skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it’s not a violation to require proof of vaccination

Not unless someone looks up your status without your consent, I would think.
I read that as "extraterrestrial enforcement" which sounded way more exciting.
Colleges Say Students Must Get a Covid Vaccine. But No, Not That One
From what I can tell, Llama uploaded 1.8 GB. An Internet connection that can upload 10 megabits per second, sustained, should be able to complete that in a half hour. If that's too long, it might make sense to run Llama from a small EC2 VM, eliminating any concerns about bandwidth.

IMHO Llama looks so good that it makes me wonder if AWS is undercharging to attract developers.
This is fantastic new verbiage.

Blockchain charlatans are woowoos.
Scotty [0] would tell you to buy his Toyota Celica or maybe a used Toyota Corolla, but "all the new ones today are plastic crap."

0. Scotty Kilmer - internet famous mechanic in Houston TX - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottykilmer

Well, they did come up with the Prius, so I think they might have a shot at EVs.
you techbros are killing me. things are coupled whether you want them to be or not
You won't be seeing 30%+ gains when they're throwing people in prison for it.

Most drug users are never prosecuted. But the threat of prosecution does very little to affect the quality of their purchase, relative to what it would do to BTC market as a whole.
> Merit and diversity are not in opposition to each other.

Logic/math does not bear out this well-intended belief.

If you select N employees for the company based entirely on merit, you get some set U.

If you select N employees entirely based on diversity, you get a set V.

Whenever U /= V, the criteria are necessarily in conflict. The conflicting choices are represented in the symmetric difference of U and V: elements in U that are not in V and vice versa.

The merit criteria selects some people U\V (those in U who are not in V); the diversity criteria disagrees with that and insists they be replaced with people in the V\U difference.

You can mix the criteria: somehow hedging between diversity and merit. There is more than one way of doing that and those ways can be in conflict with each other as well as with pure merit or pure diversity.

Ideally you want merit only because only that is relevant to the organization. What may happen instead is that selection takes place based on a mixture of merit plus some undesirable bias. Diversity advocates rightfully point out that this is in conflict with pure merit.

What diversity should ideally mean is the elimination of such a bias, rather than introduction of compensating biases.
If you’re talking about NFTs that weren’t authorized by the artist, then of course I agree. I have been talking about NFTs that are deliberately issued by the artist.
Welcome to the social media era. You don't get clicks/likes/upvotes by going through the process to engage with people, you get them by running to social media and making mountains out of molehills, for the lulz. Remember, it's not about community, or helping out, or just doing the right thing, it's about your "influencer" clout.
> Markets are not optimized for quality of life. It's one variable of many in a system evolved to coerce the many to benefit the few.

You need enough buy in from enough companies to actually have a competitive market for remote work. I think things were moving in that direction but slowly (as things tend to do) - COVID just accelerated the trend.
Not worse than Slack as a productivity tool, and yet it didn’t seem to matter.
Opening it up and seeing 30%+ losses in a day must be quite a come down
How can the people in charge of that not see how insincere it comes across?

Is it just a massive ego stroke for those in charge?
Quantum Technologies in Defence and Security
At Amazon, principal means you can direct organization wide technical strategy, implement the foundations and mentor others. It’s an insane bar internally.
I laughed so hard without my mask that I almost got kicked out of this WeWork
I have to admit, it is harder than I would like
You generally can't exchange cash for Bitcoin all that easily. You need some part of the fiat electronic banking system to get from cash to Bitcoin.
But what if merit depends on some other institution? Someone with no education/background in an area does not have merit. Employers may wind up hiring in skewed proportions if the talent pool has the same issues.
This is not really true if you include ML languages. Most of the time you create a specific type for a type that is constrained. Ada has pretty good support for this and ML languages too. Once you have a specific type you make all your functions accept only VoterAge instead of Int.
It’s funny you say that, there actually was a huge LSD bust in 2000 that did make it harder to find for awhile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
> If we're going to Patriot Act the crud out of ransomware, Bitcoin is gonna be illegal

Terrorist financing is illegal. Cash is not.
Headline is original to the piece, but nevertheless grossly slanted.

The Daily Mail published accurate, redacted photos showing Katie Hill engaging in drug use and sexual behavior with a campaign aide.

Katie Hill sued on the grounds that this isn't newsworthy. And they should have redacted more than they did.

There's a reason Katie Hill is the one paying the other side's attorney fees. This was an incredibly frivolous lawsuit.
correct. I am not talking about effective rates.

SS was originally sold as a personal savings plan, not a wealth redistribution plan. This is why payout is tied to contribution, and elders who didn't contribute are left to suffer in poverty.

If we want it to act as to redistribute wealth, we should simply scrap it and replace it with an income tax and means tested benefit.
Their work isn't remote though.
Don't understand how that happened, but the ruling can be potential game changing for future disputes ?
> I went into startup consulting for 5 years

5 years of startup consulting should have put you in touch with a lot of people. Have you tried tapping into this network?

> Also, I'm thinking about turning down a FAANG interview because they want me to invent a resume, I hear they're extremely ageist, and they're aggressively promoting under-qualified people to meet artificial "diversity" goals. "Promoting all people" is the copy on their website, but that's not what they mean.

You can't complain about struggling to get a job in one paragraph and then suggest you're going to turn down an interview in the next.

Drop the cynicism. Write a resume. Talk to the interviewers like peers and fellow humans. See where it goes. Stop enraging yourself about things you heard about a company before you've even interviewed.

> Should I just become homeless and give-up on the delusion of ever getting a mid-six-fig gig?

I think you need to set aside this idea that you're uniquely victimized. Prepare resumes, apply to companies, engage with them honestly. There is no secret. Put yourself out there and check your cynicism at the door.

It's hard to say without seeing your resume and experience during this 5 years of consulting, but at some point you have to accept that it might not be realistic to ask companies to skip you up the career ladder unless you have some concrete experience and results to show them. If you can't even be bothered to prep an honest resume for a FAANG interview, how are these companies supposed to judge your experience level?
What do you have in mind? We have a number of workflow automation tasks on Jenkins and while it works, it requires constant upkeep.

An ability to share machine pool with a CI system, or having an integrated CI is a plus.
you can skirt all regulation and set false expectations by simply calling your driver assist feature “autopilot”
We already do have extraterritorial enforcement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction#...

In fact, I would be surprised if we *didn't* have extraterritorial enforcement of any ransomware laws.
Rebuilding the infrastructure of nest.pijul.com after the OVH fire
my grep of choice is `ag "searchterm" -G .py` or the like. I don't notice any delay, and I'm specifying the file extension
OK, if developers hate Apple so much for taking 15-30% of their revenue, why aren't they:

- banding together and suing Apple together

- still writing apps for Apple and giving them money?

Aren't iPhones about 20% of the smartphone market? Wouldn't you make more money from the Google Store or are they extorting the same rates?
How much success, historically, has the US government had at regulating math? I can't think of any, but it's not really my specialty so I'm curious if anyone's encountered a successful example.
That’s what happens (sometimes) if you bring frivolous lawsuits.
I was quite surprised, too. Maybe it was a little gift from Holden to the burnout bogans?

1. My apologies, I've confused you. CAN communications are purely internal for my system, it doesn't communicate via CAN to the car's computers.

The sensors and actuators give or accept voltage signals, and my controller inputs or outputs those accordingly. For example, the 4 speed has some pressure sensors to monitor the valve body behaviour, and I send some HI or LO voltage signals in emulation of it.

2. I do use FreeRTOS for the 407. I don't need to, since I use a super loop and all my memory is either static or allocated on the stack.
Advertising ID and opting out of personalized ads on Android, coming late 2021
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah we have plans to add "nearby conversations" in larger rooms, built around furniture. So walking over to a couch in the room would start a nearby conversation that wouldn't disturb the rest of the room.
> - They pretend with a straight face like it was somehow impossible to sell software or reach customers before their magical store made it happen.

I've never heard them claim that. The claim is that for an appliance like a phone - rather than a general purpose computer - device reliability trumps all, including the ability for the consumer to run arbitrary code on the device.
In fairness, would you mind referencing some of the similar services?
CEO of Topia here - hi!

We're 100% focused on communities and human connection, not on office work or commercial tools :). But work employees can be a community as well and strengthening the bonds you have with your coworkers is a great use of Topia!

Topia is all about creating real relationships built upon shared experiences and memories. We have tons of fun features to help world builders create unique, connective experiences.
significant whitespace is nasty, by definition its hard to see errors.
Not convenient if you can't edit the format with a normal keyboard.
did the court clarify what "authorized" means? seems that the opinion hinges on that definition.

does it mean just knowing the right user name and password?
what if the login page also had a check box "I agree to use this system only to perform my job". if the cop lies and checks this box, does it mean he's not authorized?

if lying about the check box is OK, what if he had used a colleague's user name and password for the criminal activity? he's still authorized just he didn't use his own password to commit the crime. would that still not make it CFAA?
You're writing more code than you have to though. More code = more bugs.
People use ECC to protect against misbehavior that is random both spatially and temporally. That is, it's not meant to protect against the same transistors producing incorrect outputs consistently/systematically. Put another way, we felt we had a rather safe guarantee that consistent/systematic misbehavior of the same portion of hardware would be either testable (like with memory diagnostics) or nonexistent. This paper is tearing apart that assumption.
They're not being lumped in with non-prisoner residents.
I wasn't talking about what all offices are, but about what some of them can be.

It is clear that many offices are dull hives that suck the life out of their occupants. But why be in such office? Why should someone have a job just to get a paycheck, getting miserable in return? There are always options.

To look at it from a different side, office is a tool, which, used correctly, can give a tremendous boost to productivity. But it is not a given. It has natural advantage - like physical proximity between people and disadvantages - the need to commute being one of them.
> We already do have extraterritorial enforcement

Hackers in Russia extorting Americans is illegal under U.S. law; that's extraterritorial jurisdiction. The U.S. government going into Russia (or Pakistan or Ethiopia) to punish those hackers without the home country's permission is extraterritorial enforcement.

We have a lot of precedence with the former. The latter's use is more limited, for obvious reasons.
Uh, if a shop or a dealer does service you didn't agree to, you don't sign for or pay for it.

https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2016/02/5-times-you-c...

https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/21528/what-rep...

If you have a specific problem that they refuse to fix, then there's Lemon law.
Apple is literally the world's largest company. I would argue that increasing their market share of anything, anywhere is harmful to the future of humanity, full stop.
>which can be much more sophisticated than what is commonly used in static systems, even with refinement types

Can you elaborate on this? I have some experience with Clojure, and have been relatively unimpressed with spec. Everything it does I can do with (refinement) types (I think). Reading over the Spec documentation it constantly talks about predicates... which is exactly what a refinement type is.

Spec/Clojure has the problem where it validates... but doesn't parse. See: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
The observation that many office jobs are meaningless must have been made many times before the pandemic, and I/we can't be the only ones to have made it.

Maybe the purpose of many workplaces, from the perspective of some managers and workers, is not only related to the output of the company. I have come to the belief that part of the purpose of "work" for some people is "live role playing" careers, and thus they want to fill the roles for the other co-players.

From this perspective, it's not surprising that people want to return to the office.
I don’t think it’s a big leap at all. On summers have a choice if they buy a product. They don’t get to dictate what products a company is allowed to make. Safety and consumer protection, fine, but I don’t see this as about consumer protection. It’s about some people wishing Apple would change their phones to suit their preferences, but there’s no obligation on Apple to do so.

People have always wished Apple would sell computers with this or that feature, this or that peripheral or option. That’s not how it works though. If they don’t sell a device that suits your needs, you have the same recourse the rest of us have.

But do you really think they would stop with specifications for side loading and App Store APIs, security profiles and associated OS services? How about specs for police and security services back doors, tracking and surveillance. They won’t be able to help themselves. And if the US can pass laws demanding these things, that creates a precedent for Russia, China, Saudi Arabia etc to follow suit.
The Prius/THS/HSD was definitely groundbreaking, but it's also been mostly refined versus refined since it's 1997 release, and is now stuck in everything from luxury sedans to SUVs and the LC500h. For comparison Honda has/is experimenting with i-DCD (pancake motor) i-MMD (paralell system) SH-AWD (Through the road hybrid). Arguably this experimenting has resulted in a simpler system for Honda versus the planetary gearset in the Toyota system.

Not to say that Toyota hasn't also experimented with stranger drivetrains, but they generally seem to have branched out less than Honda as an example.
Elon spends nearly as much time at SpaceX as he does Tesla. There's no question that Elon regularly mucks in at the lowest levels of engineering at SpaceX.

If you want evidence from a reasonably neutral observer, take Sandy Munro (himself an engineer who has worked on everything from cars to aeroplanes). He recently interviewed Elon, ostensibly about Tesla but the interview was in a meeting room at SpaceX. After the interview he was invited to a two hour design review meeting and was "blown away" at Elon's depth of involvement.

https://youtu.be/S1nc_chrNQk?t=370 (6:10 to 8:45)
Robinhood gets paid for free crypto trades
I've made no statement about emacs or evil mode. I was just correcting the user I was responding to about vim having interoperability with the rest of unix
They still need research on Elerium-115
What about the other side of this? Instead of seeking backdoors and using them to spy on Americans, the NSA should be stepping up their game and securing vital infrastructure and domestic businesses against these attacks.
What you describe is the Hartley transform.
In your case it is the fast discrete Hartley transform.

It is an involuntory form of the FFT.

It is a very interesting find indeed.

Edit: fyi it retains all properties of the FFT of course.
For anyone who doesn't check the video out, it was on display for one day: April 1st.
My Toyota Corolla with Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 (fitted in nearly every Toyota post 2018/2019) has stop and start, either press resume if you've stopped for more than 5 seconds or tap the accelerator, and that's with lane tracing assist as well. I don't think there's a second I don't have both Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Tracing Assist activated.

Edit: You can also accelerate without disabling it.
I understand what the author is claiming. What I am saying is that the argument does not show that at all: if, for the same action, you will be charged in country A (because of stricter hate crime laws) but not in country B, then, obviously, there will be more charges brought against people for violating this in country A than in country B (because it's not a crime in country B!).

It's like comparing two countries about their drug laws. Clearly, when certain drugs are illegal in country A but not in country B, people will only be charged because of drug use in country A. But this does not mean that there is less drug use in country B - for all we know, everyone in country B could be using that drug 24/7 - it's just not a violation of the law, and thus does not lead to more charges.
It was not intentional, thanks for asking...very unfortunate typo ;)

Go doesn't give you control over inline vs indirect allocation, instead relying on escape analysis, which is notoriously finicky. Seemingly unrelated changes, along with compiler upgrades, can ruin your carefully optimized code.

This is especially heinous because it uses a GC; unnecessary allocations have a disproportionately large impact on your application performance. One or the other wouldn't be nearly as bad.

Time and time again we see reports from organizations/projects with perfectly fine average latency, but horrendous p95+ times, when written in Go - some going as far as to do straight-up insane optimizations (see Dragph) or rewrite in other languages.
One thing I wish for is some kind of "type tags". Being able to express concepts like List[Widget], List[Widget, Nonempty], List[Widget, Nonempty, Sorted], Vector[User, Sorted], etc. - or even, more generic, <Container>[<T>, NonEmpty] (where <Container> and <T> are parameters, like in C++ templates) - without implementing an explicit new type for each. Logic verification through typing would then involve not just changing "main" types, but also adding and dropping "tags" from the "set of tags" attached to the "main" type. This should cut down on the amount of boilerplate.

Hell, in the extreme, perhaps types in general could be generalized as a set of tags?

(See also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168893)
It isn't? I would think that information such as of people with hidden identity or informants was not public information but rather something for which the government has deemed sensitive enough to protect. Am I wrong?

In my country any information related to a on-going investigation is automatically classified. Police are not allowed under the law to divulge to the press any such information.
What’s next? Using anti-terror laws for copyright enforcement?
Right, but in 2021, I'm sure you can find LSD at an inflated price due to government action.
I was just arguing the quote "Apple uses their position of power to double-dip"

Double dip has connotations that they are taking twice when they should only be taking once. I am simply saying that diverse revenue streams to capture value from a product is not wrong. Therefore, calling out "double dipping" behavior is unfair.
If the USG treats this even close to the way they treat terrorism in regards to policy and funding, I’m curious what that will look like and how nation-states harboring those people will react.
"Educate yourself" is often thrown by the left in heated conversations.

But when a academic term (that is closely related to a negative word) is used, some on the same side refuse to understand and get butthurt instead.

E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23122068
Outside of games people aren't building directly for app stores anymore. They're building apps that are part of some other profitable business that need to have a presence on the phone. And lately Apple is insisting they get a cut off those kinds of apps too.
I'd say the same the same thing that stops (most of people) from writing shitty things on the walls (most of ppl don't feel the urge to) + usual moderation/flagging.
Just because something doesn't solve all problems doesn't mean it's still not incredibly useful for the problems it does solve. And plenty of crimes aren't out of class-based "desperation" at all -- e.g. rape or stalking.

So I'm not sure why you're acting like there's some intentional effort to target the lower class but not upper class. The US goes after white collar crime heavily as well -- you'll find out quickly if you try to embezzle funds from your employer.

Obviously, CCTV is effective against physical crimes. White-collar tends to be caught with digital records like bank reporting, e-mails and texts, and so on.

So I don't know what you mean when you say white collar crime has no equivalent deterrent. In a nutshell, databases are the equivalent.
Difference is if corporations and funds can't hold bitcoin/crypto - you're back to $1/BTC. The whole value proposition of BTC hype bubble bursts if it's illegal in a major market like USA. Don't doubt some cyberpunk nuts will keep playing with it.
iPhone had first mover advantage and comes from an American company.

As a result iPhones have 50% of the smartphone market in the US, and Americans have the highest disposable income per capita of any large country (>20 million people).

iPhones tend to have much smaller market shares outside of the US. In some places they're maybe around 30% but generally they're much, much lower.