get it or not, either it talks to you, personally, or not, and you can create one too, you may have more or less talent but making art is not a prerogative of "artists" as some kind of special breed.

It's kinda like talking a whole lot about coding style and programmer bios instead of just writing code and building things.
There is a grey area between cleaning data and feature engineering. At some point, the more sophisticated methods for data cleaning becomes imputation and inference of features. I wonder what are the ramifications of this.
From Earth's POV.
> The problem is that you're suggesting we regulate the average citizen by replacing their money with rationed supplies.

I’m not sure how my suggestion inhibits liberty on the individual. My suggestion is to simply change the way welfare is executed: instead of giving people welfare money you give them the actual goods they need to live a civilized life.

The economic system would still be capitalistic, just the welfare is handled differently.
I used gmail to subscribe to lkml at some point. Then switched back to my own email server. Forgot to unsubscribe on gmail. A few years later I deleted that folder. And couldn't open Gmail anymore for weeks, everything would just time out.
https://archive.is/UxZlu
Even more fun is 3D printing the desired structure and scaffolding of the target tissue or organ.
> The Chinese government has recently adopted a science policy that based quantity over quality.

I have no idea what is the reference here. Quantity and quality were emphasized constantly in any nation-wide policy making. I was growing up in China for 24 years, I never sensed any emphasis on quantity over quality.

To give an recent example, China has created so-called "future technology institute" for cutting edge fundamental researches [0]. That's aiming the most advanced technology research.

> Think the genetically engineered babies. Illegally genetically engineering babies is about as far out there as it gets.

The scientist, Jiankui He, who claimed that he had created the first human genetically edited babies [1] was widely criticized in mainland China [2] (in Chinese, Baidu's copycat of Wikipedia).

Mr. He was later sentenced to 3 years prison, and 3M RMB fine. His collaborators were sentenced to prison time as well [3].

Mr. He was a rogue scientist at best.

Your statement are connecting a statement of China values quantity over quality and gene editing human baby, I don't see the connection here, even if the the first statement was true (which itself were not).

[0] http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2021-05/26/c_1127495262.ht...
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/18/239297/the-scien...
[2] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E8%B4%BA%E5%BB%BA%E5%A5%8E/297...
[3] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/30/c_138666754.htm
From reading the two press releases, Perlmutter is 3.5 Exaflops vs Google TPUv4 at 1 Exaflop. Who knows how that compares in real life on real problems.
How do I delete someone else's comment?
> the evidence is overwhelming

AFAIK all the evidences were still the roughly the same as what was known in Trump administration.

Are there significant new discoveries?
The fact that previously infected people have higher titers to the vaccine implies nothing about the effectiveness of the vaccine -- it implies that the human immune system works, and recognizes the spike protein when it is re-introduced. Extrapolating from this to conclude that the protection is therefore better is an unsupported leap. The authors are trying to piggyback on previous work that claims that antibody levels correlate with immunity, but there's a huge difference between someone who has never had Covid, and someone who has.

The abstract does say that vaccinated people have higher titers than naturally immune people, and this can be considered evidence:

> mRNA vaccination induced much higher Ab levels especially against the RBD domain and significant cross-reactivity against SARS RBD and S1 was also observed.
Where is the report of this?
On that note, it feels so un-apple like that their official way of resolving the storage issue with updates is to unpair the watch and pair it again.
Static compilation is not needed for numeric computing which Julia is great at. However, Julia is advertised as a general purpose language, which IMO is obvious in your "What is Julia?" section. You pose Julia as a mighty language for everything and your supporters think this way, too. I have had conversations with multiple Julia supporters who thought Julia ought to replace python and even C. When people like jampekka pointed out Julia lacks necessary features to make this happen, these supporters got defensive and made absurd claims beyond their domain of knowledge.
Beyond the issue of judicial activism, the idea of a strong legal obligation towards people who don’t exist is suspect.

One of the cornerstones of modern ethics is autonomy - roughly “don’t make moral decisions for other people.”

But creating a strong political obligation towards non existent people frankly violates their autonomy.

Who knows what future generations will want?

For example, perhaps these future people are strongly religious, and object to birth control. Perhaps they are radical right wing climate deniers.

Maybe they are literal Nazis who successfully wiped out everyone who isn’t of a specific racial background.

It might sound sad that future people would be that way, but remember they are all the children of whoever survived and reproduced.

Even more problematic: we are creating the very people we have an oligarion toward by our actions.

We could easily invent an international immigration policy that would create the people (and obligations) we want.

For example, a EU-rophile could say: “loosened immigration rules have created future generations with a more European wide outlook. Therefore they will need stronger transnational institutions to support them.” Or we just easily say, “People if the future are more likely to want the strong national identity we currently lack, so let’s focus on national policies.”
if they say Suka Blyat, then they must be angry.

Just greet them with this phrase, and if they laugh in response - they are in a good mood, and if they dont- bad mood
And if there’s nothing they need the workers to do or goods the rich want to purchase? Then how should those without wealth eat and provide shelter for their family?
why the need to sign up with Google? I don't want Google to be associated with text messages.
The S-500 is designed for long range and high speed interception - it's meant to replace the A-135 anti-ballistic missile system, protecting against not only ballistic missiles but also hypersonic weapons. It's similar in role to the american PAC-3. While there seems to be many articles claiming it is an "F-35 killer", these don't appear to be based on any substantiated evidence and the requirements for defeating stealth are wildly different from its missile defense role. The S-500 supplements the S-400, which is the primary anti-aircraft system and the S-400's 9M96E missile is designed to hit stealth targets.
Yeah exactly. It’s nuts.
By saying it will quite likely be eradicated, you’re assuming herd_immunity_threshold% vaccination is achieved, aren’t you?

There are countries that are yet to achieve even 1% and some populations are likely to never achieve the threshold for immunity in that population.