skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this article is ok:

That article is utterly rudimentary reportage. There is no legal analysis, or really any depth of analysis at all. You really should seek out specialist analysts like Richard Hoeg who have in-depth, intersectional understanding of both competition law and technology platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5WS5D6GydY

If you don't like the idea of watching long-form commentary, his speaking style is clear enough that I find his voice eminently clear at 2X speed. Use the YouTube shortcut keys shift–comma (<) and shift–period (>) to quickly change the playback speed.

> Rules can be better defined and updated

In the excruciatingly pedantic context of law, "better defined rules" and "updating the rules" are synonymous with changing the rules. You can spin it however you like, but as the law stands right now, what Apple is doing is legal.

Out of curiosity, do think that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo should also be forced to dissolve control over their platforms as well?

> They just can't disallow alternate app stores like they have been doing.

Until such time as a law is established to disallow walled gardens of technology platforms, they absolutely can. You are welcome to argue that they shouldn't be allowed to disallow alternate app stores, but arguing for the status quo to be changed is an entirely different argument.

It's also worth noting that the law is absolutely on Apple's side when it comes to licensing Apple's intellectual property, which all iOS developers must do in order to use the software development tools they supply. So even if Apple is forced to allow side-loading of alternative stores, there is absolutely no question that Apple would be allowed to require a percentage cut of revenues from apps developed using their tools—just as Epic is entitled to ask of developers who use Unreal Engine.

> a link to the Epic brief they filed

That is not a brief filed in the Epic vs Apple trial. It doesn't have anything to do with Apple. As far as I can tell, no such amicus brief exists. Yet you seem convinced it does exist and that you've read it.
> key engineers

That's my point, really. The question is what is the minimum number of engineers needed to be compromised in order for a malicious change to be introduced and not be noticed before it does its intended harm. Think of that as an equivalent to the Bus Factor, which, thanks to your prompting, I will call the Wrench Factor.

As you say, the threat model has to start considering meatspace security, but there are some advantages here relative to traditional military/industrial settings, in that we can imagine reputations being held by pseudonymous identities, and audits being assigned to random groups of them, without each other's knowledge, to prevent collusion.

There has to be some point at which an attack becomes infeasible (or at least unprofitable), if it requires simultaneously kidnapping thousands of people in multiple jurisdictions, without anyone noticing. Having various dead man's switches and zero-knowledge silent alarm protocols could do a lot to raise the cost of such attacks.
I’m curious, which neighborhood, or quadrant, are you in? Some parts of the city have had pretty serious violent crime problems for many years, but many haven’t.
CA to Pay Off All Past Due Rent Accrued During Covid, Giving Renters Clean Slate
A similar concept is the Snowy Hydro project in Australia - essentially it is a battery for clean energy generators such as wind and solar when they cannot generate. There are two lakes - one at the top of a mountain and one at the bottom. When the wind is blowing or the sun is shining the wind generators and the solar panels power pumps that pump water from the bottom lake up to the top lake. When the sun is down or the wind is not blowing and electricity cannot be generated from panels or wind, water is run using gravity from the top lake to the bottom lake through a turbine, generating electricity that way and ensuring constant supply.
HPE acquires Determined AI to boost its supercomputer and AI server businesses
Literally destroying a mountainous environment is not clean energy.
Science is downstream of politics. This 'science' wants their opinion to be treated as fact.
I remember the one time Sergei Brin said helicopters are surprisingly affordable. Sure if you are like 9th richest in the world that might be true.
This is a really, really good question. Some things:

- It's fast, which we all love.
- It mostly does painless merges, again we love.
- It's not actually that hard to 'get going' - and I think that a lot of people are totally overconfident in their skills.
- It's free
- It's open source
- Linus Torvalds created the critical mass for Linux
- GitHub
- Lack of truly efficient alternatives
- It technically 'works' i.e. does what it's supposed to do, relatively robustly.
- It's designed for open source, which is a novel concept.

Personally, I'm scared of git from an organizational perspective, and I do not feel that we have reconciled the reality of how much pain it can cause to people, newer teams, the less familiar etc..

If people would pay for software I wonder if a great alternative could come to the fore because without it, we have to rely on volunteers and that's an ugly industry problem.
Massachusetts ‘MassNotify’ Covid App Auto-Installed on Androids
Both Walled Garden in your example are owned by its home owner.

Which makes all the difference.
Yes, over the course of a 12 year full time career, if I go above 55 it gets worse, but I can sustain 55. In terms of trade offs, there's something to be said for parkinson's law. If I have way more than 55 hours a week of stuff, I know I have to fit it into 55 or I'll burn out. If I aim for less, I find I never end up working less than 40, even if the absolute amount is much lower.
>Is... that a bad thing?

Yes, when it is there for no valid reason, or ridiculous reasons. Skepticism is not a default position you can take like a toddler refusing to eat their vegetables. You need some informed (and non-fallacious) intelligent reasoning behind that. "I'm skeptic about this thing using X because X is so hyped these days" is not such reasoning.
I use ReSharper but didn't realise they had a git tool. Will check it out. Thanks.
I started using git because I really hated SVN and wanted to experiment with other options. I started using SVN after losing my patience with how bad VSS was. I’m pretty sure GitHub didn’t exist when I first picked up Git. If it did, I’d never heard of it.
Free people around the globe should watch what China did in Hong Kong after promising to keep Hong Kong's freedoms, and should protect Taiwan at all costs from the mainland.

Free people should extend protection from Chinese influence to the Philippines, Africa, and other areas as well.
Do you think a time could ever come when we still have computers (and know how to make new ones), but history has forgotten how they came to be in the first place?
> a weird sort of jihadi capitalism appear

Fantastic analogy. The same fundamentalist narrow-mindedness only about "growth at all costs"; no regard to content of that growth. Just make the stock go up.

Kind of like King Midas wanting to make everything gold. No regard to the interiority of the objects, nor their real use. Just make them gold on the outside.
Hi! I'm the creator of SproutLife. I've been planning to do an official announcement of the recent developments, and to update the writeup as well.

I recommend checking out the gallery, and working off the latest source
https://github.com/ShprAlex/SproutLife/tree/master/gallery

As far as "evolving towards what", here are my thoughts on the subject:

The inspiration for SproutLife was to create an open ended genome with unlimited potential for evolution.

The initial success was that this was possible.

Anticlimactically, it turns out that an open ended genome in a turing complete environment does not lead to some kind of transcendent evolutionary product. The solutions that emerge are still limited by the simple problems they are tasked with.

It is the evolutionary journey, rather than a specific destination where SproutLife can be most informative. It can be used to study the role that disruption plays as a threat to stability and a necessity for progress.

In particular, the process of "collapse" is an interesting topic for investigation. From Covid to the popping of stock market bubbles, political upheaval, and even global warming, we are surrounded by real and potential falling of the established order. SproutLife also exhibits this kind of behavior and can let us understand how to quantify and perhaps predict it.
Neurosurgery resident here. MR-guided focused ultrasound is a rapidly spreading non-invasive approach to deep brain lesioning that is perfect for patients with fear of surgery or with significant comorbidities that heighten the risk of general anesthesia. The patients wear a frame similar to the one in the OP but there are no further incisions. They go home the same day. Questions remain regarding its durability of effect as compared to invasive electrode implantation but it is a hot topic for research.
I'm clinging to a cheap PoS TV that has bad pixels and a blurry smear in the panel, just because it's big, not-smart, and only 1080p. I don't need 4k, although I have nothing against it per se, and I like the fact it usually means better FPS in games. But I don't want a bunch of "smart" stuff constantly getting in the way of what I want my tv to do, which is show the pictures being piped in by devices I actually trust.
I clicked the SAVE -button but seems it only opened
a new blank tab on Chrome
There are lies, damned lies and CRUX statistics.

EVERY manager I've interacted with at Amazon looks at CRUX statistics -- it is the actual reason that they exist.

My current manage (5 year badge employee btw) is counting my code. We are both L6s and he has shared with me the various target CR each level is expect to do (per week).

For L6 it is 4 (in the AWS org) per week.

The leadership principals also say "hire and develop the best", which ought to mean that they would be doing the damnedest to keep people.

But they don't. I've seen three people Pivoted in the last 6 months -- two of them had been with Amazon (AWS) for over 4 years.

These people did not "suddenly" become bad, or shit at their job, or etc. What happened is that they were stacked ranked, and they were at the bottom. The job was, and remains, exactly the same.

Which is why stack ranking is stupid. Same job. Same person. One year you are meeting the bar. The next you are the worst at it.
tl;dr The White House physician seems to have carefully avoided saying in public that he actually prescribed it to Trump. (others noticed this too: https://www.justsecurity.org/70253/nine-questions-for-the-wh...)

The only evidence we have that Trump took it is Trump saying he was taking it, and the press secretary while not giving a white house briefing directly saying it was prescribed[1], and the White House physician saying that he didn't see any harm in Trump taking it...[3] but I cannot find a single authoritative report [2] where someone claims to have actually prescribed the drug to Trump - from either the physician, or from Trump himself (remembering it is a prescription drug). The White House press office also never used those words that I can see, instead deflecting that whatever Trump said should be believed (while on the podium at a briefing, where there would be an accountability issue).

So, short version: it was implied by the people who would've had to prescribe it to him that they saw no problem giving it to him if he wanted it...but it seems like everyone carefully avoided saying they actually did prescribe it.

Now, on some level this is irrelevant whether he took it. Because he used the presidential podium to contradict medical professionals and push an ineffective treatment, created a shortage for a drug which a lot of people actually depended on (I knew a colleague who suddenly ran into trouble with this), which as it turned out provided no useful effect in preventing the president from actually catching COVID-19 and has since then continuously proven to be completely ineffective.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/498803-white-hou...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/19/trump-hydrox...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/19/sean-conley-...
I’ve been a big fan of git-fork.com, after years of Source Tree usage. It has a similar workflow but much crisper performance and some really nice features such as around search and filter.
It seems to me that the basic problem is that binary trees are the wrong data type. For instance, you can transform the tree to balance it:

p1 AND (p2 AND (p3 AND notp4)) -> (p1 AND p2) AND (p3 AND notp4)

But the abstraction is specifying the order of operations unnecessarily. Using general trees, I think you avoid the need to transform the order of operations and "NOT" doesn't have to be a special case.

ALL (p1 p2 p3 NOT(p4))

Is there any reason to choose binary trees for this? (Other than inertia).
Skepticism is good when it targets bold claims with vague proof. This is not a bold claim (it's a video demo showing the process) and its proof is not vague (you can inspect the source). Skepticism over something like GPT-2 without more than sample output is good. Skepticism over GPT-2 with a workable demo and source is unhelpful.
The neurosurgeon meticulously plans the exact trajectories prior to surgery and we use a combination of software and hardware (Stealth or Brainlab) to ensure we follow the planned path. Of course, complications still occur but are fairly rare, serious or permanent ones even more so.
Step #1, forget everything you learned on wall street bets
If they are private and for profit then why do they get public tax dollars? That should end immediately.

Also many universities are public and not for profit.... you know the main ones that actually have well known sports teams... not uh MIT.
Affirmative Action: Anti-Intellectual Edition:

- Eliminate SAT and ACT as admissions criteria

- Lower admission standards to where merit doesn't matter

- Accept as many student "customers" as possible

- Everyone gets an A+ for participation

- Graduate everyone

- Axe honors programs because they're ableist

- Bus the white and Asian gifted kids 3 hours a day to the "magnet" under-performing schools when there's a perfectly good school 0.1 mi / 0.2 km away from them (ask me how I know)

- Disband Gifted And Talented programs, because you know, ableism again

- Stop offering The College Board - Advanced Placement (AP) exams because it gives smart, dedicated students an "unfair advantage"

/s
Y'know, for some of us peasants, dev work can just be a way out of poverty. We don't have engineering degrees from a top school, we don't work for the FANGs, and we don't work on mission-critical code. The software industry has expanded a lot since the 80s, and now hobbyists can and do make a living out of it even without formal training. So what?

When I started web dev, I earned $15/hr. Beat the $8/hr I was making before that in landscaping. Now I make a little more than that, which still isn't much. My clients/employers don't pay crazy wages and they don't expect crazy quality work. They know they get what they pay for, and it works out for both parties.

Maybe's OK to have shitty, mediocre code for 90% of the world's needs... a small biz website, with the ecommerce/PCI bits outsourced? Sure, why not. It mostly works, and if it goes down for a few hours a year, maybe that doesn't meet super-reliability standards (can we count 8s instead of 9s?) but it gets the job done well enough? Shrug.

Sure, proper engineer techniques matter for certain applications. I would never want to touch industrial machines, or medical, or space, or automobiles... anything that could blow up and/or kill someone. But most code out there is just for some local, small-scale use, mostly temporary anyhow and bound to obsolete in a few years if not months. There will always be mediocre businesses needing mediocre devs for mediocre pay, just as there will be elite enterprises that require the world's smartest people.

Problem is, git was designed by the super smart for the super smart, great engineering with terrible UX. And it was kinda just trickled down to the rest of us, and it feels a bit like trying to teach Mom to use DOS and edit config.sys just to play a game. Now consumer software UX has leaped forward by decades and it shows, but a lot of the command-line dev tools are still incredibly arcane. They don't have to be, but it's not a priority to fix/improve their UX because, I suppose, it's engineers who are proud of their engineering, not proud of their ability to dumb it down for the rest of us. I don't blame them, I just know I can't meaningfully contribute to git (the project) because I'm not smart enough, well trained enough, whatever, and that complaints would fall on deaf ears like yours. It's an altogether different culture. Elitist by design, or meritocratic if you will.

And believe or not, I've probably spent more time learning git -- reading documentation, diagramming it out with coworkers, cloning repos and experimenting with commands, etc., following a shit-ton of tutorials -- than any other skill I've ever had to learn. It was quicker to learn Perl and regex than mid-level git.

If you want to pay for the world's would-be engineers to receive all the training to go from mere dev to proper "software engineers", by all means please do. But otherwise, well... you know what? World's gonna keep producing mediocrity. Most of us are just average.
The problem is not about being independent, it's the zero tolerance criminalization of non-French that is isolating.

It's reducing likely immigration (see my initial post), and the language laws around talking to customers and signage are likely harming tourism. I saw recently that some government forms are no longer going to be available in English. They're not being proud of being French, but actively hostile to anyone who isn't a francophone.

With fewer people visiting the province, and bringing diversity into Quebec, and with Quebec families wanting French, being less likely to visit anything outside of Quebec, then yes, it comes isolating.

Sure, some will learn another language and travel, but their government sure is working hard to ensure that's less likely. Early bi-lingualism can make it easier to pick up more languages. Equally, forced early mono-lingualism will make it harder for future Quebecois kids to break out of Quebec.

Europe has fairly open borders. Many countries citizens speak multiple languages. A store keeper in Italy won't risk a $2,000 fine for greeting a long-time foreign customer in their native tongue, but that's a risk in Quebec. They even proposed turning everyone into snitches by splitting the fines with people who turn in Anglophones ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxpLv1j5fg ). How can all these European countries live with their openness? Is Italy living in fear of becoming non-Italian? Is Germany living in fear of becoming non-German? Outside of Europe, is Japan at risk of becoming non-Japanese? No. Everywhere else has managed to retain their culture without being actively hostile to their neighbours.
> So, Tesla autopilot stats should be compared to other comparably priced vehicles while driving on the highway ONLY.

I disagree. Autopilot driving on the highway should be compared to all human drivers driving on the highway. Otherwise you wouldn't be comparing against human performance per mile driven apples-to-apples.
Yeah, fair point. I guess from my perspective (my sister is a teacher at a charter school in Iowa that does have lower class sizes and much better educational outcomes) smaller class sizes seem like such low hanging fruit if the objective is simply to improve learning, not over-specify some testing metric.
I imagine it's far more tricky due to the lower image quality and increased noise on the sensors (less light/energy hitting them).

Loss of colours in your visual imput as well is a bit of an issue...
What is its level of support for interactive 3D plots? Is it build on top of Matplotlib?
If you’re good enough relative to what test?

I simply do not believe meritocracy can exist.

Our biological sensibilities are too easily confused by concepts we don’t fully grasp, and come on; there is so much rubber stamping and favoritism (even now I know the founder of my company is invited to private sessions in DC to hammer out rules that favor us and we’ve proven nothing).

This forum seems to have too much of a naive and weirdly trusting belief in such subjective and hand wavy ideas when literal reality is offering plenty of evidence to the contrary in the political sections of a newspaper.
I work in automotive, I’ve seen some amazingly bad towing examples. Sounds like a decent solution to get two vehicles stranded.

I would think unless the tide is coming in, getting a generator and hanging out for awhile would be a safer for everyone solution.
This is a very passionately written article but quite one sided. For example:

> Learn how your tax money is spent. Very little of it goes to welfare or education. Almost all of it goes to support reckless military spending and corporate bailouts in myriad forms.

This seems to be written from the perspective of federal taxes alone but even that seems inaccurate. Defense spending is just 16% of the federal budget (https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-fe... ). Around 2/3 of the total federal budget goes to various forms of government run safety nets and benefits. K-12 is largely funded by states and local budgets (https://www.cbo.gov/topics/education). Even just considering K-12 (excluding higher education), we spend more on that than on the defense budget (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/school-s...). Once you toss in higher education, it is a significantly larger amount of spending than defense.
Also... I left amazon a while ago to go work for a (much) smaller company. Think about 50 engineers in three groups. Exec management came from HP who had a type of rank-and-yank. Employees were ranked in their group and across the board. And then those rankings were used to compare engineers across teams.

The idea was they wanted to make sure there was parity in terms of pay and job grades across teams, which I sort of thought was laudable. They didn't want "Bob" in team 1 to get paid a lot more than "Alice" in team 2 just because everyone in team 2 were super-geniuses.

Moral of that story is stacked ranking can have some legit uses.

We didn't automatically fire people at the bottom of the ranking, but if a senior engineer was being ranked low, it got management's attention.

Ranking mostly led to determining who got the largest bonuses . Even though I wasn't going to fire low ranking engineers, I still had to tell the people in the middle they were getting a 10% bonus instead of a 15% bonus, which, surprisingly, was a lot harder than telling someone we were letting them go from amazon.
Amazon managers have a "hire to fire" philosphy.

That makes it way easier to meet an URA target.
I've always heard this, but when I drove a manual I always downshifted frequently and kept that car for 150,000 miles. I did have a clutch replacement somewhere in the middle, but blame that on starting on San Francisco hills more than downshifting.
I’d love find some hardware along with period-appropriate software and run tests to debunk or support your idea. I still just don’t buy it, but it’s hard to find quantitative evidence without just going out and trying it.

By the way, 10 seconds clocked on a stopwatch is a ridiculously long time. Almost no apps open that slowly, in 2009 or 2021.
I suppose grad students can also be paid for TA'ing a class, maybe that is way you mean.

I find it ridiculous. If you want to pay them, then they shouldn't get free tuition. Free tuition is part of their unspoken 'pay.'